What you can learn from this ebook

Forex – What is it? The international currency market Forex is a special kind of the world financial market. Trader’s purpose on the Forex to get profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. The exchange rates of all currencies being in the market turnover are permanently changing under the action of the demand and supply alteration. The latter is a strong subject to the influence of any important for the human society event in the sphere of economy, politics and nature. Consequently current prices of foreign currencies evaluated for instance in the US dollars fluctuate towards its higher and lower meanings. Using these fluctuations in accordance with a known principle “buy cheaper – sell higher” traders obtain gains. Forex is different in compare to all other sectors of the world financial system thanks to his heightened sensibility to a large and continuously changing number of factors, accessibility to all individual and corporative traders, exclusively high trade turnover which creates an ensured liquidity of traded currencies and the round – the clock business hours which enable traders to deal after normal hours or during national holidays in their country finding markets abroad open.

Just as on any other market the trading on Forex, along with an exclusively high potential profitability, is essentially risk – bearing one. It is possible to gain a success on it only after a certain training including a familiarization with the structure and kinds of Forex, the principles of currencies price formation, the factors affecting prices alterations and trading risks levels, sources of the information necessary to account all those factors, techniques of the analysis and prediction of the market movements as well as with the trading tools and rules. An important role in the process of the preparation for the trading on Forex belongs to the demotrading (that is to trade using a demo-account with some virtual money), which allows to testify all the theoretical knowledge and to obtain a required minimum of the trade experience not being subjected to a material damage.

What you can learn from this booklet

1. Common knowledge about the trading on Forex

1.1. Forex as a part of the global financial market – A brief history about the rise and development of Forex. The factors that caused Foreign Exchange Volume Growth on Forex (Exchange Rate Volatility, Business Internationalization, Increasing of Traders’ Sophistication, Developments in Telecommunications, Computer and Programming Development). The role of the U.S. Federal Reserve System and central banks of other G-7 countries on Forex.

1.2. Risks by the trading on Forex

1.3. Forex sectors – Spot Market, Forward Market, Futures Market, Currency Options

2. Major currencies and trade systems

2.1. Major currencies – The U.S. Dollar, The Euro, The Japanese Yen, The British Pound, The Swiss Franc

2.2. Trade systems on Forex – Trading with brokers, Direct dealing

3. Fundamental analysis by trading on Forex

3.1 Theories of exchange rate determination – Purchasing Power Parity, Theory of Elasticities, Modern monetary theories on exchange rate volatility

3.2. Indicators for the fundamental analysis – Economic indicators, The Gross National Product, The Gross Domestic Product, Consumption Spending, Investment Spending, Government Spending, Net Trading, Industrial sector indicators, Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization, Factory Orders, Durable Goods Orders, Business Inventories, Construction Data, Inflation Indicators, Producer Price Index, Consumer Price Index, Gross National Product Implicit Deflator, Gross Domestic Product Implicit Deflator, Commodity Research Bureau’s Futures Index, The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price, Balance of Payments, Merchandise Trade Balance, The U.S. – Japan Merchandise Trade Balance, Employment Indicators, Employment Cost Index, Consumer Spending, Indicators, Retail Sales, Consumer Sentiment, Auto Sales, Leading Indicators, Personal Income

3.3. Forex dependence on financial and sociopolitical factors – The Role of Financial Factors, Political Crises Influence

4. Technical analysis

4.1. The destination and fundamentals of technical analysis – Theory of Dow, Percent measures of prices reverse

4.2. Charts for the technical analysis – Kinds of prices and time units, Kinds of charts, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Candlestick Chart

4.3. Trends, Support and Resistance lines – Trend Line and Trade Channel, Lines of Support and Resistance

4.4. Trend Reversal patterns – Head-and-Shoulders, Inverted Head-and-Shoulders, Double Top, Double Bottom , Triple Top, Triple Bottom , Round Top, Round Bottom, Saucer, Inverted Saucer

4.5. Trend Continuation patterns – Flags, Pennants, Triangles, Wedges, Rectangles

4.6. Gaps – Common Gaps, Breakaway Gaps, Runaway Gaps, Exhaustion Gaps

4.7. Mathematical trading methods (Technical indicators) – Moving Averages, Envelops, Ballinger Bands, Average True Range, Median Price, Oscillators, Commodity Channel Index, Directional Movement Index, Stochastics, Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD), Momentum, The Relative Strength Index (RSI), Rate of Change (ROC), Larry Williams’s %R, Indicators combination, Ichimoku Indicator

5. Fibonacci constants and Elliott wave theory

5.1. Fibonacci constants

5.2. Elliott wave theory

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