 That was for you Bob back by popular demand. I don't think it's really that fitting for this week to be honest with you I think for the most part everybody's whole running for the hills Not following like sheep to be honest with you But that was a suggestion thought I'd roll it out because it's funny as hell and I'm just in kind of a funny mood this week really trying to Embrace what everybody's talking about in the stock market. I see the portfolio goes down 10 grand in the morning, and then I'm up to grand in the afternoon. So that was kind of a fun If you want to just I know what it's like to be a yo-yo. That's kind of cool But I actually think this intro actually speaks a little bit more Specifically to what's actually going on in the stock market right now So this is actually the debut of my new stock market crash intro So enjoy this for a few seconds guys Just I don't know how the hell I can joke about this, right? This is a Joking joking thing and I couldn't really put heavy losses on the portfolio. I'm gonna roll out the The calcs to you guys from this week. I was up three three. I was up actually pretty nicely in three of my buckets That were sent around the passive aspect and if it weren't for the highly on Situation right now, which you know, people might say hey Ryan, what's your thoughts blah blah blah? Are you jumping off a cliff? No, I'm not out. I'm actually pretty proud of what I've been able to Put together here between 20 and the 11 17 low You guys saw some extremely big volume come in right there at that 11 17 I don't know how the hell they do it man, but if it's stock manipulation, okay, whatever it is I mean, I'm a retail investor And I'm gonna beat the drum for retail investors. That's why a lot of people you come to the independent investor channel live stream For you guys that are returning guests to the channel in the community Welcome if you are in fact new to the independent investor channel I did kick off just a touch early tonight just because The fastest 60 minutes on YouTube is becoming Really difficult to get through all the material that I want to get through and this means an awful lot to me It really does this week was a little different my perspective and lens on the stock market Perhaps may be a little refreshing to you guys not my first rodeo I've been down this road many many times It checks the comments that I make through social media absolutely I I don't picture myself on a on a fake cartoon rocket going to the moon With with my wealth. I just don't look at the stock market that way. I look at it For what it is, right? It's a wealth-building tool over overnight. Look if you want to if you want to get rich overnight play the lottery The chances of you winning are zero you won't win you won't The masses however over the long term can win with the stock market Okay, the irony in that is that everybody takes what I just said right there and tries to skew it and then they try to massage it and They try to mold it into something that they want it to be Ah Unfortunately that typically comes back to kind of by chip and different strategies nice to see different strategies and How they're rolled out how they're performing in this market? You know my portfolio set up with a defensive passive aspect that that typically comes out and shines During times of volatility. I'll declare the calcs to you guys tonight You're gonna be interested to see how the numbers shook out In some of those little portfolios that could that are just chucking along They're just chucking along and they're ripping out some profit. They really are so how everybody else is talking about Creeping into the the prepper bunkers and and doing all that noise. I Celebrated my 16th wedding anniversary on Monday to my girl and That's what it's all about baby sure is as far as the stock market Goes I don't think it's necessarily as bad as everybody is making it out to me. I know listening to Jim Kramer We're all supposed to just be running for this the hills here and buying into all of this Sell everything And and and join everybody in the prepper bunkers and wait for the zombie apocalypse to hit I just don't see that. Maybe there's a reason why I don't see it. I don't have TV anymore So I've never been so liberated in my life. I'm been a little disappointed this week I actually injured my knee in so far as I probably have to stop running So at 43 years old my body has finally caught up to myself And if there was a little bit of inkling for me to be slightly depressed this week that's what it was about because I Couldn't do what it is that I love to do And that is to go out and pound pavement. I love it I've always loved it. I love the way I feel after it I don't necessarily love the act of running But I do love physical fitness and I'm gonna have to supplement I have actually supplemented the The elliptical machine, which isn't quite the same But I've got to stop running because I'm gonna absolutely abuse my knees. It's just not gonna happen here going forward So that that was a little piece a little strike to the dietary category this week Perspective, okay, I'm not gonna get on here and tell you about doom and gloom on the stock market I'm down 4,000 bucks from last Friday Not too shabby Right and most of that drawdown today. I'm not kidding you this morning was an interesting slippery slope I was watching it point by point because I was actually monitoring it from the perspective of looking at entries and I was telling mr. Wright that I was able to secure five contracts at 1050 strike on highly on Which is fantastic. I was buying the stock on the way down as well. I didn't really care I was firing away at a hundred share bullets down and and I think when I do chronicle What I did to base up on the position. It's gonna be extremely enjoyable for a lot of people To to look at that. I'm very proud of the efforts. I was able to secure some interesting They cash secured put premium there that was available for a few seconds and that was really the trade of the day today So we have those contracts nicely in place if the stock falls to 1050 or below I think my break even is below 10 at 980 something like that, right? So it was able to collect 360 in premium not too shabby and then by 500 more shares if it dips that that far But it was really interesting watching the double dip and watching the volume increase on the charts today from a technical perspective I don't have level three trading. I do but I don't use the platform very often But it was interesting to watch the volume on the stock today. Everything was selling and and honestly there was some Exacerbated selling in the SPAC space So I don't know if people are going to have to re-rack and and re-divert their chariots of fire Toward retirement in that they've found the next thing to the glory of God In the SPAC environment, but I don't think there was a whole lot that escaped today if Jay Mac pops on this evening We can certainly get his insight on that, but I only hold one SPAC in my portfolio And and I'm getting my ass kicked in it. So it's it's it's fun I'm making money on the strategy that I know works, but On my strategic aggressive growth aspect, it's it's getting punished. It's getting crushed and That's just the way of it. That's that's how it goes sometimes. I think so far will be fine long term It's just we're going through kind of a an interesting phase right now where people are realizing that the fundamentals or the perceived I Want there to be fundamentals, but there's not really they're not really there But we're going to invest in it anyway because they all go to the moon anyway and fundamentals I don't want to say fundamentals don't matter. Let me pick my words differently All I have to do is just trip and fall into these stocks and they seemingly go up every single day This is awesome. This is badass. Why didn't anybody tell me about this? This is incredible. Have you heard about this Ryan? This is incredible All you have to do is just throw your money at it. You don't have to know shit about the stock market. You make money every day It's fabulous Yeah, it's amazing how things turn on a dime, right? That's not to say that 2021 won't be the continued marvel of the SPAC and also