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Money explains how the stock market and trading works with kittens._ by [Nandita Bose and Subrat Patnaik / Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Nandita Bose and Subrat Patnaik / Reuters Aug 23, 2016 2:03 PM UTC Money explains how the stock market and trading works with kittens. by [Nandita Bose and Subrat Patnaik / Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Nandita Bose and Subrat Patnaik / Reuters Aug 23, 2016 2:03 PM UTC (Reuters) — Best Buy Co Inc reported a much higher-than-expected quarterly profit on strength in health and wearable items like smartwatches, and the largest U.S. electronics retailer raised its earnings outlook, sending its shares up more than 16 percent. The company said it now expected low-single-digit percentage growth in fiscal-year operating income, compared with a previous forecast of “approximately flat” results. “We continue to expect the slight revenue decline in the first half to be offset by slight growth in the back half,” Chief Financial Officer Corie Barry said in a statement. Excluding special items, the company earned 57 cents per share in the second quarter ended on July 30\. Analysts on average had expected 43 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Sales at established stores rose 0.8 percent. Analysts had expected a 0.60 percent fall, according to research firm Consensus Metrix. Best Buy said sales rose for home theater systems, major appliances and computing products, as well as smartwatches, but declined for mobile phones and gaming. Best Buy also forecast revenue of $8.8 billion to $8.9 billion for the third quarter, while analysts on average were expecting $8.77 billion. The company expects earnings of 43 cents to 47 cents per share, compared with Wall Street forecasts of 45 cents. Revenue rose slightly to $8.53 billion in the second quarter, snapping a three-quarter streak of declines. Analysts on average had expected $8.40 billion. Best Buy said net income rose to $198 million, or 61 cents per share, from $164 million, or 46 cents per share, a year earlier. (Reporting by Nandita Bose in Chicago and Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn) ## Transcript [00:00] Hi [00:03] guys! Thanks for tuning in. My name is Megan Leonhardt, [00:05] and I'm with Money magazine. And I'm here with my [00:07] colleague Ian Salisbury. And we have some special guests [00:11] in our studio today. We are going to be having our kitten [00:16] investors pick some stocks. We're really excited about this! [00:18] Yeah, so we've set out a game that hopefully will show [00:23] a little bit about how the stock market works and how stock [00:25] trading actually works. We didn't wanna trade stocks [00:29] ourselves. Yeah, no. Nobody wants to watch us do this. For [00:31] a few reasons that were explained, so we got some friends [00:35] to come help us Yeah, so in my hands I have See [00:39] and she's from the best friends animal society and Ian has [00:44] Mattocks. They are- Mattocks like Apottomax with two Ts, [00:46] not Ds like Madox Ford. [ LAUGH ]. Right. They're brother [00:50] and sister. They're about three months old and guy's they [00:54] are adoptable. These furry little friends could be yours and [00:58] of course they are going to be super smart and pick some [01:00] of the bes stocks, right? We'll see about that. [ LAUGH ] We [01:03] wonder if there's an element of randomness to stock [01:06] trading, especially short term stock trading, that we hope [01:08] the cats will help us highlight so- Right, yeah so our goal [01:11] today is to have our little furry friends Pick stuffs for about [01:15] an hour. Hopefully they cooperate. We're gonna watch and [01:19] see what happens but we set up a game board and you [01:23] guys may be familiar at home with our Twister boards. We [01:27] have labeled all of our dots with stocks [01:31] and we have rigged it up so that each of [01:35] the Dots corresponds with some treats or some stock [01:40] food or little toy mice and some water for [01:44] them, So we're hoping that Macy and Madix are gonna be [01:46] comfortable, while they pick some stocks. We'll have to see [01:49] if They end up really enjoying the [01:54] treats. Right. Hopefully they end up liking some of the [01:57] stocks as well. And when each of them go and either [02:01] eat some treats or play with the toy That will count as [02:05] them picking that stock. Right, we're gonna buy that stock. [02:09] Now, we're gonna start with $ 100, 000. We suggested [02:14] using real money, but our editors nixed the idea of [02:18] giving us $ 200, 000 to invest. I don't know if they had a lot [02:22] of confidence in our kitten investor We told them we were [02:25] sure they'd come out ahead. [ LAUGH ] But we're gonna [02:28] use a simulated stock trading system that we downloaded [02:32] from TD Ameritrade. Yeah! Called Think or Swim. We're [02:34] really excited about this, actually you can go on TD [02:38] Ameritrade And download the live version. We'll be on a [02:41] little bit of a delay, cuz it's a simulated platform. So that 20 [02:44] minute delay. And obviously, paper money. But [02:49] it's the same as their stock trading platform. I think it's a [02:52] promotional thing for them. Yeah. So if you actually wanted [02:55] to do this, it would be exactly the same. So we have about [02:59] $ 100, 000 in play money. And we're gonna Use it to, we're [03:03] gonna buy stocks in about roughly $ 10, 000 increments. [03:06] Now you buy shares of stocks so you don't buy a dollar [03:09] amount. Right. So we're gonna buy roughly $ 10, 000 for [03:12] each one. Every time the cat picks one of [03:16] these squares and if they pick it again we're gonna sell it [03:18] and if they pick an 11th stock we'll sell one That we bought [03:22] and we're gonna see who comes out ahead at the top. [03:24] Yeah, for those of you keeping track at home on our [03:26] Facebook feed, we will also be putting the stocks that they [03:30] choose on the board, the whiteboard behind us. So you [03:32] can sort of keep track of where everything's going. At the [03:36] mid- way point we'll check in and see whether Macy or [03:40] Maddis is doing better. And of course There's a little bit of [03:42] the battle of the sexes here today cuz I [ CROSSTALK ] [03:46] who is a little girl. Ended up with a girl cat and I ended up [03:48] with a boy cat so we'll. All I asked for was a cute cat [03:52] and of course the best friends both delivered In spades. [03:57] See what happens. They've done studies and they think [03:59] that men are more aggressive traders so we'll see if that [04:01] holds steady to cats as well. Well I think girls are smarter [04:03] traders. [ LAUGH ] Well studies have also shown that. But I [04:06] chose to highlight. Yeah right. So for those at home follow [04:10] along You know make sure that your favorite is winning. I [04:14] of course would totally vote for Macy but you know we'll [04:17] see. I think they're getting a little anxious. Do we wanna [04:20] get started? I think we should. All right. Madox is gonna [04:23] choose the first stock? Madox is gonna chose the first [04:26] stock. I feel like we might be able to game the system a little [04:29] bit. Should we put him at the end, should we put him in the [04:31] top? I feel like he might wanna explore. You think I should [04:34] put him in the middle? Okay, [ UNKNOWN ] gonna see. So [04:35] we're gonna put him [ UNKNOWN ] on treats here. I'm [04:37] gonna put him down right in the middle. In the middle or [04:40] the stock ticker, so that's the abbreviation that the stock [04:43] exchanges use and have used for 100 years for all the [04:46] different stocks. Right, and as we go along we'll explain [04:49] which ticker corresponds to which company, cuz. Which [04:51] some of the tickers are. If the tickers don't make much [04:53] sense to you, we thought they wouldn't make much sense [04:55] to the cats, and that's why we chose Some other [04:57] enticements for them .>> Aw look at him go. Wow. He is [05:01] going right for the treat .>> He's going for the dry. I have to [05:04] say my cats always went for the wet food .>> [ LAUGH ] So [05:07] he's chosen RCL and I think that's Royal Caribbean cruise [05:10] lines. So it's a cruise company you probably Might be [05:13] familiar with. Right. And we're gonna [05:17] go over and use the trading platform. So Ian, when we're [05:21] talking to folks, first time investors who have never, ever [05:24] traded a stock in their life. And to be fair Before a couple [05:28] weeks ago, I don't think I ever traded a stock, so- Oop, [05:31] should we take him out, so he doesn't- No, he can keep [05:31] going. Which one did we go? We went with. He can keep [05:34] going, okay. And that's Chesapeake that was chosen. [05:36] Wow. Okay, so he's picked two. And I think he's gonna [05:41] drink some Citigroup, Citigroup water. Not, he just sniffed at [05:43] that. [ LAUGH ] We'll count it, that was pretty close. [05:46] [ LAUGH ] Okay. All right, we can take him out for a minute. [05:48] So we'll buy those two, okay, and Citigroup, yeah. [05:50] [ LAUGH ] Citigroup is one, is [05:54] a unique stock, as one ticker symbol. Maybe we'll get to [05:57] that later. Yeah, right. But yeah, so we're gonna trade [05:59] these stocks. And it is actually, most people now invest in [06:02] mutual funds. Right. Which are, you know, a collection of [06:06] stocks. Or ETFs. Or exchange traded funds, yeah. Yeah. [06:10] Especially the low- cost variety. That's great. We're gonna [06:12] show somehow trading stocks can be, there's an element [06:15] of randomness to it and there's also an element of cost to [06:17] it. And we're gonna show how much it costs. I think it costs, [06:20] in theory, $ 10 every time we trade one of these stocks. [06:22] Yeah, yeah, it can get pricy quickly. But, look! [ LAUGH ] [06:26] Maddox is like, no, I'm not sure I might go exploring outside [06:30] our little kitty pens, but all right. So are [06:34] you gonna pick now or do you want me to trade? You can [06:36] trade, go for it. Okay, I'm gonna trade. I'm on the platform [06:39] and I need to enter the stock tipper symbol. Yes. And then [06:41] figure out how much of RCL I'm gonna buy. So, our [06:45] trading platform, as we mentioned, is Think or Swim. And [06:50] you can see that it is kind of complicated. Kind of fun. But [06:55] you can sit there and put together a [06:59] watch list of stocks that you're interested in and then trade [07:02] for those stocks. So definitely kind of fun. We are sitting [07:06] there and these are live trades from our simulated [07:09] platforms. So they're market trades versus limit trades [07:12] which you'll sit there and just put in some information. And [07:16] we are going to send off our very first trade. We've put in [07:18] here. So the Royal Caribbean shares are trading at about [07:22] $ 69 a piece, so we're gonna buy 143 shares. It's about [07:25] $ 10, 000. Wow. So you enter that. And you have to choose [07:28] the right type of order. So there are a bunch of different [07:31] types of orders. And we're gonna choose a market order, [07:33] which means we're just gonna buy it at whatever Whatever [07:35] the cost is. The price on offer is, and it's [07:39] done, it's done. We are now proud owners of $ 10, 000 [07:42] worth of Royal Caribbean Cruiselines. Well, you finish up [07:45] trading the stocks that Maddox went for. For I am going to [07:48] put. I will sit there and start [07:52] putting Macy down and see which sock she goes for. [07:56] Wait, should we put her in a different location than her [07:59] brother? I can see you're angling me for an advantage [08:03] here [ CROSSTALK ]. I am, i'm absolutely angling for the [08:04] advantage. Why dont we put her down at the end and see [08:05] what she does. All right, we'll put her down down [08:09] at the bottom, and she can go twirl around. Okay, [08:14] Chesapeake now, I'm buying? Right, from Mattel, a girl [08:18] after my own heart, definitely grew up with the Barbies. [08:20] They make the Barbies, right? Yeah. Right. [08:25] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] So Chesapeake's only worth five bucks [08:26] a share. So I'm gonna buy about more than 2, 000 shares. [08:30] Chesapeake is an energy company and they were [08:34] very successful in writing the revolution [08:39] in natural gas. Verizon. He likes [08:43] the Verizon [ INAUDIBLE ]. Look she's going for the [08:46] Amazon. Now that is an expensive stock. She's got good [08:49] taste. [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Okay. Sweetie are you [08:55] eating? Aw. [ LAUGH ] [09:04] Here is your marker sir, so you can keep track. Madox [09:11] looks like he is just going nuts in this, he's so excited, he's [09:14] got all this fun toys. [ LAUGH ] Meanwhile, [09:19] slow and steady, I'm telling you. See, women aren't as [09:22] risky investors. We've got Macy already going for [09:26] a blue chip stock, which is really awesome. When we were [09:29] chosing the collection of stocks that we were gonna work [09:32] with, we went for ones that were a little bit more volatile so [09:35] that we got some movement during then hour when you [09:37] guys are watching us. And we also went for companies that [09:39] you're gonna know as well as Bunch of different sectors. [09:43] So it's kind of fun. We definitely have some consumer [09:47] discretionary in there, we got some energy hopefully [09:57] we'll get to a some marathon oil that's been kind of fun [09:57] stock to follow recently so we'll see what happens but [10:00] Alright so you are lying. Sorry you picked so many stocks [10:04] for me to buy. [ LAUGH ] Okay almost [10:10] there. Alright well while you're finishing up your orders I [10:13] will get up on the two that Macy chose. I feel like [10:17] she might be more of a buy and hold kind of girl which is [10:20] great [ LAUGH ] So you got, one of the reasons you got, [10:24] you have to be careful to choose a market order. Which is, I [10:28] at one point chose a limit order, as you can get tripped up. [10:32] So