Financial Markets: Navigating the AI Revolution with Pro Options Trader Jason Strasser (Episode 962 with Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan welcomes back a long-time friend of the show, Chief Investment Officer at Caption Jason Strasser, for a record-breaking 5th time to deep dive into the evolving financial markets and how to make sense of them.
Adam and Jason discuss the AI revolution, the pressure on social media and the future of Bitcoin, catching you up with all the crucial information you need to understand the current state of the financial markets.
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| 0:00.0 | this information being shared in this podcast does not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation |
| 0:04.1 | of any offer to buy or sell any securities and does not provide any investment advisory |
| 0:08.3 | services. This information is not meant as a general guide to investing or as a source of any |
| 0:12.7 | specific investment recommendation. Any projections, outlooks, or estimates discussed during this |
| 0:17.3 | podcast are forward-looking statements based upon specific assumptions and should not be construed as indicative of any actual events that have occurred or may occur. |
| 0:46.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 962 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:56.4 | My name is Adam Levittan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. And today we are joined by one of the oldest friends in the show, one of my personal favorite guests making his record-breaking fifth appearance, I believe. It is, of course, Jason Strasser, |
| 1:04.5 | former poker crusher, turned chief investment officer at his options for him caption, turned |
| 1:09.9 | Oklahoma City Thunder superfan Jason |
| 1:13.2 | really appreciate the time. How's it going? It's good, man. Thanks for having me. It's been, |
| 1:17.6 | I can't believe it's been five times. It's been a while since I've been on here. So it feels like a while. |
| 1:21.0 | Well, we certainly have a lot of things to talk about on today's show. We're going to talk |
| 1:25.6 | all things financial markets, plan to cover |
| 1:28.9 | stock market, AI, Bitcoin, gold and silver, prediction markets. We'll also get to your questions |
| 1:35.9 | and more. Going to skip over Jason's background. If you want to know more about Jason's background, |
| 1:41.6 | you can go to episode 69 or episode 172 or 722 to catch up |
| 1:46.9 | there. All right. I want to start with the current state of the S&P 500. I mean, 2023 smash |
| 1:56.9 | up 24%. 2024 smash up 23%. 2025 smash, up 16%. All I hear from seemingly sober people like |
| 2:06.4 | Jason is, man, stocks are so expensive right now. Be careful. Or they're like, some tech stock is |
| 2:12.8 | trading at some previously unheard of multiple earnings. And yet, all this thing does is go up every year. |
| 2:18.5 | So why is this thing going up every year, Jason? |
| 2:21.3 | And is this sustainable for the S&P 500? |
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