Market insights
Understand What Is Happening Across Global Markets
Financial markets are constantly influenced by changing economic conditions, market sentiment, company developments and price behaviour. CFD First Market Insights brings these different elements together to help you better understand what is happening across global markets.
Market analysis can be approached from different perspectives. Some methods focus on how prices are moving, while others examine the economic and financial factors behind those movements. Understanding both perspectives can provide broader context when following Forex, Metals, Commodities, Indices, Stocks and Crypto CFD markets.
Through technical and fundamental analysis, CFD First Market Insights provides educational market information designed to help you explore market behaviour, identify important developments and stay informed about the factors shaping financial markets.
Two approaches to market analysis
Different Information, Different Perspectives
There is no single way to analyse financial markets. Two of the most widely used approaches are technical analysis and fundamental analysis. Each looks at the market from a different perspective and provides a different type of information.
Technical Analysis
Study price behaviour, charts, trends, support and resistance, momentum and historical market data.
Explore technical analysis →Fundamental Analysis
Study economic, financial and business information that can influence market prices and expectations.
Explore fundamental analysis →Technical analysis vs fundamental analysis
How the Two Approaches Differ
How Is the Market Moving?
Technical analysis focuses primarily on price behaviour and market data. It uses charts, historical price movements, support and resistance levels, trends and indicators such as RSI and moving averages to understand how a market has been behaving.
Why May the Market Be Moving?
Fundamental analysis considers economic, financial and business factors, including company earnings, financial statements, interest rates, inflation, economic data, central bank decisions, supply and demand, and geopolitical developments.
Using both perspectives
A Broader View of Current Market Conditions
Technical analysis can help answer questions about how a market is moving, while fundamental analysis can provide greater context around why the market may be moving.
These approaches do not need to be considered separately. Looking at both can provide a broader understanding of current market conditions.
Educational information
Analysis Does Not Guarantee an Outcome
Market analysis provides frameworks for interpreting available information, but it cannot predict future prices with certainty. Markets can change quickly, and leveraged CFD trading involves significant risk.