Ep. 561: Going short: A slice of reality from my favorite sell-side analyst

Wall Street Unplugged - What's Really Moving These Markets

Frank Curzio

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🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Meet today’s guest, Michael Alkin – Curzio Research’s newest editor and senior analyst. Before joining Curzio Research, Michael spent over twenty years working in the hedge fund industry. He’s considered a short-selling expert. On today’s show, we get to know more about Michael… And how he went from mixing paint at Sherwin Williams in his mid-twenties to becoming the right-hand man of one of Wall Street’s greatest hedge fund managers… A man Businessweek once referred to as “the best stock-picker no one has ever heard of.” Michael also reveals some of Wall Street’s hidden truths… And how he unearths the biggest mispricings in the market. Listeners get a hefty sneak-peek at Michael's methodical method of "going short"... how they can turn this system into big profits… And the market Michael's targeting next... Good Investing, Frank Curzio

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0:00.0	Wall Street Unplugged looks beyond the regular headlines heard on mainstream
0:06.0	financial media to bring you unscripted interviews and breaking commentary direct from Wall Street
0:11.7	right to you on Main Street.
0:16.0	This is going out there. It's October 18th.
0:18.0	I'm Frank Courage, you're hosting the Wall Street on Club Club Podcast,
0:21.0	why I break down the headlines.
0:22.0	And...
0:25.0	Tell you what's really moving these markets.
0:30.0	So I got robbed this week?
0:31.0	What an opening line. But it's true. Actually got robbed.
0:37.0	I took my wife to go see Bruno Mars in Orlando for her birthday.
0:41.0	Yeah, she asked me, I want to see Bruno Mars. I know like one or two songs
0:44.2	that on a radio, but you know I figured all right, not a problem, it's a birthday, it's pretty cool and we drove
0:49.2	down to Orlando where he was playing. The concert was on Saturday and we didn't have tickets yet.
0:54.0	Only because when I looked to see how much the tickets were they were incredibly inspected.
0:58.0	They're like Super Bowl prices.
1:00.0	So I went online, I went on Craigslist, I know, hear me out first. You know it's a shady site. I've gotten tickets on Craigslist before.
1:07.0	I'm usually very cautious. Never had a problem.
1:10.0	So I contacted a person who had two tickets and they were like $175 each and they were for decent seats.
1:16.0	I called the person and went back and forth calling a really cool guy.
1:21.0	He asked me, he's like, you know, could you meet me a Shake Shack, which is like in the mall area, in Orlando, one of the mall areas, there's a public place. It was just everything was going cool. It was fine. And I like the fact that I didn't have to go to a house or anything, which I wouldn't have done. the public place was like okay this is cool
1:34.0	and I meet a young guy that comes out shakes my hands about around 25 years old we're
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