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Forex 101

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Module 1 · The basics

01What is forex✓
EUR EURO USD DOLLAR EUR STRONGER USD STRONGER
One goes up only because the other goes down. There is no third option.

Forex is short for foreign exchange. It is the market where one country's money is swapped for another's. When you go abroad and change pesos into dollars at the airport, you have just done a forex trade at a very bad price.

The market runs 24 hours a day from Monday morning in Asia to Friday evening in New York. There is no single building where it happens. Banks, funds, companies and traders like you are all connected through a network, and the price is simply whatever people are willing to pay right now.

As a retail trader you are not actually collecting suitcases of foreign money. You are placing a bet on whether one currency will get stronger or weaker against another, and your broker settles the difference in your account balance.

The point

You are always trading one currency against another. Nothing moves on its own. If the euro rises against the dollar, the dollar is falling against the euro at exactly the same time.

02What is a CFD✓
OWNING GOLD You hold the metal GOLD CFD +$10 You hold only the difference
Nothing is delivered. Your broker settles the price change in cash.

CFD stands for contract for difference. It is an agreement between you and your broker to exchange the difference in an asset's price between the moment you open the trade and the moment you close it.

You never own the thing. If you buy a gold CFD, no gold moves anywhere. If gold goes up 10 dollars and you close, your broker pays you the difference multiplied by your position size. If it goes down 10 dollars, you pay.

  • Why traders use them: you can go long or short with equal ease, you can trade gold, oil, indices and currencies from one account, and you can take a position much larger than your balance.
  • Why they are dangerous: that last point. Being able to take a large position does not mean you should.
Be honest with yourself

Most retail CFD accounts lose money. That statistic is printed on every regulated broker's site for a reason. The traders who survive are the ones who treat position size as the most important decision, not the entry.

03How a currency pair is priced✓
BID 1.08495 ASK 1.08505 SPREAD You sell here You buy here
The spread is what the broker takes, and it is why every trade opens slightly negative.

Every quote has two currencies. EURUSD at 1.0850 means one euro costs 1.0850 US dollars. The first currency is the base, the second is the quote.

Buying EURUSD means you think the euro will get stronger, so the number goes up. Selling means you think it will get weaker, so the number goes down. Nothing more complicated than that.

Bid, ask and spread
EURUSD BID 1.08495 ASK 1.08505
Spread = 1.0 pip

You sell at the bid. You buy at the ask.

The gap between those two numbers is the spread, and it is the broker's cut. It is also why every trade starts slightly in the red. On major pairs the spread is usually under 2 pips. On exotic pairs it can be twenty times that, which is one reason we stick to majors.

04Pips, lots and what a trade is worth✓
ONE PIP IS WORTH 0.01 lot $0.10 0.10 lot $1.00 1.00 lot $10.00 A 30 PIP WIN 0.01 lot = $3 0.10 lot = $30 1.00 lot = $300
Same chart move, wildly different outcome. Lot size is the dial.

A pip is the standard unit of movement. On most pairs it is the fourth decimal place. EURUSD moving from 1.0850 to 1.0851 is one pip. On pairs that include the Japanese yen it is the second decimal place instead, so USDJPY moving from 157.20 to 157.21 is one pip.

A lot is the size of your position. Lot size decides how much one pip is worth to you.

Pip value on a dollar quoted pair
1.00 lot (standard) = 100,000 units = $10 per pip
0.10 lot (mini) = 10,000 units = $1 per pip
0.01 lot (micro) = 1,000 units = $0.10 per pip

So if you buy 0.10 lots of EURUSD and it moves 30 pips in your favour, you made 30 dollars. If it moves 30 pips against you, you lost 30 dollars. This single table is the bridge between the chart and your account balance, and it is the thing most new traders skip.

Start here

Trade 0.01 lots until the process is boring. At 10 cents a pip you can make every beginner mistake and still have an account left to learn from.

Module 2 · Risk and money

05Leverage explained✓
A $1,000 ACCOUNT LOSES 50 PIPS -$5 0.01 LOT -$50 0.10 LOT -$500 1.00 LOT HALF THEACCOUNT
Leverage never changed. Only the size you chose did.

Leverage lets you control a position larger than your account balance. At 1:100 leverage, 1,000 dollars in your account can control 100,000 dollars of currency.

Brokers advertise this as opportunity. It is more useful to think of it as a magnifying glass held over your position size decision. It multiplies the result, good or bad, and it does not care which.

