Dividend Stocks vs Growth Stocks 📈

🗣 Dividend stocks are equities that return part of their profits to shareholders as regular cash payments. These payments usually come quarterly and are funded from operating cash flow. Pricing of these stocks tends to be more stable because a portion of total return comes from distributions rather than price appreciation.

🗣 Growth stocks reinvest most or all profits back into the business instead of paying dividends. The expectation is higher future earnings, which can support a higher valuation over time. Returns depend almost entirely on price appreciation.

🗣 Dividend-growth stocks sit between the two. These companies pay dividends while still growing earnings at a moderate rate.

The tradeoff is allocation of capital. Dividend stocks prioritize current shareholder payouts, which limits reinvestment and caps growth potential. Growth stocks prioritize reinvestment, which increases uncertainty but can compound faster if execution holds.

❗️Dividend payments are not guaranteed. They can be reduced or suspended if cash flow weakens or capital needs change.

❗️Growth assumptions can also fail if revenue slows or margins compress, leading to sharp repricing.

🟢Want cash flow now? → Dividend stocks like Coca-Cola $KO

🟢Want long-term appreciation? → Growth stocks like Amazon $AMZN

🟢Want both? → Dividend-growth stocks like Microsoft $MSFT

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India’s stock market just recorded its biggest drop in more than four months as trade risks moved back into focus. The pressure is coming from Washington 📉

😤 Trump has approved a bill that would impose 500% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil. China, India, and Brazil are explicitly named.

India is heavily exposed. Since 2022, it has imported about $168 billion worth of Russian crude, becoming Moscow’s second-largest buyer after China 💸

Recently, the US has been putting a lot of pressure on Russia, not just in words but in deeds. If this continues, Trump may soon succeed in achieving peace in Ukraine 🤨

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Whales are buying coins from weak hands 🐳

Large Bitcoin holders are absorbing supply while retail flow is weakening or turning negative. That divergence usually appears when stronger hands are buying liquidity from impatient sellers, either late in a cycle or during a mid-cycle reset.

We saw a similar setup in March 2025. Price chopped during the Israel-Iran conflict, sentiment cooled, and whales quietly accumulated while retail stepped back.

📊 Polymarket currently prices a ~30% chance of Bitcoin hitting $100k in January. Short-term bias looks bullish I would say, but geopolitical tensions could suddenly change the market's behavior. It's easy to imagine a single headline like 'US bombs Iran' moving BTC down 5% in a day, so be careful and don't play with leverage.

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France has about one crypto kidnapping a week 🇫🇷

Masked gunmen are breaking into homes and holding people hostage for crypto wallets. Turns out it’s not just criminals doing the hunting. A French tax official was caught selling taxpayers’ personal data to organized crime, helping gangs identify crypto holders.

💵 For a few hundred euros per lookup, government databases were used to feed addresses to kidnappers. Fourteen attacks in recent weeks alone.

The government, wanting to know everything about its obedient taxpayers, teams up with criminals who want to beat you up and take your money. Great! 🤡

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You can usually tell when elections are coming by watching what politicians suddenly care about.

📉 Gas prices are the easiest signal. Everyone drives, everyone sees the price at the pump, and lower gas makes life feel cheaper fast. U.S. gas prices are now at their lowest level in five years, moving down with crude oil.

The next U.S. midterm election is on November 3, 2026. Control of Congress is on the line and Trump tries to boost Republican ratings.

Here’s what’s on the agenda 👇

🟢Pushing gas prices toward $2 per gallon

🟢Calling for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates

🟢Banning institutions from buying single-family homes

🟢Buying $200 billion in mortgage bonds to push rates down

🟢Pressuring the Fed to cut rates to 1% in 2026

🟢$2,000 tariff “stimulus checks”

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What Is Triangular Arbitrage and How to Use It? 🔍

Triangular arbitrage exploits inconsistent exchange rates across 3 trading pairs that share the same assets. The cycle converts asset A to B, B to C, and C back to A (example: USDT → BTC → ETH → USDT). Profit exists only if the final amount of A exceeds the starting balance after fees.

