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• Monday Trades

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CEO, Jason, Rasic here with us, the man, the myth, the legend on that gear shift on the power hour with us live today. Interesting different innovative company. You are alive with us out of the power hour, Jessica Billingsley, then the CEO of a great idea. Rich was out there.

There we go. What's going on producer AB Donziger nation happy Monday, happy Monday, baby. With the markets are open after a weekend of no trading, except for Luke the cryptocurrency market. I'm going to go ahead and pull up about crypto. I started trading crypto when I was in college in 2013. And the reason why we did it was because we were college.

Students would be up at 3:00 AM on a Tuesday. Still trading crypto. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's the beautiful thing about crypto and Luke, let me real quick. I have the heat map pulled up here on benzinga.com/cryptocurrency. Um, if you guys are trading crypto and this isn't in your, you know, bookmarks top pages, you need to add it because not only do you get this heat map that shows you what's going on in the crypto world, you also have the top news stories.

But Luke, as we can see, this is not pretty for cryptocurrency over the last 24 hours, all red, um, and the major players, Bitcoin Ethereum down more than 8%. So Luke, the title of this video or this today's episode of power hour is by the dip question, mark question, mark. Question mark. And we're not just talking about, you know, the stock market.

We're talking about crypto as well. Um, and typically. Typically, when we're talking about buying the dip, we're talking about, you know, retail investors, but Luke, let me just show you real quick. Let me share my other tab. This is El Salvador's president tweeting about this. We just bought the dip 150 new coins El Salvador.

The first time he's done that, I believe this is the second time somebody to check, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the second. No, I think like, uh, it coincided the first time that El Salvador bought crypto there happened. I don't know if it was related or if there just happened to be kind of a, a crash in Bitcoin and he, they bought, uh, the dip then as well.

So here we have government officials buying the dip. So now my ask out to using our nation is, are you out there buying the dip today, maybe in crypto, maybe in the stock market. But yeah, I mean, I, I think this is just awesome, Luke, we're seeing, you know, real government officials going out and buying the dip.

Okay. So let's, let's hit the math on this. So we have a, let's take 44,000 as the average price, 700 Bitcoins they own, so I'll sell it or it's up to $31 million in Bitcoin. Not, not a small little wallet. Solar up and saying that wouldn't make me very confident in my government. Um, Hey look, solar up rash a little bit.

I would appreciate some sort of, uh, you know, price average. Some, some costs averaging in on the way down. I wouldn't want to be just in, at a certain price. Um, so I'm sure different L cells. El Salvadorians. I don't know. I think you got it. All right. Well, we'll, we'll run with it. I'm sure it's very divided how people are feeling about that right now.

Yeah. Uh, Oh, yeah, it be a fun exercise. Would, it would be calculating the, uh, the, the, the price that Bitcoin would need to get to, to become the rich, to make El Salvador, the richest country in the world. Right. So I guess if the us has light, light, light, like treasury of XYZ trillion, what does Bitcoin need to get to?

That would be a fun game. Maybe we say that one for tomorrow. I like that, I think. Um, but all right. I mean, let's talk about the buy, the dip. All right. So you talked about the crypto dip. Uh, I'm not hitting the dip. Uh, my thing that I like to do, I like to look at the cryptos docs. Um, whenever this happens, Coinbase is on 5%.

If we pull up our Voyager digital, my. Um, we're off 8%, uh, w whenever the move in the stocks is lighter than the underlying crypto, I don't typically buy those dips. Whenever the stocks underperformed the price of the underlying crypto, that's usually what I'm hopping in. There is the dips are good for these stocks, right?

If you look at a Voyager digital it's transaction-based revenue, um, and, and so, so when the dip happens, there are more transactions. So, so it's a short-term positive. Is it a long-term positive Bitcoin sits at 40 K. One Bitcoin to go to a hundred K for, for the sake of the stocks. Uh, but, but at least in the short term, we get some of that volatility.

There, there a little bit of a positive for the stocks. The stocks do have diversified revenue streams outside of just the price of a Bitcoin. Um, and so that's how I'm typically I've been trading. These stocks is whenever they underperform the price of the underlying crypto on the sell off days. That's when I've been hitting them today is not the.

Yeah. I mean, look, look, I think you said it well, that, that this could be a short term bull case for Voyager, that there are more transactions as the coins are slipping. Um, but I think overall, the markets care more about, you know, what, what does the news mean for the longterm? Like, um, you know, what guidance can be expected to change.

So if we continue to see a lot of, um, downward movement in different cryptos, I think the market. Theory is there will be less people wanting to trade crypto on Voyager. So if we could continue to see, you know, the coins crashing bad for voyage in the long run, even if in the short term, um, people are going out and 100 K in the next few months, but all right, Ronald is jumping the gun here.

Uh, who's buying the dip. All right here. Here's a one-year chart, aspire spy that we have up on the screen. Daily candles. Spy is off a little more than 2%. Um, I zoom this out to take a look at when was the last time that we've had a 2% spy day. I don't know if anybody knows that off the top of my head of their head, or if they have a data source that will point them in that direction.

Uh, but, but per my quick visual check on this chart, I don't recall the last time that we would have had a negative 2% spider. I mean, it doesn't look like we've had one. Again, this is very, very, uh, imprecise and me looking at it visually. So, so I'm curious if anybody else knows that. Uh, if we go over to IWM that that's the ETF that tracks the Russell 2000, the small cap stocks, another big red day.

The thing that's nice for iwi. It's sort of nice. It's been going sideways for six months. So at least we have like a pretty clearly defined level of support down here. Um, but, but, but who is buying the dip? I see emperor in the chat saying that that he's hedged he's staying in, but hedged. Um, but if you are specifically going out today in buying the dip drop the one, if you're sitting on your hands, hit the.

I'm just sitting on my hands today, producer, maybe I know that the buy, the dip has worked for the past two years. I've been a, by the different for the past two years. Today is a hands day for me. Yeah, look, I agree. I mean, I think that we're going to see throughout the rest of this week, is this a, you know, trend of a new market?

