ATFunded: News trading (pre-pause)
ForbiddenWarningVerifiedUpdated Jun 5, 2026
Opening or closing positions within a 5-minute window before and after any high-impact economic announcement was prohibited, on both evaluation and funded accounts.
What happens if you break it
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This is a soft breach: the firm typically warns or flags the account rather than voiding it, but repeated or flagrant breaches escalate to termination.
The numbers
| window | ±5min high-impact |
Source: official tos — official page . Confidence: verified.
How other prop firms handle news trading
ATFunded's news trading (pre-pause) is one approach. Here's how the rest of the field treats news trading — sorted by how hard a breach hits.
| Firm | Rule | If breached |
|---|---|---|
| Funding Traders | News trading | Voids account |
| My Funded Futures | News trading (Tier-1 restriction) | Voids account |
| ThinkCapital | News trading | Voids account |
| TradeDay | News trading (forced auto-liquidation) | Voids account |
| Alpha Capital Group | News trading | Payout denied |
| Apex Trader Funding | News trading | Payout denied |
| Blueberry Funded | News trading | Payout denied |
| BrightFunded | News trading | Payout denied |
| E8 Markets | News trading | Payout denied |
| FundedNext | News trading | Payout denied |
| FunderPro | News trading | Payout denied |
| FundingPips | News trading | Payout denied |
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Informational only — not financial advice, not affiliated with ATFunded. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 5, 2026.
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