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The author presents his new book “The Value Investing Handbook”, now available worldwide on Amazon as e-book, paperback, and hardcover. With 540 pages, it offers comprehensive knowledge – from the basics to advanced strategies.

• The author incorporated insights from 9 years of YouTube community discussions and 25 years of investment experience into this book.
• It fills a gap: classics like Margin of Safety are outdated, while other books cover only specific topics.
• It is a practical step-by-step guide that helps beginners get started and gives experts new perspectives.

• Why value investing? Historical market data shows that avoiding losses in stagnant years leads to significantly higher long-term wealth.
• Core principles: Own businesses, calculate intrinsic value, maintain a margin of safety, and focus on risk first.
• Market psychology: Dealing with irrational phases like AI euphoria or depression – and understanding your own psychology.
• Financial analysis: Going through financial statements line by line, identifying red flags and traps, supported by examples.
• Valuation: Models for finding undervalued stocks and assessing management’s capital allocation skills.
• Portfolio management: Mental strength, goal setting, and strategy – including whether you can stomach a 50 % drawdown.

• Practical exercises at the end of each chapter deepen your understanding.
• Numerous charts, tables, and case studies make the theory tangible.
• The approach aims to maximize lifetime wealth by avoiding losing years and focusing on fair prices.

The author’s free Value Investing Course will be updated based on the book, making it easy to combine theory (book) with practice (videos & tools). More than 40,000 people already use the course.

The author thanks the community and asks for reviews and subscriptions to connect current market conditions with value investing principles in the future.

• Bitcoin slides below $82,000 after a brief spike to almost $85,000, followed by renewed selling.
• The sideways movement has been going on for weeks, with lower highs and no new all-time highs weighing on sentiment.
• Main causes: geopolitical tensions (Iran/Iraq, Trump), liquidation of leveraged positions, and lack of momentum in spot buying.

• JP Morgan has included Bitcoin in its long-term capital market assumptions, rating it as a top asset with potential against monetary policy and debt.
• Gold is valued at 5.5% return; Bitcoin ranks much higher – though this is a test analysis that opens the door for future recommendations.
• The message: Crypto is here to stay and Bitcoin is increasingly seen as digital gold.

• The planned abolition of the holding period for crypto gains is not happening as expected – the cabinet hasn't even put it on the agenda.
• Possibly retroactive for 2027? Uncertain, but purchases this year remain tax-free for now.
• The YouTuber advises preparing for a possible tax liability from 2028 and reconsidering positions accordingly.

• Monero (privacy coin) is the only winner in a red market, driven by regulatory uncertainty and increased interest in privacy.
• Many altcoins like Uniswap, Layer Zero, Akedo are losing significantly.
• Analysis shows: Only a few projects (Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum, XRP, BNB) have reached new highs since 2021 – beware of dead projects.
• Recommendation: Use the channel's Altcoin Guide to identify risky positions.

• The AI bubble is becoming clearer: companies like Anthropic are burning billions, while Meta reported negative free cash flow for the first time.
• Interest rate decision next week: a pause is expected; high rates hinder growth.
• Market concentration (49% in a few tech stocks) increases the risk of a larger downturn.

• Bitcoin is struggling with the 200 EMA on the 4h chart; below $80,000, a test of $74,000–$75,000 is possible.
• On the upside, a breakout above $87,000–$88,000 would be needed for new highs.
• The tone remains informative and inviting – no panic, but patience and clear rules (e.g., setting limits) are advised.

Summary follows...

Bitcoin is currently trading around $84,000 and successfully defending the key support at $83,000. A single weekly close below this level is not enough for bears to regain control. As long as there are not multiple weekly closes below, the status quo remains unchanged.

📈 Technical Analysis

• Bitcoin is bouncing off the 50-day moving average (approximately $81,700) and showing relative strength.
• Other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and altcoin indices (Total 2, Total 3) have lost their 50-day moving averages – a sign of weakness.
• Bitcoin dominance is rising to 61% and is expected to increase further.

🔍 Macroeconomic Context

• Expectation of tighter monetary policy (Fed funds rate, 2-year yield) favors Bitcoin over altcoins.
• The next major catalyst is the FOMC meeting in about a week.

🕵️ Seasonal Pattern

• Bitcoin forms lows around the 15th of the month and rally highs around the 21st – with residual strength until early the following month.
• If this pattern continues, Bitcoin could rise further after the midterms.

Conclusion: As long as Bitcoin holds above $83,000, the burden of proof lies with the bears. The bulls are in control.

Summary follows...

• Trading Agents is currently the most hyped GitHub repo (over 112,000 stars) for AI trading.
• It turns Claude or ChatGPT into your own kind of hedge fund with a team of AI agents.

• Now runs directly inside a ChatGPT plan – no extra API costs required.
• Automatically saves a one-page HTML report for every analysis – readable anywhere.
• Parallel agent execution instead of slow sequential processing.
• New portfolio check: It can analyze your real portfolio and give recommendations.
• Additional options: backtests, different AI providers, customizable investor profiles.

• Setup: Copy the prompt from GitHub (e.g. github.com/tourressearch/trading-agents) into an LLM; you need an API key for Claude or ChatGPT.
• Data sources: Bloomberg, Finnhub, Reuters, news, social media, company fundamentals.
• Agent team:
  • Analysts (fundamental, sentiment, news, technical) create reports.
  • Researchers debate bull and bear cases.
  • Trader makes the trading decision.
  • Risk management checks portfolio and market risk.
  • Portfolio manager gives final approval.

• Analysts rated Nvidia overweight (buy) – entry price 216.5, stop-loss 199.9, position size 0.4x standard.
• The bull case argues with strong revenue and margins; the bear case questions the valuation.
• Recommendation: lean in, but don't go all in.

• Created a mock portfolio to match real positions with the AI's analysis.
• Especially useful: daily loop updates, e.g. at 7 AM, with news-based adjustments.
• For real execution: Connect an Alpaca brokerage account (with paper trading) via API keys.
• Example: “Buy $1,000 of Nvidia” – the order is sent directly to Alpaca.

• Second opinion for planned trades.
• Alpha hunt: Rank a watchlist by attractiveness.
• Earnings prep for quarterly results.
• Devil’s advocate: Check portfolio concentration and risks.
• Model comparison: Run the same analysis on Claude and GPT.

• Trading Agents is a powerful research and decision tool – but you shouldn't blindly follow it.
• If you want, you can automate execution later. Free resources (setup guide, prompt collection) are available in the community.