Forex Pairs Explained: Base and Quote Currencies
How to read a forex quote: base vs quote currency, buying vs selling a pair, bid and ask, majors and crosses, and converting P/L to your account currency.
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Category: Futures & Forex
Opening Range Breakout (ORB): Rules, Stops and Examples
An opening range breakout trades a break of the first 5–30 minutes' high or low. Learn ORB entries, stops, futures and stock sizing, filters and common mistakes.
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Forex Carry Trade Explained: How Carry Works and Its Risks
A carry trade buys a high-rate currency and sells a low-rate one to earn the interest gap. See carry math, swaps, leverage effects and why carry trades crash.
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Futures Scalping: Tick Values, Costs and Risk Rules
Futures scalping lives or dies on tick value and costs. See tick values for ES, NQ, CL, GC and micros, scalp sizing math, breakeven win rates and risk rules.
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Technical Analysis for Forex: Timeframes, Levels and Sizing
Forex technical analysis, step by step: top-down timeframes, round numbers and session levels, which indicators work in spot FX, and ATR-based stops and sizing.
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What Are Futures Contracts? How Futures Trading Works
Futures are standardized contracts to buy or sell an asset at a set price later. Learn contract specs, margin, daily mark-to-market, leverage and expiration.
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Forex Spreads, Swap Rates and Trading Costs Explained
Forex costs = spread + commission + overnight swap. Learn to calculate each, why triple swap Wednesday happens, and how costs eat short-term trades.
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Futures Margin and Leverage: Initial, Maintenance and Margin Calls
Futures margin is a performance bond, not a loan. Learn initial vs maintenance margin, how to calculate leverage and your margin call price, with ES examples.
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Forex Swing Trading: Setups, Stops and Holding Costs
How to swing trade forex: daily and 4-hour setups, ATR-based stops, lot sizing, swap and weekend-gap risk, with a worked GBP/USD pullback trade.
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Futures Position Sizing: How Many Contracts to Trade
Contracts = risk budget ÷ (stop × point value). See point values for ES, NQ, CL, GC and micros, worked sizing examples, ATR-based stops and common mistakes.
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