Venezuela Just Changed Everything for Silver, Oil, and XRP (Here's Why)

Hey, it's Kamilah Stevenson. Around here we talk wealth, and I see a question in the chat asking how high XRP can go before the end of the year. And my answer to that is as high as it needs to go, right? There are circumstances that will, um, that could allow XRP to go to certain heights, but it's all about the events And I want to share one event that is taking place right now and give my understanding of it and where we are with it. As always, I'm gonna just dump my thoughts and how I think about these things. I see that you— I have already put in the chats where you're from. Charlotte is in the house, North Carolina, the UK. I love to see it. And somebody said, is it possible to go to 10K? Uh, I, I don't see it going to 10K this year. Year personally. Um, I don't see it going to $10K this year. Um, but I do see it going to great, uh, heights in the future. I am XRP long. I've always said that it's very easy to, uh, to be long and to know what XRP can get to because I don't believe XRP is meant for retail. I do believe it's meant for institutions and that it cannot do what it is set out to do until it gets to a certain price. And so I think it is by design supposed to be priced high. So these are— right now it's undervalued, it's suppressed. There's been a lot of manipulation, manipulation in the— I'm looking at the chats— uh, a manipulation in the cryptocurrency world. And so right now we're dealing with a lot of suppressed crypto, but I do think we're going to have, um, a great time, uh, in crypto in 2026. The Clarity Act is coming. There is so much ahead. And, uh, yes, I am, Christopher, feeling much better. Thank you so much. I feel much better today. I got some rest and I'm feeling good. I'm going to get on with my members after this and I'm going to walk through— hit that like button, by the way— I'm going to walk through what I'm condensing my portfolio to because I don't think that we should be too diluted after the Clarity Act and after the use case and the adoption and digital currency and where we're headed with blockchain. I really do think we have to become extremely intentional about our portfolio. And so you need to get educated in the, uh, the coins of your choice. I have a lot of coins. Let me just say this right now, right? And so even as I kind of open up my— one of my accounts, and I got a lot of different accounts, and I'm gonna get into it, don't worry. Hit that like button, uh, hit subscribe if you are not subscribed yet. Thank you so much. I appreciate all of the kind words Um, let's see here. All right, so I have a lot of coins, but I can't say that I am going to keep myself diluted. Okay, so Ethereum, Bitcoin, SUI, Ondo— I'm not going to name all of them, but I'm just kind of naming some so you can understand what I mean. And I'm looking at the comments. Thank you guys, I appreciate you all so much, and I can't wait to get on with the members after. Like I said, Ondo, Chainlink, Solana, Cardano, um, AVAX, XLM, XRP, Aerodrome Finance, AIOZ Network, Clearpool, Near Protocol, Stronghold, Kaspa, Casper, Polkadot, Shiba, Quant, Toncoin, um, TAO, Flare, Zcash, Litecoin, Bonq— I got a little bit of Bonq— uh, Algorand. I'm just naming some of them, I'm not going to name all of them, but I say that to say I have a lot of cryptocurrency, and I did go a little bit into crypto, uh, just hoping for a bull run in 2025 like a lot of people did. I'm gonna see you right after. I appreciate the joining of the membership. Um, but we didn't get the bull run that we expected that we were going to get, right? And so I'm not selling. I wasn't going to sell in a, in a bear market. I wasn't going to sell while the price was suppressed. So I am waiting for that run that we were supposed to get, and I will take some profits and I will, I will start pouring them over into other assets. I'm gonna go on with my members, I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that. I do have some updates on ZBEC, uh, and I will share what my 5 coin choice— what my choices are, okay? Because it can't be all of those, right? So I'm going to explain why these are my 5 choices and, uh, going to a little bit of the use case scenario. And, um, I think I'm picking a nice little, uh, 5, uh, cryptocurrencies. I, I think I got it. I, I think I got it right. And so, um, I'm not telling you what to do. Matter of fact, right now I'll just go ahead with this disclaimer. Nothing I say is financial advice. Always manage your own expectations. This is for educational and entertainment purposes only. I'm not your financial advisor. You don't have to follow me and what I say. I'm just sharing my thoughts. About it. And yes, I did get Clearpool, um, and that was one of my speculative plays. Like, all of those that I just named are not like, uh, they, they're not highly, um, you know, on my list of this is my, my high use case adoption type of coin. So there were some coins that I did invest into, uh, that I was just trying to make money off of. I'm just gonna be honest, okay? And when we went into a bear market what I had to do to dollar cost average is I started to buy in