Welcome to Toffy TV back by Vanorama, driving fan TV this summer. We're doing an England preview, it's a semi-final, it is a big game.  We've done reaction videos for the World Cup and obviously we did some previews for all the groups but we just thought it was important to have a little chat about this game in particular because it's the biggest England game for 22 years since the Euro 96 semi-final. Obviously first World Cup semi-final since 1990. Unbelievable. And it's huge isn't it? It is absolutely mammoth because there's been a whole generation of kids who have never seen this. Yes, it's massive. The difference last time when we were there in 1990, I was 18 and the feelings were so different but I think I've said a couple of times certainly on the reaction videos, we've done stuff and on the footie show. I quite like this England team and it's weird because I come into this tournament with no feelings either way about it. It wasn't any bothered but Saltgate grown on me massively. The players, there's no one I've really, you know, I even don't even like Delhi Alley in this tournament and he's not someone I like particularly. Or Jordan Henderson? Henderson's been brilliant to be fair to him, Pickford's been marvellous, obviously Harry Kane's fantastic but team just seems like a team without, we haven't had wags and we haven't had all the nonsense that has gone before and these lads have come into it with probably the lowest expectation of any England squad for years for as long as I can remember. And they've gone about the business and people can go, they've had an easy route and all that. You can only beat what's in front of you? I think, you know, going back to 1990, 86 was my first World Cup and I remember being young and obviously very young and being quite disappointed by it all but thinking well England got a good team and then the God thing gave almost like an out. 1990 was again getting to a semi-final and almost being like, England are a good team, it's what you'd expect. And again, maybe like the same in 1996 it was like, well it's England, you expect them to do okay. But as I said, there's been a generation who've seen nothing but overhyped England teams and little coming out of it. And that's been the major problem and I think that's why, that's where the, I think the issues have sprang from is that all these teams have been, all these players have been overhyped, there's problems with the media and as you just said, it's always been like a circus. You know, 2006 you had all the wags and you had like Sven who wasn't exactly an example and all these egos and the things like playing players you were in fate and playing players you were in the wrong positions and almost fitting together a team that PRWs looked at peace, making sure that all the players that are featured on all the sponsorship posters or whatever are there where there's every time there's been a degree of success or a degree of doing better than you thought England have had players that have come in and done a job and I think back to 1996 and I think I'll put important people like Steve Stoneway, you know, people like that who had no right to be in there and you know, 1990 everyone remembers it for Gaza but Gaza going into the tournament, there's question marks where he's going to be even in the squad and yet he grew as the squad's going on and I think that's something that's happened with this 18 months ago you look at that 18 months ago and you're just like, or some of those England players some of those players weren't even there 18 months ago, a year ago but you look at some of those players over the last 18 years and you go wow, what is that? What is that? and it's literally though what we've all been calling for and as Southgate got more comfortable with the job and he's gone out and seeked got into other sports and seeked the ideas of how to deal with them not only deal with the media but also how to get the percentages it's all just fallen right and he's worked with the media and I think that's why people fell out with the media over the leaking of the team and everything's just come together and it's everything everyone's quite positive about it and why not? Why not be? It should be positive, listen, it'll be there's people who follow England everywhere who love England and all that and we're up here on as, not patriotic but just on as inter we love our club more than that has changed I mean I might have always been the case, I think I've always loved Everton more than England but I always wanted England to do well and I remember the 1990 and he'd been devastated when Germany beat us because at the end of the day it's like the country, it's our country and that's what we're representing, that football so why wouldn't you want a bit of what Spain had or a bit of what France have had or a bit of Brazil and half Germany and that like, that thing, that bunch you know what else I think it's really really important for would be grass roots football which is really on its ass let's be honest because it's ignored the amount of money sloshing around in professional football grass roots should be well-stocked because they're the opportunities of the future and I think if we were to win it, it just, it, the bounce I think for the country as a whole and in change Well I think what it shows is, I think what it shows is is that if England were to win it and all the, all the riches or you know whatever you want to call it that come with it you do get that bounce and you do get that feel good factor and then there's a pressure then to put money into it it was supposed to happen with the Olympics in 2012 it never happened, it just never they were promised all kinds afterwards because the feel good factor of the country was so high we never got it and there's obviously political reasons why we never got it but you hope that from this you won't get it because I think St George's Park has changed a lot because you know for some, you think about it for years before major games and stuff or tournaments or whatever you know before they flew out of these places they trained like at the back of a hotel complex and things like that they've got professional, you've seen the younger players winning you know doing the 17s, the 20s, 21s the winning trophies and these players have come through that and I think I think the academy system seems to be bearing fruit now for these young lads but I think it's got to work further down I've got to sit down and look at the England start in the 11th now the weekend against Sweden the zone, the Harri Kay and one more Jesse Lingard everybody else and being at academies like Staling's or QPR follow the Bill Bottom, Stones, Bansley, McGuire, Chef United Walker, Chef United Trippie, McGuire I know Trippie was city as well wasn't he but he'd gone and gone then Pickford had been at so I think it's nine of the 11th or eight of the 11th that started with a team championships academies and stuff which is incredible nearly every single one of them has played in the championship at some point whether it be on loan or starter there and that shows you again that playing football at a young age really helps as well all this players being whether you like the loan system or not players need to play and whether it be the