Troutwood Live
Host: Gene Natali
Guest: Brian Portnoy, Sharon Gaitens, Rachel Brumbaugh & Janie Snavely
Topic: Gamestop Mania
Troutwood hosts a round table talk about the stock market mania surrounding the Gamestop (GME) stock. This live Q&A welcomes Brian Portnoy, author and CEO of Shaping Wealth. Brian works with the institutional side of investing and is joined by educators Sharon Gaitens & Janie Snavely from the Pittsburgh area. Rachel Brumbaugh, a Troutwood team member, also joins the conversation helping to moderate questions posed by the live audience.
Student questions answered during the live session:
- What is a hedge fund?
- Why do investors borrow stock in the first place?
- Why is this such a big deal? Why Gamestop?
- What is a free market and why are people concerned it will be manipulated?
- How does this affect the new generation of investors?
- How can you see the SEC and other governing bodies mitigating this problem in the future?
- How does institutional investing affect individual investors? Is this the end of the free market?
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⏰ Timestamps ⏰:
0:00 - Countdown
0:30 - Introduction
1:38 - Welcoming Rachel Brumbaugh, Brian Portnoy, and Janie Snavely
3:30 - What is a hedge fund?
5:28 - What is Robinhood and what do they do?
7:03 - What is a short sell?
8:43 - Welcoming Sharon Gaitens
10:20 - What was happening in the markets when Gamestop (GME) stock shot up?
14:00 - What caused the Gamestop stock price to increase greatly.
17:00 - Lessons from market mistakes
18:37 - How long do you believe the short squeeze will last?
19:05 - Three most important words in all of investing
19:25 - What is a short squeeze? (Bearish @ 20:24)
20:54 - Speculation vs investing
27:14 - Why do investors borrow stock in the first place?
30:00 - Penny stock analogy
31:42 - Why is this such a big deal and why Gamestop?
36:57 - What is a free market and why are people concerned it will be manipulated?
41:58 - What level of volume of retail investors does it take to significantly move a share price like Gamestop vs moving larger companies like Apple, Tesla etc.?
43:25 - How can you see the SEC and other governing bodies mitigating this problem in the future?
47:26 - How does this affect the new generation of investors?
49:50 - Behavioral finance: winning vs losing
52:55 - How does institutional investing affect individual investors? Is this the end of the free market?
55:20 - Who are institutional investors?
1:01:02 - Why you need to know this information
1:02:50 - Will the majority of small investors in GameStop make big money on the short squeeze? Or just the early investors?
1:03:39 - Thank you, Brian Portnoy, Sharon Gaitens, Rachel Brumbaugh, and Janie Snavely !
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