low, you know. So some of these coins went to back 50, 80%, and I bought in there to bring my dollar cost average down. So I do think if there's any type of run on them, I will profit from most of them. I'm already in profit for some of them because I bought so much once it, you know, came down to dollar cost average. I bought more on the bottom than I did, you know, uh, at higher prices, right? So Uh, I'm not saying all of them will do well. I'm not saying that at all, you know. You know, sometimes you just pick which ones you want to get into, and, um, you know that some of them are a risk. All right, Christine, I see you in. Now let's go ahead and talk through this. I have everything in just 3. Top Financial, go talk. Thank you so much. Oh, Bri, I gotta look at the name. What's up? All right, so listen, we got a lot going on, right? We got a lot, and I'm gonna give you, uh, my, my take on things, my thoughts, and then I'm gonna go and jump in with the members. And, uh, I did my due intelligence about some of the questions that were asked last week. The US has escalated its posture towards Venezuela, and, and I know you guys seen that. Also, thank you guys so much. I'm at 100K and I couldn't have done it without you all. But I definitely want to dive into this because I need you guys to know what is at stake and what we are thinking through, right? And hey, I, I don't want to bring all the hype and everything. I need you guys to be educated and know what's happening in real world and how it's affecting the financial system and your personal portfolio, your personal ability to build wealth. And so thank you so much, Yolanda Bowman. I see your comment and, um, and, uh, thank you so much. I appreciate you so much. All of you all have been just so kind. Yay to 100K! Couldn't have done it without you guys. It's all because of you, and I thank you for rocking with me. I will come back strong and hard this year. Uh, so I love what I do and I love this community. All right, so, all right, so there's a lot to talk about because first of all, let me just say this. A lot of people are looking at this whole event like it came out the blue. It did not come out the blue. Uh, Venezuela's leadership has been disputed for years under more than this administration, okay? Uh, sanctions didn't begin under one administration. There's been multiple governments that have questioned the legitimacy, uh, restricted trade and limited access long before what happened happened, okay? So right now what I can say is what has happened is the change has been in the level of enforcement All right, enforcement. Thank you guys, I see y'all the congrats on here, right? And so when I, I want you guys to kind of— I'm gonna walk through what I'm thinking about with this because it's going to make sense, all right? And when you think about how enforcement is escalating around a country that happens to hold massive amounts of oil reserves, okay, like a lot of this is not— I don't think none of this stuff is just— there's a lot planned that I don't think we really realize it. But, uh, massive oil reserves, and along with gold and silver. And so this is worth stepping back and asking what that tells us about the environment we're in, because digital assets are going to perform based on the environment that we're in. So even the questions that a lot of people were asking about what XRP's price can go to, it depends on the environment that we're in. And you have to look at those situations that start to occur and just understand that they're not they're not occurring out of the blue, okay? A lot of this stuff is not just happenstance, okay? This— a lot of this stuff is very strategic. You just, you just got to pay attention. Also, again, like, like and subscribe if you have not already, all right? Definitely seems, uh, planned. Yeah, you know, the world is a stage, you know. I really believe that. And we got to think deeper than this. We can't— you know, these headlines and stuff, I'm telling you, it fools you. By the time we get to it things have been in motion and now it's just presented in a way that makes it look like it was all of a sudden. All right, so here's the first thing I want to really address so that you can understand. Thank you, Desmond. Is that let's get into, first of all, uh, what stood out to me this week, and that is that silver— first of all, silver, we got to talk about silver because silver is effectively being priced two different ways right now. If you have not paid attention Pay attention if you haven't, right? There is the paper market, right? The paper markets, the futures, the screens, the COMEX. You're seeing one number there, but if you trying to source physical metal in certain places, the cost is different. Thank you, Daniel. I appreciate you, right? And so there's a gap between what's on paper and what's actually physical that you're trying to purchase with silver. Now, under normal circumstances, That does not last. And I'm— you're gonna keep hearing me say this, under normal circumstances, you're gonna, you're gonna hear me say that because you gotta pay attention. These are not normal circumstances that are at play. Now, if, if physical