Monthy Market Updates and SQN Reports

  There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in a world model. The Market SQN score uses the daily percent change for input over a 100-day period. Typically, a Market SQN score over 1.47 is strongly bullish and a score below -0.7 is very weak. …

July 2020 System Quality Number® Report The SQN® Report by, Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »

I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading, so I do the work each month and am happy to share that information with my readers. However, if your beliefs are not similar to mine, then this information may not be useful to you. Thus, if you are inclined to go through some sort of intellectual exercise …

July 2020 Market Update Sideways Normal Market Type by, Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »

  Market Summary Yesterday, July 15, the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index was at 378.28 after being at 381.55 last month following a low of 217.82 in early March. The market has been slowly regaining but it is still off from both its 2019 and 2020 highs. The BTC halving took place on Monday, May 11th around 4PM which means that miners now produce 6.25 BTC every ten minutes. That’s down from 12.50 BTC prior to the halving. It used to cost about $6,851 to mine a bitcoin so when BTC …

Update on Cryptoassets as of July 15th, 2020 By Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »

  There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies, and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score to measure the relative performance of numerous markets in a world model. The Market SQN score uses the daily percent change for input over a 100-day period. Typically, a Market SQN score over 1.47 is strongly bullish and a score below -0.7 is very weak. …

June 2020 System Quality Number® Report The SQN® Report By, Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Read More »

  Market Summary On June 15th, the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index was at 381.55 after reaching a low in early March of 217.82. The market has been slowly regaining but it is still far off its 2019 and 2020 highs. The BTC halving took place on Monday, May 11th around 4PM. That means that the BTC miners as a whole will now produce 6.25 BTC every ten minutes, down from 12.50 prior to the halving. Mining a BTC used to cost $6,850 so miners made a profit when the price …

Update on Cryptoassets as of June 15th, 2020 by, Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »

  Market Summary On March 14th, the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index was at 241.61 after reaching a low of 217.82. And the total market cap of cryptos dropped by about $120 Billion. Today, after two months, we have some recovery to 359.29 as of close on May 15th. However, the BTC halving took place on Monday 11th around 4PM. That means that the BTC miners as a whole will now produce 6.25 BTC every time minutes. That’s down from 12.50 prior to the halving. And it used to cost about …

Update on Cryptoassets as of May 15th, 2020 by, Van K. Tharp, PhD Read More »