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2023-09-29 20:12
Cabinet decision on VAT & SVAT
Sri
Lanka's Cabinet of Ministers reached a decision on the rationalization
of Value Added Tax Exemptions and Abolition of Simplifi… Read More
2023-09-29 04:35
Monetary Policy Review: No. 06 - August 2023
Monetary Policy Review: No. 06 - August 2023The Central Bank of Sri Lanka maintains policy interest ratesat their current leve… Read More
2019-06-06 07:45
Do you want to know what the swap in trading means?
I’ll tell you, along with an anecdote.
In addition, I tell you that this is one of the most underrated but most important concepts… Read More
2019-05-29 16:20
What are CFDs about?
What does this term CFD mean in finance?
Well, in this guide I will tell you in depth what these CFDs are in the stock market, how they work, and most importantly, how… Read More
2018-11-26 17:49
The ATR (Average True Range) is an indicator that was created no less than in 1978, again by the trading legend J. Welles Wilder, in his legendary work “New Concepts in Technical Tradi… Read More
2018-11-11 23:31
Have you ever had problems with volatility in your trading?
VIX is the most known barometer for volatility in the financial worldAnyone who has traded long enough knows the capital importanc… Read More
2018-10-31 12:35
Surely if you have read books about trading you have heard many times that the trend is your friend.
This is something that all speculators of all times have said or ever corroborated: from… Read More
2018-10-21 23:01
Standard Deviation raises when there is more volatilityThe Standard Deviation is a trend-type indicator used for trading.
In this case, it is a somewhat ambiguous indicator because I do not… Read More
2018-10-04 13:25
The other day I wrote an article about Ripple brokers and I realized one thing:
The so-called exchange houses have very different spreads from each other, at least with certain instruments… Read More
2018-09-28 19:48
Looking for information about a broker that I found, Axecc, it reminded me why the new regulation of the ESMA is a disaster for European traders and investors, despite the fact that this reg… Read More
2018-09-27 08:59
Surely you’ve heard a lot of times talk about that “market noise“, which is something that practically all traders or investors name from time to time.
Why are traders and… Read More
2018-09-23 16:57
What is the MACD (Moving Average of Convergence and Divergence)?
MACD is the blue lineBars represent the histogramThe signal is the red lineOf all the trading indicators, this is, perhaps, t… Read More
2018-09-23 16:05
The CCI (Commodity Channel Index), which in Spanish would be something like the Raw Material Channel Index, is a very popular technical indicator developed by Donald Lambert and published fo… Read More
2018-09-19 16:26
I am going to talk about one of the most used and popular indicators of fundamental analysis in the world.
Nothing less than the legendary Warren Buffett has said that this, the Return on Eq… Read More
2018-09-19 16:00
What is the Accumulation / Distribution indicator?
Well, a volume type indicator created by Marc Chaikin which tries to measure the amount of money that goes in and out of an asset. Original… Read More
2018-09-18 10:32
Sometimes you wonder what the value of the cryptocurrency X may be because you are not sure if the market price is right to invest in it or not.
I say this because it is what everyone &ldquo&hell…Read More
2018-09-18 08:49
A couple of years ago I commented that some broker started offering weekend trading; those days so “boring” and covered by sports betting, especially football.
On that occasion I… Read More
2018-09-18 08:31
If you look closely you realize that a node system is the perfect system for control since all nodes depend on each other: they are therefore all controlledProponents and advocates of crypto… Read More
2018-09-18 07:47
NagaTrader or Nagamarkets?
Some time ago I opened an account in this NagaTrader broker.
I do not know where or how I found it.
I only know that I found it curious and attractive because it o… Read More
2018-09-15 18:33
Robert Pretcher is, perhaps, the best-known Elliot wave expert of recent decades, especially on Wall Street, where his appearances in the media are already a classic, for better or for worse… Read More
2018-09-15 17:49
The Elliot Wave Theory is one of the most known and studied in the world of technical analysis.
This theory was developed no less than almost a century ago by the accountant, Ralph Nelson El… Read More
2018-09-15 17:05
The other day almost by chance, looking for some things online, I came to an article about a hack that there are so many, in an exchange house in Hong Kong, Okex, in which they “lost&r&hell…Read More
2018-09-15 16:37
The liquidity ratios refer to the ability of the company to meet the payments of its short-term debts.
This is easier to understand if we see that not only companies but families also have t… Read More
2018-09-15 16:11
The truth is that the world of short-term trading is a vein to create weapons of mass destruction packaged in the most pompous ads of the most sophisticated trading.
