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The silver crash on Friday, 30 January 2026, was a violent deleveraging event that effectively shattered every pillar supporting the $120 price point. The 31.3% collapse in a single session represents the worst daily percentage decline in the history of silver trading, eclipsing even the infamous “Silver Thursday” crash of 1980. According to Dow Jones ...
The silver market in early 2026 has become a place of extreme confusion for the average trader. You might see a headline price of $126 in Shanghai while your local broker quotes $111, and wonder if there is free money to be made. There isn’t. What looks like a simple arbitrage opportunity is actually the ...
Global finance often feels like a closed loop of jargon, but beneath the complex terminology lie simple, brutal mechanics of supply and demand. Nowhere is this clearer than in the current standoff between the Japanese Yen and the US Treasury market. This post deconstructs the “conundrums” of sovereign debt and currency intervention, using practical analogies ...
Introduction: The Gravity-Defying Experiment Japan is currently attempting an economic feat that defies conventional gravity: maintaining near-zero interest rates in a world of inflation, while trying to prevent its currency from collapsing. For the average trader, this creates a landscape filled with counter-intuitive traps—where “good” economic news crashes the stock market, and a dying currency ...
When I first started off learning TA, I thought it was ‘technical’. There is nothing technical about it. Technical tends to mean something very complex. It’s not that. TA is a strange two words. Actually, there is little in the way of analysis with pen and paper. Almost never is a calculator required. Basically you ...
I’ve explored money before. Some say, “Everybody knows what money is.. so why ask stupid questions about it?” For simpletons, money is coin or cash in hand, or credit in the bank – end off. If that’s you, then kindly depart now. This is not a tutorial on money or how to make money. If ...
There is much confusion out there about what bonds are. I’ve seen so-called experts get it wrong, and then mislead people. The recent importance of the ‘bond market’ has come about as there is talk about an ‘inverted yield curve’. Not much will be said about that. In this post I focus on the basics. ...
Today I met a chap who is a failed trader. This was a rare opportunity. I had known him for about 3 months just from the odd conversation here and there. I knew that he had an interest in ‘stock markets’ and had some knowledge about CFDs. But it was strange how we ended up ...
A new trader (who will remain anonymous) has contacted us to ask for some help. I’ll deal with each point, as it is of value to other new traders but largely for my own reflection. This is what we do, and we do this stuff for free and no obligation – ever! Note that I ...
Several times over the last year, I’ve had conversations with others about finding new or different ways of making money. Invariably the limitation of time availability comes up i.e. time to learn new skills, gain new knowledge etc. Some of those people were interested in learning about investing or trading (which are different concepts) – ...