the differences in market just, you wanna buy whatever [10:35] The prices that's on offer at that moment and a limit order is [10:38] when you specify the price and then you wait for [10:43] the market to come to you. [ LAUGH ] So the way it works [10:47] is Most of the stocking trading, you think of stock [10:51] trading, see the pictures of the people down at the stock [10:53] exchange all waving their hands around and that's [10:57] not actually how it works anymore. The vast majority of [11:00] stock trading is handled electronically, just like we're [11:04] doing. And instead of person [11:08] waving their hand kind of offering to buy a stock or sell a [11:10] stock at a certain price, they just have the numbers up there [11:14] and you can see, so usually when you go to buy a stock [11:16] there'll be two numbers actually. There's the bid price and [11:19] the ask price. Right. So a stock trade you're essentially [11:23] buying and trading with another person but most of it is [11:26] between Most of the training you would do, you would [11:29] actually not be. If I were selling Delta and you wanted [11:33] to buy it I would probably not be selling directly to you. [11:35] There's someone in between who specializes in just [11:38] buying thousands of stocks and reselling them. I would [11:40] probably be selling to that company. So they put out these [11:43] prices at which they're willing to buy and sell and usually [11:45] they're a penny or a couple pennies apart so So if you [11:49] wanna buy it, you have to pay a penny or two more than the [11:54] median price, and if you want to sell, you have to pay a [11:56] penny or two less. And they just collect those pennies over [11:59] time and they add up to billions of dollars, so- Gotcha, so [12:03] pennies are worth it in the long run, it sounds like. Exactly, [12:05] exactly. [ LAUGH ]. And that's why that's one of the things [12:09] in addition to the $ 10 you pay every time you trade to [12:12] Ameritrade You know, that sort of puts a drag on your [12:14] returns. That's why we talk about buy and hold investors so [12:17] much. > Gotcha. > So. > Man, it looks like Maddox [12:21] is definitely our more active trader. We have a couple [12:24] different types of folks who are invested in the market. We [12:28] have day traders, we have the high frequency traders, [12:32] which is Kind of a new phenomena, right Ian? Yeah, [12:36] they're the people who often times, as we talked about, [12:40] will not necessarily, they're not necessarily [12:44] buying cuz they think a stock is good or cuz they like the [12:47] toy like Maddox. [ LAUGH ] They are basically going out [12:50] and looking at who's buying and selling and offering them, [12:53] trying to buy very quickly at a price that they think is a [12:55] penny below. The price [13:00] and then reselling it fractions of a second later at a [13:04] price that might be [ UNKNOWN ]- I'm gonna interrupt you [13:05] for one second because I'm super excited. It looks like [13:08] Macy went for the cat. Which is actually Caterpillar. But we [13:12] may have picked it because the ticker symbol is CAT, which [13:15] is super fun, right? So I'm gonna put that up on my board [13:18] real quick. Okay. But you can continue talking. I'm sorry. I [13:21] just wanted to point out to the folks at home that we've got [13:24] ourselves a- We have it. Third stock that Macy is going for [13:29] so It looks like she's also drinking some MRO. [13:33] I don't know what MRO is. Look at that. Marathon Oil. [13:35] There you go. That's one of the more volatile ones. The [13:38] energy companies tend to be pretty volatile. If you've been [13:39] following the news energy prices have plunged recently. [13:44] It's one of those things that you know, you don't notice. [13:46] Yeah. Even this morning energy was definitely down. The [13:48] sector was down. You see it. It's something people see a [13:50] lot in gas prices cuz you see the gas prices You know, [13:53] when you go to buy, fill up your car, but it's a big issue in [13:56] the presidential election as well. Donald Trump has been [14:00] promising to bring energy jobs back to [14:04] places like Appalachia and Wyoming, and it'll be interesting [14:08] to see if he can do that. A lot of people think that while [14:11] government regulation is one issue, it's actually Just the [14:16] energy prices have fallen so low that's it's hurting these [14:19] companies. China used to use a ton of energy, coal and oil [14:22] and they are using much more as their economy slows. [14:24] And also fracking which is what my company, one [14:28] of my companies, Chesapeake is known for We're so good [14:32] at pulling energy out of the Earth today. [ LAUGH ] They [14:34] pulled out too much and now it's not worth as much cuz the [14:37] supplies gone up. Maddocks is really liking the toys. Yeah. [14:40] And I need to buy both for Raizen and Deedee, which is [14:45] Dupont. Dupont? Yeah. What is Dupont? I refresh my [14:48] memory on this one. Dupont is a chemicals company. [14:50] Okay. It's been around for a long time. I think even [14:52] hundreds of years. It's actually I think [14:58] EI Dupont and Numors Dupont company. [ LAUGH ] [15:02] I get the name wrong every time. It's one of the longest [15:04] ones. Dupont and Numors yeah. The name trips you [15:09] up? I think we might have to reset Maddox's board [15:12] eventually. He has, sort of made himself at home with the [15:16] toys, and we might need to make sure we can figure out [15:20] which one he decides he wants to trade. But meanwhile, [15:24] Macy is just- So, I gotta buy 145 shares. I'm telling you, she [15:27] keeps going back to the same ones. This is a great Great [15:30] example of a very selective investor. It's fantastic. [15:34] Well, you know it is funny, right. So, they have done these [15:37] studies on the difference between the way men and [15:39] women trade. And, probably by coincidence, but these [15:43] [ LAUGH ] Do seem to, men do tend trade more often and [15:46] it ends up hurting their investment performance as [15:50] the. The trading costs eat into their returns. Yeah. [15:55] So we actually have to counsel people against that. Right, [15:59] so we do have a few stocks that both cats have already put [16:02] up on the board, for Maddox we've got RCO, which is [16:06] Royal Caribbean. Ian, Chesapeake, is the CSK? [16:12] That is Chesapeake, right. Correct and then Citi which is [16:14] just the standard c. And we've got, he put up Verizon as [16:18] well which is kind of a fun company to follow right now. [16:21] Yeah Verizon just bought Yahoo. So, it'll be [16:25] interesting to see if they can, Verizon is a cell phone [16:28] company, sort of a [ UNKNOWN ] utility- Right. And they [16:31] are trying to transform themselves as so many companies [16:35] are into an Internet company. So, they bought Yahoo, and [16:38] it'll be interesting to see if they can find any ways that it's [16:42] advantageous for a company that owns a lot of equipment, [16:46] cell phone lines, to Put