Are we going to see us enter, you know, kind of a bear market or is this just a bad day? And then tomorrow we're going to, um, you know, see a rebalance. I Daniel, shout out Daniel in the chat. He's saying turnaround Tuesday. He's banking on a green day tomorrow. I, I, I don't know, Luke, I just gotta wait and see, I wanna see some strengths come back in the market before I start going long again.

Um, shout out to born to be in MW. Those are the two brave chatters who are buying the dip. Everybody else's into everybody. Else's like me sitting on their hands today, not making a move. Those are the two brave ones, probably looking at the history. CNA, it's worked for two years straight. They're going to go ahead and hit the dip today.

Yeah. And let us know in the chat. Are, are you in any short positions right now? Like where are you in any short positions going into the day? If so, um, you know, what were those positions? How are they working out for you today? I know a lot of people I've talked to. Um, you know, playing VIX, you know, buying some VIX calls or things like that to try to, to try to get out in front of this uncertainty.

Um, but you know, I'm personally not in anything short or anything like that. That's headed my portfolio. So, um, you know, bad day for me overall producer AB um, and then what about. China, we will. You give us the lowdown on the China story for anybody who isn't aware and I'm going to, I that's Foxtrot x-ray India.

That's an ETF that tracks, uh, Chinese stocks that's off about 4% today. Yeah. So essentially look, um, ever Grande is China's second largest real estate company. And evergreen has accumulated a lot. I want to say almost $2 trillion. Worth of debt over the past 10 years. And there's just a lot of fear that, um, you know, this company blowing up or filing for bankruptcy could be very bad for the Chinese economy as a whole.

Actually they hold a lot of real estate. And then if the, if they have to liquidate it as a part of bankruptcy, it would just flood the market. Is that. Exactly. So it'd be like if a black rock or, you know, one of our biggest real estate companies had to, uh, you know, liquidate assets and thus, you know, messing up the markets.

And so basically all Chinese stocks are getting crushed today. I know Baba is down about 5%, um, someone in the chat, let me scroll up and find it.

Let's see zippity due to St. Baba breaking down new PNF target of 1 31. Um, so zippity, let us know if you're playing Baba. Like if you're buying puts, trying to watch it go down from, I think it's around one 50 right now down to 1 31, or let us know how you came up with that, um, target of 1 31. Um, because I do think that there will be.

Some, some good value in some of these Chinese names, if they continue to get crushed. Uh, but I've been saying that stocks have continued to get crushed, so I'm kind of just staying away from Chinese stocks at the moment. Okay. Yeah. All right. So, so, so that's the move there. Um, and, and you know, what it might be time for.

I might be a, by the different today.

What do you see on the screen? I see Deedee global, Inc. This is of course China's, um, Uber S company down about 7% today, Baba, like we mentioned down five and a half percent. Um, and. I don't know. I mean, I still like Baba is just such a massive company. They make so much money that I think at some point we're going to get to a point where Baba is low enough, that it becomes a very enticing investment, not just for retail traders like us, Luke, but for institutions as well.

They're going to say, Hey, wait a second. This company makes you know, a hundred billion dollars a year and this stock has a depreciated by more than 50% over the last. 60 or six bonds or so, and you know, not now, not yet, but I think when some of this fear subsides, we will see institutions get into, uh, you know, Baba.

And I want to see that coming back up to the $200 inch. All right. So D is 41 million transactions a day China's population, 1.4 billion. All right, they're doing 41 million transactions a day. Oh, I, I totally did that backwards. Sorry. So need 41 million transactions per day divided by the population of 1.4 billion guys.

That's 3% of the Chinese population is using DD every day on average

I mean, that's substantial. The company's not going anywhere.

Well, I want to see what the sales are. The other thing. And we talked about this a minute ago, Luke, is that, you know, we talked about it in regards to the Voyager short-term versus long-term investors are almost always, and when I say investors, I'm talking about institutions, I'm talking about what moves the markets, um, are almost always more concerned with like the long-term outlook rather than news in the short term.

Um, you know, so if there's news out there. Like what came out with apple and the app store fees that might hurt the revenue over a long period of time news, like that will move stocks and move markets. Um, but something that China recently announced that I think actually does have a, you know, longterm guidance impact on Chinese names is, uh, Luc China announced that they are.

Not going to enforce the, you know, two child rule or whatever. So I think it been part of what they're doing is they're trying to encourage people to have more kids, um, and thus making more consumers, more, uh, you know, driving the economy further. If you have a wider base of, of young people that are spending money.

So maybe right now wall China assets are getting absolutely crushed. People are overlooking that, that the stock is trading at at a.

Even up to, Hey. I mean, if you look at Bob was financials, it looks like a fricking steal right now, too, but I don't think a lot of investors are seen it. All right guys. D D D is the Uber. China stock has gotten Hamed since it IPO we'll zoom out. Here's one year chart. Daily candles stock reached a high of 18 bucks on the day debuted as a public company down below $8.

I did try to hit this thing along with calls amid this volatility here. So somewhere around here, those calls expired worthless. It was a waste of money. Um, it may be time to shoot it again. Um, Solar upstate and AB lose the candy. I'm not quite sure what that means. Solar up, if you don't mind, uh, elaborated on that a little bit.

Um, but yeah, I mean, so saying don't divide, you know, don't forget to divide the government correct downs, but all right. If anybody likes DD long, give me the one, if not give me the two, basically the thesis would be the stock has gotten hammered for items which are outside of its control. It's been, you know, net negative Chinese headlines.

Uh, it had like, like the app store thing, which it sends resolved. Um, you know, today we have the China real estate item, you know, 3% of the Chinese population is using DD every single day. Uh, the company reports twenty-five percent of the Chinese population uses D has used DD over the past year. Um, so, so, so, you know, one of you would hit it like.

