question about an Economic Data bank

Dear traders,

Maybe, this question is already answered but i cannot find any information regarding this topic.

My question is, beside the Technical Analyses, i would be very interested in a Economic Data bank, which, provides information regarding the various Economic data events and the historical data, including the impact on the FX market.

To be more precise I want to explain by an example;

On thursday this week the AUD announces their Unemployment Rates, this is a high impact event. I would like to see what happened in the previous announcements regarding this topic, and to be more accurate, their impact on various Pairs.


Is that kind of data available and if so, where?

Instead of doing all the work myself (which would take me years i guess!!) this would be very helpfull to any trader i think.

Thanks in advance!!

PS: i don't know if i am posting this in the correct section of the forum. My apology if this isn't the case

Is this what you mean? https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/

You can click on a news release and then see some past releases.

Thanks for the quick reply, this information is available by the forexfactory page as well.

What i am looking for specifically is what this data does to the market, in pip change after 1 hour and 1 day for example. So mich more detailed information.

Again thanks and hope someone can help me out!

You could try the following, although I'm not sure that it's exactly what you're looking for (check the screenshot).

In the attached zip file, there is a large csv file with all of the 48,771 news events sourced from Forex Factory calendar from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2017, sorted by currency, then description, then date. Use a text editor (that's capable of handling large files -- if Notepad doesn't work, you could try Notepad++) to strip out any particular news event that you wish to investigate, and copy/paste it to a new file in your ..../MQL4/Files folder. I have used the Australian unemployment rate as an example, creating a small CSV file with 132 items (also included in the zip file). Make sure that this file contains less than 500 items, otherwise you'll run the risk of exceeding MT4's memory capacity, possibly causing it to freeze or crash. You can then use the attached Plot News indicator, changing the settings that are highlighted in green, to have the news items display on the chart as shown in the screenshot below. Press Ctrl-F to turn MT4's crosshairs on, and then hover the mouse cursor over the small red wingdings objects to see the event details (actual, forecast, previous, etc). You can then see the effect on price from the candles in the chart.

For more information about the Plot News indicator and its companion downloader, see this thread (read the PDF file attached there for operational instructions). The downloader app was used to build the csv files in the zip (although I also used CSV easy to sort the big file).

This works on my computer, as demonstrated in the screenshot, but it can require a decent amount of computer memory, and hence I can offer no guarantees that you will achieve the same result. Try it at your own risk.

You cannot know for certain what a news item or fundamental info does to a pair until after its release. Besides, price action does not always show the same reaction to the same news item on each occasion. Basically, the market's perception is the driving force and it varies even for the same pair and the same news info on different occasions.

Trade safe and prosper.

KP