How trading actually works.

No jargon for its own sake and nothing dressed up. Each page takes one question people actually ask, answers it in the first two sentences, and then shows the working — including what the feature does not do.

A-book vs B-book: what's the difference?

An A-book broker passes your order out to a liquidity provider and earns from the spread or a commission, so it makes the same money whether you win or lose. A B-book bro…

What is leverage, and what does 1:500 mean?

Leverage lets you control a position larger than your account balance, with your own money acting as margin. At 1:500, $1,000 of margin controls a $500,000 position — whi…

How do funded trading accounts work?

A funded account lets you trade a firm's capital instead of your own after passing an evaluation, and you keep an agreed share of the profits. You pay once for the evalua…

How does copy trading work?

Copy trading automatically mirrors another trader's positions in your own account, sized to your balance, so when they open or close a trade you do too. The mechanism is …

On-chain balance vs a number in a database

An on-chain balance corresponds to a real blockchain transaction you can look up yourself on a block explorer. A purely internal balance is a row in a company's database …

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