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Traders watch the Federal Reserve because it’s the entity that controls all money and credit created in the economy. It does this directly by creating money, and indirectly by changing how borrowers and lenders are likely to act with each other (by changing interest rates and through macroprudential policies it can execute through its regulatory […]

Commodities are typically traded as futures. Commodity carry is a strategy involving profiting off the shape of the forward curve in addition to the additional component of the risk-free rate. Defining carry Carry can be broadly defined as the yield that can be expected on a trade over the next 12 months assuming no change […]

Day trading encompasses trading short time horizons in liquid asset classes. But it’s also important to have flexibility. There is a time for day trading, swing trading, position trading (i.e., buy and hold), and also investments into less liquid asset classes, like real estate, venture capital, private equity, and even timber and teak wood investing […]

The biggest problem for investors is the reality that asset returns will be very low going forward. There will be lower-than-normal returns with greater-than-normal risks relative to the placid environment traders have recently experienced. This is a problem given what the returns on assets will need to be to meet our future obligations. For example, […]

Regardless of one’s thoughts on politics, the outcome of the November 2020 US election – particularly that of the presidency – will have a material impact on asset prices. When we talked about the big three market equilibriums that economies and assets are always continually battling for – (1) economic capacity utilization being neither too […]

Some day trading simulator products on the market combine demo trading with the upside of being granted your own trading capital if you are able to profit while managing risk at the same time within their system. If you want to learn how to trade, or do have experience but want to try a new […]

Countries must decide whether to manage their currency policy in a way that’s best for their country, whether that means keeping a fixed exchange rate, a free float, or possibly by joining a currency bloc if they have that option available to them (effectively a peg in itself). For reasons that were covered more in […]

When I talk about real estate – and how to calculate cash flow in real estate specifically – I’m getting slightly sidetracked from the idea of day trading, or trading over short intervals. But I’m also a firm proponent of having multiple diverse streams of income. This includes trading short-term (i.e., day trading), medium intervals […]

Having multiple revenue streams is important – whether that’s trading shorter timeframes (i.e., day trading), medium and long timeframes (i.e., swing trading and/or buy and hold), or investing in more illiquid assets. With respect to the latter, this can include real estate, one of the oldest and most proven forms of building wealth. Today we’re […]

In a previous article, we covered how a US dollar devaluation would impact various asset classes. Here, we’re going to discuss how a devaluation in the yuan (also known as the renminbi, CNY, or RMB) would influence asset prices. Since currency movements are always in relation to each other, we’ll discuss a yuan devaluation as […]