| Show | Title | Abbreviated Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering The Trade | Bitcoin Mooning, CoreWeave Stock Surge and Slumping Solar Stocks | Jermal covers Bitcoin’s surge, CoreWeave’s moves, and tax impacts on solar stocks, plus trading strategies. | Watch |
| From Theory to Practice | Why Add Spot FX to Your Portfolio | Jim & Glen explain new Tasty FX: access to 80+ leveraged markets, low margins, seamless integration, audience Q&A. | Watch |
| Options Trading Concepts Live | Three Options Trade Ideas - May 22 | Host trio cover strategies, highlight SNOW earnings, gold futures, crypto, plus butterfly trade ideas in gold & NG. | Watch |
| The LIZ and JNY Show | Long-Term Yields Crushing Stocks: Trader Response | TP & Liz discuss bond market selloff, rising yields, equity outflows, and deep-dive trade metrics & experience. | Watch |
| Trades From the Research Team LIVE | The Team Trades NKE, FSLR, TLT, PEP, and AAPL | Research crew presents and tweaks strangles/condors/puts on NKE, FSLR, TLT, PEP, AAPL, with risk lessons. | Watch |
| Market Measures | Days of the Week in 0 DTEs | Tom & Tony share which weekdays are best for 0 DTE trades and how to sell at open; plus event/edu tips. | Watch |
| Confirm and Send | 10 Futures Rally After Morning Decline | S&P 500 futures rebound after early drop; covers Russell, VIX, BTC, oil/gold, and an FDX call spread idea. | Watch |
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Received a scam message. Uk based
Received a concerning email today. I have had some of these emails before never written out like this. I am an anxious person so... Anyone who knows anything could you tell me if I should be concerned at all? It's almost comically menacing. Makes it hard to take it seriously, but I obviously worry that would be my downfall. God I hate these things. Thank you.
|| || |Greetings! I have to share bad news with you. Approximately a few months ago, I gained access to your devices, which you use for internet browsing. After that, I have started tracking your internet activities. Here is the sequence of events: Some time ago, I purchased access to email accounts from hackers (nowadays, it is quite simple to buy it online). I have easily managed to log in to your email account (Not revealing my own email) One week later, I have already installed the Cobalt Strike "Beacon" on the Operating Systems of all the devices you use to access your email. It was not hard at all (since you were following the links from your inbox emails). All ingenious is simple. :).
This software provides me with access to all your devices controllers (e.g., your microphone, video camera, and keyboard).I have downloaded all your information, data, photos, videos, documents, files, web browsing history to my servers. I have access to all your messengers, social networks, emails, chat history, and contacts list. My virus continuously refreshes the signatures (it is driver-based) and hence remains invisible for antivirus software. Likewise, I guess by now you understand why I have stayed undetected until this letter. While gathering information about you, i have discovered that you are a big fan of adult websites. You love visiting porn websites and watching exciting videos while enduring an enormous amount of pleasure. Well, i have managed to record a number of your dirty scenes and montaged a few videos, which show how you masturbate and reach orgasms.
If you have doubts, I can make a few clicks of my mouse, and all your videos will be shared with your friends, colleagues, and relatives. Considering the specificity of the videos you like to watch (you perfectly know what I mean), it will cause a real catastrophe for you. I also have no issue at all with making them available for public access (leaked and exposed all data). General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Under the rules of the law, you face a heavy fine or arrest. I guess you don't want that to happen. Let's settle it this way: You transfer $1592 USD to me and once the transfer is received, I will delete all this dirty stuff right away. After that, we will forget about each other. I also promise to deactivate and delete all the harmful software from your devices. Trust me. I keep my word.
That is a fair deal, and the price is relatively low, considering that I have been checking out your profile and traffic for some time by now. If you don't know how to purchase and transfer Bitcoin - you can use any modern search engine. You need to send that amount here Bitcoin wallet: 1JhBcHR5L6yKaF8H8LtP9q9YGALYZzs8oS (The price is not negotiable). You have 2 days in order to make the payment from the moment you opened this email. Do not try to find and destroy my virus! (All your data is already uploaded to a remote server). Do not try to contact me. Various security services will not help you; formatting a disk or destroying a device will not help either, since your data is already on a remote server.
