Margin level is the one number on your platform that tells you how close you are to a forced liquidation. Here's how to read it, compute your survival distance in pips, and raise it when things get ugly.
22 min read
Your platform says the loss isn't real until you close it. Your margin engine disagrees, every second. Here's what a floating loss actually costs you, and a triage framework for deciding what to do tonight.
22 min read
Stop-outs are supposed to close you before zero. Sometimes the market moves faster than the stop-out. Here's exactly when an account goes negative, who eats the loss, and what the fine print says.
21 min read
Your balance can sit untouched at $10,000 while your account quietly loses nearly half its value. Here's how the gap between balance and equity drawdown works, and why only one of those numbers can hurt you.
22 min read
Drawdown is the distance between your account's best day and its worst moment since. Most traders learn what it means only after they're deep in one. Here's the full picture, with the maths.
21 min read
One is a warning. The other is your broker closing trades for you, in an order you didn't choose, at prices you won't like. Knowing the gap between the two is what keeps accounts alive.
21 min read
Your balance says $5,000. Your equity says $3,850. Only one of those numbers is real, and it's not the one most traders stare at. Here's how to read your own account properly.
20 min read
