The stop-loss: how it works and why it does not guarantee a price
The stop-loss is the most important tool in risk management. It defines where you abandon your trading idea before a small loss turns into a
Does news move the markets – or do the markets make the news?
Important news moves markets. But often price simply runs to a level where orders are waiting, and the matching headline is delivered afterwards.
Building indicators with AI: how to write your own trading scripts with Claude
In the past, building your own indicator required programming skills or someone who had them. Today a clear description in plain language is enough: an
Market manipulation: the key techniques explained simply
Spoofing, wash trades, pump and dump: the key techniques of market manipulation explained simply, with well-known cases and the difference to normal market mechanics.
Algorithms in the Nasdaq future: how machines have changed trading
If you trade the Nasdaq E-mini, you are trading against machines. Around three quarters of the volume in this contract comes from automated systems. In
The dotcom bubble: anatomy of a bear market
The bursting of the dotcom bubble between March 2000 and October 2002 was not a flash crash lasting a few minutes, but an agonisingly long,
The black swan in the stock market
Why extreme surprises shake the markets and what traders can learn from them A quiet trading day. Prices are moving in familiar ways and the
