Economic Calendar and News Trading Restrictions

The Economic Calendar can be found in MT5 desktop, MT5 mobile app and Dashboard portal. It provides traders with real-time access to a comprehensive schedule of current, past, and upcoming economic events. This dynamic calendar automatically updates to ensure that traders have the most current information at their fingertips.

For each economic event, the calendar offers detailed information and relevant statistics. You can filter events by the level of impact and by country. The time-zone for the events can be set to match the MT5 Trading Server time-zone (GMT+2 Standard Time or GMT+3 Daylight Savings Time).  The Economic Calendar offers customizable alerts which can be set to notify traders of upcoming impactful news releases. Alerts can help you stay on top of important market events, and to keep an eye on the events where the OANDA Prop Trader program News Restrictions are put in place to manage risk during periods of heightened market volatility.

OANDA Prop Trader News Trading restrictions apply to all instruments during the release of High Impact news originating from major economies such as Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union. Traders must be aware of these restrictions and adjust their trading strategies accordingly.

Economic Calendar via MT5 Mobile app: 

You can get more details and past trends for each Filtered Event. You can also set up custom Alerts for each one. These will be sent straight to your MT5 Mobile app.

Economic Calendar via MT5 desktop platforms: 

The same advanced calendar is also available via the MT5 desktop platform and the same filters can be applied for the same high Impact events, further filtration per country. 

The time-zone of the Economic Calendar follows the same MT5 Trading server time-zone.

Economic calendar via the Dashboard portal: 

When you access the Economic Calendar on the dashboard, the event times displayed will automatically align with the local time zone settings of your computer or mobile device. This ensures that the information you see is relevant to your current location.

For those who need to track events in different time zones, the calendar offers a customization option. In the top right corner of any specific calendar page, you'll find a setting to adjust the time zone. This allows you to view event times based on a selected region, which is particularly useful for traders and analysts operating across multiple markets.

However, it's important to note a limitation regarding the filtering options on the dashboard. Currently, the Economic Calendar doesn't allow users to filter out High Impact news events. These events, marked in red on the calendar, are considered to have a significant potential to influence market movements. Therefore, they remain visible on the dashboard at all times, ensuring that users are aware of these potentially impactful events.

Traders can further check details about a particular event by expanding the news event to show the historical trends on this economic indicator etc.