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		<title>PepsiCo 2022 10k Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PepsiCo's free cash flow was down 13% in 2018 year to year, and is still in a downward spiral.]]></description>
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<p>PepsiCo is one of the world&#8217;s largest food and beverage conglomerates, with a whopping market cap of about 239 billion dollars. The company splits itself into seven principal subsidiaries/regions, being Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Food North America, PepsiCo Beverage North America, Latin American (LA) Food and Beverage, European (EU) Food and Beverage, African/Middle Eastern/South African (AMESA) Food and Beverage, and Asia Pacific/Australian/New Zealand/China (APAC) Food and Beverage. It&#8217;s important to note that these seven divisions can be quantified into further subsidiaries that generate global revenue. This article will showcase the changing trends in PepsiCo over time and analyze the conglomerate&#8217;s health in the long term.</p>



<p>PepsiCo has 1.387 billion shares outstanding, with a current price of $173 per share. The conglomerate holds 8.42 billion dollars of liquid assets, including cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, and investments in noncontrolled affiliates (investments in other companies where the company holds significant ownership with no controlling interest). In addition, there are over 39 billion dollars in long and short-term debt, which gives PepsiCo an Enterprise Value of over 270 billion dollars; if a company were to buy out PepsiCo, they must overpay by 30.6 billion dollars.</p>



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<p>On a quarterly basis, PepsiCo made 27.996 billion dollars in revenue, up 11% from Q4 of 2021. Annually, revenue in 2022 equated to 86.39 billion dollars, making Q4 one of the best production quarters in history. Revenue has continued to grow for five consecutive years, leaving PepsiCo with a 32% increase year-to-year starting from 2017. Image one shows the total amount of revenue disbursed through each subsidiary; almost every sector has seen revenue growth over five years. Some, however, have seen higher revenue growth, including AMESA with 75% and APAC with 66%, as opposed to the EU with 21%. The EU had one of its weakest years in revenue, with a loss of 2% year to date. Despite the EU&#8217;s revenue decline, it is the third largest subsidiary inside of PepsiCo, with a whopping 15% of total revenue. Image two shows the percentage of revenue to each group inside PepsiCo. While most revenues increase per group, the percentage changes based on strategy, economics, and other factors. Pepsi and Frito-Lay make up the vast amount of revenue per division, with Pepsi having 30% of all revenue while Frito with 27%. Interestingly enough, Fritos operations are catching up to Pepsi; at the same time, Latin America is also close to passing the EU&#8217;s operations because of the effects of the war with Russia. Overall, revenue growth is healthy throughout the company&#8217;s divisions year-to-year and quarter-to-quarter.</p>


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<p>EPS data went up in 2022 by 18%, meaning PepsiCo made $6.13 for every share outstanding. In addition, from 2017 till now, PepsiCo had a share buyback of 3%, from 1.425 billion shares to 1.38 billion, indicating that it has the capital to spend and invest in itself. As a result, model income (net income excluding one-time purchases) was reasonably aligned with net income, although the same cannot be said for a per-quarter basis. Model income was far off to net income based on the Justice Transaction and Intangible Asset Impairment that will be spoken about in more detail.</p>



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<p>The gross margin in image 4 shows that the selling of goods, when factoring in the cost of sales, has remained relatively stagnant, decreasing just about 3% in the last five years. Operating profit margin indicates a decrease of 3%, meaning that when adding expenses, such as selling general and administrative costs and other expenses, it has taken a more significant cut than previously in terms of net profit. Return on equity (ROE) shows the company&#8217;s growth or decline in net assets. The S&amp;P&#8217;s long-term running average of ROE is 13.29%, whereas the average for food and soft beverages combined is 21.05 ROE. PepsiCo&#8217;s ROE for 2022 was 49%, exhibiting consistency in its assets. Return on assets (ROA), on the other hand, shows the amount of profit a company can generate with its assets. PepsiCo&#8217;s ROA is 9.2% in 2022 and has been growing for three years. The debt ratio is total short-term debt plus long-term debt divided by assets. PepsiCo displayed a 42.4% debt ratio, meaning there&#8217;s over 40% of debt per asset. The average in the food and beverage industry is 22%, meaning PepsiCo is taking on more debt than other companies in its industry. Lastly, the asset turnover ratio indicates the efficiency of a company using its assets to generate revenue. Consumer non-cyclical companies have an average turnover of .72, while PepsiCo has an average of .94, which has increased by about 13% in the past five years.</p>


