Stocks in Translation

In this episode of Stocks in Translation, IG North America CEO JJ Kinahan, joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried to discuss the phrase, “buy the dip,” and how it relates to market sentiment.Blikre explains, “‘Buying the dip’ is a strategy of purchasing an asset after its price has dropped, believing it is going to go higher.”Kinahan considers the phrase to be a market sentiment indicator. “When people think that some trouble in the market is temporary, if you see more people ‘buying the dip,’ I think what they’re really saying is we have confidence in the market overall. Longer term we have confidence that we’re going to see the bounce back.”Kinahan uses Microsoft (MSFT) as a good example of a company leading the way in the ‘buy the dip’ mentality.“It’s the first place people tend to turn in terms of individual names,” Kinahan explains. “We used to see Apple (AAPL) be a stock that people also turned to pretty quickly. Not seeing that as much recently. Meta (META) taking the place a little bit, but at the end of the day it tends to start with Microsoft from the retail perspective.”Kinahan also talks strategy with Blikre and Fried and the importance of setting a plan and managing expectations while trading.“People may have a plan until the market moves against them,” Kinahan says. “There are some trades I may make that may be for a very short amount of time, a couple of hours, day or two. There are other trades I’m making where I’m saying, ‘Okay, this is a 60 day trade, this is a one-year trade. It’s something I want to invest in for a longer period of time.’ - I think the biggest mistake too many people make is they are not sure what their investing timeline is.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.comYahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by Lauren Pokedoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Stocks in Translation, J.P. Morgan Asset Management global marketsStrategist Stephanie Aliaga joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Yahoo Finance Anchor Madison Mills to discuss policy uncertainty and how it impacts business decisions, investments, and market stability.Blikre defines policy uncertainty as the lack or clarity of predictability about government actions such as regulation, taxes, or monetary policy. While the state of the market is impacted by a number of factors, what is happening in Washington D.C. right now contributes to it too. Aliaga shares her perspective on the current state of the market in 2025.“So far this year we’ve seen, and as a continuation of the last two years, that price momentum and earnings momentum have really been in sync,” Aliaga says. “Markets have traded a bit sideways, but that sideways action really masks what we're seeing underneath the hood, which is quite remarkable; a broadening out which we thought was the focus of or was gonna be the theme of 2025 so far seems to be the case… I think investors are taking the opportunity, particularly given elevated concentration in their portfolios within US growth and US tech, to lean into some of these areas with some wind behind the sails.”Aliaga also mentions some of the areas causing policy uncertainty that investors are gearing up for, from President Trump’s tariffs to DOGE and deficit spending to the 2025 tax reconciliation bill.“But I think the way investors are positioning it is quite notable in that leaning into diversification - checking your headlights, checking your breaks in the midst of a storm - how are you protected or potentially can benefit from the way that the chips fall.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.comYahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by Lauren Pokedoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Stocks in Translation, tastytrade Founder and tastylive CEO Tom Sosnoff, joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried to discuss implied volatility and how investors can use it to their advantage when trading.Blikre defines implied volatility as a measurement of expected future price wins in a stock or option.“The easiest way to look at this is the higher the implied volatility, the larger the expected move,” Sosnoff explains. “It just means that plus or minus, it is going to be a bigger move, which means more opportunity. So the higher the implied volatility, if you’re a premium seller, it’s better. If you’re just a directional trader, it’s better. If you’re an opportunist, it’s better. So for self-directed investors and institutional investors as well, higher volatility means more action, more fun, and that’s why you’re seeing the huge option volumes we’ve been seeing lately, that’s why you’re seeing the huge futures volumes, and that’s why you’re seeing all the general activity in the markets.”Fried asks Sosnoff for any tips everyday investors can use to take advantage of implied volatility. Sosnoff says looking at implied volatility ranks makes a difference. The ranking is a scale from zero to 100, and it gives context of how a stock is doing. Using Tesla (TSLA) as an example, Sosnoff says, “Right now the implied volatility in Tesla - just because it’s an actively traded stock - is 74, but the [implied volatility] rank is 77, which means that on a scale of 1-100 is very high right now. If you wanted to trade Tesla because you thought it would have a big expected move, or you wanted to Trade Tesla because you wanted to sell premium there, it is an extremely interesting play because anything over 30 with implied volatility rank is considered to be hot and that gives you context.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by Lauren Pokedoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Speaker, Author, and Former CFO Michaella Gallina joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried to discuss investor psychology and how cognitive biases can impact an investor’s trading account.Blikre explains that investor psychology refers to the emotions, biases, and decision making patterns that influence how people invest. Things like impact buying and selling and risk can be affected by things like fear and greed, overconfidence, and loss aversion. Gallina goes into detail where she’s seen these biases come into play first hand.