Brent crude oil pushed past $115 a barrel on October 23, touching a five-month peak as tanker security concerns in the Gulf and supply bottlenecks intensified.
Institutional allocators are pivoting towards private credit and non-bank lending facilities to secure floating-rate yield and strong covenant protections.
How to turn a risk amount and a stop distance into a lot size: worked calculations on three pairs, the effect of spreads, and what losing streaks do to an account.
Why a rate decision rarely moves a currency alone: surprises, forward guidance and carry trades, with two cases, the ECB in 2015 and the Bank of Japan in 2024\.
How the three main forex trading costs work, with worked examples: when a raw-spread account beats a commission-free one, and why a swap can outweigh the spread on longer trades.