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Monetary Policy Tools

Monetary policy is the control of the quantity of money available in an economy and the channels by which new money is supplied. Why not print a lot of money so everyone could be rich? Simple answer, inflation.  The supply of money is controlled so that there would be price stability. Steady economic growth with low inflation.  At the macroeconomic level, the amount of money circulating in an economy affects things like gross domestic product, overall growth, interest rates, and  unemployment rates .  At the micro-level, a large supply of free and  easy money  means more spending by people and by businesses. Individuals have an easier time getting goods and services thus there comes a problem of high demand but very limited supply thus inflation and in some cases Hyper inflation making a country's currency drop in value and valueless in some cases Back to monetary policies, now you have some idea of what they aim to achieve. mainly price stability, steady economic growth  and low 
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Central Banks

Definition: A country's main bank. The Central Bank holds a country's banking system by providing the currency of the country, notes & coins, and serves as a lender of last resort to the Commercial Banks.  The Central Bank is incharge of a country's monetary policy. This means to maintain Price stability by controlling inflation, ensuring steady GDP growth and achieve full employment in the economy. The Central Bank is independent from a country's government/regime and thus its operations are uninfluenced by the political climate/scene.  Examples: Fed - the Federal Reserve, Central Bank of the United States ECB - European Central Bank, Central Bank of the European Union  BoE - Bank of England, Great Britain's Central Bank BoC - Bank of Canada RBA - Reserve Bank of Australia and others How a Central Bank Influences an economy a) Macroeconomic goals - Large scale /Long term goals that include maintaining price stability & steady GDP growth.  b) Microeconomic g
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Here to explain why the stock market is crashing and why you should be concerned as a trader

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In the last press conference of the Fomc Jerome said they're trying to achieve a "soft-ish landing". In my opinion according to my research a soft-ish landing means artificially crashing the market (as we are seeing now) so that when the actual depression kicks in it won't come as much of a surprise therefore the market will not tumble any lower than how low it should go.Think of it as a goat poisoning itself right before its slaughtered.  "I'm a Forex trader. I trade currencies & Gold, how is this article relevant to me?" Simply put, an economy isn't an economy without goods & services. Therefore, companies provide these goods and services thus making up the stock market and a country's economy is controlled by supply and demand for goods & services and the medium of exchange is a country's currency thus a stock market especially the US stock market has a direct influence on the exchange rate not just of the dollar bu
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Bitcoin Price Analysis: More pain ahead.

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More tears among investors as the dip keeps dipping, but before we get to the analysis, do you know what caused this dip?   #citadelscandal #UST I hope you know Luna is now $0.00, 100% down, my condolences to the investors.  Checking Bitcoin's Weekly chart, we saw a sharp break below the critical $28k support now we're back at the levels of $29k. According to me, we still aren't out of the woods yet, I see a possibility of price hitting as low as $18k as I have marked on the chart above and that to me is where if the price reaches I will start being buy biased. I think in probabilities myself that's why I'm bearish even now, the price is more likely to keep falling than to start a reversal now.  Here' s my daily chart, I see a retest, I am very bearish on this pair. I have made a good amount of money obeying what the price is showing me since the fall from $45k and that's not something I'm about to quit. I would really not be shoc
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Critical Thinking

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Often it is considered to be doubting yourself and your own thoughts when you start to question an idea or a solution you might have but I tend to disagree.  Many atimes while going on with my trading activities, investing or implementing a new idea/method, basically everywhere, I question my own idea severally. These questions do not have answers but rather lead to more questions and those questions lead to more questions and in the end now I start finding the answers myself and put the pieces together making my initial idea more accurate & more efficient. I'll relate this to trading. System Building . When forming your own trading system you might not know everything good that a trading system needs to have but by asking yourself questions you'll most probably figure out more than three quarters of all necessary elements of a trading system all by yourself even before doing any research.  New traders mostly have the habit of asking someone who they consider &#
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