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Everything you need to understand investing and keep up with the markets.
How to Read the Funding Rate
Everyone quotes it as a sentiment gauge. It is much better than that at one job and much worse at the other, and the difference is worth real money.
Read the article →What Is a Perpetual Future? The Contract That Never Expires
Delete the expiry date from a futures contract and you get the most-traded instrument in crypto. You also get two clocks running against you at once, and most people only ever look at one of them.
Read the article →Has This Level Been Tested Before? How to Read a Level's History
A line on a chart tells you where. The last four visits tell you whether to trust it. Here's how to count them, and what each pattern of visits usually means.
Read the article →What the Higher Timeframe Tells You (and Why Your Chart Keeps Ignoring You)
The daily chart says down. The weekly chart says this is a pullback in an uptrend. Both are right, and the trade depends on which one you looked at first.
Read the article →How to Draw a Trendline: Three Touches, One Line, and What a Break Means
Anyone can connect two points. A trendline that's worth trading has been touched three times and never closed through, and the drawing rules exist to keep you honest about that.
Read the article →Bull Flag and Bear Flag: The Pause Before the Trend Continues
The market runs, catches its breath, and runs again. The flag is the breath. Reading it right means knowing which pauses are pauses and which are the market changing its mind.
Read the article →The Retest: What It Is and Why the Entry Is There
The breakout is the loud part. The retest is the quiet return to the level a few bars later, and it's where the risk is small enough to be worth taking.
Read the article →Breakout or Fakeout: How to Tell Before It Costs You
The candle that starts a new trend and the candle that traps everyone look identical at the moment they print. The difference shows up over the next three bars, and you can wait for it.
Read the article →Support and Resistance: How to Read the Two Lines That Decide a Chart
Every chart has a floor and a ceiling that price keeps respecting. Finding them takes ten seconds. Knowing how much to trust them is the actual skill.
Read the article →What Is an IPO? The Two Prices, and Which One You Get
Two prices exist on the first day. Institutions get the first one. Everybody else gets the second one, and the gap between them is the whole story.
Read the article →What Is an Interest Rate? Who Sets It, and Why It Moves Your Money
One committee sets one number. Your savings, your mortgage and every share you own are priced off it.
Read the article →What Is a Portfolio? How to Build Your First One
You almost certainly have one already. Building it properly is four decisions, and only one of them is about what to buy.
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