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Good Ways to make profits in a Bear/Falling Market

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 Written by Olabisi Oluwatobi Edited by Ijewemen Fortune There are numerous different strategies that investors use to make profits in a market that has been oversold, for instance, shorting/selling in the financial market e.g in crypto futures, forex, etc. Now, a lot of people think that's the only way to earn whenever the financial market is on a downtrend.   In this article, we'll take a look at some good ways to also make money in a bear market, all you need to do is calm down, read and look out for which strategy might be right for you. Without further ado, let's look at the meaning of the keyword/phrase here “Bear Market” What is a bear market? A bear market is when the price of an asset, e.g cryptocurrency, stocks, etc. drops over a sustained period. During this period many people lose money because they don't know what to do, e.g “Do we buy more or do we sell off what we already have?” and they keep feeding the bears their money. Bear markets are often associate...

Your Work, Your Input, Your Output, and Your value

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Your Work, Your Input, Your Output, and Your value Yes what you think we're about to talk about, is actually what we‘re about to talk about.   As humans, we often find it difficult to rate our Work over Value, and why is that? It's because most times we're not sure if what we're doing is worth the value we're placing on it or vice versa. Confused? Okay, let's go step by step.  Defining the terms:  The term Work refers to your job, skill, career, craft, etc.  The term Input refers to the energy you put into your Work to become a better version of what others are. The term Output refers to how you bring your work to the public eyes, putting yourself in front of everyone ( this is what I do, this is how I do it, what are your thoughts? You like? Or nay? etc.) And last but not least Your Value, now, this will be divided into two sub-sections; The Value you place on yourself: this could be monetary value, self-evaluation value, etc The Value others place on you: This...

Human behaviour and Trading Psychology

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  Written by SLIMBEVI Edited by Ijewemen Fortune The modern human brain was formed over 200,000 years ago during an Immediate Return Environment. Modern society shifted to a predominantly Delayed Return Environment only in the last 500 years. The modern human brain spent hundreds of thousands of years evolving for one type of the environment (immediate returns) and in the blink of an eye, the entire environment changed (to delayed returns). *The human brain is designed to value immediate returns.* *Your inner caveman does the trading when you are stressed, In other words, primitive survival instincts will take over the decision-making in critical moments.* That's why you see people having great success demo trading with fake money when they're calm, but when they deal with real risk, and their real capital is on the line with an uncertain outcome… suddenly, the game is very different. Your money at risk = your life at risk to your inner caveman brain. So survival instincts ki...