Blog on investing and trading

This blog is written by the Sufics team, who manage capital across five markets: metals, stocks and indices, oil, bitcoin and ether. Each article answers one question, such as where to invest, how to check a manager or how leverage works, and shows the answer on our own trades and data rather than on promises.

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  Learning to trade · 27 October 2026 · 6 min

  The 1% rule in trading and position size

  The 1% rule in trading: how to calculate position size from a stop-loss, why leverage does not change the risk amount and what is left after a losing streak.

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  Investing · 26 October 2026 · 5 min

  Copy trading vs managed account: which to choose

  Copy trading vs managed account: where the money sits, who trades, how to exit and what the EU regulator says. Compared with a PAMM account on 8 criteria.

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  Investing · 26 October 2026 · 7 min

  S&P 500 index: what it is and how to invest in it

  The S&P 500 index: what it measures, how companies get in, how ETFs, index funds and futures differ, and what an investor from Ukraine should check.

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  Market analytics · 25 October 2026 · 4 min

  Earnings this week (Oct 27–31, 2026): who and when

  Earnings this week, Oct 27–31, 2026: Coca-Cola, Visa, Alphabet, Microsoft, Caterpillar, Eli Lilly, Amazon, ExxonMobil — dates and times from company IR pages.

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  Investing · 25 October 2026 · 6 min

  Gold bars: how to buy them, the costs and the risks

  Gold bars from a bank: buy and buy-back prices by weight on 24 Oct 2026, why small bars cost more, storage, taxes and how a bar differs from a metal account.

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  Market analytics · 24 October 2026 · 4 min

  Buy a stock before or after earnings? What the data shows

  Is it better to buy before or after earnings? Sufics data on 136 reports: the size of the 48-hour price move and how often it follows the surprise.

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  Learning to trade · 24 October 2026 · 7 min

  Perpetual futures: how they work and how they differ

  Perpetual futures explained: how they differ from dated futures, how funding keeps the price near the asset, what the mark price is and the risks.

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  Market analytics · 23 October 2026 · 4 min

  Liquidation heatmap: how to read it and what it misses

  What a liquidation heatmap shows, how the model calculates its levels and what it does not show, with a worked example and a risk note.

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  Learning to trade · 23 October 2026 · 6 min

  Maximum drawdown: what it is and how to calculate it

  What maximum drawdown (MDD) means, the formula with a worked example, how much you must earn to recover a loss and where to see a manager's drawdown.

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  Investing · 20 October 2026 · 6 min

  Where to invest money in 2026: 5 assets and their risks

  Gold, stocks and indices, oil, bitcoin and ether: what drives each asset, how deep it has fallen and how to combine them into a portfolio for your horizon.

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  Investing · 20 October 2026 · 7 min

  Managed accounts: how to check a fund manager first

  Eight checks before you give money to a manager: the full trade history with losses, drawdown, where the funds sit, withdrawals and the signs of a Ponzi scheme.

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  Learning to trade · 20 October 2026 · 6 min

  Leverage in trading explained, and the liquidation price

  What 5x, 10x and 50x leverage mean, how the liquidation price is calculated, isolated vs cross margin, and why your stop sets the risk, not the leverage.