Matthew Carr

Award-winning Trend Investing Strategist. Writer.

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The bleeding is as if an artery’s been struck. And investors are starting to get woozy from the losses.

It’s been one of the most difficult stretches for U.S. equities in some time.

Let’s explore what happens next!

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Mag 7 in correction territory…Bitcoin, ethereum and XRP are tumbling… tech stinks… crude oil is down… small caps hanging on by a thread.

Those new market highs last week have been rapidly replaced by severe anxiety.

Now it feels like a more traditional February.

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$2.7 trillion in options expired today. BLKBRD to Goldman Sachs warned that today would be volatile… and that’s precisely what we got.

All it took was a little negative news to trigger the sell off.

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Why back ends are all the rage in 2025! #ai

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The 5 largest components account for 26.4% of the $SPY AI & “New economy” stocks make up more than 50% of the index. Well, these periods of high concentration ultimately end poorly. We know this from the “Nifty Fifty” and the dot-com eras.

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Baby it’s cold outside… in January, avg temps in the US were the lowest since 1988. Plus, devastating fires ravaged areas of California. Well, in the face of such weather, Americans stayed home… and US retail sales tumbled 0.9% last month, the largest decline in a year.

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One of my pushes in 2025 is looking at cryptos beyond #BTC I’ve written that XRP & #ETH have outperformed in the second half of the BTC rally. Well, now the Nasdaq is looking for approval from the SEC to begin trading XRP & Litecoin ETFs. This could give those two a boost

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19 for 19… that’s how many consecutive days Meta Platforms (META) shares have risen. That’s the longest streak of any current member of the Nasdaq 100 since 1980. The last time Meta shares ended a session lower was January 16… before Donald Trump was sworn in as president.

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Investors have been loving Bitcoin ETFs… and so do Wall Street’s biggest banks. In fact, $GS has increased its $IBIT stake 88% from the third quarter to $1.27 billion. It also increased its holdings in the $FBTC by 105%!

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“Buy the dip Wednesdays”… one trend dominating 2025 is market freak outs to start and end the week. Carson Group has been buying on Wednesdays, racking up annualized gains of 127%! From 1980 to 2024, Wednesdays generated positive returns 53% of the time.

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… which is apocalyptic for the company as Apple accounted for 72% of its revenue last quarter. Fears of slowing smartphone growth have been rippling through semis this week.

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iPhone meltdown... Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) - a long-term Apple (AAPL) supplier - tumbled 25% on Thursday. Apple has dumped the chipmaker for a competitor (possibly Broadcom)...

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And since early November, more than 393 metric tons have been shipped to New York... increasing inventory levels 75% and to the highest levels since August 2022! The precious metal is trading at record highs.

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Since the U.S. presidential election, surging gold shipments have triggered a shortage in London. Traders have amassed a more than $82 billion stockpile in New York.

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We’re mere days away from the big game. Here’s what I like - and don’t like - for this Super Bowl weekend.

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Authorities in Pennsylvania are looking to crack the case of the thieves who poached 100,000 eggs…

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U.S. equities shrugged off tariff threats as job openings in December fell 556k to 7.6 mil. This is “bad news is good news" as investors debate what's next for rates and the Federal Reserve. A cooling labor market would push the Fed to lower rates soon rather than later.

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Norway, UAE, China, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore run the largest SWFs in the world. Norway just reported a full-year profit of $222.4 billion last week.

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Sovereign wealth funds are making headlines... all thanks to President Trump.

The newly elected US president is calling for the establishment of an American sovereign wealth fund within the next 12 months that would invest in stocks, bonds, real estate and more.

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SWFs are typically reserved for countries that run fiscal surpluses. It would be nice if the U.S. accomplished this. But it’s something that has happened only 4 times in the last 50 years for the U.S. And the last time being 2001.