Syllabus

The full curriculum

Every topic covered across the seven modules, in the order they are taught. Each block builds on the one before it — the sequence is the point.

Introduction to the Foreign Exchange Market

What is Forex and how the market is structured
Market participants: banks, funds, brokers and retail traders
Trading sessions: Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York
Liquidity, volatility and why session timing matters
Why most retail accounts fail in the first 90 days

Currency Pairs, Quotes and Costs

Majors, minors and exotics
Base and quote currency, bid/ask and the spread
Pips, points, lot sizes and contract value
Leverage, margin, free margin and the margin call
Swaps, commissions and the real cost of a round turn

Platforms, Orders and Execution

MetaTrader 4/5 and TradingView workspace setup
Market, limit, stop and stop-limit orders
Stop loss, take profit and trailing stops
Slippage, requotes and execution models (ECN vs market maker)
Choosing and vetting a broker

Technical Analysis

Reading candlesticks and multi-timeframe context
Trend structure, support, resistance and supply/demand zones
Chart patterns: ranges, breakouts, continuations and reversals
Indicators that earn their place: moving averages, RSI, ATR, volume
Building a repeatable chart-reading routine

Fundamental Analysis and Market Drivers

Interest rates, inflation and central bank policy
Using the economic calendar: NFP, CPI, FOMC and rate decisions
Risk-on / risk-off flows and correlated markets
Trading around news versus trading through it
Gold and index correlations with major FX pairs

Risk Management — The Fugu Discipline

Position sizing from account risk, not from gut feel
Stop placement, risk:reward and expectancy maths
Drawdown, sequence risk and the maths of recovery
Daily and weekly loss limits, and when to stop trading
Trading psychology: revenge trades, over-leverage and tilt

Building, Testing and Automating a Strategy

Turning an idea into written, testable rules
Backtesting honestly: sample size, curve fitting and out-of-sample data
Forward testing on demo and small live sizing
Journalling and reviewing performance metrics
Where algorithms fit: an inside look at how FuguScalper and TwistSTM3 were built and validated

Want this tailored to your team?

In-house delivery lets us reshape the agenda around your instruments, risk policy and platforms — for example weighting gold and index correlations more heavily, or extending the automation module into a hands-on strategy build.

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