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Most news-policy breaches are accidents. A position held through a release, a stop filled inside a restricted window, a trade opened five minutes too early — none of them feel like rule breaking at the time. This calendar exists so the windows are visible before you are in one.
Two weeks from the snapshot (Sep 22, 2026) · 7 high-impact events · all times UTC
Upcoming high-impact events
PREVIEW MODULEFilter by impact, market and currency. Illustrative until a calendar feed is attached; the window is measured from the snapshot rather than your clock.
7 events across 7 days. All times UTC.
Thursday 24 September
- 16:00HIGHEUR · ECB Rate DecisionEuro areaEUR crosses and European index products; the press conference often moves more than the decision.
Monday 28 September
- 12:00HIGHUSD · FOMC Rate DecisionUnited StatesIndex futures move hard in both directions; a trailing intraday floor can be hit on the reversal alone.
Tuesday 29 September
- 08:00HIGHGBP · Bank of England Rate DecisionUnited KingdomGBP pairs and the UK index; watch the vote split rather than the headline.
Wednesday 30 September
- 09:00HIGHGBP · Bank of England Rate DecisionUnited KingdomGBP pairs and the UK index; watch the vote split rather than the headline.
Thursday 1 October
- 13:00HIGHUSD · CPI (Consumer Price Index)United StatesWide spreads and gaps around the release; check the firm's news policy before holding.
Friday 2 October
- 14:00HIGHUSD · Non-Farm PayrollsUnited StatesThe single most common trigger for a news-window breach on Forex/CFD plans.
Monday 5 October
- 19:00HIGHEUR · ECB Rate DecisionEuro areaEUR crosses and European index products; the press conference often moves more than the decision.
How news rules actually work
The window is usually two-sided
A typical policy blocks execution for a few minutes either side of a release. Being flat before it opens is the only reliable way to stay clear, because you do not control when a stop fills.
A stop-loss fill is still execution
This is the detail that catches people. A position opened an hour earlier whose stop triggers inside the window can still count. If your firm's wording is ambiguous, ask and keep the reply.
The penalty varies more than the rule
Some firms void the trade, some void the profit from it, some breach the account outright. The rule text matters less than what happens when you break it.
Futures and Forex differ
Futures firms often restrict around the same US releases but express the rule against exchange hours rather than a currency. The events overlap; the wording does not.
Rex records each firm’s news-trading permission on its own page, and the rules vocabulary explains what the common wordings mean.
Questions
- Why is this a preview module?
- Because an economic calendar is live data and no feed is attached. The filtering, grouping and impact model are the real product.
- Why UTC rather than my timezone?
- Because firm policies are written against a published schedule. Converting to a local clock is exactly where an off-by-one hour causes a breach.
- Does every firm restrict news trading?
- No. Several publish no restriction at all, and Rex records that as published rather than assuming a rule exists.