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    Foundations

    Everything you need to place your first trade competently.

    • Market mechanics
    • Risk management
    • Your first trade
    • Technical analysis
    • Fundamental analysis
    • Trading psychology

    Market mechanics

    FOUNDATIONS: COURSE 1
    1

    Pips, points and price quotes

    2

    Lots and position sizes

    3

    Leverage and margin in practice

    4

    Order types: market, limit, stop, stop-loss and take-profit

    5

    The real cost of a trade: spreads, swaps and commissions

    6

    Reading a price chart: candlesticks and timeframes

    7

    Market sessions: when markets open and when to trade

    8

    Using the margin calculator

    Risk management

    FOUNDATIONS: COURSE 2
    1

    Why beginner traders lose money

    2

    Risk per trade: the 1% rule and position sizing

    3

    Stop loss orders: where to set them and why

    4

    Take profit orders and risk-reward ratio

    5

    Managing leverage as a beginner

    6

    What is drawdown and how to recover

    7

    Building your own risk rules

    Your first trade

    FOUNDATIONS: COURSE 3
    1

    Demo account setup and platform tour

    2

    How the Alpari platform works

    3

    Building a trading plan: entry, stop and target

    4

    Placing your first trade

    5

    How to set stop loss and take profit

    6

    Reading your account summary and open positions

    7

    Managing and open trade (without panicking!)

    8

    The trade review: journaling from day one

    Technical analysis

    FOUNDATIONS: COURSE 4
    1

    What is technical analysis?

    2

    How to read a candlestick chart

    3

    Candlestick patterns

    4

    Support and resistance

    5

    Trend lines and channels

    6

    Indicators 101: moving averages and RSI

    Fundamental analysis

    FOUNDATIONS: COURSE 5
    1

    What is fundamental analysis?

    2

    Fundamental vs technical: do you need both?

    3

    The big four: NFP, CPI, interest rates and GDP

    4

    Central banks 101

    5

    Economic calendars: Reading and trading around it

    6

    How to trade news events

    Trading psychology

    FOUNDATIONS: COURSE 6
    1

    Why your emotions are your biggest trading risk

    2

    Fear and greed in trading

    3

    FOMO in trading

    4

    Revenge trading: what it is and how to stop

    5

    Building a trading routine

    6

    Discipline: sticking to the plan when it's hard

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