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Articles by Brokeli Education Desk
- Slippage and Requotes: What Causes Them and How to Reduce ThemYou click buy at 1.0850 and the trade opens at 1.0853. Nothing is broken: the price you see is the last quote, and the price you get is what the market offers at the instant your order arrives. The gap is slippage, and …
- Trading Sessions and Overlaps: When Liquidity Is DeepestForex has no central exchange, so there is no opening bell. Instead, the market passes around the world from one financial centre to the next, and activity swells and thins as each city wakes and sleeps. Knowing the rhy…
- Major, Minor and Exotic Pairs: Costs, Liquidity and BehaviourNot all currency pairs are equal. Some are traded in huge volumes with razor-thin spreads, while others are so thinly traded that a modest order can move the price and carrying costs can dwarf your expected profit. The …
- Central Banks and Interest Rates: How They Move CurrenciesCurrencies are priced by money flows, and few things steer money flows as strongly as the return on holding a currency. Central banks set the baseline for that return through interest rates, and they shape expectations …
- Inflation, GDP and Jobs Data: Reading the Releases That Move FXThree families of data dominate the economic calendar: how fast prices are rising, how fast the economy is growing, and how many people are working. They matter to currency traders because they shape what central banks …
- Currency Pair Correlation: Avoiding Doubled-Up RiskOpening three different pairs feels like diversification. Often it is the same trade three times. Currency pairs share currencies, so many of them move together, and a portfolio of positions that look separate can behav…
- How to Start Investing in Stocks: A Beginner's WalkthroughBuying your first share is technically a two-minute job. The decisions that shape your results happen before and after that click: how long the money can stay invested, how much of it sits in any single company, and how…
- Index Funds vs Actively Managed Funds: Costs and EvidenceEvery pooled fund promises to do something with your money. An index fund promises to copy a market as cheaply as possible. An active fund promises to beat it. The gap between those promises is mostly a gap in cost, and…
- Dividend Investing Basics: Yield, Payout and Total ReturnDividends are the part of investing that feels most like getting paid. A company shares part of its profit as cash, and the account balance ticks up. That feeling can mislead, though. A dividend is not extra money from …
- Bonds and Fixed Income for Beginners: Yield, Duration and Credit RiskA bond is a loan you make to a government or company in exchange for regular interest and the promise of your money back on a set date. That sounds dull and predictable, and the cash flows are. The price you can sell at…
- ETF Replication: Physical vs Synthetic and Why It MattersTwo ETFs can track the same index and hold completely different things inside. One owns the shares in the index. Another owns a basket of unrelated securities plus a contract with a bank promising to deliver the index r…
- Tax-Advantaged and Retirement Accounts: A Country-Neutral OverviewMany countries encourage saving by giving investment accounts special tax treatment. The names, limits and rules differ enormously from place to place, so this article stays general on purpose. Its goal is to give you t…