August 28, 2023 • 56 mins
Get ready to level up your financial game on the latest episode of "Finding Your Niche with Neish"! We've got the one and only Aristotle Investments in the house, dropping knowledge bombs on how to stack that paper through the stock market grind. This ain't your typical suit-and-tie chat – Aristotle brings that street-smart charisma and fun vibes as he spills the beans on his killer trading moves. He's all about living large while keeping it real, sharing how to hold it down as the family breadwinner. And guess what? He's dishing out golden nuggets from billionaire playbooks that'll make your head spin. Plus, he's breaking down his tight-knit Honey Drip Network, where traders come together to hustle and succeed. Don't miss out on this lit episode – it's time to secure that bag, y'all! 💰🚀
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It was button heads with that too, Like even though I got money,
I'm twenty three with it him.So family trying to tell me what to
do with my money when I'm theone who made this and y'all never made
it him you get know what I'msaying. But they like like, man,
you're gonna lose it all. Putit over here, give it to
me. You know what I'm saying. Oh, man, you know it's
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some over that saying hey, yougot damn one of the one of those
tight niggash put it over here,give it to me. Do this?
Do that? You feel me?So that was the most challenging part.
Yeah, it's just like all ofa sudden, the person who made the
money is a stupid person. Everybody'strying to make me feel stupid right when
I when they took when I gota million cash, Yeah you know what
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I mean. Yeah, that's solike it literally took about to now in
the last two years for people torespect me, like as like, we'll
give me some examples of the waythat you tell but maybe even your family
or other people. No, whenit comes to when it comes to them
asking for fun, Oh, it'sjust nothing. It's just silent. I
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don't respond because if you say somethingthen it's like shit, I like,
I ain't read it. You knowhow you can do the little unread shit.
Goddamn, Look cause look I calllook if you if you acknowledge it,
they gonna call you a fun nigga. Yeah they told me no.
But if you be like Bri ain'the never saw that. And then it's
five months go by, motherfucker likeBrian know you'd beat busy bro got damn.
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You know what I'm saying like likethat when I'm on Okay because because
I'm taking that I learned was Ilearned? It's from moving around with other
dudes who popular and shit, theyhave a dude to tell other niggas no.
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And we are back for another amazingepisode of Finding Your Niche with Niche
and today, y'all. If GettingMoney was a person, I think his
name would be Aristotle. Joining metoday on the show is the one and
only guy who's really making waves inthe trading industry and so much more entrepreneurship,
marketing, the whole thing. SoI'm so excited to talk to you
today. Thank you so much forcoming on the show. Thank you,
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thank you, So I've been reallyimpressed with what you've been able to do
at such a young age and sucha short amount of time for people who
don't know you or maybe new tolike learning about what it is that you
do. Tell the people a littlebit about who you are. Aristotle Investments.
I started off as just a popularhustler from you know, I was
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in Savannah for Stewart, I wasstationed the arm and Uh, I was
a barber. I was writing booksteaching people how I invest my money,
and I was investing my barber money. So I make a long story short,
I was living off my Army moneyand I was investing my barber money.
But I was like buying stocks andmaking a lot of money, and
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people just really wanted to learn fromme. Yeah, but it was like
start off at just a passion ofme just sharing how I hustle, cause
I just wanted to be popular forhustling. That's really what my niche was
at first, was just hustling.Yeah, when you were cutting hair,
Like, is that something that youstill like are interested in doing? Cause
you was making money doing that.So I cut my hair, you cut
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your hair still? Yeah, Likeso I can always keep it. You
know what I say, if youdon't use it, you'll lose it.
So I'll cut my hair from timeto time. Okay, that's dope.
Yeah, your story is really fascinatingbecause you know, a lot of people
get into the military for different reasons. But I'm curious to know what was
kind of the initial reason that youdecided to join. No, right with
it. You has a good question. So the reason I decided to join
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the military was because, uh,just being completely honest and transparent. Uh,
my stepfather joined the military when Iwas in the eleventh grade. I
was going to Creekside High School inAtlanta or South Atlanta South FORLTA. He
joined the military. He's working atAT and T downtown Atlanta. My mom
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was working at AT and T aswell. My mom quit her job and
all of that, so my momdidn't work. She was, uh she
wanted to uh kind of support thehouse, you know, do the house
white thing with my uh, withmy stepfather while he was in the military.
And my dad got seven kids,so it's like I didn't have no
financial support, Okay, and Icouldn't really And did you grow up in
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Atlanta? No, I'm from KellyOkay. Cool. So in Atlanta,
they got the Hope Scholarship. Ifyou get like a three point oh or
better. Ye, they'll pay eightytwo eighty percent of your tuition in the
in state school. So because Icouldn't finish my senior year in Georgia,
yeah, I couldn't qualify for thatscholarship, even though I had a good
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grade point average. So if Iwe would have lived in Georgia, I
would have went to college. Butbecause we got stationed in Kansas, so
I was already on a military base. So I'm playing basketball with soldiers,
asking no questions about the military.Yeah, and then my mom pretty much
said I had to get out ofthe house at eighteen, so she said
military college. But I was onsome stuff like I don't want to go
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into debt. Yeah, because thewhole goal was to be an entrepreneur.
Okay, I got you. Myhusband's Air Force and he was actually for
ten years. So we were stationedin Kansas too, and I did not
that wasn't I was in Fort Rileywhere were I was in witcher Tong Okay,
I've been there before. Yeah itwas it was okay. But with
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that being said, I think You'reupbringing too, is interesting because you have
like this, I I can readwith what you've gone through because you've had
this like two different dynamics or dichotomies, so to speak. With like your
upbringing. You've had this life whereyou've had to live in the hood,
and then you've had this life whereyou've experienced the suburbs. Can you talk
to me a little bit about whateach of those things have offered you when
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it comes to like how you livetoday. When I was living in the
hood, we were living off uhCleveland as that's where my family still live.
Uh my mom. From second toabout up to about sixth grade,
I live in the hood. Ihad a real Boys in the Hood story.
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You ever seen that movie? Yeah, so you remember like he was
getting in trouble at school and hismom said, I'm gonna make you gonna
stay with your dad. Yeah,that's what happened. So I'm always going
to see my dad in the hood. But I never lived in it until
I got into the second grade.Okay, but I was all living with
my mom, you know what I'msaying. So my parents and split when
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that when it was months old.So to make a long story, short,
living in the hood, finally gettingto live with my dad taught me
a lot that it's just real lifeout here. I guess I can say
that part. When you live inthe suburbs, you're you're shielded. Ye
for sure. You don't know thatthere's kids out here who actually want to
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be gangster, who actually joining gangsat an early age. Shot. You
know. Uh, I've seen kidsoverdose since and this is back in o
fo oh five, Like kids weretaking pills right back there, back in
that day. You know what I'msaying. Yeah, uh, really a
lot you see, But it justtaught me like what not to do,
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more so than it had an oppositeeffect, believing or not it turns you
off. He was like, okay, yeah, I definitely don't want to
do that. Ye be that nah, because I remember the suburbs. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. SoI've seen It's weird because I you
know, I started off suburbing,then went to the hood cause I my
mom wanted me to go live withmy dad cause I got a spell from
elementary school. I was being badunder her care. Yeah, yeah,
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and that's I think that's the partwith your particular story, you know has
a benefit because a lot of thesepeople don't know in no other way,
right, but you knew like,oh there's there's something out They're different than
what this is right here. SoI'm gonna tap into that. And speaking
of that, you've been able totap into that obviously what you were talking
about in the beginning your military career, figuring out how to make money and
hustle through being a barber, andthen once you started making money through trading.
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Talk to me about the first day, the very first day that you
actually seen profits where you're like,Okay, this is something I want to
do a long time. I justposted it today. This was back in
uh, twenty eighteen July. Okay, oh twenty eighteen. Wow, it's
when I first saw profits from likejust I was making. I was averaging
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a hundred dollars a day while Iwas in the army, and then out
of nowhere it turned up. Istarted averaging like five K four K a
month, like towards it went fromlike a hundred dollars a day. I
was instantly profitable. But I hadalready started investing, but it was on
like an auto investor. This appcalled Acorns and it was this app call
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Stash, So while that so Iwas making money from that. That's really
when I first first started making moneyin twenty seventeen, but it was on
an auto investor app by myself handshands on twenty eighteen. You know what
I'm saying, what was that feelinglike? Because I feel like that's you
know, it's tricky because at thatpoint, could you consider yourself a real
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trader when you're hands on or youstill a trader when you're not. You're
you're a trader when your hands on. When you're not hands on, you
just plent your money, but youcan still make money though, yeah,
if it's about your timing. Soit's like, if I would have left
all that money in acorns right now, that money that I put in could
have been like maybe twenty rex andit was four thousand I put in five
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years ago. Yeah wow, whatI'm saying, Yeah yeah, yeah,
But I took it out and putit in robin Hood and turn it into
fourteen thousand, So I turned itaway more. But I'm saying that if
I would have left it, yeah, I'm interested because there's a lot of
people that get into the industry anda lot of people who know about some
of this. If you're talking aboutRobin hood Acorn, what was the difference
between What would you say, isthe difference between you and somebody who really
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decided to I guess if no pointintended would take the bold by by the
horns. When it comes to liketrading in the market information, like I'm
playing the same game the wealthier playing, Like I'm already up six hundred thousand
this year, so I'm playing adifferent game than an uninformed investor. Like
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I don't pay attention to the news. I pay attention to I do pay
attention to the news, but I'mnot vividly just watching the news. I
study companies in their news. Okay, if that makes sense, Okay,
But to be honest, investing isfor everybody. Investing is not necessarily something
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owned by me. It's been peopleinvesting before me. You know what I'm
saying. It's just I've been investingfor a long time, uh going on
six years now. Yeah, soyou know that that could be a difference
to it is experienced. But tobe honest, I think everybody should invest.
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Okay, So with that being said, I think that's interesting what you're
saying that everybody should be an investorand everybody should be investing, but nonetheless
investing is intimidating for a lot ofpeople. I'm curious to know. What
would you say is the specific traitthat people should have if they're going to
be an investor and even a goodinvestor at that I would say, first
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and foremost, they have to learnmarket structure. So they got to learn
the basics first, and what arethe basics? And we're going to explain
the basics right now. You gottaknow the difference between bull and bear market.
Right, So bulls strike up,bear strike down. So the market
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says that based on the fighting attackstyle these animals. So the ball market
means prices are going up. Bearmarket means prices are in a prolonged period
of decreased prices going down. Soremember bull strike up, bear strike down?
Right, Okay, so those arethat's some of the basic info you
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need to know. You also needto know what is a stock? Yeah,
right, So a stock is prettymuch I guess you could say a
vehicle or an asset you can buy. So assets are something you can part
when you can purchase something and theycan return you in investment. It's an
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asset, real estates an asset.You know what I'm saying. This room
is an asset, right, Soa stock is just an asset class you
can invest in. So when peoplerealize that first, it's not the lottery,
it's an asset, and the wholegame is to buy this asset at
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a cheap price. You get whatI'm saying. That's the whole game.
The whole game is to buy low. So people need to understand the game
first, the basic game. Whatis the game? The game is to
buy low. So a lot ofpeople, first and foremost don't know where
they're buying. Yeah, so theyalready lost. Yeah, coming in the
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game, you just are I'm goingto buy Snapchat. Okay, cool,
I'm not even gonna use Snapchat.Let's use something like Apple. Okay,
you want to buy Apple. Ifyou try to go buy Apple right now?
