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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Economic Calendar

A good economic calendar is essential to keep you informed about the market. It allows you to know what economic indicators will be released and which expectations for those indicators are.
Since some economic indicators usually bring volatility to Forex, it’s important to stay on top of these indicators, and know what you can expect.
There are 2 outstanding indicators on the market, and both of them are 100% free.
1.
http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/EconomicCalendar.htm
This calendar is extremely complete. When you visit this website you’ll see a calendar like this one:















One of the advantage of this calendar is that you can see the indicators that will be released many weks from now. Other advantage is that when you click on the economic release name, a new window open with lots of details about that economic indicator. For example, if you click on “export prices”, you’ll see a chat that shows you thr past indicator release, the highlights, the key factors and much more:


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