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<p>Free cash flow is one of the most important metrics used to gauge the amount of money PepsiCo takes as profits due to cash inflows and outflows (cash from operating activity &#8211; capital expenditures). Since 2008, PepsiCo has been making positive cash flows and doubling its cash inflows. However, in 2016, the conglomerate lost 6% cash flows from operations based on previous years; this means that instead of bringing back 8.1 billion dollars in profit, they took 7.6 billion. In addition, free cash flow losses year to year started to accelerate in 2018, where free cash flow was down 13% year to year and is still in a downward spiral. Consecutive decreasing cash flows year to year could be concerning because PepsiCo will need more flexibility to spend the profits how they choose instead spending their money on necessities to keep the business running.</p>



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<p>PepsiCo is a &#8216;dividend king&#8217;; even with decreases in cash flow, PepsiCo has continued to increase its dividends every single year. This boasts strength and gives the image that PepsiCo is doing exceedingly well. Dividends are the amount of stock the company pays back to its shareholders at a given period before the ex-dividend date; they do this to provide an incentive to hold the stock by sharing profits. Another portrayal of PepsiCo&#8217;s strength is the employee numbers. In 2017, PepsiCo had 263,000 employees; today, there are 315,000 employees. The company is investing a hefty portion of its money on both dividends and employees.</p>



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<p>The Justice Transaction was a recent addition that made Q1 earnings look better than most of PepsiCo&#8217;s quarters because it&#8217;s a one-time gain. PepsiCo sold Naked Juice and Tropicana for 3.32 billion dollars to PAI partners (another conglomerate investing in companies). Q2 and Q4, on the other hand, suffered a blow because of one-time expenses from asset impairment. The cause of asset impairment was primarily due to the war in Russia; this affected operations Pepsi had in Europe. PepsiCo lost about 2 billion dollars due to the war in Russia because of a subsidiary named Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods which controls roughly 34% of dairy products in Russia. Another necessary expense that should be addressed is the TCJ Act expense. This act was implemented when Donald Trump was president and decreased the amount companies pay in taxes, including higher income bracket individuals. PepsiCo owes 2.6 billion dollars in taxes, for which it has already paid off about 1.543 billion dollars and plans on paying off an additional 309 million by the end of 2023.</p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Valuation </strong></p>



<p>For my analysis, I assumed that the food and beverage industry grows 5% yearly and that PepsiCo&#8217;s revenue weight compared to its competitors stayed relatively the same. I calculated that PepsiCo&#8217;s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is 7.46%, the terminal rate is 3%, and the net present value of all future cash flows is 231,145.9 billion. With this information, I project PepsiCo&#8217;s value relative to the discounted cash flows in net present value is equal to $166.65 per share (net present value divided by shares outstanding). This means that the intrinsic value shareholders believe to be the fair value equals $166.65 per share.</p>



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<p>PepsiCo&#8217;s stock chart for image 10 shows that it is currently in a rising wedge on a weekly timeframe. Breakouts from these types of wedges can occur in any direction, but historically, the stock price will fall 60% of the time. Image 11 also shows confluence when assessing that PepsiCo is likelier to fall than go up. This image shows a bearish divergence, meaning the stock price is increasing while its relative strength index (RSI) (in purple) is decreasing. The oscillator shows that the current trend is weakening when the price and RSI are moving in opposite directions. Putting both indicators together and accounting for the 200-day moving average (the average price for 200 days on a weekly time frame), PepsiCo could see a possible 12% decline or a share price of $151 if the price moves to the 200 EMA line. If the price of PepsiCo breaks below the 200 EMA, then the price could also reach the 1.618 Fibonacci line at a price point of $135. Putting these factors together, if the price declines to these levels, it would be below the fair value of $166.65 and could be a reasonable price point for investors.</p>



<p>PepsiCo continues to stay at pace with its competitors, occupying 30% of its revenue compared to large conglomerates, including Coca-Cola, Nestle, and Anheuser. Declining free cash flow isn&#8217;t a substantial concern because PepsiCo is paying higher dividends, employee salaries, and TCJ act tax, which cuts free cash flow. In addition, the revenue sources are healthy and growing; Europe is the only revenue source that has declined based on intangible asset impairment and other sources of revenue decline caused by the war in Ukraine.</p>
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		<title>The Four Financial Markets Investors Trade On</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The primary market, secondary market, third market and fourth market are essential to learn in order to understand how securities are traded.]]></description>
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<p>You may have heard of a company going public for the first time, with others telling you it&#8217;s a big deal. When a company goes public, investors worldwide are allowed to invest and hold a share of a company with little to no restrictions. This is the most common way of buying equity in the secondary market. Unfortunately, plenty of retail traders that invest will only dig deep enough to know the secondary market because it&#8217;s optional for them to know the nuances of capital markets. Learning all four needs will give you an edge in understanding how securities are traded amongst individuals and corporations.</p>



