 are live. We are live. How's everyone doing today? Hey, Amanda, how are you doing in Mexico today? I'm great. It's hot in Mexico today. I bet it's hot here in Vancouver. Mm hmm. What's the temperature there? It was 26 degrees. They got six o'clock this morning. 32 degrees over here. How much? 32 degrees. Jeepers. Nice. Well done. That's why we're almost the same color. Yeah, it's an unbelievable time to be here in Vancouver. The weather's fantastic. I know that the weather's always fantastic for you in Mexico. So it doesn't really matter. Can I? And you're there because it's always hot. But I guess at this time of the year, it's probably even hotter. So speaking of hot, the markets have been hot. Stock markets been hot. Cryptos have been hot all year, despite the fact that many predicted, I mean, almost everybody predicted a recession in 2023. 2023, like usual, the market always does the opposite of what everybody expects. This year has been an absolute boom in the market for tech stocks, AI stocks, the NASDAQ, S&P 500, Dow Jones, Bitcoin, Ethereum, all the top cryptos all up. Well, you know, wasn't it just January that everything launched? It was. It was January when the markets went, and here we are, 5th of July. Oh, happy 4th of July and happy Canada Day, everybody. Happy holidays for everyone in Canada, the United States and everywhere else in the world. And it's been an amazing remarkable first half of 2023. And we just want that momentum to continue for the second half of 2023. And typically this is the worst time of the year for the markets. This is the slowest time of the year for the markets. Everyone's on vacation. It's hot outside. People don't want to be sitting in front of their computers for July and August. Usually I'm not to say they won't. I mean, we're doing it. We're always in front of the computers. But the average person is at the beach going outside, boating. They're doing things. They're enjoying their summers, for the most part, right now in North America. And let's talk about the markets. What do you see in the markets? Well, starting to see a little bit of drama. So we always... I can't see your screen though. Oh snap. Okay. Let me share my trading view here. Bear with me. Yeah, no worries. There we go. Now you see it. Now I see it. Yes. Okay. Well, before we talk about Bitcoin, because that's my favorite thing to talk about, I think we need to look at the broader markets. So what happened today? Powell, we already knew that Fed Minutes were coming out and it was already a big topic. Like they leaked the bag a little bit a few weeks ago, right? Yeah. And so now the bag has been leaked. Last time we did this live was when he started talking about, you know, needing to raise interest hikes again and all this kind of stuff. And here we are. Now, this news pretty much just hit the market about half an hour ago. So looks like it's a mixed bag of opinions already. Like the NAS is still green. The Russell 2000 is really green. You see that? Yeah. And the US 30 isn't so sure what to do. So it had a pretty big drop this morning. And then now it's just kind of sitting there. But I think it's going to start coming down now because it's really been up and down since market opened this morning. Well, we also have to talk about the fact that the market's pretty high up. I mean, when you look at the 52-week high, we're right there. I mean, we're right by the two-week high. Well, sell in May and go away didn't happen this year. No. Which is really weird. The market's really high. So as an investor right now, I think you need to be very cautious with chasing some of the big tech stocks that have done very well and AI stocks, because a lot of them are trading at or around 52-week highs. I think when we talked about the Ubers and the Teslas and the Metas that were down and we were talking about them, and they've all come up now and done extremely well, I think now is where you need to start thinking about taking profits. And I think you need to wait for the next drop, the next correction to buy into a lot of those trades because it's no longer a good trade. It's a momentum trade now. Alleluia did that. I mean, that's what we're saying is that we didn't have a sell in May and go away, which was really odd. So we knew it was coming. Now we just saw Apple popped the 52-week high, Facebook's popped the Meta as popped the 52-week high. We have a lot of 52-week high being popped, a lot of them. I pulled up Costco earlier. I think I still kept it on my list. 52-week high, Walmart, 52-week high. There's so many of them because we haven't had a sell in May. But this is the 5th of July and Powell just admitted today that he thinks he's going to have to do a quarter point for the next two quarters. So that brings us all the way to Christmas rally. But that's not new news. We knew that, right? We knew that because he did say when they did the pause that they're probably going to have to do another two rate hikes, like he said it. So I don't think that's a surprise. If anything, if they can do the next couple meetings 25 and then 25, I think what that does is it would set us up for a nice rally if they pause at the end of the year for another late year rally if they do one or two pauses. That would be phenomenal because I mean, how much higher do you really want to go with the rates? I mean, that's what's causing the real estate to filter, right? Yeah. So that's what I mean. You're ready at 5%. Yeah, you do another 50 cents. So now you're up 5.5%. You're not going to want to go too much higher than that. Agreed. And then we also have US elections all start happening around that time as well. They don't want to be pushing the market into a flat out recession come beginning of the year because that's not going to look so good. But if they have an increase, let's say here at the end of July, and then they have an increase in September, and then they pause in October, that's boom for the market, October, November. And if they do like another pause, let's say November, December, boom, like that just sets us off for a great start to 2024. That's right. Because this is what the minutes were basically saying is that, okay, I have the whole thing here and I know you can't see it, but I just wanted to give you like a couple little things here, a little. So the participants are favoring a 25 basis point increase noted that the labor market remained tight and momentum and economic activity has been stronger than an earlier expected. So it's like they did a pause as an experiment. And this is what Canada and Europe both did. And then they went back to hiking. So basically, we already had four consecutives, then we had a pause. And now it looks like they're going to go for a couple more. They want to bring inflation