Like to welcome everybody to another Friday livestream locked and loaded no doubt about it great to see everybody give it a couple seconds here Let some folks in that want to partake in the message tonight. Try to keep it around 60 minutes the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube No doubt about it a lot to unpack Coming out this I could see this probably come and go As as soon as possible that would be nice January has just been an absolute disaster Haven't paid much attention to it be honest with you guys have been indisposed and a lot of different projects Really kind of give you a nugget within the first minute of the live stream It's going to be incumbent upon your ability to put this stock market in the box. Don't let it consume you It's just that simple. It's not worth it You know, lots of schools of thought have transpired over the last 10 years, especially during this bull market Which has made people think that perhaps maybe working hard is not necessary Making money is easy You know taking shortcuts is is is the way for for all to get ahead and retire at 30 I don't share in that. I don't I do share a testimonial of someone who believes that a multi-faceted approach and one one that requires diligence over the long term is really the key to Ensuring that the masses can enjoy success You know, I find it interesting I've said for the last three months and had some of the larger YouTube channels talking about them selling their entire portfolio Interesting enough. I felt like we've been in kind of correction mode for the last three even before Christmas Back into November of 2021 So, you know, it's been correcting. I think tech has has really exacerbated the sell-off And I think usually when people start to take note Work a couple months into a correction Just that simple So if your game is going to be timing the market and You'll lose You'll often lose. I Guess that the real fallacy nowadays is that there can be hundreds of thousands of subscribers That want to tune into that garbage and watch somebody fart in a cup and sell them on the idea That is something that they need to do as well And perhaps I'm wrong perhaps there's hundreds of thousands of people who can Actually have a brain on their own shoulders and make decisions on their own and not always turn to YouTube To tell them when to take a shit When to breathe When to have their heartbeat heartbeat When to feel when to laugh when to cry when to do anything how to think Tune into YouTube write it into the search bar. How is it that I can think on my own? Help me This channel takes a completely different approach to and and often scoffs at social media For the damage that it causes I think, you know, the institutions really don't have to do a whole lot Retail investing community is like a hand grenade ready to blow themselves up at any time anyway We are our own worst enemy And I think there's a lot in the retail investing community that deserve This staunch lesson that they're getting on the stock market and and what it can do what it can do out I will say this there's been some pretty good accelerated sell-offs during this January drawdown in the markets Which I think will Provide those opportunities quicker. So it's just going to be incumbent upon you guys to actually Yeah, meet Kevin cough. I see that I Think these folks are probably great people and and I don't mean to I do mean to pick a little bit of fun. I don't care what they do Talking about a strategy in the market that is wrong It's gonna hurt a lot of people and and it's just amazing to me how many people want to follow It's just that simple. We may have to pull up the sheep intro tonight to proof of my point But it's amazing to me how The lack of people out there kind of foot stomping and you know Chris was strong man personal finance He does a good job of really kind of foot stomping the same message over and over and over again About the total world market and and just owning the ETFs and living to fight another day But this whole that idea that you can just you know buy and sell and and and and get in and out of the market I mean they missed today. They missed today up of 600 and that's what happens. Is it a dead cat bounce? I believe that it probably is That there's been no reason over the last three weeks to it to expect that this isn't going to continue to accelerate to the downside But but but who cares? I just if you could just pay attention to the landscape enough if you're that interested in Paying attention to what everybody else has to say do it and then do the opposite Just do the complete opposite seriously I'm neutral Whatever you want to say I'm boring. I'm long-winded But but there are certain strategies that I share and I'm very very careful before I share them That can work for the masses.   They don't a Significant amount of their net worth has come from their business and this transcends YouTube or people who are successful in in in business And and then try to assimilate that success or financial wealth with wealth garnered in the stock market Wealth garnered in the stock market is a hard-earned dollar. You have to pay attention You have to apply strategy and you have to stick to that strategy and plan It is not something that happens every single day You're gonna go through periods where it just seems like you have no idea why you're doing what it is that you're doing But when you start to your mark Points in your life where you just take a pause and you step back and say man alive There was a decision at some point in my life when I started investing in the market Has it put me in a better place now than I would have been had it not been for the assistance of financial markets And and I tell you what guys it's so interesting. I typically as a self-assessor in always looking at the Mistakes that I've made as opposed to the successes that I've made and I look back over my investing career and You know, I might be in what could be perceived to be one of the biggest mistakes Of my life and I share that with a social media audience and people come on and they're like Ryan You're wrong.  I had one gentleman come on I think or a lady I can't remember Tell me that the the basement and their house is free when I end up losing everything with highly on That was kind of funny We will do the reviews the portfolio tonight. We will assess and you guys can assess for yourself whether or not somebody who has Built and I will stress and footstomp the importance of looking at Financial security as being just that it is a wealth of building Evolution it's something that takes time It takes effort Anybody has everybody has time and everybody can put forward the effort. I question people's motivation to do that Acknowledge the time but also put forth of the ample effort that is needed to get somewhere in a financial markets and You know, it is just amazing to me how people always look to take the path of least resistance And on the independent investor channel If I can't put you in charge, I don't want you around. I don't I'll give you everything I've got With regard to how I deploy my program. I'll give you all the tools I'll give you some things to think about Take those fundamentals But you've got to apply it yourself In other words, if you think by nature of me doing all the work for myself and putting myself on a path To financial freedom for myself and my family that you're going to carbon copy Not do any work or make this make sense for yourself and make it reality for you Just by sheer nature of coming in and visiting the channel It's just not going to happen for you And I'm slowly learning as I get older the The minority of people out there that are willing to put forward the work and You know, I'm disappointed and I I I do advocate for those people out there Maybe that can make their way to my message and feel inspired To take those first steps never too late. I don't I don't care what your age is There's there's folks in my group that are in they're late teens and there's folks in my group in their 60s 70s and 80s So there is no disparity There is no amount of You know Credit that you need to have or or or criteria that needs to be met.  It really is participating in financial markets is is is fun It starts to become a little less fun and much more rewarding both When you start to embark on a little bit more of an advanced program that I run in way of my speculative category and my hyper growth That's just getting absolutely crushed right now Some stocks that I was looking at interested in taking positions in you know matterport comes to mind That I don't own and so fi on the other end that I do own That I put a little bit back to work now But man, they are just rolling off and they're they're rolling off tough. They really are So this has been kind of a double whammy No problem I deploy strategic buckets and I'm going to show you the mixed bag tonight As we started to kind of level off It was a nice give back today. It was a nice $7,500 day for me And so we were able to make up some of the damage But when you guys are looking to assess over a january that's been just downright brutal We say it how it is we come into the independent investor channel live stream We don't beat around the bush. Do we sell everything? Now the people who have been with me for years They know that there's only one application you might be tempted And there's probably people who even follow me and know 100 what my conviction is going to be from week to week to week from year to year to year To hold the market strong And there's going to be people mark my word that cannot handle the swings Even as acute as this january has been able to dole out And they've sold they've they've lost that conviction and they've sold only to feel better For a short amount of time Now is the market going to continue down? I don't know Those those are not the types of questions that you really need to be asking what I can say is Down 10 percent. I was actually tempted to do a little dying So when you're doing your damage assessment of yourself and and and what has been What has transpired over the last month in way of potential Slight first tier entry back into the market down 10 percent What I mean by that is if the market rolls off 10 percent Look to deploy a little bit of capital look to deploy nothing no problem Look to deploy a little bit of capital in the markets no problem Okay, if it rolls off another 20 percent then we look to step that up and deploy some more capital I was going to deploy a little bit today And and got my first green day in a long long time decided not to deploy As well as I didn't have a lot of