 It is Friday for another live stream on the independent investor channel take this opportunity Welcome all the subscribers back to the message Absolutely starting a new streak here on the eye too for the Friday live streams Getting us through the Friday summer routine. I have spent a lot of time already by the pool Chilling out reflecting doing my thing. I spent a lot of my time Today avoiding taking a look at the stock market For all the folks that make their way in here for the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube Get a little touch of perspective and get a little touch of My pulse in the stock market absolutely. All right, the stock market is crashing do this now is You knew you knew that those were going to be coming out through YouTube Absolutely, we're off a little blip from the highs and the Dow Jones industrial down a couple thousand here off the highs of thirty five thousand It's irrelevant doesn't mean squat and come in and get a little voice a reason from myself We're gonna roll out some portfolio reviews for you guys Show you we are down a little bit this week. We had a down week. It happens in the market I think there's a lot of different a lot of different representatives from the independent investor community From all over the states and and especially globally around the world who come in For just a few minutes and catch the message whether it be live or after the fact I just want a foot stomp how important it is for you guys. I Acknowledge and I there's no way that I can properly acknowledge the level of devotion That I have for those empowered investors out there You're all you know when you when you come in and you you look to get a 60-minute live stream from from me It's kind of an attestimate to what what it is that you do how we can look at process improving for you How we can look at making you that much tougher that much more iron clad in your risk tolerance and so the types of stuff that doesn't That bothers most people won't bother you Ask yourself if you're in my shoes and you lose. I mean I was down $7,200 today $7,200 bill Evaporated to the stock gods. All right. I Could have probably come on and put a nice YouTube video together and say Ryan's lost seven thousand dollars. What do I do? He's panicking That's not true. I waxed my truck today. It's kind of kind of cool. It needed that needed a little protectant Put on the truck So yeah, I mean even though I spent most of the day getting kicked between the legs in the stock market I found out some other cool things to do wax the truck hit Walmart Made a nice purchase on Amazon a nice new battery for my flashlight I went through and fixed all my flashlights I've taken some initiative because I've had a little downtime on Safeguarding documents and I talk about this element as an underappreciated element of financial wealth building and and that is the importance of Organization if you guys lack organization in your life, you guys really really need to take a page out of my playbook everything that I buy in way of Organization and document retention and organization I share through my Amazon Marketplace you guys can link over there from the independent investor channel.com website. That's available to you guys Check it out. Okay. You don't have to click on the links. I get like six cents if you buy something. It's idiotic But it is kind of cool to look on there because I share the products Not only if you wanted to start a YouTube channel everything that you see My big ugly face that's lit up right now Is is also on there. So if you want to go ahead and add some Excitement to your life by all means start a YouTube channel. It's it's incredible But yeah, the stock market was pretty poor this week we digressed we took about a ten thousand dollar down day I had one day this week that was up about twenty five hundred but for the rest of the market Really my big speculative position is what drives the portfolio action right now I was able to earmark a few bright spots in the portfolio I'll give those to you now the options action weapons mass. I Really couldn't be happier my long Call contracts on highly on are worth well over a thousand dollars. I'm in the money on one above the ten dollar strike I'm gonna hold those long those are Set out to twenty twenty three on the ten and twelve fifty strikes as appropriate Those are already worth about a thousand bucks a piece. I Look for those to be extremely lucrative not only that but today was a nice roll-off day For some highly on puts that I had written at nine dollars. I wrote those when it was trading at 950 or so I figured you know what I'm gonna write these pretty aggressively Stock went up nicely. They never really Were in danger of being put to me not that I would have cared anyway nine dollars seems pretty aggressive I don't know if I'm gonna rewrite those as a matter of fact. I just rewrote some new ones To roll to July didn't roll them. I rewrote the contracts allowed the old to expire But those are to the 16th of July as well, and I think those are about an eleven dollar Because I want I want more shares if it if it goes down I think we're in a matter of time on the highly on meter I'm about 11 and a half percent toward my goal So the highly on meter from zero to a hundred dollars per share is at about at eleven point five right now Percentage toward my goal and we'll get there the podcast that was dropped today By Thomas Healy was fabulous if you at all have an inkling at all to get About as good an entry as you're gonna get on the stock here Take a listen and and there was a couple very very key things in there that I picked up on infrastructure cost of the grid for cost savings Hydrogen fuel cell right and the usefulness of that Thomas talked a little bit about Why he did what he did talked a little bit about the inception of the company. It's a six-year-old company Okay, where he's progressed from then until now very very cool stuff. So you can find that on social media I don't have the link with me. You guys can very easily find that I actually forget the name of the podcaster that did the interview, but I thought it was fabulous It was really really quite good But to share those opportunities with you guys as they come due in due time the latter part of 2021 is gonna be really exciting For that company so for the folks out there that are talking about this stock market crashing Do this now which implies that you have to watch me to let me tell you what it is that you should do with your With your money doesn't that seem a little odd to you guys I'm trying to empower people to know what to do with their own freaking money Why the hell do I need to scare tactic you into watching me so I can tell you what to do it I don't want to tell you what to do with your money. I really don't I know what I do with my money I sold wish today. So Matt's gonna kill me, but I sold wish now for the third time I'm swing trading