back to a 2% goal. So it looks like that. I mean, today the ISM came out like marketing manufacturing report, and that was showing lower than expected. So that means the economy isn't so good as they wanted it to be right now, which favors him to do another rate hike. That comes at the 25th of July. Yeah. So that's right. So that's why I think, yeah, he's going to do it for sure. And the market's hot. So why wouldn't you do it? I mean, we've been running. So nothing's been slowing this market down. But look at how we've been peeking out here. Like it's like every time we hit this 34, 34, 5, we're pulling back, pulling back. Yeah, that's why I think that like personally, if I'm an investor, which I am, I've been selling. I've been in a cell mode. I've been selling everything that's been doing well. I have not been buying. I've been in cell mode because everything is high, right? So where I have been buying actually is more like resource stocks, which are down right now. So I feel like that's going to be good. I think gold, lithium, silver, resource plays are setting up nicely. But like tech stocks, AI stocks, for me personally, that move is already done. I'm not sure about that. I'm not chasing. I'm not listening. We'll get into that later. That's just an opinion. I might be wrong. I'm not saying it can't go higher. Of course it can go higher. For me personally though, I can't wrap my head around the fundamentals. Because when it's a bubble, that's what I mean. So when the bubble starts to go, starting to jump in now, when I'm already in a lot of stuff, it's almost like it's too late. Even though I know it's probably not. I feel like it is. So I'm still trying to play it safe right now because I've already did a lot of those trades. I've already benefited from the move in Bitcoin this year greatly, benefited from the move in Ethereum, benefited from the move in Apple, Tesla, Google, Amazon, BTBT. I've been able to sell all of those this year. I've been really happy. So it's worked out really well. And I'm still holding most of my Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs and stocks and miners and all of my Bitcoin and Ethereum haven't sold any of that either yet. So I feel like we still have a huge run for Bitcoin. I think so too. I think it's going to have a healthy pullback just to trend line. Actually, let's talk about Bitcoin before we get into the rest. Because Bitcoin has been really quietly up 86% this year. Exactly. I remember Goldman Sachs calling it their best performing asset. We actually have Goldman Sachs in here too. Because one thing that I think we need to talk about and just like you're saying, we have to be strict to reality in, yes, we've just seen seven months of highs. And I've been selling too. I sold my Airbnb, got just 32% profit. I was in just over $100. So I sold it just over 130 earlier this week. So I sold my Airbnb. Well done. Thank you. I'm going to talk about guys, buy low, sell high. You want to be 75 to 85% large caps, 15 to 25% more risky plays. And you want to use those risky plays and sell them when they're up to buy more dividend stocks and large caps that give you protection in your portfolios. You don't want to get decimated by holding too many small risky trades. And one thing I feel really proud of is I've been turning a lot of people that are Shiba Inu Ripple holders into Bitcoin holders. Yeah, because I just feel like I'm trying to explain to people like you can't be a real Bitcoin or crypto enthusiast and not own a little bit of Bitcoin. Exactly. If you want to just throw your money and catch it. Like when you talk to me about Shiba Inu or Dojo Ripple, I like it. Don't get me wrong. But that's like 1% of my portfolio. 71% of my portfolio is Bitcoin. As it should be. And you know what? It's the same with stocks is that you don't want to have. And then we talk about this, like usually the 80 or 85% in solid, solid stocks so that if things go awry, you're not going to get murdered. You just have a little bit of drama because sometimes the drama can be a lottery ticket. But if you don't have any safety in there, you're going to get screwed. So like I did a little play on Blackberry earnings and it was risky. Okay, I was like really nervous. But earnings were coming out last week. So I got in and I actually ended up taking a nice profit. So I got back out of my Blackberry. I got out of, I still had some hot eight. So I sold my hot eight. I sold most of my Bitfarms. I have a little bit left actually just yesterday. And I was like, I talked to you about it. I was hurting me because it came up because I mean, I've been in under 150. And then it came up to 202. I think it was 202. And I was like, Bitcoin was starting to come down. And so I sold. And then it went all the way up to like 220. I was like, ah, FOMO. I sold too soon. But whatever, because you've got to just stick to your guns, right? You know, listen, I'm going to tell you something. I'm really good at selling in profit. I do not let my profits disappear. Like that's just something I do not do. I've been around too long to let my profits disappear. I don't care if it's real estate. I don't care if it's stocks. I don't care if it's crypto. I don't care if it's NFTs. I literally sold NFTs earlier this year and then they started to go down. Like I don't care. I have no sympathy about selling in profit. That's why I invest. I invest to win, right? What I struggle with and I know this is selling when I'm down. That hurts my soul. That hurts everybody's soul because we're human beings. Yeah. Because when you take money that you work for and then you put it into something and then it shrinks and then you sell it, you feel like it's the biggest kick and you don't know how to handle it. And for me, it's a struggle. So what I've learned through that and learning about myself as an investor, don't invest in bad deals. Just do it, right? So do the due diligence, invest small amounts of money in risky trades, invest large amounts of money in dividends and sure things. And nothing's a sure thing when you invest, but as sure of a thing as possible. So if you're buying real estate, they say location, location, location. Do the research. Drive around your neighborhood. Make sure you're not buying in the wrong area. Same thing with stocks. Make sure with stocks, you're investing in a company that's making money, growing in revenues, is checking all the boxes, has a tight share structure. That's one of the reasons why I believe in Bitcoin so much because they check all the boxes, tight float, great technology, massive global adoption, massive institutional adoption, Bitcoin have incoming, they're literally checking every single box. So it's very hard for me to sell Bitcoin or sell anything Bitcoin related right