How to make $100,000+/Year from Stocks✅ 6 Steps

$4 million. The public count closed today for the first time ever, over $4 million. That portfolio was started in 2018. Every single move in the history of that portfolio has been documented inside the private stock group. I'm just very, very thankful at this moment, uh, to see a portfolio at that amount, you know, in this amount of times. Incredible.

Now, the recent strength in regards to this portfolio, a lot of it's come from AMD stock specifically. So, uh, congratulations all AMD shareholders out there. I'm sure there's a few of you guys watching this video right now. That is now the sixth stock in the public count out of the current positions that has over doubled my money. Uh, AMD sitting at 108% gain. We got Celsius at 156%, SoFi at 238%, Meta at 524%, ELF at 1,911%, and then Palantir at almost 2,400% there.

Now, in terms of the public count this year, I have already booked profits in just that one portfolio of $668,000. It's been a great year. And if we add up this plus the private portfolios, it should be a seven-figure, if not multi-figure year in terms of profits taken out of the portfolio. So, you know, I'm very, very thankful for that.

Okay. Now, here today in this video, being that it was a big milestone for me personally, I wanted to go ahead and give my six, uh, best tips, steps, whatever you want to call it, uh, for people that want to make $100,000 plus a year in the stock market. You're somebody and you have ambition to get to that sort of place where you're making $100,000 a year in profits taken, $200,000, $300,000, or, you know, like we've done the public account alone this year, $668,000 of profits taken. So, I want to give you my six best and, uh, take you in depth there and kind of show you, you know, some, some things that hopefully can get you on the right track and, and, um, you know, get you to that sort of place.

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All righty, folks. You ready for this? Number one of these six steps, tips, whatever you want to call it, to get to making $100,000 plus a year in the stock market is math matters. In the stock market, what doesn't matter is emotions. What doesn't matter is feelings. Emotions, feelings, great. You want to be, you know, as a human, you know, you want to experience emotions, happy, sad, all those sorts of things, right? Great. The stock market is no place for your feelings. The stock market is no place for emotions. The stock market, you're best to be pretty stoic. But what does matter in a tremendous way is math. Math matters in this game significantly.

For instance, I'm showing you a stock right now. I'll tell you what stock it is in just a moment, but if you bought this stock in 1999, okay, and you held it all the way to 2009, you held it for a full decade, you lost money on this stock, right? Think about that for a moment. Imagine holding a stock. Imagine buying into a stock. You hold it for, you know, 10 years or so and you make no money on it. Now, you might say, well, it's probably some bad company, some, you know, company that was, you know, speculative, uh, you know, some company that didn't have a good business model. They probably had a bad CEO, etc. You know what company that was? Amazon. Amazon with one of the best CEOs in the history of the world, Jeff Bezos leading that company with Andy Jassy working right underneath him, right? And you buy into that company in '99 and a decade later, you got nothing to show for it. Absolutely nothing. And that's where math starts to matter in a significant way, right?

Amazon, you could have looked at that in 1999, 1999, and been like, you know what, Amazon's got a great future. Like, there's no doubt about it. They got this huge e-commerce opportunity. They're going to continue to expand. Like, we, I could see a date when somebody, everybody's ordering something online and it's getting delivered to their apartment, to their house, to their condo, right? You, you could have seen that future, but at the end of the day, what did you have to show for it over a decade was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Math significantly matters.

And I want to really illustrate like how long of a time that is, 'cause you just see it and you're like, okay, you know, is it that long? This was me 10 years ago. That was me collecting my first check, uh, as being an entrepreneur, right? I started my real estate marketing company. I got a $99 check for my first job ever. And oh, I was so happy. Before that, I just kind of worked up in the corporate world, you know, management at QuikTrip and helping them expand stores and open stores and all that good stuff, right? And so to getting that first check of $99, it felt like all the world's money in the world, right? I had a six-figure net worth. I was living in this three-bedroom apartment back then, right? 10 years later, building a house on a mountain. It's come a long way, man, with a full view of the strip and the city and everything. Like, it's come a long way. That kid right there, that kid that's now taller than his mom, right? This is what he looked like 10 years ago. Cute, right? 10 years ago. So, I wanted to illustrate that for like how long is 10 years? 'Cause sometimes you see it on a stock chart and it's like, uh, no big deal. No, no, no. It's a big deal. Your whole life can change in 10 years, right? That's insane.

