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Fed interest rates and the dollar: expectations, decisions and market reactions
Read the decision against expectations, follow yields and compare both currencies. Includes a checked study of 60 scheduled FOMC meetings and separate statement and press-conference reactions.
Open articleHow a stop-loss executes: trigger price, slippage and quotation gaps
Bid/Ask triggers, gaps, slippage and the evidence needed to check a stop-loss fill, with three comparable EUR/USD scenarios.
Open articleThree currency pairs, one dollar bet? Correlation and portfolio risk
Three trades can share one risk factor. Understand currency exposure, the sum of stop risks and the limits of correlation, with practical examples.
Open articleAccount drawdown: balance, equity and the road to recovery
Balance versus equity, open losses, drawdown duration and the mathematics of recovery — with charts and a calculator.
Open articleEUR/USD London false breakout: does fading the Asian range work?
Here we test whether a move that breaks the quiet overnight range but quickly returns inside it tends to travel back towards the range’s middle. This is a hypothesis about price behaviour, not an automatic buy signal.
Open article →Leverage, margin and liquidation: a clear guide with real-world examples
See exactly how a $1,000 margin supports a $10,000 position, why liquidation can arrive before zero, and how crypto differs from Forex CFDs.
Open article →Risk/reward and break-even calculator
Compare a planned trade’s reward and risk after estimated round-trip costs. Find the break-even exit price and minimum win rate.
Open article →The biggest Forex scandals in history: broker frauds, rigged markets and missing client money
A documented investigation of benchmark manipulation, broker misconduct, Ponzi schemes and market-driven collapses—with court outcomes, red flags and practical checks.
Open article →15 January 2015: the day the Swiss franc broke Forex
A documentary reconstruction of the SNB shock: the CHF 1.20 floor, vanished liquidity, failed stop-losses, negative balances and the brokers that broke.
Open article →3 January 2019: the night the yen jolted the Forex market
A documented reconstruction of the January 2019 yen flash event: the 30-second move, AUD contagion, disappearing liquidity, widened spreads and what traders can actually learn.
Open article →NFP breakout after the jobs report: a 32-release test on real FX quotes
A reproducible test of an NFP opening-range breakout on EUR/USD and USD/JPY, using actual BLS publication dates and Dukascopy 15-minute bid quotes from 2024–2026.
Open article →How to choose a Forex broker: 8 checks before you fund an account
A practical framework for checking Forex broker regulation, client money, execution, trading costs, platforms, withdrawals, leverage, and support.
Open article →How to verify a Forex broker licence before you deposit
A step-by-step guide to checking a Forex broker’s legal entity, official register entry, permissions, website, warnings, and client protections.
Open article →What does Forex trading really cost? Spread, commission, swap and slippage
Learn how to calculate the real cost of a Forex trade by combining spread, commission, overnight financing, slippage, conversion, and account fees.
Open article →Forex robots: how to read live results and drawdown
A practical framework for checking Forex Expert Advisors through public live monitoring, equity, drawdown, lot sizing, broker conditions and demo testing.
Open article →USD/JPY Tokyo opening-range breakout: a complete M15 test
A reproducible test of the Tokyo opening-range breakout on real USD/JPY M15 BID candles, including the next-bar execution rule and modelled costs.
Open article →Forex position size calculator
Calculate risk amount, position size in standard lots and base-currency units from account balance, risk percentage and stop distance.
Open article →Forex pip value calculator
Calculate the value of one pip for a chosen lot size, contract size, pip size and quote-to-account conversion rate.
Open article →EUR/GBP mean reversion: do Bollinger Bands and RSI work on H1?
A real-data EUR/GBP H1 test of Bollinger Bands 20/2 and RSI 14 with next-bar entries, ATR stops, trading costs and drawdown.
Open article →Carry trade in Forex: how rates, currency moves and rollover combine
A real EUR/USD case study separating the spot move, the gross Fed–ECB rate differential and the combined result of a simplified carry model.
Open article →EMA 200 + ADX + ATR Forex trend strategy: exact rules on a real EUR/USD chart
A transparent EUR/USD H1 trend framework using real hourly candles, EMA 200, ADX 14, directional movement and ATR-based exits.
Open article →EUR/USD London Breakout: a 550-trade test with real M15 data
A session-aware EUR/USD London Breakout study using 67,287 real M15 bid candles, Europe/London daylight saving time, explicit exits and one-pip costs.
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