with the rotation and big tech I'm really interested to keep an eye on that I know Bob writes in the group here. He said he made a strategic stab at that. I think that's a good move I really do I was satisfied with my entry in on it in Amazon at 33 I guess what's the difference to be honest with you? I you know at 3,000 or 33 it doesn't really matter to me too much But let's jump into the calcs man. I really want to show you guys How this is ripping so Hopefully for the hundreds of thousands of people who are tuning into other YouTube channels For the 57 people of you guys that are with me tonight. I drink to you. Thank you very much Shot out to my good friend. Mr. Paul. Thank you. I won't use last names I won't it's a first name Relationship that I've got my with my community here man, but it's all about the finer things in life guys So cheers to you as we go through and we declare the numbers I'm gonna throw them up on the screen. Just like I do you guys are gonna be interested to see I I guess it would be into it more interesting if I could come on and tell you guys that I've lost a fortune but I haven't We're down week over week in this by $500 Yeah Nothing too crazy. I added one position just like I said I would That position is BLK I did admit to my private Facebook group my WhatsApp group that that was an ill advised by I didn't care I wanted a position in the company and I adjusted my scale accordingly. I only bought five shares Whereas I would have typically entered into BlackRock at a 10 share position, which would have been fairly sizable This is this is a big bitch It's a big bitch. Trust me Was glad I kept my Bank of America I had disclosed on my talk Stock picks from March that I was thinking about liquidating that and taking some really nice profits I'm glad I did not do that But Bank of America is overvalued right here. Unfortunately, I don't I don't know what I'm gonna do Finances are really in favor right now I'm whipping some ass with energy Matt money's like, yeah, Ryan go buddy. Go like Matt's like yeah, tell him Ryan I don't know what else to say. Okay, no one sector goes up forever So if you're deploying a cookie cutter strategy in the stock market, you might as might as well learn to cook another meal Right, you can't go on eating the same meal every single night just because it's good. Okay? It'll spoil eventually. All right, but there's how the position rolled out everything else remained the same Nothing else really to declare Boeing on fire nice to see that Amazon yeah, I thought about it. It's a starting position for me I do own two whole shares of Amazon For a retail investor that's got to be motivating to some people out there So I'm proud of that And you know shit and when this happens right here Amazon's the easy stock to take into a downturn I'll continue to monitor it if it gets too crazy low. I'll pop another couple in there No big deal or just dollar average down in the shares No big deal Amazon can turn on on a dime there Nothing else crazy. I think in here leg it and plats trading like a penny stock I mean values coming into favor. So again, my portfolio is very heavy heavily tailored to value Offset with my most current move into some starting positions of big tech and some starting positions in some high-tech growth Right, which both of those are suffering. Crowdstrike has just got annihilated I think salesforce.com is providing you an entry, right? So there's starter positions Okay, I'm down in the starter positions. I entered into those because I knew I had a buffer In the layering strategy that I deploy in the amount of value that I have so I mean values kicking some ass My VYM is up every day. It's incredible. I'm up huge in VYM right now. That's a dividend paying juggernaut That's the brokerage Roth IRA number one there it is We were down a little bit week over week not too much little over 1500 I believe in this couple grand Nothing too crazy. Nothing to sneeze at No real major changes in here as I'm reviewing the portfolio to report from week to week not a whole hell of a lot I I will say that the most activity in this is Definitely my strategic focus on Massaging highly on Massaging it All right, that's all I'm gonna say about that. Don't say I didn't tell you so. All right Very cool Roth IRA number two. Here we go. Let's rip 115 this is down just to touch a little bit again. The crowd strike doesn't really help But with the value in here Facebook really looked good. I liked the Facebook action Facebook I think is the number one man. You could put this in any category Facebook is kind of on an island It's that good of a company It really is performed really really well In the face of some real sell-off and adversity in big tech growth Facebook is a little more value growth oriented Trades just shy of a 30 multiple. I believe not too shabby right But nothing else too crazy in here. That's the way it shook out. All right Very cool and rolling down the list. This is the little portfolio that could Chugga chugga. This is up week after week week over week So everybody's telling asking me if I have survived Like I said, my knee is killing me. Um, it feels a little better tonight because I did about 45 minutes on the elliptical So I feel a little bit better. Um, but I need to stop being a pussy. I get it. I I'm only 43 I understand, but I've abused my body over the years, but um, Yeah, as far as the portfolio goes this little dab is up. This is this little girl right here This was my idea. This was the brainchild of the independent investor channel if for nothing else You come in and you see a very unique hybrid strategy In one of my portfolios. This is one of my taxable brokerage accounts This is where part of the youtube earnings go So, um since inception, it's gone right here. This is where it goes Kind of a cool idea to own all 11 sectors. So everybody's talking about a technology rotation. Oh my god Well, I'm catching it all because see I own technology, but oh, oh, I also own materials Which is with and some ass and nobody talks about right? Um energy is up 20 So like wow ryan this interesting stuff you're talking about You mean I don't have to just invest in technology all the time to win in the stock market I'll let you figure that out. All right Just the numbers don't lie Here's another one that I'm up Week after week here we go I'm up fairly sizable Um for uh relatively small. This is value dividend growth portfolio. Of course, this is going to do well This is a fairly sizable week over week Um, I didn't I should declare the percentages to you guys But I was surprised I looked at these numbers and I thought man, I that'd be awesome to come on and say i'm down 50 grand Hell these are made up right before the uh live stream guys So this is about as live and in tune with what the portfolio renders From week to week not too shabby the level of transparency for a little retail investor that could Do do I'm not just doing this for me Doing this for you Okay, lots of different ways to win in the stock market. Okay, it doesn't always have to be the preferred method Again, it always doesn't need to be you following the rocket ship to the moon Okay with the four idiots on board. Come on follow Just a little shot over the brow. It's all right. We'll survive come on now I've been doing this a long time. Provide me a little latitude. All right, if you guys will notice I'm staring right into the camera tonight. Oh, baby Oh, baby Yeah Yeah Absolutely So there it is another one that's up week over week. This is up a few hundred dollars. This is the passive tsp This is a big reason why I wanted to own black rock. This is fantastic. They manage this This is my participation. Look at that pip 33.53. I had to make sure that that wasn't to typo That was what it is That's a year over year from where the portfolio was last year and where it was at the time of taking this And it it rewracked right before I declared this number at 45 908 So I'm not too shabby nothing to shake a stick out. It's it's it's up week over week. So again I'm not sure I'm not sure That the market is crashing right now. Not sure The verdict is still out. Please tell me if I'm wrong in the comment section Say ryan, you you're missing the whole