Now, if I show you that same stock, Amazon, right? Let's say you buy that stock in 2001, just a couple years later, and you hold it for the next 10 years. Like, I really like this Amazon company. It has a future. This Jeff Bezos is impressive. Uh, e-commerce is going to continue to build at this sort of rate. This sort of revenue growth. The margins are going to go here. The earnings per share is going to go here over time. Do you know what you got for a return over that next decade? You got a 3,000% return over the next decade. Isn't that incredible? Right? By just moving it two years. Two years. That's all we had to do.

But the issue was in 1999, people were willing to pay any price for a stock, right? And so Amazon was just trading at ridiculous. It didn't matter if you looked at a price to sales ratio, if you looked at it at, uh, you know, how many employees they had versus how much revenue they had coming in through the door. Doesn't matter if you looked at it, uh, you know, their losses at that time, cash flow, whatever. You looked at Amazon was extremely overvalued in 1999, right? And so you buy into that stock in '99, 2000, and a decade later, you got nothing to show for it. But then you get this extraordinary opportunity, right? Couple years later, you buy in in 2001, you're like, okay, yeah, this stock's fallen 90%, but this company has a great future. Like, everything people thought a couple years ago that's going to come over time, right? It's going to take a while to get there, but we'll get there and this company's going to be at the forefront of this, right? So, you buy in, you make 3,000% over the next 10 years.

Now, math also continues to matter in this story, right? 'Cause you could have looked at that stock in 2011 and been like, "My gosh, look at the move it's made over the last decade. It's up 3,000%." So, therefore, it can't be a good deal, right? No, wrong. In 2011, Amazon was still a tremendous deal. You had to run the math. You run the numbers on AWS at that particular time plus e-commerce business and you start to begin to understand, oh wow, wait, Amazon's actually undervalued here because the earnings per share from the AWS business is likely going here over the coming years and the e-commerce business is going here, right? And so what, what do you make between a return between 2011 and 2025? 3,700% return on top of what you would already had if you had invested in the previous decade. Right? So this is where mathematics really matter.

Now, how do you run the math? That should be the next question, right? How do you figure this out to understand is a stock a good deal, a bad deal? Um, you know, am I doing the math correctly? What you have to do is you have to run projections on a company. Now, you don't just run one projection and say that's it. You run three different projections. You run a bull case on a stock, a base case on a stock, and a bear case on a stock. Okay?

Now, how do you begin to have some confidence around being able to project out what a likely revenue probability is in a bull case, base case, bear case, those sorts of things, right? Experience obviously in the market. As the years tick on, you get more experience at this, you get better at it, right? You got to look at in the companies, SEC filings, conference calls. We have access to all that for all these companies on thousandx.com, right? And then you begin to run your numbers.

So, if we look at something like an Amazon, right? And we're trying to figure out, is Amazon stock actually still a good deal in 2025 or is it a bad deal? Right? Run the numbers. This is my personal bull case I have for Amazon stock over the next four years. I have them on my bull case growing at 14% revenues per year, 20% net income per year. They should get a little, uh, margin lift overall in regards to net margins. Put them in the 12% range come 2029. If they're growing at 14% topline, 20% bottom line at 35 to 40 PE is very fair for the company growing at those sorts of growth rates, which gives me a stock price that's somewhere around $500 to maybe $550 or so. Come 2029, it's giving me a compound annual growth rate well over 20%. Right? That's beautiful.

What about my base case for a stock like Amazon? Well, my base case, this is base case is just a fancy way of saying this is what I actually expect to happen. Okay? I expect Amazon to grow revenues at 12% per year. Looking at their e-commerce business, their AWS business, and their ads business. I think that's very doable. I've then been doing net income growth of 18% on average 2026 through 2029. A 33 to a 38 PE, I think is very fair for a company growing at those sorts of growth rates, which will give me a compounding annual growth rate of let's call it right around 20%. Which if you can give me a compound annual growth rate on a great safe company that has phenomenal income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and business model that's going to put up numbers regardless of the economy, regardless of who's president, regardless of who's in Congress, blah, blah, blah. I got to take that opportunity every single time, right?