the time As today to to actually step in But but I was looking at buying a little bit of the passive market today The contributions to the Roth IRA have been completed for 2022. So $12,000 to each Uh, 6,000 to one 6,000 to the other that's done for 2022 I usually do that in january, but those those dollars are in there I have not invested yet And I have not made my first investment in 2022 Outside just a few shares of the VIG A little bit of a top-up and so fi I I did buy some more long contracts in Some some interesting categories actually Nicola, I went ahead and bought some long call contracts and Nicola I went ahead and bought some long call contracts in hyzon I I just think that the progress there in the space In general has been dismal But there has been some marked interest in the space as we look to step into Integrating some of these green solutions into Heavy transportation and I I find it interesting Of a way to just go ahead and say look In 2024 if I can't have hyzon at $7. I think I wrote the contracts for maybe even $5. I can't really remember And then Nicola, I believe I wrote the contract at $10 If it's not above $10 in two years, no problem. That's that's a bet I will take all day And it's been proven to actually be Really quite An interesting pick here as they're looking to push out their their product Becoming eligible for the 125,000 Of credits that's really getting a lot of attention, especially in the port of l. A So some interesting stuff and it's a space that fascinates me very interested in the space itself and Really Interested and collectively I mean, I'm just a little fart in the wind, you know, I mean what influence do I have As far as You know environmental stewardship and and and taking a step in the right direction I know how much of a personal steward I am of the environment But I think it is important for some of these major industries To atone for what has transpired over the last let's say 100 plus years Of running transport And and and building Quite a significant amount of profit over those years I think the time is now and and I think there's a difference I think there's we're at the very beginnings of a paradigm shift in the industry Where I think you've got a lot of the transport companies out there that are excited About the prospects of integrating some of this technology Into their fleets and it's going to be a fun A fun thing for me to actually evolve with And observe as as we you know step into the next You know 10 or 20 years of of integrating the fleet. So I'd like to welcome everybody Really appreciate you guys being with me on the friday live stream Let the folks we've got a great great group in here We'll do portfolio reviews. I'll get to some questions tonight I've got some topics to talk about some of the things to think about as we enter into february I I still have high prospects for 2022 Come december. I'll let you know how it works out The but for the most part man always be an optimist There's no reason to live your life in the dumps And this too shall pass And we look to exploit those pockets of value that are always created on these sell-offs They always create them and they create them fast So you really have to be kind of aware that while everybody else is crying About about the market going down and that the nobody told them that that's what they signed up for While you are coiled up ready to strike at that next opportunity guys So stay with me be back with you in just a moment Now that was devoted to all the audiences of the large youtube channels. I've been part of that I've watched meet kevin before I don't watch him anymore. I don't It seems to me to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and it's moved a lot further away from my mission and perspective on the independent investor channel I I don't want I don't want this project to stand for that If this project takes 10 or 20 years to build out I'll look to move into retirement with this project as part of my life And I I want people for the most part On a topic like this that is one of the top five topics That people don't like to talk about Actually looking at this opportunity and saying, you know what? It impacted me it made me think about a few things it it put me In a position to question my own motives and my own strategies and You know, it really kind of put me in the driver's seat And that's what I what I want to do is make people think about the importance Of understanding why it is they do what they do but You know, it's always interest of me when I look at Some of these folks who are are are almost looking at the stock market as something that can be controlled or timed Or predicted and guys I I'm going to give you my best. I hell I could be wrong on this too But here's my best Summary of 25 years in the stock market You will never ever be able to predict the stock market in the short medium and long term There will be people that throw out educated guesses and lo and behold, they're right It doesn't make them smart. It makes them lucky It sure does and I don't care if it's with individual stock I don't care if it's with the direction of the stock market I really think the takeaway for a lot of investors out there That may be looking to get involved with markets in the first place Is to ask yourself a very simple question and I pose it in this way all the time Do you want to invest in in the market or not? If you do Do left, you know, it's like mr. Miyagi. Yes, you invest. Yes, or you invest No, you walk middle you get squished like grape, right? Don't be wishy-washy about this application and especially don't want to check out your validation on youtube as far as What these youtubers are doing from week to week? Hell, you can throw me into that category. No problem The last thing I want to do is push some information out there that somebody acts upon And they may be misconstrued or they hear me outright And they they deploy that information and and it hurts them. I can deal with personal losses There's no problem about that Because I know how to weather storms and I know how to take stock into deep water But you know the last thing I want to do is is get somebody turned off of stock market investing when I think Even for the lowliest investor out there i.e. One that doesn't have any confidence That they can make it but with a little bit of perseverance and that right pedigree of desire to do Can actually get ahead If if they do desire to do that they really can and we can provide that motivation So I was thinking about dollar cost averaging that it looks It looks better to start a position. I think 10 down. You can start a position with no problem If you're going to start a position, okay x being that value a thousand dollars 2500 5000 Larger chunks of capital anything above maybe you know five figures 10 25 000 I may be a little bit more strategic strategic with deployment to those funds and then it kind of comes down to individuals specific Situations with regard to have they you know maxed out their taxed advantaged accounts How does the savings account shape shape up? Is there some emergency cash there on the side?  I can go on and on and on with regard to that but I dollar cost average the market all the time There is no stopping and starting of that. So that is an all the time Exercise that I do in in in the market. I don't stop I'm funding the market to the tune of about I think on the conservative side I would say about 1500 dollars a month And a thousand of that is 20 percent of my pay That goes to the thrift savings plan So for all you guys that are government workers To understand that that's you know a big chunk of that now the remaining 500 will go toward You know $50 a week $100 a month and dollar cost average. I do some strategic buys. I would have done that now I would have funded up the The passive account, which is just fabulous. I want to foot stop that for you guys as we go over the portfolio reviews But but but yeah, I mean if you've watched this market Just linger at all time highs for you know since the pandemic low of march of 2020 Now you're kind of getting a potential opening To to buy some stock at lower prices, especially on the passive side And and definitely on the technology technology side I I think you can grab the triple cues what I was going to buy today is matt's favorites matt money Is one to discuss a product that I really like it And it's tqqq. It's it's a tough one. It's not for the faint of heart It is good for me in the strategic location and I was one day removed of buying tqqq today this morning It would have been a nice entry at $50 would have been a real nice entry And it and it ran up it ran up four dollars four dollars and changed today I do own the triple cues in the Roth. So it's a little safer But the tqqq could fit nicely in my brokerage account to supplement The total market, which is vanguard's vti domestic total stock market not Not the global markets vt. Okay, but I thought that was a good supplementary holding to that anyway So let's jump into the portfolios matt. We'll take a look see you see how things shook out Making sure that I don't need to move in that was a nice offer about the basement I said, can you accommodate for? Gotta have a little fun on this deal guys. You really do So here's the brokerage account to marginally down Week over week. This is down about a thousand bucks. I think week over week So starting to level out starting to get a little bit of of footing here perhaps Boeing and 3m really rolled off. So value rolled off and tech Caught caught some heat here Whether or not that is sustainable. I have no idea. I really don't But uh, you know amazon here on an entry is nice I I like amazon. I like picking up google's had some nice price action through the volatility here CRM, which is salesforce.com that had a nice day today as well So, you know, here we are in the brokerage house. This is a taxable account For you guys that are seeing this for the first time This is Roth IRA number one. I do have 10% to this in cash. I'm holding strong there on this Chevron disney highly on In this I was able to some of the folks have asked me about my tax loss The sale that I took in december of last year that 30 day wash is gone now, which is great I've supplemented some of those shares back into the Roth at the time of liquidating those shares. I had 12,000 I'm back up to 11,100 shares anyway So and I was able to put some of those shares along into the Roth IRA anyway So good stuff Microsoft action has been fantastic small caps have been absolutely obliterated. So bbk You're going to see some damage there. Sofi is is is is extremely suffering right now Realty income had a great day today The you know tax global I it can't get out of its own way. I think since I bought it. It's gone down every day I don't think I've ever seen it go up. So really too bad They're expanding their reach globally and they're selling a lot of their products.  It's one of those companies.  You know, it's been years Since I've looked at the stock market And these are some of the intangibles you can take away from my discipline In that, you know, what would you do if you made $7500 in a day? Yay, you'd jump up and down and this is awesome This is for the inexperienced investors, but you know, you go through so many days An equal amount of down days. You just hope that over time The goods outweigh the bads In the range of 10 and you're good to go live to fight another day Vig my passive base here dividend depreciation fund as well as vpu with the utilities So look a nice Apple obviously it's just an absolutely dominant quarter Absolutely dominant top and bottom line beat. I I don't know how the hell they do it. It is just absolutely phenomenal You know, I sold my 75 shares up at the 170 mark. Oh about a month month and a half ago anyway I Picked up 25 back into apple. Um, so just kind of reestablished kind of a token position there in apple. It's a big position Mind you, and I'm glad I did because I you know, I I always want to have a piece of apple in the portfolio, but I you know, I felt like it had run pretty good from the low 100s Up to the 170 mark and liquidated a pretty pretty awesome profit there So 95 stock and holding on to that 5 cash in here Something to mention here I did add back in 50 shares of exxon mobile Royal touch shell is doing quite well. So oil rolled off today with the rotation in the market, but No problem there. We'll continue to own it This was a big surprise to me big surprise and this is where I was going to take some strategic fund ups Now if the markets rolled off 10% This would be a place where I would look to kind of do a strategic buy up And and maybe a couple thousand is prudent here I didn't have a chance to do it But I I was pleasantly surprised that this is holding up nicely It was up week over week go figure. I have no idea. I have no idea But I declare these numbers to you as they are This is a cool way of investing with m1 finance had a really great discussion with chris Christopher blaine is is part of my viper group and he's also a good friend of mine through the channel But um, you know, we were having a good discussion about m1 finance and I don't know how else to put this I roll these out through the channel and This is not for everybody, but it could be it's a very nice way of grabbing the 11 sectors in the s&p You know your technology your health care your financials You know all the way down the line your utilities materials energy telecoms And just investing in the whole market but dividing the allocation across the 11 sectors And waiting it In the in the way that makes sense for you for me. I've got technology on the high end So even with technology rolling off this portfolio is really really hung in there nicely And I I was pleasantly surprised when I checked this. I thought that this was going to be down With the 10% roll off. This is pretty amazing that this is held in for a while The next one I want to foot stomp as well And I don't I don't mean to come across like I'm toot my own horn here. This was somewhat experimental But this is up week over week as well m1 finance man, I've got these funding with about 50 bucks every two weeks or so Dividends pay almost every day when you own 79 stocks Now mind you some of these deficient dividends are 3 4 5 6 at times 9 10 12 dollars at a time that man alive What a little machine this is and uh, I I I'm I'm super stoked on this um, I I think we need to be open to the idea of of Alternative ways of seeking exposure to the market using some of these platforms The the tried and true way when I started investing was to Lump all your money into four mutual funds and that was it. I think the times are changing I think with this volatility, of course, you've got these financial planners that are crawling out from behind the rocks Telling everybody how awesome they are and that they need to crawl to them or people need to crawl to them right now The secret in investing is that there's nobody out there that's immune to what's going on right now in the market I as an individual independent investor am down just the same as everybody else Okay, now if you're investing with a financial planner, you're also paying the fees on top of that So congratulations, you're the one taking all the risk and they're the one still making mother money Whether or not the market is up or down Super important if you've never heard that spiel from me Play it back on the replay and try to understand and ground truth for yourself What i'm talking about. This is a cool way of investing here. This is the bond account. This is attached to that account So kind of cool TSP we're down a couple bits here. Nothing crazy This is setting up nicely for a nice run into 2022 if we're gonna have one The pip has fallen off to 23 percent. I didn't change that. I do apologize But we're down a bit Nothing nothing crazy. I do fund this pretty aggressively. This gets funded with about a thousand bucks a month That's aggressive for me.  I have no problem with that zero Honestly, this is my 60 minutes that I come on and I lay out the goods for you guys It's just that simple and I'm always trying to keep the end user in mind. What is what do people need to hear? Do do people need to hear after three weeks of stock market action After 10 years of a bull market that all of a sudden the sky is falling and everything is going to zero Do people really need to hear that? Like I said, I think some of these guys could shit on a plate and show you guys not you guys But the grander youtube audience because I think there's a lot of people out there with a severe severe disease Called followership. I I just think it's rampant and I think for some dumb reason I don't know what you need to do. I don't know punch yourself in the face a few times I don't need I don't know smash your head against the wall a few times to wake up And smell the coffee and realize that the only one who cares about you is you the only one Okay That's it You know, I'm gonna give you my best shot I'm gonna give you my best shot about what works in the market But I tell you what man I've kind of come to the realization over social media that there's a lot of people out there That just don't want to hear that stuff. They don't they do not want to hear that stuff They just want to hear how they can do it quick and how they can get there at you know without Paying as much attention or putting any type of personal attention to a specific program It's just not going to happen for you. It's just that simple. There's no substitute You want to know Why the where the greatest secret lies for me in my success story as a financial wealth builder? It's my effing job You want to know how to succeed in life? Go get a effing job Find something that makes you happy and get a job You people who are relying on the stock market as your sole wealth building plan You guys are are setting yourselves up for a lifetime of stress and discontent Honestly, the stock market is not built for that type of activity If it went up every day and it went up every month and it went up every year This is so wonderful Jack, you don't have to know anything about this. Just get involved and it'll make you money And oh by the way, you can retire at 30 As stupid as that sounds people actually do buy into that in that I can I can I can be the one I can be the one that grabs the stock market in such a way That it does what I tell it to do Now it's going to go up and it's going to go down, man The idea is to control Your your your plan over the long-term man take the goods with the bads and live to fight another day All right, find something else to do with your time That is conducive to the four categories that i'm going to talk about here at the end of the live stream That's really going to help you guys give you the pedigree that you need to to Like I said all the time man be be proud of being an independent investor. There's no doubt about it You're saving money the ETFs that I own. Yes are going down, but they cost me nothing to own This sector portfolio that I showed you cost basis point one zero That's the cost basis One tenth of one percent It doesn't get any better. I don't pay anybody for that I've never touched this of the only thing I do it is fun to this. That's all I do I've never rotated money. I've never sold a thing. It takes zero I footstomp zero effort to maintain this account anybody can do it It's very very simple And I just told you week out week over week after a lot of people are You know starting to get the prepper bunkers all set up and ready to rock.  It's pretty cool Vanguard's growth is up just a little bit recovery today a little bit in the amazon google facebook In videos of the world So nice to see that it seems like I've got a little bit of footing after today How we're going to enter into next week is beyond me. Okay Vio, which is your mid cap offering here with weevil Kind of cool. I bought it. I'm in it. It's good Glowbacks has kind of just slowly degraded a little bit I'm kind of waiting to have this catch some fire this year Probably middle of this year when they up list to the nasdaq, which is the plan. Okay Really cool. I'm very excited about the prospects of this company. We'll see cryptocurrency is caught I'll just a little bit of footing here. It's been on an absolute sell-off It's been a bloodbath in crypto. It's followed the broader Stock market as well But that's where we are there and then the total portfolio value 465 780. Okay So, you know, if I look at it in the acute short sense, perhaps maybe I should just be completely disappointed Maybe stress myself out Maybe turn into a skeleton like my like my, you know, my thumbnail You know, like I'm doing so bad that somehow that I need people to feel sorry for me I just I just I don't understand that application man. I never will I'm trying to help you Have some perspective about this deal and just understand that I've asked for this digital number to ask like an A digital number because it's invested in in the stock market in the capacity that I wanted I want it allocated to risk Now part of that 465 780 is comprised of some cash And I did over the last three months raise some cash 2021 I went all the way through And did not do a whole lot of big chunk buying I did a lot of saving the cash I did a lot of just holding the stock market true And you know, here I am in a position where I've raised some cap capital I'm I'm ready to deploy But I'm very very acute and monitoring the markets to make sure that I get the best entry that I can It's just that simple and We'll continue to monitor the markets and we'll keep that dry powder on the side Until we're ready to take some strategic buy-ups in the market. I could could have done it today I could have done it last week. I could do it next week. It's not a problem. It's not timing the market. It's just looking at the market objectively And saying we're off 10. It's that simple. Should I buy now?  