point man. We're all burning in hell over here and you're talking about gains week over week Sorry I don't make these numbers up. It's not about me. It's not about a motion in the stock market either There's those highly on puts those were written today five of them three and one Account two and the other the contracts were exactly the same um, the 10 and a half's expiring march 26 um, the premiums were three 10 Excuse me two 10 and one 30 respectively for the two premiums and the 130 was the less lucrative out of the two The 210 was the good one. Okay, the 210 I wrote first and a couple seconds later The stock started to push up off of that 1117 and I wrote these contracts right at around 11 30 11 dollars and 30 cents not 11 30 in the morning But it was right on about 11 o'clock where this was kind of basing and the volume was spiking to incredible levels Institutional buyers, baby. They're plucking this thing up out of the sun if they thought it was going to zero. I highly doubt that Vanguard and or black rock and or the laundry list of green buys We're talking millions of shares being accumulated In the company here with this sell-off and I just sit and I just look at it. All right Yay Investing is fun. No, I shouldn't say that investing Isn't fun investing is just investing's fun But I have the maturity not to get emotionally attached to The stock is going to zero I made the mistake of going into a thread today on highly on of a bunch of know-it-alls that know that the stock is going to zero I'm just going to go out on a limb and tell you it's probably not going to zero Thomas Healy will be doing his interviews and naked. He won't have any pants They'll be like Thomas your company's stock is at zero, bro Like you got all these killer ideas and your battery charges in eight minutes But your company's going like it's bankrupt, bro, and he'll be like what? Awesome stuff. There's the leaps in there and the total portfolio value is down a whopping three grand I was down over 10 this morning Made it all up and we ended up back in the black by 2000 Value really outperformed entirely on did recover from the base that recovered all afternoon. Absolutely I kind of called it 1117 has a potential to be that Flush out low. We'll see. I don't know. It could go to five dollars. I don't know I don't really care be honest with you at this point. I've been a constructive active investor in the company and We're gonna we're gonna monitor the progress And it's going to be very interesting to see 2022 2023 2024 and 2025 respectively for this company Not not march 8th of next week. I that that's irrelevant Nor is looking at the specifics of this company based on where the share price is trading day to day Doesn't matter Doesn't matter one bit All right, very cool. So that's how the calcs ripped out guys I just want to get to the comments here, man. There's a ton of people in the gallery I'm going to go right to the comments tonight. All right. So bob says kudos to me 1193 that was one of many hundred share bullets that I fired away today at 1193 on the entry I'll cover those a little bit more Intently I've been off Covering the stocks I I don't I don't think people need to hear that stuff from me I think we can help more people out there if I can earmark what I just showed you on the passive investing portfolios That shit's real that that's that's amazing stuff If you honestly think that the stock market is heading south and it's heading further south great I won't be able to come on here when the perception is such that the stock market is crashing And I can declare numbers to you that i'm up week over week I'm not going to be able to do that if it continues down But I don't think the stock is the stock markets move that much We're still up above 30 grand In the dow and just less than less than a freaking year ago. We were below 20. Okay You got to stay with me guys on this perspective. Okay I try to give you both sides of the spectrum So you can really really look at this investing thing like it's not a game because it's not it's serious business, man It's serious and depending on the level of risk that you want to take The reward could potentially be there on the reciprocated side of the house, right? But but to understand the totality of different strategies The risk you take on over here for that reward over here Or maybe you take on a little bit less risk for a little less reward over here. Okay We want to try to define those different avenues of strategy. Okay in your application that way You don't misinterpret the investing arena as just being Tripping and falling on your face into game stop. Okay to Go to the moon. I'm not really sure why that's still getting headlines. I don't know Um, I'm winning in the stock market just being a value investor and I'm happy to do so It's what I've done for decades. I'm totally fine. I'll live to fight another day. I'm totally good All right, uh victor says he's going to give me a a beer a new castle. That's fantastic. Great to see you my friend fly on tire stick Love it man. Really appreciate it. See now. We've got time to have some fun tonight I don't have to burn through my 60 minutes so fast and it might just me me Um, I don't know if jay's going to make his way on if he does I'll kick him in here if not i'm going to run the stream tonight myself Which is what I he's kind of like my bread and butter brings me back to the olden days. All right I have them down where I want them. I'm certainly long. Sure. Sure. So yeah I'm in the entry if you want to take a strategic stab works here Um, obviously the stock at 11 17 is more attractive than the stock at 20 to share Is it going to remain in the low teams? I don't know. Is it going to enter into single digits? I don't know I don't come on to youtube to do that kind of stuff. I I leave that to other more entertaining channel channels I I want to align myself with more of what I think is The correct dialogue and assessing the stock market in general and when talking about stocks specifically And I think more people need to say I don't know instead of saying yeah The stock definitively is going here and I've been told I need to be more definitive with my application And I am in other aspects of my life. Just not the stock market. Sorry. I don't think it has its place I don't You know that the definitive language sometimes makes me want to cringe and I'm like really Usually when somebody's super super sure about a specific stock and especially the direction that the stock is headed Um, usually end up come back to bite you. Okay, and if you do get it right, it's luck Okay, let's be real investing in a nutshell is almost like a an educated guess Did he just say that yeah, he did he just said that Investing is almost like an educated guess. Okay, you got all this research at your disposal You've got all the metrics to look at you've got all this stuff to look at If you don't know what to look at no problem We do a great job on the independent investor channel and other channels as well I've kind of streamlining the options for you in investing right Because I I think anybody can do passive investing honestly I could train a monkey to succeed doing passive investing and I honestly think that that's where the bulk of attention For people needs to be look If you're playing with your first 10,000 bucks split it up Split it up You know work up to that first 10,000 if you're looking at a thousand 2,500 5,000, right You don't really need to be dabbling in the the single stock arena just yet. Okay Let yourself get get get working a little bit. All right, let yourself get used to Subjecting your money to some level of volatility. It'll get your mind right Okay, so you're not freaking out and being like, god dang Ryan. Are you okay, man? I'm free and I'll be like Yeah, my knee hurts, but I'm fucking I'm fine. Like leave me alone. I'm good. I don't know what you're talking about I'm sorry And and and I think that's a lot of the value that you can get From my perspective let this market pick up 20 more percent. You'll see a different side of me I'll move from phases green yellow red green yellow red You pull up to the stoplight. You see green yellow or red very very simple. We're very simple