Trading guides

The course teaches trading step by step, from the basics to advanced topics. Guides cover subjects that sit outside that path: specific instruments, chart pattern references, and common questions about trading in particular countries.

Each guide follows the same standards as the lessons. It explains rather than recommends, shows its sources, and links back to the lessons that cover the underlying ideas. More guides are added as they are written and reviewed.

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Strategy concept

Last updated 27 October 2026

Swing Trading: How It Works, Strategies and a Worked Example

Swing trading holds positions for several days to a few weeks to capture one move, or swing, inside a larger trend or range. This guide explains how swing traders find setups on the daily and 4-hour charts, the main swing trading strategies, what swap and spread cost over a multi-day hold, and a worked EURUSD swing trade.

Strategy concept

Last updated 27 October 2026

Scalping in Forex: How Scalp Trading Works, With Examples

Scalping is a trading style that opens and closes many small trades within seconds to minutes to capture a few pips each time. This guide explains how a scalp trade works on the M1 and M5 charts, what spread and commission cost a scalper, the main scalping strategies, and a worked EURUSD plan in MetaTrader 5.

Strategy concept

Last updated 27 October 2026

Price Action Trading: How to Trade From a Clean Chart

Price action trading makes every decision from the price chart itself, reading market structure, support and resistance and candle patterns instead of indicators. This guide explains the building blocks, the main price action strategies, a worked GBPUSD pin bar trade, and how to set up a clean chart in MetaTrader 5.

Last updated 27 October 2026

NAS100: What It Is and How to Trade the Nasdaq 100

NAS100 is the symbol many brokers use for a CFD on the Nasdaq-100, an index of 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq, weighted by company size. It is quoted in index points, each worth a fixed amount per lot, and moves most around the New York open, big-company earnings, Federal Reserve decisions and US data.

Last updated 27 October 2026

GBPUSD: How to Trade the Pound-Dollar Pair

GBPUSD is the price of one British pound in US dollars, the fourth most traded currency pair with 7.6% of global forex turnover. One pip is 0.0001 and is worth $10 on 1 standard lot, and the pair moves most in London hours and on Bank of England and Federal Reserve news.

Last updated 27 October 2026

GBPJPY: How to Trade the Pound-Yen Pair

GBPJPY is the price of one British pound in Japanese yen, a cross pair whose price is GBPUSD multiplied by USDJPY. One pip is 0.01 and is worth 1,000 yen on 1 standard lot, about $6.67 at 150 yen to the dollar, and the pair moves most in London hours and on Bank of England and Bank of Japan news.

Last updated 27 October 2026

Forex Trading in Vietnam: How Beginners Learn and Trade

How people in Vietnam learn forex and trade gold, forex and indices with KCM Trade, from practising on a free KCM demo to MT5 on a phone, costs in US dollars, the session hours in Vietnam time (ICT) and the 2025 personal income tax law.

Last updated 27 October 2026

Forex Trading in Thailand: How Beginners Learn and Trade

How people in Thailand learn forex and trade gold, forex and indices with KCM Trade, from practising on a free KCM demo to MT5 on a phone, costs in US dollars, the session hours in Thailand time (ICT) and how the Revenue Department taxes foreign income.

Last updated 27 October 2026

Forex Trading in Taiwan: How Beginners Learn and Trade

How people in Taiwan learn forex and trade gold, forex and indices with KCM Trade, from practising on a free KCM demo to MT5 on a phone, costs in US dollars, the session hours in Taiwan time (UTC+8) and how overseas income is taxed.

Last updated 27 October 2026

EURUSD: How to Trade the Euro-Dollar Pair

EURUSD is the price of one euro in US dollars and the most traded currency pair in the world, with 21.2% of global forex turnover. One pip is 0.0001 and is worth $10 on 1 standard lot, and the pair moves most in the London and New York overlap and on ECB and Federal Reserve news.

Strategy concept

Last updated 27 October 2026

Elliott Wave Theory: The 5 Waves, the Rules and How to Trade Them

Elliott wave theory says that prices in a trend move in a repeating pattern of five waves with the trend and three waves against it. This guide explains the five impulse waves, the ABC correction, the three rules that are never broken, how Fibonacci ratios fit, and a worked EURUSD wave 3 trade.

Last updated 26 October 2026

What Are Indices? How Stock Indices Work and How to Trade Them

An index is one number that tracks the prices of a basket of shares, such as US500, which tracks 500 large US companies. Traders take a position on an index rising or falling with a CFD, quoted in index points, without owning any of the shares.

