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Short answer: this ForexTradeLab archive collects 97 research pages on Risk Management — education and broker mechanics, not live signals.
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A sourced test for people who intend to start forex and are thinking about resigning: what ESMA and AMF loss evidence implies for a salary, why a monthly percentage is not a paycheque, and what to keep in place before any notice letter.
Education 
Elena Vance 10 min reading
Six skills a person who intends to start forex should be able to do on a blank page before any live deposit: name the legal entity, value a pip, compare spread to the stop, size a 1% risk, name the session, and write a journal row.
Education 
Marcus Reed 12 min reading
Decode the mandatory CFD risk warning that says X% of retail investor accounts lose money: what the percentage measures under FCA/ESMA-style rules, what it does not measure, how to compare brokers, and how intending traders should use it before depositing.
Trust Marcus Reed 10 min reading
A practical 2026 definition of forex risk capital for people who intend to start trading: how ‘money you can afford to lose’ differs from emergency funds and income, a separation checklist, sizing examples, and red flags that you are funding with the wrong money.
Education Elena Vance 9 min reading
A break-even stop is flat at the fill price plus commission and swap, not at the candle you remember. Longs close on the bid. Move it too early and scratches replace winners.
Risk Management Elena Vance 12 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 Elena Vance 12 min reading
Why spot forex and XAU/USD charge three days of swap on Wednesday at 17:00 New York, why USD/CAD and USD/TRY roll on Thursday instead, how to verify 3-Days Swap in MT4/MT5 Contract Specifications, and how to avoid the 00:00 server rollover spread trap.
Education 
James Okonkwo 14 min reading
A practical 2026 guide to Stephen Jen and Fatih Yilmaz's dollar smile: why the US dollar can rise in a global funding squeeze and when the US is clearly leading, why the middle often softens it, and how retail traders should label the regime before they size a trade.
Education Marcus Reed 12 min reading
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.
Guide Marcus Reed 12 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 Elena Vance 10 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 Elena Vance 11 min reading
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.
Education Marcus Reed 13 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 Elena Vance 11 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 Elena Vance 12 min reading
A diagnostic 2026 guide to stop-loss fills that miss your price: bid vs ask, gaps, news spread, stop-limit non-fills, stop-out versus SL, and Invalid Stops — with a bid/ask diagram and a five-cause checklist.
Risk Guide Elena Vance 7 min reading
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.
Education 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.
Education Marcus Reed 11 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 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 practical 2026 explainer of retail CFD/forex leverage caps under ESMA, FCA and ASIC product intervention: asset-class limits, why they exist, retail vs professional status, entity traps, and how to trade safely within the rules.
Trust Marcus Reed 11 min reading
A practical guide to building a forex news spread and slippage log so traders can measure real broker execution around NFP, CPI, FOMC and other high-impact events.
Risk Management Elena Vance 7 min reading