{"id":16656,"date":"2010-12-13T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=16656"},"modified":"2010-12-13T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T07:40:05","slug":"fundamental-analysis-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/12\/13\/fundamental-analysis-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental Analysis Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Pima Laga &#8211; The forex trading business sees forex traders analyzing the markets through a myriad of ways and steps.<\/p>\n<p>These are usually :-<\/p>\n<p>* Fundamental Analysis<br \/>\n* Technical Analysis<br \/>\n* Both steps combined<\/p>\n<p>While  all 3 techniques boast their good points, a forex trader that has a  stellar understanding about both technical plus fundamental analysis  philosophy usually is able to secure a enhanced representation from the  forex markets.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamental analysis is dealing with the aspects  that impact a particular currency. Driving aspects of the currency  markets can be connected with economic as well as political aspects of  the specific countries involved.<\/p>\n<p>This is the prime basis of why  the forex markets respond to economic news for example the retail sales,  unemployment rates as well as non farm payrolls.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the  economic state of affairs of a country really affects the performance of  a particular currency, the domestic political situation is able to move  currencies with good effect.<\/p>\n<p>Aspects such as floods, disease as well as political change are all looked to as a driving weight for currency movement.<\/p>\n<p>The  trouble with fundamental analysis is simple. This type of analysis  requires a good grasp of both micro and macroeconomics and market  reaction to properly profit from it.<\/p>\n<p>Decisions made by individual  central banks and the monetary policies they come out with also drives  the currency market greatly. How the markets react to such policies is  normally alike despite of what central bank you are concerned with.<\/p>\n<p>Decisions  are made by fundamental traders based on these data. Key aspects such  as interest rates and international trade are scrutinized carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Price  can move exceedingly quickly if the economic data released had a big  impact on the specific currency. Volatile currencies such as the  pound\/yen can experiences spikes upwards of 100 pips if the data had a  big impact.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally the markets can spike on both directions on after another.<\/p>\n<p>A 100 pip movement both ways has occurred in the past. Particularly on volatile pairs like the Pound\/Yen.<\/p>\n<p>This is a basic overview on fundamental analysis as the topic is too big to cover in a single guide.<\/p>\n<p>Needless  to say, understanding about how markets react to economic aspects would  further hone the forex traders skill set in this section. It also pays  to observe future economic news releases as critical releases would  certainly influence the forex markets.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>For further information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-forex-trading.com\/fundamental-analysis.php\" target=\"_new\">Fundamental Analysis<\/a> along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-forex-trading.com\/technical-analysis.php\" target=\"_new\">Technical Analysis<\/a>, please visit Pima&#8217;s forex trading website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundamental analysis is dealing with the aspects that impact a particular currency. Driving aspects of the currency markets can be connected with economic as well as political aspects of the specific countries involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}