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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a new week. Welcome to a new month. However, also welcome to the same unnerving lunatic asylum, which is our present-day state of affairs and a never-ending treadmill of an on-again/off-again war (or “excursion“, if you’re wearing a special helmet).
If you’re not losing your mind by now, then you’re just not paying attention.
Let’s start with me at a really fun cocktail party on Saturday evening. I notice that Bitcoin has suddenly spiked higher, as have the IG Weekend markets, so naturally I know something is up. I instantly see the cause:
I see that South Korea’s government is considering a number of things to bail out their doe-eyed bulls:
I was so bummed yesterday evening. I had increased my short exposure substantially late in the day, and in spite of TSLA and GOOGL falling after hours, the semi/memory space that I was so short didn’t care. In fact, semi/memory was quite strong, as illustrated by what was going on with SMH. I was pissed off: how could a giant like GOOGL get whacked and other tech stuff still celebrate?
