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[Music]

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well

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time flies uh it's really six months of

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the year gone

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we're at the second half of 2021 so it's

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time to do a

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half year review and an outlook of the

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second half

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for the markets all right so let's begin

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with the us markets and let's begin the

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s

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p 500 so from the beginning of the year

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we started over there when the candle

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opened and as of yesterday the

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30th of uh june we closed

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at 4297 so the s p 500 is up 14.41

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for the first half of the year and this

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has been supported by very strong

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earnings growth in fact most of the

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companies have

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beaten earnings by a wide margin and so

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that has

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contributed to the very strong market in

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the first half

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now of course as you know prices don't

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go up in a straight line they move in

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wave patterns and so far

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the wave patterns have been pretty

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reliable as you can see right wave up

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wave down we've up wave down we've up

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wave down

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very very reliable all right and you

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guys know that as investors

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when do we buy we buy on the wave down

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right so the moment it waves down

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it hits a support level right we add

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shares there

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hits the support we edge as that hits

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the support we edge as then we just keep

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doing that and that's how we get in at

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relatively the lower

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prices of the market but again sadly

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most people out there

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who are not training and investing you

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find that the market could go up

1:45

in the first six months and they still

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lose money that's right

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so how do people lose money when the

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market goes up very simple because they

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keep buying high and selling low

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right and most people what happens is

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when they see the market going

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up and they read all the good news they

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say hey i want to make money

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and they jump in there the moment they

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jump in what happens

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right market will drop they read all the

2:07

bad news and

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they sell so sadly people who are not

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trained would always

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uh buy there and sell there and buy

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there and sell there and buy there

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and they keep losing money again and

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again so you guys know from

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how i've invested for so many years is

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we do the opposite of everyone else

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right we keep

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buying uh when the market drops

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and we buy when there's bad news and

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that's how we get in at the best prices

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so that's the s p 500 so

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what's the outlook for the next six

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months we'll take a look in a short

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while but so far

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first six months up 14.41

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now how did the rest of the other two

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indices do

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so if you guys remember last year the

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nasdaq

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outperformed the s p and the dow because

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the technology stocks the state home

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stocks

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did really well and the rest were left

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behind

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then the first five months of this year

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the opposite happened we had a big

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sector rotation where now

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the cyclical stocks this the the

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reopening stocks

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came back and outperformed the

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technology stocks so the first five

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months

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the dow jones outperformed the nasdaq

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well in the last month

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now the nasdaq has come back again right

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so you find that

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they take turns uh leading the market so

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what you see right now as of

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uh end of this month is the market has

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now

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converged back together again that's

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right you got now convergence right so

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again last year

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we had divergence where the nasdaq went

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ahead and the dow was left behind

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and first five months the dow went ahead

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nasdaq left behind so now

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as that comes back it's playing catch up

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right so now you see a very nice

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convergence in the three indexes

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and that's the way it's supposed to be

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in the long run the three indexes tend

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to

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converge together with of course the

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nasdaq always having a slight lead

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because it consists of high growth

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technology companies

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so snp up 14.41 nasdaq

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just slightly behind but now it's like

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catching up at 12.54 percent

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and the dow jones at 12.73

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if we take a look at the breakdown of

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the sectors you can see

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show enough the last month technology

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has now come roaring back

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technology in the last month has become

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the best performing sector

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energy is still pretty strong as you can

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see healthcare is coming back

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real estate is coming back all right

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and if you take a look at the charts

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over here

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again you can see that for the first six

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months

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which sectors have outperformed now

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again

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this purple one is the s p 500

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okay so we are always measuring which

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sectors

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outperform the s p which sectors under

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perform the s p

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so again what you're seeing here is the

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first six months of the year

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first half of 2021 and you can see again

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it has been the cyclical sectors

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or we call them the reopening sectors

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that benefit from the economic reopening

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benefit from vaccine

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that has been outperforming right so the

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best performer this year has been

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energy and second

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financials and third industrial so

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energy

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financials and industrials have

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outperformed

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the overall market and the rest have

