Trading News

Published on: Jun 23, 2021 On Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June, traders can access 10 hours of trading advice free of charge at Eightcap’s 2021 TraderFest. The virtual event will host speeches from some of the top traders in the industry. Over the course of the weekend, you’ll learn to trade like a pro at […]

Published on: Jun 23, 2021  Following a rise in demand among retail traders, Dukascopy has introduced Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on its MT4 terminal. Clients can trade the digital currencies against the US Dollar with competitive rates. New Cryptos At Dukascopy Previously clients could only trade digital currencies on the jForex platform, however, users will now […]

Published on: Jun 20, 2021 The British subsidiary of the American-based Interactive Brokers published its annual financial results for the 2020 year ending December 31st. The company has proven itself in several key metrics with a hefty 21% rise in revenue. IB 2020 Results The FCA-licensed Interactive Brokers UK Limited reported an annual turnover of more […]

Our brains do a poor job of processing exponentiation. But exponents and non-linearities are a big part of trading, investing, and financial markets. As a trader, your job involves assessing reward relative to risk and getting the former as high as possible relative to the latter and risk as low as possible in an absolute […]

The uranium market is much smaller than gold, silver, and other traditional commodity markets. The buying and selling of uranium typically occurs among utility firms with nuclear power plants, mining companies, specialist traders, and a small number of hedge funds and institutional investors.  Money managers, however, are increasingly looking to get into more abstruse markets […]

Every now and then, short selling is top of mind in the financial media, whether from the optics of some people making money during a bad market downturn, management teams complaining about short sellers (e.g., Tesla/Elon Musk), or speculative manias in meme stocks like Gamestop and AMC.  There are many widespread misconceptions of short selling […]

The rise of meme stocks such as Gamestop (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) created not just a frenzy of activity in the shares themselves but also their options markets. The boom in meme stocks options trading has resulted in a burst in activity across the entire options landscape, particularly among retail traders.   Options […]

Published on: Jun 10, 2021  The broker easyMarkets is a trusted name in the retail trading space, and with its new operating license from the British Virgin Islands (BVI), easyMarkets will continue to provide reliable and regulated trading services. BVI Regulatory Oversight easyMarkets is already regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) and the […]

Cryptocurrency vs. stocks really has its root in where we are in the global debt cycle, fiscal and monetary policy, money, credit, and the role of the dollar and other reserve currencies going forward.  The short answer in the cryptocurrency vs. stocks debate is that they’re both viable as stores of value to grow and […]

Published on: Jun 6, 2021 Popular online broker, easyMarkets, has released a new Bitcoin account. Users can now trade any of the broker’s more than 200 instruments in Bitcoin without needing to exchange their crypto for fiat currency. Find out how to get started. How It Works The new trading account automatically creates a Bitcoin wallet […]