Forex Blog

Short, practical explainers on the currency market — how it works, how to read it, and the ways traders talk themselves out of their own plan.

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Basics

What a Pip Actually Is

6 min read

The fourth decimal on EUR/USD, the second on USD/JPY, and why the same twenty-pip move is worth different money on different pairs.

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Basics

Why the Market Never Closes

7 min read

Sydney hands to Tokyo, Tokyo to London, London to New York. Which pairs move in which session, and why the London–New York overlap is the busiest hours of the day.

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Charts

Support and Resistance Without the Guesswork

9 min read

How to mark a level from what price has already done rather than from what you hope it will do — and how to tell a level that held twice from one drawn to fit a story.

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Risk

Leverage Cuts Both Ways

8 min read

At 1:100 a one percent move against you is your whole margin. The arithmetic that makes a small account look interesting is the same arithmetic that closes it.

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Risk

Size the Position From the Stop

10 min read

Decide what the trade is allowed to cost, measure the distance to your stop, and let those two numbers pick the lot size instead of picking it yourself.

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Psychology

The Trade You Take After a Loss

7 min read

Revenge trading has a signature — bigger size, tighter stop, no setup. What a written journal catches that memory quietly edits out.