 A deeper understanding needs to be had here when we're looking at opportunity in stock market investing. It helps to draw a perspective and really what it comes down to me is either optimism or pessimism. That's really what it comes down to me. Guys, I'm 45 years old. There's people who are 20s that'll hear my message and they're not going to get it. There's people my age who have either signed up their allegiance on one side of the house or another to determine how they want to live life. They want to go through life completely careful and scared and never opportunistic and never want to take a chance and never want to put risk on the table. I'm not like that in reflection of my life. It's made all the difference in the many successes if not the vast majority of the successes that I've had is my willing to put risk on the table, as well as some of my shortcomings, which has also been a direct result of my opportunistic thought, my opportunistic approach to life. I wouldn't have been where I am today if it weren't for that opportunistic opportunity that I've provided for myself. It's just that simple. In reflection, and I don't know if you guys can resonate with this idea, whenever I rely on others, rely on the advice of others or rely on the successes or failures of others and trying to write the ways of their deficiencies as it somehow incorporates into my life, it doesn't seem to stick. The only thing that ever sticks for me are those decisions that I make some hard, some easy, but I make them on my own. Those are the ones that pay off the most, relationships, real estate, business, the independent investor channel, being in service as long as I have. All those decisions were made on my own accord when they felt right at certain impasses in my life. Now, some of them have proven out to be investments or commitments or things that I have brought into my life that are wide open now. They're continuing to pay me. They're investments that have bloomed, my relationship with my wife, my family, my career. My career has bloomed into a garden of absolute beauty. It's funny too that Opportunistic Avenue has provided me some insights and share with you now in that money is earned in a lot of different fashions. I know contrary to what you've heard and what you've learned and what you want to think you understand about money would have you suggest that you go to work, you earn money, you spend money, you take a small piece of that, segue it to the side, and hopefully that adds up to something material into your future. I don't mean to deduce or judge how it is that you live and what you do with your time. There's a lot of people on this earth that don't even have one-tenth the opportunity that we have here in the United States. With that said, it's amazing how humans react to being placed in a corner and being told that they don't have opportunity. The sheer reality is that those in this world in its vast majority that are able to accumulate wealth in this life are those that started with nothing. I think the pedigree and the recipe that goes into that idea is this idea that I'm sharing with you now in that optimism probably has more of its place in association with successful thought and successful outcomes than pessimism. I'm not suggesting that being pessimistic and being careful and being cautious and being reserved in your application doesn't potentially have its place. I'm just here to share with you guys that the dynamic forces that oppose each other, pessimism and optimism in my life, are all too often overshadowed by optimism. Sometimes it blinds my decision making because I'm a believer. I'm a believer wholeheartedly that we have a finite amount of time here on this earth. I'm a believer that establishing a life perhaps may be better than what you were provided by your parents and way of maybe a legacy is something that I hold dear as a responsibility that I take and I execute along every single day. It drives my aggressive passion. My dreams certainly do formulate and allow me to put some deductive reasoning around the decision making that I do. I framed the discussion this week on Hylian Holdings, which is a company that I have been on some commitments out of pocket and have been unable to discuss with the audience from a weekly perspective. The stock is at an all-time low. This is a fact. Hylian Holdings is entered into what I dubbed a good many months ago as being a bridge in phase. The stock is suffering for it. Every piece of good news that comes only sees the stock digress another 25%. We narrowly find ourselves in any one given specific day where we can find the stock up where I define the level of ludicy when it comes to the stock price. I'm further given validation that my redefinition is in order of it going further into the ludicrous category. The fact of the matter is this. We are in a very, very lean period right now indicated by the current stock price at all time lows. This is where we are. You can justify it one way or the other. You can justify it being justified. You can look at it and say it's unjustifiable. None of that stuff matters. For the sake of dialogue and banter and potentially understanding what body of work has been put on with Hylian and the project thus far really doesn't matter. Does it jade your decision making going forward with what you do know? I came out with a funny video. I just released it. I'm doing my serious Ryan independent investor channel video because there's only one of me. There's only one perspective I still think we're 100% right on on this project. I have no doubt in my mind to share with you guys some insights on how I'm going about framing my thesis going forward is going to be invaluable for you. I want to remind each and every one of you guys to do your own due diligence on stock market investing for yourself and identify those specific pockets where an opportunity like this may fit into your portfolio. I'm not here to make those fits for you. I'm here to provide a conduit to information and that information is driven toward one singular goal and that is to make money. Contrary to what we've experienced over the last three years, I will say it again. My goal is to make money. The method to that end is in this case investing in a company that has an unwritten short to medium term. I think it's easier for me to envision this company longer term having a place in the commercial industry as their solution we can all agree on is quite good. Attacked as of recent, yes. Will they sell product? Are they going to nothing? Is the stock going to nothing? Will they ever sell product? Yada, yada, yada. I leave that type of dialogue to be uneducated. I leave that conversation and dialogue to those in the retail community who have as of late or if ever have learned to discover what it takes to actually invest speculatively in the stock market and the level of risk tolerance necessary to engage in that end. I could take 10 of my patrons and I could sit down with them in a room and it would take me an entire day to get an iota of understanding and consensus amongst those 10 in the group with me if I was allowed to talk nothing but investing to get to know those individuals to understand what makes them them, what makes their opportunity in stock market either robust or lean, what type of investor they are, what type of products could be aligned to satisfy that investor's palette and strategy and dare I suggest maybe meet those long-term goals into the future for each of those 10 respective investors that I would sit down with and have a dialogue with with the idea that I'm going to understand them more and they are going to understand me more at the end of that let's just call it eight hours, 10 hours, 12 hours okay it would take me a day to increase the level of knowledge and understanding and reciprocation and understanding okay this will work for you maybe not so much in this category take a little bit off the top here soften up a little bit here on your intentions your way too aggressive here put that effort and energy somewhere over here and I do that for each of the 10 respective candidates that I'm sitting down with. Social media has the potential of bringing thousands and thousands of different opinions, rogues of opinions, opinions that I could presume if I was going to sit down with a good portion of them never comment on the channel and never give me any type of reciprocation to understand that either they appreciate the information or they hate the information I have, Maria have understood that about social media that's the beauty and mystery behind it is that I throw that message out into a black hole without any type of understanding of who and where and how the intent of the message is going to be received I digress. There is a quantifiable pulse on the community which would suggest that the message aligned with the wrong situation is coming back to me in consensus fashion and that means that there is a pocket of the group that somehow feel like they've been duped or they've been misled or that they have seen something the light and want to share that light with me as to how it should pertain to me they have the vision and they want to share the vision with me on how I misguided this and that. But it is par for the course to understand that the scrutiny, the attacks on me, the attacks on the family, you don't know my family and quite honestly you don't know me either are at peak and the relationship and the irony is that highly on stock right now as we speak has just dipped down to all time lows. I mean it is $1.83 is just laughable. It's laughable. They've got all kinds of cash on the books, doesn't matter. They don't have any debt, it doesn't matter. They've got a good team, they've got a good head, they've got a good order queue, a backlog, none of it matters, does not matter. Stock market is pricing highly on holdings as if it is going to expire its cash and go out of business before they even have the chance to see the light of day with regard to a commercially viable product that we can delineate, can provide consistent product to the marketplace and that that demand will meet that production capability. And so the attacks fly. I would pose this to the audience in understanding whether or not those criticisms are because of the past or because of the present or because of the future. So in other words, and I'll give you guys why you guys watch the video, then you can shut it down. You don't have to listen to me rant at all. I have been aggressively buying highly on holdings here for the last two weeks. I have been buying the stock in increments of 500 share blocks. Entry price about two months ago was the highest that it's been in the last six and that was $3.17. Two incremental blocks of buys last year, excuse me, last week in the tune of $1.87 and one final buy in the increment of 500 shares for the price of around $1.93. The conviction of highly on holdings is investing into the future potential, not past performance. If you are new to the company, the video that I put out today on behalf of Ronaldo, who I don't know very well, but he contacted me and said, hey, I'd like to do a highly on video. I don't know anything about it. Do I have your permission? I said, hell, I don't own the product. I don't own the name. I don't own anything. He said, great, I'm going to do this. I don't know squat about the company, but I'm going to mention you a couple of times. I said, no problem to your thing. I said, do you realize that your name is the acronym for RNG? He was like, no, I never realized that. I was like, yeah, it's meant to be. He was like, yeah, well, my buddy told me about this stock and I wanted to check it out. I was like, have at her, man, good luck with you. You'll probably invest in the company at $1.83 and it'll end up in 50 cents and you'll be out next month anyway. So it's not going to matter. Have at it, tear it up, all the best of luck to you. That inevitably is what the stock market would have. Is the luck is the only thing that is on your side, the only thing that we have going for us in this particular juncture that taking a thesis on a particular company cannot, in the way that we define it, be deployed and actually see it pay off in the time that we define as necessary for that set investment to pay off. With that observation in mind, I want you guys to think about a few things when you're talking about investing in general. Okay. There's a few common misconceptions about investing that I think we need to discuss now. If you can avoid overlevering to a company, I highly recommend that you do that. It would probably help take the edge off a little bit on a position that I'm down in. I've been a bull and an investor since the beginning. I've sold the company twice. I sold Sub-20 and I sold around $12. The Sub-20 sale was actually to render a $6,000 profit of the company. When I say nobody's ever made money, I would remind you that that was the sale that I actually made money. Now, I did liquidate a position to take a tax loss on the position before coming out of 2020 going into 2021. There's been two specific liquidations in the company. I never purchased the shares above 20. I did not purchase the shares above 30. I did not purchase the shares above 40. Finally, I did not purchase the shares above 50. Nor did I purchase the shares on the way down south of 50. I did not purchase the shares south of 40. I did not purchase the shares south of 30, 20. It was around the $10 mark where I looked at the IPO initial insurance price and I started to figure that things were starting to get compressed on the low end and started to enter the share. Now, if there was any criticism of the share buying that I did at the time, I was buying some pretty big shares of block. I think in retrospect, if I was going to share some learnings that I've got razor sharp now, there's no better learnings in the stock market than actually working through these different scenarios and different lessons that you take and incorporate into your repertoire going forward. But for me, buying such large chunks in the 10, 12, 9, 8 range because I was kind of calling a bottom of it and breaking the number one rule of not trying to catch a falling knife, probably breaking the same rule now with an acknowledgement that the stock at the time when I was buying it was 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 dollars and now buying it at $1.83 should be much more justifiable in the eyes of a company that I don't think has changed material. I would suggest that I don't think it's changed material too much from $58 to $1.83. I really don't. I think the stock market, whatever short games are being played right now, whatever manipulation is happening in the stock market, I'm quick to just call bullshit on it. I think that the word and the verdict is out. I think that they can molest the stock all they want and you've got guys like my share self saying calmly hold because it will be a matter of time before this company cannot be denied anymore and what used to be opportunities that were put into a dark room locked up and only if you had access to but for the vast majority of people the key was thrown away and that opportunity in way of information was made unavailable to people out there. I'm here to shed light on this corner and as long as the prolonged darkness is beset upon this company, I will continue to shed light on the fact that I think we are sitting on a real gold mine here. I really do. The factors at play that would drive my decision are very very simple that they're not hard that they are not hard. Do we keep the status quo with diesel or do we look to leverage new technology? You can say you can suggest Ryan, I think we're going to remain with diesel for the next 100 years. It's a it's an opinion. I have my opinion that of which I'm quick to offer some substantiation and potential for me to be completely wrong. What's to suggest that when I look out on the freeway and see a diesel dominated present that the status quo is not going to be maintained and we're going to continue to ship our goods using number two diesel. It's reasonable. It's easier to resonate with that idea. It takes much more imagination to imagine a something other than the status quo. We are people of visual validation on this earth. We have a very very difficult time in many cases looking at something and imagine it being something else. Even what we know about Hylian and the progress of the hyper truck ERX coming to its final approval, certifications, iterations, some of the small tidbits of information that we're getting in way of the winter testing that's happening up north on the border has me absolutely convinced, absolutely convinced that we have a viable product that can move parcels from point A to point B and do so leveraging existing infrastructure that exists now. We could put the solution to work as of yesterday and you would still have people that would presume that the status quo will hold true and companies like Hylian and Nikola and Heizen and some of the others will not find their place and this will fall on deaf ears and we will continue to maintain the status quo even in the face of what we understand about what we should be doing with our obligation and that is looking at the potential for less harmful technology as it pertains to the current posture and care that we take over our planet. What incentive do the logistics and shipping companies have to put the stress test against the status quo and actually entertain the idea of change? Why change? In short, why change? Well, we are in a time here in 2023 where everybody is focused on interest rates. We are focused on inflation. We are talking about negative aftershocks from a pandemic that shocked the world. We are dealing with an all-time high real estate market. We are talking about a never been so volatile stock market. We are talking about an age now in 2023, my friends, where long-term investing is dead. It's dead. It's no longer a thing. Nobody does it. It's fallen to an all-time low here in 2023. Nobody believes in the stock market anymore. Nobody. By nature of statistics, it's a fact. You can go check it out for yourself and the statistics are probably being propped up by the very few people that own their 401k and would contribute to it no matter what. Most of those people know that it's good to save for the financial future, and that's the end of it. That's all they know. The mandates and the incentives is what I speak of, my friends, that are providing a cross-current of need to challenge the status quo at present. R&G incentives, such as the $1 incentive bill that is being proposed to Congress to provide different fueling alternatives for the fleets. Do I believe that diesel production and diesel use and augmenting our logistics fleet as massive as it is is going to go away? No. I've always contended that I do believe that optionality is the key amongst the fleet with regard to the logistics chains and their ability to look at their specific runs that they're making and potentially augment new technology where appropriate. Now, some are going to play ball, some are not going to play ball. I don't care. The fact of the matter is, as an investor, I have to look at the cross-currents going on with the current status quo, and I need to look at the pressure, however you look at the degree of pressure on the logistics space and the customers on the back end that are demanding change. They are demanding change, and I think over the coming five to 10 years, you're going to find that there is more of an acceptance of new technology because people are going to become less acceptance, acceptable of the status quo. In other words, it's time to change. It's time to stop turning a blind eye, and it's time to start acknowledging that where technology exists out there in the marketplace that we need to start to incorporate some of these technologies into the fleets. Okay. I digress. We'll come back to Hylian. How is it that Hylian is going to be looking to make a dent into the commercial space? My friends, I remember a time when an order was an order, and Hylian had their 1,000 agility truck backorder, and I remember thinking to myself, we have a long way to go from seed pod to something special, whatever that tree or whatever that fruit tree or blossoming tree or maturity that is going to happen over the coming years is going to look like as the Hylian story evolves over time. Okay. We knew we were just at the very, very starting place. We were in a time where we were dealing with a pre-revenue company. We are no longer a pre-revenue company. The company is garnering some interest in their product, the hybrid product that is not very hyped, not advertised and not showcased, really outside of a few of the ACTX boats and some of the other trade shows where it's mentioned, and the word in industry is that they understand that this product is available from a commercial perspective, and they're selling quite a few of those units. Okay. Now, the hyper truck ERX is the one that everybody is interested in, in that it meets a full electronic powertrain solution, and I think that's where the fleets are really looking at that angle. If I'm being presumptuous of all, it's where I would look. Okay. And if I'm going to be fair, they're probably looking at as Tesla is looking at or Pepsi is looking at Tesla as an opportunity, looking at all of the different opportunities that are offered by Cummins with their compressed natural gas option. The options that are out there in my assessment are lean. There's not a lot that is dabbling in the space right now, and the cross current that I speak of is the undertow of pushing toward more of a sustainable future with regard to application of new technology and optionality amongst the different lines as they deploy their fleets out in the logistics space to deliver our goods from day to day. Okay. The question at this point is, Will Hylion have its place? What is the degree of Hylion's market penetration that will be necessary to see this story go from something right now that is deeply, deeply questioned to something that is commercially viable? Okay. We just can't currently don't have those answers now. We don't. And we are alive and well in what I considered to be the ice age and transitional year here in 2023, stepping toward what I feel like is an inevitable end. What that end looks like, my friends, I can't tell you. All right. I can't tell you. But the small pieces, small pieces that have been put in motion, do they add up to more than $1.83 a value? You have a lot of dynamic forces pressing this company down. Okay. We know that it's continually shorted. We know that it's continually downgraded. We know conversely that