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🚀🌍 From Crimson Chaos to Verdant Victory A Tale of Two Heatmaps 2020 vs 2025 🌍🚀
In the grand amphitheatre of finance where fortunes pirouette and falter two heatmaps stand as vivid cartographies of economic destiny one a scarlet elegy from the 2020 COVID crash the other a verdant ode to the thriving markets of 2025 These are not mere data visualisations but intellectual frescoes painted with the hues of human ambition and market caprice With a nod to Dante and a wink to Keynes let us dissect this metamorphosis from crimson despair to green exuberance weaving wit and wisdom into a narrative that dances as deftly as the market itself
Imagine a treemap so steeped in red it could double as a Renaissance depiction of the underworld March 2020 a month when the market donned a crimson shroud and wailed like a Greek chorus foretelling doom This was no gentle dip but a financial tempest where sectors drowned in a sea of losses their declines etched in white numerals like epitaphs on a capitalist cenotaph Technology’s Titans Tumbled The digital deities Apple AAPL -12.46% Microsoft MSFT -11.84% NVIDIA NVDA -14.32% fell from their silicon Olympus their vast rectangles shrinking like empires in twilight Google GOOGL -10.27% and TSMC TSMC -13.47% joined the dirge proving that even innovation bends beneath a global plague Financials’ Fortresses Faltered JPMorgan JPM -13.03% and Berkshire Hathaway BRK-B -10.92% anchored a sector awash in red their losses a sombre sonnet to banking’s battered resilience Visa V -12.73% and Mastercard MA -12.66% stumbled in synchrony as if the market had declared cash itself passé Consumer Goods Crumbled Apple’s crimson colossus dominated but Coca Cola KO -5.05% and Procter & Gamble PG -4.20% offered faint glimmers of resistance or perhaps just less theatrical collapses Amazon AMZN -8.04% and Alibaba BABA -8.63% in Services mirrored the carnage e commerce’s golden age tarnished Healthcare’s Hollow Hope Johnson & Johnson JNJ -7.41% and UnitedHealth UNH -11.32% bled alongside their peers with Novartis NVS -12.07% defying the trend in name only Utilities that bastion of stability succumbed too Dominion D -8.33% and NextEra NEE -7.51% drowned in the red tide
This heatmap was a masterpiece of misery a scarlet symphony where green was a whispered rumour and the market that fickle mistress traded her bullish horns for bearish claws It was a labyrinth of losses navigated only by the brave the hedged and the mildly deranged
Now leap to 2025 and behold a treemap aglow with the verdant splendour of a Botticelli spring This is no mere recovery but a financial renaissance where gains bloom like wildflowers after a deluge and the market struts like a peacock in full plumage Technology’s Triumphant Return NVIDIA NVDA +3.97% and Tesla TSLA +3.91% lead the charge their green blocks blazing with the fire of innovation AI and electric dreams electrifying the market Microsoft MSFT +1.14% and Apple AAPL +1.91% follow their gains a quiet hymn to resilience Financials’ Firm Footing JPMorgan JPM +2.16% and Berkshire Hathaway BRK-B +2.27% stand as pillars of prosperity their steady rises a nod to fiscal prudence and renewed trust The sector hums with the calm confidence of a banker who has seen worse Consumer Cyclical’s Comeback Amazon AMZN +1.70% and Tesla TSLA +3.91% shine as twin suns their gains a paean to consumer zeal and technological swagger Procter & Gamble PG +1.09% in Consumer Defensive adds a softer green note the unsung hero of soap and stability Healthcare’s Healing Glow Eli Lilly LLY +1.71% and AbbVie ABBV +1.96% pulse with vitality their blocks a testament to medicine’s enduring promise Even the rare red Ford F -1.03% feels like a quaint footnote in this emerald epic
This heatmap is a verdant tapestry a digital Eden where red is the exception sorry Ford and green reigns supreme It is a market that has not just recovered but reinvented a phoenix preening atop its own ashes
From 2020’s crimson carnage to 2025’s green grandeur the market has scripted a saga worthy of Shakespeare tragedy in Act I triumph in Act V This is no mere rebound but a metamorphosis a testament to capitalism’s knack for turning chaos into cash Tech’s Tale NVIDIA plummeted -14.32% in 2020 only to soar +3.97% in 2025 proof that silicon survives where steel falters Apple’s arc -12.46% to +1.91% mirrors this rebirth a bitten fruit ripened anew Financial Fortitude JPMorgan’s fall -13.03% in 2020 gave way to a rise +2.16% in 2025 a phoenix of finance spreading its wings Berkshire Hathaway -10.92% to +2.27% echoes this Buffett’s wisdom validated once more Consumer Resilience Amazon’s stumble -8.04% transformed into a strut +1.70% a retailer reborn in a world that never stopped clicking Buy Now
This journey whispers an eternal verity markets are cyclical capricious and dare we say cunning As Dante knew hell before paradise so too did traders endure the red abyss to reach the green zenith The lesson Patience is a strategy and panic a fool’s errand
Yet let us not sip the green Kool Aid without a smirk The market that sly trickster loves a plot twist just as 2020’s mourners became 2025’s millionaires today’s victors might yet taste tomorrow’s vinegar It is a grand jest bulls gored one day bears crowned the next all choreographed by the whims of headlines and the whispers of algos
In 2020 the wise trader hedged and chuckled at the folly of timing the bottom In 2025 that same sage eyes the green with glee but keeps a weather eye on the horizon for the market’s dance is a waltz of wit where every step forward hides a potential pirouette back As Voltaire might quip The market is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel
🚀 Your Turn Trader
So gaze upon these heatmaps one a requiem the other a rhapsody and see not just data but doctrine Diversify dear reader lest you bet the farm on a single hue Hedge lest the market’s next jest catches you flat footed And laugh for in this theatre of finance absurdity is the only constant
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I had no clue about stocks/shares. wished I dipped my toes during my first breastfeeding journey back then
Here is the historical stock data for Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), and Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) during the month of March 2020:
Microsoft (MSFT):
Highest Price: $175.0 on March 3, 2020.
Lowest Price: $132.52 on March 23, 2020.
Opening Price: $152.41 on March 1, 2020.
Closing Price: $157.71 on March 31, 2020.
Quote Change: -2.65% during the month.
NVIDIA (NVDA):
Highest Price: $7.1223 on March 4, 2020.
Lowest Price: $4.517 on March 18, 2020.
Opening Price: $6.0614 on March 1, 2020.
Closing Price: $6.4437 on March 31, 2020.
Quote Change: -2.40% during the month.
Apple (AAPL):
Highest Price: $76.0 on March 3, 2020.
Lowest Price: $53.1525 on March 23, 2020.
Opening Price: $64.315 on March 1, 2020.
Closing Price: $63.9 on March 31, 2020.
Quote Change: -6.98% during the month.
Amazon.com (AMZN):
Highest Price: $99.8165 on March 3, 2020.
Lowest Price: $81.3015 on March 16, 2020.
Opening Price: $90.7315 on March 1, 2020.
Closing Price: $98.2175 on March 31, 2020.
Quote Change: 3.50% during the month.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (META):
Highest Price: $197.24 on March 3, 2020.
Lowest Price: $137.101 on March 18, 2020.
Opening Price: $182.695 on March 1, 2020.
Closing Price: $165.48 on March 31, 2020.
Quote Change: -13.34% during the month.
Please note that this historical data is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. Stock prices are subject to market fluctuations, and past performance is not indicative of future results. It is always important to conduct thorough research and analysis before making any investment decisions.
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Hate to think about those days BC! 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
That was an awful period BC! Well written 💕
Great article, would you like to share it?