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WEBFI: When Can We Expect A Profit From Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS)? - With the business potentially at an important milestone, we thought we'd take a closer look at Hastings Technology Metals Limited's (ASX:HAS) future prospects. Hastings Technology Metals Limited engages in the exploration and development of rare earth deposits in Australia. The AU$91m market-cap company announced a latest loss of AU$11m on 30 June 2023 for its most recent financial year result. The most pressing concern for investors is Hastings Technology Metals' path to profitability – when will it breakeven? In this article, we will touch on the expectations for the company's growth and when analysts expect it to become profitable. Check out our latest analysis for Hastings Technology Metals According to the 3 industry analysts covering Hastings Technology Metals, the consensus is that breakeven is near. They anticipate the company to incur a final loss in 2025, before generating positive profits of AU$29m in 2026. Therefore, the company is expected to breakeven roughly 3 years from now. What rate will the company have to grow year-on-year in order to breakeven on this date? Using a line of best fit, we calculated an average annual growth rate of 28%, which signals high confidence from analysts. Should the business grow at a slower rate, it will become profitable at a later date than expected.Underlying developments driving Hastings Technology Metals' growth isn’t the focus of this broad overview, but, keep in mind that by and large a metal and mining business has lumpy cash flows which are contingent on the natural resource mined and stage at which the company is operating. This means, large upcoming growth rates are not abnormal as the company is beginning to reap the benefits of earlier investments.One thing we would like to bring into light with Hastings Technology Metals is its relatively high level of debt. Typically, debt shouldn’t exceed 40% of your equity, which in Hastings Technology Metals' case is 42%. Note that a higher debt obligation increases the risk in investing in the loss-making company.Story continuesNext Steps:There are too many aspects of Hastings Technology Metals to cover in one brief article, but the key fundamentals for the company can all be found in one place – Hastings Technology Metals' company page on Simply Wall St. We've also put together a list of relevant factors you should further research:Valuation: What is Hastings Technology Metals worth today? Has the future growth potential already been factored into the price? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether Hastings Technology Metals is currently mispriced by the market.Management Team: An experienced management team on the helm increases our confidence in the business – take a look at who sits on Hastings Technology Metals’s board and the CEO’s background.Other High-Performing Stocks: Are there other stocks tha

Technical Analysis 20th October QTFCRYPTO by Daniyal Technical analysis is a method by which traders and analysts evaluate the past price movements and trading volume of assets such as cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to make informed predictions about future price movements. Here is an overview of how technical analysis works for these two cryptocurrencies: Price Charts: Technical analysis begins by looking at the price charts. Traders often use candlestick, line or bar charts to represent historical price data. Each candle or bar in the chart represents a specific time period (e.g., 1 hour, 1 day) and contains information about the opening, closing, high and low prices during this period. Support and Resistance Levels: Analysts identify key support and resistance levels on the chart. Support levels represent price levels at which an asset attracts interest and can potentially reverse a downtrend. Resistance levels represent price levels where an asset is under selling pressure and may reverse its uptrend. Trend analysis: Technical analysts determine the overall trend of a cryptocurrency.Trends can be upward (bullish), downward (bearish), or sideways (range bound). They often use moving averages and trend lines to identify and confirm trends. Indicators and Oscillators: Analysts use technical indicators and oscillators to gain further insight into cryptocurrency price movements. Common indicators include the Relative Strength Index (RSI), the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), and the Stochastic Oscillator. These indicators can help identify overbought or oversold conditions, momentum and trend reversals. Volume Analysis: Trading volume is a key element of technical analysis. Analysts evaluate volume to determine the strength of a price move. High volume can confirm a trend, while low volume can indicate a weak or unsustainable trend. Chart Patterns: Technical analysts also look for chart patterns such as head and shoulders, triangles, flags, and pennants. These patterns can provide insight into possible future price movements. Candlestick Patterns: Candlestick patterns are specific formations that can indicate a possible reversal or continuation of the price trend. Examples include the Doji, Hammer and Engulfing patterns. Fibonacci Retracement: Traders often use Fibonacci retracement levels to identify potential support and resistance levels based on key percentage retracement levels (e.g. 38).2%, 50%, 61.8%). Divergence: Divergence occurs when the price movement of an asset does not coincide with the movement of the indicator. This could signal a possible trend reversal. Risk Management: Traders use technical analysis to determine entry and exit points for their trades. They often set stop loss and take profit orders to manage risk and protect their capital. Continuous Analysis: Technical analysis is a continuous process. . https://lnkd.in/eUcvCEK3

