 Hey everyone, this is Giovanni from the options trading channel. I know it's been a long time and I always seem to do this and I and I apologize. I I start You know good with with making videos and then I stop one reason or another The main reason why I stopped making videos and it's been six seven eight months is I felt like I wasn't giving my viewers and subscribers Good content or great content I wasn't giving you anything of value and I apologize for that. It's frustrating That there are these kids and I do mainly Want to say kids With these fancy claims huge claims and I've done them before like I'm I'm not I'm not saying that I've never done but for the most part when I make a claim I truly believe that and It's just frustrating to see all these kids on YouTube and especially like tiktok man. What a rabbit hole that's been They make these huge claims that trading is easy a cryptocurrency trading is is the it thing right now and They it couldn't be further from the truth Trading in itself is extremely hard Trading is I want to say it's an art form an art form and we are artists And it's much easier said than done to say hey stock XYZ is gonna go to the moon or You know game stop my gosh there's a lot of things that I've missed out on and making content just because I Don't want to give you BS I don't want to give you I Don't want to be like the 99% of youtubers and just regurgitate the same crap That you can find anywhere else and just give it to you in a different form I I'm I'm so sick of that and that's the main reason why I made my YouTube channel But it's the same reason why I stopped making videos not only that but I do have a full-time job and And being a full-time father, you know sharing custody with my as now seven-year-old son It's just it's it's been a lot and I just wanted to give you an updates The main thing here and I say this I regret to say this but the if you Let me start by saying that if you've Been a subscriber of my YouTube channel for you know X amount of time couple of years You know that I had an investor He had He was so kind and generous enough to say hey, here's $350,000 let's play with it. I want you to trade it Learn it. Let's make some money here and I regret to inform that that investor which I considered my my great friend for the last year and a half two years has passed away and The account is still currently open. I'll Show you the account here in just a bit and I'll go over a few things But I want to say Without saying his name. I will show you a picture of him in a bit but He was such an amazing like person human being Really quick the big highlights is he came from money from If from selling a ranch I think either New Mexico or Texas. I'm not too sure but it was a ranch that was of the families for two or three generations and About oh, I don't know 40 years ago They found oil. They struck oil. They found a lot more than just oil. I think they found Minerals like water and collegiate certain things and and he ended up selling it the the ranch I Heard somewhere up north of a hundred million dollars. This is many years ago 40 years ago something of that nature That's how he became wealthy I hope that that doesn't put a picture a painted picture of him who he was as a person because definitely it wasn't and I just Wanted to put that out there just to my viewers and subscribers in case you were wondering He made his millions and all he was doing is he wanted to help other people become millionaires He wanted to play the stock market game He didn't know exactly who what when where why through a friend through a friend through a friend kind of thing my name was toss around it's okay, let me meet with them and that was sort of the thing and And Is it came I'm gonna open up this account like teach me how to trade but also, you know place your trades and let's try Let's try to make some money and it was it was really generous that I can't Tell you like how amazing that was to be able to you know Here's 350,000 dollars. Of course like he he kept up with it each and every day He had ideas that he wanted to incorporate as well And I followed that I followed his lead with his permission and whatnot So With him passing away. Well As you can imagine and there's there's a lot Going on and like the estate and in his family his family Has approached me and we talked about it. I have one last meeting to To have with one of his daughters Tomorrow Sunday September the 26 today is a 25th just in case But they're gonna close down the account. We made a total of $140,000 since the account was opened last year in October I'll be happy to share with you some details But oh mainly over the last year not quite year maybe over the last six months or so I got really close to my mentor my trading mentor. I'll talk to him to make sure that I can Say his name and kind of bring him maybe As a guest on my channel later and we learned a lot So we learned about strategy about option strategy. We started trading SPX the ES Not just naked calls or puts on Amazon and Tesla and all these tech giants basically We started Playing around with just options strategies trying to build these Little to no risk trades and for the most part we I wouldn't say that We were successful, but we we didn't fail by any means. We built some pretty elaborate trades Sometimes they work sometimes they didn't And again, I know that I'm rambling on but I really need to get this out to my subscribe Subscribers and give you an update says yes, I'm still here. I'm still alive I'm still living the same place that I have lived here in the last like two years my last video I updated you and letting you know that I was kind of Going offline sort of trying other things and I haven't really done anything I just been working my day job and I hate that I hate just working at an hourly wage job that I Same place. I've been working at for basically 18 years. I went back to that old job Yeah, I I have I say this every time it seems like and I apologize guys But I do have a lot of things in my head And a lot of projects going on doing dealing with trading I'm sad that I won't be able to trade with $490,000. That's what we brought up the account to from 347,000 so we made roughly about a hundred and forty in the last year It's good. I mean absolutely good but just It wasn't quite what's What I think that we could do either way that is sort of the life story of My training account the big trading account that I've been training with Let me show you the Trading account really quick and just so my viewers and subscribers know that I'm not just blowing smoke up your butts Is the account everybody and I blew it up to make sure that you can actually see it We ended up 489,647 dollars and 21 cents That's how much the account is cash overall P&L year-to-dates 106,310 dollars and 10 cents and we started off with 347,000 dollars and Yes, this is a real account. I don't know what else I can do to Get you guys to understand that yes, this is a real account I'll show all transactions and We have a lots really truly a lot of trades And at one time at the height of the account was back in July mid-July I think it got up to five hundred and thirty thousand dollars We would win some lose some win some lose some. Let me see if I can get there and Just maybe Show that the account was at close to five. There you go 547,000 dollars July 16th of this year But yes, this account is no longer going to be in existence I suppose in the next week or so the family is going to withdraw all of that amount and that'll be that There you go. And whether you believe it or not, that's you know, what whatever, you know, but I always told myself with my YouTube channel. I'm gonna be very upfront about everything and What I have found out in All of my years of training I've been training for a long time. I still haven't found the holy grail But a consistent way of making a lot of money It's the thing that everybody wants when they're training the stock market and the one thing that I learned is It's a daily grind don't ever expect To just throw your money into something and just become a millionaire Even with these like ginormous like stocks that aren't gonna, you know, go bankrupt like Apple and stuff like that It's gonna take a lot of time and a lot of money The I think the way that you have to look at it is a tool for a long-term Like Apple again, I use Apple as an example Even if you you know buy one share Sure, it's not a lot, but it's not gonna make you millions of dollars in a year or two years But in the long term, you know with dividends and went out and reinvesting those dividends and adding to it You might find yourself that hey, you've made some decent money better return than you would just saving the money somewhere, right? That's my little tidbit of information and I'm sorry if I sound so like Just pessimistic or down in the depths. It's because the reality is I did lose a person That I cared for he was such a good human being and all he was trying to do is just help other people and You know just rest in peace rest in peace and and You know, that's that's it guys Bear with me. This is the last thing I'm gonna I'm gonna say and is bear with me guys I'm gonna get back on the saddle so to speak back on that horse and start producing videos and One of the big things that I want to show you is all the intricate strategies and in plays that we've been doing To make money in this account and grow this what what we did basically to grow this account from $347,000 to where it's at now at a just shy of four 490,000 489,647 dollars and Yes, there you have it folks Thank you again everybody if you haven't already hit that subscribe button down below like and share my videos and I promise you guys I'm gonna build a heck of a YouTube channel here It's gonna give you a lot of knowledge a lot of good tools as well And I've tried a lot of different Subscriptions from elsewhere Some good some bad some terrible and I'll share with you all of that In the next coming months, it's gonna be an awesome ride guys. Thank you everybody so much I'll share with you the last picture that I took With not only my good. He's I consider my brother at his wedding but You know with my investor guys see you guys later Have a great day. Have a good weekend and see you guys here on the very next trade hoping it's a green trade. See you guys later