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Market notes, written to be understood once.

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

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Bitcoin & crypto4 min

Bitcoin and the Nasdaq: how correlated are they really?

The "digital gold" story says Bitcoin should protect you from a stock-market fall. The data since 2020 says otherwise — mostly. When the link is tight, when it breaks, and what it means for a mixed set of copies.

2 April 2026Read →
Bitcoin & crypto4 min

BEP-20 and TRC-20: the two networks, explained once

The same USDT on two different rails. How to tell them apart by the address, what each costs, why mixing them loses money, and a checklist for every deposit and withdrawal.

26 March 2026Read →
Bitcoin & crypto4 min

Stablecoins: what USDT is and why deposits use it

A dollar that moves like an email. How Tether keeps its peg, what the risks are, and why a platform serving traders in fifty countries settles in USDT rather than bank wires.

19 March 2026Read →
Bitcoin & crypto4 min

Why BTC/USDT trades 24/7 and what that means for a copier

No opening bell, no weekly break, no gap — and no moment when nothing can happen. How a market that never closes changes stops, settlement and sleep.

12 March 2026Read →
Bitcoin & crypto4 min

Bitcoin’s four-year cycle: pattern or coincidence?

Three halvings, three bull markets, three crashes of 75% or more. The mechanism behind the cycle, the evidence it is weakening, and how to use it without betting on it.

5 March 2026Read →
Bitcoin & crypto4 min

What Bitcoin is, in the words a trader needs

Not a lecture on cryptography — the six facts about Bitcoin that decide how BTC/USDT trades, and the ones you can safely ignore.

26 February 2026Read →
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 →