now because I really believe it's going to go much higher. And even though it's up 86% this year, not that it can't go down because it's up 86% this year. Yeah, but I think it's only going to test trendline. That's why I just drew the trendline here. Yeah, I feel like we're looking at like a two, two and a half year bull market for Bitcoin right now. So that's really exciting. We've returned, I mean, yes, I've been calling this a danger zone, but this is the zone that beautiful things can happen. Because beautiful things have happened to you before. So, you know, we have a little bit of a drama right now with the ray hike. And yes, I do think being at all time highs, there's going to be some profit pulled. And I know a lot of Bitcoiners have been pulling off that little bit of profit here. So is it going to last highly doubted, highly doubted, because now that we have institutions in here, institutions are seeing these trend lines, and they're seeing what's happening. So of course, they're going to be this is accumulation nation right now. So I fully expect that we're going to have a pullback back into this mow somewhere. And then I wouldn't doubt if the rocket starts, because this is rocket material. This is right where we are. So, you know, when we were here last week, they were talking about people were like, Oh, no, all the ETFs got canceled, they didn't, they weren't canceled, they just needed to have a little bit more clarity. SEC was stalling clearly. They wanted a little more clarity on the filings that surely didn't get canceled. That means it's not off the table. Oh, no, it means that they're doing everything properly, so it can be approved. And that's exciting. That is exciting. That's exciting. Now, in some ways, it's going to bring more shorting. More institutions is going to bring more shorting. So you need to be aware of that is going to be just need to be aware of the targets that institutions are going to be hitting. It's going to be crazy volatility. It's going to be crazy volatility. So you know, institutions that we're buying at 15 and 16, when they started getting in at 15, 16, the smart ones, they're selling right now at 30. That's right. They're doubling their money because they just got to hunt you on it. Yeah. So that's why there's so much resistance right now. But when we get through that resistance, get through all of that selling. My goodness, like the sky's the limit. This is the zone. So I think all we need is a little pullback for the rocket fuel. That's it. Because like you said, I mean, there's a big world of sellers right now. And we've seen that before. And I think there's going to be some drama that's going to come through in the retail investors like, Oh, no, what's happening? The sky is falling. And then when you least expect it, those institutions are going to see that trend line and be like, let's go. So I think we just got to be ready for it. And I think this is the pullback area. So hang tight. And this is, this is pretty much the go zone. So as soon as we have that next pullback, it should be super juicy. And like the NASDAQ never fails these days, does it? Been on fire. Unbelievable. And Bitcoin and NASDAQ kind of go together. It has been for a while. Because they're tech. It's innovation. Bitcoin is technology. NASDAQ is tech. They just go together. And weirdly enough, there's a couple of trades that haven't moved, even though they're heavily correlated to Bitcoin. Now one is Tesla. That's done well. But a couple like PayPal. Tesla's chart looks like Bitcoin these days again. No, I know. Tesla's moving with Bitcoin and the NASDAQ, but PayPal isn't. Square isn't. I know. I've been waiting on my square. My square has just been sitting dead. I got in just over 16. What I'm trying to say. So PayPal and Square or Blocknow, those are the trades I'm looking at right now. I think, I don't like PayPal as a use case, but they're still are getting used. And so not long ago when we looked at the financials, we looked at PayPal, I actually think it could rock it. I just like, you know, like you look at everything that's gone up and you look at the stuff that hasn't gone up and PayPal and Block went down when Bitcoin went down, but PayPal and Block have not gone up and everything else around it has gone up. So that's when you start looking at those and you start saying these guys are next, just like Google and Amazon, way behind Meta and way behind Tesla. But now Google and Amazon are starting to make their move and Apple is making their move. So it's like, eventually all the good plays will make their move. And these are all in the NASDAQ. That's why the NASDAQ has not stopped. It's just a straight line app. And I've been in all those trades. I'm like living in all those trades, living in all those trades. But I was in PayPal and Block and I traded and made money and now they're down again. So I'm really thinking about buying those again. Just like, I mean, look at the US 30. These are the Warren Buffett boring stocks. Sorry, but the boring to me. And then, so here's the US 30, kind of dead, flat lined at the top. And then here's the NAS. Look at that explosion. He's gorgeous. Oh yeah, NASDAQ has been absolutely on fire. So that's why I've been saying like personally, we're looking at getting close to all time highs in the market in the summertime. When everybody said we're going to be in a recession, this is starting to remind me of the bubble that happened in 2021. You got it. Same. I was just going to say that. Where the market went up and there was no reason for it to go up because everyone was in the middle of a pandemic. We're all stuck in our houses, but yet the market's going up. It didn't make any sense. We'll look at it right now. That's what's happening again. The Russell 2000 is going up. And when the, when the pandemic started, we saw the Russell 2000, all the small caps are rising just like the NASDAQ. The Russell 2000 and the NASDAQ, look at these two are both rising right now. And the US 30 and the SPX are kind of like meh. Isn't it gorgeous? Yeah. So look at the Russell 2000. So this is the small cap index. There's a nice little pump on here, isn't there? Yeah, but the small caps haven't moved yet. I think the small caps are going to have to make their move soon. So there will be a time for us to really take advantage of the small caps. And I think that time is coming. Probably September, October, we're going to see them really explode. They might even start right now. It looks like it is. Because honestly, it's been sitting at the bottom. I mean, when you look, okay, here's the Russell 2000, take a gander at that chart. When you're looking at the US 30, it looks like they've almost switched off. There is a switch off. This is quite a bit higher. And