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Founded in 1993, Foreign Exchange Trading Education or Fxte as they like to call themselves was developed by a team of professionals who aim to be the worldwide leader in investment education. As part of the Optionetics group, Fxte has provided individual investors with the tools and strategies used by the professional trader to ensure that their students have the best chance of becoming successful traders. Fxte are dedicated to providing aspirant Forex traders with the highest level of Forex education, the best tools and resources, and the utmost support they need to enable them to successfully trade the Forex markets.
Fxte believe that a trader needs needs to follow 4 steps to achieve success in the Forex market. The four steps to success are that a trader must: know the market, balance their analysis, practice wealth building and plan for success. They believe that once a trader has mastered these four steps that trading can be a rewarding and profitable experience. And their motto is “Don’t just listen to the News, Trade on it!”
Teaching trading from a fundamentally based point of view, Fxte focus on fundamental trading, using news releases and fundamental economic data to shape their trading outlook and decisions. From scalping to long term trading, Fxte aims at providing their students with sufficient market and economic knowledge to allow their students to successfully trade currencies based on fundamental data.
Courses Offered By Fxte
Fxte offer 4 different course options to aspirant traders: “The Forex Trading Essentials Course”, “The Intermediate Trading Course”, “The Advanced Trading Course”, and “Forex Coaching”.
The “Forex Trading Essentials” course is designed for novice traders and consists of a 2 day seminar which was built from the ground up by economists, bank traders and individual traders. It uses the four-step approach to teach traders to trade Forex successfully and the course covers: how to understand the logic and rationale behind Forex trading, how to recognise and capitalise on market trends, how to integrate fundamental and technical analysis and how to minimize risk and safeguard open positions. The seminar can be supplemented with a comprehensive home study kit which consists of DVD and books which have instruction on how to trade fundamentals, technical tools, profit-making strategies, Forex foundations, and much more.
The Fxte “Intermediate Trading Course” is also a two day seminar which aims to deliver a well rounded education in Forex market mechanics. It will teach you the mechanics of Forex trading, the keys to understanding market response to news, technical tools for news trading and techniques for managing your trading capital. When you purchase a seat at the 2 day seminar you receive a home study kit that contains four comprehensive books that explaint the above topics as well as four DVD’s by Jimmy Young and Ross Beck which detail Fxte’s perspective on trading Forex.
Fxte also offer “The Advanced Trading Course” which is a dynamic six month course where traders are taught to analyse the logic behind the systems presented in the intermediate course. This course aims to teach traders to improve their ability to control risk and performance with leverage and position sizing, to profit from tracking and trading the key market drivers, to reine their skills to master cross currency trades, and much more.
What Students Say About Fxte
With an overall rating of 4.1 out of a possible 5 from some of the top Forex education review sites, most of the students who have invested in Fxte’s Forex trading courses have found some benefit in having done the course. There are a few students who feel that the course was not value for money at all however, this is to be expected from a course which deals primarily with fundamental anaylsis – that the course may not be everyone’s “cup of tea”.
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