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The Storm Trade That Made Me Rich

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The Storm Trade That Made Me Rich

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One of my biggest trades was identifying

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one of the biggest hail storms of the

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past decade and investing in a roofing

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company, okay? Like because I was

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tracking the number of people who were

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searching for the words roof repair. And

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every single spring, come March, every

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few days, I would go on Google Trends

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and I would pull up a 5-year chart to

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see if more people were searching for

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roof repair this spring than the last

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five springs. And there was this one

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spring season where it was like triple

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anything that had ever happened before

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it. So, I was like, "Okay, this is going

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to be huge for this company Beacon

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Roofing," which was a publicly traded

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world's biggest roofing tile company,

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right? They distributed roofing tile to

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roofers. And that's exactly what

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happened and I put on a monstrously big

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levered bet on Beacon Roofing and I made

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an insane amount of money. And in the

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last 17 years of my life, about 80 of

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those stories. I made 80-ish what I call

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high-conviction bets or trades on 80

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different narratives over 17 years just

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like that Beacon Roofing hail story. And

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the vast majority of them have been

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right.

Interactive Summary

The speaker describes a successful investment strategy based on analyzing search trends to identify high-conviction trade opportunities, illustrated by a major bet on a roofing company following a massive hail storm.

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