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Lesson · Oct 20, 2026 · Members
The Chain Reaction: Watching a Turn Climb the Boxes

The larger box sets the bias; the smaller box builds the turn. A morning of EUR/USD on October 20, 2026, read link by link from the day to the year, with the levels each link has to clear and the exit for each one.
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Market Basics, unit 2: How the Forex Market Works

…buy one currency with another. So forex prices are quoted as a currency pair . EUR/USD at 1.0850: one euro costs 1.0850 US dollars. EUR is the first (base) currency, USD the second (quote) currency. EUR/USD = 1.0850 mea…
Lesson · Oct 31, 2026 · Members
Bollinger Bands and the Box: Squeeze or Range?

Bollinger Bands look like a box with a middle line, but they are redrawn on every bar. What a squeeze measures, how it differs from a narrow trading range, and why the locked box still decides the reading. Read on EUR/USD.
Lesson · Oct 30, 2026 · Members
Fibonacci Inside the Box: 50% Is C

The 38.2, 50 and 61.8 lines of the Fibonacci tool, set against C and the inner thresholds of the box. Only one of the three is the box's own line. Read on EUR/USD.
Lesson · Oct 28, 2026 · Members
Floor Pivots and the Daily Box: Where the Ladders Agree

Classic floor pivots and the daily box are built from the same day. Here is where P, R1 and S1 line up with C, R1 and S1, and where they part, read on EUR/USD and USD/JPY.
Lesson · Oct 25, 2026 · Members
The Weekly Box in One Picture

How a finished week gives you R1, S1 and C, what the 10% and 90% lines mark, and how to read them on EUR/USD.
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Trading Futures, unit 7: Energy, Metals, Currencies and Rates

…are quoted in U.S. dollars per unit of the foreign currency , the same way as EUR/USD or GBP/USD. Contract Size Tick Tick value Spot pair Euro FX (6E) 125,000 euros 0.00005 $6.25 EUR/USD Micro EUR/USD (M6E) 12,500 euro…
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Forex Essentials, unit 1: Reading a Quote: Bid, Ask and the Spread

…exotics (three kinds of currency pair ). Two prices, not one When you look up EUR/USD, a broker shows you two prices side by side: A two-way quote for EUR/USD: the bid is 1.08500 and the ask is 1.08512. You sell at the…
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Forex Essentials, unit 2: What a Pip Is Worth on Any Pair

…currency (the second one), is always: pip value = pip size × units For 100,000 EUR/USD: 0.0001 × 100,000 = 10 US dollars . The quote currency is the dollar, so that is already the answer for a dollar account. When the q…
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Forex Essentials, unit 3: Leverage and Margin, in Numbers

…called the notional value) is the units times the price, in dollars. 10,000 EUR/USD at 1.1000 is worth 10,000 × 1.10 = $11,000 . At 50:1 , the margin is 11,000 ÷ 50 = $220 . That is a 2% deposit. In the United States…
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Risk and Money Management, unit 2: Sizing a Position from Its Stop

…Size: $100 ÷ $250 = 0.40 lots. Worked examples A $10,000 account, 1% risk, EUR/USD, 25-pip stop. Risk $100. One lot loses 25 × $10 = $250. Size: 100 ÷ 250 = 0.40 lots (40,000 units). A $1,500 account, 1% risk, EUR/U…
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Risk and Money Management, unit 4: Your Written Trading Plan

…open risk , for example 3% across all trades. Correlated pairs count together. EUR/USD, GBP/USD and AUD/USD often move in the same direction, because each is mostly a bet against the US dollar. Three longs in them are c…
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Trading Futures, unit 2: Contract Specifications

…$1.00 $10 per $1 Euro FX (6E) 125,000 euros 0.00005 $6.25 $12.50 per pip Micro EUR/USD (M6E) 12,500 euros 0.0001 $1.25 $1.25 per pip 10-Year Treasury Note (ZN) $100,000 face value ½ of 1/32 $15.625 $1,000 per point The …
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Trading Futures, unit 10: Futures Through the Outer Box

…the boxes from the futures chart, not from spot. 6E trades some pips away from EUR/USD because of the interest difference (Class 7), so spot levels copied onto 6E are off by that amount. For the yen , remember the mirro…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 1: What a Trend Is

…every market wiggles. A move of 50 pips is a trend on a 15-minute chart of EUR/USD and nothing at all on a monthly chart. A trend is judged against the size of the normal swings on the chart you are reading. The opp…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 2: Swing Structure

…redraw their last line as new bars arrive. An uptrend, swing by swing Daily EUR/USD, swings marked with N = 2: Swing Type Price Compared with the previous swing of the same type L1 Low 1.0800 — H1 High 1.0920 — L2 Lo…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 6: Momentum and Divergence

…measure: rate of change (ROC) = (close today ÷ close n bars ago − 1) × 100 EUR/USD closes at 1.1150 today and closed at 1.0950 twenty days ago: (1.1150 ÷ 1.0950 − 1) × 100 = +1.83% over 20 days. Positive and rising …
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Identifying a Trend, unit 9: Trading With the Trend

…Never move a stop away from price. A trail only tightens. A worked trade Daily EUR/USD, the swings from Class 2. The weekly chart is in an uptrend (direction), and the 4-hour chart is the entry chart. Setup. After H1 (1…
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Market Basics, unit 3: Stocks and Forex, Side by Side

…that busyness isn’t spread evenly: it is mostly in the major pairs, above all EUR/USD, during the main hours. The simple rule for both markets: trade what’s busy, when it’s busy. Why many new traders start with forex U…
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Indicators Through the Outer Box, unit 4: Combining Indicators and Testing Them Honestly

…A simple, fair test: Write the rule exactly. For example: “On a 15-minute EUR/USD chart, buy when the TDI price line crosses up through its signal line above the market base, only while price is above the daily box…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 3: Trendlines and Channels

…percentage trend appears as a straight line. A trendline in numbers Using the EUR/USD swings from Class 2, numbered by trading day: Swing Day Price L1 0 1.0800 H1 5 1.0920 L2 10 1.0860 H2 15 1.0990 L3 20 1.0930 H3 25 1…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 4: Moving Averages as a Trend Read

…− k), where k = 2 ÷ (n + 1). Example: the last eleven daily closes of a rising EUR/USD: Day 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Close 1.1000 1.1030 1.1010 1.1050 1.1040 1.1080 1.1070 1.1110 1.1100 1.1140 1.1150 5-day SMA 1.1026 1.10…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 5: Measuring Trend Strength

…progress with noise . All the examples use two stretches of eleven daily EUR/USD closes: Day 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A (trending) 1.1000 1.1030 1.1010 1.1050 1.1040 1.1080 1.1070 1.1110 1.1100 1.1140 1.1150 B (chop…
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Identifying a Trend, unit 8: How Trends Start and End

…is over. Treat the market as a range until a new trend proves itself. The EUR/USD example, from start to end The swings from Classes 2 and 3, as one story: Day What happened Category 0 to 20 Higher lows at 1.0800, …
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Identifying a Trend, unit 10: The Trend on the Outer Box Ladder

…the center of gravity of a later one. A worked trend, week by week Weekly EUR/USD, using the same swings as Classes 2 and 3: Week R1 (high) S1 (low) C Change in C Read 1 1.0920 1.0800 1.0860 — — 2 1.0990 1.0860 1.0…