simple thinkers Jesus you go into mcdonald's they've made it very very simple. Can I have a number one with a coke? I'm going to make investing very very simple in that application as well Just a couple months ago. If not a month ago, I was talking about We're all in the green. We're good if you want to sell some stock if you want to put some cash to work If you want to deploy a program you certainly can do that but you can do it with scale I would consider this almost just moving into the yellow category to where it's like, okay, the market's down a couple bits I don't even know what the percentage uh from the high is. I don't know a couple percent I don't I I'm not really sure why everybody's freaking out And I'm certainly not sure why everybody's saying that the market's gonna fucking crash Like who the hell are these people? Have they been investing for like all of four days? Get some experience. You know It's all good I can buy more if you think the stock market's already crashed to buy more Get onto your youtube channel and tell people to buy more if you think it's already crashed all right Don't make stock market investing out to be more than what it is It is what it is All right, it can be a very lucrative opportunity over the long term All right, but it's where you start to take that long-term passive opportunity In the stock market and you want to try to take that lightning and you want to try to put it in your back pocket And you're like, I I got this thing man. I'm gonna be the one I'm gonna be the one man. I got this thing licked, man Don't make it more than what it is. All right, mr. Dividend driver James is in the house man fantastic Great to see you my friend This also means a lot to me. I take this opportunity to digress and thank the community of the independence investor channel There's no better community that I would rather associate myself with and I don't say it enough But kudos to me for actually vocalizing it and saying it to you kind people means a lot to me and I think just coming out of this going on a year of What's been hellacious? It's been really really bad A lot of people aren't here anymore and to be able to at least to come in and and talk around A financial topic like this Which I think escapes a lot of people in all reality I really do and the reason why I know this is because in my day-to-day interactions with people It never ceases to amaze me how a lot of other aspects in their life can be so much more fulfilling so much more satisfying if they could just find it in themselves to Study up on the financial topic a little bit get a little bit of savvy about this thing a little bit of perspective Investing can absolutely be fun. It can be a complete nightmare without the correct perspective perspective on it Okay, makes for a good head headline and it makes for a good good title of a youtube video But in reality is that really the message that we want to be portraying about the stock market? I'll leave that rhetorical question up to you guys. All right Um, there's only one of me and there's only going to be one unique perspective that comes out of my mouth All right. There's no other there's no other independent investor channel out there and nobody talks like me. I've checked I've checked. Okay. There's a few that I really really like and push out really really good information many of which are in this community here But I just think that there are There's never ever room in the stock market to be complacent ever ever Okay, and the second that you think that you got it licked It'll turn on you and it'll go a different direction. Okay. That's why I always advocate for doing it all Do it all It'll be a passive investor to start. Absolutely. Ryan. I want to add a little dividend Portfolio to my to my layer up. Absolutely. Do you do a 401k? Do you do a tsp? 100 ryan. I sure do good good for you, man I tip my hat to you you're contributing to your financial future Why because you don't have to spend every waking dollar that you get why? Because especially People in this country. Okay, not to be rude But we spend too much damn money and and I'm here to tell you you don't need to Okay, you don't need to well. Where do I put my money ryan? Aaron lies the beauty of the stock market put it there because you in fact Maybe need somebody like me to tell you you do not need all the crap that you buy Okay, you don't stop buying so much crap Okay, if you have a bunch of debt because you spend too much on crap and you spend over what you make Okay, then you can Focus on that debt and chip away down on that debt until you're even Eligible to enter into a wealth building program and take advantage of the very opportunity that we have To enter into the stock market and lose money The in the capacity that everybody tells me everybody's losing money over the last week or so I'm sorry. I just don't see it. I'm sorry. This is a a hiccup as far as I'm concerned The stock market has a real potential to really dull out some pain And this is hardly pain chris j. Great to see you my brother. Thank you so much for making your way on the channel friend of the family part of the community And every little bit of success that we can render for individual investors retail investors Yeah, I'll continue to beat that drum because I am in fact a success story And an advocate for retail investors out there guys fantastic. All right I'm a cruise down here got my great friend out on the west coast Fantastic. Great to see you lydia. Thanks for popping in a little bit early. I know I started a little bit early, but I don't get to hang out with you guys very often When I when I film youtube videos when I film youtube videos and I'm staring up my Screen like this and it's irritating the hell out of people I don't get to come on and just hang out with you guys. All right And this project this project is predicated upon the success of individual investors There's no doubt about that has very little to do with me Um, I I've got I've got enough success in my life. I really do. I I'd love to share it I gave you a piece of that success With celebrating my 16 years of marriage to to my angel. That's simple Stock market investing. Yeah, it's all great. But again, I I do preach what I what I I practice what I preach in that I don't make it more than what it is. It's a great wealth building and generating a vehicle it is but You know, I have some strategic plays right now in the portfolio where yes In fact, I'm trying to make it more than what it is and I'm being punished for it right now Okay Now whether or not my discipline pays off and my ability to take a stock trade that is not for the faint of heart And turn that around where most people would probably take the same stock trade and screw it up Um, I will make it a success. I will and I'll chronicle the whole journey when it's done Okay, I've got it earmarked for a hundred dollars I'll wait till it gets there and then I'll chronicle my thought processes and what I did But I refuse to Do that chronicling right now because I do not want to persuade people Away from the core Intent of the message and that is to become a participant in the market. Get yourself off the sideline first All right Prove to me that you can save your first five hundred dollars And and separate yourself from that five hundred dollars and put it to risk You do that now we're talking now We're talking about the first steps toward a disciplined future Okay, I don't want to roll out stock picks that I know in my mind you might want to hear about But I know you do not need to hear about those right now the masses Do not need to hear that stuff. They don't they don't they need to hear about how to empower their financial future by becoming a Participant in the market by getting their start. That's what most people need to see. All right I made the greatest Greatest baked chicken this week and I used some maple syrup from none other than my good friend Uh chris blaine. Blaine. He says is my clock broke. No, man. I started early. I took 15 minutes And you I gave away 15 minutes of bonus time chris. You've got me anytime man He knows this But I tell you what that was a hell of a touch on that chicken, man It was the greatest chicken i've ever