reference · Technical analysis
MACD: Line, Signal and Histogram Explained
Separate the MACD line, signal average and histogram with a worked example, and compare zero crossings, signal crossings and platform conventions.
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reference · Performance & testing
MAE and MFE: Measure a Trade’s Intratrade Price Path
Calculate maximum adverse and favorable excursion with a defined trade window, price basis, quantity and costs. Includes long and short examples.
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reference · Risk & sizing
Margin Level and Free Margin: Calculate Both From One Account Snapshot
Calculate free margin and margin level, model a change in equity, and distinguish account headroom from a stop-loss budget or guaranteed order approval.
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reference · Order execution
Market Depth and Order Books: Read Size Beyond the Best Price
Learn how an order book shows price levels, calculate an example volume-weighted fill, and understand why visible depth cannot guarantee execution.
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Market Profile vs Volume Profile: Time and Volume
Compare TPO Market Profile with volume-by-price using original examples, value-area rules, data checks and a practical reconciliation workflow.
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Market, Limit and Stop Orders: Which Condition Controls the Trade?
Compare market, limit and stop orders using one price scenario, including execution uncertainty, trigger rules and the records needed to verify a fill.
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Money Flow Index: Price and Volume Classification
Calculate MFI from positive and negative raw money flow, handle zero denominators, and understand why it is not a verified fund-flow account.
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Monte Carlo Trading Simulation: Build and Read a Scenario Study
Learn how trading Monte Carlo simulations resample outcomes, model drawdowns and test assumptions. Compare shuffling, bootstrapping and stress scenarios.
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Moving Average Crossover: Rules and Whipsaw Tests
Calculate an SMA crossover, compare EMA weighting, define signal timing and test whipsaw, cost and parameter sensitivity with reproducible examples.
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guide · Platforms & automation
MT4 vs MT5: Features and Workflow Differences
Compare documented MT4 and MT5 capabilities, account models, automation migration and test workflows without confusing software with broker conditions.
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guide · Futures & contracts
NQ vs MNQ Futures: Point Value, Sizing and Execution Examples
Understand NQ and MNQ with price-to-dollar calculations, whole-contract sizing, cost comparisons and a checklist for matching Nasdaq futures exposure.
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OHLC Candlesticks: Read the Bar Without Inventing the Price Path
Read open, high, low and close, calculate candle body and wicks, and understand why a bar cannot determine the order of stop and target touches.
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On-Balance Volume: Cumulative Signed Volume
Build an OBV sequence, understand its arbitrary starting value and unchanged-close rule, and distinguish signed volume from actual net capital flows.
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Open Interest: Count Outstanding Contracts Without Double-Counting Sides
Distinguish open interest from trading volume with an opening, closing and transfer example, then check report timing and avoid unsupported direction signals.
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Opening Range Breakout: Rules and Honest Testing
Define an opening range breakout with session-aware rules, a worked risk example, false-break handling and a reproducible test that includes costs.
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Order Blocks: Chart Rules and Evidence Limits
Define an order-block zone with explicit candle and confirmation rules, compare body and wick boundaries, and avoid unsupported institutional-inventory claims.
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Orders, Deals and Positions: Reconcile Requests with Exposure
Distinguish order instructions, executed deals and resulting positions using a partial-fill ledger, account-mode context and uncertainty checks.
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Out-of-Sample Testing: Freeze Rules before Evaluating Them
Design a chronological evaluation with frozen rules, data boundaries and cost assumptions. Understand walk-forward reuse, overlapping labels and failure cases.
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guide · Trading workflows
Paper Trading vs Live Trading: What to Test Before Comparing Results
Compare paper and live trading with an execution test plan. Check fill assumptions, costs, data, account rules and copied-trade behavior before drawing conclusions.
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Parabolic SAR: Acceleration and Reversals
Work through a Parabolic SAR update, distinguish extreme points and acceleration from executable stops, and inspect reversal and clamp conventions.
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tool · Forex & currencies
Pip Value Calculator: Units and Account Currency
Calculate one pip in quote and account currency from base units, pip size and a conversion rate you supply. Includes a worked FX example and unit checks.
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Pips, Points and Ticks: Convert Price Distances Without a Factor-of-Ten Error
Convert one price movement into pips, platform points and futures ticks, then keep price units separate from position-dependent money values.
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Portfolio Exposure Calculator: Gross, Net and Equity Ratios
Compare gross and signed net notional with account equity using long and short totals. Understand currency conversion, offsets and concentration limitations.
Open calculatorreference · Order execution
Price Limits and Circuit Breakers: What Can Happen to an Open Order
Distinguish price limits, trading halts and price banding with an example boundary, and check order and position behavior when normal execution is interrupted.
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