Market On Open, Thursday 21 August

Market On Open, Thursday 21 August
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Headfake Or Omen?

by Alex King, CEO, Cestrian Capital Research, Inc

Shots fired yesterday.

Time to be ready for a change in the weather.

We’ll take a look at equities, bonds, sectors and crypto as usual in a moment.

But first, this:


What People Say About Our Crypto Coverage

July 2025 - “The Tools, The Information, And The Confidence"

"Re. the Big Money Crypto service - I was a crypto hold out but now I am a crypto hodler.  Alex & Yimin have given me the tools, the information, and the confidence to invest in crypto stocks and ETFs in a manner suitable for an adult who can't yolo it all away or try to follow the next meme stonk.  Big Money is taking crypto seriously and where Big Money goes, I want to follow, and the Cestrian team knows the way".

If you’re not an Inner Circle member, and you want to use our work to help you win in the new world, can I suggest you either:

  • Join Inner Circle to get our absolute best work all in one place, to join our wonderful community of investors and traders in our chat and alerts system, and to get access to our weekly live webinar - in short, to join the team, or:
  • Join our Big Money Crypto service which is solely focused on the new world. You can sign up for the newsletter alone (get the paid version if you can), or the algos, or both.

This is where you go to learn about these services, and to sign up too:

Cestrian Inner Circle

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If you’re already a subscriber to any of our other services, we’ll always provide a discounted price as a thankyou. Just drop us a line at minerva@cestriancapital.com and we can get you your best price.

Now let’s get to work. Here’s our daily subscriber-only take on the US equity indices, volatility, bonds, oil, crypto, and key sector moves.