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FX Terminal Academy — Learn to Trade Forex, Free

FX Terminal Academy is a free, structured forex education platform. Ten learning paths take you from what a pip is through chart reading, technical and fundamental analysis, risk management, trading psychology and prop-firm preparation. Every lesson has a quiz, hands-on exercises and a direct link to the live FX Terminal tool that applies it — so what you learn is immediately something you can use on real market data. Free to read with no sign-up; a free account saves your progress, XP, notes and certificates.

Forex Basics

What the market is, how a trade works, and the vocabulary everything else depends on.

2 courses · 8 lessons · 49m

Chart Reading

Candles, timeframes, structure and levels — reading price before adding a single indicator.

2 courses · 8 lessons · 50m

Technical Analysis

Moving averages, momentum, volatility — what indicators actually measure, and what they cannot do.

2 courses · 7 lessons · 39m

Price Action

Trading from structure alone — breakouts, retests, pullbacks and traps.

2 courses · 6 lessons · 41m

Fundamental Analysis

Interest rates, inflation and central banks — what actually sets a currency’s direction.

7 courses · 38 lessons · 3h 12m

Risk Management

Position sizing, drawdown arithmetic and the exposure you did not know you had.

2 courses · 7 lessons · 42m

Trading Psychology

The specific ways a working strategy gets abandoned by the person running it.

2 courses · 7 lessons · 48m

Trading Strategies

Turning an idea into rules — and testing it without fooling yourself.

3 courses · 11 lessons · 1h 25m

Advanced Trading

Positioning, liquidity and order flow — reading what sits under the price.

2 courses · 6 lessons · 39m

Prop Firm Preparation

Passing an evaluation is a risk problem, not a profit problem.

2 courses · 5 lessons · 39m

Browse by category

The same courses grouped by the part of trading they belong to, if you would rather start from a discipline than from a learning path.

Browse by topic

Every lesson and course that touches a given subject, gathered on one page — useful when you want one specific idea rather than a whole course.

A forex course built around live market data

Most forex courses end where the real work starts: you finish a module on currency strength and are left with a screenshot of a strength meter. FX Terminal Academy is built inside a working research terminal, so a lesson on currency strength finishes one click from a live strength meter, and a lesson on the economic calendar finishes one click from this week's releases.

The curriculum runs from absolute basics — what a currency pair is, what a pip measures, how a spread costs you — through chart reading, technical analysis, price action, fundamental analysis, risk management, trading psychology, strategy building and prop-firm preparation. Each path is ordered, so you can start at the top and keep going, or use the search to jump to the one thing you need.

How the Academy is structured

Ten learning paths, each holding several courses, each course holding a sequence of lessons. Every lesson has an introduction that frames what you'll be able to do, a body with worked examples and interactive exercises, a summary, and a short quiz that is graded server-side.

Progress tracking, XP, levels, badges, daily streaks and course certificates are all free with an account — but every lesson stays readable without one, because education that hides behind a sign-up form is advertising.

Practise, not just read

Lessons include hands-on exercises: identify a candlestick pattern, place a support level on a chart, size a position for a fixed percentage risk, work out a risk-to-reward ratio, pick the right order type for a scenario. Nothing is scored or stored, so you can get them wrong as many times as you like — the explanation is the point.

Frequently asked questions

Is the FX Terminal Academy really free?

Yes. Every lesson, course and quiz is free to read with no sign-up. A free account only adds saved progress, XP, notes, bookmarks and certificates.

Do I need trading experience to start?

No. The Forex Basics path assumes no prior knowledge — it starts with what a currency pair is and what a pip measures.

How long does a learning path take?

Each path shows its estimated study time, typically two to six hours of reading across its courses. There is no schedule and no expiry.

Do I get a certificate?

Completing every lesson in a course issues a certificate with a verifiable serial number. It is a record of study, not a regulated qualification.

Does the Academy give trading advice?

No. It teaches concepts, terminology and process. Nothing in the Academy is a recommendation to buy or sell, and trading forex carries a high level of risk.

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All data, readings, analysis and numbers on FX Terminal are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial advice. FX Terminal is not responsible for any investment decisions or outcomes. Please read the full disclaimer at fxterminal.app/disclaimer.