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been

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uh on power slightly behind the s p 500

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now some people are saying hey then i

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should buy energy right i should buy

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financials i should buy industrials

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because they are leading the way

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well not so fast remember the reason

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these three sectors have been leading

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this year

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is because they have been crap last year

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all right so all they are doing is they

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are playing

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catch up they're not catching up because

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they've been

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lagging behind all right but the

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question is in the long run do these

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three sectors actually

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outperform the s p 500 no

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in the long run these three sectors

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underperform the snp why because they

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are very cyclical

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and they have lower growth than some of

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the other sectors so

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let's take a look at the long term if

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you take a look at

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the last 10 years can you guess guess

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which sectors

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consistently outperform the s p let's

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take a look alright so again there we

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have

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the last 10 years okay

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snp is right in the middle so which

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sectors beat it technology

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in the long run technology always

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outperforms the

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overall market why because they have got

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the highest

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growth rates because of technology okay

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number two would be consumer

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discretionary stocks

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also known as consumer cyclical stocks

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so these are things like nike

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and estee lauder and walt disney

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right these are the discretionary

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companies right then

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in third place you have got healthcare

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which also is a very strong sector

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in the long run so we notice that in my

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portfolio

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ideally the majority of the companies i

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want to keep for the long run

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should be technology consumer

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discretionary

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and health care these are the ones that

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i don't really want to sell i want to

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hold it for the long run because they're

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in

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secular growth industries right

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and you can see in the long run cyclical

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stocks

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like industrials financials and

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materials and

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energy these are very cyclical stocks

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they underperform the s p in the long

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run

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but do we still want to buy them yes

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only when they are dirt cheap only when

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they're at the bottom of the cycle do i

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want to buy them

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and then once they you know catch up to

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the top of the cycle

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i could start taking profits you see the

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difference right here

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so you guys know that last year when

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financials like the bank's insurance

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companies were in the

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crapper when you were doing really badly

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we bought all the banks last year right

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and so i really started to sell all my

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u.s banks this year

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so also but i'm still holding to my

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asian banks because the asian banks are

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still

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undervalued or not too overvalued right

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industrials same thing you buy them when

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you're dirt cheap

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like 3m honeywell okay so these are

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industrial companies like

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like deer okay these are companies that

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you want to buy when they are really

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undervalued once they're overvalued

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then you want to get rid of them you

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don't hold them too long because they

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underperform the s

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p uh in the long run all right so

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i bought 3m last year i bought boeing

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last year i bought

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uh what's the other cyclical one i

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bought

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that i can't remember anyway but i've

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not sold them yet because i think

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they've got a bit more room to run all

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right

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as you guys know i never touch utilities

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because i think it's

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too boring growth is too low and i i

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just don't like it right and for me i

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never touch

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material companies materials are

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commodities right right now you can see

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that this year commodities

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have been booming commodities but i

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don't touch commodities because i find

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it too hard to anticipate

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the trends because commodities are very

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unpredictable and

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companies within the commodity space

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tend to have very low profit margins

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because they're in a very competitive

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industry where there's no one company

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that dominates

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that whole industry and as you guys know

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i also tend to avoid energy

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because yeah in the short term you can

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see now energy is doing well

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material is doing well but in the long

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term they don't really do well so i tend

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to avoid these because i'm

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i'm looking at it from the long term

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perspective so again to summarize in the

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long term

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technology consumer discretionary

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and healthcare outperform the s p so in

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the majority of your portfolio you won

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the majority of your stocks to be in

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these industries right

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oh i forgot to talk about staples right

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consumer staples

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are also known as consumer defensive

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companies so what are stable companies

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staples are

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essential goods like clorox like png

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like unilever these are staples a

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kimberley club

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so normally staples have very low growth

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but they tend to be very defensive

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in other words during a recession in a

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bear market when the whole market goes

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down defensives

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or staples tend to go up so they're

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really good as a way to buffer your

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portfolio

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and i buy them only when they're dirt

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cheap so right now as you know i just

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bought clorox because clorox is

