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Hello and welcome to the Volatility.RED resource and repository project!

So you want to be a professional trader? Great! ...but before reading anything else, understand that trading for a living can be one of the hardest professions you have ever encountered. Make no mistake, the odds are stacked against the common trader, and the market is designed to eat through new and greedy traders. If you want to stand a chance, you cannot treat the market like a casino.

"Trading is the hardest way to make an easy living." - Anonymous

However, if you make it, trading can also be one of the most rewarding careers out there (both financially and intellectually.)

Here at Volatility.RED, it is our goal to provide a central resource for all topics related to professional speculative and proprietary trading. Here you will find guides on how to get started, how the market works, regulations and rules, risk management, and how to progress your trading career.

We are not an advisory service, we will never give out signals or investment advice, we will not promise you riches.

"Nobody wakes up in the morning, looks themselves in the mirror, and says: 'I'm going to make SOMEONE ELSE rich today!'" - Jack, from The On Professionalism Thread Series

The only person who's going to help yourself! Anyone telling you otherwise is only trying to sell you something. There are no shortcuts ahead, and every step of the journey is important in your development as a trader.

This wiki was born out of the need for a well organized, fast, and reliable resource for the following online trading communities:

(This list will be growing rapidly in the near future! If you run an online trading community and would like to make use of our site, please contact us!)

We work closely with these communities so the resources and information hosted is of the highest quality and extremely useful to their userbase. However, as we expand in our content, we will include information useful to traders from all walks of life. So check back often, as new material will be added and this site will be growing quickly.

Start Here

New to trading or new to Forex? Start with the Forex Quick Start Guide — a practical overview of the FX market, the tools you need, vetted resources, and how to find a broker. It's the fastest way to get oriented and start learning.

Once you have the lay of the land, the Essential Forex Trading Guide takes you deeper into the 6 core elements of professional trading: Fundamental Analysis, Sentiment Analysis, Risk Management, Trading Psychology, Price Action, and Technical Analysis. This is the guide that bridges the gap between retail and institutional trading.

Major Topic Areas

Markets

Forex Trading — Your complete guide to the FX market
Trading — What trading is and how it works
Speculating — Professional speculation explained
Futures Market — Overview of futures trading

Market Analysis

Fundamental Analysis — Why markets move
Sentiment Analysis — Reading market mood
Technical Analysis — Chart-based analysis
Price Action Analysis — Market mechanics

Central Banks & Economics

Central Banks — How central banks drive markets
Economic Data Releases — Trading the news
Monetary Policy Tools — The tools central banks use

Trading Skills

Risk Management — Protect your capital
Trading Psychology — The mental game
Having an Edge — What separates winners
Developing your Process — Build your system

Strategies

Resources & Tools

Volatility.RED is a free, community-supported wiki resource for professional traders. Content is written and vetted by experienced full-time traders.