Buying The AstraZeneca Scandal Dip, Reddit Stock Review | Martin Shkreli

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Summary

TLDRIn this video, the speaker provides insights into the stock market, emphasizing the probabilistic nature of stock investing and sharing personal experiences from working at a hedge fund. They discuss their strategy of buying multiple stocks, knowing that some will succeed while others might not. The speaker won a 'best stock of the year' contest twice, using a mix of drug and tech stocks. They express opinions on notable figures like Mark Cuban, critique personal finance approaches, and emphasize understanding financial complexities. Additionally, they discuss various stocks like Nvidia and AstraZeneca, their roles in the market, and strategies like buying calls. The speaker is also the CEO of DL Software and mentions their product Godell, which aims to compete with Bloomberg terminals by providing stock market news and estimates.

Takeaways

  • 📊 Stock investing is probability-based; not all picks will succeed.
  • 🏆 Speaker won 'best stock of the year' twice, mixing drug and tech stocks.
  • 💼 They have critiques of prominent figures like Mark Cuban.
  • 🧩 Understanding financial complexities is crucial for stock market decisions.
  • 💡 Personal finance is not the speaker's expertise, despite its importance.
  • 📈 Stocks like AstraZeneca and Nvidia are discussed, highlighting market strategies.
  • 🚀 The speaker is the CEO of DL Software and is planning to enhance Godell.
  • 🗞️ Godell aims to offer better insights than Bloomberg for stock markets.
  • 🧮 No definitive opinion on a stock's value can be made without financials.
  • 📉 The speaker shares opinions on investing strategies and market dynamics.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker discusses the challenges involved in stock trading, stressing it relies on probabilities rather than certainty. They share their experience of winning a hedge fund competition with drug and tech stocks. The speaker mentions considering buying calls and dealing with Mark Cuban, highlighting differences in personality. They also touch on the concept of projective space in art, using perspective drawing as an analogy for their trading strategies, and mention buying and selling various stock options like Viking and 34 calls as potential strategies.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:12:27

    The speaker talks about personal finance, admitting a lack of expertise in areas like 401ks and Roth IRAs but acknowledging their importance. They discuss trying to sell a call spread and managing various stock positions, mentioning companies like AstraZeneca and ADMA, and the strategic intent behind these moves. The importance of buying stocks based on fear and uncertainty rather than certainty is emphasized. The speaker shares opinions on potential stock strategies, such as shorting Nvidia. They conclude by promoting opportunities at their software company and encouraging sign-ups for their financial terminal service.

Mind Map

Video Q&A

  • What is the speaker's approach to investing in stocks?

    The speaker uses a probability-based approach, hoping that a majority of the stocks they pick will succeed.

  • Has the speaker won any investment competitions?

    Yes, the speaker won a 'best stock of the year' competition at a hedge fund for two consecutive years.

  • What is the speaker's opinion on personal finance?

    The speaker admits to not knowing much about personal finance and does not offer personal finance advice.

  • What company is the speaker involved with?

    The speaker is the CEO of a software company called DL Software.

  • What stocks does the speaker mention?

    The speaker mentions AstraZeneca, Nvidia, Reddit, and ADMA among others.

  • How does the speaker feel about stock market probabilities?

    They acknowledge that investing is probability-based and there's no perfect stock pick.

  • What financial products does the speaker discuss?

    The speaker mentions options, futures, and international stocks.

  • What markets is the speaker focused on?

    The speaker seems focused on pharmaceutics, technology stocks, and emerging markets.

  • What is the speaker's view on other investors?

    The speaker is critical of certain investors like Mark Cuban but acknowledges their prominence.

  • What is godell?

    Godell is a terminal product purported to be better than Bloomberg, designed by the speaker's company.

