Whether you are a veteran trader or a novice investor, due diligence must be practiced in order to be successful in trading. Below are four “need to know” aspects that traders and investors must be aware to be able to successfully trade.
1. Taxes
A good number of investment analysts agree that all investors must have background knowledge of capital gains tax (CGT), which all investors are primarily liable for when they sell different shares and commodities for a profit and dividend tax. Investors can better protect themselves from capital gains tax …

Before anything else, hedge funds are extremely complex and intricate investments that are not suitable for all investors. Although progress is being made from a monitoring point of view just to bring them on equal footing with several collective investment packages they are still way far behind on what is considered conventional.
In a lot of cases, hedging is removed as a typical alternative to conventional investment schemes mainly because the minimum amount to invest in these funds is too big. Yet, the essentials are still good to consider because regulating …

The price of gold crashed 9 % this past week making it the market’s worst ever performance in two days for the past 30 years, resulting in the end of the decade-long boom and staring the bear market territory. This surprising turn of events led to a dive in other shares and commodities.
The CME hiked two precious metals (silver and gold) margins by 18.5 % in the hopes of dampening the speculative purchasing ability by coercing traders to put in more of their investments.
The rather slow demand from the weakening Chinese economy …

The divisive “risk off” theme has taken over the FX markets ever since the stunning fall of precious metals last week which was considered the largest daily decline this week in the past three decades. The shiny sought after yellow metal was off 9.7 % a day and silver was down 12 % per day.
The Japanese yen saw some solid ground after the publicised comments made by the United States Treasury last week that the Asian mogul should remain with its domestic implementations and targets while steering away from devaluation which basically …

The pound has held its gains against the dollar this week following data showing that Britain’s factory output recovered in February leading to easing of fears of a triple-dip recession. With the GBP/USD hitting the 1.5325 at some point in the afternoon trade which was its session high so far, the pair later merged in 1.5312, gaining roughly 0.39 %.
Cable could probably find support at 1.5198; this week’s low and struggling at the 1.5362 level in a six-week high streak.
The office for National Statistics stated that that the UK …