<p><strong>Primary Market</strong></p>



<p>Before delving into the secondary market, the primary market should be covered first because a company gets established during this phase. A Primary market has many multifunctional components, but it is ultimately the market where securities first get created. Whether a corporation is private or public, it will issue stock and undergo underwriting (a middleman who purchases shares for an IPO or a private placement offering).</p>



<p>Private companies have their own regulations and can only be purchased by accredited investors or venture capital funds. Private companies aim to become public at a point in the future due to losing footing in research and development or a shortage in capital. Public companies have investors take a share in the company; in return, the business has more money to work with, creating enriched opportunities.</p>



<p>When a company is going public and issuing shares as a form of equity to an investor, it must register with the SEC and get an S-1 statement approval. When the S-1 is approved, the company ready to go public can look for institutional investors or venture capital firms to buy up stock from the underwriter.</p>



<p><strong>&nbsp;The Secondary Market&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Once the first pair of investors, giant corporations, or professional investors are found, the company can be listed on an exchange like the New York Stock Exchange. Then, friends, family, employees, etc., can invest in the public company. In the secondary market, derivatives like futures and options can be traded, contracts that allow investors to trade with each other, or an exchange, to predict a price of an underlying stock in the future. The contract&#8217;s winner pockets the difference, and the loser loses money.</p>



<p>Other instruments traded on the secondary market or an exchange consist of ETFs, bonds, short-term debt, mortgage-backed securities, collateralized investments, dividend payments, and more. Although each investment class has its own vital rules and unique characteristics, investors will pick the option they see fit in the current market economy.</p>



<p><strong>The Third Market</strong></p>



<p>The over-the-counter market, also known as the third market, is a marketplace that houses securities or debt that do not trade on a regular exchange. Instead of trading on an exchange, all trades are decentralized and exchanged on a peer-to-peer base. Penny stocks are traded on the third market because they didn&#8217;t meet the requirements to be traded on a large exchange. Other investments, like most bonds, are traded on the third market between large broker-dealers and lenders like investment banks or pension funds. The third market is often overlooked, but it&#8217;s typically the marketplace where some of the most significant trades occur.</p>



<p>Other investment options that trade on the third market are the foreign exchange market and foreign stocks listed outside of the United States. An essential characteristic of the third market is the privacy that the traders receive. For example, massive institutions can trade in what&#8217;s known as a dark pool, a private trade between two investors in an off-exchange venue. In a dark pool, giant corporations will not know who they&#8217;re trading with, and everything will stay anonymous, including the transaction itself, which isn&#8217;t available to the public. This way of trading lets corporations trade large blocks of stock without the public seeing these trades and reacting by making the underlying security price more volatile.</p>



<p><strong>Fourth Market</strong></p>



<p>These markets are secretive and, for the most part, are only traded with the largest corporations. Unlike a dark pool, where the investors don&#8217;t know who they&#8217;re trading with, fourth markets let two corporations trade with each other privately. As a result, there is little known to the public on how fourth markets operate except that they trade amongst corporate institutions.</p>
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		<title>The Fall of The Pound Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The UK government rushes to help their falling economy that is on the brink of collapse. ]]></description>
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<p>Citizens all over the world gathered around to witness the horrors of what had unfolded behind closed curtains, the oldest currency had fallen to an all time low. In just a matter of under two weeks the pound fell 11.7% from $1.17 to $1.035, increasing inflation even further. UK 30 year bonds (known as gilts) dropped 45% during this time as businesses and pension funds panicked and created the largest sell off of gilts in a single day. </p>



<p>This event is being compared to what happened in the US for the 2008 housing crisis where the Lehman Brothers investment bank filed for bankruptcy which was the catalyst for the whole crash in the first place. In this case, pension funds were nearing bankruptcy which caused many peoples retirement funds to be at risk, if not for the government stepping in, there could have been a worse event that may have materialized. </p>