I recently opened a demo… Read More
2018-09-15 10:58
Whenever I’m trying new short-term trading strategies, I end up forgetting about the eternal “detail” of commission costs and the impact they have on a trading strategy tha… Read More
2018-09-12 21:36
One of the most important moments in the world monetary history had John Maynard Keynes as the most prominent actor.
The most remembered phrase of his life as an economist was, without doub… Read More
2018-09-12 21:00
The Price to Book Value or PBV is one of the numerous stock market ratios that are used in the fundamental analysis to try to determine if a company is cheap or expensive and for that it mea… Read More
2018-09-08 23:26
Range markets have a fundamental importance in trading and investment, especially for those who are dedicated to trying to follow market trends, that is, for followers of that famous phrase… Read More
2018-09-08 17:13
There are rumours in the most conspiratorial circles of the network that Bitcoin and the entire Blockchain are the prelude to the establishment of the currency of the future world government… Read More
2018-09-08 16:52
The stochastic indicator was designed by George C. Lane in 1954 at a time when trading in the pits was the order of the day in the American futures markets and these indicators, when they we… Read More
2018-09-06 18:37
Who would not want to have the shares of the best companies just before they go out to quote?
One of the best ways to try to make money on the stock market is trying to be one of the privile… Read More
2018-09-06 18:00
There is always a fad that is the one that leads the financial markets.
The fashion of recent years is undoubtedly cryptocurrencies, led, of course, by the almighty Bitcoin.
Not many years a… Read More
2018-09-04 07:24
Some time ago, the Daily Telegraph published another of those articles on “day trading” that appear from time to time in the mass media.
This I found by chance the other day in a… Read More
2018-09-01 23:28
Maybe you would like to know how to make good short-term stock market predictions.
Surely if you read this article it is because you think that I am going to tell you how I can give you a sy… Read More
2018-09-01 22:28
Do you want to know what the most volatile Forex pairs are?
Surely, because you’ve probably heard that volatility is very important in the markets and it is always better to look for t… Read More
2018-08-30 13:42
A trend indicator quite popular in the world of technical analysis but not so much among the Hispanic niche is that of the directional lines, known as Envelopes.
What are these Envelopes for… Read More
2018-08-27 09:25
What are the trading channels?
One of the most popular patterns in the entire trading industry is that of the trading channels.
According to most trading gurus they are very useful and would… Read More
2018-08-26 22:14
Why do we try to be fortune tellers?
One of the most common things in the world of the stock market is the divinatory desire of the majority of participants in it, starting with the analyst… Read More
2018-08-26 21:47
Are you interested in doing algorithmic trading?
Do you think that is the best way to avoid having all those “problems” you have now when it comes to finding a winning system?
Be… Read More
2018-08-26 21:27
A little over three years ago, one of the leading brokers in the international Forex scene declared bankruptcy for the famous Black Forex Thursday with the collapse of the Swiss Franc pairs… Read More
2018-08-26 18:48
Dividend yield (Dividend Yield in English) is one of the most important fundamental ratios of financial analysis that exists.
It measures the ratio between the dividend per share that a comp… Read More
2018-08-20 15:09
FXStreet is one of the best known websites of the Forex world, something not common being Spanish company that began many years ago, nothing less than since 2000, in this of the online Forex… Read More
2018-08-19 12:05
The Parabolic SAR (Parabolic SAR) is another of the technical stock market indicators developed by the legendary Welles Wilder, who published it in his mythical book “New concepts in t… Read More
2018-08-09 21:40
Do you want to learn how to trade with cryptocurrencies?
Why trading with criptocurrencies? It seems to me that those who made the best money were the ones who bought 5 years agoSurely yes… Read More
2018-08-09 15:08
How are the parabolic movements in the Stock Exchange?
Parabolic market example at its best: the Nasdaq bubble
One of the most recurrent occurrences in the stock markets is the exaggerated… Read More
2018-08-07 19:41
What is the ADX (Average Direction Index)?
The ADX is one of the most used and studied indicators in the world of trading. It is a trend indicator and tries to measure the strength of it to… Read More
2018-06-17 21:55
Why are criptocurrencies defended by libertarians and anarchocapitalists?
Well, its defence is based on sound logic, supposedly.
They are the result of complex mathematical models and are (s… Read More
2018-05-27 08:45
Every day that goes by I see more and more news, articles, interviews, etcetera, related to one of the trends of today: Artificial intelligence and its importance in the world of financial t… Read More
2018-01-30 18:10
It seems that robots and trading algorithms are destroying the hedge fund industry.
