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No opening OR closing trades 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after high-impact news, in challenge AND funded — including pending-order triggers and TP/SL fills. Exception: a position opened >6 hours before whose stop-loss hits in the window is fine. Restrictions extend across correlated instruments (USD news restricts gold, oil, US indices, BTC/ETH).
The gotcha
You generally can't even CLOSE in the window. On funded accounts, news-trade profits are removed at payout — and 3+ news trades in one payout request VOIDS the entire payout and resets the account to the starting balance.
Breaching this doesn't necessarily close the account, but it can disqualify the payout you were trading toward — you keep trading, the profit doesn't get paid.
| window | ±2min (no open or close) |
| exemptIfOpenedBefore | 6h |
| threeTradesVoidsPayout | true |
Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.
Blueberry Funded's news tradingis 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 |
| 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 |
| Maven Trading | News trading | Payout denied |
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Start a Blueberry Funded challengeInformational only — not financial advice, not affiliated with Blueberry Funded. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 5, 2026.
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