FX Trading and Hedging

Register now to join this CQF workshop on FX Trading and Hedging.
 

Workshop details

Date: Monday, 20th October 2025
Time: 9am - 5pm BST
Location: Live Online
Tutor: Jessica James
 

What will be covered in this workshop?

This workshop on FX trading and hedging will equip you with the knowledge and skills to understand FX trading models, backtesting techniques, hedging strategies, and option trading methods, enabling you to make informed decisions in the dynamic world of foreign exchange.

Outcomes:

• Understand the history of FX trading models
• Be able to use backtesting techniques to evaluate historical model performance, including statistical tests to indicate the likelihood of over-optimization
• Learn how to investigate popular FX trading models using these techniques and understand how different models have performed in different environments
• Using popular models like trend and carry, discover how to improve performance by combining them into portfolios, using cutouts, and reacting to volatility
• Understand simple option trading strategies and how to backtest them and appreciate the importance of good data sets
• Understand how to perform basic delta hedging
• Understand how certain trading models have been used as active hedging of other asset classes
• Learn about hedging the FX risk of different asset classes using active or passive techniques
• Appreciate how the correlation behavior of FX rates with different asset classes leads to different optimal hedging methods
• Be able to compare and contrast hedging methods with options and forward rates