Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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This interview follows one trader’s experience across Chinese and U.S. equities, commodities, and cryptocurrency. The trader recounts large gains during commodity and crypto bull markets, severe losses in downturns, and a later shift toward balancing…
This article presents a framework for interpreting gold around U.S. payrolls, inflation releases, and Federal Reserve decisions. Its central idea is to assess the gap between reported data and expectations, including revisions and report components, then…
The document explains contango as an upward-sloping futures curve, where deferred contracts trade above nearer contracts or spot, and backwardation as the reverse. It links these shapes to supply conditions: abundant inventories and stable expectations can…
The document explains contango as an upward-sloping futures curve, where deferred contracts trade above nearer contracts or spot, and backwardation as the reverse. It links these shapes to supply conditions: abundant inventories and stable expectations can…
This article reviews how escalation in the Israel–Iran conflict affected Brent and WTI prices, describing a sharp rise from pre-conflict levels to an intraday peak followed by a pullback after comments suggested the conflict might end soon. It presents…
The article interprets a June US Producer Price Index decline as evidence of easing producer inflation and argues that it reduced expectations for an imminent Federal Reserve rate increase. It attributes much of the goods price drop to energy and commodity…
The article compares gold’s role as a relatively established store of value with cryptocurrency’s digital scarcity, liquidity, and growth potential. It outlines access routes for Chinese investors, including physical gold, gold funds, and account-based…
The article describes United Global Oil Reserve (UGOR) as a Solana meme coin whose branding draws on petroleum reserves, refined fuels, and oil futures. It explains that the token trades as a digital asset and does not give holders direct ownership of…
The analysis presents a conditional XAUUSD setup after a Federal Reserve rate increase. It argues that higher real yields and a potentially stronger dollar create pressure for non-yielding gold, while price is testing a daily support area. The proposed…
This guide presents central bank purchases, gold ETF flows, and Commitments of Traders positioning as complementary indicators of medium-term gold capital flows. Central bank demand is framed as a slow-moving structural factor; ETF flows help confirm…
The document surveys Bitget’s crypto-native access to traditional market price exposure. It describes CFDs for forex, metals, energy, commodities, and indices, alongside stock perpetual futures and tokenized stocks. CFDs use a dedicated USDT-funded account,…
The article describes Bitget’s 2025–2026 expansion from crypto trading into U.S. equity exposure, tokenized stocks, forex, commodities, contracts for difference, pre-IPO offerings and stock options. It distinguishes several access routes: stock futures…
The document explains that Bitget offers gold exposure through contracts for difference (CFDs), rather than traditional exchange-traded gold futures. It compares the instruments’ contract structures, expiry, settlement, margin, trading access, and costs.…
The article explains how Japan’s long period of very low interest rates supported yen-funded carry trades, with investors borrowing cheaply in yen and investing in higher-yielding assets. It argues that a shift toward higher Japanese rates could raise…
The outlook links three themes for CFD traders: risks to Middle Eastern oil transport, possible upward repricing of the Federal Reserve’s terminal rate, and SanDisk’s addition to the S&P 100. For oil, it emphasizes export and shipping infrastructure…
The document explains how weekly EIA inventory reports can inform trading in crude oil and natural gas perpetual futures. For crude, it focuses on commercial stock changes, gasoline and distillate inventories, refinery use, production, and Cushing stocks.…
The document outlines how institutions might manage Bitcoin, Tesla-linked rTSLA, and tokenized gold exposure using separate futures overlays. It illustrates partial shorts to reduce directional risk while retaining the underlying holdings, including examples…
The article explains why gold declined after the Federal Reserve cut its policy rate on October 30, 2025. Its central argument is that markets respond to the expected path of rates, not just the day’s decision: Chair Powell’s cautious comments reduced…
The recap explains how moderating U.S. CPI and weaker employment data reduced near-term expectations of another Federal Reserve rate hike, while sticky service prices and renewed oil supply concerns kept the outlook uncertain. It connects these developments…
The document explains how Federal Reserve expectations, relative economic performance, and shifts in risk appetite can affect the U.S. Dollar Index and major currency pairs. It identifies employment, inflation, consumption, central-bank communication, and…
The guide describes perpetual contracts that track stocks and commodities while using crypto-style margin and funding mechanisms. These contracts do not expire, and the article presents them as a way to gain leveraged exposure using stablecoin collateral…
The article reviews divergent moves in U.S. technology shares and oil, framing NAS100 and Brent crude as markets shaped by different expectations. It links semiconductor strength to anticipated AI investment, while interpreting a run of oil declines as a…
The article explains lot size as the number of contract units in a CFD position, with contract specifications defining how much underlying exposure one lot represents. Since specifications differ across instruments, the same lot count can correspond to very…
The guide states that Bitget’s minimum gold CFD position is 0.01 lots and contrasts that product with the XAUT/USDT spot pair and commodity futures, including crude oil. It explains the basic distinction between using a small CFD position with margin and…