NFP Price Zones

NFP Price Zones turns the monthly Non-Farm Payrolls release from a volatility lottery into a mapped event. Purpose-built for macro event days, it finds the correct NFP Friday, measures how price expanded during past releases, and projects those statistics forward: average expansion levels drawn on the chart before the number ever hits.

How to Trade the NFP Price Zones?

• Projected expansion levels: read the lines to the right of price as breakout triggers, take-profit targets, or exhaustion markers when a move approaches its historical average.
• Frozen anchor: exactly 30 minutes before the scheduled time, the zones stop tracking price: fixed levels for objective risk placement while the release hits.
• Dashboard readout: Avg Range, Max Range, and Avg Up/Dn Exp summarize past releases; a countdown flips to EVENT LIVE, and To High/Low Exp shows how much of the typical move has already printed.
• Historical boxes: review highlighted past NFP windows to see how your market usually behaves in the release minutes.

Once frozen, the projections act as event-scoped support and resistance zones: breakout traders want a clean escape from them, mean-reversion traders fade price pressing into the outer expansions. The tool also works in bar replay, so past releases can be rehearsed bar by bar.

NFP Price Zones Settings

• Historical NFPs to Analyze: how many past releases feed the statistics: more for stability, fewer for responsiveness.
• NFP Release Hour (24h) and NFP Release Minute (default 08:30 ET): align projections with the official release time.
• Show Historical Zones / Zone Color: toggle and style the past reaction boxes.
• Dashboard, Position, Size: control the statistics panel and its placement.

Frequently Asked Questions

How are the projected zones calculated?

How is this different from an opening range tool?

Is NFP Price Zones free to use?