<p>Pension funds need to pay their customers a fixed amount of money no matter what economic situation the country is going through. Because of this fixed amount, pension funds usually buy bonds in order to offset their liabilities of paying the fixed amount to their pensioners, so they&#8217;re able to have enough assets to cover this payment. The problem started with continuous low interest rates after the coming of COVID-19, these low interest rates made it so pension funds couldn&#8217;t pay back their customers a fixed amount because they weren&#8217;t generating enough interest themselves from bonds. To pay this fixed amount, pension funds got desperate and invested in young companies that had a lot of potential so they can sell at a profit and be able to pay their customers back using derivatives. The pension funds tried to hedge their bet using leveraged investments (borrowed money from banks) which are subjected to margin calls, telling the investor that they could get liquidated and lose all their money because the banks themselves don&#8217;t want to lose money from their investment. </p>



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<p>These pension funds were forced to sell off a lot of their gilts in order to not get liquidated and add on to their derivatives gamble which caused the gilt market to take a huge stumble down. If the pension funds were to let their derivative trades get liquidated they could face insolvency and go bankrupt so there wasn&#8217;t much room that these funds had to work with. With no one buying gilts, the government was forced to intervene and buy up 65 billion pounds worth of gilts that were being sold to stop the crash of the economy. </p>



<p>Instead of the government continuing with quantitative tightening which is the process of the governments selling gilts on the open market and getting rid of money circulating from the public in order to battle inflation, its hand was forced to require quantitative easing. With the buying of gilts to ease the economy comes bad and hefty long term implications for the economy. For one, this will only continue the rise of inflation and give banks a tougher time to catch up on interest rates to lower inflation down.</p>



<p>The Bank of England declared that it expects the UK to be in a recession (the situation with the pension funds only sped this process). UK&#8217;s prime minister Liz Truss announced that the government would freeze energy prices for households for about two years, costing the government 89 billion pounds. The energy will be funded through government bonds which at a time like isn&#8217;t the best option, this is because borrowing gilts while trying to bring inflation down will increase debt due to companies losing money from interest rates. More borrowing at a time of burgeoning debt isn&#8217;t good for an economy in the long run.</p>



<p>It also didn&#8217;t help that the government announced that they would cut taxes for the rich in order to stimulate the economy and then last minute reverse their decision to do so. Decreasing taxes for the rich may restore prices in the economy but it isn&#8217;t a popular option among the people, therefore this caused for a reversal in decision. It seems as if the government doesn&#8217;t know what the correct course of action should be leaving citizens in distress and uncertainty.</p>



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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nova Labs is building its way as a competitor to other telecommunication companies like AT&#038;T with the power of blockchain and decentralization   ]]></description>
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<p>Nova Labs, previously known as Helium, will be launching the first blockchain-backed 5G cellular services with T-Mobile. If Nova Labs CEO Amir Haleem follows through with this plan, Nova will implement the Helium 5G networking system into the T-Mobile cell-service provider; this will give Helium a boost to its credibility and how far they can truly go to peruse their end goals. </p>



<p>The Helium network is unique because miners are able to buy hardware to connect to a home internet modem, broadcasting your internet services to others locally. Servicing your internet will lead miners to ultimately earn crypto through LoRaWan or long-range radio wireless access networks. Within a few years over one million LoRa Hotspots covered 10% of the globe! While this sounds like a great achievement there were inevitable problems to come. Some hosts claimed to only make about 15$ a month, you would only get rewarded when people actually transmitted data over your hotspot. Unfortunately, not many devices are looking for these hotspots or connecting to them.</p>



<p>Amir Haleem had tweeted &#8220;getting the infrastructure out there was the first step. Realistically there&#8217;s only been *usable* coverage for the last 6-9 months,&#8221; and added, &#8220;convincing users to rely on a network built by individuals is non-trivial, and the coverage was spotty.&#8221; </p>



<p>This isn&#8217;t stopping Nova Labs though. Nova Labs is cranking up its ability and will launch its Helium 5g brand as a new cellular service that is going to be accessible on the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). With help from invested partners like GigaSky, Freedomfi and a handful of others, Nova Labs plans to use its hotspot approach to have users buy 5g compatible hardware (with packages ranging from $999 all the way up to $5,000), install it at their home, and then download an app to access the system. Large institutions help with different types of services, for example, GigaSky provides the app service and Freedomfi provides the sale of the hardware. With the hardware hooked up to a modem, users would broadcast services for anyone in range of an LoRA. The plan for the future of Helium 5G is to cover all of T-Mobile’s dead spots. Currently, there are about 3000 hotspots in 900 cities, a far cry from one million non-5 G compatible hotspots.</p>



