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Where is Ibrahim lagosian and Nas g (jameselias) ooo....

Just checking on them

blackjack21:
Him want amplify the shege to shege-banza.
Na America own dey interest me pass, US done bluff tire wey Trump is now looking like a comedian.

Based on adjusted inflation from 1980, silver is nowhere near all time high. $50 in 1989 if adjusted for inflation today equals $190 dollar and silver is currently at $79. So more higher-high is likely coming if the current demand is sustained until the silver products becomes too expensive and producers are forced to utilize cheaper alternatives.

I was forced to come to Nairaland by the democratic tyranny of the majority.
#IfFoundReturToTelegram

😂😂😂 Ogana ai ni ban gane ka ba? Na later ah con recognize you, shey you dey play blackjack ni?

As for silver, all I care is new all time highs, although I would like to see a little bit of pullback, make ah get a really nice discount to long it to aso rock

On your markkkk

😂😂😂😂

For a while I was wishing the TG branch was open

Bcpump:
Very interesting read.

All I have to say is 2026 will be better by God's grace.

Let's take our slow and steady learnings into the new year.

Thank you so much ma

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

### 1. Biggest Lessons Learned in 2025

**Believing in Myself:** I learned to believe in myself and my capabilities. I have suffered from self-doubt because it took me so long to reach my current level. For a long time, my subconscious was plagued by the fear of whether I would ever achieve success in this business. Having spent four straight years blowing demo accounts and losing one live account, I felt bedeviled by failure. However, when I began passing Phase 1 challenges last year, my perspective shifted. I now have a very strong belief that I can definitely make it in trading.

**Less is More:** I learned that "less is more" in trading. The fewer assets you watch and trade, the more your performance improves. I have found this to be true, as most of my biggest wins come from one or two solid trades rather than a high volume of activity.

**The Virtue of Patience:** I learned the importance of patience—the patience to remain in alignment with the market, the patience to wait for a high-quality setup, and the patience required to manage drawdowns effectively.

**Risk and Psychology:** I learned how to cut my risk and improve my psychology by remaining calm through self-motivation and affirmations. In my experience, surviving a drawdown is more about psychological fortitude and aggressively reducing risk than anything else.

**Technical Simplicity:** I have learned never to trade against the Higher Timeframes (HTF). I now keep my strategy simple, focusing on the basics of price movement: market structure (expansions, retracements, and consolidations) and support and resistance.

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### 2. Areas That Need Improvement

* **Discipline:** I need to stick strictly to my plans and stay away from the market during low-liquidity sessions.
* **FOMO and Overtrading:** I must continue working to avoid the urge to jump into trades out of a fear of missing out.
* **Timeframe Integrity:** I need to stick strictly to the 4H chart. I sometimes find myself dropping down to the 1H or 30M charts, which invariably leads to overtrading.
* **Emotional Stability:** Remaining calm after a missed trade is vital, as frustration over a missed move is my biggest trigger for FOMO.

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### 3. Areas I Have Improved In

* **Managing Drawdowns:** I have learned how to play the "long game." By cutting risk aggressively and remaining selective with my trades, I can stay focused and navigate out of difficult periods.
* **HTF Analysis and Bias:** I have improved at aligning my analysis with the higher timeframes and fundamentals. When these elements align, it consistently leads to my most significant wins.

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### 4. Mistakes Newbies Should Avoid

**Avoid VPNs at All Costs:** Never use a VPN, even if you are offered free data to browse the internet. If you want to make a career out of prop firm trading, avoid VPNs in any form, as they will lead to a hard breach of your account.

**Prioritize Daily Drawdown:** Pay closer attention to your daily drawdown than your maximum drawdown. This is especially critical for firms with a trailing daily drawdown. Daily limits are often the "silent killers" of funded accounts.

**Monitor Floating PnL:** Do not ignore your floating PnL (Profit and Loss). This is how I lost my NairaTrader $200k account—even though I eventually hit my profit target, my floating PnL breached the daily limit before I closed the trade. I suffered the same issue with Maven. If your floating loss hits the daily limit, your account is gone, regardless of whether the trade eventually turns profitable.