Yahoo! to use, [16:51] and if fact, we just lost one of our colleagues to Yahoo! [16:52] Business itself. [ LAUGH ] We won't go there. He went to [16:55] work to Yahoo !, or scratch that, Verizon, Wolfman, if you're [16:58] out there. Meanwhile, Macy has also started to really rack [17:02] up some choices on the board. We've got Mattel, which [17:06] of course is the Barbie company, Amazon, the Jeff Bezos [17:10] Internet place we've have a Caterpillar [17:15] CAT which of course is the manufacturer of a lot of your [17:19] machinery for construction, things like that, MRO which is [17:22] marathon and she also chose news corp which is also [17:25] going through it. Right. Big ups and downs with the, Now [17:28] News Corp I believe is not, used to be Fox News but now [17:31] News Corp I believe is just the newspaper. It's Wall Street [17:34] Journal and the New York Post. Yeah. It's also [17:38] quite a bargain. The stock is Not trading [17:43] too high in price. So that definitely placed into our favor [17:46] because we can buy more shares of it. They had. their [17:48] earnings were out, I think just yesterday, the day before [17:51] and they we're not doing very well. But they added a lot of [17:54] digital subscribers, so. Great. [17:59] Like Verizon and other sort of traditional media company [18:03] that's trying to transform itself into the digital [18:07] world. Right. But they're not trading very well [18:11] because none of the newspaper companies are doing very [18:14] well. I don't know if you watched John Oliver the other [18:15] night- I did. About how people don't want [18:20] to pay for news. So I guess that's our lament [18:24] we can, as a Time Inc has some of the same struggles. [18:28] [ LAUGH ] Well I think Maddox actually just may have [18:31] gone for TIF? TIF is Tiffany. Ooh, fancy fancy. [18:35] So exactly, they're expensive Expensive [18:40] jewellery, engagement rings, and whatnot. But they're also [18:44] a stock that's run like just about every other company that [18:46] worries about its margins and how much it's the price that [18:50] it's paying for gold and whatnot. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] So [18:56] we'll buy Tiffany. Sounds good. Ok. You [19:03] know, I think Macy might, might be going back [19:07] to Mattel. No? I don't know. I [19:11] feel like we might have to sell some stock soon. [ LAUGH ] [19:14] When the cat actually returns to a Dot [19:19] on the board, we'll actually sell that stock and see if it [19:22] makes any difference when we check in in a little bit to see [19:26] where they're at. But, nope. She's just going all over the [19:30] board. She's very excited. [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [19:32] God bless you. Okay so, [19:37] I gotta make sure I do a market order again. People get [19:41] in a lot of trouble. Especially when we cover these things [19:44] like the Flash Crash and whatnot. Well, that was almost a [19:47] year ago, right? The August 24th- Well there was that one. [19:50] I was thinking, yeah, with the market orders. Because the [19:52] market can move before your order is executed. She is [19:55] going for MRO. And you can get a price that you don't [19:57] expect, but. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [20:01] I'm gonna put in a cell order. Because- All right, because [20:03] she already owns it? Yeah, yeah, she's good, she's done, [20:07] she's having a drink. She's gonna sell some Marathon Oil. [20:10] [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] They're liking [20:17] the toys. Maddox really likes that purple mouse. Right, [20:23] [ SOUND ] Macy's really excited about the, she's getting [20:26] more into the mice as well. Looks like she's gonna pick [20:29] Allergen. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Did you know [20:36] that Allergen, it kinda sounds like it should be an allergy [20:39] Pharmaceutical company, but it actually sells Botox. [20:44] [ LAUGH ] So they've gone through some rigors and what [20:47] not in the last couple of years, but definitely fun. All right, [20:51] my. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ LAUGH ] They [21:05] just seem to be having a ball here. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] So, [21:08] Ian. They are not shy at all, [21:12] sorry go ahead. I was going to say, we're sitting here and [21:17] we're trading a lot of these stocks, but as you pointed out [21:20] Every single time we're buying or trading, we're paying a [21:23] fee, a commission. Right, yea. It's $ 10 out of our pockets. [21:27] So the chances are at the end of the way we're gonna end [21:30] up behind. Because, even knowing we tried to pick volatile [21:33] stocks that we hope might go up, if we make ten trades [21:38] we're already $ 100 off the top. Right. So I think we should [21:41] talk a little bit about You know, why we chose to do it with [21:44] cats, and you know, stock trading, [21:49] obviously people do it, but you have to be pretty good at it. [21:53] And studies have shown that as an individual investor, [21:58] unless you really Kind of our knowledge. Most [22:02] even professional investors can't buy and sell stocks, pay [22:04] the commissions, and still come out ahead. Not even after [22:07] one day, but after years. They do all these studies showing [22:09] a mutual fund investor, professional mutual fund investors [22:13] essentially try to do this and make money for their clients, [22:17] and they really can't. Two- third- Right. Of the Two- thirds of [22:20] them are behind. Well, I think these were even covered in [22:23] Money magazine before, that stock- pickers are usually [22:27] about 10 % off of where they need to be, so definitely [22:31] something [ CROSSTALK ]. Yeah, and two- thirds are [22:33] behind, remember, half of them, it was just random, half of [22:35] them would win, so the costs make it difficult. So people [22:39] have done things, you know, throwing Darts [22:44] at a dartboard. We're doing cats to [22:48] show the mechanics of trading but there is a certain [22:52] randomness to it. And they've done lots of again, academic [22:56] studies of trying to predict short term stock movements. And [23:00] you can't do it. They call it a random walk. [ LAUGH ] I've [23:04] heard it compared to a drunk man stumbling around in a [23:06] field. I love it. But it could also be a cat on a Twister board. [23:10] Aw, you're comparing our poor little kitten investors to a [23:14] drunk man stumbling around in a field? Whatever makes it [23:17] different for you, I guess. [ LAUGH ] I think I'll [23:21] take my kittens over a guy walking [23:25] out of the bar at 11 o'clock at night. Yeah, I guess. Well, [23:27] that might have been an interesting Facebook Live as well. [23:31] [ LAUGH ] So, that doesn't mean you shouldn't invest in [23:33] the stock market. But as in the magazine, we always tell [23:36] people to buy index funds, which are Basically a mutual [23:40] fund, which means it owns hundreds of different stocks. [23:42] Okay. And an index fund just kind of