UK CPI (y/y)
Mid-month, Wednesday · 07:00 London
UK consumer inflation, released at 7:00 London — before the cash session, when liquidity is thin. Thin books plus a surprise is the recipe for the outsized one-minute moves this print is known for.
Services inflation is the BoE's watched sub-component; a headline miss with sticky services can produce a two-way whipsaw as the market re-reads the detail.
What it measures
The Office for National Statistics' consumer-price bundle: headline CPI y/y, core, and the services-inflation series the Bank of England actually watches.
Why the economy cares
The number that decides whether the BoE can cut. Services inflation has been the sticky component — a headline miss with firm services reads hawkish, not dovish.
How it maps onto the chart
Hot → GBP up; soft → GBP down — with outsized single-minute moves because the 7:00 London slot precedes the cash session's liquidity. Measured: ~1.3x an ordinary 7:00 hour, on already-thin books.
Price behavior around the release
Before
Asia holds cable in a narrow drift; there is no London liquidity yet to build a proper pre-news range.
During
Thin books + binary number = the sharpest per-unit-of-surprise moves among measured non-central-bank events. Slippage risk is the defining feature.
After
The 8:00 London open frequently re-trades the release: the direction established on thin books gets tested once real liquidity arrives — the retest is often the better entry.
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 share reduced |
| Atlas Funded | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Blue Guardian | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| 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 |
| FundedNext | Allowed | ±5 min | Profit share reduced |
| FundingPips | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| 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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