Market Foundations
What Forex is and how the market is organised.
- What Is Forex?
- How Currency Pairs Work
- What Is a Broker?
- Buying vs. Selling
- What Makes Prices Move?
- Trading Sessions
- Trading vs. Investing
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VaultFX Academy.
A structured curriculum of 100 short lessons in ten modules. It starts with the absolute basics and ends with how to evaluate a strategy and its risks. Each lesson takes about a minute.
Lessons are published as short videos on Instagram. Educational content only, not investment advice.
Curriculum
Ten modules, from first principles to evaluation.
Forex Mechanics
The vocabulary and arithmetic of a trade.
- Major, Minor & Exotic Pairs
- What Is a Pip?
- Spreads
- Bid vs. Ask
- Lot Sizes
- Leverage
- Margin
- Swap Fees
Reading Charts
How price is displayed and how structure forms.
- Candlesticks
- Timeframes
- Support and Resistance
- Trends
- Breakouts
- Pullbacks
- Volatility
Analysis & Macro
Technical tools and the economic forces behind currencies.
- Technical vs. Fundamental
- Moving Averages
- RSI
- MACD
- Economic Calendars
- Interest Rates
- Central Banks
- News Trading Risks
Risk Management
The part of trading that decides whether you survive.
- Drawdown
- Balance vs. Equity
- Position Sizing
- Risk-to-Reward
- Leverage Dangers
- Margin Calls
- Correlation
- Why No Strategy Always Wins
Trading Psychology
The behavioural traps that cost traders the most.
- Fear and Greed
- FOMO
- Overtrading
- Revenge Trading
- Discipline
- Losing Streaks
- Realistic Expectations
Automated Trading
How algorithms and Expert Advisors work, and where they fail.
- Expert Advisors
- How Algorithms Work
- MetaTrader 5
- VPS Hosting
- Backtesting
- Overfitting
- Risks of Automation
Copy Trading
Signal providers, copiers and why results differ.
- How Copy Trading Works
- Copy Ratios
- Performance Fees
- Evaluating a Provider
- Risks of Copy Trading
- What to Check First
Reading Performance
How to interpret a track record without being misled.
- Profit vs. Return
- Compound Growth
- Maximum Drawdown
- Profit Factor
- Win Rate vs. Profitability
- Equity Curves
- Track-Record Length
Advanced Concepts
Costs, robustness and building a responsible approach.
- Liquidity
- Slippage
- Portfolio Exposure
- Risk of Ruin
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Strategy Robustness
- Live vs. Demo
- A Responsible Approach
Why we teach. We would rather you understand leverage, drawdown and the limits of any strategy before you copy one, ours included. An informed client who decides against copy trading is a better outcome than an uninformed one who loses money they could not afford to lose.