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Learn gold trading
Plain-English guides to the things people ask us about gold. Education only: nothing here tells you to buy or sell anything.
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Position sizing
Gold lot sizes and pip value: what 0.01 lots really means
What a lot is worth, why 0.01 is the floor, and how that floor shapes a small account.
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Safety
How to spot a gold trading bot scam: 8 red flags
Eight things that should end the conversation, and the questions worth asking instead.
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Market hours
Gold trading hours: the best times to trade from Dubai and London
The weekly timetable, the busy overlap, and how it reads from Gulf Standard Time.
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Getting started
How to open a Vantage account for gold trading, step by step
Every setting explained: platform, account type, leverage, and the order to do it in.
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Risk
What is a drawdown, and why every trading system has one
How the fall is measured, why the maths of recovery is unfair, and our real 16.7%.
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Basics
What is XAUUSD? Gold trading explained for beginners
The code, the market behind it, and what actually moves the price of gold.