it in this range, and I'm killing it making a fortune. I'm still sitting on the 750 put Contracts that I've got I believe I've got four contracts there And I don't even know why they let me write those to be honest with you That was just silly like shooting fish in a barrel So those will be very lucrative if it goes to 750 I'll pick up the shares that I'm pretty good at options This fits with me like a nice round peg in a hole. It's really nice man. The shoe fits So I'm enjoying it and you guys if you've known me you've understood that I've avoided options like the plague Because I think they scared the shit out of me. I was like, I don't know what the fuck So but I learned up on them and I did what it is any good investor needs to do And that is learn up and I am whipping some ass at options right now. That's the lone Bright spot in the portfolio. I don't know if there's any other bright spots in the portfolio other than the fact and we'll talk about some of the things that Everybody wants to bombard you with as far as earmarking what the problem with the stock market is right now inflation blah, blah, blah The question is where you think the stock market is going to go at the end of 2021 I think we're going to have another banner year. I really do. There's too much positive going on in The market companies are doing fabulous things are making money hand over fist and I think it's still never been a better time to be an investor I just made a comment a couple weeks ago about what would happen if the stock market hiccuped a little bit for just a couple weeks Or let alone had a down year I even think that there would be some very strong savvy Empowered investors in my community that would be like God dang what the hell am I doing this for this is freaking crazy Look at all the big screen TVs I could have went and bought ten big screen TVs with all the money I'm losing on this program that Ryan got me so motivated to fire away at Yeah, I digress. He got a really stay focused on your program understand what got you here. Okay I'm off ten thousand dollars week over week on a five hundred and twenty thousand dollar portfolio I can't lose focus on what I'm doing and now I speak tongue-in-cheek guys. You guys know I'm tougher than that Okay, but but I know there's some people out there. I just talked to LaShonda She kicked in right before the live stream and said hello. Thanks for what you're doing. I've been investing a month And and I have to remember that there's folks out there like LaShonda who are coming to the investing opportunity for the first time and Holy crap, could you imagine? Looking at this landscape and being like, I don't know AMC doji coin cryptocurrency ATMs that shit. I don't these 500 YouTube channels. I got a sift through man. I'm gonna spend 28 hours a day Watching YouTube. How the hell am I supposed to do that? I Think it's a it's simpler than that However, there are distractions on the landscape absolutely and there's Probably quite a few landmines out there as well that you do need to avoid Okay You really need to get started in the stock market using those tried and true fundamentals to start You want to get over zealous and you want to creep away while I'm not looking from the independent investor program and Have a little AMC over here. I get Ryan's not looking. I'm gonna buy some shit. I got the sucker licked man I can do this by all means you're an adult. I'm not your freaking dad I'm your friend through YouTube that tries to push a little reason through and make a little bit more sense out of the stock market Dealey Bobber, but um, you know those products that we talk about this passive investing products I probably entered back into some starting positions at probably the worst time For me, it was okay because it was part of my strategic plan to try to leverage some of when the highly on meter reaches a hundred We'll probably look to take some of that profit off the table leverage them into some of the existing starting positions Make no mistake about it guys at four. I think I'm 43. I think I'm not really sure Any any any birthday I have over 40 I have to remind myself of what age I am because I really just don't find a whole hell of a lot of Value in it. I'm a pretty happy fella, but it doesn't mean a whole lot to me But as I get older in life, I really want to leverage the opportunity made possible by diversified passive investing and ETFs. I just I really foot stumped that as a very viable way to Gain yourself some very very predictable wealth in the market predictable Okay, in other words like you can lose money with ETI Okay, you can you can lose money with triple cues I own a both VYM VYM. I bought it 107. It's down to 104. What does that mean? Do I panic? Do I ship my pants and and sell the position outright and never come back to the independent investor channel ever again because He steered me wrong that stupid bastard. No, I don't I don't do that right talking about me Okay, you know it could I say well I entered into the stocks maybe at the wrong time Yeah, I mean we entered out in those right when the market market just hit 35,000 on the dial So we're off a couple thousand half a percent. I believe Do the quick math. I don't know it feels like This week has been There's hasn't been a whole lot of place to hide I think So it's been a rough one. So with that we're gonna jump in do some portfolio reviews But with the with before we do that we're gonna do the most badass intro On YouTube. I built it myself. You guys are gonna really enjoy this man stick around appreciate seeing everybody in here, man We've got 37 ready to rock I said if we're doing this project right, we're gonna keep on driving on until I find the most devoted people out there That are ready to become empowered investors guys great to see everybody I Just love doing this project. I really do. I hope you guys can feel the love as well I really just love this the fastest 60 minutes because I love it so much It seems like I look up at the clock and I've got a sign out So I try to embrace the opportunity is the best I can and I'm like a motor mouth the entire time I just keep it going and I keep pushing out what it is that I got to say because I'm trying to Trying to give it to you Trying to give it to you man. Seriously. You can benefit from what's upstairs, man All right in 60 minutes in the context of a lifetime really isn't that much for me to give you the goods Okay, and I know if I'm not the only YouTube channel that you watch I don't know. I could be to some people really I'm the only YouTube channel I watch Seriously, I'm the only one I enjoy I'm trying to give you the goods right and try to keep you grounded from all the distractions out there There's a lot Okay, there's a lot When it comes right down to boiling down those distractions and taking them in stride a Lot of them really are irrelevant Okay, the market's down. Okay, there's always two ways