start in the championship and make their way up whatever it is they need to play but going back to what you said about grass root yet it's got to be a key part of anything that happens now it's got to be happening it's got to because it's all right saying St George's Parkway or the academies way or whatever but it's way to find them before that that's got to start happening there's got to be more there'll always be kids that come through later than academy level always there will be but don't get me wrong not sitting here going to say that's all this government's job or fault or that government fault or whatever the teams and the Premier League have got to start putting that money in they've got to start putting in to grass root football wherever it takes with a stone's throw away from a new pitch that's getting done up not far from here a pitch that's been getting used for years and they've just put a couple of astral taff pitches in they've put better changing rooms in and those kind of things it means that hopefully that those pitches will allow kids to have to get called off now for weeks cos that's the problem now it's like six, eight, seven weeks games are getting called off every single week so we need to eliminate that kids need to be playing all the time and hopefully that'll start happening hopefully that'll be the bounce from this but as you were saying I like these, I like them I think they're a good group of players but ultimately it comes down to whether you like them or not because they're teams of football and you've got to look at Southgate and say he's done a brilliant job he's took risks, people questioned putting Walker in the side a centre back, a trip here at right wing back but it's all worked you know what I mean so one of the set pieces are absolutely fantastic Walker not naturally a great defender in that position but his pace gets him out of a lot of trouble so football some wise he's built this team and it's working and from that point too I think he's done really well he's done brilliantly the thing is they're like just stailing as well just get so much thick and it's just an agenda against them he was brilliant on Saturday he just didn't score a goal but he's running, it's direct running terrifies team and it allows a bit of space for Harry Kane or for Jesse Lingard to ghost in so people have to look at the bigger picture everyone, the reason why England are doing so well is everybody is doing Dave Roll, I don't particularly like Harry McGuire, I think he's a liability most of the time Saturday, where it was a physical battle he was fantastic, absolutely fantastic Henderson was no lover of him but in this tournament he's been a real leader they're all put together perfectly well, actually young at left back you've got Danny Roses, Natalie but actually young's being cut and it's got that little bit of nastiness in them there's all those things of taking chances with those players as well and letting them bed in and ignoring the media asking for your joe hearts that plays never been so big so we'll let them grow together the thing about the stailing thing is what I like about the stailing thing is everyone can see there's an agenda whereas in the past it mightn't have been seen everyone can see there's an agenda and everyone doesn't like the agenda so therefore straight away you can shine a light on the problem and go we're not having this and that's what's really good as well if we win the game I hope he gets to win it, I really do because I said that we don't have a thing for ballseater the start of it and it was like use the unlikely hero and I went for stailing because of the stick he's had and I still think if you actually go and look at the games he's been one of all right he's finished and let them down but he's been vital in every game and I think tonight against these just how much do you think Pep Guardiola's tactics in the coming into the Premier League have influenced this style of play well I think Shelfgate as a he's always played but if you look at Middlesbray he played the three if you look at England 96 he was part of a three that was kind of where he was his most comfortable because he was a defender who liked to bring the ball out he was a midfield player first he dropped back and was then he was like a player like a John Stones a little bit more cultured that was his role and in that back five Venables it was really so he adopted that I remember Middlesbray that's the style he likes I think what Guardiola's done is he's enabled a style like that to grow because he's influenced some players in the Premier League so people like, I mean it's easy for the likes of Stones he plays that way but the likes of Kyle Walker has got you should play in that way Fabian Delph comes in and he's playing that way and other managers are looking and going what do I play here and it's becoming that way of playing that continental feel is taking over that fits in almost perfectly with Garret Selkies we could have been sat here with San Aledysus the England manager if he wouldn't have been sleeping on pint of wine and it would have been a totally different style but the manager everything when sometimes these kind of things happen every bit falls into place perfectly at that time this is what it feels like the draw's gone favourably but other teams have been knocked out on this fault the way it felt Jan as I goal in terms of faith almost you know, we know that Pickford deliberately went with his the wrong arm but you know how important could that be and it's all the stars have aligned perfectly I just think that it's really interesting that we're looking at rather than every term, every other year people say why aren't we looking at the French way why aren't we looking at the Dutch way why aren't we looking at the Spanish way why aren't we looking at the German way the manager's actually gone in the country because this is what this is what always made me laugh years gone by when he had whenever the England manager might have had a Beckham a Scholes a Neville half of the Man United team wasn't playing the Man United style who were the best team in the land for years and years and you're thinking why didn't England adopt that style essentially that's what Spain did adopted the Barcelona style because they knew they were the best team in the world and said well we've got we've got the court and the other players who were mostly well made play against that style and they'll counter that style so they know how to play that style because they've got to counter it they adapted to it and it worked perfectly we had the hybrid of it didn't you because you had a bearded team that could mix it and go alright do you want to mix it for you but then when Jim they had loads of Bayern Munich players who were playing for so it just the same Pep keeps winning the last three real clubs the last two before the players at his club of influence the national team but that's the way I think it should be you shouldn't be looking outside you should be looking at your team and saying who have we got and how can their influence and you write stones walk it and the likes of the likes of the other players Henderson and Kane who play against them and know they're the best he doesn't take much to change their game