 Alright guys, for you guys out there that think that passive investing is boring, not sure what's really so boring about making money. And that's really why I invest. I think a lot of people will invest for the euphoria or the promises of getting rich overnight. There's completely different philosophies behind investing and or gambling or trading. Okay, I think you need to make a choice about what side of the fence you want to be on. You want to be an investor or you want to be a pretender. All right, these real dollar returns in this account are very, very real. I'm going to roll these out on occasion to prove to provide some proof to you guys as to what is possible in the passive investing arena. So please enjoy the review of the sector specialty ETF portfolio. So a lot of you guys that have been with me for a while now know I've been with my in one finance experience for about two years. Beginning of 2019. This was the first account that I started here. And this has not changed. This account has been 100% passive since March 5 of 2019. And this is super important for investors to understand a couple things on this portfolio. It is a little bit of a hybrid type of strategy. What I mean by that is this is not just an S&P 500 ETF with one fund. I've strategically taken all of the sectors, all 11 major sectors in the S&P and invested them with a custom allocation using the power of M1 Finance. So it is unique. I haven't really seen a whole lot of people if anybody try to duplicate or take this strategy, it just made sense to me with the power of M1 Finance to be able to go into each of the 11 sectors and say, Hey, listen, I want, you know, the bulk of my money to go into technology and I want the least amount of money to go into materials. Right. Now the S&P is somewhat structured that way anyway, right where the bulk or the lion's share are going to be in your larger sectors, your technologies, your healthcare, financials and industrials of the world and then some of your smaller sectors, your materials of the world, your real estate, things like that. But it's all coupled into one. And I thought that this really gave an interesting level of control to the investor to go in and really fine tune this portfolio how you see fit. Now I know there's investors out there that are astute investors that don't want to put all of your life savings on GameStop. This is a passive aspect. So completely different night and day from the euphoria or the stress that can be created from, you know, some of the influences and some of the distractions that are placed over the investing arena. Now I think it's really unfortunate because if you heard what I said at the top of the this this video since March 5th of 2019, I've done nothing but make money in this now in a less conducive market. Do these fall subject to a retracement? Yes, they do. But my point is, can you make money with passive, nice, safe, diversified assets? These are killing it. And I don't know what else to say other than to continue to, you know, push these videos out, provide my successes as small as some may deem it to be over social media and really chronicle my journey investing in the manner that I am here in this passive specialty ETF portfolio. So here you can see here the top end gains real dollar return $3,490. The amount of cash flow that flows into this, I'm fairly certain I'm about a $25 every two weeks into this. So very, very passive on this. No, as a matter of fact, I do, I do most of my ad revenue flows into this account. So for you guys that have followed me for a while, you guys will know that this is kind of the secret stash of the independent investor channel. And this is kind of where that that goes. My initial goal here was to establish this account and show how we can get up to the first $10,000 mark using a passive strategy. And we did this in 15 months. So, you know, just just to prove how powerful passive investing is, hopefully that does this for you guys. And for some investors that want more of an aggressive profile, great. You just have to understand that just because you enter into an aggressive program, it doesn't mean that, you know, you're going to you're going to make an insurmountable amount more money. You may, but it requires you to take on more risk. And I think there's a lot of investors out there that would just prefer take on an investing stance. Yes, become an investor. Yes. But do so in a safe manner. And you can see here in the chart how these, this account has done really well. It really was treaching along since I started it and it really didn't move a whole lot. These were just small fund ups, just a slightly increasing to the right and probably a small fund up here. And this is the pandemic low here. So those that are, you know, looking to time the market to look at how tight that is on the chart. And then it's been a gradual upflow. This was actually a fund up right here during the pandemic low. And this is one of the strategic advantages to passive investing is all you really need to do if you want to is monitor the stock market, right? You're always invested. And if you do have an opportunity where the market corrects back on you, you know, 20, 30, maybe 40%, then you can use that as a buying opportunity. It's almost like the opposite effect of what most people do. Most people will panic out of the market at those lows. You actually just want to do the opposite of what the crowd's doing, guys. Just do the