made it was like honey chicken It was beautiful, man. It was it was incredible. It was very good So thanks for you chris. I appreciate you popping in here, man. I I jumped right over bret I would get get my proper shot outs to the crew here. No worries can start anytime. He says Um, yeah, that was first. I may take an extra half hour. I may I may drop that time back and go to a half hour I think there's a lot of people who miss because I get in my groove And I switch from the right side of my brain over to my left side of my brain And that's usually where the good stuff is the right side Not so much Okay, the left side if if you can sit in front of me and catch when i'm in my my my zone over here Which I am now Then you're the beneficiary for it. You can understand you can accelerate your wealth in a lot of ways because Um, I I give I give it away, man. I really want to help people I freaking do I I think a lot of people are their own worst enemy I do I think people need to do a better job of getting out of their own damn way I think there's a lot of people out there that are more than capable of winning in the stock market But they are in fact their own worst demon And they're they create the barriers that that prohibit them from getting to a financial future that is impressive Yeah, yeah, but that's all right. That's all right We're going to keep revolving around the topic because there's a lot of work to be had around this topic And there's a lot of people out there that need our help and and can find this to be very helpful and It's all about discipline It becomes a hell of a lot less about the individual stock picks and the more makeup of the portfolio You know, if you just took that 11 sector portfolio that I have and tripped and fell into it Did no research whatsoever about the stock market used my allocation You could win with that over time and that that is a message that I can resonate with Now the the deeper question is could could you could you invest in that? And subject that portfolio to a downturn in other words. Are you going to have the mental fortitude? That's necessary to persevere when the stock market doesn't do what it is that you think it should do, right? There's lots of people think the stock market can just go up all the time This is this is awesome and it does that through stretches. It's like man. I wake up. I look at my phone. I'm like, god dang I'm up again. Jesus like come on go down Come on. This isn't the stock market. This is crazy but Yeah, maybe at least over the last few weeks maybe It's doled out a little bit of reality and I think it's reality checking some people and All right. All right. I've done the best I possibly could and let people know that the stock market Is uh, it goes two directions up and it goes down Okay, and we want to prepare for both. That's okay All right We nobody would do stock market investing if it was just a zero-sum game and that we got involved and we lost everything Doesn't work that way. The the idea is to acknowledge. Yes. Okay. Good. We built a strong program You know, there's a ton of people in this community right now. I'm looking at them right now I'm looking at them right now And they're so solid in their program. We we we together me too in the portfolios, right? That I disclose to you guys reduce fees down to an anemic level almost to nothing, right? So the fee aspect is taken care of then the tax acknowledgement piece is taken care of So if we get a little hiccup in the stock market and it does what it is that we Expect it to do at some point. We don't know when it's going to be but we know that it's going to be inevitable We can live with that We can live with that because we've already asked those questions ahead of time and we're prepared mentally to Not only uh subject our portfolio to a downturn but look to even strategically profit from it All right, when the stock market crashes For me, let's remove the word crash and we'll substitute it with opportunity Isn't that great see you knew why you came into the independent investor channel tonight You knew I would drop a few nuggets. There you go. See it's a great mix between green tea and crown royal Becky great to see you It's nice I can take a comment like good evening ryan and everyone and turn it into a portfolio building exercise I just love this stuff. I really do Fantastic got proper 19 who owns the very first comment to the night. Oh my gosh, hold on Holy smokes There we go. I hit the wrong button and I ended up jumping into another screen guys. I apologize for that But proper 19 is in the house. I am tire stick Makes me want to sell sell what? And I don't I don't think I sold any any stock at all man. I I took a little bit of profits I told I disclosed during my stop top stock picks from march And uh, I'm rolling those out a little bit different. I'm actually giving what I feel is the fair market value of the stock In comparison to where the stock is trading So I give my my hypothesis on what I own why I own it whether or not I think it's overdue Or overvalued what I'm going to do with it. Okay. I think that really really helps I don't figure fair market value out by hand. I have a program in my brokerage account that does that for me So that's where those numbers come from But I think it actually really really helps people understand like why I took a few shares off of city group when I did Why I took a few shares off of JP Morgan when I did why I'm thinking about taking a little bit off of the bank of america And I'm glad I didn't I I wish I wouldn't have entered into black rock So I knew I was buying up on it really kind of a an ill time by but I just am very very bullish on the company It's it's it's it's a beast cash flow fantastic dividend security fantastic asset manager One of the absolute best. I'm a participant under the tsp And the government pension program. I think they've got seven or eight trillion assets under management. So It's a juggernaut. It's a beast and it's it's one that I keep my eye on I don't put it in the top five, but I put it number six Along with p and c Which I believe black rock used to have a minority share In p and c that of which they hear just recently I dissolved the way Fantastic All right I went from 44 return to 8% I bought more shares today Well, you're young You're all right and you got you have to kind of look at it this way too There's an aspect of the portfolio that's somewhat aggressive, right? So when you get those aggressive Results from a portfolio that's built to be a little bit aggressive, right? And and I've known you now for years I know, you know, you you you have a style about you of how you want to invest and what type of investor you want to be The difference between you and a lot of other people out there is a lot of people couldn't handle investing the way that you do And that's about it. The best compliment is I can I can Provide now you you may redefine that risk tolerance to the market and how you structure your portfolio based on how life evolves for you But that's the whole gig, right? You want to align and you you you're very very forthcoming with what type of investor you want to be And I think that's great. I think a lot of people Need to take a page out of this playbook right here from my investment journey At miss lydia and how she deploys her program. It's impressive. It's a lot of how I and a lot of other people in this really You know, they don't do it just like me and that's a good thing All right, remember the sheep at the top of the live stream. I do that as a joke All right too much groupthink guys All right way way too little individual thought way way too too little free thinking way way too little deployment of Individual activities way way too much thinking on your own okay, all right The second you find that Uh personal empowerment piece and the ability to march to the beat of your own drum The better off you'll be there is no doubt in my mind man. It's an absolutely magical thing really is All right, well less than a half a half an hour here on the live stream guys Ton of comments man. I'm still rolling right through. It's all about you guys tonight Intro looks epic and good job fantastic. I I appreciate that I have some fun