You're doing it right If you're selling in january here because of this activity you're doing it wrong. Okay Um, the further the market goes down the more I want to buy And that's the attitude that you got to take in the financial markets when we're looking to do this stuff All right, let's cruise down to the bottom here get to some of the folks. There's the first one Mad cow king. How did you come up with that? Really? Geez Louise man When the market is followed followed don't invest your lunch money. Well as as true as that is I think the people that I put my message to from a pointed perspective Are those people that don't invest at all? Right, and I think the old onage that mad cow king has has addressed for the group is Enter into the market with scale You don't have to put the entire farm on black. You don't have to put You know huge positions Into the stock market all at the same time man. It's all good You know started dollar cost averaging you don't have to do lump sum investing at all To be honest with you just invest your little bits every month on schedule Do a little strategic buying raise to cash do some investing. He'll do it all. It's all good, baby It's all good. You can do it all If you don't look at the market and say I don't make a lot of money. Therefore. I can't do it Instead of you know, I don't make a lot of money But I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it with 25 bucks every couple weeks 25 bucks every you know 50 bucks every month whatever it is that you decide to do It's just we want to get people from From not wanting to invest or thinking that there are barriers to entry past those barriers And and and believing in themselves that they can absolutely do it and they can absolutely so Friendly view that's a good one those who sold were misinformed Uh, I put the culpability on both sides of the house. Um, I cannot blame Meet Kevin. I cannot blame Jeremy with financial education I cannot blame Graham Stephan for coming out and just really seriously taking a dump on a plate and showing it to people and people watch that stuff Now, I guess they're good channels. I don't know.  I don't know.  Identify what it is is right in this world and just do that You don't need validation from other people man. It's all good. Just just make it happen on your own It's some of the toughest things you'll ever do I look at some of these categories of success and I used to look at diet and fitness and I'm like that Gosh, man, I love to eat. You know, I love it But if you can just chip away at these topics a little bit diet and fitness has nothing to do with the stock market Or does it Does it allow you to look at things more holistically and kind of buy into a little bit more of a holistic program In in my opinion, it makes me a much better stock applicator if I'm healthy Or if I do end up making something out of this highly on investment Maybe I'll be around You know with a few marbles upstairs to enjoy some of this money or at least watch my kids enjoy it Because I'll probably give it to them anyway unless you needed the money to support your family. It was not a sell all correction No doubt about that totally agree with that appreciate your comments friendly view In the house, man, very cool. I wish I could kick over and start anointing some wrenches tonight need more moderators Need more moderators in this independent community, man. I usually give everybody a moderator. I don't care But uh, anyway got Kenny. It's great to see you Kenny man. Your thumbnail looks like an iron maiden album. It's amazing. Yeah It kind of speaks to my whole like I try to capture what it is. I think is the thesis of of of the markets and it's like none of that's true It's just the stock market. You know, it's a cool thing Stock markets cool, but people talk like it's some sort of like it's alive Or it's like it's I heard a comment and it was aimed at me It was by one of my friends through youtube one of the another channel creator The stock market's trying to shake people out Okay, I don't I don't know what that means man. The stock market is what it is. It's not it's not alive Okay, it just is what it is and to take it for what it is I try to look at it that way like like people really stress out about this stuff and It's just not the right application and and the trick for you is to say Gosh Ryan, I don't want to lose my money either. I've got ten thousand dollars to invest or a thousand dollars You know, should I just take that and just invest it all right now? If you're concerned about the money Then take ten percent of it Take ten percent start with a hundred bucks Start with a thousand bucks And get yourself off the launching pad and start that dca program simple simple symbols can be Start with the o.o. Start with the smp 500. It's one fund. It's a low-cost etf It'll cost you 0.03 of expense good to go invest in the smp 500 very very simple something anybody could do All right, very cool When yep, that's it got that cash is good to have got my good friend eric weaver cash is good to have As well. It's just one of my strategic buckets It's one of the things that I talk about here That's different in my application because I know as an independent investor I'm gonna save money over the long term. I don't have to get so over my fees That I'm going after the cost savings and I'm gonna over lever to the market guys I'm not a wealthy man. Like I just told you what I have in my total comprehensive portfolio What what do you expect that I can do with that? What would you expect that I I'm I'm planning on doing with that?  That's a lot of money But it's not aligned anywhere close with what I want down to life. I've got some more work to do Okay, I have some perspective about this thing and and and my thing is I have said this many times. I don't trust the stock market. I don't trust it Okay To keep some savings capital on the side there To keep some other strategic buckets the way I do To have my money allocated the way I do some in passive some in dividend growth stocks That just makes sense for me And and and I think I mentioned strong man with chris and I like him a lot. I really do Um, I actually find myself questioning Do I watch his channel because he Foot stomps the vt all the time which is what a lot of investors need to hear But I think it's somewhat of a one-sided perspective in that the market doesn't allow you To have just a you do this for forever and for all time and it will work That that's not how the market works the market demands of you to put strategies in play and Sometimes there's going to be times where some of the strategies Aren't performing as well as they could and then there's other going to be other times when they are performing And kind of holding that portfolio afloat But you know the vt or the vti or the voo man when the market rolls off they will suffer passive investing investments will suffer They really will and and I I like my More holistic approach to the market in that during those times It's so nice to have that value where it's paying You know in the in form of the dividends. I really like that stuff. All right Very cool stuff Fantastic I got another friendly view comment very cool everybody owns assets is down Yep, if you're fortunate to weather the storm you're going to do well If you weathered this storm I tip my hat to you and I thank you for bringing that out friendly view. That's a really good point I say all the time that there is no lesson that is more important than being an investor in the market These lessons that you will learn you will learn so much about yourself Be honest with yourself. Did you like waking up every morning and seeing that the market's down five or six hundred points? Did you like it? Did you not like it? Did you deal with it better than you thought you would or could? Right give yourself credit or credit is due and as you start to tack on these months It's going to build up your risk tolerance Your risk tolerance is like a muscle. You have to exercise it And the only way that you exercise it is to be involved in financial markets. It's just that simple I thought you just needed to buy the dip. Why not? Certainly Call it what you want people say you can't time the market I just look at it objectively and say look the market's down 10. Could it go down 20? Yes Could it go up 10 from now for the rest of the year and have another banner year in the smp 500? Yes So it's kind of futile to say, you know, if you entered now you would be in fact buying the dip That's a good thing, you know, if you bought back in december you would have suffered through this dip You know, so it's just a realistic application that I apply With no real Guarantee of certainty of the outcome. In other words, I'm prepared for both. It's either going to do one of two things Okay, it's it's not going to enter into this like fifth dimensional galaxy and do something other than go up or down The stock market is going to do one of two things up or down. It's it's that simple Predicting either one of those two outcomes at any given time in the acute is impossible You cannot do it. You cannot do it and people argue with me on that all the time and then there's people who For the sake of being really really sexy and coming on and being like, you know Fed chair said this and therefore it means this in the market and I'm doing this and therefore you have to do it It just doesn't exist. Sorry I'm not sorry. Actually. I'm right. I'm not sorry I'm right. This is what people need to hear. They need to hear this stuff They do if your game is to get involved only to be subject to the whims and influences of others Then don't start don't start in the first place. Man. It's just that simple Awesome comment. Thank you for that. Steve B. Steve B's in the house, man. Fantastic. Tell them, Ryan fantasy. It's There are no facts in the market. That's the funny thing that People come on and they act like they know exactly what's