10 Jun 2009
Forex Futures Calendar
A good futures calendar is vital to any trader. Preferably having a physical one in hand is nice, but online is better than nothing.
Many new (and current!) traders are terrified at the idea of taking physical delivery of an underlying commodity. The nightmare of waking up one morning and forgetting to close out your position wheat only to opend the door and find a truck unloading bushels of it onto your front lawn have haunted many of us.
Please take a look at a futures calendar for a complete list of all important trading dates. This way you will always leave enough time to rollover your position to the next month, thus never taking physical delivery.
On a related note, I used to use Interactive Brokers for my trading. The nice thing about using their platform is they would automatically exit your position so that taking delivery is physically impossible. The downside is that some exchanges aren't compatible with this technology so that makes it impossible to trade them, like the London Metals Exchange (LME).
Calendar for Trade : www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php, dailyfx.com/calendar, www.realtimeforex.com/forex-calendar.htm, www.babypips.com/tools, www.forexeconomiccalendar.com, www.ac-markets.com/forex-news/economic-calendar.aspx, www.forexyard.com/en/calendar.