Etoro

Common Trading Mistakes

Over time you make many trading mistakes. And if you trade socially e.g. on eToro, you see others making similar mistakes many times over. I wanted to point some of these out so that others can avoid them, or at least have a laugh knowing that they’re not the only ones to have made a…

How to Stop Loss

What are Stop Losses?

Stop Losses are preset triggers that will close out a position at a certain price point — usually to limit how much you might lose if the price action moves against you.

The Thing about Leverage

Leverage is wonderful and terrible all at once. The thrill of a highly leveraged position ticking up enormous profits is only comparable to the stomach churning dread of a highly leveraged position going in the opposite direction.

The Power of Holding

You’ll often see Popular Investors (myself included) touting the benefits of holding i.e. buy and then keeping you positions in stocks, cryptos, PIs etc. open for weeks or even months.

Market Crash 101

I get this question quite often, and it’s an interesting one so I wanted to detail my thoughts.

When the crash happens you won’t see it coming, and it could start in any part of the market. Property, stocks, bonds, commodities — anywhere. In terms of definition a crash…

What’s your eToro Trading Strategy?

I field this question from time-to-time so I thought I’d create a master copy reply. At the…

The Backstory That You Never Asked For

No one on eToro (except for eToro themselves) have ever asked for my background, but I’m going to give it to you anyway.

Hot Topic: Does buying cryptos on eToro affect the market price?

This topic comes up often enough that I’m going to write about it. It almost always starts with a post like this: