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CPI (Consumer Price Index)

The single most-watched inflation number in markets — and the reason most rate decisions happen.

Core CPI

The inflation number central banks actually trust — and the one that ties their hands when it disagrees with the headline.

PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures)

Less famous than CPI, but it's the Federal Reserve's actual preferred inflation gauge.

PPI (Producer Price Index)

Inflation before it reaches the shelf — a leading indicator for where CPI might head next.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

The broadest scorecard of an economy's size and growth — and the other half of every central bank's balancing act.

NFP (Non-Farm Payrolls)

One of the most violently-traded releases on the entire economic calendar — released the first Friday of nearly every month.

Unemployment Rate

The other half of every central bank's dual mandate — and the number that decides how far a hiking cycle can go.

PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index)

A monthly survey-based health check on manufacturing and services — and one of the few major indicators that isn't free, public data.

The Dot Plot

A chart of anonymous dots that regularly moves markets more than the actual rate decision printed next to it.

Forward Guidance

What a central bank says about the future often moves currencies more than what it actually does today.

Quantitative Easing & Tightening (QE / QT)

What central banks do to the money supply when interest rates alone aren't enough.

Hawkish vs Dovish

The two words you'll see attached to every central bank on this site — here's exactly what they mean.

COT Report (Commitments of Traders)

A weekly public report showing exactly how large institutional traders are positioned — a rare window into the big money.

Retail Sentiment & the Contrarian Signal

What everyday retail traders are doing — and why being on the same side as most of them is historically a warning sign, not reassurance.

VIX (The "Fear Gauge")

A single number that summarises how nervous the entire market is feeling, right now.

Risk-On vs Risk-Off

The single biggest force that can move every currency pair in the same direction on the same day, for completely unrelated reasons.

Safe-Haven Currency

Why the same handful of currencies keep getting bought every time something goes wrong in the world.

Carry Trade

Borrow cheap in one currency, earn more holding another — one of the oldest, most crowded trades in FX, and exactly why a single rate hike can ripple across the whole market.

Rate Differential

The gap between two countries' interest rates — and arguably the single most important number in all of currency trading.

Currency Strength

How to tell which currency is actually driving a move — the EUR rallying, or the USD falling?

DXY (US Dollar Index)

The most widely quoted single number for "is the dollar strong or weak" — but it's less complete than most people assume.

Seasonality in Forex

Do certain currencies really tend to move the same way at the same time of year? The data says: sometimes, weakly.