of looking at every single inject you get All right, if you think you've got a perceived negative make it a positive Okay, if you think your portfolio is down and you think oh my god again I just I first of all I need to clean out my shorts because I didn't sign up for this I didn't sign up for losing money. This is ridiculous. I got news for you You signed up to be a stock market investor, man. You got to accept it full kitten caboodle All right stock market investing doesn't allow you to just enjoy when the market goes up and expect that the market It's never gonna go down. I've said this many many times through the channel. I don't sugarcoat this deal Okay, there's no sugar on the stock market the stock market is just what it is Okay, accept it for what it is. You say God dang Ryan this sucks man I mean, there's nothing that we can do to try to buffer the down. I didn't say that Okay, control everything that you can control in the stock market and the stuff that you can't control Leave it alone Stop trying to control that stuff. Okay, focus on your plan focus on the stuff that you can control Hey contribute a little bit more like I've done increasing from 10% to 20% and my employer sponsored thrift savings plan that I have Right, that's in my control Understand guys. Okay, if the stock market gets you down from the volatility go find something else to do I don't know pick a hobby. Okay, maybe you can be a better guitar player than me I don't know don't jump in a pool cool your head down go wax your truck like I did today It looks great. It looks great by the way Avoid those distractions. Okay, it's okay like myself to acknowledge that getting kicked in the nuts hurts Okay, it hurts over and over again like the shallowne monks watch the videos man of the shallowne months getting kicked in The nuts over and over again. That was like today. Okay. Well, what are you gonna do? You're gonna cry about it or you're gonna go wax your truck. All right, go wax that truck. All right, you'll be all right Let's jump in here and check what the damage is Week over week here down just marginally. You can see here that we're fully invested here. I Did liquidate Amazon again Matt Matt money is probably getting his tomatoes Ready to throw through the screen at me and he knows full well that he's not gonna hit me from Houston But he's probably getting the tomatoes and he's a lot probably like Ryan Amazon's going to 4,000 He's right. It was a portfolio positioning move and I took profits today because it ran up like a champion the last two days And it was the loan element to the portfolio that it was up today around 3500 I went ahead and sold it. I didn't have a whole lot of wiggle room there at the top Amazon's Finish down today a couple bits Fair market value on Amazon is about forty two hundred and fifty dollars And I would agree with Matt on his assessment that it's still a buy here at 35 But from a portfolio positioning perspective, I went ahead and took some swing trading profits and wished today Which I still have the puts right so I win in either market But the 300 shares that I made again a nice secondary Swing trading profit on I went ahead and liquidated that Because I've got it caught in a range here Right, so I want to profit on that wish isn't one of those companies that I'm really that excited about owning long There's a lot to be excited about but that's just not my bull. My bull is highly on okay So you won't see Amazon here. We'll go into the weekend not owning Amazon, which I'm totally fine Amazon's not going anywhere if I wanted to buy it back on Monday on a huge freakin hundred dollar a sheer dip I could do that and quite honestly guys Amazon's volatile last week just early last week. It was trading in the low three 3000s. Okay, so it does give you those opportunities Lockheed Martin stepped back into obviously we got we got crushed like a cacucaracha This week on anything that we entered brand new so we got squishy squishy and I got to watch my money vaporize That was fun But 109 102 in this account nothing too crazy the cues Lend I was super bullish about in the materials I've been crushed like the cacucaracha in lend as well, but it is a quality company best in breed I'm super stoked to own it, but it's so nice to enter into the stock at 300 and see it trading here in the low 280s if you heard me out My pain can be your pleasure By all means buy a little position and lend here. You'll be glad you did. All right, because you're probably getting a pretty good entry AT&T, what can I say? What what a what a joke? That's the only one that I'm really the fundamentals have changed And I don't know if the strategic wager that they're making on 5g is gonna work out I'm betting that it does But it's kind of irritating to sit back and watch this juggernaut and my 315 share position Vaporize from the 30 mark and and now it's down to 28 and change something like that But anyway, we'll live to fight another day Roth number one here 126 206 you guys can see the sparkline. I was down in every account that I have So like when I'm kind of like it was a good week, you know I come on and like and now it's down I don't think you'll find a whole lot of change in my demeanor Like I'm just not coming in and being like, I don't know man I don't know but let me give you a piece of my insight right now on stock market investing I'm I'm willing to drive this chariot of on fire to hell in a handbasket if needs be okay I'm willing to to have confidence in my program. No matter what Right, so ask yourself if you've got that thousand dollars of capital And you've been working with the market for you know a month Right ask yourself. How would you feel if the stock market went down 50% you were down half in your money? Okay, you're down to five hundred dollars. How would I feel? I think that would suck I'd be like dang man. I could have bought a Lamborghini man. I'm now I'm down I'm willing to Pledge my loyalty as an empowered investor to what it is that I know works in the stock market Devotion cost savings self-directed investing and that is what's going to Really empower the retail investor out there not succumbing to every influence and every inject So we're left confused about what to do with our own damn program. Okay Very very crystal clear on my program. What really is the difference between what it was last week at 129? I believe and now 126 a few thousand bucks. We're off a little bit. We'll we'll live to fight another week Who knows when I come and report to you guys Next week one of two things are gonna happen either. It's gonna be up or it's gonna be down. Okay? I'm perfectly open to accepting either outcome. Okay, nothing really has changed here Facebook big position 25 shares Facebook within the Roth IRA. This would be a final I'm done swing trading Facebook. That was about a half a dozen having some fun with it makes the money trimming off some profits between the 330 