silver is meaningfully more expensive than paper, then what happens is arbitrage closes that gap, and then people buy the con, uh, contract then, uh, they take the delivery, they sell the metal, and then the prices come back together. That's usually what happens. So the gap stays open, and when that gap stays open, it's going to tell you that the issue isn't price, it's discovery. Okay, so, um, I'm looking at some of the— running on prop, I wouldn't say much, but the world is running on prop. Yeah, so we're talking about access. Access. Now hear me out. Do I like ETH? Yeah, but I mean, not better than XRP. That's just me personally, right? So, and I have ETH, I have ETH, I even have Bitcoin, uh, and Bitcoin is— what's the word? If somebody used a word that just described it very perfectly, like clunky. I think it's too clunky to do what to me XRP does, and I just love that description right now. Something is making— when it comes to silver, something is making— I have a little bit of Zcash, so yeah. Something is making delivery harder, slower, or less reliable in size. This is gonna all come together in a moment. You're gonna see that right away, right? Thank you so much for, uh, the super sticker. Thank you so much, I appreciate that. Yeah, like Bitcoin, too slow. That's— I love that clunky word. I was like, yeah, because I like visualization, right? And so, um, when that happens, when things become harder, slower, less reliable in size when it comes to Uh, what's happening with silver when that happens, then paper exposure and physical control stops behaving the same way. So there's like, there's this gap between physical silver and, and paper silver. So around the same time, notice this, that banks tapped a record amount of short-term liquidity through the Fed's repo facility at the end of the year. Did you guys notice that? And that is not routine funding at all. This is different, right? That's cash being pulled forward because it's needed immediately. You also had, in addition to this, I'm putting the pieces of the puzzle together so you can understand this. You have margin requirements on silver adjusted, which explains some of the volatility because silver is very volatile right now. But margin changes don't create stress on their own. They respond to it. Pay attention. Now, if you put those pieces together, what you're seeing is, is not, it's not an like a panic or anything. It's a system working through pressure. You gonna hear me say that word. It's a pressure. It's a pressure. So you got paper markets that are still functioning, you got physical markets that are getting tight in spots, and then you got liquidity being accessed earlier rather than later. Hmm. Now I'm always looking at things historically because historically this shows how stress expresses itself first in the gap between claims and control before it ever shows up as a clean headline or like a single event that everybody's going to agree on. These are things that are being constructed, right? Yes, uh, but in order for adoption— oh, you, you were responded, almost fight to escalate. Yeah, I mean, if we're gonna get, um, if we're gonna get it at the prices that we really wanted to be at, oil has to— I'm looking at oil every day and I'm going to get into that in a minute because that does play a, a role in all of this. Combination, this combination of the paper markets, the physical markets, the liquidity, that combination shows up a lot earlier than when things feel obvious. So you have to understand, by the time— I need you guys to understand, by the time stuff becomes very obvious— but let me say this, all of this what I'm saying, it may not make sense to some people, but what I'm trying to explain to you is when it does make sense, it's going to be on the back end. So if you don't make sense of it now, by the time it does make sense to you, by the time the news, the headlines, and everybody is in agreement and in alignment, by the time that happens, you are way behind the schedule. So I know this could sound out of whack sometimes and even confusing about what's going on, these different macro environments, these, you know what I mean, these, uh, the friction that's going on in the financial system. But I'm telling you, I'm trying to make sense of it for you before the headlines make sense of it, because number one, they're gonna have a propaganda most of the time, and then number two, it is too late for you to really know what's happening. By that time everything comes out, it's, it's already done. Matter of fact, everything's already in place now. We're just getting bits and pieces of it that's being exposed right now. Okay, so now here's the thing about oil, because we have to get into oil. Right, right. Yes, absolutely. This is the time, not later. You have to— you got to put the pieces, um, of the puzzle together. My question is, how oil will spike after the events? And, uh, well, they, they're gonna want oil to— they, they need an event. They need an event to happen for things to be put in place. Let me say this for a second. Let me, let me, let me give you something to think about. This is the way I think about this, because the more I