🕯 The pricing inconsistency usually appears because each pair updates independently based on its own order book. For example, BTC/USDT, ETH/BTC, and ETH/USDT can momentarily imply different ETH valuations. The arbitrage condition is mechanical and can be computed directly from quoted bid and ask prices.

Execution requires all 3 legs to clear at tradable prices. The relevant prices are the best available bids and asks at the moment each order hits the book, not mid prices. If any leg partially fills or slips, the cycle can flip from positive to negative immediately.

🤔 Fees dominate outcomes. A 0.04% taker fee applied 3 times consumes about 0.12% of notional, which sets a hard minimum threshold for viability.

Also, if you want to try it, remember about latency. By the time the second or third order is sent, the book often rebalances and removes the discrepancy. This is why manual execution rarely works.

↗️ 🙅‍♂️ Triangular arbitrage does not scale linearly with capital. As size increases, fill quality deteriorates and price impact grows faster than the quoted edge. In practice, it behaves more like a short-lived microstructure inefficiency than a reusable strategy.

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How to store money in a fully decentralized, anonymous, and unseizable way 🤑

Disclaimer: This post is for educational and informational discussion only. I do not endorse or encourage illegal activity, evasion of law enforcement, or misuse of financial tools

1️⃣Go to KuCoin and buy Monero (XMR). It's the best truly anonymous crypto, which is why it's banned almost everywhere.

2️⃣Download Cake Wallet, or any other non-custodial wallet that supports Monero, and deposit your XMR there for permissionless storage.

3️⃣Good, but what if you don't want to have long exposure to XMR? Then, you need to create a delta-neutral position and short the same amount of coins that you hold. However, you better do this on a decentralized exchange.

4️⃣Go to Lighter DEX and deposit USDC. Open a short position on XMR for the same number of coins that you hold on spot. For example, if you own 10 XMR, you need to short 10 XMR. Maintain a healthy margin.

5️⃣Now, your money is in the form of coins that can't be monitored or frozen, and that no one else can access. You also have money as margin for the short position on perp DEX that can't be taken away from you either.

Congratulations! You've reached levels of financial sovereignty unimaginable in the traditional banking system. Save for later and share with a friend 📌

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New year, old scams 🤦

The former mayor of NYC launched a memecoin called $NYC and it rug-pulled in under 30 minutes.

😂 It was promoted from his personal X account as the “NYC token,” framed as a project to fight “antisemitism and anti-Americanism.” Minutes later, liquidity was pulled.

The price spiked to $0.58, then collapsed more than 85%. Estimated losses are already above $2.5 million.

The response from the team said liquidity was “rebalanced” and promised they’re “in it for the long haul.” In this case, the long haul lasted about half an hour 😂

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This is why hiring in Europe feels insane 👀

Europeans keep wondering why growth in EU is dead, startups leave, and young people can’t find work. Then you look at charts like this and it clicks.

Massive welfare states, insane labor rules, and governments feeding almost entirely on payrolls. This model only works while there’s still other people's money left to steal 💰

Put yourself in the shoes of a business owner in France. You want to pay €36,000 net a year to your employee. To do that, your real cost isn’t €40k or €50k. It’s close to €87,000 per year. Roughly €51,000 disappears (about 59%) into taxes and “contributions” before the employee even sees it.

😱 Nothing about that extra money improves the job or the business. It pays for pensions, benefits, and promises made long before you opened your company.

When you hire a French or Italian worker, you’re not hiring one person. You’re also hiring their retired mother, your worker but unemployed and also potentially sick, and the bill for decades of political cowardice 🤬

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How to Invest in U.S. Stocks From Anywhere in the World 🌍

People often ask in the comments how to invest in U.S. stocks from outside the U.S., without even saying where they’re based. So I've decided to write a simple, global answer.

