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The influence of macro news cycles, such as tweets from politicians or surprises from the Fed, can cause instantaneous and severe market crashes or rallies, often 20% swings in a single day. This has increased the importance of tools like predictively driven prediction markets such as PolyMarket, which are impacting investment decisions and perceptions.
The overall consensus among traders is that it's a very strange, volatile, and choppy market, but one they are not betting against—if anything, they anticipate the market will continue to be "juiced" by central banks and institutional interventions.