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.
Trading news will result in a hard breach of the account.
Base Camp Instant Funding - Swing
Holding trades through the news is allowed. However, 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.
Trading news will result in a soft breach of your account, which means your profitable trade that was closed or opened within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news will be removed from your account.
This rule is designed to mitigate risk and prevent trading during periods of potentially extreme market volatility, which can occur during and immediately following major news announcements. This policy helps ensure that trading is conducted under conditions that are as stable and predictable as possible, aligning with Alpine Funded’s commitment to prudent risk management.
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
High-impact news or red folder news look like this:
Which pairs can you trade while high-impact news come out?
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.
Note:
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.
Base Camp Swing Accounts - News Trading and Highest Equity (Rare Case)
If a trade is removed due to news trading on a Base Camp Instant Funding Swing Account, the drawdown will still be counted from the highest equity, including the news trade. It is not possible to reset the highest equity, so it is important to keep that in mind when a trade is removed