and 335 range, right? Yeah Is it 335 or 235 235 yeah 230 235 that range right there I think it's ready to break out. So I went ahead and put the big 25 share position on will hold that long Do-do-do-do-do-do scanning nothing else changed pretty cash Lean right now in our investing posture. Am I satisfied with that? Yeah, I'm pretty neutral Be honest with you. I'd like to have more cash But what we have in cash right now now will suffice with what I think is Kind of overblown especially in the short short term About this little blip that we're having in the stock market This could blow over and turn around next week and then it'll be just like every other of the last 100 blips on the radar as a big nothing burger Okay No, so there it is spark line down just to touch week over week anyway. All right, and this is Roth to No real crazy additions. Oh, I did liquidate the affirm and the a song holdings Made some really good swing trading profit on there. I did so I've got the tickers there Those are no longer in the portfolio. Those are the only liquidations to brag about here Yeah Exxon mobile that was doing really really good. That's turning into a gargantuan position in this portfolio CRM back in the black on CRM. We're looking good there Values come off a little bit Google. We're still sitting on some really good profit Apple is starting to really really do some nice work off of the low 120s back up to 130 again yep, so not a whole lot's changed here and 122 I think last week we were 126 I think this portfolio. This is mine. This took the most damage Which is fine as long as I can avoid my wife taking the most damage in the portfolio, then we're good All right, I'll take all the damage. I wish I could take all her damage in my portfolio That'd be awesome, right? I Don't know never even heard of that. But if I could work something out, I would 16266 we're down a little touch here in the passive portfolio So when I buy to this right always looking at the good in the situation We'll put the funding in there. I believe I do that around the 21st or 22nd So those new fundings will flow in there on the 22nd. We'll buy these ETFs a little cheaper Hopefully unless the stock markets up next week 500 to open on Monday, which is a distinct possibility We're still in a multi-year Megabol run here. So Anything can happen. All right, and there's the little 71 stock portfolio with M1 finance very cool stuff 18392 It's looking like it'll pull back off of that $20,000 mark and we'll have to do a little more work on this But great account will continue to DCA this up I'm monitoring this sucker because I look at the independent investor channel the same way I look at my buckets for investing. Okay, each of these feelers, right? They're all subscribers. They're all over the world Okay, they're all doing their thing. Well, my buckets are doing the same thing each bucket has its own personality Okay, this bucket I monitor these buckets now again, right after I clean my shorts out Right because I've just panicked myself out of the market and while I came across this YouTube channel with four People that say are telling me that the stock markets crash and they told me to tune into them So I had to tune into them. This was after I cleaned my shorts, right? I'm not just liquidating my freaking portfolio Because I come across the YouTube channel that says man, you got to do this now Had you you got to do this now man go spend your money. It's the apocalypse. It's the end of the world You know, I just had one of my colleagues asked me at work is like man Ryan When are you gonna start enjoying all your money? I was like, oh boy, if I could give you my perspective I love life right now. It has nothing to do with the size of my wad. I Don't know some day when I can go and buy 10 Corvettes that that'll be the day I'll go buy one and I'll be like, okay, man This is really quite cool and I will too like it's it's okay It's relative for the people that I know that have a lot of money and they want to enjoy that money That's awesome. What does that have to do with me? Like I'm happy with for you. I'm also happy with me. I Don't I don't need to I don't my citizen watch, man That's my favorite thing because it demonstrates to people that I bargained shop that it was a $600 watch at the time that I bought it and I bought it from New York for $290 online. It was a display model It was brand new and I bought it like shoot eight years ago That suckers paying me back right now that that's the perspective that I'm talking about I like Rolexes. I like Matt's Rolex for crying out loud. I'm super stoked for the guy Listen to him talk about what that Rolex meant for him in his life, and I'm like God They almost are crying and shit. I'm like, that's what awesome Matt I digress This is not for me, right? What'll be for me is what evolves in my life and maybe I can share little insights and I have no problem with that I look at money as a completely different topic than most people. I I Just don't understand why a lot of people are like, I can't talk about money. You're crazy. You're crazy, man It's just money. It's okay. It's paper. It's really cool looking paper with green prints on it. It's really cool This is the one that surprised me the most actually and this is the one that I've upped from 10% to 20% So we talk about little things that we can do and I'm gonna get into the list now I've got a half hour left and I do want to get into this lesson the lesson Jesus This is YouTube for crying out loud. I I'm sorry I think there is a little bit of teaching element to my approach because I This is why I'm the only YouTube channel that I watch because I'm like dang Okay, a little bit of entertainment. All right, a little bit of cussing and some people are offended by that Sorry for those people that come in and bless the channel, but it's just me. I apologize Got to be a little entertaining got to be a little scathing. That'll be a little edgy, but we got to be a little bit Educating as well and try to get that what I'm trying to give you Okay, get it out. It's got to come from here to here to here through YouTube and out to the social media audience That's just how it's got to roll. This one surprised me a little bit down a little bit in here I'm really excited about upping the contributions to this So if you're thinking okay, well, maybe this is it Ryan's talking about maybe I don't know the market's been at an all-time high for a Long time multi-year bull bull market, right? And I've been doing two three four five percent to my 401k 403b etc etc. I really like it. It's performed quite well if I think it's gonna roll off right and come back down That's the time where you want to incrementally contribute more But the market's going down Ryan. Yeah, that's the time you want to contribute more Wait a minute this youtubers telling me to run for the prepper bunker and dive in head first Get the canned food ready What