A brief comparison of 5 popular Economic Calendars

[Clint]

Screen-shots (below) show representative samples of 5 economic calendars.

Shown in each screen-shot are the news releases scheduled for 8:30 am (New York time) on Friday, November 2 (tomorrow).

The Babypips Calendar and the Forex Factory Calendar focus on the highest impact news releases (7 of them, for this time-slot, in each calendar), while the Daily FX Calendar and the Meta Quotes Calendar include lower impact reports, as well (for a total of 18 reports in each calendar). The Myfxbook Calendar is between the extremes, with 10 reports, including one low impact report.

No value-judgement is being implied here. Equally valid arguments could be made for the short lists or the long lists. The choice of a calendar is purely a matter of personal preference.

The Daily FX Calendar and the Myfxbook Calendar both use GMT times, so they are showing the
8:30 am (EDT) times as 12:30 (GMT).

The calendars do not always agree on the so-called “consensus” number for any particular economic report. For example, the consensus number for the Non-Farm Payroll Report is stated in the 5 calendars, as follows:

• Babypips – 195k
• Daily FX – 193K
• Forex Factory – 193K
• Meta Quotes – 167K – a bit of an outlier – do they know something the others don’t?
• Myfxbook – 190K

Babypips Calendar

Daily FX Calendar

Forex Factory Calendar

Meta Quotes Calendar

Myfxbook Calendar

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Links to the calendars

• Babypips Calendar
• Daily FX Calendar
• Forex Factory Calendar
• Meta Quotes Calendar
• Myfxbook Calendar

[anon58863749]

@Clint I am sure you won’t mind if I would add screenshot of one more calendar to your list. It has three types of events settings i.e High, Medium and Low and one can set timer/alerts as per his/her time zone.

Edit: Above Picture showing the timezone of GMT+5.

[ForexGump]

I think I know which economic calendar I’d prefer.

[Fionnn]

I prefer forex factory calendar.

[frodo23]

for me its either babypips or forex fatory.

[gtmarellano]

I compare what’s on trading view and on myfxbook, then I go to babypips for the most weight. Sometimes, it even explains why one report might not be as important as normal for one currency than it is for most others!

I don’t like tradingviews calendar, but it’s the one that shows on my charts so it’s easier to see how it’s affected things in the past whenever I practice trading news.

Overall, I definitely recommend babypips.

[baemax023]

Thank you for sharing this @Clint!

[dudebro]

I like how you can filter by impact on the calendars. Pretty cool! You can rid yourself of some of the noise that way.

[mick.curren]

This was very helpful. Thanks and keep up the good work : )