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    this stuff isn't easy you know we all
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    want stocks to go up or down on command
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    but remember it's a probability based
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    approach I buy 10 stocks and I hope six
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    of them go up and four of them I expect
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    will go down I hope I don't hope they go
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    down but I know some of them will if you
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    want the perfect pick it's just not
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    possible I will say that when I worked
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    at this hedge fund we had a best stock
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    of the Year competition we did every
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    December and I won two years in a row
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    the two years I was there and they were
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    upset the first year I won with drug
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    stocks was a tech fund and they're like
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    ah these drug stocks it's different I
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    said hold up I got something for you and
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    I gave him two tech stocks and I won
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    again good data it goes from it was up
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    20% pre-market did you guys see that
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    what a trade huh I don't think it's that
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    hard to get
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    Citadel better be smart I don't know if
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    you're good enough to get into Citadel
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    probably means you're good enough to get
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    into Nvidia or you know some other place
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    like that just Elite is Elite it doesn't
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    really matter what what you do with it
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    you know all right maybe I'll buy more
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    of these calls and then start selling
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    them if there's
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    a if I should track beta or what exactly
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    but these are the 30 calls okay uh I've
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    had beef with Mark cubin his um we have
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    a mutual friend who's trying to squash
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    the beef so but I think he is I mean
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    look
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    my honest opinion is that he's got some
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    personality like flaws and I'm not
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    saying that I don't but like his are
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    fairly obvious I think he loves being
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    the center of
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    attention um I think you can't help but
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    in certain himself into stuff that is
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    not what I do um so mad actra is uh I
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    can't make heads or taals of him other
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    than he's about to lose $70 million to
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    me what are we talking here comp Le
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    projective space the basic concept is
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    isn't this the basic concept you guys
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    all know so if you want to talk about
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    the complex projective space we should
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    probably just talk about the projective
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    space first what do you guys think you
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    guys ever paint perspective you guys
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    ever do the vanishing
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    point let me draw you my beautiful Excel
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    everything has to be drawn to the
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    horizon line the vanishing point and
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    after a while you can if you get if you
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    practice this you can sort of get good
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    at we we learned this in my high school
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    um art class we're drawing some pretty
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    nice stuff after a little while oh
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    Viking always a little early that's my
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    claim to fame always a little
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    early so the hope is you know you buy
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    these uh calls right and then you end up
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    um where am I 94 CS going to buy a bunch
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    of these calls pray for a bounce order
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    filled and then short a bunch of it
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    bunch of the
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    uh
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    29s so 29's um this should actually kind
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    of work so I'm long 34 calls not many
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    what I'm trying to do is something a
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    little tricky here let me get my average
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    down a bit more too Jane Street's
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    willing to sell me all these big mistake
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    Jane Street uh I want to buy more Viking
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    a little bit more little nibble ail
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    little nibble okay reddits $19
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    let's make a brand new worksheet we're
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    going to do this in Excel maybe we
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    should do it in godell Excel we can't
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    make an opinion on the stock until we
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    look at the financials we can make an
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    opinion on the company and their product
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    but really no no opinion can be formed
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    yet on the company on the company's
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    stock
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    because the stock is uh a mathematical
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    thing it's not
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    really something where we can say it's
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    cheap or expensive based on some opinion
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    about the company
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    product can't really do that yet doesn't
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    make sense we don't even know how many
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    shares that standing they have yeah of
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    course I have a lot of stories about it
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    gaming among us
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    but some SE Secrets should stay secret
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    all right so 18 billion market cap does
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    it sound right does that sound right to
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    you guys they have class A and Class B
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    so I want to make sure that class
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    they're both economic
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    Shariff half a billion in cash no debt
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    no shares outstanding this is when they
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    were private adma was my highest
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    conviction trade it's now I guess I
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    should put in there sale I do think adma
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    will have a good quarter I don't know
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    how if they'll beat or not beat I think
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    the whole whole expectations game is a
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    little stupid yeah if you need personal
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    finance advice I'm not the guy humre is
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    your guy I I do
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    stocks
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    so and other other sort of financial
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    analysis I don't do um personal finance
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    actually don't know anything about
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    personal finance so care about 401ks or
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    Roth IRAs or something like that that's
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    not my Lan personal finance is uh
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    something that's always been a bit of
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    mystery to
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    me that is the
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    [Laughter]
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    trick but but I do think there is a huge
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    benefit to understanding that stuff huge
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    I've had friends
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    who've maxed out their 401ks Peter teal
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    famously has A5 billion 401k or
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    something like that tax free completely
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    so there's definitely a huge advantage
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    to knowing that kind of world I just am
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    too autistic to care um but you should
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    care so Market's about to open I'm
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    trying to get this call spread off but
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    it's not working um long vktx which has
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    been you know it had a really bad day
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    yesterday so I'm hoping for the
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    Snapback dat was pretty good actually I
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    love looking at new like just looking at
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    the tape and occasionally like a new
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    stock will pop up and I'm like oh yeah
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    yeah I got to look at that one I'm
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    thinking about shorting Nvidia Astra