Last updated 26 October 2026

Strongest Currency in the World: Top 10 Highest-Valued Currencies

The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest-valued currency in the world, worth about 3.23 US dollars on 26 October 2026, followed by the Bahraini dinar, the Omani rial, the Jordanian dinar and the British pound. A high price per unit is not the same as strength, and the US dollar is still the most traded currency.

Strategy concept

Last updated 27 October 2026

Smart Money Concepts (SMC): A Beginner’s Guide to ICT Trading Terms

Smart money concepts (SMC) is a way of reading price charts through market structure, liquidity, order blocks and fair value gaps, built on the idea that large orders leave visible traces. ICT trading uses the same vocabulary. This guide defines each term and walks through one trade from sweep to target.

Last updated 27 October 2026

How to Trade Forex Online: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

To trade forex online, learn how currency pairs and pips work, install MetaTrader 5 and practise on a demo account, choose a pair and a time to trade, size each trade from your stop loss, place it with a stop and target, then open a live account and trade the same plan at a small size.

Last updated 19 October 2026

Forex Trading in the Philippines: How Filipinos Learn and Practise

A practical guide to forex for Filipinos. It covers practising on a free KCM demo, MT5 on Android or iPhone, MT5 order types, trading gold, forex and indices in a US-dollar account, what a trade costs in US dollars, and the market sessions in Philippine time.

Last updated 19 October 2026

Forex Trading in South Africa: Funding, MT5, Gold and Tax

How South Africans trade forex, from practising on a free KCM demo and funding a US-dollar KCM account to trading gold, forex and indices on KCM Pro or MT5 on your phone, with costs in US dollars, SAST hours and SARS tax.

Last updated 19 October 2026

Forex Trading in Nigeria: How Beginners Start and Trade

How Nigerians start forex trading, from practising on a free KCM demo to trading gold, forex and indices in US dollars on KCM Pro or MT5 on your phone, with costs and sizes worked out in dollars and the busiest hours in WAT.

Last updated 19 October 2026

Forex Trading in Malaysia: How Beginners Learn and Practise

Malaysians learn forex by studying how CFDs, pips and costs work, practising on a free KCM demo, then trading gold, forex and indices in US dollars. This guide covers swap-free trading, MT5 on a phone, order types, costs in US dollars and forex hours in Malaysia time.

Last updated 19 October 2026

US30: What It Is and How the Dow Jones CFD Is Traded

US30 is the symbol many brokers use for a CFD on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a price-weighted index of 30 large US blue-chip companies. It is quoted in index points, each worth a fixed amount per lot, and moves most around the New York open, earnings, Federal Reserve decisions and major US data.

Strategy concept

Last updated 19 October 2026

Supply and Demand in Forex: How to Mark and Trade Zones

Supply and demand in forex means marking zones where price paused briefly and then moved away sharply, then planning a trade for when price returns, with demand zones below price and supply zones above it. The zone’s edges set your entry and your stop loss.

Last updated 19 October 2026

Is Forex Trading Halal? What Islamic Scholars and Fatwa Bodies Say

AAOIFI and the OIC Fiqh Academy accept currency trading that is settled on the spot, with possession and no interest. This guide sets out each Shari’ah condition, how a swap-free (Islamic) account removes overnight interest, and what to check in an account’s terms.

Last updated 27 October 2026

How to Trade Gold (XAUUSD)

XAUUSD is the symbol for gold in US dollars per troy ounce. To trade gold as a CFD, you buy or sell XAUUSD, the gold price in US dollars per troy ounce, in lots and settle the price difference in cash without owning any metal. This guide covers the MT5 steps, what a lot and a $1 move are worth, margin, spread, swap and the busiest hours.

Strategy concept

Last updated 26 October 2026

Fibonacci Retracement: How to Draw and Trade the Levels

Fibonacci retracement marks levels at 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 78.6% of a completed price swing, so you can see how deep a pullback has gone. Traders line the levels up with the trend and with support and resistance to plan entries, stop losses and take profits.

Strategy concept

Last updated 19 October 2026

Candlestick Patterns: How to Read and Trade Them

Candlestick patterns are named shapes made by one to three candles, such as the hammer, doji and engulfing candle, that show how buying and selling played out. Read them at a level after a clear move, once the candle closes, and set entry, stop loss and take profit from the pattern’s high and low.

Last updated 27 October 2026

Best Forex Pairs to Trade in 2026: 8 Top Pairs Compared

The best forex pairs to trade are the most liquid ones, led by EURUSD, USDJPY and GBPUSD, and the one that suits you fits the hours you can trade, your account size and the costs you can carry. Compare pairs on liquidity, typical spread, volatility, active hours, correlation with other pairs, news exposure and overnight swap, then measure the shortlist side by side on an MT5 demo account.