so but you need what you've got is you're right you've got those players you play that way you've got a goalkeeper in pickford you can play that way quite comfortably he's being key to the way they want him to play as well again why would have got the nod over Buckland and Polk as well as just being better than the pair of them anyway and then you've got the energy of Henderson who play in the pressing game at Liverpool and things like that so you've got a way of playing you've got a hybrid of that because you've got different styles within that and at the top end of the pitch you've got fantastic world class centre forward and I've said it before I got him wrong I backed myself with players but I got Harry Kane wrong I didn't think he would develop the way he has he's phenomenal and people look at goals and he's Columbia he was incredible and people were telling me he was rubbish apart on the pen and it's like watch the game don't look at what everything else he does with the ball he carries the ball, protects the ball he wins those free kicks and everything and when you've got someone at the top under the pitch who can score goals and any people are scared of other people thrive Jesse Lingard's running kid never stops running they're a good side but they're not a great side and I think it's funny because I think they've got things that England haven't got and England have got things that they haven't got it should be a very interesting game you've got in Raketic, in Modric you've got two of the best football players in the world in my opinion, both fabulous footballers certainly two of the best in Europe without a shadow without playing at the top clubs you've got in Manzuchus you've got a real outlet, he's not quick but he's big and he's strong and he doesn't mind mixing it you've got Rebbots who's been really good off the left hand side, Perisic who's excellent, who can play right left and still got a little turner pace up around they're not blessed with pace which is one of the things I thought coming into it that they may struggle with and look, they've got through twice on penalties so it isn't as if they've cruised but they're a good side at the back, Wolverine's been excellent for them as has Vida then two have been really good but again, Cain can get at them there's no issue there so a good side as they are and they are a good side England it's a good opportunity to be honest, it's a great opportunity for both sides it really is an opportunity neither of them might get a game they play in each other, it's a game they know both can beat the other one and you've got the opportunity to play France in the final France have got some wonderful players but they're disjointed at times and you can get at them as well so there's a massive opportunity in England being in the final three which is what they're in out of the well cut what a performance, you know on a big push tonight beat these unbelievable opportunities of being Welsh champions as after all tonight will be the mental approach to the game because the worry my only worry would be that Rakitic, Modric and Manzucic have been there they are big game players who've been big fan being big fan you know, Modric and Ratovic do it every year, they collect trophies Modric has been winning your Champions League for fun that would be my only worry but then again they were a penalty kick away from being out against them Mark in the last round they got through it was Russia they beat on penalties it's the worst penalty you'll ever see it doesn't even hit the target so yes, you're right they have got a better team in Russia absolutely, by a mile by a country mile Russia had them all over the place at times yes Croatia the danger you're right, experience if England can play the way they have been manage the game because I thought against Sweden they were fabulous if they can approach it the same way and just go out and play that way with the freedom almost I think they can win the first goal like in a lot of football matches now is absolutely key and if England get it I think these set pieces are going to be a big thing in England they go there very well both sides are going to be fair both sides are a real threat of set pieces but England have been really good off set pieces in this which I don't know if you've seen a man that doesn't practice them and he goes out so it shows you that set pieces are key fan of armour have done a van well talk us through well it's the van of armour van this is what they do the clue is kind of in the name and they've got a local artist a date artist incredibly talented obviously by what he's produced so basically van of armour have done the outfit and there's a Harry Kane on one side but the thing that has a particular interest to us is that Joven Pickford saving the penalty against Cumbia is on the other side and it's incredible and there's a tagline of days of date you know it's the opportunity for England to do it but in terms of the artwork and in terms for us Joven Pickford are a goalkeeper getting that kind of basically what they're saying is the two stars of this England team are Joven Pickford and Harry Kane and that is an Evertonian you know can only be good and Everton's name's bounced all over the world at the moment because he is the goalkeeper the cat so hopefully he has another fantastic display but it's a really good let's hope he doesn't, let's hope he has a quiet night let's hope Harry Kane is the real hero let him have it now let's take the spotlight off of Joven he's all right now, he needs to chill and let Harry Kane get on get the gold boots get it sorted I really want Staling to score the winner he can get the winner in the final oh that's in that that's sticking a few people's throat wouldn't it? let him have the gold final Harry tonight click on Vanarram a van score, go on, get in a Vanarram a van drive it round there you go let us know your thoughts in the comments were you watching it, were you watching it at home behind the couch, were you going out to were you watching it I'll tell you, I'll tell you later let us know what you're up to are you going to a big fan park behind the couch at home with family like bass I'm sitting on, not going behind the couch then I'll have a crossbar challenge thanks for watching toffeeTV, if you haven't already please subscribe, click the bell for the alerts and if you want more videos join us on Patreon, we'll see you later


It was memetic, after all. This all began with Dr. Vang being booted out of the Foundation. I started working with Dr. Vang five years after I got my bachelor's and getting recruited because of my cum laude and all that. He was a charming guy, humorous, but never losing his cool and works really hard. It stayed this way until, what, ten? Twenty years ago? He claimed he was under the effect of a stone in his desk. A stone that caused people to lose interest in work, to lose willpower for innovation. A procrastination rock. Maggie and I thought it was a joke. It wasn't the first time Dr. Vang created a fictional SCP to scare us. We didn't conduct any research on it. After all, how can you research a non-existent joke? The joke was forgotten, just like the stone itself after a few days. I would not remember the stone again until many years later.


