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Arianna Vaz

Arianna Vaz is the Portfolio Strategy Editor at The Chain Journal, exploring the human side of investing — behavioural finance, risk psychology, portfolio strategy, and the emotional patterns that shape how retail investors navigate volatile markets. Her work helps readers understand not just what markets do, but why investors react the way they do.

Bitcoin Slides as Oil Jumps on Hormuz Risk

Bitcoin dips to $70.6K, oil rises after US announces Hormuz blockade

The Market Stops Trading Like a Chart Bitcoin’s latest pullback is not happening in a vacuum. It is being pulled by a much bigger force: geopolitics. As the United States announced a blockade tied to the Strait of Hormuz, traders…