making those those are cool. Um, I just felt like it was kind of a pulse like I see crash on every single video that rolls out Crash you want to know what crash means to me? It means the stock market's going to zero Look, okay, either one of two things either you're doing that stuff to get attention. Okay That could be the truth. I don't know But if you honestly think that the stock market is gonna is going to crash Why are you investing? Right Like give me a break. Okay. There's a big difference between correction Uh, there's a big difference between entering into a bear market Um, I think some of these studs on youtube would have a hard time explaining that to me Um, I think it would be fun for me to put them to the test one of these times and have them actually teach me Um on on their all-knowing insight to the stock market in that every situation Down four percent is an automatic crash in the stock market. Okay I beg to differ Don't make investing out to be more than what it is. Especially a punch line for your youtube project Did I just say that? Yeah, I did I meant it to take it to heart Cool While you're using the stock market as a punch line to scare people off of the stock market A lot of people might find their way to a message And be demotivated to invest when in fact all they need to do for themselves Is to justify investing for themselves their household their family and for their legacy of wealth That's some real talk yep Therein lies the beauty and the downfall of social media All right, and I'm just the guy to throw and shun at it because I could just give two shits less Seriously youtube and social media is probably causing more damage than it is positive and I'm gonna say well ryan, you know, you do in social media, man. I would like to think that I have some level of um rational thought ethical backbone in thinking about what I say before I say it And making sure that um, you understand that about me um, if if that's not for you I give you an exit you can leave. I I just don't care. Um, I know where I'm going Um, I give away the pages in my playbook I hold nothing back as a matter of fact the pages that I hold back Are the very pages that youtube wants me to disclose to an audience and I refuse to do it And that in and of itself should gain me At least a slight amount of credibility and a slight amount of respect the fact that I withhold The fact that I that I that I don't roll that stuff out for the betterment to the community Those ill advised investors that make their way to the channel that lump carbon copy me into That whole I'm coming to youtube and I I want you to give me the goods and therefore I'm going to turn and invest in the goods I won't do that I'm going to tell you what you need to hear not what you want to hear Big difference between me and other channels man. All right A lot of good other channels out there don't get me wrong man, but surprise me. Okay Um, I catch a lot of the landscape out there and I just am like man I don't I don't see the good that comes out of it. I really don't All right better cool 1,100 fantastic. That's a big big position and it's going to be awesome It's going to be really fun. I I find it interesting the criticism of highly on and that they need to bake the cake without the ingredients What's even further more interesting how uh, it ran up in its valuation when it was a SPAC play And now all that's behind all that inherent to risk you want to talk about risky in hindsight I will disclose to you this I should have never been messing with warrants Never Because that in in any other capacity has a chance to go to zero and dissolve away. Okay, not good Not good These things need to go to the board and get approved before their merger their SPAC merger is even approved and turned out for a common placement on the stock market All that's behind highly on um, and and I think it's interesting to me all the good news that's come through the pipe They they eight minute battery The multi-use. Um, I'm a ferry inspector Ferry boat inspector. Okay And what highly on uh, tomas healy specifically talked about is the application to use those and some of our short run ferries imagine the um The seattle ferry system right could you imagine that running on a on a diesel generator powered by batteries? Yeah, sure. So there's multiple Use cases for this technology all they have to do is follow through on their suit and quite frankly, that's the last That's the last domino to fall right there Because the only thing that the analysts have thus far on this company now is that they don't have sales We knew that they weren't going to have sales a year ago. It's right there in their investor presentation They're actually slightly ahead of schedule On everything that they've disclosed as far as what they're rolling out with product placement It's going to be a lot of fun when these unfold over the next couple years That's why i'm not really that concerned with what happens in the stock over a couple day period Um outside of me looking at it and taking advantage of that opportunity that of which I have been doing Okay, I won't get into specifics on that though not through a social media and not until the time is right Okay, if you tune in to me enough, you'll know exactly where my loyalty lies And you can read behind the lines and do your own due diligence on stuff like that. Okay very cool Mr. Billy Johnson in the house, uh my portfolio is at an all-time high That's not surprising and the market's been really kind of crazy over the last year big big downturn Big big upswing. Okay It's made a lot of people a lot of money So, you know these these these retracements. I think in some of the portfolios given back some house money And that's another small ace up my sleeve another another card out of my playbook Yeah, you guys remember it's it's not as if I took and built this highly on position on Hard earned dollars these these are house dollars. Okay a little bit different a dollars a dollars a dollar I get it. Okay, but it's a little bit different when I take house dollars and I'm looking to leverage that position up For future profits. Okay, a little bit different application little bit advanced thought in my strategy and my and my perspective and And and what type of aggressive application I'm putting on this particular Right now. It's it's a pretty complex Level of of entries right anywhere from 20 all the way down to my lowest entry today 1193. That's minus The put contracts that I put in place just following my plan all dividend paying stocks So you ought to be doing okay with the dividend paying stocks honestly To each his own billy, right? The whole idea behind investing is you're never going to get it perfect right off the bat But as you Get these days and these weeks and these months logged as an investor You're really going to start to define Who you are as an investor and and I think the the grander place in investing is when You take on a perspective of of happiness Irrespective of the stock market like for me. It's just there. It's it's doing everything that I've asked it to do Crowdstrikes down big but I don't care because I want exposure to that salesforce.com Was it a bad buy or a bad entry point? Yeah, maybe but salesforce.com is a position that I want to hold into 2021 2022 It's a five-year position for me. So it makes complete sense to me but when you have A lot of different good things going on The investing piece is really just a supplement to those additional things. Okay very very important takeaway In the investing arena man. It can supplement a lot and I appreciate your comment billy. Thank you so much, man Very cool and tennis same up two and a half fantastic. I love it The media's goal is to get people to trade That's such a smart comment. That's right All a bunch of propaganda They don't get paid if they come on like me. I'm doing this for free. Okay. I do it for you guys And I do it for the sheer sake that if I can build a community of people who come back to me and they're like, you know what Ryan, I'm a free thinker. I've defined what type of investor I want to be my portfolio is reflective of me Thank you. Thank you. I didn't buy into all the cnn stuff and all the cmbc stuff That's telling me hey from one month to another I need to be excited and frantic and oh my god. This is incredible and and and then and then flip the switch On the very same stock market Is apple really that different of a company now than it was last month? Is it really that different of a microsoft this month than it was last month? If you look at every single one of those pundits and look at every single one Of those holdings that those people are holding in their own personal portfolios It's all the apple microsoft j and j bristol mires home depot Costco of the world. It's all of those stocks. Okay And what they don't disclose to you is the scale that they use to enter into some of those other Companies the speculative stuff in the same capacity that I do Okay, they want a little bit of exposure to that to give themselves that opportunity for that accelerated growth Yes, just like I do. Okay, but make no mistake about it guys There's only one apple company out there and i'm going to participate in that company just like the big boys and And gals do okay, and I would presume that the retail investors kind of wake up a little bit and say You know what? I'm not going to make investing more than it needs to be ryan's right on the money man You don't have to try to outthink this gig. Okay If you think you want to outthink it do what I do in a certain portion of my portfolio and buy some vym The vym is chuckerbock full of those good value stocks that pay a dividend It's a no-brainer. You don't have to think at all No thinking required. Holy smokes ryan. Are you kidding me? You're blowing me away You mean to you mean to tell me that this whole investing thing the thing that I thought of was just a A magical mystical place over this whole time is something that I can just I can Paid in to yeah, that's the beauty of it baby. Welcome to the empowered message. That's what it's all about. All right Very cool. It's a beautiful thing 3% dividend yield exposure to I think vym's got 400 companies. I'm not really sure But it's got a pretty good basket of diversified companies that'll pay you low yield, right Jesus don't make it more hard than it needs to be I'm loving my position in vym and I fail to mention sometimes that I rode vym down into the pandemic low Last march and I was down Huge Jesus. I was down huge and and and value was out of out of play So, you know, it was like man. Is this is this is worth it? I you know, jeez louise. No. Yeah, it's paying off It's whipping some ass I would wish vym on anybody. I would wish the total stock market on anybody just as a starting place That's why we earmark those as starting places entering into a good asset like a vti or just entering into the smp 500 is like It doesn't it doesn't go with that narrative of oh my god, the stock market's fantastic And then oh my god, the stock market's horrible Go back and look at the historical performance of the smp 500 all the way back to 1928 You'll see what I mean. I just released my reset video if you did not catch that you need to catch it Okay, I talk about some core shit in that video man. It's legit Because you're guaranteeing yourself that exposure to that that diversified index over the next 10 20 years is the smp 500 going to look the same five years from now Is it going to be the same 10 years ago? Was it or 10 years from now? Was it the same five years ago? Was it the same 10 years ago? It was drastically freaking different guys. Why not just guarantee yourself that diversified exposure across The large cap domestic stock market. It just seems to make sense to me And I'm not just coming on here and blah blah blah the blah blah And giving you a bunch of lip service what I disclose to you and the numbers at the top and the calcs That's real stuff. It's not monopoly. It's real. Those are real portfolio numbers Right, okay Can we walk the walk and not just talk the talk? yep It's important If I just if I was charged with coming on to youtube and just blah blah blah all the time Um, I would consider my life a waste That's a waste. This is what I do Okay, this is that that's why I chalk it up as a testimonial Because if it's truly going to motivate people and it's truly going to You know get people to a better place You can get through my brash approach to this But forgive me for my insistence that you need this information if in fact you don't have it You need it Okay, insistence Very very important. All right Cruisin down to the end. I believe of the stream. I don't even know what time it is What are we looking at here? We got about 14 minutes before I hand over the reins I'm sure these guys are gonna probably gonna come With a very spirited effort as they always do I just enjoy the heck out of it. Um, I will at the end of this live stream Remain back for anybody who wants to pop into the studio with me If you have any reservation about that Get rid of it. Okay. I am just a regular freaking fella If you're impressed by what you see on the independent investor channel It's because I've got hundreds of episodes of practice Okay, and I'm not one of those guys that step onto social media and I'm like Hey And I'm perfect in my application. No, it's taken me an ungodly amount of practice To come on and impress you guys on my social media savvy But if you do want to take a few moments to kick into the studio, please take advantage of that I'll hear you out and and we'll talk through whatever Whatever questions that you may have The floor is yours. Okay, and no question Needs to go unanswered. That's for sure Mr. Tim's in the house. Is there a video on how to set up m1 account? um I have tons in my catalog Unfortunately, if if it's not in the m1 finance is a topic category, which I believe they all are You can hit me up afterwards. I I do offer I I've stopped mentioning on my live stream at least for the last couple the products that I roll out The viper group is is really my premier group for wealth building You can find more information at independent investor group.com. That is www.independentinvestorgroup.com On there you will find the zoom experience With m1 finance. It is a zoom meeting with me. It says m1 finance tutorial where I can walk you through the portfolio wealth building experience One-on-one. It's a beautiful thing. Um, I struggled figured it out. Uh, actually shit canned m1 finance once You guys know that have been with me a long time I came back and game gave m1 finance a second chance and i'm glad I did because I really really like it But if you're struggling with the setup I helped walk someone through The m1 finance setup last week So I screenshoted and i'm willing to do that I don't want to take up the live stream anymore because i've got about 13 or so 11 minutes left But stick around afterwards Or I can catch on the flip side. I roll those opportunities out Willingly and openly but that's the drop point that's powered through Shopify That is my loan website. I had to dissolve away the other one. It just wasn't getting any traction Whereas the Shopify stop is the is the one-stop shop for all things Um, uh personal empowerment with with me and the few products that we roll out there. All right, very cool Mr. O'Dell is a good friend of the family man me and mr. O'Dell go back We're like a plank owners on the independent investor channel and and make no mistake I I like to consider myself in some forms and fashions a leader When it comes to investing But but I like to also consider myself a friend and a companion walking right with you guys on this deal And um, you know Jared's been with me a long long time and shot out to you my friend Great to see you and thanks for making your way on to the live stream. Very very cool Haven't watched tv in 13 months. Just now. I watched just netflix. I don't watch a whole lot of youtube Ironically, I say this all the time. I just there's very few channels out there that impress me Um, you know matt money is one one of my favorites. I matt's just a genuine when when matt rolls out the genuine content He's got his moments where that's really really golden stuff. I like joe carlson And I and I like gen X dividend investor Nate o bryan is also one of my one of my favorites He's moved away from some content that was legacy for him