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Michael Batnick
3 years
"Charlie Munger doesn't get it." -Nicholas, 22, owner of .19 shares of Tesla
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COINBASE CEO SOLD $291 MILLION OF HIS SHARES ON OPENING DAY. Coinbase CEO sold 1.5% of his shares on opening day.
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Berkshire has $145,600,000,000 in cash. $0 in Bitcoin.
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6 years
The market cap of the top 5 S&P 500 companies: $4,095,058,706,432 The market cap of the bottom 282 S&P 500 companies: $4,092,769,755,136
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5 years
The average CEO listens to 60 podcasts a day.
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3 years
$1 invested in Bitcoin in July 2010 is worth $800,000 today.
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Michael Batnick
3 years
Have fun staying poor.
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Cars gain 10% in value as soon as you drive off the lot.
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Michael Batnick
3 years
It doesn't make sense that Coinbase is worth more than ICE (NYSE) and CBOE combined. That would be like if Tesla was worth more than the combined market caps of GM, Ford, Daimler, BMW, Ferrari, and Volkswagen.
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Michael Batnick
2 years
MicroStrategy holds ~$5.9 billion in Bitcoin. Its market cap is $5.3 billion.
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Michael Batnick
3 years
Thinking youโ€™re late to crypto is like thinking youโ€™re late to the internet in December 1999.
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Michael Batnick
4 years
Where to invest: $1- Scratch-off ticket $10- Cocktail $100- Good meal $1,000- Weed Stocks $10,000- Bitcoin $100,000- Banana on wall $1,000,000- 60/40 $10,000,000- Hedge funds $100,000,000- NYC Penthouse $1,000,000,000- Sports team $10,000,000,000- Election $100,000,000,000- Mars
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Michael Batnick
4 years
An asteroid could strike earth tomorrow, wiping out mankind, and the stock market would be up 2%.
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2 years
Elon Musk discloses $11 billion short position in Twitter.
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Michael Batnick
5 years
The Patriots have signed John Bolton to a 1-year, $4 million deal
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4 years
We've gone from recession to depression to recovery to euphoria in less than 100 days.
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3 years
Just sold my 2014 Ford Focus for $123,000.
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Michael Batnick
2 years
Elon Musk: โ€œIโ€™m the richest troll in the worldโ€ Ken Griffin: โ€œHold my Constitutionโ€
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Michael Batnick
3 years
I woke up at 6:45 this morning. My kids got up at 7, or 3.5% later.
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Michael Batnick
4 years
Wow, they're talking about a $6 trillion stimulus package. A trillion is such a big number that it loses all meaning. Here's some context, one trillion seconds is 31,709 years.
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CFO: "We expect full-year revenue to come in at $34 billion, up 24% y/o/y, but below the $34.1 billion we previously expected." Market: -23%
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3 years
This is your last chance to buy the Bitcoin dip until the next Bitcoin dip.
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Inflation is below 2%
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Michael Batnick
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Imagine not knowing thereโ€™s a microphone in AirPods.
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Michael Batnick
2 years
It's been fifteen years since you could beat inflation with a savings account.
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GameStop just fell 40% in 15 minutes. If you don't think this could happen to the S&P 500, you're right.
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Apple 4:1 stock split. Tim Cook wants that Robinhood money.
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To anger a value investor, tell him Warren Buffett got lucky. To anger a growth investor, tell him Tesla is a bubble. -Teddy Roosevelt
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2 years
Textbook: "Stock splits have zero economic impact" Market:
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6 years
"The definition of โ€œrichโ€ is passive income thatโ€™s greater than your burn." by @profgalloway
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3 years
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
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4 years
Why doesnโ€™t Chipotle do breakfast bowls? Replace rice with eggs and theyโ€™ll be a Dow stock in 12 months.
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3 years
The S&P 500 is now up 100% from its March 2020 lows.
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Michael Batnick
2 years
Stocks tend to bottom long before the economy does.
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Michael Batnick
4 years
It appears that Elon Musk's account was hacked by Elon Musk.
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Two types of Coronavirus investors here: The ones buying Zoom and Slack quoting Elon And The ones buying cruises and airlines and quoting Buffett
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Am I diversified?
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If a stock falls 70%, the most it could lose is another 30%.
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And there it is, The Big Long This Hedge Fund Made $700 Million on GameStop
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4 years
My plumber just called me. He bought Kodak yesterday at $9. Sold it today for $20. Have a nice day
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Michael Batnick
5 years
If you make $50k a year and don't eat food, don't drink coffee, don't have kids, and don't pay taxes, this house could be yours in 750 years.
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"Every crash in history was a buying opportunity," he said to himself, with the market 2% off its all-time high.
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3 years
Move over, growth stocks.
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Am I doing this right?
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Michael Batnick
3 years
Berkshire Hathaway is up almost $100 billion on their Apple investment. They paid $36 billion, sold $11 billion worth, and are now sitting on 907 million shares valued at $124 billion.
