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title: "News trading - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Trading around scheduled economic releases, where volatility and spreads both spike at once. The strategy depends on execution quality at exactly the…"
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Strategy and performance

# News trading

Trading around scheduled economic releases, where volatility and spreads both spike at once. The strategy depends on execution quality at exactly the moment execution quality is at its worst, which is why most firms restrict it on funded accounts.

GFN’s figure

GFN permits news trading during evaluations. On a simulated funded account, profits from trades opened or closed within 3 minutes before or 3 minutes after a relevant high-impact release may be removed. Instant starts at the funded stage, so the funded rule applies from day one.

- **During an evaluation**: News trading permitted
- **On a funded account**: Profits from trades inside the ±3 minute window may be removed
- **Instant From**: Day one - the account is already at the funded stage

In detail

## News trading, explained

Most firms restrict news trading on funded accounts rather than on evaluations, because a release is a moment when a large position can produce an outsized result in either direction.

The restriction usually takes the form of a window around the release, and it usually removes the profit from trades inside it rather than failing the account.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/news-trading) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More strategy and performance](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/strategy)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Economic calendar](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/economic-calendar) - A schedule of upcoming data releases with their expected impact, previous readings and forecasts. Checking it before a session is the cheapest risk control available to a trader.
- [Non-farm payrolls](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/non-farm-payrolls) - The monthly US employment report, released on the first Friday of the month at 08:30 Eastern. It is the single most disruptive scheduled release for dollar pairs, gold and US index instruments.
- [FOMC](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/fomc) - The Federal Open Market Committee, the body that sets US interest rates. Its scheduled decision, written statement and press conference move every dollar-denominated market, usually in two distinct waves about half an hour apart.
- [Slippage](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/slippage) - The difference between the price requested and the price filled. It appears when the market moves between order and execution, and it is most pronounced around news and at thin points in the session.
- [Spread](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/spread) - The gap between the bid and the ask price. It is the cost paid on entry: a position opens slightly underwater by the width of the spread before the market has moved at all.

Also governed by [/rules/news-trading](https://getfundednow.com/rules/news-trading)

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/news-trading
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