Two of you to go short. I want to see you over that, on that thing. And I'll let the crowd decide for me. That might be my one by the dip today. I like it, Luke. I mean, I think anytime there's a lot of fear, it makes for good buying opportunities. You just have to be fearless and get in there when everyone else is scared.

Um, shout out, born to be born, to be free in the chats. And India is the market. China, um, gives out fake news. I do think there are a lot of good opportunities in India, too. I've been looking at just some kind of like India economy ETFs, um, because India's economy is actually growing at a faster rate, right?

Or at least pre COVID pandemic than China's was. Um, so I think out of all the emerging markets, India does look very interesting as well. The crowd has sort of mixed on DD. It's definitely bearish, but it's at least some positivity in there. All right. We'll let it sit mixed bag. We have a hot guest to bring on producer.

He'd be the first time he came on this show, he called the stock and the stock ran like 60. The next day. Yeah. Corey in the chat saying what's up with SMSI I'm glad you asked Corey. Cause we have a guy, um, Ben, who's going to come on from, from story, invest in and give us our story, story trading. That's going to give us some more insight on SMSI as well as some other stocks he picked out.

So without further ado, let's go with. And

Ben, how are we doing? Good. How are you doing a lot of, a lot of action, a lot of things that's off about. Yeah, guys. So if you're new here, maybe you haven't seen Ben on the show before. Um, Ben is from story trading. You can go follow him on Twitter. Also drop the website in that. Um, Ben, before we start getting into the tickers, can you just give us the kind of lowdown on story trading and what the mission is there?

Uh, yeah, sure. Story trading. Uh, the ultimate goal is to explain market price action, to discover the story behind the trade and the premise behind that is that there's reasons for why stocks move up and down and through crowdsource collaboration, uh, and, uh, social networking in our community. We can identify those catalysts that cause stocks to go up or down there by giving people a better understanding of the behavior of the stock, the investor expectations behind the stock.

Um, and then you can make better trading and investing decisions. So right now we collaborate as a community on WhatsApp and on zoom. And we have our own app that we're building on iOS and Android coming out very soon. Uh, you could go to our website and sign up for the waitlist. Wait, wait, before you get into it produced maybe with the stocks.

Ben Reed recount the story of your first time that you came on the show because you just dropped the symbol. And then that thing ran. I did, I dropped a symbol is around $5 and 50 cents. It was air H E H R. Yeah, that was a stock I've owned for two or three years. And I identified an inflection point in the stock a couple of weeks earlier, uh, with my colleague Ashley Day in our VIP meetings that we have on Sunday nights.

Um, I got in, in a big way at around $2 and 70 cents. By the time I got them Benzinga was around five 50 and that afternoon it ran to like nine plus dollars. And after hours. Oh my God. Yeah. Wait. So it must've been, which day would it have been? It would have been like around here or something then when you, and that was that big green candle there.

This one. Nope. Keep going further back. Oh, that was the day baby. And Ben, you kind of made it, you kind of made it tough on yourself cause that's hard to follow up, but now our audience sees you and they expect the 60 to a hundred percent. Um, so you know, maybe, maybe. Next time, start to start us out with like a 10, 20% runners.

So you don't have to try to follow that follow up the a hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do my best. So yeah, I got all I, not a lot of talk about first. I just want to mention that before we get into it. Uh, I want to acknowledge what's going on in the market, um, on spy, on the cues on ideal IWM, there's a lot of important moving averages, being breached, um, 50 day moving averages in particular, across the board, pretty much, uh, it's something that, uh, We've been here before and it doesn't necessarily mean we dive down to the 200 day moving average, but it is a risk.

It is something people worry about. I'm personally not doing much about it because I've been trading for over 20 years. And on many, many occasions, I've been able to time time the top or time getting out just in time when there's a crash, but I never get back. And the reversal and looking back months later, I'm like, I would've been better off if I'd never made a move.

So that's been my experience. So I haven't made many moves today, except I did raise a little bit of cash with a firm that was just a, uh, a trade I made when they got the Amazon deal. Um, so I was up on that, raised a little bit of cash from pre. And I added to a VIP stock, a soy trading, VIP stock called QC copper and gold, uh, QCC, U F.

I've never mentioned, uh, on here before, but we have videos on it.

Yeah. You see you F yeah. It's, it's a, yeah, it's up about 30%. Well, right at this moment, 22%. Yeah. So that's a VIP pick. I've held it for months. They had significant significant news today. I think this could be a five to 10 bagger. So I've I added this morning. I'm still on the bid. Actually. I'm trying to buy.

Um, but, uh, so that, that, that's all the moves I made today so far sold a little from buying more QC. And when you're ready, I can get into some of my prepared slides. I'll give you an update on errands and other. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to hear it, if you want to go ahead and share, update on air, uh, and then let's rip into the new stocks.

How's that if you want to go ahead and share your screen, we'll get it pulled up real quick. One thing I like to do on days like this, where a spiced out and, you know, almost 2% or 2% at this point is I like to look around and see kind of which stocks. Are you are down more than the market and which stocks are down less or even up, because I think while the markets are getting crushed, when you do see those one or two stocks that are green, that's a good sign that just shows you some are cyclical assets, like gold might be doing well today, or, you know, things like that.

But outside of that, if say, um, I don't know if there are any big name stocks that are actually like up-to-date, but say like Amazon is down only. Well here, I'll check for you producers. If you're wondering what. Uh, this is the movers widget in Benzinga pro. Okay. You go to Benzinga pro P R o.com two week free trial.

Okay. Totally free. You can follow along. Uh, I'll even put the link in the chat and make it easy for everyone. Um, but AB here, all the stocks over there's 300 million market cap. If you on big stocks, we'll move it to a 10 billion plus market cap. These, these are the large cap stocks that are up today. Um, AstraZeneca.

Uh, a lot of energy stocks, it looks like, yeah. I'm seeing American airlines in there. So, so there are some stocks that, you know, could just be up from wait, where do you see American airlines? All right. They're AAL. The only airline. I know. So that's showing me that there's some air American airlines is showing some relative strength, not only against the market, but also against its industry against airlines.

Um, so things like that, I kind of like to add to my watch list on days and saying, Hey, like American airlines might be strong throughout the week. Um, you know, maybe airlines in general right now are performing better than the market. So I think even on down down days like this, there are always opportunities.

You have to be a little bit. You know, I guess less risk averse, if you're worried about like an overall market correction that could still hurt some of these names. Um, but yeah, I mean, that's just something that I like to do is kind of add stocks in my watch lists that are performing better than the market are better than, than the relative peers.

Okay. Yeah. And here I'll call it one more thing and we're trying to get to AHR, but, but I just, while I'm seeing it, so, so, so we look at a lot of these stocks that are up today. So you notice that there's a lot of energy names, uh, that are trading higher. There's a handful of them in there, USO that that's the ETF that tracks the price of oil is actually down.

So, so, so the oil futures are actually down in price. W what that suggests that a first glance to me is that there's some rotation into those energy stocks. Um, you know, it might be dollars that are rolled, rotating out of like your, your triple Q stocks, uh, you know, tack heavy index into, uh, some of the, some of the energy games.

I know, 0.7% now, man, at 3%, 2.7% and we're at the lowest. Oh, and we were just sitting at that low. We typically see that loop when there's market weakness that, um, you know, money flows into the value stocks, into the stocks that are currently making a lot of money compared to the more speculative assets like your, you know, big tech companies that are looked at as more growth opportunities.

Um, but yeah, Ben, without further ado, let's get to H R um, I know we've got a lot to kind of run through, but we we've got some extra time today. Okay. Great. Let me know when that screen is upgrade. Yeah. Quick, the slimmer, I got to do story trading, not an investment advisor, investing in securities and false significant risk of loss.

We talked about what story trading is. So air there it is. There's a chart. Uh, Fundamentals catalyst sentiment and technicals to do this. This is what I presented. It was $5 60 cents that they have been Zynga. And look what happened since it consolidated and it kept on running. It hit $12. Right now it's $10 89 cents.

So let's find out what's going on. Sorry. Sorry, Ben. But before you really get into it, can you just give us some background as to what the company is, what it does. Sure they test a semiconductor chips, uh, that are used, uh, in, in this case, Silicon carbide is where most of their business comes from. These are chips that are primarily right now be used in electric vehicles.

A Tesla is probably from everything we can glean the, uh, the end customer for most of their business right now. Uh, so they sell their testing equipment to a manufacturer semiconductor manufacturer called on semi. And then, uh, those trips make their way over to Tesla for Evie, but their technology can be used in many, many other industries that have a lot of other things going on that could help explode the stock even further, but just the Evie alone and the Silicon carbide, uh, testing of those chips, um, alone is something that could continue to be a very strong tailwind for this.

Perfect. Yeah, you sir. Keep going. Okay, great. So I just want to review what happened here when it got from two 70 to five 60. So, uh, um, quickly, uh, when I presented last ended at 17.4 million orders in six weeks. And, uh, this was a real inflection point for the company because it's signified that they're going to be getting recurring transactions because they're testing technology of these chips in the past were only used for sampling.

So apple was one of the big customers. It was, but it was used for sampling to verify that their production, uh, uh, was going well. And it was so they didn't need to test every single chip coming out of the system. But with electric vehicles, the chips, the silicone carbide chips, a lot more sense. Uh, testing a sample is not enough.

You have to test each and every single one and burn them in basically, uh, get the ones that are not good. Get it out of the system. Otherwise the UV cars can kind of stop in the middle. So the inflection was recognizing that this is, this is going to be recurring orders. So look what happens since though, since, uh, I presented to you guys last, they got enough.

They had 17.4 million orders. I got another 23.6 million orders in just two weeks. It started with a 3 million EBV order. Um, the impact is, is wrong on there. I start with a 3 million order, uh, then August 31st 1.2 million order for a separate. Use case Silicon photonics, which is something, it can be huge.

It could be related potentially the apple watch coming out in a couple of years. We'll talk about that. Um, and then they got the biggest order in company history a week after that 19.4 million orders significantly in that press release, they talk about. Uh, use in also electric storage and solar power conversion, which makes it even more clear.

The end customer here is Tesla, and you can see that the impact on the stock price is 5 83, 6 91, 8 39. This is before the news came out. Now we're again, we're at 10 90 this week. We have a catalyst. We have. Thursday after the close. Um, I don't know what the market's doing, but the stock is holding up.

Well, it's only down 2% after the stock is like over tripled in the last two months. That's amazing. I think we could see a lot of strength today going into earnings on Thursday. We can maybe see an earnings anticipation, right? Um, one thing I want to caution people, the numbers won't be on the top line in this report, they just did this 19.4 million was after, you know, after that quarter close.

So some people just be careful don't expect like 20 million quarterly number. It doesn't happen like that. Right. Uh, but nonetheless, people can be anticipating great Carter. The stock might run up. I'm going to be looking at backlog and guidance to, to figure out what I do on. You know, with the report.

Initially, when I went on, I told you guys I'd be looking at first of, I did say 50 to a hundred dollars in two to three years. I think that's still on the table. Uh, as far as trading, I said, I was looking to take some off the table and the $9 plus range while with all this news that happened. I, I really haven't done that.

Uh, and my new target to take some off the table is in the teens. Um, I had to take off a small amount, uh, because I had calls that were expiring and, uh, A little bit of a margin thing that's take care of. So I did sell a very small amount, but I still have over 90% of my position. And at this point, Yeah. I mean, I know since you've been on the first time, we've had a lot of chat interest about AHR, even on days where, you know, you're not on people in the chat are still asking about it.

