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What Is a Strike Price? How It Works and How to Read One
It is the one number in the contract you choose yourself. Pick a different rung and you have bought a different trade — cheaper, and further from home.
Read the article →What Is RSI? The Gauge Everyone Reads Backwards
It is the most-quoted number in technical analysis, and the way most people read it is precisely upside down. RSI does not measure how high a price is. It measures how one-sided the last fortnight was — which is a different question with a very similar-looking answer.
Read the article →What Is a Moving Average? Why Being Late Is the Whole Point
It is the average of the last N closing prices, it is always a step behind the market, and that second part is not the flaw everyone treats it as. The lag is the mechanism.
Read the article →What Are Chart Patterns? Why the Shapes Are Just Structure With a Name
There are about a dozen named shapes, and traders talk about them as if each were its own species. They aren't. Every one is the same three parts wearing a different hat.
Read the article →Swing Highs and Swing Lows: Why Price Keeps Stopping in the Same Places
Every chart has a handful of prices it keeps bumping into and refusing to cross. They aren't magic, they aren't lines, and there is a genuinely good reason they exist.
Read the article →What Is an Options Contract? How Calls and Puts Actually Work
You can be right about the direction and still lose most of your money, because you didn't only buy a view on the price. You bought a deadline.
Read the article →What Is a CFD? The Trade Where You Never Own Anything
There's no exchange, no share certificate, no seat at the AGM — just a contract with a broker who books the other side of your bet. Here's what you're actually holding.
Read the article →What Is Leverage in Trading? The Multiplier That Cuts Both Ways
Every blown-up account has the same autopsy: the idea was survivable, the size wasn't. Leverage is the multiplier that decides which one you're running — here's exactly how it works.
Read the article →What Is a Futures Contract? How Futures Trading Works
Every time the news says "oil futures jumped," it's talking about a 300-year-old farmer's trick that now moves trillions of dollars — and can double your money or vaporise it before lunch.
Read the article →What Is Duration? Why a “Safe” Bond Fund Can Still Lose You Money
Bonds are supposed to be the boring, sensible part of a portfolio. Then 2022 happened, and the safest bonds on earth fell harder than most people thought possible. One number explains why — and it was printed on the fact sheet the whole time.
Read the article →What Are Retained Earnings? The Profit a Company Decides to Keep
It sounds like a company's savings account. It's one of the most misread lines on the balance sheet — and the jar is nearly always empty.
Read the article →What Is a Balanced Fund? The One-Fund Portfolio, Explained
Stocks and bonds, blended into a single fund that rebalances itself while you get on with your life. It's the closest thing investing has to a set-and-forget button — with a small catch or two.
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