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🚀 As some of the best stocks to buy now keep falling (e.g. #TSLA and #PLTR stocks), I'm continuing to invest in growth stocks and cryptocurrencies like #Bitcoin (BTC) and #Ethereum (ETH). Will it be enough to compete with #ARKK@ARK Invest‘s flagship innovation fund managed by #CathieWood? I also cover the big changes to my portfolio (overweighting SE stock and #TDOC stock, adding #BTC, using #Tesla stock as a conviction test) and discuss another exercise that I feel will help make us better investors.

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it's time for another fantastic
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portfolio update
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i've been in the red pretty much since
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i've launched this one hundred thousand
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dollar portfolio just three months ago
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right when i think my favorite growth
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stocks can't go any lower new news comes
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out about inflation job numbers new
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pandemic variants fed tapering interest
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rates and so on if your portfolio looks
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anything like mine don't panic remember
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that you don't lose a single penny until
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you actually sell something on the flip
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side as my favorite stocks continue to
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nosedive by double digits each week it's
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getting harder and harder for me not to
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buy the dip i'm not a financial advisor
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and nothing i say here is financial
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advice but in my opinion the best things
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we can be doing right now is keeping our
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watch lists organized so we can look for
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solid buying opportunities on our
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favorite stocks at bargain basement
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prices so in this episode i'm going to
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show you exactly how i do that and how
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you can too after all this is the
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channel that invests in you i'll also
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show you what i've been buying since my
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last portfolio update and how my
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portfolio has been performing compared
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to rk arc invests flagship innovation
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fund your time is valuable so if you're
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just here to see what's in my portfolio
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i'll show you that right up front i'm
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not here to hold you hostage let's start
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with the performance of my portfolio
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first since it's the first time i get to
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show it the s p 500 is up by a massive
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whopping 1.5 percent over the last six
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weeks over that same time period though
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rk is down by almost 25
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it's actually i'm not even mad that's
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amazing
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what that tells me is that kathy wood is
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actually doing a great job managing a
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fund that doesn't move with the rest of
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the market for better or worse it's not
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tied to an index at all because it
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doesn't hold stocks like apple and
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google and facebook kathy wood says time
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and time again that she's looking for
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the next apple the next google the next
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set of fang stocks one of the advantages
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that i have as a retail investor is that
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i can buy whatever i want whenever i
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want so i'm simply saving more of my
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cash and investing in safer companies
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while archinvest doesn't have that
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luxury as a result i'm only down about
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11 right now i can't emphasize enough
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how much money doing nothing can
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actually make you let's take a look at
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what i'm currently holding sea limited
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is still my number one position by far
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and that's not going to change unless
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something crazy happens i talk about
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this stock a lot and honestly i need to
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be talking about it a lot more so
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starting next year i'm going to cover it
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a lot more regularly in 2022 next up we
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have ethereum which is still the second
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biggest holding on the list it's much
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more volatile than most stocks so i'm
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letting it drop down way more before i
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average into it again i've also added a
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small bitcoin position to the portfolio
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for a lot of reasons first i believe
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that bitcoin will end up on more and
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more corporate balance sheets as kathy
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wood suggests second a large part of the
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crypto community believes that ethereum
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will overtake bitcoin as the biggest
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cryptocurrency by market cap that event
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is called the flipping since ethereum's
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and bitcoin's positions on every crypto
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list would essentially flip ethereum is
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already bigger than bitcoin by a couple
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of metrics like transaction counts and
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total transaction fees paid today
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ethereum is at roughly half the market
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cap of bitcoin even though it's searched
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way less frequently and bitcoin has been
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a household name for years most people
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agree that the flipping will happen and
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it's just a matter of time and when most
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people agree on something it's a good
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idea to at least consider the other side
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in this case the other side would mean
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that bitcoin will forever be bigger than
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ethereum and if that's true and i truly
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believe in the future of ethereum that i
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need to hold some bitcoin since it will
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always be bigger hedges can be pretty
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funny like that the third reason i'm
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holding bitcoin is that it's a good way
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to further spread the volatility of this
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portfolio out between two different
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asset classes stocks and
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cryptocurrencies together bitcoin and
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ethereum make up about 11 percent of my
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portfolio right now and my target is
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about 12
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9 in ethereum and 3 in bitcoin my third
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biggest holding has become teledoc i've
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learned a ton about this stock and i've
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covered it a few times since it started
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crashing earlier this year teledoc is
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archives second biggest position overall
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and it has a real shot at one day being
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kathy wood's single biggest holding even
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above tesla it's not a stretch to say
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that teledoc could actually be
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archinvest's highest conviction position
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right now since it's in four of their
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funds and arkhamvest owns about six
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percent of the company if you add up all
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of their shares just over a year ago
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teledoc paid 18.5 billion dollars to
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acquire lavongo today teledoc and
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lavongo combined are trading at just 15
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billion dollars in valuation so over 20
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percent lower than what teledoc paid to
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acquire it when you merge with lavongo
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we remember from glenn that there was
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not glitching that there was not a lot
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of overlap that there were two different
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basically let's call them client lists
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how's the integration going
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the integra
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the integration's going great we
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we have two very similar cultures with a