And yeah. I mean, I think, you know, right here, we're just waiting for that. The next big catalyst, if HR announces that Tesla is a partner, I think we'll see that stock run out. I mean, do you have any opinions? Yeah. That that's not going to be announced because they're not the direct customer that they're the end customer.

Uh, so they, they, they sell this, their product, the semiconductor manufacturers, uh, you know, not to Tesla directly. In fact, it's possible. They have more than Tesla. They may have multiple UV customers are ready right now. So that's not something that's gonna be. Okay. Yeah. Thank you for that clarification.

Cause I was thinking if we do get that announcement, that Tesla is a, you know, a partner that we'll, we'll see that stock run even more. Um, but like we were talking about earlier, I mean, AHR, it is showing, you know, it's not down as much as maybe some others in the market today. Um, the charts actually look pretty good on the, on the one day chart.

Yeah, it's strong. It's strong because of earnings this week, I think. And here's, here's the chart here? 17.4 million in six weeks, all by 23.6 million in, in two weeks. There's one sentiment issue that people should be aware of. September 4th, they follow the. Uh, for up to $75 million in offerings. Now at the time when that happened, uh, I was actually very bullish about that, uh, because I know their financial situation.

It's pretty good. They get paid 30% cash upfront. This is not, you know, uh, something out of desperation. Uh, I predicted that they filed that because good news was coming and like the next day then Nelson 19.4 million. Um, so they're only going to sell stock if the stock is really inflated and they were just preparing for that because they knew the good orders were coming that was followed up with a couple of days ago, uh, as part of the 75 million, they filed at 25 million ATM.

Uh, they haven't sold any yet. Again, I think this is a signal that they know good news is coming and they want to be in a position to take advantage of very high prices to just shore up their balance sheet on. Definitely. Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of times people have kind of obviously a negative reactions to anytime a company raises money, but it doesn't always necessarily mean it's necessarily a bad thing.

Yeah. And there you go. I have a point here were raised as you need to survive, which are bad raises that can impact the stock badly and raises that you want for growth, which is a good thing. And this is the letter. Yep. And we've seen a bunch of, uh, you know, really strong company. You know, do offerings for, for that reason to grow rather than out of necessity.

So I'm definitely not, you know, something that's a deal breaker for me, at least. Um, when we see, let us know in the chat, if you have any questions about AHR, I'm sure Ben can, um, you know, either answer them or at least direct you toward the info that you need to answer those questions. Um, do we have more on AHR?

Ben are, we were getting, I know that's all I got. So you let me know when you're ready. Yeah, it sounds good. I just want to give the chat one second to see if we have, uh, any questions fly in. If not, we will. We'll move on to the next one. All right. So, um, we did present a couple other stocks that Benzinga, and I'm all about accountability.

I'm not going to put a stock out there and forget about it, uh, if it does poorly. So there were three other socks we met. Um, SMSI uh, has performed poorly. It was five 60 or five 70 ish. I think. I don't know exactly what it was at the time I presented on July 26th. It's now, before today, four 70, uh, if you recall, I was waiting for a big announcement with, uh, T-Mobile or Verizon that hasn't happened.

It seems fundamentally all those things are still happening, but the PR is not happening. And, you know, that's something that, uh, They don't have total control over it. It's based on when the carriers decide to PR it. So that's why it didn't happen. I lost a great amount of money on calls on that. So, uh, so I missed that.

I still own the common shares. Um, it's fundamentally as stories and tech, uh, just, you know, not playing any calls on that anymore because the timing of the PR is kind of unknown. Got it. Yeah. And we appreciate the, uh, the accountability or setting up a bad example for me though, because then anytime that I get a stock that doesn't perform well, I got to go back to.

And own up to it. Um, you know, so let me know in the chat, which, which stocks that I need to be accountable with and go back and revisit. Um, definitely Baba for me recently. Okay. Kathy's asking that she missed a H I'm assuming she's talking about EHR. Cathy. We just talked about AHR. If you rewind about 10 minutes, you'll see us, um, give the low down and break down with what the most recent news is on AHR.

Um, all right, Ben. Well, so we've got SMSI. What else is on the DOB? We also presented a VTS PSI. Uh, play a police training. I don't know if you remember that, but we did present that it's done very well with 7 26 1. We presented it before today was 8 96. I think it's still on with the market today, 53, but it's still up.

They've had a couple of orders keep falling in since we presented to you. I still own it. Actually. I have some also deepen the money calls, so I'm very happy with how that's whole. Beautiful. Yeah. I mean, I think this is, this is one in an industry that, um, has of course long been dominated by, you know, just one name or two names.

A taser comes to mind. But I think as, as we see. You know, real when you see companies spending money, trying to fix this problem that, uh, you know, obviously there's a demand out there to fix it. As far as police brutality, there will be a lot of other players that become, um, you know, sound investments. So this is one that definitely, um, you know, could be good for the longterm.

Yeah, absolutely. I really do like this one for longterm. Uh, another one, which I'm very bullish on. I have a relatively large position is Dario health. Um, this has been basically parroting the, uh, uh, copying the Teladoc chart, tell the docs like the bellwether for this, uh, industry and all the, all the digital health plays are following that stock.

Um, that's been up 16% since presentation before whatever it's doing today, maybe down. Yeah, Ooh, it is down 8% today, but it's probably still up since I presented it. So here we're waiting for game changing news of an insurer. I still believe that that news is coming. And when it comes, the stock will pull you reflate to 20 plus dollars.

I spoke to the CEO last week. He said, no changes. Uh, you know, in his guidance, he still says it's imminent that these insure deals are going to be coming. So I'm very excited about that. And I still own it. I think it's going to pay off as just a matter of. Yeah. Um, you know, this one is definitely one that we've been seeing in the chat a lot, watching this one as well, kind of similar, similar things to, uh, about the police though.