gives Ryan I don't understand The more in this life you can identify what it is that you need to do a contrary to public opinion contrary to groupthink and Contrary to what every influencer out there seemingly has as far as a best answer for you Do the opposite the better off you'll be Yeah, the more the market goes down the more I'm buying It just makes sense to me where a lot of people would look at me and they're like you crazy That's crazy Ryan the market's going down. You lose money. You lose money. What are you doing? You crazy, man? I'm probably one of the most sane people that you'll ever know whether or not I get to meet you in reality or through social media I'm probably one of the most sane people that you'll ever want to meet. Yeah You betcha No, that's boring. I don't want to talk about options. I've already talked about how good we're doing with options There it is. This is still pending. This is the Bitcoin Roth IRA Kind of excited I'll roll out a hot roll out for you guys. This is just the soft roll out of what my My thought process is on this. Okay Starting this account is a little bit Unnerving for me a little bit. I'm kind of like, yeah, I don't know how that feels, you know I'm not sure and the process to get the thing started with I trust has been Okay, all right starting a brokerage or rolling funds from one broker. It's never fun It sucks to be to be to be honest with you That's why I say if you're gonna start a brokerage account Make the decision for yourself to kind of stick and stay make it pay because you don't want to be Flip-flop it back and forth. I had a fidelity to TD Tim. Oh, Ryan does Merrill. I'm gonna do Merrill I'm gonna do M1. I'm gonna do this I'm Robin Hood is great for a week and then I'm gonna liquidate and move on try to pick stick and stay here But when I do the hard roll out of how this thing shakes out all chronicle the entire thing basically I'm taking $2,500 of already contributed Roth dollars and rolling those dollars over into the Bitcoin account here and I don't know how I feel about it. I don't know man If I if it makes me like 10 25 50 800 thousand dollars, I don't know I'll still be like, I don't know man. I don't know It's opportunity cost. It's becoming a cryptocurrency investor or not It's taking $2,500 which is less than half of a percent of the total portfolio and Becoming an investor in the two cryptocurrencies that I'm interested in Ethereum and Bitcoin. That's it. Okay, so it's a good start It allows me to become an investor in it But we'll chronicle that just gives another element. It's the truth. This is what we're doing Some of you guys I had a comment come through the channel this week that got my attention and he said Ryan I really appreciate your transparency on the channel I don't agree with everything that you do, but I do respect your transparency and your your forthcomingness on the channel And I it got me thinking and I was like that that actually is great I love people coming on and giving me high fives and being like you're the greatest Ryan you you rock If you knew I'm just a regular regular fella where I put my pants on the same as everybody else I go to the bathroom the same as everybody else. Okay, and it's like um I do appreciate that but it makes people Makes me think that people out there are doing thinking on their own and that really is the key for me Yeah, that's the whole point to this whole gig and hopefully that's the takeaway. I Try to draw a distinction between You know people just allowing themselves to come into the message sit back consume and do That that that is not what my program is Like I just find it funny how I'm inviting people in because the stock market is crashing and and therefore Because I'm the all-knowing stock market YouTube feller feller deler deler that you need to do this right now because I have the answers and It implies that you do not in fact have said answers So therefore sit down shut up cross your legs listen to what I have to say and do said tasking I don't believe in that So there we are. There's the $10,000 bill that we donated to the stock gods this week So I hope they enjoy it. They're probably all eating their grapes and drinking their wine with my harder and $10,000 It's all good It's all good Fantastic i'm gonna get to comments here and i'm gonna try to trickle in this lesson for sure All right says who says google tank down just 1% I'm up a fortune in google google's a fantastic investment. So is facebook so is amazon really i mean With the power of what we roll out for products on this channel and other channels mats and You know some of the others in the community here. I see hidden freedom. Dave's in the group here A lot of good content creators a lot of good investing minds, etc. Blah blah blah The whole point is look man Don't invest in the company if you don't want to invest in the damn thing And if you are interested in it, you could be like a dang this google thing. I've heard of this thing man This is pretty cool. Yeah, you've heard of google. Jesus christ. Do you pull it? You probably pull it up on your personal browser a half a dozen times a day Um, that is powerful folks. That's powerful google makes an a truckload of money And you say well, okay, it's trading at a pretty rich valuation. No, it's not Um, I think all the big ones amazon. I think facebook. I think google Those are trading at very very, uh controlled valuations And I think you could pick them up with the with the accounts that allow you partial share buys now with fidelity and m1 finance If that's your thing you can find access to these companies if you want to own them So, um, I'm kind of with mad on this I I own google long and I I don't look at google as one of those that I Um wanted to trade that's within the Roth and and I understand I traded out of amazon today. I owned Six shares of it. So, you know Pretty pretty big 20 000 dollar position In the company and you know, I had an opportunity to take 600 dollars off the off the table Um, I took a few hundred dollars off the first time. I wrote it down into the low threes The first time It was a portfolio positioning move I could be wrong I could be right at the end of the day amazon's not going anywhere But I tend to agree with you I own three shares of google. It's a pretty big position for me I'm satisfied with it if I could buy 25 shares of google I would I think it's relative I think if you could own a half a share of google I think it would embolden your portfolio in in the telecom space. I I love the name. I really do. I think it's a beast yep arg facebook Uh, they started to experiment with putting ads and vr and it was coming as well. Well, see they have, um Revolutionized the billboard business. Okay, facebook dominates the landscape. So what facebook wants to do? they can do Right, they raise they raise prices every single year on their customers. Why? Because they can They make a ton of money