Tradeguider Blog

What`s your goal with your trading? Lose your pension? Wreck your health through stress? No we didn`t think so and we don`t want that for you either. So how to avoid that? Read on for more ideas for how to set realistic goals as a trader.

If the charts don’t lie and all you need to focus on is them, implementing the Wyckoff VSA approach, and keeping your mindset solid, then why would you even need to consider fundamental analysis? Read on for an answer.

Can trading ever be truly ethical? Socially Responsible Investing is ever growing and some see this year’s retail trader moves against Wall Street as righting years of unethical big business wrongs. But is that enough? Read on as we examine the places where being ethical and trading the markets can intersect.

Want to trade cryptocurrencies but wish they were regulated? Read on to find out how the new Micro Bitcoin futures contract from the CME Group addresses this issue.

What are Micro Bitcoin futures?

You might have seen that back in May 2021 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched a micro futures contract for bitcoins.

Bitcoin futures allows traders and investors to participate in the bitcoin market through a transparent and regulated exchange, avoiding the pitfalls associated with ‘over-the- counter’ non-regulated entities.

The Micro Bitcoin futures contract is a tenth of a bitcoin and therefore one fiftieth of the standard 5-bitcoin futures contract from the CME Group.  This smaller-size bitcoin contract opens up the possibility of cryptocurrency futures to retail traders with any account size.

With banks increasingly offering negative interest even without considering the effect of the pandemic, people are increasingly looking at investing in tangible assets and luxury goods.

If you have ever asked yourself why invest in art, or whether wine is a good investment, what the pros and cons of angel investing are, whether learning to trade or investing in a fund would be better or whether buying a diamond would be a good investment for you, then read on.

We put together the following visual comparison of  the pros of cons of these options to help you make solid choices for wise investments and savings.  

That smart money operators, professional players move the markets is incontrovertible, however you identify your trades. But here at Tradeguider we would never try to dissuade a trader from using a method other than Wyckoff VSA provided they were profitable in trading the markets. Rafal Glinicki, two-time award-winning trader with a 20 year pedigree and founder of Poland’s VSA Trader, has been successfully combining technical analysis and Wyckoff VSA for decades.

He likes the combination so much he made it a required methodology for the traders who work at his company. So if you’ve ever wondered whether technical analysis is enough for trading or whether VSA works then read on to hear about his experience of combining methodologies.

Want to benefit from Wyckoff VSA in the derivatives market? The core principle of tracking the professional or smart money applies as much here as when trading any market.  

It turns out that SMART Technology and automated alerts helps mitigate risk and reduce heavy lifting here too. Read on for a breakdown of how to make this part of your Wyckoff-VSA powered portfolio as well as reasons for trading in derivatives in general.