Does Lucid Trading allow news trading?
Lucid Trading sets a news-trading policy that depends on the product you're trading. In general, the firm distinguishes between three categories of activity around scheduled high-impact economic releases:
1. Holding a position THROUGH a release 2. Opening a position WITHIN a defined window before a release 3. Closing a position WITHIN a defined window after a release
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All three categories may be restricted on some account types and unrestricted on others โ there is no single Lucid Trading-wide policy.
The window mechanics
The standard restriction window across the prop industry โ and the one Lucid Trading typically uses โ is 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after a high-impact event. Some firms extend it to 5 or even 10 minutes. The exact window is published on each challenge page and on the account dashboard.
A "high-impact event" is anything flagged red on Forex Factory or equivalent calendars: NFP, CPI, FOMC, ECB rate decision, BoE rate decision, GDP, central bank speeches by the Fed Chair / ECB President / BoE Governor, and major employment surveys.
If you have any open position on the affected currency pair during the restricted window, that position is considered "news traded" โ even if you opened it hours earlier.
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What counts as a violation
Violations come in three flavours:
โข Profit forfeit โ the firm removes the news-trade P&L from your account, but the account remains active.
โข Soft warning โ first offence triggers a written warning, second offence triggers a hard penalty.
โข Hard breach โ the account is closed regardless of overall P&L.
Lucid Trading sits in the middle of this spectrum. The exact treatment of a violation is a function of which product you bought and when. ALWAYS read the rules linked from your specific account dashboard rather than relying on what was true last year.
How to plan trades around news
1. Pull the high-impact calendar at the start of every week. Block the windows out on your trading platform with on-chart annotations.
2. Close all positions on affected pairs at least 5 minutes before the window. Lucid Trading measures from the published release time, but a clock skew of 30โ60 seconds is enough to misclassify a perfectly-timed exit as a violation.
3. If you must hold through a release for a strategic reason, use a smaller-than-normal size โ the slippage on a stop-out during a CPI print can be 5โ10x the average bar.
4. Re-enter only after the post-release window has fully cleared. Volatility usually persists for another 15โ30 minutes, but the rules clock has stopped.
5. Document everything. If support questions a trade, having a screenshot of your annotated calendar at the time of the trade is the fastest way to clear it.
Lucid Trading supports NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, MotiveWave, Quantower, and Sierra Chart, all of which can render the news calendar directly on the chart.