Okay folks, so as we cap off a fairly murky day with most indices in the Red or at least flat a day with recovery and Travel stock specifically leading the downfall thanks to this new variant. And of course now we have the Delta Plus, which is kind of like Disney Plus, but less contagious and healthier for you. You had some pushbacks in meme rallies and of course Amc and the hood of Robin Strzok today more than doubling in the last couple of trading days, but rallying as high as 85 after open for a few short minutes before selling off and then rallying again. Ironically, believe it or not, Robin it has become one of the most popular retail traded stocks right now, with social sentiment mentions going crazy everywhere from Wall Street bets to stock twits to your Grandma's Reddit trading form, and the trading data that we have suggests very strongly that this is a retail rally.

There's a lot of people right now speculating that this is a short squeeze, but there's not much evidence of this being a short squeeze. This is a very, very hard to borrow stock that had 10 million shares lent out at much lower valuations, but 10 million shares, even if they were all shorted onto the market, it's like, wait, 10 million shares? Look how many shares are outstanding. This isn't enough to motivate even a quarter of this kind of rally. And on the flip side, you're not seeing the usual short attacks we'd see when something goes up this high, specifically because it's a very, very hard to borrow stock.

And the margin fees are through the roof. Charlie? Don't you think that might be because the short sellers want Robin Hood to succeed? Short sellers actually work with Robin Hood so they're not going to go and short sell the company? Well, I don't know about that conspiracy theorist. They say fate loves irony and the irony is that Robin Hood, who really created and destroyed a lot of meme rallies, just became its own meme stock. But today, a big winner behind the scenes was Kathy Wood of Arc Invest.

You see, she took the heavily criticized move of buying Robin Hood in its early trading days and says many of her early positions have more than doubled now. and if I was going to point to one person that set off this buying spree, I would say that it was Kathy Wood of Arc Invest. Retail seems to be pouring in after her. She didn't make the trend, but she seems to have started it.

But this isn't a Robin Hood video. We're not going to be dedicating this video to Robbing The Hood. I actually want to talk about what Kathy Wood has been doing behind the scenes, because as you know, Arkan Vest tends to make their most bold and powerful moves when everyone's looking the other way. and then when people start looking again, they're like, oh, I didn't see that coming.

Oh man, she got lucky again. Ah damn it, my luck just doesn't work if you're unfamiliar. Arc Invest rose to prominence because they basically called the whole digital, innovative tech revolution that we saw in 2020, which led their Etf to the stratosphere. Now, 2021 hasn't been as good for innovative tech, but most of her plays and most of the industries that she talks about are pretty much no-brainers So now that she's taken a lot of bold actions, I want to take some time to talk about what they are and what we need to know about them.

And the only thing that I ask of you in return is that you hit that ravishing like button and also don't forget to subscribe either. Okay, let's go ahead and start. So as you know, the strategy that Kathy Wood follows is she has a list of high conviction plays that her research team finds. She has certain criteria like it needs to be a winner, take all.

industry needs to be in emerging industry and this needs to be one of the biggest players in said industry. And then after they identify those plays, what they do is they buy them when they're cheap and people are panicking, and they sell them when it's euphoric and then they rinse and repeat some of them they keep throughout the years and they don't sell at all, but almost all of them, including Tesla, which has been one of their most successful plays, they've sold into the euphoria and then re-bought back in At lower prices. And the reason is because the market's inefficient. It's an inefficient little temperamental teenager.

People Fomo, buy, they panic. Still, they fomo by the panic cell. That's the movements of the market. Arkan Vest knows that.

So what do they do? They find high conviction plays. They buy them at cheap prices. They sell them at high prices. Anyways, let's start with the 3d printing industry.

So a big industry she's been buying into is 3d printing. with over 10 separate buy orders for 3d printing company Mark Forged since mid-july This company makes printers that are aimed at attacking the rapidly growing manufacturing market. Their printers not only print crucial parts, but they connect together via the cloud and get smarter over time as they get more experience that brings about shorter production times, lower labor costs, and Mark Forge has shown substantial early proof of concept and has worked with clients across industries such as the Us Army, Nasa, Spacex, Regeneron, Tesla, Toyota, Gm, Porsche, and many more. Arc actually has an entire Etf dedicated to the 3d printing market, including Triple D, which is another one of our high conviction plates, but Mark Forge has been one of their strongest recent acquisitions.