look at things, the less it feels like we're watching problems happen and then scrambling for solutions. I don't think that's what's, what's happening. It feels— catch what I'm saying, because I'm trying to explain it in a way that you understand what goes through my mind— it feels more like the solutions already exist and certain events make their usefulness unavoidable. Almost like the system doesn't move until pressure forces it to. That word pressure, that's why there's all these pressure points, right? It doesn't move until the system— until the pressure forces there to be movement. And it's not because nobody knew what to do, but it's because there was no incentive to use what was already built. What was already built. Y'all get that, right? So we're talking about solutions, but sometimes when you think about solutions, you're thinking that there are solutions that are born from problems. Well, what if the solution already existed before the problem, and now you need the problem to make the solution useful? Okay, you get what I'm saying? So the question I keep coming back to isn't what solution comes next, it's what has to happen for the solution that already is there to finally get used. Okay, do y'all, do y'all get my, my— so again, when I say events happening I don't think they coming out of the blue. So in summary, sometimes it's just hard to tell which one comes first, the disruption or the solution. But when I step back, it usually looks like the groundwork was laid long before anybody felt that urgency, and then events happen that make ignoring the groundwork no longer an option. So, right, so that's how I just want to say, lie, okay? I, I did, I did. So that's when you guys see all of this stuff happening, it's not It's not— it's, it's all planned in my estimation of thinking, okay? I'm just telling you, I'm not your financial advisor. I— this is for educational purposes only. Now, once you start seeing that kind of tension between, between the paper and the physical, the next place you must look is energy. So we're going to talk about oil because oil does play a role in this. Oil is not interesting at all because it trades. It just matters because almost everything depends on it. Okay, everything, right? So there it is. Yeah. So I'm just, again, I'm just sharing how my mind thinks through it when I'm like sitting here thinking about everything that's going on, right? So oil, um, remember everything depends on energy. Okay. So you don't have goods are not going to move. Factories don't run. The economy don't function without energy, period. Okay. Yeah, and I have my thoughts on this too. Okay. Um, I have my thoughts on that too. But, um, oil is one of those things that has to exist in the real world. Okay. It has to be produced. It has to be shipped. It has to be insured and paid for. Where all of that works smoothly, nobody is gonna think about it. Prices is gonna move again. The contracts are gonna settle and the system is gonna almost feel invisible. It's just happening. But when access becomes conditional, like who can buy, who can ship, who can insure, who can settle, then oil starts to also behave differently. And that's how we can see the movements with oil. Now that's when energy stops being just another market and it starts acting like leverage. So here's that word leverage. And when energy starts acting like leverage, then currency behavior is going to start to change. So there's going to be a connection. Now it is a subtle change. It's not a dramatic change. Okay, much meaning money is going to still move, but it doesn't move as freely. And then certain transactions are going to slow down. Certain counterparties get more selective. Um, uh, certain routines become less attractive. You start seeing decisions made about— around— I always say this— reliability instead of efficiency. Efficiency doesn't matter when you need reliability, when there is a problem, when there is stress, when there is pressure, right? And then that's when you can have a currency that looks fine on paper and still uh, but still feel restrained underneath it, okay? Because currency only works smoothly when trade and energy are assumed to flow without interruption. So we're talking about an interruption. As soon as that assumption weakens, then money starts carrying these extra conditions, right? Bingo. Like, all my scenarios are going to end up the same way, all right? Because I know what it is, because I know what they've chosen, okay? I already know what they've chosen. It's already— I believe it's already there, you know what I'm saying? But certain things have to play out, okay? So there are, there, there are these assumptions that start to weaken, okay? Like I said, that money starts to carry these conditions, and then honestly, that's where we are. That's where we're at right now. All right, we are in that environment, and this is why events like Venezuela matter in context, not in an isolated situation, but as examples of what happens when access to energy and trade is no longer, no longer taken for granted. Okay, that's why these, these situations all kind of connect. Now, you don't need to, uh, you don't need every claim