Is the Bull Run for Gold Over?

Much has been said about the bull market in precious metals as gold rose 40% from March lows to August highs, while silver notably outperformed that and posted a 150% increase in the same time-frame. All this happening within 6 months is very impressive.

However, since August highs, both metals are plunging – gold is lower by 10%, and silver by 25%. That’s understandable, considering the steep rally in metals over the previous months.

The million-dollar question is; what happens next?

The big drop in gold and silver has primarily been driven by dollar strength. The dollar index hit a two-month high on Wednesday. Investors have moved to the USD due to more…

3 Times in History, When Traders Struck Gold

Imagine you could travel back in time to any year you wanted. Maybe you have a time machine or a special power. Which year in history would you choose to travel back to?

Before you jump to your favorite costume’s era, consider the years when savvy traders made hundreds of thousands, even millions, almost overnight from the financial markets, simply because they made the right trade at the right time.

Wouldn’t you want to go back to these events in time and set yourself up for life too? Here are three times you could have struck gold if you’d been there, done that! Keep them in mind more…

Gold has hit new all-time highs: Is this a bubble or just a stop before hitting 3000 USD?

2020 has by far been difficult for most people, but it’s definitely been a great year for gold and gold owners. Gold has seen exponential growth to the point where its holders are in a state of euphoria with the feeling that they can do no wrong and their safe haven will last forever.

Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s not forget the Gold Rush of 2011. Gold was on the pages of magazines and newspapers, it was the talk of taxi drivers, personal trainers and hairdressers. Gold investments were indeed the golden opportunity. But over the months and years the more…

Tickmill Reduced spreads and slashed swaps – becoming one of the lowest cost brokers in the industry!

In an effort to cement our current position as leading international broker of choice, we’re proud to announce that we have tailored exclusive relationships with a number of liquidity providers – placing ourselves as one of the lowest cost brokers across the industry.

Our tagline clearly states that we want traders to succeed… What better way to prove it than reduce our costs to the point that we have some of the lowest overall trading costs in the industry.

In order to achieve this milestone, we firstly reduced our spreads on the major currency pairs and more…

What is the relationship between plague and assets?

The new corona-virus that originated in China and swept the world has attracted the attention of most people, it had influence on the trend of many financial assets at the same time. Then what is the relationship between different financial assets and the plague?

  1. Stock indices and individual stocks. As far as the stock index is concern, the essence of stock indices is “multiple stocks in each industry / local currency”. We have noticed that many funds call for “the world belongs to the optimists” and “buy stocks”, but they are not really optimists. During epidemics or wars, the purchasing power more…