That is what the manager of one of the most powerful hedge funds in the industry, Stephen Jamison (Koppenb… Read More
2018-01-23 00:14
The other day I talked about the foreign currency effects and their importance for investing.
In that article I talked in a general way without any specific example.
Today I am going to talk… Read More
2018-01-16 21:23
Three years ago, eleconomista.es published an article about how profitable it was to invest outside due to Foreign Currency Effects.
Those days the Euro was in the middle of a terrible bear… Read More
2018-01-14 19:46
When you do a search related to inflation and trading you will encounter many articles related.
You will notice that the majority of them are quite similar. This is due the fact that they be… Read More
2018-01-06 15:24
When I think of the term speculate I always think of Andre Kostolany, the author of one the first books that I read about financial markets that had a huge impact on me. His books are some o… Read More
2017-12-30 10:42
Some days ago I was talking to a friend about the bitcoin bubble and both were wondering where all that money was going, the money of the bitcoinmania.
We are talking about a lot of money wh… Read More
2017-12-22 09:22
Are we in front of the biggest investment ever?
According to one of the most know English financial gurus, yes.
Not only this so called “investment” is the best ever but it will… Read More
2017-11-30 11:30
Do you want to invest in Dash but are not sure what it is?
Welcome to the club, because the majority of investors are in the same boat.
It is not that we do not really know what Dash is &nda&hell…Read More
2017-11-21 21:08
Investing in the Argentinean Merval is one of the possibilities that Argentinean investors have when they want to keep their money safe from the voracious Argentinean government. It is true… Read More
2017-11-14 19:19
Advantages of using a mental stop loss?
Using a mental stop loss is one of the favourite solutions of some trading gurus
We can even see this kind of articles in Investopedia with some artic… Read More
2017-11-05 23:09
The most popular trading asset of the moment is Bitcoin.
It seems that more and more people want to join the cryptocurrency party.
Even I joined it and started to do some trades in Bitcoin… Read More
2017-10-12 09:08
If we had to choose the hottest asset class in the whole financial markets without a doubt we would choose cryptocurrencies, starting with their leader, Bitcoin and others that are acquiring… Read More
2017-10-12 09:08
If we had to choose the hottest asset class in the whole financial markets without a doubt we would choose cryptocurrencies, starting with their leader, Bitcoin and others that are acquiring… Read More
2017-10-03 19:51
One of the main problems we face in the world of investing is the precise moment in which we should invest.
I am going to talk about the problems that many investors have when choosing diffe… Read More
2017-09-14 16:01
Do you think it is a good moment to buy IAG stocks?
To me actually, the stock lost its appeal since it left the previous brand names, Iberia and British Airways.
It is something similar to A… Read More
2017-08-14 10:19
Carrefour is one of the most powerful distribution companies in the World and probably, the strongest in Europe, where it is undisputed leader in Frace, with the permission of the Schawrz Gr… Read More
2017-07-24 11:17
The majority of those who start in the world of investing have a lot of doubts. Something normal if we consider the huge amount of possibilities present in the financial markets.
Hence a lot… Read More
2017-07-20 22:16
Do you want to learn Forex trading?
If you are a beginner or have not too much experience in this market this free online Forex course will help you to understand the basics and some of the… Read More
2017-07-18 23:26
What should we do, investing or trading?
Before you start in the financial markets you should know what you want to do.
This is a very dynamic world and there are two main sides we will find… Read More
2017-07-18 20:32
What is trading online?
Trading online is one of the trendiest activities in the last years.
The amount of people doing it is quite big in the entire world.
Trading is very popular not only… Read More
2017-07-18 18:21
Japanese candlesticks are one of the most used techniques in the financial markets.
If you have a look in most articles related to investing you will notice that there are many graphs with c… Read More
2017-07-17 11:52
Why is Fundamental Analysis important in Forex?
Well, in first place let us introduce what Fundamental Analysis is.
This type of analysis is quite different from Technical Analysis, which is… Read More
2017-07-17 09:51
Forex is probably where people use the most use of Technical Analysis.
The basis of this technical analysis is not new since American and Japanese traders have since long ago implemented it… Read More
2017-07-17 08:51
The Forex market is very simple actually.
There is no need to study any engineer degree to be able to buy and sell a couple of currencies and wait to see if the pair moves in our desired dir… Read More
2017-07-14 12:11
You have probably heard that Forex is a market open 24 hours a day and because of that it is better than other markets.
If not I suggest you to read: “Advantages and disadvantages of F… Read More
2017-07-14 10:01
Who are the participants in the gigantic market of Forex?
