The dow did go down. The nasdaq went down 4 or 5 . I spent the better part of this year studying the pandemic i was right. You know what we just cover . The professionals are not the only covid that matters. We have a Massive Group of investors who become professionals. They dont care about the same thing as the experts theyre the ones who were the marginal buyers and sellers. The investors have changed the entire character of the market what made you not be able to sleep at night it was very little belief in stocks for the past 20 years, the convention says stocks could no longer be trusted. They continue to lose their values way too quickly when something goes wrong on top of that, the convention only a fool to try to pick individual stocks. You may as well stop trying to beat the mark and put some of your money in an index fund and invest safely in bonds the last eight months, that convention has been stood on its head by a new generation of investors after the rise of Commission Fr
Leventhal. We are basically at the highs of the day, call it a 500point gain, the s p 500 good for 1. 5 . Nasdaq which was negative very early today is back above 12,000, thats a gain of 1 . The small caps have had a tremendous run of their own. The russell 2000 is up by better than 2 . Josh brown, if i told up that the dow on march 23rd hit a low of 18,213 and we have had a 12,000point rally since then, you would say what i would say this is why people who are not only invested for long term by continually adding to their investments, 401 k s or automated advisers, et cetera, have done themselves a huge favor people on the other side of that debate who think their job is to wake up every morning and make in our out decisions have not done themselves a favor. Im 43 years old im pretty sure ill see dow 100,000 someday. Is he you have to orient your mentality in order to get to days like today. If your mentality is oriented toward trying to outsmart everybody all the time, you dont get t
Now, is that right . David over the past 15 years, one of the most successful ceos in the world has been bob iger. He led disney to its greatest heights, increasing the market value by 400 . He did that through acquisitions of 21st century fox, lucasfilm, pixar, and Marvel Entertainment. Now the question what is he going to do next . During the time that you were the ceo, the stock market value of the company went up about 450 and the market capitalization about 400 during time year period of my big regret is that i didnt back you and buy stock, but you must be very pleased with what you accomplished. Bob proud would probably be the right word to use. I inherited a company that was renowned and had been quite successful, but had also gone through a period of difficulty. There was a lot of work to do. My goal was to not only improve the company, but to ultimately leave the company in great hands for my successor. David you werent as successful in leaving the company, because you wanted
Buy the cyclical stocks. On a day the market got hammered, nasdaq declining just. 06 lets remember what actually took us to these record levels in the first place because those stocks are still the best in jump you know what i am talking about. Talking about a termite coin i am talking about faang yeah, faang, facebook, apple, netflix and google these stocks gone out of style on the wall street fashion show. Smart money keeps telling me to get out of these small stocks and into the russell 2,000 they want you to forget faang and big on everything better with the vaccine there is some stocks that become a lot less attractive when the world goes back to normal. Oh, but not faang. These companies are living and breathing organisms. They are so powerful theyre not connecting to the economic win theyre in charge of their domestici desti destiny. They dont care whos in the white house. It put a target back while zuckerberg fights the government, it would be better if he didnt have to so they
Gaining. It is time to admit that conventional wisdom has been wrong every step of the way. In this market, patience is not a virtue discipline cluster of fortune. Buying the most obvious stock, well, that has been a strategy that was easy i struggle about how this is possible i am not used to a mark that reward investors being late to the party. We found out moderna has a vaccine that may work better than pfizer. Thats getting off the table we got uncontrol spread over america. And mayors and governors refused to shutdown the bars and restaurants. Those are the main places we are getting infected no, it is at home, jim this pandemic is steam rolling us the prospect of a vaccine keeps on plotting it and shutting everything down. I am sure you are wondering, given the numbers that we see, how is that possible first every now and then there were moments that well stood on our head. Time like these is not sell. You must be willing to suspend judgment how far stocks can reasonably go. Than