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By keeping an eye on scheduled economic releases, traders can predict potential market reactions and volatility to trade or adjust their fundamental outlook and strategy.

Anticipating market movements

High-impact data releases can create a significant impact in the market, creating opportunities to trade. Savvy traders use this information to avoid trading around these times or position themselves to capture moves from increases in price volatility.

Finding trading opportunities

Knowing when significant announcements are due can help you manage risk, as these financial events can lead to increased market volatility.

Risk Management

Economic data provides traders with a deeper understanding of the economic health of a country, which can influence long-term currency valuations.

Insights into economic health

Tailor the economic calendar according to your needs by adjusting the time zone to match your local time for accurate tracking.

Then select the countries you are interested in monitoring and filter events by their importance level. Events marked with a high importance are likely to have the highest impact on currency valuations.

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How to use the economic calendar

Check the latest market analysis and news

Using the economic calendar, keep an eye on or create alerts for significant upcoming events that may affect your trades or provide new trading opportunities. The economic calendar also records historical data allowing you to monitor a country's economic health, as well as providing insights into how the data has impacted currency valuations. Using it effectively requires understanding, regular engagement and analysis. It should be used with other indicators to help provide a comprehensive analysis of the markets.

Track and analyze economic events

Date and time:

The country releasing the economic data and the currency it will likely affect.

Country:

A brief description of the event or the economic data being released.

Event:

An indicator showing the expected impact level on the market (low, medium, high).

Importance:

Updated the moment after the event with the actual released data.

Actual:

The anticipated data based on analysts forecasts.

Forecast:

Understand the information layout

In the world of trading, information is one of your most valuable assets. The economic calendar provides you with a chronological overview of significant financial events that occur around the globe. These include GDP announcements, employment rate announcements, interest rate decisions, and many other economic indicators that can impact the market. The interactive economic calendar provides you with the ability to track and monitor these financial or economic events as well as the ability to receive information the moment it is released.

What is the economic calendar?

Trading involves analysis to help you anticipate and predict price movements in the market. Understanding how economic indicators and financial events affect market sentiment and currency values is essential for helping you to make informed trading decisions. Here’s what the economic calendar can help you with:

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