How to Read News Data

How to Read News DataLesson 6 of 95 min read

Reading the row

The six columns of a calendar row, the field that stays empty until the release, and the one line worth opening the detail for.

Every event on the page is one row with the same columns. Once you can read one row, you can read the whole week.

Six columns

From left to right: the time, in your timezone if you set it. The currency the release belongs to. The impact mark. The name of the event.

Then three numbers. Actual is the figure that was released. Forecast is what the calendar expects, collected from analysts. Previous is last time's figure.

Time, currency, impact, event, actual, forecast, previous.

The empty cell

Before the release, the actual column is blank. That blank is the most useful thing on the page.

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