Traders cannot open a trade within the 5 minute period before news or close a position within the 5 minute period after high impact news, click this link to see all the news events that are considered high impact: News Trading Rules
Traders can still swing a position through news as long as the position was opened 5 minutes before or closed 5 minutes after news.
This rule only applies to accounts that have reached the funded stage
We do this so we ideally have a community of consistent profitable traders trading with us.
However this will not result in a hard breach if positions are opened or closed 5 minutes before/after, only profits deducted.