Here's why you need to get TEFL certified. There is a saying that education is life which I strongly believe is true. I'm a teacher by profession for 24 years now and I can say that I still crave for learning and improvement. I'm a bachelor of secondary education graduate major in technology and home economics but it's really surprising that it's not what I'm teaching since I graduated. I worked as an English, math and science teacher for 12 years in the Philippines and was able to work for another 10 years in the Middle East as an English teacher and coordinator. Presently, I'm working as a policy and discipline coordinator back here in the Philippines for almost two years now. I got excited when my friend, who successfully passed her TEFL online course, referred IDTT to me. Going back to my younger years, I really wanted to become an English teacher but sad to say, the university where I enrolled was not offering English as a specialization. Because I really love English, I proved to all that I can still be an English teacher in the future and the rest is history. To satisfy my desire to be an English teacher, I thought of studying online. I excitedly searched the internet for it. I got more excited when my friend who successfully passed her TEFL online course referred IDTT to me. At first, I was so overconfident that I can also pass the course easily because I was thinking that lessons will just be very easy considering that I'm already an experienced English teacher. But of course, I was wondering also how the lessons will be conducted and what requirements will be given to me to finally finish the course. Out of great curiosity, I inquired and decided to enroll that same day. With too much excitement I started with Unit 1 and found it too easy for me. But as I went along the units, I've encountered one lesson that really got into my nerves. Meaning, I really got interested in it and it's none other than the ESA methodology of teaching. I found the ESA methodology the best I've encountered so far. I worked as an English coordinator for 10 years. I've checked tons of lesson plans and observed hundreds of classes so I was thinking that I already knew everything about methodologies. As I was studying this ESA strategy, I got really interested and found myself nodding my head as I went over reading about it. Yes, the usual lesson plan should always have the motivation part, the lesson proper and the application. Compared to ESA, they're not so different. But honestly speaking, I found this methodology as the best one that I've encountered so far. Engage, study and activate terminologies are really striking. You will realize that teaching and learning will really take place and success will be achieved using this. Students are given complete freedom, which is extremely helpful in boosting their interest and confidence. In the Montessori system, we are trained not to always do the talking, that students should be the ones talking more. It exactly looks like ESA but I saw that the latter is really different and also more effective. I really like the Engage stage where students are given the chance to just think and speak in English, that the teacher won't intervene though students make mistakes. Students are given complete freedom, which is extremely helpful in boosting their interest and confidence. There are times that the teacher should only work as a facilitator but she has to be an effective one. She should not be so lax leaving everything to the students. She should always be alert at all times. In the study stage, students are still involved but it's more focused on the teacher's task. She should make sure that the lesson is well understood by the students. Student activities designed by the teacher should also be administered here. What is really rewarding is when you see your students applying what they have learned in the Activate stage. The word itself will make you think that students will be active in this part. As I was going over the Activate stage, I remember our Arab principal in the Middle East. She used to go around the school to observe classes. One thing that really annoys her is when she sees students standing during classes. If she sees a class like that, she would rush inside that room and reprimand the teacher and the students. Though we, teachers from the Philippines, are knowledgeable of students being active during application time and should move around sometimes, we can't apply it because we are working in a different culture and the school head is not so open with new innovations. I'm so grateful to IDTT for their super effective style of online course. Now that I'm here in my home country, I'm pretty confident that I will share this with the teachers in my school, so that before I go abroad to work as an EFL teacher I have something really helpful to contribute to. Because of my excitement about the course, I finished all the 20 units in just 16 days. It took me time to do my lesson plan as I became busy at work and I looked for a really peaceful place where I could do it completely. Praise God, I made it. It was just a one-time submission and I won't ever forget that day when an ITTT tutor, Tanya, replied and accepted my requirement. I'm so grateful to IDTT for their super effective style of online course. Thanks for the ESA methodology. This is something that will be a part of my teaching career wherever I may be in the future. Are you ready to teach English abroad? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an IDTT advisor today.


So we are still in the middle of the learn how to train your own AI series, but Sora just dropped, and I have been blown away by the tech demo. It looks incredible, and I'm really looking forward to see what I can do with it as it becomes available. But at the same time, I've also seen a lot of doom and gloom. And some of it is from people that I really care about. I've got some friends who just graduated from college either from a tech school, art school, video school, or computer engineering. And they keep telling me that the technology here is changing so fast that a lot of the young students feel like everything they just finished learning or practicing at school literally no longer applies in the real world. You know, they feel lost, they feel like they wasted their time or that none of their skills they have are relevant anymore, and they have no idea what to do, what to learn or what to practice. And for those of you right now that are feeling this way, I thought it was important to make a few videos to help you find your direction and recollect your thoughts before we continue the channel as usual. This will probably only be about three or four videos. And these are videos that I was planning to release later. But I personally just felt like this is the kind of content that some people really need to hear right now. So I don't really think it can wait. Now, this is not going to be your typical motivational cheerleading video that a lot of other channels usually pump out there to make you feel better. And as usual, I'm not going to sugarcoat this situation. And I'm not going to sit here and lie to you and say, it's okay, don't worry about there's an easy solution right here. All you got to do is x y z and sign up for my course or whatever, because we all know those things don't really work. The truth is your journey is just starting. And it's going to be challenging. But it's not impossible. And I'll tell you why you have everything you need to make it out of this environment on top. The first thing you need to understand is your most valuable skill by far is not what you've memorized in school. It's not the software you've practiced. It's not the techniques or the things that you can do that other people can't. Those are all nice. But your actual most valuable asset is your ability and your willingness to learn what you don't know, the ability to adapt according to the needs of your environment, you need to understand that the software you master this year is going to be outdated in the next six months. There is never going to be a point where you have mastered the one true software that is better than all the others. And now you can relax and use it for the rest of your life without ever needing to learn anything new. That is simply never going to happen. When I was in first grade, they were teaching us how to use the card catalog to figure out how to navigate a library. Then the next year, the catalog was upgraded to digital. And I literally never used that skill ever again. The next year, I was forced to learn how to write cursive because I was told in middle school, I was going to have to write everything down in cursive or the teachers would reject it.  