This route is a two-week plan of work. It is for someone who has never opened a price chart. It takes fourteen lessons in one fixed order. The order is not about difficulty. It is about what you need to know before the next step makes sense. You start with what a buy button does, then what the numbers on the screen mean, then what each part of a trade costs. Only after that do you look at leverage, orders, stops and platforms. The last four lessons turn all of it into one sized trade on a demo account.

The route exists because most beginners meet the topics in the wrong order. They open a platform first, see a moving line, and press a button before they know what a pip is worth in naira. That produces a demo account full of random trades and no lesson learned. Working in this order means every new idea has something to attach to. When you reach position size, you already know the pip value, the lot sizes, the three costs and the stop distance. The sum is then arithmetic, not guesswork.

The plan assumes about one hour a day for fourteen days. Some lessons are short. The ones on costs, leverage and position size need more time because the numbers matter. You do not need money to start. A demo account is free. You do not need to deposit anything. The only cost of the route itself is your time and, later, whatever your internet connection costs. Nothing in the route requires you to send money to anyone.

You need a device that can open a browser and a spreadsheet. A phone works for reading. A laptop makes the arithmetic easier. You need an email address you can reach. You need a notebook or a plain document for the numbers. Before lesson one, write down the EUR/USD price you see, around 1.0850. You will use that same figure in several lessons. Keeping one figure across the route stops you from comparing different prices by mistake.

You do not need a broker account to start. The first ten lessons run on a demo account, which is free and needs no deposit. When you reach the lesson on opening an account, you will need a government-issued identity document and proof of address. Those are the usual requirements, but the exact list varies between brokers. You will also need a bank account in your name that can receive a transfer. Payment methods in Nigeria commonly include bank transfer, USSD and cards. Which of these a given broker accepts varies.

Have a way to record costs. From lesson five onward, every lesson starts with what it costs in money. Write each cost in naira beside the trade it belongs to. Spread is a cost on every trade. Commission applies on some account types and not others. Swap applies only if you hold a position overnight. If you do not write these down, they blur into one number and you cannot tell which one is eating your demo balance. A simple table with four columns is enough: date, instrument, cost type, amount in naira.

The first mistake is skipping the cost lessons because they feel slow. Spread, commission and swap are the only parts of a trade you control before you enter. If you skip them, every later calculation is wrong. The second mistake is treating the demo account as a game. A demo account teaches you how the platform behaves and how orders fill. It does not teach you how you behave when the money is real. The lesson on demo accounts covers where the difference lies. Do not assume a good demo result means anything about a live account.

The third mistake is using too much leverage because the demo balance is large. Leverage is not free money. It is borrowed money, and the amount you can lose is still your own. The lesson on leverage and margin explains how much of the trade is yours. Read it before you place any trade, even on demo. The fourth mistake is placing a trade without a stop loss. A stop loss is not optional. It is the only thing that fixes your loss before the market decides it for you. The lesson on stop loss and take profit shows where to place it and why the distance matters for position size.

The fifth mistake is changing the plan halfway. If you jump to position size before you understand pip value, you will size a trade from a number you do not trust. The route is short. Fourteen lessons over two weeks is not a long commitment. Finish each lesson before the next. The sixth mistake is expecting the route to make you profitable. It does not. It gets you to a sized trade on a demo account with the costs written down. That is the whole promise. What happens after that depends on practice, and practice takes longer than two weeks.