What is today today? August third, August fifth, six, August
six, August six, Apples uphere all right in the stock market.
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Okay, if you're an uninformed investor, you're going to buy up here right
after all of us bought down here. Yeah, see what I'm saying.
Yea, all the rich people.All the people who know what they do
and bought down here. The peopledon't know what they're doing. I want
to buy up here right, andwhy because they have something called fomo fear
of missing out right. So thegame is, you're supposed to eat before
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you buy up here. Always buythe dip, even if you're you miss
this, Yeah, at least don'tbuy it here. Buy when it drops
again from there the top. Neverbuy the top. That's first and foremo.
That's what I'm saying. It's certainlyjust basic rules. So investing isn't
intimidating. It's about learning the basicsfirst. People gotta start there. Yeah,
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instead of just I'm just going toinvest, I don't even gonna learn.
I want to do nothing. Everybody'sstrategy is hope instead of have an
actual strategy. Buy the dip.Okay, this could be for anything.
When do you want to buy ahouse when the market crashes or when it's
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like in twenty twenty, would yourather buy in twenty twenty or in twenty
eighteen? Which one? Where wouldyou rather buy a house in twenty twenty
twenty eighteen? Because before the crash? Yeah, cause you remember inflation and
everything after the pandemic made all theprices go up. Oh yeah, and
we ended up doing that, yeahin twenty eighteen. Yeah, you get
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what I'm saying. So you wouldrather buy cheap basics, you feel?
Yeah? With that being said,though, the cause it sounds like you're
you know, you're very informed.Obviously you're a very informed trader. Where
did you kind of like learn allthat you know today? Are you self
taught or was there somebody that youwould attribute a lot of the knowledge that
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you have today. I'm self taught, so I read books. The the
the people who I can give creditto for my knowledge are the authors of
certain books. So what I learnedis no one is technically self taught.
I was taught by books, okay, and then I was taught by community.
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So I'll explain. The books Iread were the the Investing for Dummy
series. I read day Trading forDummies. So whoever that author is,
that's the man I give credit tofor my knowledge. Uh, day Trading
for Dummies, Uh, Scalping forDummies, Fundamental Analysis for Dummies, Technical
Analysis for Dummies, Candlestick Bible readthat book. You know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, this was back in twentyseventeen. H get what I'm saying,
So I credit those authors, Okay, and then and then community.
So first you gotta start with thebasics. I go and get the foundation
first. Then you go tapping in. So if you want to learn anything,
it's certain basic steps. If Iwant to become a real estate investor,
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yeah, first thing I'm gonna dois put into work myself. Go
as far as I can myself free, it's own YouTube, it's own books,
its own good Get as far asyou can by yourself. Then you
go to community, and you coulddo both at the same time. Now,
how do you find community? People'sYouTube pages? Yeah, Instagram,
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Facebook, Go figure out where peopleare talking about investing so you can go
see different opinions. Yeah, andthen you and then you stay in these
communities for a while. Right,So, first communities, I started tapping
into it, like Yahoo Finance.I would go read the comments there.
Then I started going on Instagram.So it's back in twenty seventeen. At
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that time, I realize, Wow, it's a wide open lane. There's
no such thing as a young blackman investing on the internet right now.
Yeah, So I said, I'mgonna become that I got a monopoly.
I'm the only one. Yeah,just being the first, I know I
was the first at that time,just being the first, right there,
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A billionaire said it. Sometimes youdon't have to be the best, you
have to be the first. Andit sometimes being the best or sometimes letting
somebody go first it's the best option. That's good. So it's like it's
kind of a combination of both.Yeah, it was a lot of young
white guys and Indian guys doing thatat that time. Yeah, so I
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wasn't the first. I was thefirst black young man doing it at that
time. You get what I'm saying. I do. So since you you
know, like you said, you'reup six hundred thousand this year, obviously
you you're a multi millionaire at beforethirty year on thirty right, turned thirty
year. Yeah, so under thirtymultimillionaire, made lots of money twenty seven.
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Wow, Okay, you don't withwhat you've been able to do being
the first black trader at performing atthe level that you've been able to perform,
obviously, it takes a certain level. I wanted the first black I
probably because you know, it probablywas a black guy doing it. In
the nineties and okay, but onthe Instagram social entrepreneur thing, I was
doing this since twenty seventeen eighteen,you know what I'm saying. For the
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pandemic got you, okay. Sothen with that being said, though,
you've gotten to where you are froma level of discipline, I know,
like disciplines is a key, yeah, trade characteristic that you need to have
to be a trader. Now thatyou've been making money, is some of
this stuff kind of like autopilot foryou? Or do you still maintain the
same level of discipline that it tookyou to get to where you are today.
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Nah, you work to get iton autopilot for show, okay,
because it'll get to a point whereyou can't spend time with your family,
you can't live a regular life,and that's what's going to destroy you.
And then so any entrepreneur who's beingsuccessful went through this point where yeah,
you making money, Yeah you thisand that, but you can't really enjoy
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yourself or you probably don't get toenjoy what you do because you do it
too much. So what I learnedis breaks make it to where you're grateful
for the fruits of your labor.Okay, So when I first started getting
money, I was hustling so hard, but I was only kind of enjoying
myself locally, eating good food,you know, stuff like that. But
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I really still couldn't feel why beinggetting all this money was so strenuous.
Yeah, yeah, what's the what'sthe point When I first made my When
I made my first million, itdidn't feel like whoo, It felt like,
Okay, you get what I'm saying, really, because everybody waits and
anticipates that moment. Yeah, butlike see a lot of people see I'm
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kind of honest and transparent about mine, you know what I'm saying, meaning
like I was actually a millionaire beforeI was a mid Okay, you know
how people be like net worth?My net worth was was a millionaire back
in shit, probably twenty eighteen.Wow. But a million dollars cash.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm talking aboutlike I can withdraw yeah and use to
my name. No, no,none of that, you know what I'm
saying. Yeah, dude, right, because because it's a difference when people
talking about when they when they firstwas a middle I'm talking about a million
dollars cash, yeah, and thatwasn't that that moment for you wasn't who
who? Because I'm gonna explain why, because it took three years to get
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there. But it takes three years. When it takes See, when something
happens instantaneously, you feel the joy. Okay, when you grind for something,
it's a humbleness that comes to it. It took it took three years
from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty,three years of saving. Right. So
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the year of twenty eighteen, Imade about one hundred K. A year
of twenty nineteen, I made aboutfive hundred racks a little over that,
Okay, in the year of twentytwenty, probably like three million. Wow.
So I literally camped tripling, doublingmy money each year, and I
finally got to a point where Imade nearly the same money every year.
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I probably make a million more everyyear than I made the previously. That's
still good. Wow, that's fascinatingwith you with what you just said.
I'm also like curious to know withobviously you having like money in real life.
Yeah, what is it like beingaround people who pretend to have money?
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What is that like for you?It is? You know what?
And can you tell? I cantell? Yeah? Oh so I know
when I bought my Feruari, whenI bought this house, when I bought
everything I could afford, it's aten times. So when I bought my
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house for six hundred thousand, Icould have literally bought that cash and still
have more money left. Yeah,there's nothing I have. I don't let
my liability, my liabilities outweigh howmuch money cash. I have. A
lot of people have more in cars, in all, in a whole bunch
of other stuff. Now if it'sreal estate, that's different. Yeah,
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you can have a bunch of that. But some people have a lot of
clothes, cars, jewelry, yea, more than they have money. You
have more stuff than you have money. That part I don't understand because it
took and you and you could askmy boy back there. I didn't know
what Dior was till I made threemillion dollars. But you gotta think I
was stationed in Savannah, Georgia,So I joined the military here when not
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in twenty fourteen? Yeah, andbeen in Savannah the whole time. Said
there was no designer store, Therewas no we heard of Louis vatime,
but on rap music we heard aGucci from Gucci bandana. When Soldier Boys
said it you feel me Gucci,that's the first time I heard, right,
Yeah, so, but I stilldidn't know what Gucci was. It's
the materialistic part that makes me belike, dang, Like you don't even
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understand because what you what you're doingis you're competing with people who got the
money to do that. Yeah,Like somebody would get a million and try
to go literally go tip for tapsomebody who got ten. You get what
I'm saying. Yeah, And I'veseen that and then they end up broke
when the fad and the griff runsout. Yeah. Right, but I'm
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gonna be honest with you. AndI had to learn was like, I
can't let people use me when mybrand is established, so you see,
I kind of do my own thing, yeah, because you know, and
I still network, but I networkwith the right people. You can't be
too open because everybody is kind oflike money hunger, if that makes sense.
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Yeah, like literally trying to hita lick at the lick at the
lick, and a lot of themdon't realize the patients when you when you
more patient and you let the dealsfall through organically, they'll happen more you
know what I'm saying, But itlike when you kind of chasing after people,
chasing after people. Yeah, andyou gotta also do this. You
can't really like be wanting the recognition. A lot of them want recognition from
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the people in their industry. Soyou might care more about podcasts people,
I might care more about investing.What the what the big investors in my
community feel about me? Yeah,you get what I'm saying. And what
I had to learn is you gotto like care about your journey. And
that's it. Because everybody how theygot that they you know, shit,
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they could be yep, they gottheir own thing. I mean. But
it's tempting though, when you gofrom not getting money to all of a
sudden getting money. Can you seehow it's tempting and and and how people
can, like all of a suddenwant to change the way they live.
But I learned. I also learnedto mind my business. So it's like
even if somebody is doing that alot of times, you gotta let them,
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and you gotta let people karma tearthem down instead of you being a
reason or try to butt into thesituations. So it's like I see Cap
all the time on the internet.Yeah, every day because I actually got
money, so I know, yeah, you know what I'm saying. That's
what I'm saying. That's what Iwas like, I wanted to ask cool
this this change right here costs fortyk right. Okay, this wash right
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here costs you know, a fiftyor sisty right, and probably costs a
sisty now, but it costs fiftywhen I bought it. Okay, right,
this costs twenty five. So Ican go look at him man and
be like, so you're telling meyou got five of these, and I
got more money than you, andI got a rry outside. Yeah,
you get what I'm saying, perspection, So that's cap Yeah, so you're
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telling me these dude spending. Ijust told you how much this cost.
Yes, link cuban link in itselfcosts of forty so you know, so
you're telling me a dude got whodon't got lambs nothing, he got ten
of these on that's four hundred racks. You see what I'm saying. Yeah,
all right, then that should letyou know right now it's capping or
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it's not. I like this kindof math. You get what I'm saying.
Yeah, d if a motherfucker.I don't five changes cap? Why
how can can they have on fivechange? And I have a house.
If they do, they stupid?Yea, and it's and it's probably something
like that. If they do,they stupid. But I'll tell you how
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much this stuff costs. Yeah,all right, and then it's nothing for
you to go rent a car andbe like standing in front of it.
I see a lot of cap,but it's not my place to say nothing.
Yeah, you get what I'm saying. Yeah, but I see a
lot of bullshit. Jury. Iknow. That's like everybody keeps doing the
same thing, keep being in frontof the same houses, same cars,
same posting the same say yes exactlypost Are you going to be that guy?
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Ever? No, hey, listenguys them. But but see,
that's the part that I feel likeI get a lot of this light in
the community for is I won't participatein that, like I just do my
own thing. Yeah, because ifyou don't, because all right, a
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billionaire said this, he said,focus on your customers, not your competitors.
