BrightFunded: News trading
Unrestricted during the entire evaluation. On funded accounts you can't trade within 5 minutes before/after major news; profit on a violating trade is deducted (a SOFT breach — the account isn't killed), and losses aren't compensated. A trade opened ≥48 hours before the event is exempt.
The gotcha
The restriction flips ON only after funding — easy to forget when the evaluation had none.
What happens if you break it
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.
The numbers
| evaluation | FREE |
| funded | ±5min profit deducted |
| exemptIfOpenedBefore | 48h |
Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.
How other prop firms handle news trading
BrightFunded's news trading 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 |
| 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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Informational only — not financial advice, not affiliated with BrightFunded. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 5, 2026.
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