Macro event impact: Fed decisions, CPI and jobs reports

Macro event impact lines up a symbol's price around past US releases: Fed rate decisions, the inflation report (CPI) and the jobs report. You see the typical path from a day before to three days after, how often price closed higher and how big the move is next to a normal day. It is a Pro Lab tool, part of the Pro and Elite plans.

Using it

1. On a computer, press Pro Lab on the right-hand toolbar; on a phone, open the analysis centre from the chart's bottom bar and choose Pro Lab. Then choose Macro event impact.
2. Pick the release: Fed decision, CPI or Jobs report.
3. Press the symbol field and pick a symbol such as BTCUSDT, AAPL or EURUSD in the symbol search.
4. Choose how many past releases to use: 12, 24 or 40. For Fed decisions you can keep only the meetings with projections.

Reading the results

• Each faint line is one release, measured from the last hourly close before it; the thick line is the median and the shaded band the middle half.
• The table after the release gives, for each span of hours, how often price closed higher, the median move, the average size and how it compares with normal days (×2 is twice the usual move).
• A comparison shows which of the three releases moves this symbol most in the first hours.
• The top line gives the next release in your local time, a countdown and its typical move.

Good to know

• Dates come from the calendars of the Fed and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2019 to 2027; the Fed's 2027 dates are not final yet.
• Prices are the chart's own hourly bars, so a symbol whose history starts later covers fewer releases.
• Select a release in the list to mark it on the chart.