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undervalued

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uh png slightly undervalued still

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waiting for a lower price you can get a

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lower price unilever

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i bought it before i sold it for slight

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profit so again staples are good as a

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buffer

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to your portfolio right they don't grow

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your portfolio that much they are buffer

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it's kind of like

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a balanced meal right so protein grows

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your

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muscles but you can't just eat protein

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because too much protein you get uric

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acid is unhealthy you need to balance

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protein

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with vegetables and uh vitamins right so

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staples are like your vegetables your

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your

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your carbo that balances the growth it

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gives you a bit of

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energy uh once in a while when you need

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it

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okay so being the half year let's take a

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look at the p e ratio once again as you

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can see

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uh if you look at the overall s p 500 p

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e ratio

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it still looks bloody expensive man

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right

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in the long run the pe ratio the price

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to earnings ratio

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is about 17 times earnings and right now

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the snp is selling at

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37 times earnings oh my god so again

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people say we are so expensive

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right yes i've said this many times

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before that

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in general if you look at the whole

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market it is

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expensive okay it is expensive but

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within that market there are companies

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under the hood of the car that are still

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reasonably priced

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not many left but there still are and

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there's still some companies that are

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still slightly undervalued and as you

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guys know

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uh these are the ones we've been buying

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but to do a lot of digging to find these

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companies

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right so that's why personally for me

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i won't buy shares of the index ets

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right now for me

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right i won't buy shares of the s p the

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dow jones the

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nasdaq because i think overall is

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expensive okay

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i prefer to buy individual companies

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that i know are fairly priced now having

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said that those of you who are taking a

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long-term approach to investing you're

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doing dollar cost averaging over the

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years

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you're on a dollar cost average the

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index etfs

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sure you can go ahead right but

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personally i prefer to buy individual

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companies

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so for example within consumer staples

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like i said clorox was a good deal we

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bought

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clorox a couple of days ago right i

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shared with you guys in the

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chat group right the the uip alerts

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png looks fairly valued pepsi

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looks uh slightly undervalued as well

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technology

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microsoft although it's gone up so much

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but microsoft actually is still

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uh not that expensive from a intrinsic

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value perspective

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facebook has gone up like crazy as well

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right but again facebook i wouldn't say

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is that expensive as well it is fairly

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priced but again don't jump in right now

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to add more

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wait for a wave down right remember buy

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when there's panic when there's fear

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don't chase the girl let the girl run to

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you right

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uh salesforce is still fairly priced

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okay when it comes to healthcare united

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health still fairly price a bdx as well

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although that's not on the watch list

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yet but i'm still watching

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to put it on the watch list in a short

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while for industrials boeing

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3m they are still fairly priced

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consumer discretionary lows we bought uh

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bought some shares of lows as you guys

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remember two weeks ago i sent an alert

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on uip as well

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booking.com amazon these are

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discretionary companies

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uh that are still uh undervalued

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and fairly priced right so there are

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still some

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uh gems around but not many um

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so there are still some things to buy

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along the way

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so what were some of the key events that

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happened this month

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well one of the significant events was

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the federal

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reserve the fed during their meeting

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announced something quite

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uh interesting right so initially

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the fed said don't worry we're gonna

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keep interest rates at zero

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we're only going to raise interest rates

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in 2024

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and don't worry inflation is you know

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short-term it won't go above 2.4 percent

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anyway 2.4 percent of target right

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so what happened was they came out in um

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mid june i can't remember the date right

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mid-june and they said

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okay we can see inflation is getting a

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bit high

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right so our target for inflation is now

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3.4 percent

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for 2021 but again it won't stay there

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for long it's going to come back down so

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they've acknowledged that inflation

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is going up right and what they did say

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is that

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we are now going to raise interest rates

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twice

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in 2023 instead so they've moved forward

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they are interest rate

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hikes so the moment they announced it

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guess what the marketplace oh my god

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they're raising interest rates

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because remember when you raise interest

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rates it's like

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it's like hitting the brakes on the car

