Webinars - FXCM Markets

Upcoming Webinars
Past Recordings
Speakers

Upcoming Webinars

	Day	Time	Instructor
Live Classroom
Understanding Price Action	Monday	1800 UTC	Grace Quigley 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.
Reading Candlesticks and Understanding Chart Patterns	Tuesday	1800 UTC	Liza Donor 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.
Trading Psychology	Wednesday	1800 UTC	Liza Donor 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.
Intro to Automated Strategies	Thursday	1800 UTC	Grace Quigley 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.
Coding a Custom Trading Algorithm in Lua	Thursday	1700 UTC	Rob Pasche 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.

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Market News and Trading Psychology

Trading Psychology

Every other Wednesday at 1800 UTC

Learn how to put probability on your side by using effective leverage and proper risk to reward ratios. Avoid typical pitfalls traders make when trading.

Basics of Trading

Understanding Price Action

Every other Monday at 1800 UTC

Explore one of the purest forms of analysis in trading as you learn more about a timeless strategy using price movement.

Reading Candlesticks and Understanding Chart Patterns

Every other Tuesday at 1800 UTC

Strengthen your technical charting skills by learning chart patterns and the importance of candlesticks in technical analysis and price action.

Automated Trading

Intro to Automated Strategies

Every other Thursday at 1800 UTC

Learn to backtest your strategy using our powerful tools (including Optimizer Feature) as well as how to set up an automated strategy.

Coding a Custom Trading Algorithm in Lua

Every other Thursday at 1700 UTC

Follow along as a live instructor show you how to setup a custom strategy in Lua using FXCM's IndicoreSDK. Plus setup of an automated strategy in our Trading Station.

Past Recordings

	Instructor	Recording
Featured Webinars
3 Part Webinar Series on Algo Trading	Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch ^† Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch ^† Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch is founder and managing partner of The Python Quants, a group focusing on the use of open source technologies for financial data science, artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading and computational finance. He is author of the following books: Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2nd edition, 2018), Listed Volatility and Variance Derivatives (Wiley, 2017), Derivatives Analytics with Python (Wiley, 2015) and Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2014). Yves lectures on computational finance at the CQF Program and on algorithmic trading at the EPAT Program. He is also the director of the first online training program leading to a University Certificate in Python for Algorithmic Trading. Yves has written the financial analytics library DX Analytics and organizes meetups, conferences and boot camps about Python for quantitative finance in Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, London and New York. He has given keynote speeches at technology conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia.	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 ^† Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch ^† Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch is founder and managing partner of The Python Quants, a group focusing on the use of open source technologies for financial data science, artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading and computational finance. He is author of the following books: Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2nd edition, 2018), Listed Volatility and Variance Derivatives (Wiley, 2017), Derivatives Analytics with Python (Wiley, 2015) and Python for Finance (O'Reilly, 2014). Yves lectures on computational finance at the CQF Program and on algorithmic trading at the EPAT Program. He is also the director of the first online training program leading to a University Certificate in Python for Algorithmic Trading. Yves has written the financial analytics library DX Analytics and organizes meetups, conferences and boot camps about Python for quantitative finance in Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, London and New York. He has given keynote speeches at technology conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia.	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.

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.

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.

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