Next we have Arcs moves in the cryptocurrency market. Kathy, What is of course, one of the biggest proponents of cryptocurrency, and she has been putting her money where her mouth is, or at least her investors money where her mouth is Coinbase, Her sixth largest, Arc holding, at 1.3 billion invested, has been one of her most controversial picks, traded violently back and forth, and of course, the crypto market had flooded out. Obviously a big criticism of crypto trading and really growth trading as a whole is that hey, growth is absolutely great when it's going up. when you're in one of those euphoria stages, there's nothing quite like growth, but you almost always get those dysphoria stages following the euphoria stages, and hopefully the massive fluctuations back and forth follow an overall upward trend.

But the reason that growth is so damn controversial is because you're always going to have massive dysphoria. period. So you're always going to be able to look back and be like, damn, that stock went down dramatically. But you have to think of the bigger picture: Growth stocks are some of the fastest moving stocks, which means that if you're on the right side of that trajectory, which means buying it at good prices, then it's like, hey, there's a lot of room to grow if you're patient and you understand the process.

But anyway, since the art strategy is to literally buy during setbacks, well, Kathy hasn't been holding back. And I don't need to tell you that Coinbase is one of the leaders in terms of crypto brokerages, with over 56 million users, 223 billion in assets, and a quarterly traded volume at 335 billion. Remember, Arc Invest likes to pick companies that are in winner-take-all industries, and the crypto brokerage market is certainly one of those industries. Probably going to be a few different winners, and there's going to be a lot of wannabes.

That be said, I'm a little bit worried about stock trading brokers coming in and trying to steal some of that pie from Coinbase. Robinhood, for example, has built up a very, very strong following in terms of cryptocurrencies. We could argue that they're not really cryptocurrencies that you're trading if you're trading them on Robinhood, but for the average investor, they don't care or they don't know. In terms of cryptocurrencies, Arc has also been buying Grayscale Bitcoin trust with two purchases in July.

Basically, this is the fund that allows you to track Bitcoin's market price. So by buying this, they're basically buying Bitcoin. Arc has also been planning to launch a Bitcoin Etf themselves. What I'd really like to see them doing is buying crypto miners like Mara or Riot, but we haven't seen that yet.

Okay, speaking of fintech, Robin Hood Again, several very large buy orders for Robinhood over 300 million invested Now super controversial company. They've dropped the ball many times. So why is Arc invested here? Well, probably because at the end of the day, Robin Hood has managed to be a massive disrupter and leader in the retail trading sector. Look, I've been a Robin Hood hater for years, if you will.

But like I've said before, I can't deny the massive, massive disruptive influence they've had on the industry. From everything from the platforms, to the commissions, to the overall way of weaponizing the monetization structure of payment for order flow, Robinhood is a good example of hitting the player versus hitting the game. Robin Hood basically looked at the game board, flipped it over, and then flipped off all the competitors. There's no doubt that Robin Hood is the biggest hustler in the industry, and that hustlers, while very hated, can also be very, very effective.

And Robin it has been extremely effective at getting retail traders, and although in our finance community and in my own opinion, they've really dropped the ball and have done some really, really, really bad errors. The fact of the matter is, they moved fast and broke things and they effectively hustled the entire industry. and I don't think they're going anywhere. and if I'm whispering here for a second, Robin has done nothing that a million other brokers wouldn't do in a heartbeat if it was convenient for them, and a lot of them did do it.

To be honest, as a content creator and somebody who's very familiar with these issues, I'd like to see even make some really, really strong progress towards actually doing what they promised, which is democratizing trading for the retail investor. But I also have to be honest: do I think that a lot of these traditional old-school brokers that have terrible monetization structures do half of their transactions over the phone? Still like this is the 1970s? Do I think that those are going to have the same growth rates as Robin Hood over the next 20 years? Absolutely not. Robin Hood is the leader in the retail trading race, whether we like it or not. And that's just how it is.

