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Forex has no central exchange. See how a price travels from the interbank market through liquidity providers to your broker's quote, and why it matters for spreads.
A pip is forex's shared unit of price movement. Learn the quoting conventions, how pip value changes with position size and pair type, and why spreads are quoted in pips.
How currency pairs are quoted, and what the majors, minors and exotic pairs mean for your spreads, liquidity and risk in forex trading.
How the 24-hour forex market's Asian, London and New York sessions shape liquidity, spreads and risk — and how to schedule your trades around them.
How a trailing stop ratchets behind a favorable move, what it locks in, and where it stops you out too early.
Rollover moves your open position to the next settlement date every night, and the swap rate is its price. Here is where it comes from, who pays, and how to check it.
Copy trading mirrors another trader's positions on your account. How regulators classify it, and the four risks — performance, behaviour, incentives, and counterparty — to weigh first.
Spreads can jump several pips around major releases. What drives the widening, what it costs, and how to budget for it.
How standard, mini and micro lots define pip value, and how to size positions from a fixed risk budget instead of from leverage limits.
Swap-free accounts remove overnight interest but reprice it as admin fees, wider spreads or time limits. How to read the real cost before you request one.
A demo and a live forex account share the same platform — the real differences are in prices, execution, and psychology. Here is what a demo can and cannot teach you.
Understand margin level, margin calls and stop-out levels in leveraged forex, with an FCA-rule example and a tool-checked illustration of what leverage changes.