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Test your strategies on past prices
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Step through history candle by candle
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Your own strategy, trading your own accounts from your own computer
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Build, test, guard and review, all in one place
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What happens on your computer, and what happens on ours
Pricing
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Market basics
Market basics
How prices, orders and charts work, in plain English.
Reading charts
Price and orders
Risk
Futures
Reading charts
Support and resistance
Support is a price area below the market where falling prices stopped and turned up before.
How to read candlesticks
Each candle shows four prices from one stretch of time: where price opened, the highest it went, the lowest it went, and where it closed.
Price and orders
Bid, ask and spread
The bid is the highest price a buyer is waiting to pay right now.
Order types
A market order buys or sells straight away at the best price available now.
Risk
Stop loss
A stop loss is an order that closes a trade if price moves against you to a level you choose.
Risk to reward
The risk to reward ratio compares what a trade stands to lose if it reaches its stop with what it stands to make if it reaches its target.
Futures
Ticks and tick value
A tick is the smallest step a futures price can move.
Futures contracts explained
A futures contract is an agreement, made on an exchange, to buy or sell a set amount of something at a price agreed now, for a date in the future.
