Fundamentals
How to use a demo account so it actually helps
Demo teaches mechanics and rules, not psychology. The biggest mistake is a $100,000 balance when you plan to fund with…
Fundamentals
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Fundamentals
TradingView for beginners: what to use first
A watchlist of at most five instruments, three drawing tools and price alerts. The free tier is enough if you…
Fundamentals
Why didn't my pending order fill when price touched it?
MT4 charts are drawn from the Bid but buy orders fill on the Ask, so a candle touching your level…
Fundamentals
Balance, Equity and Free Margin: what each one means
Balance stands still for as long as you hold a position, so an account deep in loss still shows the…
Regulation & markets
Editorial standards: where our figures come from and how we correct errors
Sources, verification, what happens when we get something wrong, and Backcom VN's conflict of interest stated plainly - including a…
Fundamentals
Forex for beginners: the complete guide, in the order worth learning it
Start with cost and position size rather than indicators. Most accounts are not lost by guessing direction wrong but by…
Fundamentals
A forex learning path that costs least in tuition to the market
Most curricula begin with indicators and candlestick patterns. That is why so many people blow up before reaching them. There…
Risk management
What traders actually earn: read the published figures, not the screenshots
This question is usually answered with a screenshot of a profit. There is a far more reliable source: the loss-rate…
Fundamentals
How forex and crypto differ: leverage, fees, hours and regulation
The two get lumped together because both trade around the clock with leverage. But the fee model, the volatility and…
Fundamentals
Equities or forex: compare on cost and hours, not on returns
Vietnam's stock market trades 09:00-15:00 local, squarely inside working hours. Forex runs 24/5 but with a far more complicated cost…