what up guys it's adrian from youmotorcycle and in today's video i'm gonna be talking to
you guys about how i managed to make a quick thousand bucks and some other consistent money
from harley davidson stock, even though harley's stock only goes down. now first and foremost i
want to make a couple things clear on who i am and who i am not. one this is not financial advice,
i have no financial training studies, anything like that, i'm just some guy on the internet so
don't take this as advice take this is me sharing my story. second thing is even though i don't like
harley stock, i do own a harley davidson v-rod, i love my bike i'm not here to bash or whatever,
i just strictly am looking at numbers and facts, so yeah take what i'm saying with a grain of salt,
as you should with anything on the internet. on that note i guess this should tell you why i'm
not a huge fan of harley davidson stock. I did a lot of homework on this company. in 2014 the
shares used to sell for 70 dollars per share and this week they've been selling for 35.
the company is literally worth half of what it was. it's not just my opinion either on yahoo
finance they had 22 analysts looking at harley davidson stock for the end of february 5 out of 22
recommended buying the stock. the other 17 didn't. why aren't they recommending it? lately when
harley has been in the news for financial stuff it's never really been a good thing
they were pointing fingers at trump saying that his tariffs and his trade war was really hurting
their business, but they had their own failures, regardless of whatever your political views on
that might be. anyway long story short there's a whole laundry list of bad news for harley in the
last year year and a half. the real question is despite all this bad news how do i still manage
to make money on a stock that just keeps going down? and that's what i'm gonna be sharing here
and it's it's pretty simple three-step process but i've managed to get this pre-down pat so hopefully
i can explain to you guys in a way that is easy to follow. all right step one is all about being
ahead of the curve. so stock prices fluctuate based on news. so if news is good stock price goes
up. news about the company's bad, stock price goes down. simple right? so how do we play that to our
advantage well we want to know what news is going to be coming out about harley before it happens
and then take advantage so if we know the price is going to be going up in the future, we buy
ahead of time. how do we do that? we subscribe to alerts let us know what's going to be happening
with harley davidson before it happens, but i'll get into that a little bit more a little bit later
in this video so now that we know there's some news coming up down the road that's going to be
making harley price go up we buy our stock, or do we? no first we want to find out is this news for
sure going to be good and make the price go up or could it possibly be bad? so when you think about
news reports that make price fluctuates for the stock market, you probably think about or hear
a lot about earnings reports. earning reports are every quarter a company will say this is how much
we made, this is what our expectations were, and i don't mess with that so i stay away from quarterly
reports because there's just no way of predicting how it's going to go. instead i look at two things
that historically for me have always managed to make money on harley stock.
the first one is harley davidson dealer meetings. every year they have a dealer meeting it's where
they share all their latest and greatest news, what they're going to be changing for
some of the models that are already out what, new promotions and gear, accessories, parts, apparel,
marketing plans, et cetera that they're going to be having for the coming year, and they share that
with all their dealers, but they also share that with the media, and the media eats that
up and they publish stories galore on this. why? because if you're the media you don't want to wait
for your customers / your readers to find out this news on 10 other different websites before
you get around to posting it, so as soon as harley does something new you jump on it
and you write all about it ,and that gets people buzzing and talking about it, that gets investors
ears all perked up and they're all excited, and that drives the harley price right up,
and that's where you don't want to buy, that's where you want to sell,
which is step three: knowing when to sell. so what i do typically is i'll buy about a
month before the event. as soon as i get alert that there's an event coming up, i'll look at
what's happening with the quarterlies et cetera and i usually buy one month before that event,
then i hold it and then on the day of the event or the day after the event depending on how the
market's going, that's when i sell. now you kind of understand the general consensus the general
idea. know what's going to be happening ahead of us ahead of the the stock price changing,
you buy early, you sell when that price happens in your favor, and then you get the heck out. rinse
wash repeat. i know that's really high level so for the rest of the video i'm going to be sort of
doing this like a question and answers so i have a bunch of questions that you guys might want
to know to better understand what my process is. the first one is how do i get ahead of the curve?
so what i use is a service called google alerts it's google.com/alerts it's totally free. you can
go there and you can fill in whatever keywords you want so you can type in harley dealer meeting.
personally i like the alerts because instead of me going out looking for news the news comes to me,
so makes my life easy, at this point you're probably asking, well how much money could i
have made? well i got the alert on december 18th and i bought hog shares at 35.9 cents
i sold them on the day of the event which was january 14th less than a month later at 41.35.
that made me 17.8% return in less than a month. that is crazy good. so if you
guys are wondering what would that mean for you if you had bought roughly around
the same time that i did and you had put in roughly about five thousand dollars american
you would have walked away with an extra $900. from there you could also do a little bit of day
trading because on those days the price was really volatile so we could have played that a few times
made yourself a few extra 100 bucks. again i'm not here to tell you guys how to spend your money or
whatever i just want to give you guys almost like a book report of my own success with harley stock
because i think that it's kind of a cool story especially if it is about motorcycles it sort
of gives us something that we can if you're a viewer of my channel we can all kind of
talk about. now you might be thinking okay well why not just hold the stock you've made 17%
that's great? right for the first two weeks the stock price stayed relatively strong
this is after the dealer meeting happened i got a full article i'll link to it down below
youmotorcycle.com is my website you guys can check it out i do a lot more articles and content there
than i do on youtube. after those first two weeks the price dropped and the price went down per
share to less than what i bought it for. meaning if i had held harley's stock, not only would i
have lost my 17 or 18% profit i would have lost some of my principal too and that's why personally
i never hold harley stock because it is not a stock that i believe in for the long term. so yeah
guys that's my three-step process is get alerts make sure i'm ahead of the curb, buy early, sell
right when the hype is kind of everyone's buzzing and talking about whatever new thing harley has
come in for this year, and then take all my money and run away and don't look at the stock again
until there's some other event that i know is going to be favorable for sure for harley davidson
because that means it's going to be favorable to me. buy a month month before that, sell on the day
of the event, rinse wash repeat. that's what i do i keep it simple. all right guys that's it for me
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