They Said Buy

Methodology

How this site works

Every number on a page can be traced to a public video, a timestamp and a closing price.

Sources

We catalogue the public YouTube uploads of each creator through the official YouTube Data API and read the English captions. Quotes are short excerpts (about 25 words or fewer), attributed to the speaker who said them, and linked to the second where they begin. A guest's opinion is never attributed to the host.

Statement types

Each quote is labelled by what it actually says: named as a pick, buying the dip, hold (bullish), disclosed holding, valuation view, conditional, price target, risk acknowledged, top conviction, reducing, sold, avoid, or a plain mention. A positive comment is not a buy recommendation, and a recommendation is not proof of ownership.

Prices

Daily closing prices are split-adjusted and come from Yahoo Finance. “Close that day” is the regular-session close on the calendar day the video was published (New York time); if markets were closed that day, we use the last close before publication. “Since” compares that close with the latest available close shown on the page. SPY is shown for the same interval as a benchmark. These are price observations, not the creator's realized returns: we do not know what they bought, when, or how much.

Verification

Quotes marked “unverified” are verbatim automatic captions that have not yet been checked against audio. Verified quotes have been listened to by a person. Obvious caption misspellings of company names are normalised; nothing else in a quote is edited.

Corrections

If a quote is misattributed, mis-timed or taken out of context, tell us and we will fix or remove it. See Corrections.

Not advice

Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation. Past price moves after a quote say nothing about future ones.