The Foreign Exchange Landscape - InvestopediaPro

Course Overview

The Foreign Exchange Landscape course on InvestopediaPro is designed to provide users with a comprehensive understanding of the Forex markets. Through this course, users will gain a conceptual framework of the FX markets, build a basic FX arbitrage model in excel, construct a hedge, and obtain a broad overview of market participants, geographic context, and turnover data.

In this course, users will learn about the various currency pairs and their volumes, the turnover and importance of core trading centers, various market participants and their importance in influencing FX price action, the basic math required for pricing FX transactions, basic principles of technical analysis, basic principles of fundamental analysis, basic concepts of the banking system, and more.

The course also contains sections from the "Trading in an Investment Bank Series", which is a comprehensive course containing the complete FX Math, Technical Analysis and Money Management - Best Practices, Fundamental Analysis - A Step by Step Implementation, Money Management Strategies, and The Federal Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy.

Rather than deep diving right into the intricacies of FX trading, this course provides users with a framework or context within which they can form trading strategies. By learning how the geography 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, users will also get a hands on experience on how a basic hedge is performed and how a simple arbitrage is performed.

By taking this course, users will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Foreign Exchange markets and the tools needed to make informed trading decisions. With the knowledge gained from this course, users will be able to confidently navigate the FX landscape and make informed decisions.