FX TERMINAL · ACADEMY
Professional Forex Trading Course
Prop-firm evaluations, institutional order flow and the habits that separate a hobby from a practice.
The gap between trading as a hobby and trading as a practice is mostly structural: where your information comes from, how your risk is governed, and whether your process survives a bad month.
These courses cover the professional end of that — reading institutional positioning through the CFTC COT report, understanding where liquidity pools and why price is drawn there, and the specific constraints of a proprietary trading firm evaluation, which is a risk-management problem wearing a profit target.
Courses in Professional Trading
- Positioning and LiquidityPrice tells you what happened. Positioning tells you how crowded the trade is, and liquidity tells you where price is likely to be drawn. This course covers the public data that gives you both, and how to use it without over-reading it.
- Passing an EvaluationA prop evaluation is a constrained optimisation: hit a profit target without violating a drawdown rule. This course explains what each rule does to your optimal position size and trade frequency, and why the daily loss limit ends more challenges than the profit target does.
Lessons in Professional Trading
- Reading COT PositioningThe Commitments of Traders report is one of the few genuinely free windows into institutional positioning. This lesson covers what it contains, what it is good for, and the two…
- Liquidity and Where Orders PoolLarge orders need someone to trade against. This lesson is about where that "someone" reliably exists, and what it implies for where price goes and where your stop should not be.
- Understanding Prop Firm RulesBefore you can plan around the rules you have to read them precisely, because two firms using the same words can mean materially different things. This lesson goes through each…
About these professional trading lessons
This page collects everything in the FX Terminal Academy that deals with professional trading: 2 courses and 3 lessons. The list is generated from the lessons themselves rather than maintained by hand, so it stays complete as the Academy grows.
Every lesson is free to read in full. Each one ends with a short quiz and links into the FX Terminal screen that applies it, so an idea can be checked against live market data instead of staying on the page. No account is needed to read; signing in only saves your progress and issues the completion certificate.
Where to start
Work through a course from the top rather than picking lessons out of it: the order is the point, and each lesson assumes the one before it. The lesson list below is there for when you already know the idea you are after.
Nothing here is investment advice. The Academy explains how the market works and how to read the data behind it; it does not issue signals or tell you what to trade.
Common questions
Are these professional trading lessons free?
- Yes, all of them, in full. There is no paywall, no trial and no card required, and the live terminal screens the lessons link to are free as well.
Do I need an account to read them?
- No. An account is free and optional — it exists only to remember which lessons you have finished, carry that across devices, and issue a certificate when you complete a course.
Is a course better than reading the lessons individually?
- For a subject you are new to, yes: a course orders its lessons so each one builds on the last. Read a single lesson when you already know which idea you want.
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