November 2019
Beginner
394 pages
10h 31m
English
There are plenty of free and paid economic release calendars available, which can be scraped for historical release data or accessed through a proprietary API. Since the focus of this section is utilizing economic release data in trading, we will skip the details of accessing historical data, but it is quite straightforward. Most common economic release calendars look like this:
| Calendar | CST | Economic indicator | Actual | Previous | Consensus | Forecast |
| 2019-05-03 | 07:30 AM | Non Farm Payrolls Apr | 263K | 189K | 185K | 178K |
| 2019-06-07 | 07:30 AM | Non Farm Payrolls May | 75K | 224K | 185K | 190K |
| 2019-07-05 | 07:30 AM | Non Farm Payrolls Jun | 224K | 72K | 160K | 171K |
| 2019-08-02 | 07:30 AM | Non Farm Payrolls Jul | 164K | 193K | 164K | 160K |
As we discussed ...