By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern The federal funds rate is a tool of the fed to apply monetary policy on the market by controlling short term circulation of the US Dollar on the market. The Fed is able to adjust the federal funds rate by issuing/buying US government-backed securities such […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern It’s been almost impossible to miss the huge decreases in the stock market’s biggest indices over the past week. The S&P 500, DOW Jones Industrial Average, and the Nasdaq Composite have all taken losses upwards of 8.14%. The fed has responded with emergency measures by […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As of last Wednesday, we had an all-time high in the S&P 500 after reports claiming the coronavirus was being taken care and there was nothing to worry about. Since then there have been outbreaks of the virus all over the world with confirmed cases […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern If you were watching the S&P 500 yesterday, you probably noticed a flash crash that took place at 10 am and lasted for about 45 minutes. During this time period, the S&P 500 dropped approximately 1.24% and proceeded to pick back for the rest of […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern If you’ve watched a CNN Business Market Review segment, then you’ve probably heard of their equities Fear & Greed Index. The Fear & Greed Index is an indicator of what type of emotion is driving the trades of the market. The Index uses seven different […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Risk on-risk off is a common way of evaluating investor’s risk aversion levels by analyzing risk sentiment. Risk sentiment can be analyzed by asset prices, corporate earnings, macroeconomic data, and central bank action. Risk sentiment describes how investors perceive their worst-case scenario for any given […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies enter the common dialogue, people are beginning to appreciate the advantages of using digital currencies. As we experience a slight bull run, everyone is attempting to see how they can take advantage of this promising technology for investment, efficiency and […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Bitcoin has gone through a turbulent new year as new crypto legislation is enacted, geopolitical tensions increase, and the halvening on May 12 becomes even closer. Many traders in the market are attempting to predict how to profit off this using a multitude of different […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern  Countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Iran citizens have begun to feel these pressures through rampant inflation in their local currencies as their governments fair poorly in their own geopolitics. As more countries, monetary policies begin to affect everyday citizens, more people are looking for alternatives […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern  If you’ve been watching the news this week, you are probably nervously aware of the events that took place between the US and Iran after the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. If you would like to read more about US and Iranian tensions, here […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As investors have noticed, coins in the crypto market have been bleeding throughout the sector. The crypto market cap has decreased $10 billion over the last week to its current market cap of $180 billion. Some speculators have attributed this to a multitude of reasons, […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Stock to flow is a common indicator for commodity trading where the amount of supply currently in circulation is being divided by the amount produced in the next given year. The commodity with the highest stock to flow ratio currently is gold with a value […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Social trends are becoming increasingly useful in the crypto space as they are a good indicator as to what other traders are focused on and any upcoming coins that might otherwise be missed. The problem is we are usually coming on to these trends too […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern While Bitcoin is currently fighting to break upwards past 7300 USD/BTC, some major events are happening in the east regarding blockchain utilization. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) recently went through the process of tokenizing 2.8 billion dollars worth of bonds for small business loans […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern In October, I wrote an article introducing the idea that there was an inverse correlation between stock market climate and cryptocurrency price performance. Recently the stock market has experienced one of the most relieving pieces of news that it’s had all year. Trade discussions with […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern While traders have their focus drawn on the price, it’s important to realize that adoption is the real key to future positive investments. Some countries are making that process easier than others but some of the most unsung heroes of the movement are spread throughout […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As XRP had an amazing winter this time last year, the third most invested token on the market has taken some serious pitfalls since. In November of 2018 XRP was trading at approximately .5 XRP/USD and has since dropped to less than half of that […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Tezos has just entered the USD exchange market by being the new staking token on Coinbase. While Coinbase first added its staking wallet back in March of this year, the exchange had trouble implementing it into their apps and had to delay the process until […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Stellar Lumens (XLM) just received a 20% increase in price following a supply burn of  52.3% or removal of 55 billion stellar lumens from the tradeable market. The Stellar Development Foundation decided that cutting their supply would help them achieve their goals of mass adoption […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern  China’s leader Xi Jinping recently made announcements about his support of blockchain technologies being implemented into financial services and markets. With 1.38 billion people and rising, support for blockchain by the Chinese government has been a long-awaited event in the crypto community as an opportunity […]