The Economic Calendar, explained

Event Impact

0–100

size of the moment, either direction

Horizon

15 days

ahead, plus the two just past

Highest base

100

the Fed rate decision

Refresh

~10 min

as the source updates

It lists every scheduled economic release and central-bank decision for the next 15 days: inflation prints, jobs reports, GDP estimates, rate decisions and the rest, from the US, the euro area, the UK, Japan, China and beyond. Each release carries an Event Impact score from 0 to 100, and each day is drawn as a ridge on a single horizon, so the heavy days of the next two weeks stand out at a glance.

The score measures how big a market moment a release is: how far prices can move around it. It says nothing about direction. A hot inflation print can be followed by a rally as easily as a sell-off; the score only says the moment is a large one.

Click a day to see every release on it, with the forecast, the previous value and, once it is out, the actual figure next to the forecast. Release names are shortened to the form a trading desk would use, and when several prints from the same family land at the same minute (US CPI’s headline, core, monthly and yearly figures, for example) they are grouped into one row. Days are laid out in UTC so the horizon lines up the same for everyone; clock times show in your own time zone by default, with a switch to UTC.

Every release is first matched to a family (US CPI, the ECB decision, UK jobs, and so on), and each family has a fixed base score. The base does most of the work: it decides which band a release lands in. The list leans towards the US on purpose, because crypto trades on dollar liquidity before anything else. A release that matches no family takes a base from the source’s own three-level importance rating: 45, 30 or 15 for the US, 40, 25 or 12 for the other major economies, and 30, 18 or 10 elsewhere.

Housing, government budget and energy inventory data keep their low bases whatever importance the source gives them: they rarely reach Bitcoin. Readers who want the history behind the top of the list can follow the PCE, unemployment and GDP guides.

Two nudges sit on top of the base, both capped small so the base, not the arithmetic, decides the band. The day panel shows all three parts for every release.

Expected move adds up to +5, and only to releases with a base of 60 or more. It grows with how far the consensus forecast sits from the previous reading, judged against that series’ own scale: a monthly CPI forecast of 0.3% after a previous 0.2% adds +4, while the same 0.1 change in a series that runs in the thousands adds nothing. For a rate decision it is simpler: +5 when a change is expected, 0 when the market expects a hold. Capping it this way means an unusual forecast on a routine release never lifts it into a higher band.

Cluster adds +2 for each other heavy release (base 60 or more) from a different family within 60 minutes either side, up to +5. Different families landing together compound the moment; the four prints of one CPI release are a single moment and do not lift each other.

The total is capped at 100. The bands follow the site’s heat scale: Minimal below 20, Low from 20, Moderate from 40, High from 60 and Extreme from 80.

A day’s impact starts from its heaviest release, then adds +1 for every other family on that day scoring 60 or more, up to +5, and never past 100. A Fed day is 100. A US CPI day usually lands between 95 and 100. An ordinary weekday whose heaviest item is a UK jobs report sits around 50.

A day with nothing scheduled has no score at all and is drawn flat and grey as quiet. That is different from a low score: it means no economic release is due, not that the day is calm. Above the horizon, three tiles summarise it: the next release at High or above, the heaviest impact in the next 24 hours, and the day impacts for the week ahead.

Release times, forecasts, previous values and actuals come from CoinGlass’ economic calendar, which updates about every ten minutes. It covers a rolling window, so this is a horizon rather than an archive: the page shows the next 15 days and the two just past. The scores on top of that data are ours.

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