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the car is the economy

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so right now the car is going really

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fast right inflation is going really

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fast

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so right now the fed is it we have to

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step on the brakes

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soon so people here step on the brakes

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what if you brake too hard and the car

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stall so they're betting oh my god right

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so the market likes to panic

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and so the moment it was announced the

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market dropped

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i think about 1.5 and again what does

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what do most retail investors do they

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sell oh my god right dumbasses

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so what do we do we buy that's right so

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the moment we saw the bad news

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we saw the thing crash we bought and

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then ha

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lelou yeah it goes up again right so the

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way to make money is to

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be greedy when others are fearful to

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take advantage of their

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panic to buy great companies at huge

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discounts

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because remember this can remember this

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right that

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the market tends to drop

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when they anticipate interest rates

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rising

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but eventually the market will go higher

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when interest rates rise isn't that

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interesting so i'll review that again

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when people think that the fed is going

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to raise rates

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they panic and sell but in actual fact

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the market goes

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higher with interest rates

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it doesn't make any sense yes it does

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okay so remember i showed you this chart

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before over here

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that if you study history stock prices

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and interest rates actually

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trend in the same direction over the

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long run

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why because when the when the fed raises

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interest rates they are stepping on the

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brakes right of the car

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and why are they stepping on the brakes

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because the car's going really fast

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because the car is

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is really uh you know going you know

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doing really well

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so usually the fed raises interest rates

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where the economy

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is uh booming and when economy is

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booming guess what

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companies generate more sales and

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profits enhance the value of their

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shares rights

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so never be afraid of rate rising

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interest rates in the long run short

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term you'll drop

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and that's an opportunity we buy because

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we know that in the long run

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rising rates mean a strengthening

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economy

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okay now of course sometimes the fat

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gets it wrong and they press on the

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brakes

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too hard your car stalls right

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the economy goes into recession but but

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it could happen

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but um it's unlikely to happen because

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the fat

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you know they kind of not tap the break

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tap the break don't step too hard

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on the brakes the fed also signal their

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intention that they will start to reduce

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their asset purchases

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currently the federal reserve they are

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buying about 120 billion dollars worth

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of treasuries and agency mortgage-backed

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securities every month

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all right so they're basically pumping

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in money to the market every month

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they say we're going to reduce that

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right now the moment they

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announce this news that hey we're going

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to raise interest rates

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soon what happened the u.s dollar

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rallied

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right remember the moment a country

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signals their intention to raise

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interest rates their currency always

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strengthens so the us dollar has rallied

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and

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gold always goes opposite of the dollar

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right dollar goes up gold goes down

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it's always the opposite right so gold

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has had a major correction because of

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this announcement

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okay so let's take a look at what's

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happening to the china market so while

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the u.s markets have outperformed in the

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first half

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at 14 return china has

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underperformed in the first half because

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of number one

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the governor the government's uh

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intervention into the technology

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companies so the government went after

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alibaba

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went after tencent maituan uh because of

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anti-trust

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uh regulations right so because of this

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climate of

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intervention uncertainty people panic

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and so so

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the chinese tech companies have dropped

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significantly

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uh in the first half dragging down the

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entire index and again as an investor to

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me that's great news because i did a lot

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of

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buying of chinese tech companies and i'm

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now holding

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a pretty big portfolio of alibaba

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tencent and jd

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because i expect it to outperform in the

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second half

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or if not next year to come roaring back

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the second reason why china's market has

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not done so well is because

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the chinese government they cut their

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stimulus

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much earlier than the americans so the

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americans are still stimulating the

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economy keeping interest rates slow

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pumping in money

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but china once they created the stimulus

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in

20:38

last year to help in the pandemic once

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they saw their economy recovering

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they cut the stimulus very very fast so

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basically they

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are doing monetary tightening a lot

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faster to curb speculation and that has

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caused the market to come down

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which i think is a good move in the long

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run because you don't want it to run too

