metadata

license: mit
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - time-series-forecasting
  - tabular-classification
  - tabular-regression
tags:
  - forex
  - economic-calendar
  - financial-data
  - macro-economics
  - trading-strategy
  - time-series
  - market-events
  - selenium
  - pandas
  - scraper
pretty_name: Forex Factory Economic Calendar (2007–2025)
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

📅 Forex Factory Economic Calendar Dataset (2007-01-01 to 2025-04-07)

This dataset contains a comprehensive archive of macroeconomic calendar events sourced from Forex Factory, spanning from January 1, 2007 to April 7, 2025.
Each row captures a specific event with detailed metadata including currency, event type, market impact level, reported values, and descriptive context.

📦 Dataset Summary

Total timespan: 2007-01-01 → 2025-04-07
Format: CSV (UTF-8)
Timezone: Asia/Tehran
Detailed fields included

🧾 Columns

Column	Description
`DateTime`	Date and time of the event in ISO 8601 format
`Currency`	Currency affected by the event (e.g., USD, EUR, GBP)
`Impact`	Impact level: Low, Medium, or High Impact Expected
`Event`	Name of the economic event
`Actual`	Reported value of the indicator (if available)
`Forecast`	Forecasted value
`Previous`	Previously reported value
`Detail`	Rich description including source, frequency, and why it matters to traders

🔍 Example

2007-01-01T04:30:00+03:30,CNY,High Impact Expected,Manufacturing PMI,54.8,,55.3,"Source: CFLP (latest release) | Measures: Level of a diffusion index based on surveyed purchasing managers..."

💼 Use Cases

Financial time series forecasting
Event-driven backtesting in algorithmic trading
Economic policy impact analysis
Macro indicators modeling for global trends
Educational purposes in finance and economics

⚙️ How It Was Built

The data was collected using a custom Python scraper using:

Selenium (via undetected-chromedriver)
pandas for CSV export and manipulation
Incremental scraping and detailed event parsing
Timezone-aware timestamping

GitHub repository (scraper code): 🔗 Link to repository

🛡 Disclaimer

This dataset is intended for educational and research purposes only.

Data was collected from Forex Factory using publicly accessible web content.
This project is not affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored by Forex Factory in any way.

Please respect Forex Factory’s Terms of Use. Do not use this dataset for commercial purposes or redistribution without checking the original source's policies.

📚 Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as:

@misc{forexcalendar2025,
  title={Forex Factory Economic Calendar Dataset (2007–2025)},
  author={Ehsan},
  year={2025},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/yourusername/forex-factory-calendar}},
  note={Accessed: YYYY-MM-DD}
}

🏷 Tags

forex financial-data economic-calendar macro-economics
time-series trading-strategy pandas selenium market-events