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Short answer: page 2 of Elena Vance's ForexTradeLab bibliography lists earlier research from Sep 2026 – Oct 2026.
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214 published articles — newest first.
A verified XM profile does not create an Algerian retail CFD licence. This 2026 note separates COSOB's securities role, Bank of Algeria exchange controls, dinar transfer friction and the foreign company named in the client agreement.
Guide · · 6 min reading
What an XM identity check means for a Bangladeshi resident in 2026: FERA section 4, authorised-dealer remittances, BSEC's securities remit, and why bKash or a completed KYC file is not Bangladesh Bank approval.
Guide · · 7 min reading
A verification note for Malaysian residents: Bank Negara Malaysia's illegal foreign-exchange scheme definition, the SC's share-and-index CFD limit, and the 28 September 2026 alert-list entries that name XM. A verified profile is not a local licence.
Guide · · 6 min reading
Why funded traders fail prop firm challenges while still in profit: exact dollar math comparing Balance-Based vs Equity-Based Daily Drawdown, Static vs Intraday Trailing High-Water Mark (HWM) drawdown, and how holding floating profit across 00:00 server rollover can breach your account at breakeven.
Risk Management · · 12 min reading
A 2026 city clock for forex: convert the London–New York overlap into local time for Dubai, Riyadh, Lagos, Mumbai, Jakarta, Singapore, São Paulo and other major cities, including the October clock-change week.
Education · · 12 min reading
A practical 2026 guide to pips, pipettes and MetaTrader points: why a spread of 12 is usually 1.2 pips, why a 20-point stop is only 2 pips on five-digit quotes, and how to set the distance you actually meant.
Education · · 12 min reading
Before you pay for a course, copy a signal or follow a trading influencer, audit their results. A 10-point check for Myfxbook badges, demo and cent-account tricks, hidden drawdown, survivorship bias and the finfluencer rules regulators enforced in 2024–2026.
Guide · · 12 min reading
A 2026 one-page journal for FOMC and ECB days: write the priced path first, score action, path and risk-balance separately, and stop calling a modal hold an edge — with official June 2026 FOMC minutes and the September 2026 Fed and ECB teaching files.
Education · · 7 min reading
A 2026 field guide to the ECB’s three clocks: the 14:15 decision, the 14:45 press conference, and the later documents — what each object is, why Q&A can refuse a path the hike already printed, and how to read the 10 September 2026 package without treating the first EUR wick as a signal.
Education · · 8 min reading
A 2026 field guide to the FOMC dot plot: what one dot is, why the median is not a committee vote, how to read range versus central tendency, and how to diff the September 2026 SEP against June — with official Federal Reserve tables, not a USD trade.
Education · · 14 min reading
A 2026 guide to FOMC SEP fan charts: Table 2 RMSE bands, why plus-or-minus one error is about 70 percent coverage, why that band is not a take-profit, and how it differs from the dot-plot range — using the official 16 September 2026 tables.
Education · · 7 min reading
Adverts promise systems that watch the market around the clock, remove emotion and trade while you sleep. Some of that is true. This plain-English guide sets out what retail AI trading bots can and cannot do with your money, the cost lines that are easy to miss — spreads, overnight financing and slippage — and how to test one without putting more at risk than you intended. No provider is recommended.
Education · · 5 min reading
A 2026 field guide to hawkish versus dovish central-bank language: what the words actually signal, why a rate hold can still move FX, how to separate surprise from the decision, and a five-line statement checklist — with Fed, ECB and BIS sources.
Education · · 12 min reading
A 2026 working guide to Fibonacci retracement on forex majors: how the ratios are calculated, how to pick the swing, which levels traders actually watch, why most charts are cluttered, and why Fib is a confluence tool — not a law of price.
Education · · 9 min reading
Exness Kenya review for 2026: Exness (KE) Limited CMA licence 162, entity matching, KES and M-Pesa diligence, minimum deposit, KYC, leverage and a withdrawal test before you scale.
Broker Review · · 10 min reading
Exness Indonesia review for 2026: why no Exness entity holds an Indonesian licence, how forex oversight moved to Bank Indonesia, blocked-domain records, IDR payment diligence, swap-free checks and leverage risk.
Broker Review · · 9 min reading
Connect Python to a locally installed MetaTrader 5 terminal, read broker data, validate a demo order, and add practical automation safeguards.
Technical Guide · · 11 min reading
A 2026 clock-change playbook for forex: 2026 US and UK DST dates, the March and October mismatch weeks, how London–New York overlap moves in UTC, why NFP’s local hour jumps, and a conversion checklist that stops last year’s screenshot from wrecking fills.
Education · · 10 min reading
France forex guide: AMF and ACPR checks, ESMA-style retail CFD leverage, EUR funding, CET/CEST hours, and a practical entity process — education only, not legal or tax advice.
Guide · · 5 min reading
Mainland China forex guide 2026: PBOC and SAFE FX administration, CNY versus CNH, CST session timing, and why an offshore CFD login is not Chinese authorisation.
Guide · · 7 min reading
UK forex guide: FCA Register checks, Brexit entity rules, retail CFD leverage caps, GBP funding, GMT/BST London-session hours, and a practical risk process for residents — education only, not legal or tax advice.
Guide · · 6 min reading
A 2026 education guide to telling a MetaTrader demo from a live account before you click Buy: header labels, server names, balance clues, mobile badges, and what to do if you already traded the wrong environment.
Education · · 11 min reading
How Irish residents can verify a forex or CFD broker in 2026: Central Bank of Ireland registers and warning notices, MiFID passporting, the CBI CFD measure that replaced ESMA's temporary rules, EUR funding, ICCL versus home-state compensation, and what Revenue has said about CFD tax.
Guide · · 12 min reading
A 2026 decision guide to false breakouts in forex: why wicks through a level are not breakouts, why OTC markets have no exchange volume to ‘confirm’, how a held retest differs from a failed break, and how to size the fade without guessing.
Education · · 12 min reading
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