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Hello gang. It's Sunday. This video is packed with absolutely simple rules that you need to know, and people still don't know them. So, we're going to hammer it home today, and we're going to talk about Bitcoin, AI stocks, AI agents, stuff that's sold hard, and diversification. Is it good or bad? And so much more. And how to play proxies and IPOs and all the stuff that's top of mind for the week. Thank you all for coming. Let's get into it.

Yeah, I'm just, I'm just a guy on the internet, but I really do love doing this, and I love sharing all the information. Let's get into it. This one's called the. It should be die. If anybody's listening, can you change the thumb? Diversification, not DI. The stands for it's a play on words from diversification. Anyway, let's get into it. We're going to be talking about a lot of very fun stuff today, and non-financial advice, and all the questions come from Patreon, and you can always tell the temperature of the room every week from the questions.

First one's from Dr. K. Hi James, thank you so much for the support and for Tesla over the years after building my bag of Tesla. Which three to five names from the AI13 portfolio are the best priorities for a small portfolio rather than buying all 13 and ending up overdiversified?

First of all, Dr. K, you are smart. Yes, you understand the danger of diversification and stuff that I preach. And for those who don't know, the AI13 was a concept I came up with early summer 2025. And I had actually built out these set of AI stocks. I believe the best stocks through 2030, but they all began to r. But then I had to wait, and then they all got cheap again, and then we could buy them. So that's basically what happened. If you're wondering what that is, uh, let's get into the answer to this question.

First of all, uh, this is very, very important. The danger of over-diversification, and people make this mistake all the time. Conviction over scatter means that in a smart portfolio, you could be holding say, 13 names plus Tesla, 14 names, or you could have 5% allocation to different stocks, and that adds 5% to your total portfolio. But my approach dictates that to concentrate to build wealth, you need concentration, not diversification. You diversify to preserve, or you build something unique like a special bag of things that you know are going to blow up to kind of take a little bit of the, uh, the Tesla bag, as it were, in your case. And for risk and reward symmetry, since you already have the foundation layer with Tesla, which I believe and have believed since 2022, the best risk-reward out there through 2030, uh, we'll get into why as well, but, uh, the other allocations we'll get into as well.

Now, remember, if you have a 5% allocation to something and it does really well, say it goes up 100%, you make a 5% gain. If you got a 25% allocation, of course, you make a lot more money. And that's the big magic here. We'll break it down. So all the time, I mean, for years and years, I'll step out of this. They have all these experts, and they have these model portfolios. You know who they are. And they've got 60 things in this model portfolio. Literally, not making this up. Not 50, not 40, 60 items, like 1.8% in each. That's not going to get you anywhere. And that is the message here I'm going to explain with mathematics.

Now, here you see if you look at this table, you got scenario A. You have, uh, 60 assets, 1.67% per asset, that's diversification. One triples, that's good. And 48 go to zero, that's bad, and the rest are kind of steady Eddie. You end up down 77%. Now, scenario B, you got nine assets concentrated. One, you're 50% in, uh, 6.25% and that is the exact strategy you're going to play here. And when one doubles or triples, you're up a fortune. Now, there is one caveat to this. You have to pick the right asset. And remember as well, and shout out to CERN Basher, he just made a video on something like this. I made a video on this about a year ago, but I talked about not being in the top 3% of assets, but to be in the top 0.3% of assets. I spent an inordinate amount of my time finding the winners, analyzing the winners, staying abreast of the winners. Yes, sometimes till I'm blue in the face, and that bores people hearing about these as well. But out of nearly 30,000 US stocks from 1926 to 2024, only 86, 86, 86 out of 30,000, that is 0.3% of those created half of all net wealth. The top 1,000, they did okay. That was the top 3%. Okay, they kind of helped. You didn't make you rich, but the bottom 90%, 97% sorry, lost. You made more money holding T-bills, which I know you will lose money if you hold T-bills because money is debasing. So literally, when you are investing, it's actually easy to know what to do. It's hard to know what to be in. But you have to be in the top 0.3% of stocks. Period. Or assets, whatever it is. Remember that. You got to pick 86 out of 30,000 over 100 years. I was lucky to figure this out in the 90s, and that's been my mantra ever since. That's been a game changer. But if I held 60 pieces of poop over time, you know, who knows? I might be working for the man somewhere, which wouldn't be cool.

Anyway, back to the story. And we'll, we'll get more into this in a minute, but basically the top AI AI 13 priority names, the question that came in many times, if I could only buy four, what would they be? I'm not going to share what they are here, but you've, I posted on five days ago on Patreon and my 2030 price targets for these, the top four, and they always balance risk and reward. I like things that have huge upside and very little downside. That's what it means, risk and reward. Yes, there might be a faster horse somewhere, but it could be fleeting. It might be fast for a couple of furlongs or a couple of months or a couple of quarters or a couple of years. I'm playing the long game because I have also figured out a long time ago that's what matters, not trading around little shiny things in the room.

And the other thing as well, these are some of the recent trades as well. A lot of people talk about how great they are at investing. Uh, I publish all my trades, but these are results. These are options trades, by the way, of what happened over the last six weeks or less. Okay. Broadcom, Google, Micron, Marvel. Marvel has been absolutely mind-blowing. It's gone way higher than expected, but the chart was so good. I was always after you make a lot of money, you tended, you're tempted to sell covered calls, but it just kept on going up. And SATS, which is the SpaceX proxy. So again, despite it being a very difficult market in 2026, we're still able to find tons of alpha. So be ready. And in fact, it's these dark times that can provide great opportunities, but you got to be ready to strike. And sometimes you got to stack cash for six and nine months to be ready to deploy. And then you need to deploy in the right way as well to maximize your return. It's that simple, my friends.

Let's get on to the next question. And this next question, by the way, dovetails perfectly into the first question. Diversification. You can't make this up. And thank you to the community for all these great questions because they make me dig into things too, as well. And literally 10% of the time, people will uncover a great opportunity, but sometimes not. Okay.

This is a quick question from the new guy. This is, uh, I got to zoom in to read the name. Law Design 7. Thank you, Law, like Lozer. Your thoughts on Crane Shares Global Humanoid and Embodied Intelligence ETF. KOI is the ticker, which targets broader humanoid robotics ecosystem AI components manufacturers. I love this. You are barking up the right tree. Excellent job. But let's break it down. This is the quick story of Unitree. This is the Chinese robot that can dance and do kung fu and all that good stuff. People are very excited. They used to make four-legged robots. Now they're making humanoids. Um, if a lot of people think, why would you make a robot that's in the humanoid shape? Because humans are very inefficient. Well, the world is built around humans. That's why. Simple answer. But, uh, Unitree's um, they have filed for an IPO and they're looking to raise about $600 million at a $3 to $7 billion valuation, which considering SpaceX is looking at $2 trillion, it's very small, but money goes a lot further in China. It's a good thing. But the problem for most of us is that Star Market is extremely difficult for Western retail to access, and Chinese stocks tend to be a bit dodgy because their accounting standards are a little, let's say, not as transparent as I would like. KOI operator, thank you so much, and shout out to Daniel and Buckhorn as well. Appreciate you guys. Um, but this is important. So, they are looking to raise some money, and this could be a flyer. Very interesting. And does this, this KOID, whatever it's called, um, what is it called? KID. Yes. The Crane Shares Global Humanoid Embodied Intelligence ETF. Their portfolio is exactly what I've been walking my entire life. This is what I call 60 pieces of poop. No offense to the guys, but literally they have allocated 1.8%, 2% to 60 different names, 58 different names, give or take one or two. Again, I call this 60 pieces of poop chart because 80 to 90% of the humanoid robotic supply chain will probably go out of business, and all these players. Just look at the Chinese EV players. What the Chinese do is they swarm markets. They get the country to literally go headlong into keys, which is the right thing to do. Look what they've done with EVs. But because they do so much, there's a glut of supply, a glut of players, a glut of mediocrity, and a winner takes most. So yes, somewhere in this list there might be three to five winners, but the other 55, 57 will go to zero. And that's just how it works. Remember that. So, does it make sense to buy this? Well, in my opinion, no. It is the first US-listed humanoid fund. That's a good thing. It's a decent proxy. It's a good thing. It's heavily diversified, which the story is today. That's not a good thing. But you want to take a concentrated risk. You want to pick a single winner, a single hardware winner over a diversified exposure. And even if, even if this Unitree makes a fortune, it'll have such little impact on the actual portfolio, and you just end up paying ETF fees. So, would I touch it? Nope. But I'm very fussy. And remember this, you have to pick the right assets. Heavy concentration. We already know who the humanoid robot manufacturer is going to be, who the winner is going to be. If you've watched this show ever before, you already know the answer to that. That's the reason for my concentration. There's nothing like it. Nothing like it. And that's on top of 14 other lines of business that are making crazy money.

