Market Watch: the week's scheduled events, from official sources

A weekly calendar of the events that move the pairs you trade, with official dates, daily notes and a journaling routine. No forecasts, no signals.

Not financial advice. This page is educational information about how to prepare and review trades around scheduled events. It does not tell you what to buy or sell, it does not predict any market move, and trading leveraged products can lose more than you expect. Dates and times come from the official sources linked on the page and can change, so confirm them before you rely on them.

Market Watch is a weekly list of the scheduled events that move the instruments MetaTrader 5 traders use most: central bank decisions, the US jobs report and US inflation. Each week gets one page with the official dates, what each event is, how the clock changes affect the times, and a daily note once the week is under way. Every date and every fact is taken from an official source such as the Federal Reserve, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England or the Bank of Japan, and the source is linked on the page. The pages are written for people who journal their trades, so each ends with how to prepare and how to review.

Weeks

What this section is, and what it is not

How each page is written

The page for a week is created from the official calendars before the week starts. During the week, a short note is added for each weekday. It lists what was scheduled that day and, where an official release is available, what it said, in plain words with a link to the source. The only price-type number we state is the US Treasury's own published daily 10-year yield, quoted as published. We add no charts, no market prices from other sources and no opinions about where a market will go. If an official page cannot be read on a given day, the note says so instead of filling the gap.

Times are the hardest part to get right, because they depend on the time zone and on the date clocks change. The pages therefore state a time only when an official page gives it, and describe any other time as usual or typical, with a reminder to check the release on the day. The page for each week explains how its dates fall around the clock changes.

The official sources used

Some weeks also carry short sections on the US 10-year yield, the yen and officially announced international meeting dates. The 10-year figure is the Treasury's own published daily number, stated as published without commentary. The yen section covers the Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance's published releases. The meeting dates come only from the organisers' own pages, and when a page cannot be read the section says so instead of filling the gap.

Guides to the events

Each guide explains one type of event and a way to review your trades around it, with a worked example that is clearly hypothetical:

A routine for using the weekly page

Where the journal fits

AI Trading Journal is a Windows app that reads your closed trades from your MetaTrader 5 terminal and saves them in a journal on your own computer, with a dashboard, a P&L calendar, notes, ratings, tags and screenshots for each trade, and Excel reports. It never places, changes or closes trades, and it has no feed of news or events. This section supplies the calendar and the journal supplies the record, and the link between them is the tag you add.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Market Watch?
A weekly page of scheduled events such as central bank decisions, the US jobs report and US inflation, with official dates and sources, plus daily notes once the week starts.
Does Market Watch give trading signals?
No. It lists what is scheduled and what official releases said. It does not forecast moves or suggest trades.
Where do the facts come from?
From official pages such as the Federal Reserve, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the ECB, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. The source is linked on each page.
How often is it updated?
Each week's page is created before the week starts, and a note is added for each weekday while the week runs.
How does it relate to the journal?
You use the calendar to tag your trades around events, and the journal shows how those trades compare with the rest.

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