Funded Trading Plus and trading around the news
News trading is allowed in the challenge and once funded, with no fixed window. Trades are judged afterwards in a risk review, which can take the profit or the account. This is what their own help page says, read on 15 October 2026, with what it means in practice underneath.
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The rule, in their own terms
- During the evaluation
- Allowed. Their challenge pages say news trading is allowed, subject to policy, and set no window in minutes.
- Once funded
- Allowed on the same terms. There is no timed restriction around releases.
- The window
- None in minutes. What counts instead is how much margin a trade uses and how long it is held, against how volatile the market is.
- What it costs you
- No penalty specific to news. Their risk review at a pass, a scaling request or a withdrawal can forfeit the pass or the profit, lower the leverage, end the account or ban the trader. Their terms list excessive risk taking exacerbated by news events as a prohibited strategy.
- Which calendar counts
- Their pages do not name a calendar or a list of events.
Source: Funded Trading Plus's own help page, read on 15 October 2026. Firms change these rules without announcing it, so check theirs before you rely on ours.
Funded Trading Plus news calendar: this week's high-impact releases
The high-impact releases for the eight major currencies this trading week, from our own calendar, in Amsterdam time with the UK time beside it. Which events are restricted is Funded Trading Plus's decision and their own list is the one that applies, so use this as the week to plan around and check theirs before a trade on a funded account.
Monday 19 October
- 14:3013:30 UKCADCanada CPIHigh impact
Tuesday 20 October
- 08:0007:00 UKGBPUK labour marketHigh impact
Wednesday 21 October
- 08:0007:00 UKGBPUK CPIHigh impact
- 23:4522:45 UKNZDNew Zealand CPIHigh impact
Friday 23 October
- 01:3000:30 UKJPYJapan CPIHigh impact
What trips people up
- Their own example of an unacceptable trade is a payrolls trade using 90 percent of the margin and held for about 10 seconds.
- Several of their pages refer to an FT+ News Trading Policy, and we could not find that policy anywhere on their site. One link to it is a placeholder. Ask them for it before you trade news on a funded account.
- No window does not mean no rule: the review looks at the size and the holding time of a news trade after the fact.
Knowing the window is not the hard part
Knowing which release lands on which currency, and when, is. A rule about five minutes only helps if you saw the event coming that morning.
MacroSetup flags every high-impact release for both currencies in a setup, with the time, before the session starts. This week's events for the eight majors are public on the calendar page, and what the research does with them is on the page for prop traders.
The other firms
The windows run from 2 to 10 minutes, and what happens afterwards runs from a share of the profit to a closed account. Worth reading before you pick your next challenge. All 16 firms side by side.
Questions about Funded Trading Plus and news
Can you trade news on Funded Trading Plus?
Allowed. Their challenge pages say news trading is allowed, subject to policy, and set no window in minutes. Allowed on the same terms. There is no timed restriction around releases.
What is the Funded Trading Plus news window?
None in minutes. What counts instead is how much margin a trade uses and how long it is held, against how volatile the market is. Their pages do not name a calendar or a list of events.
What happens if you trade inside the Funded Trading Plus window?
No penalty specific to news. Their risk review at a pass, a scaling request or a withdrawal can forfeit the pass or the profit, lower the leverage, end the account or ban the trader. Their terms list excessive risk taking exacerbated by news events as a prohibited strategy.
Where is the Funded Trading Plus news calendar?
Their pages do not name a calendar or a list of events. This week's high-impact releases for the eight majors, with the times, are on this page and on our calendar page. Members also see them on every setup that holds one of the two currencies. This week's calendar