 We'll welcome everybody to the independent investor channel live. It is 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time like to welcome everybody to one of the first Financial live streams that was rolled out through YouTube a couple years back. Anyway, this is a project that I've been doing for quite some Many years now. I enjoy the heck out of doing it We roll this out pretty much on schedule every Friday to provide an awareness piece on wealth building initiatives for people making sure that we're putting it up there on the priority list for people and I do a pretty good job of motivating people I leave no stone unturned with regard to how I deploy my program and I think people can resonate with the message and ask yourself When was the last time you tuned into something or caught a piece of something through a Radio show or were told about something or brought to a specific opportunity and at the end of the day You just said you know what that that doesn't work Or I tried this and it didn't work or I don't understand how the masses are supposed to get involved with a certain something that is supposed to get me to a better place and It ends up working out This is what we strive for. I come on and I offer a pretty impassioned message. I Am initiating my calling every week to come on and offer you guys a live stream in A capacity that I don't have to I Don't do YouTube for a living no way this will always be an opportunity for me to come on and focus for 60 minutes on a craft that I'm deeply passionate about and It's a craft and a discipline that I'm extremely passionate about and I find all the time that people for whatever reason Right. It may be their psyche. It may be their practical application Or a combination of both as to why they can't get this whole program to click They get it to get it to run together And maybe start to operate independently on just sitting back all the time and just worrying about it all the time, right? and I think that's what a lot of people try to default to is our normal mechanisms of Always really thinking hard about something or or hey if I try really hard at something. This is gonna gonna work irrespective of how efficient our application is and With investing It's really really interesting, you know, if you want to get your car fixed you want to go to the doctor There's proficiency that exists in that craft Investing is it's a weird fickle gig really is and I think that there is an extreme amount of value in Having somebody come on and share some of the fundamentals that actually work in wealth building What does that mean for you? quite simply you can sit across from a message like mine and you can start to relate with some of the Methods that are deployed. Yes, but more importantly, I think in your mind You can start to overcome some of the barriers and and there may be people certainly there there are millionaires in my group that come on and Because they are a steward of the game and because they are always Ever-evolving and appreciate how important it is to continue to evolve in a wealth building program This message is it's attractive to people like that. It's attractive to me I just so happen to be the one that administers the conversation on the I2 that's totally fine I enjoy doing it. You guys will get my undivided attention for 60 minutes straight that I promise you What I won't promise you is things that might have a catchy headline Okay, this is going to the moon I can come on and drink a coke and and get real excited about certain things and Give you a bunch of headline stuff that works that Works to bring people in but it doesn't work when you look to deploy and scale those going forward for example My options that I'm going to roll out to you guys tonight if I just came on and said hey I'm teaching you how to get free money on YouTube and I put YouTube videos out there It would probably go big because people are looking for that easy road all the time The fact of the matter is I studied for three years to try to figure out the options game To give myself a little bit more of a strategic edge Enough to where I felt comfortable just to start to deploy make a few mistakes. Yes I admit to those openly on social media and good on me for doing that Good on that person who can self-evaluate not only self-evaluate come on and share it with an audience of usually over a thousand people every single week I digress but if I were to come on and deliver a message to people and they come through my channel And they don't know who I am, you know, and they're like cleanest get in here man This guy on YouTube is telling us how to get free money That's a little bit of a of a bait and switch The reality is I'm killing it with the premiums on some put contracts Did make a phenomenal swing trade this week with wish absolutely When it runs up 40 50 60 80 percent whatever the hell it does I took that as a time not to join and make myself feel good on Wall Street vets I very methodically went into my iPhone and sold the shares off and I'm actually back in the position AMC baby I just saw it rolling in there Lots of different ways to make money in the stock market and I I don't mean to impugn the good the good research that went into Those folks that try to get on the front side of a short squeeze I think Hylian's due for a short squeeze. I just I just don't think the stock is acting quite right I think it's acting better now than what it did really in the deep parts of the low eights and the and the high eights That was really a dark time for the stock Really, I thought a time where Hylian was most Disconnected between the goings-on at the company and the performance of the stock and that happens it absolutely happens But we really want to try to cut to the chase here and on five years of rolling out the independent investor channel It's been hundreds of times. I've mentioned the opportunity made possible by passive investing VTI doesn't stand for a very terrible investment. Okay, it stands for the Vanguard's total index and anybody who has looked into is enjoying or has invested in this product over the last Long long while if it's been over the course of years, you're up a fortune. Hey, no problem a very simple Thank you would be nice. You don't have to thank me. It's the money game. You're the one that put up the risk That's all good, but this is real talk and again I think if you sat back and put some criteria over the content that you consume the the question that you have to ask yourself is is is this being put to my In front of me for entertainment purposes or does