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GBPUSD Fundamental Analysis – December 22nd 2017.
Here are the key factors to keep in mind today for British Pound trades: UK Lloyds Business Barometer: The UK Lloyds Business Barometer for December was reported at 28. Forex traders can compare this to the UK Lloyds Business Barometer for November which was reported at 24. UK Current Account Balance: The UK Current Account Balance for the third-quarter is predicted at -£21.4B. Forex traders can compare this to the UK Current Account Balance for the second-quarter which was reported at -£23.2B. UK GDP and UK Total Business Investment: The.
CHFJPY Fundamental Analysis – December 21st 2017.
Here are the key factors to keep in mind today for Swiss Franc trades: Swiss Trade Balance: The Swiss Trade Balance for November was reported at CHF2.63B. Forex traders can compare this to the Swiss Trade Balance for October which was reported at CHF2.33B. Exports for November increased by 0.8% monthly and Imports increased by 2.3% monthly. Forex traders can compare this to Exports for October which decreased by 1.6% monthly and to Imports which increased by 0.2% monthly. Swiss Money Supply M3: Swiss Money Supply M3 for November increased.
NZDUSD Fundamental Analysis – December 20th 2017.
Here are the key factors to keep in mind today for New Zealand Dollar trades: New Zealand Trade Balance: The New Zealand Trade Balance for November was reported at - NZ$1,193M monthly and at - NZ$3,439M year-to-date. Economists predicted a figure of - NZ$550M and of - NZ$2,700. Forex traders can compare this to the New Zealand Trade Balance for October which was reported at - NZ$843M monthly and at - NZ$2,969M year-to-date. Exports for November were reported at NZ$4.63B and Imports were reported at NZ$5.82B. Economists predicted a figure of NZ$4.
EURUSD Fundamental Analysis – December 19th 2017.
Here are the key factors to keep in mind today for Euro trades: German IFO: The German IFO Business Climate Index for December was reported at 117.2. Economists predicted a figure of 117.6. Forex traders can compare this to the German IFO Business Climate Index for November which was reported at 117.6. The German IFO Expectations Index for December was reported at 109.5. Economists predicted a figure of 110.8. Forex traders can compare this to the German IFO Expectations Index for November which was reported at 111.0. Eurozone Construction.
Gold Fundamental Analysis – December 18th 2017.
Here are the key factors to keep in mind today for Gold trades: New Zealand Performance of Services Index: The New Zealand Services Performance of Manufacturing Index for November was reported at 56.4. Forex traders can compare this to the New Zealand Performance of Services Index for October which was reported at 55.7. Japanese Trade Balance: The Japanese Trade Balance for November was reported at ¥113.4B. Economists predicted a figure of -¥40.0B. Forex traders can compare this to the Japanese Trade Balance for October which was reported.
What is fundamental analysis?
Forex fundamental analysis is based on an assessment of important international economic reports. Traders examine these figures and comparing them, make conclusions, which are then used in their trading strategies. Fundamental analyst should always be aware of all the most important economic news (national and international), giving them a proper assessment in order to make profitable and fundamental trading.
What are main parts of forex fundamental analysis?
Economic indicators are an important part of the financial information for assets. On the Forex market the assets are the currencies of various countries. For any country, there are a number of important economic indicators.
The main parts, which every trader should consider while making a fundamental analysis are:
base rate of a national currency; employment rate; unemployment rate; GDP level; consumer price index, inflation rate; country’s trade balance figures.
While some fundamental news have very valuable information for the forex fundamental analysis, others are less important and have virtually no effect on the changes in the foreign exchange market. For example, if a country is experiencing strong economic growth and low level of inflation, this information can significantly influence the exchange rate of this country’s currency.
How to do fundamental analysis?
Fundamental analysis studies the primary underlying things that affect the economy of your particular enterprise, like a stock or forex currency. It attempts to be able to predict cost action and also trends by simply analyzing economical indicators, government policy, societal as well as other factors within a business never-ending cycle framework.
If you're more dedicated to think of the markets like they are a big clock, fundamental analyses would be the gears and also springs that move the hands round the face. Anyone can explain what time it really is now, but the fundamentalist knows about the intrinsic workings that move the clock's palms towards occasions (or prices) sometime soon.
