Level 4: Fundamental Analysis
Intermediate Fundamental Analysis

Level 4: Fundamental Analysis

Learn how economic data, central bank policies, geopolitical events, and market news influence financial markets. This course teaches you how to interpret fundamental factors and incorporate them into your trading decisions.

What you will learn

Gain a strong understanding of the economic and geopolitical factors that drive financial markets. You'll learn how to interpret key economic indicators, central bank decisions, inflation, interest rates, employment reports, and breaking market news to anticipate potential price movements. By the end of this course, you'll be able to combine fundamental insights with technical analysis to make more informed and well-rounded trading decisions.

Course modules

01

What Is Fundamental Analysis?

Learn what fundamental analysis is in forex, how interest rates, inflation, and economic data drive currency prices, and why it makes every technical setup stronger.

14 min
02

Economic Indicators

Learn which economic indicators move forex markets, why the surprise matters more than the number, and how NFP, CPI, and PMI connect to central bank decisions.

13 min
03

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

The broadest measure of economic health, released in stages, and revised more than most traders expect. By Martin Nwankwo

14 min
04

Inflation

The force that central banks fear most, and the data point that moves currencies fastest.

13 min
05

Interest Rates

Learn how interest rates move currencies, why rate differentials matter more than rate levels, and why the statement and press conference often move markets more than the decision

11 min
06

Central Banks

Learn how central banks move currencies, why statements matter more than rate decisions, what hawkish and dovish mean, and how to read a central bank pivot before it happens

16 min
07

Monetary Policy

The complete toolkit that central banks use to steer economies. Interest rates are the headline. The rest of the toolkit moves markets too.

19 min
08

Employment Data

Jobs tell you what the economy is doing. Wages tell you what inflation is likely to do next.

10 min
09

Retail Sales

Consumer spending is the engine of most developed economies. Retail sales tell you how hard that engine is running.

13 min
10

News Trading

The release is the trigger. The reaction that follows is where the trade lives.

14 min
11

Economic Calendar

The schedule that tells you when markets are most likely to move, before they move.

17 min
12

Risk Sentiment

Markets have a mood. When it shifts, it overrides data, ignores levels, and moves currencies further and faster than fundamentals alone.

15 min
13

Currency Strength in Forex

Master currency strength analysis in forex trading. Learn how to read the DXY, rank currencies from strong to weak, and pair them to boost trade win rates.

12 min
14

Safe Haven Currencies

When markets panic, capital moves fast. Knowing where it goes, and why, separates preparation from reaction.

10 min

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