NFP Price Zones
By LuxAlgoFeb 19, 2026
NFP Price Zones is an indicator on Vela, our next-generation charting platform, written in Pine Script®.
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 takes the first Friday of each month as the NFP date (check the official calendar in months when the release moves), measures how price expanded around the release time on past first Fridays, 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 the remaining distance, in pips, from current price to each projected expansion level.
- 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.
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