Historicial Economic Calendar / timing rules

NexusFi · 2017-11-01T23:17:40-04:00

I am interested to backtest market behavior during important economic announcements, such as ISM Manufacturing, Non Farm Payroll report, Fed interest rate decision, GDP, CPI etc. My question is, where can I find the rules for the timing of those events, including exceptions - for example, the NFP report is published at 8:30am at the first Friday of the month. But what happens if there's a holiday on that Friday? Alternatively, is there a good historical calendar (preferably one the can be easily exported) …

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Historicial Economic Calendar / timing rules

November 1st, 2017, 11:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
TraderWalrus Bangkok Thailand Posts: 36 since May 2016 Thanks Given: 15 Thanks Received: 17	I am interested to backtest market behavior during important economic announcements, such as ISM Manufacturing, Non Farm Payroll report, Fed interest rate decision, GDP, CPI etc. My question is, where can I find the rules for the timing of those events, including exceptions - for example, the NFP report is published at 8:30am at the first Friday of the month. But what happens if there's a holiday on that Friday? Alternatively, is there a good historical calendar (preferably one the can be easily exported) with all those dates and times, for say the last 5-10 years?