Short answer: several futures prop programs permit trading around scheduled news, but “allowed” is not a firm-wide promise. The rule can change between evaluation and funded stages, by event, by product, and through temporary risk controls. As checked on September 9, 2026, Topstep, Apex, Take Profit Trader, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify, and Bulenox all have an allowed path—with materially different conditions.
News Trading Rules by Firm
Compare exact programs before comparing brands. The table below separates the first evaluation stage from funded-stage restrictions and links to the rule each firm currently publishes. It does not assume that permission at evaluation survives the transition to a simulated funded or live account.
| Exact program or stage | Current news rule | Decision-critical condition | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topstep Trading Combine 100K · first evaluation stage |
Generally permitted | Full maximum-size entries directly into major scheduled news are prohibited. A current CPI control separately restricts new SIM openings in affected equity-index and metal products. | Official rule Sep 9, 2026 |
| Apex EOD Evaluation 100K · evaluation |
Conditional | A normal directional strategy may continue; chasing the release, opposing orders, and gambling on the outcome are prohibited. | Official rule Sep 9, 2026 |
| Take Profit Trader Test Account 100K · Test |
Permitted in Test | PRO and PRO+ are different: positions and orders must be clear around listed prohibited events. | Official rule Sep 9, 2026 |
| MyFundedFutures Rapid 100K · evaluation |
Tier 1 listed as permitted in evaluation | The same policy page also contains a broad two-minute “standard protocol,” creating an ambiguity that should be confirmed in writing. | Official rule Sep 9, 2026 |
| Tradeify Select Evaluation 100K · evaluation |
Permitted | No news-specific restriction; ordinary risk rules still apply, and funded payout eligibility has a separate microscalping test. | Official rule Sep 9, 2026 |
| Bulenox Qualification / Master | Permitted | The current site says no blackout or forced close for CPI, FOMC, or NFP; drawdown and position-size limits remain active. | Official rule Sep 9, 2026 |
Best fit, not a blanket winner: Tradeify and Bulenox publish the simplest current permission. Topstep is workable only after checking active risk adjustments. Apex fits a trader whose ordinary directional setup—not a news-burst gamble—happens to trigger around a release. TPT and MFFU require the closest stage-by-stage reading.
This is a policy comparison, not a recommendation to trade a release. Before paying for any program, open the official rule from your dashboard and save the version that applies to the exact account. The prop-firm rules cheatsheet explains how to turn scattered help-center language into one pre-trade contract.
Topstep: News Trading Allowed (With Limits)
Topstep's general economic-release guidance says traders do not have to flatten in SIM or Funded Accounts. Its prohibited-strategy policy adds a clear boundary: purposely taking the full Maximum Position Size directly into a scheduled major event is prohibited. That makes “Topstep allows news trading” directionally true, but incomplete.
The current high-volatility rule adds the operational detail. Around CPI, new SIM opening transactions in named equity-index and metal minis are blocked for the ten-minute window spanning five minutes before through five minutes after the release; affected micros are capped by account size. Existing positions may be managed, while pending orders cannot fill in that window. Other products are unaffected by that CPI-specific control.
So the practical answer to “can you trade news on Topstep?” is: often yes, but check the dashboard banner and the live restriction page for the event, product, account stage, and size before placing an opening order. Topstep also says temporary product limits can be introduced during unusually high volatility. Permission is therefore conditional operational state, not a timeless feature label.
For the wider program tradeoff—not just the news rule—see the full Topstep review.
Apex News Policy: What's Actually Allowed
Apex does not currently publish the old blanket eight-minute rule described by many historical comparisons. Its official prohibited-activities page says trading during news is allowed for a trader's normal strategy, while news-chasing, opposing orders, and attempts to gamble on the release outcome are not.
