Read the news calendar before you trade

Big news can move price fast. The News calendar lists the economic releases coming up and shows how far price moved after the last 12 of each one, so you know what a number is worth before you hold a trade through it. Open it from the menu: News calendar (News on a phone).

The Next up card

At the top sits the next release worth a countdown: the next high-impact one, or the next release of any kind if none is high. It shows the time, the forecast and the previous number, and the usual move of the instrument in the 15 and 60 minutes after the last releases. It also says which of your open positions the release touches, and how far your nearest stop is. Press See past reactions to open the details.

Reading a row

Releases are grouped by day, with a Today label and a Now line showing where the clock is. Each row has:

Impact

Bars, three lit for high impact. How much this release usually moves price. High impact covers inflation (CPI), jobs reports and interest rate decisions

Time and currency

When it comes out, in your time zone, and the currency it moves

Forecast (F)

What economists expected the number to be before it came out. Also called the consensus

Previous (P)

The same number from the last time this release came out

Actual (A)

The number that was reported, once the release is out

Avg move after

The average distance between the highest and lowest price in the 15 and 60 minutes after the release, over the last 12 releases, in pips. Direction is ignored

Exposed

A badge that appears when one of your open positions includes this currency

A pip is the smallest standard price step. On EURUSD one pip is 0.0001, so a move from 1.1040 to 1.1085 is 45 pips. Gold is shown in dollars and indices in points. The averages come from our own 1-minute candles. They describe the past. They are not a forecast and not advice.

Open a release

1. 1Press a row. On a computer it opens under the row. On a phone it opens as a sheet from the bottom.
2. 2Read the chart Reaction to the last 12 prints. A print is one publication of the number. Bars above the line mean the instrument rose after the release, below the line that it fell. The height is the high-to-low range in the window.
3. 3Read the figures: largest and smallest 15-minute move, how often the instrument rose, how often the number beat the forecast.
4. 4Read Your open positions. It shows which of them include the currency and how the usual move compares with your stop.
5. 5Use the buttons: Ask the analyst starts a question about it, Guard settings opens your guards, and Add to Google Calendar adds this release to your own calendar.

Filters

1. 1Press Currency and tick the currencies you want. All currencies clears the choice.
2. 2Choose the Impact: All, Medium and high, or High.
3. 3Switch on Only what I trade to keep the releases that touch the symbols in your open positions and pending orders.
4. 4Press Clear filters to start over.

Times follow the time zone in your profile. The line at the top right says which one. To change it, open Settings.

This week's positioning (COT)

Under the list sits a table named This week's positioning (COT). COT is the Commitments of Traders report. It is a weekly US government report on who holds futures contracts on each currency. It is a futures report: FxMind reads it only to see how large speculators are leaning on each currency.

Net positioning

Whether large speculators are, on balance, betting a currency will rise (a positive number) or fall (negative) against the US dollar

Weekly change

How much that number changed since the last report

3-year range

The lowest and highest net number in the last 3 years, so you see where this week sits

The report is published weekly and arrives about 3 days after the positions it describes. It measures current positioning and is not a prediction. Press See the full weekly COT brief for the public page.

Send the calendar to your own calendar app

Below the calendar, open Send this calendar to your own. You can add one release with Add to Google Calendar, or subscribe to a feed so new events keep showing up on their own.

1. 1Under Your personal feed, tick the Currencies you want and press Turn on. It holds high-impact events only.
2. 2Press Copy link and add it to your calendar app as a subscription.
3. 3Anyone with the link can read it, so keep it to yourself. Make a new link stops the old one at once. Turn off ends it.
4. 4Prefer no link of your own? Public feeds by currency has one feed per major currency. Press Subscribe.

When something looks wrong

Nothing on the calendar

Clear the filters first. A filter that hides everything says so and offers Clear filters

Notice: Our calendar reaches a date

Our feed covers up to that date. Anything later is missing data, not a quiet week

Notice: the feed is not answering

We cannot show what is scheduled right now. Try again in a few minutes

not enough history yet

We have measured fewer than 3 past releases of this event. The average appears once we have

Still stuck? Write to support with the release and the time you looked. On the desk, the same releases show as bands and alerts: see News release windows and news alerts.