Then in high school, I realized I wanted to be a game developer. So I started to learn on the only free software available, which was called animator. And in that software, we literally had to create 3d models one point at a time. That is how we used to model. And I got really good at it. My first game on steam is completely in low poly. If anyone needed a jet in less than 50 polygons, that was my specialty. Then later, Blenner gets updates and they start introducing non destructive workflows and subdivision modifiers. And then I realized everything I practiced in high school is horribly slow and cannot keep up with the new kids who are extruding entire loops and edges simultaneously with arrays. Then I finally get comfortable and then guess what? Not actually poly modeling is for the old people. True professional 3d artists sculpt their characters with brushes and tablets. So I finally learned to sculpt with z brush. And then a few years later, now I'm hearing Oh yeah, sculpting is for old people. The new young bloods are going to be doing text to 3d next year. And it's going to be much faster than sculpting by hand could ever be. And then I realized, you know what? I'm not even surprised. I'm not even mad anymore. In fact, now I'm just excited because I know the drill. I've been here before I have been to this rodeo many times. My whole life has been a cycle of change. And I realized that's just how it is. You see a lot of artists like to fall in love with whatever their first technique was. And they get this idea that they're just going to master it and never need to change. For me, it was low poly modeling. It might have not been efficient, but I had a lot of fun doing it. And I hated the idea of needing to learn a new way to 3d model because because I thought it would be too easy. But I got over that.  Just give the next thing a fair and unbiased stab just to see if it makes your workflow a little bit better or worse. If you try it out and it's not for you, cool. Don't use it. But if you try it out and it makes everything faster, cheaper and better adopted, it's probably going to rock your world or help your workflow and make you a more strong and resilient, adaptable person than you were before. But my point is my value is not tied to my skills with any particular software. It's tied to my ability to learn whatever I need to do the relevant task. Change is coming whether you like it or not. And you can spend the next 24 hours worrying about it, complaining about it, praying to God that someone with more power and money and resources than you is going to stop it. Or you can spend those same 24 hours strategizing, optimizing, planning, researching, learning, figuring out new ways to use it for your advantage. Turn your fears into fuel. That thing you're afraid of in the future, master it. That's what we do here on this channel. If there's something we don't know, we break it down until we know one tutorial at a time. That's what we've done for the last seven years and I have no plans to start being afraid of the future now. At this point, I know that just about every problem I've ever had regarding work was just a matter of figuring out where to click. And there's a whole community of us here who are on this journey together with you. My community has a tradition. There's a special section in my discord called daily progress. It's where we all post screenshot or text updates on whatever we learned or accomplished that day. No matter how small the accomplishment is, maybe you just learned what a texture map is. Maybe you made your first donut or programmed your first hello world. Whatever you did today that you didn't have yesterday is called growth, improvement, progress, checking off the list. That's taking another step towards being a better you. And that's how you make it through this cycle. The answer is forward. If you want to take control of your future, that's the direction you have to go. No matter how hard that is, don't be afraid of what you don't know. Don't be afraid of the future and instead look forward to shaping it together. I hope that helps. Thanks for watching and as always, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book related video. And this video is going to be at some point, well it is sort of right now anyway, being linked up with ASMR mathematics and some of the work we're doing with personal finance and investing and whatnot, right? And what we're about to do is package up some comics, the first set of comics that we've ended up selling on EP. Okay, and let me show you what they are. They're the go-go boys, right? So we ended up selling and if you want to know what's going on with this, we put out a video where I went through basically three short, four and a half short boxes or four short boxes where I pulled out comic books from my collection that we're going to end up selling over the next few months, right? Just basically to collect some data because we've done a lot of comic book haul videos, right? So we've got some data, a lot of data from that end and what we're going to do is we're going to sell a whole bunch of comics and collect that data from that end and take a look at the different ratios and just numbers and see what it means really to invest on something, what the rate of return might be and whatnot just to connect up with personal finance and investing and whatnot, right? And ASMR mathematics of course, okay? So the first set of comics we ended up selling are these guys. Let me put these in order. Let me show them to you. And they're the go-go boy sets, okay? This is go-go boy number one and we end up selling this one for $20.50. The starting bid was $20 for all of these. So there's two people bidding on this one person, stepped in and the last second bought it for $20.50 Canadian. And these are Canadian funds I'm going to give you right now. We can talk about, we'll do a conversion when we put in, you know, collect a whole bunch of data in American funds as well but because I'm listing on .ca, not .com, eBay made it very hard for me to list on .com the American eBay site. So anybody that's doing a search in the U.S., if they're only doing a search with comic books in the United States, they won't be able to find the comics that we're listing, okay? So starting bid was $20 for each one of these, $20 Canadian, which is about $15.50. $15.50 U.S., right? This one went for $20.50, okay? The rest of these went for $20, okay? This is Gogo Boy number two. Here's Gogo Boy number three. And this is the Ashken. So the total, let me tell you what the fees for these are because this is going to be important and I'm going to create a spreadsheet for these, okay? On my personal computer and then once we accumulate a fair bit of data with a couple of sets of or a couple of months of selling comics, right? I'll provide the spreadsheet online somewhere, open source where you can take a look at it and play around with it and whatnot, just the same way we've done with some of the comic book haul videos because we use, I forget which site it is, which program we use to have that data available for people where they can take a look at the formulas and stuff, but we'll do the same for this, okay? But just to let you know what the fee structure was, what