this actually work? And I think you'll find that a lot of things in this life Actually don't work. They might be very sexy. They might be very attractive. They might bring you in on the onset Hell, they might even entertain you. Okay, but when it comes to the granular application of actually working Ie in investing I invest in said product, right? It either aligns or doesn't align because I wasn't taught this To make me money or it loses me my money is the ultimate Bottom line for me. I've always said this gig is about money really is so what works? Okay, what are those elements of investing that actually can work for people and they can work for people Across the spectrum. Okay, you're out there and you're making $25,000 a year. I've been there Okay, you're not gonna come to me and say well Ryan, you don't know you've never been there I beg to differ and that's something that you can sit across from me and dare to believe and Allow yourself to dare to relate with what I bring to the table with my opportunity Okay, I'm dead set dead set on Identifying from a relative perspective those things in the market and they are vast That do in fact work Unfortunately, there's a lot in stock market investing that don't work and they are in fact vast as well So I'd like to welcome everybody the channel. We got a great live stream plan tonight stick around guys gonna be a lot of fun Been doing this investing gig for a long long time and you know every now and then you get on a hot streak I'm on one now. I'm not afraid to admit it I come on and I admit it when I'm on a cold streak it happens on both sides of the house Anybody who comes on and tells you that they've got the stock market like their bitch is lying It's that they're they're lying Okay Stock market can be a very very humbling place. It can be a very very rewarding place As typical on the live streams all roll out the portfolio goings on it was a $15,000 appreciated week this week So $15,000 I used to work a summer in Alaska for less than that 20 hours a day every single day and now I don't regret those times I only offer those for a relative perspective for people out there who might be that $25,000 earner Per year and says yeah, Ryan, that's all great and plenty But you don't you don't know what I'm going through you don't know my struggles Well, that may be true but I would venture to guess that you may not even understand your own troubles and you haven't taken the time to Identify what it is that actually works for you and more importantly maybe what's not working for you and even take it one step further and Dare to change what it is that you're doing. I find a lot of people man. They're so stuck in the rut they have no idea they're inside the rut because that rut is in fact their reality and I Don't mean to judge. I don't it's just that one piece to my success and application and investing is My ability to change flex be dynamic evolve put things to work that may not work out and also have the confidence to come on and reengage Reapply and refocus on a new strategy or application. It's always that forward-thinking mentality that's going to get you to that end, right? So very very important for you guys to understand the Psychological element the older I get the more disconnected I get from my money and the more money I have I'll let you chew on that one for a second because it's the God's honest truth when I was in my 20s It's what drove me. It's everything that I thought of I got to get it And I got to figure out how and it was that drive and that Blind naiveness that put me up in Alaska now I don't I don't regret anything like that But I see some elements of hunger in our young youth and I think it's great I do because That's the very fuel that you can take to say, you know what I want to change my life And I want to change it for the better How is it that I can apply and do what it is that works and the quicker you can identify how you can chunk up your time? And and focus that energy on what really really works the better off you'll be But when I was in my 20s man That's what drove me into an avenue of you know not making a whole lot But when you don't come from money, you're you're willing to take on opportunity And I tell you what it's a lot of the pedigree in the cloth that I'm cut from now is that that work ethic has never gone anywhere It's just I've become a lot better Applicator with regard to my time right I focus on those things that really do work VTI actually does stand for vanguard's total market. It does not stand for very terrible investment It's a incredible asset and it can be that one solo Product that you can hold in a tax protected account like a self-directed Roth IRA account and went with So what I just said in the last 12 seconds really is the key for the masses of people out there Now one of two things are gonna happen You hear me out and you're like, okay, there's no way this guy just taught me how to invest in 12 seconds He's full of crap. He's full of crap. Actually. He's not full of crap because you to YouTube people are not full of crap They're they're they're up there on a pedestal, man They all know what they're talking about and everything that they say is the gospel truth, right? But when you start to take that information and you're like, okay, and this VTI has done pretty well Since 2002 it represents the total market. I am diversified. I get a little dividend to boot What's Ryan talking about the self-directed account? I've never heard of that before. I'm gonna go research it. My god That's pretty interesting too, man. Okay, this guy's got a little credibility All right, you kind of fluffed a little bit on the 12 seconds Actually, I timed it Ryan and it was like 14 seconds, but I'll give you proper credence on the on the rest of your Application it was pretty legit So people who deploy that you could deploy that at 20 and be like, you know what? Okay? I'm not going to do due diligence, but Ryan seems like a pretty legit dude I'm just going to drop my money into VTI and fund it up over the rest of your life Scouts honor Live long and prosper. That's probably one of the smartest things that you could possibly do. All right Now Option two you start on this path down this line of all right Ryan's a pretty solid guy seems pretty cool seems like a pretty guy to actually have a cocktail with which I am I start on this and I enter into VTI and VTI performs and it makes a little money It makes predictable money. Okay, you're going to make your 8% Sometimes you're going to be in the negative on a down market hell We haven't had one