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Iraq just issued its first license to a foreign brokerage firm. . Bigger than that sounds, let me explain
The Securities Commission of Iraq has licensed the first foreign financial brokerage firm. Given the market that has been more or less off limits to foreign firms until now, this really represents an opening up and a step toward a more modern financial market in Iraq. The regulator declared that …
Why I’m starting to think AVAX might be one of the best risk/reward plays in crypto
The more I compare the major ecosystems, the more bullish I become on AVAX long term. ETH, SOL, and AVAX all seem to be moving toward different roles in the market rather than directly “killing” each other. Here’s how I personally see it right now: ETH feels like the institutional …
Is investing in ETFs today the “property play” our parents had?
I’m 23 and been looking at UK house prices from the 70s–2000s and how much they’ve grown. It made me wonder if what property was for previous generations is now basically index funds/ETFs for ours. If you just consistently invest in a global ETF over decades, are you not getting …
what do you use to view and categorize stocks?
i use ibkr, but for the love of god it doesnt have a good page for viewing stocks like lists or plots, i heard about finviz, which i like, but i dont know if it is reliable in the long run since i havent used it before, so if you …
What’s a niche/theme that deserves its own ETF, but still doesn’t have a good one?
What’s a niche industry, emerging trend, or overlooked long-term theme that you think deserves its own ETF, but still doesn’t really have a good one yet? Not broad categories like AI or cybersecurity, but more specific ideas that feel underrepresented, overly diluted, or poorly captured by existing ETFs currently on …
What does your sector diversification look like?
I (37M) started investing late. Trying to make up for lost time and doing high risk/high reward i have : Info Tech: 43.1% Comm Services: 21.1% Cons Discr: 9.4% Energy 5.5% Industrials: 7.8% Financials: 4.2% Cons Staples: 2.2% everything else is under 12%
nobody talks about this online
Everyone's showing you the highlight reel, the cars, the lifestyle, the money. And I get it, it looks appealing. But what you're not seeing is the years behind it, or half the time whether it's even real. I spent two years in trading barely breaking even, two years of staring …
I would rather have IONQ or BE than TSLA or BTC at this point
I used to have 15% TSLA and 10% Bitcoin in my account but have sold both end of 2025. The more I watch self driving tech and robotics out of China, the more skeptical towards the strength and moat of TSLA. Same for performance differences between gold and BTC. If …
the massive LLM CapEx burn is starting to feel like a trap
looking at the recent earnings and the sheer amount of CapEx big tech is dumping into scaling LLMs is making me nervous. pouring hundreds of billions into probabilistic models that basically just guess the next word is a wild bet when enterprise clients need 100% accuracy. you cant run a …
Equities or Gold 2026-2028
SPX/GOLD tradingview analysis Along with the long established uptrend, we are also at double strength support for Equities against Gold here on the quarterly chart Flip to gold at 2.50 on the ratio which at today's gold price if it doesn't increase for a few years equates to 11k on …