FunderPro and trading around the news
Allowed in every challenge. On a funded account without the Swing add-on, no trading and no holding within two minutes either side of their listed releases. 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
- Trading and holding through news are allowed in all challenge phases and types.
- Once funded
- Without the Swing add-on, trading or holding trades on a funded account inside the window is restricted, and positions on the affected assets have to be closed. On the Instant programme, news trading and holding are only allowed with the Swing add-on.
- The window
- 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a listed release. Their list holds no speeches.
- What it costs you
- On the Instant programme, trading restricted news without the add-on is an account violation, whether the trade made or lost money. For funded challenge accounts their page states no penalty of its own; their general rule is a warning or an automatic closure, depending on the severity.
- Which calendar counts
- Their own published list. For all assets: payrolls, retail sales, CPI, PPI, GDP, core PCE, ADP, the ISM surveys and the Fed. The ECB for euro pairs, the BoE for pound pairs, and the oil and gas inventories for those commodities.
Source: FunderPro's own help page, read on 15 October 2026. Firms change these rules without announcing it, so check theirs before you rely on ours.
FunderPro 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 FunderPro'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. FunderPro's own list of restricted news.
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
- Holding counts: a position opened more than 2 minutes before a listed release is news holding, and on a funded account without the add-on that is restricted too.
- The dollar releases on their list restrict every asset, not only the dollar pairs.
- The Swing add-on lowers the leverage on the Instant programme to 1:20 on forex.
- Their terms only mention entering a trade, which is narrower than their help pages. Go by the stricter one.
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 FunderPro and news
Can you trade news on FunderPro?
Trading and holding through news are allowed in all challenge phases and types. Without the Swing add-on, trading or holding trades on a funded account inside the window is restricted, and positions on the affected assets have to be closed. On the Instant programme, news trading and holding are only allowed with the Swing add-on.
What is the FunderPro news window?
2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a listed release. Their list holds no speeches. Their own published list. For all assets: payrolls, retail sales, CPI, PPI, GDP, core PCE, ADP, the ISM surveys and the Fed. The ECB for euro pairs, the BoE for pound pairs, and the oil and gas inventories for those commodities.
What happens if you trade inside the FunderPro window?
On the Instant programme, trading restricted news without the add-on is an account violation, whether the trade made or lost money. For funded challenge accounts their page states no penalty of its own; their general rule is a warning or an automatic closure, depending on the severity.
Where is the FunderPro news calendar?
Their own published list. For all assets: payrolls, retail sales, CPI, PPI, GDP, core PCE, ADP, the ISM surveys and the Fed. The ECB for euro pairs, the BoE for pound pairs, and the oil and gas inventories for those commodities. 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. FunderPro's own list of restricted news