 Take this opportunity to welcome everybody back to the independent investor channel live stream friday evening It's been a couple weeks removed. Anyway, i've been on a well deserved vacation man It was really good for me to re rack reprioritize Spend some quality time with the family, but this is the fastest 60 minutes on youtube absolutely at least it is for me I love this project. I really do. I love The project in so far is the impact we could potentially make on on people's lives and identifying opportunity out there Just think about this 10 years ago. I don't think this wouldn't would have been as possible to Get a unique perspective and and testimonial from somebody like myself who's made investing a priority and the topic tonight does indeed strike at That answering some of those rhetorical questions I had and preparing this for people in in really understanding Why why more people don't invest? Why more people don't deploy a little bit of discipline? Why people are entering into retirement later on in life? And they don't have at least some level of supplement to their income and I'm a realistic applicator. I I would never waste my time and come on to youtube and just blah blah blah about stocks and Whoop the freaking do I don't think any of that squat matters bitcoin dodge coin whatever the freak That's a waste of time. What isn't a waste of time is really earmarking the reality of of of that very thing people not taking the time to Learn up on this making investing a priority in their life This is an infinite topic So there's an absolute reason why somebody like myself super important to come on and foot stomp this message I wish there were there were more There's a lot of community members in here. I just got a message today thanking me Giving me a status update. It was a six figure portfolio from michael babcock Very devote subscribers so shot out to michael right at the top of the live stream And I said these were those little milestones that you could Come in and say hey ryan, you know, this is where I'm at. This is real progress and It it's really incredible to know that those results in the market are scalable And I think unfortunately with the level of distraction that's available now I I honestly think that retail investors have not only an incredible opportunity But they do face a number of challenges Unfortunately because media right now with social media right in your face all the time Provides a lot of distraction for people man And I think it requires a lot of people to deploy some real active discipline and I um I wish I wish more people had it. I think I would be a lot more encouraged if in my day to day Operations people that I work with colleagues etc friends family Took a little bit more of a concerted effort and I don't know if the flip side of people are like, you know, you're too into this You know, you pay too much attention. You talk too much about the stock market. You freaking dork let it go Um, I beg to differ. I've always been a collector in my life I've always collected things and it's it's just made sense to me Just for the sheer hobby of it and it's as good a thing as any to spend your time and and devote to a certain craft And I think that's part of the essence of of of what makes me tick is that this investing Angle that I take or really does uh take A nice chunk of my time. I just enjoy the heck out of it and furthermore I enjoy it for my own application. I sat and watched the last 45 minutes or so in the market today Thought really we we had an outsider's chance Of making a very very nice threshold in my investing career and I I will cry when I make it Um, if you guys understood a little bit about where I come from how hard I've worked You know, how how Much adversity I've gone through to get where it is that I I I'm out right now And that's why I think maybe some of that adversity is part of the recipe for success in that If you're challenged in life, it makes you react and it makes you stand up and fight sometimes and and maybe that lack of fight or complacency that I see sometimes is a recipe I think for regret sometimes for people when they Look to reflect back on their life and say have I done everything that I possibly possibly can And I think that's what investing can be for a lot of people I know that that's what it is for me and and the essence of how do we get to that end? How do we get people to really understand that stock market investing? Isn't about picking that perfect stock. It's not about following the masses into bitcoin In the 50 thousands just because everybody on social media is pushing it following an elan musk into A currency that you know in your mind doesn't make sense to you and trust me guys There's people out there that have made it make sense to them And they've justified it in their head that it's something good But one of my golden rules that I'm going to talk about tonight in really Unbooking your thought process a little bit and I don't I don't mean that to be rude But what I what I mean that to be is just an opportunity for you to sit back and think What have been the influences in my life that have got me to this point right now? Okay, how have I done? Um, what are the successes you bet? Right, we're all winners All right, life is good Got all kinds of time. Okay all lots of people say that there's we don't have any time. It's going so fast I'm so stressed. I'm this I'm that I got all this going on. Ah, blah, blah It's all good. It's all good, baby Just need to take some perspective on this deal and you need to take it in small chunks Okay, I've been doing this a long long time. I Been doing this going on 30 years. I was introduced to the stock market when I was about 15 years old So I eat breathe and sleep this stuff from a certain perspective now Does that mean I'm a day trader? No, it doesn't the my application right now has been somewhat passive And I'll go through stretches in my investing and I'll go for months Where I won't make a whole lot of moves I do run a private facebook or whatsapp group and I share My moves when I make them in that whatsapp group. It's part of what you can find for Direct connection to myself that of which I've digressed a lot from the direct connection outside of the live stream that I provide On the independent investor group.com. That's powered through Shopify I just did within the month my very first M1 experience and that was just absolutely fantastic life changing for the individual But on the independent investor channel, we've got some things coming up. It'll be my second interview opportunity We're looking to get a date and a time Probably the weekend First weekend in june here coming up for my second interview of leore gants Which