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Everything you need to understand investing and keep up with the markets.

How markets work7 min read

Does Bitcoin Move With the Stock Market?

Before 2020, no link at all. Since then, bitcoin has mostly fallen when stocks fall.

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How markets work7 min read

What Happens After Bitcoin Hits a New All-Time High?

The next month was usually good. The next year was usually worse.

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How markets work8 min read

Every Bitcoin Bear Market, Measured: How Deep and How Long

The fall takes about a year. Getting back takes longer.

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How markets work7 min read

Is Uptober Real? Every Bitcoin October Since 2011, Measured

October has a good record. So would whichever month got lucky.

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How markets work8 min read

The Bitcoin Halving Cycle: Four Cycles, Measured

The clock has kept time. The cycles keep getting smaller.

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How markets work8 min read

When Crypto Moves: Weekends, Hours and the US Open

Crypto never closes. It still keeps hours, and they're New York's.

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Funds & ETFs8 min read

How to Read Bitcoin ETF Flows

The most quoted number in crypto, tested day by day since launch. It tells you what already happened.

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Derivatives8 min read

How to Read the CME Gap

Bitcoin's most famous chart rule, tested against a level with no gap behind it. And why the gap stopped forming in May 2026.

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Derivatives9 min read

How to Read the Crypto Fear & Greed Index

The market's mood in one number: what goes into it, what buying extreme fear actually got you, and why extreme greed missed the biggest tops.

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Derivatives10 min read

How to Read the ETH/BTC Ratio

Ether priced in bitcoin: the scoreboard between the two biggest coins, what it says about every other coin, and what it doesn't.

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Derivatives11 min read

How to Read the Bid-Ask Spread

The smallest number on the screen. What it's been, minute by minute, for ten months on the biggest crypto order books — and what it costs you next to the fee.

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Derivatives11 min read

How to Read the Stablecoin Peg

Tether and USDC are supposed to be worth a dollar. Here is what they have actually traded at, week by week since 2017 and hour by hour on the days it mattered.

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