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13 Aug 2025

🔴 US President Trump says he is looking at reclassifying marijuana.

The weed stocks and AdvisorShares Pure Cannabis ETF ($YOLO) surged yesterday. ▶️ President Donald Trump said Monday his administration was “looking at reclassification” of marijuana and intends to make a decision in the upcoming weeks. ▶️ “It’s a very complicated subject base,” he said during a press briefing. “I’ve heard great things having to do with medical and bad things having to do with just about everything else.” ▶️ His comments come after a Friday Wall Street Journal report indicated Trump was considering reclassifying the drug as less dangerous. Source: Markets & Mayhem, Politico

13 Aug 2025

Ether ETFs See Record $1 Billion Inflows

👉 Inflows into Ether ETFs far exceeded those of their Bitcoin counterparts, which saw a net inflow of $178 million on Monday, according to Farside Investors. 👉 CoinTelegraph's Tarang Khaitan reports that for the Ether funds, BlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) attracted the lion’s share of flows, with a record $640 million going into the fund. 👉 The Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH) was the runner-up and also recorded its largest single-day inflow, taking in $277 million. Source: zerohedge, Bloomberg

12 Aug 2025

Out of all the 1,300+ ETFs that launched since the start of 2024 here are the top 20 that have gotten the most inflows

👑 $IBIT - iShares Bitcoin ETF 🥈 $FBTC - Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund 🥉 $ETHA - iShares Ethereum ETF 4. $MSTY - Yield Max MSTR Option Income ETF 5. $SMBS - Schwab Mortgage Backed Securities ETF 6. $JMTG - JP Morgan Mortgage Backed Securities ETF 7. $QQQI - NEOS Nasdaq 100 High Income ETF 8. $ULTY - YieldMax Ultra Option Income ETF 9. $SBIL - Simplify Government Money Market ETF 10. $VBIL - Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF Source: ETF Tracker @TheETFTracker thru @NateGeraci

11 Aug 2025

The Silver Miners ETF $SIL closed at a decade high on Friday, reaching a critical breakout level. 👇

Source: Oliver Groß @minenergybiz

11 Aug 2025

Record close for VanEck Gold Miners ETF $GDX on weekly basis, taking out the 2011 high.

Source: NDR, Rob Anderson on X

5 Aug 2025

The "buy the dip" mentality is intact.

$ARKK Cathie Wood's ARK Innovation fund $ARKK saw its largest ever single day of inflows on Friday. Source: Koyfin

31 Jul 2025

Investors have now plowed $139 Billion into Leveraged ETFs, the highest amount in history 🤯 Risk on folks, Risk on 🤑🫡🚀 🤢

Source: Barchart

25 Jul 2025

LOOK OUT: $ETHA iShares ethereum Trust ETF just hit $10b in one year flat, the 3rd fastest ETF to hit that mark in history after (you guessed it) two bitcoin ETFs $IBIT & $FBTC.

Amazingly it went from $5b to $10b in just 10 days. The ETF is Top 5 in flows for the last month and the week Source: Bloomberg, Eric Balchunas

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