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Forex and Gold

Currency pairs, gold, oil and economic news

Everything you need to trade forex: currency pairs, pips and lots, costs and calculations; gold, oil and indices; and fundamental analysis: macroeconomics, the economic calendar and how markets move together.

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What you'll learn

Units and lessons

  1. Unit 1: First Steps in Forex

    1. What's a currency pair?
    2. Pips and lots
    3. Leverage and margin
    4. Trading sessions
  2. Unit 2: Major Currencies and Correlation

    1. Majors, minors and exotics
    2. Currency personalities: USD, JPY, CHF, AUD…
    3. Currency correlation
  3. Unit 3: Costs and Calculations

    1. Spread, commission and swap
    2. Pip value and profit and loss
    3. Margin call and stop out
  4. Unit 4: Gold

    1. XAUUSD and what moves it
    2. Size and move value in gold
    3. Gold as a safe haven
  5. Unit 5: Oil and Commodities

    1. Oil and OPEC
    2. Oil inventory reports
    3. Commodity currencies: CAD and AUD
  6. Unit 6: Stock Indices

    1. Indices: S&P 500, Nasdaq and DAX
    2. Indices and crypto
    3. Trading hours and gaps
  7. Unit 7: Macroeconomics

    1. Interest rates and central banks
    2. Inflation and CPI
    3. Jobs and NFP
  8. Unit 8: The Economic Calendar

    1. Reading the economic calendar
    2. Trading the news and its risks
    3. Hawkish and dovish
  9. Unit 9: Intermarket Relationships

    1. The Dollar Index (DXY)
    2. Risk-on and risk-off
    3. Bonds and yields

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Five minutes a day with Shamak: short lessons on real charts, practice with $10,000 of virtual money at live prices, and duels with your friends. Nothing to install: it runs in your phone or computer browser, and the Android app is coming soon.

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