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Guides, tools and research on forex and MetaTrader. How each strategy works, what every setting does, and what an account really needs. No performance claims.
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MetaTraderMT4, MT5, Expert Advisors, indicators and MQL programming.
MarketsCurrency pairs, trading sessions, central banks and the data that moves them.
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BrokersHow to check a broker before you fund it: regulation, costs and execution.
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- USD/JPY: two decimals, moving pip value, and the risks unique to the yen The pair where the arithmetic from EUR/USD stops working. Why one pip is 0.01, why its value keeps changing, the carry trade, and the intervention risk that does...
- GBP/USD: the volatility, the stop distance, and the correlation trap Cable covers more ground per day than the euro, so a stop learned on EUR/USD is noise-level here. What moves it, when, and why holding it alongside EUR/USD is...
- EUR/USD: what moves it, when it moves, and why it suits automation The most traded pair in the world. What you are actually buying, the two sides that move it, the interest rate differential lens, and the practical notes that...
- Forex market hours: sessions, the overlap, and the hours to avoid A live session clock in your own timezone, what each session is like, when each pair actually moves, and the four windows that cost traders money for no reason.
- Risk calculator: entry, stop and target into size and reward to risk Works from prices rather than pips. Gives stop distance, position size for your risk percentage, and the reward to risk ratio, with the win rate each ratio needs...
- Lot size calculator: from money at risk to a size your broker accepts Turn the money you are willing to lose and your stop distance into a lot size, rounded down to the volume step. Includes the three broker settings that override...
- Pip calculator: what one pip is worth for your pair and account Pip value for any pair, position size and account currency, including yen pairs and gold. No live rates, so you control every input and nothing depends on a feed...