Fx Trading Series | The Fx Academy

Trading is simple but not easy. Anyone can open up a trading app pick a random currency pair and buy or sell it. But to be profitable you need not just the right tools but the right understanding on how to use these tools to produce results.

We have spent the past 3 years refining our strategy and philosophy, also creating new tools and methods to troubleshoot a traders exact problems and issues and give them the ability to improve their own trading results.

Our Fx Trading Series is a running record of the development of our trading philosophy that anyone can use and apply to their own strategy or methodology to make it more effective

Why I hate the term probability

When I first started learning how to trade. Some of the individuals I was studying were using the term probability. Their usage of the...

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Nov 28, 20242 min read

Market Movement

Trading is a thinking activity. Your ability to look at the markets, and predict market direction is the basis of good trading activity....

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Nov 13, 20243 min read

What to do with your strategy (Developing your edge)

When looking into Trading and the financial markets I approached it with an investigative philosophy. I wanted to know what worked, Why...

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Nov 7, 20243 min read

The difference between goals and desires

One of my biggest confusions in life was the difference between goals versus desires. Everyone has desires, but when you look at others...

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Nov 1, 20242 min read

Wins And Losses

Any Individual taking a significant amount of actions towards a goal will experience and encounter losses. When an intelligent and...

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Nov 1, 20242 min read

Handling Losing Streaks

One of our fundamental principles in trading is Market Analysis. This breaks down into 3 rules. Or the three reasons why trades lose....

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Oct 22, 20242 min read

Missed Exit Opportunities

There is one thing which without fail will turn any winning trade into a liability. That is missed Exit opportunities. Time and Time...

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Oct 12, 20242 min read

Mastering The Trailing Stoploss

The Stoploss is the only form of trade management that exist in trading. It could be argued that mastering the trailing stoploss is on...

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Sep 30, 20242 min read

Day Trading Ideology

The daily objective of a day trader is to avoid mistakes. In order to avoid making mistakes there are two pre-requisites to understand....

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Sep 30, 20242 min read

The Definition Of Trading

Trading Definition: The study of, and application of a strategy to, the financial markets. Typically for short term gains rather than a...

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Sep 18, 20241 min read

Fx Academy Glossary And Definitions

I once heard that an individual could never read a text book on a subject but still understand it and become proficient in it by having a...

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Sep 9, 20245 min read

Visual Trade Reviews: The Two Types Of Missed Opportunities

The purpose of all trade reviews, Whether Report Reviews or Visual Trade Reviews is the improvement of an individuals trading rationale (The ability to get accurate conclusions from data).

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Aug 27, 20241 min read

The Tempo Of The Markets: Trading Rationale

After gaining experience with trading and the financial markets. You'll become use to those markets having a specific tempo or pace. This is more of a sense than a metric. It is not volatility or volume however those do matter. In essence it is the perceived amount of time it takes for price to reach from on Major (Or somewhat Major) Level of support and resistance to another.

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Aug 21, 20241 min read

Flawless Trading Part 2: Report Reviews

Improving your trading performance comes from reviewing your actions. By reviewing your actions effectively and seeing your mistakes, then you can have realisations and come up with conclusions which will help you achieve the basic purpose of maximising your wins and minimising your losses; being profitable.

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Aug 21, 20243 min read

Flawless Trading

There're two conditions for profitability regardless of market conditions. One is maximising your wins, the second one is minimising your losses.

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Aug 16, 20243 min read

The 3 Basic steps for profitability

There is a specific set of skills or abilities new traders should focus on in order to become profitable. These things are simple and somewhat obvious but they're the basic skills which comprise profitability.

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Aug 11, 20241 min read

The purpose of Retail Trader Education

The purpose of all retail trader education is to improve the individuals market analysis. A strategy is the basis, the starting point and corner stone on which and individuals ability to analyse the market is built upon.

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Aug 11, 20241 min read

Trade Monitoring

Trade monitoring/trade management is actually apart of market analysis.

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Aug 9, 20241 min read

What is Retail Fx Market Analysis

Market analysis is the core concept of my trading philosophy. It had afew basic precepts.

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Aug 9, 20241 min read

Market Uncertainty defined

Market uncertainty is defined as no clear, visible or discernible pattern or direction in price. This tends to be a short term and can be for different reasons

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Aug 9, 20241 min read