Economic calendar

The economic calendar is a tool that helps traders monitor and analyze market-moving events and predict future price movements. It highlights upcoming national and international news in chronological order.

These major events can have a significant impact on financial markets and are usually announced or released in reports. They include monetary policy decisions and economic indicators, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) announcements, Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP), interest rate decisions, and more.

The economic calendar automatically updates and helps traders stay informed about upcoming events that may impact their trades.

The economic calendar displays key information such as “actual” and “forecast” numbers. A significant difference between the two numbers suggests that the trading instrument is experiencing volatility. Generally, volatility rises 15 minutes before an event and calms down 15 minutes after the event.

You can analyze this data to inform your trading strategy.

You can filter the economic calendar view using the dropdown menus.

This allows you to tailor the calendar to highlight events and announcements that are most relevant to your market interests.

Use these tools to focus on significant economic indicators based on timezone, timeframe, country, level of impact, and event type. 

The economic calendar is dynamic, adjusting the number of instruments displayed based on the upcoming market-moving news, GDP announcements, and other major events that could impact the financial instruments you trade.

The economic calendar covers events from around the world. It includes Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The economic calendar highlights major global indicators that reflect the health and direction of a country’s economy.

The most closely watched include:

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – measures economic growth.
• Inflation (CPI and PPI) – tracks changes in consumer and producer prices.
• Interest rate decisions – set by central banks to manage inflation and growth.
• Employment data – including unemployment rates and job creation figures.
• Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) – indicates business activity in manufacturing and services.

These indicators are released regularly by governments and central banks. They can increase volatility across currencies, indices, commodities, and other financial instruments. The economic calendar helps you monitor them in one place.

The United States publishes several high-impact events that often influence global markets. These include:

• Nonfarm payrolls (NFP)
• Federal Reserve interest rate decisions and FOMC statements.
• Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Retail Sales and ISM/PMI reports

Because the US dollar plays a central role in global finance, these releases frequently affect forex pairs, commodities, indices, and other instruments.

The economic calendar is dynamic, adjusting in real time based on upcoming market-moving news, GDP announcements, and other major events that could impact the financial instruments you trade.

The economic calendar supports risk management by helping you prepare for scheduled market volatility. By monitoring high-impact events in the economic calendar, you can anticipate periods when price movements may increase and adjust your trading decisions accordingly.

Knowing when major announcements are due allows you to reconsider position size, review stop loss and take profit placements, or delay entries during uncertain conditions. When there is a significant difference between “actual” and “forecast” data, markets can react quickly. Tracking these releases in advance helps you manage exposure more effectively and trade with greater awareness of potential risk.