FOMC Meeting Minutes
Three weeks after each FOMC meeting · 14:00 ET
The detailed record of the last FOMC meeting. Markets scan it for how split the committee was and for hints the statement smoothed over.
Impact is usually a tier below the live meeting — the information is three weeks old — but a minutes release that reveals unexpected disagreement can still repriced the rate path in minutes.
What it measures
The full written record of the FOMC meeting held three weeks earlier: the debate, the dissents, the conditions members attached to their votes.
Why the economy cares
Mostly confirmation — but the minutes occasionally reveal that the statement's unanimity was thinner than presented, which repriced the probability of the next move.
How it maps onto the chart
A hawkish-reading record (more members worried about inflation) lifts USD modestly; a dovish one softens it. Magnitude is a tier below the live meeting — the information is three weeks old.
Price behavior around the release
Before
Usually a normal trading day; the 14:00 ET release rarely commands the pre-positioning compression a live meeting does.
During
A single readable impulse rather than a sweep — headlines algorithms parse the text within seconds, and the move is usually done within the first candles.
After
Fades are common: without new data the market tends to drift back to the pre-minutes range unless the record genuinely changed the odds for the next meeting.
Who lets you trade it
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| Firm | Policy | Window | If violated |
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| Apex Trader Funding | Allowed | — | — |
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| BrightFunded | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Bulenox | Allowed | — | None |
| E8 Markets | Allowed | — | — |
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| FTMO | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| Funded Trading Plus | Allowed | — | None |
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| FXIFY | Allowed | — | — |
| Lucid Trading | Allowed | — | — |
| MyFundedFutures | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | — |
| Take Profit Trader | Restricted (funded) | — | — |
| The5ers | Allowed | — | — |
| Topstep | Allowed | — | — |
| Tradeify | Allowed | — | — |
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