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We Teach What the Market Actually Does
If you’ve landed here because you want to learn how to trade forex, there’s something you should probably know before you start clicking around this blog:
We do things a little differently around here.
We don't try to predict every candle, eliminate losing trades, or turn $47 into a Lamborghini by Thursday.
We teach you how to read the behavior of the market so you can make better trading decisions inside of it.
And if that sounds like the kind of trader you want to become,
Erica Lorrai
Aug 319 min read
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Forex Candlesticks: How to Read a Single Candle the Way a Dealer Does
A candlestick is four numbers on a little colored bar. Where price opened, where it closed, the highest it got, the lowest it got. That's it, nothing fancy. But those four numbers are the only visible record of what a dealer just did, and there's a ten minute exercise with a line chart that makes the footprints impossible to miss once you've seen them. Most candlestick lessons hand you forty patterns to memorize. You need about four.
Erica Lorrai
Sep 127 min read
Target Price Calculator: Where Your Take-Profit Actually Belongs
Most of us pick a take-profit because it looks good, or because there's a round number sitting nearby. Then we squeeze the stop in around it and call that a plan. This one works the other way. Tell it where you're getting in and where you're wrong, and it tells you exactly where price has to go to pay you double, or triple, what the trade can cost you. Then you take that number back to the chart and find out whether the market has any intention of going there.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 246 min read
Partial Take-Profit Calculator: What Happens When You Scale Out of a Trade?
Taking partial profits means closing part of your position at one target while leaving the rest open for additional targets. It can be a useful way to manage a trade — but the percentages matter, because every piece you close changes what remains available to profit from the rest of the move.
Let's make the math easy.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 228 min read
Average Entry Calculator: Where Your Position Actually Sits After You Add
You're long from 1.1700, price drops, you add at 1.1680, and now somebody asks where you're in from. It isn't 1.1690 unless both positions were the same size. Adding to a trade moves your entry, and it moves your risk a whole lot more than it moves your entry, and most people only ever check the first one. Here's how to work out where your position actually sits, and what to look at before you click add.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 217 min read
Required Pips Calculator: How Far Price Has to Move to Hit Your Dollar Target
Most of us pick the dollar number first. Two hundred bucks, or fifty, whatever would make the session feel worth it. Then we go hunting for a trade that produces it. Problem is a dollar amount means nothing on a chart, because charts move in pips. This one converts the money back into a distance, and then you get to go look and see whether that distance is even out there today. Sometimes it is. Sometimes the number tells you something you'd rather not hear.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 206 min read
My Pre-Trade Setup Checklist
Before I take any trade there's a checklist. And I don't skip it. Not on good days, not on slow days, not when I'm convinced I already know what the chart is doing.
Here's what's on it.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 143 min read
Trade Expectancy Calculator: What Is One Trade Actually Worth?
You win 45% of your trades, your winners average 2R, your losers average 1R. Good? Bad? You honestly can't tell by looking at it, which is annoying, because those are the three numbers everyone throws around. Expectancy folds all three together and tells you what one trade has actually been worth. It also tells you when the strategy you designed and the strategy you're really trading are two different things. That part's uncomfortable but you'd rather know.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 118 min read
Clean vs Messy Trading Setups
Messy setups feel exciting. Clean ones feel boring. Here's a side-by-side comparison and a simple test to tell which one you're actually looking at.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 113 min read
How Much Your Winners Are Actually Making Compared to Your Losers: Profit Factor Calculator
Win rate gets asked about constantly and it's close to useless on its own. You can be right 80% of the time and still lose money, or lose more trades than you win and be doing fine. Profit factor is the number that catches what win rate throws away: how much your winners actually made for every dollar your losers took. It comes straight out of your journal, it takes a minute, and it'll show you which setup is quietly bleeding you. Bring your trade log.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 117 min read
ADR Calculator: How Far Does This Pair Actually Move in a Day?
Determine how to manage your trade or even to enter based on how much price has moved in a dayl
Erica Lorrai
Jul 99 min read
How to Analyze Your Own Chart: A Step-by-Step Process
Stop waiting for someone else's analysis. Here's a simple, repeatable 5-step process for reading your own chart, from context down to confirmation.
Erica Lorrai
Jul 94 min read
The Risk-to-Reward Calculator: Why a Bigger Ratio Doesn't Mean a Better Trade
Twenty pips of stop, forty pips of target, 1:2. That's the whole calculation, and if you can divide you already know how to do it. What nobody explains is what to do with the number once you've got it, which is why so many people end up dragging their target out to 100 pips because 1:5 looks better than 1:2. It doesn't make the trade better. It makes the target farther away. Let's go through what the ratio actually tells you, what it can't tell you, and the one honest way to
Erica Lorrai
Jul 68 min read
Asian Range Explained for Beginners
The Asian session builds a range before London even opens. Here's how to mark it, trade the breakout, and avoid the stop-hunt trap.
Erica Lorrai
Jun 152 min read
Why I Trade Only One Currency Pair
More pairs feels like more opportunity. It's usually just more confusion. Here's why depth on one pair beats surface-level knowledge of five.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 272 min read
My London Session Forex Trading Routine — Why I Only Trade 3 Hours a Night
I stopped trading all day and built a 3-hour routine around the London session. Here's exactly how I structure my nights trading EUR/USD — and why the timing changes everything.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 173 min read
Another Night in the Markets… 30 Pips.
A quiet 30-pip night doesn't make for a highlight reel, but it's what sustainable trading actually looks like. Here's why boring wins.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 132 min read
The Market Isn't Random. It's Just Rude.
Stop runs, fakeout breakouts, sudden moves — none of it is random. Here's why the market feels chaotic until you learn to read the structure.
Erica Lorrai
Mar 232 min read
Why You Don't Need More Trading Strategies
Jumping between strategies isn't the fix — mastering one is. Here's why depth beats variety, and how to actually commit to a strategy.
Erica Lorrai
Feb 232 min read
Using the Currency Strength Meter in your trading.
Here’s how to avoid bad trades and choose better ones Using the Currency Strength Meter in your trading.
This indicator is ranking relative currency strength over a recent window - usually short-term, intraday. What it means for your trading.
Erica Lorrai
Nov 1, 20253 min read
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The Flashcard Library is designed to help you quickly identify price patterns, market structure, EMA setups, TDI signals, and other key concepts you'll see in real charts. Each card includes clear examples and explanations to help reinforce what you've learned in the courses and trade reviews.
The Dealer Cycle
8 Boxes to Read the Market's Pattern
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The Dealer Cycle Pattern identification is designed to help you quickly know what stage the market is in. Every move on your chart follows the same eight-step shape — whether you're watching a single hour or an entire trend. Once you learn to spot it, you stop reacting to price and start expecting it. This is the pattern I use to know exactly where I am in a move, in real time, before it's obvious to anyone else watching the same chart.
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