Prop firms that allow news trading
All 20 active futures prop firms on our list let you trade through a news release, some with no restriction at all and some with a blackout window around the big prints.
News trading means opening or holding a position through a scheduled release: CPI, non-farm payrolls, an FOMC decision, an oil inventory or a crop report. In forex prop trading a blackout window around those prints is the norm. In futures it is the exception, which is why this page is about the fine print rather than about who says yes. New to it? Here is what news trading is.
How we ranked it. Firms that allow it with no conditions come first, then firms that allow it with conditions. Inside each group, cheapest all-in price on the $50K account first, then A to Z. For one account at a time, use the rule checker.
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Lowest all-in price at $50K on this list
All-in, $50K account
$26$265
with code SOPF 90% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$55
with code SOPF
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$75$142
with code SOPF 47% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$80$799
with code SOPF 90% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$83$119
with code SOPF30 30% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$87$145
with code SOPF 40% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$93$143
with code SOPF 35% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Skipping the activation fee
All-in, $50K account
$101$675
with code SOPF 85% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Skipping the activation fee
All-in, $50K account
$112$160
with code SOPF 30% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Skipping the activation fee
All-in, $50K account
$116$580
with code SOPF 80% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Skipping the activation fee
All-in, $50K account
$136$170
with code SOPF 20% off
Allows trading through news releases with no conditions attached.
Best for: Traders who want to prove it on an evaluation first
All-in, $50K account
$264$179
with code SOPF 25% off
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$59$131
with code SOPF 55% off
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$61$94
with code SOPF 35% off
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$63$125
with code SOPF 50% off
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$85$170
with code NOFEE50 50% off
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$85
with code SOPF
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$89$178
with code SOPF 50% off
Allows trading through news releases with conditions. The firm's own wording is on its page.
Best for: Keeping the cost under $100 all-in
All-in, $50K account
$98$151
with code SOPF 35% off
Also on this list, but not ranked because they carry a caution on their page: Alpha Futures.
More on news tradingBackground and the firms worth knowing about, written when the page launched.
All 20 active futures prop firms on our list allow it. Twelve attach no conditions at all: Apex Trader Funding, BluSky Trading Company, Bulenox, DayTraders, E8 Markets, FTMO Futures, Funded Futures Family, FundedNext Futures, IQ Capital, Phidias Prop Firm, Purdia Capital and Tradeify. Eight allow it with a rule attached: Alpha Futures, Funded Futures Network, Legends Trading, Lucid Trading, MyFundedFutures, Take Profit Trader, Topstep and TradeDay.
The conditions come in three shapes. The commonest is a flat window: Alpha Futures, MyFundedFutures and TradeDay want you flat two minutes either side of a Tier-1 release, and TradeDay auto-liquidates rather than asking. The second is plan by plan: Lucid Trading treats red-folder news as a hard breach on LucidDaily while LucidPro, LucidFlex and LucidDirect are unrestricted, and Legends Trading restricts Apprentice Master accounts while Elite accounts trade through. The third is stage by stage: Funded Futures Network leaves the evaluation unrestricted and forfeits the account and all profit for holding through a Tier-1 event once funded. Topstep blacks out nothing, but bans trading your full maximum position size into a scheduled major release.
The news trading rule at each firm
12 of the 20 firms attach no conditions to news trading; the other 8 do, and the rule column is the firm's own wording rather than our summary of it. A firm's policy can differ between the evaluation and the funded account, so the firm's page carries the full text.
