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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual live podcast chat with charts, blending banter, market analysis, and sponsor reads—feels like a rowdy trading desk happy hour.
- The Key Players:
- Hosts: Josh Brown (Reformed Broker, witty macro guy) and Michael Batnick (data-driven, sarcastic straight man)—killer chemistry roasting perma-bears and sharing war stories.
- Guest: JC Perez, founder of Trend Labs and "Everybody's Wrong" newsletter; chart wizard famous for fading crowds and spotting bull trends early (called commodity rally last summer).
- The Vibe: Fun, high-energy, bro-tastic—bullish af on markets with laughs, inside jokes, and zero doom porn.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
The episode rips through behavioral pitfalls, bullish market signals, and 2026 trade ideas—charts everywhere, fading the herd, loving commodities and small caps.
- Topic 1: Human flaws & fade targets—Smart people blow up (LTCM, Isaac Newton); fade sell-side analysts, asset managers, journalists, economists at consensus.
- Topic 2: Bull market confirmation—Consumer stocks, industrials/transports, NYSE composite at all-time highs; breadth improving, ignore sentiment lows.
- Topic 3: Hot trades ahead—Commodities (silver/gold/energy exploding), small caps breaking out, international outperformance; semis strong despite mega-cap wobbles.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: JC Peretz**
- 2 (11:19) **Lessons from Smart People Blowing Up**
- 3 (15:57) **Four Groups to Fade for Edges**
- 4 (25:51) **Consumer Strength Despite Low Sentiment**
- 5 (30:18) **MicroStrategy Breakdown and Magazine Covers**
- 6 (38:52) **International and Commodity Outperformance**
- 7 (44:17) **Bull Market Confirmations**
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Show Notes
On episode 225 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by TCAF legend JC Parets to discuss: the stocks to watch in 2026, people JC has learned to fade, the sectors looking to break out, the magazine cover indicator, prediction markets, and much more!
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