
How to Build a 5-Part ETF Portfolio Starting With $100 | Courtney Hale
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In this episode, Anthony O’Neal sits down with Courtney Hale to break down his five-part ETF portfolio and explain how ETFs work, why overlapping funds may not provide real diversification and how everyday investors can build a portfolio designed for growth and protection. They also discuss starting with what you can afford, reviewing your portfolio every six months and avoiding the FOMO that causes investors to chase every new opportunity.
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00:00 – Introduction
01:41 – How ETFs simplify investing and why overlapping funds can create overconcentration
03:06 – Why investing should be automated every payday
04:22 – The five jobs in Courtney’s Everyday Investor Portfolio
06:28 – Why beginners should focus on five to seven investments
08:12 – Building the Engine and Accelerator with SPMO and DRAM
13:41 – How one ETF can provide access to a basket of expensive companies
15:07 – Why every portfolio needs downside protection
16:37 – Using the optional Edge category for informed personal opportunities
22:32 – Power Plays, six-month portfolio reviews and the $566.24 portfolio example
29:46 – How FOMO leads investors to abandon their strategy
33:48 – Evaluating where new investments belong and passing the framework to your children
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The Table with Anthony ONeal — How to Build a 5-Part ETF Portfolio Starting With $100 | Courtney Hale. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Let's get to it, man. I want to answer this question up front because people came here for a reason today. What exactly is an ETF and why should we be really dialing into those? Yeah, an ETF is a basket of individual stocks that follow in index or follow a particular industry. Okay, so the value of the ETF is that you don't have to pick individual companies. So many people think that they got to have all of these companies in their portfolio and they need to know what sectors to buy companies and what sectors, but an ETF does that work for you. So it's a mutual fund, but with lower fees because it follows an index. So do you what's the difference between an ETF and an index? Yeah, the biggest difference is how they're traded. So an ETF is traded like a stock. You can buy it whenever you want to when the market is open. Okay. An index fund, you can typically only close out that position at the end of the trading day. God, that's the biggest difference.
All right, all right. So what's the very first thing, man? Today we're learning about how do we build an investment portfolio, specifically ETF portfolio. That's worthwhile. How do we start, bro? So so many people aren't investing because they think they don't have time to do the research and they think you got to sit behind a computer and they think you got to be a finance expert. Like none of that is true. All right. None of that is true. And one way that you can build a portfolio to help you hit your freedom goal, whatever your investment number is, is simply building a portfolio only using ETFs. See, a lot of people have gotten to this point to where they are buying individual stocks and then they're buying some mutual funds as ETFs. And they don't have any real strategy behind how they've selected it. And that creates some problems. Number one, you can have duplicity and fees, but the biggest issue is that you can have
over concentration. So if you own VOO, which is the S&P 500, then if you own NASDAQ, which is the top 100 tech companies and then maybe you own something like SMH, you really have about four companies that you've bought like three different times. All right. So there's no real diversification. Oh, that's good. And so with what we're about to talk about today, whether you have $100 or if you have a million dollars, yeah, this is the way that you can build a portfolio, set it and forget it. Okay. All right. The average person in America is making right around 48 household income with two or more right around $70,000. So they don't have a whole lot to invest. How do we start if I have not as much to invest in the ETF world? Yeah. Just be consistent. Automated. I tell you know, there are some parallels between budgeting and investing. Okay. Right. So every time you get paid, yeah, you got to have a budget. You got to know where your money goes. Thanks. Investing is the same.
Wait, every time you get paid, you need to be investing. Okay. So one of those budget and line items needs to be for investing. Yes. It needs to be automated. Yeah. As well. Yeah. And the same way in your budget, you've given every dollar a job. Yeah. Every dollar in your investing portfolio needs to have a job. Is that like a budgeting and investing together? I like to not. All right. So coach me. I have an extra $250 on my line item in my budget to invest every month. I do not have any ETFs. I don't have no investment portfolio. What's the very first thing I do with a 250 to go into building a ETF portfolio? All right. So this is what I'm going to do. This is how we're going to do this. I will give you the structure. Okay. And then I'm going to give you my portfolio. Hold on. I'm going to write down a structure for me then. And y'all need to be writing down a structure too.