🧠 If you want one platform that works in most countries and has a long track record, Interactive Brokers is the most reliable all-around option. It provides broad access to U.S. stocks and ETFs, strong regulation, and pretty ok fees.

Here are other commonly used platforms, grouped by region, that many investors use to access the U.S. stock market👇

🌍 Africa: Bamboo, Trove, Chaka

🌍 Europe: DEGIRO, Trading 212, eToro

🌍 South Asia: Vested Finance, Groww

🌍 East Asia: Rakuten Securities, Nomura

🌍 South America: Avenue Securities, GBM

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Just watched a guy move around while a Kling Motion Control AI-generated girl copies every motion and facial expression perfectly 😐

We are not prepared for how fast production pipelines are about to change. Imagine movie character swaps at near zero cost. One actor will have infinite faces. Hollywood, ads, influencers, everything will likely break all at once.

OnlyFans models should probably start updating their resumes too 😂

This is also a scam gold rush waiting to happen. If you think deepfakes were bad before, imagine this in the hands of people who already prey on the clueless. Boomers have no idea what is coming. Warn your parents!

This is not “someday” tech. This is now. And once it’s cheap, easy, and everywhere, there is no putting it back in the box 😐

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X has banned rewarding users for posting, effectively killing the “infofi” model on the platform. That means crypto projects paying users for engagement are out 👏

The $KAITO token reacted instantly, dropping 26% on the news. Kaito is a crypto analytics platform whose entire growth loop depended on rewarding posts, replies, and “yaps” with points and airdrops.

🗣 If you’ve been wondering why comments on CT were flooded with identical AI-written comments, this is why. Incentives turned posting into farming, and farming turned feeds slop.

As for KAITO, a token built on paid AI-slop posting with a $137M market cap doesn’t look like it has much of a future. This feels like one of those down-only alts, no matter where the market goes 📉

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The short-term price action of Bitcoin may seem bullish, but if you open a high-timeframe chart, the outlook quickly becomes pretty bleak 😱

The resemblance with the tops and bottoms of the last cycle is scary. It's worth noting that last time it looked more like a double top, whereas this time we got a clear higher high.

🕯 However, this doesn't change the fact that the price action is very similar. Is it really that easy? Will we just get another dead cat bounce and continue dumping? Or will the market once again trick everyone into making the wrong trade?

🔍 I will base my directional bias for 2026 on the price action that BTC shows over the next 1-2 months. We may see a move up to 100k–108k, but if BTC continues to underperform stocks and fails to hold these levels, I expect a further correction 📉

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If you were in crypto in 2021, this cycle should feel very different. We still haven’t seen anything close to the old altcoin season. Not even remotely. No broad rallies, no sustained rotation, no feeling that “everything goes up, all the time, bear markets are mathematically impossible now” 🤣

The core reason is supply. It exploded. According to CoinGecko data, the number of dead tokens in 2025 is 4,476x higher than in 2021. Demand didn’t grow at anything close to that pace, so liquidity is being shredded across millions of assets.

🧠 I remember, even back then, everyone said “99% of tokens will fail.” Today that number is laughably optimistic. Entire operations exist just to launch, pump, and rug hundreds of tokens per day. That is the job of many people in crypto.

In this environment, old-style alt seasons don’t really work. A tiny handful of tokens absorb 90% of the demand. Everything else either underperforms forever or disappears within a week 💀

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Monero has quietly become one of the strongest performers in the market. XMR is up roughly 40% in the last week and more than 50% over the past 14 days 🔼

And here is why: On January 10, a victim lost over $280 million in BTC and LTC to a social engineering scam. The attacker immediately started converting the stolen funds into Monero and the buying pressure caused XMR pump.

🤔 The attacker had options. They could have used Zcash, Dash, Litecoin, or any other “privacy-adjacent” coin.

When the actual criminal, not just some random 'paranoid opsec fan', is moving hundreds of millions in stolen crypto, they need the most secure, privacy-first asset.

