🔥 Selling FB to Buy the Dip on These High Growth Stocks

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this month has been an absolute roller
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coaster for growth stocks just when i
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think they can't go any lower news comes
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out about inflation interest rates
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record low consumer sentiment oh yeah
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and border conflicts holy moly the bad
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news never seems to end even if your
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portfolio looks like mine i wouldn't
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panic sell just yet in this episode i'll
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show you what i've been buying since my
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last portfolio update as well as why i
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made my biggest sale to date by selling
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all my facebook stock your time is
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valuable so let's get right into it
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let's start with my portfolio's
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performance if you're relatively new to
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the channel i started this portfolio of
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the week that i hit 100 000 subscribers
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that was about three months ago which
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turns out was pretty much the worst
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possible time to start a growth focused
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portfolio who says you can't time the
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market since november i'm down about 21
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during that same time frame the s p 500
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is down about four percent the nasdaq is
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down close to 10
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and the russell 2000 is down a little
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over 13 percent since arkhanvest is one
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of the main focuses of this channel one
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of my main goals of this portfolio is to
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try and outperform rk their flagship
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innovation fund rk is down over 40
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percent since november it's actually i'm
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not even mad that's amazing
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that's pretty crazy but i want to stress
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that it has nothing to do with growth
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companies and everything to do with
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macroeconomics how do i know that
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because many of the earnings reports and
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business updates from companies inside
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my portfolio and archinvest's portfolios
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have shown incredibly strong
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year-over-year growth even when compared
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to the height of the pandemic i'll never
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get better as an investor if i don't
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honestly assess my own performance so
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i'm doing better than rk but worse than
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every other major index out there right
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now which means i need to do a better
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job protecting my downside so i give
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myself a solid c minus and my job is to
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be much pickier with the next fifty
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thousand dollars i deploy speaking of
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which i'm going to add another fifty
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thousand dollars to my portfolio over
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time i'm doing this for a few reasons
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first the channel recently hit 150 000
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subscribers and i like the idea of the
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portfolio keeping up with my subscriber
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count that stops me from trying to time
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the market whenever the channel hits a
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new milestone like this i'll add money
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to the account or at least as soon as i
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can i'm definitely not actually made of
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money right now i've added twenty
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thousand dollars to my portfolio and
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i'll add the other thirty thousand in as
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soon as tax season is over doing this
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also holds me accountable i can't just
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bail when things get tough and speaking
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of things getting tough here's my
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portfolio organized by position size as
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you can see i'm basically down by 15 to
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35 percent on everything yikes some
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questions i've been getting lately are
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how can i be so calm when i'm down by so
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much am i not worried that i'm
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underperforming the overall market
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nope let me explain upstart is a great
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company that i do owe you a deep dive on
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it's a cloud-based lending platform that
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uses ai to assess and manage risk in
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quarter four seventy percent of upstarts
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loans were fully automated and instantly
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approved while fraud rates remained low
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i'll leave a link to their most recent
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earnings presentation in the description
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below but here's the thing that earnings
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presentation is not about loans it's a
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presentation about technology disrupting
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the traditional loans market upstart is
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now my second biggest position overall
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after it went up by 35 today 35 percent
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in one day don't worry knowing my luck
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it'll be back down by the time you watch
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this but my point is that each one of
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these companies has been doing awesome
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things that i strongly believe will keep
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catching wall street analysts by
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surprise how much of a surprise well
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upstart surprised on earnings per share
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by 75 percent and on revenue by 16
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why such a big surprise because most
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traditional wall street analysts and all
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trading algorithms are set to make
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apples to apple's comparisons of numbers
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on balance sheets not the underlying
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technologies driving those balance
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sheets over time here's another reason
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i'm not worried let me sort my portfolio
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by all time gains so we can take a look
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at some of my biggest quote unquote
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losers it's no surprise that all of my
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biggest losers are high growth fintech
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companies since those are the exact
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kinds of companies that get punished
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twice by rising interest rates and
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reopening economies first up is c
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limited which is also my biggest
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position by far if we go to
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page on c limited we can see that it's
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actually three companies in one garena
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is their digital entertainment and
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gaming brand shoppie is their e-commerce
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arm and c-money is their digital payment
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solutions if each of these business
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units were a separate company i'd have
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all three of them in my portfolio i'm
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not kidding garena is the southeast
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asian publisher of some of the most
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downloaded games in the world like
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league of legends and free fire which it
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also developed shoppi becomes one of the
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dominant e-commerce channels in every
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country it touches and c-money is one of
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the fastest growing fintech units i've
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ever seen a company create the fact that
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you not only get all three of these
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business units with one stock but that
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they all talk to each other and share
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resources on the back end makes this my
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absolute favorite company to hold for
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the long term i think that c limited
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could no kidding be a one trillion
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dollar company one day and it's now down
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to 60 billion dollars in market cap
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meaning i think it can almost 20x from
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here will that take time absolutely can
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it go lower absolutely in fact it's
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getting crushed right now because india
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is banning chinese-backed apps like
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tick-tock citing privacy and security
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concerns c is based in singapore but
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tencent owns a sizable stake in it
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garena's free fire is one of the apps
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that got banned and investors are
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worried that shopee will be banned as
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well india is a big potential market for
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c limited and c's leadership has already
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responded to this ban saying they're
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working to resolve the issues and that
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their apps already comply with india's
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privacy laws nevertheless this is a real
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risk that you should know about but i've
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been buying the dip my second biggest
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loser is a company called block formerly
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called square oh you've heard of it
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block is now the parent company of
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square as well as cash app title and
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spiral which together form an ecosystem
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of banking e-commerce and cryptocurrency
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solutions for small and medium-sized
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businesses as well as content creators
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according to spiral bitcoin is the best
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money and it should be used like it
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spiral aims to make bitcoin the planet's
