 Hey, what's up YouTube? I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show in this episode We're gonna be talking about which is better. Should you be investing it to ETFs or should you be investing to individual stocks? Now first of all individual stocks when you buy a share of a company you're buying the stock of this company You are now becoming part owner of this company. So if you buy one share of Nike, guess what guys? You are now part owner. You have ownership within Nike now You're able to go around using able to tell all your friends I'm a part owner and Nike. I'm a part owner and Apple. I'm a part owner and Microsoft I'm a part owner inside of these companies now this the percentage is very very very very very small Even if you buy a thousand shares of Nike your percentage is still less than zero point one one zero zero zero percent It is very very small, but you are a part owner of these companies Alright, so now that you're a part owners of these companies now if you if you don't own any shares If you don't own any stocks right now, I'm gonna leave a link in the description This video is brought to you by Moomoo sign up with them with the link down in the description and deposit $100 You can get up to 16 free stocks Moomoo is an investing platform that charges zero commission with a ton of free trading tools in there that you can use To help you become a better investor in a better trader If you guys do want to get some free stocks if you guys do want to get started to become in part ownership of these companies Make sure that you grab some free stocks by depositing $100 with the link down in the description This video is also brought to you by Weeble sign up with them with the link down in the description deposit even $1 If you want to you can get up to 12 free stocks with those 12 free stocks You could keep them inside the platform and decide to use it Or you could withdraw you can sell those free stocks and withdraw all of your money guys It's literally free money, but I don't recommend selling your free stock shoes these platforms guys They are completely awesome Investing has not been any easier dead in today's time It is completely insane on how easy it is to invest inside the stock market But now that you guys know what stocks are how to become part owners Let's see what the difference is by individual stocks or by ETFs But before we dive into the ETF side make sure that you guys go down and hit the subscribe button You have not because you ask not well I'm asking you guys to go ahead and hit that subscribe button because it helps me out more than you can even imagine But let's go ahead and not straight into this video Welcome back dreamers now that you know what individual stocks are how you becoming part owners of these companies now Let's look at ETFs ETF stands for exchange traded funds. Now. What does that mean? It's basically now you have a whole bunch of stocks all inside one basket So other than buying one individual stock you could buy this one ETF to own a whole bunch of stocks within this company For example, the easiest way that I could explain it is that when you guys go to the grocery store, right? And you go down the chip out. They got a big bag of fun. Yes They got a big bag of Doritos. They got a big bag of Doritos cool They got a big bag of hot chips and each individual bag is gonna cost you five dollars, right? So that's gonna be four bags. That's twenty dollars if you want to buy each individual bag But let's just say you only have five dollars and now you can only buy one bag of funs You're missing out on the Doritos You're missing out on the hot chips and you're missing out on the Doritos cools or anything else You're missing out on those because you're gonna buy one bag now ETF It's the fun bag size that if you buy this one bag It comes with all these smaller bags with it within this one bag, right? It comes with the fun Yes, it comes with the hot chips. It comes with the Doritos It comes with all of that inside the fun size bag. That is the ETF, right? You buy one bag for five dollars. It comes with everything in there other than just buying one company, right? So now you're not missing out anything. So that is the simplest way that I could explain it now And let's look at a real example like VOO. There are different ETFs out there VOO is the one that pretty much tracks the S&P 500. That is America's top 500 companies, right? So now if you just buy one share of VOO, you now have part ownership in Apple Microsoft, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, all of all the America's top 500 company now you have part ownership just from buying this one ETF VOO Now it does cost a little bit I think the expense ratio for the ETF VOO is point zero zero three percent I mean for every ten thousand dollars that you invest into VOO It's going to cost you three dollars per year It is a very very small price to play to invest in such an amazing ETF Now, this is the fun part. They do have multiple ETFs out there They have an ETF named QQQ. It tracks technology companies, right? They grow a little faster. They have ETFs out there that tracks OU and GAS They have ETFs out there that has only airline companies in them They have ETFs out there that have only clothing companies in them God says a ton of ETFs out there but the most popular one that I invest into would be QQQ, SPY, VOO. All of those are pretty solid. That is the market When someone says I'm trying to beat the market, what they're trying to beat is the S&P 500 It usually goes up. If you're investing inside of VOO It usually goes up. This is the market. It tracks the market It usually goes up anywhere between seven, eight, maybe nine percent every single year Some years it goes down. Some years it goes up more But over average, it usually goes up around eight, nine percent every single year And you are going to outperform any of your family members, any of your friends that's investing, any of these new investors You're going to outperform them just by investing into the market Just by investing into these companies that are inside of the S&P 500 You're going to beat all of your friends Now here's the kicker. You're not going to become filthy rich You're going to make money. I'm not going to say you're going to make money The odds of you making money is higher investing into ETF, right? Just looking at past statistics, the odds of you making money are higher But the odds of you becoming filthy rich