Learn Hub

Learn properly,
before it costs you

Structured, honest education about how markets and leveraged products actually work — including the parts that are uncomfortable to read.

An honest starting point. A large share of retail traders lose money on leveraged products. Education improves your odds of understanding what you are doing; it does not make trading safe or profitable. Nothing in this hub is investment advice or a recommendation, and no strategy described here is guaranteed to work. Treat trading as a skill with a genuine possibility of loss, and never risk money you need.
Learning Path

Start here and work forward

Most people skip straight to strategy. The traders who last tend to have spent their early weeks on the first two modules instead.

01

Trading basics

What a CFD is, how leverage magnifies both directions, what a pip and a lot mean, and how margin actually works.

  • What is a CFD and how is it priced
  • Leverage, margin and margin calls
  • Order types and how each behaves
  • Reading a quote and understanding spread
02

Risk management

The module that decides whether you are still trading in a year. Position sizing, stops and exposure limits.

  • Position sizing from a fixed risk percentage
  • Where to place a stop, and why not to move it
  • Correlation and hidden concentration
  • Drawdown, and recovering from it
03

Strategy & analysis

Technical and fundamental frameworks, and how to test an idea before trusting it with real money.

  • Support, resistance and trend structure
  • Indicators, and their limitations
  • Economic data and what it moves
  • Backtesting without fooling yourself
The Module That Matters

Risk management, in plain terms

You cannot control whether a trade wins. You can control exactly how much it costs you when it loses. That asymmetry is the whole discipline.

  • Decide the loss first. Pick the amount you accept losing before you look at the potential gain.
  • Size from the stop. Your stop distance and risk budget determine your lot size. Never the other way round.
  • Respect the maths of drawdown. A 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover. Small losses are survivable; large ones compound against you.
  • Watch correlation. Six long positions across correlated pairs is one big position wearing a disguise.
  • Leverage is not free size. High leverage lets you take a position you could not otherwise afford — including one you cannot afford to be wrong on.
If you loseYou need this gain to recover
10%11.1%
20%25.0%
30%42.9%
50%100.0%
75%300.0%
90%900.0%

This table is arithmetic, not opinion. It is the clearest argument there is for keeping individual losses small.

Guides

Read by topic

Live Sessions

Webinars and workshops

Regular live sessions covering platform skills, market structure and risk discipline, with time for questions at the end. Free to attend and open to demo account holders.

  • Beginner platform walkthroughs
  • Market structure and technical analysis sessions
  • Risk and position sizing workshops
  • Recordings available afterwards

Educational, not advisory

Sessions explain concepts and tools. Presenters do not give personal recommendations or trade signals.

Bring questions

The Q&A is usually the most useful part. No question about the basics is too simple.

Terminology

Trading glossary

The terms you will meet in your first week, defined without jargon.

The standard unit of price movement in a currency pair — usually the fourth decimal place (0.0001), or the second decimal (0.01) for pairs quoted against the Japanese yen. Pips let traders describe moves and risk in a consistent way regardless of the pair.
A standardised trade size. One standard lot in forex is 100,000 units of the base currency; a mini lot is 0.1 and a micro lot is 0.01. Your lot size determines how much each pip of movement is worth to you.
Control of a position larger than your deposited capital. At 1:100, $1,000 of margin supports a $100,000 position. Leverage multiplies gains and losses equally — it is the main reason CFD accounts can be depleted quickly.
A margin call is a warning that your equity has fallen close to the minimum required to keep positions open. A stop out is the automatic closure of positions once equity falls below that threshold. Both are protective mechanisms, but in fast-moving markets they cannot always close a position at the level you expect.
The difference between the price you expected and the price you actually got. It happens when the market moves between your order being sent and filled, and is most common around news releases, at session opens and in thin liquidity. Slippage can work in your favour as well as against you.
The fall from a peak in your account equity to a subsequent low, usually expressed as a percentage. Maximum drawdown is the largest such fall on record, and it is the single most useful number for judging how much risk a strategy really carries.
The financing adjustment applied when you hold a leveraged position overnight, reflecting the interest-rate differential between the two currencies. It can be a credit or a charge, and it accumulates on longer-held positions.
The difference between the buy (ask) and sell (bid) price. You pay it on entry, which means every position starts fractionally negative. Tighter spreads matter most to traders who open positions frequently.
Practise Safely

Apply what you learn on a demo

Reading about a margin call and watching one happen on a demo account are very different experiences. The second one teaches more.

Educational content only. Not investment advice or a recommendation to trade.

Educational content only: Nothing in the Learn Hub is investment advice, a recommendation, or a promise of any result. CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.

Articles

Start here

Plain explanations of the things that cost beginners money. No jargon for its own sake, and no pretending this is easy.

Basics