The following presentation was produced by the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service through funding by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, United States Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior. Successful fish production is dependent on the quality of water present. As mentioned in Tape 1 of this series, a pond with good water quality will produce more fish than a pond with poor water quality. To ensure production of healthy fish, we must manage water quality. However, before proper water quality management occurs, one must have a basic knowledge of individual water quality conditions and how they interact to affect the overall biology of the pond. The purpose of this tape is to discuss several water quality characteristics that have been proven to be critical in fish production operations and to help provide a working knowledge of factors influencing the overall biology of the pond. Testing procedures and corrective measures for the parameters discussed in this tape will be described in Tape 3 of this series. Plankton is comprised of all microscopic organisms which are suspended in water such as bacteria, small animals or zooplankton, small plants, or phytoplankton. The green tint of this water is due to chlorophyll of thousands of phytoplanktonic organisms. Pond water which is colored such as this is said to have a bloom of phytoplankton or algae. Some types of phytoplankton grow in colonies which often form scums on surface. Since phytoplankton is interrelated to virtually every factor in the pond ecosystem, the importance of plankton to the overall biology of the pond cannot be underestimated. Planktonic organisms form the base of the food chain or food web in ponds. For example, in a typical bass pond plankton are interrelated in the food web. As shown in this diagram phytoplankton are consumed by zooplankton. Zooplankton in turn are consumed by insects and juvenile sunfish and bass. Insects are consumed by sunfish and bass and sunfish and small bass are eaten by large bass. All dead organisms including phytoplankton and zooplankton form detritus and organic material as they decay. Detritus contains many nutrients such as minerals which are recycled back into the food web by zooplankton and insects which feed upon it. Shown here is a food web present in a typical catfish pond. In this type of pond planktonic organisms are less important as food sources since the fish are artificially fed. However, nutrient recycling by plankton in this case is important. Most production ponds which are fed have food webs such as this. In both fed and unfed ponds phytoplankton influence overall water quality. Phytoplankton influences the level of dissolved oxygen, pH, and nitrogen. Specific examples of how phytoplankton is involved with these parameters will be included as they are discussed. Phytoplankton also aids in the prevention of large aquatic plant growth. This is due to the shading effect which is caused by phytoplankton. Shading by phytoplankton prevents sufficient light from reaching the larger plants which in turn inhibits their growth. Dense growth of aquatic plants is undesirable as it inhibits fishing and saining and also can produce increased oxygen demand in the pond. Phytoplankton, like all green plants, utilize the process of photosynthesis in which carbon dioxide and water are converted to oxygen and carbohydrate by using sunlight as an energy source. By this process phytoplankton produces its own food which are sugars. Enough available carbon is necessary for healthy algae. However, additional nutrients besides carbon dioxide and water are necessary for growth of phytoplankton. The limiting factors to phytoplanktonic growth besides adequate sunlight are usually nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, or NPK. Of these phosphorus is usually limiting and the lack of this nutrient will cause reduced growth. Many trace minerals have been shown to affect planktonic growth but these are usually not the limiting factors. In many cases fertilization is needed to establish a phytoplankton community. Fertilizers provide these limiting nutrients. For example, the standard fish pond fertilizer contains 20% nitrogen, 20% phosphorus, and 5% potassium. Methods of testing the level of phytoplankton in your pond will be presented in Tape 3 along with fertilization information. Plankton communities are constantly changing in species composition and in abundance. For example, fluctuations in abundance are shown in this graph of chlorophyll A concentrations. As numbers of phytoplankton increase, the quantity of chlorophyll A increases. As shown in this graph, phytoplankton abundance reach maximum levels in the late summer months. Increased sunlight and warmer temperatures promote this increase in growth. Fertilizer also increases growth as is shown. Even though phytoplankton abundance may vary greatly through the year, fish production usually is not affected. However, during the warmer months phytoplankton blooms may increase greatly in density and then suddenly die. If this occurs, several problems involving oxygen concentrations may result. This subject will be discussed later in the video when we discuss dissolved oxygen. At certain times of the year, certain types of plankton, the most notable being blue-green algae, may increase in abundance. These forms of plankton produce certain substances which may cause off-flavor in fish. At the present time, there is no reliable method for predicting when off-flavor will occur or its duration. Before proceeding to the next topic, let me emphasize again the importance of phytoplankton to fish production. The most important aspect of water quality management is management of phytoplankton due to its importance in the food web, nutrient recycling, aquatic plant control, and effects it has on the following parameters. Dissolved oxygen, pH, and nitrogen. Maintaining adequate concentrations of dissolved oxygen is critical to successful fish production. Adequate dissolved oxygen is necessary not only to prevent massive fish kills, but also to maintain healthy growing fish. Generally, it is desirable to maintain dissolved oxygen levels above 5 mg per liter. Prolonged exposure to dissolved oxygen concentrations from 1 to 5 mg per liter usually causes reduced growth and increases the susceptibility of fish to disease. Values below 1 mg per liter are usually lethal to most fish if exposure is prolonged. Although the atmosphere is 21% oxygen by volume, this oxygen is not directly available to fish unless it is dissolved into the water. Water has a specific capacity to hold dissolved oxygen, which is regulated by several physical parameters. When the amount of dissolved oxygen in water is equal to that of the air it is in contact with, the water is saturated. Temperature, atmospheric pressure, and salinity are the major parameters which influence the amount of oxygen that can be dissolved in water. In the southern United States, temperature has the greatest effect on the amount of dissolved oxygen at saturation. For example, one can see that as temperature increases, the amount of oxygen at saturation decreases. In the summer, as water temperatures increase significantly, less oxygen can be held by water due to the lower saturation level. This combined with increased oxygen usage is the major reason dissolved oxygen deficiencies occur primarily in the