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Thanks a lot. Happy Wednesday, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Trading the Markets.

Of course, we're joined by Chris Bullock, aka Blastoplasto,

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and get ready for what's coming. Chris, happy Wednesday. Happy hump day. What's going on today?

Well, I want to start off with an ex post that, Happy Hump Day. What's going on today?

Well, I want to start off with an ex post that basically sums everything up perfectly right now.

We're in fact, we're basically the ball in a in a ping pong match, you know, being batted back and forth.

And this tweet here sums it up perfectly. Basically, it just says China hopes market pressure will push the U.S. to negotiate. China expects recent trade tensions to hit U.S. markets,

hoping losses will prompt President Trump to offer concessions. After pausing mutual tariffs earlier

this year, both sides remain cautious amid renewed trade frictions. So basically, that's what's happening.

The thing, the catalyst from Friday that caused, you know, everything to kind of melt down

is still happening effectively. We're, you know, they're still going back and forth. And I think

we're going to continue to see volatile price action, very choppy price action, until there's some

sort of resolution, whatever that may be in this case.

And so in the meantime, it's kind of just weighted out. You know, don't do anything. I don't really think

either, well, I don't think Trump is going to let the markets fully nuke, you know, outside of just some

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