News restricted window: what exactly is blocked (including pending orders)

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TL;DR

Inside the red-news restricted window (when you don’t have the News Trading add-on on Instant Funding or Funded accounts), any trade execution is the problem: market opens/closes, and “silent” executions like pending orders triggering.

How it works

  • Without the News Add-On, you must:
  1. Close positions 5 minutes before the red event, and
  2. Not open or close trades until 5 minutes after.
  • Pending orders count. If a pending becomes a market order during the window, it’s still “executing a trade.”
  • “Executing” includes pending orders and can include SL/TP activations during the restricted window: it’s not just clicking buy/sell.

Common gotchas

  • The classic fail: you close positions… but forget to cancel pendings.
  • SL/TP getting hit during the window are treated as an execution, be properly flat before the window starts.
  • If you violate the funded news restriction, your account will be terminated. If you violate the rule again on a new account, you will be banned forever.
  • “But it was only one time” is how people end up as case studies.

Example

You’re funded, no News Trading add-on, red news in 5 minutes. You close your open trades… but you left a buy stop pending. It triggers during the window. That’s still a violation.

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