 guys welcome into the M1 finance account anybody can benefit from this message here to understand what I'm doing now and why we're about 10% off and this is the first mark where I'll start dabbling in the market and I will share that to dabble with you here just to kind of understand I've been fairly patient since last November of 2021 I've monitored markets closely and where I think the focus has moved away from inflation fears and moved more toward the geopolitical risk I do think that this quick drawdown in the market has provided some new strategic areas of focus and if I was just going to rattle them off to you I'd say healthcare and financials right smack at the top and then energy continues to be an area of focus where I think we'll probably get some panic buying going into it I've owned energy throughout the last five years so really not a big deal for me I'm just going to continue to own the sector and profit from it but it is time the theme in this video is going to be some new strategic positions in 12 stocks I'm going to declare those to you guys I'm also doing about 36 dollar cost average buys and M1 finance allows this to happen I just want to bring your attention here to the market performance and net flow into the portfolio these are hard dollars that are contributed into this portfolio here at 18.5 market gains at just over 9,000 so fantastic work here and then some earned dividends which just go up incrementally this portfolio is crazy I've had about 80 stocks in this portfolio and it's uh I'm hard pressed to not get a dividend every day I you know it seems like every day every other day or so I'll get dividends from a few bucks all the way up to you know 15, 16, 18 bucks it just it just varies but there's so many dividend paying stocks in this portfolio strategic goal over this bucket is to align those with that strategic goal of seeking out one of the four D's that I believe is one of the real pillars in investing I mean should I dare and say it a guarantee and for you guys that you know choose to consume this content you can really benefit from understanding my philosophy on that and for those patrons out there that do not have M1 finance it doesn't mean that you can't sit back and relax and enjoy my philosophy on why I'm entering into these companies at this particular time off here about 10 percent this is the time when I feel like I want to make my first strategic stab I'll continue to dollar cost average the market but this is a strategic buy and I'm here to share that strategic buy with you so here you can see the portfolio is just kind of leveled off and and slightly trending to the right here no real crazy downturn values held up quite well actually they've sold off but but they've held up because I was sitting on such nice gains in this portfolio I think that it just demonstrates the strength of dividend investing here and holding really good companies through this volatility you can see here how the sectors have fared these I've got pieced through I do omit real estate from this portfolio for obvious reasons I hold real estate in other capacities and other accounts much larger positions and some of my favorite reads in in my Roth IRA I this is a taxable brokerage account so I don't retain real estate in here but here's the other 10 sectors that I do retain here but here's the scheduled buys tomorrow 48 total buys almost 50 stocks that we're putting a strategic inject in the market and this is a far cry from what everybody's doing right now you know panicking and you know bitching about the gas prices and you know panicking and and nobody's really talking about putting a strategic non-emotional neutral application to this market could it continue to go down yeah maybe I don't I don't play that game this is not a game this is to abide by a series of rules that I believe in to buy at the first strategic 10 percent down it could this be ill timed yeah odds are probably yeah I don't believe in being able to time the market so I don't I don't try to do that I make strong moves in the market and this is indicative indicative of just that and that's a strong move in the market so let's cruise through here and I'll do you guys a favor and I will separate just a little over five of inflows into this I will separate the new strategic positions in this portfolio from the dollar cost average buys so two of the four triple d's the drip program and diversification being the other two I do not seek out diversification in this portfolio albeit I do hold a lot of holdings in this portfolio this will boost it up close to a hundred holdings in this dividend portfolio and I think it's awesome it is a great way to invest and I do have strategic visions down the road of this portfolio getting up to a hundred hundred a half quarter million dollars and still holding all of these same assets and and strategically polishing the edges as we grow and and and we mature the portfolio going forward here but Cummins leading off the list here Cummins is fabulous I just took over Meritor here in a really an awesome deal you know there's three billion dollar deal so it's huge another strategic kind of in there with the EV market I think Cummins will benefit from its its relationship with with Hylian as Hylian comes into becoming more of a dominant player in the EV space I think it's going to be great to have some exposures to Cummins Cummins is a buy rating across the board pays a nice dividend fits nicely in the portfolio Emerson Electric here will be a newly established position and then right below it UNH I've had in the portfolio I've had a small position but this actually rounds out that existing position that I started many many months ago in United Health this will kind of re-solidify that position there but that's a dollar cost average buy and then Sanofi the only healthcare addition to this portfolio that I've got I loved what I saw here in Sanofi it was fabulous it is a global provider in the healthcare space Gilead was the other one that I was looking at and I opted not to buy that so Sanofi took took the cake here as being the lone financials here so we've got Cummins Emerson Electric Sanofi as the new positions and I'm going to go through here and I'm going to cherry pick the new positions for you US Bank Core is a new position British Petroleum excuse me British American Tobacco BDI is a new position Kellogg Company is a new position I'm just ecstatic to own all these Unilever is an absolute screaming buy right now one of the few in the staple space that I did buy along with Kellogg some super stoked on that I did embolden the financial section here and added my fourth Canadian bank here and and this is one that really was under my radar and one that I came across in my research and that's Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CM the ticker symbol being there so I'm glad to add that in and embolden I think financials are going to outperform interest rates going up are good for both staples and financials that cost of goods go up profits go up for companies cost of capital will also increase increase and benefit the financials that have been really kind of put to sleep over the last let's be real 10 years over this bull market where the cost of capital has been relatively light so the banks will profit from that but this is kind of a hybrid play here to get some exposure in the in the Canadian markets here the Diageo was one that I've never owned this is a new position newly established in the staples category so fantastic to round out that existing space and then I broke into insurance I think along with the financials I think these insurers are going to do really well in this newly established environment with a little bit higher interest rates I think AIG and MetLife as well as I think I added some Aflac here I might have left Aflac out of it yes I did so those are the two insurers that I added in there and then PNC financial group so just just kind of a recap here Senofi Cummins Inc. Emerson Electric United U.S. Bankor BTI which is British American Tobacco Kellogg Company Unilever Canadian Imperial Diageo AIG MetLife and PNC that rounds out the 12 strategic buys on this list here so I'm throwing it at you here quick you guys know I don't do the three stock picks of the month anymore why because it's a complete and utter waste of people's time these are real dollars that are flowing into this count first thing tomorrow I'm hoping for a down market tomorrow is obviously I'm putting a pretty good infusion to the market knowing my luck the market will be a pre-market tomorrow a thousand points and I'll buy all these at high but nonetheless strong moves in the market are what will overcome now I do want to go through the list of strategic dollar cost average buys so you're getting a double whammy in this video and if you pay attention you'll see kind of where where my my interest lies here UNH is the first strategic buy on an existing position remember these are positions that were held before and these will help embolden these visa Merck Cisco Systems Intel Disney McDonald's these are all previously owned positions Home Depot IBM MasterCard look at that Texas Instruments nice to see that getting a little bit of love right there materials is really down right now and I think it's nice to see that these flow into two of my very favorite materials as materials taken it on the chin here and I think materials is it's just a fabulous sector to be in and lend and air products and chemicals Inc APD next era in the utility sector Lowes Sherwin Williams again in the material sector Comcast Starbucks Leggett and Platte in discretionary Nike AT&T AMD Duke and Southern Company my two staples there in utilities TJ Max Verizon Broadcom Inc in the chip space City Group again nice to see a little embolden there in the financial sector Dominion also so utilities getting a lot of love here on this dollar cost average initiative JP Morgan more love for materials in DuPont and Dow and UPS and industrials T-Mobile FedEx and finally Enbridge which is getting just a little bit of love and energy you'll notice here that there's not a lot of buys and energy because energy it has just run away from itself in this portfolio it's just absolutely crazy overweight and I'll show you what I mean here when we go into you guys remember energy used to be way down the list obviously in the downturn it was below 6% now it's crept up to 74 and we're up 693 this just goes to show the funding that goes into these out of favor sectors when they are indeed out of favor we can look at them now and say man it's nice to have been there and done that and look at us now we're just killing it so to see these inflows come into this portfolio is going to just be absolutely fabulous remember the takeaway here is to stay strong on a plan these stocks that I've just declared to you there'd be 48 buys 12 for new positions 36 are existing positions along two very simple themes that anybody can resonate with and that is the dollar cost average theme into existing positions and finally looking to be a little bit opportunistic on this market and take some positions and some stocks that have been really beat down over the last four or so months to especially in 22 here guys with that we'll conclude the video