So anyway, moving on back to the story. Thank you for the question, Mr. Lots. Oh, and shout out, shout out to Warren Buffett as well. I hope he's having fun in retirement. Just to hammer this point home, wide diversification is for people who do not know what they are doing. Shout out to all the fund managers with 60 things in their portfolio. Good luck. Good luck. Anyway, sorry for being crass, but this is an urgent time, and I have no time to take patience or be polite anymore. It's too urgent, and we're going to get into some more hard lessons as well. So, buckle in. If, if it's too hard for the lesson, maybe this isn't the channel for you, but I'm not taking any prisoners anymore.

Anyway, sounding C, let's get into this question. Uh, do you have any insights into typical price movements historically for proxies before and after IPOs? And drawing from this, how would you time the selling of your SpaceX proxies? Woohoo. I love the way you guys are thinking. You're not just buying stuff, but you're planning your exit. One of my critical rules is know your exit before you enter. So, for example, I shorted oil $101. My exit was $81. I knew my exit. I actually plugged into my per trade. I plugged in my exit at the same right a minute after I entered. That's it. Know your exit. Have an exit plan before you enter. So important. Write that down somewhere on your mirror or whatever. It's so important.

Let's get into the story. First of all, proxy behavior. Now, of course, sometimes things are a little bit different. But there's a classic pattern, and we saw this with things like Bitcoin proxies and other proxies that are out there. You get a big run-up six to 12 months before the IPO, and you sometimes you get massive NAV premiums. Sound familiar? Everybody? Anyone? Any names? Drop it in the comment below. It begins with M, by the way. And once the IPO hits or once the Bitcoin ETF launches, etc., capital rotates instantly out of the proxy into the direct equity or the pure form, as I like to call it, and the premium, the net premium collapses. The SpaceX listing will be historic. We're talking $2 trillion IPO. The biggest IPO by far ever in the history of the planet. Massive. And we have SATS, which is Echoar. Okay. Echoar is a little bit different. An Echoar is not your typical proxy. They've happened to fallen on a 2.8% ownership of SpaceX because SpaceX bought their, uh, what do you call the things? Their wavelengths or whatever. I forget the term, uh, whatever it is for to distribute signal. Ah, anyway, not enough coffee today. I'm trying to cut back. Anyway, optimal strategy though, watch, watch it very carefully. There's a couple of things that are going to happen. First of all, it's going to be a huge suck. Okay, think of that big sucking sound. SpaceX IPO is going to suck in a lot of capital from all the world. Think of the SATS apocalypse. Think of all the software companies that are going to be killed by AI. Think of all the other industries that are going to be killed by AI. People are looking for two things: terrestrial AI players with a moat and space AI players with a moat. There's only one AI player. Yes, there are other players futing around, but don't even bother with them. So, all a ton of money is going to flow into this thing. And yes, it's always prudent to take some profit, profit, but we have to look at how the IPO performs. Is it going to continue to stack and go up, or will it sell off? We'll see. A lot of people are going to be taking some profit. It's going to be a huge liquidity event for the planet. But anyway, there's a couple of other things you got to watch for, too. It's going to be added to the QQQ very quickly, probably within weeks of launch, and the S&P 500 within two to four weeks, maybe a couple of months. This is going to be faster than anything else before because the size of this asset is so, so huge. And when it gets added to an index, you get that perpetual bid. A lot of money will flow in. So, what you could do is you could hedge at a level you're comfortable, take some profit, or exit in layers. That's going to be kind of your game plan. Uh, there is certain ways to do it. Again, watch it carefully. You could rotate some. You could sell some at the IPO, like a third, keep two-thirds, sell some when they get out of the S&P 500, and then keep on watching what happens after that. Place a tight stop-loss, uh, so that you can be forced out if it does tank. I think it's going to be something very special. Watch it carefully. Also, Neptune Digital, you did mention that as well in your question. Unlike Echoar, Neptune's very different because Neptune Digital is more than just SpaceX. It's according to my model, me zoom in to read this exactly, it's 35.6% SpaceX today, it's 56.6% Bitcoin, and 5.6% Solana. So, you're getting crypto and SpaceX all in one bag. So again, don't expect this thing to move violently, but if the SpaceX IPO is huge, you'll see that thing go up a lot, too. A lot of people just don't know about Neptune because it's based in Canada. Shout out to the Neptune team.