And then I also run my bear case on a stock. And so this is my bear case for Amazon. 10% revenue, 15% net margin or net income growth, right? A PE of 30 to 35 for this sort of growth, right? That's how you play the game. That's how you do it. The math, it comes back to the math in regards to this subject. If the math doesn't check out, you, you can't do this. Like the bottom line, you can't do this. You're going to set yourself up for not making six figures a year in stocks. I can tell you that much. If you pay way too crazy of prices for stocks, you're going to set yourself up for potentially massive losses in future years, which if you have massive losses, how you going to, how you going to make six figures a year in stocks if you got massive losses, right? You buy at the right valuation. You buy when the math says go and the business model says go. Guess what? You make tons of money. Next thing you know, you're sitting on a 1,000% return, a 500% return, a 200% return, right? And you're able to take massive profits out of that stock over time. Let everybody else be emotion-driven. You be math-driven in this game, right? Be math-driven.

Now, all this is available on thousandx.com. As far as running these projections, if you're a pro at understanding how to build spreadsheets and things like that, do it yourself. But every single person watching this video right now, you need to be doing what I'm showing you right now. So, go ahead, build your own spreadsheets, enter in all your own numbers and things like that on ThousandX. We automatically import them and then you can just all you have to do is worry about changing the rates and we do the math for you in the background and everything like that. So, either get access to thousandx.com or do it yourself, but you need to do it.

If you're watching this video and you're still not convinced, just turn off the video from here because I don't know what to tell you. You got to do this. This is coming from somebody that's made more money than I could have ever dreamt in the stock market. You have to do this. You have to run projections. If you don't, you will lose massive amounts of money in this game over time. Or you'll make money, but it's going to be very small amounts of money. Like there's a lot of people complacent in this market right now that have made some money in the market. Oh man, I made some money. And then we go to look at the returns and the returns are underperforming the S&P 500. It's not good enough. It's not good enough just to make some money. If you're losing the S&P 500, you got a big, big problem here. Right?

Now, you might say, how so much confidence in regards to math, right? U, you know, obviously I speak about this stuff publicly and I'm very, very confident when I go in and make a decision on a stock and I'm very understanding. I'll never bat 100%. I'll never get every single stock right. Right. But I'm going to get a far majority of them. Right. Right. How do I go in with so much confidence? It really comes back to the math and be able to run these numbers and these projections on stocks and saying, "Hey, like this is a great deal on the stock and here's why. The PE ratio is here. It needs to be here. The growth rates are here. Here's where they're going." Right?

The, the great movie in regards to to the stock market. It's called Wall Street, the original Wall Street. It's from the 1980s, right? Gordon Gekko, he has something phenomenal he says in that movie. I just love it. Right? Here's a dartboard that's in my garage. He says, "The public's out there throwing darts at a dartboard, sport." I think he kept calling Charlie Sheen, Bud Fox, "Bud Sport" or something like that, right? The public's out there throwing darts at a dartboard. I don't throw darts at a dartboard. I bet on sure things. It's exactly what I do. Like I'm never going to bet 100%. I won't get them all right, and that's okay. I'll get the far majority of them right. And then on those ones I get really right, they're going to be portfolio changers, life changers, right? And, um, I'm betting on sure things. I'm not trying to just wing it out there.

And I think there's a lot of people out there that just throw darts at the dartboard. They're just like gambling money out there. Like I hope I hit. Like this isn't the casino. Like, you know, the problem is people will analyze, you know, spending $1,000 on on something, right? And they'll overanalyze that to the moon. Spending $1,000 or $2,000. Meanwhile, they'll risk their entire net worth of, you know, $150,000, just throwing it around random stocks, gambling, not even knowing what they're doing, not even running projections, not even understanding what could go wrong with the stock, what could go right with the stock, the upside potential, the downside potential, what's realistic. And it's like, dude, how you going to go analyze this crazy, you know, this if you should get guac on your burrito, but, you know, and you're going to spend 10 minutes thinking about that and analyzing, should I spend $10, you know, this dollar on this guacamole or not? And you're like, not putting in the work to stocks. Like, come on, man. Like, we got, we got our priorities not focused right. You got to focus on the big money. We're going after the big money here. We're trying to make enough money that, guess what? We don't have to worry about how much the guac is. That's the goal. Do I need to explain it any simpler? The goal is to not worry about how much the freaking guacamole costs. Do you think I go there and I'm like, "How much is the guacamole? I don't know if I can afford that." No, because I was busy making six figures today. I don't have time to worry about the freaking price of the guacamole. What are we talking about here? We got the big money stuff to worry about.