20:57

fast you want it to gradually

20:59

go up in a sustainable pace so if you

21:02

look at the shanghai

21:03

composite index you can see we started

21:05

over here in january

21:07

and as of now we are just somewhere over

21:10

there so

21:12

the shanghai composite map index is only

21:14

up 3.4

21:16

for the first half of the year which is

21:18

way below

21:19

uh the us in comparison

21:23

now let's take a look at the price to

21:25

earnings

21:26

ratio of the shanghai market to take a

21:28

look at

21:30

to get a rough feel about whether the

21:32

market is expensive or cheap

21:33

so you saw that in the us the p e ratio

21:36

is like 37

21:37

is really way above the historical

21:40

average

21:40

but china is the opposite you can see

21:43

that

21:44

historically the p e ratio for shanghai

21:47

has been 37.37 and as of now

21:52

the p e ratio is 29.23

21:55

so based on the price earnings ratio

21:58

shanghai

21:58

is under value and by the way if you're

22:02

wondering this is based on normalized

22:04

earnings

22:05

not the last 12 months of earnings

22:08

next if you take a look at the hong kong

22:10

hang seng

22:11

index it has also been underperforming

22:14

but slightly higher than shanghai

22:16

it opened over there and closed here

22:20

on the last day of june so it's up 5.86

22:24

for the first half of the year and hong

22:26

kong also remains

22:27

very undervalued you can see

22:30

historically the average

22:31

price earnings ratio is 18 right now

22:34

it's at 17.76

22:37

so how has my portfolios perform versus

22:40

the s p 500 let me just uh

22:42

show you so i've got several accounts

22:44

this one is uh this account is about 2.3

22:47

million

22:48

account and it has got quite a bit

22:51

weightage to the china market so this

22:53

one did not perform as well

22:55

you can go over to the account

22:59

management not this one sorry account

23:03

management here and it will bring you to

23:07

again this account management page

23:15

under portfolio analyst

23:20

alright so year to date return

23:24

so year to date you can see it's a 15

23:28

return and that's only uh slightly

23:31

higher than the s p

23:32

500 which is 14 so to me it's not that

23:35

great

23:36

why because a big part of this portfolio

23:38

has got china

23:39

stocks a lot of china technology stocks

23:41

so that pulled down

23:43

uh the great performance of my u.s

23:45

stocks all right but i'm not too worried

23:47

because

23:47

i believe that in the second half china

23:49

will come back

23:51

in the second half and so with that i

23:54

believe that at the end of this year

23:55

this portfolio should way outperform

23:57

the s p but let's see how it goes again

24:01

this particular account is this one

24:05

which has again a lot of china exposure

24:08

my other account has

24:09

less china exposure mainly us only and

24:11

that has performed

24:12

uh slightly better let me just show you

24:14

over here

24:15

yep so this is about one million dollar

24:17

account over here and

24:19

you can go to account

24:22

uh account management over here

24:40

all right there we go uh so you can see

24:42

it's up 73

24:44

uh for the last one year so year to date

24:47

let me just click here year to date

24:51

yeah year to date is up 21.62 so

24:54

uh this one has beat the s p by a better

24:58

margin because it's got less exposure to

24:59

china

25:00

all right so the point is some of you

25:03

your portfolios may beat the s

25:04

p some may underperform the smp for the

25:06

first half it doesn't matter

25:08

all right it depends on how you've

25:09

constructed your portfolio like i said

25:11

uh china has underperformed the first

25:13

half but you never know what's going to

25:15

happen in the second half

25:16

again in the second half if china begins

25:19

to outperform and catches up to the us

25:21

and the us pulls back

25:23

then you never know my my first

25:25

portfolio could then outperform my

25:26

second portfolio so it ain't over till

25:28

the fat lady sings

25:30

happy to also see the many of our fellow

25:33

traders and investors in the community

25:35

also beating the market

25:37

so far for the first first half of the

25:39

year so we've got people who have been

25:41

sharing

25:42

like william uh who said this is my

25:44

second year

25:45

after graduating from the wealth academy

25:47

back in january 2019

25:48

uh and you know i took my snapshot of my

25:51

portfolio my account has tripled in the

25:53

last two years

25:54

right two years is up 198 the last one

25:57

you're up 166

25:59

and year to date up 23 so pretty

26:03

similar to my portfolio as well and then

26:05

we have got

26:06

uh jason who just posted today and he

26:09

said

26:10

today is june the 30th or rather

26:12

yesterday

26:13

and he's up 42 year to date

26:17

prior to attending the courses i was a

26:19

gambler

26:20

and you know how i performed back then

26:22

draining my accounts to the rate

26:24

every year right losing money every year

26:26

and then once he

26:27

used the right methodology now making uh

26:30

42

26:31

year-to-date and of course we've got

26:33

people like bargus

26:34

who has been following me now for many

26:36

many years

26:38

and bagus is amazing he's up 674 percent

26:42

for the last two and a half years and

26:44

66 percent here today and again what's

26:47

amazing about bargus is that

26:50

uh you know when he first took my life

26:52

class

26:53

back in june 2015 i was running

26:56

it physically there and he lives in

26:58

jakarta right so he said i must fly to

27:00

singapore every tuesday morning

27:02

attend your life class till midnight and

27:04

back to

27:05

changi airport waiting for the first

27:07

flight to jakarta so he had to spend

27:09

you know lots of money on traveling

27:13

accommodation and he spent with over 10

27:15

000

27:16

on the course at the time but you know

27:19

nowadays we are able to teach it for

27:20

fraction of the course

27:22

uh via the the internet right so

27:26

is is a great time to be alive and again

27:28

many of you would know that many of the

27:30

students

27:30

actually get you know much higher

27:32

returns than i do because i don't

27:34

profess to get the highest returns

27:36

i profess to be the most conservative

27:38

investor you've ever ever met

27:39

right so there's no right or wrong i'm

27:41

gonna take be a bit more aggressive you

27:42

can get much higher returns but you need

27:44

uh to be able to take a lot of

27:46

volatility in your portfolio

27:48

okay so what's my outlook for the

27:50

markets in the second half

27:51

as i always say no one can predict the

27:53

future because you can't predict

27:55

tomorrow's

27:56

news and how the markets will react to

27:57

the news all we can do is we can base it

28:00

on

28:00

probability now from a technical

28:03

perspective

28:05

markets are on an uptrend and as long as

28:07

they

28:08

continue to be on an uptrend the path of

28:11

least resistance

28:12

is up in other words uh as markets are

28:16

not on an uptrend the us

28:17

china and singapore it should continue

28:20

going higher

28:21

for the rest of the year now having said

28:23

that remember you won't go up in a

28:25

straight line

28:26

okay remember that it will go through

28:28

wave up wave down with up wave down and

28:30

right now we are on a wave

28:32

up in the u.s markets so i'm not

28:35

surprised that we're gonna get a wave

28:37

down right a correction

28:40

in the next couple of months but i

28:43

foresee that by the end of the year we

28:44

should end up

28:46

higher than where we are today based on

28:48

historical

28:49

patterns so that that will be based on

28:52

the

28:53

technical charts uh fundamentally

28:56

u.s stocks can move higher uh driven by

29:00

a combination of earnings growth

29:02

so companies are expected to again show

29:05

great earnings growth in the second half

29:07

and the stock market although

29:09

relatively expensive to its history is

29:12

still

29:12

attractive relative to bonds so the s

29:15

p earnings yield is still higher than

29:18

the yield on the treasury bonds the long

29:21

term trends rebounds and of course

29:23

currently we are still at almost zero

29:25

interest rates that should provide the

29:27

liquidity for

29:28

the u.s markets to continue moving

29:30

higher

29:31

now if you take a look a bit at history

29:34

you can see from this chart that

29:36

when the u.s market makes a positive

29:40

gain in the first half of the year

29:43

as you can see when the market gains

29:44

during the first half

29:46

there's a 70 chance it would gain in the

29:49

second half now again this is based on

29:51

historical statistics and this is also

29:54

the first year

29:55

of the new presidential term by joe

29:57

biden

29:58

now historically during the first year

30:01

of a presidential term

30:02

the markets tend to gain at a 65

30:06

probability as well all right so based

30:09

on that

30:10

uh and historically what we found is

30:12

that when the sfp gains

30:14

uh say 10 in the first half you tend to

30:17

gain

30:17

half of that in the second half so 10

30:20

the first half

30:21

five percent in the second half so since

30:23

we gained 14

30:24

in the first half then theoretically we

30:28

should gain seven percent in the second

30:29

half

30:30

again it's not a sure thing it's just

30:32

based on historical

30:33

statistics right now however

30:37

i think there's a greater potential for

30:40

the china market to outperform in the

30:42

second half because it has

30:43

underperformed in the first half so i

30:45

think

30:46

china has a chance to catch up in the

30:48

second half if not then

30:49

next year but we'll see

30:52

okay particularly particularly because

30:56

china uh is projected to grow its

30:59

earnings

31:00

at 21 its uh companies

31:04

uh versus eight percent of global

31:05

earnings growth

31:07

if you take a look at the pac ratio of

31:10

the

31:11

hong kong market again what is peg ratio

31:14

you divide the p

31:15

e ratio by the projected growth rate

31:18

so remember that the hang seng p e ratio

31:23

is about 17 times earnings and earnings

31:26

are expected to go at 21

31:29

so 17 divided by 21

31:32

that gives us a peg ratio of less than

31:34

one

31:35

which means that stocks are undervalued

31:38

all right at the same time if you take a

31:40

look at global

31:41

allocation global investors are

31:44

currently

31:45

under allocated to china equities

31:48

because of again all this uh negative

31:52

publicity about china and all those

31:53

things

31:54

right but remember

31:57

you can't run away from the fact that

31:58

china is a long-term global

32:00

growth engine and eventually the stock

32:03

market would reflect

32:04

the growth of its economy and its

32:06

earnings in fact the china tax

32:08

tech sector is expected to grow at 20 to

32:11

40 percent

32:12

growth rate in the next couple of years

32:14

so a lot of

32:16

uh catching up for the equity markets to

32:18

do

32:21

now there have been a lot of people

32:23

saying that the reopening play

32:25

is not fully played out so what does

32:27

that mean that means cyclical stocks

32:29

like energy

32:30

and financial stocks and industrial

32:32

stocks have

32:33

come a long way to recover this year but

32:36

it's not over yet they still have some

32:38

way to go

32:39

upwards all right yes i agreed that

32:43

but having said that right now would i

32:46

jump into the

32:47

financial stocks and industrial stocks

32:50

and commodity stocks personally i won't

32:54

because again remember in the long run

32:55

they underperform the markets they are

32:57

just happening to perform well in the

32:58

short term because

33:00

of their underperformance

33:03

last year so they're playing catch up

33:05

right

33:06

so i tend to only like to buy cyclical

33:09

stocks when they are dirt cheap

33:11

and they are no longer dirt cheap right

33:13

commodities are no longer cheap

33:14

financials are no longer cheap

33:16

industrials are no longer that cheap

33:19

okay

33:20

but again there are pockets of companies

33:22

that i think still offer

33:24

value that can continue to benefit from

33:27

the reopening of the economy

33:29

one of them would be leisure and travel

33:31

now you guys know i don't invest in

33:32

airlines because it's a very competitive

33:34

industry right

33:35

i also tend to avoid hotels because i

33:38

already have reads

33:39

so for me there are two main companies

33:42

i'm looking at to

33:43

benefit from the

33:46

travel reopening number one is boeing

33:50

and number two is booking.com and the

33:52

third one is actually the

33:54

shanghai international airport that

33:55

remind remains very undervalued and

33:57

that's listed on the shanghai exchange

33:59

all right when it comes to financials i

34:01

think that u.s financials

34:03

yes they can still go higher but i think

34:05

the upside is really limited because

34:07

uh they are not cheap anymore

34:11

right so i prefer to focus on the asian

34:14

financials hence i sold most of my us

34:16

banks but i'm still holding on to my

34:20

singapore bank stocks and the china

34:23

insurance stocks like pinghan insurance

34:26

