celebrity chef and restauranteur bobby flay he's a secret stock picker but no, talking about the stock exchange back when he was a kid. get back to it who is your pick in the first round of your first stock draft? >> so i decided on this stock because the s&p has been up 17% so far and we're only four months in. we have 8 more months to go for the rest of the year and 9 more months for this contest. and so who knows >> you're feeling a little nervous. >> people tuck in a little bit. >> a defensive pick. >> it's a defensive pick but also a pick with something that i know a little bit about. food so i'm going to go with kraft heinz. >> we just talked about that >> bobby, it's one of the biggest stock dramas of the year i mean, they've completely, you know more about this than i do why do you think they're attractive at these levels >> i'm a huge heinz ketchup fan and own grey poupon. people will tuck in and eat a lot of food at home. >> i think this strategy is very interesting. tuck in. what do you think? >> sylvester stallone in rookck, i don't use them condiments. nobody uses relish a

i did it >> number five, the chef himself, bobby flay. >> bobby's bowls goes to number five and we'reng close to the top -- >> do you think we have a future in a game show >> i don't think so. >> number four, nick lowery and nick the kicks picks >> last year's champion in the four spot. >> gets the fourth pick. >> can he still pull it out even though he's the fourth pick? that's the question. >> number three, beth nenny frank frankel. >> number three. that means only two left seymour alpha and the green machine. >> number two, jarvis green and the green machine. >> the green machine number two. >> that means we know who that leaves >> oh, there's our drum roll oh, man. our own insider tim seymour and seymour alpha. >> it moves to the number one spot right up there. >> there you go. all right. seymour alpha gets the first pick jarvis green, team yes >> will he pick a cannabis company? seymour has been all over those stocks >> i thought you were going to say something else remember, folks, the stock draft will be here next thursday live. the 25th at 2:00 p.m. eastern time on power lunch

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the dog, back but this year, they may be more friends than foes, kelly >> we'll see celeb chef bobby flayre making his way to the draft. >> the 2018 stock draft champion nick lowry, hoping to defend his title this year. you may not know this, kelly, but nick's real name is dominic, so from one to another there you go. >> you can't have a stock draft without the beards town ladies we welcome them back for 2019 as well before we can get started, we need to get to melissa lee to explain these rules. >> the 10 teams will be making three picks each from a list of 60 investments 56 stocks, plus gold, oil, bitcoin and a way to play bonds. we've got the blue chips, walmart, boeing, koch and more and all the fang stocks, facebook, amazon, netflix and google, apple too. and there's a basket for all the risk takers, canada goose, snap, tillray and the new ipo lyft on the board. the 2019 stock draft winner is the teams whose stocks with the biggest appreciation not including dividends. sorry mr. wonderful. the game kicks off with today's closing prices and ends with the closing bell, the friday befor

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