MKT · RULES MKT.1–MKT.3
Market Conduct: News, Weekends & Sessions
MKT.1
High-Impact News Trading
MKT.1.1 The restricted window
Where news trading is restricted, you may not execute any trade on an affected instrument from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after a scheduled high-impact release. “Execute” covers everything: market orders, pending orders (limit or stop) filling, and stop-loss or take-profit orders triggering.
MKT.1.2 Holding is fine — executing is not
You may hold positions through news. A position opened more than 5 minutes before the release can be held — but if its stop-loss or take-profit triggers inside the window, that is a violation.
MKT.1.3 Which instruments are affected?
Only instruments affected by the high-impact event. For USD high-impact news, that means every pair containing USD plus the USD indices we offer (US30, NAS100, SPX500). Instruments facing only low- or medium-impact news trade normally.
MKT.1.4 Rules by account type
MKT.1.5 Consequences
Profits from trades executed inside a restricted window in 2-Step Pro Sim. Funded accounts are reversed. Recklessly trading to exploit high-impact volatility can lead to termination. On 2-Step Pro Sim. Funded accounts this is a soft breach (BRC.3); on Direct accounts it is a hard breach that leads to closure of the account. On 2-Step Fly Phase 1 and Phase 2 and 1-Step Fly Phase 1, executing a trade inside the restricted window is a hard breach and the account is permanently terminated; there is no news restriction on the 2-Step Fly and 1-Step Fly Sim. Funded Account.
MKT.1.6 Know what is coming
The Economic Calendar in your Hola Prime dashboard lists scheduled high-impact events and can be filtered by country and impact (PLT.6).
Timing example — event at 03:00 EST
On affected instruments, no trade should be executed between 02:55 and 03:05 — no opens, closes, limits, stops, TPs or SLs. A trade opened before 02:55 and closed after 03:05 is fine; the same trade closed at 03:02 is a violation.
During a US CPI release you may still trade AUD/NZD (no USD) — but not USD/JPY or GBP/USD.
MKT.2
Weekend Holding
MKT.2.1 Rules by account type
Weekend holding means keeping trades open after the market closes on Friday:
MKT.2.2 Why 15:45 EST
Closing at 15:45 EST avoids poor fills at the 17:00 EST weekend rollover and gives the system time to process accounts in bulk.
MKT.2.3 Pro Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) account profits
Profit from trades the system closed on Friday still counts toward your payout — but you remain responsible if the resulting deductions push you through a loss limit.
MKT.3
Overnight Holding
MKT.3.1 The rule
Overnight holding is fully allowed on all Challenge and Hola Prime (Sim. Funded) Accounts.
