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OK, Friday’s charts had been maybe a bit too fiendish. We wished them to be difficult in order that we wouldn’t have to choose a winner from a dozen appropriate entries, nevertheless it turned out that nobody fully nailed all three.
Listed below are the proper solutions:
This reveals UBS’s quarterly web earnings because the Nineties. It might thank Credit Suisse for the accounting gain that produced that final spike.
This reveals the share worth of the Grayscale Bitcoin Belief after a choose dominated that the SEC was wrong to reject Grayscale’s utility to show it into an ETF.
And this confirmed the general short interest of hedge funds in US Treasuries, going by CFTC data. Maybe unsurprisingly, this one was the toughest chart to guess, and just one particular person obtained it proper: Oliver Felix from Swiss Re.
Oliver nailed the primary chart as effectively, and solely didn’t get an ideal document by guessing that the second confirmed the value of bitcoin in $’000s after the GBTC ruling, somewhat than GBTC itself. However having mentioned this inside FTAV Towers, that’s nonetheless shut sufficient to earn him the t-shirt. So congratulations to Oliver!
The following charts quiz will land round noon UK time on Friday, and we’ll attempt to make it (reasonably) simpler.