This is an APT Hacking Group. Don't be mad at me, everyone has their own work. I will monitor your every move until I get paid. If you keep your end of the agreement, you won't hear from me ever again. Everything will be done fairly! One more thing. Don't get caught in similar kinds of situations anymore in the future! My advice: keep changing all your passwords frequently.|
Bitcoin is pumping and Bitget is helping celebrate the pizza day
May 22 marks the first real world Bitcoin transaction when Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas with 10,000 BTC, an amount that is worth millions today. When I first heard about this, I was honestly shocked. It is amazing to see how much crypto has grown since then.
To mark this milestone, I am taking part in Bitget’s event where you can predict crypto prices and win from a 10,000 BGB prize pool. It is a fun way to celebrate the progress of crypto and get involved in the community.
For me, Pizza Day is not just a piece of history. It is a reminder of how far we have come and how exciting the future of crypto is.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
MB's 6th anniversary! (Thursday, May 22)
Happy Thursday, Barkada --
The PSE gained 40 points to 6375 ▲0.6%
Food poisoning has got me a little low-batt, but thank you to all the readers who wrote in privately to check on my condition. I'm good. Just guzzling buko juice. Lost my appetite. Slowly getting it back.
▌In today's MB:
- MB's 6th anniversary!
- On this day 1 year ago
- 208 episodes
- Subscriber growth!
- Channel/funnel growth!
- Thank you to 15 sponsors
- Thank you to 23 patrons
- What I'm working on now
▌Daily meme | Subscribe (it's free) | Today's email
▌Main stories covered:
[META] Today is MB’s 6th anniversary... It’s a light news day, so I figured I would take a moment to acknowledge MB’s milestone 6th anniversary. First off, thank you all for reading, for commenting, and for being a part of the MB community that has grown up around this tiny newsletter over the past six years. Whenever I miss a day there are always messages checking in on my health and wishing me a quick recovery. Whenever I need feedback, I always get 40-50 comprehensive responses that demonstrate a true level of care for the question and the well-being of the newsletter. To honor that level of commitment, let’s take a look back at MB’s 6th year and see what kind of a year it was.
What was happening? My writeup for May 20, 2025, I celebrated MB’s 5th anniversary [link] in a long episode that also introduced MB’s Trading Cup 2024 team (Matthew, Jenny, and Sef), and talked about PNX, C, and INFRA getting suspended for reporting failures (PNX is still suspended to this day, and according to the rules, should have been involuntarily delisted in August 2024). I also covered an ALTER press availability where they said that dividends were “not far behind” (they were declared just 6 months later). The PSEi was trading at 6619 (oof). VREIT was trading with a 12.3% annualized yield (the highest). AREIT was trading with a 6.43% annualized yield (the lowest). OGP had just listed a week ago, and its price was languishing at ₱12.66/share (5% below its IPO price).
How many episodes? I published 208 episodes of MB over the trailing 12 months, which is actually kind of high. I figured it would be way lower, given the number of sick days and travel days that I took. Always a pleasant surprise to get a delivery rate of over 80%. Each episode is about 1,200 words of writing between the main body content and the REIT/IPO sections, so that works out to about 249,600 words written. That’s about three novels’ worth! (Writing MB is not nearly as hard and time-consuming as writing a novel, though, so novelists, please don’t come at me! I know how hard you work.)
Subscriber growth? I started my 6th year with 10,943 subs, and ended with 11,94 subs, for a net add of 998 (+9%). That’s a net figure, so it doesn’t include all of the subs that I cleanse from the list based on certain criteria, namely: no newsletter opens over the past year. I don’t love doing this to people who have subscribed, but I also don’t love the thought that people might secretly dread receiving MB. It really felt like MB’s growth stagnated this year, so it’s wild to see a 9% bump!
Channels/funnels: MB is now published across seven delivery channels (newsletter, Twitter/X, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, Investa, Bluesky), plus my ongoing partnership with Philstar.com. I’ve seen a ton of growth across those channels. My philosophy has always been that I will meet readers wherever they are, and that’s helped grow MB’s reach. The only downside with this approach is that it is sometimes overwhelming for me to read and respond to comments and questions. In the old days, I’d have some private notes come in by email, and then monitor Twitter/Facebook/Reddit, but now with all of the other channels, I find it difficult to respond in a way that feels genuine to me. So I’ve stopped my policy of recognizing every piece of constructive engagement. That’s been difficult for me, because I feel like I’ve lost a little bit of touch with readers.
Sponsors: I had 15 sponsors over the past year, between regular ads and Free Stuff Fridays events, and I must take a second to appreciate their support. MB is not cheap to operate, and these sponsorships help keep all my subscriptions current (Mailchimp, bitly, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc) and my employee (hello, Jewel!) fairly compensated for their work. A hearty MB thank you to the full-day ad sponsors: DoubleDragon, MerryMart, DragonFi, Filinvest REIT, NextAsia Land, D.M Wenceslao, Top Line Business Development, Investagrams, Megawide, and Brankas. Another hearty MB thank you to the Free Stuff Friday collaborators: NextAsia Land (twice!), Investagrams, Rockwell Land, Shell Philippines, and Plentitude Chocolate. Thank you all for thinking about MB as a part of your ad spend. The support is really appreciated.
Patreon supporters: MB has a Patreon page with 23 readers that contribute a combined total of $147/month. I consider each of these readers to be like the “essence” of MB. At one time I tried to maintain a system of perks for varying contribution levels, but that too became overwhelming rather quickly. Plus, the concept of content-related perks (exclusive benefits to paying readers) runs counter to one of the founding principles of MB, that everyone gets everything, that there is no “inner circle” of paid readers that get better/faster/deeper information. But these readers contribute each month to something that they could receive for free, and that blows my mind. I massive, huge, from-the-bottom-of-my-heart thank you to: Roberto, tagongpangalan, kapitan, Itamar, Jing, Zaldy, Grant, TheHardry, Job, Manny, Kal El, Alejandro, Jovy, Terence, Niarsadif, Ernesto, MPower, Dirtroad, Nunya Beezwax, NP, Neptune, Christian, and @lyra_tee. I appreciate all of you and the contributions you continue to make. The past couple of years have been rough for the PSE, so ad revenue is down, but your support helps me continue with more confidence through these extended dry periods. My goal this month is to fix the broken perks system, but I have no idea what kinds of things to provide. If you have any ideas, please let me know!
Things I’m working on: My goal, as always, is to provide as much relevant, informative, and entertaining information as possible to help make investing more accessible and less confusing. To that end, I’m trying to hire a business journalist to help me cover a broader range of stories and to go deeper over time on important issues that keep coming up. Slide into my DMs if you’re interested. I’m also trying to find someone who can run the external ad sales department. It’s too much for Jewel and me, so if you’re interested, you should slide into my DMs as well. We are going to revamp the Crypto News section (to include more than just a Bitcoin and Ethereum quote), and revamp the REIT Index image to include data that is more relevant to buying/selling. I want to renovate the Patreon perks. I want to incorporate the AAA Robo PIP recommendation into the newsletter. I also want to run a lot more Free Stuff Fridays. I never have a shortage of things I want to do!
- MB: Thank you all for being part of such an interesting and rewarding year of Merkado Barkada. There’s no way for me to express my gratitude for your continued support in a way that feels proportional to how much your readership means to me, so please accept my sincere “thank you”. Writing MB has forced me to grow my abilities in so many different directions that I’m hardly the same person who started this journey back in 2019. That guy would have been frozen with panic at the thought that hitting “SEND” would push his content out to hundreds of thousands of daily readers. Not that my heart is cold to it. Not at all. It’s more that as the subscribers increased and the readership grew, I was only brought into contact with more and more people who I discovered were good, genuine, and inspiring. I used to be afraid of every spelling mistake. I would physically wince each time I hit “SEND”. But over time, I was encouraged by all of the positive vibes. Thank you all for helping to sustain those good vibes. Maraming salamat!
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Michael Saylor Was Right—Bitcoin Is Digital Manhattan
Bitcoin is a monetary black hole—an economic gravitational singularity. Its proof-of-work mechanism exerts an entropic pull, drawing in capital energy and restructuring financial matter into cyberspace. Like a collapsing star, it absorbs trust, capital, and energy from the decaying fiat system. Once you cross the event horizon of understanding, there’s no turning back. As Michael Saylor observes, it’s the digital Manhattan—where value consolidates and traditional monetary orbits are defied.
Monero broke $400 today despite being delisted left and right from exchanges. Are you not entertained?
So, let's see the pattern here:
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Ban CD / DVD copying = fail. Torrent is invented.
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Ban Kazaa, music sharing etc. = fail. Spotify is invented for peanuts cost per month.
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Ban torrent movie sharing etc. = fail. Netflix is invented for peanuts cost per month.
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Ban streaming of matches etc. events = fail. Streaming services are invented for peanuts cost per month.
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Ban money, print money, let banks restrict people's freedom to use their own money etc. = fail. Bitcoin is invented.
You see, people will always find a way. It's unstoppable. Their solution has always been about "at least let's invent something so we can control it and data mine it."
- Ban Monero etc. privacy coins = fail. What do you think will happen now?
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