was one of my favorite interviews just one of those nuggets and gems on the channel that Man, it's just a pleasure to know the guys really just a pulse and a brilliant investing mind So looking forward to that coming in the future the half price on the self direct of the independent investor group.com If you go to the facebook or the home page of youtube, you can link over to the Shopify site I've got that linked over so it's easy for you to check out The the private group that we have going on. It's fantastic. I really enjoy the group But I give those real-time Moves that I made I'll give you just a little bit of insight to that add a little bit Into the cues this week. I did open up a new speculative position In in wish it's a rather small position, but I like the action on it here Obviously my position and highly on with the last Quarter that came out very very Bullish on that going into the coming 2022 2023. I've seen some comments here that I'll get to in the thread But I just want to welcome everybody man. It's good to be back. It's amazing What a little bit of moonshine will do for you some tennessee moonshine and some good micro brew and some good time with the family Some fantastic times there in severe veil I highly recommend if you are in the vicinity of the Gatlinburg area pigeon forage Very cool place to visit. We just had an absolute blast But I've got a jam-packed hour guys. Let's jump into it here And we will kick off the live stream. So it's great to see all the familiar faces And it's glad to be back in the hot chair Hi Kenny says what's up from Portland, Oregon, man? Now you're talking that's uh, Oregon's home for me. I haven't been back there in 20 years Um, but it's great to see you Kenny shot out man. It's great to see that you're representing from my home state Um, I do miss it. I like Virginia a lot, but I miss Oregon too And I've got Becky in the house. Great to see you. Absolutely. Look at that smile. Just makes me smile The vacation helped too Becky trust me I was a little bit overdue and I think for anybody out there that's working a professional life Um, youtube is not really that big of a deal for me. I enjoy making content when I do Um, but my professional life that that's a little bit of a grind and sometimes it's incumbent upon me to Identify that six eight months where I need a break and coming off of last year It was awful tough. So I do have the portfolio reviews We've never made our half a million dollar threshold today I was I was curious to see if we were making we had an outsider shot of making it But when I roll out the portfolio reviews for you guys, I I can show you kind of how things shook out I only mentioned that. Um, really to um Provide some validation again. I'm very very cautious About making sure that the people who join the message and this will go on legacy on youtube forever Even after i'm gone. So People will come on and they'll sit and they'll study My fundamentals for approaching wealth building and and how unique it is I don't think it's so unique But I think a lot of people look at how I apply and they say how in the hell Does this guy do this and I contend that the mental edge that you have to have Is the key? I I think a lot of people are their own worst enemy when it comes to um, the desire to build financial Uh security and I I I think a lot of people will be quick to say yeah, that would be nice But they don't want to take the first step required In the right direction to start to take those Um introductory steps to do what you need to do to get some capital introduced to the market Identify those accounts that are going to work for you That there's only a few okay But to take those initial steps to to do now anybody can start a robin hood account Anybody can start a Roth IRA and quite frankly. I think it's anybody can come up with a few hundred dollars I'm starting capital But these eight items right here are the things that I really think are what separates those investors that Um, we'll we'll end up succeeding to some capacity, right? If your expectations are perfection in stock market investing You found the wrong place. Um, I don't speak along those lines Um, I don't deliver a message that that promises riches overnight. I certainly don't Nor do I think that that's healthy for people I want you to think about that for a second people Are bestowed upon wealth all at the same time and they're not prepared mentally to accept that wealth They'll end up losing it and it doesn't matter about the money. It's relative. Okay So the first thing I want to mention for you guys And if you want to get a pin in a paper you want to play it back or you want to just ignore this piece altogether The whole intro is meant to get your attention Live below your means And as cliche as that sounds in the united states of america, especially it's really really difficult to do We're all guilty of always kind of paying attention to what the next door neighbor has or what our friends say that they're doing and Trust me. I I take a lot of um I put a lot of things that I want on the shelf And I observe a lot of my colleagues, man, and they're great great people and I don't mean to single anybody out Because there's a lot of people out there that absolutely Are that they have the ability to enjoy some luxury in their life But then there's others that really do stretch their capability Or their capacity to accept that wealth too early and it takes away from what you could potentially have In the future So if you really look at living below your means and the quicker you can get this lesson The better off because I I find people all the time especially in my profession Where they rotate out and they've done a nice 20 25 even a 30 day career 30 year career And they all say the same thing I wish I would have known now what I knew what I knew what I knew what I know now I wish I would have deployed earlier on in my life. It's super important to understand That key key lesson and I think a lot of people When they win that job It's great start making some money and they start to Fall into some habits of some things that they've thought that they've wanted for a long long time New car Following it fall into a nice mortgage, right? Start buying some amenities start accumulating stuff This is the what society says that we need to do now. What happens when we promote, okay? What we typically do is we will up our spending habits to match that level of income Now the older that we get we never really digress and we never really stop seeking that Uh spending discipline, right? It we always just up our spending habits as the income increases And I think the greater the separation you can draw between being satisfied at a level That is