News Drivers: How to Read the Economic Calendar Before You Trade
Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Before you plan a single trade, know what the economic calendar is about to throw at the market… and where the landmines sit. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. News Drivers are the scheduled economic events that move the market. CPI, FOMC, non-farm payroll, Powell speaking, PMI, PCE. Reading them means scanning the economic calendar before the open, flagging the red and orange folder events, and marking their exact release times on your chart as no-trade zones. Do this first, before you plan a single ES E-mini futures entry. The calendar tells you how dangerous the day is going to be. This page gathers everything George teaches about News Drivers across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… where to find them, how to grade the day's danger with Level 10 Trading, when to Stand Down en...