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Stock Picks for the Week
Recorded: Jan. 5, 2026 Duration: 1:23:49Space Recording
Short Summary
In a dynamic discussion, crypto enthusiasts explored the promising growth trends for 2026, highlighting significant stock performances, strategic partnerships, and the potential for emerging markets to outperform. Key picks included ASTS and Webull, showcasing the optimism surrounding innovative projects and the January effect's impact on market sentiment.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. All right, welcome in everyone.
Happy Monday.
Happy New Year, 2026.
I haven't spoke to most of you guys.
A couple of you I have, but I haven't got to speak to most of you guys.
So I hope you all had a great holiday season and a great new year, a great start to 2026, which I know some of you have, at least from
the trading perspective, investing perspective, some nice moves happening out there in the
market.
Friday wasn't too fun for some of us, but a nice bounce back day to day and a lot of
high-flying names.
Today, a little bit special version of the show,
first show of 2026.
We're going to stick with the weekly picks and stuff like normal,
but we're also going to give our year-long 2026 picks.
And let's go ahead and let me make sure I get everyone invited up here on stage.
If you're in the crowd and you're part of it, please request up so I can get you up here.
I don't know, Ben, what do you think we should do?
Should we do the weekly picks and save the rest for the backhouse?
I think if we didn't do it yet, we should go over the 2025 winners.
Did we do that last week already?
I don't know.
We kind of did the unofficial,
but I definitely want to highlight the winners for 2025,
both year-long and the second half that we did in July.
So why don't we do that real quick?
Then we'll do the – maybe review the weekly pick winners,
and then we'll go into the 2026.
Into the 2026 at the end.
I like that.
All right. That sounds like a great plan to me. winners and then we'll go into the 2026 into the 2026 at the end i like that all right that sounds
like a great plan to me let's do the results for 2025 so a year ago january the 7th i believe is
when we did the show it's yes january the 7th is when we actually announced them, but we did a full year to date, two picks for each person.
And the results are as follows. The winner, the gold medalist, and I did tweet this out just a
little bit ago as a, I mean, if anybody's been following along, they've probably seen it, but
story trading, our friend Ben up here on stage that you just heard his voice. First place with 122.21% return.
Second place was Gav under Wolf Financial at 107.22% return.
Third place goes to Andrew, Real Pristine Capital, 49.83% return.
And we'll go ahead and call out a couple more on here just for the year.
Michael Knauss had a 32.66% average return between his two picks.
Nick Drendel, 28.85% average return between his two picks.
And why not?
I'll throw Jordan in here as well.
Jordan, 22.08 percent uh it was his
return for the year-long picks the best pick for the year was from ben asts 244.22 return
uh the other pick root just balanced him out ended up almost break even on root even though it went
up like i looked at it while ago ben it was was like 150% during the middle of the year.
But either way, best pick of the year, 244.22% from January open in 2025,
or well, the 2024 close of the year to the 2025 close.
So from basically first day of January, end of December, 2024 through the end of 2025.
The second best pick was Robinhood, H-O-O-D from Gov, 203.54% return. And the third best pick,
MNMD from Michael Knauss. That was what, 92.39%. So that is the full year results. Let me go ahead
and call out the second half results as well. And then we'll have Ben make some comments here.
The second half, you basically have the same top three, just flip first and second place.
First place went to Gov, Wolf Financial, 52.54% return for the second half.
That goes, we went from July 7th through the end of the year on that, on the second half picks.
Ben over at Story Trading, 47.6% in second place. And third place was Andrew, Roper Singh Capital again, 41.66% return. And Nick Drendel right there, 32.23% on his
second half picks. Paper gains 31.16% was the top five. Jordan, honorable mention, 27.82% in your
two picks. Shout out to you. Shout out to Prospero. I know you've given them some credit on those as well. Top picks for the second half of the year. The best pick that returned was MSOS
from Real Pristine Capital, 95.85% return there. The second best pick, Google, G-O-O-G-L,
OGL, 77.32% from Gov.
And the third best pick, sorry, my eyes are off here.
That one's yours, ASTS, right, Ben?
58.96% for the third best pick ASTS there.
Ben, first place for the year.
You got edged out for second place I mean the three of you honestly
the three of you I just need to put you guys on a panel
and just full
port my account to follow you guys
fantastic job you got first place
Gav second place and Andrew
third place on the full year
flip you and Gav first and second place
for the second half fantastic
job any thoughts that you want to share
take a victory lap sir well done and second place for the second half. Fantastic job. Any thoughts that you want to share?
Take a victory lap, sir.
Well done.
You know, I'll just say that I actually did hold this the whole year, ASPS.
Maybe a little bit of trading around the court.
So, you know, that's not always typical when we do the weekly competitions. There's a lot of volatility.
Stuff changes quickly.
And, you know and we don't necessarily
get the full move of the weekly picks.
But this is one where I did get that full move of 244% in long term picks.
I just do my retirement account.
I do trading in my non-retirement account, more swings in shorter term.
So yeah, I kept it the whole way.
In fact, I also kept root.
Like you said, it was up 150%, gave it all back.
Hopefully I did some trading around the core and sold some when it was higher.
I don't remember if I did, but I haven't given up on that one.
I think that one might have a good 20, 26 actually.
So yeah, looking forward to doing it again
actually off to an incredible start on our we'll talk about my two picks for
2026 when we get to that but I picked the top 30 stocks in in five hot sectors
of 2026 and on average they're up 10% already in two days so it's been pretty
incredible so far.
Well, well done. Big pat on the back. Big congrats. Your box of chocolates will be in the mail at some point. Now, we are going to do a live stream, which is fitting because
Gab's going to do a live stream with Ben over on Wolf Financial. And we'll probably have it go here and to the
YouTube channel both. But doing a little deep dive in it. It's fitting that GAVA first place
and second place, they kind of almost interview each other. But I'm excited to see the kind of
deep dive on that. And we'll get that content out for everyone here very soon. We have a little bit
of a light panel today. so we'll go ahead and
start jumping around. I guess a lot of people said, hey, I'm going to send in my stocks and
take the day off. We'll see. I don't know. I think Nautz is coming here in a minute. I've got some
messages out there. A couple of people said they couldn't make it. Getting ready to go back to
school with the kids and stuff was a couple of messages I got there. So we'll see what the
weekly picks look like, but we'll definitely hit on everyone's year-long picks here in just a little bit as well. But we'll start off normal
format. We'll go around and get some market sentiment thoughts, a couple picks, and then
we'll talk about the year-long picks for 2026 at the end of the show today. Ben, the weekly picks,
I don't know if you're tired of winning, but what a return from you on the weekly picks as well.
24.78% with the, obviously with the holiday in between as well.
So kind of a shortened week there.
24.78% return is what I'm seeing here on my screen.
You had RDW, I always want to say that on backwards,
RDW, 43.10% return on that one.
And then Webull, B-U-L-L is that ticker, 6.47% return.
Gave you the average of 24.78.
Second place went to StockSniper, actually.
StockSniper with KTOP, 31.81% return on that.
And then he also had ROBN, Robin, which was down bad Friday and came flying back today
for a 9.51% return that gave him an average of 20.66.
So we had two pickers over 20% just in the last week.
Third place goes to Gav.
That's Wolf Financial for those that don't connect the two dots, even though I'm behind the
count most of the time now. They are out there at CS watching Jensen live right now. I've got it on
my other screen over here, but he had a 5.49% return to get him third place with GSIT and KOID,
his two picks. The top pick of the week, obviously, was that RDW from ben and second place k top from stock sniper and where
was the other third uh robn i believe yeah robn was the third best so ben uh current champion for
the year second place for the second half of the year and current weekly champion as well. Kick us off with your market sentiments.
