💰 Outperforming Cathie Wood?! My Portfolio Revealed

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if you check out the community tab of my
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channel you'll see that i recently made
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a post detailing my partial sale of a
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stock after a big run up the company is
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called peak fintech group ticker symbol
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pkkff and it's a chinese fintech company
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focused on connecting lenders and
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vendors as you can imagine there's a lot
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going on with that company right now and
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i felt the goal of that post was pretty
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clear i'm a long term buy and hold
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investor so i just don't sell stocks
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very often that means when i do make a
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sale i'm not exactly sure what i should
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be sharing with my community that poses
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a challenge for me because now thousands
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of people watch my investment videos and
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dozens go above and beyond by supporting
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the channel financially as patrons on
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patreon or channel members right here on
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youtube i don't like taking people's
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money for nothing so to show my
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appreciation i share my buys and sells
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with my biggest supporters right as they
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happen instead of having them wait until
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i write produce and publish a video
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about it if i even make one at all
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that's a win-win right so in that post i
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literally just shared everything how
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much of the stock i hold how much i'm
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selling the things i'm concerned about
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and even the ways i'm trying to improve
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and trust me there's a lot of room for
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improvement so your feedback is always
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appreciated well feedback is exactly
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what i got and most of it was actually
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pretty helpful and then there was this
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instead of selling tips you should post
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your entire portfolio so we can see if
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you're a good investor or not anyone can
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post recommendations and boast about the
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ones that multi-bagged in a few months
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we want to see if you have skin in the
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game if you're going to be peddling your
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services for profit then you need to be
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fully transparent by revealing your
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entire portfolio here's what i say to
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that cool challenge accepted based on
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that comment there will be three parts
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to this episode showing you that i have
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skin in the game today revealing my
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trading history since before i even
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thought about starting this channel and
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assessing my five year performance no
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justifications just data that way you
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can decide if i'm a good investor or not
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time stamps are enabled for your
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convenience and if you stick around to
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the end of the episode i'll show you my
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future investing plans as well full
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transparency right let's start with my
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skin in the game here's a high level
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overview of my three investment accounts
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and my unrealized gains i'll show you my
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realized gains as well but this is a
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good place to start i'm not a financial
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advisor and nothing in this episode is a
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recommendation to buy or sell any stock
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or fund since i'm not a financial
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advisor i pay for one his name is mark
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and i know he watches this channel
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hi mark
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mark is hugely responsible for my basic
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financial literacy as well as my
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understanding of financial risk thanks
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mark let me show you my arc invest
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positions right up front so there's no
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confusion since i can't control arc
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invest share prices yet let's go by my
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cost basis i've bought over thirty five
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thousand dollars worth of rkg
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thousand dollars worth of rk and over
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twenty seven thousand dollars of arc w
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between this retirement account and my
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roth ira which i recently began managing
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myself
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so i currently have over a hundred and
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ten thousand dollars invested in ark
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invests funds today when kathy woods
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funds rally i really do celebrate
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alongside you and when they dip i really
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do also feel your pain if you include
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the individual stocks i hold directly
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because of arkhanvest's research that i
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build on top of and share with you i
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have another almost forty thousand
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dollars in teledoc ten thousand dollars
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in ginkgo bioworks five thousand dollars
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in skills and one remaining share of
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tesla at a cost basis of exactly four
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twenty sixty nine
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nice
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if you add up my entire personal cost
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basis of arkhanvest's funds and their
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individual holdings i've put exactly one
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hundred and seventy one thousand eight
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hundred and eighty four dollars and
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eleven cents where my mouth is let me
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know in the comments below if that's
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enough skin in the game here are all my
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current holdings with mark in my main
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retirement account about eighty eight
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thousand dollars in arc invest twenty
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eight thousand dollars in teledoc twenty
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thousand dollars in neo and twenty five
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thousand dollars in 3d capital ticker
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symbol idkf 3d capital is a canadian
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conglomerate that focuses on buying into
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companies kind of like berkshire
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hathaway does but focuses on small cap
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disruptive innovation companies kind of
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like how ark invest does this is a
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retirement account so it's filled with
