We are back live here on the independent investor channel. Welcome back to all the community members who have been So devoted to this movement and message over the over the years my message is Significantly different than the rest honestly This whole YouTube thing is an interesting way to bring people together. No doubt about it. Certainly not from my glory Okay, if you expect to come in here and sit down and have me deliver The glory and exactly how you need to live your life. You're in the wrong spot. I Give all that stuff back. I don't care one one bit about it. I'm super proud of proud of the project I was super proud of doing YouTube five years ago when I started and This project has just evolved over time. It's become a significant part of what I look forward to Completely genuine nothing manufactured on the independent investor channel live stream. I look forward to coming in really taking a pause to What I deploy week to week is is pretty engaging. I spend a lot of time looking at financial markets I spend a lot of time monitoring the portfolio. I spend a lot of time monitoring the landscape what's going on and It's for reasons like what Rebecca has declared here to the group meeting a milestone here in less than six I I remember when she made the six-figure milestone, which is Up there with one of the biggest ones, you know because You know a hundred a hundred thousand dollars is just a significant amount of wealth for for somebody who works a blue-collar job And she will take no offense to that and I wanted to give her a shout out At the beginning of the live stream because she may be caught up in some work detail there But for sure all the salute out to all the veterans out there this week, certainly Make sure that you take time and remember You know all the people that sacrifice and are continuing to sacrifice the opportunities That are made possible Here in this great country and abroad as well a lot of wonderful people and Rebecca's one of them Certainly tip my hat to the frontline workers out there Firefighters law enforcement and health care workers alike who I lump right in there as being right on the front lines Fighting fighting right now and it's been a crazy couple years and a lot to be thankful for there's no doubt about it but if you guys are a Veteran and I've got Bob in the group here and I've got mr. Tanks here in the group is who's my brother? Oh, and and shipmate you guys can absolutely, please please stand up and be be recognized and just put your veteran status in the thread here and There'll be folks like myself who will take and randomly selectively call you guys out and give you the you do Acknowledgement, but I want to make sure that we acknowledge that Thursday's coming around and It's just been an on fire week in the market. It's just been an absolutely fantastic Time to be an investor or I've said that many many times over so if I can apart to anybody out there that's you know Coming new to the investing game That's why I put those testimonials up there. It doesn't need to be me all the time coming on and and professing About you know the opportunity that exists within investing It carries more weight if we can put those testimonials in the group here and show how people are making thresholds that's just incredible and I would venture to guess and I don't want to speak for Rebecca I don't but I would venture to guess that had the decision not been made to invest However, many years ago. She decided to embark on this journey There wouldn't have been that level of wealth that money would have been it would have been dissolved away in other avenues And what where people just make that conscious choice just to step up and sometimes it takes that Revelation for yourself or looking in the mirror and saying I can And and embarking on that journey and and really using your free will to change the trajectory of your life That that's going to be some of the things that I jotted down for you guys as an ambassador of this message somebody who In the next coming years as we evolve with the independent investor channel opportunity It's becoming a staunch realization to me that we're Knocking on the door here to millionaire status within the next few years. It's inevitable. It's gonna happen Don't hold a grudge You'll get the same on re tea drink and Ryan on every live stream I will not stop this project once millionaire status is reached I think it'll be just an acknowledgement for me And then a quick how are we gonna leverage this and and how are we going to scale up? Getting this message that I believe so hard to wholeheartedly in to the masses Because I think it is scalable and what I mean by that is the ability to change the trajectory of your life just be by saying I can and The stock market is easy it is Refute a lot of different ideas out there about I can't do it Ryan You know, I don't have the wherewithal to do it. I can't do it I'm you know, and I find that in a lot of cases a lot of people get it They can step right into the investing gig and I just opened my eyes and I'm like, yeah, you bet you Get it you get the very very simple steps here your focus is where it needs to be okay it's not following the the YouTube audience blindly and just falling into a false pretense of a message from somebody who I Hate to break it to you guys and for the 43 people in here who are interested in a truth bomb We're just regular people Graham Stephan. There's nothing special about him Nothing Jeremy with financial education now He self-induces himself as a God. There's nothing special about these people It's a matter of fact I watch him sometimes and I actually feel sorry for him Because it seems like they're mixed up in this whole like YouTube thing and putting on a show for everybody else You will not get that from me. I refuse to come on and put on a show I do this my way and it will continue to be my way Because there's only one of me Just like there's only one of you and I think the real secret to personal wealth is getting over The multitude of personal barriers if in fact you haven't people like myself if you sit down with me I can kind of help you Identify some of those personal barriers for yourself man. There's so many Beautiful people out there man just killer killer people But if they could just get out of their own way and drop a few things that they think they understand about money They'd be so much better off. Just just listen It's gonna feel weird because it's gonna be contrary to those boundaries that are very very real If it were that easy Everybody would just step right in and and hit the ground running and validate this stuff for themselves Okay, it's not that easy for a lot of people Okay, but you have to have conviction about why you do this You have to get over your constant inability to give yourself a fighting chance by saying I can in this life Transcends investing Investing is one of those things that you can be a complete disaster in and you can succeed as an investor I just think the holistic element to the message that we put out through the independent investor channel is To make sure we're striving toward all elements of life in no matter what capacity What is going to be good for an all-good in the group here a very very simple moment? Sitting down on a Friday with a live stream with a cup of coffee and chilling out for the evening Though those those elements of peace and those elements of things that we look forward to in our life Whatever it may be It's to extrapolate the beauty in each one of those different things Interactions that we do activities that we engage in you know purchases that we could make maybe potentially make for ourselves But it's all good, baby as this week of reflection comes around. I just want to welcome everybody to the group It's just been an absolutely fabulous week for me if you can tell I'm Fired up, baby.  I'm a good guy. I've saved two lives in my life I'm a good guy like I will be that guy that saves your ass Even though me and you are at each other's throat the night before that's a true story from the fishing boat But this is your weird guy But they sat back up off of it and I was like How the hell you know that you just watch one live stream them I think I speak pretty good English I think my word is conveyed pretty well, but Yeah, I am I Embrace the idea of being different in my application and I actually relish in it and Where I think a lot of people are too careful to say the right thing all the time I glass that shit out of water man. I love ruffling feathers. I love it I love kind of laughing in the back of my head as to what I see how people try so hard To fit in it keeping up with the Joneses is the funniest thing For the totality of my life I've never understood that like if if you guys knew where I came from and the neighbors must have saw us when We were kids man sneaking down to the pond and you know skinny dipping in the pond and stuff and thinking we're hiding from everybody But man, we were hot. It was a hundred degrees man And we don't we don't have a swimming pool only rich people have swimming pools But I got a pond and the frogs don't really care, you know, it's kind of it's kind of muddy on the bottom and stuff But man is it refreshing?  I mean, this is me real talk, baby This is me and my brothers. So I appreciate the comment to you guys point me out as one of those weird guys I appreciate that I I don't watch a lot of content online because and I don't watch TV anymore Because nobody has the ability to come on and just talk like I'm talking everything has to be scripted and you know, I have to say the right thing or the politically correct thing and I just don't like that at all. I like to challenge the status quo in most capacities I do and where I see things arrive, especially along the financial Avenue for a lot of people people look at the opportunity and what do they see? I sometimes try to put myself in the lens of a new investor and and try to ask myself What is it? What is it that they see? Well, they probably saw a lot of what I saw Which is why this long and winding road for me has got me closing in on $550,000 of net worth and like I said, we'll be a couple years away from that million dollar mark There's no doubt about it like Rebecca talked about surpassing that hundred and getting up to the hundred and a half that quick in six months It really just goes to show how powerful a passive element of your portfolio can be with a conducive market Markets can be up and down. I saw fabulous Instagram posts that talked about had you invested during the worst times of the S&P 500 You still would have rendered an 8% rate of return So just an incredible opportunity there to not chalk up investing as being gambling, you know Get out of your own way as far as what you think you know about the markets I do this all the time all the time with my own application with my own strategy Where I didn't think something that I was gonna do two years ago I End up maybe come into a round turn because I don't I want to grow wealth I'm looking at wealth building and I'm becoming a lot more aggressive with taking opportunity In the market guys, so let's roll out the portfolios were up 20,000 week over week Was a really good week for us. It's been a really and when I when it when things are down I Think the gallery appreciates my transparency and coming on and sharing My feeling and pulse about the market whether or not I feel like it's you know so-so where I thought last year 2020 was just an absolute gang buster year for me as of late It's turned on quite nicely and we're starting to get some respectable action going on here Healthy above six one oh four thirty three in the joint brokerage account This has an element of strategy to it In that I've got some large cap technology growth with Google and Amazon discretionary of course in telecom, but Certainly some large cap growth some value in the portfolio With some industrials play aerospace with LMT and Boeing AT&T has just been a bastard this year. No doubt very disappointing holding Hylion's been on fire up 20% here week over week and as this Holding starts to materialize fantastic news today about the first stop at Wegmans on their validation tour across the US using the hyper truck Intervation council. I typically try to keep the Hylion discussion to a minimum doing during a live stream But it is an enormous position in my portfolio I own 12,000 shares of the company so it is worth earmarking and mentioning and you guys might think man, right?  You're different Jesus, I've heard that before right Here's what I want you to think about that. I want you to think about this Look at this guy who used to kill bees with mud patties Buck naked is the freaking J bird down at the pond skinny dip and look at him now Beat me odds beat in the odds It's got the ability from a retail perspective to put a hundred thousand dollars Down on a company that I have a hundred percent conviction on this will just take time The last couple weeks have been great validation that we have earnings in four days lovely enough This is a five-year plus play and I honestly might get just sickishly crazy And throw a complete curve ball into this trade here and keep it ultra long We'll see what happens, but I've got my first benchmark that set for the stock and Unlike the fish who I covered in the timing downgrade He's got his ass whipped and had his ass handed to him since that downgrade stocks up 20 percent since then So a good job fish wait up the way to live up to your reputation as a subpar Analyst really appreciate your contributions to highly on the last couple weeks Like my hat goes off to you from the independent investor Specifically me and the grander community of highly on airs out there really appreciate that but anyway 97 3 On the stock to cash allocation here.  We were up week over week in this portfolio Handily not incrementally. This was a handily a very good week My S&P 500 position is just incredible that VOO is such a powerful asset And for you guys out there that think I can't That's the I can right there VOO. That's the skeleton key to entry into the stock market is done the S&P 500 It's an asset that you could own this year It's an asset that you could own in five years ten years and 20. Why? Because you know that Vanguard is going to passively get you the Alignment to the S&P 500 with that exposure as the S&P evolves and changes over time So it's always going to ensure that you have that Exposure to the S&P with an anemic expense point zero three over this fund It is the skeleton key. I feel like to the market missing out on some small cap I do supplement it with the VBK, which is a small cap growth VNQ real estate to supplement the O holding but real estate REIT as well It's a nice ETF specialty ETF. They're just to own the whole sector and throw it in the Roth I like it. It's a cool way of investing. So here's the Roth to here's me I swung trade Matterport this week like a champ that I am I'm back on my horse again It's nice because I felt like everything I touched turned a dog shit this year So it was nice to actually prove to myself that I could actually make money Doing what it is that I really like to do and that's swing trade so I've been on a hot streak with Google I'm in the shares long now I added back in with some of the profits there right some house money profits roll back into Google So that's the four-share position in Google nothing crazy, but man. I'm a retail investor That's a $10,000 bill, you know for a lot of new investors out there You still need to get up to your first 10,000 started the Weeble account this week started Robin Hood I've been real down on both of those but for cash accounts. I wanted to become more familiar with them initiated a mid cap strategy and Robin Hood And initiated a growth strategy within Weeble and it's more exploratory for me We'll be checking out the platforms. We'll be rolling those out through Affiliate links through the channel. Why not eff it? I'm kind of back on this whole like I'm gonna do it my way I'm not I'm gonna try not to get get in my own way now if I like it by work through the product And I don't like it no problem. I'll throw it in the gutter go buy another it's no big deal Not a problem at all, but I do want to explore some of these these brokers that I have not been using and It deploys some strategic technique get those up to 10,000 just like I have on the other ones The other ones are approaching other sizable financial goals. I mean the dividend growth is Pursuing that $50,000 mark next because in two years, we've already ran right through the $10,000 mark We've already just surpassed the $25,000 mark. So next in the financial threshold will be That that $50,000 mark here.  Great. You can borrow mine.  Do it. It's no problem Success needs to permeate the group and needs to be understood that others can enjoy success as well in whatever Capacity that they can remember getting over the barriers. All right You're like if this buck naked fella that goes skinny dipping in the pond and kills bees for a living growing up That that's his level of education can do it. So can I You're not far from the truth.  I love it and I think more people should love it Why because for the very very people that actually should embrace the investing opportunity as if their life depend on it I think most of the people disappoint me in so far as their level of aggressiveness and Willingness to pursue is not there you want to know what the great separator is between people with wealth and those without The people with are willing to pursue those without are willing to and be content with being blasé That's the great divide. So just ask yourself in what capacity now I'm not saying you have to work with the same energy as me. Okay Some people may look at me and be like you're weird Ryan you work on a different level. I do Some may chalk it up as a curse. I don't know. I like myself. I like that how You know, how much things mean to me? Because I've been beat down. I've been through bad times times where I could say alright I'm flirting with depression here. This is not cool. This is not cool So when you swing so far on the other end of the spectrum you define for yourself What it is that you're capable of taking on in this life and they can dole it out Anybody out there is going to agree with me on that. Nobody out there Just has rose petals throw it at their feet all the everywhere they walk a lot of people have gone through hard times Totally fine. It's how you bounce back from it and say I can okay So we're almost to the $20,000 mark on this. This is a portfolio that just has not been touched This is just over two years. We've owned this portfolio since December of 2019. I chronicle these on The the channel every now and then occasionally.  He's my boy now Okay, I'm interviewing him on Monday. You're gonna want to catch that interview That company is incredible Okay, where you always talked about you know in all the gangster movies having an offshore bank account in in Switzerland Well, they take people's data and they secure it in accordance with the Swiss rules of engagement with regard to people's protection and Privacy data laws. Okay, here in the United States. We give away the farm and bastardized people's Personal privacy and we as Americans just willy-nilly give it away all the time. I'm guilty of it through social media We just give away the farm man and people take and they farm that data And they sell it to people and they make huge money off of it So the company globe X that I previewed this week very very exciting I'm super stoked to talk to the CEO and it also changes it up at a little bit from the the normal genre of Precious metals which you know, I'll do the content because I love the precious metal space I'm just not a big fan of the junior mining space from an investment perspective. That's just my opinion, right? But when I do Chronicle the companies, it's a lot of fun for me. So appreciate the support on that man I mean no big deal the stocks up what ten percent in five days. No big deal, right? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I had somebody that was coming on.  