Which indicators give me the overview of the balance of payments?

Hello, I am trying to improve my knowledge of fundamentals. I have been studying the basic theory behind tradeflows and capital flows, and how they together make up the balance of payments. I now need to get better at informing myself about the current situation.

If I look at the economic calendar, and I want to read up on:

1) Current account
2) Capital account
3) Combined balance of payments

Which are the indicators that I should follow - for example if I look at the

1) USD
2) EUR
3) JPY
4) GBP

Regarding the current account I see various "trade balance" indicators being published - but they don't make up the whole current account - there's more than that on the current account.

Regarding the capital account, I guess that for example the "TIC Long-Term Purchases" are relevant for the US capital account, (but not exaustive?).

So my basic question, to be precise, is this:

"If I want a complete overview of the balance of payments (which is made up of current account and the capital account) of a single country - which indicators should I follow? (US, EUR zone, Japan and UK in particular)"

(As far as I have understood there isn't a total "balance of payments" indicator for each country - so how do I get the full overview?)

Thanks & regards

I think that there is no such indicator that would come out monthly. Some organizations - IMF, CIA, publish yearly data on the coutries' current account balance, but that hardly can be used for trading. U.S. TIC flows reports have a lot of information on the flow of capital, so for U.S. dollar trading that may be a good choice of an indicator.

Thanks Enivid,

then I wouldl like rephrase the quesition into 2, and maybe just focus on the US.

1) Which are the most important indicators for the US current account? (Tradebalance, I suppose - others?)
2) Which are the most important indicators for the US capital account?
(Tic numbers, like mentioned above - but are there others to follow?)

Thanks!

(Ah btw: if you had a link to the IMF or CIA page where the balance of payment info is available, that would be wonderful!)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/...s=BCA&grp=0&a=

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...orld-factbook/