Fed Chair Speeches & Testimony
Irregular (incl. semi-annual Congressional testimony) · varies ET
Any scheduled appearance by the Fed Chair can move markets, but the impact is binary: either the prepared remarks repeat the last meeting's language (non-event) or they shift it (rate-path repricing).
Congressional testimony is the riskier format — hours of unscripted Q&A where a single sentence can undo weeks of guidance. Risk windows are long and poorly defined, which is why calendars label these irregular.
What it measures
Scheduled appearances by the Fed Chair: conference keynotes, panel discussions, and the semi-annual Congressional testimony.
Why the economy cares
Between meetings this is the only channel through which the rate path can be officially re-guided — which makes every scheduled appearance a conditional event: usually nothing, occasionally everything.
How it maps onto the chart
Binary: prepared remarks that repeat meeting language produce no move; any deviation repriced the path immediately, with USD, indices and gold reacting together.
Price behavior around the release
Before
Little systematic pre-positioning — the market can't hedge a speech whose content is unknown and probably uneventful.
During
Headline-driven bursts. Testimony is the risky format: hours of unscripted Q&A where one sentence can undo weeks of guidance, with the timing of that sentence unknowable.
After
Moves triggered by genuine guidance shifts hold and extend; moves triggered by out-of-context soundbites tend to retrace within the session once the full quote circulates.
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 | — | — |
| Earn2Trade | Allowed | — | None |
| 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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