So a lot of people focus ontheir competitors. They'll literally post a
screenshot of their Stripe account that theymade from their customers. Yeah, just
to show off to their competitors.Yeah, when you're really supposed to be
posting for your community. Are youtrying to impress five people or your ten
thousand followers or your hundred k followers? So I focus on impressing my followers,
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Yeah, not the five people whomad because I'm here. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying a lotof people do that. They focus way
too much on their competitors and thenend up looking like a clown in front
of their followers trying to alight.He bought a lambo, so I gotta
go buy this even though I can'tafford it. Oh he did that,
I gotta go do this. Ohhe doing that post it went viral.
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I gotta try that, yep,like like and then what they don't realize
is if you always gotta wait onanother man to make a move, then
you always gonna be behind, right, So I can't That's why I don't
really watch other people content things likethat, because it's not to try to
like, not like your post andnothing like that. It's just I gotta
keep grounding on how I do thingsthat I got speak in my own language,
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you know, And speaking of yourown language too. I think what
you're talking about, has, youknow, kind of been the key factor
to it, how you've been ableto kind of leverage and scale in your
own businesses being in your own lane? Essentially, what kind of thoughts have
you subscribed to that you think madea difference in who you are as a
traitor? No like? No likewho you are like? What kind of
thoughts have you subscribed to that havemade you like the person you are and
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be able to have the mindset thatyou had. The first thought was karma.
One of the first things I workedon before I ever started investing was
a connection not necessarily like getting closeto God through religion, but getting close
to God through actions. You getwhat I'm saying? And what do I
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mean by that empty in my walletwhen I walk out? Like when I
would take her own dates, whatevermoney I had in my wallet, I
pass it out to the homeless,pass it out tip people. I'm I'm
always empty in my pockets to otherWhenever I if I have cash, it's
always to give to people. That'show much I don't even believe in cash.
Cash is I only use cash totip? Yeah? So if I
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if I ever have ten thousand.That's too. That's either for my family
or to give out to the community. Going somewhere to do that real soon.
As a matter of fact, likeright now on this podcast, well
about to go give away ten thousandcash to uh look at you. I
mightna give away ten thousand cash tothe community. But it was karma first,
like staying on your word, doingto others you won't done to you.
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I vout not to steal from aman, not to uh snake a
man, just not to do anythingto anybody. Yeah. I also on
freestyle on people like you're not somebodymight point somebody that outlet that day ugly
or something like that. Personal Yeah, yeah, I'm not that guy.
Yeah, yeah, you know whatI'm saying. So it's like good energy.
Yeah, Like it ain't about goodenergy. It's just I'm not gonna
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do something to you. I wouldn'twon't done any back, simple as that.
To Karma's been a driving force,biggest driving force. Really. Yeah,
I'm trying to decide if I believein karma still. I don't know,
Like, oh I believe in youbelieve it wholeheartedly. I'm gonna tell
you why, Because I was thatguy who, like people doubt it a
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lot. I've seen my success bringkarma. I've seen what came around.
Like for instance, when I gotmarried, right, me and my wife
couldn't afford nothing. Our wedding costsprobably like no more than two thousand dollars.
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Okay, right, we got married. We were so in love we
didn't care how bad it looked.It didn't look bad, don't get me
wrong, but it was like justcheap. Yeah, you know, let's
just say. The same people whowas like, ha ha ha, that's
cheap. Y'all look like y'all goingto prom? How about we get rich?
A year and a half later,and those same people asking me for
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seven thousand wow, shitted on mywedding, shited on my life, said
I was broke all that. Youget what I'm saying, So I had
no karm would trust me I was. I've seen things to where guys would
be like, you get your moneyup, I'm getting more money. And
the guys who told me to getmy money up, Yeah, you get
what I'm saying. Like, Ihaven't seen karma. I haven't seen karma
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like real bad. Like I believein karma. I get what you're saying
it's gonna happen to the just andunjust. Yeah, that's why I only
pray for safety and health, becausethose are only two things. We can't
control all these others. You couldcontrol how much money you got, you
could control everything else, but youcan't control tragedy, a tornado, all
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this shit coming, a tree falldown, you don't know. Yep,
somebody come and shoot this mother,you don't know. Can't control that.
So I just pray for that andan amount of money I make. That's
up to me. Yeah, butI feel like in order for me to
get mercy from the most high,I gotta give back, have good karma,
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not snake people, not make peoplefeel bad. You get what I'm
saying. You have to do rightin order for those things not to happen
to me. That's why I usekarma. If that makes sense. Yeah,
No, that doesn't make sense.What would you say have been some
of the downfalls to getting money?Ain't I would say everybody's This is everybody's
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downfall. I would say the reactionfrom family always gonna surprise people when they
get money. You gonna think,like, put it like this, It's
only support as far as you're consistentlyhelping. You know what I'm saying.
It's only love if they know youas far as you're consistently helping. If
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they're immature, Now you're gonna havea few people who can maturely, Like
I would be that mature person likethat ain't my money? Yeah, you
know what I'm saying, Like Iwould rather you put me in a room
then hand me money. Yeah,I'm that type of guy. Just put
me in a room and I dothe rest. So it's like, but
I had to understand that part thateverybody not gonna you know, everybody not
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mature enough just because just because you'rea mature on me everybody else. Yeah,
yeah, you know what I'm saying. And even if like when I
first started getting money, I gotmoney at twenty three, So you gotta
think all the adults in my familywhen I first made my meal, they
still didn't care. They're like,shit, you still a child, Like
you gotta listen to us, AndI'm like, so it was. It
was it was button heads with thattoo, Like even though I got money,
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I'm twenty three with him, sofamily trying to tell me what to
do with my money when I'm theone who made this and y'all never made
it him. You get know whatI'm saying. But they like like,
man, you're gonna lose it all. Put it over here, give it
to me, you know what I'msaying. Oh man, you Oh it's
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some old as saying, hey,you got damn one of the one of
those tight niggas. Yeah, oh, put it overhead, give it to
me. Do this? Do that? You feel me? So that was
the most challenging part. Yeah,it's just like all of a sudden,
the person who made the money isa stupid person. Everybody's trying to make
me feel stupid. You're right,when I when it took when I got
a million cash, Yeah you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, no,
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that's us. So like it literallytook about to now in the last two
years for people to respect me,like as like, we'll give me some
examples of the way that you tellpeople, maybe giving your family or other
people no when it comes to whenit comes to them asking oh it's just
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nothing, it's just silent. Idon't respond because if you say something then
it's like shit, I like Iain't read it. You know how you
can do the little unread shit.Goddamn. Look look look if you if
you acknowledge it, they're gonna callyou a fun nigga. Yeah they told
me no. But if you belike Bri, ain't never saw that and
then five months go by, motheruckerlike Brian, I know you'd be busy.
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Bro got there? You know whatI'm saying, like like that when
I'm on Okay, because because I'mtaking that what I learned was I learned
it's from moving around with other dudeswho pop larn shit. They have a
dude to tell other niggas no,Okay, I gotta have I have him
tell them no. If I ifit has to be a no situation,
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either my wife gotta tell them no. Somebody else gotta tell them no because
they gonna cause I don't know howfar. Let's just say I become Tyler
Perry. I don't know how.I ain't gonna put them. You know
what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, not Tyler Perry. I be got
now. Shit, it's this dudeand they ain't freedom. You gotta look
him up in Africa. Okay,but the only man I'd be right now?
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Okay, feeling men, you feela billionaire no, Africa. But
anyways, how we're Comma. Youare very You extend yourself a lot when
it comes out to my family sayingOkay, I take care of my family
meanings immediate, my mom, mybrothers, my sisters, my wife,
my kids, my grandparents, yeah, all of them. You know what
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I'm saying. No, I spentover him on my family for sure.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. No, that's facts. Yeah.
What I do like though, whatyou're doing with you know, the honey
Drip Network is essentially your extended family. It's a community that you've been able
to kind of curate and teach themhow to get their own money. Talk
to me a little bit about theinception of that and what that's meant for
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you so far. That's probably thebest thing I ever created, Honey Drip
Network. The best thing I couldsay is building a community and we live
trade every day. Yeah, they'vebeen there for me. And I go
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to a city, I know somebodywho in the community gonna be there,
I tell them pull up. Youknow what I'm saying. Organically touching the
people was probably the best thing Iever did. Is very heartwarming. Everywhere
I go, somebody like, man, you change my life. Yeah,
man, you made me so muchmoney. Man, you change my perspective.
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Man, you help me with myrelationship with my with my woman.
Like, I'm not just helping peoplemake money. Yeah, you get what
I'm saying. Like, I feellike that's the part that I want to
talk about. Believe it or not, that people really don't ask. I'm
not just benefiting people in one arena. I'm helping people with marriages. Yeah,
I'm helping people with their relationships.I helping men become leaders of their
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household, telling them, hey,you know it's your responsibility. Yeah,
to make sure the family straight,to make sure the family is protected.
That's that's our role as men.I'm getting back to those those real principles.
You know what I'm saying. I'mshowing them family. You know what
I'm saying, Black love, blackwealth, I got young black wealth with
black children, stuff like that,and then showing them paying Africanism. Yeah,
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but that's all you just went tothe motherland. Yeah. So I'm
tapping in with other black men andI work with everybody, Whites, Indians.
I also do that. I'm showingthem, look, you can get
money with everybody right, but makesure you always give it to your people,
to the most because that's what anyculture gonna do. See the Chinese
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man will put his restaurant in ourhoods, but that money get returned back
to his community. So what I'mtelling people with black people, we can
go when they come to this money, there's no say so on how we
go get it. But when theycome to us building, we gotta build
something together with that money we goget. You get what I'm saying.
Yeah, So everybody understands that mywhite friends, my Indian friends, whoever,
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they know that Aristotle wrot with everybody, but they know because just like
he will, he gotta go gethis money to his people. And that's
understood. I'm not a black mantelling that Indian man, right, don't
get that money to your people,give it to my people. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Howthey's gonna sound. That's close to his
heart. So black people gotta understand, like they not gonna feel some type
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of way. Everybody speak green.You get what I'm saying, So get
your money facts. Okay, Sospeaking of uh speaking green, I wanna
know like if people are you knowwhether or not their novice or like new
to the trading market, or youknow they've had some significant strides within the
trading. You know, realm,what is it that you would say,
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maybe are the three or five thingsthat you would pinpoint as what you need
to do to be a successful trader. To be successful day trader, long
term trader, let's do day trading, day trading. Four, risk management,
high probability setups. Well, let'sjust say A plus set ups.
So four steps to become a profitableday trader. If you follow these four
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steps, you'll be good at riskmanagement, A plus setups. Discipline patients,
I'll explain all four. Okay.Risk management is number one because if
you don't know how to manage yourmoney, you will lose. So it's
not the strategy that comes first.It's to how you're going to put the
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strategy in which you invest your money. Dividing your money up and putting it
into vehicles is actually the number onething you need to learn first. It's
risk management. So with day trading, if I got twenty five hundred right,
every finger hicles five hundred dollars right, Okay, so I'm going to
use risk management. I'm only goingto use twenty percent of my account.