Fundamental analysis is incredibly effective in forecasting economical conditions, although not necessarily exact market costs. Studying GDP forecasts or perhaps employment releases can provide you with a fairly clear picture of an economy's health and the forces at the office behind the data. But anyone still needs a strategy to translate that into unique trade accessibility and depart points.
The fill between fundamental data plus a specific dealing strategy usually comes from a forex trader model. These models utilize current and also historical empirical facts to estimation future costs and change those straight into specific positions.
The fundamental analysis includes all that makes a country and its currency tick. From interest levels and core bank insurance policy to healthy disasters, the basic principles are a dynamic mix of distinct plans, erratic actions and unforeseen events.
That said, not just about every development may move a country's foreign exchange. Try to begin by identifying the most influential contributors to this particular mix vs. following just about every fundamental in existence.
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How Fundamentals Move Prices in the FX Market.
Price action and Macro.
Fundamental Analysis in the Currency markets centers around Macroeconomic data Macroeconomic analysis can be simplified by focusing on interest rates (and expectations) Traders can incorporate Price Action to make analysis even more simplistic.
Fundamental Analysis in the stock market involves analyzing the inputs of a company in an effort to forecast future growth potential. For an individual company, this can be a very logical way to look for investment ideas. Fundamental Analysis of a company would involve investigating that company’s financial statements, to notice changes from one year to the next; or perhaps looking that the management of that company, and their track record in order to determine how successful they might be towards accomplishing their goals.
In the Forex market, many of those statistics don’t exist, and we’re trading entire economies against one another. In each of these economies, thousands of companies exist trying to maximize their profit potential, so the analysis of a single company’s management structure or market share doesn’t really mean a whole lot.
Due to the nature of the market, many traders refer to technical analysis, and we showed you how fundamental data events can be traded with technical analysis in the article The Potent Combination of Fundamentals and Price Action. In this article, we’re going to go in-depth behind how fundamentals impact prices in the FX market.
Why Currency Values Matter.
Currency prices matter because of cross-border trade. We investigated this concept in-depth in The Nucleus of the FX Market . In the article, we saw how the nation of Japan was absolutely ravaged by a strong yen; as a stronger yen meant lower profits and margins for Japanese exporters.
The concept of Fundamental Analysis in the Forex Market can be all boiled down to one simple data point: Interest Rates. If interest rates move higher, investors have a greater incentive to invest their capital; and if interest rates move lower, that incentive is lessened. This relationship is at the heart and soul of macroeconomics; and this is what allows Central Bankers to have tools to steward their respective economies.
The decision to increase or decrease rates can bring impact to other economies as well. Let’s say, for instance, that you are an American with cash to invest. After having little incentive and extremely low rates for a long time, you notice that The United Kingdom increases rates 25 basis points. This increase in interest rates from the Bank of England can and should bring higher rates in other issues from The United Kingdom; so you may not necessarily buy Gilts or a government bond, but investors can now look to invest in England to get that higher rate of return.
Additional investors thinking the same thing rush into UK bonds, and eventually – the price of the British Pound will go up to reflect this additional demand. Now it becomes slightly more difficult for the UK to export goods (similar to the problem Japan faced in The Nucleus of the FX Market ).
A great example of this was in Australia from 2002 leading up to the Financial Collapse; as insatiable demand from China drove growth throughout Australia, unemployment got very low and inflation moved very high. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) moved to increase interest rates, and currency prices followed.
The Aussie more than doubled while RBA moved rates from 4.25% to 6.75%
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This is an interest rate cycle, and it drives capital flows that are at the heart of the FX market.
How Interest Rate Cycles Drive Economies.
It all goes back to the incentive to invest. If Central Bankers want to slow down their economy, they look to raise rates. If they want to encourage more growth within an economy, they look to decrease rates.
Higher or lower rates bring a two-pronged impact on the economy.
The first and most obvious impact is the incentive to invest. If rates increase, that incentive to invest also increases; and if rates decrease, so does the incentive to lock up one’s money.
The second impact is what this does for capital expenditures. If rates decrease, the attractiveness of locking up a long-term loan at the new lower rate is much higher than it was previously. The incentive to buy big-ticket items like homes, and cars is now higher.
