The5ers: News trading
You may HOLD existing trades through news on all programs, but you cannot open or close orders from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a high-impact release.
The gotcha
Asymmetric: profits made in the ±2-minute window are deducted and don't count, but losses are absorbed by you. Bracketing news with buy-stop + sell-stop orders is separately forbidden.
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
| holding | ALLOWED |
| execution | FORBIDDEN ±2min high-impact |
| profitsInWindow | DEDUCTED |
| lossesInWindow | KEPT |
Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.
How other prop firms handle news trading
The5ers'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 The5ers. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 5, 2026.
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