Welcome to the World of Foreign  Exchange

Did you know that the foreign exchange market (Forex or FX) is the largest financial market in the world?

Every day, trillions of dollars are traded as global currencies are bought and sold — shaping exchange rates and impacting economies across the planet.

Operating 24 hours a day on business days, the Forex market is a truly global and dynamic environment where professional financial institutions dominate trading activity.

But what really happens in the Forex market?

In this course, you’ll explore how currencies are exchanged, and how instruments like FX spot transactions, forwards, and swaps are support trade and investment, and used to manage risk.

Curious to learn more? View the free accessible parts to learn more about the course roadmap and topic basket of this course.

Course roadmap and topic outline per section

Section: Getting Started with the Currency Market

• Key topics: currency market organization, key participants, products, and trading motivations.

• Your first step in the forex market

Key topics: currency market organization, key participants, products, and trading motivations.

Your first step in the forex market

Section: FX market standards and conventions

• Key topics: settlement timelines, ISO currency codes, F X rate quotations, spreads, and cross rates.

• Your learning: confidently read, interpret, and communicate FX quotes, understand settlement rules, and navigate the conventions that underpin the global currency market.

Key topics: settlement timelines, ISO currency codes, F X rate quotations, spreads, and cross rates.

Your learning: confidently read, interpret, and communicate FX quotes, understand settlement rules, and navigate the conventions that underpin the global currency market.

Section: An Introduction to Currency risk & Hedging

• Key topics: the main sources of currency risk exposure; a practical example hedging.

• Your learning: understanding of currency risk sources and determination factors; introduction to mitigate FX risk.

Key topics: the main sources of currency risk exposure; a practical example hedging.

Your learning: understanding of currency risk sources and determination factors; introduction to mitigate FX risk.

Section: FX Swaps & Forwards

• Key topics: currency derivatives - FX swaps and forwards

• Your learning: understand and use money market FX swap (structure); swap points calculation: derive FX forward rates: other FX swap variations (cross-currency interest rate swaps, basis swaps.

Key topics: currency derivatives - FX swaps and forwards

Your learning: understand and use money market FX swap (structure); swap points calculation: derive FX forward rates: other FX swap variations (cross-currency interest rate swaps, basis swaps.

Section: Currency Risk Management

• Key topics: the practice of managing FX risk on foreign-currency payables and receivables;

• Your learning: how to hedge FX short and long positions; create a synthetic FX forward; convert a home-currency price into an FX quote

Key topics: the practice of managing FX risk on foreign-currency payables and receivables;

Your learning: how to hedge FX short and long positions; create a synthetic FX forward; convert a home-currency price into an FX quote

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