conducive to your means and I'm not saying eat farver beans all the time but ask yourself and How much do you need? And and for you guys that come on to the channel and you're like, I don't like this guy This guy's telling me that I can't buy crap I'm not your dad You want to go buy crap go buy crap But don't come to me later on in life and say man alive. I sure do regret that I wanted my cake and eat it too over the course of my life Now I want to bitch and complain to somebody instead of looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for my own action All right Very very key to understand and a lot of people in some capacity Or another some more than others really really do get this idea in that they're Happy with what they have Isn't that a novel idea the second supplement time with soft dollars This is a super super core statement and anybody out there that doesn't understand What i'm talking about when you establish assets buckets In your life like the m1 finance that I roll out all the time There's a method to my madness as to why I do that The dividends that are rendered in that off of those dividend payers i'm approaching about 20 000 bucks In that portfolio The renderings in there are 50 cents a dollar two dollars 250 three dollars A dollar 50 two dollars three dollars here and there boom boom boom always always paying at about 70 holdings in there And most every day that goes by I get a little payment. I I fund it up I'm doing something in there to generate some churn in there Every penny That And I I'm speaking to the hard workers in the community. I am one of them. I do hold a day job Okay, I would never rely on youtube I don't enjoy it that much to say that i'm going to Take care of the rent or put food on the table or pay my kids dental bill with youtube earnings I just got an email right before I went live That they've changed the terms of service on youtube Absolutely, it's their right to do that So all you entrepreneurs out there that think that youtube is the absolute way to go to riches Hold on a second. I think there's a lot of intangibles to holding down a career While you're doing that investing for a lot of people Can be the ability to pledge a certain number of dollars to an asset bucket that over time starts to Create wealth internally for itself. So you're not always getting older Year in and year out you're getting older you're getting older and you're spending time for that paycheck and yes over time that paycheck does increase but Eventually your time Is going to expire Right Now the idea behind establishing those assets buckets is that those assets bucket have the ability to generate churn within them while you're Making money Right Okay, so that's the idea So for those of you out there that have a really hard time justifying the investing opportunity Retool your thinking and really think about The investing opportunity not to be hey if I put these dollars to risk I'm giving up that 80 inch TV I'm giving up that ability to go do this and that or eat pizza every night or take the family out to a movie Every single night or do this and that or buy everything I see or buy a new car every two years Right You start to move away from those rationalizations of what you're missing out of And really start to resonate with the idea that that assets bucket has the ability to really churn And provide you a supplement For the time that you're spending earning hard dollars in your day-to-day job Right and every little penny that comes in to help supplement your financial health and well-being Is a penny stepped in the right direction Okay, because if you don't have those pennies You're you're really missing out and the clock is ticking That's why I say that investing is more of a necessity than people will give it credit for Yeah, I'll get around to it. No, you got to get on that right now Like the people that need to be investing are not the rich people out there They're people like me and you okay, and I know there's millionaires in my my community here. Absolutely We we don't apologize for that type of thing. These people are millionaires for a reason Okay, they've deployed some level of discipline in their life and they're there and they don't just give up those disciplines Just because they can tell everybody that they're a millionaire. It's it's not like that the the most The most uh, unobvious places in this country are probably going to be those pockets of wealth That are the least obvious to you. Okay, those people that are out there flash in the fancy cars Flash in the fancy houses. Those are probably the people that on the image Seemingly has it all taken care of but the real wealth It is probably something that is a lot less obvious number three Need to dare to think differently when I tell people to take control of their own money The initial reaction and I see it in their face is fear fear I can't do that that society has told me that I don't have the ability to do that I'm here to tell you that The absolute tools the products the equities I prefer vanguard products. Okay But I made a statement on one of my highly on videos that investing in johnson and johnson It doesn't take any capability and I give some latitude To the amount of minimum intelligence that I expect my audience to look to deploy Okay, if they want to make some level of decisions about their wealth building career Okay, do I want to be a passive investor? Okay, that's a no-brainer anybody can do it Do I want to be a dividend growth investor? Anybody can do that too. You can do a combination of both, right? Do I have a 401k? Well, there's a no-brainer way of investing all you have to do is contribute and take your free money match, right? If you're eligible, okay, so lots of different pockets of opportunity You just have to kind of identify Which ones are going to work for you? But for the independent investor The niche of my channel, okay The very way of seeking out that strategic edge of taking control of your own money Eliminating the fees within your account and then opting for the tax protection within the Roth IRA allows you to Accelerate your wealth Beyond what any financial planner can sit there and tell you that they're going to make all the difference for you It just doesn't work that way. Okay, and the quicker we can get to this end This is a forward way of thinking This is absolutely the niche and if I didn't have this niche Validated for me and coming on and share it Then the channel would cease to exist because again There's 500 to a thousand other financial channels out there that you can tune into And none of them talk about this stuff. None of them. Okay? It's really where my history in experience going on 30 years of investing Kind