the Russell 2000 is down here. As people start to take the profits off the large caps, which we're doing, because that was our safe zone before, they move into small caps. And so this is like, it's like the relay, you know, we want to see the Russell right up here, kind of like the US 30 is playing pretty much in that zone. And I think it's absolutely coming. Because there's been quite a bit of liquidity has gone into the banks lately, and it's not going into large caps. I think it's coming into here. Speaking of, let's take a look at oil. Oil is creeping. We got a couple of oil stocks to look at today. I don't, I think we've got to be really cautious about this at the end of the month. Because at the end of the month is where we see rate hike and the rate hike can affect oil. Always does. And oil typically in the summertime, oil is not going to be as expensive because, you know, heating costs and stuff. So I think that this is usually the best time to start thinking about buying oil in the summer. And you're typically going to see the price of oil will go up in the winter and in the fall, where people are spending more money to heat their homes and spending more money to do those types of things. So that's typically when you see the prices of oil and gas go a little bit higher. So this group of that rate in the chart, if you look historically. So here is like, right here you see it. This is wintertime. Yeah. So you want to, you want to be positioning yourself now for the move in oil and gas because we typically, you know, this is the summer and oil's been bouncing between 65 and 80 all year. But look at it did that before. And then as soon as the end of the year comes, we end up here. Hey, listen, I would be very happy if that happens at the end of the year. You know this. And you know what? There's been a tightening on supply as well, right? Because Saudi doesn't want to let as much go. Then there's, you know, all the Russia drama. And I don't see why we couldn't see that. So I think it's going to be a little bit volatile until the end of the summer. But then history repeats itself. And this to me looks pretty much just like this. So we're bottom up traders. That's why we look at this stuff. So I got a couple, a little spattering of oil in here. But I think if you want to play some drama, we're going to take a look at this. So people are just digesting the fact that Powell just said we're going to have a couple consecutive rate hikes. This is July. Like you said, we haven't had a pullback and we're two months late from our normal pullback. We've been getting paid for seven straight months. Nonstop. It's not dramatic to have a pullback. It's a normal healthy market. It's just caused by some rate hikes this time. So I think pay very close attention. The dollar's going up, gold is going down and all the volatility indexes are looking healthy. Check this. So I'm just going to go through these ones quickly so we can get into some stocks. So in May, let me back out a little bit more. There we go. So we topped out in February. Kind of seems like that could happen again. Yeah. This is the short-term futures ETF. Yeah. Again, if we're going to see these rate hikes start, this is where these volatility indexes are going to start waking up and they're definitely waking up from a pretty intense bottom. Well, yeah, because when everything has gone down, now what you're doing is looking for things that can go up. When everything's gone up and now you're looking for things that can go down. This is how you make money if the market goes down. So this is a smart trade. This is the type of trades I like to look for. Smart trades like this that you can actually make money with the volatility and make money with the market going down from highs because we're at highs. So you know that at some point they're going to go down. The question is when. Right. So all these volatility indexes and these are a good time, not a long time because when the market gets healthy, they're going to come back down. Right. This is like a playing against the market. Yeah. And they're like literally at the bottom. Literally eating the dust, which is great. Wow. That's where the money is. So this is the Dow short. Yep. So as we look, so the Dow is US 30 for anybody that doesn't know. And as we looked, this is pretty much exactly this chart in verse. Just right. It's so funny how the market works because last year everybody gave their money to shorters. And this year the shorters are giving their money right back. You know it. They're probably just going to come in here and tap these just to like hedge that out if they're not tapping it. I like these types of trades because I don't like the short because they're super risky. But this is a way to short the market without having the risk because you own a stock. That's right. You don't have to worry about a margin call. You have to borrow shares. And yeah, you're not buying on margin. You don't have to worry about a margin call. You're buying a stock so you can hold it as long as you want. Exactly. So I mean, truly if you come in to short the Dow between like now and Powell's little rate hike increase, because historically every time he increases a rate, it gets ugly. So, you know, and it's bound to get ugly because we're at an all time, we've been touching that high and it's projected so many times. So there's good profits in here. And you don't even have to be a rocket scientist to see where the supports of resistances are. Look at that. That's a good trade rate there too. Shorting the NASDAQ right now. Great trades. Great smart trades. Very smart trades. SQQQ guys, if you want to short the NASDAQ and SDAO if you want to short the Dow Jones, great trades. Smart. That's true because even if the NASDAQ, even if the companies in the NASDAQ are still healthy, when interest rate is hiked, people have to cover their butts. And how do they cover their butts? They sell some shares that are in profit. When they sell shares that are in profit, it doesn't mean the company is going to crap. It doesn't mean it's all over. It just means that entities that are larger than us need to pad their pockets. Otherwise, their bottom line doesn't look so good. So yeah, this is pretty, pretty juicy actually if you ask me. Okay, here's the VXN. NASDAQ, again, NASDAQ volatility index, big, big spikes in valleys. So just be a little bit careful. This is one we added not too long ago. So this is short the Russell 2000. This one, because we just talked about the Russell 2000 looking like it's ready for a spike, I wouldn't stay in this one too long because it really seems, and I agree with Rich TV, as soon as like August, September, October starts coming. I really think that once the real estate market starts correcting