Holiday season is here - where to invest (Special offer!)

Today, I would want to briefly talk about alternative investments. There's been a lot said about currencies, gold, even crypto. These are speculative options for an investor. You should mix things up a bit and invest somewhere, where risk is smaller, but returns are quite attractive. One of the best options I know and recommend is business loans on alternative investment platform of Debitum Network.

The company launched last September, and became one of the leaders in safe investments with above average returns for their investors of around 10% annually. I started using the platform this August an my returns are 10.5% (per annum). Refer to the image from my dashboard.

This may not seem like much, but I regularly save and invest, so I believe to have a much better balance by the end of next year.

How does investing on the platform work?

Non banking loan originators provide the platform with the loans for refinancing, and investors who use the platform can invest in the loans. Currently the platform has partnership with 5 loan originators that offer loans (assets) from 12-15 industries (logistics, wholesale, retail, real estate and etc.).

Most of the loans are short term (1-3 months), but the most recent onboarded loan originator "Mikro Kapital" offers loans from 4 months to 3 years.

You can pick any asset that is not funded and invest in it any amount you want (it does not have to be the whole amount). The minimum investment into a single asset is just 10 EUR, the minimum deposit amount is 100 EUR. All transactions take place on EUR, but you can deposit in US dollars, and British Pounds too.

How safe is investing on Debitum Network?

All loans on Debitum Network platform are protected under a buyback guarantee. It means that if the borrower is late with the repayments by more than 90 days, the broker who issued the loan will have to buy it back with the outstanding principal and interest. Currently, less than 1.5% were bought back. It did not have any consequences for investors' returns as they got the entire principal and all due interest. Amazing!

Plus, Debitum Network has a great risk assessment team that performs great due diligence on potential as well as existing partners to ensure their financials are in good shape. Thus, the risk on the platform is brought to the minimum.

Special offer to get 15 EUR on the platform

If you want to diversify your investments, I would definitely recommend Debitum Network. For the rest of the year, till the 31st of December the company runs a special refer a friend bonus campaign. If you register through the link (till the end of the year) and deposit the minimum of 250 EUR within 60 days, you will get an extra 15 EUR, which you are free to invest or withdraw. Got you interested? Hurry up, as there is not much time left.

Have a good Holiday.

Invest in eToro crypto funds

Hi,

The popular cliche "Do not put all of your eggs into one basket" is often quoted in terms of investing. And for good reason. You need to diversify by mixing various market sectors: currencies, stocks, commodities and cryptocurrencies. Exposing yourself just to one currency pair or a stock, or commodity leave you in depolorable position. Other securities can trend well, while your position can go down. You can change that by distributing your funds among various above mentioned investment options. For that, you will need a good broker with a large variety of assets to choose from.

eToro offers a number of cryptocurrencies. Check them out.

Disclaimer: Cryptocurrencies can fluctuate widely in prices and are therefore not appropriate for all investors. Trading cryptocurrencies is not supervised by any EU regulatory framework.

The good news is that with eToro you can diversify investing both in various funds, or by simply copying successful traders. It does not cost you anything. Just choose the fund or trader you want to copy. Click "INVEST" and you are done. That is job being done, without you doing the job. There are thousands of popular investors trading with the broker and you can follow anyone of them.

Of course, if you want to trade for yourself and eventually become a popular investor on eToro, no problem. Just be sure you have enough funds in your investor account as traders under 200 US dollars cannot participate in the copy system program.


Disclaimer: All trading involves risk. Only risk capital you’re prepared to lose. Past performance is not an indication of future results. This content is for educational purposes only and is not investment advice.

Gold failed at resistance - I shorted it there

Hi,

I have been watching Gold very intensely recently, particularly, when it approached very important resistance of 1350 last week. When it ran to 1348 and suddenly retraced, I initiated a short position (I sold Gold). Why? 

Gold flirted with the level for quite some time and will most likely flirt for some more time. Every time it reaches the level, the price gets rejected and runs to support. From my perspective, this time is no different. I believe we are going to see 1000 level before strong uptrend resumes. We might see a brief run up slightly up 1350, but technical picture on weekly and monthly charts give me a bearish perspective. I will continue shorting Gold (selling it) when it runs to various resistance levels along the road. Of course, I have stop losses, in case I am wrong. But, my profit targets always bigger than stop losses (3:1, 4:1, sometimes even more). 

Short term profit target is 1300. I think we will go further to 1200, but not that fast. More waves up and down are in store for us. Anyway, by this post I simply wanted to draw your attention to the fact, that you can play both sides (buy and sell) in any instrument: Gold, currencies, stocks or cryptocurrencies. 

Disclaimer: All trading involves risk. Only risk capital you’re prepared to lose. Past performance is not an indication of future results. This content is for educational purposes only and is not investment advice.

Bitcoin is ready for another run upwards

Disclaimer: Cryptocurrencies can fluctuate widely in prices and are therefore not appropriate for all investors. Trading cryptocurrencies is not supervised by any EU regulatory framework. 