summer. The term saturation may be misleading since oxygen levels are constantly changing due to various inputs and outputs. In other words, saturation is simply the maximum amount of oxygen water can retain. But due to several factors, oxygen concentrations vary. Inputs and outputs of dissolved oxygen into and from ponds are primarily from diffusion and photosynthesis and respiration by all living organisms in the pond, especially phytoplankton. Diffusion of oxygen into water occurs whenever the concentration of dissolved oxygen is below saturation. Net diffusion of oxygen also occurs out of water into the air if the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water exceeds the saturation level. Even though diffusion is constantly occurring, the rate of diffusion is slow and results in small inputs and outputs by this process. For example, in this table, inputs and outputs of dissolved oxygen due to various processes are shown. Diffusion accounts for only a small percentage of both inputs and outputs of oxygen. On the other hand, processes by phytoplankton contribute greatly to both inputs and outputs of dissolved oxygen. Photosynthesis, as you recall, produces oxygen. Respiration, on the other hand, results in oxygen being consumed. All organisms in the pond respire and therefore consume oxygen. The loss of oxygen due to respiration by organisms besides phytoplankton is relatively small when compared to oxygen losses due to respiration of phytoplankton. The process of photosynthesis and respiration by phytoplankton alternate between night and day. That is, photosynthesis requires sunlight and therefore occurs only during the day. At night, photosynthesis ceases and respiration is the dominant process. This results in fluctuations of pond oxygen levels from day to night. As oxygen is produced by photosynthesis during the day, it usually exceeds losses throughout the night due to respiration. If there are no oxygen inputs from photosynthesis, dissolved oxygen drops. From this curve, it can be seen that oxygen levels are greatest shortly before dusk and lowest shortly before dawn. Immediately after dawn, photosynthesis begins and oxygen levels increase. Deviations from this normal dissolved oxygen curve may be caused by increased diffusion, plankton die-offs, pond mixing, and decreased photosynthesis due to cloudy weather. Diffusion may increase or decrease dissolved oxygen concentrations depending on the saturation level of the pond. Wave action caused by wind exposes more water to the air, increasing the rate of diffusion. In fact, corrective measures for low dissolved oxygen are based on this principle. For example, aeration devices such as this are used to expose water to the air, thereby increasing diffusion of oxygen, in this case, into the water. Sudden die-offs of phytoplankton may occur at times. When a die-off occurs, dead algae may form near the surface. As plankton dies, photosynthesis ceases and respiration increases due to microbial decomposition, and as a result, dissolved oxygen concentrations fall dramatically. As shown in this graph, dissolved oxygen concentrations suddenly dropped immediately after the die-off of plankton and remain low for several days because of increased respiration and decreased photosynthesis. Die-offs of phytoplankton usually occur during the warmer months during calm weather. If corrective measures are not immediately taken following a die-off, a massive fish kill may result. Fish kills may result from extremely windy weather or heavy rains which may cause turnover or mixing of low oxygen bottom waters with those throughout the pond, resulting in reduced oxygen concentrations. Cloudy weather will also result in decreased oxygen concentrations due to reduced photosynthesis by phytoplankton. As shown in the graph, as cloudy weather persists for several days, dissolved oxygen concentrations decrease. Ph is a measure of the hydrogen ion concentration and indicates if the water is acid or basic. Since ph represents a negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration, the lower the ph, the greater the number of hydrogen ions. The higher the ph, the lower the number of hydrogen ions. In other words, as hydrogen ion concentration of the water increases, the ph decreases, indicating increased acidity. The ph scale ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral. Water with values below 7 are termed acidic. Those with values above 7 are basic or alkaline. The greater the departure from ph7, the more acid or alkaline a water is. For example, water with a ph of 5 is more acidic than water with a ph of 6 and has more hydrogen ions. The ph of a pond is directly influenced by the concentration of carbon dioxide in the water. Carbon dioxide, in turn, is directly influenced by phytoplankton and other organisms in the pond. During the day, removal of carbon dioxide by photosynthesis of phytoplankton causes the ph to rise. At night, addition of carbon dioxide to the water by respiration of phytoplankton and other organisms decreases the ph. This results in a fluctuation of both ph and carbon dioxide over a 24-hour period, as shown in this graph. Carbon dioxide influences ph due to its direct effects as an acid and its relationship with the bicarbonate equilibrium system. At night, respiratory carbon dioxide causes the ph to decrease because carbon dioxide in water acts as an acid in the reaction shown. Increased carbon dioxide causes the reaction to shift to the right, producing hydrogen ions. Recall that increased free hydrogen ion concentrations result in decreased ph. In the daylight hours, carbon dioxide is removed by photosynthesis. This causes bicarbonate ions to disassociate and replace the decreasing carbon dioxide concentrations. In other words, the reaction shifts to the right. This shift produces increased concentrations of carbonate ions. As carbonate ions are formed, they are hydrolyzed, which increases the concentration of hydroxide ions, which increase the ph. In summary, the extent of ph fluctuations in ponds depends on the amount of carbon dioxide removed or added by photosynthesis and respiration and the total alkalinity and total hardness of the water. Total alkalinity and total hardness form a buffer system in which the excess hydrogen and hydroxide ions formed by addition or removal of carbon dioxide are taken out of the system. That is, they are bound with other compounds. Total alkalinity and total hardness were discussed in detail in Tape 1 of this series. Fish are sensitive to extreme values of ph. The acidic and basic death points for most fish are approximately ph4 and 11, respectively. However, slow growth may occur in moderately acidic or basic waters. In waters which are not buffered sufficiently, the ph may remain at these values for long periods of time, thereby inhibiting growth. In properly buffered ponds, the ph will remain between approximately ph6 and 9 most of the time. This range is desirable for fish production. The ph of a pond also influences the toxicity of other compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide and ammonia. The toxicity of hydrogen sulfide, which was discussed in Tape 1, increases as ph decreases, whereas the toxicity of ammonia increases as ph increases. The effects of ph on ammonia toxicity will be discussed in detail later in the video. Ph also affects the toxicity of certain treatments, such as copper sulfate, as low ph makes