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Every scheduled market mover in one week view — CPI, Non-Farm Payrolls, FOMC, PCE and more — with exact release times, forecast versus previous, impact levels and one-click conversion to your own timezone. Showing Oct 11 – Oct 17.
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Bank Holiday
Nothing scheduled
Core CPI m/m
Fcst 0.2%Prev 0.3%
Core CPI y/y
Fcst 2.5%Prev 2.4%
CPI m/m
Fcst 0.6%Prev 0.4%
CPI y/y
Fcst 3.6%Prev 3.4%
Core PPI m/m
Fcst 0.3%Prev 0.2%
Core Retail Sales m/m
Fcst 0.6%Prev 1.4%
PPI m/m
Fcst 0.6%Prev 0.4%
Retail Sales m/m
Fcst 0.3%Prev 1.2%
Philly Fed Manufacturing Index
Fcst 28.2Prev 37.8
Unemployment Claims
Fcst 199KPrev 197K
Fed Chairman Warsh Speaks
Nothing scheduled
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The 8:30 problem
Knowing CPI drops at 8:30am ET is the easy half. The hard half is being flat — or positioned identically — across six funded accounts at 8:29:50. TradeDupe mirrors every fill from one leader account to all your Tradovate-based prop accounts in real time, so one decision reaches all of them.
One decision, every account
8:25am ET
You decide to be flat through CPI.
8:26am ET
You close the position on your leader account.
Same second
Every follower account closes with it, brackets cancelled.
8:30am ET
The print lands. You are watching, not clicking.
Every high-impact event on the calendar this week, across all nine major currencies, in New York time. These are the windows worth planning position size and prop-firm risk around.
| Day | Time (ET) | Currency | Release | Forecast | Previous |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Oct 14 | 8:30am | USD | Core CPI m/m | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| Wed Oct 14 | 8:30am | USD | Core CPI y/y | 2.5% | 2.4% |
| Wed Oct 14 | 8:30am | USD | CPI m/m | 0.6% | 0.4% |
| Wed Oct 14 | 8:30am | USD | CPI y/y | 3.6% | 3.4% |
| Wed Oct 14 | 8:30pm | AUD | Employment Change | 19.6K | 39.5K |
| Wed Oct 14 | 8:30pm | AUD | Unemployment Rate | 4.6% | 4.6% |
| Thu Oct 15 | 2:00am | GBP | GDP m/m | -0.1% | 0.4% |
| Thu Oct 15 | 8:30am | USD | Core PPI m/m | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| Thu Oct 15 | 8:30am | USD | Core Retail Sales m/m | 0.6% | 1.4% |
| Thu Oct 15 | 8:30am | USD | PPI m/m | 0.6% | 0.4% |
| Thu Oct 15 | 8:30am | USD | Retail Sales m/m | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Thu Oct 15 | 10:00pm | GBP | BOE Gov Bailey Speaks | — | — |
| Thu Oct 15 | 11:30pm | USD | Fed Chairman Warsh Speaks | — | — |
The releases that move index futures, and the times they publish. Most US data lands at 8:30am ET; the notable exceptions are ISM and crude inventories in the 10:00–10:30am block and FOMC at 2:00pm.
8:30am ET·Monthly, ~2nd week
The headline US inflation print and, outside of FOMC, the single largest scheduled mover of ES, NQ and gold. Traders watch core CPI m/m more closely than the headline number, because core is what shifts rate expectations.
8:30am ET·First Friday of the month
Three numbers land at once: jobs added, the unemployment rate, and average hourly earnings. They frequently disagree, which is why NFP produces violent two-sided moves in the first 90 seconds rather than one clean direction.
2:00pm ET·8 times a year
The statement drops at 2:00pm ET and the Chair's press conference starts at 2:30pm ET. The press conference regularly moves markets further than the decision itself, so the volatility window is roughly 2:00pm to 3:30pm.
8:30am ET·Monthly, end of month
The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge. It usually arrives weeks after CPI has already been priced in, so the reaction is smaller — but a surprise here carries more weight with the Fed than a CPI surprise does.
8:30am ET·Monthly
Inflation measured at the producer level. It often leads CPI and, when it lands the day before or after CPI, the two prints combine into a multi-day volatility block worth planning around as a unit.
