 Cheers to everybody in the independent investor community fantastic. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you guys Go ahead and give yourself a little pinch Make sure you're all right Make sure you're the same person this Friday that you were last Friday We woke up this morning to a nice right to the face It's like man, I didn't I didn't get involved with the stock market for this. This is this is crazy It's okay. You come to independent man. I make you okay. It's okay We come and talk about The stock market today that was a nice kick in the pants for a short market anyway I made one buy unlike my friend who is buying everything. He bought everything today, but the kitchen sank So a little bit of a sell-off today in the market anyway, we try to add some perspective for you guys in the market we'll talk about You know what it what it means in the long term and I'll get into some things that I jotted down to maybe help with your perspective Jack and coke I highly recommend pouring yourself some libation man. It's the holidays. It's time to celebrate, baby Lot to be thankful for no doubt about that Guess something that wears on me a little bit Is the lack of perspective? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm If I go into a masseuse I just expect to have a massage and I have some pretty good certainty That I'm going to get said massage for about 60 minutes and I'm going to leave Having had my massage was very very predictable very predictable activity, right? It's amazing to me how the stock market With all we talk about and with all that we Anticipate which is important helps a lot of people because I think people hear about the benefits of The stock market man, you got to check this guy out man. He's unbelievable. Go check out youtube man He's got a half a million dollar portfolio. He's the greatest investor ever. He's got a community that's so robust man They're all wealth building That's true Tends to lose a little bit of luster when you understand the truth of the matter And that is gone. I've gone through so many ups and downs in the market weathered so many storms It's just conditioned me to understand that the market Can dole out a lot and it's forced me to understand the market as as common place Especially when there's volatile times, okay There's one day in the market. It doesn't mean anything. Okay. What you need to start to really ask yourself Is the interesting questions? I mean if if this really scared you today ask yourself, I mean Do you seriously not want to invest because of this? I look back over the history of all the corrections and all the bear markets and some really interesting, you know Jars to the market, you know last early last year. That was a tough one We're not even a year removed from that And people, you know start to think oh my goodness the the sky is falling here with one Day that's been been terrible. I think if there were something to talk about fundamentally I think we should talk about what's been going on for the last five weeks not just today Because corrections have an interesting way of creeping up on us Under the surface and there there's nobody out there that can forecast them. Nobody. I don't care who you are Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you think your ability is in the market. I'm just going to tell you it's impossible Okay, so what do we do? Do we not invest? Well, I can tell you one thing. We don't invest for the short term That's for sure if you're looking for short term validation in the stock market I mean just just imagine if you and your wife got into a fight After your first month and you were like, I'm done. I can't do this. I'm out the hell with this. This I'm out, baby I can't can't god dang it. Hey, hell. I thought I loved you four weeks ago, but god dang it them I'm out. This is this is horrible Think about all the pleasure you'd be given up for the rest of your life by making an idiotic move like that Best investment you could ever make in your life If you're driving down the road, you get a brand new car, right? The engine light goes off. God damn it, son of a bitch I'm out. I gotta turn the car in. I'm out We only have so much time in this life Okay And there's a few things that we can use and then discard. Okay Toilet paper, okay use it discard it chewing gum use it discard it Okay a condom can use it discard it. Okay Stock market is one of those things that perhaps maybe even if you're just getting absolutely reamed over the coals, okay, and you're losing it or getting hammered That's investing with errands in the group here, man I said, what happened, man? Did you spring a leak on the portfolio? What happened? If you think that you can just Give up throw your hands up in the air Then you were ill prepared to enter into the game in the first place Okay, well, what did we do Ryan? I don't understand Everybody should invest. Okay But I think the amount that we allocate can really help control Our emotions down the line. What do I mean by that? I help curb mine by entering into multi buckets Multi strategies that way the strategies that are actually working I was actually up week over week the last two weeks in the tsp for example I take a little bit of comfort in knowing that those assets are working Um, even though I'm getting kicked in the nuts over and over again by Hylian and the lower the stock goes The more of a buy it becomes The more people on youtube are becoming Furious and actually starting to turn code on me, which is interesting. I don't really care You can turn code all you want Some really interesting comments coming through some people who have actually been within my community Absolutely, and they come in and they enjoy the content free of charge. It's my perspective. Okay I tell you bottom dollar with all my heart man. I am not telling you what stock to buy. Okay If you don't feel that there's conviction on my end To invest in a company like Hylian or any of the other companies that I share willingly through the channel And and even specifically the the amount of conviction that I have right obviously I have a big position in Hylian And I have incrementally less positions Depending on the holding I declare those to you guys right But I find it interesting all too often when we use this community for for good Okay, what I mean by that is it's good in so far as You've got a guy like myself who? Should not have the wealth that I have and that is duplicated thousands and thousands of times over by people who just work regular jobs And they get caught up in that mundane activity and they start to believe that they can't get ahead I can't get ahead. I just can't see myself having wealth I can't see myself having wealth and you want to know what happens over time They start to believe that they can't accumulate wealth Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm So if you think for a second that I come on here to push my agenda You can kiss my ass and you can leave Okay, because If if I wasn't convicted on Sharing my strategies with the grander audience I wouldn't do it. I don't care enough about youtube specifically. I don't care about my own agenda Okay, I don't buy 364 shares of highly on just so I can come up and talk about how awesome the company is Only to dump the stock two months later because I made something up in the earnings report That justifies me selling out of the stock Then I can come up with a series on why I need to bag on the stock And tell everybody why it's going to be a long recovery I don't get that mentality never hood It never never did never could I think a lot of people really just need to grow a sack Sorry for the females in the audience, but I think some of you guys and gals need to Man up or women up. Whatever you need to do. I don't care. Just beef up a little bit Stop being the Quintessential retail investor. Okay, stop doing that All right, be above it all right Be above the noise Be independent Okay Stop being a little fish in a big pond swimming with a school of other fish and just moving the same damn direction as everybody else That pisses me off. Okay, because the opportunities are so grand Okay, so what if you ill time an investment? Does