Retail forex traders learn early in their training regimens that risk in the currency markets cannot be avoided, but there are various management techniques that can be employed to minimize its potential impacts. Managing a specific market risk, however, depends first on being aware that the risk even exists. A unique form of market risk…
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If you follow cryptocurrency news, then you may have tuned out the continuing saga of massive hacks of crypto exchanges. Estimates of the total hacking losses of crypto exchanges in 2018 are conservatively pegged in excess of $1 billion. Since there are no insurance plans of national compensation programs, investors are the ultimate victims, having…
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Tax time is coming, but unlike Winter in the popular series, Game of Thrones, it will not threaten mankind with extinction, but, perhaps, with financial ruin if you are unprepared. These words are especially relevant if you have invested, traded, or transferred the cryptocurrencies of your choice during the latest taxing period or before for…
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The following article was written by ATFX Chief Analyst of Asia Pacific, Martin Lam. Personal opinions today: The Sino-US Trade Ministerial Meeting was reconvened today, continuing the Sino-US trade negotiations between the G20 summit last year. The market expects the Sino-US trade truce and reached a complete truce, cancelled the trade to impose additional tariff…
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The following article was written by Reem Aboul Hosn, Research and Market Analyst Officer at Credit Financier Invest (CFI) Ltd. Despite a slight recovery in oil prices at the beginning of 2019, low oil prices could have a negative effect on Canadian economy this quarter. In October 2018 too many uncertainties pressured oil prices from…
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Occasionally small headlines that seem insignificant actually reveal much larger insights into what might be transpiring behind the scenes. Such may be the case after the government of a small country like Abkhazia pulled the plug on fifteen mining operations within their borders. This event, while apparently isolated, is indicative of growing pains within the…
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Another day, another report of a hacking loss in the crypto world. Hacking compromises of crypto exchanges have become all too common, even in 2018 after the network has had some time to work through necessary security enhancements. A new report from Cyphertrace claims that “some $927 million had been stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges in…
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The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s regulatory watchdog, like many other oversight agencies around the world, is doing its level best to deal with digital currencies in an accommodative way without stifling innovation. The job is going to get tougher. According to an unnamed FSA staff member, the regulatory agency has received 190 cryptocurrency exchange…
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When truth is stranger than fiction, we tend to pay attention, if only to laugh at the absurdity of the moment. A Georgia State Senator and former candidate for governor, Michael Williams (R), reported to jail after indictments were filed for his arrest. The Republican conservative from Forsyth County was best known for his outrageous…
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Open competition among forex brokers within the Russian Federation no longer exists. In a surprise move, the Russian Central Bank (CBR) has revoked the operating licenses of five foreign-based forex brokers due to “the repeated violations of the requirements of the Russian legislation on securities within one year.” New legislation passed a few years back…
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