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18 Jul 2025

The sp500 yesterday

Source: Brew markets

18 Jul 2025

Will the -500 days / + 500 days hashtag#trading strategy on bitcoin work again this time?

At the time of this writing, hashtag#Bitcoin 500 day strategy is still on track. 1) Buy Bitcoins 500 days Before Halving 2) Hold & Do Nothing 3) Sell 500 Days After Halving 4) Repeat Last halving was on April 20th. This would imply an intermediary top on the 17th of August 2025. Source: Mags @thescalpingpro

17 Jul 2025

This is the 12-month return potential of some of your favourite AI-related stocks calculated based on spread between consensus price target and current share price.

Consensus seems to be missing the Palantir story, at least for now (this is a partial list) Source: David Ingles, Bloomberg

17 Jul 2025

Looking at today's market action when Bloomberg announced that the White House said they discussed about firing Powell, it seems that Deutsche Bank was right...

Maybe Trump & Bessent watched the market and decided to immediately "TACO"...

16 Jul 2025

Party like it's 1999! Goldman posts best stock-trading quarter in Wall Street History

At $4.3bn, equity-trading revenue for Q2 was about $600mln more than what analysts were expecting and $100mln above Q1. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

16 Jul 2025

Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin investors realized $3.5B in profits.

🔹 Long-term holders took $1.96B (~56%) 🔹 Short-term holders took $1.54B (~44%) One of the largest $BTC profit realization days this year - driven mostly by long-term holders. Source: Glassnode

16 Jul 2025

⚠️ JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday topped analysts’ estimates on better-than-expected revenue from fixed income trading and investment banking.

▶️ The bank said that second-quarter earnings fell 17% to $14.9 billion, or $5.24 a share, from the year-earlier period, when it had a $7.9 billion gain on Visa shares. But even when backing out a $774 million income tax benefit that boosted per share earnings by 28 cents, JPMorgan topped estimates for the quarter. 🔴 $JPM JPMorganChase Q2 FY25. • Net revenue -11% Y/Y to $44.9B ($1.7B beat). • Net Income -17% Y/Y to $15.0B. • EPS: $4.96 ($0.48 beat). • FY25 NII ~$95.5B ($1.0B raise). Source: App Economy Insights, CNBC

15 Jul 2025

BofA forgot to include bitcoin in their "best performing asset of the decade" table.

Bitcoin $BTC is up almost 1600% this decade 📈📈

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