FundingPips rewrote the news-trading section of its help centre on 26 August 2026, then rewrote it again on 27 August. The first version named Trump speeches and tweets as restricted events. The second version deletes that line and replaces it with something considerably wider: profits from any Significant Unscheduled Market Event can be deducted on a Master account. Minimum trading days went up on 2 Step Pro and 2 Step Flex in the same 24 hours, and one of the firm's own summary tables carried the wrong number for a day.
Every quotation below comes from our daily crawl of FundingPips' help centre, with the exact wording preserved on both sides of each change. The diffs live on the FundingPips changelog.
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What Changed in 24 Hours
Nine separate edits across seven help-centre articles, in two waves roughly 24 hours apart. The short version:
ChangeBeforeAfter26 Aug — restricted news scope (Zero)"Only red-flagged (high-impact) events and speeches are restricted.""High-impact events and speeches are restricted, including Trump speeches and tweets."26 Aug — minimum trading days2 Step Pro: 1 per phase. 2 Step Flex 85%: none.2 Step Pro: 2 per phase. 2 Step Flex 85%: 1 per phase.27 Aug — restricted news scope"…including Trump speeches and tweets."Line deleted. Replaced by a Significant Unscheduled Market Event (SUME) profit-deduction clause.27 Aug — news trading ban"Purposely trading news is prohibited and will lead to account closure.""Purposely trading news in both evaluation and master phase is prohibited and will lead to account closure."27 Aug — soft breach wording"…may result in restrictions such as limited access or removal of profits depending on the violated rule.""These rules do not result in account closure, but affected profits will be deducted."
Day One: 26 August
"Trump speeches and tweets" enter the rulebook
The FundingPips Zero article previously read:
FundingPips uses the Economic Calendar on the main dashboard as the official news source. Only red-flagged (high-impact) events and speeches are restricted.
It became:
FundingPips uses the Economic Calendar on the main dashboard as the official news source. High-impact events and speeches are restricted, including Trump speeches and tweets.
The same clause landed in the 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Pro and 2 Step Flex articles, where the sentence "High-impact events and speeches are highlighted in red" became "High-impact events and speeches, including Trump speeches and tweets." Four model articles, one named individual, no definition of which posts qualify.
We published the Zero change on X on the afternoon of 26 August. By the next morning's crawl the line was gone from all four articles.
Minimum trading days went up
On 2 Step Pro, both phases moved from "Minimum 1 trading day per phase: fastest path to the Master Account" to "Minimum 2 trading day per phase to the Master Account." The free trial, which mirrors the Pro model, was updated the same night from "1 per phase" to "2 per phase."
On 2 Step Flex, the 85% split lost its headline feature. "No minimum trading days on the 85% split (pass as soon as you hit the target)" became "1 minimum trading day on the 85% split." The 95% split still requires 3 profitable days of at least 0.5% each.
ModelBefore 26 AugFrom 26 AugExisting accounts2 Step Pro (Phase 1 & 2)1 day per phase2 days per phaseKeep 1 day2 Step Flex — 85% splitNo minimum1 day per phaseKeep 0 days2 Step Flex — 95% split3 profitable days3 profitable daysUnchangedFree Trial1 day per phase2 days per phasen/a
Both changes apply to accounts purchased or reset on or after 26 August 2026. Accounts bought before that date keep the old requirement.
The firm's two summary tables disagreed with each other
FundingPips maintains two at-a-glance comparison tables: one on the Responsible Trading Policy page and one on the Compare Account Models page. On 26 August both were edited, and they landed on different numbers.
The Compare Account Models table put 2 Step Pro at 2 minimum trading days per phase, matching the Pro article. The Responsible Trading Policy table put it at 3. For roughly a day, a trader checking the summary table on the policy page was reading a requirement that appeared nowhere else on the site.
Day Two: 27 August
The named person comes out, a broader rule goes in
Across Zero, Standard, Pro and Flex, the Trump clause was removed within a day of being added. The Zero article now reads:
FundingPips uses the Economic Calendar on the main dashboard as the official news source which features High-impact events and speeches.