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    zenica must have reported I have to look
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    at that oh Astra Zen's China president
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    under investigation people are really
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    focused too much on I buy Astro zenica
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    on that
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    dip let's do that what do you guys think
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    ADM is a great company um it's obviously
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    recovered from its weird situation with
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    its
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    auditor um it's a it's a long I don't
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    know that you want to buy it
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    order partially
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    filled order filled I'm not sure it's a
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    buy for today and tomorrow it's a buy
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    for like the next year and it's a buy as
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    like a relatively small position so be
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    careful should we buy some Astro zenica
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    calls should we go YOLO yeah paler is a
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    really popular stock lots of momentum
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    this is the kind of stock that works in
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    today's stock market eventually it's
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    going to get pretty ugly uh I would not
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    be involved in DJ stock it's pretty
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    toxic so Reddit Revenue
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    growth 54% gross margin 84% 90% this
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    quarter last
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    quarter uh not quite profitable by Gap
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    but probably very castal positive that's
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    my
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    guess oh man my astroica is dumping stop
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    it yeah they've got a couple of issues
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    going on Astra zonica has always had a
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    problem with Chinese fraud for some
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    reason I don't think it matters that
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    much
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    uh I think you should be careful buying
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    a Stocker on earnings because that's one
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    of the four most important pieces of
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    news it has I'm a big Michael milin fan
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    all right let's let these positions
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    cook I think we can get 75 or 80 for
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    vktx but you know I think I think it's a
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    good core long it's kind of like adma I
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    don't mind being a little super sized uh
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    the AMX drug doesn't work and it's sad
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    that the FDA capitulated to patients
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    patient pressure patients are not
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    medical professionals they should not
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    decide what drugs come out I know that's
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    very like anti- libertarian to me or
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    anti- uh freedom but that's just how I
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    feel I guess I appreciate power aen is
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    astroica sometimes known as lrozen or
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    fastro zenica depending on whether it's
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    going up or down the account's 160k
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    we're getting to a Mill by year end what
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    do you guys
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    think let's
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    go
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    harambe and of course we got peanut
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    and we got Fred the
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    raccoon there the homies the squad right
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    there Squad stuff you know I'm trying to
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    buy the fear and uncertainty in Astro
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    zenica is a good good thing to do buy
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    fear and
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    uncertainty and sell on the certainty I
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    don't think that
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    they're this China probe is going to
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    really really lead to anything you know
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    they're they have a big China
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    business but it's not that big and it's
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    not not going to really fundamentally
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    change the company over a long period of
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    time if they get banned from doing
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    business in China I mean or partially I
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    think they'll be fine there's like 10
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    Astro zenica headlines you can buy two
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    stocks if you were attracted to two
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    different stocks it's not monogamy all
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    right so billion in
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    Revenue growing
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    rapidly 10 times Revenue reddit's not so
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    bad I could see why it's gone up so much
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    oh it's 20 billion yeah 10 billion was a
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    good price forit 20
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    [Music]
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    billion I don't
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    know 50 bucks a user weekly
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    user 200 bucks a daily user daily active
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    users weekly active users okay I was
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    going to look at some Alzheimer's stuff
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    too we're bullish Viking
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    we're up on Viking a very small amount
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    this is
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    actually the second edition I actually
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    read the first edition bottom is in the
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    scr
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    bottom let me see 66 I see a dip I buy
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    it you guys in a super hot
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    fire let's go get baby I sold your
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    favorite
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    stock I SED it Psych the problem is my
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    brain works too too fast I'm always
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    about
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    10 minutes to 6 hours ahead of everybody
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    else cuz it's light speed
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    [Music]
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    baby I'm not willing to short imora just
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    so you guys not understand you know what
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    I got to put that down in the
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    recommendations I've been really lazy
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    with these recommendations I really need
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    like an assistant that wants to stay on
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    top of anybody in New York looking for a
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    low paying difficult job let me no but I
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    am closing out neora okay it's over this
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    is the classic bottom formation bottom
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    formation Delta I'm just kidding but I
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    think this whole move reverses this like
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    literally this whole move like we get 71
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    yeah I'll be in the office with the
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    staff co-workers the boys oh I have a
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    job I'm uh I'm the CEO of a software
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    company called DL
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    software we have some job openings if
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    you guys are interested
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    dl. software we're looking for full
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    stack Engineers New York San Francisco
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    dl. software or you can send me an email
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    Martin dl. software send me a resume and
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    life story and I'm happy to take a look
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    make sure you sign up for
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    godell I'm going to do some custom
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    stocks for every godell user
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    later go to godell terminal.com better
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    than Bloomberg keeps the stream going
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    sign up now prices are going up soon
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    lock in your price as soon as I get a
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    couple of patches I'm gonna upgrade it
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    to 80 bucks we have options Futures and
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    international stocks coming out soon at
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    that point one more do you need we have
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    earnings estimates rolling out they
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    either rolled out already or they're
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    rolling out today I forget news is up
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    and running and
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    fixed um yeah so a lot of good stuff
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    going on over codell I got to go in nine
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    minutes
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  • AstraZeneca
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