<p>If you have a hotspot setup using Helium&#8217;s services, anyone using the hotspot and transmitting data will earn you crypto (MOBILE), but factors like how good your hardware/hotspot device is, where it was placed(indoors or outdoors) and if anyone is paying for the service to use it in the first place will affect how much you can actually earn. That&#8217;s not the only downside at the moment.</p>



<p>Critics like lead analyst and writer Sascha Segan say this isn’t really even 5G yet. “The Helium 5G network is instead a 4G LTE CBRS network, which right now has significant advantages over 5G but doesn&#8217;t have the 5G moniker Helium and its partners wanted for marketing.“ He states the companies decided to pitch themselves as 5G simply for marketing and all partners are currently only offering 4G LTE services over the CBRS. Segan also performed an experiment where he walked around New York City and tried to detect when he was actually on the Helium 5G service and not T-Mobile. The results of this experiment were unsatisfactory due to not being in the range of a usable signal. </p>



<p>So far there&#8217;s three big problems that surround the company being lack of active 5G capable hotspots, issues with the range of your transmission and few people who even know about it and have service. Early prospects for Helium 5G might just be slightly overblown, for now. There is however a new partner, NMTD, which has plans to launch 5G active hotspots transmitting 5G. Projections of these hotspots will most likely come by 2023 with people still needing to buy the hardware to be a transmitter and miner of MOBILE.</p>



<p><a href="https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/helium-5g-launching-soon-with-about-1900-nodes-across-700-cities/d/d-id/779402">https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/helium-5g-launching-soon-with-about-1900-nodes-across-700-cities/d/d-id/779402</a></p>



<p><a href="https://blog.helium.com/whats-next-for-helium-5g-data-transfer-proof-of-coverage-rewards-67b54f19f8d5">https://blog.helium.com/whats-next-for-helium-5g-data-transfer-proof-of-coverage-rewards-67b54f19f8d5</a></p>



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		<title>Weekly Bitcoin Analysis #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bitcoin continues to spiral down, is there any hope in the near future? ]]></description>
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<p>Looking back at weekly analysis number 1, Bitcoin ended up breaking the wedge on the 4 hour and going to the upside while in just less than a week going down to lower levels. The picture above shows the dollar in a broadening wedge on the daily, while this is a bitcoin analysis it&#8217;s important to look at the bigger underling picture before jumping into the whole of the bitcoin analysis. From time and time again the dollar index (DXY) has used the bottom of the broadening wedge 5 times as support while also using the 50 day moving average as support to not break down to lower levels. Since the beginning of 2022, DXY has went up 17%, an abnormal number that has caused traders to believe that the dollar top is near. The meaning of this high dollar price indicates that traders and governments have flocked to the dollar as a hedge to inflation because of other currencies that have taken huge hits like the Euro down 14.2%, Yuan down 10.3%, even the Japanese Yen down 22%. With other investments worldwide running to the dollar, the supply is slowly shrinking with the FED taking the dollar away from the circulating supply, creating more demand. If the dollar were to crash in the near future it would take other currencies and securities down even further with it. Currently on a daily chart the dollar made a higher high and will soon be testing the previous high as support which if it breaks down, it could retest the bottom of the broadening wedge or the 50 day moving average.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="584" src="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-307-1024x584.png" alt="" class="wp-image-853" srcset="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-307-1024x584.png 1024w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-307-300x171.png 300w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-307-768x438.png 768w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-307.png 1471w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>S&amp;P Daily</figcaption></figure>



<p>The S&amp;P is down 20.5% from its high, on the daily timeframe its made a lower low and is about to retest the .618 Fibonacci level. This Fibonacci level is the most important level out of of 7 that are on the chart, testing and failing to break above this level while having a lower low on the chart will lead to a high chance of testing the bottom of the S&amp;P at a price level of 3636. If the dollar is to keep going up further and the S&amp;P breaks past the .618 level, it could potentially test the high of 4120 or better yet a critical level at 4167 that could make or break the S&amp;P. For now, there is a potential for the S&amp;P to go up because of the daily bullish divergence that hasn&#8217;t played out yet which can lead Bitcoin to go up in price in the short term if this were to happen. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="608" src="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-303-1024x608.png" alt="" class="wp-image-854" srcset="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-303-1024x608.png 1024w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-303-300x178.png 300w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-303-768x456.png 768w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-303.png 1481w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>Bitcoin Daily</figcaption></figure>



