Learn to trade, no promises
In-depth guides and short articles — from your very first step before trading to what happens inside a broker. Every guide is split into chapters and headings you can jump to directly, and you can return to the contents from anywhere. 1 of the 6 guides is available in English so far; the others can be read in Arabic, and their English editions are in preparation.
In-depth guides
Long-form references you read in stages — each guide is a short book with a full index.
Before You Trade: The Essentials
CFDs vs. regulated markets, instruments and contract sizes, lots, pips and points, balance, margin and equity, stop out, trading sessions, and spot vs. futures.
Read the Arabic edition →MetaTrader 5: From Download to Your First Trade
How to download the platform, open a demo account, read every window, add gold and read its contract specification, use all eight order types, and open, modify and close a trade — then read your history. Illustrated with real screenshots from the platform.
Show chapters
- •Before You Begin
- 1Downloading and Installing the Platform
- 2Opening a Demo Account
- 3Logging In to a Live Account
- 4The Main Screen: A Map of the Platform
- 5The Top Menus and the Toolbar
- 6Market Watch and Adding Symbols
- 7The Contract Specification: The Most Important Window
- 8Charts, Timeframes and Indicators
- 9The Eight Order Types
- 10Opening a Trade and Reading Your Account
- 11Modifying and Closing a Trade
- 12History and the Journal
- 13Useful Shortcuts and Settings
- 14MetaTrader 5 on Your Phone
- 15Common Error Messages
- 16Checklist Before Your First Live Trade
How to Choose Your Broker
Everything to check before you deposit a single dollar: licensing, where your money is held, the real cost of trading, execution, withdrawals and scams.
Read the Arabic edition →Inside the Broker
A-Book, B-Book and C-Book, liquidity providers, the bridge, the dealing room, swaps and leverage — how a brokerage really works.
Read the Arabic edition →Slippage: Spotting the Manufactured Kind
Why slippage happens naturally, how it can be added through the bridge, and a practical, numbers-based way to test your own trade history.
Read the Arabic edition →Bonuses and High Leverage
Tradable vs. loss-absorbing bonuses, 1:1000 and 1:2000 leverage, prohibited bonus use and bonus arbitrage — what you are not told.
Read the Arabic edition →Short articles
A few minutes each: one clear idea per article.
How to choose a broker
A practical guide to choosing a trading broker: the licence and how to verify it, where your money is held, the real cost, withdrawals, and warning signs.
Read →Trading basics
The terms you need before your first trade: CFDs, buying and selling, the spread, contract size, points, margin, swap and order types.
Read →How to size your position
The formula that turns “I will risk 1%” into an actual lot size on gold, with examples, splitting a trade across three targets, and the margin required.
Read →How to read Consultya signals
What each line of a signal means, how the trade is managed from entry to the third target, when not to enter, and what the measured numbers say.
Read →Economic news and gold
Which US releases actually move gold and by how much, why the surprise versus expectations sets the direction, and why we do not trade 30 minutes either side.
Read →How much should you risk per trade?
Why 1% feels too small, and why 10% ends the account. The recovery table for ten consecutive losses, and a practical constraint every small account runs into.
Read →Leverage does not create profit
What leverage actually determines, and why it is the most common reason small accounts are wiped out — with the margin arithmetic.
Read →Trading a sideways range
How to know you are in a range before it costs you several stops, and why trend-following systems fail there.
Read →In progress: a series on writing Pine Script from the first line to a published indicator.
This material is educational and is not investment advice. Illustrative figures are labeled as such. Trading CFDs carries a high risk of losing capital.