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Free guides, strategies, and broker reviews to help you trade smarter. From beginners to prop firm traders.
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Meet Prof. Winston
Owl-in-residence · Part-time coffee drinker
Behind Prof. Winston is a real finance professional with over ten years trading forex, including prop-funded accounts, MT5 specialisation, and zero patience for broker marketing. Winston is the friendly face; the analysis and opinions you read are his.
He'll show up throughout the site, usually right before you're about to do something regrettable with 1:500 leverage. When you see a Winston callout, pay attention. Those are the lessons we wish someone had yelled at us back in 2017.
Trading Guide is an independent education resource for forex and CFD retail traders. Not a broker, not a signal service, not a course funnel. Instead: a library of long-form guides, country-specific regulatory explainers, and practical walkthroughs written by people who actually trade.
Most retail forex content is either sales copy dressed up as education, or AI-spun listicles that collapse under the first practical question. We took a different approach: a small team of real authors, each with a disclosed speciality (prop firms, MT5, regulatory analysis, risk management), writing in the first person, citing primary sources (FCA, ESMA, ASIC, BIS, central bank disclosures) for every non-obvious claim.
What you'll find on this site
Pillar guides
Authoritative 5,000-word references on forex fundamentals, risk management, prop firm selection, and technical analysis. Written to be read once and referenced forever, not chopped into 40 SEO articles.
Country-specific answers
Focused walkthroughs for high-intent regional queries: "Is forex legal in India?", "FSCA-regulated brokers in South Africa", "Vietnamese trader's guide to offshore accounts". Precise, cited, up to date.
Honest broker reviews
Regulation-first broker coverage. No undisclosed affiliate cash for the highest bidder. If a broker's not authorised in your country, we'll tell you, even when the ad dollars say otherwise.
Prop firm reality checks
Prop firms are useful tools and occasionally traps. We cover the evaluation mechanics, the scaling-plan fine print, and the actuarial realities most marketing glosses over.
Who this is for
If you're new to forex and feeling overwhelmed by chart indicators with Greek names, start with the pillar guides. If you're already trading and trying to decide whether your broker is regulated in your country or whether a prop firm challenge is a reasonable use of $200, jump straight to the relevant country page or prop-firm review. Every page is written to answer one specific question well, rather than rank for thirty keywords poorly.
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