After a whole year of going down, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, eventually, found the ground to firmly stand on and made their first significant rallies. Looking at the technical weekly chart of the cryptos we may state that the downtrend is over for good and we are in the initial phase of another big bull run.

If you take a look at a weekly chart of BTC/USD, you will surely notice how the crypto bounced off 200 sma/ema (simple exponential moving average). This is a very strong support level! Then, you can spot consolidation above the averages, which indicates that the sellers moved out of the way, and the buyers took over. Price stopped dropping and started moving sideways. What does that mean? It is a sign of accumulation. Smart money started accumulating cryptos at low prices! A few months of narrow ranges and bam...cryptos started going up again.

There was a short dip below weekly low last week and then a jump up (seen on daily candle charts). This is a strong sign that Bitcoin found its' short term support and the accumulation process started again.

Bullish candles on hourly charts (on the 4th and 6th of June) obviously point to buying interest and only increase confidence for buying Bitcoin again. I bought at 7600 level with a stop loss below weekly low of 7400. My analysis tells me we are in another bull market, and the best strategy now is to buy on dips.


Disclaimer: Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile investment products. Your capital is at risk. 

Big Money is in Big Moves

That was the idea that famous speculator Jesse Livermore realized and the idea helped him to make millions in stocks and commodities trading both on the long and short (buying and selling) side. According to his own words when he day traded he failed to see the big picture and the prevailing trends in the market. When he realized that he should follow trend, he stopped losing money and started making it regularly.

The good news is that big moves happen almost every week. We call those swings. Trends are longer term moves that happen one or two times per year, while swings do happen every week, both as directional and correctional moves. If you look at the chart of gbp/usd below you can see that the pair has been in a range for some time, but within the range there were plenty of swings every week that you could play on the long and sort side. On the 25^th of January the pair was mostly in downward swings with some correctional swings. You would have made more money selling correctional rallies than buying dips in a downtrend. However as moves lasted from 5 to 10 business days with the help of trendlines, key price points, resistance points, key reversal days (Fridays and Mondays) you would have made money trading either direction.

My point is that you need to see bigger picture: from one to three months. Then you will be able to see those key resistance and support points where reversals typically take place and place buy or sell orders respectively. You may measure number of pips from one peak to another to calculate possible reversal point in a downtrend in order to take a position and number of pips from one bottom to another in order to guess a reversal point and initiate a buy order in an uptrend.

These weekly swings help you not to get lost in daily fluctuations and to see bigger picture more clearly. Seeing it you would probably trade less, but more profitably and on each trade make more money. Good luck.

Disclaimer: Your capital is at risk.

Further reading: 

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gbp/usd buying opportunities

It is obvious that gbp/usd has been in a long term trend (over a year) and the best type of playing the pair was buying of dips. It has been moving up in waves over a year and I believe we are going to see another cycle up. To tell the truth the first wave up in a bullish move is about to end. If you look at the chart you can see that the pair found its bottom on the first of March and made two strong moves up. I expect it to run some 50-100 pips more from a current level before reversing and a leg down next week.

I marked support and resistance levels on the chart. You can play both waves, but the trend is up now. I expect the pair to reach previous top of 1.4350 by the end of the month and possibly move higher later in the year, provided price action confirm bullish trend continuation pattern.

There is some chance of the pair going sideways and forming a narrowing range, but I favor the pair moving up in waves, the way it went down from the 25^th of January. So, there are hundreds of pips to be claimed and a lot of money earned. I have positions in gbp/usd and gbp/jpy opened expecting them to close tomorrow or Friday and wait for another opportunity to buy.

If you want to try trading currencies, gold and other commodities as well as securities eToro company is the best broker I know.

Disclaimer: All trading involves risk. Only risk capital you’re prepared to lose. Past performance is not an indication of future results. This content is for educational purposes only and is not investment advice.

Oil long trade opened

Oil has been in a modest uptrend for over a year and you may see that the best way to trade it was to buy on dips. In the end of January oil experienced a 9 dollar corrective move. However, it did bounce off 58 level and made another impulsive wave up. It then made another tumble down, but did stay above support forming two large candle pins on a daily chart at 60$.

This tells me that the commodity is going to revisit it’s this year high quite soon and I initiated a long trade at 61.20 level just when the oil slipped below short term support (today’s lows). I have take profit target at 65$ and stop 59.95. If my target is hit I would make three times more than I lose if price reverses and goes down below 59.95.

I am not going to open any buy (long) trades after that, but intend to watch the commodity carefully as trade wars, US shale market will have bearish consequences for oil and it may tumble some 20-30 dollars this year.

I do expect lots of huge moves this year in oil, gold and currencies with both trend continuations and reversals in mind.

If you want to trade for yourself I would recommend eToro broker, who is one of the best in the industry.

Disclaimer: Financial markets carry a high level of risk. Investor can lose all his money trading them. You should not invest money that you can’t afford to lose. Information on this blog is for information purposes and should not be regarded as an advice to invest.

Bitcoin in a downtrend, but the trend might change soon

Disclaimer: Cryptocurrencies can fluctuate widely in prices and are therefore not appropriate for all investors. Trading cryptocurrencies is not supervised by any EU regulatory framework.  