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common mission
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very little overlap in terms of clients
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and very little overlap in terms of our
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product portfolio it's incredibly
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complementary and the teams are deep in
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the process of integration we're seeing
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record growth in our in our mental
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health area and 40 of the people who are
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coming to us for mental health care say
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that they wouldn't have otherwise gotten
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care you know we're not just
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virtualizing people who already would
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have gotten care and changing them from
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in-person to virtual visits we're really
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expanding access to care in this really
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important part of the health care system
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mental health which we know has a
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tremendous impact on physical health and
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the cost of care
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so either the market thinks that this is
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the worst acquisition in history or
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teledoc plus lavongo are just
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fundamentally mispriced here's why i
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think they're mispriced if teledoc
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liquidated every tangible asset they
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have right now and then paid off all of
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their liabilities the extra money they
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would have left over is what's called
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their book value usually the market cap
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of a tech company is way more than its
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book value because that company also has
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intangible assets like patents
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trademarks proprietary technologies and
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data and so on teledoc definitely has a
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ton of important intangible assets which
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arkanvest talks about all the time back
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in february kathy was saying that you
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know keep some powder dry uh and now
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we're saying innovation is on sale when
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you're in the equity markets
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this is an asset class where you have to
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focus on the medium-term time horizon if
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you're putting money into equities it
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should not be money that you're trying
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to extract out in three or six months
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and so that's why we do our evaluation
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work over five years and why we see
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super meaningful appreciation
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opportunities in the intangible assets
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that we're
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purchasing on behalf of our clients
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teledocs market cap is currently less
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than its book value let alone its value
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when you add in all these intangible
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assets i'm not doing anything crazy here
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i'm not betting the house i'm not taking
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out a loan and i'm not overextending
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myself in any way but as long as teledoc
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is under 100 per share which is where
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its market cap would equal its book
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value i'm going to keep averaging in
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right behind teledoc palantir currently
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rounds out my highest conviction
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positions if i thought the market was
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misunderstanding teledoc then i think
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it's straight up delusional on palantir
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again because so much of its value today
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is still intangible i won't spend your
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valuable time rehashing my points on
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palantir right now but if you're
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interested in learning all about this
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unique artificial intelligence and data
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analytics company and all the high-tech
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markets that they operate in i've put
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all of my pallets your content in one
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convenient playlist for you i'll leave
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that in the top right hand corner of
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your screen right now and in the
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description below as well the other big
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changes that i made to the portfolio are
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all at the bottom where i actually sold
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out of my four smallest positions
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snapchat peloton signify health and amd
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let me explain why i did that in
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previous episodes i gave everyone
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including myself a couple of important
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exercises that i think will instantly
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make us better investors the first
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exercise was to pick your favorite 30 or
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so stocks that was your investing
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universe for a while and your job was to
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rank them it might take a few tries and
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if you struggled with any particular
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stock that's a good indication that you
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need to do more research once you have
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your ordered list the top half becomes
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your portfolio and the bottom half
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becomes your watch list this lets your
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portfolio and your watch list work
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together if you find a new stock that
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you like you're not allowed to just buy
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it instead you throw it onto the bottom
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of your watch list then that stock has
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to work hard to float to the top of your
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watch list while you keep learning about
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every company on your list together
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you're only allowed to start buying
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companies if they get to the top of your
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watch list and when you do you're only
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allowed to buy tiny amounts to begin
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with which would put them in the bottom
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of your portfolio that stops you from
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making impulsive buying decisions now
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that a company is at the bottom of your
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portfolio it has to compete with every
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other stock that you've already invested
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real money in including your highest
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conviction positions at the top are you
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really about to put your next dollar in
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your 12th favorite company when your top
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stock just dropped 20 percent the
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opposite is also true before you totally
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sell out of a stock that you put real
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money into why not just stop buying it
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for a while keep buying your other
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stocks and guess what the one you
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stopped buying will start sinking
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towards the bottom of your portfolio
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that's what happened with snapchat
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peloton signify and amd for me my top
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stocks all dropped around 30 percent and
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these four stocks were the ones at the
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bottom of my portfolio they were very
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small positions and i sold them all for
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a combined loss of around 400 bucks but
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i freed up a few grand for my highest
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conviction holdings with those four
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stocks gone the smallest position in my
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portfolio is now tesla no new stocks can
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enter my portfolio unless i'm convinced
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they deserve to be there almost as much
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as tesla over the next five years which
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means i'm being really picky here picky
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is exactly what you want to be when
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every single growth stock goes on sale
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which is what's happening right now if
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you haven't already checked out my
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previous portfolio episodes i really