the fees were from eBay and PayPal, right? So total selling price for all these four comics was $80.50, okay? The eBay fees individually for each one was, for the ones that sold for $20 was $2.10 for the one that was $20.50, it was $2.15 So total eBay fees was $8.45, Canadian again. The PayPal fee for this was $3.76, okay, Canadian. So total fees ended up being $12.21, Canadian. You divide that with the selling price, which is $80.50. You get your decimal and you convert the percent, which is just basically moving the decimal over a couple of spots, right? So the total fees from eBay and PayPal was 15.16%. So 15% in fees combined from eBay and PayPal, which is a lot, right? What I'm going to do for the next set of Google Boys that I'm going to put on eBay is put them all as a lot. Google Boy 1, 2, 3 and the Ash Count together and all listed for $80, okay? And if it ends up selling, we'll take a look at what the fee from eBay is going to be because I'm assuming the fee from eBay is going to be less. It won't be $8.45 because this was individual listings, but I sort of took advantage of eBay's promotion, I guess. I don't know if they're doing this on a monthly basis or not, but there was no fees to listed comic books due to listings. I had, they gave a, you know, I don't know if they're doing this for everyone. It's a monthly thing, but basically they gave 53 listings for the month of July, right? And we've gone through, I don't know, 30 of us so far or something or more in that 35 or so, right? So listing for these, there was no listing fee. It was just a selling fee, right? So hopefully they're doing this on a monthly basis. If they're not, if they're going to start charging fees for even listing the comics, then that's going to be pretty expensive. Actually, there's one other calculation here that I didn't do. There was a sort of an extra fee, 34 cents per comic book for these ones. So 0.34 times 4, $1.36 more. So $1.36 plus 12.12. I'm assuming that was a combined fee combining. I don't know what that fee is, right? I might send them an email, try to figure out what it is that they're charging us for, divided. So it came out to $13.57 total fees, divided by 80.5. And it comes out to $16.85, 86%. So 17% in fees, which is enormous, enormous, right? So 17% in fees. We'll go through and do the corrections, make sure we're filling in all the stuff in, all the data into the spreadsheet once we go formal with this. And we'll make a video and talk about it and whatnot, right? So basically, we paid 17% in fees. What I'm going to do is, and what we're going to do right now is package these up. And these are some of the packaging that I kept from all the comic book hauls we've done over the last few years, right? And we've bought a lot of comic books over the last few years. I think these, this packaging is from comic books we bought from this one seller. We ended up over like two, three month period, we ended up buying like a thousand comics from the guy, right? And he had packaged them up with bubble tape and cardboard and stuff like this. And that's exactly what we're going to do right now. And one other thing I'm going to do is, because this is our first sale from this sort of project that we're taking on, right? Because what we did in a previous video went through basically, I went through my comic book collection. I pulled out four, four and a half short boxes of comics that we decided to sell over the next few months, right? And this is a set of those, okay? And because this is the first sale from this project and it is the first Google Boy sale that I've done, I guess for like 20 years, almost or 18 years or something. I'm going to include a little extra, just a little gift for the person. And I found just a handful, just a bunch of Google Boy stickers that we printed in 1990s, sort of those promotion stuff. And this is the cover of issue number three, right? I love this cover, okay? So we printed a whole bunch of Google Boy stickers for issue number three. So I'm going to include this one in there as well. I think the person is going to appreciate it. They sent a message saying that we're really happy of getting these Google Boys. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to tag this on all to the back of Google Boy number three. And we're just going to package these up. And I charged, just so you know, I charged $10 for shipping per listing. And I said I was going to charge a dollar extra and dollar Canadian extra for each additional comic. So total shipping for this package, I charged $13 Canadian. Now it's going to cost me more to ship this, right? And I'm going to add tracking to this as well, right? Even without tracking was going to cost me more. With tracking is going to cost me even more. So we're paying basically, if you count everything up, we're paying, you know, probably minimum. If you add it up because the total sale with the $13 of shipping total payment was $93.50. The odds are we're going to be, you know, paying about 20% of whatever we end up getting sent to us through PayPal in fees, PayPal fees, eBay fees and shipping cost, right? But we'll take a look at all that stuff. We'll put the spreadsheet together and see how we can optimize that. Now what I'm going to do is when I'm packaging these up, I'm going to take the covers, make them face each other, right? So two on one side, two on the other side. That way, if there's any punctures during the shipping, they're not going to hit the book still hit the cardboard. I'm going to put bubble wrap on this too, right? And we're doing it that way. And we've got the Google Boy sticker on the back of this, right? I think they're going to appreciate it. And what I'm going to do as well is we've got comic book magazine size bags. I'm just going to take one of these out. And I'm going to put the comics in them and then tape it up so they don't move around, right? We really don't want too much movement during shipping, if at all possible. So I'm going to put these in here, right? And the magazine bags are bigger, so I'm going to take these up. So it's nice and tight. And I think the person that bought these does watch our videos as well. So if you're watching this, the odds are you'll probably see this video before you get the comics. Okay, maybe, maybe. If you're watching this, okay? Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put these in and bubble wrap. Let's see. Let's take this off. Let's do this, like this, like this. I'm going to do it like this. Okay. So this is the way I'm going to do the bubble wrap. I'm going to wrap it up like this, right? And I'm going to fold this over. I'm just going to cut that. Maybe I have a one that actually fits it better. Let's take a look at this one. Now we don't have to cut the bubble wrap. Where's this one? Oh, this one's shorter. Let's do this one. I like that I saved a whole bunch of... And I have more than these bubble wraps and boards and stuff. So we're going to do this. We're going to do this. This is better so we don't have to cut it like this, right? And then we're going to fold these over. This might be overdoing it a little bit for packaging, but I do want the stuff to get there safe. And this will give us a base value. The maximum will cost us to ship four bucks anyway. That way, later on, we might fine-tune this process and reduce the bulkiness of it and the weight of it. That way, we're not paying so much on shipping. So we've got it packaged up like this. It's pretty nice. It's not that bulky. But I think I'm going to put cardboard on these as well. We're going to put this in this guy. Let me see how much space this takes. So if you do this, that should get there safe. But I think what I'm going to do, because this has got packaging, should get there well enough. Sandwich them between boards and then put this in. It's going to kick up the weight a little bit, but it is safer. I'm going to do this. I'll find out when I go to the post office how much overweight we were in terms of hitting a lower shipping cost on this. Is that big enough to cardboard? I think so. There's no way this should get damaged. You never know. You never know. You never know. You never know. Let me see. Do I have a bigger whole bunch of cardboard stuff here? Let's see if there's anything wider. They're all going to be about the same. Use this one instead. This might be a little loud. I'm pulling off some tape on this. This one's a little wider. So it fits it better. I'm going to do this. I'm going to tape these down. So they don't move around within the sandwich board. About the noise gang. Just want to make sure. Let's get there safe.  