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When it comes to investing, few names carry as much weight as Warren Buffett, as one of the world’s most successful investors. Over the decades, Buffett has developed an investment approach that has made him one of the world’s most successful people by conventional measures. What especially stirs up public interest in Buffett is his […]

Exchange rates have always been one of the noisiest variables in global finance.  If you trade interest rates, the rate is either there by date X or it’s not. If you trade bonds, they move based on duration and sometimes credit risk, but the payout is usually known ahead of time. But exchange rates are […]

Why have small-cap stocks historically outperformed large caps? And does this still hold true today? That’s the basis of the size factor, nested in the broader area of finance known as factor investing. Factor investing fundamentally is about isolating specific characteristics of assets – e.g., size, value, quality, low volatility – to harvest either: outperformance […]

The pursuit of value – finding assets priced below their intrinsic worth – has been a cornerstone of investing for centuries. Despite the variety of strategies today, value is still the bedrock of many today – i.e., how can you get the most out of what you pay? What yield do you need to justify […]

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 […]