Understanding Political Events & How They Affect The Financial Markets

Events around the world are now in motion that, while not economically significant, could have a large impact on the investment markets – whether they should or should not is a question we won’t bother with at present. A smart savvy trader does not take sides or become emotionally entangled in the event, but profits successfully.
When geopolitical tensions flare and the investor class sits up at attention, the character of the stock market tends to change almost immediately. Geopolitical events have a bizarrely just and equitable way of meting out punishment precisely where it’s most deserved in the financial arena. No one knows why this is.
Geopolitical events often make traders and investors nervous, and this will lead to volatility in the financial markets. However, history shows these events generally don't have a sustained impact.
For the fast thinking prepared investor market volatility is a great friend while for others it can be a substantial enemy. Those with a proper strategy and understanding of which assets react during which times and events and know how to properly trade these events can make a fortune in just minutes.
Which assets are considered safe havens and which are considered highly volatile are important to understand. How come sometimes the yen gets stronger but gold does not react.
Which asset would you have traded during the UK referendum. Would you have selected the GBP/JPY a smart trader would have?  When the coup attempt took place in Turkey just days ago, how come gold and crude oil showed little reaction. 

Barry Bio: 
Barry is the Director of Investors Trading Academy as well as the Senior Financial News Analyst for FxEmpire. He brings with him over 30 years of financial market knowledge and experience and holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from UCLA and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Maryland. His analysis was awarded as “Best Education in Europe” by Globe Banking & Finance and he is also a presenter for the MoneyShow.  Recently he gained worldwide attention with his “Strategies of Three” and to date over 100,000 traders have attended his webinars and seminars 
Barry taught commodities trading as a hobby, at the Learning Center in California for many years and is responsible for establishing the first ‘Circle of Traders” group, where charting was done by hand and traders had to network to find weather and crop information through personal connections prior to computers. He also currently produces a private Daily Market Review newsletter that is distributed around the globe to over 45,000 subscribers and recently published his newest book called “Forex Trading for the Advanced Binary Option trader,” which is available along with his other books at Amazon.com. 
His trading style is that of a traditionalist, using basic charts, and relies on Support and Resistance and Volume along with historical data to help determine economic cycles as his technical indicators and a vast collection of fundamental data. 
Barry understands that you use the information you gather through the internet, private sources, and the knowledge of time and experience to formulate a trade and then use technical analysis to help verify the validity of the trade and the time to enter and leave a market. Barry believes in the psychological philosophy of the “Herd Mentality” and believes that you should always be in the front of the herd. The principles of this philosophy include the following idea: You need to be ready to enter the market in the front and leave before everyone else. Set your trade rules, determine your entry points and your profit points and live by these rules. Never get greedy and never chase the market.