Take a look. I'm just taping the sides like this so they don't move around within. That's pretty tight. We'll put one at the bottom as well. We've got tape on all. That's not going to move. Then we're going to use this guy. So we don't need these guys. Let's put these guys away. Look at that. That's a nice sandwich. Gokoboy sandwich. Let's tape these guys out. Make it tight. If we end up doing one more of these packaging videos I might cut these tapes beforehand. So we don't get too loud of a noise. Make it tight. Not too tight that the comics are getting squished. Just tight enough so they're not going to be moving around. And the odds are this is the box. Or the packaging stuff. And it's going to be sitting like that. So there's lots of room. The odds are later on I'll try to find some packages that are a little bit tighter. That's sitting like this. Now this might move around inside the packaging but we're going to make this tight. And it won't move around. A little bit up there. That's our package. I'm just going to put tape on top of this just to seal it up a little bit better. Make sure it doesn't open up. Make sure the goodies are getting there nice and safe. And there's like room here. And room up top. This should be safe. Very, very safe. And we're going to put our dresses here and our dresses here. And this is going to the United States. The person that bought this is from the States. I hope they enjoy it. I hope they love these books. There's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into getting these books published, printed, and distributed as far as we could anyway. Even through the censorship. Even through the censorship. Okay. So that's it. Our first sell on eBay in regards to this project that we're doing. And these are the Mermaid stuff, my own stuff. So I'm going to separate these when we take a look at the data of how much the Gogo Boy stuff or the Mermaid publication stuff is selling for and how much the other books, my own personal collection. This is part of my own personal collection. But I think we need to sort of separate the two to a certain degree. Because this was my publishing endeavor. It wasn't really part of the whole collecting comic books and investing comic books. So we'll do something with the data. We'll figure it out. Compile maybe a couple of spreadsheets with this included and with this not included and maybe three of them with this separate. And take a look at that as well. But we'll put the table together and have that available in a couple of months or whatnot. I hope the person that gets these appreciates them. I hope they leave positive feedback. And we've had a handful of other books. Three or four other books that I've sold already as well.  And what I'm going to do is going to be listing more comic books over the next, well indefinitely, over the next few weeks, few months, just on a regular basis every day or every second day or third day or so. Just list four or five each day. And see what happens. We can collect all the data and take a look at the mathematics of it and take a look at the ratios and see where it takes us just to do some analysis and learn about how mathematics plays into our personal finances when it comes to investing and managing our budget and living this life really. That's it for now everyone. I hope you have a fantastic, fantastic day. Bye for now.


Today fellow investors, probably 99% of the investing videos you look of the investing articles you look at, you read are about what to buy, what is the best buying option, where to invest, what to do and so. However, probably even more important than what stock to buy is what and when to sell. Because knowing when to sell allows you to lock in the gains at the proper moment when those gains have to be locked in. Remember, stock markets go up and down. You want to lock your gains when the stock market goes up so that you avoid as much as possible the going down of it. Given that so many things constantly change in your market, interest rates, valuations, central banks printing money, central banks trimming their balance sheets, wars, crisis, recessions, it's very difficult to follow each and every step in order to know precisely when to sell what stock buy and so. However, I think there are five strategies that can help you very much, whether you're a trader or investor, in determining when it is the right time to sell a stock. The goal is of course to lower your risk and increase your return and selling helps especially to lower your risk when you are wrong and to increase your returns when you're right. So let's immediately start with the first strategy. The first strategy is always keep in mind why did you buy the stock in the first place. For example, if you buy a stock because the company is growing revenues at 20% per year and the stock grows at 20% per year and is expected to do so for the foreseeable future, then the reasons you bought the stock are still there even if after three years the stock is already up 100%. So you always have to look at the fundamentals. It doesn't have to be growth. It can be book value for example, price earnings ratios. I always like the example of Berkshire headway so let's look at that. Let's say you bought Berkshire in 2010 when its price to book value was 1.35. You considered it a safe investment as we all know that Buffett would immediately start buying back shares at 1.2 price to book value. On the selling side, you said no matter what happens, if the price to book value of Berkshire is 1.5, I will sell. So you would have bought in 2010 stock price around 100-120 thousand dollars and you would have sold in 2014 when the stock price reached 220 thousand. Then you would have bought again in 2015 when the stock price fell below 200 thousand and you would have sold again now when the stock price went above 250 thousand. So looking at fundamentals, looking at something in the business that has a straight line that is not so volatile as the stock market can really help in determining when to sell and when to buy. If you're an investor especially value investors have this really easy, you look at how undervalued the stock is, look at what are your expected returns which are usually a straight line and the stock price goes around that straight line. When it's much above that line, you sell when it's still below, you buy more. So having something fundamental, something business like really helps in lowering your risks and increase your returns. If we take a look at GoPro's stock price in the last few years, it's a clear example of how many investors get over excited about a stock and then don't sell at the right point. For example, if you bought GoPro in 2014 at 40 and you didn't sell at 86 just a few months later, kept it because you thought it's more and more valuable. Even if the price earnings ratio was 166 in 2014, you would now enjoy a loss of about 90 percent. So what a strategy that looks at fundamentals gives to an investor is discipline. No matter how exciting a stock can be, how overexcited can the market be about the stock, you simply sell when it's above your line and that discipline allows you to lower your risks and increase your returns. Of course, apart from fundamentals, there can be also other reasons to sell a stock. For example, you expect that a drug company releases a drug that will be approved and