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Popular forex and CFD broker, ActivTrades, is offering zero commissions on shares, along with no overnight swap charges and fractional trading. The new change for 2021 allows traders to diversify their portfolio at no extra cost. What Are The Changes? Non-leveraged retail traders are not be required to pay transaction fees on all European, UK […]

The technology war is a particularly serious conflict within the scope of US-China relations. Both countries know that whoever is superior technologically will also be superior in most other ways. Whoever wins the technology war is also very likely to win the economic and military wars as well. For this reason, the technology war is […]

US-China relations, and the capital war conflict within it, is and will be a big driver of markets going forward and is important to understand even for those with shorter-term trading orientations. The same things tend to happen over and over again for the same reasons historically. By studying what happened in other societies and […]

Polish-headquartered broker, XTB, has made a move into the Asian trading market by registering a new Dubai subsidiary. The popular forex broker has also signed up for a license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). This is a logical next step for the top-rated brokerage and is good news for traders in the region. XTB […]

Top forex and CFD broker, AvaTrade, has released an interactive social and copy trading platform – AvaSocial. The user-friendly mobile app lets clients chat, trade and copy. Suitable for beginners and experienced investors, the iOS and Android app is available to all AvaTrade clients. Get the latest details and start trading today. What Is AvaSocial? […]

FXTM has brought out 11 new currency and stock basket indices in response to elevated market volatility in 2020. The brokerage has also introduced zero-pip spreads and ultra-low commissions on major forex pairs. This is great news for traders looking for competitive fees and dynamic new trading products. New Products FXTM’s new Currency and Stock […]

Market participants are always looking to maximize their reward relative to their risk. One of the best ways to have the big upside without having the unacceptable downside is through the efficient use of options and derivatives. In this article, we’ll go through building a balanced portfolio with options. Options can provide leveraged returns with […]

Portfolio construction and the concept of building a better portfolio beyond the way assets come pre-packaged to you is one of the most under-talked about areas in finance. As we write this to close out 2020, stock market indices in the US and many throughout the world are hitting new all-time highs. Traders are keen […]

Business cycle analysis often involves an aggregation of past experiences and then tying together the cause-effect relationships that drove those cycles. Traders are especially interested in business cycle analysis given how it drives trends in asset classes, sectors, and investment outcomes. For example, early-cycle tends to be favorable to cyclical stocks while late-cycle favors being […]

When we talk about the question of are stocks overvalued, we need to frame the idea in terms of multiples of a metric that underlies their values. The value of a business is fundamentally the amount of cash that you can earn from it discounted back to the present. Earnings is revenue minus expenses. Free […]