energy and materials yes they could

34:28

still

34:29

have some way to go up but as you guys

34:32

know i tend to avoid

34:33

these two sectors because they tend to

34:34

be underperforming in the long run

34:38

and tend to be very competitive

34:41

uh a very competitive industry with very

34:43

low profit margins so i tend to avoid

34:45

that

34:45

right uh so this source is from

34:47

bloomberg ubs you can see

34:49

uh they expect a lot more runway for

34:52

these cyclicals but again i would say

34:54

be selective to the ones that are not

34:56

expensive yet

34:59

finally one of the risks that could

35:01

screw things up in the second half

35:03

uh well number one would of course if

35:06

inflation

35:07

stays really high and doesn't come down

35:09

like the fat expects it to come down so

35:11

if inflation stays

35:12

you know above three point four percent

35:14

or goes to four to five percent then

35:15

well that could be a bit concerning

35:17

right

35:17

so high inflation could lead to concerns

35:20

again about the fed raising interest

35:22

rates even

35:22

sooner than expected or cutting their

35:25

stimulus bond buying program

35:27

so if anything happens in that respect

35:30

expect shorter volatility expect the

35:32

markets to correct

35:34

even more in the second half

35:38

however which industries

35:42

will benefit from higher interest rates

35:45

financial stocks okay and that's why i

35:47

continue to keep quite a lot of

35:49

financial stocks

35:50

but in asia as a hedge and beneficiary

35:53

of

35:53

higher interest rates the other thing is

35:56

i've mentioned in my previous video

35:58

that if in inflation continues to remain

36:00

high

36:02

i will still do well and you can still

36:04

do well if you hold

36:05

companies that have pricing power that

36:08

are able to pass along the extra cost

36:12

to their customers and you can only do

36:14

that with companies with sustainable

36:16

competitive advantage as well as

36:18

selected reits

36:20

with and inflation-proof stocks

36:25

the second key risk would be uh as the

36:28

the ongoing u.s

36:29

china tensions if there's any escalation

36:32

intentions

36:33

that could cause again short-term

36:35

corrections

36:36

which from an investment perspective is

36:38

good all right why

36:40

because geopolitical crisis tends to

36:42

produce a very short-term effect

36:44

in other words markets tend to go down

36:46

very fast and rebound back even stronger

36:48

so that will give us an opportunity to

36:50

pick up our favorite companies at a huge

36:52

discount

36:53

so there you go right finally uh if kobe

36:56

19 resurgence

36:58

happens especially in the developed

37:00

world where now we think everything is

37:02

more or less under control

37:03

if the variants go off control then

37:06

everything flares up again we go into

37:07

lockdown again

37:08

that could be a key risk that is why in

37:11

my portfolio

37:12

majority of the companies i have are

37:13

still the pandemic-proof stocks that

37:16

will benefit

37:17

from the stay-at-home culture things

37:20

like

37:21

microsoft salesforce adobe

37:24

amazon these are companies where even if

37:26

the pandemic lasts for the next 20 years

37:29

they will still still do really well

37:31

hence if you look at my portfolio

37:33

majority are still within these stay

37:36

home pandemic proof tech stocks while

37:39

the minority

37:40

would be in the cyclicals and in between

37:43

would be the defensive companies

37:45

all right so there you go that's the

37:47

review for

37:49

first half 2021 and a quick outlook for

37:51

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37:52

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Interactive Summary

This video provides a mid-year review of the 2021 stock market performance and an outlook for the remainder of the year. The speaker analyzes the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones, noting a strong first half driven by cyclical recovery and tech earnings. A core focus is on the investor's philosophy of buying high-quality companies when the market experiences fear-driven dips, rather than chasing highs. The speaker also discusses the underperformance of Chinese markets, the impact of potential interest rate hikes, and provides a strategy for balancing a portfolio with secular growth stocks, cyclical stocks, and defensive staples.

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