| Firm | Permission | What the firm states |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Trader Funding | Yes, no conditions | – |
| BluSky Trading Company | Yes, no conditions | Yes. BluSky Trading Company lets you trade during news releases at your own risk, including in live accounts unless your account has been specifically restricted. Expect slippage and wider spreads around major reports. |
| Bulenox | Yes, no conditions | – |
| DayTraders | Yes, no conditions | – |
| E8 Markets | Yes, no conditions | – |
| FTMO Futures | Yes, no conditions | – |
| Funded Futures Family | Yes, no conditions | – |
| FundedNext Futures | Yes, no conditions | Trading during news events is allowed on futures accounts. Volatility and slippage around major releases are your own risk, so size positions with the drawdown in mind. |
| IQ Capital | Yes, no conditions | – |
| Phidias Prop Firm | Yes, no conditions | Yes. Phidias Prop Firm allows news trading on all account types, so you can hold or open positions through major economic releases. Slippage and volatility around news are your own risk. |
| Purdia Capital | Yes, no conditions | Yes. Purdia Capital places no news trading restrictions on its sim accounts, so you can trade through major economic releases. Volatility and slippage around news are your own risk. |
| Tradeify | Yes, no conditions | Yes. Tradeify has no rules against trading news events on any account. You trade news at your own risk, so watch for slippage, and never rely on the daily loss limit as a stop during volatile releases. |
| Alpha Futures | Yes, with conditions | Alpha Futures allows news trading on every Evaluation and on Advanced Qualified accounts. Zero, Standard and Direct Qualified accounts may hold through red-folder news but cannot place orders 2 minutes before or after it. |
| Funded Futures Network | Yes, with conditions | Permitted, unrestricted, during the evaluation. Banned in Exhibition and Funded: holding through a T1 event forfeits the account and all profit, no appeal. |
| Legends Trading | Yes, with conditions | Apprentice Master Accounts may not trade within 2 minutes before or after a Tier-1 news release. Elite accounts (Evaluation and Master) may trade through Tier-1 news events, and profits are payable. |
| Lucid Trading | Yes, with conditions | Not allowed on LucidDaily: trading US high-impact red-folder news is a hard breach, must be flat 1 min before/after. Allowed without restriction on LucidPro, LucidFlex and LucidDirect. |
| My Funded Futures | Yes, with conditions | My Funded Futures bans Tier 1 news trading on Rapid, Rapid EOD and Pro Sim Funded accounts, which must be flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after each release. Evaluations, Builder and Live accounts may trade it. |
| Take Profit Trader | Yes, with conditions | Yes, with limits. Test accounts can trade news freely. PRO and PRO+ must be flat one minute before and after big reports like FOMC, jobs, and CPI; oil and bond auction times limit those specific markets. |
| Topstep | Yes, with conditions | News trading is not blacked out, but purposefully trading your full Maximum Position Size directly into a scheduled major news event is a prohibited trading strategy. |
| TradeDay | Yes, with conditions | Tier-1 releases (FOMC, CPI, NFP, oil/gas inventories, crop reports) auto-liquidate positions 2 min before and reopen 2 min after; all other news trading is unrestricted. |
- Apex Trader Funding
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- BluSky Trading Company
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- Yes. BluSky Trading Company lets you trade during news releases at your own risk, including in live accounts unless your account has been specifically restricted. Expect slippage and wider spreads around major reports.
- Bulenox
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- DayTraders
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- E8 Markets
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- FTMO Futures
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- Funded Futures Family
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- FundedNext Futures
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- Trading during news events is allowed on futures accounts. Volatility and slippage around major releases are your own risk, so size positions with the drawdown in mind.
- IQ Capital
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- –
- Phidias Prop Firm
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- Yes. Phidias Prop Firm allows news trading on all account types, so you can hold or open positions through major economic releases. Slippage and volatility around news are your own risk.
- Purdia Capital
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- Yes. Purdia Capital places no news trading restrictions on its sim accounts, so you can trade through major economic releases. Volatility and slippage around news are your own risk.
- Tradeify
- Permission
- Yes, no conditions
- What the firm states
- Yes. Tradeify has no rules against trading news events on any account. You trade news at your own risk, so watch for slippage, and never rely on the daily loss limit as a stop during volatile releases.
- Alpha Futures
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- Alpha Futures allows news trading on every Evaluation and on Advanced Qualified accounts. Zero, Standard and Direct Qualified accounts may hold through red-folder news but cannot place orders 2 minutes before or after it.
- Funded Futures Network
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- Permitted, unrestricted, during the evaluation. Banned in Exhibition and Funded: holding through a T1 event forfeits the account and all profit, no appeal.
- Legends Trading
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- Apprentice Master Accounts may not trade within 2 minutes before or after a Tier-1 news release. Elite accounts (Evaluation and Master) may trade through Tier-1 news events, and profits are payable.
- Lucid Trading
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- Not allowed on LucidDaily: trading US high-impact red-folder news is a hard breach, must be flat 1 min before/after. Allowed without restriction on LucidPro, LucidFlex and LucidDirect.
- My Funded Futures
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- My Funded Futures bans Tier 1 news trading on Rapid, Rapid EOD and Pro Sim Funded accounts, which must be flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after each release. Evaluations, Builder and Live accounts may trade it.
- Take Profit Trader
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- Yes, with limits. Test accounts can trade news freely. PRO and PRO+ must be flat one minute before and after big reports like FOMC, jobs, and CPI; oil and bond auction times limit those specific markets.
- Topstep
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- News trading is not blacked out, but purposefully trading your full Maximum Position Size directly into a scheduled major news event is a prohibited trading strategy.
- TradeDay
- Permission
- Yes, with conditions
- What the firm states
- Tier-1 releases (FOMC, CPI, NFP, oil/gas inventories, crop reports) auto-liquidate positions 2 min before and reopen 2 min after; all other news trading is unrestricted.
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