copper more toxic. Consult your county extension agent or aquaculture specialist before treatments. Nitrogen is an essential element for all living organisms because it is contained in protein. However, two forms of nitrogen commonly found in ponds, an ionized ammonia and nitrite, are toxic to fish at relatively low concentrations. Nitrogen in ponds exist in many different compounds, which collectively form the nitrogen cycle. Inputs of nitrogen are from fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by some algae and bacterium. Fertilizer runoff into the pond and from feed in ponds, which are fed. In fact, this is the largest source of nitrogen in fed ponds. As nitrogen containing proteins in the feed are digested by fish, ammonia is produced. Ammonia is the nitrogenous waste product of fish and other aquatic animals. Ammonia may be lost to the atmosphere or may be assimilated by plants and phytoplankton or nitrified to nitrate with nitrite as an intermediate product. Nitrate can also be assimilated by plants and phytoplankton. Nitrification occurs in two steps. Step one results in ammonia being converted to nitrite by the action of nitrosomonas bacteria. Step two results in nitrite being converted to nitrate by nitrobacter bacteria. Denitrification occurs under anaerobic conditions, that is without oxygen, resulting in nitrate being converted to nitrite, then nitrogen gas, which is lost to the atmosphere. Because ammonia is a major end product of protein digestion in fish, it is excreted primarily as unionized ammonia from the gills. Ammonia concentrations increase as stocking density increases and also as feeding rates are increased. Ammonia exists in two forms in pond water, the unionized and the ionized form. Increasing pH and temperature shifts this reaction to the right. For example, one can see that there is a much greater percentage of ammonia in the unionized form at pH 8 than at pH 7. pH affects the percentage of unionized ammonia much more than temperature. The unionized form of ammonia is much more toxic to fish than the ionized form. Unionized ammonia concentrations in most ponds range from 0 to 1 milligram per liter. Since pH directly influences the amount of unionized ammonia, this compound fluctuates during a 24-hour period with highest values in the afternoon when pH is greatest. Seasonal fluctuations in ammonia also exist. These are due mainly to the activities of phytoplankton. Phytoplankton influences ammonia concentrations by assimilating or taking up ammonia. Therefore, when phytoplankton are abundant, less ammonia is present. On the other hand, when phytoplankton are less abundant, ammonia increases. As a result, concentrations of ammonia often remain quite high in the winter due to decreased phytoplankton abundance. High ammonia may also result from die-offs of phytoplankton in which the nitrogen contained in these organisms are released as ammonia. The toxicity of unionized ammonia to fish varies greatly from species to species, with toxic values ranging from approximately 0.5 to 2 milligrams per liter. However, sublethal values have been shown to reduce growth and induce stress. High concentrations of nitrite in ponds usually occur when the water is relatively cool in the spring and fall. The accumulation of nitrite in ponds is due primarily to the breakdown of the nitrification process. Recall that nitrification results in ammonia being converted first to nitrite, then to nitrate. Also recall that two different bacteria are responsible for these steps. The bacteria nitrosomonas, which converts ammonia to nitrite, is tolerant to wide fluctuations in temperature, whereas nitrobacter, which converts nitrite to nitrate, grows best in warmer temperatures. Therefore, in the absence of nitrobacter activity, nitrite concentrations may increase considerably. Since nitrobacter grow best in warm water, their absence in the cooler months usually translates to increase nitrite concentrations. Also, increases in nitrite usually follow increases in ammonia concentrations. Toxicity of nitrite increases as pH decreases due to the formation of nitrous acid. In the presence of decreased pH, the reaction shifts to the left and more nitrous acid is formed. Fish are highly susceptible to nitrite. Lethal values are extremely variable and are influenced primarily by the chloride concentration of the pond. Generally, a 3 to 1 to 5 to 1 chloride to nitrite ratio will protect fish from the adverse effects of nitrite toxicity. Fish are evidently unable to distinguish chloride from nitrite, and by increasing the chloride ion concentration, fewer nitrite ions get into the fish. Fish exposed to nitrite lose the ability to carry oxygen in their blood due to nitrite's effects on hemoglobin. This causes methemoglobinemia, a form of anemia. This results in the blood turning a brownish color. This is why nitrite toxicity is often called brown blood disease. The tubes shown here contain diluted samples of blood from fish exposed to various concentrations of nitrite. The second tube from the right contains blood from an unexposed fish. Nitrite toxicity is more of a problem in holding tanks and recirculating systems than in ponds. This is due primarily to higher densities of fish and a subsequent buildup of nitrogen. Remember that proper management of water quality is the key to successful fish production. In this tape, several important water quality parameters have been discussed. In some instances, however, fish health may be jeopardized by other factors. If you have a problem you cannot solve or are unsure about your water quality, contact your county extension agent or aquaculture specialist. Tape 3 will describe testing methods and corrective measures for the parameters discussed in this tape.


Are you already starting? Okay. Well, just do it again when you do one two three Hello freedom of family. I am George and this is the Vienna Airport in Austria We're just heading on a plane to Los Angeles right now And I wanted to talk to you about the video yesterday, which was done in Slovakia Click that I up there in case you missed the red castle Today I want to talk about linked in did you know that Microsoft bought linked in for 26 billion dollars last week This was a purchase that took a quarter of Microsoft's cash Which was mostly done in debt because it costs a lot of money to repatriate funds from overseas back to the US and Linked in is now officially the property of Microsoft. They will combine it with Skype and other Properties to make more information available when you're doing business meetings or when you're talking to people on Skype Was it a good purchase? It's a good question, but what is the value of linked in? 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Let everybody get situate with us this way up. It's black on weed. That's my boy Al Harrington. We smoking secret kushmen. Black on right there. Okay. So before we get started, we got to get started. Yeah.  So before we talk business, we got to get business minded. On weed, baby. This is black on weed. Black on weed. We got to smoke this for all the niggas who doing a lot of time. Oh yeah. Just for selling bugs. Black on weed. Hold on. Almost here the ancestors have, but they like singing a slow song. What's all they singing? Swing low sweet cherry. Okay. Am I weighing in the water? No, this is like Kunta Kentake. Great, great, great, great grandson. Okay, okay. Yeah.  