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MarketAlleys Academy

Learn how the markets you follow actually work

Five free guides — one for each market we cover. Read them here chapter by chapter, keep the PDF companion for offline reading, and look up any term in the glossary as you go.

5 guides · 53 chapters · 137 glossary terms

The guides

Forex

Currency Conquest

A practical guide to forex markets

Currency Conquest walks through how the foreign-exchange market works — currency pairs, pips, lots and leverage, fundamental and technical analysis, risk management, trading psychology and building a trading plan.

12 chapters About 26 min read

Crypto

Crypto Canvas

Understanding digital-asset markets

Crypto Canvas covers the foundations of digital-asset markets — exchanges and wallets, fundamental and technical analysis, risk management, altcoins, DeFi, NFTs and building a sustainable strategy.

12 chapters About 26 min read

Commodities

Commodity Chronicles

Energy, metals and agricultural markets

Commodity Chronicles introduces energy, metals and agricultural markets — how commodity markets work, the instruments used to trade them, how to analyse them and how to build a commodity trading strategy.

5 chapters About 14 min read

Glossary

Market terms, in plain English

From pips and contango to the dot plot — 137 short, practical definitions of the vocabulary used in our coverage and in these guides.

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Pip
The standard unit of a currency price move: 0.0001 for most pairs, and 0.01 for pairs quoted in Japanese yen.
Leverage
Using borrowed funds or derivatives to control a position larger than the capital put up.
Stop-loss order
An order that closes a position once the price reaches a level chosen in advance, capping the loss on a trade.
Support and resistance
Price zones where buying (support) or selling (resistance) has repeatedly halted a move.
Market capitalisation
The total market value of a company's shares (share price × shares outstanding) or, in crypto, of a token's circulating supply.
Contango
When futures for later delivery are priced above nearer ones (or above spot), typically reflecting storage, financing and insurance costs…
Stablecoin
A token designed to hold a steady value, usually one US dollar.
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
A measure of the average change in prices paid by consumers for a basket of goods and services.

Put it into context: latest market coverage

crypto

Crypto update: XRP leads as Bitcoin, Ether and Solana fall

CoinGecko prices show XRP rose while Bitcoin, Ether and Solana were lower as of Oct 25, with MarketAlleys trend signals reporting neutral readings across the major coins.

MarketAlleys Research Desk · · 2 min read

crypto

Crypto market update: XRP leads 24-hour gains

At 09:00 UTC, Ether fell 1.44% over 24 hours while XRP rose 1.14%; Bitcoin and Solana were lower, according to CoinGecko.

MarketAlleys Research Desk · · 2 min read

MarketAlleys Academy guides are general educational material, not investment advice or a recommendation to trade any instrument. Trading — especially with leverage — carries a high risk of loss. See our risk disclaimer.