Police brutality market is just, it's a very growing industry, right? You have, um, Uh, you know, digital health Teladoc, as you mentioned, kinda dry, uh DRIO is kind of tracking Teladoc, but I think as we see more and more digital health evolve, we'll see a lot of names kind of become good investments. Um, I'm seeing David Miller in the chat saying AHR just went green.

Um, when we were talking about a couple of minutes ago, I pointed that out, but the chart actually looks good today, especially compared to, to everything else out there. So definitely some strength in age. Yes. A E H R right now. And that's exciting when you get a stock that's green on a red day like this, sometimes they can squeeze.

I'm not saying it's going to squeeze it all. Not saying that there's not a huge short position in AHR, but sometimes you can get unbelievably great performance and stops that stand out because all the traders are looking for what's green and they may all pile into a green stock. So. I wouldn't complain if that happens today.

Yeah. Speaking of a, you know, squeeze it. So I, I was watching it earlier. Smile, direct club opened up and went up, uh, you know, a bunch I think about like 4%, which actually isn't that much. But compared to everything else today, seeing a stock that was up 4%. Yeah, it looks like it's doing pretty well. Um, and since then the stock has been trading down, trading down more than 11% from its highs currently at 6 46.

So a lot of people kind of chatting about smile, direct club on different forums, Reddit, Twitter, you have it. Smile, direct club, picking up a lot of interest from retail traders. So that is one that is going to be on my watch list for the week I've been tracking. Uh, Reddit is excited about it. A huge short position.

I think they're artificially trying to generate something. I don't love, plays like that. I don't believe there's any recent fundamental news justifying it, although I didn't do the full research on it, but, um, I, I just think there's stocks out there. They just target with very high, short positions. They go in there, they try to generate gamma squeezes by buying a bunch of calls.

I think that's what they're trying to do with this. Yeah. I mean, and I mentioned this before on the show that I think with some certain stocks like this, like, all right, you have to keep a couple things in mind. A there's a reason certain stocks have such a high, short interest. And a lot of times it's because there are fundamental problems in the company that people are identifying and going out and saying, Hey, this makes for a good short, because X, Y, and Z, you know, for whatever reason it is a.

But I I've said it before that I think with stocks, you know, like smile, direct club, or like wish that may have problems with the company, but that could be candidates for a short squeeze. I don't hate the idea of taking some money, maybe, uh, you know, for me, like I'll take like $500 and just buy some calls that I know like, Hey look, there's a good chance.

These calls expire worthless. But if, if this comes to fruition, this stock does run. Then my $500 calls. You know, twenty-five hundred dollars or, you know, five times the amount. Um, so I think if you keep your, your risk very limited, you know, like, okay, this is a finite amount of money I can lose on these calls.

And I I'm willing to take that risk on that. It's not a bad way to play some of these like very speculative, um, squeeze operations. Sure. Absolutely. Um, all right, so I got a few more quick ones. I know we're running short on time, but, uh, I've had, we've had every Sunday night, we have presentations at soy trading.

Sometimes there's new socks sometimes are when there's a new stock. We track it as a VIP pick. So we've had three new socks presented, uh, since, uh, First one I'm pointing out is GMER, it's an NFT gaming stop. I'm excited about this because I know NFC is really hot. I never got into anything NFT, but the presentation by a colleague, Michael Michael Cook was really good, strong presentation.

I got in the socks of 20%, 28% since it was presented. I own the stock. Let me just run through these. And then if there's questions we can get into it. Another one that was presented by a strong presenter in our community, our Warwick is NFU systems, IFU, very strong, fundamental story. We're tracking on our websites that VIP pick it's down 10% since the presentation.

I don't own this one. Uh, then Rockley, this is interesting. This is, we got to take a minute. Broccoli is a stock that was uncovered during the research on air test systems. So a Ashley Day who presented to our community air test systems, um, he found broccoli. This was a spec that was originally SC health.

Now Rockley has the Silicon photonic chips they work with, which air has the testing solution for an apple has been working with Rockley apples, given $70 million so far to run. To generate these chips, which have lasers on them that allow, uh, they have health sensors with lasers. They can do continuous glucose monitoring, heart rate, pulse SOPs, things like that.

So this is like really the next generation in terms of, uh, med tech and digital home monitoring. And, uh, this is for the 2023 apple watch. I believe that's being developed at market caps. Only a billion dollars. I think that's so cheap. If this comes to fruition. It's been extremely volatile. I own it. I've also been shorting the puts because the premiums are so high, uh, because of the high volatility, but this is just an exciting stock.

You know, we talked about digital health, Teladoc and Dario, and I've always had this vision of the future of, you know, if you're a star Trek fan, they had these tri quarters, right. You go onto the, the medical bay and the, you know, they put this tri quarter of your body. And I I've always been excited for that.

And I feel like this is a big step towards that this apple watch that's coming from broccoli. And if this continues, if there's no hold ups here, and this comes out in 2023, I I'm thinking Rockley can be a 10 20 bagger. So I'm long broccoli and excited about the association with air because air might be in a position to test these special chips coming out of, uh, of, of broccoli.

Yeah. I mean, I love this play. I think that a lot of, I think that's what we're going to see in the new developments in apple watches and in wearable tech is, um, you know, just more health insights. And I think, you know, obviously the global pandemic has, uh, you know, created an even even bigger demand for this because I know apple watch, you know, right now people were talking about like, oh, with COVID like how great it would be.

If you could see your, um, Oxygen levels, you know, and all that data that in the future we will have on our way. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really excited for that very much. So I think this is a stock I'll take, uh, I guess what's the downside risk? I don't know. Apple says it's not working out. We're just going to cancel a contract.

I guess there's a chance of that. But so far based on all the data I'm seeing, coming out of the companies, you know, it looks good. So if this, if this proceeds, I can't imagine this not being a 20, 30, $40 billion company. Um, so I'm just going to diamond hand this one, honestly. Yeah. And I'm looking at the chart right now.

