Everything you need to place your first sensible trade: pips, charts, signals, stop-losses and sizing. In about 45 minutes.
One rule for the whole session: every number on these slides is a worked example, not a live price or a promise.
You never buy the euro on its own; you buy it with dollars. EUR/USD is simply the price of one euro, measured in dollars. If you think the euro strengthens, you buy the pair. If you think it weakens, you sell it.
EUR/USD moving from 1.0842 to 1.0852 is a 10-pip move. Signals talk in pips, so this number is your ruler for everything that follows — including the built-in cost called the spread.
A 1% move on $3,000 is $30: nearly a third of your margin, in either direction. Leverage is why the stop-loss section coming up is the most important part of tonight.
Each candle compresses a slice of time (say 15 minutes) into open, high, low and close. A row of them is the chart every signal lives on. You don't need patterns tonight; you need to know what you're looking at.
A "signal" missing the stop is not a signal. It's someone else's guess, sized with your money.
You place it when you're calm, before the trade. If price ever touches it, the trade closes itself. Your maximum loss stops being an emotion and becomes a number: here, 32 pips. That is your planned worst case.
Three moves, one habit: start it below your entry, lift it to break-even once the trade has earned it, then trail it under each new low the trend makes. When the pullback finally comes, it doesn't take your profit; it pays you out.
This trade risks 32 pips to try to make 59: about 1 : 1.8. Keep that shape and a 50% hit rate grows an account slowly. Flip it (risking big to snatch small wins) and even an 80% hit rate eventually blows up.
Size = money you'll risk ÷ (stop distance × pip value). With 1% risk, a full losing streak of ten trades costs a tenth of the account: annoying, survivable, recoverable. That's the entire secret of staying alive long enough to get good.
Anyone can post one lucky month. What a beginner can't check (history depth, repeatability, whether every call carries a stop, how deep the losing streaks run) is exactly what Forexonia's models score. Low grades get cut before they ever reach your phone. A grade is a filter, not a promise.
The webinar community stays free either way. Bring your questions to the next session.
First, the part we never skip: trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for every investor. You can lose more than your initial deposit. Signals and grades, Forexonia's included, are information and education, not investment advice, and past performance never guarantees future results. Everything shown tonight was an illustrative worked example. Never trade money you cannot afford to lose.