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Standardised contracts to buy or sell an asset at a defined price on a defined future date.
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A step-by-step reading order for someone completely new to trading.
Standardised contracts to buy or sell an asset at a defined price on a defined future date.
Our first live webinar covering the essentials of markets, orders and risk. Registration opens soon.
Aligning higher-timeframe bias with lower-timeframe execution for cleaner, higher-quality trades.
From payrolls to central bank decisions — what to watch and how to trade responsibly.
The emotional loop that turns one small loss into a catastrophic day.
A market's ability to absorb large orders without significant price impact. High-liquidity markets have tight spreads and reliable execution
A step-by-step reading order for someone completely new to trading.
The realised cash value of a trading account, excluding open positions. Balance changes only when a position is closed or funds are deposite
The price at which the market is willing to sell an instrument to you. It is always higher than the bid. The difference between ask and bid
A standardised trade size. In forex, one standard lot equals 100,000 units of the base currency. Mini lots (10,000) and micro lots (1,000) a
Real confidence comes from evidence, not affirmations.
Every trader loses. What separates professionals is what they do next.
A fixed or variable fee charged by a broker per trade, in addition to the spread. Common on shares, futures and ECN forex accounts.
The single document that determines whether you survive long enough to become skilled.
The overnight financing charge or credit applied to positions held past the daily rollover time. Reflects the interest rate differential bet
How producers, consumers and portfolio managers use futures to reduce risk.
Triangles, flags, wedges, head-and-shoulders and how they reveal continuation or reversal setups.
Six articles to understand what really moves markets.
A measure of how much and how fast a market's price moves. Higher volatility means larger swings — and larger risk per unit of size.
The price at which the market is willing to buy an instrument from you. It is always lower than the ask price. The bid represents the demand
The use of borrowed capital to control a position larger than the initial deposit. It amplifies both gains and losses.
How the fear of missing out fuels the most expensive habit in trading.
The collateral required by a broker to keep a leveraged position open. If losses reduce equity below the required margin, a margin call is t
The unspectacular habit that separates consistent traders from the rest.
The difference between the bid and ask prices of an instrument. It is the immediate cost paid by a trader to enter and exit a position.
How emotions shape your judgment — and how to spot them before they cost you.
The single highest-return habit in a trader's career: write everything down.
A resting order to close a position at a predefined loss level. It caps downside risk and enforces discipline.
What volatility really measures and how to adapt your trading to it.
A resting order to close a position at a predefined profit level. Removes the temptation to hold a winner too long.
The recurring habits that quietly ruin retail traders' results.
The difference between the expected fill price of an order and the actual price at which it is executed. Common in low liquidity or high vol
The mental model that turns a chart from noise into a story of order flow.
An order to buy or sell immediately at the best available price. Guarantees execution but not price.
How initial and maintenance margin work in exchange-traded futures.
Using key mathematical ratios to identify high-probability pullback zones inside a trend.
Two ways to trade the same underlying — with meaningfully different mechanics.
The peak-to-trough decline in an account's equity. Often expressed as a percentage. Small controlled drawdowns are normal; large drawdowns a
Ten articles to build a solid technical foundation.
Why breakouts fail more often than beginners think, and how to trade both sides of the move.
Practise trading with virtual funds and no real financial risk before going live.
An order to buy below or sell above the current market price. Guarantees price but not execution — if the level is never reached, the order
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Why the biggest edge in trading is not your strategy but the mind behind it.
A position that profits if the price of the underlying rises. Long positions are opened by buying.
An order to buy above or sell below the market. When the stop level is touched, the order becomes a market order.
The current value of a trading account, calculated as balance plus or minus unrealised profit/loss on open positions.
The smallest standard unit of price movement in most forex pairs, equal to 0.0001 (or 0.01 for JPY pairs). Used to measure profit, loss and
The two dominant forces in every market — and every trader's account.
Consistency in inputs creates consistency in outputs. Design your day.
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