Event Timeline
Also known as: Macro Events, Crypto Events
Overlay of market-moving events on the price chart — halvings, ETF decisions, unlocks, hacks and macro prints. Context for every price move.
Why it exists
Price charts in isolation are misleading. A massive green candle might be a macro print, an ETF approval, a short squeeze from a hack on a competitor — or just noise. The Event Timeline layer puts the cause next to the effect so you can read a chart the way a professional desk does: news + flows + TA, not TA alone.
What gets pinned on the chart
- Protocol events — Bitcoin halvings, Ethereum upgrades, major hard forks
- Market structure — spot ETF approvals / rejections, major listings, index inclusions
- Macro calendar — FOMC decisions, CPI releases, employment reports
- Token events — major token unlocks, large airdrops
- Incidents — verified exchange hacks, outages, large on-chain exploits
Each event has a vertical marker on the candle it occurred on, a short label, and a link to more detail in the side panel.
How to use it
- Before reading any chart pattern, toggle the timeline on and ask: "Is there an event that explains this candle?"
- Build intuition for which event types matter for which assets. BTC cares deeply about ETF flows and halvings. Altcoins care more about unlocks, listings and hacks.
- Use it in backtesting. When you notice a repeatable reaction pattern (e.g. "price always dumps 2 days before CPI"), you've found a tradable signal.
Data sources
Events are aggregated from public calendars (CoinMarketCal, official project blogs, macro data providers) and curated to avoid noise. Only verified, impactful events make it onto the chart.