Yeah, well, those two picks were based on the January effect trade, which is working out really well.
So the January effect is coming along.
Started a little bit later than I wanted.
Usually those January effect.
January Effect. These are like the 2025 losers, which, you know, have good fundamentals and
catalysts, just didn't react because of tax off-selling. And then you get that big bounce
in the first couple weeks of January. So that's why I chose Bull and Redwire. We've chosen
10, well, we've got about 15 plus January Effect stocks, but like there's a top 10 that we had, and Redwire and Bull were two of the top 10.
So as far as sentiment, macro,
it's market selling what I expected it to do here beginning of January.
This is my favorite time of the year because it's just so predictable,
what happens with those 2025 losers.
And, you know, we have a couple additional tailwinds from macro perspectives for these
January effect stocks, which are not necessarily always micro caps, just also the growth stocks.
And in some cases, you can have large caps and mega caps participate in the January effect because it's
more about tax loss selling and stocks that are like artificially, you know, go too low
in December. And you take that and you look for stocks that, you know, as a result of
that, they're fundamentally undervalued. And then you kind of look for recent catalysts,
very positive catalysts that it couldn't react positively to
because there's too much tax loss selling. So it's not even a small cap phenomenon. It's just
a unique to tax season phenomenon is how I look at the January effect. And so that's worked out
really well. And now we have two additional tailwinds for macro tailwinds for January FX stocks that are more on the risk asset side,
which is Bitcoin breaking back above the 50 DMA, which, by the way, I think that was also
because of tax law selling right up until the last day. There's no 30 day wash rule effect on
Bitcoin. So we had selling right up until the last day and then boom, right over the 50. So
there's a lot of algos that link risk assets to the performance of Bitcoin.
So it's a nice tailwind to see Bitcoin over the 50 DMA.
And then the other macro tailwind we have here is, I hate to say it, but what Trump's doing with Venezuela, Maduro,
and what he seems to be hinting at with Iran, with potential
regime change over there, both of these are things that can depress oil prices if more
oil gets pumped into the world economy.
So and that is, you know, lower oil prices is deflationary and good for interest rates, expectations to go down.
So now we have like multiple things stacking on top of each other for a good January on risk assets.
Now, I mean, the moves have been crazy in the first two days. Like I said here, my 2026 picks are up, actually it was 9%, not 10.
I rounded up there 9%.
But a lot of stocks, like Redwire, damn, you saw in the competition up 40%.
But a lot of AFTS, Redwire, ONDS, I mean, there's a lot of stocks up 20%.
Some of them have hit key moving averages, like Redwire has the 200 DMA today.
So I worry that the speed of this move has been a little too violent to the upside.
So I'm not sure, you know, if we need a consolidation or a pullback or something.
We may not.
I don't know, because some of the selling was extraordinary in the second half of December.
Stocks really, really got oversold some of them.
So overall, I think we have a lot of tailwinds for risk assets and for the January effect.
The first two days being really explosive.
Again, I don't know if that means we need a break or consolidation.
Maybe yes, maybe no.
I think at this point, things shift to being catalyst-oriented, right?
The first two days, everything just exploded.
That was on our list for the top 20, 26 stocks and the January effect.
At this point, after two days of just crazy moves, I think, you know,
things just have to take a breather and continued moves, I think, have to be more selective.
It's going to be, you know, company specific based on company specific catalyst is what
I'm thinking, right?
If we want if you want to break a team, there's a lot of stocks that, you know, have been
oversold way below the 20, way below the 50.
And in two days, they've either come up to the 20 or come up to the 50 or come up to the 200.
Basically, they've made a move to the moving average right above it.
Right. In some cases, they've gone to moving averages right above it and in two days.
So to me, that's almost like enough of a reflexive move of the oversold conditions.
And at this point, if you want to see
a further move, it would be good to have a company-specific catalyst, which a lot
of companies may have. So yeah, I guess I'll mention
a couple on the other side. Are we doing that now?
How's the agenda working? Because we're doing the 2026 fix.
Should we also do our weekly pick now or later?
How do you want to do that?
If you want to go ahead and give the weekly now,
we'll do thoughts and the weekly pick from each person.
And then we'll come back around and let everyone present the 2026 year-long pick.
Okay, fine.
So then for this week, it's a little bit tougher.
Last week was super easy with Bull and Redwire.
This week I'm going to give you one of our general effect picks is Lucid.
So Lucid has already come up after two days after being really oversold
right to the 20 dma so a little bit risky here this is a bet that we'll see
a catalyst that can take lucid above the 20 dma and maybe towards the 50 dma
you do have some resistance at 1260 first so maybe we're targeting 1260 to 14-ish possibly on Lucid within the next several days.
We might get a press release tomorrow or the next day regarding a new model that's being released at CES.
I don't know all the details, but one of my colleagues has worked on this and is pumped about some new SUV or something coming out by Lucid this week.
So maybe that's the catalyst.
So we got a two-day move in Lucid so far.
We stack a catalyst on it hopefully tomorrow or the next day, and that can take it above the 20 and towards these next resistance levels of 1260 to 14.
1260 to 14. So that's Lucid pick for next week. Another pick for next week is riskier,
So that's Lucid pick for next week.
but I just love the risk reward and you just got to allocate it properly. This is going to be
IMRX. I've talked about it here before, I believe, biotech company that is working on a drug for
pancreatic cancer. They've already finished phase two and they've
already gotten the go-ahead from FDA to move towards phase three trials. Their
survivability data has been unprecedented to say the least and they've
even had one person cured, another person functionally cured, and one person moving towards a cure,
and just even having like one person being cured of pancreatic cancer is pretty crazy.
So they've had really good data, and the FDA a couple weeks ago gave them the green light
to start phase-through trial, and they're flush with cash.
There's no offering risk because Santa Fe's funding them. But Wednesday,
this week, they're releasing nine-month survival data for their people in the trial,
nine-month survival data. So they've already released the three-month and the six-month data,
or actually maybe it's 12-month data. I with check whatever it is it's the next it's
next one three months later so like every three months they give you another update three months
you get like what percentage of patients are still alive right um so the next one is coming on
wednesday and from what i understand it's a very very important significant uh data point um
so you know i don't know everything i've seen to date indicates that this data will
be good on Wednesday. And if it is, potentially IMRX will be trading in the $10 to $15 range.
But as with all these biotech readouts, they're very risky. So you got to allocate it properly.
I might lose the competition because I'm choosing imrx or i
might be up like an average of 50 between the two so those are my two bits
all right ben lcid lucid long and imrx both long from story trading we'll come back around and get
your 2026 picks here on the back half of this.
Let's see. Let me go over to Ariel next. I think Ariel might have a time constraint here. So,
Ariel, general market sentiment thoughts and two picks for the week, please, sir.
Yeah, thanks, Wolf. I mean, it's been a pretty incredible start to the year. It feels like it's being led by the space theme, obviously,
as can be seen by Rocket Lab, PL, ASTS, Today KTOS, HWM. I mean, the list kind of goes on and on
with that theme, which is really nice. I wouldn't even say that they're front running the SpaceX IPO, but it is very nice to see that we do have a group leading.
And then it was kind of a funky day because we've got, it seems like half of the semiconductors working where it's a KLAC, LRCX, ASML, TSM, etc.
And it's basically the semiconductor equipment and materials
sub-industry group, which is working really well. And then on the flip side, just AMD,
ALAB, CRDO, NVIDIA just can't quite get off the mat. So it's a bit of an interesting environment.