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very long term plays all of these other
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indexes and funds are in here so that
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mark doesn't literally strangle me
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here are my realized gains and losses
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meaning the positions that either he or
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i have sold since the start of the year
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virgin galactic and slack are the two
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that i was responsible for and the rest
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of these gains are actually because mark
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is really good at his job
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almost as you can see he lost me 350
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bucks on a couple trades earlier this
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year he's on thin ice since we
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transferred my account into this
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platform two years ago my cost basis for
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this account at the time was one hundred
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and eighty three thousand five hundred
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dollars and the current value including
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these realized gains is two hundred and
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fifty one thousand eight hundred dollars
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which is a thirty seven percent return
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over about two years or seventeen
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percent annually not bad for how
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conservative and long-term it is
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fidelity is where i manage the other two
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accounts if you don't know anything
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about roth iras they allow for tax-free
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growth and tax-free withdrawals in
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retirement but limit contributions to 5
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500 or so per year maybe the limit is
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like 6 000 a year now here's what's in
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that account again idkff is 3d capital
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and pkkff is peak fintech group skills
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ginkgo bioworks arcw and teledoc are all
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here as well and they're currently at a
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great discount compared to the prices
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that i bought them at
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i started this roth ira in 2014 and
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haven't added cash to it since 2019
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because i'm no longer eligible that's a
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problem i'm very fortunate to have
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during those six years i always
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contributed the maximum so my cost basis
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for this account is around thirty three
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thousand dollars and it's now worth one
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hundred and thirteen thousand dollars so
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that's a compound annual growth rate of
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at least nineteen percent over the last
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seven years which is right in line with
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the s p 500 over the same time frame
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even with my latest trades into these
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positions being down by double digit
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percentage points today my only regret
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with this account is that i can't
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contribute to it anymore and i can't
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withdraw from it for another almost 30
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years
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here's my actively managed individual
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investing account managing this account
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has been my full-time job since may it
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currently has around 350 000 dollars in
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it up from about 110 000
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this time last year that's a two hundred
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and twenty seven percent annualized rate
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of return compared to the thirty one
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percent of the s p 500 returned over the
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same time frame i'll save the rest of
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the performance commentary for after i
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show you what's in here there's
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obviously no arc invest in my active
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account since that would defeat the
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point of actively trading myself as you
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can see it's mostly the same stuff peak
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fintech 3d capital and ginkgo bioworks
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are all slotted in here again
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then there are a few companies that my
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insider tier patrons on patreon and
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channel members right here on youtube
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recognize from my buy alerts big digital
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assets ticker symbol bb kcf is a company
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that focuses on compliance and security
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for cryptocurrencies that i'm currently
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averaging down into since it crashed
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along with the crypto market earlier
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this year red white and bloom ticker
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symbol
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rwbyf is a multi-state cannabis company
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that makes smart acquisitions and is
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trading at much lower earnings multiples
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than companies like true leave and
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cureleaf queen spark ticker symbol clsk
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is an energy management company that
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helps their clients set up microgrids
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that smartly produce route store and
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consume power based on whatever they
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need to achieve for example a hospital
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campus with multiple buildings might
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need 100 uptime for their electricity
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while a low-income neighborhood might
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optimize their combined power
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consumption around peak loads to sell
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energy back to the grid for the highest
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price instead of consuming it queen
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spark also makes smart acquisitions
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including a couple smart crypto mining
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data centers that they're optimizing the
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power consumption of solar integrated
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roofing corp ticker symbol sirc is a
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tesla certified solar installation
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platform company that again makes smart
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acquisitions to expand into adjacent
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markets like battery backups and
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electric vehicle charging stations i
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feel that solar integrated roofing corp
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trades at very low earnings multiples
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compared to other solar companies as you
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can tell i have an affinity for active
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portfolios that constantly add new
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innovative companies as well as
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innovative companies that are actively
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making smart acquisitions both of which
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i talk about very often in my videos
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think teledoc's merger with lavongo
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palantirs investments in over a dozen