of those for a long long time All right, I don't even know if this market has it in it to have a down entire year It seems to hiccup for a week or two and people are losing their freaking marbles But if it does have a down here rest assured Those are the times that you want to be buying the market and dollar cost averaging into the market as it goes down But for those that evolve in their risk tolerance over time and they look to really sharpen the strategy They may look at that and say, you know what? Ryan was such a good guy that he got me into this VTI. I kind of like this investing gig This is kind of cool. What a cool start, right? I've been doing this for two or three years I've built up five or 10,000 bucks. This is pretty awesome. How do I layer up in my program, ryan? I really want to become more of an astute Investing person before I came to the i2 man It was like one of those things to where I talked to my neighbor and he gave me the stock hot stock pick of the week And I would just go lose my ass when I would try to deploy. I had no idea how to do it I had no idea of what account to own it in, right? But I want to become a better investor in each of those two scenarios I would consider them both a win because we're providing that awareness through social media to bring more people on to the investing opportunity and not look at it as Investing, I don't know. Hell call it a personal discipline for crying out loud I don't know set for a second and think of something creative Not stock market investing to dub yourself. I am a wealth builder I am a disciplined saver, right? I think twice. I'm a savvy consumer I don't know think of something catchy to dub yourself That's going to put you yourself on a personal independent empowering program To where you can actually actually relate and resonate with this because if you can believe it or not Even though I do that funny stuff, right? People come to the channel and they're still just like This guy is absolutely full of crap. And you know, what's funny about that? I'm one of the very very few people that come on to social media and say that I'm just as full of crap As the next guy or gal. Trust me. All right I've said this all the time man. I don't put anybody on a pedestal. I don't really care Furthermore, I kind of despise those people who come on to social media And think what they have to say is complete gospel And you need to sit with your legs crossed and your hands on your knees Just listening intently and then waiting to go deploy everything that they possibly said It's actually the complete Opposite of what I charge you to do and that is be a free thinker think on your own man Think on your own two feet be dynamic make mistakes Hell those are going to be the lessons that stick with you. All right If you can find me a youtuber out there man that has all the answers Please you can invite them on my behalf on the channel to come and they can learn me up And they can teach me on how to be perfect because I just don't think it exists in nature. All right guys So welcome to the independent investor channel. Hope everybody had a killer week I did it was a good one. It was really good We're going to roll out the portfolios for you guys. Leave your comments in here because when I'm done With this I'm going to go over a few strategies that I've got On how we're going to meet our next goal within the next five years. It is going to be aggressive I say that tongue in cheek because I actually have a weird Premonition and the back of my head Heffy he's got a premonition come check this guy out On when we're going to reach that million dollar threshold. It is not a question of if It is a question of when and it I've never been so certain on a financial threshold I guess the irony in all that is a lot of people don't think they can save their first thousand dollars I know for a fact. I will get to that million dollar mark I just find that a very very ironic oxymoron to share with people In that the masses can't even see themselves Saving up to that first thousand dollars of invested capital Okay, let alone to get to that all elusive ten thousand So if you're in the group here and you don't have that ten thousand dollar threshold That is that first marker that I put in front of you as kind of a challenge coin a little bit to say Hey, look man, you can do it You don't think you can do it. Trust me. I've already went through this mental deliberation and I've done it many many times All right, but I'm here to tell you that you can do it And if you're going to get to that million dollars like if I asked people Hey, would you like to have a million dollars? Yeah, you know what? I mean it's like of course I do but they don't want to take the first physical step That's necessary in that direction I just put a very lofty one right there in front of you and getting to that first ten thousand dollar goal Is the only way only way that you're ever going to get to that Million or half a million dollar mark down the line. All right Gotta get to the ten first and you can do it. You can do it You could probably do it in a lot shorter amount of time If you just deploy what it is that works Okay, you don't even have to give any credit to the i2. All right, man You want to trip and fall into the smp or the vti? Maybe you want to put a nice uh basket a dividend paying stocks to work for yourself Hell if it works out, you don't even have to give credit. You can take all the credit I'm giving it to you if you're a credit type of person You can give all that credit you want to yourself. You can be like i'm an incredible investor, man I did a hell of a lot of research, man I read rich dad poor dad and it just enlightened me. All right. I know it's all me That's all right. You know sometimes being referred to this message is pretty magical And that's really what it means is if you trip and fall into the i2 for 60 minutes on a random friday That's what it could mean for you. It could absolutely mean that Your life has changed you take investing you put it a little bit higher of a notch on the priority list Because one of the reasons i'm going to talk about i'm really crimping down on this sucker And and driving toward that million dollars and once I get there There's something psychological about that me personally. I don't really care. I just me personally I don't I don't see what all the facade is. I really don't I think people make multiple millions and they fall short of their potential And I think that there's people who will never get to a million who are phenomenal investors and they overcome their potential Or or they absolutely surpass their potential. I really want you guys to understand that Being a million dollar investor does not mean you're a successful investor. I'm sorry I hate to break it to you. All right But if you're potential with all of the tools and with all the aptitude and with all the employment and with all the income And with all of the application skills that you have If you fall short of a four and a half million dollar potential and you end up with 1.5 million Yeah, society's gonna dub you the most successful person out there Not me no way. I think there's a ton of people out there that get that holistically Success is a lot more broad than that and the whole idea is to bring people on to the message and have them start small That's why earmark that 10,000 right there in front of your face Because you're like, you know what I've never really thought about it that way. I've always just thought man It would certainly be nice to be a millionaire. I'm going to save for a while and that's what people do They'll save for a while. They'll get up to a couple thousand bucks And then one of two things are going to happen either the car's going to break down and you need to You know spend $750 to get it to get it fixed or even worse We fall victim to that consumerism that we're all consumed by or at least tempted by And therefore it's like well, we've got the money. Let's just go ahead and splurge a little bit Let's go ahead and splurge honey. You want to go splurge with me? We just splurged last week, honey. Now. Let's go splurge again. It really felt good at least for a short amount of time Let's look at some portfolios man I do have some fun with this gig. I really do tons of portfolio changes this week a lot of add-ons I will try to earmark those add-ons as we work through one ten two sixty eight solidly in the six-figure mark on this One of three the larger accounts here the the stock and the cash Allocation remains somewhat in line Um, but the two additions here Like I said, I swung trade wish on the melt-up and you know, hey whoop-de-doo, right? I'm going to take a $1,200 bill every single day of profit I took the profit then it fell the next day and I entered back into the stock I owned 250 and I also bought some Contracts that were being given away at a 750 strike So I bought four puts and I was paid a $500 premium for that at least I will When those roll off. I don't see wish getting back down to 750 if it does I'll pick up 400 more shares of it, but holy smokes, man free money. Okay, like I said This youtube guy promises you free money No, if you listen to what I said what I said was I will earn $500 premium Just like I will on the other $2,000 of premiums that I'm going to so elegantly share with you over youtube There's a difference. I know one is really really sexy And I know youtube expects that of me to come on and be really really sexy I've got news for you and youtube, but I'm not really that sexy of a fella. All right I don't and I don't wear socks All right, I do that to prove a point. Okay, you don't need to wear a suit and tie to talk about personal finance Or even stock market investing. Can you believe it? It's so it's so scary You gotta go sit down with somebody who dresses up all fancy and tells you how incredible it is You know, I don't know what the irony is of of all that You go sit down with that really really nicely dressed person Sitting behind the oak desk with the fake plant in the corner Want to know what's going to happen? They're going to put you into a suite of mutual funds Mark my word. You know what they're not going to tell you they're not going to tell you Hey, here's a basket of exchange traded funds Why because they're going to work really really well for you and they're really really low cost And and if I recommend them to you, I don't get paid Right Those are all barriers we're breaking down To what you think you know about the stock market and what you should know about the stock market All right, I tell you what you should know not what you want to know on the independent investor channel Mark my word. All right. That's exactly what I'm aiming for I will not sell out to what youtube wants me to say No way I won't do it. I run this project my way and this will continue to run My way I sleep well at night totally good to be honest with you the whole sell out element of youtube I don't enjoy that much anyway. All right. I'd like to save a little face Cool stuff. So there it is. I did add the vpu which is the utility ztf So very cool stuff. No other real changes VTI is just killing it. It's not a very terrible investment. It's actually quite good The triple cues. I'm up enormous with the nasdaq right now just on that brief blip I had some idiot on the 10 minute preview that I watch On cnbc today talking about how big tech is not a good investment with inflation on the rise In in a utah utilitarian society, I would believe that Um in reality, I just don't think companies like google and facebook and Salesforce.com need to be denied. I don't they were up enormous this week crowd strike I just had leo gants on last weekend talking about check point software right in the Cyber security space crowd strike is along those lines customer relations software management. All right Very very important man. The age of technology is here It's absolutely been my favorite sector. I've made a fortune with it If you want to take that play page out of my playbook. There's another element of stuff that actually works All right Fantastic. Here's raffae array number one. This is um, this was just a touch over 130 had a big week When when highly on grumbles a little bit. It's like it awakening from a uh, uh, hibernation over the winter It's like Flexes 30 cents and it's like my portfolio goes It's like it wakes up That's what happens when you have a big position in a company Mm-hmm. Yep. There it is So there's highly on I did sell the warrants Here's another page out of my playbook and I could be completely dead wrong on this and I can take scrutiny all day for this I won't own warrants again ever I won't own warrants again ever Yeah, I saw the writing on the wall again and um, this is it's really interesting I think warrants should be illegal. I think they're put out there for people who are involved In the process the inception of a company at the very very beginning and those said warrants are Uh issued for their benefit and nobody else's and the writing on the wall is very very simple the Gap that exists between the warrant redemption price and the common