What's up you guys, it's graham here, so if you thought this year cannot get any more unpredictable, it just did, because i have a hundred thousand dollars on the line for the sole purpose of testing an odd, yet unique experiment to see whether or not a monkey Could beat the stock market see it all started about? A month ago, when i was doing some research - and i came across a quote from the economist burton malkiel, the author of a random walk down wall street, he said a blindfolded monkey. Throwing darts at a newspaper's financial page could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts. The motive behind such a crass remark was to emphasize that not even the most intelligent investors can consistently beat the market. So if a monkey is able to replicate the same job as some of the most educated professionals in the world, then that's something to consider.

So today, i'm going to be putting this experiment to the test for real by investing a hundred thousand dollars. My own money into completely random stocks with the help of the youtube celebrity monkey boo, and then i will document the performance of these stocks over the next year compared to the overall market index, to see just how well a monkey can pick stocks. So here's how this is all gon na work. I found a website that lists the top 1000 publicly traded companies in the us.

I'm then going to use a random number generator to pick a number one through a thousand that will correspond with the ranking of one of those stocks in the list. Now, once i get 30 randomly generated stocks, i'm going to be giving that entire list to the monkey boo who's going to further narrow down those choices. By picking out his top 10 out of a jar, then i will invest 10 000 in each of those 10 stocks on the morning of december 21, 2020 for a total of 100 000. So, let's get right into it and we'll start off by randomly picking 30 stocks out of the top 1 000 companies.

And here we go. I got my computer and, to be honest, i'm kind of nervous to see what's going to come up. So, let's start off by clicking generate we got 110 and that corresponds to 3m, which is 110 in the world. Rank generate a new number 86 union pacific 145 blackrock 315.

That's moody's corporation! So i'll keep doing this until we hit 30 stocks and then i could give all 30 to boo. So he could then pick 10. and now that we have 30 stocks, i'm gon na be sending him all over to boo to see which ones he picks and which ones i'm going to be. Investing a hundred thousand dollars into we've got 30 randomly generated stocks.

We're going to fold each one up, we're going to put them into the bowl we're going to let monkey boo pick out 10 of them. For you guys. Can you do it boo yeah? Can you pick the winners? Can you pick the best ones all right to make sure that boo would pick a stock? Each one has a craisin wrapped up in it and boo loves his craisins. So this is going to be easy, but he's going to pick out 10 fantastic stocks, ain't that right, babe, yeah pick them out got one there we go.

There is stock number one all right, pick number two out here: we have crn. There's two! Is that it? Okay, let's see what we got here, algn all right, all right eni! I guess all right here we got another. We got number five, let's see what it is: boo, rsg winning stock number six be okay, let's see what you got here info, oh boo, put his hand on this and he's got ultimate confidence in that one. Let's see what we got here, invh all right bill, you're, getting close! You got two more to go.

Here's your crazy side! All right pick out another one! Oh, my goodness! Everybody will be excited about that. One, blue pig, tesla and we've got nflx all right. You did a really good job. You picked out 10 great stocks right these, oh they're, the best best ones ever all right, shake my hand, good boy, you got a kiss for me.

Oh he's a good boy. So now let me explain a little bit more background into exactly which stocks booge has picked. The first ford they're one of the largest auto manufacturers in the world. They sell two and a half million vehicles per year, and recently they announced a redesign of the popular bronco and mustang designs met with some mixed reactions: the second cerner corporation.

They provide health information, technology devices and hardware with more than 28 000 employees around the world. The third align they manufacture - 3d digital scanners and the invisalign braces used by dentists, they've also doubled in price in 2020.. Fourth and l americas is a conglomerate of energy companies located in south america. They also pay a whopping six percent dividend, but the stock price has not had a great run throughout its history.

Fifth republic services, one of the largest waste management companies in the united states they've also begun investing in solar products and natural gas. Six. We got the big behemoth: blackrock they're, an investment corporation with almost eight trillion dollars under management and a history of really solid growth. Seventh we've got ihs market which provides data and trade processing for foreign exchange and loans.

They've also recently entered into a merger agreement with s p global valuing the company at 44 billion eighth invitation. Homes is the largest owner of single-family rental properties in the united states, owning approximately 80 000 homes. This year has not exactly been easy for them, but they're working to restructure some debt to maintain cash flow. Ninth tesla: they need no introduction.

The stock is up 700 in the last 12 months and it's one of the most unpredictable from this entire list. In 10th. Netflix one of the prime streaming platforms in existence with almost 200 million paid subscribers worldwide. However, they're now facing competition against other streaming services like disney plus, which could put a dent in their profit now in terms of how i think each of these is going to do, let's go to the tier list.

