Meliora 

Hello, This applies only to funded, during the combine you can trade news: 1) You can trade at some news and some news not. For example: FOMC Meeting Minutes you can’t trade Equity Indexes like ES from 1 Minute before to 1 minute after. But you can trade other instruments during that times. 2) the drawdown is calculated live, including open positions. I strongly recommend: trade the account up slowly, build up a buffer that you don’t withdraw -> issue with drawdown basically eliminated, if you don’t mess up badly. But you should have your own rules in place to prevent that.

Thank you, then if u have open position w/e if Floating P/L... and 2 minutes for news.. You need to close positions and one minute later, u can open it again in case that u see a setup?

contrax 

Thank you, then if u have open position w/e if Floating P/L... and 2 minutes for news.. You need to close positions and one minute later, u can open it again in case that u see a setup?

Yes. If News are at 1pm, you have to be flat at 12:59pm and can start trading again at 01:01pm