FTMO: News trading
FTMO allows news trading across the Challenge, Verification and the funded FTMO Account — one of the few firms that lets you trade and hold straight through high-impact releases.
The gotcha
It's permitted, but a single news spike can still blow the daily or max-loss limit in seconds. Freedom to trade news isn't a free pass on risk.
What happens if you break it
This is informational rather than a hard breach trigger — it shapes how you should trade, but crossing it alone won't void the account.
The numbers
| challenge | ALLOWED |
| funded | ALLOWED |
Source: official tos — official page . Confidence: reported.
How other prop firms handle news trading
FTMO'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 |
| 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 FTMO. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 4, 2026.
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