Markets · Economic calendar
Macro releases, day by day
Every print the desk watches — central-bank decisions, inflation, labour and sentiment across eight economies — with the consensus, the previous read and the number that actually landed. Filter it down to the economies you trade and the schedule follows you.
- Economies
- 8
- Impact tiers
- 3
- Every row carries
- 3
- Updates
- Live
US, EU, GB, DE, JP, CN, CA, AU
High, medium, low
Actual, consensus, previous
Prints land as they are released
All eight economies in view. Deselect any of them to narrow the schedule to the desks you actually trade.
Release times follow your browser's timezone. Each row carries an impact rating, the consensus, the previous read and — once the number lands — the actual, so you can see the surprise rather than infer it. Above consensus is not automatically bullish: a hot jobless-claims number beats its forecast and still reads as a weakening labour market on the floor.
Three bars, one number, one expectation
The impact rating tells you how much volatility to expect. The consensus tells you what has already been paid for. Everything interesting sits in the difference.
Reading the impact scale
Three bars beside every release. The rating describes expected volatility, not direction or importance to your particular book.
- High impact
High
Rate decisions, CPI, PCE, payrolls, central-bank minutes. Spreads widen into the print and the whole curve can reprice in the minute either side of it. Size down or stand aside unless the release is the trade.
- Medium impact
Medium
GDP revisions, retail sales, PMIs, confidence surveys, inventories. Usually a sector-level or single-currency repricing rather than a market-wide one, but a big miss can escalate quickly.
- Low impact
Low
Second-tier data and regional surveys. Rarely moves anything on its own — worth tracking because it shifts the consensus for the release that does.
Qualitative rows — minutes, speeches, press conferences — carry an em dash instead of a number. There is nothing to beat or miss, only tone to read.
What actually moves on a print
Three habits that survive contact with a live release, whichever economy it comes from.
- 1
The gap is the trade, not the number
Consensus is already in the price by the time the release lands. What moves the tape is the distance between the print and that expectation, which is why a strong number after a stronger forecast still sells off.
- 2
Revisions carry their own risk
Labour and GDP series get rewritten backwards. A headline that beats while the prior two months are revised down is a different economy from the one the headline describes — read the revision line before you react.
- 3
The second move is the honest one
The first seconds after a print belong to execution algorithms reading the wire. The move that holds usually arrives once the internals are parsed, which is why waiting a few minutes costs less than it feels like it does.
None of this is investment advice, and a calendar is a schedule rather than a forecast. It tells you when the volatility is scheduled, not which way it goes.
A calendar is only useful if it changes what you do
Knowing the release schedule is table stakes. Wiring it into alerts, tests and screens is where the calendar starts paying for itself.
Alert before the print
Arm an alert on any release and AlgoBeam fires a webhook, email or push at a lead time you choose — thirty minutes out to flatten risk, or on the release itself to trade the reaction.
Backtest around the event
The backtester reads the same schedule. Exclude the sixty minutes around every high-impact release, or restrict a strategy to trade only that window, and see what each rule did to your drawdown.
Screen the reaction
After the number lands, run a screen for the names that gapped against their sector. Macro sets the tone; the dispersion underneath it is where the single-name opportunity usually sits.
What the numbers on this page are
The calendar above is a live release schedule with real consensus and actual figures — it updates as prints land. Pair this page with the earnings calendar to see the single-name events landing in the same sessions.
Ready when you are
Stop being surprised by the schedule.
Set an alert on every release that matters to your book, then backtest whether trading through it was ever worth the volatility. Both take about a minute on the free plan.
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