TSMC's financial report is crazy again, and tech stocks are collectively reviving! But everyone, don't just focus on whether chip prices are rising or falling; what truly determines the thickness of your wallet in 2026 is not the candlestick chart, but the financial statements just released by those 'top predators' on Wall Street today.

Why is the market rising while your account is shrinking?

TSMC's financial report is indeed a shot in the arm, directly bringing back the sluggish tech stocks. And have you noticed? As soon as Trump loosened his tone towards Iran, the previously soaring oil prices immediately cooled down.

But do you think the crisis is over? Look at what Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and BlackRock, those old foxes, are playing at? It's a classic case of good news being fully priced in. Last year, everyone was crazy about buying bank stocks, and now that the performance is so good, they are the first to pull out. This indicates that smart money is already looking for the next harvesting battlefield.

This brings us to today's protagonist: ETF.

In just 35 years, it has rubbed traditional mutual funds on the ground, and its scale has surged to 13.5 trillion USD. Why is it so dominant? Because it is efficient and has low taxes, like putting a group of great white sharks into a pond, specifically to eat those slow-reacting old funds. But here comes the problem: if ETFs are so good, why are the ETFs you bought making you doubt life?

Because many ETFs are designed to dig into your pockets:

Leverage traps: Those triple-leveraged short funds sound exciting, but the losses are astonishing. There's a reverse fund that lost 99.99% in 15 years! It's all about constantly merging shares to sustain life.

Dividend scams: Don't be dazzled by a 46% dividend rate. There’s a Tesla-covered call ETF that seems generous in dividends, but the total return hasn't even reached half of holding the underlying stock. This is like using your bone marrow to make soup for you, and you still think the soup is great!

Hotspot harvesting: As soon as you see flashy names like quantum computing or brain-computer interfaces, it's basically the sign that the market has peaked; they are just waiting for you to step in and take the bait.

BlackRock's asset scale has just broken 14 trillion! Larry Fink is very shrewd, laying off workers while aggressively investing in opaque private equity and alternative investments. What does this mean? It means that the top players are no longer playing with ordinary people. They are playing with deeper, more opaque markets, even those without candlestick charts.

If you want to turn things around in the cryptocurrency or US stock market in 2026, relying solely on hard work and reading news is useless. In this ecological niche, if you can't clearly see who the hunter is.