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Commodities are cheap now

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  IF this is the beginning of a VIOLENT move upwards, commodities are about to get very expensive... You'll see that, relatively speaking,  commodities   are the cheapest they have ever been compared to the S&P 500.  There's nowhere to go but up The  smallest  gold run-up in the past 90 years was 45 percent-more than  twice  the current gain. Every other rally was far,  far  bigger: From 1972-1974,  the rally yielded a 100 percent gain. From 1978-1980,  another 100 percent gain. Then from 2007-2010,  a 67 percent increase in the price of gold. As you can see from the chart, when gold is ready to rise, it  takes off . Every single one of the years in the date ranges above saw an increase of more than 20%. That's how you know the gold rally has barely just begun. 2023 is Inflation Versus the World Central banks will do everything they can to fight it... and get their economies back on the growth track. And you just saw the Fed raise rates 25bps, a move that stunned the ma

Scalp trading

  5. Scalp trading The opposite of swing trading strategy is called scalp trading. This is where you take a position for much shorter periods of time, like seconds or minutes. The gains you can make here are much smaller and require more focused attention, but your profits can pile up because you can make so many of these types of trade per day. It has the potential to be more profitable in the short-term than the longer-term strategies.

Swing trading

  4. Swing trading Another strategy that many people use is called swing trading. This is where you hold your positions until the market trend or swing you are predicting runs its course or shows signs that it's reversing. A swing trading strategy requires less time and attention than day trading, but you still also need to catch the trends, the moment they form. The extra time you are holding your position, may allow for a greater price shift, and therefore may result in higher profits than with day trading. Be careful though, as the price may swing the other way, or against you resulting in losses.

Day trading

  3. Day trading The strategy of short-term gains is called day trading. It requires a lot of working hours if you want to do it the right way. Day trading offers a great deal, could be riskier than hodling, but also requires a far greater time investment. It is focused on buying stocks or crypto or what you believe will prove to be a lower or higher price. Anticipation of short-term movements, making a profit relies on the price moving in your favor. At which point you would sell your investment for a profit. The risk here is that sometimes the price will do the opposite of what you were expecting. The day aspects of day trading, relates to the short-term nature of the position you take. Day trading, it is just about taking trading positions for a few hours or days, rather than months or even years. As we said, the crypto markets are open 24/7, which means it is easy to adapt day trading on those markets. The case is different with stocks, as they are closed on the weekends and holida

Dollar-cost averaging

  2. Dollar-cost averaging DCA may sound complicated at first, but actually it is quite simple. It is a variation of hodling, that mitigates against some of the risks we discussed in the previous section. The goal with dollar-cost averaging, is to make regular investments of the same amount at repeated intervals. Regardless of the day-to-day price, giving you an average overrule price. To give you an example, let us just say you make a plan to buy $50 each month from the first day of the month, and stick to that no matter what happens to the price, it does not matter if the date that you choose falls on a weekend or a bank holiday, because unlike the stock market,  crypto markets are open 24/7 . This strategy hedges against major market movements and takes a long-term position over several months or even years, thereby helping you to avoid mistiming the market. And it is arguably one of the best strategies available.

HODLing

  1. HODLing This strategy is a very popular one. Originally, Hodl was a misspelling of 'hold', in a drunken run on the Bitcoin Talks online forum. It is also sometimes used as an acronym for 'Hold On for Dear Life'. To hodl means to buy a lump sum of crypto, and store it securely safely for potential long-term, long range, and long-odds growth. We are talking about keeping your crypto until it moons. Holding is a basic strategy. Essentially, you buy an asset, and you keep it safe for the long-term. It has been effective for many, when you consider Bitcoin's meteoric rise in value, since its inception. For example, if you bought one Bitcoin for $250 in March 2015, and hodled until June 2021, you would have a return of almost 13900%, because the price rose to $35,000. However, hodling also has risks. If you do not time your market entry point, and the market drops, you can only really cut your losses or wait and watch. This can be pretty scary. This is why you should

Fed Cuts Rates

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  Historically, every time this has happened before, a Fed pivot was imminent.  That is, every single time the 2-year Treasury yield has dropped more than 100 basis points below the Fed Funds rate, the Fed went from hiking rates to cutting them.  For all the talk of rate hikes from various Federal Reserve members, the bond market is telling the Fed that it has no more room to hike. It’s time to cut.  The Fed will listen to the bond market. It always does, as the chart above shows. Every time the bond market tells the Fed this loudly that it needs to cut rates, the Fed ends up cutting.