How To Use Forex Factory — Ultimate Guide to Improve Your Trading

Charlie Evreux
10 min readMay 3, 2018

Most of us traders know what Forex Factory is, but do we know how to use it to improve?

Forex Factory is a goldmine of information and resources. It’s the largest trading forum out there.

However, there is a lot of subpar information to wade through. I’m going to help you use it to your benefit. This article will give you multiple ideas on how to use Forex Factory and ultimately improve your trading.

In this article you will learn about:

  • The forex factory economic calendar
  • Using sentiment in your trading
  • Using forex factory for live charts
  • Finding trading strategies on forex factory
  • Finding indicators on forex factory
  • Using forex factory as a trading journal
  • Networking on forex factory
  • Tracking your trades with forex factory trade explorer

Using the Forex Factory calendar

First and foremost, if you don’t have a provider for your economic news, forex factory is arguably the best. It’s customisable and user-friendly, perfect for tailoring it to your own trading.

Even if you don’t ‘trade the news’, I believe you need to be aware when the key events are taking place. Nobody wants to be caught out by key events just because they couldn’t be bothered to…

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Charlie Evreux

I trade forex, crypto, stocks and commodities. I like maths. I also write things on Medium and TradingProbability.com.