What is the CMS Forex Trading Power Course?The Trading Power Course is an online webinar course to help new traders learn the tools and principles behind technical analysis. Taught by senior technical analyst Nugzar Dzodzuashvili and CTA Fan Yang, the course helps build the foundation you will need to formulate your own trading strategy. The course also focuses on building discipline and trade management skills. |
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What is Chartists Corner?Whereas the Trading Power Course teaches you technical analysis tools from a theoretical perspective, the Chartist Corner takes you through practical real-life examples. Each week, our analysts dissect the main currency pairs and apply the lessons learned in the Power Course. |
What is Live Coverage?Our live coverage chat sessions give you a chance to interact with FXTimes analysts Nick Nasad and Fan Yang as they recap the fundamental news and key moves in the Forex market. Join the discussion by asking any questions you have about the market, fundamental releases, or technical analysis. |
 To start this week we will see how the Dollar is faring following a week in which we ended with some risk appetite that helped the Euro and Pound gain to end last week and has put some of our commodity currencies close to important support and resistance levels. |
(3/5/10 10:00AM) In this cover-it-live session we will go over the February non-farm payroll report and the outlook for the US economy. We will this week’s main themes including what we learned regarding the Greece situation and general sentiment of the global economic recovery. We will also explore our main currency pairs from a technical analysis perspective while taking all of your questions along the way. |
 Join Fan Yang, CTA , Technical Analyst, as he goes over the current market using the tools taught in the power course. This educational session will cover the majors as well as some minor currency pairs. |
Today, we talked about the main themes to start this week including the sharp drop in Sterling, the woes that the Euro-zone continues to face, fundamental data releases from the US, and the strong GDP figures from Canada. We took questions from our guests on a variety of subjects as well. |
(Friday, 2/26/10, 10AM EST) The early part of this week was dominated by risk aversion as a result of weaker fundamental data including a drop in German business confidence and a large decline in US consumer confidence. That cast worries about the pace of the global recovery. The middle of the week features Fed Chairman Bernanke testifying in front of Congress while the end of the week will feature revised US GDP data as well as existing home sales. As always we will incorporate technical analysis into our session. |
Join Fan Yang, CTA , Technical Analyst, as he goes over the current market using the tools taught in the power course. This educational session will cover the majors as well as some minor currency pairs. |
We will go over key fundamental releases from this week. |
This week we will go over key US data including inflation, housing, and production data. The UK also has a slew of economic reports including consumer prices, employment figures and retail sales. We will also cover key themes including interest rate expectations and outlooks for the main central banks. As always we will incorporate technical analysis in our session as well. |
Join Fan Yang, CTA , Technical Analyst, as he goes over the current market using the tools taught in the power course. This educational session will cover the majors as well as some minor currency pairs. A link will appear below 2 hours ahead of class. You can also subscribe as a FXTimes member to receive webinar reminders. |
Friday (2/12) – 10AM – This week we will go over the developments with the Euro-zone and what EU officials have been saying and not saying in regards to an aid package for Greece. Also we will look at what Bernanke outlines as an exit strategy mid-week as well as take a look at Friday’s key releases mainly US retail sales and the UMich consumer confidence report. We will also incorporate some technical analysis to identify current trends and market behavior. |