Trading Guides
Reference guides for traders who want to understand what they are doing before they automate it. These are the evergreen explainers we maintain and update — forex fundamentals, position sizing and …
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Your EA's First Trade: A Pre-Flight and 30-Day Checklist for Going Live
From Installed to Trading You’ve funded your account and installed the EA. This checklist covers the last mile: getting the EA correctly onto a live chart, what to write down before the first …
Read More →Types of Automated Trading Algorithms: Trend, Grid, Scalping, Mean Reversion
Not All Automated Trading Algorithms Work the Same Way If you’re new to automated trading, start with What Is an Expert Advisor? — it covers what an EA is, how it runs on your platform, and …
Read More →Forex Trading for Beginners: How to Start in 2026
What Is Forex Trading? Forex (foreign exchange) trading is the buying and selling of currencies. When you exchange dollars for euros at the airport, you are participating in the forex market. The …
Read More →What is Forex Trading? A Complete Beginner's Guide
What is Forex Trading? Forex trading is the buying and selling of one currency against another. It is the largest financial market in the world, with roughly $7.5 trillion changing hands daily, as …
Read More →Understanding Forex Spreads and Commissions: A Trader's Guide
Understanding Forex Spreads and Commissions Every forex trade costs money before it has any chance of making money. The spread alone is the part most beginners learn about; it is one line in a longer …
Read More →Forex Lot Sizes Explained: Standard, Mini, and Micro Lots
Forex Lot Sizes Explained Lot size is the one input that converts a price move into a dollar amount. Get it wrong and every other part of your plan — stop placement, risk percentage, reward-to-risk …
Read More →Technical Analysis Basics: Reading Charts for Beginners
What Technical Analysis Can and Cannot Do Technical analysis is a framework for defining risk and making repeatable decisions. It is not a prediction engine, and most of the disappointment in this …
Read More →Forex Risk Management: Guide to Protecting Capital
Forex Risk Management: Protecting Your Capital Risk management is the part of trading that is pure arithmetic, which makes it the part you can get right. This page works through it: what a drawdown …
Read More →Best Currency Pairs for Beginners: Start Trading These 5 Pairs
Best Currency Pairs for Beginners The usual advice — “trade the majors, avoid exotics” — is correct but too vague to act on. The real decision is a cost comparison: what you pay in spread …
Read More →How to Open a Forex Demo Account and Start Practicing
How to Open a Forex Demo Account A demo account trades a live price feed with virtual money. It is genuinely useful for a narrow set of things: learning the platform, verifying that your rules produce …
Read More →How to Backtest a Forex EA: MT4 Strategy Tester Guide
How to Backtest a Forex EA Backtesting runs an Expert Advisor’s rules against historical data before you commit money. The framing that matters: a backtest is good at rejecting strategies and …
Read More →Forex Trading Sessions Explained: Best Times to Trade Each Pair
Forex Trading Sessions Explained The forex market runs 24/5, but it is really four regional sessions handing off to each other, not one continuous market with even conditions. Volatility, liquidity, …
Read More →Risk Warning: Trading foreign exchange (Forex) carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. There is a possibility that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. You should be aware of all the risks associated with foreign exchange trading and seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any doubts.
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