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The releases that move currencies most often.
Absa Manufacturing PMI
A monthly survey indicator tracking whether South African manufacturing conditions are improving or weakening.
Albania Interest Rate Decision
The Bank of Albania’s scheduled decision on its key monetary policy rate and accompanying policy communication.
Armenia GDP Growth Rate YoY
A quarterly measure of how Armenia's inflation-adjusted economic output changed from the same quarter a year earlier.
Armenia Interest Rate Decision
The scheduled decision in which Armenia's central bank sets its policy interest rates and explains the monetary-policy outlook.
Atlanta Fed GDPNow
A frequently updated model estimate of current-quarter US real GDP growth.
au Jibun Bank Flash Japan Composite PMI
An early monthly survey indicator of combined manufacturing and services activity in Japan.
Trading concepts
Core ideas and setups that appear across markets, explained in plain English.
Asian session
The overnight session driven by Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, typically quieter and range-bound.
ATR (Average True Range)
ATR, or Average True Range, measures the average distance a market travels over a chosen number of periods, including gaps. It is a pure volatility reading with no directional bias. Traders use ATR to set stop distances that respect normal noise, to size positions consistently, and to judge whether current conditions are unusually quiet or unusually fast.
Backtesting
Testing a set of rules against historical price data to see how it would have performed.
Bearish candle
A candle that closes below its open — sellers finished the period in control.
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands are a volatility indicator made up of a moving average with upper and lower bands that expand and contract as market volatility changes. They help traders judge whether price is becoming stretched, identify volatility changes, and support both trend-following and mean reversion analysis.
Breakout
A breakout occurs when price moves decisively beyond a defined level such as a range high, trendline or consolidation boundary. It signals that the balance between buyers and sellers has shifted and can start a sustained move. Breakouts also fail often, so traders look for confirmation through follow-through, expanding range and a successful retest of the broken level.
Bullish candle
A candle that closes above its open — buyers finished the period in control.
Candle
A single bar on a candlestick chart showing the open, high, low and close for one period.
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Economic Events
205Scheduled data releases and announcements that move markets.
Browse Economic EventsCentral Banks
92Policy makers, rate decisions and the language they use.
Browse Central BanksEconomic Indicators
609The measures traders use to read the health of an economy.
Browse Economic IndicatorsEconomics & Fiscal Policy
1How government tax and spending decisions shape economies and markets.
Browse Economics & Fiscal PolicyTrading Concepts
21Core ideas behind how and why markets move.
Browse Trading ConceptsRisk Management
12Protecting capital, sizing positions and managing exposure.
Browse Risk ManagementMarket Structure
32Sessions, liquidity, participants and how price is formed.
Browse Market StructureTechnical Analysis
20Reading charts, levels and price behaviour.
Browse Technical AnalysisTrading Psychology
2Discipline, bias and the mental side of trading.
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UK M4 Money Supply MoM
Monthly change in UK broad money (M4ex), published by the Bank of England.
Singapore MAS 4-Week Bill Auction
The MAS 4-Week Bill Auction reports the auction outcome for very short-term Singapore dollar bills issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. It gives a snapshot of demand and yield levels for the 4-week tenor.
Brazil Current Account
Brazil Current Account shows the country’s balance with the rest of the world for trade, services, income and transfers. A deficit means Brazil paid more abroad on these items than it received during the period.
South Africa Leading Business Cycle Indicator MoM
This is the monthly change in South Africa’s composite leading business cycle indicator. It combines forward-looking signals that tend to move before the broader economy changes direction.
U.S. 6-Week Bill Auction
This event reports the results of a U.S. Treasury auction for very short-term government bills that mature in about six weeks. The most watched figure is usually the auction yield or rate at which the bills were sold.
Brazil Foreign Direct Investment
Brazil Foreign Direct Investment tracks net direct investment flows from foreign investors into Brazil. It covers longer-term investment links such as equity stakes, reinvested earnings and intercompany lending.