Clearing: how students use social media to choose their university
Aug 16, 2018 19:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The internet has undoubtedly changed the way we live and communicate. People are now able to share information not only with their friends and relatives, but also with complete strangers through the likes of Facebook,...
Marvel meets Mesopotamia: how modern comics preserve ancient myths
Aug 16, 2018 19:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey, gave us what we could consider some of the earliest known literary superheroes. One was the hero...
Turkey’s homemade currency crisis has truly global implications
Aug 16, 2018 19:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Turkeys recently reelected president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is blaming the sudden and dramatic decline of the Turkish lira on an international conspiracy, variously railing against an economic war and a currency plot. On...
FxWirePro: Stochastic oscillator indicates striking alpha opportunities in G10 FX options space
Aug 16, 2018 13:31 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The potential of trading live (non-delta hedged) FX options is explored based on a well-known and broadly used FX cash leading technical indicator: stochastic oscillator index. The idea is that stochastic indicator can...
Leverage element allures ETH/USD speculators via Quanto derivatives
Aug 16, 2018 11:59 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Digital Currency
Weve coveredBitMEXannouncement of the launch of two derivatives products, namely, ETHUSD perpetual swaps and UPs DOWNs to meet market demand amid the crypto market downturn which began after the news of the US Securities...
FxWirePro: Hedging framework replicates machine learning for European FX risks
Aug 16, 2018 10:44 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Market participants entering the FX OTC derivative market are confronted with the fact that the volatility smile is usually not directly observable in the market. The degree of moneyness of an option can be represented by...
Fortnightly updates on ETH/USD perpetual swap trades
Aug 16, 2018 08:34 am UTC| Digital Currency Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Weve already covered that the BitMEX crafted theXBTUSD perpetual swap relying on its strength in the financial innovation space, a genuinely distinctive derivatives instrument to any financial market. For now, XBTUSD...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects