Trading Economics alternative

The work behind the figures

A figure on its own is a trivia card. Growth, jobs, prices, and surveys matter when you can see which market they touch, and when the next one is due. You want the country, the history, the expectation, and the later correction. You want the central bank that has to live with those figures. You want a map, because pressure in one region is often the reason your market moved while the headline was about somewhere else.

You also want a human layer, sometimes. Bank reports are long. A library you can search, with a short summary and the PDF, is enough on the days you need the street’s view next to the number. You do not need that every morning. You need it when the figure and the market disagree and you want to know what the banks wrote.

Over the week, the useful question changes. Not “what printed”, but “which figures mattered”. A weekly briefing that packs the key numbers, the stories, and the moves saves you from rereading five days of releases.

Some people arrive here wanting a pipe: every series in the world, in their own database, on their own schedule. That is a different job from reading a market. Novex is built for the second job. It also has an API, and the honest description is below, with a link to the docs, so you do not have to guess.

From a country to the market

Start with Macro World when you do not yet know where to look. It is an interactive map, with one global read and a closer look at each region. You see where growth, rising prices, and central-bank pressure are building. Pick the region that touches the market you trade, then go down a level.

Macro Data is that level. Charts of past releases for prices, jobs, growth, and surveys, country by country. You compare the result, the later correction, and what people expected, without building the series yourself. Stay on one country long enough to see the shape. A single print is a point. The chart is the argument.

The Economic Calendar tells you when the next point arrives. Releases, holidays, and how hard each one can hit a currency. Filter by country and by strength. Interest Rates is the bank that has to respond. You see the chance of a move at the next meeting, and how prices shifted over 30 days. A hot inflation print matters more when the meeting is close and the odds are still low.

Macro Overview pulls this back to the markets you trade. Four panels: what is pushing markets, the mood of traders, and how much currencies are moving. The figure is only useful if you can see whether the market is already trading it.

Bank Research is the optional layer. A library of bank reports, searched by bank, date, and whether you have read them, with a short summary and the PDF. Weekly Recap is the other optional layer: the week’s key numbers, stories, and moves, in one pass.

The API serves the terminal’s own data. The docs list the routes, including macro overview, macro world, the calendar, and meeting probabilities. It is not a separate shop of every world series for you to warehouse. If that is the job, read the docs and decide from the route list, not from a slogan. If the job is the read above, stay in the terminal. Either way, the screens do not tell you what to buy, and they do not promise a profit.

Screens for this path

• Macro World. An interactive world map, with one global read and a closer look at each region. You see where growth, rising prices, and central-bank pressure are building.
• Macro Data. Charts of past releases for prices, jobs, growth, and surveys, country by country. You compare the result, the later correction, and what people expected, without building the series yourself.
• Economic Calendar. A live calendar of releases, holidays, and how hard each one can hit a currency. You filter by time, country, and strength, so you are ready before the number comes out.
• Interest Rates. The central-bank board shows the chance of a move at the next meeting, and how prices shifted over 30 days. You follow where rates are heading before you buy or sell currencies.
• Macro Overview. Four panels show what is pushing the markets, the mood of traders, and how much currencies are moving. You see that picture change through the day, before you decide to buy or sell.
• Bank Research. A library of bank reports you can search by bank, date, and whether you have read them, with a short summary and the PDF. You keep the banks’ views in the same place as your markets.
• Weekly Recap. A weekly briefing that packs the key numbers, the stories, and the moves that mattered. You review the week in one pass, instead of rebuilding it.

Who it is for

It is for a trader who wants economic figures tied to forex or indices, in a terminal, with the history and the bank on the same desk. Free means limited access when you have not chosen a paid plan. Pro is the broader terminal. Pricing is the page that states the line.

See Free and Pro on the pricing page.

Who it is not for

It is not for building a private database of every published series, and it is not for drawing on price charts or backtesting. Novex does not do those jobs. If you still want to call the terminal’s data from code, use the docs. The route list is the contract.

Read the API docs for the routes the terminal exposes.

Short answers

See also

• How interest rates affect forex