Hello from Coronado where I am battling the nastiest of flu’s. I apologize for any extra typo’s ahead… It was a fantastic year for stock market investors. The Dow, The S&P, The Nasdaq 100 and the Russell were all up double digits: The last 5 years...

Markets It’s not unusual that the stock market experiences a double digit loss and then ends the year with a double digit gain. (awealthofcommonsense.com) A look at all the all-time highs that are happening. (allstarcharts.com) Stock...

Also a DAT SPAC, bomb bets and mispriced parlays.

Books A Q&A with Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History.” (sherwood.news) A Q&A with Ray Madoff, author of “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American...

Anthropic has been flying high in 2025, with its Claude and Claude Code products. Making the company a strong number two to its founders’ former home, OpenAI. And it’s continuing in early 2026, with the company raising another $10 billion on a...

STOCKTWITS CHART ARTThe Stocktwits Summary 📝 The S&P 500 pulled back from the 7,000 level as weak labor data from ADP and JOLTS signaled a four-year high in unemployment, cooling the recent tech-fueled optimism. Geopolitics dominated the tape as...

CLOSING BELLDefense on the Defense  $SPY ( ▼ 0.32% )  $QQQ ( ▲ 0.1% )  $IWM ( ▼ 0.23% )  $DIA ( ▼ 0.94% )  The market fell Wednesday, the S&P 500 turning away from 7,000, but only slightly. Many of the happy-go-lucky Tuesday tech names were on...

OVERVIEW Alts Say They’re Ready To Take It To The Next Level, Market Says It’s Not Ready 😐️ Before we dive in, here’s today’s crypto market heatmap: Source: Santiment And here’s a look at crypto’s total market and altcoin market cap charts:...

Proxy IQ, on-cycle recruiting, First Brands, Warner Bros. and German dentists.

Crypto Why MSCI ($MSCI) chickened out on DATs. (giftarticle.ft.com) Some DATs are being forced to sell their digital assets. (theblock.co) There’s not a ton of demand for dogecoin ETFs. (sherwood.news) Trading crypto doesn’t make you immune...