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The market-moving days, right on your P&L calendar

A red day on a CPI morning is a different story from a red day on a quiet Tuesday. note500 badges the days markets actually react to — CPI, FOMC, jobs and more — onto the same calendar that shows your green and red days, so the macro context is never a separate tab away.

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The note500 P&L calendar for a full month: each trading day coloured green or red by result with its P&L and trade count, and ISM, Jobs, CPI, PPI, Retail, Fed, Claims and UMich event badges landing on their real dates.
A full month on the P&L calendar — green days, red days, and the ISM, Jobs, CPI, Fed and UMich mornings that shaped them.

What gets badged

Every day carries the events that move the tape. Rate decisions, holidays and half-days take the day's headline; economic releases stack on top, so a single morning can show several.

🏛 FOMC decision 📝 Fed minutes 📊 CPI 🏭 PPI 📈 GDP 💼 Jobs report 💵 Core PCE 🏭 ISM Manufacturing 🛎 ISM Services 🛍 Retail sales 🔎 JOLTS 🧾 ADP 🙂 UMich sentiment 📉 Jobless claims ⊘ Market holidays ◑ Early close

That's the full inflation-and-growth core — CPI, PPI, PCE, GDP, retail sales, the two ISM PMIs — plus the whole labor-market cluster the Fed watches: nonfarm payrolls, JOLTS, ADP and weekly jobless claims. Consumer sentiment (UMich, preliminary and final) rounds it out. The FOMC's eight 2026 decision days and their minutes are marked too.

Close-up of the note500 calendar: event badges — JOLTS, ISM Manufacturing, Jobs, ISM Services, Fed minutes, jobless claims — sitting on their real dates next to each day's green or red P&L and trade count.
The badges up close — each release lands on its real date, right beside the day's P&L.
Kept honest through the odd calendar. The 2026 Fed schedule has no November meeting, and the 2025 shutdown pushed several federal releases off their usual cadence. note500's dates reflect the real, rescheduled calendar rather than the textbook one — and weekly jobless claims are worked out from the Thursday rhythm (with the holiday shifts handled) rather than guessed.

Why it belongs on a journal

Context changes the lesson you take away. With the macro on the same grid as your P&L you can see, at a glance:

See the day behind the badge

Click any day to open the trades and notes behind it. A red FOMC Wednesday stops being a mystery — you see the fills, the size, and whatever you wrote in the moment, next to the event that set the backdrop. Pair it with note500's market seasonality and you have both the scheduled risk and the historical tendency for any date.

Put the macro on your calendar — free →

The economic calendar and its event badges are part of the free plan on every note500 account — see pricing. Event dates are informational and can be rescheduled by the issuing agencies; always confirm against the official release schedule.