floating around social media, of course, to be true. There's a lot of claims going on around social media headlines, Twitter, whatever you want to call it, the news. Everybody got something to say about it. The signal is that enforcement is becoming more visible in places that's tied directly to resources. Are y'all noticing that? And when that happens, the markets don't wait for a clean narrative. They just start to adjust incrementally, like, like in little sections. Like they start to make their little small pivots. Wherever the pressure shows up. If pressure shows up here, there's a slight adjustment. If pressure shows up there, a little bit of adjustment. And what you're looking at right now is you're looking at these adjustments, okay? That's what you're looking at, right, is these incrementally adjustments that's being made when the pressure— a little stress here, a little stress there. And you're starting to see that right now. Why do certain digital assets matter in these environments, right? So if you put a lot of this together, and this is going to make sense for you, the pressure showing up in commodities, the tension between paper and physical energy starting to behave like leverage, the next question that naturally comes up is going to be how value actually moves when conditions are not ideal. Because at a certain point the conversation has to go from price to movement, right? When trade is smooth and the trust is high, it almost doesn't matter how money moves. Everything clears, they settle, they reconcile, um, without nobody thinking twice about it. Nobody cares. And again, that's the system doing what it's doing. It's invisible, it's just everything is flowing. But then when that pressure starts to come and build, that invisibility, it starts to go away, and you notice how many depend— dependencies are involved in moving value. That's when it starts to reveal itself. Things don't reveal itself when it's normal. Things reveal itself when there's pressure, when there's stress, when there's friction, when there's chaos, when things— when there's wars, when there's, you know, all of this stuff going on, you know, concerning leverage, leveraging assets, commodities and stuff. And you start to know, okay, how many dependencies are there? How many approvals are required? How many points can slow things down? Can this slow this down? Can this slow this down? It starts to reveal itself, and that's when certain tools start to stand out because they— hear me out, this is where it all comes together. This is the sentence that you need to understand. It's just simple. It's really simple. It comes down to this, the simplicity. All of this other stuff that seems dramatic and chaotic and, you know, like it came out the blue, all of it comes to this. What stands out is something that is going to reduce complexity when, when complexity becomes a problem. Okay, so when you say, oh well, what can this price go to? What's something that can reduce complexity when complexity becomes a problem? Are we gonna try to make complexity become a problem? Because the solution is already set in place. We gotta have a problem. A problem is going to be made, if you ask me. Okay? That's what I'm trying to say. So that's how I think about digital assets in this space and in this phase that we're in. We're in a phase. I don't look at it as a replacement for everything, but as ways of moving value when the usual path is going to bump into friction, a road bump in the middle of the road. It feels heavier. It feels like it can't go. There's friction, there's problems, there's a halt. Okay, so assets designed for that purpose don't need perfect conditions to be relevant. As a matter of fact, they're, they're not as relevant in perfect conditions. They exist because real systems don't always operate under ideal assumptions. Those assumptions are going to manifest. Okay, so when I look at something like XRP, I'm thinking about whether it fits the environment that we're actually in. Oh, that, that environment gonna be made, y'all. It's gonna be made. An environment where energy access matters, where trade carries conditions, where currency has to move across borders without renegotiation, right? Without trust every single time. Not everything happens at once, but things do tend to move in the same direction once the system starts adjusting. Kamilah Stevenson. That's what you gotta wait for. That's what you got to pay attention to. I'm not trying to predict what's going to happen next. I'm just trying to understand the environments that make it easier to stay grounded as, as we're watching things play out. And some people are not grounded. Why are they not grounded? Because they are looking at price. And like I always say, it is, you know, it's a normal thing. It's a psychological thing when you look at price to know, okay, what is, what is the value of something based off of price? Like if something is super cheap, you automatically, you know, in price, cheap in price, you automatically connect it with its value, right? You can't do that right now with XRP. It is undervalued and it's not meant for us, okay? So I just wanted to give you that, that, that