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18 Nov 2025

⚠️Retail investors are ALL-IN on US equities:

Individual investors' equity allocation hit 70.5%, near the highest since the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble burst. This is also in line with the 2021 meme stock frenzy peak. Their cash allocation remains historically low at 14.7%. Source: Global Markets Investors

18 Nov 2025

Zombie Companies (businesses unable to cover their debt payments) have reached the highest level in almost 4 years 🚨🚨🚨

Source: Bloomberg

18 Nov 2025

We actually got some US macro data yesterday.

Better than expected survey data for the New York Manufacturing sector along with a jump in construction spending (handily beating the expectations of a small decline), both prompted a further decline in rate-cut odds for December (down to less than 40%)... Source: www.zerohedge.com, Bloomberg

18 Nov 2025

The short-term holder supply in profit/loss ratio is the lowest it’s ever been in the history of bitcoin.

Indeed, 95% of bitcoin $BTC held by short-term holders, those who bought less than 155 days ago, is underwater. Even with two 30% drawdowns this cycle, the speed and severity of the current drawdown have made it much more severe. Source: Joe Consorti, Frank @FrankAFetter

18 Nov 2025

Is Michael Saylor's Strategy under attack?

Its mNAV is now negative - i.e the company's market cap is less than its BTC holdings.. Source: zerohedge

18 Nov 2025

Credit spreads of the hyperscalers (red line - inverted) continue to widen out...and start to put donward pressure on AI equity basket (green line)

Source: Zerohedge

18 Nov 2025

The spread between tech and Bitcoin is stretched to historic extremes.

Either $BTC reclaims ground, or $NQ has unfinished business on the downside. Source: Trend Spider

18 Nov 2025

Why You Always Watch Japanese Rates.

Source: The Market Ear @themarketear

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