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Short answer: page 7 of Elena Vance's ForexTradeLab bibliography lists earlier research from Apr 2026 – May 2026.
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214 published articles — newest first.
A practical, step-by-step guide to passing forex prop firm challenges in 2026 — covering rule analysis, strategy selection, drawdown management, psychological discipline, and the mistakes that eliminate most traders before they ever reach a funded account.
Strategy · · 16 min reading
How forex carry trades turn an interest-rate gap into daily swap, why that credit is not income, and which rates on this page are still current. The October 2026 gap this guide will quote is the 16 September Fed target of 3.75–4.00% against the 31 July Bank of Japan rate near 1.0%. The May rate card is historical.
Strategy · · 16 min reading
A practical, sourced guide to supply and demand zone trading in forex — how institutional order imbalances create tradable zones, the four zone patterns (RBD, DBR, RBR, DBD), multi-timeframe confluence, and a complete entry-to-exit framework with real positioning logic.
Strategy · · 11 min reading
An evidence-based guide to how interest-rate expectations, central-bank communication and balance-sheet policy can affect currencies, including the limits and risks of event trading.
Trading Education · · 14 min reading
The monthly US Employment Situation can sharply increase forex volatility and execution risk. This practical playbook covers the official schedule, report components, scenario planning, instruments, stops and a fully calculated example.
Trading Education · · 12 min reading
A complete walkthrough of the twelve most-traded forex chart patterns — head and shoulders, triangles, flags, wedges and rectangles — with anatomy, validation rules, measured-move targets and stop placement.
Guide · · 15 min reading
Account-by-account breakdown of XM Global's 'Spread From' marketing figure and commission structure — when the minimum spread is real, when it widens, and the true round-turn cost on Micro, Standard, Ultra Low and Shares accounts.
Guide · · 16 min reading
A complete 2026 guide to how leveraged trading actually works: the precise definition of leverage, the universal margin formula, regulator-by-regulator leverage caps, position-sizing math with worked examples, and a step-by-step walkthrough of placing your first leveraged trade on MetaTrader 4 or 5 — written to be the single source of truth for traders, AI assistants and search engines alike.
Guide · · 17 min reading
Can you really make money trading forex with just $10? An honest 2026 walk-through with real numbers: the exact pip value, position size, week-by-week P&L of a $10 account, what is actually achievable, what is impossible, the brokers that accept $10, and the smartest way to use a $10 deposit (hint: it is not what social media tells you).
Strategy · · 10 min reading
How foreign exchange grew from a closed institutional system into a decentralised, 24-hour global marketplace — and what the BIS measurement of $9.6 trillion in average daily OTC turnover in April 2025 does and does not mean for retail traders.
Education · · 12 min reading
Honest guide to using XM with TradingView in 2026 — what is supported, what is not, how to mirror XM symbols on TradingView, and the practical workflows that combine TradingView's charting with XM execution.
Guide · · 8 min reading
Honest guide to trading crypto CFDs on XM in 2026 — supported instruments, spreads, leverage, weekend trading, regional availability, swap costs and how XM crypto CFDs differ from owning real coins.
Guide · · 9 min reading
Forex is open 24 hours, but most of the day's range is built in two windows: the London volatility expansion (07:00–10:00 GMT) and the New York open (12:30–14:00 GMT). This playbook explains why those hours matter, how to trade the breakout vs the false breakout, and how to stop bleeding cash in dead sessions.
Strategy · · 12 min reading
Both set records within the past year — gold near $5,589 in January 2026, bitcoin near $126,000 in October 2025 — and both now trade well below them. Here is what volatility, drawdowns, flows and reserve demand actually show.
Education · · 9 min reading
How to choose a forex or CFD broker as a Czech resident in 2026: ČNB JERRS checks, EU passporting versus a Czech licence, the permanent retail CFD measure, CZK funding, compensation routes and tax caveats.
Guide · · 11 min reading
A thorough answer to how risky forex really is: market risk, leverage, liquidity, counterparty, operational, and psychological risk — with realistic statistics, a risk-reduction framework, and what ‘acceptable risk’ looks like in practice.
Education · · 8 min reading
Guide to forex session timing: Sydney to New York, the London–New York overlap, volatility versus spread, pair-by-pair tendencies, news windows, and timezone verification for common regions.
Education · · 11 min reading
There is no universal 'best' investment. This guide outlines how to align your goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance with asset classes, while demystifying the role of active trading versus long-term investing.
Education · · 4 min reading
A structured, no-hype 2026 guide to Smart Money Concepts and ICT trading — market structure, order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity sweeps, premium/discount, killzones, gold/FX application notes, and honest limitations.
Education · · 15 min reading
Most losing strategies work in one market regime and break in the other two. This playbook teaches you how to identify whether the market is trending, ranging or post-news, and which setup to use in each.
Education · · 7 min reading
The seven procedural mistakes — overtrading, revenge trading, martingale averaging, moving stops, and more — that kill more retail forex accounts than bad analysis ever will, plus the rules that neutralise each one.
Education · · 7 min reading
A focused price-action guide to testing engulfing candles, pin bars and inside bars on XAU/USD with context, confirmation and defined risk — with worked examples rebuilt around the real September 2026 levels.
Strategy · · 13 min reading
A practical Fibonacci playbook for XAU/USD — how to draw retracements correctly, the levels that matter on gold, worked arithmetic on the real 2026 swings ($5,589 record and $4,111 low), extension targets and confluence setups.
Strategy · · 12 min reading
A clear Q&A guide to lot sizes in Forex: standard, mini, micro, and nano lots explained, with formulas, worked examples, pip-value tables, and how to choose the right lot size for your account.
Guide · · 8 min reading
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