Red Folder Calendar

By Brendon, a trader for 15 years and the maker of Stopline Trade Manager. Updated 27 October 2026.

What Counts as Red Folder

Many economic calendars mark high-impact releases with a red icon, and traders call those days red folder days. This calendar copies no one's ratings: it follows one written rule.

The Eight Central Banks

When each announces, in its own city.

• USDFederal Reserve14:00 WashingtonStated by the bank
• EUREuropean Central Bank14:15 FrankfurtStated by the bank
• GBPBank of England12:00 LondonStated by the bank
• JPYBank of JapanNo time TokyoThe bank publishes none
• AUDReserve Bank of Australia14:30 SydneyUsual time, not stated on the pages read
• CADBank of Canada09:45 OttawaUsual time, not stated on the pages read
• NZDReserve Bank of New Zealand14:00 WellingtonUsual time, not stated on the pages read
• CHFSwiss National Bank09:30 ZurichStated by the bank

Five Economies, Three Kinds of Release

Dates and times only: no forecast, no result, no comment on what a figure means. A release with no published date is left out, and the sources say so.

Why Each Release Moves the Currency

What each kind of release measures, and why traders watch it. Education, not prediction. Pick a kind:

What Happens Around a Release

What traders see depends on the symbol and the broker. These are the moments they describe most often. Pick one:

None of this makes a release day a day to avoid. A position held through one carries more risk than its stop distance suggests, so make the plan before the release, not during it.

What Traders Do About It

Traders who plan around these days pick one or more of these.

• No New EntryNothing new in the minutes before a release.
• A Smaller SizeSo a stop filled past its level is still a loss they can take.
• Stop at BreakevenA spike against the trade closes it near entry, though a gap can still fill it past its level.
• Flat BeforeOut before the release, looking for a new entry after it.
• Minutes Either SideA rule of their own to stay out for a few minutes. The times on this page help.

Daylight Saving and Release Times

Every release is set in its own city's time. The calendar converts each one to your zone for its own date, so the clock changes below are already in the list.

1. 25 Oct 2026Europe goes back
2. 1 Nov 2026US and Canada go back
3. 14 Mar 2027US and Canada go forward
4. 28 Mar 2027Europe goes forward
5. 4 Apr 2027Sydney, Canberra and Auckland go back

Japan has no daylight saving. Between two clock changes, two cities can be an hour closer or further apart than usual.

One New York Time, Two London Times

Why a Time Can Be Missing

The Bank of Japan lists its meeting dates in advance but gives no time for the decision, which comes on the meeting's second day. Its rows show the date only and stay on that Tokyo date in every time zone. A release with no published date has no row at all.

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Where the Dates Come From

Schedule compiled 27 October 2026 from the official pages below, for releases up to 27 April 2027. Each row of the calendar links to the page its date came from. A script reads the schedules of the US, Australian and UK statistics offices. The central bank, Eurostat and Statistics Canada dates are kept by hand and checked by a second script where the page allows. Nothing is taken from another calendar.

• Federal Reserve Board: The Board lists each meeting date as tentative until it is confirmed at the meeting before it.
• Bank of Japan: The Bank publishes no announcement time, so its rows show the date only.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics: The Bureau's calendar lists releases to the end of March 2027; Australian releases after that are not shown.
• Eurostat: The weekly calendar lists releases to 18 December 2026. Flash inflation dates after that are not yet published, so none are shown.
• Eurostat quarterly national accounts release plan: Dates in this plan are provisional until they appear in the weekly release calendar.
• Statistics Canada: The 2026 to 2027 release dates file lists dates to March 2027; later Canadian releases are not shown.

Where the Rates Come From

• Federal Reserve: The table of changes in the target range gives the date each change took effect.
• European Central Bank: The table of key ECB interest rates gives the date each rate applies with effect from.
• Bank of Japan: Decided on 18 September 2026: the Bank guides the uncollateralized overnight call rate to around 1.25 percent, up from around 1.0 percent set on 16 June 2026, effective from 24 September 2026.
• Reserve Bank of Australia: The table of interest rate decisions gives the effective date of each change.
• Bank of Canada: The cut was announced on 29 October 2025; the Bank's page says a change takes effect the day after its announcement.
• Reserve Bank of New Zealand: Read in a browser (the Bank's site refuses automated requests). Announced 2 September 2026; the OCR is implemented the working day after the announcement.
• Swiss National Bank: The rate is from the press release of 24 September 2026 (unchanged at 0 percent); the date of the last change is from the SNB policy rate series on the SNB's data portal.

When the compiled date is more than 14 days old the page says so, and after 60 days it replaces the list with links to the official pages, because a wrong date is worse than none.