And when you buy a home or a car, the homebuilder or car maker has to turn around to pay for their materials and workers. If the lower rates increase the number of homes or cars that are being purchased, this amounts to growth. Homebuilders and car makers will eventually have to hire new workers to keep up with the demand; and as demand for workers increases, so will the wages that are needed to attract qualified candidates.
This is how lower interest rates can bring higher employment and inflation (often shown as CPI or ‘Consumer Price Index’); and it’s at this point that Central Bankers are going to investigate increasing rates in an effort to prevent the economy from over-heating.
If interest rates stay low, the effects of ‘over-heating’ could be immense. Prices can continue inflating, and if left unchecked – could bring hyperinflation.
Imagine going to the store to buy a gallon of milk and seeing the price at 27 dollars. I don’t know about you, but I’d freak out at seeing something like this. Then my mind would wander to other areas where costs might be increasing. If a gallon of milk is 27 dollars, then how much will that new car cost me? How much is milk going to cost tomorrow?
So, Central Banks want a moderate rate of inflation. This helps to keep growth within an economy; people get pay increases, more people are working and paying taxes, and consumers have the confidence that they can save their money for tomorrow because prices won’t increase a hundred-fold overnight.
What do Central Bankers Watch?
Both Central Bankers and Forex Traders watch macroeconomic data prints with the goal of getting something out of them; but their objectives are slightly different.
FX Traders are often interested in the price reaction of a data print. If CPI comes out higher than expected, then traders may be looking for long positions to move higher.
FX Traders can price in new data quickly, creating volatile price movements.
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Central Bankers, however, take a much more broad view on such statistics.
Central Bankers want to watch the primary points of reference for an economy in an effort to make the correct decision as to where to move rates.
Inflation and employment are chief amongst these statistics, as these are two of the primary pressure points within an economy. If unemployment is high, the economy will likely struggle. As employment/unemployment prints are released out of an economy, this new information is factored in fairly quickly. FX Traders will begin pricing this in with the probability of an eventual rate hike or cut by Central Bankers to factor this information in.
Same for inflation: As inflation (CPI) data prints are released in an economy, traders will act quickly to incorporate this new information in to prices. Meanwhile, Central Bankers are watching cautiously to decide if they want to do anything at their next meeting.
Increasing unemployment (decreasing employment) along with decreasing inflation are threats to an economy that will usually see Central Bankers investigate rate cuts.
Decreasing unemployment (increasing employment), and increasing inflation are signs of a growing economy, and this is when Central bankers will look at potential rate hikes.
But, Central Bankers and Forex traders alike are not happy to just sit around and wait for employment or inflation numbers to show changes within an economy. This has brought to light numerous additional data prints that traders and investors will look to in an effort to anticipate changes to inflation, unemployment and interest rates.
Consumer statistics are extremely important in large economies like The United States, or Europe in which consumer activity has a heightened level of importance for the global economy. In the article, The Lifeblood of the US Economy , we looked at the major data releases that include this information. The Euro can get extremely volatile around releases of Consumer Sentiment Numbers, and this is because consumer activity in established economies is often looked at as a precursor to inflation, employment, and growth.
GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, is a direct expression of growth (or contraction) within an economy, and this can also be a huge precursor to price movements; especially if the announced rate of growth is far away from expectations. But, in and of itself, increases or decreases in GDP don’t bring more jobs or higher inflation, so this is often looked at as more of a ‘lagging’ fundamental indicator.
Production numbers can be especially important in growing economies that are at a very industrialized stage of the growth process. China is a phenomenal example; as each months ‘PMI’ (Purchasing Managers Index), will draw massive interest from numerous parties around the globe.
PMI is a survey that’s recorded from producers gauging their sentiment on future orders. The thought behind this statistic is that if producers are seeing growth, then that growth will eventually cycle through to consumers; after all, if someone wants to buy a good, it has to be produced in the first place, right?
Higher Consumer Confidence.
Lower Consumer Confidence.
Regardless of the data print or release, the market’s reaction always comes back to interest rate cycles, and how that improvement or decline in measured activity might eventually amount to an interest rate increase or decrease.
How to Trade Fundamentals.
