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Where did digital money come from?

When Bitcoin is written and talked about, previous attempts to create digital currencies that made Bitcoin possible are often overlooked. Attempts to create digital currencies had been undertaken numerous times since the late 1980s that pioneered some of the underlying…

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What is a return on investment?

A positive return on investment (ROI) is the holy grail of investing. It’s what all investors are after when they place their confidence and money in a certain asset, and has come to be a universally accepted measure of profitability. 

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What is an index?

An index is an aggregated security that tracks the performance of a collection of companies or assets. An example is the FTSE 100, which tracks the performance of the top 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

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What is a bear market?

A bear market is the part of a market cycle when prices are trending downwards, generally due to fear that prices will continue to fall. This triggers further selloffs and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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What does hedging mean?

Hedging is a way to reduce the risk of holding an asset. This is done by holding assets that are expected to have price moves in the opposite direction.

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Trading strategies

A trading strategy is an approach for longing or shorting financial markets with the aim to earn a profit as consistently as possible. There are lots of different approaches for trading that depend on a trader’s objectives

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