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I'll show you what we're doing on this Monday with the majors.
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We are in the red.
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A number of headlines today as we said Apple hitting a new all time high.
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happened MID -MORNING?
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Oil moving higher on those Iran tensions.
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SK Hynix is down sharply.
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The Korean market was down as well.
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Chair Warsh is on the Hill tomorrow.
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Earnings are kicking off.
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We got a big week and we really headline it though with this Apple move.
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uh.. you know it's this new intraday high the first since june it shows you
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the move that this thing has been on.
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It's a little below that level now.
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It got up to about 320, I think, was the number.
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323. 323.
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Remember, Josh, last week, said it's going to 400.
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You own the name.
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You've been it's probably
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It's probably been at the top of your list for something
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that you've been focused on more than anything else and buying more recently than anything else, too, consistently.
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Yeah, it's a tactical trade, and I've been buying the breakouts when I see them.
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Last doing so on Thursday, somewhere around $310.
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I'm going to sit back here and not buy further.
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I see the near -term momentum as a little bit stretched.
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That doesn't defeat where I think the long -term target is, where Apple continues to be one of the leaders as it relates to the Max 7.
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NVIDIA IS BENEFITING FROM A LITTLE INTERNAL ROTATION, MAYBE AWAY FROM MEMORY AND SEMICONDUCTORS.
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I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S UNFOLDING RIGHT NOW.
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uh.. and i think collectively the market continues to exhibit this game of rotation.
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AMONG SECTORS AND SUBINDUSTRIES TO THE BENEFIT OF THE OVERALL INDEX ITSELF but as it relates to Apple, steady as she goes moving forward,
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sit back, let it take a breath here because we've had very strong momentum.
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And then after earnings, I'd be interested in buying more.
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Surratt, optimism continues to bloom.
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IN THIS NAME, TARGET 365 AT CITY.
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I told you that Josh Brown $400 of last week.
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They sue OpenAI.
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That news comes out Friday after the close.
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What do you make of the run that this name has had?
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You could pull the chart back, guys.
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Look at it over...
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Yeah, there it is.
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Look at that.
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Like, you know, year to date,
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it just had a great move after So many wanted to criticize this company for being behind the curve on AI, which of course they were.
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There's no...
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SAYING THAT THEY WERE NOT.
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THEIR OWNERS, THEIR OWNERS, THE and it's going to lead to a really robust
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upgrade cycle along with some of the new products they have coming out, whether it's a foldable phone or otherwise, you're underpinned by a robust buyback,
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even in a period of CEO transition.
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This stock has looked beyond that, and it has looked through any...
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bit of uncertainty in ways that other companies might not have exhibited IN THE STOCK MARKET.
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YOU TELL ME THAT SOMEONE LIKE TIM COOK IS GOING TO BE LEAVING, in his role as CEO and then the stock is going to hit new all -time highs a few months later?
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I think some people would have said, well, I'm not sure.
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Yeah.
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And add to that that they've basically said we're raising prices, right?
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I mean, companies that were raising prices, demand is going to be strong.
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And I think, Scott, one of the things that WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FAB 7 OR
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They're all spending money to grow and going to have negative cash flow.
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Well, Apple's still got positive cash flow.
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We'll have support for the stock.
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And the demand for their products is still increasing.
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So it's like a safe...
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YOU KNOW, SHIP IN A STORM WHERE YOU CAN -- A SPENDING STORM.
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YEAH, A SPENDING STORM WHERE THEY CAN ACTUALLY SAY, OUR SHARES ARE TOO UNDERVALUED, WE 'LL BUY THEM BACK OR WE 'LL ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING TO GROW.
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AND I THINK INVESTORS ARE
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And also looking for all the THE LACK OF VOLATILITY WHEN YOU CAN BUY AN APPLE THAT'S PROVEN THAT THEY CAN INNOVATE.
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AND I THINK AS A .I.
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COMES TO THEM, AS A .I.
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This is a stock that investors want to hold on to as opposed to kind of taking profits from the others.
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Okay, so how do we view the mega caps today?
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This nice move they've had, money coming out of semis, it's found a place in a lot of the mega caps.
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Right?
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Meta had this massive move.
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LAST WEEK, IT'S DOWN A LITTLE BIT TODAY.
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PUT NVIDIA IN A SEPARATE CATEGORY.
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It's not thought of as the hyperscaler, the hyperscalers are spending on NVIDIA.
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Amazon's green, Microsoft is green, What do you think?
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I'm going to bring together two thoughts that we had last week, Scott.
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One is a lot of these mega cap tech stocks are frankly trading at value territory.
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I could look at Meta.
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I could look at Microsoft as two examples of that.
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And I think this is a time that you have to stay true to your knitting.
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That's the second thought.
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These rotations, and Joe, you've been all over them for weeks and weeks.
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These rotations have been coming fast and furious from semis to software, from large cap to small cap, from the market cap weighted ETFs to the equally weighted ETFs.
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pick your style of investing and stick with it.
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And I do think this is a time when many styles can work.
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So somebody who's more, I'm going to say price aware as opposed to price sensitive, like myself, I can find plenty of bargains out there.
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And the thing that I have to do, though, is I have to hold them through whatever the volatility is
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that on a day -to -day basis comes up in terms of the rotation.
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So if, just as an example, I've bought Micron over the past three weeks, and today I'm not looking right at the second, but it was down about 5 % earlier this morning.
