By Brooke DiPalma
Publication Date: 2026-01-08 11:00:00
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Welcome to Stocks in Translation, Yahoo Finance’s video podcast that cuts through the market mayhem, the noisy numbers, and the hyperbole to give you the information you need to make the right trade for your portfolio. I’m Jared Blicker, your host, and with me is my co-host, Yahoo Finance senior reporter, Brooke De Palma, who’s here to connect the dots and to be that bridge between Wall Street and Main Street. Today, we’re gonna be talking about all things ETF from plain vanilla stocks to their leveraged cousins.To commodities like gold and silver, to more advanced products using derivatives, you know, the kind Warren Buffett calls weapons of mass destruction. Our phrase of the day, market concentration. Just because we’ve got lots of participation, doesn’t mean you don’t own too much Nvidia. And for market show and tell, we’re looking at a large cap energy ETF exploring the concept of trading ranges. As they say, the longer the base, the higher in space. What that means.For your energy plays. And this episode is brought to you by the number 13. When we look at leverage ETFs, that’s how much more the ETF crowd is long versus short. We’re gonna tell you what happened the last time we hit these eye-watering levels of bullishness, and today we are welcoming back Todd Sohn CMT. That stands for chartered Market technician. So you know we’re gonna be digging into some voodoo technical analysis. He leads ETF.Research at Strategis, where he works with…
