The cryptocurrency community is in a tizzy this weekend after the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, tweeted about a new application that allows people to purchase tweets with ethereum. The application is called Valuables and it allows individuals to purchase a digital certificate of the tweet, which is signed and verified by the tweet’s creator.

Full article: https://news.bitcoin.com/selling-social-media-posts-for-1-5-million-blockchain-certified-tweet-sales-spark-nft-controversy/

“Everydays: The First 5000 Days” by Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, sold for $69MM+

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Is this a no-brainer or deceptively obvious?

Factors pro shorting:

• Open gap up
• Week volume on the ascent
• Strong Rising Wedge pattern (bearish)

Stochastics and MACD are also drooping slightly.

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I’m doing more and more Facebook ad campaigns for our clients. Got 4 things to say about Facebook:

• RELATIONSHIPS: The way I personally use Facebook has evolved from interacting with friends to mostly tracking the brands I like. I believe Facebook can be detrimental to real-life relationships, because it tends to make everyone lazy and gives an illusion of being involved in your friends’ lives when you track their updates or look at recent pictures. I prefer face-to-face communication, even if it’s not as frequent. Quality over quantity, basically. I don’t think I’m alone in this conversion to a more commercial bend, and that’s good news for both Facebook as a company and brands seeking exposure.
• ADVERTISING COST: based on my experience with various sectors, you can budget $2 to $3.50 per page like. Which is actually reasonable. For $500 you can gain 200-250 new fans.
• PRIVACY: Huge concerns there. Similar to Twitter, whenever you upload a picture to the site, you grant Facebook unlimited rights to the picture. What that means in real terms is this: they can – and more importantly, they DO – take your picture, sell it to a company, and not give you a penny. Unethical and outrageous, especially when you consider creepy stories like this one. (In short, photo of a girl who committed suicide due to having been gang-raped, was sold by Facebook for promotional use to a dating website!) I deleted all but one of my pictures from Facebook.
• PRIVACY 2: When setting up an ad on Facebook, you have an option to really segment your audience. For example, there was an option to select people “buying a house in the next 6 months”. How the hell does Facebook know something like that? They must have some advanced algorithm analyzing conversations, in addition to tracking your every move on the web. I always make sure I’m logged out when browsing the web. Sneaky bastards.

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What do you see here:

head-and-shoulders (bearish)…

… or a falling wedge (bullish)?

I’m leaning towards the Head-and-Shoulders, because an ideal falling wedge would form after a downtrend. Falling wedge is a reversal pattern, and it’s the final drop before the bottom, with ever lower volatility producing smaller spikes, so this doesn’t qualify.

Anyway, I would never-ever bet on AAPL one way, and I think the best way to play this is a straddle. It’s a volatile stock, a straddle should produce good results, most of the time.

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To Do: after market correction.

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$QQQQ Monthly, 20ema

Just one Cubes chart, for comparison purposes only. The price is above 20ema on the monthly.

$SPY Monthly, 20ema

Hasn’t quite made it up there yet.

$SPY Monthly, 1993 to present, 20ema

To proclaim a new bull market with confidence, it’s pretty obvious the price has to make it over the 20ema on the monthly chart.

$SPY Monthly, 13/34ema

13/34ema cross would also be a confirmation of the turnaround.

$SPY Weekly, 13/34ema

13/34ema cross has already happened on the weekly, and both moving averages are pointing up.

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[[aapl]] Apple

Price-MACD diverged some time ago, rising wedge seems to have broken down on increased volume.

$SPX

Similar to the AAPL chart, there’s divergence on the MACD though less significant and a potential rising wedge (bearish reversal pattern).

Markets and tech performance is tied to the U.S. dollar which looks to be reversing to the upside, at least it did today.

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