That's my that's my deal. That's my gig Okay And it's amazing how it's never enough for people over social media and that's why I don't apologize That's why I come on and I say yeah, I have kind of a like who gives an F I really don't anymore Because I know that for people that are listening to this message and they're like hey Ryan Can you get back to the I can stuff because I need somebody to tell me what I can do Because I just need a little bit of encouragement and if this doesn't give you any motivation It should man. It really should Here's the 80s stock is 79 holdings exactly just surpassed the $25,000 mark This for you guys have been with me a long long time This was a growth portfolio that I had for a while. I've transitioned it to the ARC portfolio For just a small bit maybe a month or so and then I thought better of it Transitioned it to the dividend growth strategy one of the best moves. I've ever made in the portfolio And it's chugging right along just fine too. We got the TSP here TSP is up of over 60 So we'll be approaching that hundred thousands the next threshold in this I just remember a couple months ago hitting the $50,000 mark. This is one that I'm aggressively funding up and I've got an earmarked value over this of about a quarter million dollars by the time I'm retired That'll be a nice little a nice little deal here. Here's the new account 1033. I have VG and so the vanguards growth We'll chronicle this we'll grow it and it'll be great to see it You multiple accounts now. I've got up to $10,000 But it's nice to chronicle those on the channel and just show you how possible it is because a lot of people out There need that barrier of entry broken down for them and getting to that first $10,000 can be a huge milestone for each and everybody and then we bull which I actually love the platform a lot more bought VB, which is the Excuse me. I actually it's the VO my apologies there VB is the small cap mix with vanguard It's actually VO that I have which is the mid cap Grouping in it with vanguard. So this would be my mid cap strategy here I trust capital reinvigorated this I actually put 30 bucks into shibu unu just to say that I did shiitake yumu for all you home gamers out there But 57 in the Bitcoin 42 85. This was a double up in the I trust capital This is a cryptocurrency Roth IRA. You want more information on it? Check it out on the channel. That's fine I am gonna keep the affiliate program because there has been some interest Shibu shiba shiba unu Shiba Ina that the cute dog is now available on On I trust capital. It was just named the broker of the year in 2021 For cryptocurrency. So good on them for doing what they're doing if shiba inu makes me a ton of money. I think I bought 500,000 shares of it for 30 bucks or something today just for fun Have a little fun why it's 30 bucks a guy is good grief, you know what I'm saying Some of you guys spend more of that in one trip to Starbucks. I figured I'd buy some shibu inu inu I'll probably lose it all but who knows so but anyway, yeah independent smiling 543 470 We will get we will get to our million dollar mark and you know, man I think back on some of the comments that I've got about the world going to hell and Ryan you invest your crazy the government's ruining everything and if you can just ignore some of that noise and Identify how windy this road has been for me I can't impart to you on a 60-minute live stream But that's why this topic is it really endless for me because I can't Stop to tell you how much progress we've made just in the last few years And it should speak to the level of progress that could be possible for you and your family If you just look to take some initiative in a lot of different care categories, okay, but before we get into the I can type of Dialogue that I want to engage in at the end of the live stream I definitely want to jump in here man and say hi to the gallery see who's all in there Investing with Aaron is in the group. I just threw a wrench at you Aaron. It was a it's a good thing man I can't believe you didn't have one but You've been such a staunch supporter of the channel I think it would be refreshing to me if I came into a channel and said hey You know nobody thanks the audience more than the independent investor channel because I truly do believe That the people who are part of this community and enjoying the success That Rebecca declared some of the very very successful portfolios like Christopher Blaine is in the group here These folks are self-made millionaires and so you know that level of success. I will be there Make mark my word. There's no way that people who are geared like me. Don't make it. It's that simple But he says she but laugh out loud. It is laughable. It's kind of silly I think I bought it with four zeros and I was talking about this last week But we'll see what's what ends up happening with that just having a little bit of fun anyway Arcus trash Yeah Was just a little bit too rich for my case and at the time is interesting because that's one of my most popular videos And it's one that I got some of the biggest hate for When not when I did my review of the ARC ETFs. I just thought for the expense To to it's a philosophy about going after hyper growth and it goes against some of the fundamental ideas that You know traditionally's those really haven't been the way now in the short and medium term They can be awful tempting to jump into and Kathy Wood makes a compelling case For these products out there on the marketplace, but it just weren't for me I don't know if I you know I typically try to stray away from language out there that says, you know One thing is wrong or one thing is right because maybe in the right allocation It could be good for someone who's looking for an ETF that that gives them You know exposure to Those genomic sectors the space sector the hyper growth sectors is some of those names that there's no way you could just cherry pick them and pick a few of them That's going to work for you. So put 5% in ARC, you know what I mean? It never hurts, but I currently don't own it. I don't share in the sentiment that it's trash I don't but you know for some people it can work in for others It may not I'm kind of in the latter camp of somebody who's done away with it and and I haven't missed it a bit. I made good money when I was in them and I haven't missed owning them I don't think I'm missing out, you know my exposure to ETFs that I'm a little bit more excited about are the ones I've declared to you now VUG VIG dividend appreciation fund and the triple cues Right, it's just a little bit more my flavor and to each his own as to what they choose. Okay How anyone has created income selling covered calls is 10% a year an okay expectation I think that's a great way of doing it. You need a sizable portfolio to do that You need to be doing it on some quality so there can be some Predictability by selling that premium and I don't know if you're selling the premium within a taxed advantaged account or within a tax account or or a cash account, but Options are a fabulous way amongst many to make really good money in In the markets, it's something that I've engaged in I love it and I'll do more of it down the line I've just felt like the stocks that I really want to sell premium against now Don't don't pay quite the premium in other words It's not really worth it for me for the small amount of risk That I'm willing to take to collect the premium for a month or so if you're looking at longer durations than that great But it's a strategy that I've shelved for now. I really do enjoy it and I'll engage in it probably later on In life when we've got a lot size or size more sizable of a portfolio Okay, I do own long calls still on highly on I did sell out of the premium on the drop right before the drop for matterport That was kind of a wasn't a blowout quarter for them And I was kind of surprised there the stock really got whacked it returned back today for sure Nicola again went up for no reason at all That it was positive that they have to pay 125 million For lying about their company for all the way through the SPAC process and I think they should take it out of Milton's ass to be honest with you. He won't pay he won't pay any of it He's a billionaire.  So good on him.  I mean, you know for us retail investors man banding together sometimes is all we have to fight the powers that be but There's no way out of general principle that I could even invest in Nicola Let alone that I think that the company is garbage anyway They they will they will fall on hard times. There's no way that they can keep up generating The stock from scratch that their margins are not going to support any type of Anticipated cash flow with the business model that they have They're not going to be able to do it no way and I find it funny They're like, yeah, we're going to roll out 25 trucks and the market's like, oh, that's incredible Nobody questions like who those trucks are going to You know, it's going to go to dealers and it's going to go to uh to fleets. What fleets like really nobody asks that question Ryan you're being too scrutinizing. Okay. I just know what questions to ask I guess be a little bit open if that's you know, some news that makes the stock go up 25 I don't get it.  It dropped heavy today. It was nice to see larry master says amd's on fire Certainly. So is nvidia. Mm-hmm. Yeah, nvidia best and breed there for sure. I love adobe in the space I do own a little dab of amd. It's one of the 79 in the dividend growth portfolio but Yeah, it's been on fire. It's been on fire before Really before the year it kind of got into some meme craze Earlier on today and amd was starting to trade Really beyond its fundamentals, which was really unfortunate because amd doesn't need any help They're a fabulous fabulous chip maker.  It was nice to see the kd split off and end up in the account but You know, they they just sit back and they do make huge money But in the eyes of the market, they start to grow mold and they start to be Some of those companies that people look at and and start to put them in the value trap Category. Yeah, they pay a 4% dividend. Who cares? Are they growing? Are they going to eventually just kind of die on the vine a little bit? So those questions are all valid Absolutely I got ethos and the government's seen you for a long time, my friend It's great to see a great coming into the holiday season seeing some of these original Gangsters coming back into the independent investor channel community. Why because they're part of it Let me see if I can kick over to youtube and throw ethos and bone.  Yeah, it's great to see you my friend. Thanks for stopping in I know you're a busy family man, but shot out to you and the family. It's great to see you man Very cool And uh, david mathis is in there. I bought some. Yeah, well crm is the play CRM was a mistake for me to sell. I made a ton of money really, but it's been fabulous I think it's best in breed dow component now great great pickup for the long term Stock will double in five years. That's it's an easy doubler So depending on how much capital you put the work year It's probably got to be closing in on 300 a share anyway Um, just be prepared to double that in five years. Hold it long. Um, it's not going anywhere Um sales force is a beast good stuff rolling in rolling, baby. Check it. Check it. Check it to toad. I love it Very cool. It's great to see the results. They focus more on r&d. TSM makes all the chips Very cool. Alexa. It's great to see you TSM is the cheat code to play all semis Very cool. I appreciate you offering that man. That's cool Um, so some lrcx amat kla very good. Appreciate just sharing your insight with the group very cool Rebecca says good job Kenny None of these ETFs have beaten the arc of the past five years just because you don't like hard doesn't mean it Yeah, you know, and then that's the thing of different strokes for different folks and Um, you know, I'm all about it. If you take a little bit more risk and put it on the table You're going to get me to tip the hat for I just I'm telling you it's not for me It doesn't mean it's not investable, right?  Okay They don't exist let it go. All right. Nobody knows it all when it comes to the stock market Nobody special who comes on to youtube and says he I got a youtube channel. I'm special.  