Economic calendar

• Check the time: it's shown in your time zone. In the minutes around it, the price tends to move more and faster.
• Compare the actual figure with the previous one: if inflation rises or the job market cools, what the market expects from interest rates changes.
• When the data comes out, what moves the market is the surprise: how far it is from the forecast, more than the number itself.
• If you trade with leverage, check your stop before the release. In those minutes the price can jump past your order.

Because it changes what the market expects from Federal Reserve interest rates. With higher rates, money seeks less risk, and crypto usually feels it within minutes.

They are the dates that tend to move the market most: inflation, employment, growth, rate decisions and BTC and ETH options expiries. By default only those are shown, and with the filters you can add medium- and low-impact data.

On the last Friday of each month, at 08:00 UTC, that month’s bitcoin and ether options expire. The March, June, September and December ones are the quarterly expiries, the biggest. In the hours around it the price can move more than usual, as positions are closed or rolled over.

Yes. Tap the calendar icon next to any upcoming release to save it in Google Calendar or download it for Apple, Outlook and others, with a reminder 15 minutes before. With “Subscribe”, your calendar gets every high-impact release, including the rate decisions of the coming months, and keeps itself up to date.

Yes. You can filter by country and by importance, and the filter stays in the page address so you can come back to it. With your account you can also create an alert that warns you before each high-impact release, or tap the bell on a release so we only notify you about that one: from 15 minutes to a day before.

From official US agencies (jobs, prices, output and the Federal Reserve) and the European Central Bank, via FRED, the St. Louis Fed's database. Each figure shows up shortly after it's released. The market forecast isn't public, so we don't show it.

Your account, which is free, your linked UID and the Rookie rank: $100 in trading volume within 30 days with the code. What counts is what you buy and sell, not what you hold on the exchange.