The fact that they chose XMR tells you more about the real competition between privacy coins than any whitepaper ever will 🤷‍♀️

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and tariffs from Trump 😱

Trump argues Greenland is now a critical national security asset, claiming China and Russia want influence there and that only the U.S. can realistically secure it.

📈 To force the issue, he announced new tariffs on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, and Finland, starting at 10% on February 1, 2026 and rising to 25% on June 1. These tariffs will remain in place until the U.S. reaches a deal to fully buy Greenland.

The whole “we will fight the U.S. if needed” talk by EU politicians is mostly farce and psyop. Europe’s actual response so far amounts to one British officer, two Norwegian soldiers, and a three Swedish officers sent to Greenland. In the U.S. only about 8% of Americans support using military force.

There is no public appetite for conflict. Nobody really prepares for it. U.S. will simply buy Greenland and pay every resident their share, with estimates putting the price around $700 billion 💰

I also like how all the big, market-moving announcements by Trump keep dropping on Saturdays or late Fridays, right after U.S. stock trading stops. Crypto doesn’t get that pause. It trades 24/7 and reacts in real time, which makes weekends the most dangerous part of the week IMO. Stay sharp during these days

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The Bank of England Is Being Asked to Prepare for Aliens 🛸

A former senior analyst at the Bank of England is warning that official confirmation of non-human intelligence would be a serious financial shock.

The concern is not aliens themselves, but confidence. Markets rely on shared assumptions about control, institutions, and how the world works. A sudden announcement that breaks those assumptions could trigger extreme volatility, bank runs, and panic 😨

What makes this notable is that senior government and intelligence figures have openly acknowledged unexplained activity near sensitive military sites, and previously classified files show governments quietly treating the issue as real.

🤔 I’m hearing more and more discussions about aliens as the next upcoming psyop tool. Unifying crises are useful for maintaining a state of exception during global emergencies.

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Neurobiology of Trading Behavior 🧠

Most people reliably do the opposite of what markets reward. Buying feels hardest when it is statistically favorable, and selling feels hardest when risk is highest.

Markets reward behavior that feels wrong to the nervous system. Human brains evolved to survive physical threats and scarce resources. They are optimized to avoid losses and to press advantages when rewards feel available.

📈 Greed shows up during rising PnL. When gains are possible but not yet realized, dopamine increases and pushes traders to add size, trade more often, or loosen entry criteria. Confidence rises even though nothing about the chart changed. This is why many losses start after periods of good performance. Risk expands while the trader feels in control.

😱 Fear appears when price moves quickly against a position or during volatility spikes. The brain shifts toward damage control and short-term relief. Traders cut winners early, hesitate on valid entries, or stop executing altogether.

During larger losses, the fight or flight response takes over. Flight shows up as panic selling to immediately reduce stress. Fight shows up as holding positions past invalidation while waiting for relief or even DCAing to fight the market.

Both reactions bypass planned risk management. They only resolve emotional pressure. These reactions are predictable, which makes them manageable. Fixed sizing, predefined SLs, and personal trade limits exist to remove decisions at the exact moments the brain performs worst ❗️

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This is how bot operators cheat in online poker and make tons of money 🃏

They run coordinated bot farms. Multiple bots sit at the same table and share their cards and game data outside the platform.

🤖 Instead of playing independently, they act as one system, avoiding each other and making decisions using information real humans (victims) never have. It’s one of the main reasons online poker is much tougher than it looks.

It’s illegal on every poker site and eventually gets caught, but until then these setups quietly drain real players who think they’re just running bad 🧠

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So there is a new project ETHGAS that wants to airdrop its token to people who burned money on Ethereum gas fees 🤑

Sounds fair, until you realize one of the biggest NFT whales ever, Pranksy, spent about 627 ETH on gas and still got nothing. That’s roughly $2.4 million just to move bits around.

🫡 And most likely because of the silly social media tasks he didn't do. That's the current state of “airdrops,” which you have to register for and jump through hoops to get.

I remember how you could just open your wallet and find thousands of dollars in tokens sent to you, without ever knowing why. Ah, those were the days 😢

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