buys them all. Right. [23:46] Based on [ UNKNOWN ]. But now, for [23:51] first time buyers, market opens at 9: 30. Right. [23:55] And you as we've shown can buy and sell stocks [23:59] immediately All day long. Yeah, it's still important to [24:01] understand I think how it works -. But what I think that [24:03] you're saying is for you know mutual funds that doesn't [24:06] happen. It's a setup a little bit different. You have to wait 'til [24:10] market close in order to find out how you did. Right exactly, [24:13] you don't, you just basically go to the website. You can do it [24:16] at a brokerage like Schwab or Fidelity but you could also [24:20] just go We tend to recommend a lot of Vanguard funds. [24:24] You can just go right to Vanguard's website and you just [24:26] write them a check, and at the end of the day if you write a [24:29] thousand dollar check, the day they get it they wait til the [24:32] end of the day when the market's closed, and then they [24:33] buy the stocks for you. And then you don't pay that $ 10 [24:36] Trading commission .>> Okay .>> They do charge a fee but [24:41] you don't pay the trading commission .>> Gotcha .>> And [24:44] the ongoing fee can be big in the long run if you use [24:46] someone who tries to buy stocks by picking [24:51] the right ones but they're very small. A few dollars for every [24:54] $ 10, 000 invested if you just buy the next fund .>> Gotcha. [24:59] Now an ETF is an index fund that you actually do trade [25:02] during the day on the stock market. And those you know, [25:06] can be useful, but you again, you're paying that brokerage [25:08] commission a lot of times, that $ 10 a trade and that's you [25:11] know putting you behind. So there isn't a whole lot of [25:13] reason for a lot of investors who are just starting off to do [25:16] that. They're probably better off just with the mutual funds. [25:20] It's simpler. Got you. And you can't trade in the middle of [25:23] the day. You can't decide at two in the afternoon [25:24] [ laughter ] that you don't like what's going on and try to get [25:27] out of the market You know, the freedom to do that is costly [25:31] and there's probably a better chance you're going to make [25:34] a mistake. It makes sense. You don't want to panic. Now [25:37] you mentioned panicking. I think that that's kind of [25:39] interesting because certainly over recent weeks, we've [25:42] seen a lot of, Calmer markets. [25:47] I think one of the volatility indexes has been pretty low in [25:50] recent weeks, but that has not been the case all year. We [25:54] certainly have seen a lot of volatility over the past 18 [25:58] months. There has been. The market went down [26:02] quite a bit at the start of the year And a lot of people have [26:05] been suggesting that the market is actually sort of due [26:09] for a correction. That it's too high. That the amount [26:13] of money that these companies are making and are [26:16] reporting each quarter in earnings really can't Support the [26:20] prices people are paying for stocks. Got you. So it does sort [26:23] of sound like though, when we talk about regular investors [26:27] who are playing the stock market they don't do so well [26:30] historically. I think We've seen certainly [26:34] research that says that investors generally fall behind [26:39] everyone else when it comes to timing the market and [26:42] picking the right stocks and really coming away with [26:46] some cash in their pocket. Especially once we start talking [26:48] about taxes and fees and commissions and everything [26:51] rolled up into one. It can be It can be a zero sum [26:56] game .>> Yeah. Trying to pick stocks and do better in the [26:57] market isn't a sense a zero sum game because you're [27:00] betting that you can figure out which company is gonna be [27:03] more profitable than the next guy right? And in [27:08] the long run you have to remember that you're competing [27:10] against people who do it for a living .>> Right .>> And [27:12] you're also competing against people who might know [27:15] Something about a particular company that you [27:19] don't know, in a sense that could be an insider trading, [27:23] but a lot of it is perfectly legal. People [27:27] who. For instance, trying [27:32] to think of Amazon might be a dimful one. But for people [27:35] who are involved in the fracking industry. Okay. The [27:37] energy industry. They're gonna know things about the [27:42] energy companies like Chesapeake. Like you sitting at [27:45] home, reading no matter how many financial reports You [27:47] might have had that same insight you know? Makes sense. [27:50] So you're competing against all those people that have [27:52] specialized knowledge just about a particular stock as well. [27:56] So they've really shown that it's, very [28:00] few people literally Warren Buffet and not very many other [28:04] People have shown that they can consistently out think the [28:07] rest of the market. [ LAUGH ] Simply sitting in an office [28:09] somewhere and reading reports. Right. I think you might [28:13] want to reset Madix's board a little bit so that we can see [28:17] which stocks he's most interested in. He's all over the [28:20] place. I think Tiffany was some food and I think this green [28:24] toy was over on Verizon. So he says, hey Give me that [28:26] back. [ LAUGH ] And [28:31] what's Macy doing? They like the toys? That was a good [28:34] fit. The toys might be the key. So they're from Rite- Aid, [28:38] is that? You know, drugstore toys, let's not discriminate. [28:41] They're very happy with them. Exactly. [ INAUDIBLE ] [28:45] Seriously. [ UNKNOWN ] So we tried to pick different, you [28:49] tried to [ UNKNOWN ] stick to the starts, and you tried to [28:51] pick ones from different sectors or industries, right? I did, I [28:54] did. I think we wanted a good mix. Either obviously there [28:57] are a couple of different sectors that the stocks are sort of [28:59] broken down into. We've got some consumer discretionary. [29:03] Tiffany For example, falls perfectly into that category. And [29:07] then we have some, as I mentioned, energy companies. [29:09] We got Chesapeake. We do have Marathon Oil. And [29:14] we do also have some tech companies in here. We've got [29:17] the Google and that's always a fun one, although it's funny [29:21] because we can't really call it Google anymore. We've [29:23] gotta call it alphabet, the company changed names- Right, [29:24] the company changed their name, but they kept the ticker [29:26] symbol- But they kept the ticker symbol. Yeah, well. you [29:29] gotta go with what people know, right? [ LAUGH ] There's [29:31] a certain amount of branding that goes with tickers as well. [29:34] I think you're right. There are some thing. I think it's the [29:39] NASDAQ they always have four symbols. Right? Yes. Four [29:42] letters. Right. And others have a bunch. This [29:46] is Citi Group. It's always been along for 100 years it's been [29:49] a point of pride. [ LAUGH ] Check our symbol that has just [29:52] one letter. It's like