that mean at that particular juncture? It's a bad investment or somehow because your portfolio has dropped a couple bits that somehow you just need to throw in the towel And and join a monastery over the affair. Is that what needs to happen the stock market? I've said this many many times is a mechanical evolution and when I look back over my 25 years of investing I don't remember any of the bad times. I don't remember any of it I remember at some point starting my Roth IRAs Those are the pivotal milestones that I do remember And as I've expressed to the group many many times I do remember when I turned over that first $10,000 milestone in my life It was the most monumental I've said this many many times because I was rest assured god honest truth had it in my head That I was so wrapped up in that I'm a effing loser retail investor Or or a blue collar fella that I will never ever have the opportunity to accumulate wealth and when you do it It's that much more impactful right So the 25s and the 50s and eventually the hundreds and you know for me the quarter million and the 500 I knew I would get there. So it wasn't quite as impactful So if I can impart to you ask yourself, what is the pedigree to success? is it just dabbling In the space a little bit until it gets a little bit warm and then holy shit. I'm out. I got I got a I got a jump ship I'm out. This is terrible Captain captain the boat sink and water is coming in once you get your ass down there and try to patch it Okay, I think a lot of people man for for whatever reason I think they have some level of of entitlement going on See, here's the funny thing man I don't I don't come from money and I would presume that there's a lot of people that are Not are as well not from money and and those that are no problem too I I've met way different schools of of of people on this Some people come from money and they're the hardest working people out there Okay Some people like myself come from nothing and we have to work a little bit harder man I mean me and my wife were just talking this morning. Yeah, we have a lot to be thankful for 2021 was one of those years that I profess to all investors man You'll you'll go through bad years at 25 years The damn over half my life has been involved in financial markets. You're gonna have bad times And those bad times have the ability to persist And they have a bit ability to Stay around for a bit They sure do what do you do You really just have to gain some perspective about this and wear $10,000 of invested capital Might be really really a lot of a representative Amount for one household It might be that perspective in another household that allows them to stretch that up And go to that 25 50 100 250 And I think everybody's capable of of achieving those higher milestones But not until you mentally get it yourself like like I I can coach you I can encourage you I can provide you templates. I can provide you In-depth transparency on on my pitfalls And and deliberations and the difficult times and all that stuff Yeah, you know my pain is your pleasure In other words, you can kind of sit back and we as a group get together every Friday and we share our perspectives In the markets everybody came in and they were like we just got our ass kicked today Ryan But everybody understands That these things are commonplace in the market guys and and we just have to Have some perspective about this and and and where that perspective can be You know where one person decides to Sell out of a specific holding or completely sell out of their portfolio altogether You know, it's always interesting to me how I get the wave tops Of those of those concessions, but I never really get the details In other words people are you know, I'm throwing in the towel I'm throwing in my towel on this or that well, it's because it didn't work out for you over the short term How long have you been investing? Oh, I've been investing for since 2021 Well, 2021 for the most part has been phenomenal. Okay, it's been great. The market's been great it has not gone down and There are times when markets go down for a year over year average in the negative And these are things that you really have to understand when you're looking to apply a winning Strategy over the long term It's great to see everybody we allowed everybody to get in here We've got about 60 people in the group here happy holidays to each and every one of you guys It's really really great to see everybody. We've got a full gallery. I will try to deliver the goods today I am absolutely fired up. Cheers to each and every one of you I'll give you just a second to make your own. I highly encourage it It's a nice nightcap after a day like today Very much appreciative of of each and every one of you guys Absolutely kind of cool, man kind of cool to see the facebook post so what everybody does You know, I'm kind of one of those simpletons to be honest with you We made our turkey yesterday with three ingredients and one of them was water But the cast iron pot that we have cooks it like to perfection. It's unbelievable We cook our chicken the same way and uh, man salt and butter and and uh, and water were very simple people and uh It was a great great great dinner here. Just had the Immediate family here. You know, it was really cool, man. Really good stuff and You know, it it helps keep those things in perspective as well But tonight is devoted to Stock market talk. We accept the goods with the bads You know, we don't cry about spilt milk here. We do acknowledge it. It was kind of a kick in the pants today down 900 I don't even know what the catalyst was. I heard something about an oil war I don't know if i'm wrong or right there. I don't know. I don't pay much attention to that anymore I've become much more passive with my program I don't know if that's been a good or a bad thing. I've established a lot of basing positions This year that just have not materialized. It's really Been been tough. It's been tough on me this year. That's fine. We'll enter into 2020 2022 ready to fight the good fight And advocate for that long and hold and see it through for sure And that's the only way to be that's what i've learned so many times And really just to be in this position. I i i'm really just looking to lean on this And pursue other opportunities while the portfolio is working You know, i'm really aggressively looking at exploiting a few other Opportunities that i've had through the independent investor channel, you know, I want to thank all the vipers as well I did send out a solicitation there To to to re up your subscription So that's in the the the shared thread there. I would encourage you to do that That's just to to wash the cost of the actual website I do enjoy that but it's kind of like a nice support I thank chris for helping support that initiative a little bit if I can get a little bit come back on that It'll help the wash on the monthly subscription that I pay to maintain the website So very thankful for all the discussion this year 2021. I learned a lot And hopefully you guys feel the same You know, I've had a few a few guys reach out to me And talk to me about how many highly on videos i'm putting out through the channel I know there's going to be some people that are that are concerned about it I I just look at it different me man. I do when this thing goes back up to seven eight dollars I'll stop And this is where a lot of people started buying the stock and on the last time it dipped down here It proved to be a buying opportunity now. Is this a buying opportunity? I don't know It's only time will tell when either it's up at seven eight dollars It's gonna actually float and I think what I have Really find interesting is that everybody's calling 2022 as a wash As they step toward what it is that I feel like they're stepping toward with regard to their commercialization The stock market's not going to allow you to do that Okay And my thing is I wanted to be in on the ground floor of this company and I believe that I am Okay, and I'll be there when those things materialize. It's just that simple So for me, I had somebody ask me Ryan. What's the right entry for highly on and I said anything between