It had to be. You want to say it, Tobi? Mm-mm. You want to take that out of her? I don't even know how he got in that position. When was him and Massa talking? That Massa figured out he wasn't answering the Tobi. Nobody ever thought of that. Right. But at some point. He didn't, I mean, Tobi ain't really just a nigga named like this. Especially, you know, you don't go from Kunta Kentake.   That sound like a war. Exactly. Then you want to come to America and be Tobi, nigga. Hell no. Yeah, I couldn't do that. Hell no.  I'm just saying, nigga, Kunta Kentake hit now. I'm talking about if you had to have a slave name. I'll take Jebediah. Jebediah?  That's one of the motherfuckers up to oatmeal bucks. I ain't gonna say a slave name, but if like, like if white people changed your name. What you think your name would be if white people changed your name? Thank you.  I'm not accepting that, bruh. How do you want it? I want one of them.   Like a last name. Like Alexander. Alexander. Yeah. Maximus. I can't be no Bob.  I could be that guy. I would hate to be dick, man. Man, don't even want me. Tentative. No, I don't. Oh, you got it. Mm-mm. Two weeks, man. We ain't got no weed yet, but I do got my own lighters. Aye. You know we enjoy it. We gotta have our own strand though. Let's talk that out. We talk that out? We gotta get Al up here, man. Oh, the camera's rolling? Yeah, man.  You know, get them acclimated to what we're about to do. Oh, okay. This is a special occasion, though. It's not every day we get black on weed. It's just weed that we got from some black folks. Exactly. So I got all different strands of black on weed.  Yeah, all that. Viola. Black on weed by Al Harrington. I invested in the company. So yes, I am our own shares of the company before IPO. So you feel me? Oh, that's how y'all want to do it without an intro. Welcome back to the black market. Five South Show presents the black market experience. That's where we reach out to some dope-ass people in the middle of the community who are doing some dope things, like bringing good dope, making good investments. All that. Now, hold up. I got my research department on there. I'm going to make sure that you get all your proper properties. You feel me? Appreciate it. Today on the black market with us, we got a young man, a young black entrepreneur who saw the vision all the way through. You feel me? I got my man, Aristotle in here. Now, see, that's a cold name. Appreciate it.  When they going through the paperwork, they're going to be like, Aristotle? That's fine. That's fine. You named after a brilliant scientist. Man, that's my real name, too. Word.  I ain't know nothing nigga named Aristotle. So that's my middle name. Okay. So, like, in the hood, well, when I was growing up, they just called me Kario. Like Mario with the K. The fucks with it? Kario. I might have a son or something named that one day.  You got to pass that by. I'm about to, man. I'm trying to smoke the black on. Come on, bro.  Tell me how you got your start. What was your motivation? What it is that you exactly do? What you doing? What you want to be doing? That's what this whole black market experience is about. So, basically, from start, how I got my motivation and what I do, right? Okay. So, how it all started was I was in the Army. Okay. Army of one? Yes. I was in the Army. I joined when I was 18. Okay. At duty. And basically...  Where did you get to see another world? Well, I traveled around, like, the country. Like, basically, like, when hurricanes happen. Yeah. When natural disasters happen. Like, we went for Hurricane Harvey. Okay. The one in Puerto Rico when Donald Trump was throwing the paper towel. Oh, this is recent as hell. Yeah. I just got to Army of March 2020.  That's what you... You can clap for that? Yeah. And we appreciate your service, brother. He was over there when he was throwing the paper towel. My team went, well, I didn't get there as soon as they did it, but yeah. We did. We went to Puerto Rico. We went to Texas for that, to respond to that. To the flood? Yeah. Okay. Hurricane Harvey. Okay. I went to Boston. You know, a lot of places in the country. Okay. In Indiana, like, to do certain missions. So, I didn't... I was about to deploy, but I actually rejected it. I was like, you know, I'm just going to get out. Small. Small. Nah, actually, I wanted to deploy because... So, I was... Here was my plan. When you deploy, you can save up about $20,000 to $30,000. But I was also a barber while I was in. But you was making bread. Oh, yeah. I was making, like, $3,000 a month. I was cutting hair and then $4,000 off the Army. So, I was making about $7,000 a month. By the time I was, like, $22,000. And I became a millionaire at $23,000. But I was still in the Army. Nigga, this got to be a movie. All right. Yeah, yeah.   That's decent. Right. To a whole million now. So, this is how I did it. I was making $4,000 off the Army. Okay. I was living off that $4,000. I literally lived below my means and budgeting my life through that $4,000 and invested that $3,000 off barber money. So, I could still cut hair. You know what I'm saying? I still cut hair to this day. Mm-hmm. But, well, not really not cut my hair.   Why not? Nah, because I ain't used to it.  I got them three. Nah, if I cut today, it'll be free, though. There you go. I just like to do it because it's therapeutic and it's a craft and it's also like just, you know, networking and talking about to the store or what you want to know how it went down. Yeah. So, basically, I was living off the barber, I mean, I was living off the Army money, but I was investing the barber money. Okay. And then, I just, out of curiosity, I just wanted to, you know, research the stock market, but I was doing this privately. I weren't telling nobody or anything like that.   Right. When you're on Instagram, it's a lot of strangers because people follow you. So, I was posting it to family and stuff and they wasn't responding. Like, they wasn't liking it, but if I post it personally, they'll like it. So, I said, you know what, I don't want a cloud job because I have a passion for this. I'm like, I don't want to cloud my timeline with just investing. If you foot with my investments, I'ma just make a new investment page. So, that's where it came from.  Like, people start following it and that's all they wanted to see was me invest. You feel me? What were you investing in? In the stock market. Yeah, I'm saying. Marijuana. Canadian marijuana. So, that actually was my first investment, which is ironic because, you know, now I'm heavily investing in marijuana. You know what I mean? So. Why did you pick weed? Marijuana. It's because of me experiencing the streets of Atlanta. I knew that when I was young, that's how my dad fed me. What's that Atlanta? Southside, Cleveland Avenue. Oh, really? Yeah, so. That's how my dad fed me and I saw her make a lot of money. So, in the back of my head, I always had that weed gonna always sell. You know what I mean? Bro, are you the weed man, son? I was. And you then took, Bro, no, hold up. Because this is black history right now. You the weed man, son. I am. And you then made the family legit? Yeah. Then you get one more clap, nigga. So, how you need me to say that, you know what I'm talking about?  No, no, no. He'll do it no more. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, but, uh... Let me ask you a few questions for the people who might be watching. Because, you know, it's a lot of that popping up now. A lot of people saying, hey, join this class. So, let me teach you how to invest. Like, what type of advice do you give people who may be standing right there ready to invest, but don't have the knowledge of what to invest in or where to invest? So, as a beginner, the first thing I'm gonna tell people is it depends on which lane you're trying to go. So, there's two lanes in investing in my world. Right.  Southside niggas. What would you tell a nigga from the Southside? He don't know nothing about no day trader. No, no, but I'm about to keep it down. I'm gonna be explaining. Bro, I'm trying to do it like you're doing it, bro. Okay, if he's trying to do it like me, he want to be a trader. Okay. You feel me? So, but I also do long-term invest, because long-term investing is important. I'll get into that. So, basically, if you want to long-term invest, you're going to have to learn what is called fundamental analysis. Okay. Right. So, there's two type of analysis I teach. Fundamental and technical. Fundamental is the study of the company's profitability by their balance sheets, their debt to income, all of that, right? And then technical analysis is the study of price charts, the candlesticks, the stuff everybody don't want to, they're scared of, you feel me? All those graphs, all those lines. So, that's what I specialize in, because that helps you make the quick money. The fundamental is the for the long-term, because you're studying whether the company will do good long-term based on how profitable they are right now. You feel me? Okay. So, those, so what I tell people is which lane are you trying to choose? They say, well, if they tell me they don't got time, I'm going to say, I'm going to point you to the fundamental lane. I'm going to say, okay, you got money, but you don't have time. So, somebody like y'all, y'all got money, but y'all might not have time to, you know what I'm saying? Watch the stock market. Right. So, I would point, that's where I point to DC. Like DC and the Flotter made. Don't say, don't do that, don't do that. Yeah. We don't have no money, bro.  We don't have nothing. You know the fans listening? They don't want money. Why don't you put me in that group chat? Well, but my boy DC, I taught him how to do the dividends, because he told me he ain't got time to watch the charts and train. And I know I'm training.  He made some money or whatnot. And then, but that's what I teach. So, dividends is basically a portion of the company's profits that they pay back to the shareholders. Right. So, when you buy a stock, you are what is called a shareholder. Exactly. Right? So, certain companies, in order to attract shareholders, which is you and I, they offer nice dividends. Yeah, like Walmart and Target. Yeah, they offer, Walmart offer a good dividend. But the best dividend companies, you know, and we smoking black on weed, by the way. Once again. Shout out to Al Harrington, Viola. I'm an investor in this company. So, we're investing. Me too. Me too. About to be. Yeah. You have. Yeah, I am high. Because you was talking about dividends. I was talking about dividends. And then I had to goddamn. You feel me? Yeah. But anyway. Because you getting dividends, your man automatically went to that. Exactly. So, anyways. Y'all look at for some more investors. Yeah. For some weed.  Keep going. Talk about the dividend stuff. Yeah. All that, man. So, for instance, like a company like AT&T, a company like O, which is O Realty. They're a realty, right? My favorite dividend companies would be At Sign Mobile and then Mote, which is, you know, people who smoke Marlboro. Yeah. So, Mote is a great dividend paying company. Yeah. So, Mote is a great company, because for one, they're heavily exposed into cannabis now. Yeah. So, they recently bought Chrono's Group, which is a competitor to Canopy Growth, which is one of the number one Canadian marijuana stocks. Yeah. And right now, Canada is legal federalized. It's federally, you know what I'm saying? So, on a federal level, but in the United States, it's not. It's only legal on a state level. Right. You feel me? So, you're educated on just the stock market or whatnot. But yeah. What made you, what pushed you to the stocks and investing, though?  Before I get to that point, it's Alcheria Group, but the ticker is Mote. But yeah, what made me, what intrigued my mind was just curiosity, man. I had about 10,000 saved up and I was feeling myself. I was a young dude, but I sat back and thought to myself, I said, I'm trading too much time barbering. It takes me 30 minutes to cut a hair and I get $15, right?  But in the stock market, I can make $200 in 15 minutes. So I'm like, okay, why am I sitting here cutting hair? I could just use this money so I literally gave up on barbering. Like cold turkey was like, it wasn't like drill turkey. Basically, basically when I started making money in the stock market, that's when I, when I made my first thousand in a day, I cut barbering out cold turkey. Who taught you the game? Me. Self-talk. Yeah. Like reading books, the For Dummy series. So you know how they got a stock market for dummies. The first book I ever wrote red was technical analysis for dummies. Then I read fundamental analysis. Then I read price chart. And then I read day trading for dummies. Then I read swing trading for dummies. And what I learned was when you start dabbling into something, it'll lead clues to other things. So as I'm learning things, let's just say I don't understand the way the book taught it. I might go YouTube it. I might go Google it. So, and then that might lead to something else because YouTube might have another video that pop up that say this. And I'm like, okay, let me click on that next. And then it's like a trickle-down effect. And then you just start, from one idea, and then you just start, you know what I'm saying? It just expanded into a lot. And then I'm meeting people, networking, other traders. Learning from them, they learning from me. And then just a lot of stuff that just makes you a good trader. So what I did was I decided to create a program in a book. I decided to write a book about two years ago. What was it called? Aristotle Investing God. So this book was a book called Aristotle Investing God. So this book ended up going viral because I was just trying to teach people to stop marketing because I got tired of, because I didn't have enough time to mentor people. I was in the army when I wrote this book. So this was, I dropped this book. The beginning of 2019 is when I dropped that book. So if I had to go through my history, I could just say this. I started my company December, like 30th, 2018. Right? It was when I started the LLC, but I really started it back in September, 2018. 2019, I cleared about maybe 400K, but I was still in the army. So I was feeling myself. You should have been. Yeah.  And then that wasn't including the army money because the army, I got, I made like 40,000. I made like 400K or 300, 300K from the stock market. Well, not the stock market, but from business, like books, all that stuff. And then the next year I flipped that 300K into millions. And then now we in 2021. So 2020, I boom, but I had already made a million before the pandemic hit. So I was a millionaire before COVID even hit. I had an M saved up and I was still in the army. Damn.  That's crazy.  