Shadowing Practice: Finishing GREEN on 2 Stocks Squeezing Up - Learn English Speaking with Video
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What's up, everyone?
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All right.
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In today's episode, I'm going to walk you through the leading gainers in the market this morning.
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I'm going to share with you my trades from the morning, and I'm going to give you my outlook for the rest of the day.
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Right now, I am up 2 ,342 cents today.
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That's right.
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2 ,342 cents.
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That translates to $23 .42 in dollars.
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I've decided I'm going to start calculating my gains just in pennies, in cents.
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total sense um certainly feels like a bigger accomplishment than 23
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and just for the 42 cents um we're in a pretty slow market well you know
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that um i've missed a couple days
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this week out on monday for jury duty was back on tuesday
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i didn't miss much on monday looked at the scanners
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didn't feel like i missed much tuesday got one trade six cents a share 10 000 shares was up 600 bucks.
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Wednesday was out.
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My mom's not feeling well, so it was with her.
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Today, I'm back.
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Two trades.
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Couldn't make any real progress.
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$1 ,100 red on one, $1 ,100 green on the other.
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Up $23 .42.
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Tomorrow, it's Friday.
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It's the end of the week.
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Companies are not inclined to put out good news at the end of the week.
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You know that.
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They're more inclined to put out bad news, so you forget about it over the weekend.
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The funny thing is, even good news in this market is being interpreted.
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Well, it's not even that it's being interpreted negatively.
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It's that it's not enough.
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So we're having companies that are coming out with actual news, and the stock is going up, and they're doing a full round trip like GIXI.
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Now, I made money on this one.
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This one, I was able to get a little profit on.
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It's an Israeli company.
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They put out a headline.
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And it's sort of remarkable to me how the same exact
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headline in a different market could have produced a 100 200 percent gain
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but in this market the sentiment is just it's so weak
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that traders are afraid to jump in and shorts are so aggressive
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so on this one um i broke the ice um my first trade on it was actually at four dollars
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and 83 cents right down here for the break of five
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so i got in pretty early in this move we got
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this little squeeze we got to move the way up to six dollars
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and ten cents but i trade with small size
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which is the right move in this market
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so small size small gains ends up coming all the way back down
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then um at this point
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it's not even a leading gainer the leading gainer in the market right now is stack s -t -a -k
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and this stock is
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so thickly traded um the level two is dare
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i say stacked stacked with buyers stacked with sellers the thing
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it's just a grinder it's not going to move quickly at all
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it's got 34 million shares of volume against a 19 million share float so it's a 2x float rotation almost
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um but you can see it's just so it's just
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so thickly traded the thing doesn't want to pull away
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so you're not really going to get breakouts on it more
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or less you got to move after hours
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and then the rest of the time has been pretty much within this range it's pretty much sideways anyways, it's just not up enough.
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Traders aren't excited about it, so it's not happening.
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Traders being excited, that feels important.
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Traders need to be excited.
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They need to have optimism.
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They need to think about the potential of a stock.
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Right now, traders are fearful.
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They're worried that, oh no, I'm going to get caught in another round trip.
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I'm going to get caught in another flush.
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And so that fear becomes contagious.
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Other traders feel that fear.
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They also kind of hunker down and stop trading with bigger size shorts, sort of smell the blood in the water, the sharks of the market.
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And they think, all right, here we go.
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This is time to lean in.
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And so they get more aggressive.
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And all of a sudden, the pendulum swings from momentum being in the hands of the
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bulls to the price action really being in the hands of the bears.
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So as we sit right now, we're in a cold cycle.
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Well, how do we break out of that cold cycle?
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Ultimately, breaking out of that cold cycle requires one of a couple different things to happen.
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Number one, you either have a stock that puts out good news, the price initially pops up,
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it drops down, and then it rallies back up because the underlying news is actually so good, traders see it, and they buy up that dip,
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and then you get a big move.
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Number two, you end up with a stock that randomly puts in a 500%,
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600%, 700 % move, and then that creates a catalyst for more momentum.
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The problem with number two is that we've already seen that.
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We had that a bit last week with MNDR.
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We had it with JBDI.
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And although they popped up and on those individual days did put in pretty big moves,
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ultimately, because they've come back down, as you can see.
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They haven't really left us with a strong sense of excitement, greed, or fear on the short seller side in the market.
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So that wasn't enough, unfortunately.
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Yes, you've got one move there, which if you traded it, you did well on it, hopefully.
