What the calendar is for
The Calendar tab on the Fundamentals page is the schedule of upcoming economic releases, so you can see what's on the docket before you sit down to trade. Each row is one release. The calendar shows when it's due, how big a mover it usually is, and, once the number posts, how the actual compared to the forecast the market was carrying into it.
The calendar is a lens on the schedule, not a call on where price is going. It tells you what's coming and marks the surprise after the fact. It does not predict the outcome.
Filtering the list
A filter row sits above the events. Set it to narrow the calendar to what you care about.
Range sets the window of dates. Pick a preset or a custom range.
Currencies are the chips for USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, and the other majors. Tap the codes you trade to show only their releases. Leave them all off to see every currency.
Impact filters by how much a release tends to move price: Low, Med, and High. The calendar opens on High and Med so the big ones lead. Tap a chip to add or remove that level.
Show has a Speeches chip. Speeches and testimony are hidden by default so the list stays on data releases. Tap Speeches to fold them back in.
Your filters ride in the page link, so a link you save or share reopens on the same view.
What the impact levels mean
Every row carries a colored dot for its impact level.
High marks the releases that most often move their currency, the ones worth planning around. Think central-bank rate decisions and the headline inflation and jobs numbers.
Med is a real release that usually matters less on its own.
Low is routine, minor, or second-tier data.
Impact is about how much attention a release usually draws, not a forecast of which way price will go on the day.
Reading a row: forecast against actual
Each event lists three numbers, read left to right:
Forecast is the figure the market was expecting going in.
Actual is the number once it posts. Before release this sits empty and fills in when the print lands.
Previous is the prior reading, for context.
When the actual beats the forecast the Actual number turns green; when it misses, it turns red; in line, it stays neutral. That coloring is an observation of the surprise itself. A beat or a miss is not automatically good or bad for price, so read it as "this came in above or below what was expected", nothing more.
Events sit under day headers, with a Today marker on the current day, and each row shows the release Time.
Times are in your own time zone
Every time on the calendar shows in your local time zone, and events group into the day they fall on for you. An early-morning release for one trader is a late-night one for another. The calendar handles that so a row reads correctly wherever you are, with no math on your end.
The short read on big releases
For High impact events the team writes a short read to sit alongside the numbers. Open a row to see it. Depending on where the release is in its cycle you may see:
Indicator overview explains in plain terms what the release measures and why traders watch it, including what a higher or lower print tends to signal.
Today's setup is a brief note posted a few hours ahead of a big release, framing what to watch for.
Surprise read posts after the release. When the event carries a number, it reads how the actual compared to what the market expected.
Some big releases never post a number at all, like central-bank minutes and speeches. Those still get a read after release, built from how prices actually moved in the hour that followed. There is no forecast to beat or miss, so the read sticks to the reaction itself, and if the market barely moved, it says so.
A sparkle glyph on a row means a read is inside. These notes are context and an observation of what happened, never a prediction of the outcome or a signal to trade.
From a release to the chart
When you open a past release you can jump to Market Rewind for that currency's main pair, dropped at the moment the number posted, to see how the chart actually reacted. Live journaling, your trades, and the rest of TradeDNA pick it up from there.