**The 1% Rule for Floating Risk:** If possible, never allow your floating PnL to exceed 1% risk. I experienced a soft breach on my Nostro challenge because my floating loss hit 2%, which eventually led to being denied a funded account. Many firms claim to be "balance-based," but floating risk can still breach your account. Don't be fooled; protect your equity.

**Practice Absolute Patience:** Impatience leads to poor decisions and painful regrets. Take it from someone currently dealing with those regrets: patience is the only true antidote to FOMO and overtrading.

**Maintain Accountability:** Find someone to be accountable to, whether it is a mentor or a community like the FTA family. Being transparent about my wins and losses has been essential to my growth. There is great wisdom in receiving a rebuke; never take it for granted.

My Trading Journey in 2025

I started the year with a prop firm capital $5k Phase 2 challenge. For the first time in a long while, I finally made it to Phase 2 in December 2024, after so many failures. I was exhilarated and so optimistic about passing the challenge. Unfortunately for me, I ended up blowing the Phase 2 challenge because I was trading aggressively; I wanted to pass the challenge fast so that I could make money and take care of my needs. Also, I had joined the Alexas58 competition, and on the first day of the competition, I crashed out of it.

I was so devastated, and I finally made a choice to cut down on my risk. At that time, boss Mr. D FTA (aka market2profit) shared a post about a guy who took more than one whole year to pass a $10k challenge and has gone on to withdraw many times from the account, stacking multiple accounts ending in a million-dollar funding. I was moved and motivated to go "Team InfoFirst" fully by taking it slow and steady. And so, I began a bi-weekly challenge of hitting 5% on an FTMO $10k trial account. Also, at the start of February, I won a Quantekel Power $5k 2-step challenge with a 35% consistency score and a 6% profit target for both Phase 1 and 2, with a 3% daily drawdown and 6% maximum drawdown.

At the time, a lot of bosses here discussed the issues with consistency scores at length and how to go about it. I remember vividly boss Fmaster Donsheddy and many others were strategizing on how one can meet up to the consistency score rules, but I didn't pay attention to all that they were discussing. I was so focused on hitting my targets without breaching the daily drawdown. I began trading it slowly, and by mid-March, I had met the profit target for Phase 1. I was so happy and rushed down to share the good news with the FTA family. Due to my excitement, I did not pay attention to my consistency score, which was over 100%—yeah, it was that bad. Boss Fmaster was the one who called my attention to it because I was waiting for a congratulatory mail and login details for Phase 2, but I got none. That was when it hit me how serious the issue of the consistency score was. Then began my struggles, and I battled bitterly with it.

Also in March, I won a Liquid Market $10k 3-step challenge with no consistency score, a 7% profit target for Phases 1, 2, and 3, a 5% daily drawdown, 7% maximum drawdown, and 35 maximum trading days. By April, I passed my Liquid Market $10k Phase 1 challenge. At that time, I was going through very serious financial stress; I was completely broke and didn't even have data to trade. I had always used Stark VPN as a backup whenever I ran out of data because they gift free 50MB of data daily on MTN. I activated it and then logged in to my MT5 and traded my Quantekel $5k challenge. This ended up breaching my account as I got a mail for a violation of IP address by using a VPN; hence, my account was hard breached.

Realizing what had occurred, I was completely miserable and shattered. I remembered sharing the news with the FTA family, and Mr. D FTA (aka market2profit) called me out and rebuked me with strong words. I honestly won't lie, I was deeply hurt. In my grief, I vowed to avoid all prop firms that have consistency scores; I developed a strong dislike for anything related to consistency scores. I'm also glad to say that I took the scolding without any grudges but with humility and remorse. Then there were bad reviews and bad Trustpilot ratings on Liquid Market. Also, at the time, I remembered either Zimuzor or Bee passing the Liquid Market $10k Phase 1 challenge but being refused Phase 2. Due to that, I abandoned my $10k challenge with them and went back to trading the FTMO $10k trial account, aiming for 5% bi-weekly.

