Understanding the Numbers
Careful, jargon-free explainers on yields, dividends, pegs, precious metals and how the trading world actually operates.
Dividends Explained: The Half of Stock Returns Most People Forget
What a dividend is, how yield is calculated, why prices drop on ex-dividend day, and why price charts understate what long-term investors really earn.
Read article → Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min readWhy Markets Move While You Sleep: Global Trading Hours Explained
Stocks trade in sessions, crypto never closes, and forex runs five days around the clock. How the world's market day actually rotates.
Read article → Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min readCurrency Pegs Explained: Why Some Exchange Rates Never Move
Scroll our forex tab and some currencies barely change for years. How pegs to the dollar work, who maintains them, and what happens when they break.
Read article → Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min readSilver vs Gold: Why the Cheaper Metal Is the Wilder One
Gold and silver look like siblings but behave differently — silver's industrial half, the gold-silver ratio, and why silver swings harder both ways.
Read article → Jul 17, 2026 · 2 min readBond Yields Explained: Why the 10-Year Treasury Is Called the World's Most Important Number
What a bond yield actually is, why yields rise when bond prices fall, and how the US 10-year Treasury quietly sets the price of money everywhere.
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