Last week at the ECML PKDD 2023 conference in Turin, Muhammad Haseeb Tariq presented our paper: "Topology-Agnostic Detection of Temporal Money Laundering Flows in Billion-Scale Transactions" in the The 8ht Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS #MIDAS (https://lnkd.in/e7HEaV5S)] in collaboration with Transactie Monitoring Nederland (TMNL). ⚠ In this paper we mainly address the scale and complexity problems that path finding algorithms struggle with when tracking suspicious flows of money. Existing community detection techniques also fail to properly capture the time-dependent relationships. This is particularly evident when performing analytics over massive transaction graphs. 💡 We propose a framework (called FaSTMAN), adapted for domain-specific constraints, to efficiently construct a temporal graph of sequential transactions. The framework includes a weighting method, using 2nd order graph representation, to quantify the significance of the edges. This method enables us to distribute complex queries on smaller and densely connected networks of flows. Finally, based on those queries, we can effectively identify networks of suspicious flows. 📈 We extensively evaluate the scalability and the effectiveness of our framework against two state-of-the-art solutions for detecting suspicious flows of transactions. For a dataset of over 1 Billion transactions from multiple large European banks, the results show a clear superiority of our framework both in efficiency and usefulness. Access the paper 📝 : https://lnkd.in/e9RiXH9A Access the implementation ⚙: https://lnkd.in/e2hKJWT4

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👨🏻💻 Have you ever thought about the blend of our trusted precious metals with the modern world of digital finance? Our latest blog post delves into this fascinating intersection. Learn how the stability of metals like gold and silver can harmoniously coexist with the digital advancements of today. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gKqjSm9b  Curious? Click the link above to explore this captivating topic further. Join the conversation and be part of the evolving financial landscape. #TheOhioMint #TraditionMeetsTech

A new paper came out by a central banker (Alex de Vries) on "Bitcoin's growing water footprint", as I write this from rainy Vancouver, I'm reminded that corporate media will pick up anything provocative, just as a central banker would write a provocative paper for such attention, without understanding the technology they speak of. The paper was distilled down to the idea of water per transaction, but bitcoin mining doesn't work on a transaction basis. The University of Cambridge (https://lnkd.in/gRPwJQg3) rightfully suggests bitcoin should never be measured on a transaction basis, but on a block basis. As a primer or reminder, bitcoin's energy is based on blocks of transactions, so bitcoin energy is directly correlated with a block, not a transaction. A block could contain no transactions, or thousands, that is how bitcoin mining works. If you can't understand first principles of a technology, you should not be trusted to measure anything against it. --- One exciting thing in bitcoin mining, is that here in the Vancouver region one municipality will be the first city in the world, the first of many, whose municipal heat will be powered by bitcoin based digital boilers -- I love these win-win projects. In fact, I'll be at company responsible's HQ office in a few hours 😎

Happy Tuesday! We're excited to announce that our Personalised Corrective AI solution now supports even more assets 📈 We've now included the following into our incredible lineup of assets: key indices from the UK (FTSE 100), France (CAC40), Germany (DAX40), Spain (IBEX 35), and Australia (ASX 200). As well as Gold (XAUUSD), Natural Gas and Brent Crude Oil. 🙌 These additions aren't just symbols; they represent our commitment to innovation and the diverse opportunities we're excited to explore with you! Here's to making more informed and successful trades together! 🚀 If this interests you, visit www.simplifytrading.ai/ to learn more! #simplifytrading #financialinnovation #growthtogether #tradingcommunity #ai #trading #index #commodities #assets #trading #tradingstrategy #foreignexchange #cryptotrading #algorithmictrading #systematictrading