For the remaining months of April, May, June, and July, I was trading my cent account and FTMO $10k trial account. During that period, I was hitting my target of 5% every two weeks back-to-back. Also in that period, I had won a CrystalBallMarket and a SwayFunded $1k 2-step challenge, and I blew both of them up. I then traded a lot of accounts with Vebson prop firm, where I failed some and passed some. For the ones I passed, I needed to pay for the account in order for me to proceed to Phase 2, so I abandoned them. It was a really challenging period for me because I was working on reducing the number of trades I take. I remembered earlier on, within Feb or March, Alexas58 challenged me to stick to trading only one timeframe because I was trading the 15-minute chart but through multiple timeframe analysis. So, I made a transition to the 4-hour chart because I realized that I didn't have the luxury of time to be day trading, and it was at that moment I decided to go into swing trading fully.

By July ending, I won an Instant Funding $5k 1-step challenge. "I’m so fuckin back"—that was how I felt winning the account. I reflected on all my previous failures and challenges, and then I went on trading the account more cautiously than I had done before. I traded the account from August till September, and by mid-September, I got my first breakthrough in 2025. I passed my Instant Funding $5k 1-step challenge and got to the funded stage. However, I was hit with another setback; after receiving my congratulatory mail and my funded certificate, I was asked to pay $55 to gain full access to my funded account.

Boy, I was broken again because $55 was approximately 88k Naira as of then. I had just recently got a job, and my salary is just 70k, of which 30k goes for my monthly transportation to work. I definitely could not raise the money. I began to feel desperate and was contemplating borrowing money to pay for the account, but I've always maintained a strict principle to avoid being in debt by all means, so borrowing money is a big "no" for me. I went on Trustpilot to see the reviews on Instant Funding, and it was very bad, with many reports of Instant Funding scamming their customers by not giving them access to the funded account even after paying the $55 fee. When I checked the official price of the Instant Funding $5k 1-step challenge on their website, it went for $49, so it looked fishy. I tabled it to the FTA house, which encouraged me to abandon the account, and so I did.

Also in September, I had joined the FundedNext monthly competition while participating in the Alexas58 competition as well. I hit 70% within the first two weeks of the month and decided not to trade the account until the end of the FundedNext monthly competition, hoping that I would definitely be among the top 100. But I was not. In my grief, I shared my ordeal with the FTA family, and Mummy Cindy took pity on me and bought a Nostro $5k 2-step challenge on October 1st. I was also among the winners of the Alexas58 competition, where he got me a NairaTrader $200k 2-step challenge, but I blew the account in the first week of the month.

By October 14th, I passed my Phase 1 challenge and moved on to Phase 2. Then, a calamity struck me. I missed two solid trades in the 3rd week of October, either of which would have passed my Phase 2 challenge. Then, in the last week of October, at the start of the week, I missed another successful trade that definitely would have passed my Phase 2, all playing out according to my analysis. I was devastated and couldn't keep my cool; this made me both over-trade and revenge-trade, leading my account to a soft breach for violation of the 2% risk rule on Nostro. Fear struck my heart, and I got back to my senses. I then contacted Nostro support, and my account was unfrozen. I thought about the shame and disgrace I would feel on FTA if I blew the account and how I was going to face Mummy Cindy, so I vowed never to allow such a thing to happen again. I then did a lot of intensive mind reprogramming on myself; I motivated the shit out of myself.

Also at the time, someone from the FTA family who wishes to remain anonymous (of which I'm very obliged to do so) bought me a Maven $5k 2-step challenge on November 1st. Within the first week of November, I made my second breakthrough in 2025 by passing my Nostro Phase 2 challenge and getting to funding. I was so happy that at last, I finally made it to the Promised Land. But I didn't know my joy was going to be cut short abruptly. After passing my KYC, Nostro refused to give me access to my funded account, using the soft breach issue as an excuse. I was deeply hurt, but I didn't waste time grieving my loss. I focused on passing my Maven, and by November 14th, I passed the Maven Phase 1 challenge. In the 3rd week of November, I passed my Phase 2 challenge, getting to the Promised Land once more.

I passed my KYC with Maven and was granted access to my funded account. I was so happy that I finally made it, and I wanted to follow Donsheddy's footsteps in steady withdrawals by aiming for low-hanging fruits. Within the last week of November, I had made 1% (which is $50) on the account, but I could not withdraw it. Maven had scheduled my withdrawal window to be opened on December 9th, meaning I had to wait till December 9th before I could make a withdrawal request. And then, my greed struck me.

