Wall Street Wildlife Investing Podcast

NVIDIA ($NVDA) just dropped a bombshell earnings report, sending the stock market into a frenzy! The results were off the charts, defying expectations and adding billions to the company's market value. But are things truly as rosy as they look? We'll dissect the numbers and get to the bottom of it. Monkey and Badger locked horns before earnings. Both were bullish, but only one will be sipp...

Do you smell a bubble brewing? Join Badger and Monkey in a lively market breakdown where we crack open the wild world of market bubbles. We'll teach you how to spot these dangerous inflations and protect your portfolio from a devastating pop. Are we in a semiconductor bubble? Is Nvidia riding toward a burst? Will Super Micro Computer share Cisco's fate? These are the burning questions we&#...

Last night’s Lyft $LYFT earnings included an extra zero where there wasn’t one and the market reaction was wild! Turns out there’s a big difference between 500 basis points and 50! What are basis points? How do they differ from percentage points? We help you understand margins, and why thinking in basis points is an upgrade over percentages. (Shares of Lyft $LYFT soared more than 60 per cent on Tu...

Post Super Bowl Sunday, Badger is hung over like a banshee but rolling in the dough nonetheless after making some choice bets. He also reports from the field about the most interesting things he saw and didn’t see in the commercials — Hint: where was crypto? (Monkey’s answer: nearing 50,000 per $BTC!) Monkey wonders about the similarities and differences between gambling and investing. One differe...

Explicit content warning : Badger doesn’t restrain from telling Monkey how he really feels! Monkey is getting his market ass whooped so hard, Badger calls for an official intervention! “This is what you get for timing the market!” he scolds. Does Monkey listen? Is he too far gone in his “fundamentals matter" myopia? Amidst his counterarguments, he weaves tales of tulip crazes, rampant consume...

Are you tired of getting trampled in the stock market stampede? Join us for a wild ride in this episode as Monkey bares all about his market-timing blunders and the hefty price tag they came with. Dive into his thought process to sidestep these common investing pitfalls yourself. Meanwhile, Badger is snoozing soundly, his cave brimming with dollars, thanks to his steadfast belief in the "mark...

"I think that there's a whole swath of current people investing that are going to get wiped out. They will get wiped out because they have never experienced emotionally, psychologically down markets. It is absolutely brutal to wake up, look at your screen and see red day after day after day after week. I don't think most investors today have any idea what that feels like." ~MrNot...

Bitcoin #BTC — aka digital gold — was approved last week to be traded as ETFs, causing much celebration from investors who now have an easier time owning it. But all that glitters might not be gold, says our guest Vulture, aka @MrNotAdvice. If you care about free markets, their manipulation, and are concerned about Bitcoin losing some of its purity and philosophical principles, this episode is for...

#BTC Why is the #bitcoinETF approval such a big deal? Do you worry about inflation? Does it matter to you that the biggest barriers to investing in bitcoin are now removed? And that it does gold’s job, but better? Badger and Monkey discuss the BIG DEAL that is Bitcoin + ETF. --- You can find more episodes of the podcast at wallstreetwildlife.com, and you can follow us at: X.com/7lukehallard X.com/...

$RKLB Monkey loves @RocketLab as the best alternative to investing in SpaceX .So for the King of the Jungle Investing Challenge he bought some Feb '24 $7 call options. Was this a reckless bet? Can Luke maintain his composure in the face of Monkey's shenanigans, like the Badger ninja he is? There's also an extremely important lesson here about ODTE options. Hint: DON'T.

The new year is an opportunity to weed out old habits that prevent us from being the best beastly versions of ourselves and the best investors we can be — the two are often intertwined! Badger starts his resolutions by committing himself to increasing the concentration of his portfolio while Monkey aims to undertake fewer projects and to go deeper into the ones he’s most excited about. Slowing dow...

$AAPL Not every great company makes a great investment. What are the reasons to think #Apple will provide market-beating returns from its current market cap of nearly 3 TRILLION? Monkey -- a life-long Apple believer, and Badger, a life-long Apple naysayer, duke it out. 1) #VisionPro: Apple can create new categories 2) #ArtificialInteligence: Apple won't sit on the sidelines BUT: 3) How many pe...