of comes into play and hopefully you appreciate me pushing forward that benefit to you guys very very important It's okay to think differently Don't apologize walk around with your head held high because you in fact know something that the masses do not Participate in what makes sense. Okay Bitcoin does it make sense to you? It doesn't make sense to me. I was out. I'm intrigued by it I've probably done more research than the average bear, but I'm not invested in bitcoin right now Does it mean that it's not going to a hundred thousand? I don't know I don't really care the whole essence of this lesson is that you don't have to put yourself on a charge To jump on every opportunity that comes along. Okay, you don't need to do that. So calm down Pick out one or two selective angles. I've given you two Right a manufacturer some opportunity for you guys, but you're gonna have to eat out of the trough Okay, passive investing dividend growth investing. Get your feet wet. Okay, understand how lucrative investing can be But it does in fact involve risk and that your dollars will fluctuate down And the last thing that I would expect you to do is come on and hate on me Because your johnson and johnson stock is down a dollar fifty on any given day I'm going to tell you to toughen up a little bit Okay, the lessons that you'll learn from some of that stuff will be invaluable But Don't point fingers at others. Okay always hold yourself Constructively accountable For the decisions that you've made and I can justify Investing in a company like johnson and johnson or apple Or microsoft every single day of the week and twice on sunday. Okay Number five is to take setbacks and stride. Okay Expect that when you buy a stock, it's going to go down Expect that you're going to have situations In your investing career that don't work out as much as you maybe felt like they worked that they that you wanted them to work out Okay, like you had a premonition that something was going to happen and oh my goodness lo and behold It doesn't work out the way that you think you need to really get over those barriers because a lot of people used as those as excuses to pull out to withdraw to Change their thesis after three days Thesis has changed my goodness the stock's going down So therefore my thesis has to change right and the very essence of stock market investing in putting Any level of quantifiable value on one day? One week one month is irrelevant. It doesn't matter Okay, the only thing that matters I've been doing the independent investor channel for going on five years In the stock market game Five years is like the minimum minimum requirement for you to look at an asset and say VTI right now Markets at 34,000. Can I do it? Don't talk yourself off of that asset next week. Okay Don't talk yourself off of it next month. It's not going to matter Set your sights long term and you'll really get the maximum amount of benefit out of your investing opportunity. Okay number six I put relish the time Relish the time Time is beautiful, right? I think back of all the things that I've done in my life all the challenges and I think man That was a long time ago and and it has been life is good everybody wants to get caught up in this game that It's going by so fast or oh my goodness I don't have time for that And that's a bunch of crap You know, it's funny I run a youtube channel and I have a full-time job and a full-time family wife kids. I'm a father I'm busy all the time But you know what I find ironic is I always find time to do this I always find time to fit in appointments for people who ask me for the time When you get responses from my youtube channel, that's me. That's me Just a regular fella. I don't look at myself as anything special at all If you reach out to me through the whatsapp group the private group that you pay a few dollars for a month You're getting my specific unique opinion about about whatever it is you're asking for I always make time Right and I find it funny how everybody wants to you know, they never have time You know people always are like man, I don't want to put you out Man, do you want to get together this weekend? Yeah, I don't have an agenda. Good grief. I don't have a secretary. We're good to go You know and and so I think to have some perspective on the amount of time that you actually do have to focus on Not only this but other important things. I went and hit the gym tonight. I was like, uh, Crazy crazy fired up in the gym man. I I I was boxing and I felt good You gotta make time and furthermore you gotta look forward to enjoying that time In other words, if you set a schedule And you you use your schedule and you just dread the the putting appointments on your schedule Think differently unfook your mental capacity and and just mind f yourself into just enjoying those cool things in life Right, it's all good Okay, none of it is a burden Okay, get over yourself a little bit set over set some time aside Like all good does to fix her cup of joe Enjoy it. Enjoy the process of making the joe for crying out loud And then enjoying the beverage is just the cherry on top right okay Number seven Don't rely on others Don't rely on others Financial planning that kind of goes into it financial planning can be very good for some people But if you expect that social security is going to be enough when you retire Or you're expecting that the government is somehow going to bail you out Or somehow you're going to get a stimulus check for the rest of your life Or somehow forbearance is never going to stop Somehow this and that the checks and this and the support and that and this and that this and that It can really it can really cause some tough habit forming behavior upstairs And i'm not saying for some people that the support is absolutely necessary take it but Any time that you can motivate yourself to get off of that support and be a self-regulating entity on your own The better off you will be trust me on that guys There's going to be two different schools of thought on this Honestly, man, it's the holding your head held high knowing that I make mistakes. I f up to it's totally fine But man those successes that I have I own them because they're mine. They're mine. Okay. They're mine the last thing Never stop evolving Okay, never stop evolving Investing is one of the most humbling places. I've said this from the inception of the channel ever since I've been doing this You want to get it being investor? It's easier said than done. Okay. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that it's as easy as tuning into Four morons who sit on a freaking rocket ship and provide a live stream to you guys every two days Because they get 100 200 000 views investing. It's not that easy. Sorry. I'm sorry if I just Summed up that in just a very very quick 20 second stent But that's not what it's about if you expect that you're going to render success out of that I'm here to tell you it ain't going to happen Investing is a humbling game It's one that you have to continually evolve at and if you really want to unfook What it is that you've got going on upstairs because it's got you to the place that we're looking to evaluate This evening right now not tomorrow Not the next day Right the hell now. I know it's like Jesus. I didn't sign up for this. Ryan. What the hell is this? Right now is is what you got to do You got to call it to action right now and you've got to really ask yourself is what i'm doing working Have I done any of the eight things on the list that ryan talked about tonight? Could I do a better job in some of those avenues? Ryan mentioned a few things that yeah, we're pretty cliche But the way he puts it and explains the deeper meaning of what it is We're trying to deploy here In being independent taking stock in the decisions that we make Don't rely on others taking ownership over the decisions that we make Making decisions and putting those Action items into work in reality for us not just blah blah blah. I'm gonna do this boy. Oh boy This ryan guy. He's really motivating freaking guy I just want to get up from this live stream and fall into the broker tomorrow and start investing Show me Show me because in this life I've seen a lot of people That i've come across in my day-to-day interaction And blah blah blah blah blah they got it all freaking figured out But when it comes right down to the granular Can you put the blah blah into action? A lot of people disappoint me. They really do They really do all right It's great to be back with you guys. Hope you didn't mind that those were the eight things man I know the title of this video was you know It was aimed to strike a chord it really was but when you start to ask some of those questions Why don't more people invest? Why aren't people retiring wealthy when the the opportunity? It's there. Okay. It's not something you have to discover It's not that something that you have to Come upon and get lucky to discover If if you don't identify that an opportunity is there for the taking This is where I find that the independent investor channel can provide some value to you in in telling you Telling you that it's there It's there. All you got to do is reach out and grab it All right, let's do some portfolio reviews then I'll get to some Questions here for the remainder of the live stream guys. I'm going to go through the review Rather quickly if we can this is the brokerage account here Added the wish in the speculative category. This really dipped over vacation I was having a great vacation, but I was down about oh 20 or so 1,000 Cumulatively over the accounts The market really got cranky As I was monitoring it while I was on vacation AT&T obviously with their With their acquisition, I guess of discovery and then potential spin-off and reduce some debt I really haven't looked into the deal, but I'm holding AT&T that could be a problematic But I don't have a problem holding the investment here in the telecom space I really don't But um, that's how the the taxable there about 85 percent invest in stocks and about 15 percent in cash The Roth IRA here it is up Since the last time I declared this this is two weeks old here But they are updated as of today as to the holdings give you guys some ideas some of those some of those nuggets Like ryan, what's the what's the greatest stock to invest in right now, man? I don't know microsoft I VOO probably would be the answer that I could probably give to the masses actually And be right most of the time That those assets over the years have done nothing but impress me And I know there's going to be a lot of people out there that are like yep I agree with your ryan and I've been foot stumped on that opportunity for a long long time Market's been conducive to owning the OO and you might say well, what do we do in a down market ryan? It's very simple in an ETF like that. You just buy more very very simple Simple simple application if you feel like you need a financial planner To tell you the same thing. I just told you for free By all means, um, but I'm here to tell you that you don't need it. Just buy it and own it You want to invest 500 do it you want to invest a thousand if that makes sense to you? Great. Go do it. All right And here's roth to 120 I guess in here 92 stock. So pretty invested I bought 10 more shares of alibaba today I found I felt like from a value proposition that really looked good Um salesforce.com is a really good entry right here No doubt about it to a nice big dow component Established cloud play best in breed Um crowd strike had a nice comeback today. That's a good entry Large like the fang names have really taken it on the chin With the rotation in value that has been absolutely real Yep. Yep. There's some value propositions out there that have been doing quite quite well Um, and that you know, I would never ever suggest that value investing is somehow a bad thing I you know, it's it's easy to sit there and say, oh, this is terrible Man, I'm only making a 3% dividend when all these other stocks are going up 20 30 Yeah, well you take it on the chin and you find out that that dividend is awful nice When those high growth stocks are adjusting back on you 10 20 30, right? Um, and you say, well, what is the solution ryan? My solution is to own them all It's own them all can I say and this is the um M1 finance the sector portfolio. This is all 11 of the specialty ETFs. This is chugging along quite nicely This is up here over the last couple weeks a little bit passive investing 101 With the strength of m1 finance on the passive ETF side of the house And then m1 with the 71 maybe 72 I think I liquidated ab v in the roth added ab v in the healthcare sector here. This is um comprised of 10 Sectors that i've peased off minus real estate And it only has single stock dividend payers This is an awesome account. It's it's kickass You guys can really relate with this if you wanted to start this account with $500 you could do that And so this is where you don't think that there's opportunity in the market you come on to the independent investor channel This is why I provide these for you guys. It's not to say. Hey, look at me. I've got 18,076 eight far two six eight four decimal three That makes little sense to me and I don't put value in that I I don't I spend the vast majority of my time paying attention to the structural program and a lot less attention to This is really the cherry on top when I come and declare this to you