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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 ...
Analysis
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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NVIDIA is taking on a second job. Alongside selling AI accelerators, the company is now in talks to financially guarantee the data centre that will buy them. Investors sold NVDA shares by 5% on the news, and the daily chart has arrived at a level that decides the next move: support at 195 USD. A […]
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Oil prices climbed last week as tensions around the Middle East intensified, with renewed friction near the Strait of Hormuz adding an extra risk premium to commodity markets and lifting volatility across global assets. At the same time, the start of the US corporate earnings season put pressure on stock indices, as investors began locking […]
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Boeing has received two important positive signals this week. First, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expects to certify the Boeing 737 MAX 7 and 737 MAX 10 soon. Second, SMBC Aviation Capital, one of the world's largest aircraft leasing companies, has ordered 100 aircraft from the 737 MAX family. In Brief The FAA says […]
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Last week showed that markets are gradually moving past individual geopolitical headlines. Despite another exchange of strikes in the Middle East and nerves around the Strait of Hormuz, the oil sector spent most of the week in a narrow range. Investors are increasingly weighing the actual probability of supply disruption rather than the statements themselves, […]
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The past week ended without fresh signals from the Federal Reserve. Minutes from the June meeting confirmed the regulator's cautious stance: most Fed officials still consider it premature to discuss rate cuts and want to see more convincing evidence that inflation is slowing. The message supported the dollar and led the market to fully abandon […]
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Five events will drive currencies, indices and oil this week, and each one comes with a clear trading scenario. SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday, the FOMC minutes land on Wednesday, China reports inflation on Thursday, Canada publishes jobs data on Friday, and the US-Iran talks keep the oil market on alert every single day. […]
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Knowledge Base
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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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. […]
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As Warren Buffett once said, information is the key to success in the market. In trading, this principle holds especially true. A trader who knows in advance when major macroeconomic data will be released gains a significant edge and can plan trades with less risk. In this article, we explain how to effectively integrate the […]