<p>Bitcoin has respected this current broadening wedge for quite a bit, reacting with bullish momentum from hitting the bottom of it yet again. What&#8217;s interesting is bitcoin hit the bottom of the descending wedge (in orange) before making its ascent back up above 19,000. The move up after breaking the descending wedge caused BTC to go up 22.45% but with the CPI readings that the FED announced, this caused markets to stumble leaving BTC down 20.6%. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="562" src="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-309-1024x562.png" alt="" class="wp-image-855" srcset="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-309-1024x562.png 1024w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-309-300x165.png 300w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-309-768x422.png 768w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-309.png 1380w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>Open Interest/Cumulative Volume Delta 4 Hour</figcaption></figure>



<p>Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) is the total trading volume in either Spot (buying bitcoin itself) or futures (betting on bitcoin going up or down). On a 4 hour view, people have been selling bitcoin on spot and shorting bitcoin using future contracts either with a dollar pair or a stable coin pair. Open Interest is the total amount of positions that are opened as of now. In just 3 days open interest for coin margined contracts (meaning total positions of shorts/longs that are currently opened) went up by 500 million dollars. Putting both indicators together it shows a story for the bigger picture of what total traders are doing. When the price of bitcoin went up from 18400 to 22800, CVD for spot and futures started going up, this means that people were buying and longing bitcoin. What&#8217;s interesting is Open interest for both stablecoin-margin contracts and coin-margined contracts stayed stagnant, this indicates that as people were starting to buy bitcoin and long it, there were almost no new positions being added into the market at that time. The positions that were added to the market mostly came from stablecoin-margined contracts, once bitcoin went down from 22800 to 19600 all the new people entering positions got liquidated from over longing bitcoin causing a long squeeze. Currently everyone is selling their bitcoin and shorting but now with 500 million dollars worth of positions added to coin-margined contracts by a whale, people are anticipating a move up to trap all the shortening positions that shorted the bottom of the price. Taking all this information in mind from the dollar index to what bitcoin traders are currently doing, it&#8217;s very likely that there could be a further price fall caused by the downfall of the S&amp;P. If the S&amp;P were to break the .618 Fibonacci line bitcoin could go up in price and all those new open interest positions can trap shorts leading to a powerful move up. </p>
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		<title>ASML and TSMC&#8217;s Monopoly Over Chip Manufacturing And The Pressure that Ensues in Demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ The new CHIPS and Science act in the US can bring substantial pressure from ASML's supply of EUV chip machines.]]></description>
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<p>Semiconductor lithography has been around for a while, in fact, the creation of semiconductors first started in the US. Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography (ASML) began its journey in the US in 1988, with five location in the US and one Dutch office that&#8217;s now known to be its headquarters. ASML is one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in science and technology to this day. The company is known for creating the machines that manufacture the actual chips that you use in your everyday life, whether it be on your phone, computer, car and even your refrigerator. In this day and age, we rely heavily on this one company to supply the machines that create the fastest chips because they&#8217;re the only suppliers of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines. Currently there are two other competitors that create Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) machines known as Nikon and the other Canon, Nikon is a close competitor of manufacturing DUV&#8217;s but like said previously, ASML is the only company to produce EUV machines. The difference between DUV and EUV is that DUV has a wavelength of 248 and 193 nanometers when creating chips as opposed to EUV&#8217;s 100 to 10 nm, 10,000x smaller than a human hair. EUV is able to basically make chips that are smaller in size and faster, a huge jump from the ever so complicated DUV machines. Not only are these machines efficient in creating chips but durable too, CEO Peter Wennink claims that 96% of all machines they&#8217;ve ever sold are still working to this day. </p>



<p>ASML went public on the New York stock exchange in 1995 and was seen by big tech companies as the future of science and technology. In 2012, ASML wasn&#8217;t able to create EUV machines that it had its eyes on because of monetary deficiencies so the company was able to give away a quarter of its shares to the big 3 chip manufacturers, Intel, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Now, with the creation of EUV, there are supply issues because only one company is creating these machines. Chip creators like TSMC and Intel have Semiconductor fabrication (fabs), these are the factories that use ASML&#8217;s machines to create the semiconductor chips. The problem with this whole system is that there is a huge monopoly that makes it so no new businesses are able to join in on the profit by virtue of the machines themselves, costing up to 300 million dollars and the factories, that can take billions of dollars to not just build but manage. TSMC is the biggest player right now with over 40% of ASML&#8217;s supply in EUV machines, big companies like Intel and Samsung are even falling behind to ASML&#8217;s reining monopoly. </p>



