Where do you get your data?

I'm not I'm just lazy I unchecked the link on the thing that said censors cuss words on the Samsung voice input and yet it still censors the cuss word My back hurts too f****** bad to spend a lot of time sitting in front of the computer so this must suffice for now unfortunately. Fuck fuck fuck!

 

This is free and goes way back. You can actually filter by country.

https://tradingeconomics.com/calendar

 

op just make up something the data your seeking is all made up...

 

I have tried them, the site requires a paid subscription to download the data

 

Whether the data is accurate or not is not all that relevant to my research.

The purpose of this is to measure the relative market reactions to different announcements and whether said announcement beat of missed expectations.

From what I can tell it doesn't matter if the numbers are real or not, all that seems to matter is the markets expectations and how it responds to a sudden shock.

 

market expectations by whom the ignorant public?

barking up the wrong tree watch for increased option volume days prior to announcements, this is how you track insiders who already know the facts.

 

Ok noted. You are probably right but I will still check for myself.
It's the only way I can stop the nagging feeling that I could be missing something.

I am interested in having a look at option volume as you mentioned.
I know the basics but have no actual trading experience with options

Probably another dumb question:
Where do I check the volume and for which options?
Do I check it on an exchange? CoT? Broker?

Any specifics will help

 

From https://tradingeconomics.com/calendar, I copied and pasted quarters of US economic data starting in 2023 (to work around the limits of free access to tradingeconomics.com) in the attached tradingEconomicsCalendar.txt.

Then I ran the perl script in the attached parseTradingEconomics.zip, and put the semicolon-separated output in tradingEconomicsCalendar.csv.

 

Thank you!!

 

Web scraper can be written that can scrape economic calendars from around the web. I was checking Investing.com and their econ. calendar goes back x20 years. That would make for a very good sample.

But there are paid sites and programs that can be customized to scrape anything. Tabulated page like economic calendar would be quite easy pray, if one doesn't mind selecting calendar periods manually one by one.