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Structured, jargon-free lessons across six modules — from your very first trade to advanced strategy. Free for everyone.

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Foundations → Risk → Psychology

Trading Foundations

Beginner

Start here. Understand what markets are, how brokers work and the language every trader needs.

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What is forex trading?

How the world's largest financial market works and why currencies move.

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How CFDs work

Contracts for difference let you trade price moves without owning the asset.

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Reading a price quote

Bid, ask, spread and how your trade is priced.

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Lots and position sizing

Standard, mini and micro lots — and how much one pip is worth.

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Technical Analysis

Intermediate

Read charts like a professional: trends, support and resistance, indicators and chart patterns.

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Candlestick charts explained

How to read the open, high, low and close at a glance.

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Support and resistance

The most important concept in technical trading.

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Trends and moving averages

Identify direction and ride it with the trend.

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Key indicators: RSI, MACD & Bollinger Bands

Momentum and volatility tools and how to combine them.

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Fundamental Analysis

Intermediate

Trade the news: interest rates, economic data and the macro forces that drive markets.

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Interest rates & central banks

Why central-bank decisions move currencies the most.

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Reading economic data

Inflation, employment and growth releases that matter.

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Market sentiment & risk appetite

Risk-on and risk-off and how to read the mood.

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Risk Management

Beginner

The skill that separates traders who last from those who don't. Protect your capital first.

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Stop-loss & take-profit orders

Define your risk and reward before you enter.

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Risk-to-reward & win rate

Why you can be profitable while losing more than half your trades.

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Managing leverage

Use leverage as a tool, not a temptation.

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Trading Psychology

Intermediate

Master the mental game. Discipline, patience and process beat prediction.

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Managing fear & greed

The two emotions that sabotage most trading accounts.

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Building a trading plan

Turn a strategy into repeatable rules.

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Keeping a trading journal

You can't improve what you don't measure.

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Platforms & Execution

Beginner

Get the most from your tools: order types, ECN execution and trading the OTOFX way.

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Order types explained

Market, limit, stop and trailing orders.

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What is ECN execution?

How raw pricing and direct market access actually work.

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From demo to live

Practise risk-free, then make the transition with confidence.

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Put your learning into practice

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