going on I I think I'm probably closer to the truth by telling the people who frequent the independent investor channel to to not Not expect that you're going to know those outcomes People I think put themselves on an expectation and this is the excuse I hear. I don't know anything about financial markets Therefore I can't succeed Nobody knows squat about financial markets I know a lot about fundamental analysis on companies I know a thing or two to be dangerous about technicals as well I've studied financial markets and I've studied market momentum my whole life and and I'm still Confident enough to come in front of a youtube audience and tell you that I still don't know I don't know enough to predict markets. Nobody does nobody does Okay, but I do know enough to provide Transparency through what it is that I do and have shared with you Some of the philosophies that have made sense for me and have obviously worked I didn't earn five hundred and sixty four hundred sixty five thousand in in hard dollars in my life. They'll know I've probably contributed 120 to that and the rest is is capital gains That's the power of the stock market So when you look at a testimonial like mine and you're like, wow, that's pretty cool You know that there is power then the question comes. Do you want to invest or do you not it's just that simple And I'm trying to advocate for those retail investors that I was pretty hard on at the top of the live stream I do think there's a lot of people in out there that just need to be kicked in the head They do They they need to smash their face against the wall a few times to wake up And understand that this thing has to be kept in check. It has to be kept With some level of perspective and scale if you're over levered to the market And this would have told you perhaps maybe if you're over levered if you have You know $50,000 to your name you have zero in savings You over spend you don't have enough paycheck to paycheck and all of that 50.50 thousand is tied up in the market Maybe you can handle it Maybe you can't and I think maybe now is the time to be honest with yourself about what you can And can't realistically expect from the stock market, but don't just throw in the talent give up that that's that's not going to work All right starbucks looking really good right now fantastic. Yes, it is I think I bought more after this and michael bapkup went up went on a shopping spree today michael It's good to see you man. He bought some serious stock today very good. Javier is in the house Is that you javier the young man who's frequenting my youtube channel at 15 years old? I need to probably come out with a clean version. This is not made for kids guys But if that's you javier and you are an adult smell the copy and purchase starbucks. No doubt about starbucks is a buy all the time It's a good company. It's well run margins are great on copy. It's a good business to be and I like it I do own it myself in the dividend portfolio. I stuck it in there. I like it. It's a good one, man It's good stuff Yeah, sorry about that. I apologize if you're sitting with the family my bad But it's what I felt at the time so I decided to say it This is not a netflix channel. You know that jamey You're getting about as unique a content as you can possibly get on my channel proper It's great to see you my friend very good stuff just going up the line here getting everybody some FaceTime Eric's in the house have to slice an apple and that m1. Yep. Absolutely apples a good holding man It's good good stuff and matt Simmons is in the group here. I got money back below that. What's up, ryan fam Finally some green today holding steady as usual state of course Uh, yeah, it's been real tough on me, you know, I'm taking a double decker The portfolio wouldn't have suffered as much had I not had highly on In there highly on it's been a real drag in the portfolio and it's drugged down a lot of my conviction You know, I'm very convicted on my program From a value investing perspective and highly on You know, it was was one of those step away from my discipline and I've just been punished for it There has not been one single Iota of of positive from the from owning the stock company totally fine The disconnect could not be any more rampant And I'll continue to footstomp the message until I find a reason to not and I'm not even close I'm just not even close I'm more excited now having gone through what I've gone through with highly on Over the last 18 months Then if I if you were to tell me what I was in store for a year ago, I would have been like Damn, I got to go through that I don't know if foresight would have provided me that I would have been like, you know what? No, thank you Not because I knew the stock was going to go down But because of the mental anguish You know that you go through as as an active investor in a company that you have to continually cover I continually cover the company. I'm scouring the landscape for Information it does not help when a ceo is basically just slam the door on people and stop talking I don't know what's going on and that's really what pisses me off more than anything But I have to believe that the silence is for good reason to protect the ip that's going on and we just need to give it More time. It's just that simple. I I feel like i'm right. I will continue to be wrong until i'm proven right It's just that simple and and and even right now as much courage as as it takes for me to come on and say That I have been wrong on this stock I I have a conviction like no tomorrow that I will be proven right on this opportunity I really do people really need to rethink how they think of Creating mechanical energy from the internal combustion engine that we've done over the last hundred years To ship goods. You don't need that all you need is an onboard generator filled by You know either a natural gas or a fuel agnostic type of application or hydrogen fuel cell and these companies technologies are really advancing This idea into the transportation industry and like I said, it's going to be a lot of fun I do have stake in it So it'd be a lot of fun to see how this industry really provides these solutions And we get them into the hands of these fleets David, I really appreciate the dialogue this week, man There's a few people rick schnellman is also in the group here david You're also one of them. I really appreciate your Your candid discussion with me, man.  I really would have But this makes sense for me. This is advanced level stuff. I've thrown a lot of bullets at this sucker And like I said, perhaps maybe it's just we need to To deploy our our always Available option of holding and applying more time. It's just that simple and and that's where we are so far as great news And goes down. I don't get it A provisional bank charter means that they are Available or have the opportunity to loan Money at the the rate of the interest rate that they're allowed to And from the lending rate And what they get from the Fed government as a as a bank that's chartered That's all pure profit Like I said, I just think in this market the market's being it's just malicious And I don't care how good of a company you are right now You're just getting crushed. It's it's just that simple and um That's been pretty tough, you know to have conviction on a company and just to see it go down every day The sofas right there I think options is holding so if I back could be Can't time the market and can't figure out any of this sometimes That's two of us. Uh, and uh, it's really tough. I mean It's just tough markets right now Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Yeah, there always is but where that light is Dave I can't tell you where that's at in the in the short and medium term I think long term we may look back on this time and say man I mean that was that was really dark time and I'm sure I'm sure glad we held true on on on our conviction There's no doubt about it Can you explain why banks are down with interest rates going up? I can't the whole market's down Um, there are just segments of value that are catching favor The staples are doing quite well um, but um, the whole market has just been absolutely brutal And I think the tech saw off and the rotation that's going on Is actually favoring the value stocks right now And I think financials are just being overlooked and I think they're being drugged down with the rest of the market The visa news in fintech helps a little bit Uh, I I think the banks are well positioned. I own jp morgan. I own city group I own sofia own goldman sacks The they're positioned well. I own morgan stanley I own three canadian banks bank of nova scotia tv And and also royal bank of canada. So, you know, I'm positioned. Well, just the same as you as a fun fundamental investor. I'm seeing These companies trade at extremely undervalued costs right now Of entry and I'll continue to just invest alongside my conviction Sometimes you look at the market and you're like man This has to go up and it's not until six eight months later Where that hey, it has to go up is realized. It's not always just looking at the market and saying Oh, there it is, you know, I looked at it. I thought it should go up and it did It's just never liked that and I tell you what I I have that With so many stocks to where I look at them and you know, I look at them a year or two later And it's like wow look at that, you know, I wish I would have held the held the course with it Go a few more minutes here We'll just take a look at some of these comments that are coming through Boeing is another one I like Boeing I was going to enter into and I thought I had lost it when it run up to 230 I may I may double up Boeing here And I've only got 10 shares. I may double up Boeing here That might be a nice move for me to take All right, about the only thing jim kramer has been right about Very good stuff These I had a great day today 3m on the dip is probably pretty good All goods in the house great to see you t q q q good one and yes, not for the faint of heart. That's triple 11 That thing goes up and down in a hurry. It really does. It's it's pretty crazy. It's great to see you So many people say apple is overpriced I that's always been a criticism of of apple as of late It went through so many years trading at 12 And now in the 20s people are saying it's overpriced They're turning in numbers and quarters. That was a quarterly number You just you 125 billion. Is that right beat on the top end? 211 of earnings compared to 189 on the estimate How is a company that's that predictable So unpredictable and they blow it out every time. It's just unbelievable And the question is do you want to own it or not? You know, I mean, I'm talking to you guys through an apple computer right now the products are fantastic They just work and it's just that simple.   