Trading academy —
from fundamentals to advanced strategy.
Risk-first, plain-spoken trader education from an SPK-licensed broker. Practical concept sets, technical references, and protocol-level guides — built to help you start without burning through capital.
Four tracks. Clear progression.
Content is organised into four progressive tracks. Each track builds the concepts you should master before moving on.
Beginner
What a CFD is, how margin works, how to place your first order. 12 articles built from scratch.
Strategy
Trend, breakout, mean-reversion. Backtest framing, conditions, and the usual pitfalls.
Risk Management
Position sizing, stop-loss placement, correlation risk, drawdown discipline.
Institutional & API
FIX 4.4 connectivity, market depth, algorithmic order routing and execution parameters.
Featured articles.
Editor's pick: what every beginner should read in their first week, plus reference-grade guides for advanced traders.
What is a CFD? A beginner's primer
How contracts for difference work, when they are used, and how they differ from owning an underlying. The margin, leverage, and collateral context.
Leverage, margin, and collateral: the core glossary
The relationship between leverage ratio, initial margin, maintenance margin, and collateral level — with margin call and stop-out worked examples.
The 1% rule: sizing positions for survival
The math behind risking at most 1% of equity per trade. A step-by-step calculation across stop distance, lot size, and account balance.
Technical or macro? a balanced approach
How to combine short-horizon breakouts with longer-term themes. The intersection of rate decisions, inflation prints, and chart setups.
When to enable hedge mode
The trade-offs of holding simultaneous long and short positions on the same instrument — margin implications and typical use cases.
Your first FIX 4.4 order: a 5-minute guide
From Logon to NewOrderSingle, a tag-by-tag walkthrough. Connecting to the test environment, heartbeats, and sequence management.
Trading glossary.
Short, precise definitions for the terms most often confused. Full list on the glossary page.
- Spread
- Difference between bid and ask. The typical foundation of trading cost.
- Pip
- A small unit of price movement on an FX pair. 0.0001 on most majors.
- Lot
- Standard trade size. 1 lot in FX equals 100,000 base units; 0.01 lot is a micro lot.
- Margin
- Collateral set aside to open and hold a leveraged position.
- Leverage
- Position size relative to capital used. 1:30 is the common FX retail cap.
- Stop-loss
- A protective order that closes a position once a chosen loss level is reached.
- Take-profit
- A target order that closes a position at a chosen profit level.
- Swap
- Overnight financing cost or credit applied for holding a position past the rollover.
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