And a lot of those other semiconductors, the ones that are leading, none of them are really
viable here, at least in my opinion.
So they're kind of gone.
It feels like maybe some money wants to keep rotating, whether it be into emerging markets.
I kind of am looking at some Chinese equities, and I think that they're acting really well,
whether it be a Futu or Pinduoduo, Baidu,
Baba. These are very interesting names going forward, potentially into the rest of the year.
I think that there's a chance that emerging markets can continue to perform
just as well as they did last year. And I thought that they performed fairly well last year.
And I thought that they performed fairly well last year. So I really don't know what to make of the current market here. It's just, it seems a little choppy, right? Last Friday, it looked like software was maybe falling off a cliff. And then, you know, Amazon was one of those names as well. And then all of a sudden, you know, they're right back at it today. And then the names that
maybe looked a little bit better on Friday, all of a sudden had bigger washouts today within the
solar space even. And so it's just incredibly difficult. I think getting positioned is one
of those things where you're still looking for obviously stocks that, at least from my perspective,
stocks that are in clear established uptrends, but maybe you're not necessarily buying the breakouts. You're buying pullbacks into ascending moving averages and
kind of using them or key levels to limit your risk versus just buying a breakout.
It's names that appear to even be wanting to break out. They're just gapping them up and
it makes it fairly uncomfortable to get positioned properly in a gap up.
And then if you chase a move, the very next day they're washing you out like they did in Solars.
So it's tough.
Nice to see crypto get a bid.
Hopefully that can stick around for a little while longer and that can maybe help sentiment.
I would say that Hut seems to be the leader
kind of within that entire theme.
And a lot of these names,
they're really not even moving,
I don't think,
because they're crypto miners anymore.
I think they're moving more so
because they've got access to tons of power.
I think that that's been the theme
for Iron, Cipher, Wolf, and others
over the last several months.
So maybe we can get kind of a renewed theme there. But it's just choppy. I'd love to be able to say that I'm
getting positioned really easily. It's been, you know, I did buy XOM about 10 to 12 days ago.
And just, again, buying that within the base. And because that's trading
commodities is kind of like that, right? Buying a breakout, if you bought it this morning,
right, they're flushing you out. And then they're kind of just ramping you back up throughout the
rest of the day for anybody who chased. So at least an ExxonMobil is working for me. It's slow.
It's not going to win me any, definitely any competitions being long an ExxonMobil is working for me. It's slow. It's not going to win me any, definitely any competitions being long an ExxonMobil.
But that is nice to see.
I did own A-Lab.
I got knocked out of that today.
And then, you know, I'm short of Netflix, which I've been in there for about a month now.
And then short, still Silver Junior Miners, which is fairly uncomfortable today.
So yeah, it's just a choppy
environment. I wish it were a little bit easier to just kind of figure out where money's going
and be able to just buy a clean base breakout or a nice high type flag. But everybody can kind of
see the money's going into these space stocks, but I have no clue how to get situated in them.
Just when you think KTOS looks good, they gap it up. And if you're comfortable chasing a gap up, then God bless. If you're not,
then you're kind of stuck on the sidelines. So that's kind of my predicament right now. It's
like you could see where the money's going, but they're making it difficult. One day Baidu looks
great. The next day it's up 10%. So you're just kind of on the sidelines, you know, waiting or waiting for a pullback
to buy against ascending moving averages
seems to be the only kind of play.
And if you think about an FSLR today,
that's exactly what you'd be looking for.
It's like a pullback into the 20,
get situated like that.
And then, you know, if they do break it out,
maybe add a small piece after that.
So yeah, those are are kind of my thoughts.
Choppy environment, but pullbacks into ascending moving averages, I still think are good until
we know more.
And then as for picks, I'll make it fairly quick.
I do like Baba.
I mentioned Baba.
I think BABX on the long side.
And then on the short side, QUBT. We've just gotten a rally back into the 50-day.
I think that, you know, I don't know if that these quantum names are necessarily going to get rotated back into.
But, you know, QUBT using the 50-day as a guide and then BABX effectively a leveraged BABA.
All right, Ariel, great thoughts there.
Appreciate you joining and sharing those.
And then the two picks that you just heard, B-A-B-X to the long side,
that's 2X Leverage, Alibaba.
And then Q-U-B-T, short side, one of the weaker quantum names
that just got a recent bounce on the short side there for Ariel.
Awesome, awesome. side there for Ariel. Awesome.
Awesome.
Appreciate you, Ariel.
Let's see, Jordan, I guess I'll go over to you next and then we'll hit Knott's and Nick
Drindle is up here on stage as well.
Jordan, let me go over to you next and see if you've got any market sentiment thoughts
and what your two picks are for the week.
Yeah, not too many big thoughts
for me i guess other than you know we opened up the year i'm taking things pretty slow just day
by day right now i don't i don't have a whole lot of conviction where this market can go other than
just by you know waking it up waking up and playing it day by day but But on the bigger time frame, I mean, we opened up this year on NDX, we
dropped down to last year's close and, you know, a little bit further. And we've reclaimed that and
have just gotten bought up. And on the daily chart, you can see we've just been in this
consolidation, we're basically just stuck in the middle of this range right now. So
I have to think that this results higher.
I know some individual names have been looking a bit rougher
over the past, you know, today and into last week.
But to be honest, I have to be in the camp
that we get sending it back to all-time highs.
I just, to be honest, have no idea when.
We're just, again, in the middle of this consolidation
and we need something to really push us up there. So I have to be in the camp of thinking we take
out those previous year highs just because at the end of the day, like right now, the yearly candle
is an inside candle. And I know we're day traders for the most part, or swing traders, but those
yearly candles still matter, and I get to see a lot from that. And I do not expect us to spend the entire year as an inside year.
Even if we end up having to come back inside the range, I very much expect us to take out
those highs first.
So whether or not, you know, all time highs end up being a little more bearish this time
or we just send it and completely send it higher, I think we're going to have to take
out those all timetime highs regardless.
So what I'm getting at is bigger time frame.
I think you can't really count against this market right now.
No matter what, for me and for my system, the way I look at the market,
even if we're going to take a nice decline into the beginning of the year
or the first six months of the year,
we're going to have to take out those highs first.
So my game plan is just sit back, play it day by day. If I can get some opportunity, you know, when we
are really ripping up to those highs, then great. And then maybe we get to find a bit of a short
setup off those all-time highs this time. I know generally all-time highs are not something you
want to short, but that data is coming from every all-time high made, right? And if you were to take data
just from the beginning of the year, the all-time high made at the beginning of the year,
I think some of that data would be slightly different, maybe not drastically. But I definitely
know that last year, that's exactly what happened. I think ES or one of them, ES or NQ, held and made
a lower high. But one of them did take out those all-time
highs first and then ended up moving lower right and so that's essentially what I'm looking for to
happen no matter what even if we want to move lower I expect liquidity to be taken at the highs
so that's what I'll be looking for and to be fair like structure hasn't really I know on individuals
maybe some structure has been broken on some bigger timeframes or whatever. But like you look at NQ, you look at ES.
I mean, we're in the middle of this consolidation.
There's no real decisions made yet.
So again, when we're just consolidating sideways after giant moves up in the market,
I don't think we just immediately reverse from that.
I think we got to take out the highs of that range.
And then I expect us to maybe try and trade lower.
So it's kind of my thoughts right now.
Sticking on that bigger time frame.
Obviously, when we're intraday trading, I'm very much just playing with those overnight levels.
