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Neo (NEO) is down 2.4% to $6.05 this week, underperforming the broader crypto market, where Bitcoin (BTC) has slipped only 0.6% to $121,750. The token failed to capitalise on Bitcoin’s breakout above key resistance and remains stuck in a flat range between $5.00 and $7.00. Its inability to approach the upper boundary suggests weakness in momentum, despite ongoing project activity. Neo released a platform update in mid-September, yet it has not translated into notable price gains.

Still, a renewed rally in Bitcoin could offer Neo another opportunity to retest the $7.00 resistance. If the breakout succeeds, the next target would likely be around $10.00.

ApeCoin (APE) is down 0.7% to $0.555 this week, underperforming Bitcoin (BTC), which is trading flat at $122,418. The token remains stuck in a five-month consolidation range between $0.500 and $0.600, with support holding firm while resistance appears increasingly vulnerable amid the broader crypto rally.

Bitcoin’s decisive breakout above the $117,000–$120,000 resistance zone has opened the path toward $155,000–$165,000, driven by substantial inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs. As large investors continue to pour capital into BTC, momentum across the crypto market is strengthening. Several altcoins have already broken out of their consolidation ranges alongside Bitcoin’s advance, suggesting that if the benchmark cryptocurrency continues its upward trajectory, ApeCoin could soon follow suit with a sharp move higher.

I now see an interesting investment opportunity in purchasing some Netflix shares after Elon Musk urged his X followers to cancel their Netflix subscriptions over a controversy surrounding “Dead End: Paranormal Park” animated show and its creator. The world's largest streaming service lost up to 5% of its market caps last week soon after Tesla and X owner posted on his platform saying, “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids”. He did it in response to an image, which accused Netflix of carrying out a transgender woke agenda. I personally have no intention of cancelling my long-standing Netflix subscription because of one show I am not going to watch or wouldn't show to my child. Besides, I don't think a huge number of subscribers would actually unsubscribe because of one show.

I want to see Nero The Assassin right now, as only one example, where the French Césars nominated Pio Marmai starred as a man who must rescue his estranged daughter from malevolent forces in XVIth century France. I am waiting for Rowan Atkinson's return with "Man Vs Baby" as a Christmas follow-up series to Man Vs Bee, as another example. And who knows, what else? And I also want to make money on my stake in further Netflix shining. Especially since its share price has not only bounced off the local low of around $1,133, but also formed a symmetrical triangle pattern near the news-given bottom and even managed to take-off recovering to $1188. The incident seems to be over, at least in the field of stock market's reaction, while Musk's X post seems more like a warning to Netflix owners not to overdo it with untimely attempts to please queer supporting audiences. In short, I believe that Netflix share will revisit its target levels of no less than $1,350, where the price action already took place in mid-summer, with this sad episode marking the end of sideways corrections of the last three months for the stock.

As for the essence of the “Dead End: Paranormal Park” story, if anyone is still interested, I have done some research. When asked what the gender colouring is there, Google's Gemini assistant gave me an answer that the main protagonist of the show, named Barney, is transgender. And, to be more precise, Barney is an out trans teen boy who finds a job as a security guard of an amusement park with a haunted house. Barney is surrounded by friends and a family who support him, which is probably O.K. but the children marketed cartoon "seeks to explore how passive toleration isn't what every young queer person needs or wants". Well, I prefer that children of the world associate either Barney or Barny name only with a famous brand of wheat flour cake bears or a character from an old cartoon. It's too bold to mix it with children-marketed shows digging into a conflict between queer people and their parents that's directly about the trans gender world to resonate with a lot of queer wish fulfilment of fantasies.

Personally, I also feel strongly that schools, kindergartens and the film industry need to stop offering all this woke agenda to children. This topic is mentioned for a certain segment of the adult audience who are interested in it, but there's no need to ruin children's psyches by forcing explanations to very young and inexperienced minds and souls on a subject that looks alien to them and that they can't understand at their age. Yes, I'm rather conservative on these issues. But I hate the very concept of the so-called "cancel culture" much more, seeing it as a substitute for genuine debate. Boycotts of public personalities or brands after they have done or said something considered objectionable is not going along with free speech society. Again, let's remember how the magnificent Johnny Depp was almost lynched for something he didn't even try to do. "Me too" stories with claims of attempted harassment, decades later and often without any evidence, after which people were lowered to the bottom of modern society. In short, they probably should find another space for queer culture promotion, but that's no reason to cancel Netflix subscription or stop trading its shares. They made money on content; let them share it with shareholders like me and you.

Folks, Google dreams with all our hopes for further rise are flourishing again! Even though it's autumn outside the window... And there's a reason. This search engine and cloud data giant, well known to everyone here, there and everywhere, just formed a "round saucer", also called "round bottom" pattern, on its share price charts, a familiar sight even to simple traders, who are non-experts in equity markets. The pattern is a strong but rather rare phenomenon to appear on daily charts. It usually signifies that the price is about to attract a large crowd of new buyers and those who are eager to increase their stake in the same asset which they already own. Both large funds and many ordinary people will try their best to find free money to cram more Google into their investment portfolios. And if the price of one Google share is $250 today, then in a couple of months - or, you may say, by Christmas time - it will likely reach the next tactical target between $275 and $285. And by next spring, perhaps we can see even $300 per share. After all, we started with $200 at the end of August and reached $255 just three weeks later, by the last ten days of September. Just think about it: one can get a 10% to 20% more return on invested capital in a very short period, for just a small stake in a super-reliable business, which is currently valued by the market at no less than $3 trillion. And if one trades Google through platforms that offer financial leverage 5:1, then one's investment could easily grow by 1.5-2 times using the same size of price action! Well, even Bitcoin doesn't offer such returns right at the moment. Not to mention that, on its triumphant climbing to the sky, Bitcoin is also fluctuating wildly, sometimes up and sometimes down, sometimes doing sideways corrections for so many days, keeping crypto investors awake at night, weekdays and weekends alike. It's much easier to keep track of stock investments in megacaps, and you save much of your neurons for your better health.

However, this "round saucer" signal is visible to everyone on Google charts, so people will act immediately. The movement could significantly pick up momentum even today or maybe tomorrow. Google share could add $3-5 more soon. To avoid missing the opportunity, maybe we should Google it now?

This Monday alone, the stock gained 2% on Nasdaq, which is quite a lot for such a tech behemoth. And there was a fresh piece of news behind the move: before the weekend, it was re-confirmed that Google would build a massive $4 billion cloud data center in Arkansas. On a thousand acres of American land, creating hundreds of jobs with the support of Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the approval of Trump's cabinet, of course, Google will get another stable source of income for itself and its shareholders, in addition to the money flow from numerous Google advertisers who pay for ad impressions and users' clicks whenever ordinary guy or girl simply search for something on the internet again.

As I detailed in my previous two articles in early September, Google share rise is being mostly accelerated by closer ties with ChatGPT maker Open AI, also its own Gemini neural network assistant, and then a federal court ruling that definitively overturned a potential threat of dividing Google into parts like Google Chrome separate business, Android separate business etc, something that antitrust regulators persistently talked about within four years of Biden's sitting in the White House.

For those who meticulously count the numbers, Google's total revenue for the last quarter alone was approximately $96.5 billion. That's nearly $12 billion more than one year ago and $22 billion more than it was in the same season in 2023. Looking at quarterly earnings per share, you can see how this key metric has doubled from $1.44 to $2.81 in less than two years: from July 2023 to April 2025. Google knows how to multiply their money. So, can we do the same using Google skills?