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Trading in the Global Currency Markets
Fri, Jun 30 2006, 15:01 GMT
by FXstreet.com Team
About the Author
Mr. Luca is an internationally renowned foreign exchange and technical analysis expert. He has more than 20 years of experience in the currency markets; he had traded spot, forwards, futures and currency options at Creditanstalt Bankverein (now Bank Austria), Prudential Securities and Sanwa Bank (now UFJ).
He is the author of 'Trading in the Global Currency Markets' (Second edition 2000, First edition 1995), 'Technical Analysis Applications in the Global Currency Markets' (Second edition 2000, First edition 1997), both published by Prentice Hall, 'Technical Analysis Applications', 2004, published by McGraw-Hill and 'Practical Introduction to Technical Analysis', 1997, published by Euromoney.
He has conducted training programs in FX and Technical Analysis around the world since 1989.
Mr. Luca holds and MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business with a double major in International Business and Finance.
Book Synopsis
PART 1: The Basis For Foreign Exchange ActivityChapter 1. Why Foreign Exchange Occurs
- Internationalization
- FX volatility
- Interest rates volatility
- FX innovations
- Telecommunication development
- Computer (hardware and software) development
- FX profitability
- Increased corporate interest
- Increased players' sophistication
Chapter 2. Historical Developments in Foreign Exchange
- The Bretton - Woods Accord
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- The Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)
- The Smithsonian Accord (1971-1973)
- The European Joint Float
- The Free - floating Market
- Free-floating, semi-pegged, pegged and dirty-floating currencies
- The "snake" in the "tunnel"
- Characteristics of the EMS
- Fundamental disadvantages of the EMS
Chapter 4. The Foreign Exchange Market Place
- Understanding the characteristics of the major currencies
- Major players
- Major FX markets
- Exchange risk
- Credit risk
- Country risk
- Interest rate risk
Chapter 7. Price structure and FX terms
- Bid and offer
- FX terms
- Leave orders
- Daily currency fixings
- Role of FX for corporations
- Types of corporations
- Types of exposures
- Hedging
- Executing the transaction
- Back-office operations
- Nostro accounts
- SWIFT
- CHIPS
- Telex
- Brokers
- Dealing systems
- Matching systems
Chapter 11. Spot market
Chapter 12. Forward outright and swaps markets
Chapter 13. Cross market
Chapter 14. Futures market
Chapter 15. Options market
Chapter 16. Major options strategies
Part 5: Foreign Exchange Forecasting: Fundamental analysis
Chapter 17. Economic indicators
- Models of exchange rate determination
- GNP
- Industrial sector indicators
- Construction indicators
- Inflation indicators
- Trade indicators
- Employment
- Consumer spending indicators
- Leading indicators
- Personal income
- Money supply
- Interest rates
- Information sources
Chapter 19. Introduction to technical analysis
- Types of Charts
- Volume and open interest
- Trends
- Percentage retracements: traditional, Fibonacci,Gann
- Head and shoulders (and inverse head and shoulders)
- Double tops and double bottoms
- Triple tops and triple bottoms
- Rounded tops and rounded bottoms
- V-formations
- Diamond
- Flags
- Pennants
- Triangles
- Wedges
- Rectangles
- Common gap
- Breakaway gap
- Runaway gap
- Exhaustion gap
- Island reversal
- Key reversal days
- Breakout of a triple top
- Breakout of a triple bottom
- Breakout of a spread triple top
- Breakout of a spread triple bottom
- Breakout of an ascending triple top
- Breakout of a descending triple bottom
- Upward breakout of a bullish resistance line
- Downward breakout of a bearish support line
- Downward breakout of a bullish support line
- Upward breakout of a bearish resistance line
- Upward breakout from a bullish triangle
- Downward breakout from a bearish triangle
- Daily blank candlestick
- Daily black candlestick
- Daily reversal patterns
- Two-day candlesticks combination
- Bullish signals
- Bearish signals
- "Wait-and-see" signals
- Other reversal signals
- Simple
- Linearly weighted
- Exponentially smoothed
- MACD
- Bollinger bands
- Momentum
- Other momentum oscillators: ASI, CCI, ROC, SI and TRIX
- Relative Strength Index
- Stochastics
- Larry Williams %R
- The parabolic system (SAR)
- Directional Movement Index (DMI)
- Cardinal square
- Squaring of price and time
- Geometric angles
- Visit Cornelius Luca's website
- Read the Daily Market Commentary by Cornelius Luca
Special Feature
Published on Fri, Jun 30 2006, 10:01 GMT
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