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<p>Apple gets all their chips from TSMC, making up 25% of TSMC&#8217;s revenue which is a staggering number. If this didn&#8217;t make things worse, TSMC is branching out into the US to build fabs in Arizona where the production will start in 2024. This is possible because of the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 that  President Biden announced, providing 52 billion dollars in subsidies to the semiconductor industry. While all the pressure of competing with demand from fabs is stuck with ASML, a conglomerate company named SEMI predicts there will be about 72 new fab machines built around the world by 2024; this creates further pressure for ASML and chip manufactures. So what are the implications for everyday people? Having fabs can be a good thing for a country because it increases revenue and trade, but the catch is that every fab needs about 4.7 million gallons of water a day to support its operation. Water is a necessity because it cools down equipment and cleans silicon wafers that makes production of chips possible. The amount of water for one fab is equivalent to nearly what 25,000 residents in Arizona will use in a day. </p>



<p>Taiwan itself is already seeing the worst droughts its had in 50 years, they now rely on getting water to keep their fabs running by going to the south-side of the island with trucks. If droughts like these were to hit other countries because of the current chip war, it can have negative effects on agriculture. Prices of food will most likely skyrocket because there isn&#8217;t enough water to grow specific amount of crops due to allocating most of the water supply to chip production. Furthermore, the growing demand of fabs can lead ASML to capitulate from the inside and slow down their research on building new machines because they&#8217;re stuck supplying so many other machines to countries around the world. There are both positives and negatives to the semiconductor industry and while it&#8217;s seen mostly in a positive light, there are growing concerns on what this CHIPS act has entailed for the future of not just the US, but the world.  </p>



<p><strong>Sources </strong></p>



<p><a href="https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems#:~:text=EUV%20stands%20for%20'extreme%20ultraviolet,a%20wavelength%20of%2013.5%20nm.">https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems#:~:text=EUV%20stands%20for%20&#8217;extreme%20ultraviolet,a%20wavelength%20of%2013.5%20nm.</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/22628925/water-semiconductor-shortage-arizona-drought">https://www.theverge.com/22628925/water-semiconductor-shortage-arizona-drought</a></p>



<p><a href="https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/sa_presentations/919/84919/original.pdf">https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/sa_presentations/919/84919/original.pdf</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/06/28/tsmc-arizona-construction-subsidies/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/06/28/tsmc-arizona-construction-subsidies/</a></p>



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		<title>CPI Numbers and what they will entail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2022 22:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With inflation currently stagnant, the Fed is deciding whether these next few days of inflation data being released will lead to high interest rates or a slow down.]]></description>
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<p>The Feds next round of CPI (or inflation) numbers will be announced on the 13th and they&#8217;re soon to be here. Ever since the Feds decision to authorize quantitative tightening in early March, markets have seen a drop in price because of anticipation of falling inflation. Interest rate hikes have allowed the central bank to &#8220;use their tools forcefully&#8221; to attack inflation, yet inflation has stayed stagnant even with back-to-back hikes of 75 basis points which haven&#8217;t been seen since 1994. The general public is getting worried about the current situation and the word recession is being thrown out from every stretch of the world. This round of CPI numbers in the US will be one of the most impactful numbers this year because it will lead the decision of whether the Fed has to be more aggressive when handling their interest rates or be able to let Americans take a breather with minimal increases in cost of goods. </p>



<p>Quantitative tightening is used by selling bonds to the open market in return for taking money out of the economy. This leads to the Fed taking out billions of dollars out of the economy at a time for months on end in order to increase the value of the dollar. While the price of the dollar is increasing, the central bank   increases interest rates for commercial banks so that the price of overnight lending between these banks becomes exorbitant. Commercial banks are then able to not lose money by increasing interest rates for everyday citizens which incentivizes others to not spend as much money as they would have in the past. By slowing down the way people spend their money, the Fed is able to decrease inflation, furthermore leading to a stable economy with no long term bad monetary outlook. It&#8217;s the Fed&#8217;s job to keep the economy healthy at all means, even if there are people struggling to buy goods and services with interest rate hikes. </p>