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specs skills acquisition of archie and
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all the other acquisitions that i focus
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on when i talk about earnings the reason
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for that is because these types of
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portfolios and companies act as gateways
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for me to find cool technology trends
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and themes to research and that's what
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i'm passionate about speaking of cool
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technology tesla was in my portfolio for
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a long time and i will always keep this
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one share at the perfect cost basis i
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got rid of my tesla position in this
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account because i think it's a much
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longer term play at this point and
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remember i still hold a ton of it
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through my sizable positions in arcade
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and arcw just like with my retirement
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accounts here are my realized gains and
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losses from my own active trading
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meaning money i've made and lost from
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every single stock i've sold since the
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start of third quarter 2020 which is
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when i first had the idea to build
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ticker symbol u this list of trades just
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gets too long if i show you everything
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over the last five years my academic and
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professional background is in electrical
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engineering and artificial intelligence
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which i lean on heavily in my personal
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investing as well as in these videos
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surprise surprise my biggest winners are
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all in the energy space which i talk
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about extensively sirc 15xed from when i
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bought it so i cashed out and bought
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back in at the prices that i just showed
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you in my current portfolio i've also
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roughly 2 to 4xed my money for other
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times in the last five quarters thanks
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to companies like queen spark marathon
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holdings planet 13 and peak fintech
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moving down the list a bit you can see
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that i actually held another roughly 75
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000 of arc invest in the past so at one
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point i held over a quarter million
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dollars in kathy woods funds and her
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biggest positions before i decided to
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take a more active role in my own
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investing just for full transparency
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here are all of my losses for the same
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time period all of which were sold for
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pretty different reasons teledoc is
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actually my biggest loss which i still
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hold a ton of and regret selling at all
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i'm still averaging down into it today
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and the sale was just a silly mistake
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helion ticker symbol hyln is a company
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that makes hybrid natural gas generator
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and electric motor systems that can be
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retrofitted to existing semi trucks they
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have a lot of sweet ideas but at the
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time i didn't really see them executing
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so i bailed and brain chip ticker symbol
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brchf is a company that makes small
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lightweight computer chips that crunch
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numbers the same way the human brain
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does instead of how other neural
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networks crunch them i like the company
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a lot and i only sold because i'm trying
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to get out of the otc market
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specifically and exiting brain chip
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meant paying the least amount of taxes
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at the time if they get uplifted to a
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major exchange i'll think about buying
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back in that's actually the same reason
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for a lot of these trades where the
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total proceeds and the cost basis are
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close to the same amount i've been
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heavily consolidating my positions and
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wanted to pay as little taxes as
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possible i'll explain why after i show
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you my historical performance if we go
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to the performance tab for my account
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you can see my performance for the last
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year this 227 percent number is my time
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weighted annualized rate of return for
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the past year time weighted is actually
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the wrong way to look at it which i'll
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talk about more in a minute if we go
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down to my balance and performance
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activity you can see my portfolio value
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over the last year in dark blue versus
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my cost basis in white blue my cost
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basis is negative because i took about
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150 000 out as a safety net before
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becoming a full-time investor and
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youtuber earlier this year since that's
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pretty much as far from a stable
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paycheck as you can get right after i
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went full time in may arkanvest's funds
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tanked and so did my channel's views for
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about two months so taking these profits
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turned out to be a seriously prudent
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move for me the only income i actually
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had for those two months came from
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patreon which is why i'm always hemming
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and hawing about providing my supporters
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with enough value to begin with there
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was a point where they literally would
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have kept food on my table if i didn't
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take these profits and that really
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matters to me let's take a closer look
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at my personal returns this data is
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since i opened my investment account on
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august 18 2016 so just over five years
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ago it's pretty cool for me to finally
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be able to see this five year number
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below it we can compare my annualized
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returns to the s p 500 the dow jones and
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other big indexes here's the thing these
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are time weighted returns which means
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they don't take into account big
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deposits and withdrawals that way you
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can compare the performance of my
