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Nomadic Traders

Start Here: the free foundation

Read these in order. They assume you know nothing about markets, and they take you to the point where you can open a demo account and place a trade you can explain.

What is trading, actually?

Before the charts, the strategies and the funded accounts, one plain explanation of what you are actually doing when you place a trade, and what you are actually risking.

4 min read

Candles, charts and timeframes

A candle is four numbers, not a signal. Learn what a chart is actually showing you before you learn what to do about it.

3 min read

Risk management: the only edge a beginner has

You cannot control whether a trade wins. You control exactly how much it costs when it loses. That single decision, repeated, is the difference between the accounts that survive and the ones that do not.

4 min read

Is trading halal? Swap-free accounts explained

The honest version: what scholars actually disagree about, what a swap-free account does and does not fix, and the questions to bring to someone qualified to answer them.

3 min read