Source: https://whitepips.com/economic-calendar/adp-employment Summary: ADP employment report release time: the Wednesday before NFP, usually 8:15 AM New York time. What traders watch, the symbols it moves and the WhitePips rules. Last updated: 2026-10-29 # ADP employment report: release time and what it moves ADP Research. Usually the Wednesday before Non-Farm Payrolls, usually at 8:15 AM New York time. What it is, what traders watch and how the WhitePips rules treat trading around it. - **Monthly** how often - **8:15 AM** New York time - **Red or Amber** usual calendar rating ### ADP on this week's calendar Loading this week's calendar… Times in your own time zone and in New York; releases already out are dimmed. Red is high impact, Amber medium; the ratings are the calendar feed's. ## What ADP is ### ADP employment report The ADP National Employment Report estimates the change in US private-sector jobs from the payroll data of the companies ADP pays. It comes out two days before the official Non-Farm Payrolls report. ADP and NFP are measured differently and often disagree, so a big ADP surprise moves markets mostly by changing what traders expect from Friday's number. ### When it comes out - **Published by**: ADP Research, the ADP National Employment Report - **How often**: Monthly - **Usual day**: Usually the Wednesday before Non-Farm Payrolls - **Usual time**: 8:15 AM New York; 12:15 UTC while the US is on daylight time, 13:15 UTC in winter - **On the calendar as**: ADP Non-Farm Employment Change - **Usual rating**: Red or Amber ### What traders watch ### The headline against the forecast The surprise, and how it shifts expectations for NFP. ### Pay growth ADP's figures for the pay of people who stayed in their job and those who changed. ### By company size and sector Where the hiring or firing is happening. ## Symbols ADP moves The WhitePips symbols that usually react most to ADP. Each page has the pip or point value, a lot-size example and the commission on every plan. [**EURUSD** (Euro / US dollar)](https://whitepips.com/symbols/eurusd) [**USDJPY** (US dollar / Japanese yen)](https://whitepips.com/symbols/usdjpy) [**XAUUSD** (Gold)](https://whitepips.com/symbols/xauusd) [**US500** (US 500)](https://whitepips.com/symbols/us500) [**USDIDX** (US dollar index)](https://whitepips.com/symbols/usdidx) Futures on Volumetrica: [**ES** E-mini S&P 500](https://whitepips.com/symbols#futures) [**GC** Gold](https://whitepips.com/symbols#futures) ## Trading ADP at WhitePips ### CFD plans Every plan, every stage **News trading is permitted on every CFD plan.** You may open, hold and close positions before, during and after economic releases on every CFD plan, in the evaluation and once funded. There is no restricted window around a release on a CFD account, and no profit is removed because a trade was placed around news. **News straddling is not permitted.** On every CFD plan, you may not open straddled, offsetting or hedged exposure on the same or correlated instruments within 15 minutes before or after a scheduled Red or Amber (high or medium impact) economic event, a company earnings release, or a major geopolitical announcement, where the purpose is to capture the volatility of the event rather than to take a view on its outcome. Placing a buy and a sell (or a buy stop and a sell stop) on the same instrument, or opposite positions on correlated instruments such as EURUSD and USDCHF, so that whichever way the price jumps one side profits, is straddling. A single position, or positions in one direction, taken on your own view of the release is not. Trading Rules, sections 11.1 and 11.2. Each straddle is detected and referred to the risk desk, never penalised automatically. ### Futures plans One Step funded, Instant **Futures plans.** On the futures plans news trading is permitted during the One Step evaluation. On a funded futures account (One Step funded and Instant) no trade may be opened or closed from two minutes before to two minutes after a high-impact release; a position opened before the window may be held through it. Profit from such a trade is removed and the loss stays. The first and second violations are warnings, and the third is referred for compliance review. A news trading violation never ends an account automatically. The releases are those marked as high impact in the economic calendar shown in the dashboard or notified to you. Trading Rules, section 11.4. **CFD plans: no straddling** (8:00 AM to 8:30 AM New York) **Funded futures: no trade opened or closed** (8:13 AM to 8:17 AM) ADP 8:15 AM −20 min −15 −2 +2 +15 +20 min A single position taken on your own view, before or after the release, is fine on every CFD plan. On a funded futures account a position opened before the two-minute window may be held through it. [Section 11 of the Trading Rules](https://whitepips.com/legal/trading-rules#news-trading) [News trading, explained](https://whitepips.com/rules#rule-cfd-news-trading) ## ADP: questions **What time is ADP released?** Usually at 8:15 AM New York time: 12:15 UTC while the US is on daylight time, 13:15 UTC in winter. Usually the Wednesday before Non-Farm Payrolls. **How often is ADP released?** Monthly. Usually the Wednesday before Non-Farm Payrolls. The exact dates are set by the ADP Research; the dashboard's economic calendar shows the coming week. **Can I trade ADP on a WhitePips account?** On every CFD plan, yes: news trading is allowed in the evaluation and once funded. What is not allowed is straddling, opening both directions (or offsetting positions on correlated instruments) within 15 minutes either side of a Red or Amber release to catch the spike; the risk desk reviews it. On a funded futures account, no trade may be opened or closed from two minutes before to two minutes after a high-impact release. **Which markets move most on ADP?** On the WhitePips platforms: EURUSD, USDJPY, XAUUSD, US500, USDIDX, and on futures ES, GC. **Does ADP predict Non-Farm Payrolls?** Not reliably: the two often differ by a wide margin from month to month. Traders watch ADP because it changes expectations before Friday, not because it matches NFP. ## More releases [Jobs · USD **Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP)** First Friday of the month, 8:30 AM New York. Explained](https://whitepips.com/economic-calendar/non-farm-payrolls) [Jobs · USD **US jobless claims** Every Thursday, 8:30 AM New York. Explained](https://whitepips.com/economic-calendar/jobless-claims) [Jobs · USD **JOLTS job openings** Early in the month, 10:00 AM New York. Explained](https://whitepips.com/economic-calendar/jolts-job-openings) [Inflation · USD **US CPI inflation** Around the 10th to 15th of the month, 8:30 AM New York. Explained](https://whitepips.com/economic-calendar/us-cpi) [The whole economic calendar](https://whitepips.com/economic-calendar) ## Put the numbers to work Every plan, size and price, with the rules printed before you buy. News trading is allowed on every CFD plan. 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