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I Stopped Calling $3,900 Gold’s Floor. The Monthly Chart Changed My Mind.
The number 3,900 means little on its own. What matters is whether the conditions that made 3,900 a support are getting stronger or weaker. In the week of Nov. 13, spot gold briefly broke above 3,900 and then gave it back. The weekly loss was 4.9%. The intraweek low was $3,852, the lowest level since October 2025. That was not an ordinary pullback probe. It was the first rebound after the monthly breakdown, and it failed above 3,900.
By Jinabout an hour ago in Trader
Nvidia’s Doom Prophecy Is Smooth. That Doesn’t Make It True.
A popular story about Nvidia’s future moves fast. A new CEO cuts 20% of staff and freezes hiring. He calls it efficiency. Then he sells or closes the gaming GPU unit and goes all in on AI. The stock rises. He trims R&D and the supply chain, raises the dividend, and keeps his job. In 18 to 24 months, the stock recovers in a burst. Tech media and finance bloggers then explain that American tech wins because of its system, not its people. Anyone who missed the bottom is low-cognition. America is about to reach AGI. Anyone who watched Boeing knows the next act. The company becomes a stock machine. The stock looks better while the company dies inside. The new flagship slips, so the company reheats the old CEO’s leftovers. Quality fails. A generation of products is recalled. Executives focus on moving headquarters closer to a mistress.
By Jinabout an hour ago in Trader
The Five Days That Ended Jensen Huang’s Nvidia
From invidia to invidious : Nvidia’s Five-Day Excision On November 12, 2026, Nvidia posted an announcement on its website. It ran to fewer than a thousand words. There was no farewell letter, no statement from the founder—only one cold sentence: Jensen Huang was resigning as president, chief executive officer, and board member, effective immediately. From the apology letter of November 8, in which he admitted to an extramarital affair, to the moment his resignation took effect, five days had passed. A founder who had run the company for thirty-three years lost the line that belonged to him in an official document.
By Jinabout 2 hours ago in Trader
Anthropic's $1 Trillion IPO Is Really About Paying the Bills
I. Three numbers $78. $1.02 trillion. 5.7%. These three numbers frame Anthropic's IPO plan. The upper end of the offering price is $78 per share; based on total shares in the prospectus, the target valuation ceiling is about $1.02 trillion. Its last private round this year valued it at more than $965 billion. The IPO premium: 5.7%.
By Jin4 days ago in Trader
He Sold 4.08 Million Yuan of Gold at 840. The Next Day It Rebounded.
I In the autumn of 2025, Sun transferred 4.08 million yuan out of his mobile banking app in three transactions. The first was 2 million, the second 1.5 million, the third 580,000. After the last transfer, a message from his restaurant supplier popped up, asking whether the payment for goods could be settled early. He dismissed it, switched back to his gold account, and looked at the holdings page: 1,167 yuan per gram, all 4.08 million yuan in it.
By Jin4 days ago in Trader
Nasdaq Just Removed the Wall Between Wall Street and Your Portfolio
On December 6, 2026, Nasdaq's "23/5" regime goes live. The exchange will stay open 23 hours a day, five days a week, with a single one-hour closure. The new overnight session runs from 21:00 to 04:00 Eastern Time. Under winter time, that is 10:00 to 17:00 Beijing time. The window sits directly on top of the main A-share session and most of the Hong Kong session.
By Jin4 days ago in Trader
Global Markets Rebound: Oil Falls, Stocks Rally and Traders Brace for US Inflation Data
Global financial markets are experiencing another period of uncertainty as investors respond to changing geopolitical developments, oil prices and expectations about US monetary policy.
By Junaid Ali (Official)5 days ago in Trader
Anthropic’s IPO Eve Looked Like a Victory Lap. Then Claude Code’s Core Team Started Leaving.
On October 23, Anthony Morris, creator of Claude Code’s desktop client, announced on X that he was leaving Anthropic. The next day, core engineer Thariq Shihipar followed. On November 3, product lead Cat Wu confirmed that October 30 had been her last day. On November 4, she said she was joining OpenAI to lead product management for its core product team. In less than two weeks, the founding team of Claude Code lost at least four core members.
By Jin10 days ago in Trader
Gold Is Bouncing, Not Booming: The Three Signals That Would Prove Otherwise
Gold’s recent rise is better treated as an oversold bounce than a reversal. Central bank purchases and the dollar-credibility story can support prices, but they are not enough on their own to start a trend. A confirmed reversal needs three things at once: the Fed’s hiking cycle is confirmed over, real interest rates trend lower, and money flows back into gold. If one is missing, the bounce can fail and retest the lows.
By Jin10 days ago in Trader
379 Companies Are Waiting. Zero New Applications Came In.
From October 26 to November 1, no new IPO applications were accepted across the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing stock exchanges. The Shanghai exchange had gone two months without accepting a new application. The Shenzhen exchange had gone three. Over the same period, 379 companies were under review: 198 on the Beijing Stock Exchange, 77 on ChiNext, 67 on the STAR Market, 20 on the Shanghai Main Board, and 17 on the Shenzhen Main Board.
By Jin10 days ago in Trader
Xiangpiaopiao’s 974,600-Yuan Quarter Shows Why Cup Coffee Won’t Save It
RMB 974,600. One quarter. Net profit attributable to shareholders. Mixue Bingcheng earns more than that in half a day. That comparison matters more than the 88.09% decline. The decline is a symptom. The 974,600-yuan figure is the X-ray: a national brand that once strung its cups around the globe now earns less in a quarter than a bathroom in Hangzhou costs.
By Jin10 days ago in Trader
Political Earthquake in America
The 2026 US midterm elections have delivered a major political shock. Democrats have won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, dealing President Donald Trump and the Republican Party one of their biggest setbacks in recent political history.
By Junaid Ali (Official)11 days ago in Trader