point of reference that we are in a, a, like a collu— a collusion of like all of these different things that's happening. We got the commodities and all of this stuff going on. I'm telling you that things— the, the train is at the station, y'all. The rails have been laid. Like, we are waiting on the manifestation of certain events to take place, and they do. Something catastrophic has to take place. So, um, if you, if you um, are looking at XRP to go to a crazy price or whatever, just know it's not— it doesn't happen just without these events that are taking place, okay? It doesn't happen without a lot of things happening at once, you know what I'm saying? Like emergency-based stuff, okay? So, uh, all we— we just watch. We watch, we learn, we— we grow, we get educated, we— we pay attention, okay? Why is silver— silver's trading for at this price here, and then it's trading at this price over here, and then trading— oh, okay, what's going on with the, the oil and the leverage? And I mean, you got all of these political tensions, geopolitical problems. So I'm just telling you that there needs to be a reason, but I believe they gonna make a reason because the solution to me, I believe, came before the problem. But the problem now has to be created to make it a necessity, like we needed it, we, we needed it. Look, look what done happened. Oh my goodness, y'all get what I'm saying? So anyway, uh, I'm just looking through the chats right now. I appreciate all of you guys, uh, rocking with me. And like I said, I'm, I'm just, I'm just sharing with you Uh, I'm just sharing with you the way I look at this, and I'm just following— I'm just following things the same way you guys are. Uh, I know what the problem is. Let us know what the problem is. Did I miss something? Uh, well, I'm always missing something. I'm just giving you the piece of the puzzle that I have, but I'm sure a lot of you guys have them all. So HBAR being with IBM is enough. I love that. That's the switch. Yeah, I mean, you got all of these things that, um, I've been buying the dips. You know what I mean? Any new stocks that caught your eye? Um, a few of them have, but right now I haven't. I'm waiting on a crash. I'm just gonna be honest, I'm waiting on a crash for the stock market. So what I've done, uh, and this is from this question, so I can— so you guys can see, um, what is XRP at right now? I just got a notification. Let me see. Um, the thing right now, I took a lot of profit Um, I took a lot of profits at the end of the year, and I am sitting on a lot of cash because— and I made good profit. Now, these are not my long-term portfolio. This is like, you know, once I get to a certain amount, you know, I, I took a little— I took a little profit because I was like up hundreds of percent on some of my— thank you so much. Um, crisis will be manufactured to usher in the new. There it is. That's, you know, that's how it goes. And that, that's why I keep saying, by the time y'all catch up, you, you gotta, you gotta catch these little signs and these little clues that's happening, right? By the time the piece is put together in front of your face on headline news and stuff, it's gonna— those pieces have already been put in place and things are, are already— you're they're already where they need to be. You're kind of on the, on the late side of things, you know what I mean? So you kind of gotta put the pieces of the puzzle together yourself, right? And just know that it is what it is. They, they want, they want these things to, to move forward. They want things to happen. It's— I think it's been planned way longer than what y'all can ever realize, okay? I, I really do. And, uh, okay, I see you, Miss Moneybags, see you, Miss. Oh, uh, aluminum is at $3,094. Just putting some of these up here. I've been waiting on the stock, right? So I, I'm, I took a lot of profit. Like I said, I wanted, I wanted to have cash in case of some— and I'm not saying that after a crash that it won't recover. I'm just saying I'm, I'm waiting on kind of like a crash. Now I could be wrong in that and waiting on a crash, but I, I wanted to have money. Ready for my next big move. Why? Because I made a really, really big move back in April when we had the crash, right? So I did good, you know what I mean? Now I'm waiting on the next opportunity. Now I have not done anything with my longs, okay? I still got my longs in place. I'm still, you know, I'm still long. I'm, you know, Google and I'm long, you know, 10 years out, whatever that looks like. I got my VTI and You know, so QQQs, I got those. I got a lot of ETFs, let's just say that. Uh, SCHG, SCHD, I even got Bitcoin ETFs. Um, VOO, I got a lot of ETFs. All right, so I'm long on those, and I'm— and even some of the, like, my Apples, I, I got those so long ago. Like, if you just hold some of those, and when they pull back, add to your position, you'll be good when you're looking long. I got those so long ago. I, I mean, they would have— stock market would have to like completely go to zero for me to like lose money. Like, I'm up, I'm up a lot on those, okay? Like, they're not going anywhere. But, um, also I did have some stop limits, uh, some stop losses