Headlines and the economic calendar: classified per instrument, with usual-move bands

The calendar: countdowns and usual moves

FxMind's economic calendar lists what is scheduled, with a countdown to each release and how important it usually is. Next to that sits a number a plain calendar does not carry on its own: how far the instrument tied to that release has usually moved in the minutes right after it, worked out from FxMind's own recorded 1-minute prices rather than a rule of thumb. For example, the alert can read: after the last 12 US CPI releases, EURUSD moved 45 pips on average in the first 15 minutes. That figure is an illustration; the one on your screen is worked out from the latest releases.

Headlines, classified per instrument and impact

Headlines are pulled from central banks, statistics agencies and market news sources and tagged as they arrive: which instruments and currencies they touch, and an impact level from routine to market-moving. That is what lets the calendar page, the analyst's answers and the session briefs surface the headline that matters to what you actually hold, instead of every headline that mentions a currency somewhere in the world.

News Guard on an open trade

On a linked MT5 or MT4 account, News Guard watches your open positions against the calendar. Before high-impact news that touches one of your open trades, it warns you with the event, its usual move, and how far your stop sits: the same comparison, but tied to the trade you actually have open rather than a general calendar entry. On Pro and above, on a guarded link and only within the limits you set, it can close or reduce the exposed trade or cancel a pending order before the release.

News-versus-no-news, in your own journal

The journal's reports include a split of your closed trades by whether high-impact news was near the trade or not. That turns "I feel like news trades don't work for me" into a number computed from your own history, closed trade by closed trade, rather than a memory of the ones that went badly.

How to use it, and which plan. Open the calendar before the session, read the usual move of the next release and compare it with the stop on any trade you plan to hold through it. The calendar, the usual moves, the headlines and the news-versus-no-news split in your journal are on every plan, Free included. Alerts before the releases you pick start on Trader ($49 a month), which is also where News Guard warns you about an open trade. Closing or reducing that trade before the release is a guard action, on Pro ($89) and above. The 14-day trial is Pro, no card. See /features and /pricing.

What this is not

The usual-move number is a measured average of past releases of that kind, not a prediction of what the next one will do, and a stop loss is never a guarantee against it: price can gap past a stop in the seconds after a big release. FxMind's calendar and headlines never turn into a trade idea or a direction: no recommendation, no signal, ever, from the calendar or from the analyst.