FTMO News Trading Rule Generates Discussion Among Prop Firm Traders
Been going back and forth on a thread about EAs and prop firms. Everyone's talking about hedging, martingale, all the usual gotchas. But there's this one rule in FTMO's documentation that I swear 90% of bot builders just glance at and assume they understand. The news lockout window. Not the "don't trade news" advice. The actual hard rule in their agreement. If you go read the public docs (not the challenge rules, the actual trader agreement), it says you can't open positions 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact news. Sounds simple enough. But here'
Source: Reddit r/Forex — https://www.reddit.com/r/Forex/comments/1u812fd/the_ftmo_news_rule_that_nobody_actually_reads/
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