The interesting thing is, they’re mostly not running screaming for the exit. There have been a few days where people decided perhaps a screaming exit was sensible, but those were paltry sums – less than $33 million each time. Which, let’s be honest, is probably the cost of a particularly lavish crypto conference.
CHAT, born of Roundhill Investments, is a restless spirit, its portfolio a mosaic of companies whose hands shape the algorithms of tomorrow. XLK, by contrast, is the elder statesman, its wealth drawn from the S&P 500’s technological vassals, its fee a mere whisper of 0.08% against CHAT’s 0.75%-a disparity as stark as the gulf between a moonlit field and the noonday sun.
Sentiment? A shipwreck. Price rebounds? Fleeting as a champagne bubble. Volatility clutches Ethereum like a drunk scholar clings to despair. The market, a postman’s grimace, delivers only fear-not love letters. And traders? They hoard ETH like tolkienesque treasures, not bulls charging through the Gates of Mordor. A 40% descent from August’s zenith? Oy vey, it’s enough to make Gorbachev sigh into his tea. 😬📉
Why do we build these altars to diversification, these temples of exposure? Is it wisdom-or is it fear? Fear that our portfolios, left to our own devices, may reveal our fragility? Both funds promise the same: equities beyond America’s roaring borders. Yet their divergence is not in returns-29.1% versus 25.8% in one year, a difference that vanishes under the weight of compounding time-but in the rules they obey. A rate of 0.03% is not merely cheaper; it is an affirmation, a quiet rebellion against the priesthood of fees. And yet, 0.07% buys a yield of 2.93%, slightly higher than VEA’s 2.7%, as though the market whispers, “Pay more, and I shall bless you with crumbs.” But are they crumbs, or illusions?
Word on the Bloomberg street, thanks to the Bank of Russia, is that anyone lacking a PhD in crypto is allowed to buy those most-trusted digital coins once you’ve barely passed that silly history quiz in school. Capsules of 300,000 rubles? Oh, the humanity! And, the only way is through one single middleman. 🐻
The presale, structured with token prices ascending like a ladder to the heavens, has been the subject of much chatter in the pages of CryptoDaily. A report most enlightening, though one must take such prognostications with a grain of salt. 🧂
XWIN Research Japan, those oracle of charts, decree that Bitcoin’s dance is a “range-bound consolidation”-a fancy way of saying it’s stuck in a holding pattern while the world burns. For three months, it’s flapped its wings like a chicken in reverse, while gold and silver strut like peacocks at a gala. Geopolitical tensions? Policy chaos? Lower rates? All excuses for the masses to flee to the glittering arms of precious metals. Silver, the wild child of the bunch, even outperforms gold with a flair for drama and a dash of speculative spice.
In Q3, Nitorum’s stake shrunk from 5.39% to 3.14% of its reportable assets. By September 30, the remaining position was valued at $17.85 million. Investors, like gods with poor aim, often sell when hope feels heavier than money.
Trading near the mid-$0.30 range-so modest it makes a thrift-store sweater look like a luxury item-ADA clings to life while its founder, Charles Hoskinson, grandly shifts focus to “long-term structural developments.” Because nothing says “confidence” like ignoring the obvious. 🤷♂️
According to their November 14 SEC filing, the fund has taken a new position in NCLH, acquiring 347,600 shares. This is like finding a needle in a haystack, but instead of a needle, it’s a bunch of shares, and the haystack is the entire stock market. The stake represents 1.05% of the fund’s $815.2 million in assets-a drop in the ocean, but a significant splash in a very small pond. (Pond: A body of water so small it could fit inside a teacup, yet somehow still manages to be full of surprises.)