shares I'm talking about sofi right now We'll close the gap to where You can convert it all day. You're not going to make a dime on the warrants anyway You probably stand more chance to just lose and not gain a dime in the transaction anyway I did sell the warrants outright for a little bit of profit, but not too much I saw sofi just hanging on there in the warrants acting somewhat like an anchor To hold that stock price down And if they're called what'll happen is the common stock price right now that's trading at about $23 We'll adjust down right so you can convert the warrants all day for almost a wash sale I won't invest in warrants again. Not going to happen I can whip ass in a hundred million different other ways in the stock market I I don't need to get cute with it. I i'm killing it with options I just I don't need to do that and I probably won't ever do it again. All right But there's sofi there Nothing too crazy in this portfolio Nope No real additions. This is um chugging right along doing well And the Roth number two here Some additions in here. I've got a firm in here, which is a new addition to Shopify AF RM for you guys that like the exciting lifestyle in the stock market This one's going to be a good one This one just rolled out on my Shopify site. This allows customers to Accept services and pay later a firm is the company that has just partnered This week with Shopify ticker symbol af RM. I'm already up 6 in the name. I'm very very satisfied as a in along the technology software analytics within the workforce within the workplace actually to identify Efficiencies or gaps and efficiencies that can be improved upon ticker symbol a s a n doing well Uh multiple billion dollar companies. I believe as and about a five billion dollar company AF RM is uh, which is a firm is I think eight billion I believe on the market cap I'm pulling that from deep memory if I'm wrong, please correct me But those are the two additions here in the portfolio Uh, the sofi warrants are wrong. Those are liquidated out of here But just some real highlights here crowd strike on a tear IBM nobody talks about it, right? It's that very time when nobody talks about it when it goes from 120 To where it is now staring down 160. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you Wow, Ryan, you're pretty cool. Hey heffy. You got to get in here and see this guy He actually rolls out a bunch of stuff that actually works and he says that nobody talks about it I'm right. Nobody talks about it They talk about how terrible of a stock it is for five years and it was it absolutely was And when it's been left for dead on the side of the road not breathing not moving Broken arms That's when it starts to get back up again and come back to life and that's exactly what happened Oil oil matt money my boy. It's probably in the gallery. Hopefully he is he can back me up on this Yeah oil companies On a tear nobody talks about it. I'm making a fortune I'm printing as he would say is that what you is that what you want me to do youtube? I'm printing I own that meme stock exxon mobile and chevron and royal dutch shell their their meme stocks I don't know what that means, but they're kicking ass. Nonetheless making me a fortune Yep, lots of different ways to Win in this market the addition here back was Vym I actually took some opportunity cost off off the table with vym I was up really nicely in the position had owned it Leveraged it into some of the other positions that you see here Now I've introduced a back just a small position 25 shares in vym And v in q which is the real estate? REIT from vanguard back into the Roth here to embolden that real estate Sector along with realty income and v and q those are the only REITs that I have in the portfolio right now Salesforce.com on a tear crowd strike on a tear Yeah, we we whip some ass on multiple fronts and I don't mean to be braggadocious I just I'm fair to say when something doesn't work And there is two sides to every coin and when something does work I'm gonna come on and I'm gonna say it because quite honestly if my thing was just coming on And telling people to listen to me because everything I do works I wouldn't do this project. I wouldn't okay Because there's a good handful of stuff that I deploy that does not work And I will go one further and say that there will be a lot of stuff that you deploy that won't work Persevere get over yourself. Okay You your expectations of yourself to be perfect are way too harsh All right, you got to have a short short memory in stock market investing Don't dwell on the past. Just keep your eyes on the future But there we are with Roth too very very proud of this project But you guys that don't know the ogn in there. I've I've emboldened that up to a hundred shares I like what I see that was the spin off a murk Uh from murk, excuse me not of murk a spin off from murk into ogn. Okay And um the m1 here. This is the specialty portfolio. This was up marginally week over week This is just chugging along. This is like turtle investing. This is like investing that anybody can do Uh, I am up week over week So therefore if my bottom line criteria is such that the bottom line is money And I'm actually up rather than down. Would you consider that to be something that works? I don't know. I'll leave that up to you guys Whatever we're just going to keep on beating this drum until I get to a million Maybe I'll gain some credibility then maybe I have some now. I don't really know That's not for me to judge. That's for you to judge 71 holdings here were down a little touch. I was surprised on this one We actually went positive on another one of our stocks that we were down on So we have 61 holdings in here that are in the green and 10 that are currently down a little bit Some names that aren't surprising to me at all some that are Abbott laboratories is one of um Um Some others that come to my mind tj max. I bought a little high. So that's down a touch. No big deal It'll be fine long term some other stuff that it's not surprising to me that it's down just to touch But week over week. This was the only Bucket that I have that was down just to touch and that the tsp here is just chugging right along nicely very nice Healthy over that threshold of 50 000. That's a big one 50 000 is a big threshold, right? So if you think oh Ryan, I can get to that 10 000 Great great your next threshold is 25. See I keep up in the game on you And you're like Ryan you suck man. You you're kind of a jerk. No, no, I'm not I'll challenge you Like I'll challenge you to do all kinds of cool stuff You should see my kids when I'm out there on the soccer field, man Yeah, they're gonna remember me Yes, don't worry about it. All right, you'll be fine It's all right to get a fire lit under your ass every now and then it's fine. I have one there For me all the time get with the program. All right operate with a little bit of sense of urgency Life is limited you you do only have one chance at this But make sure that you're using that excuse for the right reasons Yep all right Good stuff And here's some of the new products that we put in place. I'll just go down the list, man We're we're we're due to collect we I've got premiums rolling off the 18th. I've got premiums rolling off The end of this month the 24th premiums into july So we've got some really big contracts rolling off I I have no doubt that those are going to roll off and expire worthless So the premiums will will pay out on those Um, I'm keeping the long calls on highly on I wrote those when it was at eight Those are worth a freaking fortune right now So I've got 13 contracts and a lot of people are like, hey, what about highly on What about it? I don't know it traded up 30 cents. I don't know I don't it is what it is long term that position set. I don't sit there and manifest over it I don't sit there and stare at it and wish it to the moon. I don't even know what that means I really don't I'll put whatever time necessary into that holding to make it a good one Mark my word But what can I do now? I'm super bullish on the company and when I feel like I've got a company pretty much honed in on the bottom I'm going to capitalize on that and I'm raking in premium like seriously like a garden rake I'm just I'm raking it. I'm raking it in it's just raking it in they roll out and they rake it in rake it in Mm-hmm. Yep free money free money Expired premiums issued on a contract that's rolled off. I Typically write those for about 30 days anyway. Okay Very cool. Um, this will be a soft rollout for you guys that catch the live stream I always provide as much nugget as I can. This is the I trust capital account. It's already started It's in the process of being funded. I will fund that with 2500 Again, this is a soft rollout. You guys are welcome to go check that out The independent investor channel will be affiliated with I trust capital as long as everything checks out My checks and balances are very very simple. I have to have an account with them Okay, and this I trust capital is not going to be for everybody in one finance could be all right I trust capital the timing was right for me to dabble This is about less than a half a percent of the portfolio to start So almost insignificant to be honest with you But this is going to take me from a non cryptocurrency owner to a cryptocurrency Owner in the capacity that I want to own cryptocurrencies and that is in a Roth IRA Okay, so wilt chronicle that that'll be a new addition To the rollouts every week. I love chronicle on that for you guys. It's it's a lot of fun But there there's the number Um, we had five dollars and 28 cents in the portfolio So we've got a long way to go for that threshold, but we will get there We we really will it's all about believing guys. It's all about believing Numbers are relative. Okay. Remember how I talked about the Relativity exercise about some people who make a million dollars. I will not dub successful and other people but That that really really work hard and they they understand the value of What it is worth valuing in life That's where I put that dub of real success, you know and that You might say well, I'm kind of interested to know what you think of yourself, Ryan Like do you consider yourself a success? Absolutely, and here's why it's the degree of if you gave 100 Ryan's The same cards that I was dealt How many people would take their many opportunities to take exit stage left? The very fact that I didn't Speaks to the level of success and that that is the piece of How proud I am of how I persevere past barriers That's something that maybe it's going to take that for you guys. I don't know Maybe it's going to be a gravy train to the moon for you. I don't know I wish nothing but success on everybody out there But i'm telling you for some it's going to be a lot more difficult for others It's going to be very very simple. You want to know what the only thing that matters is Your degree of success. It's the only thing that matters your degree of success In so far as your ability to capture that success as quickly as you can in life So as to avoid potential for regret later on in life, all right So there it is five dollars and 28 cents on the portfolio. We're doing quite well I'm going to jump in i've neglected the group like a crazy man Bob says crypto. I understand. I know it it breaks all traditional rules of investing But I don't think that's what it requires. I don't think that you can Apply the rules of investing to justify the utility behind crypto I think some of the rationale I think kyle does a really good job Of throwing out a rationale that actually really works for me and then he says that may not make sense What do you think and I I think he kind of explains it in a way that actually does add utility To cryptocurrency at least the top tier now with iTrust capital There's only 10 that you can buy you can't go through and just buy any cryptocurrency that you want They only have the top 10 that you can buy bitcoin cash ethereum bitcoin For all you doggie doggie dog snoop doggie dog coin. That's on there as well Some other stuff what I don't think ripple. I can't remember But i'm not going to be investing in those anyway. Make no mistake I'm funding this to go for my number one conviction and that is the platform by which they're all built in ethereum And then to grab a few satoshis. Let's say call it for what it is. I won't be buying bitcoin I will be a small player in the game buying some satoshis and look to uh to gain some share that way It could go to zero. That's why I say it's not really for everybody It's not for the faint of heart, but that's the plan going forward. Okay very cool I got brant my brother from another mother man. Shout out to you man. It's been a long time for us Five years man. We've been friends through youtube. It's great to see you brant really great. It's very cool if you guys Go over and check out brant metters investing, please You can subscribe to his channel as well Is super cool super cool guy and he's been one of those very few folks that have kind of been with my platform For a long a long time and loyalty Funny goes a long way with me