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Economic Calendar — forex lessons and courses
Every free FX Terminal Academy lesson and course on economic calendar: 1 lesson and 4 courses, each with a quiz and a link to the live tool that applies it.
Courses covering economic calendar
- Inflation Data ReleasesInflation is the data family that moves currencies hardest, because it maps most directly onto what a central bank will do next. This course takes each inflation release on the calendar in turn — headline CPI, core CPI, PPI, PCE and the European prints — and explains what it measures, which component desks read first, and how the surprise reaches the exchange rate.
- Labour Market ReleasesCentral banks are judged on prices and on employment, which makes labour data the second great mover of currencies. This course covers every employment release worth knowing: non-farm payrolls, average hourly earnings, the unemployment rate, ADP, weekly jobless claims, JOLTS, the UK claimant count, and the Australian and Canadian employment prints — what each measures, how reliable it is, and how it reaches the exchange rate.
- Growth and Activity DataGrowth data tells you how fast an economy is running, which sets the backdrop against which every inflation and employment print is read. This course covers GDP, the manufacturing and services PMI surveys, the US ISM reports, retail sales, industrial production and consumer confidence — and, running through all of them, the trade-off between the timely surveys the market trades and the accurate hard data that arrives too late to matter.
- Policy, Trade and Housing EventsData changes what a central bank is expected to do; policy events are the bank answering. This course covers the rate decision and the documents around it, the trade and current-account releases that drive commodity and funding currencies, housing as the earliest read on whether policy is transmitting, and a closing lesson on turning the economic calendar into a weekly plan.
Lessons on economic calendar
- Turning the Economic Calendar Into a PlanKnowing what every release measures is worth very little if you still discover them mid-position. This closing lesson turns the whole course into a routine: how to build a week…
About these economic calendar lessons
This page collects everything in the FX Terminal Academy that deals with economic calendar: 1 lesson and 4 courses. The list is generated from the lessons themselves rather than maintained by hand, so it stays complete as the Academy grows.
Every lesson is free to read in full. Each one ends with a short quiz and links into the FX Terminal screen that applies it, so an idea can be checked against live market data instead of staying on the page. No account is needed to read; signing in only saves your progress and issues the completion certificate.
Where to start
If economic calendar is new to you, start with the course listed above rather than a single lesson — a course orders its lessons so each one builds on the last. Use the lesson list when you already know which idea you want and would rather go straight to it.
Nothing here is investment advice. The Academy explains how the market works and how to read the data behind it; it does not issue signals or tell you what to trade.
Common questions
Are these economic calendar lessons free?
- Yes, all of them, in full. There is no paywall, no trial and no card required, and the live terminal screens the lessons link to are free as well.
Do I need an account to read them?
- No. An account is free and optional — it exists only to remember which lessons you have finished, carry that across devices, and issue a certificate when you complete a course.
Is a course better than reading the lessons individually?
- For a subject you are new to, yes: a course orders its lessons so each one builds on the last. Read a single lesson when you already know which idea you want.
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