“I have seen these biases come from basic retail investors, and the data shows us that all the way to working for a self-made billionaire at one of the largest growth shops, we all face these same issues,” Gallina explains. “The three that I really pay attention to are loss aversion, recency bias, and confirmation bias. I think loss aversion is fascinating because it’s essentially the concept that we feel losses as an investor at 2x the rate of the emotion than we feel joy when it comes to gains. There’s fascinating neuroscience about this. The neuroscience actually tells you that when you feel a loss as an investor, the same part of your brain that lights up when you feel physical pain. So that just goes to show you we're already against human nature in such great form to not make trading decisions based on emotions or at least to try not to.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by Lauren Pokedoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The growth to value shift has been all the buzz in 2025.In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Lee Munson, Portfolio Wealth Advisors, Chief Investment Officer, joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried to discuss the shift and what he expects to be the next big shift in AI.Our word of the day is multiple—a key metric for valuing companies.“A multiple is a number you use to derive a company's value,” Blikre explains. “You take a company's earnings, revenue, or another metric and multiply it by that magic number to get the value. And that magic number is the multiple.”For those new to financial markets, Munson breaks down what to watch for in earnings reports.“Bottom line, the story has to get better,” he says. “When you have a higher multiple company and you have earnings growth or revenue… just a tiny, little softness [and] you're [going to] see an immediate 10, 20 plus percent drop in the price… what that tells you is that the multiple was too high versus not having the story get better.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by John Tejada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Peter Borish, Computer Trading Corporation Chairman and CEO, joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried to discuss the dollar's strength.Blikre explains that a “strong dollar” refers to a “US dollar with high purchasing power appreciating against other currencies, which generally benefits imports but generally hurts exports.”While many in the economic sector favor a strong dollar, it comes with drawbacks.Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by John Tejada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technical analysis is essential when investing in the market.In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried are joined by Patrick Dunuwila, Founder and Editor of The Chart Report.The group explores technical analysis, or "technicals," which, as Blikre explains, "analyzes price movements and chart patterns to predict future trends."“Ultimately… what technicals really provides you is a way to manage risk… A lot of people like to think of it as predictive,” says Dunuwila.Having spent time on the fundamental side of the market, Dunuwila shares why he shifted to technicals.Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by John Tejada., Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If crypto is ever going to be widely adopted, it needs a makeover.In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried are joined by Keith Bliss, founder and CEO of Blox, a crypto brokerage firm.Today's focus is the crypto world and its major roadblock: debanking—also the word of the day. As Blikre explains, debanking is the act of denying or revoking banking services to an individual, business, or entire industry.Debanking primarily affects cash-handling businesses and those involved in digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies.“Debanking is real. It needs to stop,” Bliss asserts. “The only way that new technologies and innovation will be allowed to flourish is if the banks are allowed to provide service, uh, to those companies.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by John Tejada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to invest, but you do need to stay sharp. Investing can be risky, especially with complex financial products like options trading and leveraged ETFs.In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Todd Sohn, ETF Strategist at Strategas Asset Management, joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Senior Reporter Alexandra Canal above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.Our focus is on leveraged ETFs, also our word of the day. As Blikre explains, a leveraged ETF “uses derivatives or debt to amplify returns, aiming to deliver two… or three times the daily performance of an index.”Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by John Tejada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every investor wants to make smart decisions, but if investing were easy, no one would ever take a loss.In this episode of Stocks in Translation, Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried are joined by Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research.Colas, who has spent most of his career in institutional investing, agrees that professional investors have more information than retail investors. But he argues that the real distinction between “smart money” and “dumb money” isn’t just access to information. “It’s the process by which you make decisions,” he says.Recalling his time at SAC Capital under Mets owner Steve Cohen, Colas shares how he met weekly with an in-house psychologist to discuss his mental and emotional state when executing trades.Colas soon realized the purpose of these check-ins.“What he was trying to get us to understand was, past a certain level of knowledge, your intuition's very powerful, and that intuition is really your secret sauce. It is what makes you a good versus bad trader. It isn't just what you know, it's how you execute on it. And it's that process that makes for great investors,” he explains.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation, with master statistician Jared Blikre and voice of the people Sydnee Fried, is your guide with essential conversation cutting through the market mayhem, noisy numbers and hyperbole to give you the information you need to make the right trade for your portfolio. Find this episode's transcripts and more episodes of Stocks in Translation at https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/stocks-in-translation/Thoughts? Questions? Fan mail? Email us at yfpodcasts@yahooinc.com.Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation is hosted by Jared Blikre and Sydnee Fried, and produced by John Tejada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices