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How to trade the news with news trading
  • Education, Top Traders, Trading Strategy

How to Trade the News (Really)

weak hands vs strong hands in financial markets
  • Education, Getting Started, Investing

Who are the Weak Hands in Financial Markets?

kathy lien bond yields and forex
  • Education, Indicators, Top Traders, Trading Strategy

How Kathy Lien uses yields to trade forex 

Ed Seykota trading tribe method for emotional control
  • Education, Top Traders, Trading Psychology

Trading mistakes Ed Seykota says you can’t fix alone

Jason Sen from daytradeideas on Stochastic indicator
  • Education, Indicators, Top Traders

How Jason Sen uses the slow stochastic

Dan Zanger - net worth
  • Education, Top Traders

Dan Zanger: Pool Contractor to $42 Million Trader

  • Education, Indicators, Trade Setups

Introduction to How Brian Shannon Uses AVWAP

  • Education, Trading Strategy

What Is A ‘Trading Model’? Brent Penfold Explains

Jason Graystone - 7 biggest lies about trading
  • Education, Getting Started, Top Traders

The 7 Biggest Lies Told About Trading (Jason Graystone)

  • Education, Price Patterns, Top Traders

How to Trade a Powerful Trend Without Getting Shaken Out (Adam H Grimes)

Education

How to trade the news with news trading

How to Trade the News (Really)

weak hands vs strong hands in financial markets

Who are the Weak Hands in Financial Markets?

kathy lien bond yields and forex

How Kathy Lien uses yields to trade forex 

Ed Seykota trading tribe method for emotional control

Trading mistakes Ed Seykota says you can’t fix alone

Jason Sen from daytradeideas on Stochastic indicator

How Jason Sen uses the slow stochastic

Dan Zanger - net worth

Dan Zanger: Pool Contractor to $42 Million Trader

Introduction to How Brian Shannon Uses AVWAP

What Is A ‘Trading Model’? Brent Penfold Explains

Jason Graystone - 7 biggest lies about trading

The 7 Biggest Lies Told About Trading (Jason Graystone)

How to Trade a Powerful Trend Without Getting Shaken Out (Adam H Grimes)

bbc traders millions by the minute charlie burton

Best of Charlie Burton in BBC documentary ‘Traders, millions by the minute’

Why to buy a stock at a record high (Mark Minervini explains)

Why buy a stock at a record high? (Mark Minervini explains)

what are renko charts stop hunter

What are Renko charts? TheStopHunter explains

How to position for the next crypto bull market: Lessons from Brian Jung

3 bar patterns trading

3 ‘Unknown Bar Patterns’ from Elliot Wave International

Fibonacci ABCD pattern strategy

FIBO ABCD Trading Strategy (John Tsai)

trading plan template PDF from Trade to Win forum

Tim Wilcox’s T2W Trading Plan Template PDF

time tested money management rules for trading

Time-Tested Money Management Rules

position size scaling

Position Size Scaling in Small Trading Accounts

search for the holy grail in trading

The Search for the Holy Grail of Trading

trendlines are among the simplest trendline trading strategies to learn

Trendlines and the Basics of Trendline Trading Strategies

FX interbank market traders

Which are the Biggest FX Market Banks?

The Triple Screen Trading System (Alexander Elder)

A decentralised crypto exchange (DEX) allows peer-to-peer crypto trading with limited oversight.

What Is a Decentralised Crypto Exchange (DEX)?

The concept of asset classes makes understanding investing and finance much easier.

What Are the Major Asset Classes for Investors?

20 rules every trader breaks

20 rules every trader breaks (Chris Lori)

Price action traders regard a security's price movements as more important than technical indicators.

Do Price Action Trading Strategies Still Work in 2026?

While market orders have their place, every trader should know other types.

What Are the 5 Trading Order Types? | Market, Stop, Limit, and Trailing

Short-term trading while also employed requires you to wear multiple hats.

How to Trade While Also Working Full-Time

Gold typically rises in value due to economic uncertainty, making it a good hedge for equities and forex investors..

How to Trade Gold | A Beginner’s Guide to XAU Trading

Even the best forex trading strategy can fail if it's not backed by scrupulous money management.

5 Tactics for Forex Trading Money Management

Mutual funds are an attractive option for investors who don't want to do a lot of legwork themselves.

How Do Mutual Funds Work?

Forex scams prey on uninformed, greedy investors.

Tips to Avoid Forex Scams and Pyramid Schemes

Most casual traders don't really think about how markets really function, but this knowledge can be important at times.

How Do Financial Markets Actually Work?

Retail investors may not have access to finance's inner circles, but online investment discussions can fill the gap.

What Happens at a Hedge Fund Idea Dinner?

Trading forex based on new economic data and other news gives wise day traders an edge.

News Trading: Using the Economic Calendar (with Forex Factory Example)

The differences between ETFs and mutual funds generally are outweighed by those between individual products.

ETFs vs Mutual Funds – Which Is the Better Investment?

If your goal is to save for retirement, investing in stocks that provide a passive income is a good idea.

Dividend Investing: A Beginner’s Guide to Picking Stocks for Income

Divergence signals can be valuable but are only reliable under certain market conditions.

How to Trade Divergence with Technical Indicators

Market bears can write (sell) either covered or naked call options.

Covered Call Versus Naked Call Option Strategies

CFDs and stocks are both great investment vehicles, but they're good at different things.

CFDs vs Stocks: Which Is Better for Day Trading?

Japanese candlestick patterns are easy to use due to their simplicity.