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But beyond that, just sort of one move, it didn't create lasting momentum or sympathy momentum, as we'd like to call it.
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So as we sit here now, we kind of are back to number one, which is waiting for a stock with genuinely such good news
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that it's able to shake off that initial bear rate of short sellers hitting it hard, and it rallies up and continues higher.
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As we know, we're contending with a bit of a headwind right now.
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The S &P 500, big picture in the market.
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So S &P 500 right now, well, I'll look at the daily chart instead of the five -minute.
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Daily chart, the market's up at the all -time highs.
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And so on the one hand, you're like, the market's at all -time highs.
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Why are we, you know, why does it feel bearish?
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We're not in a bear market like the S &P.
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And you're right, we're not.
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The market's at all -time highs.
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And yet, when the market's at all -time highs, as it was, let's see, back in here, there's often fear.
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And the fear is that we're already up so high.
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Can we really go higher?
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And what's adding to that fear right now?
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Inflation came in above expectations.
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We've got the midterm elections, which people are anxious about.
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Change.
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Is that going to be a good change or a bad change?
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Will there be change?
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We don't know.
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Change, change.
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Then number three, the AI speculation.
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You know, we've seen a semiconductor, some of the semiconductor stocks starting to dip down a bit.
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So SOXL, the semiconductor long ETF, you know, is down off its peak in June.
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Okay.
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Obviously, you've got Michael Burry and all these people who are like, oh, the bubble's going to burst, the bubble's going to burst.
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This is the short ETF.
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So above 55, you know, do we end up seeing that move higher?
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I don't know.
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From a technical perspective, those are critical levels.
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But I think that there's a number of things in
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that nature that are creating some hesitancy among traders in the larger markets.
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And that's trickling down to small caps.
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oil.
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You know, oil is up.
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It's very expensive right now.
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And that is weighing in on inflation.
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And so, you know, if anything, oil feels like we're sort of in a position where we're about to,
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you know, push up potentially quite a bit.
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So that could be influenced by the midterm elections, potentially how those go.
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That could change some of our foreign policy or rein in some of the things that have been happening.
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But there's a bit of uncertainty right now.
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So it's right now, November, sorry, December.
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What am I talking about?
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October 22nd.
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So we've got the election about two weeks away.
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And, you know, so I would say the next two weeks are probably going to be a bit of a wash,
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with the exception of some one -hit wonders, stocks that kind of randomly put in a one, 200 % move.
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I think what we kind of need to have happen, if I'm going to be honest, is I think we need a market to pull back.
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I think we need a good pullback like we had back here in March that can then give way to a rally.
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Because this was my best month of the year, right there, May and June into July.
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So now we're kind of top heavy.
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Let's get that dip.
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Let's let the market dip down.
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And then the dip buyers come in.
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And now off that dip, you have a level of support and then a new sort of round of momentum comes in.
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Buyers feel comfortable jumping in.
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Buyers don't feel comfortable jumping in the market priced way up here.
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It's just, I mean, I get that.
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I understand that.
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Now you might say this is different from small caps.
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You're sort of talking about two different things at the same time.
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And on the one hand, you're right.
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The small cap market can be very strong, even when the overall market is weak. That has happened.
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We have had those periods.
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This doesn't happen to be one of them.
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This happens to be one where there's a tighter correlation.
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And I don't know why it's always like that, why sometimes it's closely correlated and other times less so.
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But right now, we just have to accept that we're not seeing the big percentage gainers that we are accustomed to seeing.
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And so the best choice is to reduce size, be more conservative.
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I mean, you can see my share size.
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This is a 6 ,000 share position.
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Two months ago, I was doing 60 ,000 shares on every trade
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so i'm trading with like a tenth of what i would normally trade with and
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you might argue that well ross you know you're consistent
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and profitable over long periods of time just trade with the
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same share size every day why you know why why size up
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but also why size down just keep it very neutral here's the problem with that in a really hot market there's
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such big moves that if i didn't increase my size
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and increase my risk when my edge was stronger I would be leaving money on the table.
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That's a fact.
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On the other hand, when the market is really cold, volume declines.
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Liquidity dries up, which means even if I wanted to take big share size, I would get a lot more slippage.
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So my edge becomes a little bit weaker.
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I don't have quite as high of accuracy.
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My winners aren't as big.
