Publisher Description

This valuable book provides a much-needed integration of fundamental analysis of global forces and technical analysis to provide highly probable trades in currency markets.Fundamental analysis is often too vague and not quantified. This book provides insights into fundamental analysis and then calibrates it to trading strategies and techniques. Fundamentals are clearly defined as longer-term economic expectations regarding growth, inflation, and labor conditions. Nearer-term understanding of fundamentals deals with market psychology, where markets are manifest risk-on and risk-off emotions.  Currencies are explained as expectations battles generating expectation waves. With real trading examples included to underscore the concepts, Planet Forex gives readers an invaluable primer on trading market sentiment that is unprecedented. This book is a must-read for global forex traders, portfolio managers, and other employees in the forex industry, including exchanges, brokerage firms, and financial planners and advisors. 

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This valuable book provides a much-needed integration of fundamental analysis of global forces and technical analysis to provide highly probable trades in currency markets. Fundamental analysis is often too vague and not quantified. This book provides insights into fundamental analysis and then calibrates it to trading strategies and techniques. Fundamentals are clearly defined as longer-term economic expectations regarding growth, inflation, and labor conditions. Nearer-term understanding of fundamentals deals with market psychology, where markets are manifest risk-on and risk-off emotions. Currencies are explained as expectations battles generating expectation waves. With real trading examples included to underscore the concepts, Planet Forex gives readers an invaluable primer on trading market sentiment that is unprecedented. This book is a must-read for global forex traders, portfolio managers, and other employees in the forex industry, including exchanges, brokerage firms, and financial planners and advisors.

Author Biography

Abe Cofnas is a renowned forex and binary options expert, a regular columnist since 2001 at Futures Magazine (now Modern Trader), and the author of five books from Wiley/Bloomberg Press, with translations in Spanish and Chinese. Cofnas is the President and founder of Learn4x, and he has delivered seminars in Australia, China, and Dubai, among other locations. 

Table of Contents

1. What is Fundamental Analysis?.- 2. Core Fundamental Forces and How to Monitor Them.- 3. Understanding Central Banks and their Role in Moving Currency Markets.- 4. How to Decode Central Bank Statements.- 5. What is Sentiment?.- 6. Sentiment Trading Setups.- 7. Crypto Currencies.- 8. The Future of Forex Trading: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Forex Trading.

Feature

Includes modern integration of fundamentals, geopolitics, and trading strategies Establishes a primer on inter-market analysis that is not currently available with real trading examples Details easy-to-learn strategies and tactics for diagnosing and trading sentiment alignments

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