I'm writing it down for y'all, right? But I have one to show y'all know that. Okay. It don't have to be exactly mine. Okay. But I want to give you the stocks that are in mind in every category. All right. So I've built out the everyday investor portfolio. So my community's very familiar. The purpose of the everyday investor portfolio is that every dollar has a job. So you have your engine. That's the foundation of your portfolio. Okay. And you have your accelerator, which is the portion of your portfolio that's going to grow. Okay. Then you got your shield. The shield is to give you protection in the event that the market moves in the opposite direction. That's good. Then you have your edge. Your edge may just be a personal interest industry or stock that you care about. And you want it in your portfolio. Okay. We teach people how to invest. So we give them the freedom to make their own selections inside of their portfolio with the edge. Okay. And then the last category is power plays. Power plays are industries and companies that are going to benefit from the leadership that we have in the country right now. For the first time ever,
the federal government owns publicly traded companies. All right. Wow. And if you invest in them companies or if you invest in the companies that are congressmen and women or investing in, you're going to do well. Those are the five categories. Love it. So we got engine, accelerator, shield, edge, power plays. That's the five. Those are the five jobs that you got to have in your portfolio. Cool. Great. And then up underneath each one of those, you have different ETFs that you're investing in up underneath them. Correct. Hey, I'm going to set it right now. We're going to give you as much plays we can on this episode, but it's only like 35 or 40 minutes. So I want to say this up front. You're going to get a lot of play in this episode. But to get the fullness of it, you've got to subscribe to his channel. He's even hosting a webinar this week as well. Go over to his channel. He'll give you the days and the times. As a matter of fact, when are you hosting your next webinar Thursday, Thursday, PM Eastern bet. So we're going to give it a play right now.
All right. Get all this information. Write this down. Bring it to the webinar. Ask them questions on Thursdays. All right. Okay. So we got five engine accelerator shield edge power plays. Now that now if I'm being honest, that sounds like a lot. It's really not. Let me tell you why it's not. I tell people, keep your portfolio starting out to five to seven investments. Okay. Anthony, let me tell you something. I'm, you know, I'm talking to people every week on these webinars. Like people are asking questions that come in and we're saying people with 30 different investments in their portfolio. 30 different ones. And this is, it is more of the norm than an exception. And we'll tell you what people are doing. And I love this. So people are listening to us and any investment that we mention, they're buying it. Yeah. Yeah. And so if you look at we've been doing this a little over a year now, we've talked about a lot of different stops. Yes, sir. And so I love that people are taking action. But see, we got to put strategy behind the portfolio.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, we don't want to be, um, I call it portfolio promiscuous. All right. Every time you see a star, you like it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you want to commit to it. Yeah. You want to spend a little money on it. That you want to take it home and put it in your. Yeah. Like, I don't, I don't need you to be stock hot. I don't want you to be no stock stock need. I want you to be good. Well, man, say stock stock. I don't want you to be a stock stock. Okay. I want you to be committed to your five to seven investments. And you focus there. Okay. Stay there. Okay. All right. All right. So this is giving you a way to own five ETFs. I love it. So the reason why I said, this sounds like a lot because I'm thinking I'm putting several ETFs up on an each one. No. No. So you're saying just one. One. Brilliant. Brilliant. All right. Let's go to the top.
