Friday, February 28, 2020

Cannabis stocks under the microscope

Cannabis stocks had a hard time with investors in 2019. Quarterly balance sheets have caused disillusionment in the market. But when the big players weaken, the hour may come for the small ones. Cannabis is a growth market. Against the backdrop of further regularisations, companies in this sector offer impressive growth prospects. But the majority of recently published balance sheets ...

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Is gold getting cheaper again?

2019 has been a dream year for gold investors. The precious yellow metal has risen in price by almost 15 per cent. In recent weeks, however, the gold price has crumbled somewhat. Is there now a threat of a correction? The feared end of the world has failed to materialise. The recession signals have fallen silent, the early economic indicators ...

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Draghi’s last appearance

The horror of German savers – or the saviour of the Eurozone? Mario Draghi has polarised as President of the ECB. Zero interest, penalty interest for banks, bond purchases – Draghi pulled out all the stops in the fight against the economic downturn. On Thursday he gave his farewell show – and drew a positive balance of his presidency in ...

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Central banks stock up on gold

Central banks around the globe continued to increase their gold reserves in August. Turkey was particularly hungry for the precious metal – the country’s central bank did not allow itself to be deterred by the high gold prices in the summer. In the weak month of July, the international guardians of the currency had only stocked up on 12.8 tonnes ...

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Hong Kong’s Money Scarcity & Bitcoin

Protests by government opponents have been shaking Hong Kong for several weeks. Given the uncertain situation, the population is stocking up on cash – but this is set to become increasingly scarce. The protests in Hong Kong have intensified further over the weekend. The country’s police used tear gas against demonstrators. The country’s head of government, Carrie Lam, surprisingly imposed ...

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Certificates Trading

With certificates, it is possible to bet on falling, rising, stagnating, and very volatile prices of one or more underlying securities. The term is regularly unlimited. The contractual structure differs significantly. They range from bonus models to cap certificates, a precise price representation through to knock-out securities. Trading takes place both on the stock exchange and OTC. In the latter ...

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Triple Witching Day

Four times a year, each Friday, share prices seem to jump up and down in an uncontrolled manner. This is due neither to news from companies nor to the state of the economy. The so-called Triple Witching Day, which is also known as the triple expiration day, causes price movements on the stock exchange. The prices on the Triple Witching ...

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Markets Update Wednesday 26/02/2020 – Pause

Frankfurt – 26/02/20 Pause The fear of the coronavirus and the economic consequences is omnipresent. The volatility of the markets on today’s trading day made many investors sweat. Some Forex brokers have reacted to the nervousness in the market by reducing the maximum leverage offerings of the indices CFDs they give access to on their trading platforms.  In the end, ...

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

How to invest in Gold

The current state of the financial markets is causing great concern not only to the billionaires of this world. For private investors, too, the desire to protect their investment portfolio by buying gold is increasingly coming to the fore. The reasons for the search for suitable asset protection lie above all in the steady expansion of the money supply by ...

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Can Investors profit from the use of AI?

Fund providers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to select stocks. So far, without much success. But one person dares to beat the MSCI World. Many people think of the film “Matrix” or of humanoid super robots in the distant future when they hear “AI”. In reality, however, artificial intelligence (AI) is already present in many places in our everyday lives: ...

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Markets Update Tuesday 25/02/2020 – Oh-oh…

Frankfurt – 25/02/20 Oh-oh… After the sell-off on Monday, most global indices continued their steep decline. The coronavirus and the still unassessable consequences of a potential global pandemic remain the main topic in the market.  Doubtful rumours about potential cures or preventative measures against the novel virus provided temporary stabilisation but ultimately were unable to stem the bitter losses in ...

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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Markets Update Monday 24/02/2020 – Panic

Frankfurt – 24/02/20 Panic You could already guess it just before the weekend, but today, Monday, there was indeed panic on the market.  In the USA as well as on other international stock exchanges, the market went downhill hard today. With partly over 4 per cent losses, it was in some cases the most significant declines in one trading day ...

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Markets Update Friday 21/02/2020 – Down it goes

Frankfurt – 21/02/20 Down it goes The stock markets ended the week deep in the red. The death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to rise. In China, 118 patients died again within one day. In mainland China, the number of proven infections had increased by 890 to a total of 75,466 cases by Friday morning, the Health Commission in ...

