🤩 Buying THESE Metaverse Stocks in My NEW $100K Portfolio

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I'm really excited to launch this $100,000 portfolio. If I pick my stocks
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and prices just right, this portfolio could one day be worth $90,000. Then we can take
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that $80,000 and reinvest it in crypto coins with doggies on them and make aggressive bets
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against Tesla stock. Look. Investing doesn't have to be complex or scary.
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There are no tricks or secret strategies to get rich quick. In fact, in his 2021 Letter
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to Shareholders, Warren Buffett said: “a patient and level-headed monkey who constructs a portfolio
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by throwing 50 darts at a board filled with stocks from the S&P500 will, over time, enjoy
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dividends and capital gains as long as it NEVER gets temped to make changes in its original
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selections”. Well, I'm that level-headed monkey and I've got nothing but time. Hey, wait!
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Speaking of time, your time is valuable, so if you're just here to see what's in the portfolio
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so far, I'll show you that first. Then, I'll dive into a couple of the stock picks and
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wrap up with an exercise that I think will instantly make you a better investor and costs
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you absolutely no money. After all, this is the channel that invests in you. Let's get
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right into it, starting with what's in the portfolio. I'm showing you a Google Spreadsheet
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first because, as you'll see, 92% of my portfolio is still in cash, so all the weights and percentages
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on my Public dot com account are going to reflect that. Investing it all in one go would
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defeat the point, so what you're seeing here are the weights of my holdings out of the
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$7800 I have invested and I plan on dollar-cost averaging the rest over time. Like I said
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in my most recent episode, dollar cost averaging is the best way to avoid buying at the top.
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One question I get pretty often is, if I had a small sum of money to invest, how would
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I do it? That's one thing I wanted to answer in the first episode of this portfolio series.
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These 14 stocks are my answer. I could see my total number of stocks going as high as
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maybe 20 or 25 when I've spent all $100,000 dollars.
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The top stock in the portfolio right now is Facebook, ticker symbol F B. Facebook changed
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its name to Meta Platforms, and its ticker symbol is changing to M V R S, for the Metaverse,
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so next month when you see that, just realize that's not a different company. I'm not a
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financial advisor and this is not financial advice, but I think Facebook is an insanely
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undervalued company. It trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of just 23, which is just nuts for a
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software company that runs 4 out of the 6 most downloaded apps in the world. Another
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thing I really love about Facebook, or Meta, is it has its hands in a lot of other technologies
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that put it in a wide variety of themes: media and entertainment, virtual and augmented reality,
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artificial intelligence, blockchain technology. It turns out, a LOT of people are talking
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about this pivot to the metaverse, which is an indicator I care about. Remember, sentiment
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doesn't move the market. Change in sentiment does and this change in Facebook's popularity
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tells me that a lot of new information has yet to be priced into the stock. The news
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on this company is all over the place right now, and rightfully so. Will the metaverse
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ever come to be? Is Facebook bad for society or not? Is Mark Zuckerberg secretly a lizard?
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I won't lie… that sounds like something a lizard would say. Jokes aside,
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this is the part about investing that is actually exciting to me. Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are
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trying to change the world and every investor needs to answer a brand new question. Will
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they or will it be someone else? Analysts seem to think Facebook is currently under-valued,
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with a strong buy rating and a pretty solid price target for the stock.
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Snapchat is on here for the same reasons after its stock price collapsed by over 30% about
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2 weeks ago. Metaverse, media and entertainment, a tech giant that makes wearables; that's
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what's got people talking about Snapchat right now, which is why the trend is up. I think
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that's why ARK Invest has been loading up on both Facebook and Snapchat over the last
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2 weeks as I showed in my most recent episode. I bought Snapchat for $58 bucks a share and
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it's down another 10% from there. Imagine how disappointed I would be if I spent all
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the money I planned to on Snapchat in one go. By the way, the interface you're seeing
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here is a big part of why I chose to go with Public dot com for this portfolio and asked
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them to be a sponsor for this channel. These curated thematic groupings are another. In
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case you didn't know, ARK Invest are thematic investors and this channel is all about investing
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in advanced technologies themed around different disruptive innovations. So, if I click Virtual
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and Augmented reality, I'll get taken to a curated list of stocks that fit that theme,
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many of which were featured in my recent episode on the Metaverse: Snapchat, Facebook, Google,
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AMD, NVidia, as well as a few more I can now go and learn about. Virtual reality is the
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use of technology to create immersive 3D experiences. Its sister innovation, augmented reality,
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is when technology layers a virtual experience onto the world we see. Most of the largest
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tech companies have VR projects well underway, including Facebook's Oculus. and Snap's Spectacles.
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Boom. That's one reason that both of those stocks are in my portfolio and their innovations
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outside of computer vision are something I'll get into in future deep dives, for sure.
