Economic releases
Where they come from
From MetaTrader 5's own calendar. The terminal ships it and keeps it up to date on its own. Tempo downloads nothing and connects to nothing: it reads what you already have.
That has two consequences worth knowing:
- If your terminal is freshly installed, the calendar may take a few minutes to fill the first time.
- Some brokers switch the calendar off. If you see no releases and you are sure there are some today, check View > Calendar: if it is empty there too, it is the terminal, not Tempo.
Which ones are shown
All of them, not just your pair's. On a EURUSD chart you will also see a yen or sterling release, and that is deliberate: the dollar moves with what happens in the rest of the world, and filtering by the chart's pair hides half of what matters.
What does get filtered is the noise: only medium and high impact releases are included. Low-impact ones run to dozens a day and move nothing.
And they are marked by importance: high-impact ones carry the palette's warning colour, a colour no session uses. A warning painted in a band's colour stops being a warning the moment that band is underneath it.
On the bar, which is half the value
The releases are not in a separate list: they are marked on the day bar, in the place their time puts them.
That way you see at a glance whether a big release falls inside the London–New York overlap — something a list of times does not show, and which changes quite a lot what you can expect from the next while.
The countdown
On the first text row, the next one coming: how long until it comes out, which currency and what it is. The release time is the time it really comes out, worked out in its own time zone, not the one you would get by taking broker time at face value.
Being alerted
If you want Tempo to warn you a few minutes before a release — by popup, sound, phone or email —, that is in Alerts. There you can also filter by the chart's currencies and by importance.
What Tempo does not tell you about the release
It does not tell you the forecast or the previous value, and it does not tell you whether the result came in above or below expectations. That is on the roadmap (see Updates); it is not here today, and we would rather say so than have you find out by looking for it.
Switch them off entirely with InpVerDatos.