So just in case I blow thatfirst five hundred, I still got two
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thousand less, right, So that'srisk management. See risk management is if
I got twenty five hundred every fingerit was five hundred dollars, is I'm
going to invest two thousand and nowI got five hundred dollar less. If
I lose that hold two thousand,I probably I probably lost a significant amount
of my account. And now distraught, I lost eighty percent of my account.
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So a lot of people risk eightypercent of their account when you're only
supposed to risk twenty percent. Soif you got twenty five hundred, only
invest five hundred dollars maximum on daytrades and always leave eighty percent left.
So if people don't realize this isI can have three hundred, three hundred
thousand in a day trading account,but I will only use like thirty thousand
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of that. You get what I'msaying. Yeah at a time, Yeah,
that's smart. You get what I'msaying, because all I want to
do is keep making five grand fourk a day. So you gotta have
that that small limit because a lotof people try to go for the kill.
But the real strategy is consistently hittingthat three one thousand, five hundred,
four hundred one. You get whatI'm saying. So that's what I'm
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saying. It's a strategy to it. See if you go in all like
I'm gonna hit the lottery every day, every day, I'm gonna try to
break a record, yeah, thenyou're going to miss out. So you
can't be that person who wants tobe greedy. So that's also something too
emotions. But we already went overrisk management. Let's go over A plus
setups. Okay, so these aregoing to be the the setup that you
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use with the risk management. Sowhat are you going to risk that five
hundred dollars on? Okay, Sonow you gotta learn what it's called high
probability set ups meaning or A plussetups. So what these are are strategies
that you get by looking at thechart, and what it does is it
gives you an eighty percent chance towin. So all you gotta do is
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know about I got about twelve ofthem, but you I would say everybody
need at least five, okay fivethings to five strategies to risk your money
on. So all you gotta doit literally sit back, have the discipline,
which is the third one, toonly risk your money on the A
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plus set ups. Okay, sowhat people would do is because that they
because they can't patiently wait eight hoursfor one of them setups to happen.
Because if you literally just sit backand just wait on these setups that I
know to happen, you'll make money. But a lot of people don't have
that patience because the new the marketis so will make you the noise so
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much noise Apple just just went up. Oh shit, I gotta get in
that, uh Microsoft. Nobody wantsto miss the movie. Yeah, So
they end up losing money chasing everymove instead of having the discipline and the
patience to wait on the A plussetups with that risk management. So those
four steps risk management, A plusset up, discipline, patience, that's
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how you become profitable. Wow.See but it's a discipline factor. Yeah,
and it's a strategy factor. Thestrategy is number two, which are
the A plus setups. But I'mgonna tell you the hardest part. You
went on the hardest part. Therisk management isn't hard. They plus set
us is hard. The discipline isthe hardest part of trading. So even
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when you learn all of everything,you can literally somebody can actually know how
to trade, but would never beprofitable because they lack discipline in risk management.
You get what I'm saying. Yeah, so I could teach you everything,
but if you cannot control yourself andyour gambler's instincts, you're going to
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lose in trading. Yeah. Sowhat I learned was ninety percent of people
are emotional wow, and have agambler's mindset. Everybody wants to flip their
money instead of leveraging their money,pimping their money, yeah, sending a
little bit out and then so,so the whole goal to stay in alive
and trading is to have about ninetyto eighty percent of your capital on hand
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and only using ten to twenty percenttoday trade. So even so, let's
just say I lose that ten percent, I still got ninety percent left,
right, and I possibly can recoupthat team And that's what ended up happening.
You'll win, lose, win,lose if you're profitable. Yeah,
you get what I'm saying. Yeah, that's all it is. It's just
winning a lot, lose a little, win a lot, lose a little.
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You get what I'm saying. That'swhat trading is. But you're going
to lose, yeah, yeah,yeah yeah, but like the only job
you can go to to lose andlose money, thank you. But if
I'm making let's just say in amonth this time, my average months would
be I'd be green for about seventeendays and read for three. So I'll
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go on like a five day winningstreet lose, five day winning street,
lose, three day winning street lose. I'm I'm streaky. You get what
I'm saying. But it took awhile to become streaky. At first I
was losing streaky, Yeah, losseswin, losses win. It was like
that. Now I was like this, You get what I'm saying. So
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everybody start off like that the firstprocess. Not everybody, cause something.
A lot of people get beginners luckbecause of people like me who will go
and show you the mistakes I made. So I learned trading from losing money,
yep. And then I'm teaching youhow not to lose the money.
You get what I'm saying. SoI lost hundreds of thousands to learn trading
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just to go make six hundred kfive hundred k a year plus you get
what I'm saying. They ain't.That's good. That discipline. Discipline when
when's the last time your wife hadto tell you can you please put the
phone down and spend time with thefamily. Honestly, as a man,
you gotta balance that yourself. Buthere's the honest truth. Though. I
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told my wife when my son wasfirst born, I had three hundred thousand
on me when he was born,but I made all that the nine months
she was pregnant. I made thatin nine months. That's how I snapped
when she told me I was havinga child. So what I told her
was, I don't remember anything priorto four years old. Dan so then
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so so you know where I'm aboutto get at. So I told my
wife is these first four years,we're gonna have our kids early. But
these first four years we're gonna travel, have all our fun because if we
don't, all we're gonna be doingis telling them. It's saying, man,
we wish you would have did thisship with y'all young when y'all couldn't
remember. So these first four years, yea, it's already understood that these
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are our fun years. My sonis now four, you're about to be
four in a week. Yeah,so now that fun. That's why I
had so much fun travel the world, Cause now I gotta go and go
to the football games do that.But I don't know grow my business past
eight figures. So was I thethe father who's like the second mother always
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you know what I'm saying, changingevery diaper, doing all that. Nah?
But but did I see my kidsevery day? Yes, they live
in the house with me. Yeah, you get what I'm saying. So
she understands that someone has to beunpresent. Like even in the if I
had a nine to five, Ihad to go away for eight hours and
then return home to my family.So what's the difference. Yeah, that's
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what I say. Like, yeah, I gotta go spend twelve hours locked
up in the basement in my zone, you get what I'm saying, and
not see my kids to nighttime.But it's gonna come a time where all
these sacrifices in these first five yearsof their life, they're gonna appreciate that
because they're like, man, Idon't remember that anyways. All I remember
is from folders. You get whatI'm saying. That real shit, They
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not gonna remember this, That's true. He gonna look at these pictures.
You're like, damn, Dad,you was in Africa. Now, I
don't remember that shit anyway. Bro, Look I got that. But if
I did that ship when he waswhen if I decided to have a mid
life crisis and do all this,because that's what a lot of mena remember
that. They a lot of parentsthese days wait till their kids become teenagers
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and then want to go live theirlife. Hold on, they not done
getting out the house yet. Yeah, you get what I'm saying. So
I'm like, no, I'm aboutto get all my shit out the way
right now. Yeah, you feelme? Real shit, I think,
and I suggest y'all do the samething. Yeah you feel No, that's
good advice. That's really good.Don't wait too late, get it out
now, so that way I gettired of that shit when they get older,
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and I could put it in moreeffort with them. You get what
I'm saying. No, Yeah,that's dope. I love that. I
commend you for that. Outside oftrading, though, you obviously starting to
make waves with investing in different businesses, entrepreneurship, marketing. What else can
people see from you in the nextcoming years? Real estate development, commercial
real estate development. Okay, soI've been lucky, I won't say lucky,
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blessed to have saved a lot ofmoney. So you know what I'm
saying, I live extremely below mymeans, meaning you know, I ain't
gonna say nothing. I'm gonna saynumbers, but you get what I'm saying.
Yeah. Yeah, Like, let'sjust say hypothetically, a person will
make over half a million dollars amonth, but he only has twenty thousand
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bills. Okay, I live Idon't. For one, I don't have
a mortgage. Okay, that helps. But yeah, Like so it's like,
I save a lot of my money. So I'm going to use this
money I save over the years toleverage to develop good real estate, apartment
buildings and commercial. That's gonna bemy most exciting one. The commercial.
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Yeah I can't really speak on whatit is because it's on camera but or
at period. But commercial real estate. And then events, Oh okay,
I've been fortunate to become popular,meaning I have a cult following who just
loves what I do because I pourinto them. Yeah, so I'm gonna
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have I'm gonna host my own events, and then network and building uh,
a network I might do a littlepodcasts and interviewing. I'm gonna be honest
with you. I'm not the bestat networker. And the reason why is
because I made all of this.The money I make doesn't come from networking.
Yeah you get what I'm saying.Yeah, it comes from pouring into
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my audience, running my own ads. Networking actually sets me back. You
get what I'm saying. I losemoney networking with people versus make money in
a weird ways. There's a wasteof my time. How are you making
connections? I'm gonna tell you,because people will over promise and under deliver.
So a person might be like,yeah, bro, we can make
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this play. You know what I'msaying. It's it's it's fifty k to
get in. I don't ever makemy fifty or a hundred k back,
so I lose. So I learnedI lose money rocket with people. Then
I do. But it's but whatI learned is I got to go at
a high level because I make SoI'm in this level where I make the
same money these guys make. ButI'm doing business with these guys trying to
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bring them up. So I'm sonow I'm at this mindset all I will
only if it come to paper.You gotta be where I'm at. M
simple as that, or if younot where I'm at. We're doing what
I say because I'm the one whogot the ideas and generated this, so
I I get. So what I'msaying is I trusted in others visions and
(54:21):
what I realize is in the inin the most humble way, I'm the
genius of this operation, and listeningto me is what got this company multiple
eight figures. Yeah, so we'regonna continue to listen to me. And
if if I'm not the leader ofwhat's going on, I can't even participate
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in it because I'm too value.If I showed you a stripe account right
now, you'll see what I'm talkingabout. You get what i'm saying.
Yeah, Like, yeah, thatmakes perfect sense. You get what I'm
saying. Yeah, no, itis. And you have the you have
the what's the word, not necessarilythe lever but like the ability to be
able to like have that disposition becauseof what you've been able to You can't
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really network too much because no one'sat the level I'm I'm the one who's
gonna take the loss. Yeah,because I got the influence and the money,
so I might as gonna do itmyself. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying, like, Okay,you're welcome. Thank you. You get
what I'm saying, like, okay, put it. Put it like this.
Yeah, I'm the one. Let'sjust say, men, you throw
a party. Not even men,you just me and somebody else throw a
(55:27):
party. Okay, I'm funding it. All the people showing up because of
me. So why are we splittingfifty fifty? You know what I'm saying,
I'm the one with the money.Yeah, the influence. They came
to see me, and I gotmy own brand. It's just like networking.
Thank you. Like I won't saynetworking hasn't got me anywhere. It
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just hasn't gotten me anywhere at theInstagram entrepreneurial level because it's too small for
the level of thinking I'm at andthe level of influence I have. No.
Oh, yeah, that's dope.I wanna thank you for coming on
the show. It's giving us somegame, giving us some knowledge and what
you've been able to do. Ifpeople want to like tap into training or
even joining a honey drip network,tell tell them tell them the best way
(56:14):
to contact you and connect. Aristotleinvestments like Aristotle, Underscore investments like the
Greek philosopher A R I S TO T L E. Underscore investments.
Honey Drip Network. All right,see me on their YouTube, honey Drip
Net, and tune in every Sunday, you know, at APM, I
(56:36):
go live and I show the peopleto stop marketing every Sunday. All right,
there it is, thank you somuch for coming on the show.
Yep, thank you. It's getit.
