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Welcome to Roaming Returns, a podcast about generating
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a passive income with dividend stocks so you
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can secure your finances and liberate your life.
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This is our Q3 update for the conservative retirement
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portfolio, the boring on purpose account that's
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supposed to be steady, resilient, and not constantly
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lighting things on fire. And honestly, it did
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its job. Dividends ticked up slightly, the account
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value moved higher, and we made a few changes
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to clean up risk without turning this into some
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high -yield circus. This episode is really about
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what slow and steady looks like in real numbers,
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and why the right move in a low -risk portfolio
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is not always the same move we'd make in one
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with a longer time horizon. We're back. We have
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the quarter three dividend report for the conservative
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portfolio today. It did what it's supposed to.
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So that's about all we have to say about it.
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We'll go over the numbers here quickly, but it
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did exactly what I wanted to. There were some
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changes, but we'll get into that. So this is
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the quarter three. Conservative. Conservative
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report. And then we're going to compare it to
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the quarter two conservative report to get an
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idea. And if you're not interested in the conservative,
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we have another episode coming up with our main
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one, which is kind of like a hybrid middle between
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risk slash high yield. And then we're going to
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do another one for the high yield, high ETF.
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So pick your poison. Right. Pick your poison.
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We're separating them so those of you who are
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not interested don't have to watch the other
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ones. And as always, we will have a link in the
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show notes for the spreadsheet if you do not
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have access to the YouTube video. Okay. In the
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conservative... portfolio in quarter three, which
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was June 1st through August 31st. We actually
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only had one sale and that was we sold YMAX on
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August 6th. The reason for that was the payouts
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distributions were getting smaller and smaller
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and smaller. And NAV declined? The NAV was declined,
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but it was kind of - But it was more the payments?
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It was the payments. The NAV kind of solidified
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between seven and eight dollars, but the payments
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were down to like five and six cents. Is that
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one of the ones that you sold right before the
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last one came out and it was like really, really,
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really bad? Yes. Okay. So he made a good decision.
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But we made out with a pretty good profit in
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YMAX, actually. We made out with, I think it
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was 70 % total return on it. So, like, it's just,
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if you're disciplined with the YieldMax and the
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Roundhill ETFs, the offerings, you can actually
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make money on them, but you have to be disciplined.
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And you have to have the right strategy. Reinvesting
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is not advisable most of the time. Most of the
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time, but, like, at the same time, like, So selling
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for a loss isn't the end of the world if it prohibits
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a huger loss down the road. Right. If it prohibits
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more loss and you can actually take that money
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and put it somewhere else, that'll generate more
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capital or a safer actual investment. So just
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sometimes it's better to lock in a loss to move
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it because you can also write that off tax -wise
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or offset that with gains. And for additions
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in the conservative portfolio for the third quarter,
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we actually had five. We added SNY, Sanofi. the
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pharmaceutical company on July 2nd. We've added
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an Intel 50 -year bond on July 2nd as well. The
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CUISP number is 458 -140 -BK5. I don't have that
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anywhere in the sheets, but they actually do
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have an Intel bond that's 50 years that you collect
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like 4 .5 % on. So that's a good place to park
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money while you're waiting. You actually bought
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a 50 -year bond? Yeah. That's awesome. I got
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it for like $53. So it's like 47 % off. Undervalued.
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So if they call it back, he wins Juicy. If they
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call it back, I win Juicy. Or in the meantime,
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while I'm waiting to maybe put that money to
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you somewhere else, it should, in theory, go
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closer to the NAV or the par value at some point.
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Right. And he's not locked into that for 50 years.
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That's just a place to store capital, especially
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if you buy it that undervalued. You can get out
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with some of those costs that happen with bonds.
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We've done this numerous times in the conservative
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portfolio where we purchased bonds that are undervalued,
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like 30%, 40 % undervalued, and we actually sold
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them back and made 20%, 30%. So it's nothing
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new if you've been following the conservative
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portfolio. This is just newer because it's 50
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years as opposed to like five. Yeah, that's crazy.