That distinction is about behavior and intent, not a universal clock. A pre-existing directional process can remain eligible; placing both sides of the market or turning the account threshold into a news-event stop cannot. Apex also requires a pending or mental stop and a defined risk-management approach, and it prohibits simulator exploitation and fills that would not resemble real-market behavior.
This policy gives less certainty to a strategy designed specifically around the first burst than a simple blackout window would. A reader choosing between these programs should compare the evidence burden as well as the rule itself; the Apex vs Topstep comparison keeps the two exact evaluation programs separate from their later stages.
Other Firms: Detailed News Policies
Take Profit Trader
The Test Account has no news-trading restriction. PRO and PRO+ accounts do: all open positions and orders must be gone one minute before, during, and one minute after a prohibited event. The current list includes FOMC statements or announcements, NFP, and CPI, plus instrument-specific crude-oil inventories and bond auctions. FOMC minutes and Fed speakers are currently listed as allowed, which is why “FOMC” alone is too broad a label.
The Test-stage permission does not override Take Profit Trader's Universal Trading Policies. Maximum position size, approved products and hours, CME compliance, independent execution, and the ban on counter-position trading still apply.
MyFundedFutures
The current policy lists all evaluations and Builder Plans as unrestricted for Tier 1 releases, while Rapid Sim Funded and Pro Sim Funded must be clear of positions and orders from two minutes before until two minutes after listed Tier 1 events. Those events include FOMC meetings and minutes, the Employment Report, and CPI, plus EIA releases for energy and agricultural reports for agricultural products.
However, the same page also says, under “Standard Trading Protocols,” to keep positions and orders out of the book for two minutes before and after any data release. That sentence conflicts with the page's later “unrestricted” evaluation label. Treat the ambiguity as material: ask support to confirm the exact program and save the reply before building a process around evaluation-stage news access.
Tradeify
Tradeify's current help center says news trading is allowed without a news-specific window. The old claim that it prohibits openings within two minutes of major news is not supported by the current first-party rule. The page does warn about slippage and says the Daily Loss Limit should not be treated as a stop.
A separate funded-account condition still matters: payout eligibility requires more than half of trades and more than half of profit to come from trades held longer than ten seconds. That is not a news ban and does not apply during evaluation, but a fast post-release strategy should model the funded-stage interaction before choosing the program.
Bulenox
Bulenox currently advertises news trading across CPI, FOMC, and NFP with no blackout window or forced closing. Its drawdown and position-size rules remain the actual boundary. Because program pages and account agreements can change independently, verify the chosen Qualification, Fast Track, or Momentum path rather than treating the home-page statement as permanent.
What About TickTickTrader?
We did not find a current first-party page that states a news-trading rule for the presently offered program set, and the purchase flow currently displays an operational-change notice. The honest label is Not verified, not “allowed.” TickTickTrader is therefore excluded from the decision set until an official program-specific rule can be cited.
Which Prop Firm Has the Best Order Execution for News Spikes?
No defensible public dataset lets us rank these firms for news-spike execution. A help-center claim that trading is allowed does not measure queue position, rejected orders, fill latency, spread, slippage, or the difference between simulation and live execution. A firm can have a permissive rule and still produce a poor fit for a strategy whose edge depends on a precise fill.
Measure execution on the exact platform, data route, product, order type, and account stage. For each event, preserve the intended order price and time, actual fill, contemporaneous bid and ask if available, slippage in ticks and money, rejected or canceled orders, and whether the account was simulated or live. Compare the same event class over multiple releases; one favorable fill is not an execution ranking.
News volatility can also move a loss floor faster than a planned stop is filled. The prop-firm drawdown guide shows why the distance to the account threshold must be modeled separately from the stop distance.
Which News Events Actually Matter?
The events that matter are the ones named by the exact program or capable of changing liquidity in the product being traded. Do not rely on a universal “high impact” list copied from another firm. TPT distinguishes FOMC statements from minutes; MFFU adds product-specific EIA and agricultural releases; Topstep's current CPI control names affected instruments; a dashboard calendar can therefore be part of the rule contract.