But that's day by day.
And that's really not going to help anybody over a week's time span here.
So those are my thoughts on that bigger time frame.
I'm expecting all-time highs.
I know things are looking a little rough right now in some individuals,
but I honestly think that'll start
to result a bit better
into earnings, but we'll see.
So those are my thoughts right now.
Just taking it day by day, and we'll see
if this market wants to get back to the multiple highs.
Which two picks do you have for us this week, sir?
I'm going to go
straight off Prospero
right here. Let's see? I'm going to go straight off Prospero right here.
Let's see.
We're going to go.
What was the 2X leverage Google that I picked last week?
Was it GGLL?
Yeah, I believe so.
I think it was GGLL.
I'm going to do that.
I'm going to do that, and I'm going to do UNHG.
And we'll just to do that. I'm going to do that, and I'm going to do UNHG.
And we'll just roll with that.
Some top picks on the short-term bull list from Prospero.
Again, with my thoughts, just like I have to think we end up drifting higher.
It's just hard to know when at the beginning of the year like this.
So since I'm not super, super confident in anything there,
I'm not going to be taking any TQQQ or anything like that.
I'm just going to let Prospero kind of make the picks for me this week and we'll go with those two both leveraged and see what uh see what we can do there but mind you I'm not sitting here looking at the chart
going oh this is like technically amazing I'm really just picking off uh short-term bull list
on Prospero and I've been looking at the charts for days so i know generally what the daily looks like right now and yeah i'm just gonna go with those for now so we'll roll with
that ggll and unhg leverage google leverage unh from ace the kid appreciate that jordan uh nick
drindle let's go over to you next for market sentiment thoughts and two picks for the week.
All right.
So I really like what Ariel and Jordan said about the market.
I'm basically in that same camp.
But a couple things that they haven't mentioned right now is the positioning.
So I think because it was a holiday, the commitment of traders data didn't get updated until today.
But we saw those names, the NASDAQ, which has been heavily long, got a little bit more neutral, which is ideal.
Because if you compare the NASDAQ to the S&P 500 right now, the NASDAQ has four or five unfilled gaps to the downside. It's not as close to its all-time highs, and it's just barely above its 5, 10, 20, and 50-day moving averages.
But structurally, just price action alone, it's really, really clean. We've gotten an 8.5% pullback,
about a 4.5% pullback, and then a 1.5 a half two percent pullback and then today's gap up and close over all those key moving averages
it kind of looks like a intervening vcp pattern volatility contraction and if you go back and
study other um corrections you've seen that kind of happen where you get the second wave lower
and unfilled gap up to get it going and then
tightening on the right-hand side of the base before it moves higher and with the nasdaq looking
the worst but still structurally sound and positioning coming down in that while money's not
rotating into safety but rotating into more futuristic growthy type stocks. Like Ariel mentioned, half the semiconductors, the UFO ETF,
so aerospace and defense,
specific biotechs are still holding up okay.
But we're not seeing money rotate into safer names.
We're seeing money rotate into either some groups that got beaten up,
but were previous growth uh
like i don't know if growth is the right word but more risk on type groups like uranium and nuclear
names which to me is a good sign right money's not leaving the market overall uh it's just shifting
to riskier stuff and then as those names extended, we will probably see pullbacks in those small cap
names. But the money can just flow right back into the NASDAQ now that positioning is coming down a
bit. The other positioning tool that I use is NAIN, the active investors exposure. And it really
shows why it's been, at least for me, challenging to get involved in this market over the last five weeks because we've stayed
elevated uh 98 back in december 3rd 97 101 95 and now 92 so positioning is coming down but for the
last like five weeks we've seen like a nice one day pop a nice two day pops out of certain stocks
but then a lot of the times it's like four days pulling back to your uh to
your entry and then you're like kind of coming under that pressure um but now that exposure is
dropping in that group as well while the market is set up this way i i think it's better to be
bullish than bearish but have an open mind to where if things are breaking down from this contraction
pattern instead of breaking to the upside um you still have to manage risk in real time but but i
think the like the risk reward is probably to the outside at this point and then two picks yeah i
was gonna say i appreciate the thoughts there it's it seems
like most of you guys are kind of and i'm kind of in the same camp as most of you guys as well
it's just like kind of sitting wait still but i i don't know i don't see anything wrong
necessarily like on the forefront but i see some things that maybe i'm cautious about there's no
catalyst going on just yet i'm kind of i guess i'm kind of with you overall there i am interested in your two picks
though for sure yeah really quick going back to um like the potential warning signs the only thing
that i see is like nvidia is not really participating as much like we get another
rally or gap up today that gets sold up into that
resistance gap um you also have names that were like pre uh previous market leaders and have just
been resting like a pound here that got off to a rough start i know today we kind of covered half
that that range um so hopefully that's just another higher low but then app is another one
that it's been a monster stock um for a couple
years now and starting to feel a little bit late stage based it leaves the 50-day moving average
kind of get back into that level today so if the money rotates back into like into the mega cap
names i think you'll see the nasdaq breakout and that's a breakout that i would trust but
there are those warning signs like like you mentioned
and for which two yeah which two picks are you looking at this week sir
um first one i'm gonna go with is chime c-h-y-m this is a ipo um back in june of last year
kind of had its phase where it just sells off from the IPO date fell from,
what was it, $42 down to $16. But recently we recaptured the 50-day moving average,
had a rally from $18 up to $27, a couple higher lows on the 20-day moving average to start the
year. And then we closed at a new closing high
for the past three or four months now.
And we're also seeing financials just extremely strong.
That XLF ETF, new all-time highs today.
We saw Robinhood and SoFi,
also kind of FinTech companies starting to turn up there.
So if financials is an overarching theme of what's
working in the market and then fintech is working and we're seeing money like continue to pour into
the more risk on type names then an ipo in that group uh kind of makes sense for the pick hopefully
right um and then second i'm gonna go with uh what is it? FLNC. So this had a really tight price action
around the 50-day moving average after making new highs kind of mid-December last year.
From there, really nice move on the first day of the year where we had a gap up and you had to buy it like right on the opening range break
to get involved but it was up about 16 15 that day sideways action today um up 3.3 but just
looking for a quick pullback undercut of today's low that should touch that five-day moving average
catching up and then would want to get involved as it comes back through the daily view app
as the entry.
And then I know you can't use stops for this,
but my stop would be like 2% or 3% below that for the 10-day EMA.
So right around $21.
Beautiful.
Nick going with CHYM on the long side,
and FLNC is the other one on the long side.
Thank you, Nick Drendel.
Excited to come back and hear about your two year-long picks here in just a few moments.
But first, let's go over to Will.
I've got Will up here on stage with us.
Will, some quick market sentiment thoughts.
What's going on?
And two picks for the week out of you, please, sir.
I'm going to give you the first pick that
i got and that's gonna be i'm gonna have to follow jordan with unhg because i do like health care
and i like the way the chart looks on unh so let's start with that one uh the other one
i can't double up on the picks but i can give you unhH. Oh, all right. I'm going to trade then. I'm going to go with UBT.
Say it again?
UBT, which is the double long treasury 30-year ETF.
So maybe an outside shot that the jobs are weaker,
and maybe we get to move down in rates, and that rallies this week.
So we got some interesting data coming.
So I'll start with that one.
And then my second pick.
Let me give you another one.
How about a short pick?
Can we do a short pick?
Weekly short pick?
Absolutely.
I'm going to go with Dash, D-A-S-H.
Just under 200 day on the daily.
You have all the moving averages stacked up there.
And it's kind of rolled over after it filled the gap.