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And so it logically makes sense
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that I would reduce my share size
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it seems um a little significant to go from 60 000
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shares down to six back up to 60 maybe up to a hundred thousand
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or 150 000 and then you know six months later it's a cold mark
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and i'm back to six thousand shares
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but i have really found in my career that you have to strike
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while the iron's hot be as aggressive as for me
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i'm as aggressive as i pretty much possibly can be up
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to the limit where I'm getting too much slippage on my orders.
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And so that's where I hit the point of diminishing returns.
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So I want to be right up against that limit.
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And in 2020 and 2025, with incredible amounts of volume in the market, that limit was...
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I mean, I don't even think I was hitting it on a lot of my trades.
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I think I could have gone even heavier.
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What actually ended up stopping me was my risk tolerance
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and my fear of loss with a 200 ,000 -share position taking a you know two hundred thousand dollar loss
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or something like that so all right so that's like i came up against
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that ceiling but um but in any case uh right now with the market cooling off um
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this is just the right thing to do
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and this is the reality of being a trader is
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that we have hot periods and we have slow periods and
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when it's slow you've got to kind of batten down the hatches
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and this is the part of me that like really relates to this kind of new england you know
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living in new england it feels like you've got a short summer
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and you're spending a lot of it thinking about getting ready for winter making sure your firewood is cut
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and split and stacked and you know making sure everything is put away
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and buttoned up for the winter
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and it might be a long winter you don't know how long it'll be
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so you do the best you can before
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that you know final freeze sort of shuts you down
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and um you know then come spring things start warming up
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and you get maple syrup in the early you know early spring late winter
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and that's kind of your first you know
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crop or whatever cash flow
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and then you know things start to pick up a little bit more in june you get strawberries
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and in any case then all of a sudden you're in you know you're kind of into it
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but uh there's just that you know seasonality um it's cyclical
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and and trading is like that the problem with trading unfortunately is
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that it's not as predictable um it's not as predictable
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that oh we will definitely have a hot cycle coming in you know february
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it's um we we just we don't know
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when the human behavior will kind of shift to the buy side
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and suddenly we see FOMO and this just incredible move and everything else.
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So we've just got to be patient.
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And that's the job that we're in.
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Managers of risk, hunters of volatility.
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All right.
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So I will be back at it tomorrow.
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I'll remind you as always, trading is risky.
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My results aren't typical and there is no guarantee you'll find success whether you trade with me
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or you learn on your own.
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Your best bet is to practice a simulator before putting real money on the line.
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And if you want to learn, watch every single video I've ever uploaded here on YouTube.
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If you spent the time doing that, you would learn a ton and you would learn it for free.
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If you find value in what I share, and you want to tune into my daily market commentary, check out the two -week trial.
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It's 20 bucks.
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I think it'll be money very well spent.
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So links to the two -week trial are pinned the top of the comments
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and I'll see you guys back at it first thing tomorrow morning.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Finishing GREEN on 2 Stocks Squeezing Up”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: share, size, trade. This video has 238 sentences and 2557 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:33. The speaker talks at a natural 176 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| trader noun | /ˈtɹeɪdɚ/ | One who earns a living by trading goods or securities. |
| 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… |
| stack noun | /stæk/ | A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch. |
| aggressive adjective | /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ | Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. |
| buyer noun | /ˈbaɪ.əɹ/ | A person who makes one or more purchases. |
| rally noun | /ˈɹæli/ | A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause. |
| semiconductor noun | /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/ | A substance with electrical properties intermediate between a good conductor and a good insulator. |
| chart noun | /t͡ʃɑɹt/ | A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon. |
| sudden adjective | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly. |
| potentially adverb | /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/ | In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way. |
| burst verb | /bɜːst/ | To break from internal pressure. |
| inflation noun | /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ | An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid. |
| headline noun | /ˈhɛd.laɪn/ | The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article. |
| buck noun | /ˈbʌk/ | A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo. |
| seller noun | /ˈsɛlɚ/ | Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| put out verb | To blind (eyes). |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| pop up verb | To come up with a "pop" sound. |
| back down verb | To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have. |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. |
| buy up verb | To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I'm going to get caught in another flush.
- Why are we, you know, why does it feel bearish?
- Can we really go higher?
- What am I talking about?
- Let's let the market dip down.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've decided · i've missed · has been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being interpreted · could be influenced · are accustomed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | one, which is · people who are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 76 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, tenth /tɛnθ/, thickly /ˈθɪkli/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/
- Long words — get the stress right: momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, semiconductor /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, predictable /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, accuracy /ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/
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 trader, momentum, stack.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
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