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The S&P 500’s Sideways Range, A Shift in Seasonality, Misallocating Venture Capital and Crappy Crypto Sentiment
Trends with Friends EP. 28
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Happy Saturday,
On this week’s episode of Trends with Friends we review the S&P 500’s Sideways Range, a Shift in Seasonality, Misallocating Venture Capital and the Crappy Crypto Sentiment.
Tune in on your favorite podcast platform or select a timestamp to skip ahead. Leave us a like or comment if you enjoy the show.
Chapters
Welcome (0:00)
Intro (0:58)
Canadian Conversations (1:02)
Strength in Google Search (6:17)
The S&P 500’s Sideways Range (12:40)
Asking for All-Time Highs (15:00)
Shift in Seasonality (17:17)
Focus on What Works (20:11)
Misallocating Venture Capital (21:52)
Mortgage Rate Recency Bias (22:25)
Use Your Network (26:48)
Crappy Crypto Sentiment (30:04)
Moscot Luxury Shoutout (35:01)
Phil’s Fitness Focus (37:49)
Instacart S-1 (42:35)
And here are this week’s Featured Charts,
Google daily.
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Google’s Flagship AI, “Gemini”.
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The S&P 500’s Sideways Range.
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Healthcare and Technology are barely below all-time highs.
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Mastercard moves to all-time highs. Visa not far behind.
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The S&P 500 4-Year Presidential Election Cycle.
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US 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates.
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Marathon Digital +30% following Tuesday’s Crypto news.
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Bitcoin Miners mimic Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin remains below overhead resistance.
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Will Bitcoin hold 25,000 support?
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