Economic Calendar for Crypto Traders: This Week & This Month
FOMC, US CPI, Non-Farm Payrolls, and BTC/ETH option expiry schedules, filtered by week or month, with notes on why each event usually registers in crypto markets. Times follow your browser's time zone. Describes conditions, not financial advice.
Official release schedules (FOMC/CPI/NFP from the Fed & BLS, Deribit options expiry). Times are in your local time zone. Not actual/forecast data, confirm times with the official source before trading.
Economic calendar for the crypto market
Economic calendars are usually built for forex and stock markets, even though the same events move crypto too. What sets this page apart: each row explains its impact mechanism on the crypto market, and crypto-specific schedules such as Deribit option expiries are included, two things usually missing from forex brokers' built-in calendars.
The three macro events that register most consistently in crypto are FOMC rate decisions, CPI inflation releases, and Non-Farm Payrolls employment data. All three shift expectations about the direction of US monetary policy, and crypto perpetual markets, open 24 hours a day, absorb the surprise instantly, with no opening-bell pause like stock markets.
Reading the impact markers
- High · FOMC, CPI, NFP, and quarterly option expiries. Price ranges and volume most often widen around these events.
- Medium · monthly non-quarterly option expiries.
- Red highlight · events falling within the next 24 hours.
FAQ
- What is an economic calendar?
- An economic calendar is a schedule of data releases and policy decisions that move financial markets, such as central bank rate decisions, inflation figures, and employment data. The schedules are announced well in advance by the publishing institutions, so dates and times are known months ahead.
- Why do crypto traders need an economic calendar?
- Since Bitcoin became widely held by institutions, it increasingly moves in step with other risk assets driven by US interest rate policy. Releases like CPI and FOMC are often followed by wider price ranges, thinner order book liquidity, and waves of liquidations in perpetual markets. Knowing the times helps you understand why the market suddenly gets busy — not to guess its direction.
- Does this calendar show actual and forecast figures?
- No. This page only shows official schedules that are published well in advance, release dates and times. Forecasts and actual results aren't shown because there's no free source that can be read reliably from the browser, and showing made-up numbers is far more dangerous than showing none at all.
- Which events are included?
- Four groups: FOMC rate decisions (eight times a year, 14:00 New York time), US CPI releases from the BLS (08:30 New York time), Non-Farm Payrolls (usually the first Friday of each month, 08:30 New York time), and BTC/ETH option expiries on Deribit (last Friday of each month, 08:00 UTC). Quarterly expiries in March, June, September, and December are marked high impact because they carry the largest open interest.
- Which time zone are the times shown in?
- Your browser's time zone. For readers in western Indonesia, that means WIB. US daylight saving time changes are accounted for, so a release at 08:30 New York time automatically shifts by an hour when the season changes.
- How is the "crypto impact" line written?
- From the event type and its importance, with fixed text per type. The line explains the mechanism, why the event usually registers in crypto markets, and deliberately mentions neither price direction nor any call to take a position. Not financial advice.