And, and this is the issue. People are, are with the big money, they're just gambling and no clue what they're doing. No clue what they're looking at. Just gambling out there. Let me just not spend any time analyzing this. I'm just going to throw some money out there. And then they're like, overanalyze like the smallest expenses. And I'm like, what, what are we doing, man? Like priorities are backwards. And then people wonder like why a lot of folks are not, you know, doing a little better for themselves, right? Those sorts of things.

Just this week, we had eight people in the private stock group hit seven figures in their portfolio. Seven figures plus. And that's just in their stock portfolio, right? Eight people. So, congratulations to those individuals. They're not throwing darts at a dartboard. They've gone through the private group. They've gone through the materials. They're using ThousandX, right? They're using everything we provide them and they're scaling up their portfolios. They're not throwing darts at a dartboard gambling out there. When they go to make a decision, they're making a confident decision, right? And they're able to scale. We've now had well over a thousand people go through my private stock group, get to six figures, multi-six figures, seven figures, eight figures in their portfolios over time. It matters significantly.

If you're ready to join my private stock group, get access to ThousandX. That will be the pinned comment down there today. Click on that, fill out a form. Let's get you out of gambling. Let's get you to start scaling and understand the stuff on a higher level. Okay?

All righty, guys. Next up here, number two of these six tips, steps, whatever we want to call it, is survive the bear markets. You got to survive the bear markets. There's so much money to be made in the bull markets, right? But if you don't, if you wreck your portfolio during a bear market, you're not going to be able to take that upside that you get in the next bull market if you're ruined. Right? It's hard to make six figures a year in stocks if you lose all your capital in a bear market, isn't it? Yes. It's math. It goes back to math right away, right? You lose 80% of your capital because you went through a bear market. You know how long it's going to take you just to get back to where you used to be? I mean, we're talking that's probably going to take you years to get back there. Now we're talking about once you finally get back there. Now how do you get to the next level and next level? Oh my gosh. You could be talking, you lost a decade. You lost a decade. That's insane, right? So you got to make it through the bear market.

So the next thing is how do you survive a bear market? Which I think is a very fair thing to ask, right? Well, let me ask you this. How do you survive a tornado? How would you survive a tornado? Well, you say go down to the shelter in my house, right? Well, here's the thing, okay? People think they're going to survive a tornado but don't have the shelter built, right? And that's what happens in the stock market. Listen, if you, if all of a sudden you start hearing, woo, woo, woo, the sirens start going off and you're like, "Oh my gosh, there's a tornado coming in my house. Oh my gosh, a tornado's coming." Right? Uh, you shouldn't at that time worry about, okay, quick, we got to in the next three minutes build some sort of shelter to go down to. No, we're going to build a tornado shelter in the next three minutes. No, no, no. You, you got to already have it built. So the issue is people think they're going to already be in a bear market and then they're going to prepare for it. That's too late. You're, you're done then. The tornado is going to swallow you up. Like that's not, that's not happening at that point in time, right? So you need to prepare when you're in the, when you're in the bull market. You have to be preparing for the next bear market. Especially when you're several years into a bull cycle, you've got to already start thinking like, okay, how do I prepare for the next bear cycle? Whether that comes in a month from now, three months from now, six months from now, 12 months from now. And you got to always prepare for it mentally and with your portfolio.

So, how do you do it? There's three core things you got to do. One is GVD. I preach it all the time on the channel. Growth, value, dividends. You've got to have a portfolio of growth stocks, value stocks, and dividend stocks. Now, when we are in a bull market, right, a booming bull market, especially when the bull market's gone on for several years, people like value stocks, dividend stocks, pointless. They're not doing anything. Look at my growth stocks. They're doing amazing. Right? And then when you get into a bear market, people say, "Gosh, growth stocks. I want no piece of those. Those are, those look at how much they've crashed. That one's down 40%. That one's down 60%. That one's down 70%. That one's down 80%. That one just went bankrupt. I don't want a piece of growth stocks." Mm-hmm. Right. Give me my value and dividend stocks 'cause those are looking good. No, it's not how you play this game. You've got to always be invested into growth stocks, value stocks, and dividend stocks. They serve different purposes. They serve very different purposes in your portfolio. Okay? And I'll explain that more in depth here in just a moment and why this matters so much. Okay.

