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Crypto Monitor: The Crypto Bear Market Rages On
By Early Investing on July 8, 2022
The discouraging crypto news continues. Earlier this week, crypto lender Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy. Last week, Three Arrows Capital, a major crypto hedge fund, fell into liquidation. That’s all following the Celsius debacle of last month, when the crypto lender halted withdrawals. Celsius is now cutting jobs in an effort to prevent its own liquidity crisis. In slightly better news, bitcoin is now back over its $20,000 threshold. But we’re still very much in a…
This Crypto Bear Market Is Not Like the Others
By Vin Narayanan on June 17, 2022
Crypto Market Musings The crypto markets have been crashing hard for the past seven days. After spending about a month trading around $30,000, bitcoin is now flirting with $20,000. Bad inflation news last Friday combined with increased fuel prices sparked a massive sell-off in the equities…
New Crypto Legislation to Be Optimistic About
By Vin Narayanan on June 10, 2022
Market Musings Bitcoin has been trading in a narrow range between $29,311 and $31,630 over the last seven days. Ethereum has been trading between $1,911 and $1,731. The trading range for both coins over the last 30 days has been a little wider, with bitcoin trading between $32,000…
New Pick: A Popular DeFi Coin With Promising Traction
By Vin Narayanan on May 20, 2022
The public markets are a mess. The private markets are a mess. The precious metals markets are a mess. And the crypto markets are a mess. Those are the facts. I fully expect the crypto markets to be highly volatile and continue to bottom out over…
Crypto Monitor: Crypto Investing When There’s Blood in the Streets
By Early Investing on May 13, 2022
The crypto markets are a bloodbath right now. Bitcoin crashed around 22% over the last week, dipping down to $26,638 on Thursday. And the crypto markets as a whole lost more than 16% of their overall capitalization overnight. Investors…
Crypto Is No Longer a Non-Correlated Asset
By Vin Narayanan on May 13, 2022
Market Musings Crypto is in official bear market mode. Bitcoin briefly fell below $27,000 on Thursday. As of this writing, it’s down around 43% on the year and down about 60% from its all-time high of $67,802 last November. Ethereum dropped to close to $1,748 on Thursday. That’s…
A Brutal Market for Shorting Stocks
By Adam Sharp on August 13, 2021
In 2008, I had a big short and put position on mall REITs (real estate investment trusts) and big bank stocks. It worked like a charm at first. My positions were up anywhere from 30% to more than 140%. These companies were leveraged to the hilt.
Crowdfunding Shows Its Strength
By Andy Gordon on May 27, 2020
Crowdfunding reached the ripe age of four years old earlier this month. It’s come a long way in a relatively short time. And we know much more about it now than we did back then. Last week I gave you five of my top 10 observations about crowdfunding’s past…
Arbit Poll: How High Will Bitcoin Go?
By Early Investing on June 17, 2019
How high will bitcoin climb this year? We’d like to hear your thoughts.