Forex Peace Army News Calendar is created by a News Trader as an ultimate research tool for all other News Traders! Trading the news is a technique to trade currencies on the strong short-term moves of the market spurred by the releases of the Economic News Reports as well as capitalizing on the deep long-term changes of the exchange rates caused by the central bank's policy shifts, unemployment, export, and interest rates changes.
Trading news releases can be a significant tool for financial investors.
The liquidity section provides rough estimates of the trading activity in the forex market. It allows you to understand and view current liquidity and liquidity in previous sessions, in real time. Higher liquidity usually means better spreads as more transactions are being made. The liquidity calculation takes into account many brokers and top 10 traded currencies to calculate the liquidity per each minute for the last 48 hours. You can use the chart zoom in feature to zoom/select a custom timeframe and have the liquidity automatically calculated. The average liquidity of the past 24 hours is used as a 100% liquidity basis for percentage calculation (number of ticks divided by average spread). For example, a 110% reading will tell you that the current liquidity is 10% above the last 24 hours average liquidity.
You can also see the average session liquidity for the last sessions in the table on the left.
Since forex is an "over the counter" market, there is no official data about volume and open interest, so liquidity can be estimated by the number of price ticks and spreads; as an example, a high amount of price ticks and low spread will signify a high liquidity, while a low amount of price ticks and a high spread will signify a low liquidity.
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The Razor Economic Impact Analyzer displays price charts relative to economic events and features a large database of historical economic release data. Choose your currency and economic event and then click the title of any historical event in the Event History section to render dynamic price charts plus a list of any simultaneous economic releases.
The Scale of Market Quakes (SMQ) objectively measures the impact of political and economic events on the currency markets and is a decision support tool for traders, retail and institutional investors, government officials and commentators. The development of the SMQ was inspired by the Richter Scale which measures the intensity of earthquakes. Financial markets are subject to seismic shocks caused by political, economic and other events.
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