Next question from Johnny 5. Uh, this is again, I've been a member, uh, and subscribed to your TradingView tools for about six months now, and I wish I had found you earlier. Woohoo. Uh, I use your tools and set alerts, usually on the one hour, but I have a hard time pulling the trigger. Not confident it's the best time. More often than not lately, I'm glad I did not sell, even though the tools are all saying sell, but I do feel the market is hot in the last couple weeks, I should take some gains. What do you look at in your tools and beyond to make the final decision?

I like the way you think. So, my process is very simple. Uh, be careful of the one-hour chart. Okay? I look to the one hour is full of noise, etc., and it's hard to find signal because during any given day, you know, markets start strong, sell off midday, and then they strengthen back into the end of the day, or if the whole market's tanking altogether, everything just goes down at different variations. It's very hard to find reliable signal in the one hour. So you zoom out first, you look at the daily. Okay, that gives you a good feel for where you've come from. Then you look at the four-hour. Four-hour is my magic. If I only had one time frame to look at, that would be the four-hour period. Filters out the chop. And then you look at the trend. And when the trend is confirmed, you zoom in to the 15-minute or the 5-minute to strike based on signals. Don't look at perfect top timing, but look to capture most of the move. That's why you wait for the trend.

The other thing that's very important too is in terms of what I call confluence math is absolutely critical, and a lot of people don't get this. If you have one thing telling you what to do in one direction, that's good. And if it has say, 81% backtest win rate, that's good. Then if you have a second model saying 83% win rate, oh, that's very good. And the third one says 88%. When you combine all of these together, every one you look at that tells you what to do, it removes uncertainty. Very, very important here. So, if you have no models, you're blind. You're flying blind. You're going to crash. If you have one model, you have, you know, 81% certainty of things going in a certain direction. Only a 19% chance of loss. If you combine that with another model, then that jumps, like 81% win rate with an 83% win rate, you get to 96.77% win rate. Then you're going to clean up. That's just mathematically proven looking back at charts. Only a 4% chance of loss. And if you add in mean reversion, you wait to capture most of the move with a high degree of confidence, 88% win rate, then you get to 99.98% confidence. That is confidence. Math. The more things you have testing your thesis with data science, the more successful you will be. So, let the models do the heavy lifting, not your gut, not by any stretch.

So, remember as well, there's a sequence too. So, mean reversion is the first to kick off. That's your canary in the mine. Then the confluence signal will be a little laggy, a little late. And remember, if the confluence signal kicks in like six or 10 hours later, it might be too late. It might be a false signal. So, it has to be kind of tight to the mean reversion, and then you wait for the trend to turn, the final step. And again, watch all the backtests. That's it. And there's nothing wrong with taking profit along the way. I like to sell calls at tops. Takes some off the table. But when I'm holding a long-term bag, I don't want to trade too much around in and out. So, watch that carefully. Hope that helps.

Bitcoin Cowboy. Interesting. Bitcoin Cowboy. I'm interested in generating income through covered call strategy. Unfortunately, E-Trade and my company won't allow it. Boo on them. However, I have 70% of my Tesla ESP shares. Looks like you're a Tesla employee. Uh, that's an employee participation program, I think. 25% of my stock options in RSU, that's restricted stock units. And 5% of my options. I'm interested in generating income from the options, and I have many shares of ESP through the $200 range up to the $450 range. Is it advisable to sell some of these shares to reach a total of 100 shares that I could buy through my broker on Robinhood? So I, so you can sell covered calls. I like the way you're thinking.

So first of all, actually, I'll zoom out for this. One of the reasons I never really did, uh, retirement programs like 401ks and IRAs and all that stuff was first, I never thought I'd live to 65, and second of all, I hated the restriction on the assets and the things you could do. I'm an options trader, so I'd rather have cash in hand and have full control over my destiny than care about a 6% employee match or something. It just, you can make a lot more on your own. So that was, that was just me. My goals are not your goals, but you do need about $40,000 to buy 100 shares of Tesla because the price is over $400 now. It could even go higher tomorrow because they launched in Dallas and Houston with the robo-taxis that took a lot of people by surprise. Now you have to sell your employee stock options, which means you're going to run into some maybe some tax issues, especially for the low cost basis. Selling employee stock purchase plan shares is a trigger, trigger event, taxable event, whatever you want to call it. And, uh, they are disqualifying dispositions if held, I think, depending on what your area held in less than a couple of years from grant, and when you do get the grant, you got to pay income taxes on the income. Check out with your local tax authority, etc. But the critical mathematical question is whether the yield generated from selling covered calls will outpace the immediate tax hit you take by liquidating your employee shares. So that's the calculus you got to tax as well.

Now, the trade-off, as far as I'm concerned, moving your shares to a better broker with options is a smart financial move, but absolutely do not sell any of your shares at a loss just to chase a little bit of extra options income. Now, the upside is the stock price swings around a lot, and using mean reversion, you can really tell when it's oversold and overbought. Super simple. We've covered that many times. But you also can easily make 1 to 3% a month, or you can make a nice 5 or 6% a month every say, two or three months if you wait for the prime opportunities. That's kind of like more my strategy. I don't force myself to sell covered calls every month. I wait for the really good moments, the big fat baseball pitches that come in, and watch your tax strategy as well. And, uh, yeah, go for it. Do it and get used to it. But you also have your backup of your big mattress from your employment stock plan, and you're good to go. So I say, yeah.

Next question is from NEJCP. And this one will get a little bit spicy, so buckle in, my friends. I'd really appreciate your take on mining grid mining race. Um, there are lots of things like simple mining, like the white glove service. It's pumped by all the pumpers, you know, uh, you know, active promotion, and that'll take me into my whole thing. But, um, I have a friend who's quite deep into it and is actively trying to bring others, including me. But the whole thing is starting to smell like a classic pyramid style setup. The more I dig into it, even using AI to analyze the model, returns, and structure, the more red flags I'm seeing. MLM, which is multi-level marketing, think pyramid schemes, unclear custody of Bitcoin, questionable licensing, etc. Before jumping to conclusions, I want to ask you, is there any legitimate angle here, or does this look like another high-risk, likely scam project dressed up as a community mining? Thanks.

So, I, I really like this question. I'm going to hammer this home again. Now, this applies to anything in life. Anything. All right? I've never done a paid promotion in my life. Never will. I don't need to. But everything has something buried in it. Everybody is shilling something hard with referral bonuses. Your friend's trying to bring you in because he'll get a bonus as well. Um, this applies to everything in life. I don't care if you're doing car insurance, bonds, special bonds, special funds, special courses, special whatever. If it's pushed hard every single day, it is crap. Okay, if you hear about the same product offering twice in any given week, it's crap. Avoid it like the plague. Applies to everything in life. Good stuff sells itself. Every, if you take one thing away from this video today, it's this. Okay. If people make videos just to promote white glove mining, oh yeah, we'll take care of everything for you. Or some special product or some special whatever or some special course. If it's mentioned more than once, it's crap. Take that to the bank. I guarantee you. Because other people are making money off the sale of the thing they're pushing to you. You're not going to make money from it. Period. Remember that. And tell your friends and family as well. If it's shilled hard, it is poop. And I've said this since day one, too.

Now, back to the red flags. Sorry about that. Any project prioritizing recruitment and multi-level referral bonuses over actual computer efficiency is a massive red flag. Mining, as I've been calling since day one, is a cutthroat business, and there's no mathematical room for error or payouts. Okay, this is a classic Ponzi. Cloud mining companies frequently also sell more hash rate than they physically possess and rely on new user deposits to pay out older ones, etc., etc. Definition of a Ponzi. Mining itself. If the professional mining companies can't make money mining, do you think the company that's offering you mining services instead of using that mining capability for themselves to make money, why are they selling it to you? Ask yourself that question. It's BS. It's a scam. Easy. And remember, this is so important. You just look at history. Every cloud mining or community mining operation from 2014 to today have collapsed. Every single one. They've taken investor money or failed to perform simple, you know, what they're supposed to do, mine Bitcoin or whatever else. And the mathematical reality is, again, I'll repeat this. If a company has a highly profitable mining rig, why the hell would they give it to you? They'd use it themselves. Okay? Run away. Avoid it like the plague, or else you will lose. Tell me, next question.

Uh, according to one of your videos about PTOS, you mentioned that this tool can be used in options to buy a call on the way up and buy a put on the way down, and also vertical spreads. Could you please explain with a couple of examples how this is possible?

Yes, I will. So, first of all, PTOS tons. It's basically inverse pair trading tool. We have tons of community spreadsheets that have all the different pairs from all over the world. Whether you're in Australia, the UK, or the US, or Canada. You can find all of your inverse pairs. And you've heard of things like TSLA and TSLQ. So, like Tesla is the inverse of Tesla. So, the, the bears love it. That's why they make fun of Tesla. And there's tons of others, too. And you can look at your win rate, your time frame, and the typical tools to play. Now, the way you look at it, this is pair trading on steroids. The bottom is the PTS model. This shows you the deviation kind of from the mean of when things are extremely overbought or oversold. And then at the top, you've got the actual buy and sell signal. And then the third leg to the actual model is the optimized trend tool. That's the orange and blue. When it's orange, stay out of the trade. You know, do not sell till the trend turns. Same thing with blue. If it stays blue, do not, do not sell till the trend turns. That should be blue. And do not buy till the trend turns in gold. That's that's the key message here. So, at the bottom, first of all, you get the big mean reversion first, the buy signal, and then after you get the flag, most of the time, and then you watch the trend. So this means you buy at the bottom, then you wait, and then you sell at the top when you see the little red flag and you see the big sell sign, the mean reversion to the upside, over and over again. This is a one-hour chart on Bitcoin. Now, what you can do here is you can pair it. You can pair long or short, or you can buy calls or puts on IBIT, whatever you want to do. And again, the key part here is where people get tripped up. You can get multiple buy signals. So, for example, or sell signals. You got a buy signal down here. Uh, what date is that? Let me pull up the exact date. Got a buy signal in Bitcoin around is it the 19th or 15th? I can't, I can't read the dates. Anyway, I need to get glasses. It's a reality, too. Then you sell, you got your first sell signal here, and then the second one. You wait for the trend to turn before you get up, and then you wait for the trend to turn back before you get in again. So here you see this is the big mean reversion of the downside at the bottom, and you got to buy at the top, but wait for the trend to turn before you get in. Another example would be too palunteer again, little, little busier chart again, two-hour. You got to watch the backtest on the right. You got to dial in your settings. You could be looking at a four-hour, six-hour, eight-hour, 12-hour, daily. Uh, I find PTS works really well on the one or two hour if you want to play. You can trade sometimes, you know, four or five times every one or two weeks, which is nice. Again, buy signal at the bottom, sell at the top, buy at the bottom, sell at the top, watch the trend before you convert.

Now, what you can do here. Back to your question regarding the actual options. This is the key part as well. So that's the how you do it. You got to think directionally. It allows you to go long, up, short, down. So you can play both sides of the trade. And this has a backtest and it shows you the optimal times for identifying these optimal inflection points. Again, the price trend oscillator excels at identifying the shifts in momentum and trends. So what you do here at tops, you could sell a call or buy a put. I prefer selling calls because puts are expensive, and sometimes people are greedy, and you get more premium. Remember, the money is in the selling, not the buying. Buying insurance is always expensive. Selling stuff is always good. Okay. Think of selling stuff out about 30 days, maybe 45 days max to expiration, and that's it. And then wait for it to turn. If you see it turning back, then you buy the call back cheap, or you sell the put. Very, very important. And the same thing on at bottoms. Conversely, same thing here. Wait for the bottom at these levels. That's either you buy the call or sell the put. Again, back to me. I like to sell puts at bottoms. In fact, what I do is I like to sell puts and use that money to buy calls. So I, I do pair trading on steroids to the power of two, almost. Uh, but that's me. I'm just a little bit, I do this for fun. Um, not anything else. And yes, you can also do it with VIX. You can also do it with credit spreads, etc., etc. But watch again, watch the signals. Going back to my confluence story, wait for the buy signal, and then wait for the trend to turn. Then you enter. Then at the top, you see all the different sell signals like up here in the middle. Wait for the trend to turn. Don't jump on the first signal. Watch your backtest. The more confidence you have, the easier it is. So, you've got the bottom signals, got the top signals, and the trend. Three of them. When they're all telling you the same thing, you're going to be good to go. Hope that helps.

MS7 Invest. Need some water. Uh, I am a longtime supporter and three-year subscriber to the Pro Bundle. Oh, a lot of you tool users today. As a retired Canadian trading with the tax-deferred RRSP with options only, calls, no puts allowed, while your lessons primarily highlight spot trading. I've noted that you apply your IDSS ATR signals to options. I am currently holding deep in the money LEAPS, Tesla, MicroStrategy, ALAB, Trading Desk, and HIMS with 2027 to 2028 expirations. Uh, do you prefer a buy and hold approach until the contracts approach expiration?

So, I use LEAPS strategically for leverage to get exposure to assets I want to hold long term. We don't know where all assets are going to go, but I buy a ton of LEAPS on things I really like, like Tesla. And you have deep in the money LEAPS. These act as great leverage long, and you got 2027, 2028, got one or two years to go, or more, year and a half probably. They're probably December 2027s, and these are a stock replacement with that built-in leverage because the expiration is years away, and the time decay is minimal, and I do not actively swing trade these instruments. You possibly could because you're in a tax-free account. I'm not. So that's, that's up to you. But I like to use these leverage things, buy LEAPS on extreme bottoms, and then build a bag of stock, and then I use that to sell calls against or sell puts against. That's my whole game. Build a bag, build a mattress, and use that capital, that collateral becomes margin where you can generate a lot of income to buy more LEAPS and wash, rinse, repeat. I bought my first LEAPS on Tesla in 2017. It's 10 years ago. 10 years ago. And that becomes my big, big mattress to do a lot of good stuff with. And again, think of stock splits, etc. And I do rely on the daily and weekly systems to identify optimal entry points for buy and holds. And I do not sell unless the thesis changes, changes. So, for example, if all of a sudden there's a new Tesla killer that has 15 different lines of business, including a partner that does space. If such a company comes and they're better than Tesla and SpaceX, I'm out. I'll be in that new company in a heartbeat. But I don't see it right now, or perhaps ever.

Now, drawdown. This is the other problem is I, you do everything in layers. You wait for the opportune times when things get really cheap, like $330 Tesla two weeks ago, or big sell-offs in Micron's, Google's, Broadcom's, Marvel's, then you buy those LEAPS. You sit, you wait, got all your alerts set up, and then you wait. But these things are volatile, and over a two-year period, yeah, the stock could dip 30%, which means your leverage option position could fall as high as 60%. But that doesn't bother me because I'm playing the long game. I don't get shaken out as well. So again, only eject the position if your thesis changes. Otherwise, build your bag. That's why you use LEAPS, not to trade around them, but to leverage up on a position you want to build for your future. Real simple. Hope that helps.

Uh, next question from Iman. How does the utility of Bitcoin hold up once we reach the singularity? By the way, many argue we are already in the singularity, and I believe that too. As agentic AI begins to evolve, much like how models already have created their own private languages to communicate, is it more likely that they'll abandon human-made crypto in favor of autonomously generated AI native digital currencies?

Great question. Hey Bman, I, man, and Bman together, AI agents. This is interesting. I, again, I love these questions because they make me think too. In the reality today, April 2026, AI, they can't open bank accounts, they can't pass identity checks, they can't hold fiat cash, but they can use cryptographic rails to transact. We're seeing a lot of that happen with stable coins on things like Solana and X42 protocol. And we're already seeing autonomous agents utilizing stable coins all over the place to buy stuff, to buy server space, trade data, trade, trade, trade stuff, trade crypto, and execute anything necessary. And the economy is machine to machine. And I want to step out of this as well because we're in a world where the machines are doing all the business, and they're talking to each other. We're being kind of like carved out. So be prepared for that. It's just the scary reality of where we are. M to M, machine to machine. You're not invited to the party, my friends.

Now, back to the question. Good news. Good news at last. Despite all the machine to machine stuff, AI could easily build its own crypto in seconds or minutes or half an hour. But a localized token has zero intrinsic value without decentralized consensus, global liquidity, Lindy effect, robust security, etc. If an agent creates a private ledger, private blockchain, it will remain highly vulnerable to network attacks by competing agents with superior compute and effectively, you know, they won't be able to protect their stored value. They'll have a 51% attack. So don't worry, uh, it's not going to happen. It's very difficult. I think it was Tom Lee that said once an asset gets to two trillion, you never see it disappear. That's basically Bitcoin. Although Bitcoin is about 1.55 trillion right now, last time I checked. So don't worry, it'll happen. There'll be lots of poop coins, just the same way there's like 3 million cryptos out there. 99.99% of them will go to zero. But, uh, focus on the big ones that matter.

And another thing is interesting as well for the world we live in. This is the post-scarcity paradox. With the abundance that's coming with AGI, robotics, cheap energy, we'll be able to make almost anything physical in unlimited quantities. Houses, cars, foods, gadgets, marginal cost, even energy. Maybe if you solve fusion, we'll have unlimited energy as well. Better solar panels. And when abundance is the default, this is the key part here. The things that cannot be copied or mass-produced become the new status symbols or stores of value. Okay, Bitcoin is the purest digital example of that. You can't make any more of it. No matter how smart AGI gets. This is why scarcity matters. Moats matter. We're going to see a thing, a big move from things that are soft like software to things that are hard like Bitcoin, microchips, etc. Remember, the amount of money in the world is huge, and they're going to be chasing very few things. Remember, there's never going to be more than 15 million Bitcoin. And there's 65 million millionaires. They're stuffed. There's no such thing as a millionaire being able to be a whole coiner. Done. Gone. There's not enough to go around. It's game over. They're already way too late. So, if you have any millionaire friends, send them my condolences.

And this week, we're, we're helping Loki the crow, and we donated to Schlitz Odabon to help Loki the crow and other animals there. Corvids are incredibly smart. He paints. He recycles, solves puzzles, picks up things and organizes them as gifts. Never fade the intelligence of animals. We think they're all stupid. We think we're clever than them, but no, not by any stretch. Big thank you to the mods on the channel. I'm going to do some live questions now as well. And a big thank you as well to Daniel Coin Operated, Soul Strider, AZ Ralpha, Bman, and Haya. And, uh, thank you as well to all the great mods in the chat. Um, by the way, I hope you all learned something. This is the most important time in our lives to really stay on top of what, what's happening the next five years, maybe even the next two years. Everything's going to change. So buckle in, my friends. And, uh, let me turn on the big camera and get to the questions.

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