Goat Funded Trader and trading around the news
Allowed in the challenge and once funded, but a trade opened or closed within five minutes either side of high-impact news can make at most 1 percent of the initial balance. 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
- News trading is allowed, with the same profit cap as on the funded account.
- Once funded
- News trading is allowed. The cap applies equally to the challenge phase and the funded phase.
- The window
- 5 minutes before or after a high-impact release. Their page does not mention speeches separately.
- What it costs you
- Profit above 1 percent of the initial balance on that trade is removed, usually at an account review, without a breach or a penalty. Their page does not say what happens to a loss.
- Which calendar counts
- The red folder events on Forex Factory or Myfxbook.
Source: Goat Funded Trader's own help page, read on 15 October 2026. Firms change these rules without announcing it, so check theirs before you rely on ours.
Goat Funded Trader 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 Goat Funded Trader'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
- The cap counts trades closed by a stop loss, take profit or pending order, so a trade opened earlier and closed inside the window is caught.
- Hedging is prohibited at all times, so a two-sided straddle around a release is out.
- Funded accounts also have a minimum holding time of 60 or 120 seconds, depending on when the account was bought.
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 Goat Funded Trader and news
Can you trade news on Goat Funded Trader?
News trading is allowed, with the same profit cap as on the funded account. News trading is allowed. The cap applies equally to the challenge phase and the funded phase.
What is the Goat Funded Trader news window?
5 minutes before or after a high-impact release. Their page does not mention speeches separately. The red folder events on Forex Factory or Myfxbook.
What happens if you trade inside the Goat Funded Trader window?
Profit above 1 percent of the initial balance on that trade is removed, usually at an account review, without a breach or a penalty. Their page does not say what happens to a loss.
Where is the Goat Funded Trader news calendar?
The red folder events on Forex Factory or Myfxbook. 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