Got an Eye on the Markets? Here's a Calendar to Help You Keep Track

There’s one thing that technical and fundamental investors can agree on: corporate and economic events can have a huge impact on the broader market and on individual trading portfolios. But between earnings, dividends, IPOs, economic events, stock splits, and investor conferences, there are hundreds if not thousands of scheduled market events each month. Even though a lot of those aren’t going to be relevant to every investor, it’s clearly no easy task to keep track of what’s going on in the markets from one day to the next.

That’s why we’re always working on new tools and resources to help investors stay on top of it all. One such resource is an updated full-page markets calendar that TD Ameritrade clients can access. Log in to tdameritrade.com and go to Research & Ideas > Markets > Calendar.

Look familiar? With the most recent update, it matches the calendar on My Accounts Overview, but we’ve added features and new data to make it even better. 

A Monthly View of Market Happenings

From there, you can view All Events. Or, using the tabs at the top of the page, filter by one of these options:

• Earnings
• Dividends
• Ratings changes
• Splits
• IPOs
• Investor conferences
• Economic events

Get the Finer Details

We wouldn’t leave you hanging without being able to get more than just a monthly view. On the right side of the calendar there are highlights related to the day and event type you’ve chosen. That same area will also have news related to the event with links to recent articles.

There are several ways to filter information depending on the type of event you’re looking at. For example, you can filter earnings by “Beat,” “Missed,” “Met,” and “Unreported.” For upcoming dividends, you can filter by current dividend yields that are greater than 3%, or less than or equal to 3%.

Accessing Earnings Conference Calls

There’s more to earnings than just the quarterly numbers. There’s a company attached to each of those shares you own, and listening to earnings conference calls is one way to monitor what’s happening at the businesses you’ve invested in. It’s also a way to potentially identify new investment opportunities you might want to research further. Either way, it can be worth tracking down the information for a company’s earnings call.

With the most recent calendar update, we made it easy to listen to earnings calls by including call-in information in each stock symbol’s row. The megaphone icon, shown in figure 2, indicates that a company has an available conference call. All you need to do is click the icon and it’ll take you to the company’s page with information on how to dial in.

But Wait, There’s More! Expanded Data

In addition to a redesign and added features, we’ve also added more data to the calendar. Now it’s easier to stay up to date on investor conferences, including summits, trade shows, business updates, seminars, workshops, and more. 

No matter what type of investor you are, it can be useful to have a one-stop place to go to stay on top of market happenings. Whether you’re keeping track of upcoming earnings for stocks in your portfolio, or just want to make sure you don’t miss next year’s annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, the new markets calendar covers it.