Before every session, record the event name, official release time and time zone, affected product, account stage, prohibited window or temporary limit, and source checked. Surprise headlines cannot be scheduled, but the operating response can still be predefined: cancel stale orders, preserve evidence, and stop if the platform or rule state becomes uncertain. For market-process context, use the economic-news trading guide.
News Trading Risk Management on Funded Accounts
There is no honest universal instruction to trade a fixed fraction of normal size or wait a fixed number of minutes. Volatility, liquidity, contract value, account buffer, order type, and the strategy's tested horizon differ. Use a decision gate instead:
- Resolve the contract. Confirm firm, program, stage, account size, product, event, window, and any temporary banner.
- Define the order behavior. Decide whether new entries, pending orders, existing positions, and opposing orders are permitted.
- Model the bad fill. Test whether plausible slippage can cross the daily or maximum-loss boundary even when the stop was placed correctly.
- Preserve the evidence. Save the official rule, calendar time, order ticket, fill, and platform message needed to reconstruct the decision.
- Abort on ambiguity. If the page and dashboard conflict, or support cannot identify the exact scope, stay flat rather than inventing permission.
Use TSB for News-Rule and Fill Evidence
Ownership disclosure: Trader's Second Brain is our product. It belongs here because news-trading decisions require exact rule scope and reconstructable execution evidence—not because a journal can make a volatile event safe or guarantee a payout.
TSB has processed 600K+ imported trades across the product's import history. That is a count of imported trades, not users, not trades analyzed by Coach, and not proof that one firm's fills are better. The canonical registry currently recognizes 328 structured broker, exchange, platform, and prop-export profiles; confirm the exact route in the supported-source directory before relying on the record.
The Prop Rule Tracker keeps firm, exact program, stage, event restriction, and verified date beside the account. Reports and replay then let you compare intended versus actual execution by event and setup. TSB Coach is the high-leverage intelligence layer across that selected evidence: it can connect the account rule, imported fills, slippage fields, reports, replay, detected leaks, and saved focus into a traceable explanation. It does not invent a missing quote or certify intent; if the record cannot support a firm comparison, the correct result is Unknown. That restraint makes the analysis dependable rather than weak.
Choose the Exact Rule—Then Audit the Actual Fill
A permitted window only clears the compliance gate. Your own account-stage rule, threshold buffer, order path, and imported execution record decide whether the strategy is operable.
Review news-event evidence with CoachMethodology Note
Rules were checked on September 9, 2026 against current first-party pages from Topstep, Apex, Take Profit Trader, MyFundedFutures, Tradeify, Bulenox, and TickTickTrader. “Allowed” means the official source permits news trading in the named scope; it does not mean unrestricted, low-risk, well-executed, or available in every later account stage. Where a first-party page contradicted itself, the ambiguity was preserved instead of resolved by guesswork.
The server-rendered catalog component fixes the main comparison to the same global/default 100K first evaluation stage for Topstep Trading Combine, Apex EOD Evaluation, and Take Profit Trader Test Account. Catalog facts can refresh, but this article's interpretation does not change automatically; a data drift warning requires editorial review. See our editorial methodology.
The Bottom Line
There is no responsible one-word winner. Tradeify and Bulenox currently publish the clearest news permission. Topstep generally allows event trading but now uses active, product-specific controls and forbids full-size event bets. Apex allows a normal directional strategy while prohibiting news-chasing and opposing-order gambles. TPT permits news during Test but imposes funded-stage blackout windows. MFFU lists evaluations as Tier 1-permitted while publishing a conflicting broad protocol that deserves written clarification.
If the strategy depends on the first seconds of a release, rule permission is only the first filter. Demand an exact account-stage source, model the threshold under slippage, and audit actual fills. If any of those inputs is missing, the correct decision is not a confident ranking—it is Not verified.
