Stock market bad? Look at crypto right now.

[Mike Niendorff]

Stocks were down about 1.8%. Yeah, bad.

But crypto?

It's having a genuine mini-crash right now.

BTC -- down $5700 (4.7%)
ETH -- down $460 (10.5%)

Stock market is closed till Tuesday, but crypto markets never stop.

And over there, the downswing has kept going.


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[Lovie777]

1. Dollars?................

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Stock markets are OPEN Monday October 13, 2025. Bond markets are closed. ./nt

[Mike Niendorff]

4. Sorry, my bad. Thought it was both.

Obviously I'm not a trader.

But I have dabbled in crypto before, and what's going on there right now is substantial.


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[Fiendish Thingy]

3. A 1.8% drop doesn't even raise my heart rate

How soon we forget the dive of last spring, which has since recovered and went to gain more.

I think I’m still up around 13-15% for the YTD

Market volatility is a fact of life during the Trump era.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. The S&P500 was off 2.7%

Ooof. It’ll recover, but that’s never fun.

[The Madcap]

6. NASDAQ down 876 today (-3.49%)

Likely due to Orange Maniac's 100% ADDITIONAL TARIFF on China announced today.

Well, that's going to raise prices on most things Americans buy...bigly.

I hope the market reacts to a buying opportunity on Monday.

[D_Master81]

7. Crypto is always more volatile

As someone who has money in crypto people here always post when it drops big but never mention that it will probably recover in a week. A lot of leveraged trading happens there so when drops happen you get people getting liquidated. People who just ride it out like me are up big over the long term

[Grown2Hate]

9. 100%. I had some money to invest a few years ago. Started with DOGE (the coin, not Elon's shitty group)

because it seemed fun (back when it was like $.04 per coin) and then purchased some Bitcoin and mined some ETH. I don't blink at these falls anymore because I've just held long term and overall I'm up 325%. Hard to beat that. It's HARD ups and HARD downs, but the overall trend is WAY up. And if it all disappears tomorrow? It was money I could afford to lose. I'll enjoy it while it's here and probably cash out when I go to retire if it's still there.

Side note (anecdote): I was talking to the CFO of our company about how I was mining some crypto (years ago) and she said her son does the same. She added, "It's a fun hobby, but that crypto stuff is going to crash HARD". She was right in the short term; I saw it go from about $45000 per coin all the way down to $17000 a coin at that time. Today it's $115000 a coin and that's after a SHARP drop from the all-time high of $125000 per coin just this week!

So, yes, VOLATILE is certainly the right word, but a fun ride if you have a few bucks in it. Just my opinion.

[RandiFan1290]

8. Yep