E8 Signature Crypto and E8 Signature Forex:
You can trade news without any restrictions (This includes phase-1 and E8 Trader Stage)
However, please note that High-impact news can lead to extreme market volatility, and slippages may occur (as they would if this were a live market), and that the user is ultimately responsible.
E8 One:
In phase 1, you can trade news without any restrictions
In an E8 Trader Stage during the release of high-impact news, a prohibition period will be enforced. This period will commence 5 minutes before the scheduled news release and extend for 5 minutes after the release.
High-impact news events are defined as economic or geopolitical announcements that have the potential to significantly influence financial markets. This includes, but is not limited to, central bank decisions, economic indicators, and major political events.
Prohibited Actions
During the prohibition period, users are prohibited from:
a. Opening new trades (Market Execution/Limit orders).
b. Closing trades (Market Execution/Limit orders).
c. Stop/Loss and Take/Profit
d. Buy Stop and Sell Stop
Please note, that if any of the prohibited actions are executed within the 10-minute period (5 Minutes before and 5 minutes after) immediately before or after the event, any profits earned during this time will be subject to removal, without any account violation.
During news speeches, the restricted time period is 5 minutes before the speech begins until 5 minutes after the speech ends.
Trading based on news is NOT permitted, encompassing strategies like directional trading, straddles, strangles, capitalizing on the initial surge following news releases and initiating trades just before or after the news to potentially benefit from market movements.
All non-targeted instruments can be traded without any restrictions.
News releases can be followed in our economic calendar.
List of targeted instruments and Restricted Macroeconomic News Events:
While we permit news trading in some scenarios, users should be aware that slippages may occur (as they would if this was a live market) and that the user is ultimately responsible.
E8 Markets cannot guarantee any profits generated during such high-risk news events, nor can it protect users from any losses taken because the trades may not actually fill, or may fill causing a loss on your simulated account.
E8 Markets’s simulated platform is designed to mimic live trading account conditions; just as slippage is a risk in a real market, it also is a risk on our simulated platform that tracks the live markets. Therefore, we recommend that users avoid trading during high-impact news releases.