That's a good title of the video Maybe we'll we'll call it that now. I try to keep it not that I really don't my angst is not that I can't deal with a recess stock price It's not that It's that I feel like during a time where the company could be a little bit more transparent They are not and and that's that's too bad It makes people think why were they so Hyped up on the on the onset and now all of a sudden They've just kind of went went silent on the line. That's the part that's the most frustrating for me. Mm-hmm. Yep Max on wax off. Absolutely. Very good Okay, out the wood. I got the most hate for my rktf videos boy. Was I right on that one?  I was right on that one Mm-hmm dumpster fire Those are meat kevin fault. Yep. They sure are they sure are Becky loves the sheep Fantastic good stuff guys, uh, you know, we went a little over time little bonus time tonight Just a standard friday livestream. I was obviously kind of spirited tonight Really want to make sure and drive it home for people I don't mean to be offensive. I'm not a an offensive person. I'm a very very nice person um, I care My passion comes through in my message I just want you to find what it is that you're looking for I do Because I'm trying to do the same for me And I think it's those common threads man. I talked about it today at work amongst colleagues people No matter where they come from No matter if they came from riches or not What their background is What you think your privilege or lack of access to privilege Or whether or not you feel like you've been on a harder road than the next I don't care what your socio economic status is I don't care what you think that it is Okay, we don't discriminate on the independent investor channel Because I try to strike at those common themes for people to gravitate to That makes sense for them and their families. Look at this thing more long term Look at it as a wealth building initiative Look at it as something that is absolutely accessible to the masses If I can do it you can do it too I talked about in reflection all of the mistakes that I have made If I could have cleaned out half of the mistakes that I've made I would have probably been better off for it, but here we are Living to fight another day We will grow and evolve together. We will build wealth together There's no doubt about that the success of the channel is predicated on each and every one of your guys's successes that you're able to build For you and your families going forward guys. Thank you so much for tuning into the live stream tonight We'll catch you next friday again for the fastest 60 minutes on youtube. No doubt about it. Stay convicted. Stay strong We'll catch you next friday guys. Take it easy


What's up, everyone? So today's going to be a little bit of a different video. I'm going to talk about some seed recaps, but I kind of want to talk about something big first. So number one is, it is September, September, I think 14 or 13, and you know, it's kind of crazy. Let me kind of backtrack, right? So my style of trading, the style of trading that we preach to our members is very, very simple, right? Trade in the morning and walk away at zombie times, right? And the process works. So I am kind of living proof of the process, guys, because as you guys know, if you are in MIC or if you watch these videos, my trading is very strict, right? I trade between 9.30 in the morning and 10.30 in the morning. I don't trade past 10.30. If I trade past 10.30, I'm breaking rules. If I trade pre-market, it's with one tenth of my size. So my bulk of my trading, where most amount of money that I make comes from, is in the first hour of the day between 9.30 and 10.30, right? So I'm not the type of person that looks at my numbers all the time. I'm not the type of person that gets obsessed with, I got to make this, I got to make that because I found out that based on my personality that the more that I look at my numbers, the more I get in my head, if I'm up $10,000 for the month, I say why isn't it 20? If I'm up 20, why isn't it 30? If I'm up 40, why isn't it 50? And that's kind of been really toxic for my mindset. I tend to compare myself to others sometimes. So something that's worked for me is I don't look at my numbers, right? I don't look at my numbers. I don't know my numbers. I have no idea how much money I'm making every single month until I do a recap, right? And usually I do the recaps for the members. So my birthday was last week, right? My birthday was September 9. I turned 26 years old. And I said, you know what?  Let me, let me see my numbers. Let me see my progress on the year. Let me see how I'm doing. Maybe if I'm doing good, I'll get myself a toy to celebrate. But the point is that I, until this point, until last week, I did not know how much money I was up or down on the year. All I know is that every single day I showed up to the market, I traded till 10.30 in the morning, and I walked away at 10.30 in the morning every single day. So I was kind of surprised to see that so far on the year, I am up $1,050,000 after commissions, after fees, and after locate fees. So without all that, it's probably about $1.2 million. But after all the fees, it's about $1,050,000. And something that I really wanted you guys to understand is I am living proof that the process works. I stick to the process that we teach and I don't deviate. When I deviate, I lose money. So to me, it's almost mind blowing that I could trade for one hour a day and make $1 million. We're still in September, so if we keep going at this rate, I might be up another couple hundred thousand by the end of the year. But the point that I'm trying to make, guys, is that I am trading for one hour a day. I am trading stress-free for one hour a day. I am taking those $500 days. I'm taking those $1,000 days. I'm taking those $2,000 days. I'm not pushing for 10, 20, 50, $100 a day, $200,000 a day. Let me tell you something, guys. I am not making the most money out of anyone on the internet. Trust me, there's people making way more money than me, way more money than me. But what I could say very confidently is I trade for the least amount of time, least lower than all these other guys, and I make way more than them in that timeframe. So for me, guys, for me, I'm not the type of person to want to sit there all day between 9.30 and 4.00 PM, clicking buttons every day for seven hours, to make an extra couple hundred thousand dollars. If I could show up, stick to the process, trade for one hour, and make a million dollars, I mean, you would be a fool not to want that, right? That gives me the ability to walk away, to help the members. If I didn't have MIC, I'd probably have a second job. I could do whatever I want. The point that I'm trying to make to you guys is that even today, today was a $500 day, right? $500 is essentially nothing, right? It's nothing in the grand scheme of things, but those $500 days over the past nine months have added up, right? It's added up. So I'm really happy to see these results. It kind of blows my mind to see these results. I don't know any other trader that trades for one hour a day that makes a million dollars for trading one hour. And oftentimes, guys, oftentimes, the longer you are trading in the market, the less money you make, right? The less money you make. So do you guys see how powerful the process is? I am doing exactly what we teach at MIC, guys. There's no secret strategy. There's no secret accumulation. There's no pump and dumps. There's nothing that you guys don't see. Every single day, I am showing up to the market. Every single day, I am showing you guys. Every single Monday, I am recapping my trades. And now, after nine months of doing it, here are the results, right? It's the same analogy that I gave to working out, right? So I just started working out. It's been two months now. And I just started seeing results after two months, right? And that motivated me to keep pushing forward. But just like in trading, if you keep working and working and working and you don't see results instantaneously, think of it as working out. You have to keep putting in that work and eventually you will see the success if you do not give up, right? So here I am, here I am with a million dollars for trading for nine months and only being around for the first hour. That makes me so excited because this is something that is repeatable, guys. If I am able to do this, you are able to do it too. I am here doing nothing different. I am sticking to the same things every single day and you guys are seeing the results. People that are just tuning into this video are probably like, oh, he made a million dollars. He probably makes $20,000 a day, maybe $50,000 a day, maybe $100,000. And then he loses $2,000. I mean, the reality is this guys, I am very consistent. I take small wins every single day. I take small wins and they add up and they add up and they add up and they've been adding up for nine months and here I am with all of the results. So, I mean, it's kind of crazy to me. I used to work at Starbucks, man. So just a little bit of brief history on myself is, you know, when I was 18, 19 years old, I started working at Starbucks to make some extra money. And back then I was working about five days a week and I was making, I think about $120 a week after taxes and that was basically being broke, right?  