Finance Basics

Moving your investments to a Swiss bank does not necessarily mean selling them. Learn how an in-kind transfer works, what it costs, how long it takes and how to move your portfolio to Swissquote.

Protecting capital during inflationary periods requires allocating toward real assets, pricing-power equities, commodities, gold and inflation-linked debt instruments.

Inflation erodes fiat purchasing power while altering interest rates, reshaping valuations across cash, fixed income, equities, real estate and digital assets.

Understanding supply, demand, macro forces and market expectations.

Market breadth measures how many stocks drive an index's move, showing whether a rally is broad and healthy or dependent on a few big names.

Explore how traders take bearish positions using CFDs, futures and other derivatives, and why short selling requires careful risk management.