 What up y'all, it's me again. So the other day I was having a conversation with a Facebook friend of mine, and she kinda, you know, she kinda checked me a little bit. She was like, you do all this complaining, you do all this trolling. Why not provide value instead of just talking? So you know, I thought to myself, I was like, you know what, maybe she's right, maybe she has a point, maybe, you know, instead of just bitching all the time, talking shit, why don't I put people on game, you know? So today we're gonna talk a little bit about stocks, and first of all, just a disclaimer, I'm not a stockbroker, I'm a licensed mortgage loan originator, so I can go in depth about mortgages and home ownership, but I'm not gonna go too far in depth about stocks, but I'm just gonna give you like a 40,000 foot view, you know, just so you can get started if you have a couple dollars, whether you have $10, whether you have $100, whether you have like a grand, so you can dive into it because a lot of people don't even know where to get started. So one of the things that kinda got me on this whole, yo, I need to put people on game thing is I was looking at a post on Facebook, and you can look at it right here. And really what it talked about was, is it a problem with, you know, buying your kids, you know, nice shoes? As you can see in the post, like it's toddler shoes, so you see Nike's, you see Vans, you see Jordans, you see different things like that. So you know, if you Google these shoes, you'll see like, you know, the kids' version, the toddler version are like $60, $40, $50. And my whole stance what it was, it's stupid, it's idiotic, it's a bad idea. And it's part of the reason why the black community is where we are. So like, I think some projections say by 2040, black wealth, black net worth will be zero, at zero dollars and zero cents. So at that time that I looked at a share of Nike stock, it was trading for around $80, $80, $90. So it's time we change our mindset to, I'm going to spend $300 on, you know, these new Jordans they just dropped. When for that $300 you can own three shares of Nike stock, three shares of Nike stock. So now instead of going to the Foot Locker or going to your local mall and you hating on the dude who's walking out with four bags of shoes, now you could be, don't say it's five, basimo, basimo, because that affects how much money you make. So now instead of being a consumer, you're now an investor. So we're going to jump into my favorite app so far, Robinhood. So I started on Cash App with a few dollars and then I kind of graduated to Robinhood and Robinhood is kind of a good intermediate level. So you can learn about stocks, learn about the company, but it's not as in-depth as companies like Webull or eTrade or Yahoo Finance or whatever other companies are out there. So to jump into mine, you'll see it right here. So the example we're looking at is Tesla. So this morning I was checking Tesla. This is about 940. I was looking at Tesla. It was 731.64. So what that means is that's the stock price. So that means that Tesla right now, a share of Tesla cost $731.64 at that time. Now, I was lucky. I bought it two weeks ago, three weeks ago. I paid $425 for Tesla, $425.61. So pretty much I've made money. Now, if you click the link in my bio, you can download Robinhood through my link and you can kind of follow along and get started. You'll get a free stock. I'll get a free stock too. It's not going to be something too expensive. It'll probably be like $4 or maybe $6, but it gets you started to see how it works. And then in the green, you'll see how much it's moved since the stock market opened. So it's important to know the stock market opens every single day, well Monday through Friday from 9, I'm sorry, 9.30 to 4. And before 9.30, you'll have some pre-market movements, which just means people are buying and selling before it opens. And then after 4, you'll have aftermarket. So aftermarket lasts between 4 and 6. And then you'll see a lot of movement there too. But I like to just focus on the 9.30 to 4. You'll see the chart. Now the chart, really all it does is it tracks the price. So you'll see it kind of like an EKG, it goes up, down, up, down. So if the price goes up, it'll go up. Price goes down, it'll go down. Now when I took the screenshot, it was, you know, it had just opened. So like it might be down right now, I haven't checked, but you know, it's going to go up again, going to go down again, going to go up again. So you want to buy low and you want to sell high. That's what all that means. So below that, you'll see where it says 1D, 1M, 1, I'm sorry, 1W, 1M, 3M, 1Y, and 5Y. All that means is one day, so that's a chart for one day, one week, chart for one week, one month, chart for one month, three months, one year, five years. So as you change it, you can kind of see the chart is essentially zooming out. So you can get an idea of, okay, maybe today the stock price for Tesla was going down, but over the last year, has it been going up or has it been trending down? Over the past five years, has it been trending up or has it been trending down? And then you'll start to see how the world and politics affects stock prices in the stock market. So Trump can say some dumb shit and the stock market crashes or he can say some positive stuff and the stock market goes up or we go to war and you see how that affects certain stock prices or people stop going to movie theaters and you see how that affects other stock prices. So again, we're using Tesla as an example. Below that, you'll see your position. So for me, my position is I just own one share. So I ain't got big money like that. So all I could afford at the time was one share of Tesla. It cost me right there 425.61. And then my equity value, that's pretty much how much it cost me and how much it's gone up on top of that. The statistics are just some things you could look at to get an idea of if this is a good company to buy right now, is it time to sell? Should I keep watching it or am I not really feeling it? So again, using Tesla as an example. So when the stock market opened today, Tesla was 698.58, my eyes are bad. And then below that, today's high. That's as high as it's been up until the time that I took the screenshot. Today's low. That's the lowest it's been. And then you'll see 52 WK. All that stands for is 52 weeks. So that's as high as it's been in a year. And then that's as low as it's been in a year. So people who are more in-depth with this, like my boy, AJ Gladney, if you really, really want to dive in, I can set you up with him and send you his way. They go into the dividends. They go into the volume. They go into all other metrics that you can use to figure out if this is the right stock for you or if this is the right time to buy or not. All the way at the bottom, it'll show you, like for me, I own a share. So it'll show me my history with trading Tesla. And then below that, it'll go into the information of Tesla. So for companies that you'll see that you might not know anything about, I mean, Tesla's pretty popular. So for companies you might not know anything about, you'll be able to get some information about them. Is this a solar company? Is this a pharmaceutical company? Is this a weed company? Weed stock is a goodbye, trust me. So yeah. The high level view of that, like I said, click the link in the bio, well, my bio, my comments or whatever to get started with that free share. And the big takeaway with this is stocks are a reflection of the world. When something is happening in the world, it could affect the stock price. And we need to, when you see old dudes read newspapers, you know, just watching CNN, watching Fox News, partly it's because, you know, they might be interested in that stuff. But the other piece of it too is that if they have money in the stock market, if they have 401K pension, they need to know what's going on in the world to know if it's time to sell, if it's time to buy, if it's time to just chill. So like you get to start seeing things on that high level.