I had been battling with my phone for a very long time; I use a Tecno Pop 2 Power 1GB RAM phone which I have been using since December 2022. I've used the life out of the phone and have longed to change it. Also, Christmas is around the corner, and I have been planning a "Detty December" for my family. I wanted to celebrate Christmas in a big way with my family with my first withdrawal. I began to dream and fantasize about the good feelings. I began to reason that waiting two weeks to withdraw $50 was too small and paltry; I could make more in that period, like $200 or $300. Even after the profit split, I'd still be well off. I will use $100 to get a brand-new phone while I use the rest to celebrate Christmas with my family and get everyone a gift, including my dad and mom. That felt like a worthy deed, but alas, I didn't realize that my greed had taken over and was already doing the thinking for me.

As you may be guessing by now, disaster struck again, but in a subtle way. When the first week of December came, I was already in a drawdown of 1%, but I wasn't bothered; rather, I was overconfident. I said to myself that I've seen and been through worse than that and got out. I was in a deep drawdown of 6% on my Nostro Phase 2 challenge and got out and hit my target all in a space of 2 weeks without gambling or taking crazy risks. I still did the same again on my Maven Phase 1 challenge; I was in a 5% drawdown and came out and hit the 8% profit target within 2 weeks as well. "I've seen worse and I got out, there's no need for me to be afraid or panic"—that was how I felt. To be candid, I was cautiously trading the account, but December turned out to be a bad month for me as I was in a losing streak. Before I knew it, 1% drawdown became 3% on the 2nd of December.

Now, all this while, I had completely forgotten that Maven had a trailing daily drawdown based on either balance or equity, and it is very sensitive to floating PnL. I thought it was fixed and that I never lose more than 2% of my account in a day, which is $100. So I was down to $4,840, which was a 3% drawdown, and then I had another 2% loss on the 3rd of December. I got a mail that I breached my account due to daily drawdown.

You can imagine the pain I went through seeing the mail. Of course, I am deeply ashamed to say this; after inspiring so many folks here, I still end up as a failure. I couldn't come out to say the truth, but I also know that I can't hide the truth forever because sooner or later it's definitely going to get suspicious. My biggest pain is that I am back to square one after all my efforts and endeavors. My goal was to end the year with at least a funded account, and I got there three times without being able to hold onto any.

Eku weekend ooo

It's ya boi davigle

Reporting back to baaaaase..... Heella

And ive got some market presents for y'all, you know Santa geopolitical tensions bless us with some gifts and y'all are free ta do wa ever ya wanna do with em

China ramping up supply shocks on silver, you think silver is overbought eh, you ain't seen nathin yet
New ATHs mates

Aaaand uncle Putin ain't smiling this time around, when was the last you see Putin in full military gear, you can bet ur ass that shit iz abou to hit the fans, the last time Putin wore full military uniform was when Russia invaded Ukraine. Food for Goldie sha...

Davigle:
Boss dmahn has officially dropped out of the electoral race. I am left with no choice but to declare Alexas58 as the winner but before I make it official, I will still give room for any objections or opposition before I make it official. And the deadline is next week Friday by 6pm. If I don't get any objections I will officially declare Alexas58 as the winner and president of FTA 2026.

Thank you for your attention on this issue.

Eku mrkt ooo

After much waiting and deliberation, seeing how no one has come out to object this decision all through the week,
I Davigle as the inec chairman hereby declare Alexas58 as the FTA president for 2026. Congratulations 001 Sir on your re-inurguration as the FTA 2026 anchor...

GBAM

Boss dmahn has officially dropped out of the electoral race. I am left with no choice but to declare Alexas58 as the winner but before I make it official, I will still give room for any objections or opposition before I make it official. And the deadline is next week Friday by 6pm. If I don't get any objections I will officially declare Alexas58 as the winner and president of FTA 2026.

