Why COVID-19 Is Not Influencing Financial Assets?
For most CFD traders out there, how financial assets had performed during the past two months could be completely irrational. It is now becoming a big question mark because the…
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Third-Quarter US Earnings Season Preview
As it is usual each year in October, the 3rd quarter earnings season begins and because the market activity is generally elevated during this period, CFD traders are increasingly active…
What does a K-Shaped Recovery mean for CFD Traders?
Numerous debates had emerged on the shape of the economic recovery, but the actual reality is suggesting something that few had been anticipating. More specifically, it is assumed that a…
Commodities to Weaken in October as Dollar Recovers?
Following months of good price performance, even commodities had started to weaken in September, a challenging development for CFD traders active in these instruments. The main takeaway during the past…
Third Quadruple Witching for 2020 – How Stocks Reacted?
The 3rd quadruple witching for the year occurred yesterday, at a time when uncertainties weigh on stocks. Since the confluence of expiry dates for derivatives usually generates high liquidity, market…
How to Use CFDs in the Latest Tech Rout
The Nasdaq100 lost around 10% during the latest tech rout and entered a corrective phase following months in a row of outperformance. Most market participants were caught by surprise, considering…
Top Reasons Why the S&P500 Could Enter a Months-Long Correction
The media had been covering the latest S&P500 200+ points drop during the past two days and a lot of reasons had been associated with the move, starting with uncertainties…
Insights into the 2020 Dow Jones Index Shake-Up
After talking about oil prices last week, we’re back with another article on the stock markets, and this time we will talk about the popular US-based index – Dow Jones…
Oil Price Analysis – Headwinds and Tailwinds
As economies around the world had reopened and oil demand gradually recovered, the price had been moving higher, but during the month of August, it looks like the momentum had…
Gold Tops Around $2,050 – More Upside Unlocked?
For the past several weeks, we’ve focused on the stock markets due to the earnings season, but in the meantime, the price of gold had a massive performance. It already…
US Earnings Better-Than-Expected – Markets to Remain High?
Several weeks ago the US earnings season had started and in the meantime, most of the important companies had published their figures for the second quarter of 2020. As it…
Apple 2020 Stock Split – What Does It Mean?
Yesterday after the close, Apple announced earnings, and even though some of the focus had been on the better-than-expected numbers, the company had also announced a stock split. What is…
Main Advantages of Volatility CFD Trading
Stock trading had been a popular activity over the past few months. Retail brokerage houses announced record new trading accounts opened and people had benefited from one of the steepest…
Stocks Overvalued vs. Stocks Continuing on the Upside
There’s a fierce debate on the next direction of stock markets and the difference of opinions had rarely been so far apart. Some believe that stocks are overvalued and a…
Q2 Earnings Season Starts Next Week – Stocks on Shaky Ground?
Public-listed companies will start to publish their earnings reports for the second quarter starting from next week and expectations had never been so depressed. Since the Western World had to…