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Bull Market vs Bear Market: How to Tell Them Apart, and Why You Only Know Afterward

21 January 2026

The 20% rule is a label rather than a signal. A market becomes a bull market when it has risen 20% from its low and a bear market when it has fallen 20% from its high, and in both cases the…

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Bitcoin vs Gold: What the 2025 Crash Actually Proved About Safe Havens

16 January 2026

For most of a decade, bitcoin was sold as digital gold: scarce, outside the banking system, a hedge against currency debasement.

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Lehman Brothers: The Collapse That Changed Finance

12 January 2026

At around one in the morning on 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers issued a two-paragraph press release. The fourth-largest investment bank in the United States, 158 years old, was filing for Chapter…

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The Hunt Brothers: The Silver Squeeze of 1980

7 January 2026

On Thursday 27 March 1980, silver opened around $21.60 an ounce and closed at $10.80. Half the value of a global commodity market disappeared between breakfast and the closing bell.

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How Central Banks Move Markets With Interest Rates

5 January 2026

A quarter of a percentage point is a small number. When a central bank changes one, long bonds can lose several percent of their value in an afternoon, currency pairs move a hundred pips in minutes,…

Volume Profile vs Standard Volume: How to Spot Where Institutional Traders Are Accumulating Positions

2 January 2026

Every experienced trader knows: understanding price alone is not enough to decipher the intentions of institutional operators. Price represents the signal, but volume represents the confirmation. At t…

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Energy Transition Metals: Copper, Lithium and Nickel

31 December 2025

Electrification is a demand story with a supply problem. Every electric vehicle, every grid upgrade, every solar installation and every battery storage system consumes metal that has to be dug out of…

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Fed vs ECB: How Policy Divergence Moves EUR/USD

29 December 2025

Most of the time the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank move in the same direction. Both react to the same global shocks, and for long stretches EUR/USD is driven by risk appetite,…

Correlation Matrix: What It Is and How It Can Be Useful to You

Correlation Matrix: What It Is and How It Can Help You

26 December 2025

In the world of investing, there is an ever-present saying: "don't put all your eggs in one basket." The concept of diversification is, in theory, known to everyone. Yet many investors believe they ha…

Multi-Timeframe Analysis: the Factor of 4 Rule for Synchronizing Underlying Trends and Operational Entries

Multi-Timeframe Analysis: The Factor 4 Rule to Align Trend Direction with Trade Entries

22 December 2025

One of the most common mistakes beginner traders make is looking at only one chart, a single timeframe, and making all their decisions there: direction, entry, stop loss, and target. In doing so, howe…

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