And he's he's moving into some stuff that I know is is very very important to him with regard to um, personal health That's huge. Um, especially on the mental side of the house Good stuff guys All right, cool stuff Mr. Aaron tees in the house says good evening. Good evening to you my friend Got nine minutes. See that was a little bit better. I think I could roll the live stream out for an hour and a half If you guys do want to and you're still uh in the live stream this evening as I wind down the show I may look to kick this sucker off at 8 30. Um and give myself a little bit more time Um, I I think I'm a little more like a diesel engine and I think once the live stream kind of gets to its end Um, we we've we've we've really kind of got to some really good topics and I I love it. I think it's wonderful 15 to work in today and vti v o o the cues highly on were my buys still 30 cash Wow That that's incredible that you that's a very strong move today I'm not sure why you picked today and not yesterday Um, I wasn't doing a whole hell of a lot of buying today outside of highly on Which really was kind of the dragon the portfolio. I let the other the rest of the portfolio Just kick some ass today, man It's just like being a passive investor in the rest of the portfolio really kind of saved my bacon Um, and then some of the strategic buy points I made on right down to the granular low, man granular low in that old bitch, um Really turned north and and did really quite well the rest of the day As I just kind of sat on it as it, you know, really turned I had that high volume buy I really think that man if you guys want to know what i'm talking about look at the volume at 11 17 Okay, $11 and 17 cents and and that might just be it may retest it may break I don't know again. I'm not in that business But 11 17 this morning on three five 2021 Might just kind of be a pivotal moment for the stock. Thank you for sharing that Radiated racer. That's pretty awesome. I appreciate you very cool I thought about taking some strategic stabs in the passive. I did not You know, we'll buy here come mid on my dollar cost average schedule. I've got money that goes Every two weeks and and I don't see it it just it just is and again one of those aces and and secret sauces to my success Is I've learned to live without that money You need me to say it again I've learned to live without that money Yep, and I would highly encourage you guys to do the same. You don't need it All right, true happiness Comes in a different place outside the stock market. Okay separate yourself From the euphoric feeling that you get by spending money. It's a very very shallow way to seek happiness in this life Okay All right, very cool I'm gonna cruise through and really try to get I got my brother from another mother that the we the weber family's in the house And eric's been with me for like eons. It's just awesome. That's so so cool, man again one of one of Many community members that are just absolutely loyal devote to the message And know where my loyalty lies Absolutely is with your guys's personal empowerment if we're going to build this project up We're going to build it up for the right reasons. That's for sure It can move as slow or as fast as we want it to grow. That's for sure But if i'm going to look anybody in the face someday It they're they're going to look back in my eyes and they're going to say thank you I needed to hear at the time I heard it what it is that you had to say to me with regard to the investing opportunity All right, very good stuff. All right Keep my money on the side here Palantir, I like I don't own it. Uh, I know matt matt's a bull on palantir He can speak specifically covers the stock. I do not I do cover amazon amazon's a beast amazon's easy That's easy you know amazon i've got a fairly nice position in You know two shares man. I'm a retail investor for christ sake. I'm not a wealthy man But she's two shares amazon man. I'm tickle pink I'm like jeez. I'm just a little engine that could do Got a little amazon in my portfolio, man. I'm happy with it, baby Absolutely You want to own a little amazon on the partial share side of the house? You can do so an m1 finance and that may be in fact what you're asking about It's a good strategy to go by Got less than four minutes guys. I don't think there's any announcements on the channel My upload frequency. I've been very very satisfied with Keeping the pulse of the channel. Thank you for all your guys's support of those that kind of helps keep the lights on and Keep that little bit of ad revenue flowing in for the channel and that I thank you You know spend a few moments watching those videos and and taking that in If it's your first time to the message And you did hear about that opportunity on the Independent investor group calm go over there and check it out. We built a cool website. If not check it out for free It's awesome. Yeah, join the mailing list and jump on my subscriber list. It's it's a lot of fun. It's very cool stuff All right, I just want to cruise through here, man. You got clincher 16 in the house 12 year double wood fantastic It's great to see you my friend. Thanks for rolling in We good rolling dividends Yeah, it's one of those investing gems. Happy friday. Everyone open is everyone's having a great day Um, yeah, it's been a rough week for me Actually, you wouldn't know it coming out with such a spirited live stream But it's been a little a little tough for me Monday was was a beaut because of my anniversary But um, yeah, it's it's been kind of weird for me For reasons. I won't disclose though for social media. That's for sure um, but You guys really help um kind of keep that uh opportunity for me to come on and And do what it is that I love to do. I freaking love this. I love it, man I I eat breathe and sleep I'll sit on the next live stream that matt and kyle will roll out and I'll just sit here and finish my crowned royal Reflect on the live stream. Um, I review every live stream I do for an opportunity to get better And that's uh for you guys. So we're rolling out a nice clean product for you guys Um, I I came close but I didn't get to finish all of the comments tonight And I do apologize for that What I will do at this time is I will drop a link at the bottom of the live stream Uh, and it will go in here. All right Now it's at the very bottom Boom, there it is. Um, you can kick in there. Please if there's others in just be patient I can only get to one at a time if it's a sensitive topic Uh, I or not I can throw you all in the screen and we can talk uh round robin makes no difference to me guys So less than a couple minutes here. I just want to cruise down There's a lot of good comments here guys man. If you could make your way on earlier That would be lovely. Leave your comment go eat dinner and then come back That would be lovely s lf smash will see for stuff like this Hey cap ryan. Hey everyone. I haven't been able to catch a live stream in a while Oh, I catch them all It starts early when I get a chance picked up apple microsoft. You bet you bet portfolio looks anemic without those good Companies I bought them at the wrong time microsoft not so much apples a little bit of it in a in a retracement here A little bit no big deal Lift to fight another day two of the top companies to own And again all those pundits they own apple microsoft and every one of their portfolios anyway All right, there's a reason for it. They're fantastic All right, so with that guys i'm going to get down There's j. He just popped in I just see him at the bottom of the gallery j apologies, man I'm just getting at the end here and I don't want to overlap anymore I will kick over guys all daisy chain to help support the boys's project as well But we will be back next friday nine o'clock eastern standard time. Please look for the thumbnail because I may kick it off Even at most a half hour early So I may kick off at 8 30 eastern And that way it'll give me a little bit more time on this because 60 minutes has proved not to be enough On the live stream. So um with that guys, I wish you all the best Have a great rest of the weekend and we'll catch you next week on the on the live stream next friday. We'll be here. Thanks guys