Yeah, sure does. It's great to see us. The crypto is speculative It's beyond speculative. I I think that's a freaking understatement Um, but so started to buy a little amount of five to tens of key. Yeah, so that's interesting I'm not really buying it. I would like to buy it for its utility of use and understanding how to transact with it Unfortunately buying it in an aratha array makes you an investment in cryptocurrency And I think that could be considered a drawback. I don't know. I'm scratching the surface On the topic and it could be somewhat of a drawback, but I say, you know what look I'm not getting into it to turn now. I can trade within the Roth. That is attractive to me Right, so I can take Roth protected profits within that look to churn that 2,500 up to something reasonable. Maybe take some house profit like I always do Remove that house profit boom transfer it back to the other Roth and there I've got Roll over money created by cryptocurrency profits, right? So there is a method to my Wait a second. Did Ryan just roll out something else that could potentially work? It could potentially work and to tell you what when it does work I'll roll it out and I'll share that with you too. How many nuggets have I dropped in this live stream? About eight so far not too shabby for 60 minutes. We got 13 minutes left All right, very cool. This is starting doing more vids recently. I just I notice I monitor the landscape but to be quite honest with you, man I don't I don't spend a lot of time on social media Outside the time that I devote to my subscriber base. It's summertime I spend a lot of time by the swimming pool I spend a lot less time making youtube videos and good on me If you want to get the totality of the independent investor opportunity, you'll seek out my viper group It's close to pennies per month. You'll seek out my podcast, right? You'll seek out some of my newer projects and get on a subscriber list for my new blog that I'm going to be rolling out My wife's helping with me with some of that Add campaign stuff. You guys got a taste of it. If you follow me on instagram, you know what I mean Okay, but I'm not going to sit here and continue to do daily uploads on youtube when I don't think that's where the future of youtube is going Call me crazy and I that's not me. Anyway, I'm going to do what I want to do and no more. It's just that simple All right, I had a shun to thomas in the house. Very cool. Very cool Very cool. It's great to see you. Good evening to you. Let me cruise up to the top here and Give my proper shot outs. I got about 12 minutes left This was actually an interesting live stream for me. I was kind of wondering what it is that I was going to say tonight and It'd be interesting to watch the replay. I think I dropped some nuggets in this one purposely not accidentally purposely If I thought that there was the right stones to kick over for your success Trust me. I would kick them over for you. Okay That that is what I strive for every friday. All right, chris says good evening. Appreciate it And eric my brother and the family Very cool Very cool. It's great to see you my friend fantastic and bob My friend out and holding it down on the west coast Very cool. And rebecca says she thinks maybe she could catch the whole live stream. I You're always here in spirit. If you're not here physically, it's all good. You're out there working You're working for an honest friday living. That's fantastic But thank you and phenom always comes on fantastic, man. I really appreciate you Give a little spiritual boost to the i2. Absolutely I set it at the top of the live stream. We're delivering what I feel is my calling And I love doing it. This is this is not work the element of the i2 that I roll out that I really really like When i'm sitting across from people on a private coaching session That right there is the element and it's only made possible by my putting myself out there And letting people know what I bring to the table Nuggets not chicken nuggets, but like nuggets of Stuff that works I don't know. Does this stuff work? I don't know it works for me. I don't know It's not a very terrible investment man. I'm telling you Gotta believe baby gotta believe And I've seen I've seen how some of these results. They're rolled out And they work really really well and it surprises even me And it surprises even becky and she's like this is cool Kind of cool sometimes when I sit back and I see how the investing game is deployed through different profiles And I mean that When different profiles and personalities put an investing strategy to work And it it surpasses expectations There is a potential for that. Okay And stock market investing very very powerful Not to be understated and I wouldn't come and do a youtube opportunity if I didn't think that the opportunity Wasn't exciting it is it's no joke. It's it's insane I feel like for years and years and years even decades The retail investor were held from a lot of secrets a lot of the The barriers right that I whack a mole, right? I'm lacking the mole Right because you got the institutions always pressing man retail investors You're too stupid to make it ryan even you're too stupid that half a million half five dollars and 28 cents You got in your portfolio man. That's not real. You're not really doing that. It's all in your head, brother It's not in your head. It's not real stop teaching people this Stop telling them that they can become empowered and do it on their own I ain't going anywhere No way message is too powerful There's too many people out there in Rogues that need this information All right, amc. I'm bullish Absolutely. I own a dab of it Apologies if not already discussed now, man, and that's great. John. Thank you Um, oh for amc. Oh amc. I thought you meant amd. I thought amd is a killer investment amc You know, it's funny invest in what you know I walk into amc stores and Game stop and I Or is that the theater amc I just find this funny because I don't cover any of these stops, right? So game stop and amc I put them all in the same category And I watch them all go up and I don't understand why that's the disconnect between Stock market investing and do I think it's a good investment? I don't I don't know I don't cover the stock in that regard And like I said, there's many many other capacities that I can make money on This might be somewhat of a of a habitual thing that a lot of people Make money and then they're going to get skinned one of these times and they're going to figure out that it's kind of a game I don't know I'd have to look at the