It was button heads with that too, Like even though I got money,
I'm twenty three with it him.So family trying to tell me what to
do with my money when I'm theone who made this and y'all never made
it him you get know what I'msaying. But they like like, man,
you're gonna lose it all. Putit over here, give it to
me. You know what I'm saying. Oh, man, you know it's
(00:24):
some over that saying hey, yougot damn one of the one of those
tight niggash put it over here,give it to me. Do this?
Do that? You feel me?So that was the most challenging part.
Yeah, it's just like all ofa sudden, the person who made the
money is a stupid person. Everybody'strying to make me feel stupid right when
I when they took when I gota million cash, Yeah you know what
(00:46):
I mean. Yeah, that's solike it literally took about to now in
the last two years for people torespect me, like as like, we'll
give me some examples of the waythat you tell but maybe even your family
or other people. No, whenit comes to when it comes to them
asking for fun, Oh, it'sjust nothing. It's just silent. I
(01:08):
don't respond because if you say somethingthen it's like shit, I like,
I ain't read it. You knowhow you can do the little unread shit.
Goddamn, Look cause look I calllook if you if you acknowledge it,
they gonna call you a fun nigga. Yeah they told me no.
But if you be like Bri ain'the never saw that. And then it's
five months go by, motherfucker likeBrian know you'd beat busy bro got damn.
(01:32):
You know what I'm saying like likethat when I'm on Okay because because
I'm taking that I learned was Ilearned? It's from moving around with other
dudes who popular and shit, theyhave a dude to tell other niggas no.
(02:12):
And we are back for another amazingepisode of Finding Your Niche with Niche
and today, y'all. If GettingMoney was a person, I think his
name would be Aristotle. Joining metoday on the show is the one and
only guy who's really making waves inthe trading industry and so much more entrepreneurship,
marketing, the whole thing. SoI'm so excited to talk to you
today. Thank you so much forcoming on the show. Thank you,
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thank you, So I've been reallyimpressed with what you've been able to do
at such a young age and sucha short amount of time for people who
don't know you or maybe new tolike learning about what it is that you
do. Tell the people a littlebit about who you are. Aristotle Investments.
I started off as just a popularhustler from you know, I was
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in Savannah for Stewart, I wasstationed the arm and Uh, I was
a barber. I was writing booksteaching people how I invest my money,
and I was investing my barber money. So I make a long story short,
I was living off my Army moneyand I was investing my barber money.
But I was like buying stocks andmaking a lot of money, and
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people just really wanted to learn fromme. Yeah, but it was like
start off at just a passion ofme just sharing how I hustle, cause
I just wanted to be popular forhustling. That's really what my niche was
at first, was just hustling.Yeah, when you were cutting hair,
Like, is that something that youstill like are interested in doing? Cause
you was making money doing that.So I cut my hair, you cut
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your hair still? Yeah, Likeso I can always keep it. You
know what I say, if youdon't use it, you'll lose it.
So I'll cut my hair from timeto time. Okay, that's dope.
Yeah, your story is really fascinatingbecause you know, a lot of people
get into the military for different reasons. But I'm curious to know what was
kind of the initial reason that youdecided to join. No, right with
it. You has a good question. So the reason I decided to join
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the military was because, uh,just being completely honest and transparent. Uh,
my stepfather joined the military when Iwas in the eleventh grade. I
was going to Creekside High School inAtlanta or South Atlanta South FORLTA. He
joined the military. He's working atAT and T downtown Atlanta. My mom
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was working at AT and T aswell. My mom quit her job and
all of that, so my momdidn't work. She was, uh she
wanted to uh kind of support thehouse, you know, do the house
white thing with my uh, withmy stepfather while he was in the military.
And my dad got seven kids,so it's like I didn't have no
financial support, Okay, and Icouldn't really And did you grow up in
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Atlanta? No, I'm from KellyOkay. Cool. So in Atlanta,
they got the Hope Scholarship. Ifyou get like a three point oh or
better. Ye, they'll pay eightytwo eighty percent of your tuition in the
in state school. So because Icouldn't finish my senior year in Georgia,
yeah, I couldn't qualify for thatscholarship, even though I had a good
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grade point average. So if Iwe would have lived in Georgia, I
would have went to college. Butbecause we got stationed in Kansas, so
I was already on a military base. So I'm playing basketball with soldiers,
asking no questions about the military.Yeah, and then my mom pretty much
said I had to get out ofthe house at eighteen, so she said
military college. But I was onsome stuff like I don't want to go
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into debt. Yeah, because thewhole goal was to be an entrepreneur.
Okay, I got you. Myhusband's Air Force and he was actually for
ten years. So we were stationedin Kansas too, and I did not
that wasn't I was in Fort Rileywhere were I was in witcher Tong Okay,
I've been there before. Yeah itwas it was okay. But with
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that being said, I think You'reupbringing too, is interesting because you have
like this, I I can readwith what you've gone through because you've had
this like two different dynamics or dichotomies, so to speak. With like your
upbringing. You've had this life whereyou've had to live in the hood,
and then you've had this life whereyou've experienced the suburbs. Can you talk
to me a little bit about whateach of those things have offered you when
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it comes to like how you livetoday. When I was living in the
hood, we were living off uhCleveland as that's where my family still live.
Uh my mom. From second toabout up to about sixth grade,
I live in the hood. Ihad a real Boys in the Hood story.
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You ever seen that movie? Yeah, so you remember like he was
getting in trouble at school and hismom said, I'm gonna make you gonna
stay with your dad. Yeah,that's what happened. So I'm always going
to see my dad in the hood. But I never lived in it until
I got into the second grade.Okay, but I was all living with
my mom, you know what I'msaying. So my parents and split when
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that when it was months old.So to make a long story, short,
living in the hood, finally gettingto live with my dad taught me
a lot that it's just real lifeout here. I guess I can say
that part. When you live inthe suburbs, you're you're shielded. Ye
for sure. You don't know thatthere's kids out here who actually want to
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be gangster, who actually joining gangsat an early age. Shot. You
know. Uh, I've seen kidsoverdose since and this is back in o
fo oh five, Like kids weretaking pills right back there, back in
that day. You know what I'msaying. Yeah, uh, really a
lot you see, But it justtaught me like what not to do,
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more so than it had an oppositeeffect, believing or not it turns you
off. He was like, okay, yeah, I definitely don't want to
do that. Ye be that nah, because I remember the suburbs. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. SoI've seen It's weird because I you
know, I started off suburbing,then went to the hood cause I my
mom wanted me to go live withmy dad cause I got a spell from
elementary school. I was being badunder her care. Yeah, yeah,
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and that's I think that's the partwith your particular story, you know has
a benefit because a lot of thesepeople don't know in no other way,
right, but you knew like,oh there's there's something out They're different than
what this is right here. SoI'm gonna tap into that. And speaking
of that, you've been able totap into that obviously what you were talking
about in the beginning your military career, figuring out how to make money and
hustle through being a barber, andthen once you started making money through trading.
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Talk to me about the first day, the very first day that you
actually seen profits where you're like,Okay, this is something I want to
do a long time. I justposted it today. This was back in
uh, twenty eighteen July. Okay, oh twenty eighteen. Wow, it's
when I first saw profits from likejust I was making. I was averaging
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a hundred dollars a day while Iwas in the army, and then out
of nowhere it turned up. Istarted averaging like five K four K a
month, like towards it went fromlike a hundred dollars a day. I
was instantly profitable. But I hadalready started investing, but it was on
like an auto investor. This appcalled Acorns and it was this app call
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Stash, So while that so Iwas making money from that. That's really
when I first first started making moneyin twenty seventeen, but it was on
an auto investor app by myself handshands on twenty eighteen. You know what
I'm saying, what was that feelinglike? Because I feel like that's you
know, it's tricky because at thatpoint, could you consider yourself a real
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trader when you're hands on or youstill a trader when you're not. You're
you're a trader when your hands on. When you're not hands on, you
just plent your money, but youcan still make money though, yeah,
if it's about your timing. Soit's like, if I would have left
all that money in acorns right now, that money that I put in could
have been like maybe twenty rex andit was four thousand I put in five
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years ago. Yeah wow, whatI'm saying, Yeah yeah, yeah,
But I took it out and putit in robin Hood and turn it into
fourteen thousand, So I turned itaway more. But I'm saying that if
I would have left it, yeah, I'm interested because there's a lot of
people that get into the industry anda lot of people who know about some
of this. If you're talking aboutRobin hood Acorn, what was the difference
between What would you say, isthe difference between you and somebody who really
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decided to I guess if no pointintended would take the bold by by the
horns. When it comes to liketrading in the market information, like I'm
playing the same game the wealthier playing, Like I'm already up six hundred thousand
this year, so I'm playing adifferent game than an uninformed investor. Like
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I don't pay attention to the news. I pay attention to I do pay
attention to the news, but I'mnot vividly just watching the news. I
study companies in their news. Okay, if that makes sense, Okay,
But to be honest, investing isfor everybody. Investing is not necessarily something
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owned by me. It's been peopleinvesting before me. You know what I'm
saying. It's just I've been investingfor a long time, uh going on
six years now. Yeah, soyou know that that could be a difference
to it is experienced. But tobe honest, I think everybody should invest.
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Okay, So with that being said, I think that's interesting what you're
saying that everybody should be an investorand everybody should be investing, but nonetheless
investing is intimidating for a lot ofpeople. I'm curious to know. What
would you say is the specific traitthat people should have if they're going to
be an investor and even a goodinvestor at that I would say, first
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and foremost, they have to learnmarket structure. So they got to learn
the basics first, and what arethe basics? And we're going to explain
the basics right now. You gottaknow the difference between bull and bear market.
Right, So bulls strike up,bear strike down. So the market
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says that based on the fighting attackstyle these animals. So the ball market
means prices are going up. Bearmarket means prices are in a prolonged period
of decreased prices going down. Soremember bull strike up, bear strike down?
Right, Okay, so those arethat's some of the basic info you
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need to know. You also needto know what is a stock? Yeah,
right, So a stock is prettymuch I guess you could say a
vehicle or an asset you can buy. So assets are something you can part
when you can purchase something and theycan return you in investment. It's an
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asset, real estates an asset.You know what I'm saying. This room
is an asset, right, Soa stock is just an asset class you
can invest in. So when peoplerealize that first, it's not the lottery,
it's an asset, and the wholegame is to buy this asset at
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a cheap price. You get whatI'm saying. That's the whole game.
The whole game is to buy low. So people need to understand the game
first, the basic game. Whatis the game? The game is to
buy low. So a lot ofpeople, first and foremost don't know where
they're buying. Yeah, so theyalready lost. Yeah, coming in the
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game, you just are I'm goingto buy Snapchat. Okay, cool,
I'm not even gonna use Snapchat.Let's use something like Apple. Okay,
you want to buy Apple. Ifyou try to go buy Apple right now?
What is today today? August third, August fifth, six, August
six, August six, Apples uphere all right in the stock market.
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Okay, if you're an uninformed investor, you're going to buy up here right
after all of us bought down here. Yeah, see what I'm saying.
Yea, all the rich people.All the people who know what they do
and bought down here. The peopledon't know what they're doing. I want
to buy up here right, andwhy because they have something called fomo fear
of missing out right. So thegame is, you're supposed to eat before
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you buy up here. Always buythe dip, even if you're you miss
this, Yeah, at least don'tbuy it here. Buy when it drops
again from there the top. Neverbuy the top. That's first and foremo.