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Speaking of which, if we take a look at my portfolio right now, the thing these stocks
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all have in common is a recent drop in share price without any serious changes to my long-term
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investment thesis on them. UiPath, Palantir, Teladoc, Sea Limited, Stone, Mercado Libre,
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Pinterest, and Roku are all companies I've done full-length deep-dive videos on, so I
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won't re-hash my stance on them here. If you're interested in learning more about them, I've
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put all those deep dives together in one convenient playlist for you. I'll leave that in the top
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right-hand corner of your screen right now and in the description below as well. In each
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one of these portfolio videos, I'd like to share one investing habit that I feel makes
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me a good long-term investor and that you can start doing today, and you can let me
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know what you think in the comments. Here's the first one. Manage your watch list as if
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it were your portfolio. What I mean is, pick around 30 positions total that you're interested
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in. Stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, whatever you find yourself drawn to, and create a watch
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list. For now, that's your investing universe and you should try and tune out everything
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else for a while. If you don't know where to begin, my list is a good place to start.
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My list as a few ETFs like ARKK, ARK Invest's Innovation ETF, and the S&P500, since those
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are the 2 funds I'll be comparing my portfolio against over time. It also has ARKG, ARK Invest's
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genomics fund, since I don't know much about genomics but would trust Cathie Wood and her
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team to pick those stocks. My list has Bitcoin and Ethereum, which will probably make it
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into the portfolio sooner than later. I knew I wanted exposure to crypto going in, so Public
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dot com rolling out support for crypto is important to me as an investor.
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Then, there are a few more stocks I've covered on the channel like Coinbase, Draftkings,
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Ginkgo Bioworks, Peak Fintech Group, and of course Tesla. This list is a buffet, so take
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what you want and leave the rest. Comment below or tweet me at Ticker Symbol YOU: do
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any of the stocks in my portfolio or watch list so far surprise you? Did I leave any
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off that you thought would be there? What would you add? I'm excited to hear your thoughts.
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Here's the part where we need to have a spreadsheet, or a notebook, or an app you would use to
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make lists. If you don't take notes on your investments, I'd encourage you to start. If
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you've been investing for a while, you're probably using a separate stock screener or
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alert system. We'll get there later in the series. Whether you're new or more experienced,
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the exercise is the same. You're going to rank your watch list, where rank 1 is your
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highest conviction stock and rank 30 is the lowest one that still makes the list. I'm
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showing you my list in alphabetical order because this is an exercise you should do
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for yourself. Think about your investments a year from now. Two years from now. Five
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years from now. What kinds of companies would you be able to hold through BAD market downturns?
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Is a company like Tesla at the top of your list? Or is it a company like Google or something
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else entirely? Are you sure your bottom choice should be on this list at all? You might find
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that you need to do this a few times as you add, drop, and reorder names on your list.
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This is actually a process that never ends, but what you'll find is that the top half
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of your list shapes up pretty quickly while the bottom half is pretty hard to rank. That's
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perfect because the top 10 stocks will become your portfolio, while the bottom 20 or so
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are your watch list.
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As you learn more about the assets on our watch list, they should either start floating
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to the top or fall off. If you want to add something to your watch list, something must
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be taken off because your limit is 30 things. If you want to add something to your portfolio,
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it should already be near the top of your watch list. You should ask yourself what actually
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changed that makes you want to buy this stock now. Be specific. Is it an earnings report?
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A breaking news item? Maybe a friend influenced your decision or an incredibly handsome ginger
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YouTuber. It's the hair, isn't it? If you're satisfied with your answer, you should start
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by buying just a little so that the stock moves from the top of your watch list to the
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bottom of your portfolio. That's how the watch list and the portfolio work together; the
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watch list protects your portfolio from bad monkey moves. In my opinion, the best finance
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platforms in the world are the ones that take the watchlist seriously and the best investors
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in the world have a system for adding, watching, and removing stocks from this list, not just
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their portfolio. But since those investors don't make YouTube videos, you're stuck with
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me. This portfolio is a long-term project and this is my system for being a patient
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and level-headed monkey.
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Comment below and let me know your thoughts on this portfolio project. What do you want
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me to focus on next month? What could I have done better this month? Do you want me to
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keep talking about my investing habits? Should I just do a broad portfolio update or focus
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on big news items that lead to specific trades? I'm excited to hear your thoughts. If you're
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interested in following along with this portfolio project as I make trades in real-time instead
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of as I make videos on it once a month, consider supporting the channel as an Insider-tier
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Patron on Patreon or channel member right here on YouTube. Then you'll get my trade
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notifications after every batch, as well as access to a special channel in my 4000 member
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discord community focused exclusively on researching and investing in disruptive innovation. The
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discord community itself is completely free and I'll leave a link to join it in the description
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below. And if you like how Public dot com organizes their information on stocks, themes,
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and lists, or you just want to support the channel as an investor, you can go to public
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$70 when you fund your account. Public dot com is free to use with no account minimum
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for as little as one dollar. I'll leave a link to that exclusive offer for you in the
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description below as well. Thanks for watching and until next time, this is Ticker Symbol
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You. My name is Alex, reminding you that the best investment you can make… is in you.