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Learn trading: the free guides and tools

By Saad El Soussi, UAE-authorized finfluencer · Updated 2026-11-08

Start with what is forex if the words pip, lot and leverage are new, then the beginners' roadmap. For gold: how to trade gold, a session-based strategy with measured data, XAU/USD explained, the live price and the history since 1970. Tools: lot size, pip value, margin and profit calculators. Everything is free, sourced and written in plain English.

Start here

What is forex? The market, currency pairs, pips, lots, leverage, the rules that protect retail clients and why most lose.
Trading for beginners: the roadmap. Ten steps from zero to the first live trade, in the right order.
How to choose a forex broker. A 12-point checklist with links to the official registers; no ranking, no names.
Is SesTrading legit? Who we are, the UAE licence and how to check it.

Course lessons, summarised

Written summaries of lessons from Modules 1, 2 and 3 of the SesTrading course, with key points and measured numbers added. Not the lessons themselves.

Trading timeframes. M1 to daily: which chart fits which style, and how far gold moves per hour, day and week.
Common trading mistakes. The nine mistakes that end beginners' accounts and the fix for each.
Forex trading sessions and kill zones. When the market moves, with EUR/USD and gold measured hour by hour in Copenhagen and New York time.
Market structure. Higher highs and lower lows, why you enter on the retracement, and how deep gold's pullbacks were.
Candlestick patterns made easy. Body, wicks, timeframe, the common names, and a test of what a lone candle predicts (nothing).
Support and resistance. Levels, the range, breakout and retest, trend lines, and how often gold's broken levels were retested in 2026.
Fibonacci retracement. The levels, discount and premium, the 70.5% entry, and how deep gold's pullbacks went.
Technical analysis for beginners. The tools in order, plus what the 50-day average, RSI and volume did on gold in 12 months.
Chart patterns. Head and shoulders, double tops and bottoms, triangles, and how many of gold's double tops, double bottoms and head and shoulders actually confirmed.
Backtesting. How to test a strategy on past data, with a real 35-trade gold backtest and the look-ahead mistake that nearly tripled it.
Risk-reward ratio. The formula, the break-even win rate for every ratio, and how often 1R, 2R and 3R targets were reached on gold.
How to write a trading plan. The seven parts, a filled-in example for gold and a pre-trade checklist.
Stop loss. Where to place it, how to size the trade from it, and how often gold hit stops of $5 to $100.
Scalping gold. What scalping is, what the spread does to a $4 stop, and 25,416 simulated 5-minute gold trades.
How to use MetaTrader 5. Install it from your broker, open a demo, place an order with stop and target, read balance, equity and margin level, close the trade; definitions from the official MT5 help.

Gold

Gold price today. Live XAU/USD, per ounce, gram, tola and kilo, in nine currencies, refreshed every minute.
Gold price history. Every year since 1970 from World Bank data, the big moves and the long-run returns, with a chart.
Gold forecast. What 51 years of monthly prices say about 1-, 3-, 12- and 60-month moves, and why a range beats a price target.
Best month to buy gold. How often gold rose in each calendar month since 1975, and why January’s record is weaker than it looks.
Gold-silver ratio. Gold divided by silver: 78.1 on 4 Nov 2026, its range since 2000 and what followed past readings above 80, 90 and 100.
Gold vs stocks. How gold behaved in 313 months and the five big S&P 500 drops since 2000.
Gold vs the US dollar. The -0.45 correlation, what gold did in all 13 dollar swings of 8%+ since 2002, and the 8 years both rose.
Gold and interest rates. Gold against the 10-year real yield since 2003 and through every Fed hiking and cutting cycle since 2004.
Gold price adjusted for inflation. 1980’s $675 is $2,910 today; real prices by year since 1970 and real returns by decade.
XAU/USD explained. The symbol, the contract, margin, hours and how far it moves in a day and a week.
How to trade gold. The ways to trade it, the drivers, the hours and a simple framework.
Gold trading strategy. A session-based plan built on measured session and hourly ranges, with three setups and a worked trade.

Calculators

Lot size calculator. Position size from your risk and your stop, for gold and forex.
Pip value calculator. What one pip is worth in any pair, for any lot size.
Margin calculator. The margin a position locks at any leverage, margin level and free margin.
Profit calculator. The result of a trade from its open and close price, in dollars, pips and R.

Choosing a service

How to choose a gold signals Telegram channel. A checklist, including the questions to ask us.
Copy trading explained. How it works, what it costs, the risks the leaderboards hide, the ESMA rules, and the comparison with managed accounts and automated strategies.
How to start trading gold with a small amount.
Investing $50,000 to $100,000 for a monthly income. An honest look at the options.

How these pages are written

Sources on everything that matters. BIS, ESMA, CME, the World Bank, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the World Gold Council are linked where their numbers are used.
Our own measurements, with the period stated. When a page says how far gold moves in an hour, a session, a day or a week, we measured it on exchange data and say when.
Examples recomputed by hand before publishing, and calculators that show their working.
No promises. Trading is risky and most retail accounts lose money; that is on every page. Our own results, including losing weeks, are in our public Telegram channel.

The same guides exist in Arabic on sesmain.com and in Danish on sesthegreat.dk, each written for its own market, not translated.

Questions? Ask the bot

Our Telegram bot answers in English, shows how the VIP gold trades work (entry, stop loss, targets) and where the weekly results are published, losing trades included.

Open the SesTrading botOn Telegram

Questions people ask

Are the guides and calculators free?

Yes. There is no sign-up and nothing to download. The Telegram bot is free to open as well.

In what order should I read them?

What is forex, then the beginners' roadmap, then the lot size calculator. After that, the gold pages if gold is your market.

Who writes them?

Saad Nizar El Soussi, founder of SesTrading, listed by the UAE Capital Market Authority as an authorised finfluencer (entry 193), with the sources linked on each page.

Do you give trading signals on these pages?

No. The pages teach. Our VIP gold trades, with entry, stop loss and targets, go to members on Telegram, and the weekly results are public in our channel.

Authorized in the UAESaad Nizar El Soussi, founder of SesTrading, is listed by the UAE Capital Market Authority as an authorized finfluencer (entry 193, added 24 September 2026). Check the official list.