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preferred currency so square or block or
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whatever we're calling everything under
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ticker symbol sq these days is an
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investment in end-to-end fintech
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ecosystems that won't get easily
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disrupted by crypto in fact an upcoming
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feature for the iphone called tap to pay
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will allow merchants to receive
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contactless payments from other credit
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cards debit cards and digital wallets
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outside of apple pay this is great news
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for iphone users who use cash app as
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their mobile wallet of choice
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square is currently arc invest's eighth
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biggest position with almost 800 million
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dollars invested in it across rk arc w
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and arc f even after square's almost 60
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percent drop over the last three months
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i recently did a deep dive into square
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vs paypal where i talked a lot more
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about that ecosystem that square is
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building out if you're interested in
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learning more about that i'll leave that
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episode 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 by the way
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even though square dropped 60 since i
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started my portfolio i'm only down about
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30 on it that's the power of dollar cost
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averaging instead of dumping everything
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into a stock at once let's do one more
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stone ticker symbol stne is my third
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biggest loser oh boy stone is a one-stop
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shop that provides small and
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medium-sized businesses in brazil the
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fintech solutions that they need to move
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away from cash and join the digital
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economy stone has a point of sale
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solution that accepts credit cards
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digital wallets and qr codes kind of
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like square's payment terminal in
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addition they help businesses complete
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fully online transactions without any
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physical devices by generating payment
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links that can be sent to customers for
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quick and easy sales stone can support
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micro merchants and very small vendors
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without actual store fronts or websites
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which greatly expands their total
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addressable market that kind of
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scalability is important to long-term
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growth however fintech companies in
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emerging markets come with real risks
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this is by far the riskiest stock in my
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portfolio but one thing that eases my
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mind beyond my own research is that
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warren buffett and kathy wood both hold
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millions of shares of this stock in fact
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as of warren buffett's latest 13f filing
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just a few days ago he hasn't sold a
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single share of stone as it collapsed
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from over 90 dollars per share to just
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12 over the last year if you want to
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know why i hold so much stone stock and
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i'm continuing to buy the dip i talked
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about it when i covered their most
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recent earnings call and nothing has
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really changed my mind about stone since
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that call one thing i really love about
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previous earnings results and even
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analyst price targets take a look at the
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consensus estimate for stone's price
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right now it's literally more than 10
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times higher than stone's actual stock
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price having all this information about
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a company in one place has been really
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handy for me so i end up starting a lot
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of my research at public.com and
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expanding out from there another thing i
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the description below as well in each
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one of these portfolio updates i try to
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include an exercise or an investing idea
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that costs absolutely nothing but pays
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off in big ways over time well this
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month's idea is that it's okay to be
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wrong but it's not okay to stay wrong
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here's what happened meta platforms was
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one of my cash-like positions because i
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really believe that their ips will help
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mark zuckerberg build some of the
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infrastructure to the metaverse i
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actually still believe that what i did a
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bad job of doing is really thinking
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about the technical risks for facebook
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today because i assumed that they were
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just too big to fail shame on me that
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was a mistake long story short back in
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june of 2020 apple announced changes to
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ios that would give iphone users a
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chance to tell app makers not to track
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their behavior on the internet see this
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is why i use android hey wait in
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facebook's latest earnings call which
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happened at the beginning of february
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they really confirmed that they're
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unable to disentangle their business
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from tracking users in a world where
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people place a high value on privacy i
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strongly believe that consumers and
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government regulators are going to keep
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privacy at the forefront of the
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technology debate and smart companies
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should be proactive about getting as
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much value from as little personal data
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as possible facebook didn't do that and
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when apple made these changes facebook's
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shareholders paid the price including me
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it turns out that this privacy change
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will cost facebook about 10 billion
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dollars of revenue in 2022 alone at a
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time when mark zuckerberg is trying to
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dump as much money as possible into
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building the metaverse talk about
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burning a candle from both ends you know
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who didn't suffer a 10 billion dollar
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loss from this one ios feature change
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google and microsoft facebook stock was
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my third lowest position since i was
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still really trying to figure out which
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parts of their rebrand were fluff versus
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a real technical vision about the future
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of the internet as you can imagine
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that's not a quick task so i let it stay
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at the bottom of my portfolio while i
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invested in the stocks that i can really
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wrap my head around well i sold my huge
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whopping six shares of facebook for a
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combined 700 loss and i bought microsoft
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instead since i already own a solid
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amount of google i want to be clear that
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i'm practicing what i preach here here's
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where the system that i set up for this
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portfolio really saved me i moved
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microsoft from the top of my watch list
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to the bottom of my portfolio and now
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microsoft has to compete with every
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other stock in here for my money
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microsoft is a mega cap stock that is
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clearly vying for a big role in the
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metaverse and already has a ton of
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products and services that will benefit
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from its creation in addition microsoft
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is currently working to acquire
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activision blizzard for a whopping 69
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billion dollars which would be the
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biggest technology transaction in us
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history ever if it goes through
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also if it goes through microsoft would
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then own some of the biggest gaming ips
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in history including world of warcraft
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call of duty and candy crush comment
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below or tweet me at ticker symbol you
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if you want me to do a deep dive on
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microsoft or blizzard activision or both
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i think there are a lot of cool things
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going on here and the more i learn about
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their ceo satya nadella the more bullish
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i get on this tech giant especially if
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that blizzard activision acquisition
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completes connecting the bottom of my
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portfolio with the top of my watch list
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has saved me time and time again from
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buying too much of a stock that i'm
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bullish on and microsoft is just the
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latest example if you want to follow
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way stay long stay strong and thanks for
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watching until next time this is ticker
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