the large institutions own massive share blocks in the company, conversely supplemented by the fact that retail investors have exited the company at record pace, and that the remaining few people that I speak to into the echo chamber, a few of which I know are out there and listen to the message are holding strong with the idea that the tide will eventually turn and highly on will seek out and settle out at a value that's a little bit more, little bit more indicative of the opportunity rather than the reality that is being assessed now. And that reality, right or wrong, that's being assessed right now in a company that is pushing all-time lows to new lows, it's seemingly every single day and every new week is alive and well. This is just where we are now currently, but when we look at the small pieces, we start with the CEO. We talk about the founder and CEO, Tom Healy, young, energetic, still involved. I see no reprieve in his demeanor, just as committed. Do we interpret the current silence on the line as being a positive or negative? I don't think either one of those really have its place. We can discuss in way of banter on what we think that it means. I for one think there's far more going on behind the scenes than we will be made preppy to and it leaves the investor on a plane to make a decision of whether or not you want to invest in this company for the future or not. We've picked up employees at a very nice clip. Total employee count sits at about 250 right now. It adds to a very lean about business model of operations next year is an anticipated 130 to 140 cash burn, excuse me, this year in 2023 through the Q1 to Q4 quarters of this and next year going into 2024. 130, 140, we can handle that with no problem. Where we are from now until then is every day an exercise in futility watching the clock tick by when and if that happens next week, next month, next year. My friends, we are in this together and if you have the answer, kindly share with me. I will hear you out. Make no mistake, my conviction lies in that those inevitable categories will be forthcoming. They will happen and they will move the stock and they will move the stock faster than you'll be able to react to that I can guarantee. I think a lot of people have pushed the stock down so much that they feel like it is impossible to incur a catalyst next week. It is impossible to expect a catalyst next month or in six months. I think that's a huge, huge mistake and proven to be a huge mistake many, many times in the bullish application of an optimistic investor, many times in history. In other words, I would show you the ace in my back pocket, but I'll tell you what it is now. The ace comes down to the very simple reminder for each and every one of you guys that come to a decision point about this company and ask yourself, with the small tidbits that Ryan's talking about might seem insignificant. Collectively, they're pretty special. In other words, if I was going to drop a pros and cons category over this company, I could probably come up with a pretty good list of both. But I also think that the pro category would far outweigh the negative that I could come up with on this small company if I was being fair and didn't judge the company solely on being a new company. Ryan, they're not making enough revenue. No shit, they're new. Ryan, they're not making sales. No shit, they're new. Ryan, they're not growing fast enough. No shit, they're new. Ryan, they're not certified yet. No shit. You see a pattern here of stating the obvious and expecting me to react and agree with you in a manner that would somehow support your thesis? I don't see merit to that. I don't see merit to that application when we're talking about this company and its potential to go somewhere in the future. I full well understand that if this company was trading for $26 a share, I would nary a receive the scrutiny on the channel, rather a boastful celebration of how incredible Ryan is as an investor. Whereas I'm trying to share with people that it is a lot less if a lot less about luck and a lot more about just a deliberate and thoughtful application in how I go about exercising my opportunity. Did I over lever? I gave you the progression of my stock purchases and I've shared with you for recent stock purchases. I've increased my small position in another account actually all together as a virgin position in the company of 2,500 shares, all of which were purchased around share points of $1.93. Those were those share buys that I've accumulated over the last couple of weeks anyway, 2,500 shares there with an additional 1,000 in the Charles Schwab account that I bought those at $3.17. I look at each of those blocks of shares as potential landmines that I'll continue to monitor and if they stay landmines forever, never to have gone off, I'm okay with that. But my entry price is just that for each respective block of share that I've entered into and I'm telling you this new position in my it's actually in my corporate account. I haven't added anything to the personal accounts nor the brokerage accounts where I've held highly on shares now for years. No problem. I augment the cost basis by entering into what I feel like are oversold and very, very cheap shares now. That's what I'm doing. Ryan, this stock's going to ruin you. How do I respond to such a stupid comment? Most people don't impress me. I wish people could see things the way that I see things more often and just to give you some idea about what that looks like, I don't give two shits what you do. I don't care at all. Now, when I qualified my goal with highly on holdings to make money, my goal is to make you money too. That in its singular sense is the only