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We also added RNTY, which is the yield max real
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estate, 12 % ETF. We added that on July 21st.
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We added VSNT, which is a communications kind
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of like Comcast, a communications stock. We added
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that on 7 -30 -2026. And we added the closed
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-ended fund STK on August 6th. And I talked about
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that a lot in the weekly updates. That closed
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-ended fund is really good. It's about 9 % to
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10 % undervalued. It's a technology growth. closing
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the fund, that pays about 3 % to 4 % dividend.
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So you're getting the growth component, plus
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you're getting the dividend recompounding, plus
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you're getting the price appreciation because
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it's so undervalued. So those are the five additions
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to the conservative portfolio. I like all of
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them. I like the valuation on all of them. I
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think they will be held for years. RNTY maybe
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or maybe not, depending on what happened with
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real estate, but the four of the five are really
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good. So data. In quarter two, we made $4 ,378
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.69 in dividends in this conservative portfolio.
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In quarter three, we made $4 ,413 .45. So that's
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about $40 more in dividends. So it went up a
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little bit. That's what you want, like slow and
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steady in the retirement portfolio. Your principal's
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staying intact and you actually are accruing
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more dividends via the drip. And I was really
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happy to see that for at least one of these portfolios
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because we did not have that same increase in
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the other ones. And we'll explain why when we
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get to the other portfolios. So then we broke
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it down the month versus month. March would be
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the first month of quarter two. We had $1 ,633
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.71. Versus June, which is the first month of
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quarter three, we had $1 ,672 .73. So that went
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up pretty good. April, the second month, we had
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$1 ,335 .70 versus July, where we had $1 ,272
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.30. So that went down some. And then May, we
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had $1 ,409 .28 versus August of $1 ,468 .42.
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So the difference can be explained. Pretty easily
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for what happened here. In April, you notice
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the April we had about... $60 -ish more than
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we did in July. In April, we had the Milan bond
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that paid us $52, and we had Stillwater, which
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paid their irregular dividend. They only pay
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a dividend out every six months, and it was at
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$54. So that's $106 difference. So that April
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total should have been $106 less, which would
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have then been less than the July total. So I'm
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not worried about the numbers in this case. No,
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I didn't realize we actually had semi -annual
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payers. Yeah. Interesting. So we have the drip
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off on RNTY. We're recouping the initial investment
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value. We have $1 ,476 to recoup in RNTY. That
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is a new holding, remember. We have the drip
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off on BSM. We have $1 ,954 to recoup in that
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one. We have the drip off on LFGY. We have about
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$1 ,280 left to recoup in LFGY. We have the drip
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off on Trinity Capital, $1 ,831 to recoup, and
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that one's recouping pretty quickly. I mean,
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I could... So BSM, Trinity, Hercules Capital,
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XYLD, I could recoup, and AIPR. Actually, a lot
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of these I could recoup the initial right now
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if I wanted to because we're up a lot in them.
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But I'm not. I'm letting the dividends actually
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recoup it slower just to see. We also have the
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drip off on Hercules Capital, HTGC. We owe about
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$3 ,861 on that one yet. And we have the drip
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off on XYLD, which is the S &P 500 covered call.
