Free economic calendar for Indian traders: RBI, CPI and Fed in IST
A free economic calendar for Indian traders: RBI, India CPI and GDP, US Fed, CPI and jobs data in your own time zone, beside your NIFTY, BANKNIFTY or MCX chart.
An economic calendar lists the scheduled data releases and central bank decisions that move markets, with the forecast, the previous figure and the actual number once it is out. SuperCharting has one built in: the Calendar panel opens beside your chart, shows times in your computer's own time zone (IST on a computer set to Indian time), and is included on Essential, the free plan. A public weekly page at /economic-calendar can be read without an account, with times in UTC.
What the Calendar panel shows
Open the panel with the Calendars button on the right-hand widget bar. It shows one Monday-to-Sunday week:
- Day cards across the top, one per day, with the number of Economic, Earnings, Dividends and IPO items. Click a card to jump to that day. The chevron button (Hide calendar days) folds the cards away to give the list more room.
- Kind chips: Economic, Earnings, Dividends and IPO. This guide is about Economic; the other three are covered in the IPO and earnings calendar guide.
- The event list, grouped by day. Each row has the time, the country flag, an importance mark of one to three bars, the event name, and the Actual, Forecast and Prior values. Hover a row to read the event's short description.
- The next event has its time in a red pill and, when it is less than 24 hours away, a Coming in hh:mm countdown.
Buttons along the top move around: Today, Go to date (a month calendar), Previous week and Next week.
Filters: importance, category and countries
Three controls cut the week down to what matters for your market:
| Control | Choices |
|---|---|
| Importance button | All, Medium and high, High only |
| Category menu (labelled All categories until you pick one) | All categories, Bonds, Business, Consumer, Energy, GDP, Government, Housing, Labor, Money, Markets, Prices, Trade |
| Settings button | Countries: G20, Countries: United States, Countries: Entire world |
The country choice is saved to your account. The default is the G20, which includes India, the United States, the euro area, China and Japan. There is no India-only setting; with High only and the G20, the list is usually short enough to scan in a few seconds. The Settings menu also shows the time zone the panel uses, for example Timezone: UTC+05:30 (system). To change it, change your computer's time zone.
If a filter leaves nothing, the panel says No economic events match these filters instead of showing a blank list.
The releases Indian traders watch
These are event types, not a schedule: open the panel to see what falls in a given week.
India
- RBI policy decision. The repo rate decision and the governor's statement, usually announced in the morning during market hours. Banks and rate-sensitive stocks lead the reaction, so BANKNIFTY often moves more than NIFTY.
- CPI inflation. It shapes expectations for the next RBI move. A figure well above the forecast can weigh on bank stocks and government bond prices.
- GDP. Quarterly growth. It tends to matter more for the broad market's tone than for one session's move.
- Industrial production (IIP) and other activity data: smaller events, usually marked with fewer importance bars.
United States
- Fed rate decision. Announced in the US afternoon, which is close to midnight in India, so NIFTY usually shows the reaction as a gap at the next morning's open.
- US CPI and non-farm payrolls (NFP). Released in the New York morning, which is Indian evening, after the NSE cash market closes. MCX gold and crude futures trade into the evening and react at once.
How they spread to Indian charts
A US figure that pushes the dollar and US yields higher often weighs on gold (MCX gold futures), on the rupee (USDINR rises) and on foreign buying of Indian shares. A softer figure tends to do the opposite. These are tendencies, not rules: the gap between the actual number and the forecast matters more than the number itself, and a busy news day can override it. Watch India VIX around big releases to see how much movement option traders expect.
How to use the economic calendar in SuperCharting
- Sign up at /signup or log in, and open the chart.
- Click Calendars on the right-hand widget bar. If you unpinned it, open Products at the bottom of the bar and choose Calendars.
- Make sure the Economic chip is selected.
- Open Importance and pick High only for a first pass.
- Open Settings and check that the countries are G20 and the time zone line shows your own offset.
- Click today's day card, or press Today, to start at the next event.
- Hover an event to read what it measures, and note its Forecast and Prior.
- Keep the panel open beside the chart; when the event passes, the Actual column shows the released figure.
On a phone, the Calendar opens from the More menu under Markets; below 640 pixels each event takes two lines, with its values on the second.
Practical example: a US CPI evening on NIFTY and gold
Say a US CPI release is listed for this week. Set a layout with two charts: NSE:NIFTY1! on 15 minutes and MCX:GOLD1! on 5 minutes. Essential, the free plan, allows 4 charts per layout; see multi-chart layouts. Open the Calendar beside them, filter High only and Prices, and find the CPI row with its forecast and prior.
Before the release, mark the day's high and low on the gold chart. When the countdown ends, compare Actual with Forecast: a hotter number than forecast often lifts the dollar and pushes gold lower, a cooler one the reverse. The NIFTY chart shows how the Indian market took it at the next morning's open. The MCX live charts guide covers gold and crude futures, and the NSE charts guide covers continuous NIFTY futures.
This is an educational example of reading a release, not a trading signal.
What it does not do
- It does not draw events on the chart or send an alert before a release. Set a price alert on the levels you care about instead.
- The values come from a public calendar and can lag the official release by a little. Check the official source for anything you trade on.
- It lists scheduled releases only; surprise announcements and speeches outside the schedule are not in it.
Frequently asked questions
Is the economic calendar free?
Yes. The Calendar panel needs only a signed-in account and works the same on Essential, the free plan, as on paid plans. The public /economic-calendar page needs no account at all.
Are the times in IST?
In the app, times follow your computer's time zone, so they are IST when your computer is set to Indian time. Settings shows the offset in use. The public /economic-calendar page shows UTC.
Can I see only Indian events?
Not as a single setting. Choose G20 in Settings and High only in Importance, then look for the Indian flag; the list is short enough to scan.
Does the panel show earnings and dividends too?
Yes. The Earnings, Dividends and IPO chips switch the list, and clicking a company row opens its chart.