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How-to guides
Step-by-step guides for the operational side of trading — the parts that are not concepts but buttons. Pick by the screen you are stuck on, not by reading order.
The lessons teach you what a thing is. These guides cover doing it: what the screen asks for, what the numbers mean, and which steps cannot be undone.
Every guide that describes an irreversible action puts the warning before the instruction, not after it. Withdrawals in particular have no support desk and no reversal.
Before you place a trade
Account, identity and security, in the order they happen.
How to choose where to trade
The criteria that matter, applied to your own constraints rather than to a ranking.
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Practising without money at risk
What a demo account teaches, and the lessons it cannot teach.
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In preparation
- What identity verification asks for, and why — What a venue is legally required to collect, and what it is not.
- Securing an account properly — Two-factor that actually works, and the one method you should stop using.
Placing and managing trades
The mechanics of an order, and what each field does.
How orders actually work
Market, limit and stop — what each one promises and what it does not.
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How to size a position
Three inputs and one division. The calculator does the arithmetic.
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How to set a stop that means something
Placing invalidation where the idea is wrong, not where the loss feels tolerable.
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How to work out what a trade costs
Spread, commission and slippage, in money rather than percentages.
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Moving money safely
The irreversible operations. Read the warning first.
Who is holding your assets
Custody, counterparty risk, and what "your funds are safe" does and does not mean.
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In preparation
- How to move funds without losing them — Networks, address checks, test transactions, and the mistakes that are permanent.