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Foundations

Pips, Lots, and Leverage Explained

Before you place a single trade, you need fluency in the basic units of forex: what a pip actually measures, how lot sizes scale your exposure, and how leverage magnifies both gains and losses. Get these wrong and even a well-planned trade can blow past your intended risk.

Covered in the Academy curriculum →
Foundations

The Three Trading Sessions

Forex trades 24 hours a day across the Asian, London, and New York sessions — but volatility and liquidity shift dramatically depending on which session is active and where they overlap. Knowing when to trade, and when to sit on your hands, is a skill in itself.

Covered in the Academy curriculum →
Technical Analysis

Reading Candlesticks Beyond the Basics

Every candlestick tells you who won the battle between buyers and sellers over that period. Wick length, body size, and where a candle closes relative to its range all carry information — once you know what to look for.

Covered in the Academy curriculum →
Risk Management

Why Risk-to-Reward Matters More Than Win Rate

A trader who wins 40% of trades can still be highly profitable with a 1:3 risk-to-reward ratio, while a trader winning 70% of trades can lose money with poor R:R. Long-term profitability is a math problem before it's a prediction problem.

Covered in the Academy curriculum →
Psychology

Five Mistakes New Traders Make

Overtrading, moving stop losses, revenge trading after a loss, risking too much per trade, and abandoning a strategy after a few losing trades — these patterns account for more blown accounts than bad analysis ever does.

Covered in the Academy curriculum →
Market Context

How News Events Move the Market

High-impact news releases — interest rate decisions, employment data, inflation reports — can trigger sharp, fast moves that blow through normal price action. Understanding the economic calendar is part of managing your risk, not just your entries.

Covered in the Academy curriculum →
Glossary

Forex terms, plainly explained

Pip
The smallest standard price movement a currency pair can make, typically the fourth decimal place (or second, for JPY pairs).
Lot
A standardised trade size. A standard lot is 100,000 units of the base currency; mini and micro lots are 10,000 and 1,000 units respectively.
Leverage
Borrowed capital that lets you control a larger position than your account balance alone would allow — it magnifies both profits and losses.
Spread
The difference between the bid (sell) and ask (buy) price of a currency pair — effectively the broker's transaction cost.
Margin
The amount of your own capital required to open and maintain a leveraged position.
Drawdown
The peak-to-trough decline in an account's value, usually expressed as a percentage — a key measure of risk exposure.
Support / Resistance
Price levels where an asset has historically struggled to fall below (support) or rise above (resistance).
Momentum
The rate of acceleration of a currency pair's price movement — central to how the Quantline setup identifies entries.

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These articles only scratch the surface. The Academy curriculum covers every one of these topics in depth, with the Quantline 4 System tying it all together.

Risk Disclaimer: Trading foreign exchange carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Never trade with money you cannot afford to lose. KJFX provides educational content only and does not constitute financial advice.

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