Here's my angle Nothing special 500 600 700 thousand youtube channels now coming on all talking about the same time There's my big stock in our week. Shit. I used to do and I won't do it anymore I won't do it anymore. It's a waste of freaking time. It's a waste either. You want to do it or you don't You want to say I can? Do it you can do it I'm working with people in this group man Like I I saw passive income in the group here kyle mat those guys are hustlers Hustlers they're trying to get ahead and I can guarantee you there's a half a dozen or a dozen other ones with just as much ferocity Sarah logston this young lady. Yeah fighter Phenomenal investor Carving out a piece for her not for me Not for anybody else but her and her family very simple. Okay. Don't make it more than it needs to be Focusing on voo and new see the past few months. I'm good. This is how she talks. I've had meetings with her. She's awesome This makes sense. I'm going to do it like don't make it more of of a difficult thing asshole, right? It's not that hard. Okay and for savvy investors like this that again, I always want to Cry a little bit and say, you know, had you not made the decision to invest or learn a little bit more about investing Would you be in the shoes that you're in now had you not made those decisions in your past? And I ask that rhetorically for you to ask yourself for me. Hell no And I don't mean to answer it for anybody else It carries more weight when it comes from somebody like rebecca or sarah or any of these other successful investors 10 fold 100 fold that i've met through the independent investor opportunity It's it's all about your individual ability to separate from the sheep Okay, write your own path.   Okay, so just keep your nose out of it Okay, look for your own path if people want to call you weird wonderful wonderful. Yes. I am individual Absolutely. There's nobody like me. Okay, at least I have yet to meet anybody like me But it's cool when I get to talk to people like sarah and it's like whoa Dang, you really believe what you're putting down and she will tell you. Yes. Yes. I do. This is what makes sense for me Some of the stuff you talk about ryan doesn't make sense for me and I'm like damn right on Finally somebody who wants to actually stick up for what it is that they do right wrong or indifferent They're sticking up for what it is that they do. Okay You kind of start to see where this movement is going Not everything has to be socially acceptable. Okay, let it go every now and then it's okay If it feels right do it Feels right and it's probably good.  All right That's wealth that nobody can take away from you And it has nothing to do with the size of your wad Get over yourself Okay awesome passive income is the bottom comment Investing isn't fun whenever one agrees with you. Oh come on kyle Good grief, man. You get so much love over your channel. Everybody loves kyle. See kyle pokes the bear That's what I like about kyle. He's like here.  It's like, oh tone it down a little bit ryan.  No, they're not there.  You think you know it all wow 50 60 100 000 in debt. That's awesome, man. You got some beautiful cars on the driveway. That's fabulous That house that you have that you've refinanced three or four times. That's awesome. Nobody sees that though Everybody sees your wonderful house with fabulous curb appeal But uh, that's fabulous. You have not two nickels to rub together With any type of sizable wealth that's worth a damn, right? Okay Pick your poison All right, the temptation will be vast and uh, yeah, no, I do agree I think uh investing is interesting There are common themes within investing that I I do footstomp through the opportunity because beginning investors need to hear those common themes they don't need to stray away from the importance of Averaging to the market every month dollar cast average that type of thing that they need to hear that stuff. They need to understand the importance of diversification and you think god ryan you need to show your portfolio and show that you do that Jesus really I don't expect people to show me their portfolio. Hey rebecca. I don't believe you I don't believe you that uh, you uh, just surpassed your hundred and you need to show me You need to show me rebecca because that's just not good enough for me Right. See how absurd that is. All right. I can throw her a wrench. Hold on a second. Let me cruise in there Sarah's only been with the channel for like, I don't know eons and eons there I just anointed her with a wrench because I like her a lot. She has got fire I've met with her one time. She's just a fabulous person. It's freaking fabulous I love it man Some of the cool opportunity that we have through the independent investor channel to actually meet some of these really cool people man And if you take some of the pedigree of what it takes to be a successful retail investor With society with its boot on the top of your head all the time and you know, you're watching people And yeah, it should kind of piss you off every now and then it seems like everybody out there is just Trying to compete with everybody else. It's like, oh my goodness. I I got to get this new suv It's incredible. You know, I know my goodness. How much did you spend 72 000? I spent 77 000 on mine Really? We're going to the lot this weekend We're going to try to spend 80 because we got to beat you right seems like everybody wants to spend my money for me I know man, and I don't care like if you came to me and said and I know people I know multi-millionaires with you know, at least seven. There's some uh, eight figure portfolios in in the community I won't disclose those folks, but who cares? It's wonderful. You have sizable wealth. That's lovely. It just does not It doesn't make you that much better of a person like how do you engage in your business? How do you engage with others? What do you do to help others? Do you do anything to help others?   I should look in the mirror and ask myself.    You don't need to do that anymore.  I'm sleeping on the boat and I would wake up to that every single morning. I'm tired, right? I slept three four hours because we just offloaded over in terminal island We come tie the boat up and fall asleep boom and I wake up And they're all talking at the same time Italians baby, they're just communicating. They love each other.  Absolutely. I am fired up. Thank you, Sean. I appreciate it. Maybe Sean doesn't have a wrench I'm gonna go over and throw a wrench at Sean to see what's going on Where are you at Sean? Come on, buddy. I gotta pick you out of the crowd here, man Yeah, there he is.  I've already awarded a ton of them Man, let's cruise up to the top of the stream and finish it out.  I'm out of here. He's talking about gibberish with italian and he doesn't even speak italian I can here it is. I can do it on my own Yes, you can you do not need the help of the suits. Okay, let the suits go. Okay Okay, listen to a guy on youtube with a freaking us flag on his shirt.  They knew what they were talking about. I didn't want to do business with them You know because their expenses were a little bit a little bit tough for me and didn't offer me enough golf outings per year Right. Um, so I'm gonna go ahead and engage in the self-directed opportunity because of my own uh self Research and due diligence on the topic. Um, I can save tens hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime Go ahead and do that. Okay, forget that you ever met me. Okay, because I'm right And you'll win You're welcome Okay I can do it on my own I can build wealth you have to build wealth If you want to be a successful investor, you have to build wealth You have to put wealth to work you have to let it build you have to put it to work You have to let it grow put it to work let it grow you can't just not do it Okay, it's not going to build if you don't do it You can't build wealth without doing it Understand I can Try putting more than 500 dollars to work in a savings account If you're one of those people out there that can't save a freaking dime Okay, because you're so busy saying I can't I can I can build wealth I can do it ryan because you're the man I am the man and you're the man and you're the woman you can do it. Okay, fantastic I can spend less I can spend less. Okay.  Let it go.  Okay over the last five years. I've fallen victim to Spending every last waking dime that I have as it made me any happier. Am I happier? If you are truly happier keep spending I just want you to ultimately be happy But if you can honestly look in the mirror and say god, I'm not kind of feel feel feel worse, you know what I mean Like I don't even feel guilty when I like spend all my money and I have nothing for myself afterwards Really? That's a problem spend less. I can spend less Can remain disciplined.  I knew I shouldn't have listened to somebody on youtube. That was my problem I need to go in and talk to the sophisticated The one in the suit, you know, I mean the suit and tie I had to get my good information He's gonna bend me over the table man when I leave with fees for the rest of my life and not give me the common Courtesy of a reach around. Okay. Yeah, but it feels good and I can tell people I'm with a planner professional Okay, so don't pay too much attention to the results that'll be rendered from that Okay, but I can't tell people that I got my information from a guy off of youtube guys freaking nuts people accuse him of being weird envision yourself being successful Here's a good one. How many of you actually believe that you'll make that quarter million dollar mark? How many actually believe Rebecca? This question is for you wake up Rebecca. She's probably in the emergency room. I'm busy Ryan Leave me alone. I'm listening Did you ever think that you were gonna get to a hundred thousand dollars of invested capital in your life? Be honest If you say yes, Ryan, I did wonderful. If you say no, Ryan, I didn't I would respect the latter more Because that's probably closer to honesty A lot of people can't envision themselves having ten thousand dollars of wealth let alone a six figure portfolio of wealth Okay, you have to envision success I can Beat the odds Let me tell you the stacks the the chips they're stacked against you People come on and they're like ryan.   Okay, americans should have it the easiest And it pisses me off how so many times we're all blasé about everything It's gonna happen for me. I I don't I don't need to do that Go to work That's for the birds Who needs to work? I don't need to contribute. What are you talking about?   