Speaker 1: 0:00

Felix here, and while you and me, retail investors, are enjoying the rally, wall Street has warned its big customers of things that they don't want us to understand.

Speaker 1: 0:10

Now I got my paws on the reports and I think, that we deserve the same level of information and warning as the big funds managers, as the hedge funds and all the big customers of Wall Street. So I want to break down that informational edge for you so you're as well informed as those guys, because I just think that there shouldn't be a gap in information. I just don't believe that that's the thing we should have, and if you agree with that, write agree in the comments on the chat down below, and I've got some notes here to make this as high value for you as possible. So my intention is to explain and teach you eight things here, but if you just understand the first one, you will be head and shoulders above 99.9% of investors out there, and I'm not going to hold that one hostage and give it to you as item number eight. I'm going to give it to you as item number one. It's up to you whether you want to get the rest of the value here or not. So what's the first one?

Speaker 1: 1:04

Well, as we're rallying so beautifully here into the opening, how do we find stocks that actually win? How do we find stocks that really, really win and last? Well, they have patterns. They always have the same patterns and they have the same patterns like last week, which was a pretty boring week. Right, nasdaq went up 0.7%.7. Well, we did about seven times better than that. How did we do that? Well, we found little gems like this one cmp and aeva and uls and strl and stocks you've probably never heard of, not because I know much about those, but just because they gave us little clues. And they're the same clues that wall street uses. And let me play you a little clip from Blackstone. Their CEO just gave an interview explaining how they find big opportunities and I think this is insane high value stuff. So have a listen.

Speaker 2: 1:53

How do you know an opportunity? What's the process? Is it art, is it science? It's pattern recognition. And how do you get to pattern recognition? First, you need to understand the patterns, the changes that are happening. It's like seeing a piece of white lint on a black dress, but most people disregard that piece of lint. They just see the dress. I always see the lint. I've learned that if you focus on why one discordant note is there, that's usually a key. If you can find two of those discordant notes, that's usually a straight line to someplace, and that someplace is not where you've been.

Speaker 1: 2:38

So he kind of gave away. Not that much did he. He said this is how we do it.

Speaker 1: 2:43

We look for these secret little nuggets, but I'm not going to tell you how you can find them, because then we wouldn't be able to charge you fees. That's basically what he said, and I'm going to do the opposite. I'm actually going to give you those rules, because I know the rules he uses, because they're the same rules that everybody else on Wall Street uses, yet nobody else seems to understand them. And so how can you learn them? Are they not incredibly difficult? No, you can learn them in about 15 minutes. There are only three of them. It's really really quite simple. I'm not going to explain them here, because it'll make this video 15 minutes longer, but you can go to felixfriendsorg slash, get free and watch a 15-minute masterclass as often as you like. It's completely free. It's part of our mission to make a million of you financially free. That's my nugget number one, because, while everything seems to be going up this morning, that is about to change and you actually want to be in a position that's what I was writing to my mentees this morning where we don't really care about the news, we just care about the patterns, we just care about acting on the same rules. We don't need to interpret the latest tweet Now.

Speaker 1: 3:44

Speaking of tweets, though. This is the announcement the United States and China have agreed to mutually reduce tariffs for a period of 90 days. As negotiations continue, the US will cut tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to just 30%. It's a huge drop right 115% less, which includes yeah, we don't really care. And then China will cut tariffs on US goods from 125% to just 10%. So we've gone from 100 plus to 10 and 30% tariffs, which, of course, is a heck of a lot more manageable for businesses.

Speaker 1: 4:20

This is beautiful rally, which undoubtedly Trump will call the most beautiful rally of all rallies, and it's going to be marvelous. So what's going to go up the most? Well, I'll tell you that in a second, but before I do that, I'm going to tell you something that's unpopular. Wall Street is warning its finest, its big clients, that they don't think this is going to last. They say sell the rally. And you might be thinking I'm not going to sell the rally, I want things to go up, up, up, up. Don't spite us. That's such negativity. Felix, you're wrong. Someone wrote yesterday to my comments Felix has an agenda. It doesn't fit his. I have no agenda, I have no conviction, I have no strong feelings on any stocks whatsoever. I always say marry the girl, don't marry the stock. So no, really couldn't care less what I make money with, and we're going to make a lot of money today.

Speaker 1: 5:08

So what do we do? We simply put stops in place. So as the stocks go up, we move our stops up, and it means that if it does drop, if Wall Street is right with what they're warning their big clients with, well then we sell at a nice big, juicy profit. It's very simple. So don't let your green stocks ever become red stocks again. If you only take that weight for today as lesson number two, you will again be ahead of 99% of people, and you might also want to think about all those things that you've been harboring in your basement, those stocks that have been down 30, 40, 50, 60, 70%, that are now improving. This might be the time to do the same thing Set a stop, set a trailing stop. This might be the time to do the same thing that sort of stop, sort of trailing stop, sort of covered call, whatever it is that you want, you want, you need to do, to exit.

Speaker 1: 5:51

But successful investors get out of stuff that's bad and they take the money and they put it into things that are good. It's actually pretty simple rule. So that's one thing. That now, what's actually going to benefit? Well, the biggest and most obvious ones are semiconductors, the sector that we've been warning of for a long time. And does that mean I hate semiconductors? No, am I happy to change my mind? Absolutely rudely. If the rules change, then well, well, the rules don't change, but if the data changes, then we become bullish on it. So, no convictions here whatsoever. And small caps we've had a tough time should benefit from this tremendously, because all the stuff they buy is getting cheaper.

Speaker 1: 6:34

And then retail stocks. So what are retail stocks? Well, stuff that you buy, the kind of junk that you buy that has been manufactured probably somewhere affected by these tariff announcements. So that's important. And then, of course, also Tesla and Apple. Why? Because Tesla their biggest market or second biggest market is China. They manufacture a huge number of cars there and components there. And then also Apple, because 75% of Apple's revenue is manufactured in China. So for them to see tariffs go from 145% to 30%, that's a bigly, bigly difference. That's very, very positive for them and it'll make it a little easier for them to diversify their supply chain without a little bit less shock.

Speaker 1: 7:13

So what are we going to do right now? Well, very simple. I'm going to run the rally up, as we always do, put stops in place. I don't really trust this rally because, well, so, the devil is in the details with these trade deals, and if 2018 is anything to go by which is last time Trump kicked off one of these things then, well, that trade deal with China didn't really work out all that well, but what it does mean is that I will be as careful as I always am on my risk management, because we never know what happens next week.

Speaker 1: 7:57

Nobody does, but what we do know is what has an exceptionally high likelihood to go up, and we also know that things that go up tend to come down. So all we got to do is we got to buy things at approximately the right moments and protect our money. So don't let things that go green become red again. Please, please, please. I've got some more good news for you, because there's more buying. There are buybacks at max levels this week, and then, secondly, we've also got CTAs, the algo funds. They're buying like mad, and if the market's flat which seems unlikely this this week they're going to buy about nine billion us dollars worth of us stocks and if the market goes up, they're going to buy almost 13 billion dollars worth of us stocks, and even if the market goes down, they're going to buy about a billion and a half dollars worth of us stocks, so very, very supportive there from that point of view.

Speaker 1: 8:46

Now, the thing that's going to get a little bit crowded out this week and it might come back in a week or two in terms of news is the Fed, because for all your favorite tech stocks, all those you know, innovative stocks to go up tremendously and keep up there, well, we need interest rates to come down and the Fed is still going no, no, no, we want bad economic data before we do that. Well, you're going to get a lot of economic data this week. You get CPI consumer price inflation this week. You get PPI producer price inflation this week. You get retail sales data. You get manufacturing data this week. You get all the key hard data this week, and this is the first set of data now impacted by Trump's tariffs. So it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out. And then, of course, we're going to put a positive spin on all of that in the media because, well, tariffs have now come down and everything is wonderful and everything is over and everything is marvelous.

Speaker 1: 9:37

The way I interpret Trump is he's a volatile man, and I think things will go up and things will go down, and things will go up and things will go down, and I do believe in the long term, things will go up tremendously. But in the meantime, we're going to really really enjoy this volatility and the zigzags, because there is always a sector that makes money and we're going to be in that sector, and I'm just going to send this out to you guys in my coaching community. One opportunity that I'm really really liking here is, by the way, is crypto. So we got the second state to adopt a strategic Bitcoin reserve Arizona and I think many more states are going to follow suit there, and that's very, very bullish. So I am very bullish on crypto right now and I typically just buy stocks related to it.

Speaker 1: 10:23

So something like MSTR, not a buy recommendation. It's a fairly risky thing, but their business model is pretty cool. It sounds like very odd, but once you really understand all the stuff that they're doing with derivatives there, it's pretty insane. So I'm liking that from a momentum point of view, when the chat and the rules tell us yay, buy it. And again the rules are where. Yes, they are in the master class.

Speaker 1: 10:44

So are you going to go london and what are you really going to do? So just be careful not to go back into the same lull that you've been in, where, if we're in a bull market, everything feels great and you feel like I don't need to do anything, everything is good, everything is going up. Look how successful I am. We're just lucky in those moments, right, and we should acknowledge that and we should invite the luck and hug it and take it, because it's a wonderful thing. But really the crux is what happens when the market flips, what happens when the market next takes a downturn and it will inevitably. That's the moment we still want to be making money and that then means we feel more happy and more confident. It means our retirement doesn't suddenly slip further and further away and we suddenly feel worried about stuff, but we actually go. This is brilliant because we're in control, and my goal for you is to be in control and actually determine what your portfolio is doing, and not hope and pray and wish that a bunch of politicians somewhere in Geneva or wherever they were, come to an agreement, because we have no control over that.

Speaker 1: 11:46

So if you're only going to do one thing here is, don't forget the pain of the last couple of weeks. Instead, use that pain to become a skilled investor, because that's the difference. It's not about being smart, it's not about being able. It's just about have you been taught the skills, yes or no? Right, and like anything else, driving a car, you get a mentor, you get a coach, right, you get an instructor. And I'm not even saying you got to do that, you get a mentor, you get a coach, right, you get an instructor. And I'm not even saying you gotta do that. I'm just saying sit down and learn.

Speaker 1: 12:15

And first place I would start is learn what that Blackstone CEO at the top was talking about, how he spots opportunities, and I give you that for free at felixfriendsorg slash. Get free. And I don't think I'll be live today here. And I don't think I'll be live today here because we're in the south of France and we're on the move and we're having lots of fun and lots of events and so on. It'll be fantastic and I can do that and I can sleep very peacefully, because I know exactly what's happening with my portfolio. I know exactly where we exit and exactly where we enter, and we will take advantage of this rally and we'll love it, we'll enjoy it, and then we'll love and enjoy the downturn that follows equally. So I wish you all the best. I wish you great success and take care.