five and 10 Sorry to be a smart ass, but if you stop and you think about it It kind of talks about this whole like anything in between Five and 20 is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. I'm not investing in the stock to sell it at 20 I'm not I'm not selling. I'm not selling at 10. I'm not selling at 50 either. Okay, so What does it matter right now if you have your conviction? You're entering into the stock, right? Do do the law probabilities? What is the probability? Everybody's saying that the good news is going to absolutely stop The progress toward product validation is going to stop We will not continue on the trend of good news 2022 will be a bust And that the long road to recovery is going to be just that Quoting my friend park paul cardeau who I love his commentary. I really do but the these folks that are selling out of the stock right here It's it's interesting and it's speaking from a position of convenience To come on to a youtube audience Not one day after you've sold the stock and start talking about all the bearish thesis Around the stock that just doesn't work for me. It would have worked for me Three months ago Would have worked for me when the stock was at nine dollars start to talk about the bearish thesis and how the stock based on your analysis Fundamental and technical is going to drop the price to 675 now. You're worth your salt But like I started to talk about it at the top of the live stream Nobody has that ability or capability anyway, right? So it's a futile effort to sit there and say, okay Now i'm going to jump on this bandwagon And i'm going to talk about how the stock is going to have such an incredibly bad time When that when the conversation if you do have long-term conviction Is to actually to buy the stock at these levels if you don't like it to buy the stock outright Buy some cash secured puts to the downside. I just bought some long 2024s today at seven bucks, right? I bought two contracts very very simple $800 contracts very very simple at what I thought was the lowest price of the day right at the low I bought two very simple add to my existing five. I'm actually up in those contracts right now Okay, those are the most lucrative. I think there were whole numbers So I had to either do seven or eight. Obviously the price wasn't below six So my option was seven right in the middle Mm-hmm fantastic Investing with erin's in the house. Stephen. I agree. We have been waiting for the last decade for small cap Value to perform better. It will happen Yeah, I agree. It's one of my favorites. I like that VBR that's a good holding That's a really good small cap holding. Let's jump into the portfolio. Take a look at the damage. Um, we were down Pretty significantly, but I I think it's interesting if I had looked at at these At any time During the market fluctuation this week. I would have been like, wow, this is really terrible. I'm out So 90 thousand 91 thousand here This fluctuated any anywhere between the high eights and the low nines today Settled out at about 91 No changes here. I'm good I I cannot justify Making any type of rash moves, but this is down for the third week in a row. I believe We're really just getting crushed and this is the third swoon that I'm taking in my big portfolios I'm on about a 30 thousand dollar range Back and forth and this is the low end again for the third dip This is it is what it is I just can't catch a break this this year and I don't know how long it's going to persist But I've lived through these before And they are sometimes overdue For a correction to the upside and sometimes they happen when you least expect it And so I stopped expecting it a long long time ago And I and I do other things with my time, which is exactly what I'm doing Buffering some of these losses and other capacities putting money to cash It's the only account that I do not declare to you guys on the live stream And it helps buffer some of these losses. I don't want to sell out of these companies I like every company in my portfolio They're coming off a little bit and You know for you guys that are are looking to take a little stab yet in the market Today would have been a nice day to pick up, you know 10 shares of the voo if you were just starting out in the market boom buy right into it But nobody does that nobody does that if there are people out there that are like, I did it, right? You can put your buy up in the in the thread here, man, but I know how Unnerving it can be to buy into a market like this. I totally understand But uh, here's my roth. Uh, excuse me roth one. This is my wife's Mm-hmm. Nothing's changed. I've held true on this all the way through 2021 There are some bright spots spots here realty income Absolutely fantastic reed the the best in the business. It's really holding the portfolio Pfizer came out of nowhere Who would have thought Pfizer's run up 20% in the portfolio just been an absolutely silent killer I'll take it microsoft fantastic I'm up in voo. I'm up in most of the small caps. Excuse me the vbk growth I think i'm down a little bit in that But the other specialty etf being q i'm up a little bit the voo obviously rolled off today a little bit But i'm still up in that very very powerful etf That voo it's very nice 3 cash in this And and I like the value mix and growth that I have in here. I'm totally happy week over week. It means nothing I just report to you guys when i'm down or up just for the fun of it It's just that simple and this is mine here flirting with that hundred thousand. I've broke the hundred thousand dollar mark Six eight times. It's gone below. It's gone above. It's gone below. It's gone above Alibaba real disappointment. I mean, you know, you guys think i'm crazy one of my holdings is down about 40% and highly on holdings If I look at the chart and highly on And I just chopped the mountain off It's down 35% since ipo and that's going all the way back to the SPAC Don't even pay any attention to the 58 dollars. It should have never been there in the first place That was a buying frenzy in the stock that should have never happened So imagine it didn't happen We're down 35 bits and I think we're down as far as we can possibly go in the name here. Could we go lower? Yes, absolutely. We could we could absolutely go lower But imagine that the base price in the stock was 10 dollars a share Okay, we're we're down 35 percent in the name. That's how I look at it Okay, my entry is just above that because I didn't for the life of me think that it was going to sink this low But the 1130 entry on highly on is kind of what i'm sitting on right now So what does it mean to me with the stock at six dollars and 75 cents? Absolutely nothing. It doesn't mean squat It doesn't mean jack diddly squat My my problem isn't that people are selling out of the stock have been very very upfront I don't care what you do with your money. You want to sell out of the stock go ahead and sell Okay, I totally get that But when you come on and you talk to a youtube audience and you say i'm very very convicted And here's my reasons a b and c and then two months later you sell out of the stock That's something that I just cannot advocate for why you might be right You might be wrong. You might be making the right or wrong call for you I get that but when thousands of people are watching your channel and they don't know the first foggiest thing about investing It makes you seem wishy washy. Why because you are you are wishy washy if that's your application Okay, if you need to control your conviction with the amount of scale that you put in the the holding in the first place then by all means do that but Don't don't don't come and tell me because of your stock evaluation That you saw something on the q3 earnings that nobody else saw and therefore you've just got to throw in the white Throw up the white flag and sell your position off because you saw something That's absolutely given you the definitive you do not know What's going to happen with the stock nor do I nor does anybody? Nobody knows what's going to happen with the stock market as a whole you sure as hell Don't know what's going to happen with a single equity. It's just not going to