on some of my stock as well. Again, not my long-term holds or my ETFs and stuff like that, but even in your Roth IRA, you can take profits, sit on cash, and wait for your next opportunity. Like, there's always an opportunity that comes., and I like to be liquid for that. I also, I would like you guys to know that I also have limit orders in case there's a crash in crypto. I still have my limit orders there, and I'm not, you know, sometimes when it starts to move, you're like, okay, it ain't gonna hit this limit order. I keep them right there. You know why? Because after October 10th, I learned my lesson. I was scrambling trying to get those orders in, and I just, I, I didn't know that we would have an 80, that I think SUI fell 80%. Like, who would have known that these cryptocurrencies would just, just tank like that? So I learned my lesson then. And let me just tell you something, black swans— black swan events, they come. And just like I'm telling you guys, things are planned. The black swan events that you don't think are planned, that they just happen They are planned. Nothing I say is financial advice. These are just my guesses. I'm just some person on the internet just making my own conclusions. Don't follow my advice. I'm not telling you what to buy, hold, or sell, or do anything. But I believe these black swan events are planned. And guess what? The whole idea is they come out of nowhere. So I learned my lesson. I always have limit orders. It's gonna be what it's gonna be, and we gonna see about it. I got— I've been telling you guys for months, for a very long time, and I'm gonna say it again, I'm gonna keep saying it. I got XLM limit orders at 11 cents. Come and pick me up, XLM. 11 cents. I think I got some, maybe a couple at 12 cents, but I got them at 11 cents. So I'm just saying. We gonna see what is— we gonna see, we gonna see. All right, um, all right, just looking out. So the whales shook out a lot of retailers, then loaded up the boat. I ain't even gonna get into that because I'm gonna get into that next time. You guys have no idea how much XRP is being bought up. It's crazy. And how Y'all, y'all probably not following this stuff. The ETFs for the month of December that got bought up, you guys are not paying attention. It's crazy, the amount. Matter of fact, I saw an amount today within like an hour. I want to say it, don't quote me, but it might have been like $17 million in one hour. Um, I wrote it down. I just, I just would have to go back to it, but I keep track of this stuff. I'm like, man, Um, if you guys got the numbers, let me, let me know. Somebody said 1.4 billion. Um, they are, they are loading up the boat. When I tell you they loading up, y'all, they loading up. What's up from the UK? Yes, they are loading up. And you just gotta look at the behind. They not gonna tell y'all this stuff. You gotta, you know, things be seeming quiet, like, oh, ain't no— oh yes, oh yes, baby. They keep going up and up and up. Yep, yep, yep, been going up. So anyways, um, right now, uh, and like I said, I'm gonna go on with my members. If you aren't a member yet, there's a lot of videos that have been pre-recorded, uh, from the last live sessions that are amazing that you'll get tons of information from. So if you're not a member yet, you know, join us because we're gonna go on and we're gonna talk about this. I'm gonna give some updates on what I'm going to be loading up and what my plan is around that.. And then also remember, you know, Stock Up University. I don't know if he stopped the sale yet, but check the link in the description. It is an amazing university that's going to help you to understand macro events. It's going to make you become a brilliant investor because at the, at the core of all of this, you got to know what you're looking for. You can't just stay on top, you know, you, you like, you like the— if you just look at price movement and you guys, technical analysis is great when you're doing, trading and stuff. But when you're— technical analysis cannot stop, or it doesn't give you the full picture of my macro events. Will wipe technical analysis completely out. Okay, let me just say that. So you gotta— you, you really do have to know what's happening, um, across the scene. Hey, what's up William? What's going on? Thank you so much, I appreciate you. You are always so kind. Yeah, we already talked about silver, um if you listen through, and, uh, the phrase 'worth your weight in gold' exists for a reason. And I'm not selling my silver. A lot of people will be selling their silver. I look at commodities very differently, everyone. I'm just different when it comes to that. But no shade, you can't go wrong by, you know, taking profit off of stuff. I take profit, I'll take profit for certain reasons. Um, I have a lot of money invested in, uh, some of this, uh, these, uh, crypto coins, and I'll be taking some profit as well. So, uh, there's no supply shock when there's $13 billion in exchanges. Yeah, I mean, they're, they're— what would happen is that there would have to be a reason why all of a sudden they had to get to the exchanges, uh, because there was no— there's no more available on OTC or the dark