Your News Trading Toolkit
Learn which tools to have open before the number drops, how to set them up, and why the platform you trade on is the last place you should be watching for the data.
Learn which tools to have open before the number drops, how to set them up, and why the platform you trade on is the last place you should be watching for the data.
Understand the specific ways news trading can blow your account, from spread widening to stop loss failure, and how to manage around each one.
Prop firms let you trade with someone else's capital. The fee to enter is small. The leverage is high. The failure rate is also high. Here's what you need to know before you pay for a challenge.
Extra! Extra! Time to test what you've learned about trading the news! This quiz covers key concepts from the Trading the News module, including directional bias, straddle strategies, and the risks and rewards of news trading.
You've learned macro regimes, central bank behavior, economic data, country risk, and geopolitical shocks. Now learn how to connect it all into a structured, repeatable process for building a fundamental trade thesis on any currency pair.
Learn when to reassess an open trade, when to leave it alone, and why the difference between the two is worth more than any entry signal.
You know who you are as a trader. Now it's time to build the actual plan. A trading plan has five components. This lesson walks through each one: what it is, what belongs in it, and what most beginners get wrong.
Learn what actually happens in the FX market the moment major economic data hits: from the initial algorithmic spike to the secondary analytical move, and the common traps that catch unprepared traders.
Adding to a losing position is one of the most dangerous things you can do in trading. It's also one of the most misunderstood. This lesson covers what separates the structured version from the one that blows accounts, and why most traders should not attempt it without passing a specific set of prerequisites first.
Learn how to combine everything from this module into a single written plan you can follow before, during, and after every trade, and find out why writing it down is the part most traders skip.
Learn what fundamental analysis is in forex trading, how it differs from stock market fundamentals, and why tracking economic indicators, central banks, and geopolitical events can make you a better trader.
Learn how revisions reshape economic data, why the first print can mislead markets, and how to trade news releases with incomplete data in mind.
Learn how intermarket analysis helps FX traders read stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies together to make smarter trading decisions.
Learn what fundamental analysis is in forex trading, how it differs from stock market fundamentals, and why tracking economic indicators, central banks, and geopolitical events can make you a better trader.
Official GDP data tells you where the economy was. Nowcasting tools tell you where it is right now. Learn how GDPNow, the NY Fed Nowcast, and the St. Louis Fed Nowcast work, how to read them, and how traders use them to get ahead of the official numbers.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt