FX-SNIPER PRESENTS Date 30th April, 2023. Lesson 2 Topics Platforms to trade/analyze the market Fundamental Analysis Technical Analysis PLATFORMS TO TRADE AND ANALYZE THE MARKET Before we begin, I want to make sure everyone has clicked on the link in the previous lecture under broker to set up their brokerage account, because without a broker, you wouldn’t be able to use any trading platform. Okay!!!!! Let’s dive into it. Your broker dashboard should look like this or something similar (For security reasons we will be closing some detail and covering some valid information) Platforms required include:(MUST BE DOWNLOADED ON YOUR MOBILE PHONES) TradingView Metatrader5 or Metatrader4 (Shorten as MT5 or MT4 respectively) TradingView: TradingView is a web based social network for trader's allowing them to interact and share trading ideas as well analyze and trade directly from TradingView's advanced charting capabilities. So this is where we do our analysis, draw our trend lines, and check support and resistance as well as any other price action to determine or predict the next movement in our favor. TradingView has its app available on our phone app stores but I prefer the web use on your laptop because you will get a clearer view. Below is what tradingview looks like when the chart hasn’t been edited. Metatrader5 or Metatrader4: MetaTrader is a web-based trading platform designed to help Forex and stock traders automate trading using trading robots, signals, technical and fundamental analysis. Below is a sample image showing what metatrader looks like on both phone and pc. Unlike tradingview, this is preferably used and easier to understand on the phone and you will have to download this from your appstore. Forex Analysis can be classified under two categories: Fundamental Technical Fundamental Analysis Forecasts price levels in the currency markets by analyzing economic and political data and scenarios in an effort to predict which currency may gain strength or weakness versus another over time while Technical Analysis Forecasts market trends usually with chart analysis to forecast price fluctuations in different currency markets. Fundamental Analysis Fundamental Analysis refers to analyzing the political, economic and fiscal events that may influence currency prices. These may consist of reports regarding unemployment, economic & monetary policies, economic growth rates, and even the current or future outlook of inflation in a country. Before trading in the markets, it is essential that Forex traders have a least a general understanding of the forces that can affect the world’s currency markets. We have various types of news, the high impact, medium impact and low impact. We want to focus more on the high impact news as they affect the market most, high impact news such as FOMC, CPI and NFP. There are lots of website you can stay updated on economic calendar but the most popular are; forexfactory, investing and myfxbook. Technical Analysis Technical analysis is the framework in which traders study price movement. The theory is that a person can look at historical price movements and determine the current trading conditions and potential price movement. Someone who uses technical analysis is called a technical analyst. Traders who use technical analysis are known as technical traders. Technical analysis is NOT so much about prediction as it is about POSSIBILITY. Technical analysis is the study of historical price action in order to identify patterns and determine possibilities of the future direction of price. This is where you will learn how to determine movements, enter and exit trades using different criteria such as support and resistance, candlestick and chart patterns as well as tendlines. THANK YOU!!!! SEE YOU IN THE NEXT CLASS QUESTION??????