With 2020 coming to a close, we compiled a little visualization to display how the top 10 of most traded instruments at Axi changed over the course of the year. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Video element. Read more
The Race for Top Symbol
December 24, 2020
Leave a commentTrading Tool: Kelly Calculator
August 31, 2020
Leave a comment When you decide to open a trade, you are faced with a lot of decisions at once: some are easy if you have a set strategy (which instrument to trade?), some are harder (where to put the Stop Loss and Take Profit?), but the one that usually becomes the reaso... Read more
Success vs failure: big gains are good…right?
April 24, 2020
Leave a comment We are continuing our series of posts where we compare successful traders to unsuccessful ones. Last time we look at trade frequency, where we saw that successful traders do not place as many trades. Check out that post here.
Today we will look at b... Read more
Nobody Cares What you Think
April 20, 2020
Leave a commentThis week we posted some fascinating behavioural research on our blog, quantifying the impact, playing with your stop loss has on your trading performance. You can read the post in full on the site.
In summary people don't like to accept losing mo... Read more
Moving Stop Losses – the Good and the Bad
April 14, 2020
Leave a comment Today we’re going to talk about Stop Losses, specifically about moving them. The way it usually happens is like this: you open a trade, you set a stop loss to limit your exposure to the market, and then you see the price moving against you, inching closer ... Read more
Unusual Volatility Alert
March 2, 2020
Leave a comment Volatility is one of the most important things to keep an eye on in trading. In short, it’s a measure of price movement - the drops and rises an instrument has. When volatility is high, there are more opportunities for a trade, and the returns are higher i... Read more
Market Streak Alert
March 2, 2020
Leave a comment A streak is when the price is moving in one direction multiple days in a row. Why should you be interested to know when this happens? Well, if markets are random then tomorrow’s move will be either up or down with equal 50/50 probability split. However, ma... Read more
Moving Average Cross Alert
March 2, 2020
Leave a comment This blog post is dedicated to arguably the most famous technical analysis signal - the all-powerful moving average cross.
The market alert we are looking at today is triggered when the instrument’s Moving Average lines cross over each other. You ca... Read more
Moving Average Breach Alert
March 2, 2020
Leave a comment If you’ve read our blog post about the N-day high/low alert, you know what a breakout is and how to trade it, as well as how to set up an alert to be the first to know about a breakout. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check it out.
But it’s not alway... Read more
New High/Low Market Alert
March 2, 2020
Leave a comment How many times have you opened your favorite financial newsletter and read about an instrument setting a new 52-week high, wondering what kind of trade would you be able to put in if you got in before everyone else?
If you have heard about breakout ... Read more