This is the urgent piece. I have to put this as a necessity I have to avoid regret. Okay. Get over the regret. I have to embrace opportunity. We provide all kinds of opportunity Okay, I gave you the skeleton key tonight I gave you a whole host of products in the portfolio review if you paid attention if you got none of it Go back. Stop it. You'll see what I invest in those ticker symbols are real and so is the dollar amount I have to evolve I give the five-year scenario to say Where was I five years ago? Where am I now? Have I progressed in certain capacities? Be honest give yourself credit if you've evolved. Okay. That's a good thing. All right I must I must define a strategy. I must define my own personal capability I must define my tolerance to risk like how much risk do I envision being able to take on? I must internalize this opportunity How do you do that Ryan? I don't know. Just watch the independent investor live stream. Okay, you you can get motivation through osmosis Okay, I highly doubt you get that from the stock god. I've tried. I don't get any motivation from him He pisses me off.  This is in the I must category not I can because people who I can maybe you can maybe you can't It's okay. I'll be fine Ryan. Leave me alone Overcome debt. Yep overcome doubt Overcome your fear, right? Remember those personal barriers that I talked about focus on yourself Expect bad things to happen to yourself. Mm-hmm. Yeah, everything's not going to go through life and be hunky dory It's okay.  I'm doing great. I'm killing it. Yeah, good.  We're doing fine Believe in yourself And you have to start something you have to start. I tell you start do something I don't care. Whatever it is start 500 away $5 dollar cost buy the vo. Whatever you got to do you got to start something. Okay The three things I've done in my life the scariest things that I trusted my instinct on started youtube channel Survive boot camp. That was a that was tough. I was I was scared scaredest time I've ever been in my life in retrospect I shouldn't have been so scared but I still take lessons in the military forward that I learned in boot camp And and and to take it that seriously then Really shaped how it is that I interact now Within my military profession and then I can the last one man I alluded to it in this live live stream. This was a very powerful one I'm very very satisfied with how this turned out when I strike this inner nerve Of myself I'm the best. Okay, you get the most value out of that. Remember. Um, I'm not going to send you a bill It's okay. I'm not one of those like It's a free consultation, but you're going to get the bill in the mail You join my private group for $20,000 I'll give you 15,000 off of it Yeah, and I'll offer you monthly installments if you'd like I'm going to become a millionaire Okay, dare dare to suggest those things that a lot of people look at and they think are pipe dreams Okay, pursue them. Remember at the top of the live stream tonight I talked about the very chance of me becoming a millionaire It's becoming more of an utter certainty the The the the element to that end Is going to be the aspect of how much time We need to to throw down on this guys. I really want to wish everybody a happy veterans day This week appreciate all you guys. We dig deep I aim to probe. Okay, so if you're offended by my message Good, you'll be back next week. If not, you don't like it. No problem. Good luck to you I love you and all the same. It's no big deal. If you think I'm weird. I am I am I just told you why tonight so Want to wish everybody well this weekend and into next week start to enjoy as we move into holiday season Start to appreciate what it is that you have in this life If you are a candidate for change Hopefully this is one of those messages that can allow you To break away from your personal barrier of always saying I can't Just saying something along the lines of I can we'll catch you next week on the live stream fast to 60 minutes on youtube Thanks a lot guys. Be well. We'll catch you next week


If you are not in a position where you feel like you're able to, you should conceive a child. If conceiving a child would be disastrous for you and you believe, then do not participate in activities that literally billions of times in the past have resulted in the conception of a child.  Mind your own business. Most people, most millennials and Gen Zers in this country are not in a financial situation where having a child is ideal.  What a bizarre, anti-human nature take to have.  And I'm sorry, you don't get to tell women what they should or shouldn't do. And if women want to have sex, that's part of life. Just because you're not having sex doesn't mean that other people don't want to have sex. But this is just, this is absurd.   But he's telling people, oh, too bad. You know, you don't get to just have an abortion, use that as a form of birth control. And for this individual, somebody who is as extreme as Matt Walsh, he probably wouldn't even support contraception. I haven't heard him speak on this, but if I had to guess, that would be his position.  He just wants to control people's bodies. This is extremely creepy, by the way, and perverted. Like, you should not be speaking on what other people do. Again, you can make those decisions. I'm not saying that you have to be sexually active. It's a decision that I'm leading up to the individual. But he's saying, no, I think that we should control other people.  If reproduction, I mean, I'm going to phrase it this way, because I really want to make it very simple for these people. They have difficulty understanding. Let me make it simple for you, Rubes.  I'm going to dump it down as much as possible. Oh, please do that for us. If reproduction would be a disaster for you, you believe, then do not participate in the reproductive act. Mind your own business. If you're able to reproduce, and yet reproduction would be a catastrophe, then do not participate in the reproductive act. Okay, well, people are still going to do that. People are going to have sex. So is this just going to be your answer? Sorry, you're pregnant. No abortion for you. You shouldn't have had sex. Contraception. Still, that's the act of reproduction. So you don't get to do something that God wouldn't approve of, and sex is intended specifically for purposes of reproduction. So if you're not having sex to reproduce, in my theocratic vision for the world, that's immoral. So therefore, that's on you. You shouldn't have had sex.  What a creep. Because if you are able to reproduce, no matter what else you do, you can make it this quote, unquote, safest kind of sex you want. There's always still going to be a chance that you reproduce. And if that chance would be like plunging off of a cliff level of catastrophe in your life, then don't participate in it. There's not always a chance you could just have gay sex. Maybe that's the recommendation.  Because that's the only way to be 100% sure that you don't accidentally get pregnant.  I doubt that he would make this argument, though, if I had to guess. The act. Control yourself. Right? Control yourself?  He's actually telling people, no, control yourself. I mean, the audacity to tell other people what they can and can't do with their bodies, how they can and can't live their lives. I mean, it's just, it's despicable.  Like, are you everyone's dad? We should be able to exercise some self-control. We're not beasts in the jungle that are unable to control our compulsions. At least we shouldn't be. One of the defining features of human beings, one of the things that's supposed to set us apart from beasts, is that we are able to have a compulsion to do something, we want to do something, and yet we choose not to do it. Then don't do it.  I mean, Jesus Christ. Who do you think you are controlling other people, telling them, have some self-control? You have some self-control. Like, this is a part of life. This is human nature. People like to do it. You're not going to stop them from doing it. And by trying to limit the way that they can stop pregnancies, either through abortion or through contraception, you're not going to change behavior. But he wants to. He wants to control people. It's so puritanical.  Who listens to this guy? Who listens to that and thinks, oh, yeah. This guy makes sense. I mean, the only people who I think can listen to that and think, yeah, that's right, are incels. Because it's like, well, I'm not fucking, so nobody else should be able to fuck, too.  Like, it's just got to be spiteful little young virgins. That's the only explanation for it, because who actually takes this guy seriously and thinks that this is a serious actor? You're telling adults to have some self-control and not have sex.  But Republicans can't help themselves. They've got to be in the bedrooms.  There are Republicans who want to ban sodomy. And this affects straight people as well. So they actually want to tell you when and when to not have sex and how you can have sex.   If you don't want to have sex, if you want to do it a certain way, that's on you.  It's just, this is insanity. The fact that he would say this with a straight face. And I've got to point out, this is the type of person who J.K. Rowling is aligned with. Does this sound like a feminist to you? J.K. Rowling tweeted out support for him recently, congratulating him, or not congratulating him, but saying that his documentary did a good job at showing how incoherent gender ideology is. Like, this is who TERFs are aligning with? This is your feminist king?


Kyle, from your vantage point, what made Corey Kluber so dominant this afternoon? You know, he was just hitting the spots all day. The command was there. The movement is pretty crazy all the time, and just mixing speeds, mixing locations. He stayed unpredictable, so it was really fun to work with him. It seemed like he got a lot of swings and misses with that change-up. Why was the change-up so good today? Why did that play so well? I think it's something he's really been working on lately, and it's got great action. He locates it really well, so I think that's why. Kyle, is that a situation where coming into it the game plan is to go to the change-up a lot, or is that something that you see as working early on and you continue to call? I mean, our game plan with Corey is like everything's in the mix. For him, we go out there, we read swings, we kind of see how hitters are reacting to different things, and then the game plan evolves from there. Second straight, good start for Corey Kluber. Why do you think you guys work so well together? It seems like you've been in a good rhythm the last two. I mean, I think it's all... He's just making great pitches. I'm just catching him, so he's doing a great job. Kyle, thank you for the time. Thank you.


I feel the heat down in my soul. So yeah, I mean, we're rolling. It's not just Jimmy Butler. Obviously, it starts with him. Where do you feel the heat?   I hit that note right there. You hit it. You hit it. But hey, Jimmy, I appreciate that. I appreciate that.


