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Fundemental Announcements

  • #1
  • First Post: Jun 24, 2005 5:52am Jun 24, 2005 5:52am
Hi All,

With all the announcements that are released, I find it hard to know which are the ones that you should watch out for. I know that the Non-Farm payroll and retail sales are the ones to watch, but what about the other ones ? Yahoo! has an economic calendar and even rates with an A-D scale, but there are so many to look at. It would be nice if someone could make a list of the top 5 annnouncements that will make the market move significantly.

Can anyone put on a list of the really important economic announcements to watch out for ?

Merlin, You mentioned how you were going to do something like that for the forum a while back...has anything been done yet ? Will be looking forward to it.



Diver Doug
  • #2
  • Jun 24, 2005 6:40pm Jun 24, 2005 6:40pm
Quoting Diver_Doug
Hi All,

With all the announcements that are released, I find it hard to know which are the ones that you should watch out for. I know that the Non-Farm payroll and retail sales are the ones to watch, but what about the other ones ? Yahoo! has an economic calendar and even rates with an A-D scale, but there are so many to look at. It would be nice if someone could make a list of the top 5 annnouncements that will make the market move significantly.

Can anyone put on a list of the really important economic announcements to watch out for ?

Merlin, You mentioned how you were going to do something like that for the forum a while back...has anything been done yet ? Will be looking forward to it.



Diver Doug
DailyFX.com recently published a list of the top 5
  • #3
  • Jun 25, 2005 5:46am Jun 25, 2005 5:46am
Quoting Diver_Doug
Merlin, You mentioned how you were going to do something like that for the forum a while back...has anything been done yet ? Will be looking forward to it.
yup!!!

the beta is live here...
http://www.forexfactory.com/index.php?page=calendar
(youll have to click on last week to see any events)

on sunday this will be fully functional, with all of the events for next week. all events will have an impact rating!

very soon this will show up at the top of the homepage for easy viewing...

let me know what you think of the calendar so far!
Relax and be happy.
  • #4
  • Jun 25, 2005 8:57am Jun 25, 2005 8:57am
Quoting merlin
yup!!!

the beta is live here...
http://www.forexfactory.com/index.php?page=calendar
(youll have to click on last week to see any events)

on sunday this will be fully functional, with all of the events for next week. all events will have an impact rating!

very soon this will show up at the top of the homepage for easy viewing...

let me know what you think of the calendar so far!
So far it looks like a brilliant idea. One question though..what do the symbols mean ? DO the colours have some sort of significance ? A bit of a legend to explain the symbols would be a good inclusion to have from an educational view..

keep up the good work !

Diver Doug
  • #5
  • Jun 25, 2005 11:07am Jun 25, 2005 11:07am
Quoting merlin
yup!!!

the beta is live here...
http://www.forexfactory.com/index.php?page=calendar
(youll have to click on last week to see any events)

on sunday this will be fully functional, with all of the events for next week. all events will have an impact rating!

very soon this will show up at the top of the homepage for easy viewing...

let me know what you think of the calendar so far!
Sweet, it looks sweet. Thanks Merlin. Now I know why we have the best Forex Forum in the world.
Steven
  • #6
  • Jun 25, 2005 3:06pm Jun 25, 2005 3:06pm
Quoting Diver_Doug
So far it looks like a brilliant idea. One question though..what do the symbols mean ? DO the colours have some sort of significance ? A bit of a legend to explain the symbols would be a good inclusion to have from an educational view..

keep up the good work !

Diver Doug
yeah if you hover your mouse over the symbol it will tell you what it means...

basically yellow means "low impact", orange means "medium impact", and red means "high impact". do you think we need to have that on the calendar? i was trying to keep it as "clean" as possible, but if we need a legend we need a legend
Relax and be happy.
  • #7
  • Jun 25, 2005 3:07pm Jun 25, 2005 3:07pm
Quoting scpeter
Sweet, it looks sweet. Thanks Merlin. Now I know why we have the best Forex Forum in the world.
glad you like it buddy!!!!!!
Relax and be happy.
  • #8
  • Jun 25, 2005 11:58pm Jun 25, 2005 11:58pm
Looks nice, Merlin!

I see you list previous and concensus numbers - how about a collumn for the actual number once it is released? That would make it easier to look back at previous releases and judge the reaction of a specific currency pair relative to how far off the concensus number was. Could be useful for trying to predict the markets reaction to the news that was just released.

James
  • #9
  • Jun 26, 2005 12:14am Jun 26, 2005 12:14am
Quoting merlin
yeah if you hover your mouse over the symbol it will tell you what it means...

basically yellow means "low impact", orange means "medium impact", and red means "high impact". do you think we need to have that on the calendar? i was trying to keep it as "clean" as possible, but if we need a legend we need a legend
Great work Merlin !! It really helps. Now I don't have to search around as much now that I understand it.

Here's another suggestion. With all the indicators, it may be good to have a link to another page that explains what the announcement is about. More importantly, if there is a high impact warning, it could warrant an explanation (as simple as possible !) about why this announcement has an effect and if the news is positive (ie better than expected), 'this' will happen, and if the news is negative (worse than expected) 'that' will likely happen. Then we can see it with our own eyes by watching the charts as the announcements are released. For example, you had the Univ. Michigan Sentiment listed as a high impact announcement. I would love to know why and what happened to the markets when it was released.

That's just a suggestion for the future. In all it's a great tool to have and I'm sure everyone appreciates you putting it there. Great job !


Diver Doug
  • #10
  • Last Post: Edited 7:32am Dec 1, 2010 5:19am | Edited 7:32am
hello guys

i am new here and i am happy to meet you all,i have a question and i find here so reliable to ask.actually i do check forex factory announcement every day but i think is not good enough because i have always trapped with some sort of economical and political news which effect the market but there are no sign of them in forex factory announcement for example the impact of debt crisis rocking the euro zone,i mean there is not specific time that i can find out when they are going to effect market i wonder if is there some things that u guys follow?
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