Right, so again, it kind of comes down to this an investing channel, right? So if you don't like the product or I hate facebook, it's for old old people. You're missing the point. Okay um I just entered into 25 shares of facebook beginning of this week. I'm down marginally nothing too crazy Facebook really held in there this week if you didn't notice And it's one of those again in the telecom space. It's been re-racked within the last couple years Okay, traditional telecom would have been, you know, your at&t, which is a complete ass dog Right Verizon and if you want to know some funny insight like Look at where facebook has come over the last two years. Had you invested in facebook two years ago? Where would you be? Do your own homework. You'd be up a fortune, right? If you had invested in legacy telecom Verizon and at&t, where would you be? right So some things that we deliberate on. Yes, they would have paid you a nice healthy dividend at&t Right on the side on that one. Verizon's a good safe play and it can work in a lot of portfolios I get it. I own them both. Okay. I own all three. I own all four google facebook Verizon and at&t and disney in the telecom space, right? But each of those have their own personalities and give you a little different angle to what you're trying to get Out of these fine companies. They're all really good companies guys. Okay, we're talking about the best of the best here The the real niche and the ace in the independent investor repertoire is how you own these assets That that's the key. Okay, anybody can start a robin hood account Okay, anybody can start a fidelity a brokerage account. You want to jam these names into those accounts? Anybody can own them access to the stock market. Hell, you're not going to pay a trading fee to even enter into any of these four Names anymore the investing landscape has been drawn down so much The the real discipline becomes like, okay And this is something that I outlined in my lesson tonight is being one of the problems is the multitude of options out there That can be problematic It's the nature of how you deploy your free will and your choice in the matter That that's going to dictate your success level. Okay I think a lot of people look at the landscape of all the options and they're like I'll take this option and I'll take this option I'll take I'll let me reach over here and grab this option here And I'm going to put them in my basket and then I'm going to hope All right, it takes all free will and choice out of the matter now the choice aspect is the positive piece, right? You don't have to jump on every opportunity that comes your way and there's going to always be multitudes of options out there for you All right The disconnect is how you deal with the choice and which options you look to choose To to start that nucleus Of a wealth building program for yourself that that's going to be the key. Okay Very cool stuff, man Got a viper in the group growth through growth the wealth funds and dibs when it turns Um, own it all That's my thing, baby Yeah, own those single stock dividends Own the dividend dts own the triple cues own the vti Own the s and p 500 lots of cool stuff out there Everything that I just outlined for you guys is a great structural framework to start to look at and then you can be like boom Ryan just gave us a half a dozen options Not infinite options, which they're out there like seriously if you want to put AMC into the youtube search You can find all kinds of bullish thesis on AMC if that's your thing. Okay, but That's not what you're going to find with my channel. That's not where I see value for the masses Okay, can you make money with any stock penny stocks any stock out there? Yes, it can be very very lucrative and it can also be very very destructive Okay, we want to try to stay away from those destructive options We want to try to continue to footstomp those good options out there that can really accumulate some very very good capital folks. All right all right Let's get into this problems and solutions. All right when the title of this video tonight is to Unf your mind. Okay. I couldn't put it in the youtube search But I wanted to get people's attention really you have to You have to trick your mind. Okay. You have to mind f yourself. Okay to make sure that you can Live from week to week and say, you know what? Yeah, I lost seven grand this week. No big deal I live to fight another day. Could you do that? You you you can if you evolve as a stock market investor, all right But this is the list of the problems that I just outlined on a on a brainstorming session The portfolio is down. These are topics for a lot of youtube videos by the way Stock market is down. Okay stocks are crashing. That's one of my favorite ones Sentiment to shifting. That's a good one, right? It's like they've got a basket of really bad news and they keep it on retainer until the stock market gives an indication That cnbc can reach into that basket and start selling you a bunch of negative garbage again They got all kinds of stuff man. When was the last time you heard about the national debt? Mark my words. It'll come up man when the sentiment shifts. All right. I'm stuck holding the bag I have no options Really good one the problem in and of itself is investing Okay, investing is the problem You as a retail investor should not have ample knowledge to negotiate this and end up a successful investor down the line into retirement new new new that's not going to work for me, baby Here's the solutions to each of those that I just gave okay When the portfolios down the shares itself are unchanged to make the mistake wealth building is about accumulating shares Not paying attention in the short term in the medium term to what the dollar figure is always doing And that's what everybody wants you to focus on man. It's not important let it go If you're truly investing for the next 20 30 40 years Why does it matter what it does in one day of the stock market 7 000? That's a lot of money ryan god dang Why don't you come on and cry for us man? You'd get a million views because I just don't think it's that big of a deal Just it's not that big of a deal in the long term Right if I were to go back five years and look about all the accumulated wealth Right, I just rolled out how much accumulated wealth. I've been able to Roll in this portfolio over the last five years. Why would I just forget all that and be like and get all crazy And up in arms about one day in the market. It's futile and it's irrelevant. All right Stocks are cheaper when the market goes down stocks get cheaper. All right So when the market's crashing Okay, that should be you kind of chomping at the bit. All right be like that rattlesnake Okay, hunkered waiting and when that sucker comes boom you pounce on it. Did I wake you up? Good. I hope I didn't spill that cup of joe. She knows what I'm talking about. All right uh Correcting, I can't