happen Doesn't happen that way it will float up or float down when people least expect it Trust me. The stock is not going to sit here all day and it's not going to say hey Investors we're ready to start ramping up Sales here. We've got a bunch of uh flood of orders come in And it's just going to sit there and make sure that all retail investors that want to get into the stock Have the ability to Kindly make their way to their broker and hit the buy button. It just doesn't work that way It just does not work that way and you'll miss the train. You will miss the train Okay, i'm not telling you to buy. I don't care if you just understand my point a little bit Some of these folks are really interesting like paul I don't know how big of a position that he had But the channel that I commented on today and I know that I offended him and I didn't mean to do that But what I looked at was that he had an original position of 300 and 64 shares and probably made about Oh, I don't know 25 highly on videos really I've got 100 f and grand in the stock. I'm fine Okay, you want to define conviction? Look in my eyes. Okay, and and again, you can see here and tell me ryan I had the comment on the same channel and I swear to god if I see him on the channel I'm going to block his ass from the channel for telling me that i'm leading people astray as if i'm the shepherd Leading people astray in 2022 and that it's going to flush everybody's portfolios down the toilet really Nobody has the ability to forecast that when I do my 50 minute videos on highly on it's because I want to I'm extremely interested in the company and I think that there's other people out there who are interested the same but The presumption that I'm continuing to buy stock. That's what I was accused of look man If I want to buy stock, I'm going to buy the stock But truth be told I'm not buying the stock right here. I bought a couple options contracts today But I'm exercising my right to hold the shares. No big deal Furthermore, I'm sure as hell not telling you what to do You want to buy you want to sell you want to get yourself a life? You you want to take a vacation You've got the independent investor channel's blessing to do so. This is just how I talk to people I'm not condescending. I'm not anybody special Okay, I just come on to share what it is that I know from my perspective about the market Why because I am smart enough to identify how uniquely independent my opinion is And being uniquely independent is a lot of the reason why I've carved out success in the stock market Whereas I find that a lot of people that I see Flounder fail and they just Piss their way out of the stock market And then they want to bitch and complain and come back and start to chip away at folks like myself Who will be successful will be it's just that simple If you don't like that confidence or cockiness or whatever the f you want to call it I don't care. It doesn't matter. This is what it takes It takes an over-aggressive Abnormal application to make it if you don't want to apply that No problem. I'll still be friends with you. It's okay You have no idea the level of scrutiny that I put myself through to the rigor that I put myself through, right The in the gym at 0500 in the morning man to counterbalance The amount of aggressiveness that I'm applying right now. I'm engaged, baby I'm engaged right now. I'm in the time of my life, man Where I am looking to engage engage engage and make some of these things a reality and This is proof of reality that I declare to you every week even though we are down just a few bits anyway The m1 I dropped tonight. This here is the passive portfolio This is for those investors out there that don't really understand that single stock element It scares them. I totally understand man. Like I'm putting myself in your shoes That's why I don't understand the scrutiny like my my aim and intent is to hurt people Really that takes an awful big imagination, man Especially if you've been with me a long long time. Do I do promotional content? Yes guilty is charged Guilty is charged. You can stone me if you'd like but I make a lot of money to do so And there's should be a lot of people out there who are like, you know what Ryan? You've been doing youtube for five years. You've only got 30 000 subscribers. That's really not that much It's really not I don't get paid a whole lot to do it So I do segue my opportunity and my time to some of those more lucrative opportunities Coming on and doing the live streams one of my most favorite things to do. I do it free of charge I don't get paid for this but I love doing it So I do it and then to have it thrown back in my face in that way that I'm leading people astray Give me give me a break be independent with your application. Okay Stand on your own two feet make your own damn decisions If you're coming on and you're being influenced by me or anybody else on youtube That then you need to look at them in the mirror. You really do. All right This is the passive portfolio here. This is funded and it is passive in nature This is funded with a few hundred bucks a month anyway, and this is we're growing wealth This is a two-year-old portfolio. So it'll be fun to see how this sucker grows over the years We'll continue to grow. We're going through a little bit of downtime. This is down just marginally week over week nothing too crazy Here's the dividend portfolio We chronicled this tonight. I released a video before the live stream to give you guys some insights on that M1 finance is awesome, man. It's a really really cool way of investing This is such a low maintenance way of investing I invest in this and it always goes toward the lowest sectors Or under allocated slices. It's just a cool way. This is why I do it People are like you selling people and you get make lot money Ryan. You bad man No, I use M1 finance. Hell. I have three accounts with them. What else do you want? Use it. Don't use it. I don't care Unsubscribe for me if it makes you feel better if you have some ethical hair stand up on the back of your neck Okay, unsubscribe. It's no big deal. Okay You have somebody who wants to know how to invest bring them on the channel I will show them how to set up strategic buckets. It's that simple. I will show them the different strategies in the market Why is that important? It's so that they can choose on their own It's not so somebody across from them who understands money like I do Okay, sets up a plan or or or tells somebody how to invest If they don't have the freaking first level of buy-in to the program that I'm pitching I'll put it out there. I will put the food in the trough. I will I will open the gate And I will allow you to make yourself to the trough. Why? Because you're hungry. Okay I will not make you eat if you want to eat eat if you don't No problem. I'll sleep easy knowing that I provided the food. Okay. It's that simple 26 000 staring down the 30. This is the 80 stock portfolio for you guys that haven't caught any of those m1 chronicles Do it man. It's 15 minutes. You'll get an idea of the aesthetics. Hell if I was starting out man I think I would like to see something like that. That's why I come out with those to help people Understand a little bit more about the aesthetics. I had to struggle through m1 finance I quit the platform all together because I was so frustrated I didn't have any testimonial out there like mine to show that's why I do it To kind of help and soften the blow for new individuals Some people hit me up on the m1 tutorial. I just had my first one this week in a while really helped out a lot man He was awesome had some questions for me Hit me up and was like, hey, what about this? What about this? This is somebody who's trying to streamline their application They know I know my stuff So we run them through the tutorial and it just helps bridge the gap and they're more the wiser to it man Money well spent as far as I'm concerned. So is this I added this in here for the first time. This is a the bond DTF portfolio This is another account within the dividend growth. So it's separate. I keep it separate I I don't know how often I'm going to chronicle this But this is going to be some of the fixed income that I'm going to start to grow a little bit Buying into a little bit more of a traditional type of portfolio mindset some of the real surplus capital That you know, I put a lot of capital to risk and dividend growth I put a lot of capital to risk hell I put 20 of my paycheck away have done that for a long time Um, and and then the thousands of dollars that I invest strategically in the accounts every month But I really wanted to have a bond arm and that's what I've done here Okay, and we'll chronicle this it'll be kind of fun. Um, that was up. This is up tsp nicely Cannot shake a stick and this is just incredible Yep, so for you guys that have the opportunity for 401k exposure Please do so here. I'm whipping some ass. That's personal investment performance factor There at the end 42.69 percent. I do not touch this. I do not compromise this. This is completely 100 percent passive 75 percent in the sm p 515 percent in the small caps and 10 percent to the international Okay in the robin hood count. We've got the vanguard's growth fund It came off pretty good today. Obviously a 900 point sell-off not a lot of places to hide Okay, you can think that your prepper bunker is safe enough From a market downturn like this. I'm here to tell you that you will not hide You want to be an investor step up with the big boys and be an investor if you don't Don't go invest in real estate or do what most people do and that's bitch their entire life about why they don't have any personal Wealth and then come back to me five years 10 years from now and check the same portfolio reviews that I do and be like damn Maybe I should have listened up when Ryan was you know, drinking jack and coke man The day after a holiday trying to get people to maybe see it a little bit different way Okay, I'm not saying my way is right, but I am telling you it is damn different No doubt be as independent as you can possibly can make a new year's resolution Don't tell yourself that you're going to quit smoking Don't tell yourself you're going to quit drinking. Don't even tell yourself that you're going to be in the gym Why because january is usually the busiest time in the of the year for me It pisses me off I have a bunch of people go in the gym and they have no idea about gym etiquette Save yourself because you won't be back in february. Okay, but if you did have a new year's resolution Be it make a resolution to be different. Okay. Do something different from the crowd Do something special in your life. Don't be mundane Don't be get yourself out of that rut that you're in. Okay. You don't have to do things the exact same as everybody else Trust me. Okay Tasman We both we bull. We've got the Mid cap offering. This is the mid cap etf here This is swiss f. This is just one Kind of taking a little bit of a backseat on this one. No big deal. I think we've got about 12 000 shares of swiss f Here in this Crypto has come off obviously with everything cryptos come off 37 14 here in the eye trust capital This is just a a little bit here Very small representation of the total overall portfolio. Whatever. I don't pay a whole lot of attention to it It's kind of exciting. It jumps all over the place. Hell. I could check it right now. It could be up It could be down It's all over the place and it's 24 7 maybe it never stops. So Helps feed my fire to keep stay involved in the market anyway And the total portfolio value here today Really wouldn't have come off too much week over week, but today hurt obviously Down about 6500 anyway today total portfolio adjustment back today And like I said outside of the one contra or two contracts that I bought I did not make any stock moves today I I didn't sell everything I don't consider this to be a crash The volcano was just an analogy Stay with me It'll be okay. All right, like I said if you need to pinch yourself and remind yourself that you're still alive You are a winner. Okay, you are fine Even though you went through today and you did survive You are an investor and there's a lot of people on this globe That would love to have the opportunity that you have Even if it meant losing some money like you did today think about it. Okay, it's all about perspective Certainly is let me jump in here. Some of these comments man. Some of the cats are in so jmac just dropped a fantastic video man I I'm glad jason's in here Um perspective was the gig here It's amazing to me too jason hasn't been investing his whole life. Okay. He hasn't we're friends I can say that because I followed him since he started on youtube And for somebody to have this much conviction about a stock is really really rare That's a compliment because what I'm seeing is that a lot of people I maybe been ill prepared. Look, it's interesting enough man If we had had q3 earnings, okay, and the stock went up to nine dollars We would be having this we would be having a completely different conversation Then we were having now the stock market stock market just didn't like what they heard the stock sold off That's just what happened and here we are all looking for ways to Out the the stock, you know Hey, oh my god ryan's bringing people astray man 2022. He's leading people Right right into the ocean man. He's going to lead them to write down the toilet man No, I'm not I do my thing I expect you guys to do do the same but it was a good video man He brought in some really really good perspective comparing Really what tesla went through and I remember watching all that I do and I remember looking at tesla And I remember having the mindset of I would never touch that stock Never touch it You know and and it was the very conviction that people had during that time that said, you know what? Not only am I going to touch it But I'm going to take a long term perspective and those folks made a shit ton of money I mean just a shit ton of money and and and here's the thing man I I'm different. I want to be there at the beginning Which I am and the only way that you can guarantee that you're there at the end Is if you're there at the beginning and so these folks that are selling out of it right now They may get back into the stock later. They may not I don't know and I don't care The only thing that I care about is being there in the end And what I mean by that is when these catalysts that I feel like are inevitable down the line happen I want to be there and I will and I know Jason will be there as well It's great to see you my brother. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family. It's great to see you this evening. Fantastic Fantastic bjj says covet. Thank you. Thank you for that. It's fabulous. I got my ass reamed out at the store today for not wearing a mask Yeah, it was a military store too. I was like Really? I go to an eatery. I go to olive garden I took my kids out and and we're like you do you have to wear masks and like no, it's optional man. It's all good Jesus it just doesn't fit with my independence mentality. I've already got three three covid shots. How many more do I need? Jesus, I've opted myself up to the lab rat gods. Seriously If I haven't got sick thus far, I'm probably all right. You know what I mean? We cruise down here. Holy freaking comments, man. There's a large gallery. I really appreciate it, man Yeah, Henry's in the house. I love the one saying they sold out and can jump back in whenever The stock market's not going to allow you to do that. It's not either. You're going to have conviction or you're not It's just that simple and it's not that way with just highly on it's that way with any company It is impossible. It is it is Freaking futile impossible to get in and out of stock when you think that it's going to be ready to get in and out of This suck this son of a bitch will gap up. It'll gap up to 13 and then everybody's going to be like Ryan is a good. He's a good man. He's a good man and the jason guy He's a good man And i'll be like what what the f are you talking about? It's just stock market investing. Okay It's just stock market investing calm down It's just it's just money And a bet That you put on a freaking company And the bet is the company is going to be worth more in the future than it is right now It's