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Gas to fill up an SUV: $75 Gas to buy an NFT: $150
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Michael Batnick
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Let the Market Worry For You
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This is super bullish for stocks. Jack up rates and people will never sell. Biden creating a nation of Diamond hands.
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Michael Batnick
4 years
If you owe the bank $100, thatโ€™s your problem. If you owe the bank $25 trillion, and rates are at 0.5%, and the bank will lend to you in perpetuity, itโ€™s nobodyโ€™s problem.
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Michael Batnick
5 years
The average American has less than $10 billion in their savings account.
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Michael Batnick
4 years
Most Zooms should be Slacks, most FaceTimes should be phone calls, most blogs should be tweets, and most emails should be deleted.
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Michael Batnick
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Relax everybody, the lowest oil can go is -$37
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Warren Buffett has a net worth of $90 billion. 100% of that came after his seventh birthday.
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Feels kinda early for tax-loss harvesting
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4 years
The Dow is 25% off its highs and 22% off its lows.
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Munger is worth $2 billion. Buffett is worth $105 billion. Time for Warren to find a new friend.
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2020 has: -The income inequality of the gilded age -The election of 1896 -The pandemic of 1918 -The economy of 1929 -The social movements of the 1960s -The stock market of 1987 -The speculation of 1999 -The housing market of 2006
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The five biggest stocks in the S&P 500 have a weighting equal to the bottom 350 stocks (up from 282 in July 2018)
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Instead of giving every person in this country $1 million, Apple decides to boost their buyback by $50 billion.
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Bitcoin is down more than 50% from its highs. This could never happen in the stock market.
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Zoom is now 1/10th the size of Exxon Mobil after passing it during 2020
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You can still trade GameStop at Lehman
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Tom Brady was down by more than 800% and came all the way back. ๐Ÿ
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Michael Batnick
6 years
Just a normal day...
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Michael Batnick
5 years
โค๏ธ Logan Graham Batnick โค๏ธ
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4 years
4 of the 25 worst days ever have come in 2020.
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Negative rates for savings accounts makes sense. I mean, why should the bank hold your money for free?
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@awealthofcs That's like taking five shots at a bar and then driving 90 mph to get home before you're drunk.
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Alphabet approved buyback of $50 billion worth of stock, just to see if there is liquidity
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2 years
Extreme pain is concentrated in high multiple tech stocks, but there's damage all over the place. JP Morgan -31% Starbucks -40% Disney -47%
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4 years
Quote map for the correction: -5% Buffett -10% Marks -15% Keynes -20% Bogle -25% Taleb -30% Munger -40% Nietzsche -50% Sun Tzu
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4 years
The stimulus package is at the 1 yard line, and it's 9th down.
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Iโ€™m getting paid a 1.3% yield to stake my SPY at Schwab.
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Michael Batnick
4 years
When youโ€™re a great paper trader and somebody asks to see your results.
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Joe Rogan has a higher market cap than Ford and U.S. Steel combined.
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Not surprised Brady's coming back. Between Bitcoin getting cut in half and inflation running high, guys gotta put food on the table.
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Large stocks are trading like penny stocks. DoorDash is up 50% in 5 days. Its market cap just passed FedEx.
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Michael Batnick
5 years
And for that reason, I'm out.
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Michael Batnick
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Bulls and bears RN
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White Claw in talks to buy Anheuser Busch for $185 billion.
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Pullbacks only look healthy when they happen in other people's stocks.
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Markets are efficient
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Been home for twenty minutes and my three year old hasnโ€™t said a thing about the 1,000 point decline. Way too complacent, weโ€™re going lower.
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If you put $10,000 into stocks at 3:35...
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If the Fed would have just let the economy enter a Great Depression, consumer prices wouldnโ€™t be rising.
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This belongs in the Smithsonian
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Stocks are surging, S&P 500 -1.75%.
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Michael Batnick
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The median retirement balance in the United States for people ages 56-61 is $25k. This could have been accomplished by investing $6 a month since 1980 into a 60/40 portfolio.
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Short sellers (Soul was so good)
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Everything's getting more expensive. We need to send out checks to help fight inflation.
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These are the new rules: Dips last 6 minutes Pullbacks last 6 hours Corrections last 6 days Bear markets last 6 weeks
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Meet the 97-year-old entrepreneur interested in cryptocurrency.
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Largest market cap decline ever, by a lot
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APPLE LEAVES RATES UNCHANGED
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I know one has absolutely nothing to do with the others, but just to show the magnitude of this move: AMC is up 63x YTD Amazon is 60x over the last 14 years Berkshire Hathaway is up 61x over the last 30 years.
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Pay me in GameStop
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"The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing" Jack Bogle has done more good for the average investor than anyone who ever lived.
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If every company puts just 1% of AMC onto their balance sheet, it can hit 100k.
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