Jungle investing life is unpredictable, but your hosts Luke “The Badger” Hallard and Krzysztof “Monkey” Piekarski, Lead Advisors at www.7investing.com are feeling especially clairvoyant this year. 🔮 Gather ‘round, wallstreetwildlife friends and furry critters, pour some warm libations— perhaps a banana flavored brandy?— and hear about all the things that have yet come to pass. We predict the futu...

Badger puts a cool $100 to good use by investing in shares of Axon Enterprise $AXON. It’s a great company with a seriously good ethical backbone — Monkey supports the cause but questions whether it’s the right time to buy given the gnarly macro backdrop. Monkey meanwhile adds even more to his Coherus Biosciences $CHRS position, but this time using the 5/17/24 Call options. He explains why, despite...

With Santa Claus about to make his annual chimney stops, Badger and Monkey look at their portfolios to determine whether they’ve been naughty or nice. Spoiler alert: Monkey’s ass is red for good reason! Playing the role of the Bear 🐻 for the first time in his investing career, the Santa Claus rally in the markets is making noble Monkey feel more like a baboon than a seasoned investor. Badger, mea...

Listen to Wall Street professional @MrNotAdvice break down the EOSE Energy Strategic Update presentation. The biggest concern for investors: "It's important to make the demarcation between a great company story and a stock". Is EOS still a story stock? $EOSE $ENVX $TSLA #CleanEnergy You can find more episodes of the podcast at wallstreetwildlife.com, and you can follow us at: https:/...

Episode 5 features the Badger explaining why his portfolio is chock full of strange ticker symbols that Monkey’s small brain had a hard time making sense of, something called ADRs — turns out they’re not as scary as you think (Badger's research resource mentioned in the episode is here: https://www.adr.db.com) Monkey meanwhile throws some rotten bananas at Badger’s snout for engaging in a seri...

In episode 4 of Wall Street Wildlife, Badger and Monkey, having just watched Dumb Money, debate whether the market is rigged against retail investors, and what strategies you can use to outperform the market regardless.  Badger of course can’t help himself from squeezing poor humble Monkey’s shoes for wanting to have a little bit more fun by increasing the monthly portfolio contribution to $200 in...

Vulture  talks about the market rally and how it’s ignoring data that is quite worrisome, using the -34% drop in insurance health premiums as a clear example of data manipulation. Monkey makes a case for his top holding, Coherus Biosciences, and why he had a hard time resisting buying way more shares than planned. Badger, meanwhile, badgers poor humble Monkey about investing in underperforming bus...

Episode 2 of Wall Street Wildlife finds Badger in Hong Kong, a perfect location from which to teach Monkey about the nuances of portfolio risk management, and the dangers of feasting on too many rotten stock bananas, like, say, $EOSE Eos Energy, Monkey's fatal obsession. In Phoenix or Dodo, we examine Luke’s own junk stock, $NNOX Nanox Imaging and debate whether they are making the x-ray machi...

Wall Street Wildlife’s first bonus episode introduces a Vulture circling above the tree canopy! That’s because the market jungle is not just bulls and bears and monkeys and badgers - there are also birds of prey who take advantage of any meat left on the bone, no matter the source. Do you want to better understand why current market conditions are fragile? What Japan has to do with the fate of you...

Join Luke "the badger" Hallard and Krzysztof "the monkey" Piekarski as they dig through the jungle of Wall Street on their podcast, "Wall Street Wildlife." Whether you're a fresh-faced fawn in the stock market or a grizzled old bear with seasoned portfolios, this podcast has the nuts and berries to enrich your financial diet. Every week, our hosts, with their beas...

At the start of December, we began the research for the 2022 Telescope Investing model portfolio. Our apologies to long-term listeners of the show, but we’re afraid to say that this will not be launching. As we enter 2022, we have something rather important to announce. Last year, we had the pleasure of having Simon Erickson, Founder and CEO of 7investing, join us on the podcast. We have both been...

The time has come for the year-end review of our model portfolio, a collection of 15 stocks that we selected in January as our core investments for 2021. The last quarter of the year has been a torrid time for growth stocks and our model portfolio. As growth investors, you get somewhat accustomed to volatility but this year has been especially turbulent as investor sentiment swung back and forth d...

Happy holiday wishes to all of our listeners and subscribers! This week, we're kicking back from the serious stock analysis and just having a bit of Christmas fun as we look back at some of the highs and lows of 2021. We reflect on our favourite moments on the pod, some of the smartest (and daftest!) things we've said, and chat about our favourite episodes and guest interviews. We also hazard maki...