Free course · Beginner · 4 lessons · 35 min
Forex Fundamentals: The Complete Beginner Course
Everything a first-year trader actually needs — taught in plain English, with the survival math up front and zero promises about Lamborghinis.
Most beginner forex content is written to sell you a dream. This course is written to keep your account alive. It covers the four things every trader needs to genuinely understand before risking a real dollar: what you're actually buying and selling, the units the market keeps score in, how to read the chart in front of you, and — above everything else — how to size your trades so that being wrong doesn't wipe you out.
Each lesson pairs with one of our free tools, ends with a short quiz, and tells you the honest version of the things brokers put in the fine print. No indicators to buy, no patterns to memorize, no shortcuts — just the foundation everything else in the Academy builds on.
Lessons
- I9 min·Beginner·QuizHow Forex Trading Actually Works (A Map of the Market)
Forex trading explained in plain English: what a currency pair is, how the bid–ask spread works, who is on the other side of your trade, why the market runs in sessions — and why there's no $25,000 pattern-day-trader rule.
- II9 min·Beginner·QuizPips, Lots, and Leverage: The Units That Decide Your Risk
What a pip is, what lot sizes actually mean in dollars, and what leverage really does to a forex account — the three units every trade is built from, explained with real numbers.
- III8 min·Beginner·QuizHow to Read a Candlestick Chart (Without the Pattern Zoo)
Candlestick charts explained for beginners: the four prices inside every candle, what wicks actually tell you, how timeframes change the story, and why structure beats memorizing 60 pattern names.
- IV9 min·Beginner·QuizRisk Management: The 1% Rule, Stop-Losses, and Position Sizing
The survival math of trading: why big losses are so hard to climb out of, how the 1% rule works, where stop-losses belong, and the sizing formula that turns any stop distance into the right lot size.
Free calculators for position size, pip value, sessions, and more.