opposite. Whatever the crowd's doing, do the complete opposite. You'll end up a success in your life. Very, very simple. And this had treached up here and another fund up and just over the course of the remaining months here where we're sitting here. But we'll cruise down and we'll take a look at the holdings here. Just like I had mentioned, these are the 11 sectors, the S&P 500. These are all up nicely. I haven't looked at this account for a while. I'm actually kind of surprised at how well these are doing. Some underweight sectors, that's fine. What I mean by that is we've got the actual dollar amount and the target allocation. The target allocation within M1 Finance is denoted here with the bold 14%. So we're right on the money with technology. That's kind of cool. The power of M1 Finance allows this to happen in that new fundings will always go to the underweight holding. So for example, the next one on the line here is healthcare. Healthcare must have taken a small dip in that the actual allocation and real dollar amount is just a little less than the target allocation here. At 13%, no problem. New funds will flow into this portfolio and look to embolden this 12.6% and get it back up to this 13%. It's just an awesome, awesome way to make sure that new funds don't need to be told where to go. You've already told those funds where to go with this target allocation and then M1 Finance does the rest for you. So it's just a beautiful thing and it's specifically beautiful for those people that want exposure in a manner that may be similar to what I have here that don't have the time to sit there and manage it. And I think that's attractive to a lot of people out there looking to get invested for the first time. They want to get invested. They just don't have the time to sit there and read over balance sheets, which quite frankly, I don't have a lot of time that way either. So the bulk of my wealth is tied up in passive investments and you can see a lot of people will consider passive investing to be boring. They can continue to consider it boring. I consider it making money and I don't consider making money boring. Look here guys, look at the Vanguard's industrials up $326 of real money on just a $1,200 total. I don't know the real dollar flow into this but that's impressive. I don't know what else to say. This is why I roll these out to you guys. In a 10 minute video, you can sit back and be like, wow, this is pretty amazing how Ryan's breaking down. You know, I'm 11 for 11. There's not one sector in the red right here. Not one. I'm 11 for 11. I'm batting a thousand. This is amazing. Some of these returns are incredible. It's not surprising that technology has returned the bulk because the lion's share of the money is tied up in technology at 14%. Let's just roll down to the bottom end here. The most forgotten sector in the S&P 500, I'd be hard pressed to make people name me five companies out of materials for me off memory. Look at that. I'm up $230 off of the $800 bill. That's incredible returns, guys. These are the aspects of passive investing that do not get their due attention because everybody's focused on the top end, top 10 holdings of the S&P 500, the Amazon, the Google, companies like that of the world. And those are great companies. Don't get me wrong. But I think the beauty of passive investing exists in getting that success from places that you wouldn't normally focus on and you're being paid for being invested in some of those underappreciated aspects of the stock market. There's some great companies in materials. There's some great companies in telecom. There's some great companies in energy, which has just recently caught fire. And that catching fire has actually pushed me to a little bit overweight in this at 7.2%. Up $192 on just a $984 bill. That's pretty impressive returns. No doubt about it. And I think for a lot of new investors that are looking to get involved, this may work for you. It may not, but if nothing else, it shows the power of passive investing over, yes, a conducive market. But I think for a lot of new investors, I think a lot of new investors just need to be getting involved in the market and not messing around with stock picking. So with that, guys, we'll kick you back to YouTube and we'll conclude the video. All right, guys. So we've come out of the special ETF portfolio. Remember the $3,500 rendered here is just part of the equation. Remember, I put zero effort into this zero effort time spent in other areas of my life while this passive investing bucket is working for me. And so for a lot of you guys out there that are looking for an avenue that's safe, diversified, gets nice exposure to domestic markets and covers all the 11 sectors. This could work for you or at least give you an idea of the power of and a testimonial to how successful passive investing can be. It's no joke. It's no joke. The idea here is to take on as much risk as we possibly can to get the maximum return and also remain defensive in nature as well. Guys, if you appreciate the message, want to make sure and subscribe to the channel, leave your comments at the bottom and share the video with anybody out there that you know may benefit, may need to have some introductory information on the stock market. Bring them on to the channel would be glad to have them and begin on a wealth and building journey for them as well. Guys, thank you so much again for tuning into the message and good luck in your investment future.