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The editorial team at FX Comparator brings together enthusiasts of financial markets, stocks and cryptocurrencies. Articles published under this profile are written by in-house editors and external contributors who provide an independent perspective on the world of investing.
One Berkshire Hathaway share costs more than $755,000 — more than an apartment. A look at the most expensive stocks in the world, and why the price per share says almost nothing about the company behind it.
A timeframe is nothing more than the length of one candle — yet it decides how often you trade, how much time you spend at the chart and which cost eats into the result. Here is how M1 to D1 differ in practice.
Higher highs and higher lows look the same on a currency pair, on oil and on the S&P 500. How to tell an uptrend, a downtrend and a range apart, and how to check the trend without drawing a single line.
The swap is interest for the night, the rollover a switch of futures contract. Why Wednesday counts three times and why the weekend is never free.
A beginner's guide: where to buy real shares, what an order costs at XTB and eToro, and what to watch out for with tax and broker licences.
Gann line, fan and grid: how the 1×1 ratio works, why eight of the nine famous angles are rounded arctangents, and what happens when two traders open the same chart on different scales.
A golden cross appears when the 50-day moving average crosses above the 200-day one. Here is how to set the chart up, how to tell a clean crossover from a false one, and what the S&P 500 data from CXO Advisory, Carson Group and Bank of America says about what follows.
The TER is the first number quoted for any ETF, and the one most investors pay least of. What buying, holding and selling really costs at 1,000 and 10,000 EUR.
What one candle says, how crypto charts differ from stock charts and when it pays to switch to a logarithmic scale.
A hedge does not get you a better price, it gets you a certain one. When a lock makes sense, what it costs and when it only delays a loss.
A demo account is the only way to try forex without depositing your own money. What you can practise on it and what stays hidden.
Money credited just for signing up has disappeared from regulated brokers. The ban dates to 2018 and is kept in place today by national regulators.
Defense stocks sorted by what the companies actually build. Drones, underwater robots, aircraft, ground vehicles, electronics and services are six different businesses carrying different risks.
The EBITDA multiple gives the value of the whole business, the lenders' share included. Only once net debt comes off does it turn into a per-share figure — a gap of 80 percent between two otherwise identical companies.
VOO became the first ETF ever to hold a trillion dollars and it leads this year's inflows too. The bitcoin fund IBIT has dropped out of the top five.
German companies pay once a year, after the annual general meeting. Germany withholds 26.375 percent of the gross amount, and the highest yields in the table belong to carmakers that are cutting the dividend.
How the SIX Swiss Exchange came about, why it was the first in the world to automate trading, clearing and settlement in one system, and which companies weigh the most in the SMI.
Seven companies account for roughly a third of the S&P 500. The order at the top looks different today than it did at the end of 2024.
Ten percent a year is the number everyone quotes, and it is right only with the right caveats. An average year turned up twice in three decades.
The best-known quotes about money and investing with a documented source and context, including the ones Einstein, Rothschild and Twain never said.
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