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Every guide opens with a short diagram that plays the idea out on a chart, so you know what you're about to learn before you click. Written by a working trader, most paired with a video on the channel.

Start here

Set up your account, know what you're trading, and know the risks before any money moves.

  1. Create your free Deriv account
  2. Add an MT5 demo in Trader's Hub
  3. Log in to MT5 with server, login and password
  4. Find the synthetic indices and practise

Setup4 min read Video

Open a Deriv account and link MT5

Create the account, add a free $10,000 demo, and log in to MT5 on your phone or PC, with the exact screens to look for.

  1. Simulated markets, driven by an audited random number engine
  2. Open 24/7, weekends included, and news can't move them
  3. Volatile: same chart skills, but risk 1% at most

Basics4 min read Video

What synthetic indices are

Volatility 75, Boom and Crash: what these markets are, how they differ from forex, and the honest pros and cons.

  1. Is it real? 25+ years and regulated
  2. Is my money protected? Kept separate, with cover
  3. A legit broker still doesn't make trading safe

Safety4 min read Video

Is Deriv legit and safe?

Regulation, how your money is protected, and the risks that stay yours. No hype, no fear.

  1. $0 to learn: the demo is free
  2. About $5 to go live on Deriv
  3. Risk about 1% of your account per trade
  4. Small money is not easy money

Basics5 min read

How much money you need to start

$0 to learn, about $5 to go live, and why small money is not easy money.

  1. Boom grinds down in small steps
  2. Then it spikes up, at random
  3. Crash is the mirror: grinds up, spikes down
  4. Spikes are random: no pattern or bot can call them

Markets4 min read Video

Boom and Crash: how the spikes work

Why the spikes are random, why beginners lose on them, and the defined-risk way to approach them.

Deposit from your country

Your Deriv account holds US dollars. Here is how local money gets there, safely.

Pay in local money, Deriv P2P holds it in escrow, and US dollars land in your account. Each guide covers every method in your country, with fees, timings and the safety rules.

The strategy path

Read them in this order. Each one builds on the vocabulary of the one before it.

  1. Swing points: where price turned
  2. Structure: higher highs and higher lows mean up
  3. Fair value gap: the entry zone a strong move leaves

01 Strategy3 min read

The 3 concepts to learn first

Swing points, market structure and fair value gaps: the vocabulary every other strategy on this page is built on.

  1. A swing high: one candle with lower highs on both sides
  2. Price breaks above it
  3. The broken high becomes support
  4. Enter on a reaction, stop beyond the swing, aim 2 to 1

02 Strategy5 min read Video

Swing points, marked correctly

What makes a real swing high or low, and how a broken one flips into support.

  1. Price breaks the level everyone is watching
  2. The break fails and traps the buyers
  3. Displacement leaves a gap through the level
  4. The retest holds: enter, stop beyond it, 2 to 1

03 Strategy13 min read Video

The fair value gap entry

Why buying the break gets you stopped, and how the gap, the retest and a fixed 2 to 1 fix it.

  1. Stops pile up under the swing low
  2. The raid wicks through and takes them
  3. A fair value gap forms after the raid
  4. Enter on the retrace, stop below the raid, aim 2 to 1

04 Strategy8 min read Video

Liquidity raids: no raid, no trade

Where the stops rest, how a raid takes them, and why the best gaps form right after.

  1. Accumulation: a quiet range collects stops on both sides
  2. Manipulation: the fake break down is the trap
  3. Distribution: the real move runs the other way

05 Strategy6 min read

AMD: the shape of a trading day

Accumulation, manipulation, distribution, and why the first break of a range is usually the trap.

  1. Asian session: a quiet range builds the levels
  2. London sweeps the range and starts the trend
  3. The London and New York overlap moves the most
  4. Then it quietens: trade London and the overlap

06 Strategy10 min read Video

Asian, London and New York sessions

Why the market goes quiet then explodes, when the London and New York overlap hits, and which window suits you.

  1. Can't tell who's winning? It's a range
  2. Inside the range, every trade is a coin flip
  3. A gap through the edge shows the direction
  4. Limit at the gap, stop beyond the first candle, 2 to 1

07 Strategy4 min read

How to trade a ranging market

Stop guessing direction: mark the range, wait for a gap through it, trade the break at 2 to 1.

  1. Mark the first 5 minute candle's high and low
  2. Ignore the fake breaks
  3. Wait for a gap through the level
  4. Retest, engulf, enter. Fixed 3 to 1

08 Strategy6 min read

The opening range: one candle a day

Mark the first 5 minute candle, wait for the gap and the engulf, and take one trade at 3 to 1.

  1. Fair value gap: a forceful move leaves a gap
  2. Engulfing: one side takes control
  3. Swing failure: a fake break traps the chasers
  4. Break and retest: the level flips
  5. Rejection wick: a level gets defended

09 Strategy3 min read

5 chart patterns worth knowing

Gaps, engulfing candles, swing failures, break and retest, rejection wicks: what each one tells you.

  1. Export the SyntX bars from your own MT5
  2. Drop the file into the free replay backtester
  3. Replay candle by candle and practise

10 Practice5 min read

Backtest SyntX indices for free

Export the bars from your own Weltrade MT5 and replay them candle by candle. About 15 minutes, $0.

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