So I'm going to go with Dash, D-A-S-H,
to the short side. Those are ones. There over after it filled the gap. So I'm going to go with Dash, D-A-S-H, to the short side.
There you go.
For the weekly.
There we got Will sneaking in to the weekly competition.
We're looking forward.
Will's been on a lot of our trading spaces lately.
Great mind in the markets.
Excited to have him joining us, hopefully going forward,
2026 for these weekly competitions.
We didn't get you in on the year-long picks, so I apologize for that.
Didn't get that over to you in time, but excited to have you this year on the 2026 picks.
UBT long and Dash, D-A-S-H short from Will O'Hara.
And my picks for the week, real fast, I'm going to stay with NewBank in U, which had a great day today, new all-time high. I think it gets continuation.
I really like how that pick looks. And then I'm going to take a short as well. I'm short AMD.
And I'm just looking at a gap up above the 50-day that felled quickly,
did not hold anywhere in there,
and looks like it wants to come back down to the 215 area.
If it doesn't hold there, it could continue down a little bit further.
I just think there's going to be a little sell the news
with the CES going on after Lisa Su speaks tonight.
She'll speak her book.
She'll say the right things,
but I just don't see anything significant coming out of AMD from this conference, on after Lisa Su speaks tonight. She'll speak her book. She'll say the right things, but
I just don't see anything significant coming out of AMD from this conference. And I think
people maybe got a little ahead of themselves running it up into that. So I'm long in you,
and I'm short AMD. And let me go ahead and send this tweet out for the weekly picks and let us
know who your favorite one is for the weekly picks and
we'll roll. Actually
Nots, I didn't get over to you. I am so sorry.
Nots, what are your weekly picks?
I don't even
want to give them anymore.
Alright. I can't believe you.
I'm so sorry.
I got so excited about your year-long
picks. I forgot for the weekly ones.
Nots, give me your weekly picks. I forgot for the weekly ones. No, it's going to be your weekly picks.
Yeah, I'm just going to go.
I'll just start.
I'll do M-U-U.
So 2XMU.
And I talked about it today on the live.
So I'll just go with A-Lab.
A-Lab and M-U-U.
Perfect. All right. Sorry. live so i'll just go with a lab a lab and m-u-u perfect all right sorry that's as long as i did it to knots and no one else like i really don't feel that bad honestly i agree um i'll uh i'll
send you a spicy pick later make up for it sir i'm sorry um all right so that's all the picks for
the week and what i'm most excited about today, I love the weekly picks.
We do it all year long, every Monday, of course.
But these yearly picks, I'm super excited for this.
And we have a few people here to present theirs.
And I will call out all the other ones.
I've also got a tweet already composed
and put together for the rest of everyone.
Like I said, Sam Solid's at Disney.
Somebody else had kids getting ready to go back to school.
Some people are at CES.
So there's a lot of things going on.
But I do appreciate the ones that are here to announce their picks.
And Ben, our current champion from last year,
no one better than you to start us off with the 2026 stock picks for the year.
Take it away, sir.
Okay, great.
So this is a very, very challenging exercise
for me to only pick two.
So in the nest there,
I put together a list of 32 stocks
and five hot sectors that I expect to be hot in 2026.
And this was sent to a discord
before the end of the last year.
And you can see they've done incredible.
So, man, I was racking my brain.
When I first submitted this, I'd submitted MU and ASPS as my top two picks.
And then I backed out of MU simply because I thought it might have
some tax deferral selling on Friday which it didn't
unfortunately but oh and speaking of I think by the way that's the reason you
guys are seeing what you're seeing that this rotation or the chopper whatever I
think reversion to the mean because all artificially created because of taxes so
you see some of those 2025 winners like Tesla and pounds here being sold off
here in the beginning of the year and vice versa with those, you know, with like Lucid and Webull and Redwire and all this
other stuff in the space stocks, Redwire, et cetera, et cetera.
I think it has a lot to do with taxes and just some mean reversion going on.
But yeah, initially I'd picked MU and ASTS and then I don't know.
I thought maybe you guys would laugh at me picking MU after
it was up so much.
I'm like I don't want to be a laughing stock like how can this guy pick MU?
He's probably just picking it because it's up so much in 2025.
Anyway the truth is MU is kind of my number one pick for the year and it's my largest
position in my retirement account now but for the purposes of the competition I bumped
it just because I thought it might get a slow start because of tax deferral selling which it didn't
so I bumped MU and I went with ASTS and bull and yes ASTS also was up a couple
hundred percent in 2025 but it's a smaller market cap than MU so easier for
folks to wrap their minds around how it might be able to go up again, you know, 100 percent in 2026.
But, you know, when I'm trying to pick stocks for the year, I'm really looking at like fundamental, long term fundamental inflection points.
Right. That's my criteria. So I'm not really looking at, you know, what's the hot sector.
I'm not really looking at the charts too much either. I'm not really looking at the charts too much either.
I'm looking at what's the long-term fundamental inflection point here.
And ASCS has it.
It started seeing that inflection point in 2025, but it's not over because if you do
the math on how much revenue and profit they can make from getting their service to be commercially available through their
partners AT&T and who else is that Verizon I'm not sure but I know that
AT&T is a big one but you're talking about this this can see a market cap of
over a hundred billion dollars within the next few years. So it can go up very much
again in 2026. And again, I'm looking at these inflection points. What's the inflection point
here? They are just starting to send their satellites up into space at a cadence that's
going to reach a critical mass. So you're going to see, like, launches every single month,
and pretty quickly as the year progresses,
people are going to start being able to kind of foresee
what the revenue is going to look like,
and analysts are going to start putting numbers together.
So this is a major transformational year for ASTS,
unless there's some major technical issue, which there
might be. That's why we diversify. But yeah, so I went back to the well, picked ASTS again. I think
it can be up over 100% this year. After the first two days, it's already up 22%. So that's working
out well already. And then, and by the way, I think Mew can do something similar.
I think Mew can, my price target for Micron is $500 as of now, and that can change quarter
by quarter as we see the earnings reports come in.
But Micron can have a similar year.
But I ended up just to make it seem more believable.
Just so you guys know that I'm actually thinking and I'm not just like chasing whatever's up to the prior year. So I'm like, let me go with Webull instead of
Micron. So Webull down in the gutter in 2025 had an inflection quarter their last quarter,
and it got really lost because of tax loss selling. This is why this is actually my largest
January effect stock. And they had an inflection quarter in terms of
flipping to profitability, their pace of their revenue growth, their customer growth.
They're actually growing faster than Robinhood guys.
I don't know if people realize that.
And I use Webull and I've tried on many occasions to use Robinhood because everyone talks about
I'm like, all right, let me just try again.
And every time it's shit, I just don't understand it.
I think Robinhood is designed for average Joe trader who trades once in a blue moon.
On purpose, by the way, it's designed like that.
And Webull is designed for the active trader.
So, you know, as people kind of graduate and maybe they start on Robinhood, but as they
get into the ecosystem and start
becoming more advanced, a lot of them transfer over to Webull.
So Webull is seeing a major inflection point.
If this was trading at the same valuation multiples of Robinhood, it would probably be
close to $20 or something.
So major inflection point in Webull.
They did their IPO through the SPAC last
year. So now they have money to market. So this year, I'm expecting a lot of marketing coming out
of Webull for the first time. And that's going to help accelerate their growth. So I think Webull,
I have like a mid-20s target for Webull here. It's, what is it, $8.50? I think Webull, I have like a mid-20s target for Webull here. It's, what is it, $8.50?
