Tradeonomics – Four Steps to Trading Economic Indicators

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What you’ll learn

• Increase your financial intelligence by understanding economic indicators, their influence on financial markets and the central bank’s reaction.
• Essential course for FOREX, Bond, Stock, Commodity traders on Fundamental Analysis
• Learn by completing multiple projects on the impact of economic indicators on financial instruments, calculations of nominal and real GDP, growth rates etc
• Learn the fundamental techniques that investment bankers use for trading
• Technical analysts can complement their trading skills by understanding fundamental analysis
• Improve your investing skills by understanding the effect of macroeconomic indicators on financial markets
• Increase your financial wealth by increasing your financial intelligence. According to Robert Kiyosaki, author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, increasing your financial intelligence increases your financial wealth and one of the core technical skills to improve your financial intelligence is to understand markets
• Improve your ability to make the connections between economic indicators, financial markets and central bank policies
• Learn to predict the future direction of a country’s economy
• Understand the impact of economic indicators on stock, bond and forex markets
• Learn the reason’s why central bank’s react post the release of macroeconomic indicators
• Technical analysts can complement their trading skills by understanding the fundamental analysis that drives the markets
• Read the financial papers, watch financial news, learn financial jargon and participate in financial discussions
• Learning macroeconomic indicators and the impact on financial markets greatly enhances the chance of getting an investment banking job

Requirements

• No prior knowledge of economics or finance is required. This course starts with the basic concepts of bonds, stocks and foreign exchange markets. We then move on to the fundamentals of growth, inflation and interest rates using an example of a hypothetical country that starts as a simple economy and progresses to a more realistic one. With the constant reference to an economic map we make the connection between growth and economic indicators related to growth. We deduce how these economic indicators will influence the reactions of financial market participants and central bankers.

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A Step by Step Guide to Using Fundamental Analysis in Your Trading Strategy

Do you know the #1 reason why many retail traders underperform compared to their market counterparts namely – interbank dealers, hedge funds, financial institutions?

Studies suggests that despite retail traders having strong requirements to be well informed they are not. They do not anticipate returns on trades, lack trading acumen and are emotional when trading.

What stops traders from being better informed, improving their trading acumen or reducing emotional trades such as hope and wishful thinking?

The answer is – it’s not easy to make the connections between the economy, central bank actions and financial instrument prices.

However there are just 4 steps that simplify the process of making the connections between these three factors easier. Continue reading to find out the 4 steps…

As a trader in the interbank market I relied purely on technical analysis for the first  few years. Drawing trendlines, using technical indicators such as moving averages, MACD, RSI etc etc to predict returns in the FX markets.

Though I utilised technical analysis I never really understood the “fundamentals” behind the primary trend or reversal of trends; what these linkages between economic indicators, financial markets and central bank policy decisions were…

To quote the guru of technical analysis –

“Market Analysis can be approached from either direction (Technicals or Fundamentals). While I believe that technical factors do lead the known fundamentals, I also believe that any important market move must be caused by underlying fundamental factors. Therefore, it simply makes sense for a technician to have some awareness of the fundamental condition of a market.” – John  J. Murphy, Technical Analysis of the Futures Market