Do you avoid trading in the minutes around a release, or accept the risk?

Trading around a scheduled release can produce fast moves, wide spreads and slippage. Some members avoid the window entirely. Others trade it with smaller size or a set plan. Both approaches have a cost, either in missed moves or in larger losses. How to trade the news covers how to plan around scheduled releases, including the decisions to make before the window opens.

The useful question is not whether you trade the news, but what your plan says about the window before and after a release. A written rule, such as no new positions in the minutes around a release, takes the decision out of the moment, when prices are moving and the pressure to act is highest. How to use an economic calendar explains how to read the release times, so the rule can be set in advance.

We would like to hear your choice:

• Do you stay out of the market around releases, or trade them with a plan?
• How long before and after a release do you stay out, if you do?
• Have you been filled at a worse price during a release? What happened?
• What would make you change your rule about news windows?

Please share your own approach and reasoning, not calls for others to copy. Posts that promise a direction or sell signals will be removed.