History of Forex

Currency exchange dates back from ancient times, when merchants exchanged coins from different countries. Silver and gold coins were used and valued according to their weight and size. In the Roman Empire, one government had a monopoly on currency trading. During the Middle Ages, coins of lower value were minted from copper. About 500 years […]

What is ERC-20 ?

ERC-20 is a cryptocurrency standard for creating and issuing tokens on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. ERC abbreviation stands for “Ethereum request for comment”; i.e. “Ethereum comment request”. This concept is similar to the one devised by the Internet Engineering Task Force to communicate key technical notes and requirements to a group of developers and users. […]

Hold on for Dear Life (HODL)

The term HODL originated as a misspelling of the word “hold.” Ultimately the acronym “hold on for dear life” was attached to the term. Here’s what happened. On the fateful day of December 18, 2013, a trader with the username GameKyuubi (who later admitted to having had a whiskey or two), posted on a Bitcointalk […]

Forex Futures

Futures trading is an agreement between two parties, a buyer and a seller, to exchange the underlying market for a fixed price at a future date. The buyer is obligated to buy the underlying market and the seller has to sell at or before the expiry of the agreement. Futures are often used to hedge […]

Being Warren Buffet

My two investment rules: Rule one, never lose money. Rule number two, never forget rule one. – Warren Buffett Buffet, who started to earn money at a very young age by following his father’s footsteps, was born in 1930. The future of this rich man, whose father was also a stockbroker, was actually clear from […]