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Here is your host, Dan Ferris.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm your host, Dan

Ferris. I'm also the editor of Extreme Value, a value investing service published by

Stansberry Research. We have a very, very special show today. We have a really special interview segment

this week. We'll talk with not one, not two, but three, count them three of my Stansberry

colleagues, all of whom have spent years trading stocks, options, and who knows what else.

I'm really curious to get their three separate takes

on the current overall market conditions and to find out, you know, just what they do and how they

do it and if there are any pockets of opportunity that are especially attractive to them right

now. Now, before we get to the interview, I have a couple things on my mind. First of all,

thank you very much to everyone who wrote in with the book and other reading recommendations.

I went to Amazon and bought two of them right away. Street Freak by Jared Dillon and as you wish by

Kerry Elways, both recommended by listener Joe M. Thanks, Joe. Can't wait to get

started on those two. Okay, so besides what to read, I'm also thinking about the overall stock market

this week. End of the year, making new highs. It just seemed like something that was drawing my attention. And I've done this

often over the past couple of years, of course. And I'll just remind you mostly, I think it's a

big mistake to spend a lot of time thinking about the overall market. I've learned from experience

that it's a waste of time in most years. You know, whether it's up or down, 5, 10, or 20% or totally flat, most years, you should just

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