Learn Forex from the Basics to Using Indicators

What Is Forex? What Beginners Need to Know

Understand the forex market, currency pairs, pips, lots, and how to read prices before you start trading for real.

How to Read Candlestick Charts for Beginners

Candlestick structure, price trends, and the basic candlestick patterns you should know before using indicators.

Risk Management Basics: Lot Size, Stop Loss, Risk:Reward

Risk management principles that keep you in the market long-term, before moving on to indicators.

Leverage and Margin: How They Work and Where They Go Wrong

What leverage actually does to your account, plus Margin Level, Margin Call, and Stop Out explained.

Forex Trading Sessions: When Is the Best Time to Trade?

The Asian, London, and New York sessions, when they overlap, and why timing affects volatility.

Support and Resistance: Reading Price Levels Before Indicators

How to spot the price levels where buyers and sellers repeatedly take control, and why they matter.

Chart Patterns: Head & Shoulders and Double Top/Bottom

How to spot classic reversal patterns and why the neckline or support break is what actually confirms them.

Order Types: Market, Limit, and Stop Orders Explained

The difference between Market, Limit, and Stop orders, and when to use each one to enter a trade.

Trend vs Range: Reading Market Structure

How to tell a trending market from a ranging one, and why the strategy that works for one can fail in the other.

Technical vs Fundamental Analysis: What's the Difference?

Reading charts versus reading news and economic data — what each approach looks at, and how to combine them.

Featured Indicators

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Indicator: What Is a Moving Average (MA) and How to Use It

How the moving average works, how to spot trends and cross points, plus downloadable indicator files.

Indicator: What Is RSI? Finding Overbought/Oversold Zones

Read RSI values to spot potential price reversals, with ready-to-use MT4/MT5 alert files.

Indicator: What Is MACD? Reading Crossovers and Momentum

How the MACD line, signal line, and histogram work together to time entries, with downloadable MT4/MT5 alert files.

Indicator: What Are Bollinger Bands? Trading Volatility

Use the upper, middle, and lower bands to read volatility and spot potential reversals, plus downloadable MT4/MT5 files.

Indicator: What Is ATR? Sizing Stop Losses to Volatility

Measure how much price is really moving and use it to size Stop Loss and position size, with downloadable MT4/MT5 files.

Indicator: What Is the Stochastic Oscillator?

Read %K and %D to find overbought/oversold turning points, with ready-to-use MT4/MT5 alert files.

Indicator: What Is ADX? Measuring Trend Strength

Use ADX with +DI/-DI to tell a strong trend from a choppy market before you trade it, plus downloadable MT4/MT5 files.

Indicator: What Is Parabolic SAR? Trailing Trend Reversals

Read the SAR dots to follow a trend and catch reversal points, with ready-to-use MT4/MT5 alert files.

Indicator: How to Use Fibonacci Retracement Levels

Draw retracement levels to find likely support/resistance during a pullback, plus downloadable auto-Fibonacci MT4/MT5 files.

Indicator: What Are Pivot Points? Daily Support & Resistance

Auto-calculated Pivot Point, R1-R3, and S1-S3 levels from the prior day's High/Low/Close, plus downloadable MT4/MT5 files.