2020: when real stocks act like cryptos. Blame SoftBank
How the Invisible Hand of the Market turned out to be SoftBank putting a Visible Thumb on the Scale of the Market.
Tag: trading
The crypto market as a single unified scam
Everybody is excited by the novelty of it all, and think that with so many different games, they can surely find one where they can win.
Me on Finance Magnates podcast with Rachel McIntosh — Libra, CBDCs, the Bitcoin trading market
I recorded a video podcast with Rachel McIntosh from Finance Magnates yesterday, and it’s up already!
Number go down — Corona-chan loves Bitcoin!
Last chance to buy under $100k!
Number go down — the single trade that crashed Bitcoin
I told you so. Thanks everyone, for this week’s game of “Bitcoin: Moon or Toilet”!
Bitcoin is going through the roof! — it’s manipulation with Tethers, not organic demand
Number go up! This is totally organic market activity! People just really like Bitcoin 40% more than they did last week!
The ‘Bart’ — sudden hundreds-of-Bitcoin pumps or dumps, to burn the margin traders
Finance journalists need to stop treating crypto as an efficient market that responds to concerns. It’s a thinly-traded unregulated playground for whales, out to wreck the margin traders.
The OKEx margin trading disaster — how crypto margin trading goes wrong
How the eye-watering margin leverage on crypto exchanges works in practice, and what happens when things go wrong.
Notes from the crash: watching the Bitcoin pumps and dumps live on GDAX
If you know what you’re looking at, the GDAX depth chart is absolutely gripping. It’s like an action thriller movie for very dull people. If you ever wondered why I don’t trade in cryptos …
How to read a crypto market depth chart, and why people went ‘HOLY CRAP’ at the overnight Tether chart
Tether, the “pegged” US dollar substitute token, crashed to $0.93 on Kraken last night. Here’s why this is important, and what a market depth chart shows.