How to Pick Stocks the Smart Way
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Our Proven 9-Step Method for Selecting Stocks When it comes to how to pick stocks, investors face a unique challenge. While most bonds have a clear valuation technique through Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), stocks are ...
Understanding Patterns: Key Rule for Successful Trading
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How Recognizing Dominant Patterns in the Market will Improve Your Trading Decisions Understanding patterns is a crucial skill that is often overlooked in the education system. The lack of emphasis on recognizing patterns can result ...
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 Of 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 ...