A line that I used in The Potent Combination of Fundamentals and Price Action is a line that I say quite a bit in webinars and live events:
‘Not only do you not know what any given data print might be, but you aren’t entirely sure of how the market might price it in.’
This makes trading on fundamentals in the FX market dangerous; because you could guess that GDP is going to come out better than expected, and you can trade it accordingly and still eat a stop. You can be right, and still lose.
In stocks, trading on fundamentals makes a lot of sense. You can grade company A versus company B in relevant markets. You’re trading one small part, of one economy, in the larger global macroeconomic environment.
The market capitalization of any company that you’re trading might be a few hundred billion, at most. The currency market turns over north of $5,000,000,000,000 every day. That’s 5 trillion, and this is on the low-side of estimates.
You’re trading entire economies against each other, and it can be much more difficult to use fundamental points of reference in an effort to project future growth potential.
For this reason, many traders in the FX market incorporate or include Technical Analysis in their fundamental trade ideas. This can bring quite a bit of benefit to the trader in helping to determine trends or biases that may have been exhibited in a currency.
How Technical Analysis can improve your fundamental approach.
Earlier in the article, we used the hypothetical example of the Bank of England increasing interest rates 25 basis points. When this happens, we’ll generally see traders buying the British Pound to get this new, higher rate.
But, it’s not only rate hikes that will see buying the Forex market; as traders don’t want to wait around to see a Central Bank do what they know that they’ll probably do anyways.
So, as we see increasingly positive data coming from the UK; data that may eventually amount to an interest rate increase, we’ll see increased demand for the British Pound. This increased demand will show higher prices.
So, this is a fundamental theme – that is clear and apparent in the technical setup of the chart. If there is an up-trend, prices are moving higher for a reason, right?
Prices can show biases and trends in fundamental data.
Traders can incorporate price action to see where these trends may be existing, and to what degree they might be traded. Then, traders can also use price action to buy up-trends cheaply, and sell down-trends expensively; so that if that momentum continues, they can look to profit.
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Daily Forex Fundamental Analysis – Dec 8, 2017.
The US dollar stayed strongly supported for the most part of the day thanks, in part, to Congress’ moves to avert a government shutdown. US equities also closed in the green. Data was mixed, with the Challenger job cuts report showing a 30.1% year-over-year gain for November and initial jobless claims beating expectations. Consumer credit also advanced, signaling financial optimism. The NFP is expected to show a 198K gain in hiring for November, down from the previous 261K increase. Average hourly earnings could recover by 0.3% after staying flat in the previous month, with positive wage growth likely funneling to upside inflationary pressure later on.
The euro caught a few gains then consolidated for most of the day. Data was actually weaker than expected, with German factory orders down 1.4% instead of rising by 0.9% and the French trade balance posting a larger than expected deficit. The region’s final GDP reading was unchanged at 0.6%. German trade balance and French industrial production data are due next.
The pound had a shaky ride during the earlier sessions before catching a bid on positive Brexit developments. The EU Commissioner shared that progress is being made while May’s rush to Brussels for an early meeting also fueled hopes that a deal will be reached. EU President Tusk scheduled an announcement for the morning as well, so bulls are holding on to their hopes. UK manufacturing and industrial production numbers are also due.
The franc was stuck in consolidation at sentiment flipped back and forth, particularly in the European region. The Swiss jobless rate improved from 3.1% to 3.0% while the SNB foreign currency reserves declined from 742B CHF to 738B CHF, which means that the central bank is probably not trying to actively depreciate the currency. There are no reports due from Switzerland today.
The yen lost ground as the dollar regained its spot as the preferred safe-haven. Data from Japan was actually mostly upbeat, with the GDP upgraded from 0.3% to 0.6% versus the projected 0.4% figure and the current account balance also surpassing estimates. Average cash earnings disappointed with a 0.6% uptick versus the projected 0.8% rise. Yen pairs could take their cue from dollar price action from here.
The comdolls weakened to the dollar but were able to recover slightly against the yen. Data from Canada was mixed as building permits posted a stronger than expected 3.5% gain while the Ivey PMI dipped. Chinese trade balance is due next and a smaller surplus of $34.9 billion is eyed, possibly signaling weaker demand for raw materials.