so i want to see a show of hands of how many of you guys think that you're having a rough start to the trading or investing year of 2022 and the reason that i say this is because it's definitely not just you we just reported that for the first six months so the first half of the year we just experienced the worst half of the year the first the worst six months of the stock market since 1970. this is what uh the s p 500 just reported and the reason i'm sharing this with you is because just like when we approach or get close to milestones an example can be like apple when apple stock was getting very close to a 3 trillion dollar market cap there wasn't anything special that happened that specific day that created apple to be worth more but because it was already so close to that milestone when news outlets bring awareness to this issue or to this potential milestone more demand tends to follow and although that is a positive catalyst today just kind of it was a negative catalyst and being completely honest with how today started out i really do not think that today was that bad of a day i'm going to start sharing my screen to you guys can see exactly uh what it is that i'm looking at the sq q is up 3.8 percent t q is down 3.5 percent the nasdaq ended uh in the red one percent come on with what we've experienced this year you really think that this is you know a a obstacle or a challenge that we haven't faced before of course not right but i want you to understand the reason i'm making this video is i want you to understand that if you feel like you've been having a challenging time learning how to trade learning how to invest you're not alone this has 100 percent has been one of the worst starts for the first six months since 1970 so understand that you are tolerating something that people have not tolerated in my lifetime for this long period of time so in other words in lebron james words you're built different oh my god i need to stop with these dad jokes i i really do apologize for that but i mean that right i mean that should at least like empower you a little bit right that you're experiencing something that not a lot of people um have been able to experience before and or tolerate right you've made it this far uh for me that's encouraging uh and the reason i say that is because there's so much upside opportunity uh if you've done a good job with your position size or if you've done well managing your risk you've made it this far there's a great upside it's not that things are automatically going to get better but we have this better half of 2022 that i really hope that we begin to work towards so with that being said i just want to quickly update you guys on what is going on with the nasdaq market it's pretty much uh break even uh again yes can look up um all of this uh yourself but as of right now it's barely in the red it was green a little while ago and this is the s p i'm sorry the nasdaq future after market hours and then one of the last things that i want to bring up is the at 9 45 so that's 15 minutes after the market opens the snmp global u.s manufacturing pmi report the final report will be released and again that is 15 minutes after the market opens so please make sure that you are aware of that and if you're part of my learn plan profit group then don't worry uh we'll make sure that we actually catch what happens when the market reacts to this but um yeah i mean nothing out of the ordinary today uh was kind of a pretty volatile day uh if you see with my earlier video right we went from being down on tkq i think like eight or nine percent it made a full recovery if i'm not mistaken uh tqkq was actually break even and then it gave it somewhat back i'm very excited uh to see how the market follows tomorrow being the first kind of start to the better half of 2022 but please make sure that we don't forget interest rates they're still high and they're probably going to get higher as the feds raise them let's 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