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Syllabus

PART I

Lesson 1: Introduction to Forex and CMS Forex's Webinar Series This first class will introduce the forex market, the industry, and its players. It will also orient students with the webinar course, which includes both the "Power Course" and "Chartist Corner".

Lesson 2: Trendlines, Support and Resistance I Recognizing that the market trends is an elemental concept in technical analysis. In this lesson, we will learn how to recognize trends and areas of bullish or bearish bias.

Lesson 3: Trendlines, Support and Resistance II This lesson will teach us the first trading approach in a trending approach: Counter-trend breakout entry as well as an introduction to approaches in managing a trade.

Lesson 4 (Bonus): Overview of Trading Systems Traders develop and use trading systems in order to generate mechanical trading signals. We will take a look at some basic trading systems. This lesson previews what students would be able to do after the completion of the course, but also provides some sample trading systems for students to explore.

Lesson 5: Candlestick Analysis I Price action is the purest representation of the market's decisions. The Japanese Candlestick is one pictoral way of representing this price data through time. We will explore the implications of different candlestick action.

Lesson 6: Candlestick Analysis II We will take a look at some more candlestick combinations and practice recognizing them as well as filtering for price action combinations that may give us good signals of market conditions.

Lesson 7: Introduction to Technical Indicators; Moving Average I What are technical indicators? What categories of indicators are there? We will lay the groundwork for learning new technical analysis tools. We will first learn the basic interpretations and applications of a very popular indicator: the Moving Average.

Lesson 8: Moving Average II We will explore one approach in creating a system purely based on Moving Averages. In doing so, we will also introduce some concepts regarding design of trading systems.

Lesson 9: Risk/Trade Management I Risk management is crucial in your trade planning. Defining a stop loss will allow you to eventually determine your reward:risk ratio. We will learn some approaches in establishing this stop level.

Lesson 10:  Risk/Trade Management II While stop-loss orders are meant to protect against losses, trailing-stop orders are meant to protect profits from being pared when the market turns back the other way. We will explore some approaches in setting up trailing stops.

Lesson 11: Channels, Bands, Envelopes What are the applications of these technical indicators. Some use channels, bands and envelopes as range trading tools. However, we will also learn their trend following applications.

Lesson 12: Bollinger Bands The Bollinger Bands and its derivative indicators have many applications that address volatility. We will discover how we may add this to our arsenal of analytical tools.

Lesson 13: Momentum; Oscillators I  Oscilators such as RSI, Stochastics, and the Directional Movement System are examples of tools that measure momentum as well as overbought/oversold conditions. We will learn the basic applications of these tools.

Lesson 14: Momentum, Oscillators II We will explore some advanced applications of oscillators such as applying trend analysis and divergences to the indicators.

Lesson 15: Fibonacci Tools; Price Pattern I Who was Leonardo Pisano and why was his introduction of Fibonacci so influential? How can we apply the fibonacci tools in projecting growth and retracement in the forex market.

Lesson 16: Price Patterns II We will explore the classic price patterns as well as introduce the "retracement pattern".

Lesson 17:  Trading Psychology I What are the common pitfalls traders face when going live from demo. How can be battle the emotional inputs that tend to keep us from executing.

PART II

Lesson 18: The Elliott Wave I Who was Ralph Nelson Elliott and what were his principles regarding market movements? How can we apply our analysis in the context of Elliott Waves?

Lesson 19: Trading Psychology II The first part in trading psychology addressed the issue of emotions. Our second part discusses the correct mental attitude and philosophy for a trader as trading is not just a game to be played, but a serious business with the profile of low starting cost but high risk.

Lesson 20: The Elliott Wave II; Gann Projection We will delve into the counting of Elliott Waves as well as ratio analysis, including introduction to W.D Gann's approaches in time/price projection.

Lesson 21: IchiMoku Ichimoku is an advanced Moving-Average-combination-type indicator/system. How is it constructed and what are its applications.

Lesson 22: Trading System Design Principles Sticking to a trading plan or system that is mechanical by nature helps filter out emotions which may cloud judgement when applying analysis and deciding to open a trade.We will explore some methods to designing, testing, evaluating, and improving a trading system.

Lesson 23: Capital Preservation and Risk Management How do we decide on the exposure of each trade if we want to "stay in the game".

Risk Disclaimer: Online forex trading carries a high degree of risk to your capital and it is possible to lose your entire investment. Only speculate with money you can afford to lose. Forex trading may not be suitable for all investors, therefore ensure you fully understand the risks involved, and seek independent advice if necessary.