Why currencies move over weeks and months, what the scheduled data actually measures, and how to be in the market around a release without being run over by it.
INTERMEDIATEYou can read a central bank statement and an economic calendar and say what is at stake for a given pair.
Almost everything in this track reduces to expectations about interest rates.
22 min4 topics
The single relationship that explains most medium-term currency moves.
24 min4 topics
Statements, projections and press conferences, and which part the market actually trades.
Three families of release account for most scheduled volatility.
20 min4 topics
What each measures, which one a central bank watches, and why the core reading gets the reaction.
20 min4 topics
The monthly release with the widest reaction, and the three numbers inside it.
18 min4 topics
PMI, GDP and retail sales — the slower releases that set the background.
Turning a macro view into something with an entry, a stop and a date.
20 min4 topics
The behaviour that makes unrelated markets move together, and the currencies it moves most.
18 min4 topics
Getting paid to hold a position, and the reason that trade unwinds violently.
22 min4 topics
Planning the week around what is scheduled, rather than being surprised by it.
8 lessons · ~2.7 hrs