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Join any of our education webinars live 5-days a week to brush up your skills or simply learn about the markets daily. Boost your strategy with the help of our in-house experts and take your trading a level up.
Upcoming Webinars
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| Weekly Market Outlook | Tuesday | 0900 AEST | Adam Shazly | |
Fancy a platform walkthrough? Watch it on demand here.
Market News and Trading Psychology
Weekly Market Outlook
Every other Tuesday at 0900 AEST
Learn about the main market news that might dictate price action in the upcoming week. Plus get trading ideas from technical analysis and trading set-ups live.
Past Recordings
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Featured Webinars |
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| 3 Part Webinar Series on Algo Trading | Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch † | Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 |
| Introduction to Machine Learning | Trevor Trinkino † | Watch Now |
| Why Consider Automated Trading? | Kris Longmore † | Watch Now |
| Learn NinjaTrader with FXCM | Christopher Dolan † | Watch Now |
| Learn QuantConnect with FXCM | Jared Broad † | Watch Now |
| Market Outlook and Opportunities in 2018 | Clifford Bennet † | Watch Now |
| Using Premium Data | Dr. Ernest Chan † | Watch Now |
| Best Practices for Creating an Algo Trading System | Kevin Davey † | Watch Now |
| REST API & Python Wrapper | Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch † | Watch Now |
On Demand Videos
Trading Station and Tiered Margin Walkthrough
Follow along as a live instructor downloads and navigates FXCM’s signature trading platform and charting package Learn how to create multiple order types on your trades and how to create a chart, customize your layout, and save your work. See how tiered margin allows traders to keep track of their account equity and actively monitor margin requirements before receiving a margin call.
Speculative Sentiment Index (SSI)
Gain inside access to the open interest of FXCM’s traders on a variety of currency pairs and CFDs. Understand directional bias and how this contrarian indicator works. Learn to use both SSI snapshots and Historical SSI simultaneously on your charts.
Trading Central Indicator
Gain access to third-party technical analysis provided by Trading Central. Discover how Bollinger Bands, Moving Averages, MACD, and other indicators form the Trading Central indicator’s analysis. Understand psychological pivot points and potential intraday, short-term, and medium-term trade setups.
Volume Indicators
Understand why traders may seek to use volume as part of their trading strategies to confirm potential trends, breakouts and reversals. See how you can get access to FXCM’s long vs. short trading volume. Learn how to use three different volume indicators: Real Volume, On Balance Volume, Directional Volume, and Market Movers Index.
Traits of Successful Traders
Learn what separates successful traders from unsuccessful traders based on a study of FXCM’s live account holders. Find out how to mitigate risk in your trading using an appropriate trade size and placing effective stops and limits. Discuss how to calculate and use effective leverage and learn to set up an appropriate Risk to Reward ratio.
Using Fibonacci’s in Your Trading
Understand the Fibonacci sequence and Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio in relation to trading. See how Fibonacci levels identify support and resistance and how you can use those levels in your trading. Learn to use and customize this tool within your Trading Station platform.
Advanced Platform Features and Strategies
Apply an automated strategy to your trading account and explore price alerts and signals. Locate optimal strategy inputs using the Optimize Strategy feature. Learn how to backtest your strategy using powerful technical tools on the Trading Station platform.
Speakers
As experts in their respective fields, each of our speakers are experienced and passionate traders. Together, our speakers have many years of practical experience in foreign exchange and CFD trading.
Grace Quigley
Grace Quigley hosts webinars educating traders on how to utilize price action throughout multiple trading strategies. Grace also does a monthly review of global economic events impacting the markets. She has expertise in technical strategies applying both manual and automated backtesting into her trading style. Grace has a background in options trading where she developed multiple risk management strategies. She graduated from Oral Roberts University where she studied macroeconomics and economic behaviors.
Liza Donor
Liza Donor hosts webinars on understanding chart patterns and utilizing FXCM’s suite of technical indicators. Also skilled in fundamental analysis, Liza writes articles for FXCM about important economic and geopolitical events. She closely follows the technology sector and the progression of future growth for all economies. Prior to joining FXCM, she worked in the global wealth and investment management division at Merrill Lynch. She graduated from Pace University with a degree in Economics where she studied market trends using a variety of statistical regression models.
Rob Pasche
Rob hosts webinars that show how custom algo strategies can be coded from scratch using FXCM's tools and data. An algo trader himself, Rob teaches guiding principles that can assist traders to turn any trading idea into a fully-automated system. Rob has been an Algo Trading Programmer at FXCM for the last 3 years, but before that was a Currency Trading Instructor for DailyFX.com, authoring over 250 articles and hosting 100's of educational webinars about novice and advanced Forex trading techniques. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Finance and a minor in Economics.
Adam Shazly
Adam Shazly is a Currency Analyst for FXCM Global. Adam joined FXCM in 2015 after working for a major stocks and Equity Broker in the Middle East. Adam’s trading strategy varies from short to medium-term trades based on Technical analysis and the study of price actions approach to include Swing and scalping trading system. Adam holds the Chartered Market Technician® (CMT) credential, The CMT designation is awarded to those who demonstrate mastery of a core body of knowledge of technical analysis and Portfolio risk management.
Adam graduated from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) School of Business.