even read my own writing. Geez Louise. I'm like dyslexic. Um When the symptom into shifting, right the solution is to ask yourself, are you in it for the short term or the long term? Okay, that that's the key there. Okay now to differentiate The no control items and the items that you have control over. Here's the no control item This is the world around you. Okay, you guys watch Star Wars the force field, right? Okay, right that that protects the death star. All right. This is your force field This is everything that goes on outside of your force field. Okay influencers others youtube Hell put me in this category if you want to no problem influencers Okay, this can be things that you have no control. You can't control what I say You can't control what other influencers say what you can control is how you receive said information big big difference Okay, making sure that you're not influenced by everything that comes across your way making sure you have a strong strong mindset Um, no control in the short term stock market You don't have any control over it. Let it go You want to sign up to be a stock market that you only want a stock market that goes up every day I don't know a market like that. Okay, so you I would rather say don't be an investor if that's what your Um, unrealistic expectations of the market are just don't invest. Okay. You got to take the whole kit and caboodle That's what you got to do. All right No control surprises Ups and downs geopolitical injects A global pandemic you can't control that stuff guys Don't take it so personally when these things come into the market Inflation starts to tick up lumber prices become too expensive to buy a house houses now are worth 250,000 in virginia beach and they're selling for 500,000. That's just my soapbox. I'm a little sore on that. All right Influences, okay the influence is it outside of your bubble. You can't control that stuff You have no control over the distractions that exist Okay, but the positives that relate to distractions are these Focus you can overcome distraction Focus on your program your conviction to your program. Like how vested are you in this program? All right, I I heard one of the guests lashanda She came on with me earlier and she said ryan. This is really cool, man You know, I noticed in myself that I was spending too much on walmart and amazon And so I needed I needed to prove to myself that I could do something with some discipline Some conviction and I said lashanda. You're so right man It's hard after a month of investing to really rationalize that but it will become internal to you and it'll be become part of your life It really will um So the conviction and purpose Why are you doing this? I said think about it. Think about where you're going to be in five years Where are you going to be in 10 years? Where are you going to be in 20 years? Hopefully you're getting ready to hang it up and retire and do some traveling, right? If you have purpose a reason To justify why it is you do what you do That's powerful Don't do it because I come on and you look in my eyes and you can see how intense I am on this topic because I am I get it but don't let that be the sole reason use the fire that I provide to you Right, okay use that as fire. That's fine. But this fire needs to be internal Okay, until you can tell me what empowered means for you then we still have work to do. All right The options I already talked about the multitude of said options out there, but by nature of choice Okay, earmark a few that makes sense for you. All right You'll see if you really look at my portfolio what you will see Is a multitude of different options that I want exposure to. All right There's a lot of options that aren't part of my portfolio Okay For a long time the option to invest in amgen was out there And I didn't own it I now have a small piece of amgen in the portfolio I have a small piece of elie lily in the portfolio. I had a big chunk of amazon But right now I've got a big position in google facebook, right apple and microsoft So I owned the bigs, right? I said it was a portfolio positioning move for me and it was I wasn't kidding Eventually I will buy an enormous position in amazon With hopefully what I see there's a method to my madness Hopefully leveraging some house money on the highly on meter, which is at 11.5 percent right now when it reaches 100 We'll reevaluate. Okay, and we'll look to scale the portfolio in a way that I see will be possible down the line Is it going to be next week? I don't know. Is it going to be next month? I don't know that the next earmarks for the Highly on project are ladder 2021 to start delivering the v2 hybrid option very excited about said product and start to roll out the demo models the hyper truck erx very very exciting stuff I'm a big shareholder in the company and it's going to be a lot of fun This is going to be the investment of my lifetime. I have 100 percent conviction and If it ends up crashing and burning you'll all be on the sideline to watch it. My pain will be your Will be your pleasure Just kidding. All right, but I openly share my conviction with youtube and good on me for doing that. I could be dead wrong Um, I think it would be interesting for you to entertain the idea that i'm dead, right? Yeah Yeah All right, very cool. So we talked about that One of the problems that I find is complacency and the very nature that you guys have made your way in here for yet Another friday livestream Really is the fuel that feeds my fire But take some solace and understanding that that's a key element We fall off in the summer for our viewership and that's totally fine I've been doing youtube a long long time and come into the winter time People will be coming back to the message Hopefully maybe they've maybe they've gone forever. I don't know. It's that's fine, too I can't control that stuff Okay, back to my point what it is that I can control on the independent investor message Is my passion my devotion my effort that I put forth Right the the the laser focus that I put out there for you guys and I do that So you can really resonate with the idea of not just saying empowered but feeling it Feeling what it means to be an empowered investor walk around with your head a little bit higher Why because you know shit that the next person doesn't know Yep All right That concludes the lesson for this week. Hope you guys appreciated that very very cool Outdoor video man semis fuel everyone's fire We need we need we need some eyes. We need semi conductors, so I'm not sure what you're talking about there, but Yeah, we'll see what happens man. We need to move the highly on meter. We'll be fine. That would be great I don't foresee that happening in the next couple months. We're in kind of a hiatus. There's been some really good Reports back on the product and how well it performs in the field. They're fine tuning. They're taking that information They'll incorporate