Clear foundations
Plain-language guidance from the essentials onward.
Learn Understand Trade
One-to-one foreign exchange education—one clear step at a time.
Mercatus Academy provides quality, structured one-to-one tuition for complete beginners and developing traders across the United Kingdom and South Africa. Learn from the foundations, deepen your market understanding, strengthen your process, and approach risk responsibly—at a pace suited to you.
- 11 years
- Educator experience
- Practical
- Market-focused tuition
- Structured
- Progressive learning
Your educator
Mr Ivan Smith
11 years of experience
Practical analysis
Connect concepts to charts and market behaviour.
Responsible risk
Build risk awareness into every decision.
Lasting process
Develop a disciplined, repeatable approach.
A path that meets you where you are
Find your best starting point.
Choose the answers that sound most like you. The guide will suggest a tuition path you can discuss with Mercatus Academy.
Understand the market
Currency pairs, pips, spreads, sessions, order types, and the mechanics behind every trade.
Analyse with purpose
Price action, trends, support and resistance, market structure, and practical chart interpretation.
Build your process
Trade planning, position sizing, risk management, review habits, and consistent decision-making.
Learner experiences
What our students say.
“I believe you have a great purpose in our lives. You have loads of people who are waiting to meet you and learn from you, and turn their lives around for good. You’ve changed my life, mentally and financially.”
“This has been a top-quality course with an excellent tutor—valuable and insightful training with an elaborative and well-explained presentation. Ivan has been amazing. His teaching is very clear, concise, and easy to understand. I’m glad I signed up for it. A worthwhile investment—you won’t regret it. Thanks, Mercatus Academy! I now have a clear understanding of Forex!”
Your educator
Mr Ivan Smith
11 years of foreign exchange experience
Ivan brings practical market experience into a learning environment built on clarity, patience, and responsible decision-making. His aim is to help every learner understand not only what they are doing, but why they are doing it.
“Good tuition should make the market clearer, your decisions more deliberate, and your risk easier to understand.”
Your next step
Book a learning-path consultation.
Share where you are in your learning journey and Mercatus Academy can help identify the most suitable place to begin.
- No assumed prior knowledge
- A path matched to your current level
- Clear discussion of tuition options