I think Webull can triple from here.
Maybe even more.
We'll have to see.
It's very possible, right?
If they do their marketing spend and they accelerate their growth, maybe you're talking stock in the 30s by the end of December.
But for right now, kind of like my late summer target
is mid-20s on Webull. So Webull, B-U-L-L and A-S-T-S, my top two picks. But again, man,
look in the nest there. If you're looking for ideas for 2025, a little bit of a freebie for
you guys. I could not own all of them. I tried. I probably ended up buying 16 of 32, about half of them for my
retirement account. And they're just sick. Where is it here? You can see the stats in two days,
ridiculous. It's a 10% average return over 32 stocks. Four of 32 are up 20% over two days.
10 of 32 are up at least 15% over two days. And almost half of them, 17 of 32, up 10% over two days.
So those are my top picks for 2026, but for the purposes of the competition, it's going to be Webull, B-U-L-L, and A-S-T-S.
But yeah, a little asterisk on Mu, man.
I think people are finally learning.
It's going to happen.
Goldman Sachs is going to come around and upgrade this thing.
I've been saying for a year that Mew is going to be the next NVIDIA,
and it's in the process of happening right now.
So keep an eye on Mew as well.
All right, there you have it from last year's champion.
I say that with an exclamation mark.
Second place for the second half of the year,
but last year's champion on the year long picks, 122.21% from story trading. His two picks for the
year, you heard there, B-U-L-L and A-S-T-S. I appreciate you, Ben. And if you look up in the
nest, you'll see the first post is the stock picks for the week that we just went over in case you
want to see those. And then what Ben was referencing there, scroll over once, take a look at that tweet.
We appreciate the free alpha, basically. We'll call it that. I appreciate you, Ben.
Knott, I want to go over to you next for you to present your two picks for 2026.
Yeah, Ben, I honestly absolutely love MU as well.
I mean, it's crazy to think that companies guiding basically, what, 40% higher on revenues for next quarter and then 100% for EPS.
Yeah, something big is going to be happening here with that name.
And obviously the stock price is, you know, re-evaluating itself currently.
you know, re-evaluating himself currently.
But to go on to my next two,
or my picks for 2026,
two names I talk about a lot.
One of them is pretty mainstream
because you probably see it all over
and they had big news tonight.
Zeta.
Zeta is a name that I personally love.
It is definitely undervalued.
Their free cash flow is growing exponentially.
Let's just, hold on one second.
Free cash flow is growing at basically 25% CAGR.
This isn't even with their new product, Athena, and not even with their new acquisition, Marigold, being put into it.
and not even with their new acquisition, Marigold, being put into it.
They have repeatedly, quarter over quarter, beat on earnings.
I think it's 17 or 18 quarters in a row now.
They have higher revenue growth.
Again, not the same industry,
but they have higher revenue growth than another stock
that everyone used to love or still loves, Palantir.
There's so many things.
Again, not the same sector, but a name that I loved a while ago as well that I personally think is a little overvalued now.
that I personally think is a little overvalued now.
I just believe Zeta could easily double, if not triple, this year.
My target for this year is really around 42 to 45.
It's already up 10% overnight on the OpenAI news.
They are going to be at the CES tomorrow
with an interview with Dan Ives as well.
And they're going to become,
or what I believe is net income profitable
this coming quarter.
So there's a lot to go for this company
and a lot to come over the next few months
and over the year.
Next one is controversial.
And obviously there's a lot of reasons
for it to be controversial.
And that pick is gonna be Rivian.
First off, absolutely love the chart.
You know, it's trying to finally break out,
has higher lows for the first time since its IPO
over the past six months.
It also is obviously accelerating their software revenue and gross profit in that sector.
They have had three gross profitable quarters.
Yes, not net income profitable.
We all know they are losing money, but it is definitely heading in the right direction.
Now, the reason why I love Rivian is one, I mean, the price of it.
One, I got it lower than where it is today.
I started buying this position in the 12s and 13s, and I'm still buying it on dips here in the 19s.
But they have so many catalysts coming over the next two to three years.
Obviously, autonomy, everything they do in-house with their tech.
They obviously are going to be releasing R2 this year, which is going to be basically their Model Y moment, Model 3 moment, whatever you want to consider it.
And just from a visual standpoint, I started investing in Tesla when I started to see a ton of the cars on the road.
I can't tell you, I go out now and I see five or more Rivians a day. The only delivery trucks around
me are the Amazon Rivian delivery trucks. I saw my first Rivian commercial truck the other day,
which they started selling just a few months back to actual businesses.
I saw one of that for a local business.
I just think there is a story here that is going to develop.
And, you know, I want to be in ahead of time.
Again, I know financially, I know obviously they are losing money. They will most likely need to do an offering at some time. Again, I know financially, I know, obviously, they are losing money, they will most
likely need to do an offering at some point. But they are heading in the right direction. And they
have a lot of catalysts to boost that. And they are the only other US made EV company that has
actually generated a profit, in this case, a gross profit.
So I do, again, I know that's a pick that probably a lot of people don't like,
but it's something I have been standing on for over a year now,
and I'm going to be standing on it for over the next two to three years
because I believe this company could easily TEDx, and I'd be shocked if it didn't.
Obviously, they would need to just totally
get dismantled and not be able to sell anything. But there is so much ahead for this company. So
Zeta and Rivian are the two that I like.
You did a great job listing all that, but you sent me path.
No, I, what?
What?
I have Zeta and path.
Hey, we could give path back to Sam if that's the case.
Hmm.
Did I really?
That's what the results have, because then i had sam change path and i
have paper gains actually that came in into gribian oh and then i posted in the x as well
i saw that but on the response the questionnaire you put path in there okay just give me whichever
one you want then i'm fine with pat too 2. I like that a lot as well.
Yeah.
Well, and I love the rundown because you gave a rundown for Rivian,
which Paper Gains is actually, he picked that for his.
You were first, but you put in Zeta and Path in the...
I must have been writing a post about Path at that time.
That's probably why I did that.
Let me just read this from the Google forum to make sure it's you.
It says AI agentic beast with a new platform product expected to grow
exponentially this year and extremely undervalued by analysts.
That's what you had for path. Does that make sense?
Yeah, no, no, I would, I definitely, yeah. Yeah.
I was definitely writing about path at that time.
So I probably just totally messed that up, but that's fine. Yeah. We'll take, I was definitely writing about Path at that time, so I'd probably just totally mess that up.
But that's fine.
Yeah, I'll take Path.
Hey, I do own a good position in that, too.
Do you have any, like, maybe a quick couple sentences on Path
that you want to share?
Uh, yeah.
Sorry.
Otherwise, it's going to throw off some stuff here.
I love the pick Rivian, though.
I mean, Paper Gains likes it.
It got picked by somebody.
You basically just presented for Paper.
He'll probably present it much better.
But Path is growing.
Hold on one second.
So first off, I like the Path chart as well.
Weekly, it's sitting on the 200 SMA and holding there.
I mean, their price per share is sitting at just under $6.
And then you look at their total revenues and cash flow, and that has been increasing quarter over quarter.
They just went net income profitable in this past year as well. And then they are also
introducing their new product that is going to start basically this year is going to start
going onto the books there. So Path is a name that I really like
and just started positioning just about under a month ago.
So it's pretty in line with what I really like for 2026.
All right, perfect.
So just to clarify, the picks that we do have for Nott,
and like I said, I've got a tweet already composed,
ready to go out.
