Monthly Archives: May 2026

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Trading for Beginners: How to Start Without Getting Wiped Out by the Next Bear Market

May 30, 2026 8:58 pm |
Trading for beginners

 

Between 2020 and 2024, the number of UK adults using an investment platform jumped from 4.4 million to 7.9 million — an 80% leap in just four years (Investment Trends / FCA data). At the same time, mandatory FCA risk disclosures show that 71% to 79% of retail CFD traders lose money at the UK’s largest brokers (IG 71%, CMC 76%, eToro 77%, Plus500 79%).

Two numbers, one uncomfortable question for anyone asking how to get into trading: if so many people are piling in, why are so many losing — and what are the survivors doing differently?

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Market-Neutral Pair Trading in Action: May 2026 Top 50 USA Stock Pair Stars

May 11, 2026 4:52 pm |
market-neutral pair trading

Most retail trading strategies depend on direction — and direction is the one thing nobody can predict consistently. By contrast, market-neutral pair trading offers an alternative: trades constructed not on whether a market rises or falls, but on the relationship between two fundamentally related assets. As a result, when that relationship temporarily diverges, mean reversion offers a measurable, repeatable edge.

Your Shortcut to Market-Neutral Pair Trading Success

This May, after another quarter of research, recalibration, and statistical validation, we are releasing the May 2026 Vintage of our Top 50 USA Stock Pair Stars.

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What Is Automated Trading? A Simple Introduction to Systems, Strategies & AI

May 3, 2026 10:08 am |
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As CEO of Equilibria Technologies Ltd., the publisher of PairTrade Finder® software, I’ve spent the last decade helping traders move from manual screen-watching to professional-grade automated trading.

The software was originally created by Jared Mann in Sydney, Australia back in 2008 as a pure statistical-arbitrage tool for serious pairs traders. What started as one man’s code in a Sydney apartment has grown into a complete platform that thousands of traders and institutions have and continue to rely on every day.

So what exactly is automated trading? In plain English, it’s the use of computer programs to execute trades based on rules you define upfront.

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