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What Is Earnings Per Share (EPS)?

Earnings per share (EPS) can be defined as net profit per share. They indicate the amount of net profit per share.

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What Is Fundamental Analysis?

Market prices are moving everyday - but why? What is moving them? Why do investors decide to buy one asset and sell the other? This can be explained by fundamental analysis.

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What Is Heritage?

The assets that you see in your trading account are the funds that you have invested in your trading account and that include the results of your currently open transactions.

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What Is Market Capitalisation?

Market capitalisation, or market cap, is the market value of a company’s outstanding shares.

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What Is Quantitative Analysis?

Quantitative analysis is the branch of technical analysis that is based on mathematical or statistical formulas.

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What Is Range Break Analysis?

Range break analysis is one of the most used techniques in trading and its knowledge can help traders to broaden their spectrum of interpretation of the market.

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What Is Range Trading?

Range trading is a trading strategy based on identifying overbought (resistance) and oversold (support) areas on the chart. This method is based on identifying a certain range in which the market is moving.

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What is Support and Resistance?

‘Support’ and ‘resistance’ levels are common phrases used in trading to describe specific price levels where markets historically have had difficulty breaking through.

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What Is Swing Trading?

Swing trading is trading based on maintaining an operation for a period greater than 1 day, but not more than a few weeks.

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What Is the Dividend Yield?

The dividend yield is calculated by dividing the annual dividends of the company by the current price of the share. It is represented by a percentage.

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What Is Trend Trading?

Trading is based on probability and traders tend to have a greater chance of success in the markets when they are able to identify the current direction of the prevailing trend. In this article, we will focus on some examples of trend identification through different methods.

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The World Bank is an international financial institution with Jim Yong Kim as president.

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Margin Call - What Is It?

A Margin Call, also known as a margin stop, is a protective measure that helps traders to manage their risk and prevent additional losses. It is a notification from your broker that you are in danger of the possibility of having some or all of your positions forcibly closed, or liquidated. Therefore, understanding how a margin call arises is essential for successful trading.

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What Is the FTSE 100?

The FTSE 100 is an index made up of shares from the 100 biggest companies by market capitalisation on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

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Yield Meaning | What is A Yield?

What is a yield and how important is it when it comes to investing? Yield is an important factor for investors to consider when choosing investments as it refers to the income that an investment generates over a period of time, and is expressed as a percentage of the investment's value. This article takes a deeper look at the yield meaning, what it is and how to understand the role a yield plays when making your investment decisions.

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Investing During Inflation: What and where to invest in?

High interest rates and all investor’s eyes are looking at Fed hands. Will the financial markets sink? How to manage risk and investing during inflation?

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The history and future of Natural Gas

Raw natural gas extracted as a fossil fuel formed over millions of years in huge quantities from the remains of organic matter - ancient plants and animals. It has played a significant role in the energy mix of many countries worldwide.

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Bull Market vs Bear Market: What's The Difference?

You may have heard on the news or read in an article terms such as bull and bear market and if you aren’t involved in the trading/investing world those terms won’t mean anything to you.

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Bull and Bear Markets - Everything You Need To Know

If you want to take investing seriously and achieve good results in investing, you need to understand the terms bull and bear market.

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Chart Patterns: A Detailed Guide

Chart patterns are a popular method used in technical analysis to analyse and predict price movements in the financial markets. Traders and investors use chart patterns to identify potential entry and exit points in the market, which can help them make more informed trading decisions. These patterns are formed by the price movements of a financial instrument, such as a stock, currency pair, commodity, or index, over a specific period of time. Here, we'll explore some common chart patterns and their characteristics.

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