Year archive
Research from the 2026 publishing cycle.
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.
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.
Can you make $100 a day trading forex? We reverse-engineer the target: the lot size, pips, account size, win rate and losing-streak odds a $100 daily goal actually requires — and why most small accounts should chase a process, not a paycheck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to log in to XM safely: Members Area vs MT4/MT5, official www.xm.com CTA, password reset, phishing checks, and what to do if the site is blocked.
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.
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.
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.
Exness Pakistan review for 2026: SBP and SECP boundaries first, then PKR funding and withdrawal planning, Islamic swap-free checks, KYC documents and why this is not a local OTC-forex licence.
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.
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.
Exness India review for 2026: why RBI, FEMA and LRS come before spreads, why UPI is not authorisation, how Exness differs from XM on bonuses, and what Indian residents should verify if they research the brand.
A focused XM vs Exness automation comparison covering MT4/MT5 Expert Advisors, MQL, the MT5 Python terminal bridge, Exness API eligibility, VPS operations, account costs and controls.
Connect Python to a locally installed MetaTrader 5 terminal, read broker data, validate a demo order, and add practical automation safeguards.
An evidence-based framework for choosing among XM, Exness, IC Markets and Pepperstone for EAs, MT5 Python, native APIs, FIX, VPS deployment, historical data and execution control.
A plain-English due-diligence analysis of Exness API Terms of Use EN-V01-15/07/26, covering access, API-key security, automation, rate controls, latency restrictions, outages and a pre-live checklist.
A 2026 education guide to the London 16:00 UK WMR FX fix: the five-minute calculation window, why month-end and quarter-end flow concentrates there, how UK time maps to UTC, and why a spike on a retail chart is not a signal.
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.
A practical architecture and due-diligence comparison of broker-native APIs, MT4/MT5 Expert Advisors, Python through MT5, FIX access, VPS hosting, and repeatable execution testing.
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.