The full cost of a CFD trade, from spread to slippage
Four costs arrive on different schedules with different visibility. We convert all of them into dollars on one EUR/USD position held five nights.
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What a loss percentage actually tells you
The mandated CFD warning is the most standardised sentence in retail finance. Here is exactly how the percentage is computed, and what it can't tell you.
Why our education is free and ungated
Forty-four articles, a 66-term glossary and five calculators, none behind a deposit. The reasoning, and the engineering that keeps the zeros honest.
Why position sizing beats prediction
Forecasts are guesses; size is a decision. How fixed-fractional risk, stop-distance maths and honest expectancy protect an account better than being right.