The funded window is 2 minutes unless you bought the exception
Funded accounts carry a 2-minute news restriction unless an add-on is enabled. The evaluation and the funded stage are not described as the same permission, so a habit that felt free in the challenge can be restricted the week you are paid. Be out before the window and stay out until it has passed, unless the add-on is actually on the account you are trading. Guessing that it transferred from another tier is how the fill happens.
CPI, NFP, and FOMC are the releases that move gold and the indices far enough to matter. A tight spread a minute before the print is not a forecast of the spread during it. Create a Venasri login and store whether the add-on is on. A blackout that depends on memory will be off on the morning you need it.
The extra distance is loss, on both daily lines
A planned $500 gold stop that fills $1,200 worse has spent $1,200 of the day, not $500. On the 2-step book that is about a quarter of the $5,000 line. On the 1-step book it is 40 percent of the $3,000 line. Two such slips are a 1-step breach. The 10 percent maximum is not the relevant number during the print. The day is.
Gold at 1.45 lots pays $14.50 per 0.10 move. A 40-pip slip beyond the planned stop is about $580 of extra loss. That is survivable on a $5,000 day and rude on a $3,000 day if you already had a loser in the morning. Bot controls should be flat into the release rather than trusted to widen the stop in the two minutes when widening is also a bad look.
A news winner can still fail a different Instant Funding test
Instant accounts, the no-challenge product, score a 40 percent best day. Forty percent of a $10,000 profit is $4,000. A CPI trend that books $4,500 can block the consistency score while the loss line shows a win. The 2-step evaluation's headline targets are 10 percent then 5 percent, and that product is not automatically the same 40 percent score. Know which product printed the winner before you celebrate it.
The plus-5 lock is the other news surprise. A release that marks the account up through $5,000 on $100,000 locks the maximum floor at $95,000. You can enter the print with a $90,000 disaster line and exit it with a $95,000 line, plus a position you now have to manage under the tighter floor. Flat into the print avoids both the slip and the accidental lock.
Arm the flatten before the clock, not during the candle
Equity Guard on a 2-step $100,000 account belongs near $4,250, and on a 1-step account near $2,250. A guard that fires during CPI will flatten at a bad price, which is still better than holding, and worse than being out two minutes early. Arm it at the start of the session. Do not open the settings when the headline is already on the screen.
The daily anchor is the higher of balance or equity at 00:00 server time. A news winner you refuse to close can become tomorrow's higher start. Take the partial before the snapshot if the float is large relative to a $5,000 or $3,000 day. The add-on may relax the entry window. It does not relax the snapshot.