That's what I'm saying. It's certainlyjust basic rules. So investing isn't
intimidating. It's about learning the basicsfirst. People gotta start there. Yeah,
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instead of just I'm just going toinvest, I don't even gonna learn.
I want to do nothing. Everybody'sstrategy is hope instead of have an
actual strategy. Buy the dip.Okay, this could be for anything.
When do you want to buy ahouse when the market crashes or when it's
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like in twenty twenty, would yourather buy in twenty twenty or in twenty
eighteen? Which one? Where wouldyou rather buy a house in twenty twenty
twenty eighteen? Because before the crash? Yeah, cause you remember inflation and
everything after the pandemic made all theprices go up. Oh yeah, and
we ended up doing that, yeahin twenty eighteen. Yeah, you get
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what I'm saying. So you wouldrather buy cheap basics, you feel?
Yeah? With that being said,though, the cause it sounds like you're
you know, you're very informed.Obviously you're a very informed trader. Where
did you kind of like learn allthat you know today? Are you self
taught or was there somebody that youwould attribute a lot of the knowledge that
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you have today. I'm self taught, so I read books. The the
the people who I can give creditto for my knowledge are the authors of
certain books. So what I learnedis no one is technically self taught.
I was taught by books, okay, and then I was taught by community.
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So I'll explain. The books Iread were the the Investing for Dummy
series. I read day Trading forDummies. So whoever that author is,
that's the man I give credit tofor my knowledge. Uh, day Trading
for Dummies, Uh, Scalping forDummies, Fundamental Analysis for Dummies, Technical
Analysis for Dummies, Candlestick Bible readthat book. You know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, this was back in twentyseventeen. H get what I'm saying,
So I credit those authors, Okay, and then and then community.
So first you gotta start with thebasics. I go and get the foundation
first. Then you go tapping in. So if you want to learn anything,
it's certain basic steps. If Iwant to become a real estate investor,
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yeah, first thing I'm gonna dois put into work myself. Go
as far as I can myself free, it's own YouTube, it's own books,
its own good Get as far asyou can by yourself. Then you
go to community, and you coulddo both at the same time. Now,
how do you find community? People'sYouTube pages? Yeah, Instagram,
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Facebook, Go figure out where peopleare talking about investing so you can go
see different opinions. Yeah, andthen you and then you stay in these
communities for a while. Right,So, first communities, I started tapping
into it, like Yahoo Finance.I would go read the comments there.
Then I started going on Instagram.So it's back in twenty seventeen. At
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that time, I realize, Wow, it's a wide open lane. There's
no such thing as a young blackman investing on the internet right now.
Yeah, So I said, I'mgonna become that I got a monopoly.
I'm the only one. Yeah,just being the first, I know I
was the first at that time,just being the first, right there,
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A billionaire said it. Sometimes youdon't have to be the best, you
have to be the first. Andit sometimes being the best or sometimes letting
somebody go first it's the best option. That's good. So it's like it's
kind of a combination of both.Yeah, it was a lot of young
white guys and Indian guys doing thatat that time. Yeah, so I
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wasn't the first. I was thefirst black young man doing it at that
time. You get what I'm saying. I do. So since you you
know, like you said, you'reup six hundred thousand this year, obviously
you you're a multi millionaire at beforethirty year on thirty right, turned thirty
year. Yeah, so under thirtymultimillionaire, made lots of money twenty seven.
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Wow, Okay, you don't withwhat you've been able to do being
the first black trader at performing atthe level that you've been able to perform,
obviously, it takes a certain level. I wanted the first black I
probably because you know, it probablywas a black guy doing it. In
the nineties and okay, but onthe Instagram social entrepreneur thing, I was
doing this since twenty seventeen eighteen,you know what I'm saying. For the
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pandemic got you, okay. Sothen with that being said, though,
you've gotten to where you are froma level of discipline, I know,
like disciplines is a key, yeah, trade characteristic that you need to have
to be a trader. Now thatyou've been making money, is some of
this stuff kind of like autopilot foryou? Or do you still maintain the
same level of discipline that it tookyou to get to where you are today.
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Nah, you work to get iton autopilot for show, okay,
because it'll get to a point whereyou can't spend time with your family,
you can't live a regular life,and that's what's going to destroy you.
And then so any entrepreneur who's beingsuccessful went through this point where yeah,
you making money, Yeah you thisand that, but you can't really enjoy
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yourself or you probably don't get toenjoy what you do because you do it
too much. So what I learnedis breaks make it to where you're grateful
for the fruits of your labor.Okay, So when I first started getting
money, I was hustling so hard, but I was only kind of enjoying
myself locally, eating good food,you know, stuff like that. But
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I really still couldn't feel why beinggetting all this money was so strenuous.
Yeah, yeah, what's the what'sthe point When I first made my When
I made my first million, itdidn't feel like whoo, It felt like,
Okay, you get what I'm saying, really, because everybody waits and
anticipates that moment. Yeah, butlike see a lot of people see I'm
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kind of honest and transparent about mine, you know what I'm saying, meaning
like I was actually a millionaire beforeI was a mid Okay, you know
how people be like net worth?My net worth was was a millionaire back
in shit, probably twenty eighteen.Wow. But a million dollars cash.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm talking aboutlike I can withdraw yeah and use to
my name. No, no,none of that, you know what I'm
saying. Yeah, dude, right, because because it's a difference when people
talking about when they when they firstwas a middle I'm talking about a million
dollars cash, yeah, and thatwasn't that that moment for you wasn't who
who? Because I'm gonna explain why, because it took three years to get
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there. But it takes three years. When it takes See, when something
happens instantaneously, you feel the joy. Okay, when you grind for something,
it's a humbleness that comes to it. It took it took three years
from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty,three years of saving. Right. So
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the year of twenty eighteen, Imade about one hundred K. A year
of twenty nineteen, I made aboutfive hundred racks a little over that,
Okay, in the year of twentytwenty, probably like three million. Wow.
So I literally camped tripling, doublingmy money each year, and I
finally got to a point where Imade nearly the same money every year.
(22:30):
I probably make a million more everyyear than I made the previously. That's
still good. Wow, that's fascinatingwith you with what you just said.
I'm also like curious to know withobviously you having like money in real life.
Yeah, what is it like beingaround people who pretend to have money?
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What is that like for you?It is? You know what?
And can you tell? I cantell? Yeah? Oh so I know
when I bought my Feruari, whenI bought this house, when I bought
everything I could afford, it's aten times. So when I bought my
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house for six hundred thousand, Icould have literally bought that cash and still
have more money left. Yeah,there's nothing I have. I don't let
my liability, my liabilities outweigh howmuch money cash. I have. A
lot of people have more in cars, in all, in a whole bunch
of other stuff. Now if it'sreal estate, that's different. Yeah,
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you can have a bunch of that. But some people have a lot of
clothes, cars, jewelry, yea, more than they have money. You
have more stuff than you have money. That part I don't understand because it
took and you and you could askmy boy back there. I didn't know
what Dior was till I made threemillion dollars. But you gotta think I
was stationed in Savannah, Georgia,So I joined the military here when not
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in twenty fourteen? Yeah, andbeen in Savannah the whole time. Said
there was no designer store, Therewas no we heard of Louis vatime,
but on rap music we heard aGucci from Gucci bandana. When Soldier Boys
said it you feel me Gucci,that's the first time I heard, right,
Yeah, so, but I stilldidn't know what Gucci was. It's
the materialistic part that makes me belike, dang, Like you don't even
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understand because what you what you're doingis you're competing with people who got the
money to do that. Yeah,Like somebody would get a million and try
to go literally go tip for tapsomebody who got ten. You get what
I'm saying. Yeah, And I'veseen that and then they end up broke
when the fad and the griff runsout. Yeah. Right, but I'm
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gonna be honest with you. AndI had to learn was like, I
can't let people use me when mybrand is established, so you see,
I kind of do my own thing, yeah, because you know, and
I still network, but I networkwith the right people. You can't be
too open because everybody is kind oflike money hunger, if that makes sense.
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Yeah, like literally trying to hita lick at the lick at the
lick, and a lot of themdon't realize the patients when you when you
more patient and you let the dealsfall through organically, they'll happen more you
know what I'm saying, But itlike when you kind of chasing after people,
chasing after people. Yeah, andyou gotta also do this. You
can't really like be wanting the recognition. A lot of them want recognition from
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the people in their industry. Soyou might care more about podcasts people,
I might care more about investing.What the what the big investors in my
community feel about me? Yeah,you get what I'm saying. And what
I had to learn is you gotto like care about your journey. And
that's it. Because everybody how theygot that they you know, shit,
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they could be yep, they gottheir own thing. I mean. But
it's tempting though, when you gofrom not getting money to all of a
sudden getting money. Can you seehow it's tempting and and and how people
can, like all of a suddenwant to change the way they live.
But I learned. I also learnedto mind my business. So it's like
even if somebody is doing that alot of times, you gotta let them,
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and you gotta let people karma tearthem down instead of you being a
reason or try to butt into thesituations. So it's like I see Cap
all the time on the internet.Yeah, every day because I actually got
money, so I know, yeah, you know what I'm saying. That's
what I'm saying. That's what Iwas like, I wanted to ask cool
this this change right here costs fortyk right. Okay, this wash right
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here costs you know, a fiftyor sisty right, and probably costs a
sisty now, but it costs fiftywhen I bought it. Okay, right,
this costs twenty five. So Ican go look at him man and
be like, so you're telling meyou got five of these, and I
got more money than you, andI got a rry outside. Yeah,
you get what I'm saying, perspection, So that's cap Yeah, so you're
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telling me these dude spending. Ijust told you how much this cost.
Yes, link cuban link in itselfcosts of forty so you know, so
you're telling me a dude got whodon't got lambs nothing, he got ten
of these on that's four hundred racks. You see what I'm saying. Yeah,
all right, then that should letyou know right now it's capping or
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it's not. I like this kindof math. You get what I'm saying.
Yeah, d if a motherfucker.I don't five changes cap? Why
how can can they have on fivechange? And I have a house.
If they do, they stupid?Yea, and it's and it's probably something
like that. If they do,they stupid. But I'll tell you how
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much this stuff costs. Yeah,all right, and then it's nothing for
you to go rent a car andbe like standing in front of it.
I see a lot of cap,but it's not my place to say nothing.
Yeah, you get what I'm saying. Yeah, but I see a
lot of bullshit. Jury. Iknow. That's like everybody keeps doing the
same thing, keep being in frontof the same houses, same cars,
same posting the same say yes exactlypost Are you going to be that guy?
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Ever? No, hey, listenguys them. But but see,
that's the part that I feel likeI get a lot of this light in
the community for is I won't participatein that, like I just do my
own thing. Yeah, because ifyou don't, because all right, a
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billionaire said this, he said,focus on your customers, not your competitors.
So a lot of people focus ontheir competitors. They'll literally post a
screenshot of their Stripe account that theymade from their customers. Yeah, just
to show off to their competitors.Yeah, when you're really supposed to be
posting for your community. Are youtrying to impress five people or your ten
thousand followers or your hundred k followers? So I focus on impressing my followers,
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Yeah, not the five people whomad because I'm here. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying a lotof people do that. They focus way
too much on their competitors and thenend up looking like a clown in front
of their followers trying to alight.He bought a lambo, so I gotta
go buy this even though I can'tafford it. Oh he did that,
I gotta go do this. Ohhe doing that post it went viral.