Directly beneath it, a new paragraph appears under the heading Exception: Soft Breach:
Profits from trades made during a Significant Unscheduled Market Event (SUME) that cause extreme volatility, abnormal price movements, liquidity issues, widening spreads, or price gaps may be subject to profit deduction. This is not considered a hard breach, so the account will remain open.
The same SUME clause was added to the News Trading & Weekend Holding article as its own Master Account section, to the Zero section of that article, and to the three 2 Step model articles. On the model pages, the official-source line was rewritten to name it directly: the Economic Calendar "features the High-impact News, Speeches and Significant Unscheduled Market Event (SUME)."
The news trading ban now names the Master account
The News Trading & Weekend Holding article changed from:
Purposely trading news is prohibited and will lead to account closure.
to:
Purposely trading news in both evaluation and master phase is prohibited and will lead to account closure.
The old sentence sat under the evaluation-stage heading. On the three 2 Step model articles the same sentence was not just reworded but physically moved out of the evaluation section and down into the Master account rules. Whether that is a new restriction or a clarification of an existing one depends on how the old placement was being read — which is precisely the ambiguity the edit removes.
Soft-breach wording tightened
The 2 Step Standard, Pro and Flex articles each carried this paragraph, and each lost it:
Soft breaches do not lead to account closure, but may result in restrictions such as limited access or removal of profits depending on the violated rule.
The replacement, now sitting under the Master Account heading, is shorter and considerably firmer:
These rules do not result in account closure, but affected profits will be deducted.
"May result in… removal of profits depending on the violated rule" left room for discretion. "Affected profits will be deducted" does not.
The table was corrected, and grandfathering clarified
The Responsible Trading Policy table now shows 2 Step Pro at 2 minimum trading days per phase, matching the article and the other table.
The Pro and Flex articles also tightened their grandfathering language. The 26 August version protected only accounts "purchased before 26 August 2026." The 27 August version reads "Existing Phase 1 accounts and accounts purchased before 26 August 2026 will retain the 1 minimum trading day requirement," with matching wording for Phase 2. That is a small edit with a real consequence: an account already sitting in Phase 2 is now explicitly covered, not just one bought before the cut-off.
What "Significant Unscheduled Market Event" Actually Means for You
This is the change worth understanding, and it is not the one that got attention.
A named person's posts are a narrow trigger. You can check whether a post happened, when it happened, and whether your trade overlapped it. The account holder either did or did not trade into a specific, timestamped, publicly visible event.
"Significant Unscheduled Market Event" is defined by its effect on price, not by its source. The clause lists five symptoms — extreme volatility, abnormal price movements, liquidity issues, widening spreads, price gaps — and none of them are thresholds. There is no percentage, no pip figure, no spread multiple and no reference to a calendar. By construction, whether a move qualifies is decided after it has happened.
Three practical consequences on a Master account:
It is a soft breach, not a hard one. The account stays open. What is at risk is the profit on the affected trade, not the account itself.
It is not bounded by a time window. The existing 10-minute high-impact news restriction has a defined window and a 5-hour swing-trader exception. The SUME clause has neither.
It applies whether or not you were trading the news. An unscheduled spike is by definition not on the calendar you were told to check.
None of this is unusual for the industry — most firms reserve some version of an abnormal-market-conditions right, and it exists largely to deal with the genuinely pathological cases such as flash crashes, broker feed errors and thin-liquidity gaps. What is worth noting is the direction of travel: FundingPips replaced a rule you could check against with a rule that is assessed after the fact. If you hold positions through volatility on a Master account, that shifts risk onto you.
One further edit is easy to miss. On the three 2 Step model articles the sentence "Profits from trades opened or closed within this window will not be counted on the Master Account. The full profit of the affected trade is deducted, not just the portion earned during the window" was replaced by the SUME paragraph rather than joined by it. The 10-minute window itself is still described on those pages, and the full-profit-deduction sentence still appears on the News Trading & Weekend Holding article — but the model pages no longer spell it out.
Where FundingPips' Own Pages Still Disagree
Two inconsistencies were live at the time of writing.
