It was always difficult for humankind to cope with change, and it is even harder to realize how much the macroeconomic landscape has changed in the past couple of years. The unseen economic impact of the pandemic forced central banks to cut interest rates and boost market liquidity to record levels. In this environment of extreme liquidity and zero (risk-free) returns, the rally in equities and other hard assets was completely reasonable and expected. As reasonable and expected was the correction we saw lately. Let’s not forget tha...

FTX Crypto Exchange Review

Founded in 2019, FTX is a popular exchange offering crypto trading plus complex financial products including NFTs, Futures, Options, volatility products and leveraged...

Binance Crypto Exchange Review

Founded in 2017, Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world. It offers hundreds of cruptocurrency pairs and an advanced trading platform. You can register and verify your account very easily, and fund it via credit/debit cards.

Open interest shows whether money outflows or inflows into the derivatives market, and it is a reliable preliminary indicator of the mid-term Bitcoin trend. 

Explaining Open Interest in the Futures & Options Markets

Open interest refers to the total number of derivative contracts (futures or options) that remain activ...

The US government issues Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) to offer protection against inflation. The principal value of TIPS rises as Consumer Price Index (CPI) rises.

TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities)

First issued by the U.S. Treasury in 1997, TIPS are fixed income securities that (as bonds) receive interest payments on the face value. The interest payment is adjusted to cover Consumer Price In...

PriceMomentum: A New Chart Type by TradingCenter

A PriceMomentum chart enhances a common price chart with a few important features such as the intraday momentum and market volatility, to provide the opportunity for exceptional chart analysis.

Introducing the PriceMomentum Chart for the first time

PriceMomentum is created by G. Protonotarios to offer a n...

The massive increase of money supply in the western economies created an unseen demand for hard assets. Bitcoin is maybe the hardest asset in the world, as its supply is strictly limited to 21 million units. That explains, in short, the Bitcoin surge that we are witnessing in the past year. Now, it is time to be very cautious as the Bitcoin bullish trend is showing signs of exhaustion. The macro-environment is still bullish for digital currencies, but in the short term, we may witness a serious correction, especially as concerns altcoins.

Bitcoin Bullish Trend Showing Signs of Exhaustion...

RSI PRECISION (ENHANCED RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX)

Developed in 1978, RSI is a fantastic tool for spotting overbought/oversold market levels, but it has several limitations, especially when it comes to the analysis of weekly and monthly timeframes. For that reason, I have built an enhanced (free) version of RSI, called RSI PRECISION. The new oscillator combines RSI readings with price momentum and volatility, and that makes it ideal for analyzing volatile markets such as Bitcoin or penny stocks. RSI PRECISION offers also a plethora of settings, including ...

Ethereum 2.0 Upgrade is Reshaping and Decentralizing the Global Financial System

Currently, Ethereum is leading the revolution of Decentralized Finance (Defi) with a market share of over 95%. However, the existing structural limitations of the network created the need for a key upgrade in 2021.