Another year full of exciting developments and challenges in the world of finance is drawing to a close. Together, we have seen markets change, new trends emerge and a number of opportunities arise in 2024. The great reader feedback and continuous support have been instrumental in keeping this blog a vibrant platform for sharing knowledge and experiences – even though it has been rather quiet at times.
With the new year approaching, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers for their loyalty and trust in our work. We hope that the information and analysis we have provided has helped you to make financial decisions and that everyone has been able to achieve their personal goals.
TradingForFuture.de celebrated its third birthday this year. Not only have we now reached the 200-article mark, but we have also gone international by translating our content into English. The focus has shifted somewhat in recent weeks and has increasingly shifted to political topics or included many articles on cryptocurrencies – especially Bitcoin. Nevertheless, we have continued to focus our content on the long term.
The year 2024 began with the story of our portfolio transfer to Scalable Capital*, which unfortunately took months. However, the start of the year was also dominated by Bitcoin: we explained the problems of UTXOs, built an efficient open source miner, revealed our change of strategy to Bitcoin-only for cryptocurrencies and clarified widespread Bitcoin myths in a three-part article.
We also calculated whether a salary increase or a mini-job is more worthwhile, showed that saving money is particularly difficult in these times and presented other providers with low fees and fewer rules for prop trading. We also presented new cashback credit cards and showed how to use them cleverly. There was new hardware for Bitcoin and trading, as well as a completely different gadget in the form of the Xiaomi Smart Band 9.
We also showed why the savings rate is becoming less important as the portfolio grows and wrote about the importance of personal responsibility and positive perseverance. Of course, the launch of our international .com domain was also a highlight of the year.
Growing readership
As in the previous year, our visitor numbers on TradingForFuture.de rose sharply again in 2024, even though we published very few articles at times due to other priorities. The numbers have been exceptionally high since September. While we counted just under 8,000 visitors in January, we saw five-digit figures almost continuously in the summer months. At the peak, we counted almost 14,000 visits. Extrapolated over the year, we had around 125,000 readers – more than in any previous year. According to our internal server tools, we delivered 235 GB of traffic and almost 3,000,000 page views in 2024 (as of 15.12.2024). The .com domain recorded around 50,000 visitors and traffic of just over 60 GB for the year as a whole.
On average, readers stayed on our pages for just over six minutes. Over 70% of them came via Google, with only a very small proportion visiting the blog regularly via direct visits.
The most popular articles
According to Google Analytics, these are the ten most popular articles of 2024 on TradingForFuture.de:
For the coming year 2025, we wish our readers and supporters good health, success and many positive moments. May it be a year full of new opportunities and successful investments. We look forward to continuing to provide up-to-date articles, in-depth analyses and helpful tips in the new year.
With this in mind, we wish you a happy new year! Here’s to price fireworks in 2025!