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You got a lot left on that one. We owe $5 ,740
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on that one yet. And we have the drip off on
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AIPI. We owe $2 ,620 on that one. Now that sounds
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bad, but Trinity is worth about $6 ,000. So I
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literally could liquidate $1 ,800 and have Trinity
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paid off. Hercules is about $8 ,000. So I could
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liquidate $3 ,800 and have about $4 ,200 left
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in Hercules. And XYLD is about $12 ,000 right
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now. So I'd have like $7 ,000 left over. So while
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I'm saying I could recoup the initial... tomorrow
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if i wanted to i'm actually not i'm kind of doing
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it slow and steady to see what happens but we'll
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see um we have the drip off collecting cash already
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recouped on sbsw stillwater and nvdy we have
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actually already recouped the initial so we're
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just using that cash to put it in other things
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and we have the drip off where we have to do
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a manual reinvestment on thta because vanguard's
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trash It won't let me turn the drip on in that
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one. I absolutely am going to move out of Vanguard
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when I go home to see my parents this year to
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get my mom to sign the papers to see. And we'll
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document that process of transferring because
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if you hate your brokerage and you're going through
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the same situation, it is very cumbersome to
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change something. And it's gotten to the point
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where he complained so bad that I'm tired of
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hearing about him. So I'm going to actually make
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that effort to get it moved into Schwab. Vanguard's
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horrible. And they just updated the software,
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updated the site. And it's worse. And it's worse
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than it was before. It's like God. Government
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DMV stuff. I understand that there's a time and
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place for it because if you invest in Vanguard
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funds, you're getting it for the 0 % like fees
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and everything. That's fine. But if you're actually
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doing stuff outside of Vanguard funds, it is
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very tedious and cumbersome and it's annoying
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as shit. And like I said before, some people
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don't have a preference with Vanguard because
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it might actually be who their employers. 401k
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or whatever is through. So if you're stuck with
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it, it is what it is. And if you're in the funds,
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they do have benefits with the lower funds that
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are Vanguard funds or lower fees for Vanguard
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funds. But if you have an option and you hate
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it. like we do, we're going to make the effort
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to change because it's just annoying. So in the
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retirement conservative portfolio, we have a
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few that are overvalued that I would not touch
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right now. JEPQ is one. XYLD is one. NBXG is
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another one. UAN, Pepsi, PEP, TRMD, ADM, SWKS,
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and TGT are all overvalued. Don't invest in those.
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But the best undervalued holdings in this one
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are SNY, which we just picked up, DX, which is
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a Emory UPS, which everyone knows, STWD, which
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is a real estate trust, REIT, Ozark, OZK, which
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is a regional bank, ARCC, which is like the best,
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biggest BDC, HTGC, which is like the biggest
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like life sciences and venture capitalists, BDC,
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and STK, which we've already mentioned. Those
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are all very... undervalued. And as he just said,
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the overvalued holdings not buying in right now,
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but if you're already in them and you have the
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ability to turn the drip off and you're willing
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to maintenance a little bit more to move that
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capital into something undervalued manually,
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you can turn drip off in those as well to get
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a faster compounding in something else. Or you
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could leave it dripped on. That's totally your
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call, but you can actually compound your capital
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faster if you go from something overvalued to
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undervalued. Yeah, that's... We've talked about
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that previously. Once you notice things, valuation,
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you can play with the drip and compound faster.
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Right. The starting balance in the conservative
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portfolio on June 1st was $212 ,980. And the
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ending balance on August 31st was $221 ,777.
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So we made 4 .13 % in the third quarter in this
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portfolio, about almost $9 ,000 in capital gains.
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That's capital gains. That's not total cost basis?
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No, I didn't just separate that. Okay. So that's
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that. We actually have the buy up to sheet for
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this. Go over real quick. The retirement portfolio
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is the left one. You'll see like the ones I've
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mentioned, JAPQ is vastly overvalued. XYLD is
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almost. So if you're in the sheet, when you go
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into the sheets, the ones that are overvalued
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are red. And the ones that are undervalued are
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green. The ones that are white are kind of fair
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market, I assume. Fair market or buy at your
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own risk. Do more research. And then the ones
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that are actually the ticker colored blue are
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the ones that we have the drip off. So up to
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you if you want to follow suit or not, but we're
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just sharing that information for transparency.
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Yeah. So like you see JPQ is really overvalued.
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You'll see MBXG is really overvalued. You'll
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see UAN is really overvalued. So like the ones
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in red are really, really overvalued. The ones
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in white are about. Fair. They're about close.
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Like you see Starbuck, SBW, SBLK right down there.
