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Abra app fined for offering investment in US stocks with bitcoin

The company was accused of selling securities-based swaps without proper authorization.
Despite moving its operations outside the US, the contracts were offered from San Francisco.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced this Monday two fines of $150,000 each against the Abra platform. Regulators determined that the company offered unauthorized operations with bitcoin for the acquisition of cryptocurrency derivatives.

Major Economic Indicators for New Zealand and the New Zealand dollar (NZD)

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The list of economic indicators shown below is of high relevance to New Zealand and therefore for its currency, the New Zealand dollar, and should be followed carefully for traders and investors who trade in this currency. However, is important to take into account that this country does not publish indicators very often.

The Best Forex Daytrading Strategies IV

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In this article we finish the series on daytrading and scalping strategies based exclusively on price action applicable to Forex and other markets, we hope you have liked it.

These strategies are based on the identification of classic price patterns from technical analysis.

You can access the third article in the series at the following link: The Best Forex Daytrading Strategies III

The 5 Best STP Brokers to Trade Online 2026: Advantages, Disadvantages and Conditions

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What does STP broker mean? What are the conditions of a trading account with a Straight Through Processing broker and what are the main advantages and disadvantages of this way of trading and executing orders? In this section, we answer these questions and present the best STP brokers today that offer the best services and trading conditions. What are STP … Read more

The Payoneer and Wirecard lesson: Bitcoin is a better choice for freelancers

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Key facts:

Payoneer blocked funds affiliated with “Prepaid Mastercard” cards issued by Wirecard.
The event reminds us of the typical phrase of bitcoiners “Not your keys not your money”.

Freelancers are constantly concerned about their money and it is understandable, with cases like the one that just happened with Wirecard and Payoneer. What could be one of the biggest financial scandals in Europe in recent years has become a lesson for freelancers, where Bitcoin could come out on top.

But before we start talking about the benefits that Bitcoin offers for freelancers, it is necessary to delve into the twists and turns of a controversy that has exploded in the heart of Germany. Wirecard is a payment processor with 20 years of experience, initially offering services to gambling and pornography websites. Over time it became increasingly specialized in digital payment methods, even issuing crypto debit cards.

Mark to Market (Daily settlement of profit and loss)

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Mark to Market is a financial term referring to the daily profit and loss settlement as a way of accounting for profit and loss in an investment portfolio transaction consisting of financial assets, valuing the accounting record of all open positions based on current market prices.

These new prices are what will determine the new guarantees that the investor will have to put in his portfolio and will mitigate an erroneous control of the positions of clients of financial institutions.

MACD Divergence Indicator for Metatrader 4

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In this article, we are going to present another technical indicator designed for the Metatrader 4 platform, which shows divergences between the price and the MACD indicator both in the price chart and in the indicator window. That is, it signals the times when the price is moving in one direction and the MACD is moving in the opposite direction. Trading with divergences between price and indicator is a popular way to use the MACD and other oscillator-type indicators, such as RSI, CCI, and Stochastic Oscillator.

Basically, divergences occur when the price moves in one direction and the indicator moves in another, that is, they start to diverge. In the case of the MACD, which is an indicator of price momentum, a divergence may indicate that market momentum is starting to change and therefore the price may start to move in the opposite direction at any time. We can distinguish two basic types of divergences between price and MACD:

How to use a demo account to learn how to trade?

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In trading, in addition to the opportunity to obtain high benefits at very low costs, one of the main advantages is the availability of tools that allow anyone to learn how to invest without putting their own capital at risk from the start.

These tools are called demo accounts. In this article, we are going to explain how to properly use demo accounts to learn how to trade in the markets before using a real account and risking our money.

Wundebit Trading integrates Deribit to its social trading platform

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Key facts:

Wunderbit Trading is integrated to various trading platforms such as: Binance, FTX and ByBit. Wunderbit Exchange allows buy and sell trades with Bitcoin and Ethereum with credit cards and Skrill.

The Wunderbit Trading platform is a product of Wunderbit, a Fintech company established and regulated in Estonia. This company makes cryptocurrency trading an easy and entertaining experience, where any user could make a profit even without technical knowledge. But how is this possible? Simple, Wunderbit Trading allows its clients to copy and replicate the same transactions and movements with cryptocurrencies that the best traders of the platform carry out. Just copy the strategy of a specific trader who has a good performance record and then just waits for the results.

Complete eToro Tutorial for Beginners

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In this tutorial we are going to talk about eToro, an online broker totally different from the ones we all know since it is based on a social network where traders share their market trades, being able to copy them quickly and easily.

eToro has been offering its online services since 2006, providing the user with the best technology in the Forex sector, currently becoming the world leader in social trading, with more than 6 million registered investors. One of the biggest advantages of this broker is that its clients can open a demo account with hardly any restrictions, which serves to learn and test their entire platform without facing any risk.

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