Back by popular demand, Tyrone Jackson breaks down the language and concepts of the stock market.
Money Flow
Money flow refers to where the big money is. By “big money” Tyrone is referring to insurance companies, big banks, hedge funds, college endowments, who have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the stock market. While the average individual investor buys about ten to one hundred shares of a certain stock, the big money institutions purchases ten to twenty million shares of that same stock.
Penny Stocks
A penny stock is a stock that costs under $5 per share. The typical thought is, “If I get a thousand shares of the stock at $2, when it goes to $4 I’ll make a lot of money.” The problem with penny stocks is there is not a lot of money flow from the big institutions to these stocks. They are very vulnerable to corruption and the possibility for manipulation is too strong.
Stocks that are above $50 per share tend to attract banks and insurance companies. If you have less than $5,000 to get started invested, you should put your money in the companies that have the highest probably of attracting big investors. We need the big money to push the stock price higher. The purchase of 20 million shares by a big institution can push the price of a stock up.
Our job is to pick stocks that we like and that Wall Street also likes.
Risk
If you are in a penny stock you are in a higher risk category because we don’t know anything about the company and its earnings. If you are invested in a stock like Disney, whose revenues come from hotels, resorts, theme parks (real estate), broadcasting, feature films and merchandising, you are in a lower risk stock. Wall Street is wildly attracted to Disney stock and its price will continue to rise. DOW Jones stocks are generally lower risk.
Allocation
Allocation refers to your money as if it were a pizza pie. What will we do with each slice? For The Wealthy Investor students, most of the slices are allocated to DOW stocks because they are lower risk. This stacks the deck in our favor in terms of long-term investments and risk management.
If we wanted to add a little risk for potential reward, we can allocate some of those slices to stocks in the S&P 500 index. For example, Starbucks is not in the DOW but it is in the S&P 500. Wall Street still really likes Starbucks and the stock is great for selling covered calls.
The advantage of being connected to The Wealthy Investor program is finding out what stocks money is flowing to, getting a financial education, and learning how to manage risk and allocation all at the same time.
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Carrie Keranen is a successful working actress in the Los Angeles area. She grew up in Oak Park, Michigan, studied international business and Japanese at the University of Michigan, backpacked around Europe after college and then bought a one-way ticket to New York City. Despite her studies, Carrie couldn’t keep away from acting. Her career starts with voice over work, then flowed into theater, and eventually television and film. Carrie moved to Los Angeles after checking off the list of the things she wanted to accomplish in New York.
When you are a working actor you have paychecks coming in from many different jobs and it forces you to have a more intimate relationship with your finances. You have to track your payments and keep your W-2’s and 1099’s organized. Sometimes you are up and sometimes you are down so you have to learn to live in the middle. When Carrie found herself in an up period she realized the worst thing she could do was just live off it and watch it go away. There had to be a way to make that money work for her to give her some semblance of control. She finally followed a friend into the Wealthy Investor Program with Tyrone Jackson.
When she first began, Carrie was terrified. But by the end of her first Wealthy Investor class, Carrie felt she understood the basic concepts. This gave her the feeling that she could eventually figure this out.
After Carrie’s first trade, she did not have that “good” feeling. She realized that this meant she needed to check in with her negative feelings about money flowing towards her. In a way, she says that her entire first year has been about the internal journey.
Now, Carrie loves covered calls because they reduce risk. You can guarantee you will have a return on your money every month. The hardest thing for Carrie to wrap her head around was that she could really take the money she was making trading! What has been amazing for her, is actually understanding the concepts well enough to decide for herself whether to trade an In the Money or an Out of the Money covered call. Although, she feels Out of the Money calls are sexier than the safe “grandma” In the Money calls.
Carrie doesn’t consider herself a business person. It makes sense for her to trade companies that she understands, such as Disney (DIS) and Visa (V). Plus, having the community there for her to discuss the concepts as she is learning them is extremely helpful. She also thinks it is important to see what’s possible. Seeing where other people started and where they are now opens up her own realm of possibilities. Now, almost a year after her first class, Carrie achieved her goal of paying her rent with money from the stock market.
During Carrie’s first class she was very tense and nervous. But then she said to herself, “Yes or no? This is either something you want to learn or it’s not something you want to learn. And if it’s something you want to learn - Learn it NOW.”
Carrie realized early on, “This program is not about ‘I’m going to be a millionaire next week.’ This is about how to have continuous, sustainable, predictable wealth every month, out of every year, for the rest of my life and it’s starts where I’m at right now and grows from here. And if I just keep pushing that line back next year, or next year, or next year, then it just means that I’m getting that started next year, or next year, or next year.’
Her advice to you is “Just take the next step. Don’t worry about everything and the whole big picture, just take the next step. Take it day by day. Just do what you can right now. You don’t think it’s going to make a different but it is going to make such a difference. You can’t even conceive of the ways that this is going to open up your mind, your heart, your spirit, your understanding, when you are on the fear side of it. The moment you take that first step, all those doors are going to start to open and it’s such a beautiful thing. Please, please, please do this for yourself.”
So take that step now and download Tyrone Jackson’s free E-Book Trading Stocks for Wealth at TheWealthyInvestor.net.