Readers of these pages will be familiar that in addition to holding its gold bars in a HSBC vault in London, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed ETF, at times also holds some of its gold bars in the vaults of the 'Bank of England' in London.

The crash that shaved more than $1 trillion of value from the digital-asset industry in the past few weeks was entirely foreseeable. I have been warning about the dangers of leveraging bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2018, as have others. Few heeded warnings as prices soared. The crash is healthy.

The great Bollinger Bands are one of the first things we must learn when analyzing time series. This is because of their sound statistical reasoning, their wide adoption across market participants, and their success when deployed in trading strategies. We can also see other variations that resemble the...

What if we told you there was a hamster who has been trading cryptocurrencies since June - and recently was doing better than Warren Buffett and the S&P 500? Meet Mr. Goxx, a hamster who works out of what is possibly the most high-tech hamster cage in existence.

Tether is a fraud on the scale of Madoff or Enron and we're in the middle of a bubble for the history books. Disclaimer: I have short positions on the cryptocurrency ecosystem, through MSTR and COIN puts It's something awesome to live through one of the great bubbles of history.

Markets were sent into yet another frenzy of activity today as hundreds of thousands of Robinhood and TD Ameritrade (UPDATE: WeBull, which many RH users were migrating too, has also halted new positions in these stocks) users woke up to find these brokers were no longer allowing any further trades on GameStop ($GME), as well as other notable 'meme' stocks like AMC ($AMC), BlackBerry ($BB), and Nokia ($NOK) as well as cryptocurrency Dogecoin which also started to take off late last night (UPDATE: WeBull, which many RH users were migrating too, has also halted new positions in these stocks).

ShapeShift, the Colorado-based cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to self-custody their assets, has delisted another privacy coin. Zcash has been removed from the trading platform in addition to monero and dash. Decrypt reported last Friday that XMR and DASH had been quietly removed; the delisting of ZEC was not noted.

Coinbase said it will suspend trading of XRP, the cryptocurrency the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Ripple Labs in regards to last week claiming it is really a security. Coinbase first listed XRP on its retail-facing platforms in February 2019. Starting now, XRP trading "will move into limit only," Coinbase wrote.