Engine. What am I doing? So for my engine and mine, I'm going SPMO, SPMO. All right. This is like, this is like the filet me on or the S&P 500. Okay. That's where I go. Yeah. Yeah. It is, it's the top 100 companies out of the S&P 500 that have the most momentum and it gets rebalanced every six months. I got out. I like them. Now, let me ask you this. The SPMO, I got this one maybe about like six years ago. What would you say to numbers? Is it trending up? I know it has its up and down, but is it trending up? Yeah. This is the investment that you want to get broad market exposure. Yes, sir. In the best way, this is the one that's doing this. So this isn't an insanely risky. This isn't one you're going to get a hundred percent return in a year, but it's going to keep you stable. That's the purpose of the engine. The engine, the purpose of
the engine is to give you a strong foundation. Wow. Wow. This is why I bring Courtney on them. Because you know, I got the five phase escape plan on how to get out of debt. He giving y'all five to build as well. Y'all can't, I'm going to be quiet. I'm about to say something. Give me a trouble. I don't own what his new wife to call and cuss me out. You can't be saying that with my husband. I know. Let me be quiet because I mean, this, this is what it is. Practical step by step things to do to build wealth. Now, when people hear the S&P 500, I was going to make sure that everyone understands. You're saying the SPMO, it gives you the top 100 companies. Why is that important for us to have the top 100 companies inside of our portfolio? Yeah, you, you want the best of the best. It's kind of like the all-star team. Yes, sir. Everybody in the league don't make the all-star team. That's the fact. It's, it's the cream of the crop. It's the best of the best. So we're giving you the best 100 companies every six months. On today's episode, you're learning exactly
what an ETF is. Do you actually know where to go and actually buy one? You see, most people get excited. They'll open up their phones and hit a wall of confusing apps and actually hitting fees. That confusion is the only thing standing between you and your very first ETF. That's why I put together a list of the best investing platforms for everyday people like yourself. Zero trade commissions, apps that round up your spare change, platforms that match your contributions. These are options built for exactly where you are right now. Some offer fractional shares. That means you don't need $500 to start. You can buy your very first ETF with what's already in your pocket. $5, $10, maybe $15. All you got to do is go to anthenonil.com for a session best right now. Compare the platforms, pick the one that fits you and open your account before you close the app. Listen, Courtney and I are giving you the strategy and the step-by-step process. Go get the tool and use it. Go to anthenonil.com forward slash invest. Let's get back to today's episode.
This is so good. We got the engine. That's running. Celebrator means we go a little bit faster. Am I reading this right? Exactly. Accelerators where you're going to take a little bit more risk to get some growth. I'm going to drown. Dr-A-M. Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait. Dr-A-M? Yes. I didn't hear about this number. All right. Dr-A-M. We've talked a lot about AI infrastructure. Yes, sir. Okay. So the next area, we're going to talk about two AI infrastructure ETFs in this conversation. Okay. But we've spent a lot of time talking about chips. Okay. Right in and semi-conductors and Nvidia and all of that and power plant. All right. So now, the focus around AI infrastructure areas and memory. Yes. So this includes companies like Micron, Sandes, Seagate. These are some of the biggest growers in 2026. Yes, sir. Dr-A-M includes, I think it's like 26, 33 companies and memory. Okay. It's the biggest bottle Nick in artificial intelligence. Okay. Like, and when I say bottle Nick, it means that there's a
lot of demand, but the companies don't even have the capacity to meet the demand. Like right now, their production capacity is filled through 2027. Okay. And they got all of these orders coming in. Yes. It's really, really difficult to invest in these companies individually. The reason why I say it's difficult is because some of these like Micron stock is, it's $1500. I think it hit 2100, 2300 earlier this year. Seagate, Sandes, they're expensive stocks, which we don't care about being expensive, but I still know there's a psychological thing that everyday investors have when they look at the stock market. So instead of having to pick which one of these companies are going to do the best, you invest in Dramm and now you don't invest in all of them. So at the time of us recording this, I pulled up Dramm ETF, Round Hill Memory ETF, Dramm. It's at $55.49 at the time of us recording this. That's, that's affordable, very affordable.
