How attention models spot a change in market regime
Why transformer-style models pick up the shift from calm to volatile conditions faster than older recurrent networks.
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The FCA's crypto promotion rules: what UK investors should look for
Risk warnings, cooling-off periods and appropriateness checks, and why each of them exists to protect you.
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What natural-language models can, and cannot, extract from headlines about the FTSE and sterling.
Crypto and Capital Gains Tax: a plain-English guide for UK holders
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Reinforcement learning and the art of position sizing
Teaching an agent to size trades is less about bigger wins and more about surviving the losing streaks.
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What the Bank of England's approach to systemic stablecoins could mean for everyday settlement.
Detecting market manipulation without a human in the loop
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Bitcoin after the halving: reading the on-chain indicators
Hash rate, miner flows and long-term holder behaviour, and what they do and do not tell you.
Why backtests lie: overfitting in trading models
The quiet ways a strategy can look brilliant on history and fail live, and the checks that catch them.
Assessing risk in decentralised-finance protocols
Smart-contract audits, oracle design and liquidity depth: a checklist to work through before you touch a DeFi token.
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