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What news events are considered high-impact?
What news events are considered high-impact?

Learn how to recognize high-impact news events and frame your trading around them.

Updated over 2 months ago

Funded Friends refers to the Forex Factory economic calendar for high-impact news events. You can also filter out news events in the built-in economic calendar within your Trader Dashboard.

Any profits made within the 10-minute window during high-impact news events on a non-swing account will be deducted.

Funded Friends considers the following news events as high-impact news events:

Instrument

News Release

All Assets

CPI
NFP

GDP

PMI

Interest Rate Decisions, Statements & Speeches

Unemployment Rate & Unemployment Change

Retail Sales

Consumer Confidence

USD

NSDQ

SP

DOW

XAUUSD

XAGUSD

BTCUSD

ETHUSD

PPI

PCE Price Index

PMI (Manufacturing & Services)

NFP Non-Farm Employment Change

Unemployment Rates, Wages & Claims

New & Pending Home Sales

FOMC Meeting Minutes

10-y & 30-y Bond Auction

JOLTS Job Openings

Durable Goods Orders

Employment Cost Index

Consumer Sentiment

US Average Hourly Earnings

EUR

Economic Sentiment Index

Deposit Facility Rate

Business Climate

Balance of Trade

GBP

FTSE

Industrial & Manufacturing Production

Mortgage Approvals

Retail Price Index

Trade Balances

Nationwide House Prices

Claimant Count Change

Housing Price Balance

CAD

Wholesale Sales

International Merchandise Trade

Housing Starts

Balance of Trade

AUD

Retail Sales

JPY

Monetary Base

Leading Economic Index

Industrial Production

Japan to Sell Bonds

Merchandise Trade Balance

Retail Trade

Balance of Trade

Crude Oil

Crude Oil Inventories

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