Same account, same move, different size
Balance $1,000 · EURUSD moves 50 pips against you

0.01 lots → lose $5 ( 0.5% of account )
0.10 lots → lose $50 ( 5% of account )
1.00 lots → lose $500 ( 50% of account )

Notice that leverage is the same in all three rows. What changed was the size you chose. That is the real lesson: leverage is a limit your broker sets, but risk is a choice you make every single trade.

The point

High leverage is not the problem. Using high leverage as permission to trade big is the problem.

06Margin, free margin and the margin call✓
YOUR EQUITY USED MARGIN FREE MARGIN HELD WHILE THE TRADE IS OPEN ABSORBS LOSSES AND OPENS NEW TRADES WHEN FREE MARGIN RUNS OUT, THE BROKER CLOSES YOUR TRADES FOR YOU
A margin call means the size decision was wrong long before the price was.

Margin is the deposit your broker holds while a trade is open. It is not a fee and it is not lost. It is set aside and released when you close.

  • Used margin is the amount currently locked up by your open trades.
  • Free margin is what is left over and available for new trades or to absorb losses.
  • Equity is your balance plus or minus the profit and loss on open trades.
  • Margin level is equity divided by used margin, shown as a percentage.
How a position gets closed for you
Margin level falls to ~100% → margin call warning
Margin level falls to ~50% → stop out, broker closes trades

(Exact levels vary by broker. Check yours.)

A stop out is the broker closing your positions automatically because your equity can no longer support them. It is not a punishment, it is the broker protecting itself. But it means the market decided when you exited, not you.

The point

If you ever see a margin call, the mistake happened earlier, when you chose the position size. A trader using 1% risk per trade will essentially never meet one.

07Position size and the 1% rule✓
ACCOUNT $2,000 × RISK 1% = YOU RISK $20 $20 ÷ 40 pip stop = $0.50 per pip → trade 0.05 lots
Risk decides lot size. Never let lot size decide risk.

This is the most important lesson in the hub. Risk a small, fixed percentage of your account on every trade, and let that decide your lot size. Never the other way round.

Most traders here use 1%. That means if you lose, you lose 1% of your account and you are still completely fine.

Working it out
Account $2,000
Risk per trade 1% = $20
Stop loss distance 40 pips

Pip value needed $20 / 40 = $0.50 per pip
Lot size 0.05 lots

Do that calculation before every trade. Our risk calculator in the Tools section does it in one click, but do it by hand a few times first so you understand what the number means.

Why 1% works

At 1% risk, ten losing trades in a row costs you about 10% of your account. Painful, survivable, recoverable. At 10% risk, the same losing streak takes roughly 65% of your account and you would need to nearly triple what is left just to get back to even.

08Risk to reward and why you can be wrong a lot✓
100 TRADES, $20 RISKED EACH 70% WIN RATE · 1 TO 1 +$800 40% WIN RATE · 1 TO 3 +$1,200 The trader who was wrong more often finished further ahead.
This is what low risk and high reward actually buys you.

Risk to reward compares what you stand to lose against what you stand to gain. If you risk 20 dollars to make 60, that is 1 to 3.

New traders obsess over win rate. Experienced traders care about the combination of win rate and risk to reward, because that is what actually decides whether you make money.

100 trades, risking $20 each
Win rate 70%, reward 1:1 → 70 × $20 − 30 × $20 = +$800
Win rate 40%, reward 1:3 → 40 × $60 − 60 × $20 = +$1,200

The trader who is wrong more often made more.

This is what we mean by low risk and high reward. We look for setups where the stop loss can sit somewhere tight and logical while the target sits several times further away. If a setup does not offer at least 1 to 2, we let it go and wait for the next one.

Module 3 · Placing trades

09Order types, stop loss and take profit✓
CURRENT PRICE BUY STOP · break upward, you want confirmation BUY LIMIT · wait for it to come back cheaper STOP LOSS · where the idea is proven wrong
Set the stop loss in the same click as the entry. Never after.

There are only a few orders you need to know.

  • Market order fills you immediately at the current price. Use it when the setup is happening now.
  • Buy limit / sell limit waits for the price to come back to a level you chose. You are buying cheaper or selling higher than the current price.
  • Buy stop / sell stop waits for the price to break past a level. You are buying higher or selling lower, because you want confirmation first.
  • Stop loss closes the trade automatically at your maximum loss. Not optional.
  • Take profit closes the trade automatically at your target.
Non negotiable

Set the stop loss at the same moment you open the trade, never after. A stop you plan to add later is a stop you will move when the trade goes against you, and that is how small losses become account ending ones.

Place your stop where the idea is proven wrong, not at a round dollar amount. If your setup is invalid below a certain level, the stop goes just below that level. Then you size the position around it, using the calculation from lesson seven.