And the companies that are in there are thousands of dollars. So it makes total sense. And this is, this is the most attractive AI infrastructure area right now is memory. Yeah. Yeah. I want to ask you this question. I've never asked you this before, but you said something made me think right from an average everyday person who this is new to right. You said, which is true. If you want to go buy one single stock of some of the companies in here, it's going to cost you maybe a thousand dollars, but you can get the ETF for $55.51. How was that possible? Yeah. So basically what the ETFs do is you're not buying the individual shares of the company inside of the ETF. All right. The ETF is the investment vehicle and you're paying a entry price to the ETF. There we go. There we go. There we go. I just want to ask that question for y'all because some of y'all think like, wait, if this company cost a thousand, that company cost 500. How am I getting for $55?
Now that you know the answer, just go get Dramm for $55.49 again at the time of recording. Okay. It made change at the time when this comes out, right? Which is a good thing. You can see if it went up, if it went down or the stock market is always going to be going up and down, but you got to get in. So if you can get it at $40, that means you got it cheaper when I bought it because I'm buying me something today. Okay. Buy me something. All right. So we got the engine. We run it. We got Dramm. We're accelerating. We're going fast. Now the shield is what I know for a shield. It protects you. It protects you. That's exactly what is going to be in our portfolio as well. So too often people are focused on returns and growth. Yes. But the market doesn't always go in one direction. Oh, man. And so if you can't reduce how far you fall when the market is down, it's going to give you more ability to get better returns in the long run. Yes, sir. I always use the example. If you got $100, you invest $100, you lose 50% of it. Now you have $50 to get back. Even though you only
lost 50% to get back to 100, you need 100% return. Okay. So you want to try to reduce how far you fall to make it a shorter distance to go back up. So you want to think about what your portfolio is doing on the downside as well. And for a shield, what company am I going with? So I'm going with IAU, which is the gold ETF. We talked about gold and silver and some other precious metals and how sometimes they move inversely to the overall stock market. So I want to invest in something that's going to go up when the stock market is down. And I'm going to go with gold here. I love it. I got that one. And Brian actually, I'm winning with that one. Today is going for $8206. I bought that one. It was right at $68. It's actually surging again. Yes. Really, really aggressively. Yes, sir. I got a good shield there, baby. Okay. So we got that. All right. Edge. Now wait, I don't know
what edge stands for yet. So edge is, edges is, I consider this to be the part of your portfolio where you can have fun. It's like, I'm telling you what you need to have everywhere else. Yes. Sometimes people feel a little bit restricted. And they're like, Courtney, like I'm taking your classes, you know, I'm listening to you on the table with A.L. And people are learning about investing. We teaching them the right way. And so they want to be able to use the knowledge that they've learned and make their own selections. Okay. I give you a space inside of your portfolio to do it. This is optional. You don't have to, you don't have to have an edge. Okay. You got to have an engine accelerator and a shield. That's a good idea. You don't have to have an edge. Gotcha. But if you like, hey, you know, I know something about a particular industry or I'm watching, you know, X, Y and Z over here. Yeah. That is for you to use your knowledge to use your discretion and for you to have fun in your portfolio. So you don't really give nobody an account for edge. You just say whatever you want to put it in. Whatever you want to put right there. I'm going to put whatever.
So for me, I actually have two right here that you play with that that I have invested in. Okay. Here. One of them is Qtum. Yeah. It is the quantum ETF. We've talked about that before. Yep. Quantum being the next major innovation in our society that's come in probably in the next two years. Yeah. I want to maintain some exposure to that. The other one, I just added. Okay. And it's because it's a new ETF. Okay. And it is the next AI infrastructure area that we're about to start here and people talk more about. We've heard a little bit about it. But for our audience, we haven't talked extensively about it. And it has to do with the way that data is transferred within the data centers. So right now, servers are talking to each other using copper wiring. Yeah. Copper wiring, there's some limitations. There's speed. Yeah. Generates a lot of heat. We've talked about how much water is required in order to run an AI data center. A lot of that water is needed to keep everything cool. Well, now fiber optics is a huge thing. And so data can be transmitted through light faster.
