Learning

Jun 09

9 min read

Historical Analysis: The “Black Thursday” of the Swiss Franc

On 15 January 2015, the Swiss franc surged 30% within minutes. It was one of the largest currency shocks in modern financial history – an event that wiped out brokers, bankrupted traders, and permanen...

Learning

Jun 09

11 min read

How Brexit Permanently Changed the FX Market

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union – and the British pound experienced its largest one‑day drop in 30 years. But that was only the beginning: the next five years bec...

Learning

May 26

6 min read

The Complete Guide to Vwap: The Hidden Pathway of Big Players and the Mathematics of Smart Trading

In financial markets, price can often be deceptive. A standard line or candlestick chart shows only the trajectory of movement but hides the most important element – the strength behind each move. Wit...

Learning

May 26

7 min read

The Art of Reading the Market: Why Price Action Is the Only Trading Method that Never Becomes Old

Financial markets are a form of dynamic chaos, driven by a constantly shifting balance of supply and demand. Every day, millions of traders open their terminals in search of the “holy grail”: an indic...

Learning

May 08

5 min read

Trailing Stop: Mathematical vs. Technical

Exiting a trade is an art – far more complex than entering one. As traders like to say, “even a monkey can get into a trade, but only a professional can exit with profit.”

Learning

May 07

4 min read

How Seasonality Works in CFD Trading

There’s an old market saying: “Sell in May and go away.” Most traders have heard it, smirked, and moved on. But the numbers tell a different story. Over the past 70 years, the S&P 500 returned about 4...

Learning

Apr 27

7 min read

Why even a profitable strategy can ruin you

Let’s start with a question. Here’s a strategy: Win rate: 55% Risk-reward ratio: 1:1 Risk per trade: 10% of the deposit

Learning

Apr 27

5 min read

The Mathematics of Stop-Losses and Break-Even Moves

When, how, and why to move your stop – a complete quantitative breakdown

Learning

Apr 08

4 min read

Phantom Patterns: When a Trader Sees What Isn’t There

There’s a word for this – pareidolia. It’s our brain’s tendency to find familiar shapes in random things. Thanks to it, we see animals in clouds, a smiley face on a fried egg, or a head‑and‑shoulders...

Learning

Apr 07

6 min read

Government Debt and Liquidity: Their Impact on Currency Markets

For a trader, understanding macroeconomic mechanisms is the difference between “guessing on a chart” and consciously prognosing market cycles. When we talk about government debt and fiscal policy, we’...

Learning

Mar 25

8 min read

Stagflation – The Silent Killer of Financial Markets

Economists fear stagflation much the same way doctors fear a disease for which there is no effective treatment. Today, with the Middle East in turmoil once again and oil trading above $90 a barrel, th...

Learning

Mar 25

8 min read

Demand vs. Supply at Central Banks

The central bank is not an all-powerful regulator of the economy. It is a precise instrument, tailored to a single specific task: managing the cost of money to influence demand. But the economy is not...

Commodities

Mar 12

10 min read

What Will Happen if Oil Reaches $150 or $200 per Barrel?

Imagine: conflict in the Middle East spirals out of control. The Strait of Hormuz is closed – almost 20% of the world's oil supplies pass through it. The market instantly loses 15-20 million barrels p...

Learning

Mar 12

5 min read

Geopolitical “Perfect Storm” 

Markets opened the week under conditions that seemed like the plot of a political thriller just a week ago. The events of the weekend of February 28-March 1, 2026, completely redrew the financial map...

Learning

Feb 19

7 min read

Non-obvious intermarket correlations

Most traders view markets as isolated islands. If you trade stocks, you follow the S&P 500 and company reports. If you work with forex, you look at central banks and macro data. But reality is complet...

Learning

Feb 19

8 min read

Shadow calendar: Events that are not included in the regular schedule

When we look at a trader's financial calendar, we usually see macroeconomic releases, central bank decisions, corporate earnings reports, and holidays such as Christmas or New Year's Eve. We think: th...