Base Camp Instant Funding - Standard
Holding trades through the news is allowed. News trading is restricted around high-impact news events. Specifically, traders are not allowed to open or close trades five minutes before or after the release of high-impact news.
βTrading news will result in a hard breach of the account.
Base Camp Instant Funding - Swing
News trading is not restricted. You can open and close trades whenever you want.
Economic Calendar
High-impact news events are determined based on listings from Forex Factory, a well-regarded resource for Forex market news and events. We only take this economic calendar into consideration when we look at news trading.
You can find the news calendar here: Economic Calendar
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High-impact news or red folder news look like this:
Which pairs can you trade while high-impact news are released?
High-impact news only affects the pair you trade.
For example, if you trade EURUSD EUR and USD, high-impact news will affect you but not AUD news.
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βNote:
All-day events in the Forex Factory Calendar can be ignored.
Tentative events in the Forex Factory Calendar can be ignored.
All events without an exact time can be ignored.
If your stop loss or any other automation setup is triggered during the 5 minutes window and is opening or closing trades, it is considered a breach. It does not need to be done manually.