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Sunday, February 23, 2020

Hong Kong stock exchange wants to take over London stock exchange

A merger between the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse failed a few years ago due to resistance from the EU Commission. Now the British are receiving another offer – this time from Asia. On the largest stock exchanges in Asia and Europe, a mega-merger is possibly in the offing. On Wednesday, the Hong Kong stock exchange surprisingly approached its ...

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Stock market wisdom for difficult times

Crash worries at the market? Investors can orient themselves on these pearls of wisdom that never get old. Many global uncertainties are weighing on the markets, and some experts are worried about an imminent global crash. But investors should not be driven by fears and should keep these old pearls of wisdom in mind instead.  “Be greedy when others are ...

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Will this trigger the next Bitcoin crash?

Court ruling on Craig Wright’s apparent Bitcoin assets passed He has appointed himself the creator of the Bitcoin: Craig Wright. Several times in the past, he publicly claimed to own more than a million coins of the first-mover cryptocurrency. Now a US court sentenced him to hand over half of it to the heirs of his former business partner. Let’s ...

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Bakkt is coming 23.09.2019

Both the Bitcoin ETF and the Bitcoin futures of the Bakkt exchange are two of the biggest hopes of the crypto market, which are intended to provide capital growth. Above all, the repeatedly postponed decision to approve a Bitcoin ETF has already given the cryptographic market several difficult hours. After a long wait and struggle, Bakkt has now obtained regulatory ...

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Markets Update Thursday 20/02/2020 – Up and down

Frankfurt – 20/02/20 Up and down Hope initially arose today after the number of new infections in China declined. However, the counting method was changed. The new counting method sounds too much as if the wish is the father of the thought here. Whether this wish will be fulfilled is unclear, especially since China does not allow foreign experts into ...

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

OTC derivatives and EMIR

Just like options, swaps and futures in general, OTC derivatives are also financial derivatives. OTC derivatives are the abbreviation for over-the-counter. Significant for OTC derivatives is the fact that they are only traded over-the-counter. But it is not only OTC trading that distinguishes OTC derivatives. OTC derivatives are not only characterised by inconsistent termination clauses, but also by widely varying ...

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Your guide to oil trading

Most people are seemingly helpless in the face of rising oil prices. Fuel oil is becoming more and more expensive, and so is gasoline and diesel. We accept it because we have no other choice. We, as investors, however, are everything else than defenseless or hopeless. It is no witchcraft to profit from rising crude oil prices. And it is ...

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Markets Update Wednesday 19/02/2020 – Gold rally

Frankfurt – 19/02/20 Gold rally Investors remain extremely relaxed and continue to believe that the virus epidemic in China will soon be overcome. In yesterday’s weakness, some investors saw a new opportunity to re-enter the market or buy more. Worldwide, the stock market barometers are therefore going north again. The only thing that doesn’t quite seem to fit the picture ...

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

How investors can benefit from the current Silver boom

Investors with a view to the future should not only be concerned with equities and real estate in the ongoing zero interest rate phase but of course also with precious metals. While the gold price is in a rapid upward movement, the chances are now good that the bulls will also return to the little brother silver. While the low-interest ...

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Investment opportunity or hype? Cannabis Markets in Asia

The hemp plant is conquering global markets on a broad front. While cannabis has already been fully legalised in some places, the ancient medicinal plant is only slowly moving away from its taboo status in Asia. Now, investors are also becoming aware of the marijuana market in Asia. The hemp plant offers an enormous range of application possibilities and the ...

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Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Trading Strategies

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) was originally developed by J. Welles Wilder. It is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. The RSI fluctuates between zero and 100. Typically and according to Wilder, RSI is considered overbought at over 70 and oversold at under 30. Signals can also be generated by searching for divergences, error ...

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Hedge funds and private investors

Hedge funds have been a hot topic of debate for years. Some investors are jealous of the supposedly gigantic profits generated by some of these constructs traded on the US market. Others are wary because they see altogether incalculable risks and poor liquidity for the investor. Who is right? Both are – in their ways. Let’s take a look at ...

