Contrarian Alert: British Pound Crashes to 35-Year Lows
The story of the British Pound during the last couple years is a great reminder of how obsessing over one specific anxiety in life can be a huge waste of…
Beneath the Deep Web: The Darknet
Everything evil proliferates in the mostly inaccessible outer reaches of the internet. Call it the darknet and don’t confuse it with the deep web. Popular search engines—such as Google, Bing…
Pairing Dark Rums
Dark rums are taking their rightful place alongside whiskey in the brown spirits craze. Both rum and whiskey require fermentation, distillation and aging, but the ingredients differ. Rum is made from…
ETFs Move Over: Smaller Futures are Here
That’s the greatest financial innovation of the last 20 years? Weekly options? Digital currencies? Zero commissions? It may come as a shock that many consider exchange-traded funds (ETFs) the biggest…
Why You Should Use The Onion Router
The actionable aspects of the darknet begin with embracing its dominant browser Hardly anything’s all good or all bad, and the roundly criticized anegative side, the darknet’s anonymity provides shelter…
Topics
Operation Bayonet
An international band of cyber police joined forces to bust the bosses of sinister darknet marketplaces This account of an international crackdown on the internet’s…
Beneath the Deep Web: The Darknet
Everything evil proliferates in the mostly inaccessible outer reaches of the internet. Call it the darknet and don’t confuse it with the deep web. Popular…
Darkest Markets
The demise of the notorious Silk Road darknet market gave rise to even bigger and more nefarious online alternatives The FBI and Europol teamed up…
Tracking the Darknet
Are the cops closing in on the criminals who run darknet marketplaces? Luckbox asks the contributors to this issue Law enforcement agencies are becoming better…
Trends
Burning Man
A former floor trader shares sights—and insights—from his 15th visit to The Playa By Alan Matthew Burning Man, which bills itself as “the place to…
Top 5 Mistakes Donkeys Make
Expert poker players refer to amateurs as “donkeys.” Here, a WSOP pro reveals the most frequent donkey mistakes. When amateurs sit down at the poker…
Meet Harvinder Singh Dhillon
Trader & Entrepreneur Office London Age 28 Years trading 5 How did you start trading? Having a finance background, I always saw trading as the…
Forget the Darknet
The markets can provide the excitement active investors want—without risk of prison time Ah, the so-called darknet. The Wild West of the internet. Where anonymity—or…
Wrestling With Reality
Spontaneous or scripted? The pros sometimes improvise on a predetermined storyline to create a crowd-pleasing spectacle. Redneck soap opera. Populist performance art. Repressed homoerotic fantasy.…
ZIRP-NIRP Primer: Will Fed Go From Zero to Negative Rates?
On Dec. 16, 2008, with the world economy overwhelmed by the Global Financial Crisis, then head of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke announced that…
Meet the Robots: Aibo, Jibo, Leo & Cleo
This robot roundup includes one recently deceased, one arisen from the dead and two that are gainfully employed
Hunger Games
Alternating rounds of starvation and gluttony won’t bring desired results So what’s the best way to diet in 2020? How about long stretches of extreme…
Pairing Dark Rums
Dark rums are taking their rightful place alongside whiskey in the brown spirits craze. Both rum and whiskey require fermentation, distillation and aging, but the ingredients…
When Beer Goes Viral
National Beer Day made this issue’s calendar, so why not celebrate by ordering an ice-cold Corona with a wedge of lime when April 7 rolls…
Man Up to Yoga
The ancient but trendy practice isn’t just for women Yoga, a system of movement, breathwork and mindfulness, offers countless benefits and has earned worldwide popularity.…
ATLAS OBSCURA
Pandemics and travel bans are no match for Atlas Obscura: The Second Edition by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton. But that’s no surprise.…
Swimming in Sales
Relentless ambition turns a solo act side hustle into a multi million-dollar business A dream job wasn’t enough for Emily Vaca—she always had a part-time…
Greta’s Guitars
Sam and Jake Kiszka, two of GVF’s three brothers set aside time with luckbox to discuss music, fame and influences. Sam plays bass and keyboards…
8 Favorite Fidget Toys
The anxiety-related consumer products market is expected to grow to $7.5 billion by 2023. In the Fall of 2016, two Kickstarter campaigns were launched with…
Scaramucci on the Pandemic, Politics and Profitable Predictions
Former White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci wrote in a CNN Business Perspectives piece last week that the U.S. government needed to think bigger…
A Good Girl on the Darknet
A Luckbox columnist slips into darkness and sees the light Imagine you’re at your desk when you get a text message on your phone. Oh,…
Trades
AMZN: Prime Sell
Candlestick chart analysis for intermediate-term trading As the third-largest Nasdaq…
Trading the Trading Posts
Twenty years ago, the idea of publicly traded stock and commodities exchanges would have struck most investors as extremely peculiar. It might have seemed almost…
US-China Trade Impacts Aussie Dollar
U.S. equity indexes have hit historic highs, but the price action included periods of drawdowns throughout last year. Some drawdowns were related to negative U.S.-China…
Changes at Exchanges
Like many industries, financial exchanges have consolidated in the past few decades. The world-famous New York Stock Exchange is now owned by the Intercontinental Exchange…
ETFs Move Over: Smaller Futures are Here
That’s the greatest financial innovation of the last 20 years? Weekly options? Digital currencies? Zero commissions? It may come as a shock that many consider…
How Gold Fits
Investors often tout gold as a strategy during market declines. It sounds ideal because a precious metal like gold should withstand shocks to the economic…
Tactics
Trading Defensively: Managing Tested Positions
With the spread of the novel coronavirus outside of China, the entire world is now wrestling with a very serious threat. Furthermore, many investors are…
Trading the Gold-Silver Ratio
Here’s the simplest way to reduce portfolio volatility by pairs trading the two heavy metals In the world of pairs trading, the gold to silver…
Beta-Weighted Portfolio Hedging
“Buy the dip” was so 2019. In 2020, “buy the dip” has been replaced by “trade the churn.” And if 1,000 point swings in the…
Adjusting Duration in High Volatility Markets
After the conclusion of the current “Coronacrisis,” market participants may look back and realize that an important line has been drawn in the sand: 80.…
Pairs Trading with Futures
For a pairs trade, find two highly correlated assets that have recently diverged in performance Pairs trading involves buying and selling related markets to capitalize…
Naked Options: High Octane Directional Plays
In 1931 it took the U.S. stock market 15 days to go from highs to bear market territory—the latter term defined as a decline of…
Lessons From the Last Crisis: Gold Stocks
Whenever volatility spikes, as it has dramatically in 2020, some investors and traders park their money in perceived safe havens. While gold is often viewed…
Trending Together
Many stocks tend to move in tandem, so pairs trading enables investors to mitigate directional exposure Investors might consider using pairs trading when they feel…
How Volatility Products Behave
One of the big winners from last week was the volatility space, which received an outsized amount of attention due to the rout in global…