And it's literally it's faster. It's more environmentally friendly. Think about delivery trucks having to deliver packages on a two lane dirt, dirt road. You can get the package there. Right. Right. But it's not very efficient. Right. Now with fiber optics, we're going to a 16 lane highway. All right. Like that's the that's the transition that's being made. And the ET this this ETF just launched like at the beginning of August. All right. Yeah. Yeah. And we talked about this last week inside of my community. I actually did a YouTube live about it at the end of last week. Okay. But the the ETF that includes companies that are in this photonics light space. Yeah. That ETF is LYTE. LYTE. LYTE. Okay. I never heard of it. Yeah. So it includes companies like
Luminum. It includes Luminum is probably the one that a lot of people are familiar with. Luminum is like a $900 stop. Corning is another company that's operating in that space. There are this this particular ETF actually has about 40% of the companies are Chinese companies. Because the expectation is that the Chinese companies are going to build a superior product. And you get some international exposure with this LYTE is it's like I said, it's it's brand new. It is a alternative to EUV, which is a similar ETF that's been around a little bit longer. But I like LYTE being new, having that international exposure as well. So in my age, I have QTUM and LYTE. LYTE recently added. Okay. Recently added. No, man. I'm looking at the numbers and the
their financials and it's looking pretty good, man. But again, it's new. So when and when we say new August 6th, I think is when this will start. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. August 6th. Man. Okay. I gotta look at this. I gotta look more into this. August 6th. Okay. It launched at $24 and it's up to $26.07 at the time of recording it, which is what August 18th. So it's going up. Okay. Hey, man. You teaching this doc. I want to say this. This is this is my portfolio. Yeah. Right. There are other ETFs that can satisfy these different categories. Yep. Okay. So I'm giving people an example using my portfolio, but your portfolio doesn't have to look exactly like mine. No, but I think what I appreciate about you is you're
practicing what you're preaching, right? And so you're giving us the bar, the roadmap and solid examples that you're investing in. And so I mean, you're the expert in this space. I haven't heard of LIT. So I'm going to do some more research on that and and and looking to that myself. So at the time of recording $26.07, I love that. Now, power plays sound like a power move to me, bro. Like that's like a that's like a it could either play really big or it can play really bad. Yeah. So power plays every I believe one of the easiest strategies, especially for beginner investors, is to just follow the leadership of the country. Yeah. So whether it's the president, whether it's Congress, invest your money where they're investing, and you're going to be okay, because they're going to make sure that they don't lose. That's a fact. All right. You know, Trump has invested more in the stock market than all previous presidents come by. He has the
federal government owns companies for the first time in American history. Yeah. Okay. Congress, people in Congress are investing their rates never seen before. Yeah. If you're trying to figure out how to get started, figure all of that information is public. Okay. We I've done a couple videos about it on my show. Okay. Just invest in the stuff that they're investing in. Invest in what's in Trump's portfolio. It's public. I had a downloadable sheet on the video where I did you can see everything that he's invested in. Invest in what the power players are investing. Okay. That's what power plays is all about. So that's government invest. And y'all this week should come up on the screen as well. I'm just writing it down so we can have it. Invest what and what the government is doing. All right. Let me ask you this question. If I invest in what the government is doing today, but then we get a new president. We get a new Congress. We get a new Senate. Should I keep what I already had? Or do you say sell it and then
get in what to they're doing or keep that and just now start buying what they are doing? I would re-evaluate. I wouldn't I just because we get a new president. It doesn't mean liquidate what you have and buy something to love it. You you want to be looking at your portfolio for changes every six months anyway. Just because you know what I have right now that's what I'm probably going to be doing for the next six months. Okay. It's six months I'm going to change. There are some things that I have in there now that I wasn't focused on six months ago. In fact, all right. So you should be doing that anyway. But if we something major happens like we get a new president weight re-evaluate, see the direction of the office and then make decisions from there. Yeah. We got the election coming up in November. So I hope we can see some see what's happening there and start investing into it. Just for the sake of today's conversation, what is one thing that you're seeing the government is investing in right now for the power play? My power play I have ITA which is a defense and aeronautics ETF and I'm telling you I really this was the one I actually
struggle the most with. Yeah. Because there were so many different ways I could go I could go to Trump's portfolio. I could go to what the federal government owns. I could go to some of the top investing congressmen and women again. We only we're only going to do one maybe two per category. So this is the one that I struggle with the most and the reason why I landed on ITA is because it actually includes two of my favorite stocks that nobody ever talks about. Which are RTX and and GE. GE. Yeah. Like both of those companies are phenomenal. They've both had to rebrand. Yeah. To make themselves more aligned with the direction that things are going and the stocks are really really strong and those are actually the two largest holdings. Yes. In ITA and that's the reason why I landed there is because I get owned two of my favorite stocks in one investment. Brothers did a math. 566 dollars if they go and they purchase this within the next 30 days just one
of each. If they went with the ITA which is the most expensive one as of today that's $251.89 L YTE is at $26.07. The gold ETF IAU which I love is at $82.06. The Dram that's at $55.49 and SPM 0 which I have several of those is at $150.73. 566.24 you can have those five things. That's your portfolio. That's it. And then you could say hey I'm going to do $25 a month whatever you can afford and build it out. And then one thing that you teach within your platform is okay this is what you're doing for six months. Then we got to reassess in six months where we are especially with a new government change new power shift. Some of these stocks the prices are going
shoot up right and other stocks are going to shoot down so you may be able to find better value somewhere else than what you currently have. This is literally you designed this for the every day invest. So the every day hard work and individual who may not have thousands and millions to invest but you can get into this if you're just the average income middle class person. Yeah this is this is the portfolio for everybody. So you're going to be out here you know trying to you know be you know stock promiscuous portfolio promiscuous this is giving you focus and it's giving you strategy investing is about strategy. I serve you know now somebody's I know people are going to ask they're going to say so if I want to go to this structure do I sell everything that I already have and the answer to that is no. Yeah. This is about moving forward. Yeah. Okay now evaluate what you have okay I tell people all the time I was like now if you own something
in your portfolio and you've had it for three years and you're losing money get rid of that. Right because that's just a bad investment because the market has been so strong right but everything else just holding this is for what you're going to do with your money moving forward. Yes sir yes sir listen y'all I'm going to challenge y'all to follow this structure and what I'm going to do is I'm going to join y'all I'm I'm going to literally set up this same structure that Courtney has and I'm I'm going to invest into all these companies I have four no three of these stocks I'm going to get the other two I'm going to follow this structure and I want I want it what we're going to do is quote as you remember this next what's this all gets six months from now we're going to specifically do a show to come back as a as a as a as a family and reassess and see what companies are are changing that'd be good you know what I'm saying yeah and so we're doing this as a family if you're part of the the everyday investor community that he has if you part of the our community here at the table where we're doing this as one big one one big family so
I'm going to do it and then six months I'm going to let y'all know how that portfolio was doing simple now what is now now here's a good question this will be this will be our last question what do you think or in your experience when people do this what is one mistake you see them do like two three months in yeah they they want to buy something else they they're like I'm missing because this is a thing that everybody feel like they missing out they're like oh man there's a new there's a new photonics ETF oh I got a buy it like oh palette series at all time highs and y'all got about oh Microsoft is coming back I got everybody feels like they missing out man and that's the reason why we're doing this come on because let me tell you if you just buy a stock one time you're missing out on the opportunities for that stock in the future that may have been the
right stock to buy but if you just put a hundred dollars into it and it goes up 500 percent well you ain't really make a whole lot of money but if you invested in that stock every single week for a year now you got ten thousand dollars invested in that stock now if it goes up 500 percent now you're talking about putting somebody through Kotlin yes sir right and so the biggest mistake is people just feel like they're going to miss out let me let me let me say someone let me say this right now hmm one stock is not going to make you wealthy that's a fact investing five hundred dollars into one stock is not going to make you wealthy that's a fact if if if there is a scenario to where you you put five hundred dollars in Nvidia you know 15 years ago that probably made you a lot of money but that's the equivalent to winning the lottery and we're not doing this because we we're gambling
