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Understanding Central Banks: 14-Part Video Series

Video 1: What Is A Central Bank

Key Takeaways:

  • • What a central bank is: the financial steering wheel of a country
  • • The 4 core mandates: price stability, sustainable growth, low unemployment, and financial system stability
  • • Monetary policy vs fiscal policy and why the difference matters
  • • Why central bank independence protects long-term economic health
  • • Major central banks: Federal Reserve, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, and others

Video 2: What Is The Role & Goals Of Central Banks

The Three Monetary Policy Regimes:

  • • Expansionary Policy (Easing): Cutting rates, injecting liquidity, launching QE to stimulate growth
  • • Neutral Policy: Watch-and-wait mode when inflation and unemployment are near target
  • • Contractionary Policy (Tightening): Raising rates to cool inflation and slow excessive growth
  • • How each regime affects equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities
  • • Why markets front-run policy moves before they happen

Video 3: Most Important Central Bank Tools

The Central Bank Toolkit:

  • • Interest Rate Policy: The master control that speeds up or slows down the economy
  • • Forward Guidance: Using words to shape market expectations before taking action
  • • Balance Sheet Policies (QE/QT): Large-scale asset purchases or sales to control liquidity
  • • Open Market Operations: Daily fine-tuning to keep policy rates aligned
  • • Reserve Requirements: Structural lever to control bank lending capacity

Video 4: What's The Big Deal About Interest Rates

Discover how central bank decisions create ripple effects across every currency pair, bond market, and stock index. This video reveals the global transmission mechanisms that turn a single Fed announcement into worldwide market moves.

Video 5: Current, Neutral & Terminal Rates

Master the three critical interest rate levels every professional trader watches: current rates, neutral rates, and terminal rates. Understanding these distinctions is the difference between catching trends early and chasing moves that are already over.

Video 6: Quantitative Easing

Learn how Quantitative Easing (money printing) floods markets with liquidity and drives massive currency devaluations. This is the tool that created trillion-dollar moves in EUR/USD and USD/JPY.

Video 7: Quantitative Tightening

Understand Quantitative Tightening (the opposite of QE) and how central banks drain liquidity from the system. This policy shift has triggered some of the fastest currency reversals in modern history.

Video 8: Major Central Banks

Deep dive into the Fed, ECB, BOJ, BOE, RBA, BOC, and SNB. Each central bank has unique mandates, personalities, and trading patterns you need to know to trade their currencies successfully.

Video 9: Quarterly Central Bank Projections

Follow the exact roadmap professional analysts use to track monetary policy from first hints to final execution. This framework helps you position ahead of major moves instead of reacting to them.

Video 10: Inflation Targeting

Learn why inflation targeting is the North Star for every major central bank and how to use CPI data to predict their next moves. When inflation data surprises, currencies move fast—be ready.

Video 11: When Inflation Gets Out Of Control

See how central banks respond during financial crises with emergency rate cuts, liquidity injections, and currency interventions. These are the moments that create once-in-a-decade trading opportunities.

Video 12: Hawks & Doves

Decode the language of hawkish vs. dovish central bankers. A single word from Powell or Lagarde can move markets 100 pips in minutes—learn to read between the lines like institutional traders do.

Video 13: Policy Normalization Versus Tightening

Understand the crucial difference between current interest rates, the neutral rate (long-term equilibrium), and terminal rates (peak of the hiking cycle). This knowledge separates amateurs from professionals.

Video 14: 3 Step Analysis Process & Monetary Policy

Master the complete 3-step framework for trading central bank policy: tracking the cycle, interpreting forward guidance, and timing your entries. This is your blueprint for consistent macro trading profits.

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