Verified market-moving events, primary-source facts, and practical cross-market context.
Cardano ran 50% in four days and has handed the whole move back to the low of the bar that made it. A governance vote closing on 1 September is the near-term risk.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Meta grew revenue 28% and still lost a seventh of its share price, because capital spending is now guided as high as $145bn. The chart shows where the recovery runs out.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Netflix fell 7.7% on results in July and has since recovered almost all of it, reaching 82.33 before easing. The engagement disclosure change is the detail worth watching.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Amazon posted its fastest AWS growth in eighteen quarters and the shares have given back the entire post-earnings spike. The $220bn capex line explains the disagreement.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
USD/CAD bounced from 1.37460 and stopped dead at 1.38878, a whisker under the descending average at 1.38910. Canadian core inflation explains why the bounce lacked conviction.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Natural gas has rallied 8% off its 25 August low on a late-summer heat forecast, straight into record production and the deepest pre-winter storage since 2016.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Avalanche broke a fortnight-long base, spiked 31% to 8.3133 and gave most of it back inside one four-hour bar. What it has kept is more interesting than what it lost.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Polkadot rallied 41% in four days, printed 1.03167 and closed that bar 5.4% lower. The supply side has changed materially this year; the demand side has not.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Copper is up roughly 47% on the year and treatment charges have collapsed from $21 a tonne to nothing. The concentrate market, not the demand side, is running this move.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
WTI is up about 30% on the year with third-quarter balances now showing a 1.8 mb/d deficit. The chart has price sitting on four averages that have converged into one line.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
The dollar has clawed back rather more than half of its 19 August slide against the franc, but 0.80629 has capped every attempt so far. Here is what decides the next move.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
EUR/JPY has run from 181.315 to 185.952 in three weeks and every moving average on the four-hour chart now sits beneath it. The question is which central bank blinks first.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 28, 2026 • 2 min read
Sterling sits at 216.544 against the yen, compressed between a 217.10 ceiling and a moving-average cluster at 215.74 as September BoJ hike talk builds.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
The euro trades at 0.85771 against sterling, recovering the moving-average band at 0.8563 and pressing a 0.8587 ceiling that has held twice this month.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
The dollar sits at 159.370 against the yen, recovering the moving-average band at 159.12 as markets price roughly a 77% chance of a September Fed hike.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Broadcom sits at 355.45 after an 18% slide from its August high, with results due on 2 September and the entire moving-average band now acting as resistance.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Alphabet sits at 342.03 beneath its full moving-average stack, with 82% cloud growth in the second quarter outweighed by $44.9bn of quarterly capital spending.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Microsoft trades at 496.17 above every moving average after Azure grew 43% and passed $100bn in annual revenue, with 508 still capping the August advance.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
XRP trades at 1.3997 after slipping beneath the 1.4295 average, even as cumulative US spot ETF inflows reached $1.57bn through the end of last week.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Chainlink holds 11.536 above its 11.450 moving average after a week of integrations that put its data feeds behind tokenised equity collateral and a new venue.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Solana holds 101.221 after reclaiming the 97.62 average, pressing a 104 ceiling that has capped the August advance twice in the last five sessions.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Platinum holds $1,847.80 after a sharp August advance, with the 2026 deficit forecast revised up to 297 koz even as total demand is set to fall 9%.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Silver holds $68.96 just under the $70 ceiling that has capped three attempts, supported by a sixth consecutive annual deficit and 20% growth in physical investment.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
Brent trades at $86.54 beneath a moving-average band capped at 89.06, having given back nine dollars from its August high despite the sharpest stock draw since 2025.
Saqib Iqbal • Aug 27, 2026 • 2 min read
