Owen Carlisle
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Risk-reward and break-even win rate calculator
Enter entry, stop-loss and take-profit prices to get the risk-reward ratio, the win rate you need to break even and the expectancy of a…
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Forex market hours: a live session clock in your time zone
See which forex sessions are open right now, when the next one starts and how Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York hours line up…
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Forex margin calculator
Find out how much margin a forex trade will use at different leverage levels, what the position is worth in your account currency and…
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Pip value calculator
See what one pip is worth on 21 currency pairs for any lot size, converted into your account currency, plus the value of a…
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Position size calculator for forex trades
Work out the right lot size for a forex trade from your account balance, the share of it you are willing to risk and…
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How stablecoins hold a $1 price, and what happened when USDC and TerraUSD slipped
A stablecoin is a promise that a token will be worth one dollar. How that promise is kept, and how it can fail, depends…
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When the Swiss franc floor broke: what happened on January 15, 2015
For more than three years the euro could not trade below 1.20 Swiss francs. Then the Swiss National Bank walked away from the floor,…
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How to calculate pip value by hand, and why it changes from pair to pair
A 20-pip stop does not cost the same on every currency pair. Here is the arithmetic behind pip value, with worked examples for dollar,…