The even crazier part is saying, I'm making a million dollars a year trading for one hour a day. That's the part that blows my mind the most guys because this thing, this trading game has been the hottest thing this year. Everyone wants to be a trader, but they don't understand how much work goes into it, right? So think about it. I've been studying and studying and studying and improving and improving and improving year after year after year after year, which has gotten me to these results. And my question is this guys, what has taken you so long to start, right? The quicker you start, the quicker you will start seeing results guys. So for me, I wanna kind of give you guys an example of what it takes or what I do or maybe you guys think that I'm doing something differently. Maybe you guys think that there's some secret sauce that we're not talking about, right? So when I wake up in the morning guys, I really have no idea what I'm gonna trade, right? I maybe know what stocks move the previous day, but when it comes to the morning, I have no idea what I'm gonna trade. Think of it like this, imagine I am the leader of a country, right? I am the United States of America. And I wake up at four in the morning and my war general tells me, hey man, in five and a half hours, we're gonna go to war. You have five and a half hours to prepare for the war ahead of us. This is what the enemy is, this is the briefing, figure out a plan and try to attack them. That's the same way that I think about the market. The earlier I wake up, the more time I have to plan against the upcoming enemy. If I wake up later in the day, like at eight AM or nine AM, I only have 30 minutes to prepare for this enemy. So not only am I here waking up early, trying to prepare, I am trying to use context clues and trying to use ideas to paint the picture. So it's SAVA today, right? So SAVA was a very hot chick in the morning. This was a stock that everyone was interested in the morning. It had a lot of volume, it had a lot of attention and it was Monday. So a lot of people over the weekend are usually very excited to trade. A lot of people get very sloppy on Mondays and here we are having a crazy, crazy, crazy gapper on a Monday. So the point that I'm trying to make here guys is this. RMIC process told us that pre-market, pre-market SAVA was not a short. It was not a short because it was easy to borrow. It was not a short because it had high volume. It was not a short because it was above VWAP, okay? So pre-market, pre-market bow went long and bow went money going long. So not only because we woke up early, because we analyzed the stock, because we knew the battle that we were going into, we were able to not only stay safe, but also make money in the morning as well. But here's the thing guys, just like any good war general or just like any good person, there's always something deeper to the story. The more time you spend looking, the more time you spend analyzing, you might find little clues on these stocks. So if you look at SAVA in the filings, they had a $100 million ATM offering. Now we have a series on how to read company filings, but the long story short of an ATM is that they can sell shares openly in the market at any time. So they can sell at the market, ATM at the market. So they have $100 million worth of stock that they could sell at the market. How do you think they're gonna be able to sell that much shares? They have to build hype. They have to get people excited. So what they ended up doing is this. They ran up the stock pre-market on low volume. They got people excited. They got all the chat room pumpers, all the furus, all these clowns. Bye, bye, this is gonna be the next one. This is gonna be the next one. And then the hidden agenda was that they used that volume, they used that excitement, they used that hype to dump onto the open market. So pre-market, if we knew that the stock was not a short, but we knew that there was an end game with an ATM, they had an idea, they had an agenda, that tells us this. That tells us as long as the trend is broken, if and when the trend breaks, there's a high probability that the stock is not going to come back up because of all the looming dilution. So now that you know all of this information, you have a choice, either A, take the trade long pre-market with a hard stock, B, wait for the stock to break the deadline and then go short, or C, don't even touch it because you don't understand it, right? So for me, I avoided it pre-market when the trend was intact. At the open, when it tanked, and we saw that the dilution was actually hitting the market, all I did is I waited for the stock to bounce under VWAP and I shorted that bounce for 40, 50 cents. Now, I only used a thousand shares because I was not comfortable with how far it fell down, but still with those thousand shares, I was able to make 40, I mean, 400 or 500 bucks. And that's the point, guys, not every day am I trying to show up to the market and saying, I want to make a million dollars a year, I want to make a million dollars a year. You know what I say? I say, I want to show up, I want to stick to the process and I want to walk away at 1030. And you know what happens? That is how you make all the money, guys. That is how you make all the money. I didn't sit here and say, I want to make a million dollars by September. I didn't say I want to make a million dollars on my birthday. I didn't say anything. All I said is I want to show up, stick to what we teach, stick to what works, and the payoff will come anyway. See, that's why it's crazy. It's crazy that it took me this long to start working out because I hated it.  I hate it more than anything, right? But the point is that I know that just like in trading, if I continue to show up and I continue to put in the work, I will see results. I will not see results in a month. I will not see results in two months. Maybe I won't see results in six months, but I know for a fact that if I continue to put in the work, that I will be successful. Maybe I'm even going to get a personal trainer, right? Maybe I'm even going to find a mentor. Maybe I'm going to find someone that has been working out for 10 years, that knows all the right things to do, all the wrong things to do, and pay him $200 a month to teach me, guys. That is the point. That is the whole thing about MIC as well, right? I am a great trainer.  So the point is that I am now going, stepping out of my comfort zone, trying to get my ego out the door and saying, you know what? Maybe I need help. Maybe I need someone to motivate me. Maybe I need someone to push me. Maybe I need someone to learn from. But the point is this, guys, the point is, you know, I, this year has been crazy. I never expected to make this much money. I never expected to do what I do and love it and make this much money. You know, I feel very blessed and I also feel a little bit guilty for making all this money when I know there's so many other people out there that need it. But then I go back to the fact and I say I outworked all those motherfuckers. So I deserve it as well. So the point I'm trying to make, guys, is the stock market is a transfer of wealth, guys. It is a transfer of wealth. So I want to be as educated as possible, taking this money from all the uneducated hands and do not know what they're doing.   I gotta buy it before it goes to 20. Meanwhile, I'm there saying, all right, idiots, there's a big ATM here, there is an agenda here. Wait until they execute their agenda. Join the side that has the deeper pockets and if they're diluting $100 million worth of stock, I wanna be on the downside because I know that stock is going to go lower, guys. And you guys don't have to make $1 million a year. Most people would be happy with an extra $50,000 or $100,000 on the year. I'm pretty sure that's to make an extra 100 grand on the year. It's only 500 bucks, right? So to me, guys, to me, I am here. I am living proof. I am showing you guys what is possible if you are putting in the work. I want to show you guys that I am here recording, recapping, going over everything every single week. People see these results and they wanna get them instantly but they forget all the work that is going into it, guys. I am here, I am working hard and I am seeing the results. I keep telling people that I'm not smart, I'm not a genius, I'm not anything special but what people do know about me is that I will outwork any single motherfucker out there because I have passion, because I have drive and because I have goals that I want to reach, right? I was actually looking at something in after hours the other day and someone's like, Alex is already a millionaire yet he outworks 99% of the members in MIC. And that's the mindset that you guys have to have, guys. No matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, no matter if I make a million dollars this year or 10 million next year, the point is that I am still pushing to improve. I am never gonna get complacent. I am always gonna keep pushing and pushing and pushing and if the process works, if I have proved to myself that I can make a million dollars in just one hour, why would I ever try to do anything else? Why would I try to sit there for an extra five hours to make an extra 500 grand? To me, it is not worth it to waste my day to be more stressed, to make a little bit more money. For me, the reason why I am successful is because I have found the balance between work and play, right? I definitely work a lot, I definitely don't play enough but in my youth right now while I am young, while I am 26, my mind is focused on grinding, my mind is focused on putting in the work and it doesn't matter if I have a million dollars this year or five or 10 million dollars in the bank, I am still going to keep improving, I am still going to keep putting in the work and I will continue to be a role model for you guys to see that if you guys just follow what we are preaching, if you guys just see and put in the work that I myself am putting in the work, if you guys just do what I do, you will see the success as well. You will not see it in a month, you will not see it in two months, you will not see it in three months but just like working out, maybe after six months you're gonna see it and then that will motivate you to keep pushing forward, guys. So let's go into a quick Q and A, guys. Does all this stuff make sense, guys? Please leave a like on the video, if this all makes sense, I see the like counter going up but I want you guys to see that I am just, and you know what the craziest part is? I am doing these numbers with a $35,000 account, guys. So I've spoken about this in the past and a lot of people say, all right, you're making a million dollars, you're probably trading with $25 million. Let me tell you something, guys. And you could verify this from my brokers that my account is at $35,000 and every time I get to $50,000, I wire it out. So I do that every single week, right? I do that every single week. And if you guys are in MIC right now, Val or Tosh, if you guys are around, maybe you could tweet out the broker statements. So I know there's gonna be a lot of trolls that come out and say this is fake. I got broker statements from all of my brokers verifying all these numbers. So I will post that in the description of the video after this is posted, but I will also be putting this on Twitter as well. So yeah, guys, so let's go open it up to quick Q and A. I wanna answer your questions. I wanna see what you guys are curious about and then we will take it from there. How do I identify there was an ATM? Guys, you gotta look at the filings. Go to bamscc.com, type it in and look at the filings. Please, we teach all this stuff, man. Here we go again, right? Here