Do you actually avoid news hours?

I’m currently backtesting one of my preferred strategies, and I’ve noticed that high-impact news sessions tend to distort otherwise clean setups and invalidate several solid trades. It makes me question whether avoiding the market during news hours is actually a necessary edge or just unnecessary caution.

From my own experience trading, I’ve realized the issue usually isn’t the news itself, but the way it changes the market environment sudden volatility expansion and liquidity shifts that temporarily distort otherwise clean structure.

So when I choose to stay out during major releases, it’s not about fear or avoiding opportunity. It’s about protecting the consistency of my execution and respecting the conditions my strategy was actually built for.

At that point, the real question I ask myself is simple: am I trading my edge in the environment it was designed for, or am I trying to force it to adapt to conditions that naturally break its logic?

The news doesn't distort or invalidate setups that is one thing I will always says, news validate price movement, sometimes the market price before the news and sometimes the news validates the movement I understand why you said so that's when you try to predict price movement rather than reacting to it