AcruxCap is a free trading education site covering stocks, forex, commodities and crypto. There is no product, no subscription and no mailing list. If you find something useful here, that is the entire transaction.
The problem with most trading education
Almost everything written about trading online exists to sell you the next thing — a course, a signals group, an indicator, a prop-firm challenge, a broker referral. That commercial pressure shapes the content in predictable ways.
- Techniques get presented as more reliable than the evidence supports, because “this works about as often as a coin flip” does not sell.
- The genuinely important parts — position sizing, costs, expectancy, psychology — get less attention than patterns, because they are less exciting.
- The base rate goes unmentioned: most retail accounts lose money, and that fact is inconvenient for anyone taking payment.
None of that means trading education is worthless. It means the incentives are bad. Removing the thing being sold removes the incentive to overstate.
What is here
- 25 structured guides across six tracks, from how a price is formed to trading psychology and journalling.
- A searchable glossary of over 100 terms, defined without circular jargon.
- Three interactive tools — a position-size calculator, a Monte Carlo edge and drawdown simulator, and a live world sessions clock. All run in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
- A blog covering specific techniques in more depth.
What is deliberately not here
| Not offered | Why |
|---|---|
| Signals or trade alerts | Following someone else's trades teaches you nothing and leaves you unable to judge when to stop |
| Paid courses or mentorship | The material that matters fits on a website. Charging for it changes what gets written |
| Broker affiliate links | Commission for sending you to a leveraged product is a direct conflict of interest |
| A published track record | We are not going to publish performance figures that cannot be independently verified |
| Indicators for sale | The site previously offered these. It no longer does, and the pages have been removed |
An honest note on history
This site used to sell technical-analysis indicators. That is no longer the case, and everything connected to it has been taken down rather than quietly left up. What remains is the part that was always the most useful anyway: the explanations.
Who writes it
AcruxCap is a small independent operation based in the UK, written by someone who trades their own money and has made most of the mistakes described in these guides. That is the qualification on offer — not a fund management career, and not a claimed return figure.
Where the material states something as established, it reflects widely-documented market mechanics. Where the evidence is thin or contested — as with most candlestick patterns — the guides say so rather than papering over it.