How the market behaves around you: who else is trading, when liquidity is there, how your order really fills, and how to check a broker before you trust it with money.
BEGINNERYou can tell an ordinary fill from a bad one, pick your trading hours deliberately, and check a broker before depositing.
Retail traders are a small part of this market. Knowing who the rest are explains most of what looks random.
14 min4 topics
Banks, corporates, funds and retail — what each one is in the market for, and why most of them are not trying to predict direction.
18 min4 topics
Why the same pair behaves like a different instrument at 03:00 and at 15:00.
The gap between the price you clicked and the price you got, and when that gap is normal.
18 min4 topics
What happens between your click and your fill, and how to tell ordinary slippage from a problem.
20 min4 topics
The two models, what each one means for your fills, and why neither is automatically dishonest.
The checks that are worth an hour now and cannot be done after the money is gone.
18 min4 topics
What a licence does and does not protect, and the difference between an entity and a brand.
20 min4 topics
A repeatable checklist, run on the account you would actually open.
6 lessons · ~1.8 hrs