Candlestick Continuation Patterns: Learn These 5 for Trading Forex

Most beginners in the CFD and other markets fall into the same traps.

Avoid These 7 Classic CFD Trading Mistakes!

What Is the Best Timeframe Chart to Trade Forex?

Candlestick reversal and continuation patterns are easy to interpret but rarely tell the whole story.

5 Must-Know Candlestick Reversal Patterns for Forex Trading

The bid-ask spread just reflects that sellers insist on a slightly higher price than buyers.

What Is the Bid-Ask Spread? How Does It Affect a Trader’s Profits?

stack of trading psychology books recommended for understanding the mental game

5 Best Day Trading Psychology Books for Understanding the Mental Game

scalpers reading a five-minute candlestick chart to plan a quick trade

What Scalpers Do, and What It Takes to Be One

Day trading requires a great deal of attention to detail when monitoring financial markets.

What Is Day Trading? Is It for Me?

Put options, if used wisely, can help investors profit from a bear market.

What Is a Put Option? How The Big Short’s Michael Burry Shorted Tesla

Call options allow traders to take advantage of appreciating assets without too much risk.

What Is a Call Option? – With Historical Example

TD lines trading strategy

How to Draw Objective Trendlines (TD Lines)

Forex trading may sound like a glamorous job, but it's also hard work.

How to Get a Job as a Forex Trader

Specialised ETPs simplify investing in crypto but do not shield traders from its volatility.

What Are Crypto Asset-Based Products?

Real estate, commodities, and collectibles are popular alternative assets.

What Are Alternative Investments? Are They Worth It?

CFD trading strategies: Rejection candlesticks

trader chasing the market after missing a big move higher

How to avoid chasing the market

Dow Jones Industrial Average price chart showing the 30 blue-chip components

What is the Dow Jones? Trading the DJIA

While investing in an asset that goes up is good, this only counts if you take profit at the right time.

Setting Intelligent Profit Targets: Three Useful Techniques

CFDs (contracts for difference) allow you to easily short an asset.

The Pros & Cons of CFDs for Retail Traders

Stablecoins are a great addition to the crypto ecosystem, though some are more stable than others.

Introducing Tether | Using Stablecoins | Is USDT Trustworthy?

Stock influencers do not replace the need for intelligent financial analysis.

The Rise of Stock Influencers – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Stop-loss orders protect part of your unrealised profit if the market turns.

Varying Your Stop-Losses to Maximise Profitable Trades

Trader analyzing charts while day trading forex on a laptop

Is Day Trading Forex a Good Way to Earn Money?

Index funds are automatically diversified, making investors' choices much simpler.

How to Invest in Index Funds | Including Low-Cost Examples

Beginning investors reviewing trading charts and tips

7 Tips for Beginning Investors

With so many options to choose from, on- and offline, which forex broker is best for you?

10-Point Checklist for Choosing a Forex Broker in 2026

Illustration comparing individual stocks to trading index CFDs

How Do Index CFDs Work? | Indices 101

Fibonacci patterns seem to be fundamental to nature, and are quite useful to traders.

The Basics of Harmonic Patterns & Harmonic Trading

Illustration representing the trade-offs of growth and value investing

Growth and Value Investing: Two Sides of the Investment Coin

Client meeting with a financial advisor to discuss investment goals

Do I Need a Financial Advisor? Or Is DIY Investing for Me?

Trader analyzing charts before starting futures trading

What are Futures?

What are cryptocurrencies

Illustration comparing CFDs vs futures as trading instruments

CFDs vs Futures | Differences Explained

Illustration of fixed-income investing and lending money to a borrower

What is a Bond

What is hedging?

What is Litecoin

Illustration representing passive income from crypto staking

Double-digit returns thanks to staking

Person weighing whether to pay debt or invest their money

Pay debt or invest? | Checklist to Help Decide

Illustration comparing Bitcoin vs blockchain technology

Bitcoin vs Blockchain | Definitions & Investment Opportunities

trader looking at multiple computer screens

A Beginner’s Guide to Market Analysis

All forex signal services aren't equally reliable.

Forex Signals: Where to Get and How to Use Them

how to start investing for beginners

How to Start Investing: Securing Your Future

day trader discipline tips

Maintaining Discipline as a Day Trader

Investor using charts and data to analyze a stock

How to analyze a stock

Trader analyzing charts to trade EUR/USD, the world's most liquid pair

How to Trade EUR/USD

How to trade in a falling market

The math behind technical indicators can be complex, but their practical use is not hard to understand.

3 Best Technical Indicators Informing Short-Term Trading Strategies

Smart investors ask themselves 3 questions first.

3 Important Preliminaries to Serious Investing

Careful forex risk management saves tears.

Forex Trading Risks & How to Manage Them

Using a moving average to track price trends

How to Invest in Trend-Following ETFs

Picking the best day trading stocks

Picking the Best Stocks for Day Trading

Traders studying earnings reports

Why a Stock Goes up After Earnings – and How to Trade It

Moving from a Demo Account to Live Day Trading | A 5-Step Guide

Chart illustrating strategies for trading sideways markets

How to Trade During Sideways Markets

Illustration representing how to invest like Peter Thiel

Who is Peter Thiel? And How to Invest Like Him

Trader practising with a paper trading demo account

Paper Trading: Should I Practise on a Demo Account?

Using ‘impulsive & corrective’ moves to trade order flow

Trader analyzing charts to plan options trading strategies

How to Trade Options

what percentage of traders fail

Most Traders Lose Money. Here’s the Hard Data

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