we go again. You talk, here we go again, man. It's unbelievable, bro. It's unbelievable. Thanks, guys. So again, you guys have to find something that works for you. You need to find something that fits your personality. What fits my personality is this. Trading for the least amount of time, walking away at zombie times, trading with a $35,000 account, right? And for me, just being able to be stress-free in my trading. Here we go. Anyway, let's open it up to Q and A. Any questions, guys? So we'll go through the questions here and then I will repeat them. What book would I recommend? I would not recommend the book. I would recommend you join MIC or watch our free videos. And guys, keep in mind that there is no email alerts at MIC. There is no text message alerts at MIC. I am not front-loading the members. I am not buying and posting it on YouTube and posting it on Twitter. All of these trades that I'm making is without the assistance of thousands and thousands and thousands of people following. All right, some questions are coming in. Hey, Alex, how'd you know that a bounce off VWAP was the best entry? So for me, the stock broke down, right? The stock broke down and was bouncing. Logically, mentally, emotionally, people are watching that VWAP level. And usually the first time it tests it, it rejects. So my trade thesis was based on the first time that a test VWAP after taking, it will reject. Did I ever feel lost in the beginning? Of course I did feel lost in the beginning, guys. Come on, the thing is like, trading is just like becoming a doctor, right? Do you think a doctor is gonna be able to operate on someone after a month or two of trading? It takes eight years of medical school to become a doctor. And if you want to make more than a doctor's wages, I make more than a doctor, right? I make more than a doctor, working less time than a doctor, but it also took me a couple of years to figure this out. So for all of you guys that wanna make doctor money, that wanna make lawyer money, remember that if you wanna make money like them, you have to put in work. Guys, try it out for a month, man. Try it out for a month. Sheesh, are you guys trading options? We have an options basic series, so we teach you how to trade options and large caps as well. Do you go short at the top, pre-market? I don't like to look for tops. I like the stock to tank, and I would like the stock to bounce, and then I short the bounce, risking high of the day. Guys, if you think $200 a month is expensive, which is about $5 or $6 a day, you will not make a trading, guys. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example. Medical school is a quarter million dollars, maybe even more, call it $300, $400,000. Medical school is $250,000, $400,000, okay? That is an investment, guys.  At MIC, it's $2,000 for a year, $200 for a month, for the ability to make over that money.  I don't care. The point is that you guys are not understanding that this is an investment in yourself. You have to be able to put some money out to learn.  MIC is the Harvard of education.  How do you expect to beat me? How? You expect to beat me with forex signals?  The point is, guys, that you have to be educated. If you treat trading like gambling, if you treat it like a hobby, a professional trader is going to take your money because I am educated. Try it out for one month, guys. Put in the work. You are not going to see results after one month, but you will see if it is a fit for you, okay? When I went to college, I paid $20,000 a year to go to college, and I went to a very cheap college, extremely cheap. I didn't learn anything in college, but it taught me how to do a routine. College taught me how to be accountable. It taught me a little bit of discipline.  So I ask you, why are you waiting? Why are you hesitating?  I'm sorry, guys, that I raised my voice.  Yet, for whatever reason, you guys are just not getting it. You guys are not, it's not clicking. I don't know what it is. I think a lot of people are just lazy, which is fine. I get it, but let me tell you something. The lazier you are, the more money I make because you are the guy that is buying Saab at free market.  I am here every single day trading with the least amount of stress, trying to make the most amount of money, and again, I am not making the most money out of anyone on the internet. I am not the richest guy in the world, but let me tell you something. For being 26 years old, for trading one hour a day, and making a million dollars, I am richer than 99% of the people I know, okay? And the point is that I am putting in the work. I am working on Sundays. I am educating, I am helping. I am watching the videos. Oh, here's something funny. So every time before an MIC video gets uploaded into the MIC video library, who do you think reviews it? I am the guy that reviews all of the videos in the MIC library before they are uploaded. So me, Alex, the millionaire, the guy that is helping to run MIC is the guy watching all the videos.  If I'm the guy that is watching all of the videos, if I'm the guy that's staying educated, if I'm the guy that is improving, and I'm the guy that's making all this money, shouldn't you be doing the same, which is as basic as watching the videos? People think that because I'm doing well, people think that because I have money, I don't still put in the work. I am the guy that is watching all the videos. I am the guy that is uploading the videos for you guys to watch. And if I'm the guy that is doing that, you have no excuse not to do it, guys. The results are there. The results speak to themselves. I show up, I stick to the process, I walk away in zombie times, I watch the videos, I make a million dollars.  So, I challenge you. Show me that you guys are watching the videos. Show me that you are putting in the work. Show me that you guys are actually serious about this, and let me tell you something. After you put in the work, you will see the results. Again, I appreciate all of you guys coming here. I appreciate all you guys actually trying to improve. But remember that trading is not easy, but it is possible. It requires you to sacrifice a few years of your life to live the rest of your life for free, guys. I sacrificed a few years of my life studying, not sleeping, not hanging out with girls, not drinking, not partying, not having sex so that I could do what I could do to get to where I am now. And you know what? It was all worth it. It was all worth it. So, I did this last time in last week's video. So, what I'm doing now is I want you guys to comment on the video, one lesson that you have learned. And what I want you guys to do is after that, I'm going to pick one person every single week to win something. Last week, I picked someone to win a free month of MIC. Turns out that they were a member. So, I gave them some MIC swag instead. So, leave a comment on this video with one lesson that you learned. And next week, I will pick a winner to either win a free month of MIC, the accelerator course for free, or some MIC swag. So, that's it guys. I'm going to post the broker statements on the description of this video. So, you guys can see that now. And that's basically it. So, if you guys have any questions, feel free to text hush at<PHONE_NUMBER>. And we'll work on something really special for you guys. So, thank you everyone. Thank you for tuning in and I will see you guys back in the room. Thank you.


Okay, now I understand why no one liked this episode. Hey guys, so this is my review for episode 7 of Stranger Things season 2, and yeah, it's as bad as everyone says it is.  You stop the story's progress entirely. You know what you could have done?  You could have cut down the extremely drawn out part with her mother and you could have twirled this into episode 6. However, episode 6 has such a great flow to it, you couldn't have done it, so literally they were thrown into an issue of which they could not avoid. This was episodes, it's obviously going to be something that will happen later on either in this season or in the third season. But it is an unfortunate necessity, but either way, it's literally just a Magneto origin story from first class. The whole scene with her moving the train, I was like, yeah, this is first class. However, I did find it interesting that the number 8 is telling her to kind of give into her anger, which is like given to the dark side. So I thought that was kind of interesting from a different way of taking on using your strengths, because for how Professor X, what he told Magneto was to hold on to good memories and use that, don't use the anger, because that will only get you so far. If you use good memories, that will make you stronger. So I thought that was interesting, otherwise though, nothing really happens. Yeah, they're going after people who are associated with what happened. That was kind of interesting. After Eleven's bad boy or bad girl look, it made her look like a boy. It was really weird. I didn't think it worked well at all. And then the whole aspect of what they're doing and then how number 8 was saying that we have to go after Papa, which is weird, because he totally got eaten by that demigorant. It jumped on his face and ate him in the first season.  He is dead. And they probably are.  But overall, no one likes this episode for obvious reasons. It puts a giant break on the entire story. It kind of delves with characters that you're not truly interested in, and it just continues on with this whole train of not so interesting story of Eleven. However, now that she is finally going back to Hawkins, maybe we will actually be invested in her character again. And it's such a shame, because the last episode was so good, you then, basically, you can tell everyone, hey, when you're watching season two, Stranger Things, don't watch episode seven. There's no point. However, despite the fact that it does stop the episode entirely, I do feel it was a decently made episode. I like the aspects of eight and eleven going back and forth, just kind of talking about what they went through and just the connection they share. And I did enjoy the aspects of what they're doing, like I said, just not the best executed and just terribly placed. So in the end, episode seven of Stranger Things gets a three out of seven. So now on to the last two episodes, finally, so we're going to see what happens with this. Anyways, guys, hope you enjoyed this review. I'm still leaving links at the end. If you want to help Victor Lucas in EP Daily, you can check out his channel, maybe sponsor him. Otherwise, if you guys like this video, leave a like, maybe subscribe. And we'll see you guys next time.