It looks like after the, uh, spec was announced, uh, the stock ran up to about $16 and since trading lower currently at $8 and 64 cents. Um, but kind of like AHR it's, it's actually green on the. Which we haven't seen a lot of stocks that are agreeing on the day. So, um, could be showing some, some strength right now, adding this to the watch list for sure.

Ben R K L Y. Why do you think, do you think it's just cheaper for apple to kind of be outsourcing this rather than trying to develop this tech? Develop their own semiconductor chips. I mean, that's a huge industry you're talking about. I've, Rocklea outsourcing this to fab, you know, I'm not sure which one, but like what you want to be Intel on semi tower SEM, you know, tower some TSCM, uh, that's a trillion dollar market cap right there.

So maybe one day they'll make their own ships, uh, you know, but for now they are, uh, relying on. Okay. So Rockley makes actual chips that, you know, empowers these, uh, lasers and what, well, Rockley, you're saying it's outsourcing the actual chip making company, but they have all the patents. Yeah. Okay. So it's, you know, TSM or, or AMD or someone like that is like, I'm not sure who they're using.

Got it. Uh, Roy in the chat saying, do your research on CRISPR chips, these chips will help diagnose and cure chronic illnesses using DNA editing. Um, I don't know if you have any insight on CRISPR. I've heard a lot about it. It seems fascinating. I haven't researched it, but definitely something I'd like to look into.

Okay. Awesome. Um, Ben, do you have any other stocks on today? Yeah, I just want to mention, first of all, these VIP picks, we've had 53 of them since May, 2020 that were dramatically outperforming the markets an average of 49% return over 245 day holding period, which is 73% annualized. You can see that performance is soy trading.com/performance.

Uh, quickly, I want to mention a couple other VIP picks that are doing well today. I didn't mention QCC. Uh, doing great. It's actually, because of this, my trading account is up today. Believe it or not, just because of the move on QCC, a QC copper and gold. There's one more. I forgot to put a bullet on here, which is TPCs another VIP pick, which is a highly popular stock in our community.

Uh, perhaps we'll do a dedicated presentation on TPCs. They just had a major technical, uh, event Friday. They broke out to a new multi-year high above a dollar 75. I bought shares on the breakout Friday, and it's holding up today. I'm at a dollar 75 in this kind of. I love the chart. I'm excited about that.

I think just technically this can go to two plus and the very, very short term. So maybe we'll come back and do some updates on one of these, a fix at some point. Got it. Yeah. I'd love that. Um, I don't know if you have a minute, Ben, but we are getting some questions in the chat. Um, G mastic is asking about AMD.

I don't know what your thoughts on are kind of, uh, you know, the whole semiconductor industry as a large. Yeah, I honestly, I don't know a lot about AMD. I, I don't do a lot of research on big caps. Sometimes I'll invest in, in big cap stocks. Uh, just because I like the industry and the Tam by specifically like research wise, I don't know anything specific about AMD, uh, to tell you on the apologize for that.

Got it. Um, all right. Let me see if we have any other questions in the chat seeing if, if you know anything that you might have some. Um, the last pick, I believe you met TP or key SDN. What was the ticker again? T T P T P C S uh, they, they make, uh, submarines for the us military. I mean, submarine parts, um, lots of submarine parts.

Uh, I don't know the details exactly which parts, but they make lots of parts and military contracts and, and this, they did a merger recently, which is going to dramatically increase their revenue. Um, and I think they're having a conference call next week. They just announced this morning, you're gonna have a conference call next week to talk about the merger, but just look at that chart.

Uh, I just, I just think it's ready to explode. Yep. And just a quick note, I mean, obviously any of these super small companies microcaps are going to be a little bit riskier than some of your big names. Um, so just do it, that what you will. Um, but yeah. Ben, thank you for coming on today. It's good to check in on all the stocks that we've talked about.

SMSI AHR. Um, and yeah, you know, I know we get a lot of questions from the chat about these stocks, so we'll, we'll have to have you back on soon to get more updates as. Sounds good though. Maybe we'll talk about the AHR earnings on Friday or next week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's coming out. That's on the 20th.

Yeah, that's this Thursday. Okay. Got it. And I'm going to go ahead and drop the link again to story trading it in the chat. If you haven't checked it out already, please do. That's where Ben and his team. Um, you know, their DD and VIP picks, as he mentioned, a lot of those picks are outperforming the market.

Um, but yeah, you know, I just want to make that clear that some of these smaller names do, you know, become a little bit riskier investments are more established names. All right. Thank you. Any big plans for the rest of the day? Ben? I got a deal. Both of my cars are flooded out by hurricane Ida. Oh my gosh.

Oh wait, uh, New York. Yeah, it was, it was terrible, man. Yeah. So I'm still, I'm still dealing with that. And we had some flooding in our homes. It's been crazy. I'm sure all the insurance companies are kind of like bogged down. You know, they are probably not the quickest, uh, customer service right now.

All right. Well, like I said, thank you again for coming on and we'll get you back on after the AHR earnings. I know this is one that zinger nation as well. All right. Good luck everyone. All right, Ben. Enjoy the rest of your day. Good luck. Good luck with the cars. Thanks. Take care. All right. You too. All right.

Y'all that was Ben from story trading. Go check out this site. If you haven't already, um, I'm going to pull up my Benzinga pro I'm just going to take tickers out of the chat from now until get technical. So let me know. Okay. You know what y'all are looking at. We do have the Benzinga E V conference coming up this Wednesday.

So if you're interested in electric vehicles kind of want to learn how to trade, um, electric vehicles, which I think it's, um, you know, imperative, if you're out there actively trading that, you know, your way around these names, because it is such a hot industry in the markets. And one that is going to continue to grow.

So if you're, um, you know, searching for kind of new ways to trade EVs, uh, let me know. I'll drop the link for the conference in the chat, and you also will be entered to win a free year of Benzinga pro that is more than a $1,500 value. Um, so you really have no reason not to sign up and register for the event.

