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eToro just gave UK traders a serious upgrade, making it easier to trade CFDs with GBP. This follows a wave of 2025 upgrades, including a Stocktwits partnership for boosted social trading and the launch of crypto staking. Key Takeaways Trade USD-based CFDs directly using funds from your GBP account. Close CFD positions straight into GBP, […]

Currency markets today are now shaped not just by interest rates and macro data, but by algorithms that learn, adapt, and react faster than any human can. What was once experimental is now routine, embedded in the architecture of both institutional trading desks and central bank research units. In the past, AI and automation merely […]

CMC Markets has rolled out integration with TradingView, providing smooth trade execution directly from one of the world’s most advanced charting platforms. CMC follows the footsteps of other major brokers like IG and ThinkMarkets, which have also added TradingView to their platform roster in the last 12 months. Key Takeaways Trade directly from TradingView using […]

Tariffs are government-imposed taxes on imported goods that serve as both a revenue source and a strategic policy tool to influence trade balances, protect domestic industries, and respond to geopolitical tensions. In our current times, tariffs, debt cycles, monetary imbalances, geopolitical distrust, domestic political polarization, and deglobalization are converging to reshape capital flows, inflation dynamics, […]

CMC Markets has expanded its CFD lineup with new equities across emerging industries; quantum computing, AI-powered learning, and digital car sales. This comes just a month after it introduced extended hours trading on over 80 prominent US stocks. New Stock CFDs IonQ (IONQ) provides quantum computers for commercial and research applications. Despite a 165%+ yearly […]

When evaluating an income-producing investment like a bond fund, ETF, or mutual fund, you’ll often encounter three common yield metrics.  At first glance, they might look similar, but each tells a different story about the income potential and performance of the fund.  Let’s break down the 30-Day SEC Yield, Distribution Yield, and 12-Month Yield – […]

A situation where the S&P 500 and USD are down simultaneously is rare and potentially profitable if you know how to trade it.  This environment upends the usual risk-off playbook (long USD, long Treasuries, short risk), and that opens the door to some creative derivatives trades that capitalize on correlation shifts, macro shifts, and mispriced […]

All the methods discussed in our original article on reinforcement learning (value-based methods, policy-based methods, and model-based methods) are model-free: they directly learn from interaction with the environment without trying to understand how the environment works internally. In contrast, model-based RL involves the agent building or using a model of the environment’s dynamics. In trading, […]

The entire purpose of trading and investing is to earn more money back over time than is lost. At worst, it should preserve your purchasing power over time. Drawdowns are the one thing that should be avoided at all costs. Warren Buffett is known for his quotes on investing, one of which pertains to his […]

OKX has secured a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) license, which following approval, will enable it to offer regulated derivative products across the EU. Key Takeaways MiFID II License: OKX will be licensed to offer derivatives and institutional services in Europe. European Reach: The MiFID II license, along with its MiCA license, enables […]