Thank you for your attention on this issue.

dmahn:
Dmahn is still busy chasing prop payout oo .. Make Alexas58 carry on if the whole house is in support

Bossmi does that mean that you jokingly or seriously wanna step down for Alexas58? If jokingly I won't accept that ooo.

kubenite:
When was this rule made? you think creating a new rule in the middle of an election is smart? I call it dumb. Copying our politician's playbook is now the new normal here. That is how we end up with mediocre candidates al over the place

Before you call it dumb, I didn't create this rule and this was brought to my attention on the telegram platform, and when it was brought up some people supported it and I didn't see any objections from any other folks and even you didn't object to it. So calling it dumb and ascribing it to being like Nigerian politics isn't the right step to take. You could have aired your own opinion and maybe even other folks who reasoned with you would have come out to support you. So please I'm begging everyone of us here to be guided, this isn't an issue that should result into conflict. When my predecessor and even I as the current inec chairman called for nominations, there was very poor turn up. A lot of folks refused to participate and purposely ignored the nomination, when some folks where nominated, they willing turn it down. I personally don't have an issue retaining Alexas58 as the current president but I cannot be selfish as not everybody here wants him to anchor next year thread. Do you expect me to take matters into my own hands without trying to take everyone along?

dmahn:
I go third the opinion if only @Davigle isn't interested. Him suppose be host and not INEC chairman. He's active both here and Telegram and he's not new. Let's do equity. No be only people wey don make am to withdrawals or have money to host competition deserve the honour. I'm sure everyone will agree that to become an host doesn't have anything to do with ability to pass prop, host competition or make withdrawal.

Just an opinion dou, no beef to people hosting or sharing withdrawals, I'm always happy to see people's withdrawal certificates

I don't mind hosting for 2026, but I will willing step back for Alexas58 because he has done well so far this year and I don't mind him having a second term in office. But for posterity sake lemme declare my intention for running for office in 2027 now. I'll use 2026 to prepare and build myself against 2027

infofirst:
We are not made for the law but. Law made for us. I think with the look of things, We should not go with that idea of someone not hosting more than once. If the person deserve to host. So be it.
And @Alexas58 keeps looking like the right person to host it in my opinion. Yeah host this year but if he deserves it. I believe he should get it.

If more than one person deserves it. Then we go to the poll to elect.

I agree with you baami and right from the onset I have always maintained my support for Alexas58 both here and on telegram but due to the fact that I also don't want the situation to turn into another crisis, I decided to go with the flow. But I honestly can't deny the fact that Alexas58 has been active all along on NL and he is deserving of a second term. If the house will permit me as this is a democratic and not an authoritarian regime, I will like to pith this election to be between alexas58 and dmahn.
All in favor of this should quote me.

Evening house it just came to my notice that donsheddy has once anchored FTA thread (FTA 2024), as a result of that donsheddy has to be disqualified. There is now a new rule which stipulates that anyone who has anchored FTA thread in past shouldn't be allowed to do so for the second time. This is to ensure that everyone here who is an active member of FTA, equally gets a chance to anchor FTA thread. With this new development, I am left with no choice but to also disqualify Alexas58 who is still the ongoing POTUS for FTA 2025. In that light, this leaves Dhman as the only standing candidate as there are no other nominated candidate apart for him. Hence, if all is in favor of crowning Dmahn as the FTA 2026 president, pls hit like, if you are against this hit share

Its time to kick start our election, even though I had to do African time it seems like our only candidates for the election is none other than

Dhman
Donsheddy

So please just quote my monicker with the name of the candidate you are voting for;

Eg. @davigle I vote for xxxx

Eku weekend ooo

Let's keep on rolling in the nominations
So far so good here are our nominated candidate ;

Dhman

Donsheddy

Yes ooo let's keep it coming

Alexas58
Dmahn
Donsheddy

Dhman has two nominations

Pls let's keep it coming

Good evening house

As planned, we ought to kickoff our voting process today but there has been poor turn up on the nomination of candidates, so far Alexas58 still remains the only nominated candidate. Due to this development I will be extending the nomination window for candidates till tomorrow evening by 6pm and then we kickstart our election.

Pls I strongly encourage everyone to participate and nominate candidates you feel should anchor FTA 2026 thread. If you are still wondering on who to nominate we have a lot of folks in our midst;
Dxy
Dmahn
Donsheddy
Captainjune
Btcpromax
Fxwarrior
Blackman007
Hegelian
Ichidodo
Alexas58 (the current FTA POTUS)

Pls guys let's do well to engage start nominating

rainlover:
link is on the page 1 of this thread

Less ah forget welcome back from self imposed exile bossmi, and beside that rain suppose fall well well because it's a new dawn in FTA

OfficialP:
Campaign date nko?

