Research
Weekly Preparation: The Trading Week Ahead, Day by Day, With Levels and the Reads as They Stand
The desk's plan for the week: the releases that matter on each day, the levels going into the week, the notebooks' reads as they stand, and what would change the plan.
The weekly preparation page is written before the week begins. It lays out, day by day, the releases and events that are likely to move markets, from the central bank meetings and the inflation and jobs prints to the earnings that matter for the indices, with the times in your zone.
Beside the calendar it records the levels the desk is watching going into the week for each of its instruments and the notebooks' reads as they stand on Sunday, so that the week's moves can be judged against a plan that was written down first.
The last section says what would change the plan: the prints or price levels that would turn a read, so that when they arrive the response has already been thought through.
What it shows
- The week's releases and events, day by day, in your time zone
- The levels going into the week for every instrument
- The notebooks' reads as they stand before the open
- What would change the plan
Guides that explain it
Macro and rates
Reading the economic calendar
What actual, forecast and previous mean, why the surprise moves markets rather than the level, and the US and European releases that matter most.
4 min read
Market structure
Trading sessions and overlaps
The 24-hour cycle from Wellington to New York, the Asian, European and American sessions in UTC, and why the London–New York overlap carries the volume.
4 min read
Technical analysis
Pivot points
The classic pivot point formula with R1 to R3 and S1 to S3, a worked example, the Fibonacci and Camarilla variants, and which session to compute them from.
4 min read