My first day in trading

Tehran’s Vatan Emrooz headline: “Nuclear Year.” The newspaper claims Trump’s policies are pushing nations to go nuclear. Just let’s not forget - back in July 2024, Blinken claimed Iran’s nuclear weapon breakout time was just 1-2 weeks. No “pushing” needed then. So… is Gold heading for $3,100?

Someone got off to a good start (BIDU) 102.27 +8.45% at Close: March 17 at 4:00:01 PM EDT // 107.00 +4.73% Pre-Market: 5:55:39 AM EDT

Karoline Leavitt: "I would be to remind France that it's only because of the USA that the French are not speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country." - F*ck! Seriously?

Warren Buffett is tweaking the rules for his March Madness contest to yield a big winner: “I’m getting older,” the famed stock picker, who is 94, told The Wall Street Journal. “I want to give away a million dollars to somebody while I’m still around as chairman.”

Dramatic night: Claims that Iranian intel ship Zagros was sunk by U.S. forces at the same time the IDF conducts wide-ranging strikes in Gaza. Gaza ceasefire is over. Reuters is also reporting ballistic missile movement at IRGC bases in Iran. In Yemen several senior IRGC members were eliminated.

Surprising fact of the day: Volkswagen sells more sausages than cars! In 2024, the German auto giant hit a record, selling 8.5 million of its signature currywurst, compared to just just 5.2 million vehicles. No joke - these sausages, produced since 1973, even have a part number: 199 398 500 A.

Canary Capital has just filed an S-1 application for a spot SUI ETF. This is a major step toward bringing SUI to public markets — on approval, the SUI ETF would become the first public investment vehicle in the U.S. focused exclusively on SUI.

Trump sends a message to Iran: “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible & suffer the consequences & those consequences will be dire”

President Trump announces a full scale military strike against Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

Nvidia GTC 2025, March 18 - 21 - Jensen Huang is expected to debut the company's latest flagship AI chip, the Blackwell Ultra, and to host its first Quantum Day, a panel discussion b/w Huang and executives from quantum computing companies incl D-Wave (QBTS), IonQ (IONQ), Rigetti (RGTI), and SEEQC.

It turns out, and so it was possible: President Trump declares all pardons given by Biden to be null and void.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said Monday that it had added to its stakes in the five biggest Japanese trading houses. Berkshire raised its holdings in Itochu, Sumitomo, Marubeni, Mitsubishi and Mitsui, regulatory filings on Monday showed, upping its stakes to between 8.5% and 9.8%.

Prime Minister of Hungary: Hungary is making history with the largest tax cut in Europe & the entire Western world! We are building the world’s first family-centred economy: 👶 One-child mothers exempt from income tax until they turn 30. 👩‍👧‍👦 Two or more children? No income tax for life!

Traders who survived the 2025 Trade Wars be like…

North Korea’s Lazarus group has converted the stolen $ETH to $BTC after the Bybit hack, now holding 13,562 $BTC worth around $1.12B per data from @arkham.

Fast-fashion retailer Forever 21 files for bankruptcy. Forever 21 said it will conduct liquidation sales at its stores while simultaneously conducting a court‑supervised sale and marketing process for some or all of its assets.

Bitcoin just wicked to $85k

Me double checking my crypto address before making a $89 transaction (credit to @naiivememe)

TKL: The number of Americans working more than one job has never been higher: multiple jobholders hit a record 8.86 million in February. As a share of employment, multiple jobholders rose to 5.4%, the highest in 16 years.

Is Warren Buffett selling his real estate empire? His latest move is a clear warning that the property market is in serious trouble.

Scott Bessent: With the China tariffs, Chinese manufacturers will eat the price. I believe the currency adjusts — All the other things we do. If we’re de-regulating, getting energy prices down, then if we look across the spectrum, Americans will realize lower prices

Satoshi Nakamoto after leaving Bitcoin (сredit to The Figen)

Outside of the US consulate. Nuuk, Greenland. March 15, 2025.

Tom Lee says Bitcoin will do better than $150,000 this year