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Markets Update Monday 18/02/2020 – Uninspiring start to the trading week

Frankfurt – 18/02/20 Uninspiring start to the trading week There was no trading on Wall Street on Monday due to a public holiday. On “Presidents’ Day” – or Washington’s Birthday – Americans celebrated the birthday of George Washington, the first President of the United States. This public holiday limited international Forex trading and only few investors were active.  The underlying ...

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Markets Update Friday 14/02/2020 – Uncertainty

Frankfurt – 14/02/20 Uncertainty On Friday, the international stock markets continued their tendencies of inconsistency. The markets are still under the spell of the coronavirus. Even more than six weeks after the first cases of the coronavirus were reported, the epidemic in China is not decreasing. On Friday alone, the Beijing authorities reported more than 5,000 new infections. There are ...

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Markets Update Thursday 13/02/2020 – U-turn

Frankfurt – 13/02/20 U-turn In the end, there was something of a happy ending on the stock market today, after all.  First of all, however, things went steeply downhill, because, who would have thought it, suddenly there was sobering news about the coronavirus again. The number of newly detected deaths caused by the coronavirus in China in the particularly severely ...

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Markets Update Wednesday 12/02/20 – All green

Frankfurt – 12/02/20 All green Hopes for rapid economic recovery after the dampening effect of the coronavirus are encouraging more and more investors to reenter the stock market. In many places, stock market barometers are reaching new record levels.  Investors expect the economic impact to remain mostly regional. The global economy, however, should not be sustainably burdened – also thanks ...

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Markets Update Tuesday 11/02/2020 – Partying in denial

Frankfurt – 11/02/20 Partying in denial Today was a strange day in the stock markets. The US and German stock barometers showed new all-time-highs despite the constant coronavirus fears.  The official number of recorded coronavirus infections has risen to 43,111 worldwide, and 42,647 people have been diagnosed on the Chinese mainland. According to official statistics, 1,018 people have died of ...

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Monday, February 10, 2020

Markets Update Friday 07/02/2020 – Reality-check

Frankfurt – 07/02/20 Reality-check It was not yet a bitter awakening nor a sellout, but still, at the end of the trading week, disillusionment was spreading in the global markets. After the confidence in the coronavirus issue, investors seemed to focus on facts and figures again: The increase in newly confirmed coronavirus infections in China appears to have stabilized slightly ...

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Markets Update Thursday 06/02/2020 – Bull-trap?

Frankfurt – 06/02/20 Bull-trap? Many of the international stock exchanges reported further gains following the upward trend from Tuesday and Wednesday. The coronavirus worries seem to be forgotten, and positive signs from the balance sheet season additionally help to boost the markets.  Still, the question remains how robust this current rise is since we’re far from being out of the ...

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Markets Update Wednesday 05/02/2020 – Hopes die last

Frankfurt – 05/02/20 Hopes die last It was a strange trading day, shaped and driven by wishful thinking.  On a broad scale, markets around the globe recovered again, but the reasons for this are almost grotesque.  According to reports in the Chinese media, there would soon be an effective vaccine against the new coronavirus. Besides, the number of new infections ...

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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Markets Update Tuesday 04/02/2020 – Recovery?

Frankfurt – 04/02/20 Recovery? Concerns about the corona-virus remain in the market but have tended to recede into the background on the stock markets. This was partly due to positive developments in Asia and partly because the Chinese central bank once again injected the market with liquidity.  Nevertheless, the virus worries are far from over. “As long as the number ...

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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Markets Update Monday 03/02/2020 – Just a small correction?

Frankfurt – 03/02/20 Just a small correction?  After last week’s price losses, some investors retook the plunge on Monday and dared to go on the offensive. But whether this is the prelude to a more substantial recovery remains to be seen. The uncertain situation surrounding the coronavirus continues to determine the behaviour of market participants, and sharp price fluctuations must ...

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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Markets Update Friday 31/01/2020 – Alarming situation

Frankfurt – 31/01/20 Alarming situation The markets continue their downward trend on Friday after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus situation as a “health emergency of international concern”. The epidemic continues to spread, and the number of patients has risen by 1,981 to 9,692 since yesterday, according to the Health Commission in Beijing. The number of deaths increased ...

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