On March 17 the Belgian newspapers ‘de Tijd’ and L’Echo wrote articles (Dutch article & French article) on increasing banking costs. They also outlined that these costs were opaque to say the least. At Keytrade Bank, we almost spilled our morning coffee when we read this rather obvious overgeneralization. They not only overlooked our very transparent KEYPACK, they also forgot mention us in the ranking of the three different scenarios they examined.

Since 3 January 2018 you need to take the tick size into account for your limit and stop orders on Euronext Brussels, Paris or Amsterdam. The stock exchange is refusing systematically orders whenever there is a mismatch between the tick size and the foreseen limit or stop price.

The net returns of all portfolios and the factors behind this success in a short summary.