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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 […]

This article was published on December 3, 2019 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 […]

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 […]

This article was published on November 12, 2019 It is very likely that currency policy will take on a much bigger role in the next recession. As the ‘trade war‘ associated with the export and import flows between countries plays out, most notably between the US and China, a ‘currency war’ is likely to be […]

This article was published on November 6, 2019. The US stock market recently made new highs. Recession fears caused by inverted yield curves are overblown. While an inverted yield curve has been a strong statistical correlate to a recession over the past five business cycles in the US, it doesn’t get at the underlying reasons […]

On September 14, 2019 drones attacked state-owned Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities at Khurais and Abqaiq. The initial size of the shock was huge. Global oil production is slightly over 100 million barrels per day. The attack on Saudi oil infrastructure was worth some 5.7 million barrels per day of production, meaning 5 to 6 […]

This article was published on October 29, 2019 Negative interest rates are now a fixture in the financial world. Most developed market countries currently have negative interest rates of some form. Some remain “holdouts” – most notably the US to go along with the UK, Canada, and Australia / New Zealand, but Japan and most […]

With the recent surge in brokers going zero commissions, more traders are celebrating being freed from perpetual costs that eat into their returns. Controlling trading transactions costs is important for all different types of traders from small savers to large institutional funds. These costs are very different depending on size, strategy, market, time horizon, and […]

The swap rate market gained widespread institutional popularity during the 1980s. Reportedly, IBM and the World Bank completed the first modern swap agreement in 1981. Today, hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of swaps are outstanding – many multiples of world GDP of some $88 trillion – making them among the most traded financial instruments […]