If you're taking a high-risk position, know what you can afford to lose. Don't let one idea have the power to destroy your portfolio. Risk starts with position sizing.
As a young investor, my mind can get chaotic sometimes. 😅 It's either hitting the target or going to zero in my head. That's why some positions are sized at an amount I'm ready to lose. 💀
The market can make a good asset look terrible for a while. That's why I don't judge an investment from price alone. The cycle and the fundamentals both matter.
Decision lands 2:00 PM ET today, Warsh press conference at 2:30. Markets price 91% odds of a 25bp hike to the fed funds range, up from 3.50–3.75%. The dot plot matters more than the hike itself June's showed half the committee already leaning toward one by year-end. Watch the statement language, not the headline number. One hike changes little; a hawkish dot plot changes everything.
There are none coming. The Fed cut three times in Sept–Dec 2025, then held at 3.50–3.75% since. Markets now price a 91% chance of a hike at tomorrow's meeting the first hike since the cycle turned in 2023. Middle East-driven oil prices, not growth, are forcing the Fed's hand. The cut narrative is dead for now. Anyone still positioning for easing is trading last year's story.
10-year Treasury yield hit 5.02% Tuesday, highest since 2007. 30-year at 5.384%, near 2004 levels. 2-year holding at 4.68%. Oil is doing the damage correlation with the 10-year is near 0.96. Markets price an 89% chance of a Fed hike this week, the first since 2023. This isn't a dip to buy. It's a repricing.
BTC at $76,798, down 1.3% on the day, off the $79,614 high. ETH at $2,473, down 2.1%, testing the low end of its range. No bounce structure yet this is continuation, not capitulation. Ethereum's sub-$2,000 zone stays untouched. Watching, not buying.
Quiet day, but the week ahead isn't: the Senate's CLARITY Act cloture vote (Sept 15) and the FOMC decision (Sept 15–16) both land almost immediately after. Worth pre-writing the setup piece now rather than scrambling Monday morning. Posture stays the same cash, patience, no forced trades into a binary week.
Equities close, crypto doesn't. Whatever Friday's CPI reaction was will keep extending or reversing over the weekend on thin volume weekend crypto moves are notoriously unreliable signals, so read them as noise until Monday confirms them.
The week's real event: August CPI. After a hot 162k jobs print, this number decides whether rate-cut hope survives or dies. Hot CPI plus hot jobs stacks two hawkish data points in one week that combination has hurt risk assets before. Weekly performance wrap goes out today across crypto, Indian equities, gold, and silver, as usual.
US PPI drops before the open the pipeline-inflation check ahead of Friday's bigger number. ECB also meets today. Two central-bank-adjacent events in one session means volatility risk goes up even if neither surprises. $78,000 is the line BTC needs to hold; below it, sentiment gets uglier fast.
China's August CPI comes out a read on whether Chinese demand is actually stabilizing or just looking that way. Matters for metals and crypto risk appetite more than people admit. Alt rotation (Zcash, Dash) has been draining short-term speculative capital out of BTC; that's a symptom of a market bored with its own leader, not a reason to follow it.
No major US data scheduled. We're inside the FOMC "quiet period" (Sept 5–17), so expect fewer Fed voices and more speculation filling the gap. Nifty's holding just under 24,000, Sensex near 76,700 grinding sideways rather than trending. Watch price, ignore noise.
Should money be a goal ?? Never, the enjoyment that you had along the path was the goal, the relationships, the fun you had along the path is the goal 😁
This is the day. July PCE data lands the same morning as Kevin Warsh's first
Jackson Hole keynote as Fed Chair, his first major speech since taking over in May. Nineteen days before the September FOMC decision.
He's told reporters this speech is about "big questions," not near-term guidance. Don't take that at face value, write the post after the speech lands, not before. A neutral-tone speech is already priced in by most desks.
The market reaction, if there is one, will come from what's unexpected, not from what's expected.