more, real estate, there's going to be a lot of people, especially with interest rate hike. There's a lot of people priced out of the mortgages. When people get priced out of the mortgages, they're looking for that quick way to make money. The quick way to make money for them on a psychological level is going to be hitting the small caps. And the small caps is where the Russell 2000 lives. Hey, Sam Ham got added to the Russell 2000. You see that? Wow. Yeah, I did. That's AI stock. Yes. And that was what accounted for their huge hike because it got some fat volatility out of that. So yeah, if you're going to short the Russell 2000, just be careful. Okay, VIX futures is a goodie as well. Sitting at 453 and just March spike gives you 565%. Oh, that's not so bad. Now, the last time we saw a big dip in the market, it was October. So we're going to take this just to that October dip, because you remember we got the market got super, super hot in January. Yeah, but we had like a, from July to October, we had a pretty decent run up. Then October, we had a pretty healthy, pretty healthy retrace on the market. This takes you there. That's 60, almost 1600%. Wow. On the UVIX. That's insane. Just to take us to an October dip, which I think we can absolutely see if we have these rate hikes. So we're up on that. And then we have this little baby. The VIX is the midterm futures. Midterm futures, again, definitely set for your correction, not as big of a spike, but still, I mean, can't, can't complain on 80 to 100%. When the rest of the market is going credit. So that's why I had to bring these up. Very smart trades. Very smart. Not so bad, huh? But remember, good time, not long time. So we just have to- It's all about timing. And with the market at tops, these are all very good trades. I agree. I agree 100%. Another thing we're going to get into is when interest rate hikes go up, you know, who benefits? Insurance companies. Insurance companies benefit very well when there's interest rate hikes, because they're in a lot of bonds and whatnot that don't pay them too well when there's no interest rate hike. So we ought a little bit of that. But then we had some catalysts this week on some smallies that I want to talk about. And then we can have our little AI debate. Okay, Meta. You brought up Meta. It's a, three is my favorite number, so three percent today, but that's a pretty big daily spike. I'm not a fan of Meta, but I can't deny that it's been straight up since that October dip that I mentioned. So I told you, I put my foot in my mouth, but not on camera. I always say you cannot get emotional when you talk about investing. Okay. Take the emotion out of it. Facebook or Meta is a company that is tech company that makes a ton of money in advertising. So I knew they had a lot of money. They have a ton of money in the bank. So when you, just like Apple. So when you have a lot of money in the tougher market, you're going to stand out. Yeah. What they did is they started to take a step back from the Metaverse because that's what took the stock down. And they started focusing more on creating reels and making their platform a platform where influencers can get paid. Now influencers are going to use Facebook because there's two billion users there and they're going to try to get paid as an influencer there similar to the way you can on TikTok or YouTube. So Facebook's made some nice adjustments. And now what the news is for Facebook is they created another new product called threads through Instagram where they're going to be competing directly with the text version of Twitter, which is the real reason why Elon Musk wants to fight Mark Zuckerberg because he realizes that Meta is going after Twitter with their technology. That's one of the reasons why he wants to fight him because he realizes he's going after it. Okay. And you know what? He wants to make a big mistake with Twitter. Cutting people on the browsing is such a big mistake. Yeah. I think they're just creating a protocol threads where you're going to be able to like type messages with this to the same community on Instagram that you already have. So who knows how effective it'll be. But if it's another revenue stream that generates billions of dollars, which probably will be because Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp, all these products underneath Meta are just getting bigger and better because they had to leverage each other and the network very, very well because you have 2 billion users. Big. I just want to be really careful here because we're in a pullback zone. I'm not going to say that we're not going to reach all time high again. No, I'm not telling you to be buying this at this point. What I'm trying to say is this has been one of the single greatest trades of the last year. Well, it has rocketed. It has gone from 80 dollars to 250%. Yeah, it went from $80 to $296, a 250% move in less than a year. Okay. That's an amazing move for a huge company. So it's not every day you make 250% on Meta. So it had to go down so that it became super underappreciated and oversold in an amazing buy opportunity for everyone with smart money except for me because I didn't buy it. I didn't either because I didn't buy it because I was watching it and I knew it was a good buy. I just didn't pull the trigger. Because of the Metaverse play, I wasn't sure how they were going to get out of that. They've got out of it with flying colors and it's been one of the single greatest trades of the last year. I did just see that their last quarter, they weren't so red. So they look like they're probably going to work on recovering. So I would wait for another drop, another severe dip to buy this. I wouldn't want to buy this at this point. I just think it's been one of the single... Because it hasn't had a pullback of that 250%. So like we're saying 250% profits, if you believe that their next quarter is going to be good, their next earnings July 26. So if they do well, but if they don't, that could be the pullback. So Rivian, they've been doing well. I like Rivian. They just started delivering in Europe. So the fact that they're delivering now and directly competing with Tesla, taking market share from Tesla is guys, and this is only a 20 box. This is a type of trade that could be a life changer. Because can you go to there all time? Oh, yes, I sure can. Look at that. Now, we were trading it back then. I actually never owned Rivian, but I mean, I was frothing all over it because I mean, that's a 10-bagger. Yeah, I never traded it either. But I think if Tesla can do what it's doing, and this can take some of that excitement, we can maybe see $100 stock. That's right. So there could be another 40%, 400% upside from here or maybe even more if they're able to start eating into