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It was at 31 .17 and buy up to 30. So that one
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could be a red, but it like that one. So current
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event dictated that that 30 could actually go
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up to 35 like in next week. Now that buy up to
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price, is that the expert opinion? Because I
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knew you were doing that before. Or is that your
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new equation? It's my best case guess for people
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to make money. So when he says that, what he
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means is a stock has a specific dividend yield
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and a buy up to that buy up to gives you a little
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bit of safety margin so that if it actually has
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a reduction in price, you're not completely like
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negating the dividend payouts. So that gives
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you a cushion. I'm combining like a. decent entry
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price with the dividend cushion what i call the
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dividend cushion like you'll see aipi for example
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first when it yields 35 so you have a big cushion
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that you can get in at but if you buy up to 37
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.50 i think you'll still like you should still
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make a pretty good amount of that 34 If you bought
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up to $37 .50, if you bought at like $42, that
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would reduce your dividend cushion by a lot because
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you're overpaying a lot for something. Which
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means it could have a pullback and actually,
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again, negate that dividend payout. So we're
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trying to help you keep your portfolio in the
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green. as opposed to having those red pullbacks
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if you're somebody who's more susceptible to
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having that negative emotion when you see those
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negative values in your account. Not that those
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are necessarily a bad thing because everything's
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in flux, but from an emotional sentiment and
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an undervalue standpoint, he builds this into
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the buy up to price. And the only ones that really
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increased from quarter two, and we did this to
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quarter three, Hercules went from 18 to 19 because
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of finances and their earnings report. I think
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Triple M went from 155 up to 180. That one really,
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that one had a really good earnings and a really
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good projection moving forward. So that one went
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from like 155 up to 180. So that one actually
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technically is a buy, but like it's really expensive
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for less than 2 % yield. So that doesn't make
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a lot of sense. SM went from 3250 up to 40, but
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that's mainly because the cost of oil went up
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so much. Civvy SM. BKH went from 72 up to 75.
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They had a pretty good earnings and it's a utility.
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And I think that one has more room to run. But
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again, it's pretty close to fair value. Might
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want to wait for a pullback. 75, 71 is not that
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great of a spread. NAD and NZF, both actually,
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they're the two tax advantage ones you can use.
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Like if you have a taxable account, you don't
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have to pay like federal tax on those. Those
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are actually... doing really well. So I like
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those. And those actually went from $11 .50 up
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to $12 and from $12 up to $12 .50. So there's
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a pretty good chance of like 10%, 12 % return
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on those two if you want a tax -advantaged bond
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fund. And that is a moot point if you're actually
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already in a retirement account. And if you bought
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ADM and we mentioned it in the retirement account,
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you're welcome because that one went from $50
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up to $86 plus you've accrued a lot of dividends.
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That one's a really good one, but it's super
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overvalued. And like my valuation metrics is
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not like I don't look at like the... The experts
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opinion on that, I actually have a formula where
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I plug in the projected growth by the experts.
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Then I have my own growth, which is derived from
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the return on equity, return on the payout ratio,
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return on EPS projections. And then I combine
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it all together. So that's 75 is actually the
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experts high opinion, which is they say like
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92 and my low opinion, which I think it's about
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68. So we come up with a 75. That's how we come
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up with that buy up to point. So it's not all
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just my formula. I actually incorporate the experts
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into it, but that's - In case they're missing
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something you're not. Yeah, or I'm - Or you are.
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Yeah, I'm missing something they're not or they're
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missing something I'm not. I said that backwards.
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So that one's just really overvalued. Like stay
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away from that one. That's the corn one. I understand.
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So if you have this position and you did get
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in when we got in, what are you doing with this?
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You just turn the drip off? Oh, I just have the
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drip on. I don't care. Okay. Because it could
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go up to a hundred and some dollars. It's a corn
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stock. I was just wondering what the default
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process is. But I wouldn't get into it for anything
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above $75. Okay. So a new purchase, new entry
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would not be advisable because we don't know
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and it could actually pull back. If you got into
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T -Row, when we mentioned T -Row, you're welcome.
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That one's up like 40%. If you got into Target,
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when we mentioned Target, you're welcome because
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that one's up like 100 % since we got into it.
