Ticker Briefing: SNDKUSDT — Sandisk Sells Flash It Is Not Allowed to Make Alone
Sandisk was spun out of Western Digital in February 2025 and owns no wafer fab outright. Every flash wafer it sells comes from Flash Ventures, the joint ventures with Kioxia it half funds but cannot expand alone. Revenue tripled in fiscal 2026 on barely more product shipped, and the constraint cuts both ways.
Weekly Economy XPredict Roundup: Reading the 10-Year Treasury Ladder
XPredict’s 10-year Treasury board moved hard on November 5: the 5.3% touch contract slid from 0.27 to 0.18 inside ninety minutes. The thresholds are nested, not cumulative, so they cannot be summed. Here is how to read the ladder, the November refunding calendar and the payrolls transmission mechanics.
Weekly Crypto XPredict Roundup: ETH Touches and the 10-Year Yield Ahead of Payrolls
On XPredict’s 2026 Ethereum board, a $2,000 touch and a $3,000 touch cost almost the same, even though the downside level is nearer. These are touch contracts, so both can resolve Yes. Here is what that pricing says about volatility, and how the 10-year Treasury yield ladder works differently ahead of payrolls.
Bitcoin Prediction Markets vs. Futures vs. Options: Why the Same Forecast Pays Differently
Bitcoin can rise while a trade based on that rise loses money, because the contract decides the payout. Compare prediction market shares, perpetual futures and purchased options across one hypothetical price path, and see how event wording, liquidation, premiums and expiry can defeat a broadly correct forecast.
What Is Open Interest? How to Use OI in Crypto Futures Analysis
Price shows that a market moved, not whether positions were opened or closed. Open interest counts the futures contracts still outstanding. This guide explains how it differs from trading volume, what the four price and open interest combinations can and cannot explain, and how funding adds holding-cost context.
A Beginner’s Futures Trading Risk Plan: Position Size, Stop Loss, and Daily Limits
The order page asks for margin, but your risk is a different number. This beginner’s guide works through the six decisions behind a futures risk plan: the loss budget, the exit level, the position size that follows, the liquidation buffer, how a stop triggers and fills, and a daily loss limit.
XT TradFi in Focus: Akshay on Rates, Growth, and Earnings | XT Insights
Akshay, XT Global Business Development Director, connects Japanese funding conditions, U.S. growth, and AI earnings. His AMA discussion offers a framework for understanding the markets available through XT TradFi.
Arman Achmed: Helping Traders Make Sense of More Markets | XT Insights
Broader access gives traders more choices. In XT’s AMA, Arman Achmed explained why helping users understand market drivers, their positions, and the events ahead is central to the exchange’s role.
Houshanren: Why Bitcoin Can Hold Up Under Rate Pressure | XT Insights
In XT’s Mandarin AMA, Houshanren separates Bitcoin’s price resilience from immunity to interest rates. His framework combines policy expectations, buying demand, and the market’s interpretation of new data.
Robin on Bitcoin Cycles and Building Positions in Stages | XT Insights
Robin holds gold to pass on to the next generation and trades crypto with a longer market cycle in mind. In XT’s AMA, she described buying spot assets in stages, caution ahead of data releases, and her conviction in a future crypto bull market.
Weekly Crypto XPredict Roundup: Bitcoin’s Year-End Scenarios After the Fed Held
Nine weeks from the year-end close, XPredict prices a $70,000 Bitcoin touch above a $90,000 one. The board is not a forecast and not a distribution: every contract carries its own observation start date, and one qualifying one-minute candle meets the condition. Here is what the snapshot shows, and what it cannot.
Weekly Economy XPredict Roundup: December Fed Bets Hold Steady While Crypto Falls
The Fed held rates on 28 October with two voters dissenting in favour of a hike, and the XPredict market on the December decision barely moved. This piece reads what the board is pricing, which data lands before 9 December, and why crypto spent October trading on something other than rate expectations.