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I gotta try that, yep,like like and then what they don't realize
is if you always gotta wait onanother man to make a move, then
you always gonna be behind, right, So I can't That's why I don't
really watch other people content things likethat, because it's not to try to
like, not like your post andnothing like that. It's just I gotta
keep grounding on how I do thingsthat I got speak in my own language,
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you know, And speaking of yourown language too. I think what
you're talking about, has, youknow, kind of been the key factor
to it, how you've been ableto kind of leverage and scale in your
own businesses being in your own lane? Essentially, what kind of thoughts have
you subscribed to that you think madea difference in who you are as a
traitor? No like? No likewho you are like? What kind of
thoughts have you subscribed to that havemade you like the person you are and
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be able to have the mindset thatyou had. The first thought was karma.
One of the first things I workedon before I ever started investing was
a connection not necessarily like getting closeto God through religion, but getting close
to God through actions. You getwhat I'm saying? And what do I
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mean by that empty in my walletwhen I walk out? Like when I
would take her own dates, whatevermoney I had in my wallet, I
pass it out to the homeless,pass it out tip people. I'm I'm
always empty in my pockets to otherWhenever I if I have cash, it's
always to give to people. That'show much I don't even believe in cash.
Cash is I only use cash totip? Yeah? So if I
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if I ever have ten thousand.That's too. That's either for my family
or to give out to the community. Going somewhere to do that real soon.
As a matter of fact, likeright now on this podcast, well
about to go give away ten thousandcash to uh look at you. I
mightna give away ten thousand cash tothe community. But it was karma first,
like staying on your word, doingto others you won't done to you.
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I vout not to steal from aman, not to uh snake a
man, just not to do anythingto anybody. Yeah. I also on
freestyle on people like you're not somebodymight point somebody that outlet that day ugly
or something like that. Personal Yeah, yeah, I'm not that guy.
Yeah, yeah, you know whatI'm saying. So it's like good energy.
Yeah, Like it ain't about goodenergy. It's just I'm not gonna
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do something to you. I wouldn'twon't done any back, simple as that.
To Karma's been a driving force,biggest driving force. Really. Yeah,
I'm trying to decide if I believein karma still. I don't know,
Like, oh I believe in youbelieve it wholeheartedly. I'm gonna tell
you why, Because I was thatguy who, like people doubt it a
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lot. I've seen my success bringkarma. I've seen what came around.
Like for instance, when I gotmarried, right, me and my wife
couldn't afford nothing. Our wedding costsprobably like no more than two thousand dollars.
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Okay, right, we got married. We were so in love we
didn't care how bad it looked.It didn't look bad, don't get me
wrong, but it was like justcheap. Yeah, you know, let's
just say. The same people whowas like, ha ha ha, that's
cheap. Y'all look like y'all goingto prom? How about we get rich?
A year and a half later,and those same people asking me for
(32:50):
seven thousand wow, shitted on mywedding, shited on my life, said
I was broke all that. Youget what I'm saying, So I had
no karm would trust me I was. I've seen things to where guys would
be like, you get your moneyup, I'm getting more money. And
the guys who told me to getmy money up, Yeah, you get
what I'm saying. Like, Ihaven't seen karma. I haven't seen karma
(33:13):
like real bad. Like I believein karma. I get what you're saying
it's gonna happen to the just andunjust. Yeah, that's why I only
pray for safety and health, becausethose are only two things. We can't
control all these others. You couldcontrol how much money you got, you
could control everything else, but youcan't control tragedy, a tornado, all
(33:36):
this shit coming, a tree falldown, you don't know. Yep,
somebody come and shoot this mother,you don't know. Can't control that.
So I just pray for that andan amount of money I make. That's
up to me. Yeah, butI feel like in order for me to
get mercy from the most high,I gotta give back, have good karma,
(33:57):
not snake people, not make peoplefeel bad. You get what I'm
saying. You have to do rightin order for those things not to happen
to me. That's why I usekarma. If that makes sense. Yeah,
No, that doesn't make sense.What would you say have been some
of the downfalls to getting money?Ain't I would say everybody's This is everybody's
(34:25):
downfall. I would say the reactionfrom family always gonna surprise people when they
get money. You gonna think,like, put it like this, It's
only support as far as you're consistentlyhelping. You know what I'm saying.
It's only love if they know youas far as you're consistently helping. If
(34:50):
they're immature, Now you're gonna havea few people who can maturely, Like
I would be that mature person likethat ain't my money? Yeah, you
know what I'm saying, Like Iwould rather you put me in a room
then hand me money. Yeah,I'm that type of guy. Just put
me in a room and I dothe rest. So it's like, but
I had to understand that part thateverybody not gonna you know, everybody not
(35:15):
mature enough just because just because you'rea mature on me everybody else. Yeah,
yeah, you know what I'm saying. And even if like when I
first started getting money, I gotmoney at twenty three, So you gotta
think all the adults in my familywhen I first made my meal, they
still didn't care. They're like,shit, you still a child, Like
you gotta listen to us, AndI'm like, so it was. It
was it was button heads with thattoo, Like even though I got money,
(35:39):
I'm twenty three with him, sofamily trying to tell me what to
do with my money when I'm theone who made this and y'all never made
it him. You get know whatI'm saying. But they like like,
man, you're gonna lose it all. Put it over here, give it
to me, you know what I'msaying. Oh man, you Oh it's
(36:00):
some old as saying, hey,you got damn one of the one of
those tight niggas. Yeah, oh, put it overhead, give it to
me. Do this? Do that? You feel me? So that was
the most challenging part. Yeah,it's just like all of a sudden,
the person who made the money isa stupid person. Everybody's trying to make
me feel stupid. You're right,when I when it took when I got
a million cash, Yeah you knowwhat I mean. Yeah, no,
(36:22):
that's us. So like it literallytook about to now in the last two
years for people to respect me,like as like, we'll give me some
examples of the way that you tellpeople, maybe giving your family or other
people no when it comes to whenit comes to them asking oh it's just
(36:44):
nothing, it's just silent. Idon't respond because if you say something then
it's like shit, I like Iain't read it. You know how you
can do the little unread shit.Goddamn. Look look look if you if
you acknowledge it, they're gonna callyou a fun nigga. Yeah they told
me no. But if you belike Bri, ain't never saw that and
then five months go by, motheruckerlike Brian, I know you'd be busy.
(37:07):
Bro got there? You know whatI'm saying, like like that when
I'm on Okay, because because I'mtaking that what I learned was I learned
it's from moving around with other dudeswho pop larn shit. They have a
dude to tell other niggas no,Okay, I gotta have I have him
tell them no. If I ifit has to be a no situation,
(37:28):
either my wife gotta tell them no. Somebody else gotta tell them no because
they gonna cause I don't know howfar. Let's just say I become Tyler
Perry. I don't know how.I ain't gonna put them. You know
what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, not Tyler Perry. I be got
now. Shit, it's this dudeand they ain't freedom. You gotta look
him up in Africa. Okay,but the only man I'd be right now?
(37:51):
Okay, feeling men, you feela billionaire no, Africa. But
anyways, how we're Comma. Youare very You extend yourself a lot when
it comes out to my family sayingOkay, I take care of my family
meanings immediate, my mom, mybrothers, my sisters, my wife,
my kids, my grandparents, yeah, all of them. You know what
(38:15):
I'm saying. No, I spentover him on my family for sure.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. No, that's facts. Yeah.
What I do like though, whatyou're doing with you know, the honey
Drip Network is essentially your extended family. It's a community that you've been able
to kind of curate and teach themhow to get their own money. Talk
to me a little bit about theinception of that and what that's meant for
(38:37):
you so far. That's probably thebest thing I ever created, Honey Drip
Network. The best thing I couldsay is building a community and we live
trade every day. Yeah, they'vebeen there for me. And I go
(39:00):
to a city, I know somebodywho in the community gonna be there,
I tell them pull up. Youknow what I'm saying. Organically touching the
people was probably the best thing Iever did. Is very heartwarming. Everywhere
I go, somebody like, man, you change my life. Yeah,
man, you made me so muchmoney. Man, you change my perspective.
(39:21):
Man, you help me with myrelationship with my with my woman.
Like, I'm not just helping peoplemake money. Yeah, you get what
I'm saying. Like, I feellike that's the part that I want to
talk about. Believe it or not, that people really don't ask. I'm
not just benefiting people in one arena. I'm helping people with marriages. Yeah,
I'm helping people with their relationships.I helping men become leaders of their
(39:45):
household, telling them, hey,you know it's your responsibility. Yeah,
to make sure the family straight,to make sure the family is protected.
That's that's our role as men.I'm getting back to those those real principles.
You know what I'm saying. I'mshowing them family. You know what
I'm saying, Black love, blackwealth, I got young black wealth with
black children, stuff like that,and then showing them paying Africanism. Yeah,
(40:10):
but that's all you just went tothe motherland. Yeah. So I'm
tapping in with other black men andI work with everybody, Whites, Indians.
I also do that. I'm showingthem, look, you can get
money with everybody right, but makesure you always give it to your people,
to the most because that's what anyculture gonna do. See the Chinese
(40:30):
man will put his restaurant in ourhoods, but that money get returned back
to his community. So what I'mtelling people with black people, we can
go when they come to this money, there's no say so on how we
go get it. But when theycome to us building, we gotta build
something together with that money we goget. You get what I'm saying.
Yeah, So everybody understands that mywhite friends, my Indian friends, whoever,
(40:53):
they know that Aristotle wrot with everybody, but they know because just like
he will, he gotta go gethis money to his people. And that's
understood. I'm not a black mantelling that Indian man, right, don't
get that money to your people,give it to my people. Yeah,
you know what I'm saying. Howthey's gonna sound. That's close to his
heart. So black people gotta understand, like they not gonna feel some type
(41:14):
of way. Everybody speak green.You get what I'm saying, So get
your money facts. Okay, Sospeaking of uh speaking green, I wanna
know like if people are you knowwhether or not their novice or like new
to the trading market, or youknow they've had some significant strides within the
trading. You know, realm,what is it that you would say,
(41:34):
maybe are the three or five thingsthat you would pinpoint as what you need
to do to be a successful trader. To be successful day trader, long
term trader, let's do day trading, day trading. Four, risk management,
high probability setups. Well, let'sjust say A plus set ups.
So four steps to become a profitableday trader. If you follow these four
(41:58):
steps, you'll be good at riskmanagement, A plus setups. Discipline patients,
I'll explain all four. Okay.Risk management is number one because if
you don't know how to manage yourmoney, you will lose. So it's
not the strategy that comes first.It's to how you're going to put the
(42:20):
strategy in which you invest your money. Dividing your money up and putting it
into vehicles is actually the number onething you need to learn first. It's
risk management. So with day trading, if I got twenty five hundred right,
every finger hicles five hundred dollars right, Okay, so I'm going to
use risk management. I'm only goingto use twenty percent of my account.
So just in case I blow thatfirst five hundred, I still got two
(42:45):
thousand less, right, So that'srisk management. See risk management is if
I got twenty five hundred every fingerit was five hundred dollars, is I'm
going to invest two thousand and nowI got five hundred dollar less. If
I lose that hold two thousand,I probably I probably lost a significant amount
of my account. And now distraught, I lost eighty percent of my account.
(43:07):
So a lot of people risk eightypercent of their account when you're only
supposed to risk twenty percent. Soif you got twenty five hundred, only
invest five hundred dollars maximum on daytrades and always leave eighty percent left.
