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Episode 103: Kyle "DeMattia" Van Etten opens up about his journey into trading and how he was prepared to take advantage of the OTC stock market mania in 2020, 2021. At the time Kyle focused primarily on OTC dip buy setups and later used the profits and knowledge from those experiences to invest in his market education for other setups. Kyle goes over what he looks for in his OTC and listed setups along with how he tracks data and more.

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Kyle DeMattia Van Etten
Twitter: demattia73
Profitly: DeMattia73

DeMattia's book recommendations
1. Atomic Habits
2. Daily Trading Coach
3. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
4. Market Wizards
5. How to Make Money in Stocks

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Episode 102: Bear Talk - A weekly episode of trade reviews by Reed & David. Both traders decided to go over their trades on a weekly podcast to further improve their game. The podcast screen-share can be found on Friendly Bear Research YouTube Channel. The trades covered in this segment are from January 31 - February 4, 2022.

Stocks reviewed in this Bear Talk: BCDA, UTME, LYL, ANY, EVLV, EXPR

Bear Talk weekly trade review screen-share: Bear Talk YouTube

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David Capablanca
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YouTube: Friendly Bear Resear

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Episode 101: Sam Putnam asks David questions about his trading journey among other general trading questions. Sam is a newer trader that is learning the ropes and sits down with David over a Zoom call to go over trading mindset, preparation and strategy.

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David Capablanca
Instagram: reverselong
Twitter: reverse_long
YouTube: Friendly Bear Research

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Episode 100: Adam Gefvert and David Capablanca discuss various topics surrounding their current market experiences. Adam and David go over some conversations they've had over the previous weeks at the TradeSpace during market hours. The topics range from trades made recently to risk management dialogue during todays market conditions.

Stocks reviewed in this episode: KSCP, RDBX, SDC

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David Capablanca
Twitter: reverse_long
Instagram: reverselong
YouTube: Friendly Bear Research

Adam Gefvert
Twitter: shiningboy

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Episode 99: October & David discuss different possibilities the metaverse will present. October uses sci-fi, futurist examples of how the metaverse can play out. October talks about how the metaverse is in its infant stages and draws examples from movies like The Matrix and the sci-fi book Ready Player One.

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October
Twitter: cyberoctober
YouTube: Cyber October

October's metaverse book recommendations
1. Ready Player One
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
3. Snow Crash

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Episode 98: This is a clip taken from the full interview with Kyle Williams on December 16, 2021. In this short clip Kyle expands on what he looks for in detail with first red day short selling. Kyle includes all the criteria he looks for when looking to short on first red days and gives a great explanation on the bigger picture theory behind it.

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Kyle Williams
Instagram: kyle_cwilliams
Twitter: traderkylec
YouTube: Kyle Williams
Profitly: kylecw2

Websites & tools mentioned in the podcast episode:
Breakouts & Breakdowns Chatroom

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Episode 97: Michael Matthews comes on the podcast once again to go over some key take aways from his trading in 2021. Michael also talks about how he has set himself up well for trading in 2022 and new adjustments he has made going forward. Michael also expands more on what he looks for with his premarket trading strategies and data driven approach in general.

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Michael Matthews
Profitly: HOG8541

Websites & tools mentioned in the podcast episode
Polygon.io

Michael's recommended trading books
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

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Friendly Bear Conference 7
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Episode 96: Bear Talk - A weekly episode of trade reviews by Reed & David. Both traders decided to go over their trades on a weekly podcast to further improve their game. The podcast screen-share can be found on Friendly Bear Research YouTube Channel. The trades covered in this segment are from January 24 - January 28, 2022.

Stocks reviewed in this Bear Talk: EXTN, HOFV, UONE, MNMD, MNTS, KOSS

Bear Talk weekly trade review screen-share: Bear Talk YouTube

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Episode 95: Andrew Chipka comes on to talk about his previous experiences trading in market bubbles such as 2017 and 2020. Andrew goes deep into his early successes, failures and what he's learned from those experiences. Andrew also gives insight into what he looks for before entering trades and how he goes about collecting/analyzing his data to constantly keep improving his trading.

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Andrew Chipka
Twitter: androotrades
Profitly: androo
YouTube: The Trade Floor

Andrew's book recommendations
1. Trend Following
2. Trading in the Zone
3. Technical Analysis  Using Multiple Timeframes 

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Friendly Bear Conference 7
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Episode 94: Chris Varley & data scientist Michael Nauss, CMT from Trade Ideas join the podcast to answer general questions David has about the platform. Chris & Michael also talk about some new features and plans for the future with Trade Ideas such as 4am premarket scanning among other things. Chris & Michael also speak further on how new and current users can take advantage of the Trade Ideas chatroom & YouTube livestreams that are open to everybody. Lastly, the TI team expand on how Trade Ideas can be linked for automatic trading with certain brokers.

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Trade Ideas
Twitter: tradeideas
Instagram: tradeideas
YouTube: TI -Trade Ideas Educational Channel
Trade-Ideas.com

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