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Free Forex & Gold Trading Academy

A structured course in forex mechanics, risk, chart reading and strategy research. Work through 24 lessons with quizzes, explanations and optional saved progress.

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First lesson: Read a currency quote. No sign-up required.

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8 modules · 24 lessons · Start at your own pace

Understand. Practise. Check your reasoning.

Start with market mechanics and exposure before interpreting a chart or studying a strategy. Each lesson connects a full reference guide with a clear objective, a practical task and questions that explain the reasoning behind every answer.

Read the linked guide and work through its examples.
Try the lesson questions, then review the explanation for your answer.
Complete the reading confirmation and answer every question correctly to mark the lesson complete. Revisit any module whenever you need it.

Prerequisites show a suggested learning sequence. Every module is open from the beginning.

Your course map

Build knowledge in a useful order.

Module 01 · 3 lessons

Forex foundations

Understand the quote, the exposure and the demands of different trading styles before studying entries.

Read a currency quoteNot completed
Separate margin from riskNot completed
Compare styles and commitmentsNot completed

Module 02 · 3 lessons

Stops, sizing and costs

Turn clearly stated price and contract assumptions into a cash-risk estimate without rounding past the chosen budget.

Module 03 · 3 lessons

Read price in context

Describe what completed observations show, while keeping pattern labels, confirmation timing and later outcomes separate.

Describe swings without hindsightNot completed
Read the candle before the labelNot completed
Mark and test a price zoneNot completed

Module 04 · 3 lessons

Understand indicator calculations

Learn what moving averages, RSI and MACD measure before interpreting their thresholds or crossovers.

Compare SMA and EMANot completed
Interpret RSI with its assumptionsNot completed
Separate MACD from its histogramNot completed

Module 05 · 3 lessons

From patterns to study rules

Define recognition, entry, exit and failure conditions before looking at results. These exercises do not present validated trading systems.

Define a chart pattern’s boundaryNot completed
Write a complete study specificationNot completed
Account for a breakout’s executionNot completed

Module 06 · 2 lessons

Gold products and risk

Check what an XAU/USD quote represents and translate the actual contract specification into exposure.

Identify the gold productNot completed
Translate gold lots into cash riskNot completed

Module 07 · 4 lessons

Sessions and economic releases

Understand scheduled information and its limitations without treating a calendar result as an automatic trading instruction.

Read session times correctlyNot completed
Read an NFP releaseNot completed
Compare like-for-like CPI figuresNot completed
Read beyond the FOMC headlineNot completed

Module 08 · 3 lessons

Evaluate outcomes and claims

Combine payoff, costs, drawdown and sample quality. Finishing these lessons is a study milestone, not proof of a trading edge.

Separate payoff from expectancyNot completed
Understand recovery and loss sequencesNot completed
Assess signals and performance claimsNot completed

Keep practice separate from performance.

The course teaches mechanics and ways to evaluate assumptions. Correct quiz answers and hypothetical examples do not establish a profitable strategy. Actual broker specifications, spreads, execution and eligibility can differ.

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