And then it was a whole, it was a whole transition just getting out of the military because you got to think, not only was I black, but I was rich.    I'm talking about.  Now I was black. I'm talking about like the reason is why.  You funny.  Nah, for real. Don't let the white people still, you know. Stay over here, bro. Yeah. No, you just, man, it's just dope to hit this type of shit, but it's not a very inspiring story. Like, what can people who listen right now reach out and get some more of this game from, man? Like, where you located? I'm located, man. I'm in Atlanta, man. That's my home base. I work anywhere I go is where I work. I make 100% of my money online. Yeah. So I'm saying, like, where can they find you online? Like, social? Oh, Aristotle underscore investments. A-R-I-S-T-O-T-L-E underscore investments. YouTube Aristotle investments. Google Aristotle investments. You'll see all the articles. Everything pop up. Um, yeah. Hey, what's up, fellas? 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These million-dollar investments and becoming this million-dollar investor? So a story, I lived in Atlanta from a zero to I moved away when I was 16 and then I moved to Kansas because my stepfather was on the military. I was just nowhere. So I was going to Crete Side High School on the south side. Playboy Cardi was asking on my basketball team when I was in high school. Shout out to Playboy Cardi. Yeah, he was on the south side. Actually, he could. We took the same class and played on the same team since seventh grade. So, yeah, I remember him. See, that's when I was going to Crete Side or what not. But yeah, I moved to Kansas and that's when I pretty much, that's the first experience or exposure I had to the stock market because I went from going to an all-black school, which, if I could count on my hands, there's probably five white students at Crete Side.  They probably go home like, why do we live here? Hey, no kidding.  I used to be like, there's only five of y'all here. Like, do y'all like not? You know what I'm saying?  Nah. You know what I'm saying?   You want to show out? Next year, you're going to Crete Side. There you go. That's gotta be punishment.   But it's always that one, though. No matter where you went, did you have a white person at your high school? Man, I'm from Mississippi. About 60, 70% of my high school was white.  So that's how it was in Kansas? Yeah. You see what I'm saying? I think it was more like 60, 40. In Kansas, it was like, damn, near 90% white. Like, probably 2% black.   I wouldn't send my kids to an all-white school, man. Well, I had no choice at the time. I was in Manhattan, Kansas, or K-State. There's some niggas somewhere around there, bro. It was. Y'all would have had to get up early. And that's where I went. I went to a local. Right, 30 minutes, the way I felt. I actually left the rival school, Manhattan, to go to Johnson City, because I heard it was more black people. Was it? Which it was, yeah. How many more? It was like, damn, near the ratio, went to, like, 35%. That's what you should have been the first year. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I ain't know a lot. That's the real reason I left that school. It was just, it was 90% white, and I just felt out of place. I kinda come from Atlanta, and, you know what I'm saying? I just needed a little bit more diversity. Exactly. The school should be 50-50, all of them.  Well, who lives in Kansas? I'm just saying. There's a lot of niggas in Kansas. Well, it really is, man.  Oh, yeah. Shout out to Kansas. Kansas? Kansas or, like, Kansas, Missouri? Kansas, Kansas. All right. Like, I was out there in Kansas. Flat. I mean, I don't know why. I mean, it is kind of flat. It is. I fucks with it. Bro, how much money you think it'll take Investor to make some money right now for the people watching this shit? There's some people out there who... What type of money? Because I can get you a game. Cash. I'm talking about, like, give me a number of what daily goal. Okay. What are you thinking about? Give me a daily goal, and I'll tell you how to make it. Like, be realistic. If you said, what would you be cool with making right now at this moment, every day? Me? Trading, yeah. Trading? Yeah. Man, I think, realistically, about if you can make it about 10 Gs a day. Well, I just made 16,000 a day. That's what I'm saying. 10 to 15? 20? 100. Okay. 100K. See, you trying to... See, you actually trying to go big. I'll try and do something realistic for the audience. Bro, that's what... Don't never discount the audience, man. Okay. These motherfuckers got money, bro. No, I'm saying, like, okay, okay, okay, cool.  You want me 10K a day? That's just realistic. Okay. Let's do it. So, I told you I could help you with any number. So, in order to make 10K a day, you're going to need, in my opinion, at least 250 grand of capital. Let me tell you why. Shit, you better. All right. So... I ain't... I ain't... Now, don't get me wrong. You can make it with 100K. Okay. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to risk a lot. So, in order to make 10K an option trader, right, we're going to need about 250,000. Okay. And the reason why is because we only want to play with 20% of our account. Okay. So, let's just say we plan with 250,000, right? Get my phone. Let me see what 20% of that is. And that's how much we're going to play with. Okay. All right? So, 250 grand and then times 0.2. So, that's 50K. That's what I was thinking. So, 50K is the number that we're going to play with. The reason why I don't want to start with a low number is because I want to give us room forever. Okay. You see what I'm saying? So, now, we plan with 20% of our account, 250,000. And we're playing with 50,000 at a time on the table. And our goal is to make 20% of that and 20% of 50,000 would be what? 10K. Think. Let me get you. I think so. Oh, yeah. 50,000. Am I? So, I got to make sure. All right. It's 10,000. So, boom. That's what I said. So, it's called the 2020 rule. So, you said you wanted to make 10,000 a day. Okay.  So, 250K. Okay. Security. Right. It's how much we have. All right. But 50,000 is what you're going to use to trade with. That's the number I was looking for. Right. I think you might have scared some of them off when you said 250. I know a lot of niggas with 50. Right. And the niggas I know with 250. But you asked me realistically what you would need to make 10,000 a day. And I said, okay, I'm going to give you the answer. Now, if you would have said 1,000, I would have had a more realistic answer for P1,000. Okay. 1,000 a day. 1,000 a day. We're going to need about, yeah, about 25,000. Exactly. So, 25,000 is what you would need to average about 1,000 a day and let's break it down. Now, you already know the breakdown. Exactly. 