Author: Al-Amin Khan

For a new trader, the problem is no longer information scarcity. It is the cost of deciding which information deserves to influence a financial decision. A Bangladeshi retail trader with a smartphone can move in minutes from an economic headline to a Facebook group, a YouTube forecast, a chart screenshot, a messaging-channel “signal,” and a confident prediction about gold, currencies, or shares. These may look like one category — market information — but they are not equivalent. Some information comes from regulators or primary data, some is analysis with assumptions, some is advertising, and some may be rumors or fraud.…