you find folks every week where we are in progress But from a week to week perspective, it really doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot anyway However, it does validate and if i'm going to sit across from a youtuber you better have some skin in the game Okay, don't sit there and talk to me about investing and hey my angle is somehow special If you've been investing in the stock market for a year and a half Sorry, um, you're not going to win me over. I'm sorry. There's some sound investors out there That fall under that camp, but until you go through a big big downturn in the market That's going to be the show me moment that that proves you're worth with me Okay, all right And I talk about those lines as well for new investors They need to hear that scary stuff too, right? They they don't need to just relate with the vision of being on the rocket ship The cartoon rocket ship going to the moon with four idiots. All right $50,000 threshold in the tsp met and surpassed A milestone that I will impart to you So I always put nuggets out there doing the live stream as we pushed up TSP contribution from 10 percent to 20 percent just this week So i'm very proud of that. Remember how I said always evolving See, I never get complacent with my application If you want to take that card and deploy it for yourself. I encourage you to do so. I really do The calls i'm not going to get too detailed. I didn't get to update this I do have leaps on highly on eight contracts at 12 and a half For 2023 and five additional contracts with a strike of 10 For january of 2023 as well. So not only do I have the big bullish stock position But I do have the leaps and highly on as well I've got some small put contracts as well cash secured puts. I've sold premium on here Uh at nine. I wrote those today. Why not? I sold some stock actually outright Which brought my position down to a nice cool 6,650 so Um, I got a little breathing room there with a swing trade opportunity that I picked up those shares At the optimal Entry in the eights. I didn't get it with a seven in front of it. Some of you guys probably did and I I applaud that effort I don't think we'll see it again. That's just me But um, that's that's where we're at and then the portfolio value There 497 and like I said that that half a million is uh, it's a big one to me It means a lot to me sentimentally It it validates a lot of what I do a lot of what I teach upon Which I'll be fine But I'll be damn if I'm going to come on to a social media Opportunity and not acknowledge how important it is that the words that you put out there over the airwaves Has the potential to really help people and also hurt people at the same time I take that responsibility very very serious. So there we are 3000 shy I thought about taking out a loan and just throwing it in there. Come on man I was $50 away two two weeks ago and I never made it so until I'm until I make it We're not there. So let's cruise in here and and cruise up to the the thread here and start getting some shot outs here Again, all good. Yep. It was a great vacation and and I recommend each and every one of you guys Look into the prospects of visiting the smoky mountains. It's a beautiful place Beautiful in so far as it tempted me I I would be tempted if things work out to maybe hold a cabin there someday It was a lot of fun kids had a great time So Mr. Weber's in the house man. Yeah, things couldn't be better. I'm refreshed Hopefully you guys are feeling it. I don't know maybe I don't know calm cool and collected tonight Delivering a good message for sure. Yep, and then chris. He's on vacation I think he was lending an ear to the live stream He's just part of the family just like a lot of people are here but chris has been with me for a long long time And this is the real strength outside of the dollars and the hoopla up 20% and this is the stock that looks good This is the deeper meaning for me Actually is the network of fine people like chris who are part of this community. No doubt about it All right, and mr. David. I feel the same about absolutely And yeah, I do feel like a lot of people will benefit if they're willing to receive the message Who am I? Who am I? Do I have the ability to break through for people? I feel like I do. I feel like I'm doing my purpose. I really do I'm critical of myself. I am I know there's people out there that that don't like me I'm getting tougher that's for sure And you know, I would be awful disappointed if I thought that I could have said the right thing Or something here or there or crack a joke here and there to make that difference When I start thinking along those lines, I start to digress and I start to move away from who I Really am and the good stuff really comes out when I am who I am and and no more No less. So we'll continue to do just that Fantastic. He says I love the title Me too It usually doesn't take me long to come up with those man It's it's really meant to strike out a route David as well has been part of the family here the independent investor community for you guys that are new to the Opportunity here in the live stream when I say that You have to understand what I'm what I'm talking about when I reference the successes in each and every portfolio because In some small capacity or large capacity Some of the fundamentals and philosophies that I teach upon through the channel are deployed and succeeded upon That that in some small way is is is really the validation for me Because like I said if I'm going to get on here and blah blah hoopla and build up my ego Just for the sake of building up my ego. I'm not going to do that. Okay. I'm not so It's the beauty of the channel man for sure And mr. Bob's in the house Absolutely Love it man. It's great to see you Bob Love the debt mark. Yep. It was a good deal. You know, um 100 over five years Relatively small. I thought the big takeaway there was The uh exposure to that very industry. What what a statement, you know To to partner with an actual fraxand company Like debt mark. I I think there's going to be many more This is a no-brainer I came out with a pretty impassioned highly on video There's been times throughout the history that and maybe some people will say you're a turncoat, Ryan You suck. You're doing highly on videos. I do that because instinctually I think that's the stuff that matters right now I do I bought the position and wish because I don't I don't see a whole hell of a lot in the market that I'm really that excited about Uh entering back into contribute more. Yeah up the dca. Sure Uh contribute a little bit more to the m1 finance accounts. Yeah, that's always there, right? But as far as new opportunities I'm good. I'm good. I from all the way down