I just want everyone a chance to present the ones, the people that are here. So Zeta, Z-E-T-A, and Path, P-A-T-H,
from Bull Trade Finder. I appreciate you, Knott. Nick Trindle, I want to bring you in next and
hear about your two picks for the year. And I would be correct in saying I put in LABU and CSIQ.
Yes, those are the two that I have for you. Perfect. So first, I'll go with CSIQ. First off,
these solar names have been such a pain to trade. They're the most choppy stocks out there,
but they keep chopping higher and higher and higher.
I actually got stopped out of CSIQ today.
But obviously, great response, undercut of the support gap, and the 50-day moving average came all the way back up,
reclaimed the 50, the 10, the 20, all of those.
And just on a bigger picture here, it does seem like solar stocks bottomed last year.
And then this year can be hopefully a year that they can trend a little bit better.
They had an awesome second half of the year.
But again, just choppy mess as they went into highs.
CSIQ had a massive move from like $9.50 up to $34 on just an enormous volume increase.
up to $34 on just an enormous volume increase.
And that's something that you want to see with stocks like emerging from downtrends
is just an enormous volume push.
And then it stays super volatile as it pulled back from 35 to 21,
but let the 50-day moving average catch up here.
So with the kind of backdrop of solar stocks as a potential theme for this year and the stock already gone through a consolidation after its first pop off the lows, just looking for this to continue higher.
And then with LABU, which is the biotech ETF, last year I chose two stocks that had like really nice weekly charts to start the year
and then roblox was a pick that i think it went up like 140 or something and then gave
a bunch back in the second half of the year so i went with something that i thought might
base in the first quarter of this year and then have a nice like Q2, 3, and 4. And that's biotechs.
Biotechs kind of like solar stocks. I don't think they were talked about a ton in the second half
of the last year, but it was easily the most like, now this one trended much, much easier than solar
stocks, but really, really clean uptrend, finally breaking out over multi-years eyes basically from
2022's bear market and overall it just makes sense to me that like biotech companies are going to be
the next beneficiaries of ai so with something that already made a really nice move and kind of
built out the right side of of that base and actually went into highs.
At some point, it's going to have to rebase.
And it does feel like it's going through that over the last seven or so days.
We've got multiple unfilled gap downs.
We're pulling back into the 50 day.
My guess is we'll probably chop around here for the next quarter, kind of build out its first base off the lows, off that initial push.
And then we'll have a nice second through fourth quarter if the AI trade is still hot.
All right. So CSIQ and LABU. Is that right, Nick? I just want to make sure.
Yep. We don't want to make sure. Yep.
Don't want to pull another bull trade finder up here.
All right, Nick Drendel right there with his two picks for the year.
Great performance last year, too, out of Nick.
R-B-L-X, E-K-E-Q-T.
I'll get it out in a second.
Goodness gracious, what a Monday. It's been 28.85% return last year from those two
picks. RBLX, your best one, 40% return there. And going with CSIQ and LABU this time around for
2026. Nick Strindle, great to have you as a part of the show. As always, appreciate you joining
and appreciate you presenting your two picks for the year. Jordan, this will go over to you next for your two yearly picks.
Mr. Chinese man over here.
Yeah, not a whole lot of real analysis from me.
Kind of same as the weekly picks.
I went over to Prospero and was like, what do you got for the long term?
Because this isn't really my specialty to be honest like all the individual names that I
think to buy like right now the only thing I like that's been on a dip which has already gotten
eaten up has been meta uh Netflix is something that's taking a dip but hasn't found anywhere
of a bottom yet so uh yeah I'm gonna go over to the China markets. Baba, Baidu, they both have great, great ratings on Prospero for the long term.
So I'm letting those ride.
I know those charts have, you know, obviously not performed anywhere significantly as well as some of the names in the U.S. area.
So we'll see.
We'll see.
I'm not going to buy really these markets, though, or anything in these markets that are just at all time highs so we're going to roll with that see if we can get some uh get something going with
the prospero picks but really not much thoughts for me i mean when i'm long-term investing i'm
buying spy i'm buying qqq and those are clearly in areas that i'm i'm not even thinking about buying
right uh give me the next 20 correction and then and then i'll think about
that but so i'm gonna have to go with those just uh i don't really have any other thoughts to be
honest i and the charts are looking good i know you made some trades on baidu over the past year
uh which is cool to see but they've definitely significantly underperformed relative to the
markets that we're trading every day.
So we'll see if we can get something going there.
And yeah,
the ratings are looking great in Prospera.
So I recommend people check them out and see if,
see if it's something up your alley,
but also keep in mind,
I'm not really trading these markets though.
So I don't own them.
So I don't really care if these go down,
to be honest,
but we're going to shoot for it for the competition now.
Full disclosure there from Jordan Ace the Kid.
Baba and Baidu, B-A-B-A and B-I-D-U,
the two picks that Jordan is putting in for the year.
You had CELH last year, Jordan.
I don't know if you remember that.
73.65% return.
It was a pretty good pick, actually.
It was a decent pick.
The leverage Tesla didn't work out too well for you,
but the CLH did very well.
I should have just went long Tesla if I want to believe that.
Yeah, there you go.
Just a quick note here.
Last year, year-to-date, just everyone involved,
23.53% was the total average return for the year.
SPY was up 17%, QQQ was up 20%.
So even as a collective, we beat the market there.
So great job to the whole team.
My two picks for the year, I already mentioned one of them, Nubank and Melli, Mercado Libre.
I like the Latin America market right now. I think that it has a chance to outperform
just in general, some of the macro stuff going on down there. But Mercado Libre is a massive
company with massive growth. People say it's the Amazon of South America, whatever.
It's a company that I use.
I was funny.
We were on stream today and actually had a package from MercadoLibre sitting beside me
that I was just holding up on the stream there.
But I love MercadoLibre.
Everything they do, they're in the digital banking side of things.
They have MercadoPago, which is like a payment point of sell system.
Most of the small businesses that I end up going to actually have point of sell systems from Mercado Libre.
And there's just a ton of buckets that they all hit all across Central and South America.
I really like the company. If you go take a look at the chart, it's been in a long
uptrend for quite some time, bounced off that same weekly trend line. Actually, basically today,
had a really good day today. So I'm off to a pretty hot start there with that one.
And then NewBank is the other one. NewBank is a digital bank in Central and South America as well.
Ticker's NU on that one. My general thesis around
NewBank is actually more around a kind of a generational shift. So a lot of Latin American
countries are basically a generation or so behind the US and a lot of things. And you had a lot of
people, a lot of the generation basically above me. so probably 50s and higher, had a lot of distrust for banks in Central and South America for various reasons.
And to me, there's this shift going on where the younger generation doesn't have some of those same reservations against the large big box banks. And what a lot of them are doing,
they're also more technologically savvy. They're using debit cards. They're not keeping cash at
their house near as much. And they're more into the digital bank side. So I think there's a
generational transformation opportunity happening in Central and South America with digital banking
that I think is really going
to jump forward. Mercado Libre actually has some pieces of that as well on the thesis there. But
with Nubank, you have a digital bank that is growing rapidly. It's expanding. There's billboards
up near my house even for it that I see all the time. And if you dive into the generational shift
where you have a younger generation that's more open to technology,
more open to banks. I just think there's a huge shift of people saying, hey, I want that direct deposit. I want my funds there. I want to be able to do everything digitally. And I think that
generational shift is happening. Kind of the same thing you saw where people switching from, you
know, finally getting credit cards in the early 2000s, more and more people getting those in the US. I think you're seeing a shift to that in Latin America, basically, we'll call it. So
N-U, my other picks. So M-E-L-I and N-U are my two picks for the year. Let me go ahead and send a,
oh, and I'll just add this. I think we could see maybe Latin America and some emerging markets just outperform this year. I just think maybe we cool off at some point a little bit, not badly, but just maybe some type of cool off throughout this year. And I think maybe some of the outperformance can come from there. So that's kind of the rest of my rationale for picking two stocks in that category.
the rest of my rationale for picking two stocks in that category. So here is the tweet going up
right now. Boom. Let me send that. Let me get that pinned in the nest. And I want to call out some of
the other names that were picked here. Let me find that. There it is. Share to space. Boom.
