Economic Calendar for Forex Traders

Every scheduled release that moves currencies

The economic calendar lists interest rate decisions, inflation prints, employment reports, GDP, PMIs, retail sales and every other scheduled release, each with its impact rating, the consensus forecast, the previous value and the actual number once it lands. Filter by country, by currency or by impact so a busy week becomes a short list of what you actually need to plan around.

Views run from a single day to a full week, and a custom date-range mode lets you look backwards over historical releases or forward across the coming weeks — useful when you are planning a swing position around a central bank meeting.

How to trade around the economic calendar

The calendar is a risk map before it is a signal generator. Know when high-impact data lands so you are not holding a tight stop into a print you did not see coming. If you do trade the release, remember spreads widen and the first move often reverses — the sustained direction usually follows the surprise versus forecast, not the headline number.

Pair the calendar with the calendar heatmap to see where event risk clusters across the week, with the central bank monitor for policy context, and with the fundamental strategy dashboard if you want to test whether a given release has historically been tradable at all.

Frequently asked questions

What is a forex economic calendar?

It is a schedule of upcoming government and central bank data releases, showing when each is published, which currency it affects, how much it typically moves the market, and what economists expect.

Which economic events have the highest impact on forex?

Central bank interest rate decisions and press conferences, inflation data such as US CPI and PCE, employment reports such as Non-Farm Payrolls, and GDP. These regularly move major pairs by 50 to 150 pips.

What do forecast, previous and actual mean?

Previous is the last published reading, forecast is the consensus estimate, and actual is the new number. Price reacts to the gap between actual and forecast — the surprise — rather than to the raw value.

Can I see historical economic calendar data?

Yes. The custom date-range view lets you look back over past releases as well as forward, so you can study how a pair behaved after previous prints of the same event.

What time zone does the calendar use?

Events are shown in your local time, so a release time on screen is the time it will actually happen for you.

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