5,000 is what you're going to be playing with. So, you're going to need what is called probability setups in trading. There you go. So, basically, I'm like a lion in the jungle in the bushes waiting to attack. Lurk. And basically, I got eight things that I'm waiting on my prey to do. Okay. Which is the stocks, right? I bet. So, the first thing it would probably be like a breakout. Like, I got certain stuff. So, like, let's just say the gazelle, drink water, the lion attacks. That's me. If the stock does that, I'm going to attack. If the stock does that, I'm going to attack. When I got eight things, I want this stock to do before I attack. You see what I'm saying? Okay. So, I'm going to attack with $5,000. And then I want to profit just 20% of that 5,000 and that's 1,000. So, instead of people trying to always double their money, how about you use a lot of money and take a little bit of that money. You see what I'm saying? See, people be trying to double, they be trying to turn to 800 when they should be using $5,000 and make a thousand. You see what I'm saying? And that's what people go wrong. They trying to hit big instead of trying to use a lot to hit small. And then you hit big persistently. You see what I'm saying? That's the game. That's the game right there. You just really laid the whole game out. I did. And it ain't just that's how you, that's how I approach everything. Yeah. Say what, Kat? That's life. That's life. Yeah. Man, that weed man did a good job raising you, man.  You didn't came in here to spit some more game. What else would you like to put them up on before, you know? Is it any more game you can put the people up on? I got plenty, man. Let them know what they can find the book. I got a book called Find a Problem, Sell the Solution. And it's about how I scale my Instagram organically. How to, how I run my ads because I did the math about 150k of my followers came from ads. So, so kind of close to half. So, I teach people how I structure my ads. Yeah. Most of my followers when my news leaked out. They were news of that. My news. Oh, news. Yeah.    Oh.  I know because now did I know him in D.C. been making money on the side. I'm uncomfortable. I ain't now one of them niggas said, nothing to me. And then they just think he's just going to bring me some weed and we supposed to be cool. Nah, Aristotle.    I brought the weed. I know. Yeah. Okay. I brought black weed. Nah, man, but this is the black market presented to you by 85 self. So there's no brother to root for you. We know we hear your name. We see what you're doing out here and they must access to everything that you got going on. Anything that 85 self out affiliated with this can do to help you get the word out, promote whatever.   Oh, yeah, yeah.  So just know that the price y'all going to take the from the south.  But you rich. We got to overcharge you. I respect. I respect me. Real shit, man. Appreciate you coming through here. You more than welcome to follow back through here. Let's get the seminar cracking, man. We got damn there. Two million followers. Also got a live tour to coming up. The country. Our first stop was in Atlanta, but we're going to be heading to various other cities around the country.  So I think that's exactly how I promote my wife. Hold up, man. Talk about how important it is to have that. So this is how we're going to leave and not put us up on some black man love perspective, too. We need to talk, man. Come on, man. I got more. Come on. I wasn't kicking you out. Oh, okay. I thought we were making sure we did the right promo. Oh, okay. Talk about it. Um, basically I scaled my business to about, I think I was making about 20,000 a month. Uh, so I did it by myself at first. Okay. I was making 20,000 a month, but then I realized if, if I had someone to manage the customers to do all, to manage my DMs, all that, I could scale this business way faster and I could just focus on content and work. And I'm like, who do I trust? Cause my wife had a job at the time and she was just, she, she's pregnant. So that's why I started the business. Soon as she told me she was pregnant, I started the business. So I literally started the next hour. I called a homie who said he wanted to pay me for a service. And I said, all right, we ready. You feel me? Next thing you know that one guy turned into 10. So basically offered to pay me $100 a month for everything I know about investing. So we started. That's what I'm going to pay you. Cause you did it before. You already said you could have a free. I'm only paying you one. I'm only paying you $100 a month. That's what you going to get. That's what you get for always dropping numbers. I'm paying you. I got a tax. I was taxed. That's 30 days. You know what's money I'm going to make in 30 days. This man ain't going to tax me first. But that's how I got popular quick. People was like this dude is teaching investing for only $100. Cool. So it started with one then it started with 10. Then out of nowhere it started with 200 people and literally a month and a half. That's what's up. I literally scaled quickly because I used strategies that you can't do anymore. So I could just talk about it. I would first I would follow and unfollow. I had a machine a bot who talked about investing.   So I got it. So basically if you commented under an investors page I had this program that would follow you and send you a DM.  So basically I would I would go on all these investors accounts and I would just anybody who commented send them a DM. I had a bot that did that. So I was getting people who was already interested in investing to follow me. So boom that's how I did it. That's how I went from zero to 5,000 followers. But then they banned that bot when I was at 5,000. So I had to create a new strategy. But I had already had a 5,000 base of people. But out of those 5,000 people I had already done scaled my business to about 20,000 a month. So I'm straight. You see what I'm saying? So when my wife came along I made it. So I told her, look if you quit your job you know what I'm saying? I take care of her just quit your job and just managed my company on the back end. I noticed they can go to a million. That's when I was at 20,000 a month. That was 2019. So she quit her job. She was still praying and then she hasn't worked since. Basically get you a wife. He said all that just to tell you just get you a wife. I'll say this. That is a huge increase. 20,000. One million. You by yourself a wife.  So that means more customers would pay so and she also made my websites. She answers the DM. She reports to me back with anything. She does my taxes. You know I never pay. I don't even know how much my mortgage costs. I don't know how much my light bill costs.  Now your wife gonna watch this. You know the bills is 70,000 this month. I honestly don't know how much bills I have. Yeah. She gonna know now. But at the same time 70,000 for the light bill the light bill I told them kids cut them lights off. Brother first rule to be in a black man with some money repeat after me. What's that? I don't have no money. It don't matter how much you make stick to the script. I ain't even got to say that. They just know that I ain't going. You feel me?  All your partners who know you got money ask them for $10 sometimes.  If you believe in me like you believed in me when I had it. I been asking them like sometimes I got to tell people and I was like, hey bro let me borrow 50. They just be then they be like this nigga no way ain't got to be 50 but I got to get it. Hold up bro. Shit.  How much you said bro? It probably do be like that's the time though. Man the niggas who rolled up people you gonna be so quiet in the cops. They already heard you say that you need $250,000. To make 10 a day.   I also want to say this I'm not we're not smoking backwood or tobacco at all. Okay. We are smoking tea leaves. Well. How did you like that? I mean So we are smoking herbal. You own this too? Nah I need some shares in them but I do own shares of Viola. A lot of shares. Now see Six figures plus worth shares.  What is it cat? Hell yeah. Yup. So I keep up with it. TI's are investing I think little baby is too.  