The Talking Hedge

Jay Caauwe survived the Black Monday crash, the Asian debt crisis, the dotcom bubble, and the financial crisis of '08. Jay's extensive experience in financial product development includes VIX options and futures, SPX options, corporate bond index futures, and bitcoin futures. Jay spent 17 years as a floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CMEGroup). Prior to co-founding Supercritical, Jay...

Increasing cannabis stock prices have caused issuers to raise greater amounts of equity capital and less debt. Debt issuance declined steeply from its peak of $1.4 billion in Q2:19 to an average of under $350 million per quarter for the last several quarters. Public cannabis companies trade at high EBITDA multiples. Public companies are taking advantage of historically high EBITDA multiples to rai...

The Fresh Toast is an award-winning lifestyle & health platform with a side of cannabis. They work hard each day to bring uplifting and informative information about culture, weed, celebrity, tech and medical marijuana. With a mission that includes helping make the cannabis conversation mainstream, The Fresh Toast is the premier, comprehensive destination for discovering everything you’ve ever wan...

Mary J White and I make an infused Thai peanut sauce and then chat about financial health. So make a salad, get high & tune it for some financial advice to jumpstart the beginning of a healthier 2021! Cannabis Chef: Mary J White~ author, activist & cannabis chef https://maryjwhite.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-white-a1401530 Host: Josh Kincaid, Capital Markets Analyst & host of your cannabi...

Once a month the Chronic Club meets up to review a cannabis product sold somewhere in Washington State. Join The Talking Hedge, Aging Ent, and Cannabis Legalization News as we judge some hemp joints. Last month, we rated High Tide's Face Mints an 89% and Juicy Joints a 78% recommended by a budtender from Craft Cannabis in Vancouver, WA. Guest: Michael Schroeder, The Aging Ent www. AgingEnt.com IG:...

Vice stocks, AKA sin stocks refer to shares of public companies engaged in a business or industry that's considered unethical, immoral, or unsavory. Traditionally, the term's been applied to the weapons, alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and now cannabis. Sin stocks are often considered to be relatively "recession-proof." It is no accident that vice stocks do well in all economic climates. People party,...

C3 uses artificial intelligence-based technical analysis with predictive analytics and machine learning to invest in niche sectors like cannabis, cryptocurrency, & custom indexes for investment advisors. C3 uses Smart Frequency Trading to benefit our clients with capital preservation, risk management and long-term growth utilizing Ai and ML. C3's Performance*: 1mo: 16.65% YTD: 89.30% 3mo: 92.01% S...

Most states have passed some type of cannabis reform with only six considering it fully illegal. Yet, on the federal level, the marijuana prohibition has yet to be repealed. More than a dozen state legislatures are considering MMJ or adult-use cannabis legalization bills this year as momentum builds following the 2020 election, which saw five states pass legalization measures, and the U.S. House’s...

Tommy Chong's death in the mid-1990s was greatly exaggerated, but did you know he almost quit acting before becoming a movie star? In the '60s, he played in band called Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers when Diana Ross saw their act and insisted that Motown sign them immediately. In the 1990s while in federal prison for selling paraphernalia online, Tommy inspired his cube-mate to write a book, whic...

With consumption for both medical and recreational products on the rise, 2020 was a record-breaking year for the industry. Unlike dozens of other industries across the globe, cannabis experienced significant growth as a result of the pandemic, and in recent days has seen a renewed trading interest, thanks to WallStreetBets. After years of investor uncertainty, analysts are predicting a continued b...

U.C.S. stands for Use Cannabis Safely, whether it's using cannabis in everyday life, such as CBD vitamins and oil, to implementing a cannabis vertical to your business. UCS Advisors and Investor Relations is an advisory company which has three key verticals. The cannabis business advisory vertical works with both the medical and business professional on how to implement and add a cannabis vertical...

The pitch deck is a presentation that entrepreneurs put together when seeking a round of financing from investors. Startups closed out 2020 in a much stronger position with global venture funding up 4 percent year over year to $300 billion. Late-stage venture capital, which includes Series C and later rounds, grew 8 percent year over year. Private equity in venture-backed companies grew even more,...