I know there are a lot of cryptocurrency lovers out there and I don’t mind analyzing and even trading it myself. It is obvious that Bitcoin and most other cryptos were in a downtrend mode since the middle of December. The move down was very dramatic erasing a lot of profits by correcting about 67 percent. It is quite a magic number as the move down represents the third level of Fibonacci retracement. In most cases securities resume their trends when the number is hit.

Looking at current price action you might see that after the crypto hit 5860 level it bounced really hard indicating there is some strong buying in the area and possibly indicating that the downtrend can be over. Therefore, I assume a move up may resume any time soon and Bitcoin will revisit 20 000 level sooner rather than later, possibly by the end of this year.

Disclaimer: Cryptocurrencies can fluctuate widely in prices and are therefore not appropriate for all investors. Trading cryptocurrencies is not supervised by any EU regulatory framework. 

Technically speaking I expect a move up in a zig zag way (wave up, wave down with higher highs and lower lows). There will probably be a bottoming process now till the crypto stand firmly on both feet, so to speak and we may see it revisiting 5900 level again, before making another rally. Any move down is probably a good opportunity to buy and buying on dips will be a good strategy.

So, to sum up, I expect Bitcoin to resume its trend and excellent opportunities might be ahead of us soon.

Start using eToro copy system

eToro is a social investment company that is radically different from most Forex brokers in a sense that it has been developed with a purpose to create an investment community where one trader can copy another one.

Everybody is an investor and can attract followers/copiers

You can open an account with a few hundred bucks and become a leading investor or can be a follower and copy those who are popular investors and make money for themselves and for others. The higher the percentage you make the more reliable you become as a trader and if your risk score is low you can attract huge followers and copiers. If you do not want to trade yourself, then you can be a copier or a follower. A follower just gets info about all the trades a specific trader makes, but does not commit any capital to that trader.

A copier copies actual trades and if the trader makes money, so does the copier. Of course, if the trader loses money, so does the copier. You can start and stop copying any investor any time you want.

Disclaimer: All trading involves risk. Only risk capital you’re prepared to lose. Past performance is not an indication of future results. This content is for educational purposes only and is not investment advice. 

How to start/stop copying

That is easy. You simply click on the icon of the investor and on the top right size of the screen there is a blue sign ‘Copy’. You press it and a window will open. It will ask what amount you want to allocate for copying. The minimum is 100$, but you can allocate more. You can then choose when to stop copying the trader. Default settings are ‘if the copy value drops more than 40 percent’. You can change that to whatever amount you want. If the losses reach that level you will automatically stop copying that trader. Of course, you can manually stop copying or pause copying any trader at any time you want. It is recommended not to interfere with the trades, but you can also close positions that are open or modify stops. So, you are fully in charge, despite the fact you are copying all the trades the investor is making.

How to choose who to copy

It is your choice entirely, but there is a list of popular investors and on your platform (on the left) you can push a button ‘Copy people’ and you will get a default version of popular investors with specific settings: country, market they invest in, gain at least (10%) and during last 12 months. Again you can modify those settings and choose people from a specific country or any part of the world, choose those who have the biggest gain in 12 or 6 or 3 months. You should also look at risk category, the higher the category the higher the risks the investor is taking, the lower the category the lower the risks the investor is taking. Do thorough analyses before you decide who to copy and if you want to be copied be sure you trade great, do not risk much and after a few months you will be considered as a candidate to become a popular investor. But about that next time. 

Trade cryptocurrencies with eToro

Cryptocurrencies have taken investment community by the storm.

Disclaimer: Cryptocurrencies can fluctuate widely in prices and are therefore not appropriate for all investors. Trading cryptocurrencies is not supervised by any EU regulatory framework.

What is a cryptocurrency?

The term might be relatively new to an average trader or investor, but basically it is a  currency in which encryption is used for generation and transfer of funds and that is done outside of central bank regulation system.

So, we may say that cryptocurrency is an alternative currency and a financial instrument that can be used for investment and also for purchases and payments across the world. Of course, it is not accepted as a universal payment method everywhere, but the popularity of payments using cryptos is getting more and more popular.

There is a story circulating in internet how a developer of the currency paid 10 thousand bitcoins for two pizzas in 2010. Now, 10 thousand bitcoins would be worth 20 million US dollars. Wow! If you look at a chart of Bitcoin you will see that the price of the security increased 5 times over the last year. Another wow! You never know what can happen with your investments. Obviously, you can lose too, but there is a tendency with new financial instruments that are traded in the market to increase hundred times, sometimes thousand times in value.

( From 500 to 3000 in just one year)

Today, these crypto currencies surely record bigger changes than most financial instruments and present opportunities as well as risks, but there hardly re any secure investments nowadays, that would guarantee you safe profits year in and year out.

If you got interested and would want to try trading cryptos I would recommend using eToro trading platform. They are currently offering 6 cryptos: XRP, LTC, ETHEREUM, ETC, DASH  and finally BTC or Bitcoin.

Disclaimer: Highly volatile investment product. Your capital is at risk.