How do I start a forex trading community?

Sign in, open the Communities screen and choose New community. Pick a name, whether it is public or private, and how people join — open, by approval, or by invite link only. You become its owner.

Can I run trading competitions in my community?

Yes. Community owners and admins can create challenges with their own starting balance, leverage, instrument list, costs and risk rules, then publish, pause, finish or cancel them.

Are private communities really private?

Yes. A private community does not appear in discovery or search results, and requesting it directly returns the same not-found response a non-existent community would — the API never confirms that it exists to a non-member.

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Forex Trading Communities

Communities are where FX Terminal's traders organise: a shared feed for trade ideas and charts, a member roster with roles and moderation, and trading challenges the community runs itself. Join a public community in one click, request access to a curated one, or start your own and invite the traders you already know.

Communities built around trading, not talking about trading

An FX Terminal community has a shared feed for trade ideas and charts, a member roster with real roles, and its own trading challenges. The challenges are what make it different from a chat room: claims made in the feed can be checked against results on the leaderboard.

Public communities are open to browse and one click to join. Curated ones can require approval or an invite link, and private ones are invisible to everyone but their members.

Roles and moderation that scale

Four roles: owner, admin, moderator and member. Moderators handle the feed — removing, pinning and locking posts, and muting members. Admins additionally run membership and challenges. Only the owner can transfer or delete the community, and nobody can grant a role at or above their own.

Every administrative action is written to an audit trail the community's admins can read, so a contested ban or role change has a record rather than an argument.

Trade ideas with structure

A post can carry an instrument, a direction, an entry, a stop and a target alongside the write-up, which turns a feed of opinions into something a reader can actually evaluate. Markdown is supported and sanitised server-side against a deliberately narrow allowlist.

Announcements are an admin-only post kind: they pin to the top of the feed and notify every member, so a challenge opening or a rule change reaches people who were not reading that day rather than scrolling past unseen.

Frequently asked questions

How do I start a forex trading community?: Sign in, open the Communities screen and choose New community. Pick a name, whether it is public or private, and how people join — open, by approval, or by invite link only. You become its owner.
Can I run trading competitions in my community?: Yes. Community owners and admins can create challenges with their own starting balance, leverage, instrument list, costs and risk rules, then publish, pause, finish or cancel them.
Are private communities really private?: Yes. A private community does not appear in discovery or search results, and requesting it directly returns the same not-found response a non-existent community would — the API never confirms that it exists to a non-member.

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FX Terminal provides free market research and analysis for informational purposes only. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to trade. Trading forex carries a high level of risk.