yeah we're not doing this because you know we want to live on the edge yeah we're building systems that change our family's lives said focus man anytime you can be hyper focused in life that's going to work out for you that's solid so if you can ignore the noise yeah now I'm not saying don't pay attention pay attention acts like have a watch list yeah because if you get a really strong name that drops 35 40 percent now you got to figure out how you can add that to to your portfolio when that time comes yeah right but the biggest mistake is people let perfect example we came on here together and we had a conversation about not investing in SpaceX and that's what we're like don't do it don't do it with all the reasons as to why not bruh people start being like I'm just going to get a little bit of bruh you know what I'm saying like people just I because they just they feel like in in in in SpaceX drop you know like 45 percent bruh I text you and yeah you text you
text me and and the thing to have done would have been when it dropped the 45 percent that was the point to actually invest in it if you was if you were so eager yeah but even though we tell people people still just they just get this bug and they just feel like I got to do it anyway yeah and it's cool I mean it drops 45 percent in the first month but if you gonna hold on to it for five years it don't even matter that's a fact because that's what we really teaching yes sir but I just can't have people just so lost in the sauce that they feel like they're gonna miss out no I'm gonna stack they're making I love it I love it now let's say for example and I said this last question now this is last question let's say a great deal comes do you say all right look at that stock and identify on that structure where that stock has been placed at with a part of this strategy yes now we don't have enough time to talk about that today but do you teaching your platform how to assess which one that is in yeah we do and we have to okay because for instance with the accelerator
yeah we know that's the part about portfolio to get better returns yes but you're gonna also take more risk there yes so if every new stock you're considering and until your portfolio is an accelerator well now you might have a problem yes sir because you may be overly exposed and if the market goes in the opposite direction you're gonna see greater losses yeah then you would if you were just in like a VOO so you do have to evaluate where you want to put it value structure I've always said there's wealth building getting true financial freedom is always about the strategy and y'all I think this is probably one of my most favorite shows because he gave us the structure to understand how to build the right portfolio now here's the thing you all are gonna get this information today and some of y'all are not going to subscribe to Courtney's page you're not gonna go to his weapon already the ads on Thursday because you just want to get the information and you want to go be
rich but wealth is about strategy he can't give you the full strategy in 35 minutes all right so I need you all to get this information one two go buy these ETFs three get to his webinar right to even learn more on how to really study the market how to really study more about each section to where you can know okay what stock needs to go where and make you sure that you're really building it well and then y'all we should be teasing this to our kids like our kids should know this structure they may not be investing in it but by the time they turn 18 they should have this structure already near portfolio that you pass off to them say hey go continue it so I want to encourage you all we're gonna drop all this information inside of the show notes go get these ETFs today right and then get to his webinar this Thursday subscribe to his YouTube channel because are you dropping still one a week right now on a week right we're on fire right now we put in like three of them a week
right now are yo so listen y'all man listen a lot of information was dropped a lot of practical wisdom was given today there's three action steps you need to do number one go get the stocks go get the ETFs number two go subscribe to court needs YouTube page because he's dropping things every single week that's going to help you maintain this the number three even if you're driving home from work you're at the kids game log on to his next webinar it's 100% free it's this Thursday right and I promise you this is how we build wealth remember I say this freedom is better than rich but the only way to get to freedom is with strategy court need just gave it a game I'm building the right strategy for your portfolio we'll see you in the next show peace out
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