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Social Trading or Copy Trading

As technology progresses, new innovations are seen in all fields including the financial world. You all know the popularity of platforms that enable social networking in various fields. The counterpart of social networking in the financial is called social trading or copy trading. Copy trading facilitates the traders to copy and manage the positions in […]

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Tracking for commodity traders

Tracking for Commodity Traders

Whether you go to Wall St, the Chicago Merc, or any online commodities forum, all commodity traders will tell you the same thing: the apps designed to track them are poorly designed, difficult to use, and don’t offer nearly enough features. Now available for iOS, Materials is a new commodities app set out to re-imagine […]

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OPEC’s Output Freeze: What Has Changed Since Doha?

It’s possible that OPEC is crying wolf with hints of an output freeze next month in Algiers; but it’s also possible that they are ramping up production to take the sting out of a freeze. This is a delicate balancing act that the Saudis need to play very carefully. The official chatter is that the […]

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Surprise Natural Gas Drawdown Signals Higher Prices Ahead

The U.S. electric power sector burned through a record amount of natural gas in recent weeks, a sign of the shifting power generation mix and also a signal that natural gas supplies could get tighter than many analysts had previously expected. The EIA reported a surprise drawdown in natural gas inventories for the week ending […]

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Trading commodities with binary options

There is no lack of options, when it to comes to binary options trading. For this very reason, a lot of people are now looking towards trading in commodities, using binary options. Given the simplicity they offer to the investors, commodity trading is quickly becoming one of the quickest ways of trading in binary options […]

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4 Basic Ways to Trade Commodities

Commodities are becoming increasingly popular investment vehicles as investors are gradually realizing how pervasive and potentially profitable commodity trading can be. Commodities like oil, natural gas, gold, wheat, corn and copper are a part of our everyday lives after all and their prices naturally impact us in various ways. So the more predictable the price […]

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CFD Trading

Basic Things You Need to Know About CFD Trading

When a trade is entered in the market, there is usually an opening price and a closing price. A Contract for Difference (CFD) as the name suggests, is the actual difference between the opening price and the closing price of a financial product. A CFD is a financial instrument that can be traded, and it […]

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The best trading strategies for trading commodities

Commodities trading requires strong analysis of a number of factors. Traders need to take political, economic, and trade news into account before making decisions. But one person cannot keep up with everything happening at one time. We need smart strategies when it comes to trading commodities in your limited time. These are the best trading […]

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Triggers for upheaval

2016 has been the worst start to a year on record for global equities. The triggers for this upheaval are familiar: China, oil, rising US interest rates and their combined impact on global growth. These factors affected markets at different times last year but they all hit at once in January. This led to panic […]

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Why Is The U.S. Reluctant To Bomb ISIS Oil Fields?

There has been some revealing new information coming out recently regarding the strategy against ISIS. One aspect many find troubling is the apparent failure of U.S. and coalition forces to sufficiently target and destroy oil infrastructure located in ISIS territory, which accounts for a significant portion of the terror group’s annual income. The argument goes, […]

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