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Forex, gold, Bitcoin, risk and social trading — short articles with the numbers worked out. New pieces most weeks.

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Gold4 min

Gold around the FOMC: a walk through a decision day

Eight times a year the Federal Reserve sets rates and gold reprices in minutes. Hour by hour in GMT: what happens before, at and after the decision, and why the press conference matters more.

19 February 2026Read →
Gold4 min

How gold masters on IDTraders size their positions

Three sizing methods you can recognise on a profile from the trade list alone — fixed lot, fixed risk and volatility-scaled — and what each one does to a copier’s equity curve.

12 February 2026Read →
Gold4 min

Silver versus gold: the ratio and what traders do with it

Silver is gold with the volume turned up — and an industrial metal besides. The gold–silver ratio, why silver lags then overshoots, and how XAG/USD behaves on the platform.

5 February 2026Read →
Gold3 min

XAU/USD volatility: why a 1% day is normal and a 3% day is not

How much gold moves on an ordinary day, on a data day and on a crisis day — in percent and in dollars per lot — and how that should shape the size of a gold copy.

29 January 2026Read →
Gold3 min

Gold in a rate-cut cycle: what history says

Four Fed easing cycles, four different gold outcomes. The pattern that holds, the one that does not, and how to read a cutting cycle while it is happening rather than afterwards.

22 January 2026Read →
Gold4 min

Central bank buying and the floor under gold

Since 2022 the largest buyers of gold have not been investors or jewellers but central banks. What they are doing, why, and what a price-insensitive buyer does to a chart.

15 January 2026Read →
Gold4 min

Gold and real interest rates: the relationship that explains most rallies

Gold pays nothing, so its price is set by what you give up to hold it. One number — the real yield — captures that, and it has predicted gold’s big moves for forty years.

8 January 2026Read →
Gold4 min

Why gold is priced in dollars and what that does to XAU/USD

Gold has no yield, no earnings and no central bank — and it is quoted in the one currency that has all three. Half of every gold move is a dollar move. Here is how to separate them.

26 December 2025Read →