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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 […]

Below are some well-known trading and investing quotes that encapsulate various aspects of market philosophy, risk management, and trading and investment strategy. We also have some unique quotes in the section after, which have fun applications to trading and investing contexts.   Trading & Investing Quotes “[Many] know the price of everything, but the value […]

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 […]

Let’s say you’re trading a market and you want the upside, but want to limit the downside, but don’t want to pay an arm and a leg to protect against it. What do you do? In this article, we provide one idea.   Key Takeaways – Using Ratio Spreads to Finance Protection Goal: keep most […]