Trading leveraged products carries significant risk and can lead to losses greater than you expect.
Education centre
Structured guides, strategy explainers and a risk section written to be genuinely useful — not a brochure. Start at the beginning, or jump to the part you are stuck on.
Start here
Most people arrive in the middle — hunting for a strategy before they can size a position. The path below is deliberately boring at the start, because the mechanical ideas are the ones that decide whether anything later works. Move on when the previous level feels dull.
Before direction, before strategy: what a quote actually represents, why there are always two prices, and what happens to your balance when the market moves one unit. Most early losses are not bad forecasts — they are positions nobody had measured.
A method is simply a written answer to four questions: what you trade, when you enter, where you are wrong, and how much you risk finding out. Once those are on paper, charts and order types stop being decoration and start doing work.
Experienced traders spend most of their attention one level up from the chart: total exposure, correlation between open positions, the cost of carrying them, and what a bad week does to the balance. The single trade matters far less than the sequence of them.
Trading for beginners
Short, plain-English guides with worked examples instead of jargon. Read them in any order, but read the sizing one before you place a live trade — it is the one that changes behaviour.
Markets
Interest rates, growth data, supply, sentiment and positioning — the handful of forces behind almost every move, and which of them matter on which timeframe.
Basics
Why every instrument shows two prices, which one you get when you buy, and why the gap between them is the first cost any position has to cover before it can profit.
Basics
The arithmetic that turns a price move into a number in your account — and the reason two traders can be right about the same chart and finish the week very differently.
Risk
What leverage is, what margin is, how a margin close-out happens, and why a larger position is a decision about risk rather than a decision about confidence.
Charting
One candle, then four, then a trend. How to read structure without memorising dozens of pattern names, and how timeframe changes the story the same market tells.
Method
A plan short enough to re-read before every order: instruments, setup, invalidation, risk per trade and the rules for a bad run. With a template you can copy.
About these six guides
The titles, categories and ordering above are the final editorial plan for this section. The article pages themselves are not published yet, so each card currently routes to a holding page and the reading times are estimates from the outline rather than measured word counts.
Trading strategies
Every strategy is a bet on how a market behaves. When the market behaves differently, the strategy loses — predictably, in its own characteristic way. Knowing that failure mode in advance is more useful than knowing the entry rule, so each card below states it plainly.
A move already under way is more likely to continue than to reverse.
You identify a direction, enter in agreement with it, and stay until the structure that defined the trend breaks. Entries are rarely at good prices, which is the point — you are paying for confirmation.
Price is rotating between a floor and a ceiling and will keep doing so.
You define the range from prior reaction points, work the edges rather than the middle, and place the stop just outside the boundary so that a genuine breakout removes you quickly instead of slowly.
A decisive move out of a compressed range starts a new one.
You mark the level, wait for price to leave it with conviction, and enter on the move or on the first retest. Stop orders are the natural tool, because they put you in only if the level actually gives way.
Meaningful moves need days or weeks, and most intraday noise is not worth trading.
Fewer trades, wider stops, smaller positions, and a decision taken away from the screen. It suits anyone who cannot watch a chart during market hours, and it shifts the cost question from spread to overnight financing.
Match the style to your schedule before you match it to a market. A method that needs you watching a five-minute chart is not a method if you work during market hours, and a strategy you abandon after two bad weeks was never tested at all.
Nothing in this section is a recommendation or a forecast, and no strategy described here has a dependable outcome. Trading leveraged products carries significant risk and can lead to losses greater than you expect.
Order types
An order type is a sentence you write to the market in advance: do this, at this price, in this circumstance. Choosing the wrong one is how traders end up entering at prices they never agreed to. Three of the six are entries, two are exits you set in advance, and one is an exit that follows the price as the trade moves.
| Order type | What it does | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Market order Entry — immediate | Buys or sells now, at the best price currently available. You control the timing and the size; you do not control the price, and in a fast market the fill can differ from the price you saw when you pressed the button. | When being in the trade matters more than the exact entry — a liquid instrument in normal conditions, or closing a position you no longer want to hold. |
| Limit order Entry — at a better price | Waits, then buys at or below a price you set, or sells at or above it. It will not fill at a worse price than your limit. It may also never fill at all if the market does not reach your level. | When you want a specific price rather than a specific moment — buying into a pullback, or selling into a rally towards a level you have marked. |
| Stop order (stop entry) Entry — on confirmation | Sits above the market for a buy, or below it for a sell, and becomes a market order once your level trades. Because it then executes at the next available price, the fill can be beyond your trigger. | When you only want the position if the market proves the idea — entering a breakout above resistance rather than anticipating one. |
| Stop-loss order Exit — risk control | Closes an open position once price reaches a level you chose in advance, capping the loss you intended to accept. It is a market order on trigger, so gaps and thin liquidity can close you out below the level you set. | On every position, set at the same time as the entry — while you are still neutral about the trade and able to answer the question "at what price am I simply wrong?" |
| Take-profit order Exit — target | Closes an open position once price reaches a favourable level you specified, so the result is banked without you having to be at the screen when it happens. | When your plan defines a target — a prior high, a measured move, a round number — and you would rather pre-commit than improvise while the position is profitable. |
| Trailing stop Exit — follows the price | A stop-loss that moves with the market in your favour by a set distance and never moves back. As price advances, the stop advances behind it; when price turns by that distance, the position closes. | In a trend you want to stay with for as long as it lasts, when you would rather protect open profit automatically than keep adjusting the stop by hand. |
Two things the table cannot promise
First, a triggered order executes at the next available price, not at your trigger — in fast markets, around data releases and at the open after a gap, the difference can be material. Second, the set of order types you can place depends on the platform and the instrument, so the list above is the industry vocabulary rather than a statement of what is enabled on your account.