will really be a very positive drug for the company. That doesn't happen. Okay, then you sell, but then you know before you invest that your investment depends on a catalyst like the approval of a drug. So that's a situation where you know before investing, okay, I can lose so much if it goes bad, I can make so much money if it goes well. So that's also an approach to selling or buying a stock. The second strategy that helps in defining when to buy and sell is portfolio rebalancing. If you have a well-set portfolio, perhaps an all-weather portfolio, you know exactly how much risks each part of your portfolio carries. When, for example, the gold part of your portfolio, in this case here we have the Vanek Goldminers ETF, increases 100% and perhaps if it is 5% of your portfolio, now it is 10%, then you slowly trim it down to 5% in order to have equal portfolio risk reward allocations. If the 5% portfolio falls to 2.5%, you buy it up again to 5%. So portfolio rebalancing also allows for a simple straightforward strategy, keeps discipline and you simply move your pieces in your portfolio as your strategy commands. Not much thinking, no emotions and those no emotion strategies are perhaps the best strategies when it comes to investing. Another reason to rebalance can be because you have too much risk in one stock. For example, in this case is NetEase. Let's say you held 10 stocks in 2009 and one of those 10 stocks that you had 10% of it was NetEase. The stock price was 19, now it's 304. NetEase went up 15 fold, the stock market went up 3 fold, so now NetEase would be 35% of your portfolio. That's pretty high number to keep in one stock, so you might want to sell part of it in order to rebalance the risk of your portfolio. So rebalancing is a pretty straightforward, simple to use strategy. Again, if it's combined with the fundamental line, you can always rebalance around that fundamental line, around earnings, around valuations, buy more of the cheaper, better earning stock and sell the more expensive, over exciting stock. The third strategy why you could sell a stock is because there is something better out there. So for example, you have your own stocks and you find some stock or a stock became incredibly cheap that you have to sell something else. Now, if you would look, okay, which one is cheaper, which one is better, then you would trade, I think, in a day you would make 200 trades.  So in order to avoid transaction fees, it's good to have a rule that tells you when to trade one stock for a better one. And who better to ask for such a rule than John Templeton. He had the rule that you exchange one portfolio holding for another only when it's 50% better than the other. Let's say we have two stocks where the true value is $100. Stock A trades at $50, stock B at $40. The difference now is $10, 10 divided by 40 is 25% so you don't sell. Let's say stock B trades at $50 now so it fell $10. The difference now is 20, 20 divided by 30 is 66%. In this case you sell A and buy B. So a simple rule like John Templeton's rule allows you to keep a cool mind and really mechanically adjust your portfolio holdings. The fourth strategy when to sell a stock is to use stop losses. A stop loss is an order when you say if a stock price falls to a certain level you automatically trigger a sale. So you protect yourself from the downside. Stop loss selling has good sides and bad sides. The good side is of course you're protected from the downside. The bad side is that the stock price can fall in between days much more than your stop loss is. So you're and then when the stop loss is triggered you sell at market. So you sell at what the market offers which could be much much lower than your stop loss. So that's one risk. The second risk is that you get your stop loss triggered and then the stop price goes up. For example those who bought Apple at $153 a week ago and put a stop loss in $150 let's say they bought the stock because they expect the new iPhone 8 to come out and the Apple stock to appreciate or they thought earnings would be good and the stock price will appreciate. If they bought it put a stop loss at $150 they would have sold at $150 and then when the earnings beat expectations they would have missed out of the outside. So their thinking was correct but the market irrationalities the market volatility pulled them out at the market at a loss. So that's again a risk of stop losses. On the positive side you can you really use stop losses as your main strategy where you invest and try to catch long-term trends. You invest in 10 trends and you make okay I can lose 2% per investment. So if nine of those trends go bad you lose 18% but if one goes well let's say they are long longer-term trends you can lose 18% but you make 100% on the good trend the trend you are caught.  So whenever that stock falls more than a few percentage point then you sell it. So a stop loss is a very very interesting strategy to automatically sell when a certain target is met and it should be studied to see if it fits your strategy your risk appetite risk reward appetite. An investor that never uses stop losses is a value investor because value investors like me they when the stock price falls we like to buy more. A trader would say we are crazy but each one of us has its own investing strategy. The fifth strategy is my favorite strategy when it comes to selling a stock and that involves selling a stock when you have reached your financial goal. That's the most beautiful reason to sell a stock. You can have I don't know a goal for traveling the world for buying a house for doing something with your life buying that old timer you really love when you were young retiring early something like that. So when you reach that goal then it's wise to sell stocks because stock prices are very very volatile and you might lose that goal which is something very very ugly. So when you have reached a goal you might want to think about selling stocks. When I was 22 years old I bought this boat for example from my gains later when I was 25 26 I sold my stocks to pay for my PhD a few years later I sold part of my holdings to move to London and search for a new better life. So in my 15 years investing career I have really had nice returns but every time that I reach a certain limit I prefer to sell a part of the portfolio in order to enjoy my life. I don't want to be the richest person in the cemetery as Steve Jobs would say I really like Buffett but I like Buffett for his annual returns. I don't want to be 87 and the richest person in the world. I would prefer to sacrifice a few millions when I'm 80 in order to enjoy a few thousands of 10 20 30 thousands when I'm 20 30 40 50. So I really think that having a clear goal in mind having a strategy is the best way to approach investing and the stock market can really help us in reaching that goal. At the end our life is not about money is not about investing returns and not about how big our portfolio is is about what we do with that portfolio. So I think now I'm again in the building part building phase of my portfolio so as soon as I reach a certain target I will again trim a little bit of it and do something nice with my family with my money. I wish the same for you. I wish that you reach your financial goals that investing in stocks perhaps even this channel helps you into reaching those financial goals and then selling your stocks or at least part of it in order to enjoy your life and leaving the full potential that your life offers. You don't want to die rich and I think you agree with that. So to conclude I think I have summarized the five main strategies when it comes to selling a stock and I think it can help each one of us to create really a clean strategy in relation to your risk reward appetite about what to do and how to go about selling because discipline is a key element in investing. The more disciplined you are the better will be your returns and the lower your risks. 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