The campaign can happen b4 the election day which is next week Friday, so all campaign can start from tomorrow till Thursday evening

Eku weekend ooo

It's a new dawn in FTA

And as we prepare to begin our Israelite journey in 2026

I will be adopting my predecessor's plan because he already has laid down all the ground work; so in that light,

2025 ELECTION COMING UP SOON.......

Nomination of candidates...
7th December

Voting Day....
12th December To 13th December

Voting Ends 6pm Nigerian Time.....

Announcement of results....
14 December by 6pm

Please Lets Nominate Whoever We Feel Is The Right Person To Anchor 2026 FTA Thread On Nairaland...

Let the Nomination Be Dropped on Nairaland...

Go To FTA Thread And Drop The name Of Whoever You Think Is The Right Person....

Thanks And God Bless...

Signed....
Electoral Chairman
Davigle 😁😁😁

leocollins:
I just want to share my journey with the community..
After 1year of learning how to trade on demo,I have done lot of research and sleepless night Just To make sure I understand how the market works,at some point there was this strategy I notice that always win,just last two weeks I decided to go live for the first time to see how the market work and put my emotions on check...I must say it wasn't easy but I actually enjoyed every loss and profit trades I took and I must say to get far in this journey you need experience.real time experience..

Let me also use this medium to thank all the traders that has contributed in this group by sharing vital information and knowledge I say bigger you all. You guys are the real deal..

Below are screen shot of all my trades..tho I still blew my account lol,but I must say have learnt alot and that have pointed out rules for my trading journey...

My confidence level is on another level... knowing that I can do this consistently and am not here to make millions,just compounding and am good..

Please any free prop firm update will be appreciated
Thanks guys..

Great Job bro and I want to congratulate you on your successful payment of your school fees to the markets 😁. I want to assure you that in due time you will be awarded a badge of honour by the markets. My only advice is that you remain consistent on this path and journey, for this is a journey of a life time. There's no wisdom and experience without pain. Keep fighting bro 💪💪💪

ncpat:
Add more sell on USDCHF

Welcome back sirrrrrrrrr

Yay one of the FTA legend is back, I remember studying your chart post during my juvenile days in trading. I'm still a fan. Great to have you back sir.

Alexas58:
Registration for December competition starts today!


All participants who want to enter should quote me with their usernames and indicate interest

Same way we have been doing it.


Prizes to be won
200k naira trader account for 5 persons


Leggo !! We will play for 3 weeks

Let’s present certificates for the house

I davigle show interest in the upcoming December competition

My 001 sir ah dey hail ooo

Good evening folks, one quick question for the weekend as we prepare for the new week.

WHAT IS OVERTRAINING?
WHAT CAUSES IT AND HOW DO YOU MITIGATE IT AS A TRADER?
cheers folks

Donsheddy:
2025 ELECTION COMING UP SOON.......

Voting Day....
5th December To 7th December

Voting Ends 6pm Nigerian Time.....

Please Lets Nominate Whoever We Feel Is The Right Person To Anchor 2026 FTA Thread On Nairaland...

Let the Nomination Be Dropped on Nairaland...

Go To FTA Thread And Drop The name Of Whoever You Think Is The Right Person....

Meanwhile The Poll Will Be Held Here ...

Thanks And God Bless...

Signed....
Electoral Chairman
Mrsheddy 😁😁

Na my oga at the top, the one and only liquid metal indaboski bahoose the emilokan of 2025 and by the special grace of God 2026 as well. God bless you Sir, I vote for Alexas58, babami na on your mandate naim ah dey stand so oo

LincolnOnyeabor:
Gold just dropped generational wealth today oooo

Shame that I couldn't see or tap any.

On God, no be small generational wealth e drop ooo, but e really pain me as I was stopped out at BE.

Gold and silver are still bullish on the HTF but I expect a pullback on US China de-escalation this week, #TACO

Eku mrkt ooo
My people my people
How wuna dey ooo
Hope wuna survive yesterday's bloodshed
Omo it was so massive and entertaining

Noah13:
is the learning you provided here recommended for a beginner or there's something before that?

Yes a beginner too can start from here too, although you also need to get the basics like knowing what forex is, how pick a broker, types of market orders and so on. Babypips school of pipsology does well in building a solid foundation in forex.