Forex traders keep a close watch on the economic calendar because they know that economic announcements provide the data that analysts and …
Category: Fundamental
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – Forex Calendar
Economic growth announcements report on how well a country’s economy is doing. Economies can move in one of three directions: …
Trade Balance Report – Forex Calendar
Trade balance announcements report on how much a country is exporting compared to how much it is importing. Countries that …
Consumer Confidence Report – Forex Calendar
Consumer confidence announcements report on how confident the consumers within an economy are. Confident consumers tend to spend more because …
Business Confidence Report – Forex Economic Calendar
Business confidence announcements report on how confident the business managers within an economy are. Confident business managers tend to hire …
What Does Your Economy Import ?
Why do we care what goods or services a country imports? We care because if we know the primary goods and …
What Are The Central Bank Mandates ?
Why do we care about a country’s central bank, its mandates, and its gold and foreign currency reserve holdings? We care …
The Principles of Investment Flow
Investment flows represent the money that flows from one country to another as a result of the purchase or sale of assets …
Supply And Demand Drive The Forex Market
The forces of supply and demand seem to drive every other market on earth, so why shouldn’t they also drive …
Key Player in The Foreign Exchange Market – Central Bank
Central banks are manipulators. Now, don’t get us wrong. Central banks are not malicious manipulators. They are not out in …
Investor Fear in The Forex Market
One of the most important things to remember when you are trading in the Forex market is that the market is populated …
Government Interventions And Currency Manipulation
Government interventions and currency manipulation are situations in which a government, typically through its central bank, takes specific action in the …
Government Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market
Worried That the Currency Is Getting Too Weak Why would a government worry that its currency was getting too weak? Doesn’t …
Government Intervention And Economic Calendar in Forex
Why do we care if the country that issued the currency has an over-involved government that likes to intervene in …
Getting To Know The Currency: 12 Key Question To Ask
Currencies are just like us … they have personalities. Some of them are moody, some of them are volatile, and …
Fundamentals of Money Supply
The money supply represents the total amount of a currency that is circulating through the economy. That may seem like …
Forex Currency – What Does Your Economy Export ?
Why do we care what goods or services a country exports? We care because if we know the primary goods and services …
Does Your Country Have an Attractive Equity Market ?
Why do we care if a country has an attractive equities market? We care because countries with attractive equities markets tend …
Do You Have an Attractive Government Debt Market ?
Why do we care whether a country has an attractive government debt market? We care because countries with attractive government …
Determining The Other Factors Of Money Supply
Quantitative easing is a method of increasing the money supply and driving down interest rates that require the central bank to …