Forex guides
Short, accurate guides on the concepts every trader uses daily — each one links to the calculator that puts it into practice.
How to Use the Economic Calendar for Forex Trading
Interest-rate decisions, jobs reports and inflation data move currencies more in a minute than in the rest of the day. Here is how to read the economic calendar, what happens to spreads around a release, and how to protect open trades.
Nov 2, 2026
Forex Order Types Explained: Market, Limit and Stop Orders
Buy limit or buy stop? The difference decides whether you enter on a pullback or a breakout. Here is how market orders and the four pending orders work, which price triggers each one, and when to use them.
Nov 2, 2026
How to Read a Forex Quote: Currency Pairs, Bid and Ask
A forex quote tells you what one currency costs in another, and every quote has two prices. Here is how base and quote currencies, bid, ask and spread work, and what actually happens when you buy or sell a pair.
Nov 2, 2026
Drawdown in Trading: How Losses Compound and What Recovery Takes
A 50% loss needs a 100% gain to get back to even. Here is how to measure drawdown, why recovery gets harder the deeper you fall, how risk per trade shapes losing streaks, and the rules that keep drawdowns small.
Nov 2, 2026
Win Rate and Expectancy: How to Know if a Strategy Makes Money
A 70% win rate can lose money and a 35% win rate can make it. What decides it is expectancy — win rate and reward-to-risk together. Here is the formula, the breakeven table, and how to measure it from your own trades.
Nov 2, 2026
Forex Trading Costs: Spread, Commission and Swap
Every forex trade pays some combination of spread, commission and swap. Here is how each one is calculated, how to compare a standard account with a raw-spread account, and why costs matter more on tight stops.
Oct 13, 2026
Forex Market Hours and Trading Sessions
The forex market runs 24 hours a day, five days a week, passing from Sydney to Tokyo, London and New York. Here are the session times, the overlaps where volume peaks, and how the time of day changes spreads and volatility.
Oct 13, 2026
How to Calculate Profit and Loss in Forex
Forex profit and loss is price change × position size, converted into your account currency. Here is the formula, worked examples on EUR/USD, USD/JPY and gold, and the costs that turn gross profit into net.
Oct 13, 2026
How to Calculate Lot Size for Gold (XAU/USD)
Gold is quoted per ounce and one lot is 100 ounces, so a small price move is a large amount of money. Here is the gold lot size formula, worked examples on small and larger accounts, and the pip conventions that trip traders up.
Oct 13, 2026
How to Set a Stop Loss in Forex
A stop loss belongs where the trade idea is proven wrong, not where the loss feels affordable. Here is how to place stops from market structure and volatility, add a spread buffer, and size the position to match.
Oct 13, 2026
How Much to Risk Per Trade?
Risking a fixed 1–2% of the account on every trade is the habit that keeps a losing streak survivable. Here is why it works, what ten losses in a row does to an account at 1%, 2%, 5% and 10%, and how to turn the percentage into a lot size.
Sep 30, 2026
Risk/Reward Ratio Explained
A risk/reward ratio compares what a trade stands to gain against what it stands to lose. Here is what it means, the win rate you need just to break even, and why a bigger ratio is not automatically better.
Sep 30, 2026
What Is Leverage and Margin in Forex?
Leverage and margin are the same mechanism seen from two sides: leverage sets how much of a position you must set aside as margin, and margin decides what you can open. Here is how both are calculated.
Sep 30, 2026
How to Calculate Forex Lot Size
Position sizing in four steps: pick a risk percentage, measure your stop in pips, find the pip value, and let the lot size fall out of the math.
Sep 22, 2026
What Is a Pip in Forex?
A pip is the standard unit for measuring price moves in forex. Here is what it means, how it is counted on each currency pair, and why pip value changes with your position size.
Sep 22, 2026
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