Prop firms that allow news trading

Firms fall into three camps on news, and the middle one is the largest. Some allow it outright. Some prohibit it. Most sit in between with a blackout window — typically one to five minutes either side of a high-impact release — during which you may not open or close a position. A flat "news trading allowed" claim hides that middle group entirely, which is why the window is tracked as its own state here.

Only firms in the first camp appear below. Where a firm publishes a window, it is on the news restrictions page instead, with the length of the window shown.

Breaching a news rule rarely fails the account outright. More often the firm voids the offending trades, removes the profit from your balance, and in repeat cases withholds the payout. That makes news rules a payout risk rather than a survival risk, and it makes them easy to overlook until the withdrawal is refused.

If a release-driven strategy is your edge, read the funded-stage terms rather than the evaluation terms. Several firms allow news trading during the challenge and restrict it once you are funded.

A news rule can be partial in three ways, and a firm is excluded here if any one of them applies. It can vary by stage: MyFundedFutures permits Tier 1 releases on every evaluation and prohibits them on Rapid and Pro Sim Funded accounts, and Alpha Capital and BrightFunded each run an unrestricted challenge with a five-minute funded window. It can vary by product: E8 Markets places no news restriction on E8 Pro or E8 Signature while barring trading five minutes either side of a release on a funded E8 One. And it can vary by purchase date: Blue Guardian bars news trading outright on Instant Standard accounts purchased from 13 November 2025, while the older five-minute wording still printed above it on the same page governs only accounts bought before then.

The reason for excluding rather than footnoting is simple. A list gets read, screenshotted and quoted without its caveats, and the trader who acts on the headline is trading a funded account, on whichever product was cheapest, bought this week. Each firm's own profile has room to state which half of a split applies to which account; a list does not.

Firms define the restricted set differently: some name a specific calendar, some say "high-impact" and leave the source unstated, and some cover only a handful of releases such as NFP, CPI, and rate decisions. Where a firm allows news trading outright the definition stops mattering, which is part of why traders search for this filter in the first place.

Rules here change more often than most. Check the current terms on the firm page before building a release strategy around a listing.