Second thing is you got to invest into companies with great balance sheets. A great balance sheet, just like you have a balance sheet in your everyday life, right? If you lost your job or lost your business tomorrow, I hope you got a good amount of capital behind you that you wouldn't be on the street tomorrow. And if you're watching this and you don't have enough capital behind you and you would be on the street tomorrow, you better go figure something out, man. Get your income up, expenses down, do something, okay? But if you're watching this right now and you go lose your job, you go lose your business or whatever. And let's say you can't find something for a few months, you better have enough money behind you to make it, right? The same exact thing with a company. If a big recession hits or something goes really bad in their business model, you're going to save yourself a lot of capital as long as that company has a great balance sheet, loads of cash behind them, low on debt, because that's a company that then is not put into some horrible situation where they have to face bankruptcy or they have to raise capital at really bad pricing because no one wants to buy the stock. And then they have to raise capital and dilute shareholder value in a massive way and next thing you know is 20%, 30% shareholder dilution just for a little bit of capital to the business or they have to take out a loan if a bank will even loan them money or a financial institution will even loan them money, right? They have to take it out of ridiculous interest rates because who's going to, who's going to lend money to a risky business, especially if you're in a tough time? Not many. So that's why a great balance sheet is very important. Balance sheets is another thing people don't pay attention to when you're in a booming bull market year after year after year. Balance sheet, balance sheet, who cares? You will care. You will care. Trust me, it always ends up coming back there. And you always know you're toward the end of a bear market when everybody's talking about companies with balance sheets. They're talking about value stocks and dividend stocks. That's when you know it, right?

Great, great dividend stocks. Guess what? Great dividend stocks have stable business models. They're still going to make bank even during a recession, even during a stock market crash. And they're still going to be paying you out dividends every three months, which then you're going to be able to take all that money and buy more of that stock or buy, guess what? Growth stocks that are probably down 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80%. Right?

Number three, own few or no cyclical business models. Listen, cyclical business models are great when they're in that uptrend for, you know, one to three years, but man, it goes really south really quick in regards to those companies and, um, they're just not great businesses to own for the long term. No one's ever willing to pay up for them because they understand they're like, you know, very up and down business models. The only time you really want to buy cyclical businesses is when they're really down and out and everything looks negative for them. So that's time like, you know, if we're talking about a steel company, I mean, you know, I would almost never want to own a steel company, but if the steel company had a good enough balance sheet and we were at a situation where steel demand was at like 20-year lows or something, okay, now it's probably time to step in and the stock price is at 20-year lows, okay, now we can talk about that. But for the most part, stay away from cyclical business models. They're, they're a big problem.

Right now, if you look at the public account, I posted this on my X page here today that's always linked in the description area of all my videos. I posted the public account there. You look at the public account, which is a $4 million plus portfolio there, right? Look at all those stocks. What do you see? You're going to see great growth stocks. You're going to see great value stocks, great dividend stocks across that portfolio. And everything plays a role. Nothing's there by accident. It all plays a role. The way to put it to like this, it's football season right now, right? Every position on a football field, it plays a role, right? These guys up here, they're going to be 300 plus pound giants, right? Probably 6'3, 6'5, 6'7. These big giants up here, they're blocking the defenders, right? The running back, he's, he needs to be built solid. He's going to be running all over the place, taking hits. These receivers, they got to be ready to fly. They got to be fast. They got to be able to catch. And the quarterback better be able to throw, right? They all serve a purpose. Now, this, this is where it relates to your portfolio, right? Every stock's got to serve a purpose. And not every stock's going to serve the same purpose. You're not going to ask your left tackle to go run 50 yards downfield and go catch a pass, but you will ask your receiver to do that. Same thing with, I'm not, I don't have the same expectations for AMD that I would PayPal, right? Or that I would Estee Lauder or that I would an Honest or a Fubo or one of those sorts of stocks, right?

Now, imagine you have a team of all receivers. It might go well in the short term, but I can tell you that's not going to go well over the long term. You can have a little 190-pound receiver ready to block a 330-pound defensive tackle. He's about to, you better say a prayer, right? The same thing with your portfolio. You want to set up your portfolio full of nothing but growth stocks. It could be very fun in the short term, but you better say a prayer. You want to set up your portfolio of only value and dividend stocks, you better be ready to cry a lot of nights in that bed. You're going to be crying a whole lot while the stock market goes through a massive bull run and you see people making life-changing money left and right because they're in great growth stocks and you're in your value dividend stocks looking and you're like, when am I going to ever make money? Right? They all got to serve a purpose. In the different times, different markets, they're going to serve their purpose and it will all make sense. It will all make sense in the end, but they all serve a purpose. Okay.