Tesla's market share. Well, and you know what? We knew eventually, someone was going to is just that Tesla came first. But I mean, we're at 165% profit just to resistance. So I see resistance here at about $41. So you always want to go a little before that just to make sure there's buyers to pick up what you're selling. But that's looking pretty juicy. And knowing that, you know, they're not just an idea now, that means a lot. 100%. Speaking of, I got to bring this baby out. So I brought Blade out just like a couple of months ago. But now we got to talk about it. Did you see that the FAA approved in Dubai the first flying car? Oh, wow. No. Yes, this was just last week. Crazy. The FDA, and it's on the news and you can find it on Google, the FAA approved the first flying car to be tested. So they're flying this super cool thing all over Dubai. Now Blade is planning on expanding their flying car partnership into Europe. Wow. They're at $4. Yeah. I mean, hey, this is why we do these, right, is to find these trades. And guys, I have a notepad and pen and I'm legitimately taking notes. And I would suggest you do the same thing. I think it's so cool when you talk about innovation. Like there literally is a flying car flying around Dubai right now. Yeah, that is super cool. Right. And so as long as no parts fly off it and decapitate anybody, because that's a risk. Yeah, that's the part I didn't understand is how do you approve flying cars because it's a very, the airspace is a very interesting thing because like if there's a bunch of flying cars everywhere and they crash, then they fall on the people. So how does that work? And there's no stop signs and there's no lights up in the sky yet. So how do you like police it all? And how do you, there's no road. Imagine you have to file a flight plan. Like people can fly helicopters, which is like a small plane of sorts. That's right. Like a capsule plane. People can fly helicopters around. I reckon that it would be similar to that. But then I mean drones, like drones have a big drama around airspace. And I remember Elon Musk talking about why doesn't he make a flying plane? And he was like, imagine a muffler falls off. That's what the thing I'm saying is like something falls or there's an accident and then they they're dropping on people or dropping on buildings. I just see it being potentially catastrophic. Potentially. But the hype on this could be potentially awesome. That's why I had to bring it up. But I think it could be super volatile because if someone gets decapitated by a nickel, it's going to be a bit of a problem. Yeah, exactly. Keep that one on stock. Now, we talked about hypercharge going up last week and this baby did. She's been going up. Yep. There's been some green. It's been looking healthy. Nice to see. And this is where I think we're in the time now that all these governments are closing up on their deadline to electrify vehicles because they're talking about cows and cars causing climate change. So either way, this is when I think they're all going to be a winner. I really do. Because when you have a big old hype run and that's like lithium electric vehicles, we just saw what happened with Ruby and these guys all have to charge the cars, wallbox, charge point. What's the other one? Blink. So now just hypercharge. I think they're all setting up for rockets and they've been showing signs of life. Yeah. Electric vehicles and then charging solutions, companies for the electric vehicles. Very, very smart trades right now. Yep. I agree with that. I picked NBM back up. Oh, well done. So I sold it around here. Last time I got in at 27. This time I got in at 33.5. I think it was. So yes, a little early, but I was just scared to get missed. So in my trading plan, if we come back to that 27, I'll pick it up a little, I'll double down, but I just couldn't miss it. So I could be a little early, but I'm not worried about it. It could be a little early, but it's not going to be a drama. Now, speaking of AI, looks like the dip got bought and picked up. Oh, wow. Yes. So planter, actually we need to zoom in to the four hour, just that you can get like a better low down. And I was freaking going to buy it and I'm so mad at myself. I was thinking of buying it here in this zone, but there was another one that I want to talk about that I had to average down on because I bought too soon, which annoyed me. And so I didn't get back on this one, back on. I never owned it yet. I didn't get on this, but it was looking like it was kind of healthy. I saw these like three green candles and only one red. And I was like, maybe I do, maybe I don't, but I bought AI instead. And I'm up on that just over 10% right now. So stoked about this. But anyways, planters on its way. It came off that time. I did buy AI. So this same little drama that I saw on planter, I bought this baby. I think you need to get out of that trade soon. I'm going to. I actually literally have a sell order at 42, but I might even just sell it at end of the day today. Like AI is a straight hype play, guys. It is a hype bubble. Like these things are volatile AI. They're like good time, not a long time. So when you're buying in sell zones, you got to be ready to sell. No, no, no. I bought in a buy zone. No, but I mean, a sell zone, like it's it's up like coming up to it exactly. So I have set my order for 42, but the truth is, I'm probably going to get out before the end of the market today. Because you're buying 5% and then it struggles. Yeah, you're buying 22 because everyone knows they have no revenues and it's just hype right now. C3 does have some revenues, but no, they're not revenue generating. They're still losing money. They're not revenue, but this is a bubble. So I like trading bubbles at times, but what I'm saying is you have to be careful about where you get in and get out. What happened with that toggle one? Remember I told you it was too high? I just said I had to average down on it because I got like it was freaking rough. And when you bought it, what did I say to you? You're like, it's going to come down like 100%. So now I'm down like 35% total and I had to average down because I bought it way high. I've been around so long and it's happened to me so many times that I've been around just as long as you, Pfizer. So anyways. So why would you get in so high when you know that it was already up hundreds of percent? It actually wasn't up hundreds of percent anymore. It was actually only up 150%. So regardless of that, I average, yes, yes, but it had been up 400%. So anyways, I know you're still holding some stuff, Mr. Perfect. These are the things that happen. However, I've made up for it another. So that I've gotten from bad trade over the years. And that's why I have this thing now where I'm