the line from sector to sector You know energy and the industrials and financials looked really good today Outside of that. I'm good on this market. I'm just enjoying Being an investor. Okay, and and I'm I've got skin in the game There's no doubt, but as far as being in sixth gear I'm not I'm probably in about second year And that's probably being pretty conservative on my application right now. All right, very cool Not just demos. No, those were solid orders. I'm not surprised a bit this company's fabulous They're doing everything that they need to do to scale up and you don't scale up a multi-billion dollar Organization overnight. It just doesn't happen that way. They're doing everything right There's gonna be hiccups. There's gonna be problems. There's gonna be churn There's going to be issues that are turned back Hopefully through the hybrid system and through the innovation council However, I just hope that those are taken in stride. They're taken constructively and All of this process improvement initiative that they're taking now prior to scale up is Just a bullish thesis for me. Like I look at it. I'm like, yes, this is so good They're not rushing to market Detroit did diesel did that a many a couple decades ago Where they turned out a bunch of engines where the engine blocks were compromised Because the steel that they got was bad steel and they didn't have a check in balance to to read the grade Before the blocks were bored out and they ended up turning a bunch of blocks out that cracked And they had to take all those engines back. What a costly mistake So for an industrial company like this I want them to do as much diligence as they possibly can before they start turning out product on the line Very very important man. Very cool and phenom. Absolutely. It's great to see you and thank you so much I really appreciate you and um your your involvement in this community It always makes me happy to see your kind comments and support man. It It's it's it goes a long way with me. It really does. So thank you. Thank you very much. Very cool Phenom says hit the like button. I said that you would probably have some good luck There's your thumbs up fortune cookie for the evening if you want to hit the thumbs up go ahead and do so That would be lovely lovely and here's what it looks like for all you people out there that don't know what it looks like If you opt for the other option You know what I think about that by all means if it makes you feel good Go ahead because I don't really care either way. I really don't it's just good to be back with you guys on the live stream Absolutely. Let's see what kind of streak we can rebuild again going forward And brian brian's joining us from san diego man the nicest weather in the united states of america bar none I remember my time down there in southern california man. It's like every single morning you wake up and it's Nice every day you wake up and it it it's nice I'll be at the beach tomorrow though man for sure. I'm going to enjoy some some beach time tomorrow. We're going early We're going to uh stake the umbrella and we're going to have some fun out there. Absolutely All right, all right So very cool cruising down the thread here guys I really want to try to time this to where I can get some shot outs man here And sober trades and a lot of the highly on threads So shout out to you my friend. I I try to send some invites out there if you guys don't notice man So in my live stream I invite people in every friday. Okay, and if nobody comes in The invite is boom right there now in the bottom of the thread. It looks like that Most people opt to sit back and listen to me rant and talk about dry humor and drinking chai tea and fishing in alaska Most people opt to do that. However If you do opt to come on here and wrap with me It adds a little different dynamic to the live stream and it's an open door policy man I've done that for quite some time I just think a lot of people would just prefer that I run it myself and I have no problem talking about personal freaking finance for 60 minutes It's a fast to 60 minutes on youtube No doubt about it No doubt about it. It's great to see you sober trades and appreciate all your support there. It's very cool, man He says he's from canada. That's pretty cool, man Good evening ryan and the group absolutely bringing the group together rebecca says love pigeon ford very good Uh, what do you think about thomas selling 300 shares this morning? That's his prerogative to do that I don't read too much into it Um, I don't know what his thought was. I don't know if it was part of a prior agreement I'd have to look into what that was about Um, I have no idea. It's it's um, it's okay. Hell. I I sold 1,100 shares today Um, because I was entering into the stock Um in the in the eights, right? And so I had some blocks of buy share that I was able to buffer turn out a nice $1,000 bill of profit here kind of lighten my bag a little bit I'm collecting the premium on the contracts, right? Um, I don't know. I'm a little neutral on that I I think I would shy a little bit to it sends the wrong message for sure Anytime internals are being selling, but I don't know the particulars of the deal Usually there's something there that could help maybe Shed a little light on what was going on there if I have them on the channel. Hell. I'll ask them directly Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm You know very cool Financial options with thumper. What a cool. What a cool thumbnail man gone for two weeks. Glad he's back. I yeah I'm glad to be back too. Um, this is a fun project for me. Absolutely Um, when I step away from youtube, I do so just I look at emails like that when they change the Ad revenue payout on youtube you guys think I'm crazy for doing promo videos Honestly, and most of you guys don't watch that that's that's fine I think those projects are not only fun, but they're educational and I get paid a truckload of money to do that You might be saying that sucks Ryan. No, it doesn't I I'm not looking to waste my time either And the the more compensation I can get for my time The more opportunity I'll have to scale up my message. Okay I've got things in the back of my mind that I would like to do with regard to You know getting My thoughts Caught a fight in a good step-to-step course that somebody can take at a low expense I can't do that unless I feel like I've got the The the financial backing to do so until until I get there. I won't do it And I'm aggressive on those opportunities. They think I'm nuts. I take every opportunity. I get I don't care Because I don't rely on ad revenue through youtube to to pay for my time those promotional videos Those the most lucrative things I do