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Your gold spread isn’t fixed. On NFP, CPI and Fed nights it can blow out in seconds and take your stop with it. Here’s why it happens, how to check your own broker, and what to do on news days.
Every Thursday morning someone tells me their broker robbed them overnight. They didn’t. Here’s why gold’s swap triples on a Wednesday, when it’s worth paying, when it isn’t, and why a swap free account doesn’t make the cost disappear.
XM cashback explained. Get money back on every gold lot you trade with XM, plus one to one support.
France’s bond spread at a 2011 high, the AfD leading in Germany and a Fed that’s still hiking. The EUR/USD levels that matter this week, and what holding the trade really costs you.
Gold has been boxed between $4,071 and $4,281 for three weeks. A quiet US data week means oil, Hormuz headlines and Friday’s PMIs decide which side breaks. Day by day playbook inside.
Gold spent the week boxed in between $4,075 and $4,220. Here’s what’s moving it, and how to get 50% back on every lot you trade.
They show up at 2am, after a bad trade. Five real questions to ask your broker, answered straight by someone who has spent over a decade inside regulated brokers.
Nigeria’s SEC published its draft Rules on Online Forex Trading and Contracts for Difference on 1 September 2026, under the Investments and Securities Act 2025. It’s one of the most specific retail-CFD frameworks any African regulator has put on paper. The capital figures, the ownership floor and the extra-territorial scope aren’t decorative. They decide who…
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