It should be in the nest for you in the next few moments. All right. So here are
some of the rest of the year long picks. Gov, Wolf Financial himself, who was second place last year,
first place for the second half, his two picks for the year. He's taking METU, leveraged meta
to the long side, and he's taking Joby,o-b-y our third place finisher andrew
real pristine capital uh did not get any picks from him so unfortunately we'll have a new top
three this year so it'll be very interesting i think he's been on vacation for a little bit but
by the way i just want to note that all of these picks were submitted before the year end.
So, like, for example, Wolf did great on Joby.
It's already up 19%.
19%, yes.
It's already a horse race again between Wolf and Gov and myself.
Look at that.
Yes.
So, yeah, these picks were all submitted before New Year's.
There was only one where we had to kind of do a, or actually there was two that we had to kind of say, okay, well, we'll have
to change that up a little bit. But we did it as fair as possible. It's for fun. Use these for
ideas throughout the year, of course. Do your due diligence. Don't just go buy all these stocks or
anything. Please, please don't do that. But either way, those are the picks for Go course. Do your due diligence. Don't just go buy all these stocks or anything. Please don't do that.
But either way, those are the picks for GAV.
Going down the list, you heard some of the other ones presented here,
but some of the ones that are absent, let me call those out.
Sam Solid is taking OSCR, that's Oscar Health, and Rubrik, RBRK.
Chris Patel, this one's going to be interesting.
NCLH, long, short, PLTR.
Short Palantir from Chris Patel.
It's Chris Michael Burry Patel right there with short PLTR.
We'll have him back on the show, I'm sure, in the next week or so.
And we may just ask him to share his thoughts on that.
But long NCLH and short PLTR for the year for Chris Patel.
Vegas is long Tesla, long NVIDIA, TSLA, NVDA, long Tesla, long NVIDIA.
Paper Gains, I mentioned to him earlier.
Paper Gains has Rivian.
Knott's presented a great thesis around that and Robin Hood. So R-I-V-N and H-O-O-D from Paper
Gains. Jaguar, he sent a couple picks in. He sent a few picks in actually. One of them had already
ran and he sent it right after the beginning of the year. So we went with the next two on his list.
MIAX.
And once again, I don't know much about these.
So if we get these guys on, we'll definitely let them jump into it.
That's Miami International Holdings.
MIAX and FEIM, Frequency Electronics Incorporated, are his two picks for the year.
Frequency Electronics Incorporated are his two picks for the year.
And I think that covers everyone because Ben gave his,
and Knott's gave his, Nick Drendel gave his, Jordan gave his.
Boom.
There's the full list for 2026 full-year picks.
What about bonus picks?
I'm just kidding.
I wasn't him, but I'll give you two i'll give you two that
i'm looking at just for fun okay short carvana and long rexr which is rexford industrial reality
so short carvana cbna long rexr
do you want to share any thoughts on those two real quick, just as a bonus here?
Yeah, for the bonus picks.
The first one, Carvana, is coming into a space in a time where I believe the auto industry will probably take some setbacks in 2026.
The deteriorating credit situation in the subprime auto sector specifically as subprime auto loan delinquencies are at 30 year highs.
Carvana plays a lot in the subprime space and the lower end consumer, which is a lot of their book of business, is struggling currently.
So I think it will be more difficult for people to make those big purchases on that one.
So I think it will be more difficult for people to make those big purchases on that one.
The second one is a play on shorter and longer term rates possibly coming in.
Rexford Industrial Realty is basically warehousing space and they have a lot of stuff on the West Coast.
But basically that's a play for real estate to the long side.
Real estate's been extremely beat up over the last three,
four years. And I do think that lower interest rates in 2026 will provide a bid to the real estate sector. So those are the two I'm picking. Boom. You guys didn't know you were going to get
bonus picks today. How about that? From Will, one-year bonus picks short, Carvana CVNA and long, R-E-X-R. Interesting.
Appreciate you, Will. I'm excited that you're going to be joining us. You've been a great
addition over on the live trading spaces and streams. Excited that you'll be here doing some
of these weekly picks with us going forward. All right. Well, there you have it, guys.
Make sure you follow all the great speakers up here.
Go check them out.
We appreciate them sharing their time each and every Monday at 5 p.m. Eastern here on Wall Financial.
Stock picks for the week, one of the longest-running shows that's been around here.
Ben, I don't know how long you've been doing it,
but I know it's been around for quite a while.
Ben, how long have you been doing the stock pickicks show? I don't know, probably two years. Yeah, I think Gavin, I have an argue over
which one's the longest running show because they kind of, they love to give each other a hard time,
but this is one of the longest shows that we have,
one of the longest shows on Spaces, period.
Stock picks for the week.
Ben's been a part of it for a better part of two years or longer.
And here we go into another year.
We've got our year-long picks out there.
Go in there, check out that tweet, maybe save it for a watch list,
maybe bookmark it, come back to it at some point, follow up on those,
do some DD on them, of course,
and let us know what your favorite pick is too.
I'm really curious how this is going to go.
And I look back at like last year's
and I was kind of keeping up with this through the year,
but there was sometimes, I mean,
the neck and neck between Ben and Gov was pretty crazy,
especially in the back half of the year.
But there were some picks that did super well in the first half of the year and then telled off.
And then there was others that, you know, came roaring back late in the year.
So picking for a year is very interesting, but a great job by the crew.
And of course, that second half of the year, just once again, I tweeted out all these results,
but just to recap on that as well,
been second place on that with a 47% average.
Gov with the 52.5% average
that won the second half of the year.
Our collective was 30.41% that beat the market.
The market was up.
This was from July 7th through the end of the year.
SPY up 10.5%.
QQQ up 11.5%.
30% from our panel.
So fantastic job from the crew right here.
All right, that's it.
The whole show is recorded.
Went a little bit longer to the normal today
because we wanted to make sure and do a special thing
and get as many of these year-long picks out.
And a big shout out to the others
that couldn't make it tonight.
Of course, we hope you had a great new year.
We know that you'll be back with us soon.
Everybody in the audience,
hope you had a great year as well.
Hope your 2026 is off to a hot start.
As we get ready to see what's next, here we are right
near all-time highs. I'm very excited to see how these play out this year. Excited for all of you
that are joining us. And we'll be back next Monday for this show, of course. We'll do the weekly
picks then and see who wins this week with the different picks that were given earlier in the
show. I think I mentioned it, but the whole show is recorded.
You can go back and listen to any of it at any time as soon as I close it out here tonight.
And that's the end of a great Monday, great first Monday of the year here on Wolf Financial.
Appreciate everyone.
Check out our pinned tweet for a full schedule of things.
Stocks on Spaces this week are kind of in limbo.
Evan and Gov are both
out there wearing leather jackets sitting next to Jensen Wong, actually. I got confirmation
on that a while ago. But no, either way, they are out there at CES. So we'll have them back soon.
And you can see all of our content there in the pinned tweet, all the different spaces we have
going on throughout the week. And with that, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Take care, everyone. Have a great rest of your evening.
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