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Forex Economic Calendar This Week
High-impact releases, forecast vs previous, in the timezone you choose.
- 9 events today
- 13 High-impact
- UTC
How to use a forex economic calendar
Open this calendar for today, this week and next week. Mark high-impact (red) events for the currencies you trade, note the release time in your local zone, compare forecast versus previous, and decide in advance whether to reduce risk or stay out.
Detailed explanation
Impact shows the event's typical volatility potential, while forecast and previous provide context for market expectations. Price often reacts most strongly when the actual release differs materially from the forecast. Direction is not guaranteed because positioning, revisions and central-bank guidance also matter.
Example
If US CPI is marked high impact at 08:30 New York time, USD pairs and gold may become volatile around the release. A trader can avoid a new entry just before the number, wait for spreads to normalize, then reassess the setup.
Common mistake
Treating a better-than-forecast number as an automatic buy signal. Markets can reverse when the result was already priced in or when other details in the release change the interpretation.
Professional tip
Create a daily no-trade window around tier-one releases and set alerts before the event. Review forecast revisions and the previous reading, then confirm liquidity and spread conditions in your platform.
Calendar terms
- Impact
- Typical volatility potential of the release: high, medium or low.
- Forecast
- The market's consensus expectation for the upcoming figure.
- Previous
- The prior period's published reading.
Economic releases can cause rapid price moves, gaps, slippage and wider spreads. This calendar is educational information, not financial advice or a guarantee of market direction.
Economic Calendar FAQ
A forex economic calendar lists scheduled economic data releases and central-bank events — such as interest-rate decisions, inflation (CPI), employment (NFP) and GDP — with the date, time, expected (forecast) value and the previous reading. Traders use it to anticipate volatility and avoid being caught off guard by news.
The highest-impact releases are central-bank rate decisions (FOMC, ECB, BoE), the US Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP), inflation reports (CPI/PPI), GDP and PMI surveys. These are flagged as high impact (red) on the calendar above because they routinely cause sharp moves in pairs like EUR/USD and in gold (XAU/USD).
Forecast is the market's consensus expectation for the release, and Previous is the prior period's actual figure. When the released number differs sharply from the forecast (a 'surprise'), volatility tends to spike — that gap is what traders watch most closely.
Event times are stored in UTC. Use the timezone menu to show them in UTC, your device's local zone, or another trading zone such as New York or London. If JavaScript is disabled, times stay in UTC.
The calendar refreshes automatically several times a day from a public economic-events feed, covering the current week and the week ahead. The 'Last updated' timestamp under the table shows when the data was last refreshed.
No. This is an independent ForexTradeLab calendar, not the Forex Factory website. It lists today, this week and next week, converts times to your local zone, and flags high-impact (red) events with forecast and previous figures. If you searched for a Forex Factory calendar, you can use this page as a free alternative for the same NFP, CPI and FOMC schedule.