pools. So there would have to be an event that would take place that would have to now move people to the exchanges to take all of, uh, obviously the XRP off the exchanges. And remember, these ETFs for XRP, um, they are spot ETFs, meaning that these companies have to hold actual XRP. Okay, so that gets, uh, they get taken off, uh, of the market, uh, of— I talked about this in detail. It's not like they disappear or anything, but they're not going to be free to be circulating um, through the ETFs as well. So I'm talking, Nicole, I'm just sharing, I'm just sharing, guys. Uh, but there will be signs, follow the signs. And like I said, I am going to, uh, I'm going to jump on with my members. Uh, where do we, where do we get the— well, I, you know, that's what, you know, I try to do my research and bring the information because I get it, like a lot of people have jobs, they're not able to look and find out what's going on with the news and, you know, try to keep up with everything. So honestly, I just try to give you the best that I got. I don't always have the— I'm getting it daily and I'm giving it to you daily and I'm giving it to you in bite sizes. And don't forget, even though I'm on here on live, my, my— I try to aim my pre-recorded videos to really get straight to the point and give you the information and the education you need. So make sure you following my, my videos because like even tomorrow I'll drop a video that'll rehash kind of this understanding, but in a very different way so that you can get it very differently. And I really try to speak a language where I can speak to people of different understandings in the financial infrastructure. Some people don't understand digital assets and everything. And, uh, I had a— I had an event with my mom last night, and, uh, the different generations got together, like the baby boomers and, you know, Gen X, all of these different generations. And we talked about stuff like this, about finances and how that generation views it differently from our generation, from my daughter's generation. And it was a tremendous conversation that we had. But it was so funny because one of my aunts was like, she— years ago she went to like a Bitcoin conference and they said something like, yeah, if you don't send your Bitcoin to the right address, it vanishes away. And she said she got up, she was in the middle of like— this was years ago where they were trying to explain what Bitcoin was. And she said she literally got up in the middle of the session and then put her little hand up like she was walking through the church and left up out of there because she was so afraid. I say that to say people are still afraid of cryptocurrency and digital assets. They are— there are not as many investors as you really think, right? I'll take that, I'll take that. I'm in my 20s, right? No, far from it. Now I got teenagers. But, um, that they— yeah, it's not a lot of people. You— and the majority of people are invested in like ETH and Bitcoin, okay? If you go now down to XRP, I mean, a, a one little drop of sand and on a whole ocean. It's not that many people, all right? Yes, I do have a twin sister. I do. I do have a twin sister. All right, um, I don't know if you asked that on, on, um, purpose or if he was being funny, but I do have a twin, or if you were really asking that. So, but I do have a twin sister, uh, and that's something that a lot of people don't know. All right, uh, we're not identical, we're fraternal, but I do have a twin sister. All right, and I love her, and she actually called me today and I need to call her back. All right, um, so also, uh, last thing before I head out, uh, because again, I will be with my members. So if you're not a member and all— everything is recorded, so you'll get access to it, but we went over a lot of stuff already. Um, also remember our, uh, the coaching program that is being transitioned as we speak. I have a team transitioning everything, and once the— I'm trying to keep it at the same price until we, uh, transition everything. But once we do that, and I'm hoping to do it, uh, this, this week as a matter of fact, um, once we do that, things will change. The price will change. Um, we are tightening focus, we're simplifying everything, we're making sure that we're building exact exactly what's matching the environment that we're in, that we're heading into. Uh, also, I also will be dropping my one-on-one calendar. Uh, I was kind of loaded up, so I didn't have any openings available, but I will have some more openings available this year to be able to work with you. So got some new stuff coming, but everything— if you want any information about that, the link is in the description. Make sure y'all hit that thumbs up, because if I got like 1,000 people on here, I gotta have 1,000 thumbs up. So if y'all could just do me that one favor hit that thumbs up for me. I really, really, really appreciate it, and I appreciate you guys. And I'll be back on, on Wednesday, but I will be dropping a video tomorrow, so look out for that. And as always, I want you to stay wise, stay wealthy, and I'll see you in the next one. Give me 5 minutes for my members, by the way. Peace out.