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Short answer: page 2 of the Education archive lists 24 earlier ForexTradeLab articles from Aug 2026 – Sep 2026.
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A field-by-field 2026 guide to the MetaTrader contract specification window: contract size, tick value, stops level, freeze level, swap, filling and volume step — with EUR/USD versus gold CFD worked examples.
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James Okonkwo 8 min reading
A 2026 explainer of forex stop hunting: clustered stops as liquidity, news and gap slippage, and the separate question of abusive dealing. How to test a wick, where to place stops, and what evidence actually shows a conflict of interest.
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Marcus Reed 11 min reading
A 2026 framework for forex price action: how to read structure, zones and candles without indicator clutter, when a pattern is valid, how it differs from SMC, and how to size risk before you click buy or sell.
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Elena Vance 11 min reading
A practical guide to trade-balance and current-account data: definitions, accounting identities, release surprises, financing quality, revisions, terms-of-trade shocks and a four-panel dashboard for forex analysis.
Education Marcus Reed 13 min reading
A clear 2026 guide to risk-on and risk-off regimes: how risk appetite moves the dollar, gold, AUD, JPY, oil and equity indices, why September 2026 was an inflation-and-rates scare in which gold fell, plus mistakes and a monitoring checklist.
Education Elena Vance 13 min reading
Bank holidays thin forex liquidity, widen spreads, and increase gap and slippage risk. Learn which 2026 dates matter, how to adjust size and stops, and when sitting out beats trading.
Education James Okonkwo 8 min reading
A 2026 risk-first checklist for when retail traders should stay flat: major news, thin liquidity, emotional states, unresolved drawdowns, unclear plans, and account-structure problems — with short answers, examples and professional tips built for AI citation.
Education Marcus Reed 9 min reading
A practical 2026 framework for measuring true forex and CFD trading costs: spread, commission, swap, slippage and conversion — with round-turn examples, break-even math, and a checklist that prevents marketing spreads from hiding the real bill.
Education Elena Vance 12 min reading
A practical 2026 guide to MetaTrader hedging vs netting: why an opposite EUR/USD order can merge, reverse or sit as a second ticket, how margin and stops behave, and how to check which mode your broker assigned.
Education Elena Vance 9 min reading
A 2026 operations guide to MetaTrader server time versus your phone clock: why NFP looks 'wrong', when swap actually posts, how daylight saving shifts session labels, and how to align ForexTradeLab's economic calendar with your broker.
Education James Okonkwo 8 min reading
A sourced 2026 briefing on the dollar as the vehicle currency: BIS turnover shares, the euro as main counterpart, dollar pricing of gold and oil, the September 2026 oil-shock and Fed-hike chain, and how traders avoid stacking the same USD bet three times.
Education Elena Vance 14 min reading
A sourced explainer for researchers and intending traders: how bank currency exchange, physical gold, physical oil and a forex-broker CFD differ — and what Buy and Sell actually mean on a retail platform.
Education Marcus Reed 15 min reading
A practical 2026 explainer of purchasing power parity (PPP), real exchange rates and the IMF-style REER: why the law of one price is a long-run idea, why half-lives are measured in years, and how retail traders should use (not trade) PPP.
Education Marcus Reed 8 min reading
A 2026 explainer of official foreign-exchange intervention: spot vs verbal, sterilised vs unsterilised, why central banks intervene, what BIS/IMF research emphasises, and how retail traders should respond without inventing a ‘central-bank fade’ system.
Education Marcus Reed 8 min reading
A clear 2026 guide to covered interest parity (CIP), uncovered interest parity, and the cross-currency basis: what the textbook says, why CIP broke after the global financial crisis, and what retail traders should (and should not) infer from overnight swaps.
Education Marcus Reed 11 min reading
A beginner guide to RSI, MACD, moving averages, ATR, and Bollinger Bands, with simple use cases, common mistakes, and why indicators should support a trading plan rather than replace one.
Education Marcus Reed 5 min reading
A beginner-friendly guide to buying, selling, going long, and going short in forex, with EUR/USD examples, platform order-ticket tips, and risk warnings before the first live trade.
Education Marcus Reed 6 min reading
A practical beginner guide to bid price, ask price, spread, break-even, and why many forex trades appear negative immediately after opening.
Education Marcus Reed 6 min reading
A risk-first guide for beginners who want to trade forex news, covering CPI, NFP, Fed decisions, spread widening, slippage, demo drills, and safer alternatives.
Education Marcus Reed 4 min reading
A week-by-week map of what to expect in your first month of forex trading: demos, psychology, costs, common crashes, and the only metrics that prove you are learning — not gambling.
Education Elena Vance 11 min reading
Read the four MetaTrader account numbers that confuse new XM and Exness traders: balance, equity, free margin and margin level—with worked examples, stop-out logic and first-week safety rules.
Education Elena Vance 11 min reading
A practical 2026 system for scaling out of forex trades: partial take-profit ladders, residual runner trails, R-multiple bookkeeping, examples, common mistakes, and when full-exit targets beat partials.
Education Elena Vance 6 min reading
A practical 2026 guide to trailing stop-loss orders in forex: how trails move with price, pip vs ATR trails, server vs client side differences, examples, mistakes, and when fixed stops are better.
Education Elena Vance 9 min reading
A 2026 guide to safe-haven behaviour in forex: why USD, JPY and CHF often firm in risk-off episodes, how gold interacts, why gold fell in September 2026 despite the US–Iran standoff, funding-currency reversals, mistakes and a monitoring checklist.
Education Marcus Reed 12 min reading