Welcome to the advocates. Well life thought provoking topics are discussed with no holds bad here on plus TV Africa. We basically call this paid by its name. I am advocating today for the first change we must make in our mentality. We must move on from our savior mentality. Allari Raju is talking about business in the 21st century and Helen talks on the vulnerability of parents. Sit back and after this break we will be back here to discuss it all stating with us. The shift we must make. Nigeria is on the course of a crisis. A kind that has never been experienced in its history at least since I was born. Everything that can be wrong is wrong. And when you think it can't be any worse you receive a shocker. Just think of it. As soon as it is on strike the power grid has collapsed for more than three days. First crisis is on for after two months. Police is about to go on strike so I heard. Dollar rate is at its highest. Inflation is double digits. The prices of goods and services in the market are exorbitant. Airline prices have more than doubled. Diesel price has also more than doubled. Security is not any better. The list is endless. We can spend a whole day listing out all the countries walls and still won't exhaust them. As a forward thinking Nigerian I always ask myself what can be done to change the current narrative. 2023 elections are around the corner. A lot of people expect it to be a reprieve. I doubt if that would be the case especially if we continue with the same mindset and patterns that cost us to elect a current set of leaders. So here, first we must change these our saviour mentality. We do not need a saviour. I get it. We've been oppressed for too long. What oppression does to the mind is that it makes you feel helpless. That's what psychology is called learned helplessness. Nigerians already have been conditioned to think that their deliverance will come from one person a messiah, a saviour. Our present experience should teach us otherwise. President Bwari wrote on the mantra of change the campaign positioned a former dictator as a saviour of Nigeria. The campaign mantra would sorry I missed that. Can I take that? The campaign mantra could not have come at a better time. Our saviour mindset made us believe President Bwari will bring his magic wand and with some abracadabra change the course of the nation. His magic wand has done the opposite of people's expectations. We need to change these thoughts. What we need are people with the right skills, intelligent level, passion and have the country and its people at heart. So we need people and not just one person. These people need to be at all levels elected and appointed at all leadership positions. So before we vote for a person in 2023 let's check out his or her tribe because I believe these are the people that would form his or her cabinet. Let's go a little back in history. It took President Bwari about six months to appoint a cabinet in his first tenure. The members of his tribe that eventually became the ministers then and even now are people of, in my opinion, low pedigree intellectually. Unfortunately, they account for the majority of the people in his cabinet. This explains the situation of the nation and should serve as an example for us. Another mindset we need to change is this. We need to rethink the conversation on zoning. Nigeria is literally and figuratively burning up at this point. And all some people think about is the zoning of the presidency. We have zoned this presidency since democracy and see where it has gotten us to. We've gotten the worst breed to become our leaders all in the name of zoning. At this point, we should be having conversations on how we can rescue this nation before it's finally destroyed. We should be talking about the kind of leaders we want to elect in terms of their personal achievements, their quality of experience, their patriotism, etc. The list is endless. Whether it's a male or a female anamorphodite, a Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Tiw, Ishekiri or any other tribe you can think of, we shouldn't be bothered by this. We are in a crisis at this point and we need leaders that know how to manage a crisis. Those that can bring their grits and intelligence and also influence on everything that we need to steer the country in the right direction towards progress and development. In conclusion, I would say that we can't continue to live in our foolish ways or continue in our foolish ways by doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting the different results. We need to make a shift in the way we elect leaders so that we can live better lives as Nigerians. What do you think, Clary? I quite agree with you. I think today in Nigeria that we have if you look at in American people will wake up and say God bless the United States of America. If I ask you have you ever stand up in the day and say God bless Nigeria? We need to also first of all hold it dearly. We talk about communism. You talk about fresco city you talk about the asus strike there are some people profiting from it. When you talk about capitalism system or government sometimes it goes a long way it works but in our own settings if you want to get it right we need to hold it dear and if you know that every action literally it has a pros and cons it affects you either directly or indirectly then you hold it there you take care of it so it is that time when we live to that thinking level mental level then Nigerians can be great again. I believe. What do you think, Helene? I have come to the conclusion that Nigerians problem is the people. It is the people and the diversity of tribe and religion has made that gap wider. We have to reorient ourselves towards each other as in really be your brother's keeper as opposed to looking at things for benefit, for profit so I would not do something because I want to profit from you you wouldn't do something because you won't profit from me and when each of us feel that we are being under is it under quoted so to speak we make sure that that thing does not work. Make sure it does not work but you see what they feel to understand is that Nigeria cannot grow as a nation unless we learn how to actually work with each other and it is the same everywhere it is the same in my industry it is the same in civil service it is the same in schools everybody is territorial and they want this is my empire and you can't encroach and if you are encroaching it is on my terms so at the end of the day what happens leave him there he can be built in his own mansion I will do my own I went for a conference in South Africa it was only Nigeria that was on their own every other country came as a group with other team this is my team even within my own industry I can tell you that I am the team leader but to everybody else I am a team maker so it is really about orientation and really if you you have to be passionate about what you do if you are not passionate about Nigeria nobody can ask me the other day can I die for Nigeria I said well if everybody in Nigeria was not here I can die but as long as there are people Nigerians in it I am so sorry I can't I think that just takes us to the point where it just shows that Nigerians themselves are selfish self-centred and the only thing that brings us together is really when we are faced with profit or loss like this current fair crisis everybody is talking now because it is affecting them there are people that in the past have never had experienced light crisis because they live in serviced apartments now that diesel is so expensive exactly now everybody is talking about it so I feel like we don't have to wait until we get to that point we need to start having these kinds of conversations such that it will influence our 2023 elections what kind of people that will select as leaders but you also have to bear in mind is how do you select when nobody is coming out and again I think in addition to that we also need to look into system particularly I can say the only system in government that we have in Nigeria right now is financial system like banking system so if you look at it from that end if one error lives from one account to another you can actually trace it I don't say 4 does it happen it does but it is traceable because there is a system that can checkmate but the infrastructure we have right now when we take it to civil service there is no system we don't make activities of Mr. A and Mr. B I was saying like let's see the leki toge for example when the tofi was paid we have cash point if you want to pay with cash we have if you want to pay with your card or if you are prepared with a kind of a sensor that you just put in it doesn't matter if you are a millionaire or you are a thousand year or billionaire so far what you have at that point in time is cash you have to go and kill that's the system so the system actually don't say it's profit me or not it's a checkmate to ensure that things work as expected so I can give you for example in Microsoft if you are a staff of Microsoft we don't actually need to be in office at all time you have a gig to answer to and once you meet up with the gig your superior only have like 20 or 30% opinion on your promotion once you are meeting up with what you are expected to do automatically you get promoted so I think one of the major things that we should also be promoting is to build a sustainable system across all sector with that it helps us to see that you are not more than me because the system actually give the same money point you are expecting of so let me just put some light on that it still goes back to what they call a feeder system whereby people are put where some people think they should be your ex you need to be there your y you need to be there I grew up in the north and I looked at polygamy as a system that works because you find out that the man who has five wives if he treats the five wives and have five children the same love is a different story but they are treated equally you have peace but where you have a polygamy system whereby the father is quite happy to have the wives you know better better better amongst themselves you create and must amongst the children and it is the same thing in Nigerian governance our leaders are not capable of solving issues from each and every domain and that's why at the end of the day we are the children and that's why Nigeria continue deteriorating and deteriorating because our father did not set the foundation for peace I think what I just hear everyone saying then is the fact that from your point there is a need for fairness which is what systems would actually create if you have a solid judiciary system where everybody knows that if I am offended I can always go to the courts and get some form of justice for myself but the justice system now wants independence independence is different it doesn't actually affect the contents of what they are to deliver so probably if you look at the independent in contents of deliverables I will also support them to be independent because if you want to build a system and you have a bureaucracy of signing signing from one office to another you might see that you have a robust system you want to build and it will take you 10 years to achieve the same robust system so you have to represent it again and it will come in again exactly so that's the challenge we are having because they might look at it in preference to what is important to them which is where we are faced with right now I agree with you but I also disagree with you in the sense that all these independent institutes are looking for it is so that they are less accountable financially and doubt independence would but there is high corruption in the content system because what a system does is that it also builds accountability but if you build the right system it builds accountability but judges are being pried every day it does their bread now they will be bribed tomorrow they will be bribed forever regardless it's a matter of accountability who takes them out who gives them the consequences so I believe that should be another matter we will be looking at revamping the legislative arm to say the constitutional aspect it's going to be a broad discussion if you have to go into it but if you have a good system in place and a good mindset just like we say which is beneath fairness and better understanding we need to be self aware of what it is exactly what the individuals can do having that can give us in return so we need to be self aware of ourselves and our environment exactly but it also goes back to the head of the house leadership leadership the country cannot I mean look at the Ukraine situation at the moment whether the president is right or wrong is like I'm staying here I think if Nigeria was bombed by Russia would you see any of our government officials here if they can live for little things as throats my throat is aching that it will take lots of inches they fly themselves to wherever to get medical care do you think if there is a war they will stay I sincerely doubt it I mean the thing is that from all the conversations I've heard the goal is less change our mentality less change our mindsets and build systems because I believe leadership would also build systems so up next is Olare Wajim


Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stocks, who should I wanted to go over Amazon here, the chart of Amazon. This is a daily chart we're gonna look at here today. Actually the stock closed, this is Friday at the 26th. It closed at 5.55 23. Then the post market Friday, they just had a small little tiny move down here. Looks like the post market move was at 5.55 23. So actually at night we had a little tiny gap up. I have no idea why this number says that, that's not right. So it looks like we had a small push-up into the close after hours on Friday. We closed at 5.55 11. So this part is not really a real bar. I don't know why this is here like this. Here's where we are in the day. So this is, let's just get rid of that. This is how we ended up closing on Friday. Now I'm reviewing this chart because I'm actually in an option trade for this just to get a momentum move run up into this area. Now on a normal given day the stock can go $20 in a day. I mean from these previous days of the last week the low was 5.15. It had a rally all the way up to 5.60. That's just normal trading for the stock. A nice nice big move up here in two days. So I have a position in Amazon calls it expire by the end of this Friday. The strike price is $600. It just was a great great cost. A cost is $0.64. And whether it gets there or not it's going to move up and be worth more than $0.64 this week. So I'm just playing this as a trade. This is just a trade and I'm seeing the markets going to rally this upcoming week. Now Amazon will rally two up. And that's what I'm seeing. So from where we closed on Friday I'm really looking only which is really not that much of a stock for to move $45. So I'm looking for it to do that in four days because I really want to be out of this by the first day. But I'm telling you that it moved it moved that in two days back here. And I've got four. So I have no idea what this opens at on Monday morning. But this is actually a nice entry point. We're probably going to gap up in this or neutral and then rally or gap up on this on Monday. This will get wherever the market doesn't Monday. But the stock has fixed itself in here. It had this drop off after the earnings fell. Never was in a downtrend. This didn't make any sense. But anyways it got down on the earnings rallied on the earnings though and then fell into itself in here and then pushed back up. And all of this happened because of the market. So you could have actually taken this trade back in here out for a little bit. I'm just doing a quick little thing for a week in here. And it's just because I see it just going right into the area. I just see it rallying right into itself. And I like the market to be bullish this upcoming week too in the first week of March. And the price of this was amazing. To get this again which is a very volatile stock that can move a lot. The option chain moves, the stock moves to do anything with the stock. It moves. This can be very profitable. Even if this only goes around here. I can't bring up the live options chain now. It's Saturday night. The market's closed. Even if it only moves a portion of the way, it's just going to be worth over three in the next few days. And again, I've only paid 63 cents. So that's a good risk to reward tree. And I will be looking for these, continue to look for these because there's just a lot of money to be made in these. I mean, in an ideal world, this could be worth eight to ten dollars this coming week. That would be amazing for me with the position size I have in this. And it will be a very profitable trade because I only paid 64 cents. And I have 37 contracts, which is a weird number. But I tried to get filled at different prices on Friday. And I, and the other day, and I just got filled, I just didn't get filled. Everything I wanted at different prices. And then I just killed the rest because I didn't want to pay anymore. But 64 cents is a great price. And anywhere under a dollar is a good price for this. It's a nice move. This is a call. Strike price is 600. Again, anything under a buck is worth it for this to get a rally up and a move with the market in the upcoming week. Chart looks good. Chart looks great. What do I like about this? Well, I like about this and the fact that it had this little bouncy bounce here a couple of days ago, which was Wednesday. I also like this beautiful bullish gap that happened here back last week too, the 22nd.    And I really like this bullish gap. So I really like this bullish gap. And I also like the gap here that was a gap down that rallied. So, you know, and the market fell on Friday. And this fell on the day, but not that much. I mean, if you look at an intraday chart, and I'm going to keep the pre and post market up and this will show you. But if you look at an intraday chart of what Amazon did with the market fell on Friday, it really, really didn't fall. I mean, this is just like going nowhere. I mean, it's just like neutral. I know it has a red bodied bar in the day, but it's, it held extremely strong because I think whatever this did to the downside here has finished in this short move down. And it's waiting to rally and wants to rally. And we really had a rest day here on Friday, a rest day here on Thursday. I mean, if you look at the last week of trading, there were three rest days. This is a rest day. This is a rest day. This is a rest day. So I'm looking for the stock to have a nice move in the upcoming week with the market. Amazon is a strong chart. It never made any sense why it gap down in the earnings, but it gap down and then it rallied and had a huge rally in the day. So either way, this stock is not doing anything wrong. It's perfectly fine. It's in a bullish up trend as along. So a minute, this week is an option. Got in it last week. We'll see where it goes. Good luck everyone that's sitting with me. This is a good trade. You can get it under a buck, but you might be able to get it on Monday morning just putting the order out ahead of the open to see if you can get filled. I don't know where it opens. It really is going to depend if we open neutral or if we end up gapping up. In an ideal world, we could actually gap up, we could actually gap up good, good on this, like here and then just follow right through on Monday. But I don't know if it's going to happen. It really will depend a lot on the market. The market doesn't gap up on Monday. This will open neutral and rally in the live day and do a beautiful buy setup into itself. Have a great night everyone. Have a great weekend. Email me at melissathestackswish.com if you would like more information on the Golden Gap class, which is next weekend. That's how I know how to see these trains or the new options class and subscription to get these calls. Have a great weekend everyone. Email me at melissathestackswish.com. Thanks.


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What's good George boros back again with another video so I'm gonna check out 10 times We thought Roman Reigns will lose his title. This should be a very interesting list There's been a few times. Well, I thought are they gonna pull the trigger here. It looks like they may potentially Pull the trigger here and ultimately they don't but this should be a very interesting one that that's a testament to Some good story telling when you may think oh it could end right here, or this is the possibility of it ending Hopefully the title reign ends at this year's WrestleMania Please let it happen. Let Cody finish his story so we can get on to the next chapter of Roman Reigns story, which I do think is Going to be Roman versus the Rock. Also, I did get a chance to check out his legends biography Roman Reigns legends biography and it was really great. It was it's really great to get his Perspective on things or how his career was going at the beginning and where he is now It's actually pretty awesome. Definitely a great watch Go check it out if you haven't seen it already. The fact that he already has a legends Biography just let you know, you know, he's a certified Hall of Famer WWE future Hall of Famer certified legend in the wrestling business, you know Roman Reigns has reached that peak So we're gonna check this out. Should be a very interesting video Go back down memory lane check out some of these title defenses where we was just like, oh It seems like it could end right here, but it ultimately didn't should be a good one. Let's get right into this one, man Roman Reigns 1000 plus day world championship reign has seen numerous memorable feuds and matches And amongst the tribal chiefs insanely long run with the belt There have been a few occasions where fans thought he may be defeated based on the story that was told Logan was gonna win at all. I thought it was gonna be a good match, but I just didn't see it happen Today we'll highlight these matchups and dive deep into each feud as we look at ten times Roman Reigns Nearly lost the title Reigns first big feud while Universal champion came against his cousin J Uso this was where we initially saw how important a role their families bloodline and lineage Great play in this overwatching story Roman demanded to be accepted as the tribal chief and was willing to beat J Into submission until he and Jimmy Uso acknowledged Reigns as the head of the table This has to stay on my shoulder for our family to stay where it is At Clash of the Champions 2020 J proved he could hang as a main event single star by taking Roman to the limit All you had to do were to say the words acknowledge me as the tribal chief Ask my brother T. Oh My god, that was Jimmy Uso.  The return bow at Hell in a Cell was even better. It was here that the bloodline story first began to really pick up steam Reigns had to tend with two challenges going into WrestleMania 37 in Edge and Daniel Bryan Roman made it 100% clear what his intentions were going into the show. I'm gonna smash them. I'm gonna stack them Despite Reigns confidence WrestleMania is about happy endings and what better way to close out the first WrestleMania back with the fans Than to have a baby face like Daniel Bryan standing tall with the whole crowd Yesing in approval, but it was at mania 37 We would get a taste of just how dominant this title reign was going to be it was a fantastic contest and a stellar match Really good match, bro.  So damn good However, the outcome was the most convincing of victories for Roman doing exactly what he set out to do It wasn't easy building to a WrestleMania men event without fans at the shows I will beat him down so bad That we're gonna have to put him on a legends contract. I love this business. I don't need it I do it because everybody needs me I Was a good that was so good too, bro This was in my opinion seeing this version of Roman Reigns play out on television weekly in the pay-per-views He was the best part of each show bro.  