How to Calculate Pip Value on Any Currency Pair
Pip value = pip size × position size, converted into your account currency. Worked examples for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CAD and EUR/GBP in US dollars.
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Pip and Lot Size Mistakes New Forex Traders Make
Seven pip and lot size mistakes shown as wrong vs corrected calculations: $10 pip myth, one lot for all pairs, pipettes, yen decimals, margin sizing, rounding.
Physical vs Synthetic ETFs
Physical ETFs hold the index's securities; synthetic ETFs use swaps with a bank to deliver the index return. How each works and the counterparty risk in swaps.
How to Calculate and Read a P/E Ratio
P/E = share price ÷ earnings per share. A $150 stock earning $6 a share trades at 25 times earnings. How to calculate trailing and forward P/E and read them.
How to Calculate Overnight Financing Before Holding a Trade
Daily CFD financing = position value × (benchmark ± fee) ÷ 365. Worked examples for long and short index positions, a 30-day hold and forex swaps.
What Is OPEC+ and How Do Its Decisions Affect Oil?
OPEC+ joins OPEC and producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, formed in 2016 to manage output. How its decisions move oil and why cuts do not always bite.
Oil vs Natural Gas: How Their Price Drivers Differ
Oil is global and easily shipped; natural gas is regional, weather-driven and harder to store. Why gas is more volatile and how the two energy markets compare.
Why Oil Prices Collapsed Between 2014 and 2016
Brent fell from about $115 in June 2014 to $27 in January 2016 as shale output surged and OPEC chose not to cut in November 2014. What happened and why.
How to Calculate Profit and Loss on an Oil CFD
Oil CFD P&L = price change per barrel × barrels, minus spread, financing and roll costs. Worked examples: a 100-barrel long and a 50-barrel short position.
Mistakes Traders Make With Oil CFDs
Six oil CFD mistakes found through a pre-mortem: wrong benchmark, rolls and expiry, event risk, oversizing, curve costs and geopolitical gaps, with warnings.
How Nonfarm Payrolls Moves the Dollar
The monthly US jobs report moves the dollar by changing expectations for Fed rates. What the report contains, how markets react and the risks on release day.
What Happened When Nixon Ended Dollar-Gold Convertibility in 1971?
On August 15, 1971, Nixon suspended converting dollars into gold at $35 an ounce, ending Bretton Woods and opening the era of floating currencies. What changed.