Trading Guides
Long-form, pedagogical guides for traders who want to actually understand the markets — not just chase signals. Updated for 2026.
Why pillar guides, not another blog
Most forex education online is built for SEO, not for learning. You get forty short articles repeating the same leverage definition, each optimised for a slightly different keyword, none of them actually walking you end-to-end through a real decision. You close the tab slightly less clear than when you opened it.
A pillar guide is the opposite philosophy: one long, carefully sequenced reference that takes a topic — forex trading, prop firm selection, risk management — and walks you from first principles through the practical mechanics to the edge cases traders actually hit. It's written once, maintained forever, and linked from everywhere.
Each guide on this page follows the same editorial standards:
- First-person voice — written by a named author who trades what they're describing, not rewritten from an AI outline.
- Primary sources cited inline — FCA, ESMA, ASIC, BIS, broker disclosures. If a claim isn't obvious, there's a link to the data.
- No sales copy — we don't rank brokers by affiliate payout. If a broker's not regulated in your region, we say so.
- Updated dates you can trust — if we change the substance of a guide, the "updated" date moves. If we're just fixing a typo, it doesn't.
Published guides
What's coming
We're deliberately slow with pillar guides. Each one takes 40-60 hours between research, writing, fact-checking, visuals, and editorial review — so we'd rather publish one good guide per month than ten mediocre ones per week. Here's the current roadmap.
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Forex Trading — The Complete Guide for Beginners
Published. End-to-end walkthrough: pairs, leverage, candles, risk management, the realistic profitability timeline.
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Prop Firm Selection — How to Choose, and When Not To
In progress. Challenge mechanics, scaling-plan fine print, actuarial realities, and the specific traps in every major firm's terms.
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Risk Management — The 1% Rule and What It Actually Protects You From
Planned. Position sizing, drawdown math, the emotional math behind why 1% works.
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Technical Analysis Without the Mysticism
Planned. Support/resistance, the three market regimes, what indicators do and don't do.
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Choosing a Regulated Broker — The Framework
Planned. Regulation tiers, segregated funds, dispute channels, red flags hidden in T&Cs.