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Van evaluates the market each month and publishes his market update along with his SQN Report.

Update on Cryptocurrencies March 19th, 2023 By, Nolan Loxton

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. In July 2021 the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) launched with the objective of being a broad investable digital asset universe benchmark. The index launched on July 13th, 2021, and has a 10-year history based on the index methodology on the launch date. Courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices, spglobal.com The index had a notable peak in May 2021 of 5,547 and then dropped significantly until July 2021. On November 9th, it […]

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Market Update February 28th, 2023: Sideways Normal Market Type By, RJ Hixson

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. Part I: The World Market Model As a mild winter in much of the northern hemisphere gives way to an early spring, do we see green shoots emerging from the markets? Let’s see if there are any early blooms in the World Market Model.   The picture at the end of February is pretty similar to January’s picture—a marked improvement from the year end situation in 2022. Here are some highlights: European country markets were unanimously

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Update on Cryptocurrencies February 19th, 2023 By, Nolan Loxton

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. In 2021 the S&P launched their Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) with the objective of being a broad investable digital asset universe benchmark. Even though the index launched on July 13, 2021, the methodology allows values for the calculated value. Courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices, spglobal.com The index had a notable peak in May of 2021 at 5,547 and then dropped significantly until July 2021. It set a new high on November

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Sideways Normal Market Type Market Update: January 31st, 2023 By, RJ Hixson

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. Part I: The World Market Model Only one month into 2023, and already, things are changing? My, my, the world and the markets just keep moving. Let’s see how markets look in the World Market Model—Van’s map of the global situation. Overall, we see so much more green at the end of January compared to the 2022 year-end map. Some highlights from the model: US market segments are all positive now, with two green symbols—Mid-Cap Value

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Update on Cryptocurrencies January 16th, 2023 By, Nolan Loxton

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. In 2021, the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) launched with the objective of being a broad investable digital asset universe benchmark. The index launched on July 13, 2021 and has a 10-year history based on the index methodology on the launch date. Courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices, spglobal.com The index had a notable peak in May 2021 of 5,547 and then dropped significantly until July 2021. It set a new high of

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Bear Volatile Market Type Market Update: December 30th, 2022 By, RJ Hixson

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Part I: The World Market Model Happy New Year! Let’s see how the markets were feeling on the last trading day of 2022. We see very little green but lots of yellow and brown in the model on December 30th. Hmmm, not much happy in the holidays for the bulls this year end. Here are some highlights from the model. The US market segments are almost all negative again. Tech (QQQ) is red, the Dow (DIA) is slightly positive, but everything else is weakly negative. The geographic region Europe/Africa is

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Update on Cryptocurrencies December 14th, 2022 By, Nolan Loxton

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The S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) launched with the objective of being a broad, investable digital asset universe benchmark. The index launched on July 13, 2021 and has a 10-year history based on the index methodology on the launch date. Courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices, spglobal.com The index had a notable peak in May 2021 of 5,547 and then dropped significantly until July 2021. Then it set a new high on November 9th last year of 6,215.99 but slid down until June/July 2022 where it found

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Sideways Volatile Market Type Market Update: December 2nd, 2022 By, RJ Hixson

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. Part I: The World Market Model In the northern hemisphere, people generally relate the month of October to the season of fall—a time when the days grow shorter, temperatures grow colder and leaves fall from the trees. The World Market Model below, however, looks more like spring. With pollen and new growth almost everywhere, yellow and green abounds. Are the months of red and brown symbols over? We can’t tell yet but let’s take a look

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Update on Cryptocurrencies: November 14th, 2022 By, Nolan Loxton

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here. On July 13, 2021, the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index (Ticker: SPCBDM) launched with the objective of a broad, investable digital asset universe benchmark. The index launched on July 13, 2021 and has a 10-year history based on the index methodology on the launch date. Courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices, spglobal.com The index had a notable peak in May 2021 of 5,547 and then dropped significantly until July 2021. It set a new high

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Bear Volatile Market Type Market Update: October 31, 2022 By, RJ Hixson

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If you would like to read this article in a downloadable pdf format, click here.   Part I: The World Market Model At the end of October, the World Market Model looks pretty similar to many of the other months this year, showing mostly red and brown cells. However, UUP, the USD ETF is no longer the sole green symbol in the table as it has company from two other ETFs this month. Let’s take a look. If we move around the metaphorical globe represented by the figure, we see: All

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