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The UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook covers a 125-year dataset of financial returns over 35 markets and multiple asset classes. It’s useful to investors and long-term allocators because it provides insights into what kind of returns can be expected and how to go about making portfolios more resilient.  For traders and shorter-term allocators, this is […]

In this article, we have an era-by-era compendium of stock-market-relevant facts and statistics. We go from ancient antecedents and early joint-stock experiments, through the Dutch birth of the modern exchange, to today’s high-speed, ETF-soaked, options-heavy markets.    Ancient and Medieval Antecedents (to 1500) In classical Athens (5th-4th c. BCE), private bankers (trapezitai) took deposits, made […]

XM has unveiled several platform enhancements, drawing strong approval from clients and our testing panel. The updates aim to make trading faster and smarter. Key Takeaways XM has brought out new design and feature upgrades across its web platform and mobile app. The integration of TradingView charts and XM AI equips active traders with intuitive […]

Limiting drawdowns and tail risks is one of the key goals – or at least considerations – of a portfolio. How do we reduce drawdowns without paying for insurance in the form of options (which tends to be expensive and drags down long-term returns)? That’s what we’ll cover in this article.   Key Takeaways – […]

Deriv has announced two new additions to its line of synthetic indices – Crash 150 and Boom 150. They replicate the volatility found in fast-moving instruments, with price ticks every second and Crash/Boom events coming in roughly every 2.5 minutes. Key Takeaways Crash 150 and Boom 150 are available on Deriv’s MT5 Standard, MT5 Swap-Free, […]

Asset correlation is the degree to which different assets move together for the chief purposes of diversification value. Bitcoin, since its introduction in 2009, has evolved from a speculative asset among a niche audience to an emerging macro asset. For many individual traders, they’re more interested in the volatility and price movement. For institutions, they’re […]

The safe withdrawal rate (SWR) is the percentage of a retirement portfolio that can be withdrawn each year without significantly increasing the risk of running out of money over your lifetime.  It’s a guideline to balance spending needs with asset preservation. We look at the common wisdom, then run our own simulations at the end. […]

In this article, we take a structured and more numbers-driven survey of the bond market: its early history, scale/size, strategies or uses, and key statistical trends. Key sources for this article include FRED (Federal Reserve research), SIFMA, BIS, Pew Research Center, Trading Economics, icmagroup.org, and OECD.   Key Takeaways – Bond Market Statistics Bonds evolved […]

If you have a proprietary trading operation, multi-strategy hedge fund, family office, or other business designed to make money trading the financial markets, at some point you will probably want to hire traders to work for you (beyond the execution kind). It’s a way to scale and diversify your trading business. However, for anyone who’s […]

A carry trade involves profiting from yield or premium differentials between assets. The classic example is currency carry (borrowing low-yield, long high-yield), and essentially betting on the yield differential. This same logic applies to volatility markets through options, which intrinsically have implied volatility baked into them. Options carry trades involve the concept of harvesting the […]