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Are you serious? Yeah. Target's like 80 -some
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percent. That's even with the pullback. It was
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like $170 or $160 -some a couple weeks ago. I
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think that one was depressed because of that.
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The DEI stuff that happened and they had like
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a problem with sales. So that had like a sentiment
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issue. You'll see the bottom four there are the
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new ones, SNY, RNTY, VSNT, and STK. They're all.
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primed for buying i think um for example like
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sny i have a buy it to a 50 but that one should
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be like worth about a hundred dollars so like
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if you get in before 50 you're probably going
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to double your money in that one over the next
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few years rnty is 50 because that normally doesn't
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have a lot of NAV erosion. It normally trades
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around 50. VSNT, that one should be about $80.
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So if you get into that one under 42, you're
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going to make more than 100 % on that one. And
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STK should be about 55 based on their historical
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discount and premium to NAV. So if you get into
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that one before 55, you're going to be really
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good. That one holds like all the tech growth
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stocks. So that's a really good one to get into
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if you're worried about growth and income, because
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you're going to get both. That's why we got into
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that one in the retirement account. Those are
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really nice. And I do want to mention too with
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Target. Target is a really good example of a
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really bad negative news sentiment. And I think
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back when we talked about it initially, we said
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that this will turn around. This will pass. This
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will whatever. So you buy stuff that has that
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sentiment contrarian thing that happens and then
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look where it went back up to. Like it followed
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exactly. And then the only one, the last one
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I'll talk about is SWKS. We just talked about
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this in the weekly podcast. both accounts in
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swks because i don't know what it's going to
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do i have a buy up to 75 but because it's merging
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with quervo it could be 130 it would be like
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it's its share price but because i don't know
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what it's doing and they cut their dividend i
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just took my initial out and i'm just letting
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whatever i have left which is in the retirement
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account it's about 17 shares it can do whatever
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it wants i don't have to put any effort and thought
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into it so that's why So Skyworks, I have 17
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in the retirement account and I have like 17
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shares that are going to do whatever they do.
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If the Cuervo merger happens and it's a success,
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you're going to get the capital appreciation
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because you still have your profit shares doing
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what they do. And if they reinitiate the dividend,
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you're still going to be able to grow it. Whatever
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happens, happens. I don't know. Right. But because
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it's already had a price surge, he'd wanted to
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get the initial off to take the risk of the initial
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investment out of the picture. Because it could
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go down. The merger could be bad or they could
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pull the rug on the merger at the last minute.
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It's supposed to merge in 2027 and they could
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decide that we don't want that. Well, new news
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might come out. And you said, too, that it's
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up to the approval of the SEC or something. They
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reached approval with the politicians. But now
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it has to go through another approval process.
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So the merger may or may not happen. It looks
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like it will. But at the same time, I don't like
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the risk in a retirement portfolio of it could
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happen. I don't. I'm not. Right. It's a possibility.
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It's not a guarantee. So that is that for the
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retirement portfolio. It's doing what it's supposed
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to do. It's slow and steady. And we add positions
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like we did for five new positions with the bond
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in the quarter. And we liquidated some things
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like we'll go over next quarter. We just liquidated
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ABR because it is a shit show. So now we're looking
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at the monthly dividend spreadsheet that we will
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also have linked in the show notes where you
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can see the actual individual tickers and what
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they paid us specifically and the changes from
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quarter to quarter, month to month. Do you have
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any notable discussionary points? Like did something
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massively decrease in payout? ABR, but that's
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why we got out. Right, ABR, but that's why we
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got out. And like I said, Skyworks, if we go
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down to Skyworks, they cut their dividend completely,
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so it's not a big loss. Did you actually talk
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about ABR? Two days ago, I sold all the shares
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of ABR in this conservative portfolio because
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I think it's three to five years away from a
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turnaround and I don't have that much time to
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wait for a... potential maybe it turns around
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maybe it doesn't and this is based off what the
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earnings report earnings and their actual their
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um their earnings call when they they said what
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we have they have like 40 of their portfolio
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is like they're not paying on it. So they have
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a billion, like they have over a billion dollars
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in, in loans that aren't being paid on. That's
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not good. I'm assuming they cut the dividend
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from 30 cents or they cut it from 43 to 30 last
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year. And then they cut it from 30 to 17. So
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they have had two cuts. So I just got, I got,
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I sold half the position when they cut it the
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first time. And I just sold the other half now
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because I'm just done. And that's that I'm done
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with it. In this portfolio. Right. In the main
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portfolio, we still hold it because we have time.