I'm so important that everyone should [29:54] figure out who I am from just one letter. [ LAUGH ] Yeah. I'll [29:57] be honest. Until we started doing this, I didn't know what [30:01] the CE ticker symbol was. Yeah. No, no, no, fair enough. [30:04] So well. But they are. [ LAUGH ] [30:09] He says, I'm liking what you have over here. Right. [30:12] [ LAUGH ] Yeah, he might wanna come and trade on [30:14] Macy's board, right? Yeah- [ LAUGH ] You know what? [30:16] Maybe the cat's not gonna be able to do that, it's there [30:18] again. [ LAUGH ] Let me [ INAUDIBLE ] here we go, here [30:23] we go, food? [ LAUGH ] [ INAUDIBLE ] Wait, wait, wait, I [30:24] have the ultimate tool. We brought a laser pointer. I [30:28] did just in case, because I mean. Yeah you're gonna point [30:31] them over to some losing stocks on my board, I can tell. I [30:34] will not, I will not! You have to learn to trust me, Ian. So but [30:38] you also, I mean we didn't choose, the difference sectors [30:41] are important, and that is actually something that everyday [30:44] investors might wanna takeaway too, is that you don't want [30:47] All of your nest egg to be invested in a single sector Right. [30:53] Companies like Chesapeake were doing great when [30:54] fracking was brand new, and [30:58] they were unleashing all this energy. And they simply [31:02] found too much natural gas and the price plummeted. [31:05] Right. Cuz of over supply. And OPEC certainly isn't helping. [31:06] So, you know, a lot of those people who thought they were [31:09] geniuses and, you know Thought they were gonna be [31:12] living in Aruba for the rest of their lives when their share's [31:14] were worth $ 30, and now they're worth $ 2. [ LAUGH ]. Or [31:17] maybe it's a bit more than that, but, you know, having to [31:20] rethink. So different parts of the stock market do better in [31:24] different market conditions. We talked about Tiffany, which [31:26] is consumer discretionary- Right. And discretionary is the [31:30] key word there You know, Tiffany does great when the [31:33] economy's doing well people are willing to buy $ 15, 000 [31:37] engagement rings .>> [ LAUGH ] Yeah .>> There's [31:39] another. So, Tiffany will fly really high when the economy's [31:42] well and then there is another section called consumer [31:44] staples which is more like refrigerators and [31:48] cars .>> Campbell's soup man .>> Yeah you're gonna buy [31:50] those things no matter how the economy is doing so they [31:52] tend to be You know much more stable. Right. [31:59] I know too earnings play a huge. You've mentioned [32:01] earnings a couple times now. And for the folks at home it is [32:04] earnings season. So actually a bunch of retailers had their [32:08] earnings out this morning. Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, [32:12] you know some nice Nice companies if you can get them [32:16] but certainly that can play a huge part in how [32:20] the stock does and that may be something to watch if it's [32:24] earning season, maybe the analyst are predicting that the [32:27] company didn't do so well. Stock usually does not do well it [32:31] might take a plummet for a few hours, maybe even a day, [32:34] earnings come out, things stabilize a little bit so certainly [32:37] this is the time where A lot of people are entering and [32:40] exiting the market for sure. No, yeah definitely. And we say [32:44] stock moves are pretty random. Earnings were in the few [32:47] times when, oftentimes if the report [32:51] is bad and everybody's expecting it, the stock usually [32:53] doesn't move. But sometimes there will be something [32:55] unexpectedly bad. Right. Often times the stock will be up [32:59] or down 5 or 10 % after earnings and people are trying to [33:02] figure out why. They're like hey man, their revenue looked. [33:05] Their profits looked great. What are people looking at that [33:07] they don't like? [ LAUGH ] You know, but the fact is these [33:10] companies are billion dollar companies 5 or 10 billion [33:14] dollar net worth. You know a big huge mutual fund or a [33:17] hedge fund might itself be five or ten billion dollars. So one [33:22] big investor buying or selling can often push the stock price [33:26] around. Right? So we're going in and we're buying- [33:28] Gotcha. When we're talking about Big investors. Are we [33:30] talking about the Warren Buffett's and the Carl Icahn's of [33:34] the world? It could be like that. Okay. I mean, Warren [33:36] Buffett where it gets out that Warren Buffett has bought a [33:39] stock, he'll usually obviously try to buy ahead of time. Right. [33:43] Before he doesn't wanna tell anyone. [ LAUGH ] Yeah, [33:45] with the one that were gets out to stock off and get a bump. [33:47] So, it's kinda like the Oprah effect with. Exactly. With [33:50] consumer goods when she puts stuff on her Favorite [33:53] Things list. We all know that those they get sold out or [33:57] when Michelle Obama wears one of her gorgeous dresses [34:01] we usually can't find the dress in the store for weeks, [34:04] months after the fact .>> Right .> So it sounds Sounds like [34:06] these big, really successful big investors [34:10] are going to be, have the same effect on the stock market. [34:13] Yeah and it can be, even ones that are big, but are sort of [34:16] anonymous, I mean if you think about it, we're going in and [34:18] we're buying chunks of $ 10, 000, and there's a big [34:22] company, maybe a high frequency trader [34:26] that has a Or that has an inventory of [34:30] stock they're gonna sell, so they're gonna have more than [34:32] $ 10, 000 just waiting around- [ LAUGH ] Right. For people [34:35] to buy it, okay? Cuz that's not that much in a great city. That [34:37] is very true. But we- So we do actually have a special guest [34:41] in the studio today- Okay. That I wanna make sure we bring [34:43] out and have the folks at home say hi to. So as I [34:46] mentioned, our friends here are actually part of [34:51] the Bestfriends Animal Shelter here in New York City [34:54] which is very fun. And we have one of the representatives [34:57] here in the studio who can tell our folks at home a little bit [34:59] more about the organization if you wanna get involved And [35:02] or if you want to adopt our little friends, right? So Hannah if [35:05] you can come on now, I really wanna have you talk a little [35:08] bit about the organization and what you guys do. Sure. So [35:12] Bestfriends Animal Society is a national animal lover [35:14] organization. We've focused exclusively on ending the [35:17] killing of dogs and cats in America shelters. Unfortunately, [35:21] 4, 000 dogs and cats are killed every single day. I'm sorry, [35:24] 9, 000. That's 4 million a year? Yeah, it's hard to think [35:28] about. So that's why we have programs across the country. [35:32] Where here in New York, we're opening a center later this [35:34] year in Soho, we already have two shelters in LA. Okay. [35:38] One in Salt Lake City and we have our main sanctuary in [35:40] southern Utah. So we're working with groups across the [35:43] country, shelters, trying to save them all. Very cool. And [35:47] you guys just had an event over the weekend that did [35:50] phenomenally well, right? We did. So across the country [35:53] right now, it's actually kitten season, so that's when [35:55] [ UNKNOWN ] There's a season for kittens? There's a [35:58] season. It's when cats are mainly breeding. So does an [36:02] infroxive kittens in shelters and because they so vulnerable [36:06] untill they are eight weeks old they are not able take care [36:09] off themselves. So unfortunately they have the highest [36:12] instance being killed in [ UNKNOWN ] .