just like super selective. I like to play a little here and there. And I did and you know it. It wasn't even the end of the road because I didn't put too much on it. So I really actually don't care. But regardless of that, I put a pretty substantial amount down on C3 because I liked that dip. So now, Sofi, we got to talk about Sofi. That's one that I own. I sold my Sofi, but I'm actually considering owning some more. So I sold it in profit, mind you, that was no drama. However, what just happened? Supreme Court ruled that there is no forgiveness on student loans. And who's holding the most in student loans with Sofi? Because they have a nice rate. So one thing is that I was reading a few of these and they were saying Sofi stock is already baked in most good news on student lending. I actually don't agree with that. I really don't agree with that. I think what it did was it rocketed up because a lot of us own Sofi kind of high. Like I remember my average being like 13 dollars. And then when it was down in this like four or $5 area, I was like, Oh my God, I'm down so much. It was painful. So I averaged down and averaged down. I got out a nice profit, but I actually want to get back in. So are you in profit right now? No, I got in in 2021 when the market was higher. So I've got a way till 15. Okay. So that would have been me if I didn't average down. These things happen, right? There's other ways to do it. Can I go back there? Absolutely. And I think it will. So when I bought it, I thought I was going to sell it at 30. And when I bought it at 15, I thought I would sell it at 30. Yeah. Yeah. And I think you still will be able to. It's on its way back up. Look at the chart. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, that's the thing is when I bought it in 2021, the market was super hot. Like we're having right now. Yeah. So from learning from those experiences, I'm not going to jump into anything that's already up because I feel like there's going to be a severe drop at some point. And I don't know when it could be next year. It could be the year after. I think between now and December, we're going to see a huge drop. And that's why I think it's important that we set our targets for what we want. So I think a good target to get back into SoFi would be around that 650 level. Can I go down to that $5 again? Sure can. But you have to have that conversation with yourself, right? So I see a nice uptrend, but I think that we're going to have some drama pullback. So I'm looking for a target and I do want it back in my life. So I think that's going to be a good one. Now these guys, we got to go through these were all in your top 10. And these were IPOs. I usually don't like trading IPOs because they scare me, but sometimes they do anyways. Because what's the problem with IPOs is you have a lot of early investors who got in on the cheat and they wait to sell off to people getting in later. But sometimes they prove you wrong. So this guy doesn't seem to have a pullback. This was one of them, Carvana. Yep. That's an interesting one. Yeah, that's one of the IPOs that came out and has done really well so far. And then there was this one, EDR. EDR is the company that is the UFC that was partnered with the WWE. So I just feel like they've got two huge entertainment companies working together and I just feel like it's at a good price. I mean, it seems really cheap for the two businesses that are in it. I think this could be a huge long-term trade. How's the WWE stock doing? It's just called WWE, isn't it? I think they're EDR now. Oh, there it is. It's still there. They're still trading. Yeah, they're still there. But I think it's going to be EDR at some point. It's going to be just the one. But yeah, look, WWE is $108. Yeah. I forgot about this. Holy snap. Did this baby ever rock it this year? Yeah, so that one took off. And then EDR is partnering with WWE. And I'm like, well, at some point, EDR is going to take off. Yes. Okay, cool. Good to know. That's why I like them. Now this one I hadn't heard of. Yeah, this is another IPO. It's another IPO that just came out, FIHL. Insurance. So insurance, like I was saying earlier, this is one sector that does really well during rate hikes because a lot of them are invested in bonds and bonds do well when there's some great hikes. So good call on this one. Decent pullback, but not too, too bad. Earl makes a comment. Hey, Earl, how you doing? Thank you for joining us on our show on the weekend, The Bull and Bear Show. Earl says four banks sitting with $520 billion in underwater US bonds ain't going to help plus banks in liquidity crunches. Yes. Yes. So it is absolutely. Yeah. And that's true. And mortgage rates going up, which Amanda's been saying is going to potentially cause a housing crisis, which hasn't really happened yet, and a commercial real estate crisis, which hasn't happened yet on a full large scale. But we believe at some point, something bad could happen. So be aware of that. Absolutely. So I mean, everything's kind of lining up to be like the drama of the 90s, which I mean, if you didn't know about that stuff, look into it. Okay. I was interested to see that you got a couple of restaurant ones in here because we were talking about fast food restaurants. Yep. Number is the hottest time for fast food restaurant stops because everybody's on vacation. Parents aren't at home cooking for their kids because, you know, usually people work when their kids are at school. So this is a time for these kinds of things to fly. So I'm grateful that you brought these guys up. Kodiak gas services. Yeah. KGS, new IPO, G-E-N-K, new IPO. T-A-S-T is another food stock. And I just feel like food in this type of market environment is a good way to go, a good way to invest because people are looking at things that they really need right now to invest in. I think people are throwing away like the hype as much as like back in the day, like even a couple years ago, people would buy anything if it moved. But now people are starting to invest in things that they know are going to exist, like Apple, like Meta, like Amazon, like Google, like Bitcoin. They're not going anywhere. So that's what people are buying them. Yes. Like Netflix. It's not going anywhere. I don't think it's a good idea to be buying stuff right now at a 52-week high. Please let's make that clear. No, we're not telling you to buy that. We're just telling you that that's what's going on. So where I'm looking as an investor now is I'm looking at things like, like you said, you talked about travel. Travel is doing well now. Food is something people are always going to need. So I think food companies, restaurant companies, these types of businesses are going to be good opportunities in the market as well. So that's why I