that into the v2 And man alive. I've I've never been so excited about being a share. I bought more highly on today actually Yes, I did bought some more highly on in the portfolio So a lot of fun, man The highly on meter is not going to stay at 11 and a half percent right for a while It's just it's not going to stay here forever, baby. And when she moves she's going to move like a rocket Actually, I hope that doesn't happen I hope it goes up nice slow and steady into the right That's what I want because I'm willing to hold it for the long term I say a hundred I say that tongue-in-cheek because I may just pull off the jack move of the century and continue to let it ride at a hundred. Yeah I'm Crazy enough to do that. I don't think crazy is a fair word I'm a disciplined enough investor to actually do that to where I can swing trade An amazon and take some profits I can digress and and put to work the application that's necessary And it'll be a big decision. It really will all chronicle it through the channel and share with you guys What it is that I decide to do. Holy smokes. Forgot it was friday Well, if I forgot it was friday, you guys be staring at a blank chair So that that's not going to work. Okay. It's not going to work. It's not going to work for me I actually look forward to this product. I really do cool Use 90 proof or above alcohol. I use heat from right. You guys are talking about a home remedy. I'm sure Thank you ashonda for coming on and saying hello. That was fantastic She said she's hearing the message out. It's new to her new investor to the game I want to make sure that everybody feels welcome, man It's not even an open door policy implies that at some point the door is closed and it's not The the social media opportunity to provide awareness pieces to investing Are open to everybody out there everybody Hey, and I think in some form or fashion A lot of people come to me and they're like, hey Can you give me something to make this make a little bit more sense to me in my life? You bet. We can do that. We really can but I think a lot of people have that capability themselves And I think lashonda proved that to me before tonight. So really really cool It's great to have you as part of the community Absolutely, and we'll keep on foot stomping the message Rebecca's in the house first. I beat all good Um, I don't I don't know if you were first. I see some people here. You listen listen. You're always first in my mind. All right Yep, you're part of this community. All you got to do is just uh stamp your card. That's it No, I've always said that your involvement in the independent investor community Is predicated upon your success. It's that simple Um, I would hate to think that I get on here and I've got the definitive all-knowing advice That I push out there and all said patrons can Uh find success in uh the all-knowing words that ryan pushes out I just don't I don't believe that that exists in nature yeah, and um Just like george carland man. One of the great realists of our day. One of the great comedic minds Just be grounded with your application. Okay I try really really hard to push out A message that can resonate with a lot of different people that will catch this live stream Not only first first hand But also the folks especially from around the globe that catch it the next day Yep, I want you guys to feel like you're part of something special Because you are you are You are I don't care if there's 51 people in here or 510 people or 5 000 if we ever get to those numbers 50 000 I don't know and I don't really care um, I will be steadfast in my application to roll this product out because As long as I can stay steadfast and close to the vest and grounded in the message The net has the most potential to get through to the people that we're looking to get through to Okay, that's why it makes sense. All right got to stay true to myself man at the end of the day I can sleep easy knowing that we put forward maximum effort and That we had the potential to impact the the majority of people who make their way into the message Or have even heard about the message let alone find their way into the message Not too much, man. I got the got the truck all waxed up today victor. He's pretty happy about that man Fantastic my brother from another mother. There's jared with a big largemouth bass Fantastic jared. He's probably like no it's a crappie ryan. You suck. It's a bluegill I'll bet it's one of those three looks like a largemouth bass to me Very cool stuff, man Dividend driver james is in the house man. Good friend of the family. You bet you it's great to see Thanks so much for all your support over the years man. He's one of our truck drivers out there and You know, he's one of those me and him go go back and forth on on whether or not this highly on thing is a good thing or not verdict is still out a little bit premature to call but um, you know the their Their initiative is good That they're reducing the carbon footprint is the idea here. Yeah. Yeah less than a minute here, man. I'm gonna cruise down and see Matt says daddy. That's right, son. That's right. I'll always be there for you, son All right, spread them wings and fly son. All right, but I'll always be there for you. All right Don't ever forget that I only do colonies fantastic I'm not a financial advisor. This is for entertainment purposes only said disclaimer is in the description of every video that I roll out No, I think we're beyond that on youtube for crying out loud Jesus, I would hate to be a financial planner right now Jesus This is one of the best investing channels on youtube. Uh, what can I say? I make this short and sweet. I agree with you It's the only one I watch I like what this guy has to say he's down to earth Yeah, he doesn't act like everything he says is gospel Yeah, speaks the truth Got a lot of experience experience in the stock market This is where a lot of what I say comes from experience in the market. Should I be freaking out right now, Ryan? Oh, shit, Ryan's not freaking out. Maybe we're all right You know That comes from a deeper place that of which I can't give you in 60 minutes However, collectively I'm willing to give it to you as often as this project calls for guys So we are over the 60 minutes. I couldn't get to all the comments guys I I sit here before the live stream and I always wonder if this is going to be the live stream where we have zero attendees and we keep the streak alive with you guys And the channel creators and subscribers alike the independent investor channel project Really appreciate you guys. It wouldn't go without you guys I'm just here to facilitate the business share my story and help you guys write your own So with that we will sign off. We'll be back with you nine o'clock eastern standard time Next friday on the independent investor channel live stream Have a great great rest of the week and be safe and we'll catch you next friday