How Low Can Stocks & Crypto Go? October 20th, 2025

The past week featured a couple of welcomed events for the financial markets, the historic Israel-Hamas peace accord, and a strong start to the third quarter earnings season, countered by the partial government shutdown extending into a third week along with credit concerns in the banking sector, along with whatever will be of the latest China-Trump trade negotiations. In the end, strong earnings and optimism won out, and stocks climbed the wall of worry higher as did gold as it powered to new record highs above $4300 per ounce.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Two sides to the story. There's only one side to
the facts. Welcome to the Brian mud show and thank
you for listening.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We'll have kings factel. One of them actually just stripped
Prince Andrew of all his titles.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
That's a good thing, all right.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
So hallou cause socks and cryptocurrencies go. My first role
money happens to be.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
It is never let your money in emotions cross.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Paths unless you want less of it. If you want
less money and go for it, have success. Over ninety
percent of the time that investors jumping it out and
try time things to do worse than if they had
just state the course with what they invested in originally.
I don't want you making those emotional mistakes with money.
I want you taking advantage of the greatest wealth creation
machine in the history of the world, which is your
United States Stock market, among the other things. And as

(00:47):
we get going this week, markets are hired last week
and your today gains anywhere nine to eighteen percent between
the Dow at the s and P five hundred and
NASDAC and you ended up having the positives during the week.
The peace agreement Israel and Hamas, along with the start
of earning season, which were in positive results so far

(01:08):
that outweighed some of the negatives out there, including concerns
over the partial shutdown China, Trump trade, and also some
banking credit concerns. One thing to note, it's been interesting
gold not only continues the power to new record highs
but forty three hundred ounce, but also cryptos had not
been performing as well, So stocks in gold moving to

(01:30):
record highs together you don't usually see that, so that's odd.
And then also cryptos being the worst performer of late
is interesting, so keep an eye on that. Through Friday.
As far as earnings are concerned, twelve percent of companies
had reported the average increase in earnings eight and a
half percent year every year, and that's largely why stocks
were higher. Meanwhile, mixed bag with cryptos, most of them

(01:51):
had a bad week, bitcoining off five percent. The average
was about a twelve percent decline for tokens last week.
Ether was the lone bright spot of three percent on
the week. Can't provide value analysis for them, can't for
the For stocks using the S and P five hundred,
your maximum downside risk right now is forty eight percent.
Don't think it'll happen, but in theory it could so

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if it would negatively impact you the day to day.
If we have that kind of cell off, you know
you need a new plan at that point. If not,
you're probably in good shape. It's been a good shape.