So good But the rest is made it work Daniel Bryan After again seeing of Daniel Bryan and Edge this time in separate singles matches It was time for one of Reigns old rivals to drop back in This program with John Cena was going to show how far Roman had come since their previous feud Cena had completely told Reigns a new one on the mic last time out because when they look at you They see what I see a cheap ass Corporately created John Cena bootleg consider me like a drug test homes You ain't getting past me however, this was a much different Roman Reigns His promos had improved greatly and he was far better prepared to go against you. Yeah, it's like missionary 20 plus years of missionary might have been good enough for you, but it wasn't good enough for Nikki Bella See We've already seen mr. Missionary tonight. Did John Cena write that promo for you, huh? Are you gonna say the same stuff? John's approach going to the match was also different If you can find somebody who makes a missionary position entertaining for two decades keep them in your life It's gonna be worth it. I promise he spoke about how all he needed was three seconds to end Roman's reign This was a simple yet effective way to hype the match It also helped that John was immensely over on television Fans were overjoyed to see him again, and they wanted to see the victory at Somersum But as we've seen already this incarnation of Roman Reigns was drastically different to before I never thought at one bit that he was going to be Johnson. We knew why he was here We knew why John was here to really solidify Roman Reigns as the guy now that that the fans finally have That Vince finally wanted so we kind of knew but still feel was good match was great Well, we got the impression on TV that this version of Cena with the fans all behind him would have handily beaten the 2017 Roman there was no stopping Reigns as the tribal chief Roman didn't have time to soak in the victory against Cena Since the head of the table immediately came face-to-face with his next challenger a new look Brock Lesnar sought to avenge his loss to Reigns At Somersum three years prior but things would be far more interesting this time around given Romans association with Brock's famous advocate Paul Heyman I already read the damn contract this morning with my advocate Paul Heyman My tribal but this is so this was good storytelling because This was the one where it's like they could pull a swerve here And I think initial reports was Vince ultimately wanted it to be a situation where Roman Reigns potentially loses the championship and he would become a baby face, but obviously I What happened at day one? I think it was supposed to happen at WWE day one But Roman I think had COVID so he couldn't show up and it kind of changed everything I believe it was COVID. I think that's what it was. He was it was COVID or he Or he was sick I think it was COVID but either way he wasn't able to be at that pay-per-view event And that's the rumors is he was supposed to drop the title to Brock And it was supposed to be like a double turn in a sense But don't know how true that was but either way this was very interesting adding Brock to this mix and the whole dynamic Speculation on where Heyman's allegiance is lied made for a compelling program Reigns illness at the start of 2022 sadly put a dent in the plan But what this did do was raise the stakes for the start of 2022. Yep Unfortunately earlier today to sponsor for COVID. Yep. So yeah, he That's that's the reason why he wasn't able to perform at WWE day one Sadly put a dent in the plan But what this did do was raise the stakes for WrestleMania 10 fold since Roman being taken up the day one event meant Lesnar was added to the WWE title match, which he ended up winning Shouldn't appear biggie for that, but okay Thus setting up a winner takes all clash at mania Heyman ultimately turn on Brock for good at the Royal Rumble Meaning Lesnar went into WrestleMania alone I feel like the match obviously could have been a lot better But he ended up actually getting injured mid-match and they kind of had to call an audible Think his arm when his arms was dislocated The fact that he was still able to continue the match is fantastic. That was the report And that's what it just looked like, but they had to call all of I think they had a lot more plans for the match obviously Brock would get one more shot against Reigns at SummerSlam in a last-man standing match So good loss would mean Lesnar could no longer challenge for the WWE Universal title while Roman was still champion This is so good This proved to be the two men's best match with one another so far Brock went to insane lengths to try and win, but the bloodline interferences would prove too much Reigns viewed at the stop 2022 with Seth Rollins showed us how much Rollins and his turn on the shield Influenced Roman to become the character he became this betrayal caused Roman to demand unquestioned loyalty from the bloodline At all times while also being manipulative and greedy with power the mind game Seth played into the run-up to the Royal Rumble clearly got to Reigns This was really good too. Oh, this was good. Did I think I know there was a There were a few We're not even a few there was a decent amount of people that actually thought Seth was gonna be the one to do it Which at the time I still didn't think so because one Seth was a heel and Roman even though he was cool and the fans liked him. He was a heel, too. I just didn't see You know, I didn't see another I mean granted them doing the heel versus heel matches a rarity and It worked in this situation because their history. I just didn't see him dropping the title to another heel Especially in Seth Rollins. I've always figured since he's been built as this final boss character over the years They would drop he would most likely drop the title to a baby face to kind of give them that extra boost So I didn't see that happening But a lot of people were buying into the fact that he could drop it to Seth You packing with the chair to the back you still couldn't do it on your own You needed your famous bloodline. They're the ones who hold you up just like me and moxed it in the shield The Usos are your pedestal and the crazy thing is even though Seth technically still at this point was a he wasn't really a good guy He was starting to transition into it Especially in this few because I still considered him a heel at this time It's just fans were singing his songs more and he was starting to transition into a baby face So I guess you could say it kind of worked Obviously that history alone was just it was you know something that people were looking forward to I Created you and I can destroy you you look like a clown you sound like a clown because you're a clown Then you've brought more shame to your family than anybody Rollins also played up how Roman had never won a match between the two when a title was on the line and Seth Rollins Roman Reigns every single Finish at the rumble was left open and so good could only keep his title due to being intentionally disqualified Therefore allowing this feud to be revisited at later date when WWE announced They would be holding a major event in the United Kingdom for the first time in 30 years It seemed only right that Drew McIntyre would challenge for now this one. I Actually I Didn't believe they were gonna do it, but they actually came watching the match I actually thought they were gonna do it Leading up to it. I was like, nah, they're probably not gonna give it to Drew But when you watch this match at Clash of the Castle, which is a fantastic match There's for a second. I thought they were gonna do it when Drew hit the spear on Roman I like oh, they're gonna do it. I think they're gonna I I Think this is it He had to spear in a claymore like bro. I'm like, uh, this this may be it They may actually pull the trigger here. This was so good, bro For the world championship since he was the company's biggest star from the UK A Drew victory would have surely rivaled the conclusion to Summer Sam 92 at Wembley And it certainly felt like a great deal of momentum was in his favor. Somebody has to take that title of the part Time champion. I don't think you represent those titles the way they deserve to be represented and you do not deserve to be champion This is good Clash of the Castle fans would again be reminded of how rain story was here for the long call It wasn't going to stop not even for a picture perfect fairy tale ending The WWE debut of Solo Sikoa was the difference on the night as the bloodline became even stronger Following the clash Sammy's association with the bloodline became the highlight of WWE programming every week It was during this period that the faction storyline became can't miss the segments with Sammy was so entertaining Meanwhile, Roman was becoming more revered as a ruthless leader On top of being such an endearing character saying having to constantly prove himself to gain the bloodline's acceptance Got him over big with the audience It got to the stage where fans didn't want to see Sammy become accepted as family. They wanted this this was so good because You got all these group of heels and Sammy this endearing baby face trying to be with these guys And it just worked bro. It it worked. This was this was a great pairing and They they milked this as long as they could and it was fantastic led to a great match between Roman and Sammy Did I think Sammy was gonna win? No a lot of people thought this was you know Sammy was gonna be able to pull off the upset. No, it wasn't it wasn't gonna happen But the story here was great. It seemed defeat reigns for the belt Oh You can't follow directions Explain to me why I have to treat you like a child. I did you opportunity after opportunity I let you in my family. This is what you do. This is the respect you show me It all came to head when Zane was tasked with destroying his former best friend Kevin Owens in order to become a fully fledged bloodline family member the result was one of the all-time great angles in WWE history Sammy was now going to battle reigns for the championship at the Chamber event and best of all it was going to take place in Zane's hometown of Montreal Because I am gonna be the one to take him down If Romans asked how the fence was a prime opportunity to drop the belt This seemed just too good to be true give it a fantastic story that had already been told So back down a subsequent pay-per-view event in Montreal were full of emotion You know, it was kind of an unhappy ending tonight and I'd be lying if I said that doesn't affect me After everything that had gone down fans were still left waiting for that happy ending if Sammy Zane couldn't finish his story Because there was a greatest tale being told then surely was that of Cody Rhodes and that's what I thought But then when you think about it in hindsight, it's because you know, they wanted to Vince definitely wanted to break that thousand-day record. So But I truly thought this was it and No, hopefully Hopefully that's not the case this year Someone who upon returning to the WWE made his mission to win the WWE Championship So we could finally bring this belt to the Rhodes family Cody gave off huge main event character vibes in the run-up to mania All the while Roman had remained that seemingly unbeatable final boss Despite this now more than ever fans were convinced that the tribal chief's dominance would come to an end And it was going to happen at WrestleMania 39 Rose cut riveting promos during the build-up every segment meant something at WrestleMania when I take those titles Personally, it's not because I think I am somebody. It's because I want to be somebody They hadn't been such a big fight feel going to the main event of WrestleMania in years at WrestleMania. I finish Have you ever even competed for one of these? You didn't want to do the stardust thing. So what happened you ran away Started a company and a promotion that you couldn't get over in fasted picture the ending before it even happened Only it never did happen at least not yet This is as real as it gets and the man I beat tonight his dad told me that 10 years ago Story is unfinished, but a lot of good stories have a lot of pages The greatest story we talked about previously lied within the bloodline. So good So disdain for Reigns was observed back in 2020 and in the time since we'd seen Jay continue to blossom as a character after seeing how Jay Now this recently I Was on board.     Nobody cares about you finishing the story When the rock and Roman Reigns beat both your candy asses on night one and on night two It's bloodline rules all in all it made for a fantastic build as the stage was set Roman approved for over a thousand days You shouldn't bet against him and in that time he'd shown more than once that WrestleMania doesn't always mean happy endings But no matter the outcome the story will finish. However, only one of resting's royal families will prevail Now if you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out This is this is fantastic, bro This was fantastic. I love this video man. Just going back down memory lane There's only a few Drew I During the match.  It's it's ran its course. No pun intended I think that He's beaten damn near everybody. There is to beat anyone else new you already know how the outcome is gonna play out because No one else has been built up to beat him. The only other person they have built up is Cody, bro They literally had this nigga run the gauntlet for a whole year to come back to do this all again And now he has to face the rock the bloodline. It's even the stakes are even higher now. I Think it makes sense To have Cody run the gauntlet for a whole year deal with all the trials and tribulations to come back and Finally do it because if you have this guy come back a Year later when back-to-back Royal Rumbles do everything he has done over this past year Beat Brock Lesnar Be Brock Lesnar multiple times in one year.  I'm one of those people you ruin. He does not win Cody's is done. He might as well just hang it up. I don't care whatever championship he wins It won't matter. He will always be the guy dad When back-to-back Royal Rumble's just to not get the dub. It'll be pointless So we'll see but comment down below. Let me know what match had you guys thinking Roman's gonna lose. He actually may lose this match like what match was it that you really believed Okay, it's over the title reign is over. Let me know who it was against what match it was But I appreciate all the love and support wrote on 50k and I'm seeing on speedy you to the wrestling champion We're appreciate your kicking you me. See you next one. Peace