Aster: Uh Oh! 📉

Apparently. The folks doing the charts are making concerned noises about something called a ‘death cross’ in the MACD (don’t ask me, I still struggle with a regular crosswalk frankly). And the Aroon Down is practically reaching for the ceiling at 93%. Which, as far as I can gather, means it’s not a good time to be an Aster supporter. We’re talking potential slides to $0.7 or even a horrifying $0.5. Good grief.

Northside Capital’s Great EOG Fire Sale: $6.1M Goes Poof!

Let’s consult our handy-dandy time machine (patent pending) and travel back to October 7, 2025 – a day that will live in financial infamy. Northside waved their wand over EOG during Q3 2025, conducting a sale that would make a used car salesman blush. The market price? A mere $110.45 per share – cheaper than a Houston diner’s steak special!

🚨 Beware, Dear Reader! Crypto Scams Are Afoot! 🚨

Pray, allow me to impart the wisdom of Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer, Mr. David Schwartz, who has taken it upon himself to warn the unsuspecting public of a most pernicious surge in crypto scams. On the 21st of October, he issued a most urgent decree via the social media platform X, declaring that phishing emails, masquerading as hardware wallet providers, are abound. These scoundrels urge users to perform spurious “security upgrades” or “verification processes,” all designed to abscond with their funds. 😱

Moody Aldrich Exits PLMR Stake: $8.2M Shift

The fund’s decision to divest its entire holding in Palomar Holdings during Q3 2025 speaks to the cold arithmetic of portfolio management. With shares trading at $115.34-a 9.2% gain year-to-date but trailing the S&P 500 by 5.5 percentage points-the move reads less as a verdict on the company’s future and more as a rebalancing of risk. Yet for the workers who service Palomar’s earthquake and hurricane policies, such shifts often arrive like thunder in a field of wheat: sudden, loud, and indifferent to their labor.

Mattern Capital Abandons $9.1M Union Pacific Stake Amid Merger Drama 🚂

According to an SEC filing dated Oct. 21, 2025, Mattern Capital exited its entire holding in Union Pacific Corp. (UNP +0.00%), selling all 39,549 shares. The estimated trade size was $9.1 million. The stake previously represented 1.1% of the fund’s assets under management as of the prior filing period ended Sept. 30, 2025. It’s worth noting that Union Pacific’s 2.4% dividend yield, while respectable, may have seemed less appealing next to the gravitational pull of Microsoft’s cash reserves or Apple’s increasingly surreal stock price. (One wonders what kind of dividend checks would arrive from a company that sells “intermodal freight” and calls it a day.)

Malta’s Fancy No to $39 Million Binance Bribe – The Drama Unfolds

Apparently, Binance fancied the idea of directly handing over BNB to cancer patients-because nothing screams privacy quite like sharing sensitive medical records with a crypto exchange that’s arguably more opaque than my Aunt Judy’s dating life. This, along with some other “reputational concerns,” made Malta’s government reach for their antacids and say, “Thanks, but no thanks.” 🛑🤷‍♂️

Keystone Boosts Chevron Stake Amid Energy Shifts

According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated October 7, 2025, Keystone Financial Planning, Inc. increased its position in Chevron by 53,772 shares during the third quarter of 2025. The estimated value of the trade was $8.33 million, based on the period’s average share price. The fund reported a post-trade stake of 78,550 Chevron shares, valued at $12.20 million as of September 30, 2025. A modest increase, one might argue, though not without its charms.