Number three of these six: avoid the greed. Avoid, avoid the greed, and it will come. It happens to every investor. It's going to happen at least once in your investing life, maybe twice, maybe three times. It's always going to happen, right? If you've been in the game so long, it's almost impossible for the greed to get you. But the newer you are to the stock market, the more money you made, the more likely you are to get into the greed over time. Okay? And so, what do I mean by this? Avoid the greed. Well, I could look at the public account right now, $4 million plus, right? I could say, man, imagine if I was loading up on call options in 2022, 2023. Imagine where the public account would be. The public account today, if I had been loading up on call options rather than buying shares straight up, I would probably be sitting on 10, 15, or maybe $20 million right now, right? That's where the greed starts to come and you start to look and it's like, ah, I could have made even more if I did this thing. So, you know what? Maybe I should do that thing, right? When all along if I had done something like that and the market didn't go my way and my stocks didn't go that my way in the short term, I could have lost my whole portfolio. Instead of saying $4 million today, it could say $0. And there's a slight difference between $0 and $4 million, last time I checked. Right? That's where the greed comes in.

Additionally, margin. Margin. Margin's another thing that gets a lot of folks where people start saying, "Man, if only I had even more money to invest." And they start getting into margin, right? I did it as well. Uh, especially around like it was around like 2015. I'd been killing it in the market year after year after year and I think it was around 2014, 2015 started to dabble in margins 'cause I was like, man, if I even invest more money, right? Doesn't go well, just trust me. And, and it doesn't end up going well. And usually I've got a volcano here. And the reason being is usually people start looking at more things like call options, margin, when you've had a blow-off top in the stock market, when it's been a raging volcano of just money being made, right? People are starting to get even more greedy and they're like, "Dang, why am I buying straight shares? I need to be buying call options. I need to be going on margin." Right? And the further the bull market goes on, the more it gets into that, right? And if we look here, I was just looking at margin. How much is out there on margin right now? Is over a trillion dollars out there on margin. A 33% increase versus this time last year. It's not good. It's not good. If anything, you know, people should avoid margin in any market, but especially when you're in a several year bull cycle, like you got to, you know, avoid that stuff like the plague right now. No one, no one right now should be buying on margin. No one. Not a good decision. You say, "Oh, what about the market's moving right now? We got these stocks moving." That could easily flip the other way. Next thing you got margin calls and next thing you know the market goes down 20%. Right? Or let's not even say 20%. Let's say S&P goes down 15%. People lose half their portfolios in a 15% drop for the S&P 500 because they're pro, the same type of person that would do margin is probably addicted to some very speculative stocks, very growth stocks, right? They're probably down. They could go down 60 or 70%, lose 60 to 70% of their portfolio, get margin called out the, you know what. All from a 15% drop in the S&P 500. Meanwhile, us, right? Like S&P 500 drops 15%. That's fine. Maybe the public account goes down to 3.5 mil, 3.3 mil, 3.1 mil, something like that. It's fine. Right out to the other side. Somebody else, next thing you know, they go from having, you know, a $500,000 portfolio to by the end of the bear cycle they go through there, they're down to 150 grand. It takes a while to climb back from to from 150 grand up to 500,000 again, right? That's the thing to keep in mind there.

Number four, buy heavy during and the next six months following after you're in a correction or crash. Okay? You need to buy the whole thing. Buy the whole thing when you're in a correction or crash. The more severe it gets, the heavier you need to buy. And then you don't stop buying after the crash is over. That next six months, you need to be deploying as much money as you possibly can into stocks, into the best of the best companies out there at that particular time. You have to do it. Listen, I pulled up the last hundred years, the last 100 years of the S&P 500. It's never failed. Maybe someday it does. And maybe the stock market only goes down for eternity, right? I'll take the odds on that. That's fine with me. I'll take that risk. At the end of the day, there's never been a crash or a correction where it did not make sense to buy the whole thing and then buy still very heavy that next six months with both hands. I don't care if we're talking the Great Depression. I don't care if we're talking about the crashes of the '70s and '80s. I don't care if we're talking about the Great Financial Crisis. I don't care if we're talking about the end of 2018 severe correction we had, the 2022 severe correction we had where the NASDAQ dropped 37% peaked to trough from where it peaked at in Q4 of '21 to where it troughed at in Q4 2022. It doesn't matter which one we look at. The tech bubble crash, every single one made sense to buy as heavy as possible during the correction and crash and over that next six months after the bottom. As heavy as possible. Every single one. So, make sure you do that because a lot of times the biggest money you will ever make in the market is those next few years coming out of a severe correction or crash. Right? I showed you the public account. The public account three years ago, the public account, you know what it was? Right around a million. Today, $4 million. It's made so much money because guess what? It's been a booming bull market the last three years. And I've been in some of the best companies you could possibly be in during that time. So, I got even way more upside in regards to that. Okay.

Number five, cash up. The further you go over a 20 forward PE during a bull market, very key, during a bull market, cash up. If you're in a bear market and forward PE goes over 20, it might be okay. Good example at the Great Financial Crisis. And the reason being is, you know, sometimes if you're in a severe recession, company earnings will go down dramatically. So the forward PE looks like really bad for a particular time, right? But the moral of the story is if that forward PE goes over 20 and you're in a bull market, you got to start to cash up the further and further you get. So for instance, if we went to a forward PE of 35, let's say the bull market continues to rage on, it gets really crazy over this next six months, right? This is out of control bull market. And let's say our forward PE in the S&P 500 goes to 35, right? You will see me cash massive profits on countless stocks and I will go very heavy cash if that was to happen, right? But the further you go over a 24 PE, the more you want to think about, okay, let me take some profits here. Where's some opportunities in my portfolio? Where stocks, you know, look like they're not going to make you much money over the next four, five, six years. And there's going to be some of that, right?

Now, a few tips here. Try to never go over 30% cash. If you go over 30% cash, guess what? You're probably too bearish. You're probably way too much of a bear. Should never go over 30% cash. You're setting yourself up in a bad situation where then you're, you know, you're all of a sudden 50% cash and you're like, gosh, when am I going to get back in this market? That happened to a lot of folks at the end of 2022 into the beginning of 2023. So many people went so heavy cash that they still haven't even been able to get back in the market. Think about that for a moment. So many people at the end of '22 into the beginning of 2023 went so heavy cash they haven't even been able to get back in the market. Or when they did finally get back in the market, the market would have already gone up dramatically. They missed so much of the gains because they went so heavy cash. And that's how you get the market down. Massive amounts of people taking profits, not enough buying pressure on the other side. So stock prices keep going down, down, down.

Now, people are like hoping someday they're going to be able to guess what? You're never getting Meta, at least not in the next 20 years. You're not getting Meta at under $100. You're not going to get Shopify at $25 again. You're not going to get Netflix at $185 again. I hate to break it to people. That's not, ain't happening. You're not getting Nvidia to go down 90 plus percent from here so you can get it at the price it was at back in 2022. Ain't happening. You're not getting AMD at $55 again. Sorry. So, they miss this huge opportunity. Now, you're stuck and you're just sitting on the sideline year after year after year waiting for the big crash. And then when the next crash comes, those stocks aren't even going back down to even remotely close. So, maybe they'll be able to buy back in. But, you know what ends up happening? Eventually, they get tired of waiting and then they enter back in the market and then we get the crash and then they're like, "Oh my gosh, I just blew all my money in the market 'cause I've been waiting for this crash forever and I finally get back in the market and then it crashes." That's what always ends up happening, okay? The market will teach you a very tough lesson. People got to learn it.

Another tip is it's okay to go extremely low cash levels when you're in a crash or a major correction in the market. That's going to happen. It's happened to me countless times, including 2018. 2018 was the most hidden big correction we ever had, I think, in the history of the stock market where a lot the masses were not paying attention to it, but us that were in the market, we felt it heavy, man. You know, December was December 2018, we were on pace to have the worst December since the Great Depression in the stock market and not a lot of people know that, but that was brutal and I got very low on cash during that particular bear market. 2022, woo, I got down there, man. I got down there by Q4, by the end of Q4 2022, I don't think people know I was very low on cash, like extremely low on cash because I've been plowing everything I could into the market. Like, dude, how often do you get the NASDAQ to go down 35 plus percent from a peak to trough? It almost never happens. So when that almost never happens, happens, you better take full advantage. That was an incredible buying opportunity, right? Like the only times I could really think the NASDAQ going down 35 plus percent in that amount of time, uh, is really, I don't even know if we went down that far during the Rona crash. Uh, but one time it comes to mind is the Great Financial Crisis. The NASDAQ went down a little over 50% in the Great Financial Crisis and then I think about the tech bubble and that's it. And so you get that opportunity, you better pounce, right? And, and it's okay to get low on cash if, if you're in a correction or a crash at that particular time.

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All right, guys. Number six of these six is don't focus on trying to make six figures a year from stocks. You might say, wait a minute, I want to make six figures plus a year from stocks. You can't focus on it. The more you get sucked into focusing on, man, I want to try to make $150,000 a year in stocks, $200,000, the more you're likely you're not going to actually achieve that essentially. Do not make that that your focus. If you're like, that could be the back of your mind, like that's your goal, like I want to get there someday. But if you're just focusing on that, you're focused on the wrong thing.

I'll give you an example. Okay, these two gentlemen are the best greatest football coaches of all time. Okay? This man's the greatest college football coach of all time. This man's the greatest NFL coach of all time. Right? They had to lead men to play this violent game every single week, right? And get these men who have egos, um, have a lot of confidence and get them to all buy into the process. It's called the process essentially. And the process, not many people understand it, but these men were never focused on winning the Super Bowl. They were never focused on winning the national championship. They never said, "Hey guys, we're going to win the national championship this year. This is how we do it." They said they were always into the minute details of here's what we need to do on this specific play. So you, you basically focus on each repetition, not each practice. You're focused on each repetition. Each repetition is like a Super Bowl to you. Each repetition is like a national championship to you. You're focused on the process. Every step of the process, you're not focused on who you're going to play in two weeks from now. You're focused on the rep you're doing right now. You're not even focused on who you're playing this week. You're focused on the practice rep you're doing right now, right? And by doing that, you get so good over time and your team gets so good that you're able to have tremendous success.

And so, when you have a goal like you want to make six figures a year plus from stocks, you need to be focused on the process. The process is looking into companies, listening to earnings calls, running your projections on these companies, right? Making sure you're staying disciplined. GVD, is your portfolio diversified? That's the process. And as a result of that, you can get to that place. I never, you know, started the public account and thought about, I want to make $668,000 of profits taken in 2025. No, I was thinking about the process. What type of stock should I be invested into? What's the specific details here? The process. The boring part. I don't think it's boring because that's where all the money's made. All the money's made in the process. People think, you know, somebody like myself, oh, multi-millionaire investor, like this is where you are at midnight, man. Partying at the club, right? Here's where I am 98% of the time at midnight. I'm right there in my bed, listening to conference calls, running projections on companies, looking at valuations, looking at my portfolios, trying to figure out, is there a move I need to make? Is there anything I need to derisk of? Is there any risk I need to take on more? That's where I am. 98% of the time. It's not some sexy, like we're at the club partying with 20 chicks every night. That ain't what's going on. If I was doing that, I wouldn't have all this money. I wouldn't have all this success. I can tell you that. You got to stay disciplined in this game. You got to stay disciplined. And then, you know, if you want to do that stuff, you can do that stuff. But I can just tell you, you know, if you're just into the lifestyle of having this, you're never going to actually be able to achieve the sort of money to live the lifestyle. That's the best part. And let that sink in. If you need to hear that again, rewind the video. Okay.

Now, my wife got done doing this. She got all the eight-figure awards ready to be shipped out here. Right? And, um, the thing you got to understand about this is it's very possible to make $100,000 plus a year in profits taken out of the stock market, right? It's not going to be easy, but it can absolutely be done, right? And, you know, these eight people that just hit seven figures plus in the stock market, I bet you they all have a story. I bet you every single one of them has a story. I bet you they have ups, they have downs, they have stocks that went well, stocks that went bad, they had times in the market when they were gambling and it came back to bite them and they realized they had to focus up, right? Um, I bet you every single one of those eight people has a story. Every single one. And you have a story as well. And the question is, what are you going to do about that story? Are you going to focus on what you got to focus on the process to get you to where you need to get to? Or are you going to choose to just mess around and gamble in the market? Right? Mess around, gamble in the market. You're never going to get to the sort of place that we're trying to get to, which is making six figures plus a year in the stock market, right?

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