Articles tagged Risk management
5 articles tagged Risk management, newest first, on technology, money and the internet.
- Investing35 min read
Mining a Zcash coin costs $639, and $476 of that is the machine
Electricity is the small half of mining Zcash, and the discount against the $1,129 market price is 8% to 43%, not the 93% it looks like. Also: why that price already assumes most of the success Zcash needs, and what the 2026 Orchard flaw revealed about auditing a fixed supply.
- Investing12 min read
What crypto to buy in September 2026: the boring half and the lottery half
Bitcoin at $78,300, Ethereum at $2,470, and Zcash up more than twentyfold on the year after the first US spot ETF for a privacy coin. What belongs in the boring half of a crypto allocation, what belongs in the lottery half, and how much of each before three catalysts land in one week.
- Trading6 min read
Why crypto prices differ between exchanges, and what the gap measures
Five venues priced Bitcoin within 0.042% of each other and Zcash within 0.426% — ten times wider, at the same instant. The gap is not error. It is a liquidity reading, and it is the most useful number on the screen.
- Investing10 min read
Nike stock at $38.40 is a speculative turnaround, not a value bargain
Nike is a speculative turnaround at $38.40. Follow the tariff refund, the dividend's cash cover and three recovery scenarios to see why an entry near $34 offers more room for error.
- Trading7 min read
The position size formula most people use understates the loss every time
Position sizing is one division, but the version most traders use quietly ignores fees and understates the loss. Here is the formula, where it comes from, two worked examples with every number shown, and the mistakes that actually cost money.