fundamentals of amc and really look at the financials to see what they're doing That that justifies such a heavy run up in the stock I know there's been some moves from management that they kind of took advantage Of of the run up. I know game stop did the same thing So it's intriguing enough, but I'm one of the stock market applicators I've been doing this a long long time I was just reminiscing today about some of the opportunities that have come and gone that For whatever reason, I didn't jump on There's going to be things that come and go in the investing arena You're going to win and you're going to lose on some that you actually do decide to take positions on amc is just one of those things that I've just decided to pass on and to be quite honest with you john I've never been tempted to to own any of these stocks. I've never owned game stop. I've never owned amc I've I've just I'm not tempted at all. There's just too many other good stocks out there in companies that I do want to but Hopefully I helped you a little bit, but um, I defer on that one. I just don't cover it All right, and tennis is in the house fantastic. Great to see you. See you. See you Fantastic larry masses in the house Fantastic been with me for eons and eons. Absolutely And pumpy dumpy says amc. Absolutely Absolutely, there's um a lot of uh, what's going on out there in the YouTube and social media landscape And I would put this in the very category of what I was trying to deliver in my message tonight to fight all right Remember I'm interested in things that work Just because you make a good investment just like the millionaire who becomes a millionaire and automatically thinks they're a good Investor just because you invest in amc and it works out and you make money Doesn't make it a phenomenal investment It just means that you made money and I would dub that a successful investment It doesn't make it a good one. Okay You just separate those two in your mind man because again Is it scalable? Are you going to be able to find amc's the rest of your life to make? You know killer profits on what did you do with the money? A lot of people are going to make tons of money hundreds and hundreds of percent And then they're going to go blow it on. I don't know Well, I I could say some funny stuff, but It's it's true. It's what do you do? Were you prepared to accept the wealth? Um, did you leverage it up? Right So all good stuff to think about for sure and we'll cruise down on my cruise There's my buddy there Fantastic great to see you says good evening folks Those guys are coming on in less than five minutes. They will share the link They typically do in the bottom of the discussion that way you guys can switch over and keep the discussion going I'm usually the diesel engine starter that gets the the discussion going tonight was a really cool Really cool. Okay. Paso says what's up? He's pissed off because I won't answer the amc question No, I won't it's just different strokes for different folks. That's all You could probably find all kinds of different forums on online That'll that'll tell you what you want to hear again. I don't do that Very cool Good evening fellow investors. Hope all as well in your castle salute to the host I am the host Fantastic. Thank you. I'm glad to do this project a lot of fun for me get a viper in the house Jamie, thank you for keeping the fire lit inside the whatsapp group. Very very cool Very cool. Very important zooming out Sometimes our own biases doesn't let us consider zooming out to get the big picture. That that's the truth. Absolutely You know extreme ownership Just because you think it's done. Yeah, it doesn't mean you okay. Yep. Yeah, absolutely Mm-hmm A lot of people don't think they're stuck. You know what I mean? No, that's part of the problem Your main vgt. Yeah, it's a good one. I own it. I own it myself. It's a good one Just another way to succeed. I think I'm up a fortune in it That's nugget nine. We're almost up to a 10-piece nugget here. This is awesome couple minutes left here Cruisin down to the bottom. I usually get some really really good questions toward the bottom and I review them And I'm like, dang how could I I've got to that? I wonder how hard it would be to become a financial advisor It's easy They're salesmen I just don't I don't have a lot of latitude man. I think we're a lot of people who who are doing really really incredible things Especially like like firefighters and doctors and like surgeons and people who are actually doing like technical work PEs professional engineers those people who are doing technical work And then you've got people on youtube who can garner a few hundred thousand people and they think they're like somehow god Or the next thing to god. I just they're not that's the truth of it. Okay All right, I believe in a a world of absolutes. All right Read some Aristotle. You'll understand what i'm talking about. All right It's there there is truth in the world. Okay, and the truth does not reside On youtube I love when I drop those that was nugget 10 very cool Wish has a lockout expiring fantastic I hope the stock goes up that'd be nice. We'll take it up on a on a second ride. That'd be fun We took 1300 1200 of white meat off of that trade that was nice Highly on stock is up. It is it is it's up from eight dollars. It's up 40 45 percent. We month over month Like I said at eight it was about as severely disconnected From what the company's going on our avenue. They're building a massive complex. They're 3xing on capability They don't just do that to put on a dress. Okay, if I'm going to put on a neon condom. Guess what I'm going You get where I'm going with that. All right That was nugget 11 Mm-hmm Now we're getting to the end of the stream here guys fantastic. I'll I'll try to wrap it up a little bit I couldn't get quite to everything But there was a pretty good message that I want to get through. I I do think we foot stomped it this week Absolutely appreciate you guys man keeping it keeping it going through the summer I know youtube takes a little bit of a scale back on activity. That's totally fine We're going to keep on keeping the drum beaten on this topic man. It's super important I never know who's going to make their way into the message But I will keep on keeping the message fresh Keeping it dynamic keeping it on the front of the wave where it belongs For any of those investors out there who find their way to my message and they can resonate With empowering one investor at a time guys. Take it easy. Have a great rest of the weekend And we'll catch you next week