>> OK So, we do [36:15] events like we have this past weekend with our benefactors [36:17] [ LAUGH ] and here in [ UNKNOWN ] city we're Stores, [36:19] and we were able to adopt out over 95 cats. [36:23] Wow. So, that was great. These two, their six siblings and [36:27] their mother were adopted, but we still have these two. [36:29] Aww. So, if you're interested in adopting them, they are [36:32] available. You can visit bestfriends. org, that's our main [36:36] website. And if you follow the link to get to the New York [36:39] City sub site, that's where you can fill out an application for [36:41] them. Gotcha. And You know we know that you can only [36:46] adopt a kitten after they get spayed and neutered and have [36:48] all their shots and Yes. You guys actually take care of [36:52] [ CROSSTALK ] We do that whenever you adopt from Best [36:55] Friends all cats and dogs are spayed or neutered, they're [36:58] vaccinated and they're micro chipped. Wow. So that saves [37:00] a lot of money right there. Yeah. And we're constantly [37:04] running adoption specials. Right now we're doing an [37:05] Olympic special. So fun. So all our cathletes [37:09] are $ 10. So that's across the country. [37:13] And we work with even if you're not in one of our program [37:16] cities. If you are across the country in any city Please adopt [37:20] from your local shelter. We work with them across the [37:22] country, so- Perfect. Even if you're not in New York or LA or [37:25] Salt Lake, that's okay. Yes. And our Facebook audience, of [37:27] course, is everywhere, so we're very excited. But thank you [37:31] so much for coming on- Thank you for having us. And for [37:33] making sure that our little friends are having fun today. We [37:37] have a few things that we wanna check in on, so [37:41] Ian Yeah, I've been- This is a moment of truth here. How [37:46] much money did Maddox trade for the first [37:50] half of our trading period? So it looks like he [37:54] has bought one, two. He's bought a couple additional [37:56] stocks. One, two, three, four four, five, six, seven, eight [37:59] stocks. And we are down. We have about $ 99, 830, [38:04] so we are down about $ 70. But remember, most of that is [38:08] training commissions because he's spent $ 10 every times [38:10] he's bought his shares. He's actually made a little money if [38:14] you Ignore the training commissions, of course you cant [38:16] ignore the trading commissions, because if you were really [38:19] trading stocks that's, you know? Right. So wait. [38:23] [ CROSSTALK ] So how much did you have, where's your [38:26] green marker? I feel like I dont want to confuse the folks at [38:28] home. Nope you lost it, all right. I don't think I've touched [38:31] the [ CROSSTALK ] All right so what was the value that [38:35] you have? So I have $ 99, 828, [38:39] it changes every moment. Yeah I know, well mine All [38:43] right. I think he might be a little bit better [38:48] than Macy, which I'm a little bummed about. But it's only the [38:50] halfway point. [ LAUGH ] Macy actually has [38:55] 99, 828, [39:01] wow, they're exactly even. Wow. We're gonna have [39:05] to go down to cents, pennies on the dollar. We might, we [39:07] might. [ LAUGH ] I got 19 cents what about you? [39:11] [ LAUGH ] I've moved up to 924. Look at that! Well you [39:13] know how the market turns around. [ LAUGH ] All right well [39:17] I think we might have to reset the boards a little bit during [39:20] the second half cuz these guys have been Really [39:25] active while we have been educating folks at home. I know [39:28] I think Maddox maybe is gonna wants me to buy some of [39:30] your stocks but we'll see. Let me see if we [39:34] can pick him up. [ LAUGH ] Yeah make sure he doesn't [39:39] scramble away. He seems to be getting very curious. Yeah. [39:42] Which is great. Yeah. But taking lots of risk in the stocks [39:47] that he selects [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But, hey sweetie! [39:52] Do we wanna maybe here, I [39:56] will, will have one of our off camera wranglers take [40:00] Madox for a second, and you wanna reset your boards so [40:03] we can get them started on training a little bit more. Okay, [40:05] sounds good. Sounds good, maybe we'll mix up some [40:09] of the incentives here. Yeah, good plan. There we go. [40:12] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] The dry food [ CROSSTALK ] expected [40:16] to hit the dry food as always, is not proving that interesting. [40:18] What cat likes dry food when he has wet food, I mean, [40:20] really. Not as, it's funny [40:24] though because Macy has been really excited about the [40:27] treats, which are dry, so. All of the, she [40:31] speaks some Amazon, some Google There you go, there [40:32] you go. Yeah. Do you mind resetting my board? No [40:36] cheating. We have to make sure that you don't [40:38] de- incentivize the good stocks. [40:42] [ LAUGH ] Google he's already [40:46] bought. Yeah. Well we'll move that. Yeah, she's all happy [40:49] with that Okay [ UNKNOWN ] [ LAUGH ] And let's [40:53] move the toys around. Sounds good. They seem to really [40:57] enjoy the toys. [ LAUGH ] And which one is, I'll [41:01] move the. [ LAUGH ] [41:06] Man. Macy's just like let me back at it. Let me back at it. [41:08] She's all excited. [ LAUGH ] Alright. Do you want me to go [41:12] first this time? Why don't you go first? Yeah. I will put Macy [41:16] in. Where should we, maybe we'll put her at the top this [41:18] time since I put her at the bottom last go round? Yeah. That [41:21] sounds great. Alright. Five, four, three, two, one. There [41:26] we go. Where you going? [ LAUGH ] She likes the bottom [41:30] of the board? It's the pink toy. Yeah. There we go, she is an [41:34] energy fiend. I have to buy some more. Yeah, you [41:38] bought that, sold it, and now you're buying it again. That is [41:40] not a smart strategy [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] I know, I know. [41:43] You're down 30 bucks on your 10, 000. Right? It might be a [41:46] little difficult. But that's what people do, you know, I mean [41:48] that's why It looks like she has picked some [41:52] Netflix. Netflix. Girl after my own heart. I am a bit of Netflix [41:56] fiend. Who doesn't want Netflix? Right? And that's a very [41:59] volatile stock though. One of the few companies that sort of [42:03] seems to have successfully navigated Transition [42:08] in