Trading News

With news events and earnings releases often taking place outside of regular trading hours, FXCM has launched 24-hour trading on US stocks. Key Takeaways Popular shares like Apple, Tesla and Uber can be traded pre-market, post-market and overnight. During extended hours, you may see a decline in trading volume, higher volatility and wider spreads. Selected […]

Moneta Markets is broadening its investment offering by adding six new crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs), presenting fresh opportunities for short-term traders. They will be available from 20 February 2024. Key Takeaways Moneta Markets is introducing BITO, BITB, ARKB, BTCO, IBIT, and GBTC to its roster of 50+ ETFs. They will be available on the MT4 […]

The Variance Gamma (VG) process is a mathematical model used in financial markets for option pricing and to capture the dynamics of asset returns. It’s noted for its ability to model the skewness and leptokurtosis (fat tails) observed in the distribution of returns – characteristics often inadequately captured by the simpler Black-Scholes model, which assumes […]

Event-driven strategies in financial markets are trading or investment strategies that seek to exploit pricing inefficiencies that may occur before or after a corporate event takes place. These strategies are primarily based on the premise that corporate events can lead to stocks or assets being mispriced and can provide opportunities for traders/investors to earn above-average […]

Piper Alderman and Echo Law are coordinating class actions that take aim at IC Markets for selling contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail investors between September 2017 and March 2021. This follows Australian lawsuits against other established brokers, notably IG, Plus500 and CMC Markets. Key Takeaways The class actions allege IC Markets did not sufficiently […]

Variational Bayesian methods, within the context of probability theory in finance and markets, offer a framework for dealing with uncertainty and making predictions. These methods belong to the family of Bayesian inference techniques, which update the probabilities of hypotheses as more evidence becomes available. Variational Bayesian methods specifically use optimization techniques to approximate complex posterior […]

Network theory and percolation models offer a lens through which we can understand various phenomena in finance and trading. These concepts, derived from mathematics and physics, provide quantitative frameworks for the interconnectedness and vulnerabilities within financial markets. Below, we look into the key concepts, applications, and how traders can leverage network theory and percolation in […]

Random Matrix Theory (RMT) is a statistical framework used to analyze the properties of matrices with random elements. In finance and trading, RMT is useful for analyzing the structure of correlations among assets in large portfolios, which can help with understanding why assets move the way they do, risk management, and portfolio optimization.   Key […]

Heavy-tailed distributions (or fat-tailed distributions) are used in financial modeling as these probability distributions better capture the behavior of financial data. The occurrence of extreme events such as market drops or booms are more common than would be predicted by normal (Gaussian) distributions. These distributions have “heavy tails” – i.e., a higher likelihood of extreme […]

MultiBank has added MultiBank-Plus to its suite of trading tools, providing a user-friendly web platform and mobile app for online traders. Key Takeaways MultiBank have introduced a beginner-friendly alternative to MetaTrader, sporting an intuitive design that makes for an enjoyable trading experience. It features a charting package from TradingView with 7 chart types, 7 timeframes, and […]