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Modern Tulip Mania Grips World As "F#ck Token" Soars 370% And Then Collapses

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Mark Melin
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Editor's note: Google has strict policies in terms of certain keywords and heavily penalize articles which contain curse words. Therefore, in this article we are unable to spell out the correct four letter word so we  instead use "F#ck Token" in all instances. It is still a bit confusing even with this note but there is nothing we can do here - so please don't blame us, blame Google.

When anthropologists analyze the year 2017, they likely might paint this as a time of illogical decisions painted by unrequited optimism. The height of this moment in history might be August, 2017 with comparables drawn to Dutch society in February, 1637 and what was known as “Tulip mania.” Never before...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.