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Market notes, written to be understood once.

Forex, gold, Bitcoin, risk and social trading — short articles with the numbers worked out. New pieces most weeks.

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Gold4 min

Gold and real interest rates: the relationship that explains most rallies

Gold pays nothing, so its price is set by what you give up to hold it. One number — the real yield — captures that, and it has predicted gold’s big moves for forty years.

8 January 2026Read →
Gold4 min

Why gold is priced in dollars and what that does to XAU/USD

Gold has no yield, no earnings and no central bank — and it is quoted in the one currency that has all three. Half of every gold move is a dollar move. Here is how to separate them.

26 December 2025Read →
Forex4 min

The weekend gap: what it is and how the platform’s weekly break protects you

Between Friday’s close and Sunday’s open the world keeps happening but the price does not print. What a gap does to an open trade, why crypto is different, and the rule IDTraders applies.

18 December 2025Read →
Forex4 min

Why EUR/USD and GBP/USD move together — and when they don’t

Two pairs, one dollar. Most days they rise and fall as a unit; the days they split apart are the days worth understanding, and the days that catch a two-pair copy.

11 December 2025Read →
Forex3 min

Pips, lots and margin: the arithmetic every copier should know

Three words that appear on every trade ticket, what each one is worth in dollars, and how to turn a master’s "0.30 lot" into the risk on your own copy.

4 December 2025Read →
Forex4 min

Leverage explained with one $1,000 example

Leverage is why forex can pay well and why it can wipe an account. One trade, three leverage levels, and the exact point at which each one is stopped out.

27 November 2025Read →
Forex4 min

CPI day: reading an inflation print like a trader

Headline, core, month-on-month, year-on-year: four numbers land at once and the market picks one. How to know which, and what gold and the dollar do in the hour that follows.

20 November 2025Read →
Forex4 min

Non-farm payrolls: what happens in the first sixty seconds

The most-watched number in the currency market, released the first Friday of the month at 13:30 GMT. What it is, why it moves everything, and what a copied trade goes through.

13 November 2025Read →
Forex4 min

Interest rate differentials and why the dollar reacts to the Fed

The single most important idea in currency trading, with numbers: how a quarter-point changes the flow of money, and why the market moves on the words rather than the decision.

6 November 2025Read →
Forex4 min

The London–New York overlap: why most of the day’s move happens there

The currency market never closes, but it is not equally alive all day. Where the volume is, hour by hour in GMT, and what it means for the timing of a copied trade.

30 October 2025Read →
Forex4 min

Support and resistance without the mysticism

Why price stalls at the same levels again and again — the plain explanation, how to draw the levels that matter, and how masters use them for stops.

23 October 2025Read →
Forex4 min

How to read a candlestick in ten minutes

Open, high, low, close — and why the shape of a single candle tells you who won the last hour. No patterns to memorise, just the logic behind them.

16 October 2025Read →