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The first week of September settled nothing. The US labour market report showed employment holding up while the pace of hiring slows, which left the Fed's next step exactly where it was. The dollar stayed ...
Analysis
16 min
The first week of September settled nothing. The US labour market report showed employment holding up while the pace of hiring slows, which left the Fed's next step exactly where it was. The dollar stayed strong and stock indices finished the week without a clear idea. This week hands the market two answers instead: the […]
16 min
August closed on a firm note for US stocks, carried by the first corporate reports of the season. Attention now swings back to the macro calendar, and the Non-Farm Payrolls forecast on Friday is what this week comes down to. Before it, the United States reports JOLTS job openings and the ISM Manufacturing PMI on […]
20 min
Eli Lilly has started selling Foundayo, its once-a-day weight loss pill, in the United Kingdom. This is the first European market for a drug that the company hopes will follow Mounjaro and Zepbound, the two products that now bring in almost 15 billion USD every quarter. The LLY stock forecast below sets out what the […]
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The dollar's direction this week comes down to one release. Core PCE, the inflation gauge the Fed watches most closely, arrives on Wednesday alongside the second estimate of Q2 GDP. Economists expect the monthly figure to accelerate to 0.3% after June's reading of just 0.1%, and that gap is what markets will trade. Three more […]
18 min
Meta is under pressure from a major court case in California. If the outcome touches the algorithms and the advertising model behind Facebook and Instagram, META shares have room to slide toward 440 USD. Below is the trade setup, the levels that confirm it, and the metrics that will show whether the pressure is reaching […]
15 min
Another August week passed relatively calmly after the series of strong moves at the start of the month. Tension in the Middle East made itself felt again, though everything paused by the end of the week, which reduced the geopolitical premium in oil prices. At the same time investors kept assessing the condition of the […]
23 min
Gold Fed rate hike bets have been the single biggest weight on the metal all year, and over one week in August that weight came off. US payrolls fell by 23,000 in July when the market was looking for a gain of about 80,000, and consumer price inflation then slowed to 3.4%. The implied odds […]
21 min
Apple CXMT memory chips are now in testing, and that one supply chain change sits at the centre of this AAPL stock forecast. Memory prices are rising fast enough to squeeze the gross margin on every iPhone and Mac the company builds. Apple's own guidance for the September quarter came in below what the market […]
18 min
Last week returned geopolitics to market pricing. Developments in the Middle East periodically added a risk premium to energy prices, although tension eased by Friday. Another headline event was the coordinated action by Japan and the United States in support of the yen, after which USD/JPY dropped sharply away from its 40-year high. At the […]
15 min
ExxonMobil doubled its net profit and more than tripled its free cash flow as oil prices climbed. A local correction is possible after such a strong run, yet a breakout above 158 USD could open the way for XOM shares to reach 177 USD. In Brief ExxonMobil doubled its net profit in Q2 2026 compared […]
15 min
The final week of July delivered high volatility and a clear change of drivers. Markets priced in several factors at once: renewed tension in the Middle East, the start of the US corporate earnings season and firm rhetoric from the Federal Reserve, a combination that pushed stock indices into a correction. The currency market added […]
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Knowledge Base
10 min
Plenty of traders never automate a strategy because building a trading robot looks like it needs a programming background. The entry barrier is lower than that. Your first MQL5 expert advisor is about a hundred lines of code, and this article hands you all of them, together with the steps that turn them into a […]
34 min
MetaTrader 5 was released in 2010. It is intended for performing trading operations on different financial markets. This program is an updated and improved version of MetaTrader 4, a very famous terminal, which is extremely popular among traders.
26 min
Launching a trading robot on a real account without checking it first sharply raises the odds of running into a coding error, flawed logic, or a strategy that simply cannot handle changing market conditions. A backtest in MetaTrader 5 runs the robot against historical data, so its parameters and weak points surface before any real […]
18 min
A trader with no programming background can now build a working trading robot: modern AI tools turn a plain-language description of a strategy into ready code. Automation keeps expanding on the markets themselves as well. Industry research puts algorithmic systems behind a significant share of turnover on developed markets, including Forex and the stock exchanges […]
23 min
Between 2024 and 2026, the global gold market delivered a powerful rally: the price repeatedly set new all-time highs and gained more than 170%. Rising geopolitical tension, active gold purchases by central banks, and the US Federal Reserve's shift to a rate-cutting cycle created ideal conditions for the surge. This momentum fuelled worldwide interest in […]
28 min
Building an automated trading system used to be out of reach for most private traders. Turning a trading idea into working code meant learning MQL4 or MQL5 from scratch, or hiring a developer with a real budget and a precise technical brief. In 2026, advanced language models removed that barrier completely. A modern AI model […]
40 min
To succeed in market trading you should learn to analyze and forecast price movements. The market price is influenced by a whole range of various factors, all of which we literally cannot know. A question emerges: in this case, how does forecasting become possible? This question is answered by one of the basic and most necessary types of market analysis — technical analysis.
37 min
When an uninitiated reader encounters the collocation "financial market", they discern no difference between such terms as "stock market", "exchange", "Forex", "equity market", "bond market", "currency market", "derivative market", etc. So, I think there should be an explanation what the financial market really is. First of all, understand and remember that the financial market is not just a place for trading, but the entire system of the economic relations, which appeared in the process of exchanging different goods and recourses.
18 min
On 11 July 2024, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released CPI data showing inflation down 0.1%. Within minutes, USD/JPY dropped nearly 400 pips. It was one of the sharpest single-day moves on that pair since late 2022. Many traders immediately suspected a Bank of Japan intervention, but the actual trigger was the inflation report. […]