It is free. Uh, let, uh, let me see. Pickers from the chat. I'm seeing Hertz scrambler saying our bot checking on that. I'm not very familiar, um, via curious surgical, Inc. So let's see what this company does. Uh, wait a minute. We don't even have the company overview and Benzinga pro um, seems like it's some sort of biotech.

Let me take a look at the chart. Oh, th this, this just IPO today hurts scrambler

Nellie for Tata is asking about Jemiah. This is one. Um, I I've gotten crushed on this one, so I've actually kind of like stepped away from trading it. The chart, honestly, the chart looks good. It looks like we have some previous support here. If we go back down and hit this spot again, this $17 flat. So if this were me just looking at the chart for one second, I would wait to see if we test this support again, right at $17 flat.

And then get in on a double bottom and try to ride it back up, um, to this previous resistance, um, or maybe even right here of $23. So I think you could squeeze a little bit out of this trade. If we see it, see it bounce back down to, uh, you know, $17, but look on a stock like this, that's down 7.7% on the day.

Um, you know, that's showing me that this is down more than the overall market, so it's showing relative weakness today. Um, so that just means to me, Investors are selling this at a faster rate than they are selling other assets or the buyers aren't coming in as much as, as in other assets. So that is one that I will, you know, I would look for on Jeremiah to drop down further.

Of course, the story behind this one is that, uh, Africa is an emerging market. It is essentially the Amazon of Africa. So people do like it a lot for its long-term potential account. Another one in that same realm is ozone holdings. This is kind of the same deal, but out in Russia, I'm an Eastern Asia. So ozone is the e-commerce player out there.

And yeah, I mean, I think one of the things I like about ozone, which I don't know the numbers off the top of my head for Jeremiah is that the percentage of people that actively use e-commerce in Russian. Is way lower than in other parts of the developed world. Um, so the idea is there that over time, Russia e-commerce will pick up and start matching that of the rest of the world and thus bringing a lot more business to ozone.

So that's definitely one of the things that a lot of people are looking out for and ozone is just that win-win, Russia's e-commerce, um, you know, you know, get to the levels of that, of surrounding countries. Uh, shout out Chris catchy and the S in the chat saying our bot went public via spec surgical robot company.

Uh, yeah. Look, my, my mom, uh, was, is a PA. So physician's assistant and she's done surgery for, you know, a very, very long time. And she's basically told me like, Hey look, the future is the future is going to be, you know, not even, not even people. Cutting into people. Essentially, the doctors are just going to be there, supervising the robots, doing the actual surgery.

So I don't know when that's going to happen. Um, but apparently according to my mother, that is the future of medicine. So I'll have to keep my eye on this one. Chris, um, mom says in the chat chat saying, look an extra Shapiro here today. Uh, I will defeat you with facts and logic. A F R M a firm. Of course, affirm is a stock that has absolutely ran sensitives announced a deal with Amazon.

Um, we saw a firm trading in this range for the better part of a, the past year from about 50 bucks to 70 kind of trading down here. And then here you can see where the deal was announced with Amazon initially spiked on the news, uh, that Amazon would be using a firm. So essentially, you know, if you're unfamiliar with this company, it's essentially just a buy now pay later.

Um, so if you want to buy a couch off Amazon, that's a thousand dollars, a firm will allow you to say, Hey, Would you rather buy this thousand dollars couch and a hundred dollars, 10, a hundred dollars installments. There's no interest. Um, and essentially a firm is making money. If people don't pay those installments on time, uh, we we've seen a lot of kinda, you know, buy now pay later, come about over the past couple of years, fintechs are really eating this up.

You know, I'm curious to see like long-term effects of this. If there will be a lot of debt passed on to kind of sub subprime borrower, We will see. So this first big green candidate. When the Amazon deal was announced, traded lower a little bit. And then this is when the company reported earnings and they of course spoke on the guidance of what this Amazon partnership will mean for the company.

So the stock has seen two huge legs up in the past. And now currently trading down 9%. I mean, this is the definition of a growth stock. You're buying this company now because of all the money that it may make down the road. So anytime we have a day like today, where the QQ cues are just getting hit, we will see those more speculative growth plays get hit harder than the overall market.

Um, I'm keeping my eye on apple down more than 10% from its highs. Uh, just a couple of weeks ago on September 8th. So stock was trading at $157. Now it's $15 lower at 1 42. And my thing with apple is I think you can make a very strong argument that this stock has been, uh, not only a growth stock. The one of, if not the best performing growth stock over the past 10, 20 years.

And now it's gotten to a point where it's such a massive company and make so much money, uh, that you can make an argument that it's a value play. Um, oh, Jean monster, like Jemiah, Jim speaking to apple, gene monsters is one of the biggest apple and Tesla bowls. Uh, so he seems to know what it's talking about when he's able to identify, you know, strong companies.

What's with S N T G today. Let's check it out. Solar. Centage holdings. Wow. I mean, talk about a stock that's showing relative strength up 26% while the markets are getting absolutely crushed I'm on the two day chart. Right now, we can see that the stock at all, the way as high as $3 and 58 cents, currently $3 and 16 cents cents controls means a financial service ride that offers a comprehensive range of financial services across consumer loan payment.

Um, wow. So this is actually a Chinese stock. That's up this much.

I mean, I'm not seeing any specific news on why the stock is moving so much, but we do have get technicals starting right now. I'm going to drop the link in the chat. Um, big get technical episode today. We're going to be talking about. How to trade options in a volatile market, how to trade options while the markets are getting a hit.

Um, so if you're like me and your option contracts, we're just getting smoked today. Tune in, uh, when Neil and I on get technical, we will have Chris Capri joining us at one 30. He is an options wizard. So we will be able to learn a little bit more about, Hey, while the markets are down. You still want your portfolio to be.

So, if you want to be agreeing, while markets are read to know and get technical, we're going to talk some hedging. Um, and without further ado, join me over there. Link is in the chat and I'll see you there.

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