all it is Calm down. It's okay Perhaps maybe I have bigger stones than most people. I don't know. I don't know But like I said, man, do not expect me to validate your crap And when this thing starts to move up, don't I I I don't care and people could be like damn Ryan's pretty convicted on this. I just had my brother call me this week. He's like Ryan I'm thinking about buying some highly on I'm like, yeah, I think the entry is pretty good. He bought 40 shares He bought 40 shares right on man. Like you don't have to lose your cotton pick in mind It's okay Like it's okay. Don't buy buy whatever it is man. It's all good The reason why we revolve around these topics is because we're posing options out there for people. That's it I'm already invested in a lot of stuff right. Why why didn't you buy some google? I already own $10,000 of it. Why don't you buy some amazon? I already own $12,000 of amazon Why don't you own apple? I already own 75 shares of apple. I'm good. I'm good I I want this opportunity for me and my family Okay, and I'm not investing in the stock to justify it next week Do I need to repeat myself or do you get the picture? Okay, all right I don't think I like realizing a gain on all my losses later Yeah, well I eat, you know, here's the thing man If if my conviction tells me anything this stock will be worth more in the future than it is now delays Delays are being chalked up as a reason to sell the stock right now And I think that that's a I think that's a fatal flaw In a retail application where large institutions are saying bring it they don't Emotion has no place in investing with institutions And I think we could probably take a little page out of my playbook And and and really I'm looking at you know, somebody like sherry baker who's got 85,000 shares of the company 586,000 in the company right here My measly position is is large for me and it could be life changing But some of these folks that are selling out of the company They've got a few hundred shares and they won't come in and it's just like god damn it I I saw this and you need to listen to me. No, you don't know shit. You don't know shit. Okay Quit youtube don't do something else. You suck All right, you suck and I want you to I want you to eat crow I want you to eat crow at some point in the freaking future. I don't care if it's next year I don't care if it's 2023 24. I don't care It's the story right now that makes sense. Okay Some guys are like, you know Ryan stop making so many highly on videos Well, right now is the time where it makes the most sense. Is it going to make most the more sense when it's at 15? Some people will they'll be like, yeah, let's jump back on the highly on bandwagon. I'll stop I'll stop. This is the opposite Right approach. Okay as it starts to go higher. It's less and less of a buy Mm-hmm It's just how it works guys It's just how it works, man People will start to get excited as this thing moves to eight dollars. They'll start buying it and they'll be like, I bought it at 650 and I I I own it at 718. I'm up 26 cents. I'm awesome. No, you're not you suck, too Get out of my face Late here in columbia. I gotta go fantastic. Check you, Steven. Thanks for stopping by man I had to get some shout outs here. Uh, why the secret? Oh my goodness. Yeah, so the optics of this are bad It's not really that something that I'm excited about But these were pre-arranged cells and here's the thing I don't think when the pre-arranged cells were were were were put through That thomas expected that the supply chain issues were going to delay the timelines forward I honestly believed that he was betting that the stock price was going to be a little bit higher The reason why they do this is to It's to save any type of questioning with regard to the ceo Knowing information that he is acting upon in the open marketplace Ceo sell and buy stock all the time. Okay, and these were pre-arranged Remember thomas healy has been at the helm of highly on for seven years And so to sell some stock here as low as it is If it's something that pisses you off and you really feel like sticking it to thomas He's getting it stuck to him right now in that he could have sold these shares at 58 He didn't he's selling right now because they were pre determined cells To get him some money for either tax purposes. This is why they they arranged this they forecast What type of obligation or debt obligation is going to be necessary into the future? And it doesn't bother me in so far as Um affecting my own personal position in the company However, I think the optics are bad. However, I explain that and those are the facts Okay, I don't believe that he's selling the shares because he's not bullish about the company He sits right next to sherry baker who owns 80 000 as part of her package, right? Who's not selling shares? Okay But some of the original gangsters vincent cubbage and thomas healy have sold a little bit of shares I think peng has also sold a few shares. I have no problem with that. I don't there's been so much progress in 18 months with this company It's one of those things that Um, it's it's it's actually more commonplace than you think and it doesn't change my disposition about the long term in the company Somebody said that they thought he sold like 80 percent of his shares It's not even close to that It's like maybe four percent three five percent something like that The the guy's got over 30 million shares the company. Okay. I think he can afford to sell a little bit It's a good question. Thanks for bringing it up. I appreciate that Brent says to hit the thumbs up button if you wouldn't mind there's like 100 people in here And I have not broke 100 for a long long time if you want to know about perseverance On the independent investor channel. I was doing this live stream all through 2021 With about 50 60 patrons And thank you very much and thank you for those folks that are making their way to the message very The the first time or if you're an infrequent visitor. Thank you Really appreciate it. All right. Love the conviction. Sure. That's me with tesla. Sure. Sometimes it takes that it's okay It makes sense multi layers in the position I could spend an entire video which I probably will do I'll break down why it is That I justify a position like me Do I justify people out there putting a significant amount of their portfolio into this company right now? No, no, I don't you've never heard me say that and and how I get accused of that is just beyond me It's just beyond me. I know what i'm looking at and i'm not the only one Okay, I'm not the only one We had dexter reaching out to me from a drive mix Drive mix drive love drive mix whatever the new highly on channel. That's a chronicling debt mar He sent me an email. He said to share with all of you guys That he is probably earmarked. They he shared the particulars of a zoom call with with with matt debt mar who is the ceo of debt mar corporation and They are getting their Two new cng hybrids by november 30th. So good news there Again, hasn't hit the books and he has been earmarked as one of those drivers that is going to get one of the new cng Elements he's going to be sent to austin with the highly on team He's going to go over the specifics of the truck and he will be chronicling that journey Nobody on youtube has that information. Okay, nobody he shared that with me We've been kind enough some of you guys have went over And and subscribed to his channel. He does a real good job dexter awesome dude He's showing some field work, man. The truck's dirty. Yeah, baby. That's what i'm talking about It's not like, um, it's not like monster trucks. You know what i mean? It's not like grave digger But it's kind of cool to actually see this company that i'm invested in with their products out there in the fleet Providing that bottom line benefit that i talk about and getting dirty doing it Okay, and they've been working now for four months in the fleet fantastic Matt depmar said that thomas healy's a visionary He said that the facility in austin is state-of-the-art He said that the employees there top notch, man It's an environment that anybody out there would want to invest in not a lot of companies can say that man They've got some good things going on man and it starts at the grassroots really does some cool stuff So stand by i'll throw out the um the updates as they come through the channel He asked me to share that with you guys Tonight so uh, steven says peace. He's out. Uh, keep making videos fantastic. I will i'm not going anywhere Fantastic. Let me cruise up here Yeah, he and i see me have i see everybody Ha investors should take a life to try and learn in my opinion For sure want to strike it rich the next day is not it? Yeah, that's a thing man. It's like I could be wrong I could be wrong That's the thing is I have the maturity to admit that but but here's the thing I could make myself wrong I could have made myself wrong Any day for the last 18 months justified being wrong and I have the perseverance to See this thing to a place where I think I need to see it too and we are way premature of that And the the delay in the time frame it just is what it is. It's a delay. It doesn't mean that it's a scam You know one of the guys that's been coming in man Really really and I won't name his name because he really surprised me. He's been very kind to me over the years Some good spirited debates with me but always above board said that highly on was a scam really really That's really really disappointing for whatever reason For whatever reason Brings you to that place to say something like that Is so off base It's it's really just disappointing all I can do is chalk it up as that. All right couldn't agree with you mad cow king It's awesome. I appreciate it man. Very cool. I've been with highly on since the yep fantastic Thank you for for sharing very cool ben h's in the house Say it loud for the idiots in the back fantastic. No doubt. I I'm I got a microphone man. I'm mic'd up I can't I can't yell too much. I don't know how how my computer would pick it up, but for sure That frame of mind's in the house Never again can't revenge investing Jamie Can't do revenge investing no emotion and investing. I didn't get to share my my script I had 10 things that I was going to share with you guys, but You know, this is a really really quick Quick 60 minutes for me man. Yeah, the military is soft now Be careful I agree with you. However, um, you're sitting across from somebody right now. That's old school, baby I got salt in my blood man. Not a lot of people can say that. I sure as f do You don't believe me. I've spent many many nights on the pick many many nights, man Yes, I have I've cooked in a 10 foot swell if you can do that, man My hat's off to you. Absolutely Yeah, yes, yes, yes Uh, I love those. Yep. I already got to that. That's a lot of us run. I'm gonna cruise up I'm I just want to scroll through and make sure Okay, it's not it's what kind of bourbon do I like Rohan creek If you can find Rohan's creek, I like makers mark and makers mark is really quite good What kind of bourbon you guys like I've only tried bullet makers mark. Yeah, I really don't discriminate I'm actually drinking whiskey tonight, man. Lil jack Daniels mm-hmm It's black friday. You guys were all telling me everything was going down. So I went to the liquor store Yeah, yeah, oh you guys met the stock market. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. No, most of the liquor was half price today It was pretty awesome. I got my jack Daniels for like 32 bucks Yeah, it was pretty cool Yeah, kind of cool Oh, kind of bourbon. Yeah, there it is and kelvin's in the house. Great to see you kelvin Happy happy Thanksgiving to you and yours man and and happy holidays, man. You got a beautiful family Love you so happy and grateful. You bet. Oh, yeah, your guys are gonna just love that Um, it's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year clerk right there, right kelvin We can have a little fun with this. All right. I don't wear a suit and tie. It's okay I'm not trying to you know misguide you or you know lead lead you into the toilet. It's just here I think this is something that's worth taking a look at and I think if you give it a good honest look Um, I think you'll find that it it works for a lot of people and that's really great to hear It's the reason why I do the channel really cool stuff man Different processing uh, us alcoholics understand the difference between bourbon and whiskey. I bought both About both both but you'd you'd be a little disappointed man. I I I don't want to afford that expensive stuff I really don't but rohan creek is my favorite bourbon by far like there's no joke But um, I do I do drink jim beam. It's no big deal jim beam is fine for a cheap cheap bourbon I have no problem with that but um jack is good too. I just like I don't discriminate, baby I'd have other one with you my brother. It's all good happy holidays to you, man We're down to the nitty gritty here, man, but I do want to stay on for just a couple I'm gonna do five minutes of bonus. I know the guys won't mind Uh jack is a whiskey. Yes. Yes, it is. Yes. Yes, it is fantastic M1 is off the chain It's a cool wealth building tool and I think for a lot of people it makes a lot of sense It kind of bakes in a little bit of that discipline for you and uh, really doesn't allow you. Um, what am I drinking jack daniels? Mm-hmm um It makes a lot of sense for a lot of investors because it kind of it takes that emotional element out I just think a lot of people man. They think they have to control their portfolio more I went highly on because I read the document saw who was involved. Nobody led me Um, jason just showed me the opportunity and I made my decision I do I do give proper credence actually uh for the introduction to the opportunity Um, the exactly things have transpired the way they've transpired up to this point and that's it no more no less You know what i'm saying if jason sold his shares tomorrow No, no love lost it just um, I know he won't but the point is each and every every individual individual independent investor is just that It's its own entity and trust me when this thing starts to go north. It will be yours as well It goes both ways. All right people don't invest in the stock market just to lose all the time They don't but but but but but winning doesn't always happen at the exact time that you think it should As a matter of fact, it can stretch you really thin on your expectations And you just have to be ready for it. That's all you have to show a little bit of discipline for it, man That's it All right, I got some good comments I think here in the middle uh, you follow someone's choices and when it goes south you blame them What's wrong with those people? Oh, I you know, I think it's human nature, man I I don't you know the it doesn't make you a bad person Uh, it doesn't and I really try to help. I really I really try to help Uh, you know, I had one lady post in the yahoo thread and I'm gonna leave that thread I it's just so it's so stupid. I've had to mute so many idiots that they just pissed me off One lady says i'm a cashier at kroger I've got 50 grand should I invest it all in highly on and they're asking the yahoo thread this advice this advice And I actually I actually believe that they're asking Sincerely, you know, like you come into a yahoo financed thread You pick the stock you're interested in and you ask a genuine question It's crazy But I don't think it's coming from a non genuine place. I don't I just think people are looking for a lot of help And a lot of answers and the more people we can help the better off I don't I don't I don't come down on people for what if I can blame me blame me Shit, I don't care. I've got tough skin. But but but don't tell me Don't tell me that I'm impacting people to the negative. That's what really pisses me off You know, you want to blame me? Tell me I'm a bad guy. Tell me this and that and this and that But don't carry it over to my subscriber and community base. Don't do that I will defend them up and down and I will absolutely defend every word that comes out of my mouth as far as You know telling people what to do or do this or do that. No, I'm just looking to share my opinion Okay, and people need to understand what's available out there on the landscape We talk about