And right now we're looking at a meme style rally. Point blank. but at the end of the day, Robinhood is a hustler, so take it or leave it. Okay, Next, one of the biggest holdings of Invest right now is Uipath.

We covered this guy a couple weeks ago, but Uipath is their 11th biggest holding, sitting at just under a billion dollars invested. In the last two months, they've had over 20 separate buy orders. Now this is a company focused on automating away billions of dollars of useless tasks and helping labor hours become more effective. The goal isn't to replace current jobs, it is to make them more efficient to get rid of a lot of the annoying tasks and useless tasks like filling out forms that employees have to burden themselves with.

Doing it wastes money, employees hate doing it, and it's just overall bad. So Uipath is the solution to that. Arc has a huge focus on autonomous technology, and on the same token, if you look at Tsp, which is in the autonomous vehicle part of artificial intelligence, Tsp is working on Autonomous Fright aka an Autonomous Truck fleet. I don't know about you, but I'm not ready for the day where trucks are driverless.

I'm not driving on the road with no driverless trucks, but they do argue that hey, using autonomous technology can get rid of a lot of that human risk error when it comes to being on the road. if a driver is really tired, if they're breaking rules, if they're just misjudging a situation, if maybe they drank before they drove. Well, all of those things are mitigated by using Autonomous technology. Autonomous vehicles can also drive more efficiently, saving gas mileage.

They obviously reduce labor costs. Perhaps maybe they could even work aside current truck drivers similar to how the Tesla system works in order to partially automate it so that it doesn't replace the job. But it does make the job safer. But overall, when you consider that Tesla has autonomous driving passenger cars on the road, well, it's not crazy to think in maybe a couple decades you have these trucks on the road as well.

But Tsp, while very, very interesting, it's just too early for me to be really bullish on that. But I do like the technology, and I do acknowledge it. Okay, so some of my takeaways from Arcs buys. Well, First, Arc Invest is kind of a machine.

It doesn't have the virtue signaling that retail traders have. I read comments, I see other forums. what are people saying on every single asset class? Oh, I can't buy cryptocurrency because some criminals use it. Oh, I can't buy draftkings because gambling is wrong.

Oh, I can't buy this stock because it's led by a republican. Oh, I can't buy this thought because it's led by a democrat. We don't like that other party. I can't buy Evie companies because they act like they're green.

but batteries cause pollution. Can't buy Tesla. Elon Musk is a troll. He says weird things on Twitter.

That means it's a terrible company. I can't buy that biotech company that has the next big cure because they're profiting off sickness. Quark Invest is a machine. It doesn't care about value signaling.

Arc Invest buys things that they think is going to be the next big thing in a merging industry. Like what this is a stock market. This isn't a period for you to go and Virtue single about every damn play. The numbers either make sense or they don't.

I'm not saying buy companies that are against your morals at all, but what I am saying is it's a very, very slippery slope. There's nothing that's very good on the market. Everything's a little bit questionable if you get below the surface. And the other big takeaway from these purchases is that hey, Arc Invest, they're not looking for validation for their place.

As retail traders, we like to buy things only when they're going up and when everybody thinks it's a good deal. if everybody else is buying it, then hey, we should buy it too easy. Arc Invest is a robot, so it doesn't have that same emotional instability where it needs to feel validated by every single damn stock purchase. It's like, okay, but the work can buy it at this price, sell it at that price, rinse, and repeat if it takes longer.

Fine, I already know that I put the work in and I already know that it's a high conviction point and I think that we can all learn a little bit of something from them. Anyway, folks that caps off the video. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us below or join us on Ziptrader Circle if you'd like to learn how to trade. With our step-by-step lessons, our private chat, and of course our daily morning briefings where we brief on all of our favorite catalysts each and every single market open morning, Well, we'll go ahead and put a link to Zip Trader you below.

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