Fill the ticket from the bottom up: decide the stop first, then the size that makes that stop an acceptable loss, and only then the entry. Done in that order, the arithmetic protects you. Done in the usual order, the entry decides your risk for you.
Try it in WebTraderRisk management
Traders who last are rarely the ones with the best forecasts. They are the ones still holding a balance after the forecasts were wrong, because the size of each position was decided in advance and the exit existed before it was needed. This section is written to be useful to someone who is currently losing money, which is the only audience it matters to.
Size is the only risk variable you fully control, and it is decided before the order, not after. The method is the same everywhere: pick the maximum you are willing to lose on this trade, measure the distance from your entry to your stop, and let those two numbers give you the size. Never the other way round.
Keeping that maximum to a small share of your balance is what buys you the thing every method needs — a long enough run of trades for the method to show whether it works. A single oversized position can end the experiment before it has started.
A stop is not a prediction, it is a definition: the price at which your reason for being in the trade no longer exists. Place it where the idea is invalidated, then size to it. Placing it where the loss happens to feel tolerable is how traders end up with stops inside normal market noise.
Be clear about what a stop cannot do. It triggers at your level but executes at the next available price, so gaps, weekends and thin conditions can close a position worse than intended. That is a reason to size conservatively, not a reason to trade without one.
Leverage changes nothing about whether you are right — it changes how much a given move costs. The maximum available to you is a ceiling, not a target, and the traders who last tend to use a fraction of it. Treat the margin figure on the ticket as information about exposure, not as an allowance to spend.
Watch total exposure rather than individual tickets. Several positions that respond to the same driver are one concentrated bet wearing three names, and a margin close-out does not care which of them you considered your main trade.
The ceiling itself is not one global number. Retail clients in the EEA: 1:30 on major currency pairs, lower on other asset classes. Retail clients under our international entity: up to 1:400 depending on instrument and account type. Caps vary by regulator, instrument and client classification. The leverage and margin that apply to your own account are shown in the client area before you place a trade.
Before you trade with real money
Leveraged trading is not suitable for everyone. It is possible to lose money quickly, and losing a meaningful share of a balance is a normal part of learning rather than a sign that something went unusually wrong. Trading leveraged products carries significant risk and can lead to losses greater than you expect.
74% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.
Market terms
Trading vocabulary is small, and most of it is plain once someone defines it without circular jargon. These twelve cover nearly every sentence you will meet in a platform, an analysis piece or an order ticket.
These are general definitions of market vocabulary. None of them states a value that applies to an Orion Capital account — the spread, leverage, margin and swap figures that apply to you depend on your account type, your instrument and where you are onboarded, and are shown in the client area before you trade.
Live webinars
Time with the platform open and a presenter answering questions in real time. The format is screen-first — demonstrations on a live chart rather than slide decks. Attendance terms and the registration route are confirmed with each announced session.
Screen time rather than slides. We open a handful of markets, mark the levels that matter and talk through what the chart does and does not tell you.
Live session with a Q&A at the end.
The arithmetic of risk per trade, worked through on real position sizes, plus the questions to ask yourself before pressing buy. Bring your own numbers.
Workshop format. A calculator is useful.
Where everything is, what each field on the ticket does, and how to place, modify and close a trade without hesitating. Demonstrated on a demo account throughout.
Hands-on. Open a demo first and follow along.
Schedule and recordings
The three sessions above are the standing programme. Each run needs its own date, start time, time zone and presenter before this section goes live, and the reserve button needs pointing at whichever registration route the tenant uses — the client area or a separate webinar platform.
No. Everything on this page is open to read without registering. An account becomes useful at the point where you want to practise — a demo lets you place the orders described here with simulated funds, which is a very different kind of learning from reading about them.
With Level 01 of the learning path, in order, and then a demo account. Read how a quote is built, what a pip is worth at the size you are considering, and what leverage does to a loss. Those three ideas prevent more damage than any entry technique.
None of them works in all conditions, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something. Trend following struggles in ranges, range trading fails at breakouts, breakout trading pays for false breaks, and swing trading pays financing to wait. The practical question is which style matches the hours you can watch the market and the drawdown you can sit through without abandoning the method.
It defines the level at which your position is closed, but not the price at which that happens. A stop becomes a market order when triggered and executes at the next available price, so a gap or a thin market can produce a worse result than the level you chose. Guaranteed stop availability, where offered at all, depends on the instrument and account type.
The minimum differs by account type: Classic from $/€ 100, Silver from $/€ 2,500, Gold from $/€ 25,000, VIP from Discretionary, VIP Diamond from Discretionary. You can fund an account by Visa / Mastercard, Wire transfer, Skrill, Neteller and WebMoney, and the figures that apply to you are confirmed in the client area before you deposit. Separately from the minimum: start with an amount whose complete loss would not change your circumstances, because early trades are tuition.
The table on this page defines the standard order types used across the industry. The set available to you depends on the instrument and on where you place it: WebTrader is the only platform live today, and the mobile app still in development will not necessarily expose an identical list.
The live schedule, the presenters and whether a recording is published afterwards are confirmed in the client area when each session is announced.
It is a fair test of your mechanics — order entry, sizing, platform fluency — and a poor test of your temperament. Simulated money does not produce the hesitation that real money produces, so treat demo results as evidence that you can operate the plan, not as evidence that you will follow it when it costs you something.
A demo account mirrors the live platform with simulated funds, so you can place every order type on this page, size a position properly and watch a stop do its job — with nothing at stake.
CFDs are leveraged products. They carry a high risk of rapid loss because a small move in the underlying market produces a much larger move in your position. Most people who trade them lose money. Make sure you understand how these products work, and never risk funds you cannot afford to lose.
