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What effects the Forex market?

What effects the Forex market?

The forex market is affected solely by macroeconomic data, not by microeconomic data. 

What is macroeconomic data? Raising the interest rate in a country, the unemployment rate of a country and political conflict within the country. 
On the other hand, microeconomic data are the balance reports of a very large company in the country, a large business deal which a large company is about to execute and/or has executed and more.

The microeconomic data does not interest the forex market and does not affect it.
In other words, the forex market is affected by large scale and international events.

The forex market is comprises of: currencies and commodities. Today, some brokers also allow trading of indices, futures contracts and certain stocks.

All the strategies and technical analysis that you will learn here are relevant for currencies as well as for commodities. 

Whats next?
The two principle characteristics of the forex market

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