technology from DVDs to their streaming service. Yeah. [42:11] No. For sure. And certainly good weekend [42:16] activity here. Yeah. House of Cards. House of cards. [42:18] [ LAUGH ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] So [42:29] Ian, have you, before this, traded stocks? I've [42:34] never actually traded stocks, cuz I own mutual funds, which [42:37] is sort of what we recommend. Yeah, so what is in your [42:38] portfolio. Mutual funds. We're gonna open this up a little bit [42:42] [ LAUGH ]. I have some stock, US stock mutual funds, [42:44] foreign stock mutual funds So you are diversified. A little bit [42:47] of bonds, cuz I'm still a pretty young guy. [ LAUGH ] Just a [42:49] little bit of bonds, and some money market. Money market [42:53] is a mutual fund that basically acts kind of like a, I'm gonna [42:56] say it acts like a savings account. It's basically not [43:00] supposed to go up or down at all. So if you have money [43:03] you wanna spend in the near term, if you wanna take some [43:05] money out to buy a car or a house, a money market fund is [43:07] a good option. Gotcha. Well we wanna get Maddox back [43:09] in, so you Go, go for it [ INAUDIBLE ] [ LAUGH ] [43:16] So hopefully he'll pick some and I get to sell some. Okay, [43:19] Tiffany. Looks like you're selling Tiffany. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [43:22] [ LAUGH ] Okay. [43:30] When these guys are sitting here and buying some of [43:34] these stocks, are you seeing a difference in price now, like [43:38] you're obviously Tiffany, what did you buy it at? Well that's [43:42] a good question. Let me see if this will tell me. Tiffany, [43:45] looks like Tiffany, it's green a little bit, so not exactly why I [43:48] bought it up but I think it went up, made me a little bit of [43:51] money. Pretend to ignore the, again ignore the [43:55] trading commissions. [ LAUGH ] But yeah, [44:00] so there, it's all my stocks are up, no no no, it [44:05] looks like Citigroup and Chesapeake might be down a little [44:06] bit. Okay. So Or at [44:10] least since I bought him. Right. And the stocks, the stocks [44:13] bounce around. You know these people buy them and sell [44:15] them. [ LAUGH ] Madox is just like, you know what I might [44:18] be done training for the day. I think I wanna go exploring [44:22] outside of my little pen area. [ LAUGH ] But it's important, I [44:26] meant it's important to know, we talked about the stock [44:28] market, you see on the news but that's really an [44:30] obstruction, right, and that's There are two numbers that [44:33] you see. There's the Dow and the S & P 500. Okay. I guess [44:36] you probably also see the NASDAQ, but they're basically [44:38] just averages of what every stock did that day. Right. [44:40] Exactly. So, if the stock market is up 100 point. In fact, some [44:44] of the stocks might have been up. Some of the stocks might [44:46] have been down. Most days, not all of the stocks are [44:49] moving in the same direction. That might be if the Federal [44:53] Reserve did something. You know the people like to think [44:56] that all the stocks might move together. Got it. But a lot of [44:58] times, it's just an average. So, we are heading [45:02] up to our hour mark and unfortunately we didn't get as [45:05] much trading in the second half as we did the first. But [45:08] hypothetically, if we were trading for quite a [45:12] few more dollars, we might have Wildly different, but [45:16] I think the stacks have been fairly calm this afternoon, so [45:21] maybe doing some good deeds. But- We'll see, yeah. [45:24] [ LAUGH ] No, I think it makes the point though. That both [45:26] of our, what you see reflected in both our accounts is [45:30] [ UNKNOWN ] commissions we paid. Right. Which roughly [45:33] add up. Yeah. Even if we're gonna break even, we're still [45:36] gonna end up having to pay for it. But So That's probably [45:39] cuz we did it for one day but that's a big reason people [45:41] can't beat the market. Right, right. Well I think Maddox [45:44] might be pulling slightly more ahead right now than the [45:46] Macy which I'm, you know, we'll have to see. We'll come [45:50] back. Maybe next time the female investor will do [45:54] some good but Well, we'll see. In the long run, not trading [45:56] [ LAUGH ] probably put her ahead. Right. Well I do wanna [46:00] thank our friends at the Best Friends Society. And I want to [46:03] take just a few minutes for questions from the audience. So [46:07] we did have a lot folks on the line. So Laura [46:11] says, Best Friend's has been my Amazon charity. How do I [46:14] know if they are receiving my donations or from [46:16] purchases? You know, I think Hannah, do you want to [46:20] speak to that a little bit because 'cause I [ INAUDIBLE ], We [46:23] have a partnership with Amazon and as long as your [46:27] shopping on Smile. amazon and you selected Best Friends [46:30] as your charity we will receive your donation. Perfect good [46:33] to know! Well we have one more question from Turner and [46:36] he said, " Did you put some more expensive catnip in the [46:38] more expensive stocks ?" Turner we did not. We have no [46:42] catnip Here because we wanted to make sure that this was [46:45] very fair to all involved. So that's exciting. And we [46:49] have some comments that have come in and honestly [46:52] everyone says I love learning about investing while [46:54] watching kittens. Which is kind of th gaol today. I think we [46:58] of course would love to seat in trade talks all day but These [47:02] guys look like they're getting a little tired and maybe you [47:06] know we'll end there. If we sit there and say [47:10] Ian what was your final total? My final total is 99, 761. [47:17] Okay and my final for Macy let's check this out here. We've [47:22] got 99, 916. I think she came out ahead, there you go. [47:26] I think she came out ahead. Macy, you're such a smart [47:31] little kitten. Now both of them are very smart, of course. And [47:35] as we pointed out many times they are both available for [47:38] adoption. They are need to be spaded and neutered still. [47:42] So we have to wait until their both about two pounds. But [47:46] next week you can take them home if we get some [47:49] adoptive parents in the audience. So you guys might have [47:52] to move kind of quick. I know our studio audience, the folks [47:55] that are helping us out to do everything today. And some of [47:58] our staff members actually have already said that They [48:01] might want some, some smart kitten investors, so it might [48:05] help them out on their portfolio. But, well with that I [48:09] think we'll say thank you so much for tuning in today, we [48:12] really appreciate it. Hope you guys learned something, [48:15] hope a You had fun watching our super smart kitten [48:18] friends, and again, as always if you want to know more [48:22] about the markets, your money, anything like that check us [48:25] out at money. com. Again thanks so much guys. 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