FunderPro: News trading
News trading is allowed during all challenge/evaluation phases. On FUNDED accounts it's restricted for a selected list of high-impact releases: you must close affected-asset positions and can't open trades from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after the release. The Swing add-on removes this restriction.
The gotcha
The restriction only bites once you're funded — people pass the challenge news-trading freely, then get a violation on a live account because they didn't realize the 2-minute window now applies. Buy the Swing add-on if your edge is news.
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
| challenge | ALLOWED |
| funded | ±2min on selected releases |
| swingAddon | removes |
Source: official tos — official page . Confidence: verified.
How other prop firms handle news trading
FunderPro'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 |
| FundingPips | News trading | Payout denied |
| Maven Trading | News trading | Payout denied |
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Informational only — not financial advice, not affiliated with FunderPro. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 4, 2026.
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