Course Description
You will be guided into the world of trading with specific action steps, detailed explanations and more than 100 topics. These course will teach you step by step the main topics you need to know, in order to have a more bigger picture about the world of trading.
The topics that will be covered in this course are:
1. Currency Trading 101
What Is Currency Trading?
Speculating as an enterprise
Currencies as the trading vehicle
What Affects Currency Rates?
Fundamentals drive the currency market
Unless it’s the technicals that are driving the currency market 7
Or it may be something else
Developing a Trading Plan
Finding your trading style
Planning the trade
Executing the Trading Plan from Start to Finish
2. What Is the Forex Market?
Getting Inside the Numbers
Trading for spot
Speculating in the currency market
Getting liquid without getting soaked
Currencies and Other Financial Markets
Gold
Oil
Stocks
Bonds
Getting Started with a Practice Account
3. Understanding and Applying Market News and Information
Sourcing Market Information
The art of boarding a moving train
Taking the pulse of the market
Rumors: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Putting Market Information into Perspective: Focusing on Themes
Driving fundamental themes
Analyzing technical themes
4. Getting Down and Dirty with Fundamental Data
Finding the Data
Economics 101 for Currency Traders: Making Sense of Economic Data
The labor market
The consumer
The business sector
The structural
Assessing Economic Data Reports from a Trading Perspective
Understanding and revising data history
Getting to the core
5. Getting to Know the Major Currency Pairs
The Big Dollar: EUR/USD
Trading fundamentals of EUR/USD
Trading behavior of EUR/USD
Tactical trading considerations in EUR/USD
East Meets West: USD/JPY
Trading fundamentals of USD/JPY
Price action behavior of USD/JPY
Tactical trading considerations in USD/JPY
Understanding Forex Positioning Data
How to interpret the data
The FX fix
Forex and regulation
6. Training and Preparing for Battle
Finding the Right Trading Style for You
Real-world and lifestyle considerations
Making time for market analysis
Technical versus fundamental analysis
Developing Trading Discipline
Taking the emotion out of trading
Managing your expectations
Keeping your ammunition dry
7. Cutting the Fog with Technical Analysis
The Philosophy of Technical Analysis
What is technical analysis?
What technical analysis is not
Forms of technical analysis
Finding support and resistance
Waiting for confirmation
8. Identifying Trade Opportunities
Developing a Routine for Market Analysis
Performing Multiple-Time-Frame Technical Analysis
Identifying Support and Resistance Levels
Trend lines
Highs and lows
Congestion zones
Fibonacci retracements
Ichimoku levels
9. Risk-Management Considerations
Managing Risk Is More Than Avoiding Losses
Leverage amplifies gains and losses — and expectations
Knowing your margin requirements
Market liquidity, volatility, and gap risk
We have a winner here! Protecting your profits
Placing your orders effectively
10. Pulling the Trigger
Getting into the Position
Buying and selling at the current market
Averaging into a position
Trading breakouts
Making the Trade Correctly
Buying and selling online
Placing your orders
11. Closing the Position and Evaluating Your Results
Closing Out the Trade
Taking profit and stopping out
Setting it and forgetting it: Letting the market trigger your order
Squaring up after events have happened
Exiting at the right time
Getting out when the price is right
Assessing Your Trading Strategy
Identifying what you did right and wrong
Updating your trading record