thing I care about when it comes to my relationship with you. That's it. That is it. This is the column. Nobody's talking about it. Nobody's talking about the potential of actually making money with this opportunity. So I'll lay the framework now to suggest that I will make a shit ton of people money in this opportunity and I will nary a have people come back and just say thank you because that is the way people are. I've got people disagreeing with me just because they disagree with my assessment to the company right now. They think I'm somehow ruining myself. I have worked since I was 12 years old on this earth. The hardest money that I have ever made in this life came early on in my life when I was learning about the value of money and I thought it was the coolest thing that I was getting paid under the table, $5.25 an hour of standing in over 100 degree weather, kneeling down in the dirt, picking weeds at a landscaping depot. That was my first job. I was 12, 12 years old. That was me. It was me. I know I was there. It was my brain. I was there. You just get to see a lot older version of me. And as I've gotten older, I have understood that in the way I can share with people and what I observe about other people, a lot of people make a lot of really, really easy money in legitimate and non-legitimate ways. All is fair in love and war. I'm not here to judge, no problem. You want to engage in illegal activity and make a ton of money easy? That's your thing. You'll have to accept the risks and the ramifications of when and if you get caught. I'm a standup guy. I'm a legit guy. I do everything I do as legitimately as I can. The reason why I tell this story is for you guys to understand that the older that I have gotten, I have understood that making money comes in a lot of different forms. The last week on the stock market has just breathed. It has organically festered $10,000 in my account. I have no idea where or how it happened. Most people would look at $10,000. If they won that at an Indian casino, they would be over the moon. It would be a life-changing event. I just told you that it was immaterial as far as my week goes. I had a good week in the gym. I returned from my obligation. I'm very, very happy. I'm well rested. I made some great strides professionally, both with the business and with my career. Everything's great. Everything is absolutely phenomenal. I share those stories with you guys for you guys to understand that what makes sense for me may just not make sense to you. I know for the masses out there that's just not good enough. People want to hate on me. They want to hate on me because they're not optimist. They're absolutely pessimistic. The criticism comes to try to take optimism and to somehow steer away from the potential of making a mistake. Optimistic people don't fear making mistakes, my friends. They don't. The stock market provides a very, very interesting alternative to gambling in that I get to play my hand when I want to play it. For you pessimistic people out there that are trying your old, ideological, frail, frail, stale, dying on the vine perspectives about how to live life. I wish you all the best. I absolutely do. I have fought. I have won. I have lost. I have fought and not received any verdict as to whether or not I have won or lost on those lifetime battles. I don't know. I don't know. But make no mistake about it, my friends. I am dead serious about this. Dead serious to the extent that if this motherfucker wants to go to zero, I will be there for the long haul. No matter what the fuck you have got to say to me about what I should be doing with my money. Why? Because I am an optimist, not a pessimist, and I will not change my application in this life for me or you or anybody. Now, my aggressive spirit doesn't fit with everybody. So stop coming into the independent investor channel and trying to manufacture the type of energy that I bring to the table. Find your own energy. I give you all of the free will to find and tap that energy that's probably more aggressive than my energy in some capacities. But you will not know that it's there until you start to look and start to figure out in this life that you, the pessimist and me, the optimist at both of our impasses down the line are headed for an inevitable truth. And that will be that we both expire someday. All right. It will be the very reflection upon your life to give you the indication of regret or not regretting the fact that you took a chance and you fought and you lost and you lost a lot. But by God, you won a lot too. I really appreciate you guys tuning in to the message for the weekly highlight on video. Appreciate the continued support. Stocks at all time lows. No doubt about it. Hopefully this gave you some indication of framework below the surface to understand that you are investing in a seed. You are investing in the seed now. There is nothing that is broached to the surface of the soil to give you some indication that by investing in that seed that you're going to have material fruits to bear at some point down the line. When that happens, I'm not a fortune teller. I don't I don't tell you that stuff. I am the realistic applicator to tell you that I don't know and it's admirable for somebody like myself in the position that I'm in to come in and actually admit the things that I don't know, but also tell you the things that I absolutely do know. Guys, hit the subscription button for me to the channel. Appreciate the support. Leave your comments at the bottom of the video. We will be back with you next week on the highly on updates. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to the message and good luck in your investment future.