Author: Aaron W.
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As we move through the opening months of 2026, financial markets are navigating a mix of tech-driven optimism, geopolitical volatility, and structural transformation. Institutional research and market behavior show that the investment landscape is shaped not just by macroeconomic data, but by deeper shifts in technology, capital flows, and investor priorities. Here’s how markets are…
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Week of 15–21 December 2025 – by HowToCaptain Markets Desk The week of 15–21 December is all about reaction, not anticipation. Markets now have fresh inflation data behind them and face the long-delayed November Nonfarm Payrolls (Dec 16) — a key input just days before the final Fed decision of the year. The U.S. dollar…
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Week of 8–14 December 2025 – by HowToCaptain Markets Desk The coming week (8–14 December) puts U.S. Core PCE in the spotlight while markets continue to digest a fading risk appetite and deep cracks in the smaller end of crypto. The dollar is parked right on key support, global equities and major crypto have lost…
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The 5 December session was all about waiting for the U.S. Core PCE report and adjusting risk around it. The dollar held near key support, equities and large-cap crypto stalled, and the pain in mid- and micro-cap tokens deepened, with many names still down close to 70% year-to-date. The long-delayed November Nonfarm Payrolls report, now…
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The 3 December session delivered quiet price action in the dollar, orderly profit-taking in gold, a sharp bounce in Bitcoin after a washout, and a solid recovery in US equities as traders leaned again into the Fed-cut story and the classic “Santa Claus rally” narrative. Under the surface, the market is still in “data-waiting mode”:…
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Published: December 1, 2025 – by HowToCaptain Research Bitcoin kicks off the first week of December under pressure. After printing an all-time high above $126,000 in October, BTC has slid roughly a third from the peak, with price on December 1 dropping briefly below $85,000 in a broad crypto sell-off. The move caps a brutal…
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Gold is heading into the first week of December still glued near all-time highs. Spot XAUUSD is trading around 4,210–4,230 $/oz, after a powerful rally in November that pushed prices up more than 50% year-on-year and roughly 7% over the last month. At the same time, markets are obsessed with one thing: Will US labour…
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1. Quick recap: what happened during the CME outage? In late November 2025, CME Group, one of the largest futures exchanges in the world, suffered a major technical incident. A cooling problem in a data centre forced parts of its infrastructure to be shut down to avoid overheating. As a result, the electronic platform CME…
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When a bug serveur bourse 2025–style event hits and your trading platform freezes, you’re exposed but blind. Step inside the mind of a beginner trader during a panne CME Globex and discover why this risk is far more serious than just a bad Wi-Fi connection. Imagine it’s Friday morning.Your coffee is ready, your charts are…
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November 23, 2025 Updated for the week of 24–30 November 2025 By Aaron W. — HowToCaptain.com Gold heads into the last week of November trading around $4,065/oz, stabilising above the key $4,000 handle after a sharp October correction and a choppy mid-month range. This week, the focus shifts to U.S. PCE inflation, GDP revisions, global…