I didn't even know G-Money had cut a sad deal. Nah man.  I'm a huge fan I do I did want to say this on camera man. I want to say this on camera too. What's up? Before we start recording Aristotle told me before he got rich he used to watch this show. He knew exactly what I was going to say. Dean and me got up watching it. For the nothing bag. I got I got an excuse for that.  Why?  This ain't TV. This ain't Hill bro. All white TV don't love. Rich you got plenty of time.  I don't know man I be having a focus on creating a lot and I actually enjoy that it's like a hot you already have created it nigga we better invest these stocks to that billion nigga. I watch y'all don't get me wrong I watch y'all. I'm saying you talking about I'm saying like y'all well what I remember Glimps is of when I was still in the army. It wasn't, I wasn't saying I stopped watching y'all what I was saying was before when y'all first took off, I was grinding at the same time as y'all. So I started my business around the time when y'all first started touring, I think. Okay, baby. When did y'all first start touring? Shit. Man. I am. Oh, man. When we, when we left, man. No. And we on tour right now, man.  We on tour, cat. Yeah, it's been five years. I used to go to my homeboy McCoy house because I had already left base and I was a barber. And I used to go to this, I used to watch 85 South Show and just kick. Shout out to that boy McCoy. Shout out to you, boy, for all the people in the army, man. They watch 85 South? Oh, yeah. Shout out to everybody in the military, man. I didn't know what famous in the army. Everybody know me in the military. Really? I'm that story that they use, like, in soldiers used for clap back to their sergeant when they be like, you can't make it outside his military. Because that's what they would tell us while we were inside. Like, they'll be cut because they need scare tactics in order to keep you in. It's called retention. So a lot of time they want to kind of instill that there's a no way out and we're going to take care of you tight. You know what I'm saying? We all we got. Yeah, like, don't worry. We going to give you these benefits. We going to give you this and that. There's no reason to leave.  But make sure you're the best tip top soldier.  Right. But the good soldiers, man, they won't ever do anything to keep you in. That's what I'm saying. I guess. Dang, you got me thinking about the military. I used to do a lot of shows for the military. Yeah.  That's the part of the military they don't tell you. But you got a wife, I said. I've seen the military basis.  I've seen them. Some of the fat asses in our country has the offer of serving this country. I've been to Kuwait. I've been on the base.  What's up, Cable?      Wait till the night when they come to the show.  That's what you had, a new big-ass pants? Been over there.  You miss it? Oh, no. But I do. I will say this. I do miss the competitiveness when we would do PT and all that. And just how pure it was. Like, we weren't worried about who had more money than the other person. We weren't worried about nothing.  Like, we in the field, like, wrestling, playing.    Like, come on. You can't get me. I mean, we been. We been, well, it just, you know, we just doing a lot of competitive stuff, like obstacle course. And we just made, it really reminded me that we was a kid and we would just make up stuff.  That's literally all we got there to be. Look, there's no war going on. So everything they doing right now is made up. I'm telling you, like, it's a random BS, like, most, well, not most, but like, some people actually have tasks.  They just making up tasks to do every day. And I was in one of those units.    Black-owned weed. It's black-owned. Damn. Ain't gonna lie. Shout out to Niggas. And it's coming from Detroit. You feel me? So that's how we doing it. Yeah. I knew this was some Detroit weed. Soon as I lit it, it was like, what up, though? So you know, what they do is, he grows it there because it's legal. Yeah. So yeah. I love going to Detroit. And that's why, like, anytime you get some weed in Detroit, they give you way more than you expected to get. I've never been to Detroit. Why not? I don't know, like, I never really had an interest, but I like Chicago. Go to Detroit.  It's Motown. But Detroit got some of the prettiest black women in America. Tell me. I love Motown music. You got to go to Motown. It's the real Motocity. I love all old-school music, man.   All right, man. I need to definitely get these shirts all of them. Yeah, them shirts, actually, $3,000 apiece, man. We probably got your size, too, man. And them shirts, that's them exclusive. They told me a lesson. I ain't got no money. I don't know what to say. They told me a lesson. Yeah, I'm sure. That's not the prime collection, bro. Them NFTs right there, bro. They said the NFTs. Yeah, man, them ain't on the streets yet.  Right, they don't say it. You know how we get down, man. Yeah, I learned a lesson from Carlo, man. I'm telling you. That's rude. No, don't tell no black people you got money.  Now, that's my only way.  You got to have some money saved up somewhere in the house. You got to have a sock just like for your granddad and them. It's like how you bring good spirits in the house. You remember when you was a barber? Granddad always had some money. You get what I'm saying? You get exactly what I'm saying. Honestly, yeah, I do feel like we need to carry some traditions. We do. Like, even if they don't make sense. You know what I'm saying? Like, let's just carry this on. You feel me? Like, get in a switch. Exactly.  You feel me? Like, that's a tradition. You know what I mean? Like, child abuse is a tradition. Yeah, you feel me? We definitely got to bring some traditions in, man. Not child abuse, though. We're going to stop whooping kids. White people don't whoop their kids.  We out here trying to be good for nothing. Even whooping our kids know God damn, motherfucker. Put them in time out.     Oh, yeah, you don't forget.     Any time you get out of it, it's PTSD. I just thought of that. Damn. So we got a lot of discipline and spying. But we'll be over whooping our goddamn kids, man. Damn, we got a lot of discussions in the black community. We need to talk about our whoopings, PTSD. Yes, yes.  And plus. Yeah, you never do forget them, though. So they got to be PTSD. You're the only people you can hit. Does it make us, let me say why. Nobody else in the world can you hit anybody.    Nigga, in America, we're not worth it. You don't even know that. We're not in the world. And we don't even know that.  We don't know that. The people everywhere else in the world are going to be watching us.  You have a right to define yourself.  He ain't never seen that before. Let no one disrespect you. Damn, you better know. What do African fathers look as, boy? And that's why the family hates them. That's true, though. Nobody loves their African father. It is true, God damn. You're right about that, boy.  African fathers die to be like eight people at the funeral. That brother he ain't seen in 10 years. Some family from out of town that y'all don't know. And y'all, that's it.  And I'm just here to tell you about it. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been another episode of The Black Market.  My man, Aristotle, from the South Side, bruh. Much love and much success to you, fam. I know that. Yeah, we out of here. We out.