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2025 Financial Markets Year in Review: Gold’s Triumph, Bitcoin’s Whiplash, and a World at a Macro Turning Point
If 2024 was about anticipation, 2025 was about realization.
Markets didn’t just move — they revealed structure.They showed investors what truly matters when liquidity shifts, geopolitics intrudes, and narratives collide with hard macro realities.
Gold rewrote history.Bitcoin reminded everyone what volatility really means.Central banks quietly but decisively pivoted.And geopolitics proved that headlines move faster than fundamentals — but fundamentals eventually win.
Dec 29, 20254 min read


Japan’s Interest Rates vs Bitcoin: Why BOJ Tightening Keeps Shaking Crypto
Japan is finally moving away from the “free money” era—and crypto markets are reacting every time. Over the last five years, Bitcoin (BTC) has increasingly behaved like a global risk asset: when global liquidity tightens and leverage unwinds, BTC tends to fall fast. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), after decades of ultra-low and even negative rates, has started a policy normalization cycle that’s becoming one of the most important macro drivers for crypto—especially because Japan sit
Dec 16, 20256 min read


Powell Under Pressure: Fed Independence, Politics, and What Investors Should Watch
In recent months, financial markets have been forced to confront a question that rarely arises in modern U.S. monetary history: Could the Federal Reserve Chair be pushed out for political reasons—and what would that mean for investors?
Dec 12, 20255 min read


XRP vs. The SEC: The Legal War That Could Redefine Crypto Forever
A Five-Year Battle. Billions at Stake. A Precedent That May Shape the Next Decade of Digital Asset Regulation.
Dec 5, 20256 min read


Bitcoin’s Plunge Below $100K – Understanding the Crash and Its Ripple Effects
Bitcoin’s fall below six figures marks a stunning about-face after a prolonged rally. On November 4, 2025, Bitcoin broke below $100,000 – a level it had held for roughly 180 days – completing a 20% slide from its all-time high (~$126,210) reached just weeks earlier[2]. The breach of the $100K psychological support triggered broad market panic, with a wave of sell-offs intensifying across the crypto market.
Nov 14, 202515 min read


Realized vs. Unrealized (Notional) Profit — What’s the Difference?
“Till the time you don’t book a profit, it’s not a profit.” In trading and investing, profit isn’t truly yours until you realize it. Understanding the Concept In trading and investing, profit isn’t truly yours until you realize it. A realized profit (or gain) occurs when you sell an asset for more than you paid, locking in that increase in value as actual money in your account. By contrast, an unrealized profit – also known as a notional, paper, or book profit – is a gain tha
Nov 10, 20257 min read


Gold’s Nine-Week Streak in Historical Context
Gold’s current 9-week string of weekly gains A Rare Feat: Nine Consecutive Bullish Weekly Candles Gold’s current 9-week string of weekly gains is an extraordinarily rare event. In the past few decades of freely traded gold prices (since the 1970s), such long winning streaks have only occurred a handful of times . One analysis found that since 1978, gold has logged a 7-week rally only 9 times , and extended to an 8th week just once – while 9 consecutive up-weeks happened onl
Oct 17, 202511 min read
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