How to Become a Successful Trader in Three Steps
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Navigating Success: A Clear and Practical Roadmap to Achieve Your Trading Goals Both older and younger individuals frequently inquire about the path to becoming a successful trader. Although we advise against seeking quick fixes, we ...
How to Pick Bonds the Smart Way
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Minimizing volatility is the margin of safety, while maximizing Z-score is the edge If you follow the financial markets, you probably already know that last week the Federal Reserve raised rates again by 25 bps ...
Why You Must Like Technology Stocks (QQQ)
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Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ ETF) is an ETF that tracks the performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index. It is one of the world’s most popular and actively traded ETFs. As the name of the index suggests, ...
The Myth оf Easy Money: Why Trading/Investing is Challenging
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As professionals with a long experience in trading/investing, we often get asked to teach people how to trade and invest. “Don’t you have a quick course I can take, and then I can go and ...
What You Need to Know About VIX (CBOE Volatility Index)
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We constantly hear from the media (CNBC, if you are a trader) around us about market sentiment. ‘Market sentiment is bad’ or ‘Market sentiment is good’ — we rarely get to hear more about what this ...
Oil Market in 2023: the Party is Cancelled
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OPEC plus, a group of oil-producing countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia announced it would cut production by more than 1.2 million barrels of crude a day — more than 1% of global supplies; ...
Why Do You Need to Practice the Margin of Safety/Diversification?
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‘The only investors who shouldn’t diversify are those who are right 100% of the time’ – Sir John Templeton The fields of trading and investing are quite different from most other professions. For example, if ...
EUR/USD Forecast: Is the Euro Finally Out of the Woods?
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They say that a picture tells a thousand words, so let’s start with a 10-year price history of EUR/USD: As you can see from the chart above, over the last ten years, this currency pair ...
Money Management: Quick Look at Leveraged Shares Performance
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Why Trading Leveraged Shares is Like Driving on a Flat Tire Leveraged shares trading is getting very popular nowadays. Multiple 200% and 300% leveraged shares ETFs aim to replicate 200% or 300% of the DAILY ...
In the Spotlight: SVB Collapse and its Historical Parallels
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‘History does not repeat itself. It rhymes’ — Mark Twain The world is once again embroiled in a banking crisis. We are sure you have by now already heard that Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank ...