# Night Trading 101: Trading While the Market Sleeps
Ever wondered if you can make moves after the closing bell? You can—through overnight trading, where folks buy and sell outside regular market hours using electronic networks (ECNs).
**How it works:** Instead of hitting traditional exchanges during 9:30 AM-4 PM EST, traders tap into after-hours and pre-market sessions where fewer players participate. Lower volume = wider bid-ask spreads and bigger price swings, but also real opportunities if you're watching global news.
**What can you trade?** Pretty much anything—stocks (esp. after earning

US stock futures holding green this Wednesday morning—Dow +77pts, S&P 500 +18, Nasdaq +107—as traders digest some surprisingly solid economic data ahead of the holiday break.
Jobless claims came in cooler than expected: 216K initial claims vs 225K forecast, with continuing claims steady at 1.96M. The labor market's basically on cruise control at this point—hasn't really moved in months. Could signal the Fed has less reason to keep cutting rates if job stability + consumer spending stay this strong.
Durable goods orders hit expectations at +0.5%, but here's the interesting bit: non-defense ex-a

What if holiday spending tanked 50%? ChatGPT ran the numbers, and the fallout would be brutal:
**GDP impact:** Quarterly growth drops 0.5-1 percentage points, Q4 potentially flatlines or goes negative.
**Retail bloodbath:** 20-30% revenue hit for most retailers, mass store closures (especially department stores, apparel brands, toy shops). E-commerce giants like Amazon would survive better, but still take damage.
**Jobs vanish:** 300k-600k seasonal retail jobs gone, plus warehouse workers and delivery drivers. First-quarter layoffs as companies restructure.
**Domino effect:** Manufacturing ord

April Effect: Why Traders Love This Month
Here's something worth knowing: S&P 500 has gone positive in April for 15 out of the last 16 years. Over the past 50 years, April averaged a 2.21% gain—the highest of any month. Pretty wild, right?
Historically, April ranks third-best over the past century (after July and December), with the Dow gaining 1.46% on average and posting positive returns 62% of the time.
Why the April pump? A few theories:
• Tax refund season—people reinvesting money back into stocks
• Portfolio rebalancing—institutions dumping underperformers in March to satisfy quarterly r

Why Apple might be the smarter AI play right now:
• Apple Intelligence runs on-device, no massive GPU farms needed. While competitors burned hundreds of billions on Nvidia chips in 2025, Apple spent only ~$12B in CAPEX. That's the vertical integration advantage.
• iPhone replacement cycle incoming. On-device AI = better performance = reason to upgrade. iPhone sales have plateaued, but this could spark years of momentum.
• Services are the real money machine. App Store + iCloud + Apple Music margins are thicc and recurring. Could hit 50% of total revenue soon.
• Cash fortress: $55B on hand, plu

Wall Street's looking a bit shaky heading into Tuesday. Futures are in the red—Dow down 16, S&P 500 sliding 8, Nasdaq 100 off 34.50 points. Meanwhile, Asia closed mostly green and Europe's rallying so far.
Trump just dropped that he's heading to China in April at Xi's invitation—classic geopolitical flex. Dollar holding steady, gold on a roll.
Today's gonna be all about the economic data dump: delayed Sept retail sales (+0.4% expected), PPI numbers (+0.3% consensus), housing data, and November consumer confidence (consensus 93.3 vs last month's 94.6). The confidence dip could be telling.
Monda

# Why did UNI rise 21% this week? Two upgrades completely changed the game.
Uniswap has surged against the trend in the bear market, becoming the winner among the Top 30 coins this week. This is not due to speculation, but rather two substantial network upgrades that have led the market to reassess the value of this DeFi big brother.
**First Wave: Continuous Liquidation Auction Mechanism Online**
Uniswap has launched "continuous clearing auctions," which essentially builds a permissionless token auction protocol. What does this mean? In the future, new tokens will no longer be a black box ope

Oil prices just took a hit as Ukraine-Russia peace talks heat up. WTI crude dropped 1.59% Friday, gasoline fell 1.62%—both hitting 4-week lows. The stronger dollar didn't help either.
Here's the twist: While peace hopes pushed prices down, the actual deal fell apart when Ukraine and EU allies rejected key terms. Result? Oil recovered from its worst levels.
The bigger picture is messy. OPEC flipped its Q3 outlook from a 400k bpd deficit to a 500k bpd surplus (US production is crushing it). But Russia's crude exports are getting hammered—down to 1.7M bpd (3-year low) after Ukraine's drone strike

# PYUSD vs RLUSD: Which stablecoin is more cost-effective to buy?
Two small and refined stablecoins are benchmarked, and the data differences are significant:
**PayPal USD (PYUSD)**
- Market cap of 3.4 billion USD
- Hold in your PayPal account to enjoy a 4% annual return
- Internal transfers between Venmo and PayPal have no fees.
- Transfers on the Solana chain are also free.
- Supports trading pairs of 7 types of crypto assets
**Ripple USD (RLUSD)**
- Market capitalization of $1 billion
- No yield feature available (officially in development, not yet launched)
- Can be traded on over 20 exch

# Sunrise Energy Metals Secures AU$46M for Scandium Mine Development
Australian mining company Sunrise Energy Metals (ASX:SRL) landed AU$45.6 million in fresh capital this week to kick off pre-construction work on its Syerston scandium project in New South Wales. The placement priced at AU$4.25 per share will fund engineering, water and power infrastructure, and drilling activities.
The move marks a major milestone after the company snagged conditional financing support from the US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) for up to AU$103 million earlier this fall—enough to cover roughly half the project's