 Hi there guys and welcome to the short video. Having looked at the economic calendar in a bit more detail This is like one of the most essential tools in the trading platform Something that I like to utilize a lot and this basically gives you all the major macroeconomic data from right across the world You can actually see there that I've got a selection of announcements right here And I've got some UK and US based announcements. You can see the the time and date the market impact You get low medium and high the announcement and details of the actual Forecasts and previous if I was good to edit for a second what you'll see there is a whole bunch of different options on here And I've actually got some of these countries turned off Really does depend on What is that you're interested on I tend to like to have a lot of the major ones on there But depending on your region some of these will be more important than others And I tend to turn off the low important market impact events But again, it depends what you're after yourself There's also an alert timer here, which will become quite apparent in a second I usually always have this set to ten minutes, but you can choose any of these other selections here as well But I mean I tend to look at medium and high important level events And these are the countries that I like to be aware of particularly useful regardless what asset class you're trading because they can impact global markets So when you've got an announcement on here For example, if we have a look at the unemployment rate in the UK, you can see there that the actuals come out There's a forecast that's been provided by by Dow Jones live news wire in the sense in this instance And you also have the previous data as well And they'll always be an information button attached to the core major updates if you click on this You'll actually be able to see what it measures Why traders care the frequency and who it comes out with and you can obviously set alerts as well Now it's the alert section here that is particularly useful If I just go ahead here and select this little icon right here It's gonna pop open a box with a countdown clock That's gonna give me a forecast the previous and the time left to actual and when that gets down to zero It's gonna say due and as soon as Dow Jones sends the information through there It's gonna pop up directly on this set this tab and inform me what's going on This feature is also available on the mobile platform on the iPad Android and iPhone You just have to go ahead and set it on that specific device because I actually sets it via push notification So I'm at this point you need to set the two of them separately It's such a useful great feature and what I tend to do as you look at this from a daily a weekly or monthly standpoint And so monthly obviously gives you access to a whole bunch more information than you've got weekly I do tend to look at this in a day by day basis Though you can utilize the calendar function here select whatever dates that you want Which is equally useful today's date will always be highlighted in blue So if you get a little bit ahead of yourself, it's very easy to click here And go back to the day's date and see it exactly what's coming up Now I tend to pay most attention to anything that's read impact level That means it's gonna have quite a decent impact on a wide variety of different markets So usually if it's an American flag anything that's us dollar-denominated like FX payers or major US indices such as the Dow Sorry, the US 30 or the SPX 500 It's something you might want to look at conversely if you're looking at the UK data something like the UK 100 or GBP USD Or any kind of sterling denominated FX pair does the type of stuff that that traders might tend to go ahead and have a look at But anything on here that's read I usually set an alert to look at today and they always fast forward on to the next day again Anything that's read its impact in the products that I'm looking at as long as it's got a forecast on here I'll go ahead and set an alert on there as well So it makes sure that I don't forget any major announcements as they come out because this can have a big effect on your current open positions