So if people don't realize this isI can have three hundred, three hundred
thousand in a day trading account,but I will only use like thirty thousand
(43:28):
of that. You get what I'msaying. Yeah at a time, Yeah,
that's smart. You get what I'msaying, because all I want to
do is keep making five grand fourk a day. So you gotta have
that that small limit because a lotof people try to go for the kill.
But the real strategy is consistently hittingthat three one thousand, five hundred,
four hundred one. You get whatI'm saying. So that's what I'm
(43:51):
saying. It's a strategy to it. See if you go in all like
I'm gonna hit the lottery every day, every day, I'm gonna try to
break a record, yeah, thenyou're going to miss out. So you
can't be that person who wants tobe greedy. So that's also something too
emotions. But we already went overrisk management. Let's go over A plus
setups. Okay, so these aregoing to be the the setup that you
(44:15):
use with the risk management. Sowhat are you going to risk that five
hundred dollars on? Okay, Sonow you gotta learn what it's called high
probability set ups meaning or A plussetups. So what these are are strategies
that you get by looking at thechart, and what it does is it
gives you an eighty percent chance towin. So all you gotta do is
(44:38):
know about I got about twelve ofthem, but you I would say everybody
need at least five, okay fivethings to five strategies to risk your money
on. So all you gotta doit literally sit back, have the discipline,
which is the third one, toonly risk your money on the A
(44:59):
plus set ups. Okay, sowhat people would do is because that they
because they can't patiently wait eight hoursfor one of them setups to happen.
Because if you literally just sit backand just wait on these setups that I
know to happen, you'll make money. But a lot of people don't have
that patience because the new the marketis so will make you the noise so
(45:22):
much noise Apple just just went up. Oh shit, I gotta get in
that, uh Microsoft. Nobody wantsto miss the movie. Yeah, So
they end up losing money chasing everymove instead of having the discipline and the
patience to wait on the A plussetups with that risk management. So those
four steps risk management, A plusset up, discipline, patience, that's
(45:45):
how you become profitable. Wow.See but it's a discipline factor. Yeah,
and it's a strategy factor. Thestrategy is number two, which are
the A plus setups. But I'mgonna tell you the hardest part. You
went on the hardest part. Therisk management isn't hard. They plus set
us is hard. The discipline isthe hardest part of trading. So even
(46:07):
when you learn all of everything,you can literally somebody can actually know how
to trade, but would never beprofitable because they lack discipline in risk management.
You get what I'm saying. Yeah, so I could teach you everything,
but if you cannot control yourself andyour gambler's instincts, you're going to
(46:29):
lose in trading. Yeah. Sowhat I learned was ninety percent of people
are emotional wow, and have agambler's mindset. Everybody wants to flip their
money instead of leveraging their money,pimping their money, yeah, sending a
little bit out and then so,so the whole goal to stay in alive
and trading is to have about ninetyto eighty percent of your capital on hand
(46:52):
and only using ten to twenty percenttoday trade. So even so, let's
just say I lose that ten percent, I still got ninety percent left,
right, and I possibly can recoupthat team And that's what ended up happening.
You'll win, lose, win,lose if you're profitable. Yeah,
you get what I'm saying. Yeah, that's all it is. It's just
winning a lot, lose a little, win a lot, lose a little.
(47:14):
You get what I'm saying. That'swhat trading is. But you're going
to lose, yeah, yeah,yeah yeah, but like the only job
you can go to to lose andlose money, thank you. But if
I'm making let's just say in amonth this time, my average months would
be I'd be green for about seventeendays and read for three. So I'll
(47:37):
go on like a five day winningstreet lose, five day winning street,
lose, three day winning street lose. I'm I'm streaky. You get what
I'm saying. But it took awhile to become streaky. At first I
was losing streaky, Yeah, losseswin, losses win. It was like
that. Now I was like this, You get what I'm saying. So
(47:57):
everybody start off like that the firstprocess. Not everybody, cause something.
A lot of people get beginners luckbecause of people like me who will go
and show you the mistakes I made. So I learned trading from losing money,
yep. And then I'm teaching youhow not to lose the money.
You get what I'm saying. SoI lost hundreds of thousands to learn trading
(48:22):
just to go make six hundred kfive hundred k a year plus you get
what I'm saying. They ain't.That's good. That discipline. Discipline when
when's the last time your wife hadto tell you can you please put the
phone down and spend time with thefamily. Honestly, as a man,
you gotta balance that yourself. Buthere's the honest truth. Though. I
(48:46):
told my wife when my son wasfirst born, I had three hundred thousand
on me when he was born,but I made all that the nine months
she was pregnant. I made thatin nine months. That's how I snapped
when she told me I was havinga child. So what I told her
was, I don't remember anything priorto four years old. Dan so then
(49:08):
so so you know where I'm aboutto get at. So I told my
wife is these first four years,we're gonna have our kids early. But
these first four years we're gonna travel, have all our fun because if we
don't, all we're gonna be doingis telling them. It's saying, man,
we wish you would have did thisship with y'all young when y'all couldn't
remember. So these first four years, yea, it's already understood that these
(49:31):
are our fun years. My sonis now four, you're about to be
four in a week. Yeah,so now that fun. That's why I
had so much fun travel the world, Cause now I gotta go and go
to the football games do that.But I don't know grow my business past
eight figures. So was I thethe father who's like the second mother always
(49:53):
you know what I'm saying, changingevery diaper, doing all that. Nah?
But but did I see my kidsevery day? Yes, they live
in the house with me. Yeah, you get what I'm saying. So
she understands that someone has to beunpresent. Like even in the if I
had a nine to five, Ihad to go away for eight hours and
then return home to my family.So what's the difference. Yeah, that's
(50:15):
what I say. Like, yeah, I gotta go spend twelve hours locked
up in the basement in my zone, you get what I'm saying, and
not see my kids to nighttime.But it's gonna come a time where all
these sacrifices in these first five yearsof their life, they're gonna appreciate that
because they're like, man, Idon't remember that anyways. All I remember
is from folders. You get whatI'm saying. That real shit, They
(50:37):
not gonna remember this, That's true. He gonna look at these pictures.
You're like, damn, Dad,you was in Africa. Now, I
don't remember that shit anyway. Bro, Look I got that. But if
I did that ship when he waswhen if I decided to have a mid
life crisis and do all this,because that's what a lot of mena remember
that. They a lot of parentsthese days wait till their kids become teenagers
(50:58):
and then want to go live theirlife. Hold on, they not done
getting out the house yet. Yeah, you get what I'm saying. So
I'm like, no, I'm aboutto get all my shit out the way
right now. Yeah, you feelme? Real shit, I think,
and I suggest y'all do the samething. Yeah you feel No, that's
good advice. That's really good.Don't wait too late, get it out
now, so that way I gettired of that shit when they get older,
(51:19):
and I could put it in moreeffort with them. You get what
I'm saying. No, Yeah,that's dope. I love that. I
commend you for that. Outside oftrading, though, you obviously starting to
make waves with investing in different businesses, entrepreneurship, marketing. What else can
people see from you in the nextcoming years? Real estate development, commercial
real estate development. Okay, soI've been lucky, I won't say lucky,
(51:43):
blessed to have saved a lot ofmoney. So you know what I'm
saying, I live extremely below mymeans, meaning you know, I ain't
gonna say nothing. I'm gonna saynumbers, but you get what I'm saying.
Yeah. Yeah, Like, let'sjust say hypothetically, a person will
make over half a million dollars amonth, but he only has twenty thousand
(52:07):
bills. Okay, I live Idon't. For one, I don't have
a mortgage. Okay, that helps. But yeah, Like so it's like,
I save a lot of my money. So I'm going to use this
money I save over the years toleverage to develop good real estate, apartment
buildings and commercial. That's gonna bemy most exciting one. The commercial.
(52:30):
Yeah I can't really speak on whatit is because it's on camera but or
at period. But commercial real estate. And then events, Oh okay,
I've been fortunate to become popular,meaning I have a cult following who just
loves what I do because I pourinto them. Yeah, so I'm gonna
(52:51):
have I'm gonna host my own events, and then network and building uh,
a network I might do a littlepodcasts and interviewing. I'm gonna be honest
with you. I'm not the bestat networker. And the reason why is
because I made all of this.The money I make doesn't come from networking.
Yeah you get what I'm saying.Yeah, it comes from pouring into
(53:13):
my audience, running my own ads. Networking actually sets me back. You
get what I'm saying. I losemoney networking with people versus make money in
a weird ways. There's a wasteof my time. How are you making
connections? I'm gonna tell you,because people will over promise and under deliver.
So a person might be like,yeah, bro, we can make
(53:36):
this play. You know what I'msaying. It's it's it's fifty k to
get in. I don't ever makemy fifty or a hundred k back,
so I lose. So I learnedI lose money rocket with people. Then
I do. But it's but whatI learned is I got to go at
a high level because I make SoI'm in this level where I make the
same money these guys make. ButI'm doing business with these guys trying to
(53:58):
bring them up. So I'm sonow I'm at this mindset all I will
only if it come to paper.You gotta be where I'm at. M
simple as that, or if younot where I'm at. We're doing what
I say because I'm the one whogot the ideas and generated this, so
I I get. So what I'msaying is I trusted in others visions and
(54:21):
what I realize is in the inin the most humble way, I'm the
genius of this operation, and listeningto me is what got this company multiple
eight figures. Yeah, so we'regonna continue to listen to me. And
if if I'm not the leader ofwhat's going on, I can't even participate
(54:43):
in it because I'm too value.If I showed you a stripe account right
now, you'll see what I'm talkingabout. You get what i'm saying.
Yeah, Like, yeah, thatmakes perfect sense. You get what I'm
saying. Yeah, no, itis. And you have the you have
the what's the word, not necessarilythe lever but like the ability to be
able to like have that disposition becauseof what you've been able to You can't
(55:06):
really network too much because no one'sat the level I'm I'm the one who's
gonna take the loss. Yeah,because I got the influence and the money,
so I might as gonna do itmyself. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying, like, Okay,you're welcome. Thank you. You get
what I'm saying, like, okay, put it. Put it like this.
Yeah, I'm the one. Let'sjust say, men, you throw
a party. Not even men,you just me and somebody else throw a
(55:27):
party. Okay, I'm funding it. All the people showing up because of
me. So why are we splittingfifty fifty? You know what I'm saying,
I'm the one with the money.Yeah, the influence. They came
to see me, and I gotmy own brand. It's just like networking.
Thank you. Like I won't saynetworking hasn't got me anywhere. It
(55:49):
just hasn't gotten me anywhere at theInstagram entrepreneurial level because it's too small for
the level of thinking I'm at andthe level of influence I have. No.
Oh, yeah, that's dope.I wanna thank you for coming on
the show. It's giving us somegame, giving us some knowledge and what
you've been able to do. Ifpeople want to like tap into training or
even joining a honey drip network,tell tell them tell them the best way
(56:14):
to contact you and connect. Aristotleinvestments like Aristotle, Underscore investments like the
Greek philosopher A R I S TO T L E. Underscore investments.
Honey Drip Network. All right,see me on their YouTube, honey Drip
Net, and tune in every Sunday, you know, at APM, I
(56:36):
go live and I show the peopleto stop marketing every Sunday. All right,
there it is, thank you somuch for coming on the show.
Yep, thank you. It's getit.
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