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

Scaling in Trade-Offs

When scaling into a position there is always a trade off, Higher potential profits means a more significant inherent risk.

Shanyron Bell

Aug 5, 20241 min read

Running Risk

My goal is create an organised body of knowledge which new retail traders can use and apply to the financial markets (Specifically the currency markets) and reap the rewards of profitability.

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Aug 5, 20242 min read

The Three Parts of FX Retail Trading

Any successful retail trading operation is composed of 3 parts and these parts are in order of importance.

Shanyron Bell

Aug 4, 20241 min read

Understanding Volatility

The first step to understanding something is to have it defined fully. Once defined a basic theory can be understood and it can then be related to the other component parts and/or external factors. Once that has been understood one can be set to have full and complete understanding of the subject and is able to produce the intended results from the body of knowledge.

Shanyron Bell

Aug 4, 20242 min read

Basic Fx Administration

The difference between a professional and an amateur trader is the amount of aforethought that goes into each trade. An amateur will jump into the markets in response to large price changes. A professional plans to enter and exit at particular points.

Shanyron Bell

Aug 4, 20242 min read

What is Trade Management ?

Trade management is one of the cornerstones of trading. Good trade management helps traders maximise their wins and minimise their losses.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 25, 20241 min read

Why I never review my winning trades

Winning Trades are a product of analysis done right. Reviewing your trades that have performed well does nothing to improve on your...

Shanyron Bell

Jul 24, 20241 min read

Trading During Summer

Trading during the summer months is neither a good or bad idea as long as a trader knows what to expect. The summer months tend to be slower and price action tends to less reliable than during the winter months or spring. This is important to know as if you do decided to trade during the summer months you can cause yourself alot of frustration trying to figure out why your strategy isn't as effective as it once was a couple of month ago. Of course the market change over time

Shanyron Bell

Jul 24, 20242 min read

Market Analysis Defined

Market Analysis is the most important aspect of being a trader. It is the corner stone of everything we do and is the basis on which our trading philosophy is built upon. There's no point learning how to manage risks if you can't place trades that win. If all your trades are losing its not because you can't manage risk correctly. Its because your analysis is faulty.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 21, 20241 min read

Mastering Personal Trading Psychology

Trading Psychology in my opinion is a by-word. It means so many different things to different Teachers, Gurus and Trainers that I find it somewhat unworkable. I understand the confusion around this topic as the people, the mind and its actions and reactions can be confusing or hard to comprehend at times.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 21, 20242 min read

Understanding Support and Resistance And Time Frames

The general rule with support and resistance lines is that the higher the timeframe that they're identified on, The more likely price is to react when it comes into contact with them.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 21, 20242 min read

Compulsive Trading

I have noticed that after big wins or losses or a series of losses that there is a specific effect that happens on an individual which causes them to over trade and deplete thier account balance.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 21, 20242 min read

The Three Types of Risk

Understanding Risk Management was always my biggest struggle. It was always vague and unclear no matter what source of information I looked at. For me anything vague and hard to understand is probably not the truth. If we define a true concept as a concept that produces the intended result. Then we need to know what the concept is and we need to have its components broken down and understood thoroughly before it can have a use.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 19, 20243 min read

Why the form of the market is important

Understanding the form of the market is the most important thing in trading in terms of Intermediate level trading skills. The form of the market will determine how much money you can make per position and whether or not you can or should scale into a position.

Shanyron Bell

Jul 19, 20241 min read

Trade Review- EURGBP- Why people Incur losses after big wins

Daily TF

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Jul 19, 20243 min read

Trade Review- GBPJPY

GBPJPY

Shanyron Bell

Jul 19, 20242 min read

Decoding the Charts: What you are actually looking at

This is the most fundamental part of trading understanding what you are looking at when you first open the charts. This aspect ties Technical Analysis and Fundamental Analysis together and as a new trader not understanding what you are looking at is the reason you are overwhelmed when you open up meta trader for the very first time.

Shanyron Bell

Apr 29, 20242 min read

Why do hedge funds struggle to make 5% return per month ?

If you have been in the community for any significant period of time you may have realised that alot of retail traders average around 5% per month trading and can have months where they make 10%, 20% or even 100% return on their accounts and these hedge funds with hundreds of billions of dollars of assets, legions of super intelligent staff and decades of experience manage maybe 12% per year on average.

Shanyron Bell

Apr 26, 20242 min read

Fundamental Analysis Of Currencies

The difference between fundamental and technical analysis.

Shanyron Bell

Apr 26, 20244 min read

High Profit Opportunities and Runaway Trades

A high profit opportunity is an opportunity with a higher risk to reward ratio than the standard risk to reward ratio (1:2 for every 1 unit of risk you expect 2 units of reward: If you risk $100 per trade you expect to receive $200 of profit if the trade goes in your favour)

Shanyron Bell

Apr 26, 20243 min read