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Understand What Actually Moves Markets

A complete beginner-friendly guide to economics, central banks, interest rates and market fundamentals.

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Learn the reasons behind the movement

Most traders learn where price moved, but never learn why the market environment changed. MY EDGE Fundamentals explains the economic forces behind currencies in a structured and practical way. This is not a blog — it's one connected learning path, in order, from first principles to daily application.

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16 free lessons, best read in order — each builds on the one before it.

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Fundamental Analysis Made Simple

What fundamental analysis is, how it differs from technical analysis, and why markets actually move.

02
The Economic Machine

How the Economy Actually Works

Growth, business cycles, inflation, employment, spending, credit and recession — the moving parts of an economy.

03
Interest Rates

The Price of Money

What interest rates are, why they move markets, and why markets react before the decision is even made.

04
Central Banks

The Institutions Behind Monetary Policy

What central banks do, the major banks that move global markets, and the difference between hawkish and dovish policy.

05
Inflation

Why Prices Matter to Index Traders

CPI, core CPI, PCE, producer prices and why a single inflation report can change the entire market narrative.

06
Employment Data

How the Labour Market Changes Monetary Policy

Nonfarm Payrolls, unemployment, wages and why strong employment data is not always bullish for the market.

07
Growth Indicators

Measuring the Health of an Economy

GDP, PMI, retail sales, industrial production and the difference between leading and lagging indicators.

08
Bonds and Yields

The Market Behind the Stock Market

What a bond is, how yields work, the yield curve, and why markets react to changes in the bond market.

09
Risk Sentiment

Risk-On, Risk-Off and Global Capital Flow

Safe-haven currencies, equity-market influence, volatility and why correlations between markets change.

10
Index Drivers

What Actually Moves Major Stock Indices

A dedicated breakdown of the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow and Russell 2000 — why they don't move in lockstep, and why rate news hits some harder than others.

11
Intermarket Relationships

Markets Do Not Move in Isolation

How Treasury yields, oil, commodities, gold, equities and indices relate to each other — and when those relationships break down.

12
Economic Calendar

How to Read News Before It Moves the Market

Previous, forecast, actual and revision — how to read a calendar event like a professional instead of a headline reader.

13
Building a Fundamental Bias

From Isolated Data to a Market Narrative

A step-by-step process for turning scattered economic data into one coherent, conditional view of the market you trade.

14
Practical Daily Workflow

A Simple Fundamental Routine

The daily checklist that turns everything in this course into a repeatable habit instead of one-off reading.

15
Case Studies

Fundamentals in Practice

Real scenarios that show fundamental analysis at work — including cases where the obvious reaction did not happen.

16
Glossary

Plain-English Definitions

Every fundamental-analysis term used in this course, defined simply and without jargon.

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Fundamentals explain why the market moves. MY EDGE's paid concepts, strategies and theory show you how to read that movement on the chart.

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