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How much money could I lose in a day (week, month, quarter, year) on a really bad day? What would the worst 5% or the worst 1% of days look like? You’re asking the same question that Value-at-Risk (VaR) tries to answer.  It’s one of the most widely used risk measures in finance because it […]

Harry Markowitz, who popularized modern portfolio theory, said that “diversification is the only free lunch in investing.” For most of the post-2008 period, the bull run in large-cap US equities meant that those who diversified well often found that lunch to be quite costly. If someone went from a 100% stocks portfolio to the 60/40 […]

Let’s look at some interesting facts about gold, with a natural focus on its financial and investment implications. Gold’s Unique Position as an Asset Gold is the prototypical “non-productive store of value” (NPSOV). It doesn’t generate cash flows, yet it retains value through scarcity and because it’s widely agreed that it has intrinsic value. (Contrast […]

After going head-to-head with over 100 TradingView brokers, Eightcap came out on top in DayTrading.com’s 2025 awards. While many brokers now offer TradingView, we found very few deliver a package that truly meets the needs of active traders, complete with seamless connectivity, fast execution, and advanced features. Why Eightcap Stood Out A growing number of […]

One of the biggest problems in trading – and really in any career – is simply having too much to do. Especially when you’re first starting out, you have lots of decisions to make. Maybe you’re watching videos, reading articles, and everybody is saying all these different things. Cognitive load and decision fatigue are a […]

AvaTrade has integrated AvaFutures with TradingView. The move means future traders can access real-time data, advanced charting, and direct market execution without leaving the TradingView interface. Key Takeaways Clients can now trade futures directly from the TradingView platform. Get live data, alerts, and access to CME Group, EUREX, and other global markets. TradingView offers 100+ […]

A gamma squeeze is a sudden, sharp rise in a stock’s price, often triggered by a rush of options trading activity. It’s driven by the actions of market makers and their hedging activity – which can trigger other buying activity – in response to the activities of options traders. We explain the concept of a […]

If hedge funds have one real strength, it isn’t picking the hottest stock or calling the next major macro shift. It’s how they manage risk. Many beginning traders imagine hedge funds as bold gunslingers. They think of concentrated bets, calling the next big thing, exotic derivatives, or extreme leverage. And yes, some of that happens […]

Day trading sounds exciting. You sit at a computer and click buttons and make money. It’s very different from a 9-to-5 and even traditional entrepreneurship where you openly sell a product or service. (Trading primarily provides value through capital allocation and liquidity provision in financial markets.) Yet, as we listed here, 96% of day traders […]

From the outside, and among novice traders, there’s the widespread belief that trading is about predicting the future and being right.  Call the top, buy the bottom, predict what happens next.  Unfortunately, that mindset is why most traders have suboptimal results. It rarely works out. Taking into account the edge institutional traders have, plus the […]