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I'm not thinking of getting out of that.
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I'm not paying too much attention to today's downturn.
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We've got Taiwan Semi coming up in terms of earnings at the end of the week.
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That'll be the first look at near -term earnings for the semi -space.
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And I think Micron's going to do fine over the intermediate to long -term.
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My style of investing is not to get too wrapped up in day -to -day rotations.
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No, you put your face right in the middle of the volatility on that one.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Kind of.
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You ever know me to shy away?
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No. Yeah.
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No. It's what endears me to you, I think.
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But really, um, rather than just sort of taking a back seat and saying, you know, this is, this thing's gotten a little too volatile,
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the willingness if not ability to sort of double down on your position
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which I think you basically did I did Even in the face of that, volatility is noteworthy.
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Well, and also fundamental investors.
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So one of the things I've said to you, Scott, I've said to our viewers is I think it's important
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that pretty soon there's going to be an anniversary of the CHIPS Act after
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which Micron can start to return capital to shareholders.
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I like that.
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That's something that I look for in companies that I own.
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So that sort of fundamental bait, if you will, has me nibbling at it, although now it's about a 3 % position, so it's more than a nibble.
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I do think that, look, if you're a momentum investor, Joe, you're fabulous at it, fine.
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There are opportunities here, and what you've done with Apple has been nothing short of genius.
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I'm patronizing, but go ahead.
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What?
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I said don't patronize it.
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Just go ahead.
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Joe and I are friends.
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I'm not patronizing it.
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I'll tell him I think he's wrong.
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Go ahead.
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No, but I'm going to go back to what I said.
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Stick to your style of investing.
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If you're a fundamental investor, if you're price aware, maybe a GARP investor, a value investor, there's plenty of opportunities out there.
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I'm looking at, Stephanie, your meta.
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I MEAN, HOW COULD I NOT BE LOOKING AT YOUR META?
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YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING AT HER FOR THE NVIDIA.
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which is the newest by which was the the move that was noteworthy right last week. for us.
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Yeah, because I've never owned it before.
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So and I just think the valuation has gotten so attractive at 18 times forward estimates.
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And the company is going to grow revenues something like 80 percent and mid 70s gross margins.
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Free cash flow is going to double.
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So I'm looking for opportunities where I either I have positions
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and I have more conviction because the valuations have come down to your point, Jimmy.
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I added to Amazon, too.
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The one I'm not adding to is Meta because It's very cheap,
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but they have to show better monetization for that stock to really take off.
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And I think they eventually will, Scott, but that's a timing kind of thing.
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I think there's more upside in Amazon.
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I think there is more upside in NVIDIA.
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And I have a lot of other technology stocks that I like, too.
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What was the NVIDIA stat that the valuation was like the cheapest?
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It's been seven years.
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It was like seven years or something like that, right?
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Yeah.
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I mean, and this is a company that has 97 % of the GPU market.
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Okay, fine, they're getting more competition, but that's not going to go to below 90.
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SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS YOU CAN WIN WITH THIS ONE.
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I JUST THINK IT'S REALLY OUT OF FAVOR RIGHT NOW.
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THAT IS VERY INTERESTING TO ME.
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I KNOW THE CHART LOOKS HORRIBLE.
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But it's really interesting to me that it's kind of found its footing around these levels.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “A critical week for stocks: Your next move”. This video has 152 sentences and 1665 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:28. The speaker talks fast, about 197 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| investor noun | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/ | A person who invests money in order to make a profit. |
| rotation noun | /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/ | The act of turning around a centre or an axis. |
| meta adjective | /ˈmɛtə/ | Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level. |
| volatility noun | /ˌvɑ.ləˈtɪl.ə.ti/ | The state of being volatile. |
| patronize verb | /ˈpætɹəˌnaɪz/ | To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support. |
| valuation noun | /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/ | An estimation of something's worth. |
| mega adjective | /ˈmɛɡə/ | Very large. |
| momentum noun | /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/ | Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its… |
| hyperscaler noun | A company that provides hyperscale computing infrastructure. | |
| nibble verb | /ˈnɪb(ə)l/ | To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something). |
| noteworthy adjective | /ˈnəʊtˌwɜːði/ | Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice. |
| robust adjective | /ɹəʊˈbʌst/ | Able to withstand adverse conditions. |
| oppose verb | /əˈpoʊz/ | To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against. |
| upside noun | /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/ | The highest or uppermost side or portion of something. |
| headline noun | /ˈhɛd.laɪn/ | The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| sit back verb | To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat. | |
| bring together verb | To cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness. | |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| get up to verb | To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper. | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What do you make of the run that this name has had?
- We'll have support for the stock.
- Amazon's green, Microsoft is green, What do you think?
- You know what I'm saying?
- You ever know me to shy away?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been buying · have been coming |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · You've been · It's probably been |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 43 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rotation /ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/, valuation /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/, monetization /ˌmɒnətaɪˈzeɪʃən/, shareholder /ˈʃɛəˌhəʊl.də(ɹ)/, sharply /ˈʃɑɹpli/
- Long words — get the stress right: volatility /ˌvɑ.ləˈtɪl.ə.ti/, valuation /ˌvæ.ljuːˈeɪ.ʃən/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, monetization /ˌmɒnətaɪˈzeɪʃən/, undervalue /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like investor, rotation, meta.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.