the stuff that's commonplace all the time Why not dig a little bit deeper and talk about some of the cool things? I mean just some of the interviews that I have the opportunity to do are just broadening my perspective It's so awesome, man, and I'm just looking to share that with you guys. I know it's not popular on the channel I know it may never never will be but I love it and You know, it's just one of many aspects on the channel that I really like pursuing. All right Never follow in any but yep simple. It's just simple and not only that but you're the one Even if I have a great investment It still might not fit with you because it just might not be The type of risk profile that you're looking to place into the portfolio Right, it just might not fit. It might not fit for what you need. You might already be a multimillionaire You might be broke in either one of those capacities. Why are you looking to make a move? Why are you putting a risk on the table when you should be capital preserving? Or if on the on the contrary if you don't have any money at all Why aren't you just looking to get a value base established in your portfolio? Why are you looking to take ones that you can you know strike out or have to incur a multi-year downturn? I could do that See I'm prepared to do that and a lot of people are not I have other elements of the portfolio that are working for me okay, so You know to each his own and you're absolutely right That's not what we're looking to do We're not looking to just provide guidance to the masses and tell them exactly what they need to do what we're looking Forward to do and is is teaching them how to eat. That's it teaching them how to eat really try to drive down on the value Proposition of the investing opportunity. It's super super important. Got mats in the group here. Happy Friday getting another Thanksgiving play. I had my leftovers tonight, man for sure, man I make the I make the most killer sweet potatoes you guys would ever like they're they just they're like candy, baby They're incredible. They're super super good Hey Tonight. Yeah, sometimes I get in the zone Sometimes I sit here before and I'm like I wonder if this is going to be the one because sometimes I go through and it's kind of It's kind of uh kind of forced a little bit, you know, I love doing the live stream But when I when I get on a nerve like this, it's really good It's all natural like I could keep going for five hours You guys you guys think I'm joking wait till Hanley on hits a hundred. I will do a 24 hour live stream 24 hours Great watch watch mark my word hold me to it. I'm saying it now Okay, for you 85 patrons that have just heard me say that you're like, god, you hear that Ryan He's gonna do 20 and I will to watch me. You think I've stayed up for 24 hours in Alaska Fishing pulling in nets from the open ocean in 10 foot swell cooking meals Dead tired hallucinating seeing double. I can absolutely sit in front of you guys and absolutely celebrate Becoming a millionaire because of my stock and conviction 100 24 hours to mark my word Fantastic and cruise up here. I just want to say there's a bunch of new folks. I can make my own bad decisions in the market You know, that's kind of how you live and learn a little bit, you know, like if you say well You know, I entered into the stock at the wrong time. Okay. Do I beat myself up over it? Oh, kind of I go through some deliberation to say man. Why was I so impatient? Well, I'm impatient I didn't think that the stock would dive down this far. I I didn't I couldn't have forecasted A supply chain issue and we're just gonna have to wait it out. It's just that simple those the cards we were dealt Okay, but I'm going to continue to ask to be dealt those Those hands over time as this position materializes. It's just that simple I'm invested in companies. I'm not invested in stock The pledge to the company is through the stock So it just so happens to be that I own shares in the company It is the company that I am absolutely paying attention to not the stock Okay, I believe somebody famous has said that somewhere down the line But if do you actually believe it? That's the key Do you actually believe what it is that I just said invest in companies not stock And rebecca is in the house happy Thanksgiving captain ryan's videos could pump the stock would be at 100 No doubt. Um, I I'm fascinated by the story Really? Um, I'm I'm disappointed obviously in the stock action Um, I'm looking to get this thing. I'd love to get it back up into just a respectable realm 10 to 15 bucks or so But like I said, it's going to be a different shift of mindset When this thing starts to Really have those metrics that hold that value and the stock really can help Through grants grounds well move up. That's going to be difficult to get people to hold while they're sitting on profit Is a whole lot tougher than holding when you're in the hole. Okay It's it's a whole lot easier, but once people get back up to 20 25 bucks and like dang I'm sitting on a few grand here ryan. What should I do? You know, what if what if we go back to 675? Oh There and lies the beauty of the whole thing absolutely, but Very good. What a few moments over man, but I just see a bunch of people in here that I want to get to Really, uh, haven't seen your videos videos forever. Hope you're doing good. Hey, Brody No way man. What a shot from the past. I remember you Brody from New York, man It's so cool how I remember folks and um, it's great to see you my friend happy Thanksgiving I think a lot of people have popped their way back in and said god, let's see how ryan's aging But let's see if ryan's still just as passionate or just to scare I'm a little more refined now on youtube There's no doubt about it a lot more comfortable in front of the camera that I was before That's for sure. So I hope highly and goes to five. I'll just buy more sure sure I I don't see that happening. Um, the options market does not uh, does not Support that type of activity, but but who's to know where I mean we're we're a point 1.75 points away from that right now. We'll see it. You know, you never know For sure. Uh, I went to buy highly on in the market closed. Yeah, I know it closed early today, sarah It's great to see you I still have alibaba. Alibaba has been a real dog. Nobody talks about down 40 right You know, why isn't everybody, you know, beating that stock up, you know And um, you ask ask yourself these questions. Anyway, uh, got rebecca Uh, becky in the house. Happy thanksgiving to you. Uh, tell the husband. I said hi fantastic. It's so good to see you I hope all is well As simon d is in the house I always thought to give highly on the benefit of the doubt until the trucks are being manufactured still holding slowly dc ang sure, um Yes or no, um I think I was under a little bit different impression with regard to what type of product they had available to the marketplace so kind of important there, but uh I think sherry baker touched on this on the last bar clays interview when she talked about the 2022 order book Is solidified and they're working on the 2023 order book right now. So, um, we'll see how we'll see how it shakes out I'm just holding my shares here really simple. I'm not trying to get too cute with it It is really volatile and it'd be like catching the um the falling knife As of now lots and five shares of tesla backwards for fantastic. That's great man made a little dough fantastic fantastic Yo, j. Matt good highly on fantastic Uh, we're starting to lose some folks, but I just keep going with these lost the equivalent to tesla They got a buying opportunity. Obviously Yep, it was down for today for sure guys. We'll clean it up 11 minutes of overtime bonus time Really appreciate you guys for the fastest 60 minutes on youtube Wish all of your guys's household the best for this uh Thanksgiving weekend Really appreciate seeing each and every one of you guys. It was a very robust live stream We had a hundred patrons in the group tonight. I'm super stoked. That is the very energy that fuels my fire I do this product for you guys guys. Take it easy and we'll see you next friday on the independent investor channel live stream You