That there ... that's Sicily - that's the coast of Sicily right there.
There it is... Coast of Sicily everybody.
So I'm on a boat heading for (sort of) the middle of Italy where I'm going to get off
and start driving... I'm on a cargo ship, basically... somewhere in the Mediterranean
which is awesome to say... Somewhere in the Mediterranean.
And yeah, I have no signal, I have no phone signal, I have no data - I can't get on
the internet - I can't check the stocks... I can't phone anyone, no one can phone me,
no one can text me, I can't text anyone ... And somehow, I'm still involved in the
International money markets - because I'm copying people... So they're out there
trading - I don't know what's happening - I don't know what's going on, but they're
making the decisions for me.
Mr. fastik over in Germany somewhere,
Mr. Jay - the man - in deepest darkest England ... is currently looking at charts,
he's currently analyzing fundamentals... he's looking at the US tech sector, and
crypto currencies among other things - also selling a little oil these days... And
everything he does, I automatically do as well, because I'm copy trading. What a
wonderful thing it is to have the benefit of all of their experience...
It seems a bit cheeky a lot of the time. Sometimes I think about it, and I think "Well
that's a bit cheeky - how are these guys trading for me? How are they not
like - how am I not having to pay them a lot of money to do this?" Guys who kind of really
have spent a lot of years learning about technical analysis. A lot of years
looking at the fundamentals, and learning different sectors of the
international markets, you know - whether it's... I don't know, tech stocks or
agricultural or commodities... It takes a long time to learn these things, so I get all
of the benefit of their experience - which is just amazing. It's like going to
school, finding the smartest kids - who've spent
ages learning algebra, and learning history, and learning... and they're
learning, and I just sit behind them copying... That's basically what's going on
here. And they get paid by the company - by the website itself. The more copiers they
have, the more money they get from that place, but they're trading with their own
money, you know... So it's - I just think it's an amazing thing, you know... I get to do it
for free. I don't have to pay them.. I just sit behind them copying their hard-earned homework merits.
When was this ever possible before? you know, this
wasn't possible in the 1950's or the 60's you know... Whatever - it just wasn't
possible until now because of these amazing websites... In the past you had to pay a broker...
You had to pay some pretentious guy - snobby guy in a big office, and he'd just try
and bamboozle you with facts, and then he'd steal some of your money and then
keep churning you over, so you give them more and more fees - I've seen 'The wolf of Wall Street'!
Anyhow, nowadays we've got access to all
this cool stuff, and copy trading's kind of like - as far as trading and financial
services goes, this is 'tip of the spear, edge of the sword' right here - we're, you
know, this is amazing. We live in kind of cool times for this stuff... I'm still in a
bit of awe about copy trading, and about how useful that is. Recently, I lost quite
a lot of money - well it wasn't a lot of money, it was my profits, you know.. I had made
about 30%, and I lost it again doing stupid stuff...
So I've taken a kind of 'burnout break' from trading at the moment... Still love it, still
going to get better, still want to learn ... But at the moment, I've been copy trading
mostly again, and I must say it's a lovely feeling. Every so often I remember,
you know - I think "Oh no I'm not watching!", then I remember that these guys - the guys
I'm copying - Mr fastik somewhere in Germany, Mr. Jay somewhere in England...
He's there - watching stocks, watching cryptos, watching the US tech stocks
market, and making trades - and I'm getting the benefit of all of that experience,
all of that skill... It's fantastic, it's really good - it means I can take a break,
I can just take a few weeks of not having to look at the markets at all...
I know they're doing it - and they're doing it with a skill which is greater
than mine, and with an experience which is greater than mine. So here I am...
Somewhere in the Mediterranean... Cut off - no phone, no mobile, no data - no nothing...
Still involved with trading... And I'm enjoying it at the moment. I don't know - I think
soon I'll start, probably, trying some small trades again - I don't know, but copy
trading, at the moment - it's winning... It's winning for me. What a fantastic thing.
What a fantastic idea, you know... There we go...
Some people have asked, like - "Do I ... Do I work for them? Are they paying me?" No... I mean I have some
affiliate links, like - in my description, so if you, like, join up through the
description, they give me like a little bonus.. like "well done", but you know
whatever... Most the people who watch my channel are already on Etoro anyhow, so ...
But, no - I do it because I think it's really really genius. I wanted to be
involved in the financial markets. I wanted to find a way to get in and ...
because it's just exciting, and it's such a good way to make money. I always wanted to be
in that - so I'm learning to trade... Ever since I was a kid I've kind of - I've
known about trading... I've known about the stock market - I've seen, you know, 'Trading
Places' - I mean that's a great film, it's all about that - like the 'barrier to entry'...
The stock market is something which is always filled with this mystique - it's
for the privileged few, it's for the elite - it's for people from a certain
section of society who are smart enough, and have the means - they've been given
the money to trade, or the opportunity... And it's always seemed like a world full
of people who are a little bit frightning - I'm gonna be honest, they're
not like, you know, the easiest looking bunch to get along with. So it's always
this thing which I can't really be involved in, but I knew that they were
making a lot of money. Everyone knows that... Those boys, and girls, but mostly
those boys... are making a ton of money driving around in white and red Ferraris
and, you know, they've been doing that stuff since the eighties. So it was always
something where, you know, the 'plebs' like me - we have to put our money into banks,
and make very little interest and things... But those guys are somehow making
these fantastical sums, and you know - and it's always something which
I've thought "That's amazing!" but I can't really be involved in that... So to be
involved in it in some small way - Because I haven't got a lot of money, but the
little money I do have is in that now. I'm involved in that Nasdaq stuff I
always heard about - and the FTSE 100, and the gold price, and selling oil, and now
Cryptos... and, you know, I'm involved in it and I think that's fantastic you know.
I'm not meaning to say "Everyone get involved - take all your money out of the
bank and put it in." This is not financial advice - I don't mean to do that, I'm just
telling you - for me, that is - it's incredible that my
money can now play in the same game as those guys, and it's a game I've always
known about but never known how to get into. I have access to that kind of
same pool of investment - so my money's in there now - which is quite exciting!
Anyhow, so there we are... That's me on a boat - I left this morning, I'm going North - I'm
actually driving my folks to a part of Italy because they need a car, so I'm
driving them there, and going to leave the car there with them... But we're all on a boat
at the moment... Cool boat... I love boats. It's a cargo ship -
cargo ships are way cheaper than passenger ferries. They're a bit more
basic, alright... There's no toilet paper - do you know what I mean, but
you're still getting there - you're still on a boat, and you've still got this stuff ...
Look at this...
Look.