Education

Learn to trade before you risk capital

A structured beginner academy, written guides, a full glossary, weekly live webinars, market analysis and the economic calendar — all included with every account.

Beginner academy

Four stages, in order

Each stage assumes the one before it. Work through them in sequence rather than jumping straight to charts.

01
Foundations
What a broker does, how an order reaches the market, and the vocabulary you need before touching a chart.
- How markets are priced
- Spread, commission and swap
- Reading an order ticket
02
Order mechanics
Market versus limit orders, attaching risk levels, and what actually happens when a stop is hit.
- Market and limit orders
- Stop loss and take profit
- Slippage and gaps
03
Risk and sizing
The arithmetic that decides whether a strategy survives: position size, margin level and drawdown recovery.
- Position sizing
- Margin and leverage
- Drawdown mathematics
04
Building a process
Turning individual trades into a repeatable plan you can review honestly against your own history.
- Writing a trade plan
- Journalling every position
- Reviewing your statistics

Guides

The library

Written guides, platform walkthroughs and structured courses covering analysis, risk and daily routine.

Guide

Trading basics

Order types, spreads, leverage and margin explained in plain language before you risk anything.

Walkthrough

Platform tutorials

Short videos covering the terminal, watchlists, order tickets and the positions blotter.

Course

Technical analysis

Trend, support and resistance, momentum and how to build a repeatable trade plan.

Course

Risk management

Position sizing, stop placement and the arithmetic of drawdown and recovery.

Daily

Market notes

A short briefing on overnight moves, the session ahead and the data on the calendar.

Practice

Demo account

A funded simulated balance so you can rehearse every workflow before committing capital.

Webinars

Live sessions every week

Run by the education desk and open to every account holder. Sessions are recorded and added to the library.

Every Monday · 13:00 UTC · All levels

The week ahead

The data, earnings and policy events that will set the tone for the session ahead.

Every Wednesday · 16:00 UTC · Intermediate

Chart clinic

Live markup of the instruments attendees submit, with entry, stop and target reasoning.

First Thursday · 15:00 UTC · Beginner

Risk workshop

Position sizing arithmetic, correlation traps and the maths of recovering a drawdown.

Last Friday · 14:00 UTC · Beginner

Platform deep dive

A full walkthrough of the terminal: order tickets, watchlists, blotter and analytics.

Market analysis

Notes from the desk

Short briefings on the themes moving markets, written for traders rather than economists.

Macro · 6 min read

Rate expectations and the dollar

How shifting policy pricing feeds through to currency pairs, index futures and the bond curve.

Equities · 5 min read

Reading an earnings reaction

Why the move after results often contradicts the headline number, and what to watch instead.

Commodities · 4 min read

Inventory weeks in crude

Framing energy positions around the weekly inventory release rather than through it.

Crypto · 5 min read

Weekend liquidity in digital assets

What continuous pricing means for risk when every other market you hold is closed.

Economic calendar

The releases that typically move currencies, indices and bonds. Demo schedule shown for illustration.

08:30
ECB Rate Decision
EUR · Forecast 3.75% · Prev 4.00%
High
10:00
CPI y/y
GBP · Forecast 2.1% · Prev 2.3%
High
12:30
Non-Farm Payrolls
USD · Forecast 185K · Prev 206K
High
14:00
ISM Services PMI
USD · Forecast 52.4 · Prev 51.8
Medium
15:30
Crude Oil Inventories
USD · Forecast -1.2M · Prev 3.6M
Medium
23:50
Trade Balance
JPY · Forecast -0.42T · Prev -0.66T
Low

Illustrative demo calendar. Times shown in server time (UTC).

Glossary

Every term, in plain language

The vocabulary used across the platform, the pricing page and the order ticket.

Spread: The difference between the bid and ask price. It is the cost of opening a position before any commission.
Pip: The smallest standard price increment in a currency pair, usually 0.0001 — or 0.01 for yen pairs.
Leverage: Borrowed exposure expressed as a ratio. 1:20 means £1 of margin controls £20 of position.
Margin: The capital reserved to hold an open position. Free margin is what remains available for new trades.
Margin call: A warning issued when equity falls to the level where positions are at risk of automatic closure.
Stop out: Automatic closure of positions when the margin level falls below the protection threshold.
Swap: The interest credited or debited for holding a leveraged position overnight.
Slippage: The difference between the expected fill price and the price actually received.
Limit order: An instruction to trade only at a stated price or better, rather than at the current market.
Stop loss: A resting order that closes a position once price reaches a defined loss level.
Take profit: A resting order that closes a position once price reaches a defined gain level.
Drawdown: The decline from an equity peak to the following trough, measured in percent.
Liquidity: How much size a market can absorb without moving the price against you.
Volatility: The typical size of price movement over a period. Higher volatility requires smaller positions.
Duration: A bond instrument's sensitivity to interest-rate changes. Longer duration means larger moves.
Equity: Account balance plus or minus the unrealised profit and loss of open positions.

By market

Open an account and start trading in minutes

Registration takes two minutes and every new account starts with a simulated demo balance, so you can place orders across all seven markets before funding anything.

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Learn to trade before you risk capital

Four stages, in order

Foundations

Order mechanics

Risk and sizing

Building a process