Bank Holidays (US / UK / EU)
National calendars · all day ET
Not a release but a liquidity condition: with one major region's banks closed, order books thin out, ranges compress, and moves that do happen can overshoot on no flow.
The practical rule is inverted from news events: nothing may happen all day, but whatever happens is less reliable. Many traders simply stand down; several firms' consistency rules make holiday P&L a poor risk anyway.
What it measures
Days when one major region's banking system is closed: US federal holidays, UK bank holidays, key European ones. Exchanges may run reduced hours while interbank FX liquidity thins.
Why the economy cares
No information content — the impact is mechanical: fewer participants, thinner order books, wider effective spreads.
How it maps onto the chart
Ranges compress and algorithmic flows dominate. Moves that do occur travel further per unit of volume and revert more often once full liquidity returns.
Price behavior around the release
Before
The prior session often front-loads position squaring, producing a mild trend into the holiday.
During
Long stretches of nothing punctuated by air-pocket moves through empty books. Stops execute with worse slippage than the chart implies.
After
The first full session back frequently retraces holiday extremes — treat holiday breakouts with suspicion until real volume confirms them.
Who lets you trade it
News-trading policy of every firm in our verified catalog, read off the firm's own pages. Details and per-program exceptions live in the firm's rules.
| Firm | Policy | Window | If violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Capital | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Apex Trader Funding | Allowed | — | — |
| AquaFunded | Allowed | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Atlas Funded | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Bloom Funded | Unpublished | — | — |
| Blue Guardian | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Blueberry Funded | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | Profit removed |
| BrightFunded | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Bulenox | Allowed | — | None |
| E8 Markets | Allowed | — | — |
| Earn2Trade | Allowed | — | None |
| Equity Edge | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| FINTOKEI | Allowed | — | — |
| For Traders | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | — |
| FTMO | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| Funded Trading Plus | Allowed | — | None |
| FundedNext | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit share reduced |
| FundedX | Restricted (all) | ±5 min | — |
| FundingPips | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| FXIFY | Allowed | — | — |
| Goat Funded Trader | Allowed | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Hola Prime | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Lucid Trading | Allowed | — | — |
| Maven Trading | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| MyFundedFutures | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | — |
| NYS Markets | Restricted (funded) | ±10 min | Profit share reduced |
| Orion Funded | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | — |
| PineX Capital | Restricted (all) | ±5 min | Account breach |
| Propanium | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | None |
| Rebels Funding | Restricted (funded) | ±5/0 min | — |
| Sarmaye Gozare Bartar | Allowed | — | — |
| SharkFunded | Restricted (funded) | ±10 min | Account breach |
| Take Profit Trader | Restricted (funded) | ±1 min | — |
| The5ers | Allowed | — | — |
| Top One Trader | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | — |
| Topstep | Allowed | — | — |
| Tradeify | Allowed | — | — |
Policies verified 2026-08-22 and re-checked weekly. Restricted usually applies to funded accounts only — evaluations are commonly exempt; open the firm's rules for the exact split.