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What Is a Short Squeeze? How It Happens and Why It Unwinds

What is a short squeeze? Follow the margin maths that forces short sellers to buy, step by step, with a worked CFD example and the crypto version.

Stagflation Explained: What It Means for Stocks, Gold and Currencies

Stagflation explained: what it means, what causes it, and what stocks, gold, currencies and bonds did in the 1970s and in 2022, from primary data.

How to Day Trade: A Realistic Daily Routine, Costs Included

How to day trade with a routine you can keep: prep before the open, written entry rules, stops and an end-of-day log, plus what 10 trades a day cost.

What Is a Recession, and How Do Markets Usually Behave?

What is a recession? The UK and US definitions, what causes one, and what stock indices did in past recessions, with sourced drawdowns. No forecasts.

Market Regime: Every Strategy Is Built for One Kind of Weather

A strategy is not good or bad; it is good in one kind of weather. How the market regime decides which strategy wins, and why the forecast comes before the signal.

The Exit Decides the Trade, Not the Entry

Buying is the gate, not the flight. Why the entry price rarely decides a trade: cutting losses at a threshold, holding winners with a robot's discipline, and why rare big wins pay for the rest.

Cover image for Chapter 5, The styles and what they cost, Samuel Rondot Vault

Trading Styles: Every One Sends You a Bill

Every trading style looks free on the menu. This piece reads the bill before you order: what scalping, trend trading and counter-trend trading each actually cost you, from a trader who watched hundreds of client accounts.

Scaled Orders Explained: Building a Position Across a Price Range

A scaled order places several limit orders across a price range instead of one order at a single price. You set the top of the range, the bottom, how many orders to spread between them, and the total size. Ouinex divides the size across the orders and shows you the resulting average entry before you commit.

OCO Orders Explained: One Cancels the Other

An OCO order is two orders placed as one unit, linked by a single rule: whichever fills first cancels the other. In practice that means a take profit and a stop loss submitted together, so the moment your target is reached your protective order disappears on its own, and the moment your stop is hit your target disappears with it.