10Reading a candlestick chart✓
CLOSE OPEN HIGH · the wick LOW · the wick BODY CLOSED LOWER CLOSED HIGHER
A long wick means price went there and was pushed straight back.

Each candle shows four prices for one slice of time: where price opened, where it closed, and the highest and lowest points in between.

  • The thick part is the body, from open to close.
  • The thin lines are wicks, showing the extremes price reached and then rejected.
  • Green or hollow means it closed higher than it opened. Red or filled means lower.

A long wick tells you a story. Price went there, and enough people disagreed to push it back before the candle closed. Long wicks at the edges of a range are worth paying attention to.

Timeframes

A 1 hour candle is one hour of activity. Higher timeframes are slower and more reliable. Lower timeframes are faster and much noisier. Start on the 4 hour and daily charts, decide your direction there, and only then drop down for an entry.

You do not need to memorise fifty candlestick patterns. Where a candle forms matters far more than what it looks like.

11Support, resistance and market structure✓
RESISTANCE SUPPORT HIGHER LOW HIGHER LOW HIGHER HIGH
Each pullback stopping higher than the last is the definition of an uptrend.

Support is a level where price has repeatedly stopped falling. Resistance is a level where it has repeatedly stopped rising. They are not magic lines, they are simply places where enough buyers or sellers showed up before and may show up again.

Market structure is the bigger picture those levels form:

  • Uptrend: each high is higher than the last, and each pullback stops higher too.
  • Downtrend: each low is lower than the last, and each bounce fails lower.
  • Range: price bouncing between a ceiling and a floor with no clear direction.

Our whole method sits on this. Find the direction from structure on the higher timeframe, wait for price to pull back to a level that matters, and take the trade in the direction the market was already going. Trading with the trend is not exciting, which is exactly why it works.

One habit

Mark your levels on a clean chart before the session starts, not while a trade is running. Levels drawn during a trade tend to appear wherever you need them to be.

Module 4 · Becoming consistent

12Your trading plan and journal✓
PLAN TRADE JOURNAL REVIEW THE REVIEW REWRITES THE PLAN
Thirty honest entries will show you a pattern you did not know you had.

A trading plan is a short written document that answers, in advance, every question you would otherwise answer badly in the moment.

  • Which pairs do I trade, and at what times?
  • What exactly does my setup look like?
  • Where does the stop go, and where does the target go?
  • How much do I risk per trade?
  • What makes me stop trading for the day?

One page is enough. If it takes three pages, the method is too complicated to repeat.

The journal is where the plan meets reality. For every trade, record a screenshot before and after, the setup, your risk, the result, and one honest line about whether you followed your own rules. After thirty trades you will see your real pattern, and it is almost never what you assumed it was.

What comes next

Download the journal template from the Tools section, fill in your first ten trades on a demo or micro account, then bring it to your coaching call. That single conversation, with real data in front of you, is worth more than another month of videos.

Coaching

A live 30 minute session, one on one. Bring your charts and your journal.

What to bring

  • Screenshots of your last three trades with entry and exit marked
  • Your journal, even if it is messy
  • One question you are actually stuck on

Pick your slot

Choose any time that suits you. You will get a confirmation email with the link.

Indicators and tools

Built for MT4 and MT5. We install them with you on your first call.

Need help installing?

Send us a message and we will walk you through it, or bring it to your coaching call and we will do it together on screen.

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Trade ideas

Posted each morning in the community. Educational only. Always size your own risk.

Where the ideas are posted

Daily levels and setups go out in the Telegram channel and the Discord server, with the reasoning written out so you learn to spot the next one yourself.

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How to use them

  • Read the reasoning first, then look at your own chart before you look at the level
  • Never copy the lot size. Work out your own from your account and your stop
  • Skip any idea you cannot explain back in one sentence

Community

The public channel is open to everyone. The VIP group and Discord open once you fund.

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House rules

  • No selling, no signal spam, no promises about doubling accounts
  • Post the chart with your question. Context gets you a real answer
  • Share your losses too. That is where the lessons actually are

Trading journal

Log every trade here. Your stats, calendar and equity curve live on the Overview.

Import from MT4 or MT5

Fastest way to fill your journal

In MetaTrader, open the Account History tab, right click anywhere in it, choose Save as Report, then drop that file here. Every closed trade comes in at once.

Drop your MetaTrader report here or click to choose a file · .htm, .html or .csv

Or log one trade by hand

Entry and stop give you your R. The profit and loss box drives your calendar and equity curve.

Enter your entry, stop and target and this fills in.

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