First, let's start with netflix they're, a great company they're reinvesting a lot of their money back into creating their own original content, but they have a lot of competition coming up this year. So, for that reason, i'm gon na have to put them in the b tier next. Let's talk about ford they're going in the electric vehicle space, which i think is the right move for them. They have a really loyal following for the f-150, and for that reason i have to put them in the c category.

I still think they have a ways to go and they haven't quite proven themselves yet with their new concepts, but there's potential. Then let's go to the big daddy blackrock: they have a lot of money under management. They have seen some very solid growth, long term and because of that, i'm gon na put them in the b tier next. We have cerner.

Now this one had a big run up since 2012, but over the last five years it really hasn't done much and because of that, i'm just not too optimistic on it over the next year. So i'm going to put this in the d tier next. We have invitation homes now. This is a really tricky one, because this year has been kind of mixed real estate.

On the ownership side of things, real estate has gone through the roof, but as a landlord there's a lot higher of a risk that their tenants might stop paying rent. So because of that, and because i don't think they're going to see a ton of growth over the next year, i'm going to probably put them in the e-tier next we have vanilla, americas and remember. This is an energy company which i feel like is probably not going to be the best as solar takes over. So i'm just going to automatically put this in the yikes.

I don't want to put it in the f, but i'm going to put it in the f just so we have something there. After that, we have a line technologies and i believe 3d printing is going to be big. Invisalign is not going to go anywhere, so i'm going to put this in the b tier next. We have ihs i'm confident about the growth and i would put this in the b tier after that we have republic, waste management and again i feel like this is going to be a solid company.

I don't see too much risk here with waste management, we're all going to have stuff we're throwing out, but i believe maybe their potential for growth might not be as strong as let's say, netflix or blackrock, and so for that reason i'm going to put this in The c tier and finally, we got the very controversial one tesla. This is either something that people love or they can't stand it and they want it to go down in price. But for me, i'm gon na be pretty optimistic about this, and i'm just gon na put this in the uh. Let's put this in the s tier: this is by far, i would say, the riskiest stock from all of them, but i think they have so much potential that this could be a mega blowout winner, maybe or it could be the biggest loser.

It's going to be one or the other, and i realized you know what i don't have anything in the a tier. So i'm just going to go ahead. If i'm going to put anything in there, i put netflix in there. I believe there's a lot of potential for netflix, they could easily raise prices and no one would really cancel.

So this is my final list and uh. That is my prediction for how these are gon na do so now the moment you've all been waiting for. I'm gon na be buying these 10 stocks for a total of one hundred thousand dollars now, in order to do this, i'm going to be using the free investment platform and one finance, because they have this really cool feature called the investment pie. I kid you not: they actually call it an investment pie because look at it.

It looks like a pie now. The reason i wanted to go with m1 finance for this is because they allow me to buy fractional shares. That means i can invest. An exact dollar amount into these stocks down to the penny, regardless of what the stock price is.

Second, they allow me to create my own investment pie that i could distribute my money into completely equally and when i invest a hundred thousand dollars into the portfolio m1. Finance does all of the work and balances out the entire amount for me, so i don't actually have to sit there buying each stock one by one and third m1. Finance allows for dividend reinvesting. So, as some of these stocks pay out dividends, they could automatically reinvest back into the portfolio and help it grow even faster and, of course, if anyone's interested in learning more signing up, you can feel free to use my link down below in the description.

It helps me out and overall m1 finance is a really good platform that i would highly recommend several days later. So now it's the morning of december 21st, 2020 and it's time to invest 100 000 into these stocks. So now let's go to the m1 finance account and, as you can see right here, we got the 10 stocks each in 10 proportions on the right. So now we'll go and click buy and sell we'll type in 100.

000 click continue and then we click confirm. Buy and order submitted - and it's gone now for reference as of right now, the s p 500 is trading at 36.96, so in one year's time we'll see who does better the s, p, 500 or the monkey portfolio now before you think i've lost my mind for Doing this, yes, i have lost my mind, but for anyone who thinks i'm just wasting money here, chances are this portfolio might actually do fairly. Well, the wall street journal simulated this exact experiment from 1988 to 2001 and they found that 40 of the time the monkeys. Actually performed better than professional money managers and in a second study which used a stock picking strategy similar to the one i'm using today, their simulated monkeys consistently beat the market by 1.7 96 of the time.

The only difference between them and me is that they used a simulated monkey, whereas i actually used a real monkey and actually put my own money on the line. And, of course, i intend to keep everyone updated on how this portfolio does relative to the overall stock market. So if you want to see whether or not a monkey could actually beat the stock market make sure to smash the subscribe button, hit the notification bell and, as usual, smash the like button for the youtube algorithm. So you don't miss out on any of the future.

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