are not as high as investing into individual stocks Just because you're only making eight percent every single year inside this ETF Eight percent, eight percent, eight percent, eight percent By the time you're ready to retire, you're going to be able to retire and live a very comfortable life You're going to be able to live the life that you wanted If you're able to invest inside the stock market every single day or inside the stock market every single month by dollar-cost averaging inside the stock market, right? Now what I would do, I would start off If you're a new investor, I would start off investing into ETFs for a couple of years Maybe four or five, six years Until you really get the hang of the stock market And then you start to open up and look at individual stocks You want to know everything about these companies You want to know how to read the market You want to know if this company is falling because of bad finances or if the company is just overvalued at the time or undervalued at the time Because if you're going blind, buying some of these stocks just because you heard about them or their penny stocks because they're on sale, because the price is low If you just heard about these companies so you're going to go buy a whole bunch of these shares you're going to lose inside the stock market I highly recommend starting off with ETFs Get your feet wet, learn the stock market Then start to learn these individual stocks and then you can start to branch off and buy individual stocks When you're buying these individual stocks at the right price When you're buying these individual stocks at the right price and you understand everything fundamentally about these individual stocks that's when you're going to become filthy rich if you're getting them at the right price Let me show you a couple of examples, guys Alright, so here we are on ticker symbol VRO Remember, this is the S&P 500 ETF Over the last, the price of it right now is $399.72 And over the last five years, it is up 61% Over the last five years, it's up 61% You have made money You made money after a pandemic after all the crazy stuff that has gone on You have made money, you are up 61% Are you filthy rich? No But you have made money up 61% That is the benefit of tracking these top 500 companies and when the companies is doing bad inside the ETF there are going to be a couple of companies in different sectors doing good inside the ETF to make you up 61% Now, if you look at another company like Johnson & Johnson which is another awesome company that you guys have heard about Hey, I'm going to buy the individual stock Johnson & Johnson I heard it was a pretty good company I'm going to go buy them, right? Five years, you're up 10% Inflation had beat you Up 10% You didn't really make too much money Your portfolio is up 10% That's not really amazing That's not amazing So would you have done better off investing into the S&P 500 like VLO? Yes Did you lose money investing into Johnson & Johnson? No, you didn't lose money but you didn't make a lot of money So that's one of the benefits of investing to ETF is because if you pick these individual stocks it might not go up as much as the ETF would have done over the last five years And let me show you one more example that will make you filthy rich This is one of the benefits of investing into individual stock We're going to go to AMD To assemble AMD Over the last five years AMD is up 517% AMD is up 517% Five years ago AMD was around $21.31 I know what you guys have said Hey, who's going to be able to predict AMD go up like that? Who's going to be able to predict AMD goes up 517% over the last five years? Well, like I said if you pay attention to these companies if you're doing all your research on these companies and you dive in and you look at their financials and you really pick your favorite company people like me that scroll down show more people like me One of my first purchases on AMD back in 2017 AMD I bought eight shares at $12.44 I didn't have a lot of money back in 2017 but I did about eight shares at $12.44 Let's look at some more I bought one share at $14 Let's look at a large one Another one, I bought nine shares right here at the bottom January 17, 2017 I bought nine shares for $10.17 So all the time I was just stacking up AMD AMD, AMD, AMD I really believe in this company And as you guys can see it's up 500% over the last five years So that is the benefit of investing into individual stocks as long as you know every single thing about these companies Is AMD overpriced right now? I believe it's overpriced right now So I'm gonna take some off the top Take my profit My initial investment Take 400% of my profits Right? Let the other 100% of my profits ride and wait for the price to pull back before I'm able to buy back in to AMD Now that I gave you guys two examples let me know down in the comment section which one would you rather do or which one are you doing would you rather invest into ETLs or would you rather invest into individual stocks? Personally, if you're just starting off I mean I highly recommend ETLs Right? If you are an investor that just started off buying individual stocks there's a 90% chance that you was not successful at individual stocks until you actually start to fundamentally know the stock market in these different companies Let me know which one is your favorite down in the comment section guys while you're down there don't forget to sign up with Moomoo that link is going to be down in the description Click that Sign up the $100 Get ownership of these companies that is the best way to get your feet wet and start the stock market is by getting free stuff like free stocks just from signing up and using these platforms from using these investing apps with amazing tools in there that you could use in order to help you become a better investor If you guys do want to follow me I'm going to leave a link down in the comment section that's going to be to my Patreon the Patreon is going to link you over to my Discord inside there I post every single time I buy and sell a stock post my option trades in there every single week and we also got a community professional day traders in there that post their trades every single day so if you want to be a part of community of traders that want to be financially free just like you go ahead and check out that peer comment down in the peer comment section but other than that guys I'm Zeke bring you to the dream green show and I'm out peace