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recommend you do that and try those
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exercises for yourself there's still
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plenty of time to organize your lists
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and catch up on your favorite growth
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stocks before this dip reverses i'll
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leave my most recent portfolio episode
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in the top right hand corner of your
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screen right now and in the description
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below as well
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here's the next investing exercise
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remember these are absolutely free
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exercises that i think will instantly
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make us better investors once we
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actually sit down and do them
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tradingview is a pretty advanced stock
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analysis tool the basic level of
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tradingview.com is absolutely free
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they're not sponsoring me in any way and
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i have absolutely nothing to gain by
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having you try tradingview i just really
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like their website and their desktop app
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here's what my pro version of
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tradingview looks like this is all the
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stuff that i care about seeing before i
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decide to buy a high-tech growth stock
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and all of these indicators and lines
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and colors are tuned specifically for
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those kinds of stocks there are a few
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financial metrics here like the price to
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sales and price to book ratios both of
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which i talk a lot about on this channel
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there are a few momentum indicators to
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let me know if the stock is being
11:44
overbought or oversold and a few other
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scripts that add more information to my
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price chart all right so what we're
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going to do is we're going to
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tradingview.com and we're going to click
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on the chart this pulls up a chart of
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apple i do everything in dark mode
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because i'm super cool like that so
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we're going to change that in the basic
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settings i'm going to use apple as an
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example but if you create a free account
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you can add whatever stocks you want to
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your own list let's add a couple of
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basic financial metrics to the screen
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right now i'm going to click financials
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and then i'm going to type in price to
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book and price to sales if you're also
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interested in things like price or
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earnings feel free to click on that one
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too we can consolidate these three
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metrics into one screen by moving
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everything into the same pane now we
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have one pane with three different
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y-axis and if you're not sure which
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ratio is which you can just hide one and
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then unhide it or wiggle the axis or
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move the mouse over it now we can see
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apple's stock price as well as these
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three important financial metrics all at
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once and everything is synced up in time
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today we can see that apple is trading
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at much higher ratios than they were in
12:53
early november so apple isn't really
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doing much more business than it was six
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weeks ago investors are just valuing
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that business at higher multiples that's
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useful info the other things we can add
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to the screen are moving averages this
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time we go to indicators instead of
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financials and we're going to click on
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moving average three times because we'll
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be adding three of them right now we can
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see the nine day moving average but what
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we want to see is the 25 day the 50 day
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and the 100 day moving averages so all
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i'm doing is i'm changing the settings
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for each line to reflect that you can
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change the format of these lines however
13:29
you want now when we look at the price
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chart with these numbers we have a much
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clearer idea of when we want to buy the
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stock i try to only buy stocks that are
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at least under this dark blue line the
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25 day moving average if the price is
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not below that line i won't even think
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about buying it the 50-day moving
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average is even better but you can see
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that apple doesn't really touch its
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50-day moving average very often so when
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it does it's probably going to be a
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solid long-term price if you're willing
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to hold through the short-term
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volatility the longer the moving average
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the longer it takes to catch up to big
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swings in the stock's price so when you
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pick a number you're trading between how
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conservative you want to be with your
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buy price and how often the stock
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actually gets below that price the nice
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thing about trading view is it keeps all
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of your settings across all of your
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stocks so if we look at netflix we can
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see that it dips below these lines way
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more often that doesn't mean we should
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go out and buy netflix stock it just
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means that it's a better buy now than it
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was during the last 25 days on average
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now let's look at tesla stock holy moly
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tesla barely even dips below its 25-day
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moving average when the price gets close
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to the 50-day average that's probably
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the best an investor can hope for at
14:44
least over the short term so taking your
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ranked list and setting it up on trading
14:49
view and learning about these indicators
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is the next exercise being able to see
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fundamental financial metrics and some
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basic price averages at the same time as
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you look at the stock's price will
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instantly make you a better investor and
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that's what we're here for so your new
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task is to go watch those previous
15:07
portfolio episodes and rank your own
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list if you haven't done that already
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then you're going to set yourself up on
15:13
trading view to see if now is a good
15:16
time to buy any of your favorite stocks
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comment below or tweet me at ticker
15:20
symbol u if you're interested in me
15:22
doing a full episode on my trading view
15:24
setup i'm happy to do one if there's
15:26
enough interest also let me know if you
15:28
use trading view or if you're using a
15:30
different charting app i'm always
15:32
excited to try different financial tools
15:34
tradingview doesn't support this channel
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in any way but if you'd like to or
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own portfolio you can go to public.com
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now as growth stocks keep trending
16:29
downwards i make extra posts explaining
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why i add positions like bitcoin why i'm
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so bullish on c limited and why i'm
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still holding so much cash the support
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of my patrons and youtube members makes
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extra investing projects like this
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portfolio possible and that means the
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world to me either way thanks for
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watching and until next time this is
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ticker symbol you my name is alex
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reminding you that the best investment
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you can make
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is in you
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you

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