Financial News Today - 4/29/24 📈 Source: Wind Financial Terminal - News 📰 -----A-share Market Overview: Bullish Momentum as Funds Enter In the summary of the A-share market at the close of 4/29, with funds entering the market for long positions, A-shares surged strongly. Trading volume once again surpassed one trillion yuan, with northbound funds significantly net buying over 10 billion yuan. As of the close, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.79% to 3113.04 points, the Shenzhen Component Index rose by 2.22%, the ChiNext Index rose by 3.5%, and the CSI 50 rose by 0.8%. The entire A-share market saw collective gains, with the Wande Full A and Wande Double Innovation indices rising. The Wande Micro-Cap Index surged by 4.31%. Throughout the day, A-shares traded with high volume, reaching 1.22 trillion yuan, marking the second-highest level this year. 4500 stocks saw gains, with over 130 stocks hitting their daily limit, marking the second-highest level this month. Following the previous day's record-breaking net buying of 22 billion yuan by northbound funds, they once again significantly increased their positions by over 10 billion yuan. -----China Shipbuilding Secures World's Largest Shipbuilding Order China Shipbuilding Group and Qatar Energy Group held a signing ceremony, during which China Shipbuilding secured the world's largest shipbuilding order to construct 18 vessels of 271,000 cubic meters each, ultra-large liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. -----Huaxia Bitcoin ETF and Huaxia Ethereum ETF Approved by Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Huaxia Bitcoin ETF and Huaxia Ethereum ETF have received approval from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and are scheduled to be issued on April 29th, with listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 30th. This marks the first launch of such products in the Asian market, aiming to provide investment returns closely tied to the spot prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum. -----Japanese Yen Witnesses Rollercoaster Ride Against US Dollar, Speculation Rises Over Japanese Authorities' Intervention On Monday, the exchange rate of the Japanese yen against the US dollar saw a rollercoaster ride, with speculation over Japanese authorities' intervention running high. Earlier in the day, the yen-dollar exchange rate briefly fell below the 160 mark, hitting a new low since April 1990. Subsequently, the yen-dollar exchange rate suddenly rebounded to 155. This sudden reversal in the yen's trajectory coincided with a Japanese public holiday, during which buying of yen for currency conversion by Japanese export companies significantly reduced, leading to more pronounced fluctuations in the yen exchange rate. When asked about potential intervention by authorities, the top official in Japan's foreign exchange affairs, Manabu Kanda, declined to comment for the time being. #windinformation #financialnews #ashare #china #market #chinashipbuilding #Huaxia #ETF #bitcoin #japan

What are the LME’s initiatives for technological innovation? https://lnkd.in/dXbqEPzJ In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, technological innovation is the driving force behind transformative change across industries. The London Metal Exchange (LME), as a pioneering force in the global metals market, is at the forefront of embracing innovation to enhance efficiency, transparency, and accessibility in metals trading. But what exactly are the LME’s initiatives for technological innovation, and how are they reshaping the landscape of metals trading? Join us as we delve into the cutting-edge initiatives spearheaded by the LME to harness the power of technology and drive forward the future of metals trading. Electronic Trading Platforms Central to the... #steelprice #steel #iron #steelnews #news #steelmarket #market #industrialnews #LME #HKEX #Londonmetalexchange #metal #metalexchange #investment #investing #stock #stocks

Happy to share our new published paper: Differential evolution VQE for crypto-currency arbitrage. Quantum optimization with many local minima Guillermo Botella, Alberto Antonio Del Barrio García, Beatriz Román Carrascosa Crypto-currency markets are known to exhibit inefficiencies, which presents opportunities for profitable cyclic transactions or arbitrage, where one currency is traded for another in a way that results in a net gain without incurring any risk. Quantum computing has shown promise in financial applications, particularly in resolving optimization problems like arbitrage. In this paper, we introduce a differential evolution (DE) optimization algorithm for Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) using Qiskit framework. We elucidate the application of crypto-currency arbitrage using different VQE optimizers. Our findings indicate that the proposed DE-based method effectively converges to the optimal solution in scenarios where other commonly used optimizers, such as COBYLA, struggle to find the global minimum. We further test this procedure’s feasibility on IBM’s real quantum machines up to 127 qubits. With a scenario of three currencies, the algorithm converged in 417 steps over a 12 hour period on the “ibm_geneva” machine. These results suggest the potential to achieve a quantum advantage in solving increasingly complex problems.