How To Trade With The Investing.com Calendar?
A quick video on how to get the most from the Investing.com Calendar and other useful features.
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Now, to be honest, there are plenty of great free economic calendars out there like Forex Factory, like Myfxbook, like Trading Economics, So, it really comes down to which one works best for you.
I prefer to use the economic calendar from Metastock Zenith just to show you guys what that one looks like for those of you that don't know, this is basically the one that I use for for Zenith. Of course, this is not a free calender, it's a pay subscription, but it's not a must have, depending on the type of requirements that you have from a economic calendar.
I think a good place to start like we did with you Forex Factory. I wanna just to take a quick look around the navigation of the calendar, where we can choose different settings et cetera. The first one as always is gonna be the date, now, the date option is this one over here you can either select today, tomorrow, this week, next week, and obviously a calendar option for you to select a predetermined date range which is very nifty.
Just like Forex Factory you can change your local time which is important. So make sure to change your GMT to whatever your local time frame is to make sure that you're always watching or that the data is presented in your local time. Now, reading the layout is quite simple, very simple, you have the date, obviously, on top you have the time when it's coming out, the currency that is expected to impact, the impact ratio like most of the free calendars out there, take this one with a pinch of salt, it's not always gonna be as accurate.
Obviously these ones are more generically chosen, so, if it's something like inflation or GDP, it's always gonna have a high impact ratio, but depending on expectations, anticipation, the sentiment, the fundamentals, it might not always be important as you know. So just take the impact with a pinch of salt. Then of course, you have the actual events so what the event is called, when it's coming up. Then you have the forecast and the prior like most of the calendars out there.
Now, it's also nifty is if you click on any one of these data points, it actually opens up a separate window and gives you a little bit more information on what exactly the the event is about like most of the calendars do so very nifty trick to get a little bit more context on the event, also seeing a chart of the most recent train of that data very, very handy.
And apart from that below, you also have some news of it, recent news articles that talk about this specific indicator, which is very handy.
So apart from just the economic one, you also have a holidays' calendar. So this will actually show you, what type of banking holidays you have coming up, obviously, that's gonna be important from a market liquidity point of view, also very handy from a equities point of view. And of course, how that can influence currencies, comes back to risk flows, or risk sentiment is an earnings calendar.
Apart from the calendar, you can also set up your own portfolio which is quite nifty as well, if you click on portfolio, you have different options. Now the one that I've set up here, basically looks at all the various or different asset classes equity, equity futures is the first one.
Looking at all the major equity futures markets around the world, obviously very important from a risk sentiment point of view. We also have commodities, I've set up one for volatility as well, looking at some various volatility matrix, keep in mind that some of these have actually been discontinued, so just keep that in mind. Also have bond yields day as spreads and of course, currencies, I set up this currency, basically tracker to resemble the one that we have in Zenith.
But by all means, if you can find the information for free, then use it, by building your own portfolio, it's also a handy trick there, so, all in all, a very handy and free economic calendar, which is the investing.com one, which has many other benefits and features as well, like we've seen.
But for those looking for a free calendar, or some additional benefits, this is definitely a great option to keep in mind as well. If I didn't have access to Zenith I probably would have, used something like investing.com as an alternative. So, hope that helps for the investing.com questions.
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Now, to be honest, there are plenty of great free economic calendars out there like Forex Factory, like Myfxbook, like Trading Economics, So, it really comes down to which one works best for you.
I prefer to use the economic calendar from Metastock Zenith just to show you guys what that one looks like for those of you that don't know, this is basically the one that I use for for Zenith. Of course, this is not a free calender, it's a pay subscription, but it's not a must have, depending on the type of requirements that you have from a economic calendar.
I think a good place to start like we did with you Forex Factory. I wanna just to take a quick look around the navigation of the calendar, where we can choose different settings et cetera. The first one as always is gonna be the date, now, the date option is this one over here you can either select today, tomorrow, this week, next week, and obviously a calendar option for you to select a predetermined date range which is very nifty.
Just like Forex Factory you can change your local time which is important. So make sure to change your GMT to whatever your local time frame is to make sure that you're always watching or that the data is presented in your local time. Now, reading the layout is quite simple, very simple, you have the date, obviously, on top you have the time when it's coming out, the currency that is expected to impact, the impact ratio like most of the free calendars out there, take this one with a pinch of salt, it's not always gonna be as accurate.
Obviously these ones are more generically chosen, so, if it's something like inflation or GDP, it's always gonna have a high impact ratio, but depending on expectations, anticipation, the sentiment, the fundamentals, it might not always be important as you know. So just take the impact with a pinch of salt. Then of course, you have the actual events so what the event is called, when it's coming up. Then you have the forecast and the prior like most of the calendars out there.
Now, it's also nifty is if you click on any one of these data points, it actually opens up a separate window and gives you a little bit more information on what exactly the the event is about like most of the calendars do so very nifty trick to get a little bit more context on the event, also seeing a chart of the most recent train of that data very, very handy.
And apart from that below, you also have some news of it, recent news articles that talk about this specific indicator, which is very handy.
So apart from just the economic one, you also have a holidays' calendar. So this will actually show you, what type of banking holidays you have coming up, obviously, that's gonna be important from a market liquidity point of view, also very handy from a equities point of view. And of course, how that can influence currencies, comes back to risk flows, or risk sentiment is an earnings calendar.
Apart from the calendar, you can also set up your own portfolio which is quite nifty as well, if you click on portfolio, you have different options. Now the one that I've set up here, basically looks at all the various or different asset classes equity, equity futures is the first one.
Looking at all the major equity futures markets around the world, obviously very important from a risk sentiment point of view. We also have commodities, I've set up one for volatility as well, looking at some various volatility matrix, keep in mind that some of these have actually been discontinued, so just keep that in mind. Also have bond yields day as spreads and of course, currencies, I set up this currency, basically tracker to resemble the one that we have in Zenith.
But by all means, if you can find the information for free, then use it, by building your own portfolio, it's also a handy trick there, so, all in all, a very handy and free economic calendar, which is the investing.com one, which has many other benefits and features as well, like we've seen.
But for those looking for a free calendar, or some additional benefits, this is definitely a great option to keep in mind as well. If I didn't have access to Zenith I probably would have, used something like investing.com as an alternative. So, hope that helps for the investing.com questions.
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