Question 1

What is a market calendar?

Accepted Answer

A market calendar collects the scheduled, dated events that move a stock or oblige a shareholder to act, and puts them on one timeline instead of three. This one covers the constituents of the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow Jones, and shows three kinds of date: the earnings report, when a company publishes its quarterly results and its price can gap on the open; the ex-dividend date, the first day a share trades without the right to the next payout and its price opens lower by roughly that amount; and the payment date, when the cash reaches a brokerage account. Seeing them together is the point — a position can face an earnings gap and an ex-date in the same week, and two separate calendars will never tell you that.

Question 2

What does this calendar show?

Accepted Answer

Three kinds of scheduled date for the companies in the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow Jones: earnings reports, ex-dividend dates and dividend payment dates. Each row says which kind it is, and the filters above the grid let you keep only some of them.

Question 3

Are macroeconomic releases like CPI or FOMC decisions included?

Accepted Answer

Not yet. The calendar is built to carry macro, central-bank and political events — they have their own colours and filters ready — but no data source feeds them today, so no such rows exist. What you see is company events only. When a macro source is added, those events appear here without any change to how the page works.

Question 4

How far ahead does the calendar go?

Accepted Answer

One week back and three weeks forward, five weeks in total. The forward limit is where the data ends, not a display choice: the earnings providers stop returning scheduled dates after roughly thirteen trading days and answer with nothing beyond that, so further weeks would be guaranteed-empty columns.

Question 5

Why are dividend paydays hidden until I switch them on?

Accepted Answer

Because the payment date needs no decision from anyone. The money arrives; nothing moves and nothing has to be done by a deadline. Showing every payday by default would roughly double the rows in a busy week without adding anything you could act on, so it starts as a chip you switch on rather than noise you have to switch off.

Question 6

Where does this data come from?

Accepted Answer

Earnings dates and reporting sessions come from earningsapi.com; ex-dividend dates, per-share amounts and payment dates from Yahoo Finance and earningsapi.com. Everything is refreshed automatically, and a row whose sources disagree or whose data is still incomplete says so on its face rather than showing a confident-looking number. Companies do move scheduled dates — confirm with the issuer's own investor relations page before trading around one.

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