SanDisk is mentioned as a stock that would have been difficult to predict as a good buy three years prior.
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The Chart Mistake Even Joseph Carlson is Making!
Sep 15, 2026
The creator critiques Joseph Carlson's interpretation of stock charts, arguing that many investors, including Carlson, misread them by not accounting for cyclicality and historical price action. The video highlights several companies like Western Digital, Revolution Medicine, Seagate Technology, and Micron Technology as examples of stocks that appear flat on a 10-year chart but have experienced significant cyclical volatility, which the creator believes is a crucial factor missed by many.
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Amazon is used to illustrate how linear charts can make a 100% gain look smaller than an 11% gain.
Visa, along with Mastercard, is mentioned as an example of a company with consistent compounding growth.
Mastercard is used as an example of a company with consistent compounding growth, contrasted with Micron's perceived flat performance on linear charts.
Micron Technology is used as an example of a stock that was flat for most of the past eight and a half years, only making gains in the last year and a half, highlighting the creator's thesis on chart interpretation.
Seagate Technology is cited as an example of a stock that has been flat for a decade but experienced a boom in the past year and a half, illustrating the creator's point about chart misinterpretation.
Western Digital Corporation is presented as an example of a stock that appears flat on a 10-year chart but exhibits significant cyclicality, which the creator argues is a misinterpretation of its price action.
ASML is mentioned as a semiconductor stock that the creator's favorite YouTuber, Joseph Carlson, owns, and which the creator themselves does not own.
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