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Weekly Rundown - April 20, 2025
You'd have to stop the world
Mark Helfman
April 20, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
🌟 Editor's Note
In crypto, you have to deal with dumps that feel like you’ve wasted your money, pumps that feel like they’ll go up forever, and all the emotions that come along the way.
I can’t always get to your comments and emails promptly. Would you like me to create a Telegram or Discord group for the Crypto is Easy community so we can commiserate and react when these swings happen?
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🗓️ What you missed this week / what’s coming up
Market Update We looked at where we stand in the bubble cycle and discussed a key bull/bear signal in the M2 global liquidity chart. We also checked on metrics and altcoins. Catch the April 17, 2025 update. | Monthly Post and Market Update This week, I’ll post the free monthly issue and another market update. FYI it’s not too late to read my special report, Exposing Bitcoin Data Models and Cycle Theories. |
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Listen to Frank Chaparro’s interview with Flowdesk CEO Guilhem Chaumont.
They discuss the nuances that US tariffs introduce for investors, particularly institutional investors.
For example, unlike previous major departures from monetary and financial norms, the US’s tariff push lacks coordination with other governments. As a result, nobody’s trying to create a governmental mechanism to limit the fallout. What does this mean for investors?
Also, Guilhem talks about what institutional investors are looking for at this moment, which is not necessarily what you might think. This is worth understanding because they control the flows until casual speculative interest returns.
Their discussion touches on other themes that I've talked about recently. Watch the video below.
Bottom line: $OM token collapsed because market-makers—entities who buy or sell on behalf of exchanges to help traders fill their orders—manipulated the token price. This article fills in some details and gives you some steps to reduce your risk of suffering a similar fate.
My take: Price manipulation is rampant in crypto and not always intentional. Unlike the way your central bank manipulates the price of your currency or nation-states manipulate the prices of commodities, crypto manipulators do this secretly. We all get whacked once in a while. It’s part of the crypto experience. I stick to my portfolio strategy to keep me out of too much trouble.
Why we care: We assign blame fairly and know the risks we take with crypto.
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