Guided path · Intermediate

Trading News Like a Pro

Reading the economic calendar, impact ratings and the real risks of trading around scheduled releases.

  • ✓ 8 lessons in order
  • ✓ About 34 minutes
  • ✓ Progress tracked in MarketPro
  • ✓ Free to follow

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The lessons, in order

A path is the academy's answer to "where do I start". The order is deliberate: each lesson assumes the ones above it, which is why reading them this way works better than picking at a category list. In the app the path tracks how far through you are and what comes next.

  1. What Is an Economic Calendar A calendar tells you when something is scheduled to happen. It tells you nothing about the number or the direction, and that… Beginner5 min
  2. Understanding Impact Ratings A star count tells you which releases have the capacity to move price. It cannot tell you whether this particular one will. Beginner4 min
  3. Reading Forecast, Previous, and Actual Data The actual figure is not the news. The distance between the actual figure and what was already expected is the news. Beginner4 min
  4. How Markets React to News Releases Price moves in jumps for the first few seconds, whips for five minutes, and only then settles into something you can place a… Intermediate4 min
  5. The Risks of Trading the News The direction can be right and the trade can still lose, because a release changes the price, the spread, the fill and sometimes… Intermediate5 min
  6. Central Bank Speeches and Forward Guidance Policy is a path, not a single decision, and speeches are where the path gets revised without anything being announced. Intermediate4 min
  7. Building a Pre-Market News Routine A short fixed sequence run before you look at a single chart, whose output is a decision about size rather than a feeling about… Beginner4 min
  8. Using the Calendar for Risk Management Used properly the calendar changes exactly one number in your day, the lot size, and it changes it before the event rather than… Intermediate4 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 1 category: economic calendar and news. Each of those pages lists its full set of lessons if you would rather go deep on one subject than move across several.

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