10:00am ET·Monthly, first business days
One of the few major releases that hits at 10:00am rather than 8:30am — right when many day traders have already sized into a morning position. ISM Services tends to move index futures more than ISM Manufacturing.
8:30am ET·Quarterly
The first estimate of quarterly growth, later revised twice. The advance reading is the one that moves price; the second and third estimates rarely produce more than a spike.
8:30am ET·Every Thursday
Weekly and usually minor — but during a labour-market scare it becomes the highest-impact print of the week. Treat it as low impact by default and raise it whenever jobs data is the market's active narrative.
8:30am ET·Monthly
The cleanest read on the US consumer. Core retail sales (ex-autos) is the number that matters, since auto sales are volatile enough to distort the headline in either direction.
10:30am ET·Every Wednesday
Irrelevant to most index traders and decisive for anyone in CL or MCL. It is the reason a crude position that looked calm all morning can move a full point in seconds at 10:30.
A calendar only helps if it changes what you do before the release. This is the routine most consistent futures traders run.
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Almost every major US release lands at 8:30am, 10:00am or 2:00pm ET. Write those times on your chart before the session starts so you are never surprised mid-trade by a move you could have seen on a calendar.
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The worst outcome is deciding what to do while price is already moving. Pick your stance in advance: flat through the print, in with a reduced size, or in with a hard predefined invalidation.
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Spreads widen and liquidity thins out in the seconds around a release. A stop that normally fills at your price can fill several ticks worse. Size the position so a slipped stop is still an acceptable loss.
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Many funded-account programs restrict or prohibit holding positions through high-impact releases, and some void payouts for news trades. Confirm the current rulebook for your specific account type before the release, not after.
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The initial spike is frequently reversed. Many traders skip the first two to five minutes entirely and trade the resolution of that opening range instead of the knee-jerk move.
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Manually flattening six prop accounts before 8:30 is where mistakes happen. Make the call on one account and let it propagate everywhere — that is the entire reason copy trading exists for news windows.
An economic calendar is a schedule of upcoming government and central-bank data releases — inflation, employment, growth and rate decisions — with the time each one is published, its expected market impact, the consensus forecast, and the previous reading. Futures and forex traders use it to know exactly when volatility is scheduled to arrive so they can size, hedge or stay flat around it.
US CPI is released at 8:30am ET (Eastern Time), typically during the second week of each month, covering the prior month's inflation. That is 7:30am Central, 5:30am Pacific and 13:30 UTC when the US is on Eastern Daylight Time. The calendar above converts every release to your own timezone automatically.
The FOMC statement and rate decision are published at 2:00pm ET on the second day of each two-day meeting, eight times a year. The Chair's press conference begins at 2:30pm ET and frequently produces a larger move than the decision itself, so treat 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET as one continuous high-volatility window.
Non-Farm Payrolls is released at 8:30am ET on the first Friday of each month, covering the previous month. It publishes jobs added, the unemployment rate and average hourly earnings simultaneously, which is why the first minute after NFP is often violently two-sided before a direction settles.
In roughly descending order: FOMC rate decisions and the press conference, CPI, Non-Farm Payrolls, Core PCE, and PPI. ISM Services PMI and Retail Sales produce smaller but still tradable moves. Anything the Fed is currently focused on gets temporarily promoted — during a labour-market scare, weekly Unemployment Claims can outrank a routine inflation print.
That depends on your account and your edge, not on a universal rule. What matters is deciding before the release rather than during it, sizing so a slipped stop is survivable, and confirming that your prop firm actually permits holding through news. Many funded programs restrict news trading or void payouts tied to it.
Rules vary by firm and by account type. Some evaluations permit news trading freely, some forbid opening positions within a set window around high-impact releases, and some allow it during the evaluation but restrict it on funded accounts. Always confirm the current rulebook for your exact plan — these rules change more often than most traders expect.
Release times are published in New York time (ET) at the source and converted for display. Use the timezone selector in the calendar toolbar to switch between your local time, UTC, New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles or London — your choice is remembered on your next visit.
Yes. The calendar is completely free, requires no account, and there is nothing to install. You can browse past and upcoming weeks, filter by impact level and currency, change timezone, and export a shareable image of any week.
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