The Foreign Exchange Landscape - InvestopediaPro

The FX Landscape course will provide you with a conceptual framework of the Forex markets.

What you'll learn:

• Build a basic FX arbitrage model in excel, construct a hedge and obtain a broad overview of market participants, geographic context, turnover data

By taking the Foreign Exchange (FOREX) landscape course you will have a better understanding of

• The various currency pairs and their volumes

• The turnover and importance ofcore trading centers

• Various market participants and theirimportance in influencingFX price action

• Understand the basic Math required for pricing FX transactions

• Basic principles of Technical Analysis

• Basic principles of Fundamental Analysis

• Basic concepts of the banking system

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** This course contains sections from"Trading in an Investment Bank Series", which is a comprehensive course containing

1. The complete FX Math

2. Technical Analysis and Money Management - Best Practices

3. Fundamental Analysis - A Step by StepImplementation

4. Money Management Strategies

5. The Federal Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy

Rather than deep diving right into the intricacies ofFXtrading -spot, FX swaps, outright forwards,fundamentals, technicals, money management etc. it might be a better idea to first build on a framework or context within which we can form trading strategies. Understanding the FX Landscape will provide you with that context. By learning how thegeography of trading centers, timezones, liquidity providers influence the FX spot prices understanding technical analysis and trading patterns becomes much simpler.

In addition to the theoretical aspect of trading, by the end of this course you will also get a hands on experience on how abasic hedge is performed and how a simple arbitrage is performed.

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