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In trading chats, one short word sums up a disastrous trade: rekt. It describes a heavy loss, usually one that could have been avoided, and it carries a lesson that the numbers make very clear.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Founders, employees and early investors often receive shares or tokens long before they can fully own them. Vesting is the schedule that releases that ownership step by step, and in crypto the release dates are closely watched by traders.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Deciding when to exit a winning trade can be harder than deciding when to enter. A take profit settles that question in advance: it is an exit price set before the trade moves, so the gain is closed automatically once the market gets there.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Not all the money in a bank account is available for trading. Investment capital is the share set aside for investing or trading, apart from living costs and emergency savings, and the way it is sized and divided decides how much one bad trade can hurt.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Trading with leverage means the position is larger than the money put up for it. When losses eat through that money, the platform closes the trade automatically. That forced closure is liquidation, and the price where it happens can be estimated before the trade is opened.

Albert RobertsonBearish

A hot wallet is a crypto wallet that stays connected to the internet. That connection makes it quick to send, receive and trade, and it is also what exposes the keys to online attacks. The convenience and the risk come from the same feature.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Even with profits a company can fail to make loan payments. A profit is an accounting result. A loan payment is a sum of money leaving the bank at a definite date. The debt service coverage ratio determines if one could cover the other. This article describes the calculation with the help of a hypothetical leveraged company example, shows the mistake that distorts the result most often, and explains what the ratio does not reveal.

Albert RobertsonBearish

On 21 November 2025, S&P Global released its purchasing managers' survey covering November 2025. There were still nine days left until the end of that month. This is why people follow such surveys in advance. The official statistics for November became available in mid-December, while the GDP figure covering it was released in late January. This post will explain what the surveys cover, what the 50-level means (or does not), and how to interpret a survey release without taking it too seriously.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Some currencies can't just be easily bought, they are restricted. For those, the market often settles forwards in cash, through paying out only the gap between an agreed rate and an official fixing. Those are so-called ‘non-deliverable forwards’, and it can be important in forex to understand exactly how those operate.

Albert RobertsonBearish

A moving average is called a lagging indicator because every point on the line is built from prices that have already been printed. It confirms a trend once the trend is under way, and the size of that delay can be estimated in advance.

Albert RobertsonBearish

When a company buys a machine that will last for years, the cost is not charged against profit in a single year. Depreciation in accounting spreads that cost over the asset's useful life, so each year's profit carries its share of the expense.

Albert RobertsonBearish

Currency parity describes the moment when two currencies trade one for one. The best-known case is EUR/USD at 1.00, a level the pair has fallen below only twice since the euro was launched. The number itself is ordinary, yet it tends to attract attention, orders and headlines.