EXCLUSIVE: President Trump has directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to waive nondisclosure agreements for former government employees and contractors who want to cooperate with federal UAP investigators.
The directive follows years of complaints from lawmakers and whistleblowers that people with firsthand knowledge were too afraid to talk. A new tranche of UAP files is expected "very soon."
$BTC Absorbed an $8.3B ETF Flow Reversal
Yet Bitcoin is still near $64K, above its rising structural base.
The ETFs became major sellers and price did not collapse.
Total Margin Debt has increased by more than 40% over the last 12 months, a level only seen at prior market tops, including the Dot Com Bubble and the Global Financial Crisis 🚨 🚨
Cannabis has been removed from the same federal category as heroin.
After more than 55 years the federal government has reclassified marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.
This change means cannabis is no longer grouped with substances like heroin and LSD which are viewed as having a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use.
The move does not legalize marijuana at the federal level. Recreational use remains illegal under federal law and interstate sales are still prohibited.
However the rescheduling is expected to have significant effects on medical research. For decades scientists noted that the Schedule I classification created major barriers to studying cannabis. Researchers had to navigate extra licensing requirements strict federal oversight and limited access to products that often did not match what consumers actually use.
Placing cannabis in Schedule III should simplify the process for conducting clinical trials examining specific formulations and gaining clearer insights into how marijuana influences pain nausea appetite memory mental health and addiction risk.
The decision arrives at a time when cannabis use across the United States has increased substantially and medical marijuana programs operate legally in most states.
Scientists emphasize that rescheduling does not mean cannabis is entirely safe. Rather it opens the door to more rigorous research that can finally provide better answers about where marijuana offers benefits where it causes harm and which individuals face the greatest risks.
Dense pockets of energy in which space-time is warped into a gradient. The space time gradient funnels increasing amounts of energy that is realized as mass. Gravity is the effect that acts on and is felt by other massive objects due to being inside the gradient of space time. Mass finds a limit where it can’t get more dense and at that point it is stationary but accelerating relative to the gradient. It’s like constantly accelerating outward and experiencing inertia but nonetheless stationary - just inside the gradient which is causing the effect.
This chart summarizes US equity valuation metrics since 1900. Nearly all measures are near or over two standard deviations away from the long-term mean.
This might be one of the most insane and bullish signals in Bitcoin today. Long-term holder supply in loss. Literally only spikes at each cycle bottom.
You're welcome.
*Note to self - I need to start getting more into on-chain analysis. Very helpful to couple with price/macro
Here is your Bitcoin Bear Market breakdown: an at-a-glance characterization of every bear market, color-coded across each type of chart, including
• Max drawdown % vs. duration
• Bear markets highlighted on full price history
• Trajectories from each previous peak
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At the moment, this Bear looks more like the mini-2019-2020 Bear, where we plunged due to the COVID scare toward the end.
While we most likely won't see anything like the 2011 Bear again due to limited liquidity, I think there is a lot more room for the current Bear to play out in the space BETWEEN the green, orange and purple bears and the red (mini) bear.
The market structure is always evolving (and has in fact meaningfully evolved since 2021; Bitcoin has transformed from an isolated retail speculation into a highly institutionalized macro asset) and the trend, even if small, is toward shallower drawdowns.
📈Backtesting Stocks - ONE filter to rule them all 🌟
During a recent backtesting, one of the most interesting findings was a prerequisite that universally improved the results of every system/strategy indicator - U&R, flat base breakouts, pullback to ascending moving averages etc.
Regardless of your strategy, if you restrict yourself to the top 50% of industry groups (by relative strength) - you results improve in EVERY year when compared to the same strategy without the industry constraint.
Further, if you restrict yourself to the lowest 50% of industry groups, your results will be worse than the baseline in EVERY year.
To practically apply this rule, there are 149 industry groups in @finviz_com . On a weekly and monthly basis, restrict yourself to the top 74 industry groups without exception and before anything else.
https://t.co/Vg7MbkAK06
That's it - no. If this then that, no complex formula.... but after 1000's of tests across 300+ unique strategies, this was undefeated.
As @RealSimpleAriel likes to say "stick to leading stocks in leading groups".... the screenshot below is the scientific, quantified proof to "stick to leading groups" ... 16 years EVERY strategy undefeated ... top 50% of industries beats the baseline (all industries) and the bottom 50% ... and it is monotonic.