The Flex 95% split. On 26 August the Responsible Trading Policy table gained a "Min Profitable Days (Eval)" entry showing "3 Profitable Days (95% split)" for 2 Step Flex. On 27 August that entry was removed and the row returned to empty — but the 2 Step Flex article still states the 3-profitable-day requirement in both phases. The article is the operative rule here; the table is now silent on it.
The weekend hold that is still "temporary." The 2 Step Flex article's weekend-holding restriction previously read "A temporary change is in effect since 29 January 2026: holding trades over the weekend is currently not allowed on 2 Step Flex Master Accounts." On 27 August the sentence was rewritten and the start date was dropped. The restriction remains; it has now been in force for seven months, and the page no longer says since when. The same restriction, also described as temporary, applies to 2 Step Standard and 2 Step Pro Master accounts.
What This Means If You Trade FundingPips
If you hold a Zero account: the restricted-event list is no longer defined by a name. It is defined by volatility, and a soft breach during a SUME costs you the profit on that trade. The hard-breach rules on Zero are unchanged — opening, closing or holding a position inside the 10-minute high-impact window still closes the account.
If you hold a Master account on any model: the SUME deduction and the explicit "both evaluation and master phase" news-trading ban now apply to you. Holding through scheduled news is still permitted under the existing window rules. What has changed is that profit made during an unscheduled spike is deductible if the firm later classes the move as significant.
If you are buying or resetting a 2 Step Pro or 2 Step Flex challenge: budget one extra trading day per phase. Existing accounts, including accounts already in Phase 2, keep the old minimum.
If you are comparing models on the summary tables: check the individual model article before you buy. Both summary tables were wrong or incomplete at some point in these 48 hours, and the model articles were right each time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Did FundingPips really restrict trading around Trump tweets?
For roughly one day, yes. On 26 August 2026 four help-centre articles — FundingPips Zero, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Pro and 2 Step Flex — were edited to say that restricted high-impact events included "Trump speeches and tweets." The line was removed from all four on 27 August 2026 and replaced with the Significant Unscheduled Market Event clause. The original wording is preserved in our changelog.
What is a Significant Unscheduled Market Event (SUME) at FundingPips?
FundingPips defines it as a market event causing "extreme volatility, abnormal price movements, liquidity issues, widening spreads, or price gaps." Profits from trades made during one may be subject to profit deduction on a Master account. The rule sets no numeric threshold, so whether a given move qualifies is assessed after the event. It is classed as a soft breach: the account is not closed.
How many minimum trading days does 2 Step Pro need now?
Two per phase, for accounts purchased or reset on or after 26 August 2026. Accounts purchased before that date, and accounts already in Phase 1 or Phase 2, keep the previous requirement of one day per phase. The free trial, which mirrors the Pro model, also moved to two days per phase.
Did the 2 Step Flex 85% split lose its no-minimum-days rule?
Yes, for new and reset accounts from 26 August 2026. The 85% split now requires 1 minimum trading day per phase instead of none. Existing accounts keep the zero-day requirement. The 95% split is unchanged and still requires 3 profitable days of at least 0.5% each.
Can I still hold trades through news on a FundingPips Master account?
Yes. Holding through news events is still permitted on Master accounts under the existing rules, including the 10-minute restricted window around high-impact events and the exception for trades opened five or more hours beforehand. What changed is that purposely trading news is now explicitly prohibited in both the evaluation and master phases, and that profits earned during an unscheduled volatility event may be deducted. On FundingPips Zero Master accounts, holding through high-impact news remains a hard breach.
Where can I see FundingPips' original rule wording?
On our FundingPips changelog, which archives the exact text of each version alongside the replacement. The firm's own help centre shows only the current version, so once a line is edited the previous wording is no longer available there. The full cross-firm feed is at Capital Critic Updates.
We Will Log the Next Revision
FundingPips has changed these pages twice in two days. That is not by itself a criticism — a firm tightening a vague rule into a specific one is doing something useful, and the 27 August edits fixed a table error and clarified who is grandfathered. But a rule you agreed to at checkout can be different by the time you reach a Master account, and the help centre only ever shows you the current version.
For the full picture on this firm, see the FundingPips profile and its recent changes, our earlier coverage of the mandatory Prime account transition and the Prime expansion that preceded it, and our running guide to prop firm rule changes in 2026.
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