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Pure Price Action: How to Profit from Trading a Naked Chart

7 August 2026

Pure price action promises a clean, essential way to trade: fewer indicators, more price. But simplicity is not the same thing as ease — or as an edge.

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Black Monday 1987: The 22.6% Crash in a Single Day, and What It Left Behind

3 August 2026

On Monday 19 October 1987 the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 22.6% of its value in a single session. Nearly four decades later that remains the largest one-day percentage decline since the Dow has…

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Call and Put Options Explained for Beginners: Strike, Premium and Time Decay

31 July 2026

Call and put options attract beginners for one reason: a small amount of money can control a large position. That is true, and it is also why they are the fastest way to lose an account that has not…

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GDP Explained: How It Is Calculated, and What It Misses

29 July 2026

Gross domestic product is the number that decides whether an economy is described as growing or shrinking, whether a recession has technically occurred, and whether a central bank has room to move.

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Claude for Traders: How to Use It to Improve Your Odds of Winning

27 July 2026

Claude can genuinely support beginner traders, just not in the way most people expect. Realistic goals and defined methods beat asking it to predict the market.

Riskiest trading strategies: martingale, averaging down and leverage

The 3 Riskiest Trading Strategies and Why They Destroy Accounts

24 July 2026

Not every trading strategy deserves the name. Martingale, unlimited averaging down and oversized leverage share one defect: they make the maximum loss impossible to know before you enter.

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ECB vs Fed: Two Central Banks, Two Mandates and What It Means for EUR/USD

22 July 2026

The European Central Bank sets one interest rate for economies that have almost nothing in common. Germany and Greece, Ireland and Italy, Estonia and Spain all live with the same policy rate, and…

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Loss Aversion: Why Losses Hurt More Than Gains

20 July 2026

Losing $100 feels worse than gaining $100 feels good, by a wide margin. That asymmetry is one of the most widely cited findings in behavioral science, and one of the most debated: the classic…

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Compound Interest: The Arithmetic of Slow Money, and How It Works Against You

17 July 2026

Compound interest is arithmetic. It is described so often as magic that people stop looking at the equation, which is a shame, because the equation is where the useful part lives, including the half…

Herd behavior in trading and the cost of following the crowd

Herd Behavior in Trading: Why Following the Crowd Costs You Money

15 July 2026

Herd behavior is the tendency to follow the crowd instead of your own analysis. In markets it produces a reliably destructive pattern: buying near the highs and selling near the lows.

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