<p>With two 75 basis point hikes most people are leaning to inflation going down significantly in the next coming days. While there is a high chance that inflation does go down because of these hikes, others are holding on to the fact that it may be possible inflation is still stable or even increases, leading to securities on the stock market to increase in price. Some signs that may point to a higher inflation number that could come out the next days is by looking at both the dollar index and the government bond yields. Over the past 6 weeks, 10 year government bond yields have increased going from 2.5% to 3.37% meaning that a large majority of bonds have been sold off with no interest rate hike happening while these bond yields have increased. In addition, the dollar index has went from 104.7 to a high of 110.7, this connotes that the price of the dollar when paired against a basket of other currencies is still rapidly increasing. Taking all this into consideration, it&#8217;s still very possible that the unexpected of inflation going higher can still be valid, especially when paired up with a short term increase in price of securities on the market. </p>
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		<title>Bitcoin Weekly Analysis #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Will bitcoin retest its higher highs or come down lower to double bottom?]]></description>
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<p>Bitcoin has been struggling to keep up in terms of price with the world economy taking further nose dives down because of interest rate hikes and inflation. One of the most famous Bitcoin charts is known as the rainbow chart, it has been prevalent since 2013. The rainbow chart is a channel that constantly goes up as time goes on, there&#8217;s a high of the channel and a low of the channel that has been hit three times. Many traders refer to this chart as the single most important chart for Bitcoin because it contains the bulk of its history and has been respecting the channel since it was found; that was until this year. For the first time in history bitcoin has now gone below the rainbow channel and can continue to spiral even lower, leaving a lot of long term investors in fear but also in joy for those that want to invest at a &#8216;discount&#8217; price. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="597" src="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-294-1024x597.png" alt="" class="wp-image-719" srcset="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-294-1024x597.png 1024w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-294-300x175.png 300w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-294-768x448.png 768w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-294.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>                                                                                  Daily</figcaption></figure>



<p>On the daily timeframe you can see that there is a broadening wedge. This is a wedge that hits most of the highs and the lows consistently, the top of the wedge is increasing while the bottom is decreasing, giving it the name broadening wedge. During July, Bitcoin was doing well by creating higher highs but it began to see a slowdown during the month of August. It was using the green .618 Fibonacci level as support but at the same time being sold off at the top of the wedge. While it was still creating higher highs, those highs started to become weaker. When the first big drop happened in mid August There was a candle close right at the .382 level near the wick off at the end of July, this is where bitcoin tested whether this double bottom was going to test the previous high or fail and dip lower. It then was obvious that Bitcoin failed and kept making new lower lows losing all the progress that it made. So why is this important? It&#8217;s important to know the current trend and price action of a trade so you can equip yourself with a good buy opportunity or take a good trade. What&#8217;s known so far is that bitcoin has made lower lows and has no chance of testing up to higher levels until it breaks the previous high of 20577, if it fails once again to get above this level, there&#8217;s a high chance that it will make new lows. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="587" src="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-296-1024x587.png" alt="" class="wp-image-720" srcset="https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-296-1024x587.png 1024w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-296-300x172.png 300w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-296-768x440.png 768w, https://thecurrentledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-296.png 1478w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>                                                                                 4 Hour</figcaption></figure>



<p>Here is a close look at what&#8217;s happening on a shorter time frame. Shorter time frames make up what happens in the larger time frames, so it&#8217;s always important to check every time frame and use it to your advantage. On the 4 hour you get a closer look at what&#8217;s happening on the daily, it&#8217;s obviously making lower lows and higher lows pushing the price down further. Something that&#8217;s noticeable that&#8217;s harder to see on the daily is that there&#8217;s a falling wedge and price action is shrinking, meaning the candle sticks have less space which in the end causes a huge explosion in price when it escapes the wedge. In Bulkowski&#8217;s website, he says that this type of wedge has a 68% chance of breaking to the upside once it exits the wedge. Keep in mind while it&#8217;s breaking to the upside at first, it&#8217;s very possible for the price action to bait out traders and come to the downside right after a huge price swing up. The relative strength index (RSI for short) tells if a securities price is overbought or oversold and is used to show if there are any divergences. A divergence tells you a weakness in price level, for example in the above chart, the RSI make a higher low while the price level of bitcoin itself made a lower low showing a weakness of people that are selling, eventually leading the price to go up briefly. What&#8217;s certain is that on the 4 hour timeframe the price must exit the wedge in order to see which direction bitcoin can break out of. If it breaks up, it has a chance of retesting the 20577 level and creating a higher high pushing the price up further, if it breaks lower, there could be a possible double bottom at 17600.</p>



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<p>If you didn&#8217;t understand Market sentiment, meaning higher highs or lower lows I will make a post explaining it in further detail as well as how to use other oscillators and trading methods. For now, here are some links to help you get started on learning what each is:</p>



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