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Today, there are plenty of trading strategies and work options for various markets both with indicators and without them. The Sniper strategy belongs to the second group: it consists of chart analysis solely, involving no ...
Analysis
21 min
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 […]
16 min
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 […]
16 min
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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NVIDIA has signed an agreement with Firmus to supply up to 170,000 AI chips for a major data centre in Indonesia. The deal widens NVIDIA's customer base, adds a stream of cloud computing income, and points to a new growth model for the company. The base-case forecast for NVDA stock sees a bounce off support […]
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Oil markets stabilised at the end of last week as Middle East tensions eased and traders unwound much of the geopolitical premium that had supported Brent through the first half of June. With conflict risk fading from prices, attention has returned to macro fundamentals: the supply-demand balance, the global growth outlook and OPEC+ strategy. The […]
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Chevron has signed a 20-year power supply agreement with Microsoft and is preparing to enter a new line of business: supplying electricity directly to data centres. We assess the potential revenue from Project Kilby, the key risks of the project, and the outlook for CVX shares. In Brief Chevron signed a 20-year agreement with Microsoft […]
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Markets enter the final week of June under elevated uncertainty, shaped by a hawkish Fed and renewed volatility in oil. The Fed held rates at 3.75% last week, but Chair Warsh's commentary and the updated projections sent a clear message: rates will stay restrictive for as long as the inflation outlook demands. Oil added its […]
16 min
Fox Corp has agreed to acquire Roku Inc in a 22 billion USD deal, placing a major bet on digital television and ad-supported streaming. Fox gains direct access to over 100 million streaming households and a large pool of viewer data. For Fox, this is a chance to accelerate the growth of their own streaming […]
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Knowledge Base
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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
17 min
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 […]
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Read the latest foreign currency trading forecast for 2024. Find out how the EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, and other currency pairs could change in 2024.
Discover the forecast for the S&P 500 index for 2024. Read technical and fundamental analysis of US500. View the S&P 500 live chart.