brought them. I agree. GitLab. This is a tech stock. Even though they IPO, they're holding a great thing. GitLab is an AI stock. So I put that on the list because it's an AI. Let me add it to my list. And Docs. Docs is an AI stock too. DOCS. Another company that I added to the list that's an AI stock. So that's why they're on my list. Added. AMKOR. What's these guys? AMKOR. All I see, AMCOR technology surges is it may have received. AI as well. That was another AI play. Okay. Three new AI plays on my top 10. AI is a complete bubble but I'm playing in the bubble. Just very carefully here and there. Sometimes you'll go up, sometimes you go down, you have to be prepared and don't spend your life savings on it. Value Village. I was actually excited for this one. And when it finds the bottom, I think it could be good because their rapid stream is next level. Yeah. Value Village is great. Oh, there's stock on donation. That's right. They have a great business model. They get everything in donation and they turn around and sell it for profit. That's right. It's an amazing business model. So they're a brick and mortar store. So their only real expense is going to be their store and their staff. And I think a lot of them are volunteer anyways. So I mean, when you have a store and everything is donated, it's good revenue. Oh, yeah. So I'm actually excited for this one to bottom out. I'm just going to tag that. Now, we're just going to get, and I'm going to rapid fire these, but I just wanted to give you examples of stocks that do well when interest rates go up. I've back tested these, and they pretty much all run through. So do your own DD. Retreat and I are not financial advisors. We're just pretty damn good traders. So economically and statistically, I think we need to be setting targets for things like this at the end of the month. And at the end of the month is when power brings out all the bad news. So we have MPC, Marathon Petroleum. I think this is going to be a good one to target in the very near future. And I think we have a dividend on here, don't we? 2.5. It's all right. Hey, any dividend I can get my hands on? I'm excited about. Exactly. United Rentals, I wanted to take off because this is too high for my liking. Phillip 66. Now I'm not being super selective about which guys I think are good. And I don't mean to be like, you know, gender specific by guys. I just mean, Amanda, you know, we have six minutes left. No, why is this hour always go so fast? I just looked at the time I was like, yo, we have six minutes left. We're both known for talking too much for too long. Okay, I will rapid fire. These are the juicy ones, I think for the end of the month, set your damn targets. I'm writing them all down. Phillip 66. 4.39% dividend that can get your butt through a little mini recession to Christmas rally. Christmas rally, just saying. ALL, Allstate Corporation. Reason I brought up Allstate, they are looking at a really good buy zone. Their insurance, they're heavily invested in bonds and bonds make a lot of money when insurance rates, I mean, when interest rates go up 3.22% dividend. Another one, big insurance company, Amtrust, XNA on the dividend, but the stocks look juicy. Then Travelers. Travelers is a really big insurance company. And do we have a dividend? 2.3%. Stock looks super juicy and they stand to make more money when interest rates go up. Goldman Sachs, the reason I mentioned Goldman Sachs is they are one of the very few banks cyber infidelity that have hedged their butts with Bitcoin. So when everything else gets slaughtered, I think Goldman Sachs has done like a micro strategy move and hedged their business with their Bitcoin. I think it's at a really good level, 3% dividend. I hate Charles Schwab because I think he's kind of ruined the world a little bit. However, his stock historically does really, really well, but interest rates go up. He's kind of ruined the world a little bit, but he's got a great stock. Do that. Hate the guy like money. Cools, when people need to save money, they go to the low cost places. That's where Cools comes in. Cools, ready for this? 0.16% dividends. That's the gem of the day. $24 is pretty decent upside. This baby does really good when people need to save money. Cost goes at an all-time high, but it keeps breaking all-time highs. It always has and probably always will. Dividend is so cheap, it's not even worth mentioning, but everyone goes more to Costco. Home Depot and Lowe's. I had to put Home Depot and Lowe's because real estate crisis is coming. When people, when there is a whole lot of real estate on the market, what do they need to do? They got to compete. In order to compete within the real estate on the market, you need to improve your house. That's where Home Depot comes in. 2.7% dividends and Lowe's. People are going to be selling guys, hang tight. Lowe's pretty high, but it's been going up 1.96% dividend. Again, these guys go hand in hand. Verizon. Verizon has put in more 5G networks than any other communications on the planet seems, and they've been rising beautifully, beautifully just since June. So huge uptrend on Verizon. They're just at 10% this month alone and a lot more to go. Yes. They're starting to see those revenues now come in from the 5G crap. This is another communications major, SBAC. SBA communications, huge run up in the last month and pretty nice little time high. We have a dividend of only 1.45, but these guys go up and I've checked the last interest rate hikes. They go up substantially and only two, only one more. Oh, I wrapped and fired too quick. We even had some time left. Oh, yeah, that's okay. Intel. I've been holding Intel for so long. So here's what happened. I thought, I think most of the people in our trading club know that I fought hard to get my position in Intel. And as soon as they finally got my position in Intel, this little bugger went down. So I had to play the averaging down game. I am now up on my Intel. But besides that, it doesn't mean matter. It's got a beautiful, beautiful uptrend. So when we talk about a lot of the top, what we call the technology stocks, they play a relay, right? They cycle between each other. And we have a lot of others like IBM and Microsoft that have gone up so high. Even Cisco has had a really good uptrend. Intel is on its way back up as well. So the dividend went lower. But I mean, at one time it was like 5% dividend. So I can see that going back up in the near future. And that's all I had to say. So yeah. Okay. Well, we finished this on time. Thank you so much, Amanda in Mexico. This is stocks and stacks, episode number seven with Amanda in Mexico, your host Rich from Rich TV Live in Vancouver. Thank you for watching, everybody. 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