So if you feel like you want to support the channel some diehards in the community They don't mind coming on and at least hitting the thumbs up button saying hello in the comment section That would be the least of what I ask because here's the thing I I make nothing for doing the live stream nothing I do it because I want to and I love you guys. I really do I really want to see you For those people out there that sit back and need to be painted a picture for the opportunity in investing Well, I sell out for 60 minutes Sell out in a good way in that I deliver the goods and I deliver the goods On par with some of the best out there. Okay. Well, let's let's be real Okay, if you sit back and say man alive that really impacted me We're doing something special. Okay. I'm not here to entertain you. I'm here to make you think Okay Very cool I'm cruising down cruising down cruise cruise cruising down the thread Jerry's in the house. Great to see you my friend fantastic, man Fantastic, we've got a heck of a collection of great great people in the community Over the last couple years. I guess the cool thing would be To say where this channel and project are going to go over the next five years I don't know. Maybe over the next five years. I'll break 30 000 subscribers. What do you think? Could it happen? Will it happen? I don't know. Maybe I'll go back to zero and start over again. Who knows? Maybe everybody will hit the unsubscribe button at the same time I wouldn't worry one second about it because again, I don't put food on the table with this I do it because I want to very simple. Eric Weber says Yeah, that's one for you to chew on for a second David and Doggo absolutely says hi peeps. Great to see you my friend. Very cool. Very cool True words of wisdom. I I guess so I have pieced together a lot of what works and what doesn't work. I I I always I'm fascinated By the explanations I get for people who do not wealth build. They don't participate in financial markets There's usually systemic other things going on as well That that need work. I always feel like You need to have some stuff Taking care of in your life before you look to make sense of the stock market If that makes sense to you in other words, I I would employ you to have some Be grounded have some discipline Uh, don't be emotional Yeah, yeah, it to succeed in investing takes a few attributes that of which I think a lot of people have Uh and where I come in is to identify Um where in people they have those attributes that they don't think that they have Okay Yeah, very cool number says good bobs. Absolutely It's like bob marley in the back of my head Yeah Very cool Yeah Yeah, man, that's I don't put a lot of stock in it, right? So yeah, I mean That there's been some schools have thought I was I was one of the very originals five years ago There wasn't a lot of people doing youtube and my channel just it has not gone to the moon On a rocket ship, which is fine. I'm I'm incapable of that type of luck anyway I've had to grind my way in life. So It's totally totally fine I'm very proud of this project 30 000 subscribers strong. I'm proud of it. It's a great project and it's It it it empowers people and they tell me about it on a daily basis But uh, yeah, I don't I don't rely on that too much. It is what it is And um, I'm happy about that little stipend I get every month that helps Keep the lights on what can I say Very cool The franciscan's the house got a couple minutes left to gonna This went fast tonight ryan fakes sleeping while uh cashing in Is my Like I said, I never know what this guy's gonna do on the live stream I was sitting here before the live stream. What the hell am I gonna talk about and I was like, man I've done like 678 of these previous and I've never flatlined So, uh, I wasn't gonna start tonight Unless I flatline within the next less than two minutes Um, you guys have got another riveting eye opening live stream tonight and uh, at the end of the day I I I hope I've earned your time Because I don't look to waste it. I don't look to waste mine If this project ever becomes dull stale Not accepted not wanted not appreciated. I'll go away. I'll go away and I'll miss you. I'll wish you all the best But I do think we're making a difference. I really do man in all honesty. I think we're making a difference and uh I'm gonna drop the last invite in here because aside from uh overlapping with the gents Who I expect will probably be coming on after me. I will leave the last Invite there it is. It's at the bottom of the thread right now If you want to pop into the studio with me and talk about anything you want to talk about I don't know highly on going to a hundred. I don't know. We'll see what happens Um, but you're welcome to do that for a few minutes and then I'll kick over and support the gents for sure Um, but I got ryan giffin in the house here man a great friend of the channel who's just killing it What what a great great example of somebody to look at and say wow, you know entrepreneur investor family man, he's got it made And uh, we don't apologize for success on the independent investor channel. Do we ryan? It's very good. It's I'm just glad to know this guy man for sure It's always be part of the family here No doubt about it. All right, alexandro ryan helped a lot with getting that self-directed. You bet man At some point you got to be introduced to that stuff and knowing that that designation exists Very important something the institutions really would rather keep under their lid because they're not going to openly advertise That's where I come in Glad to help. Yeah, it's changed my life and hopefully it can change others as well So, um, we just clicked over. Let's conclude the live stream guys really appreciate you We're running the half price on the independent investor group calm. That's independent investor group calm Uh, it's throughout the summer. Um, and I may keep that as as more of a nice entry We want to promote folks to make their way into the group that that's what they think they'll enjoy And get some value out of We do have the m1 experience which I enjoy doing as well If nothing else tune in to the independent investor live stream every friday 9 o'clock stay tuned for that leor gants Interview that's going to be coming up within the next couple weeks or so That is my personal favorite interview that i've ever done in the history of the channel No doubt about it very very sharp investing minds And um, we're glad to have them on the channel as a featured guest So with that guys, we will go ahead to off have a great rest of the weekend guys And we will catch you next friday in the independent investor live stream. Be well Be healthy. I will catch you next week. Thanks guys