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Ep 25Do you have a smartphone? Guess what, you can be a YouTube creatorMicha Katran of Micha.Stocks
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Do you have a smartphone? Guess what, you can be a YouTube creator
Ep 25Want to know why a stock dropped? Type the company name plus 'IR'Micha Katran of Micha.Stocks
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Want to know why a stock dropped? Type the company name plus 'IR'
Ep 25Why So Many Israelis Save Instead of InvestMicha Katran of Micha.Stocks
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Why So Many Israelis Save Instead of Invest
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Quotes
“When you come to a YouTube channel and you're thinking how to make money, the likelihood of you making money is very low.”
Micha Katran of Micha.Stocks
“I already got the no. Maybe I'll get a yes, right? So I can only improve my odds that way.”
Micha Katran of Micha.Stocks
“When you're saving, you're not including inflation in the picture.”
Micha Katran of Micha.Stocks
“Otherwise, we're just taking letters, random letters and putting money in. And that's gambling. That's not investing.”
Micha Katran of Micha.Stocks
Takeaways
1 He moved from Israel to the US about 7 years earlier as a tech VP and has invested for 20+ years. Micha.Stocks began as help for friends and became a daily Hebrew "CNBC": two live streams and one video a day, about 20K subscribers and 2.5M views in a year.
2 YouTube pays after 1,000 subscribers. For him it's "a few thousand dollars" plus a paid community, so it's a side income, not a living.
3 He takes no sponsors so the channel stays objective, and he discloses his positions.
4 Serve a niche that's missing (Hebrew speakers) even if a bigger market exists. Value brings viewers; chasing money doesn't.
5 Community matters in investing because you're alone with your portfolio, and no one holds all the knowledge.
6 Israelis tend to save rather than invest (Hebrew has no real word for "wealth"). One reason is the 1980s bank-shares collapse, when people lost about 90%. Saving without counting inflation quietly loses money.
7 Free education is everywhere: his free Hebrew stock-market "academy" playlist (62 videos), company IR pages and TradingView.
8 Trends he was watching in 2022 (not advice): self-driving cars, VR in education, and blockchain as the "internet of money." He calls Bitcoin digital gold, but thousands of other coins may not deserve investment.