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We have three to five years to wait for it to
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turn around. Right. The time horizon on this
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portfolio specifically, because my mom is 68
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now and we have to start liquidating or pulling
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or drawing or whatever they call it at 70 for
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her. So we don't need that headache or that incongruency
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in this portfolio. So Skyworks, we weren't making
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a lot to begin with. We made 29 in the first
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quarter, 36 in the second quarter, and 40 in
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the third quarter. So it's not a huge loss income
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-wise. But we still do, like I said, have 17
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shares. But we'd actually reallocated that to
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positions that are in this. We already have.
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I didn't actually initiate another position.
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Yet. yet you would you do put it in dry powder
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no i put it into mrp which we initiated in quarter
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four we've already initiated that one that was
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not one that we didn't talk about i added to
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stk i added to vsnt and i added to sny with the
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arbor proceeds so he took that and he spread
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it around to other stuff so that's that like
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if you scroll to the bottom you can see like
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we're doing okay on this one 15 like it's been
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about 1600 a month there thereabouts What is
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that from a yield? You said it's 4 % for the
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quarter, which puts her at what? 4 times 4 is
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16 % for a conservative portfolio. It's really
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hard to do the actual yield versus principle
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because the principle is always in flux. I mean,
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you can calculate it throughout the year. but
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you said what four four point whatever percent
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maybe 4 .1 and quarter three and i think we made
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two percent and the cons the concept of the the
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yield actually when you have a portfolio that
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you're constantly reinvesting into that yield
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goes up year over year because you're recompounding.
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So it's the magic of compounding. And if you
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look at one of those exponential charts, that's
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what compounding essentially does. It creates
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that. It's not a direct line. It's an inverse
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proportion in your favor, which is why interest
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in the opposite in debt hurts so hard. But you'll
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see that she has made about $13 ,100 and three
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quarters in dividends, which is pretty good.
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$13 ,800 minus $730. And you'll see that the
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first quarter was 43, the second quarter 43 .14,
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the second quarter was 43 .79, and the third
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quarter was 44 .13. So it's gradually just going
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up. Ticking up. So we want to see, that's what
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I said with that compounding exponential growth
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thing. So if you plotted this, I should plot
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these at some point on an actual plot graph and
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show the increase, whereas ours is like up, down,
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up, down. But if you did it yearly, you'd probably
00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:05.660
get a lot better of a curve. Yeah. So that's
00:24:05.660 --> 00:24:07.900
the conservative retirement portfolio. It's doing
00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:09.759
exactly what it's supposed to do. It actually,
00:24:09.819 --> 00:24:12.880
I was looking at the numbers. This one is up
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about 13 % year to date. And we're in the beginning
00:24:17.740 --> 00:24:20.140
of September. The NASDAQ is up 12%. Wait, the
00:24:20.140 --> 00:24:24.940
NASDAQ is up 12%. The S &P is up 10%. And the
00:24:24.940 --> 00:24:28.000
Dow is up about 13%. So this one's just in like
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it's moving in line with the other three big
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indexes, indices, however you want to say it.
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So this one's doing what it's supposed to do.
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It's just like it's - And that's a really good
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yield for a conservative because like a total
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market index would also include risky assets.
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This does not really include the risky assets.
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So the fact that this is keeping comparative
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with the total market indexes and this is more
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conservative is freaking awesome because this
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will have less of a principal hit if the markets
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do hit a recession or decline or whatever we
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said might happen, depending on where the economic
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stuff goes. We're going to switch over now to
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our main portfolio, which is the - It's a nice
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hybrid between risk and return. So it's like
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the middle ground.