Rolling is incredibly laborious & time consuming, requiring skill & patience. The Blackbird from RollPros is an automated commercial joint rolling machine, which eliminates hand-rolled production constraints, producing 750 hemp or cannabis joints per hour. Quality and consistency has been a problem in the cannabis industry, and prerolls have limited production because they are extremely time consu...

A leader in cannabis extraction, Embark Health employs proven scientific approaches to unleash the full potential of the cannabis plant. Embark is an extraction producer servicing the Canadian and Global medical and recreational markets. Providing cannabinoids and terpenes of the highest quality and consistency, while achieving significant production volumes. It's Embark's mandate to pursue the be...

U.S. Cultivation & Retail sector companies have enjoyed rapidly expanding valuation metrics since the beginning of 2021. However, the gains have not been equally shared. The Viridian Cannabis Value Tracker shows that since August, the gap has widened between companies with more than $500 million of market cap vs the same measure for companies with less than $500 million market cap. Show Notes: The...

In a major blow to South Dakota’s nascent legal marijuana industry, a circuit court judge ruled that a voter-approved constitutional amendment legalizing adult-use cannabis is unconstitutional. South Dakota voters in November approved Amendment A with 54% in favor as well as Measure 26, which legalized medical marijuana, with 53% in favor. Those victories made South Dakota the first state to simul...

Bravos Capital invests in special situations and high-growth businesses across a variety of sectors, including cannabis. They have particular expertise in the business services, technology services and consumer sectors. Their goal is to maximize investor returns, while employing a prudent investment approach to the marketplace. They look for inefficiencies in the market to bring capital and knowle...

The growing number of states legalizing medical marijuana and increasing demand for cannabis in medical and recreational applications are some of the main factors that are expected to drive the growth of the cannabis market size. Even states without final tallies for all of 2020 reported record sales figures. The North America cannabis market is expected to reach $ 65B by 2027 from $ 6B in 2019. T...

#SinStocks #PotStocks Buckingham Strategic Wealth and Buckingham Strategic Partners, collectively known as Buckingham Wealth Partners, help more advisors deliver on the promise to understand clients’ holistic financial situation and deliver a plan to achieve their life and financial goals. For investors, Buckingham Wealth Partners offer a Registered Investment Advisor firm with a nationwide presen...

Cannabis is already widely available in Washington State. So why should Washington join the other states in recognizing the right to grow? To celebrate the 1st Annual Homegrown Weed Summit, we interview Don Skakie, co-founder of Homegrown Washington, a group of private adults who lead productive lives, are involved with their families and communities, follow the law and pay their taxes. Homegrown...

Virginia took a major step toward becoming the 16th state in the nation to legalize a recreational marijuana market and the first in the South after the House of Delegates and Senate passed different legalization bills. Virginia’s MMJ dispensary sales in 2021 are projected to range from $9M to $11M. Adult-use marijuana product sales would be taxed at 21% in addition to the standard state sales tax...

Scott joined the Panther Group in 2017 as a Principal and member of the investment committee. The Panther Group is an independent venture capital consulting group preparing growth-stage cannabis companies for long-term, lucrative success. They're a cannabis focused venture capital fund with a complementary and diverse set of 13 portfolio companies.   They advise strong companies that have demonstr...

The '7 Tips to a Successful Investment Deck' looks at Golden Leaf Holdings, who's mission is to enhance and ignite purpose in all lives through cannabis. Golden Leaf Holdings is a consumer-driven cannabis company specializing in production, processing, wholesale, distribution and retail with 7 dispensaries in Portland, Oregon. The company is committed to developing a dynamic brand portfolio with a...

EventHi is an event management platform, built for the cannabis culture. It is considered to be the first online event management ticketing platform catering to the cannabis industry, connecting people together offline. EventHi was founded in 2017 but was an idea that Ali Fakhri, CEO of EventHi had been studying and developing since 2014. Adelia Carillo joined in June 2019 as the Chief Marketing O...

The Viridian Capital Advisors monitor capital raises and M&A activity in the cannabis industry. Viridian reported 4 more capital raises and $115.2 million higher volume this week than in the prior week. Compared to the same week last year, there were 3 more transactions and $390M higher volume. This week's average deal size was $39.6M vs. $5.6M in the prior-year period. 7 of the 10 companies that...