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investments directly to an index before
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i show you my true money weighted
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returns let me explain the difference
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i'm not trying to justify anything here
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this is an important nuance time waiting
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looks at the change in portfolio value
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over time time waiting is important for
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fund managers like kathy wood because
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she doesn't control the massive inflows
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and outflows of arc invest funds her
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investors do so counting her fund flows
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one way or the other when comparing the
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performance of her investments to an
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index wouldn't be apples to apples if
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you've ever seen a youtuber use m1
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finance that app shows you your money
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weighted returns as the name implies
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money weighting weighs your performance
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more when your portfolio is bigger and
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less when your portfolio is smaller
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meaning it takes into account the timing
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of your deposits and withdrawals as an
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investor this is how we as individuals
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should measure our performance since we
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control our deposits and withdrawals so
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time weighted performance is for
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investments and money weighted
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performance is for investors so here is
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my true personal annualized rate of
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return as an investor to you it's just a
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table verifying what i hope you already
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suspected based on the time money and
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energy i pour into this channel but to
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me it's a half decade of sweat all my
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attempts to time the market all my swing
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trades gone wrong and serious lessons
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learned from bad mistakes i held tesla
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and nvidia years ago and let them both
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go way too early i've held plenty of bad
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stocks way too late even though these
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numbers look great i feel like i have so
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much left to learn about business and
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finance about technology and innovation
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and about how they all come together
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inside the publicly traded companies
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that are transforming our lives that's
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what i'm genuinely excited to share with
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you each episode regardless of whether
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it's a green day or a red day alright
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hopefully i've satisfied you with my
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skin in the game my recent trading
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history and my long-term performance let
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me know in the comments below if this is
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what you want from my portfolio reveals
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or if there's something else i should do
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for next time and there will be a next
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time because this is just a snapshot and
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my portfolio is always changing over
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time
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okay here's what's happening next as i
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just showed you i've been consolidating
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my portfolio for a while now if and when
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ticker symbol u hits 100 000 subscribers
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i'm going to open a 100 000 portfolio
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and show you how i would invest it from
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scratch and manage it over time and over
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time i want that portfolio to become my
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main portfolio just like this one at the
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portfolio we'll have some companies that
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are from arc invest funds and it will
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have some that are not instead of
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comparing the ticker symbol u portfolio
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to the indexes we're going to compare
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its performance to kathy wood and rk
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over a five year stretch since that's
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arc invest's time horizon or however
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long it takes for me to admit defeat
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arkhanvest has a team of incredible
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analysts and all the financial tools and
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resources that kathy wood could ever
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want so i'll be reorganizing my 4 000
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member discord community to focus more
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on the stock market and investing not
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just technology platforms and innovation
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if you're interested in joining that and
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helping me with this crazy idea i'll
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leave a link to my discord community in
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the description below i strongly believe
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that almost nobody understands
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technology and exponential growth like
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kathy wood does so no matter what the
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results are i want to make it clear that
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the goal of this portfolio is to provide
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a fun interactive and educational
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investment experience using my own money
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to me that's a great way to level up the
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channel that invests in you if you're
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interested in seeing the moves in that
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portfolio as they happen instead of
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waiting for me to cover it in a video
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consider becoming a patron on patreon or
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a channel member right here on youtube
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for the hundreds of people that are
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already supporting the channel through
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those two platforms first of all thank
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you the channel is still less than one
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year old and many of you have been with
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me for six seven or even eight months
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now and that means the world to me
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seriously if you're not a supporter and
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you still want to follow the portfolio
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when it launches that's totally cool
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i'll talk about the portfolio at least
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once a month and recap the biggest
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changes good or bad ultimately i believe
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that investing is a set of practiced
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skills however you decide to invest in
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those skills is up to you until next
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time this is ticker symbol you
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my name is alex reminding you that the
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best investment you can make
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is in you
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you