The real cost of a CFD trade: spread, commission, swap and slippage

Most traders who assess a CFD or Futures trade focus on the entry and the exit price. The difference between…

Correlation and Portfolio Risk in Multi-Asset Trading

A trader with five open positions is not necessarily running five independent risks. Depending on how those positions are constructed,…

Overnight Financing and Its Impact on Profitability

There is a cost in CFD trading that does not announce itself at the moment of entry. It does not…

Position Sizing and Long-Term Trading Outcomes

Two traders run the same strategy across the same instruments over the same twelve months. They use identical entry criteria.…

How Central Bank Decisions Affect Markets

A central bank rate decision is the most powerful scheduled event in the financial calendar. It moves currencies, reprices equity…

Reading an Economic Calendar with Precision

Most active traders check the economic calendar. The habit is good. What most traders do with it is insufficient.  …

The Relationship Between Liquidity and Price Movement

Price doesn’t move because people want it to. It moves because an order arrives in the market, searches for a…

What Causes Volatility in Financial Markets

Volatility is the term traders use for markets that move in ways that feel disorderly, fast, or unpredictable. That usage…

Why Liquidity Disappears During Market Stress

The moments that test a trading position most severely are rarely the ones that arrive with warning. A geopolitical event…

Understanding Slippage in Fast Markets

There is a gap between the price you see and the price you get. Most of the time, in liquid…

Execution Quality: The Gap Between the Price You Aim For and the Price You Get

Every trade is ultimately decided by two numbers: the price at which a position was opened and the price at…

Position Sizing and Long-Term Trading Outcomes

Two traders run the same strategy across the same instruments over the same twelve months. They use identical entry criteria.…