Markets & the Economy: The Big Tell
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One of the faster 10% thumping’s in memory put the market in the post-concussion protocol: every vital sign scrutinized, setbacks assumed, monitoring for lasting damages… Do bulls or bears face the burden of proof now?
Add it to the ETF Line Up
New Launches: (week ending 3/21) a few highlights…
- HOOX~ Defiance Daily Target 2X Long HOOD ETF
1st ever Solana ETFs launched from VolShares (futures based)…Solana equivalents of BITO & BITX
- SOLZ~ Volatility Shares Solana ETF
- SOLT~ Volatility Shares 2x Solana ETF
New Filings: Schwab, Direxion, VistaShares
Schwab files for a new money market ETF
- SGVT~ Schwab Government Money Market ETF (intends to operate as a gov’t money market fund under the regulations governing money market funds)
Direxion out with a doozy of a filing; 71 leveraged ETFs (combo of super sector & single stock ETFs- there’s a 2x Costco filing in there
New hot sauce flavor filing just dropped from VistaShares
- ANIM~ VistaShares Animal Spirits Strategy ETF
- WILD~ VistaShares Animal Spirits Daily 2X Strategy ETF; holds stocks that are inside the fastest growing 2x stock ETFs like MSTR, NVDA, TSLA etc
ETF Check Up: Bitcoin, ETF Issuers
Spot bitcoin ETFs w the longest stretch of weekly outflows…
- 5 straight weeks; $5.5B in total
Which ETF issuers were hit the hardest asset wise by market drop this year as of 3/14/25?
In short, anyone who specializes in ‘hot sauce’ got it the worst: ARK, ProShares, Direx
