There is strong momentum in short-term trading in Australia due to the emergence of CFDs. The contracts for difference are also attracting more investors since they have an opportunity to invest in the price change without owning the underlying asset. This allows traders to react more swiftly to market news and to seize intraday price movements. This feature of CFDs to get in and out of markets quickly is very attractive to investors who are not considering long-term investment horizons, but are in search of velocity and responsiveness. Volatility has become a defining feature for short-term traders using CFDs. There …

Starting a business in Australia carries excitement and risk in equal measure. You have a prototype, a niche, maybe early customers. Behind the hustle sits a quieter question: what if something goes wrong? That is where business insurance helps. Treated well, it becomes part of your foundation, not just another cost. Begin with a risk list. Write down what could stop trading tomorrow. Think about property damage, cyber attacks, professional mistakes, product faults, delivery delays and injuries. Note where you store data, who owns the equipment, which partners you rely on and what contracts promise. This simple list becomes your …

For many small business owners, payday used to mean panic. Hours spent chasing timesheets, calculating leave, and double-checking tax deductions turned every fortnight into a marathon. Today, more of them are stepping away from that stress. Across Australia, a growing number of small firms now rely on professional payroll services to manage pay runs efficiently and correctly. Running payroll in-house once felt like the cheaper option. But as rules multiply and reporting grows complex, the real cost of doing it alone has become clear. A single miscalculated payment can trigger audits, penalties, and damaged trust among employees. Outsourcing changes the …

In martial arts, control matters as much as power. Each fall, sweep, and throw carries impact that travels fast through muscle and bone. What stands between a safe landing and a painful one isn’t luck it’s the mat. Martial arts mats exist for one reason: to let people train hard without breaking the bodies that do the work. The wrong mat might feel fine at first, but time always exposes its weakness. A proper mat does more than cushion. It manages energy. When a fighter lands, the mat compresses in stages, absorbing shock before releasing it slowly. Thin mats can’t …

Emirates NBD wants a piece of the CFD trading action, but traders aren’t buying it. Sure, they speak Arabic and accept dirhams without conversion headaches. The branch down the street feels safer than some broker in Cyprus no one has heard of. But safety costs money. Their spreads make experienced traders laugh, then cry, then open accounts elsewhere. Local convenience only goes so far when every trade costs double what it should. International brokers outperform Emirates NBD on product range. Want to trade Japanese small-caps at 3 AM? Done. Brazilian futures during Carnival? No problem. Crypto derivatives that aren’t even …

Itaú started blocking CFD deposits last January and the dominos fell fast. Bradesco followed in March. Santander in May. By December, Brazilian traders couldn’t fund international trading accounts through any major bank. Banks claim they’re protecting customers from fraud, but really, they’re protecting themselves from liability when customers lose everything and blame the bank for allowing transfers. Nobody believes the consumer protection excuse, but banks control the pipes. Traders discovered the blocks randomly when transfers failed without explanation. Error messages saying “Transaction not permitted” with no details. Bank apps rejecting payments to companies they transferred to yesterday. Phone support agents …

The 2022 CFD crash wiped out 90% of Cape Town traders, but the survivors have stories worth hearing. They watched friends lose houses in Camps Bay to margin calls. They saw colleagues return to corporate jobs they swore they’d escaped forever. The survivors aren’t the smartest or luckiest. They’re the ones who understood risk before risk taught them brutally. Every coffee shop from Sea Point to Observatory, has someone who used to trade until the crash ended their dreams. Risk management saved the survivors while ego killed everyone else. The traders still standing cut positions when wrong instead of averaging …

The number of women leading forex trading in Nairobi is at its highest point. What started as a tool of a niche movement among hi-tech professionals, has grown into a full-fledged movement, where women demonstrate great discipline and strategic thinking. They are providing models of how others can perform and they are changing the image of who may become successful in the financial markets. Flexibility by many female traders is mentioned as one of the motivators. Striking the balance between work and family duties and other responsibility approaches can be hectic, and forex trading enables one to operate on their …

Singapore has also adopted one of the toughest leverage factors for conducting forex trade in the region to ensure that retail investors are not exposed to high risks. The regulations restrict the ratio of borrowed capital traders can utilize in relation to their funds and minimize the chances of incurring big losses. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) focuses very much on the observance of these limits and the brokers are expected to follow and inform their clients accordingly. To the traders, it is necessary to learn how to manage leverage limits in order to manage risk and maintain a …

Traders who want to take advantage of the opportunities that are available all through the day require automation of trading plans. TradingView has its own scripting language called Pine Script that allows creating personal indicators, alerts, and trading strategies. With Pine Script, traders are able to reduce manual trading and automatically trade based on a set of rules which helps businesses to be efficient and consistent. Automation cannot be tried when the traders are not familiar with the basics of Pine Script. The language is convenient and it contains inbuilt technical indicators, price and timeframe functions. It is important to …