This market, the biggest in the world, although not for retail traders, no matter what some people say, are composed of many compone… Read More
2017-07-14 08:06
Trading the Forex market has some advantages and some disadvantages compared to other markets.
Normally the webs and businesses related to Forex try to exalt those supposed advantages in an… Read More
2017-07-13 20:11
Many years ago I remember how there were lots of exchange currency shops in the streets.
Once I told my father about why he did not buy dollars.
Without knowing I had already converted mysel… Read More
2017-07-13 19:01
Although the title may lead us to think one way, this article is not about the amount of money invested in marketing but with the effect that marketing has in the world of investing which is… Read More
2017-07-13 17:42
One of the best indicators out there to see the evolution of stocks or other financial assets is, without a doubt, long-term moving averages.
This simple indicator gives us some entry points… Read More
2017-07-13 16:33
The Japanese candlesticks are one of the techniques of charts most used in the world of trading in general, whether it is forex, futures, stocks CFDs, binary options or vanilla options.
In f… Read More
2017-07-13 15:50
The one whom people though as the best options trader in the world, was finally accused by the FED with different charges.
Although I have to say that being accused by the SEC is nothing tha… Read More
2017-07-06 15:59
What should we do when we have a bad streak when trading in the financial markets?
Well, it is simple: you have to keep calm although this is easier said than done obviously.
This is related… Read More
2017-07-06 15:49
When we see the amount of binary brokers that exist in the world it is obvious that there must be an incredible amount of traders who use them.
As it is logic, most of those accounts are of… Read More
2017-07-06 14:22
One of the constant problems that we can encounter in the world of trading and investing online is the supposedly big number of traders who make a living in the intraday markets.
It seems th… Read More
2017-07-06 14:16
There is a harsh reality in the financial markets that just a few know.
This reality is that the financial markets change significantly overtime.
But what do I mean by saying that the market… Read More
2017-06-23 14:53
A lot of people think it is easy to make a living as a trader or that at least those who win make a lot of money.
Both things are correct, but not from the point of view people really see.
T… Read More
2017-06-23 14:49
The Sharp ratio is a measure to asses risk in the financial markets invented by William F. Sharpe.
This ratio tries to measure the generated return with respect tovolatility.
This would be s… Read More
2017-06-13 11:14
Good Expert Advisor?
I am going to write a story about a Forex Expert Advisor (EA) that I saw some time ago in the Forexfactory web.
With the next example we should be able to see how the wo… Read More
2017-06-11 14:52
Who are the best Forex traders?
It is said in some places that the trick to succeed in the Forex market is doing what Hong Kong traders do, which is using low leverage.
In Japan and Hong Kon… Read More
2017-06-10 14:45
Some time ago I wrote about the proprietary trading firms and how many of them were just simply scams that attract people with promises of future riches.
The proprietary firms supposedly loo… Read More
2017-06-06 13:40
One of the best blogs in the investing community in English out there is Mebane Faber one.
He published some articles that first appeared in his book “Global Asset Allocation”.
O… Read More
2017-06-04 23:19
Active management portfolio: yes or not?
This is one of the most important debates in the world of investing
An issue that has a lot to do with the inherent problem of short-term trading: th… Read More
2017-06-02 15:53
Pyramid scheme stock market
Scams and lies have formed part of humanity since the beginning but I think there never was such an amount of lies as nowadays.
That is to say, as the world of t… Read More
2017-06-02 10:00
Investing timing
There is an old article, from 1996, called “The Magellan Myth” written… Read More
2017-06-01 21:22
Learn from your mistakes and you will learn how to be a better traderOne of the best things we can use to grow in the world of trading and investing is learning about our own mistakes.
This… Read More
2017-06-01 20:41
One thing that I find quite funny inside the world of “brokers” is that which makes reference to segregated accounts since it is supposed that a good broker has to have its clien… Read More
2017-06-01 19:50
This is one of the most popular phrases in the world of trading and investing, and not without a reason.
There are those who see this reality of the stock market in an evolutionary way, so t… Read More
2017-06-01 12:53
Learn when to sell stocks
Every strategy for investing or trading in the short-term implies two simple acts: buying and selling.
Obviously, it only makes sense to buy if we can sell, otherwi… Read More
2017-05-31 14:39
You can never get tired of hearing bizarre trading stories. Stories that were supposed to be “bizarre” in the sense they should not be very common but in reality are much more co… Read More
2017-05-31 11:33
Shoulder Head Shoulder definition
One of the best known trading figures for Technical Analysis is Shoulder-Head-Shoulder, which is named in all the books about that kind of analysis.
Everybo… Read More
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