My Portfolio is Full of Golden Bananas

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.

Why am I looking at a Golden Banana?

Let me tell you a story about my journey into the stock market and what I found so far. First and foremost, my advice, every word of this article, my research and sharing is opinion only.

I started this newsletter to educate on my experiences around money. I come from very humble beginnings and over time, I developed skills and knowledge in the things that were avoiding me. One of them was money. I seemed to always give it to others but it was never coming back to me. I pushed my business to the bring of folding more than once. Yet I persevered and kept going.

I knew my goal was to help veterans and others find ways to transition as they left the service. For four years, I traveled the country speaking about the habits, steps and pushed to get grants, money and support but everything fell flat. It was not only frustrating, but some relationships with others had to be ended. As I look back on that, it was for the better. If they never really supported me anyway, why stay.

So what does that have to do with a Golden Banana? Everything! It to me is a symbol of my future because it is my ticket. Without the push behind the change, nothing would have ever happened. I pushed for fairness, for equality in the markets and for justice for the little guy. That always meets with resistance. It is clear to me now that when you do that, you are going against the grain. Is that ever easy. Absolutely not.

I got into the stock market just as Covid 19 had hit the world. The stock market had dumped in a big way. I saw it as an entry point much like what I see right now. (Not Financial Advice). I bought into the sectors I felt would thrive going forward. I bought and sold much too often at first and learned the hard lessons quickly. I stayed away from options or margin accounts. I use what I learned to what is called (stockpiling). Basically, it is just buying and holding stock. Not day trading and not jumping in and out scalping on the highs and the lows.

I also sat in hundreds of hours of financial talk about investments, how market makers use our money and how short selling is a thing. I also invested in companies that short sellers were shorting. These to me are plays that if they turn around, they stand to gain in big ways. Without getting into the details, just know that this education in paying attention has paid off.

Even my broker who advised against my picks early on is real quiet now compared to the percentages of the growth they have created. Yes, sometimes it pays to go against the grain but you have to have strong conviction to do so. The big companies come at you with bots, shills and try to create negative sentiment to get you to sell your positions.

You learn by doing and you consult with those who have gone before you. Never underestimate the power of compounding in a specific area of stocks. Right now, I see a number of opportunities going forward when the markets are down and I plan to keep my eye on certain industries. So without getting into my specific choices for equities, I have no problem telling you what I like. I like tech, energy, some commodities, dividend stocks, a few speculation stocks, and I even like some cryptocurrencies.

Cryptocurrencies are not regulated to the level of comfort I am used to just yet but they still have made me money. Learning about them have helped me even as a board member of a non-profit to accept it for our worldwide projects. I dive in and learn more and more about acquiring, moving, protecting, converting and stay on the cutting edge of what is working and what is not. I have learned to stay away from the fear and doubt generators who seem to be on full time duty to remove you from your money.

One thing for sure, it takes a stomach of steel to hold on when things "look" like they are not turning out like you thought. That is where mental fortitude comes in. In the words of Warren Buffet, "Patient Money Makes Money". Hold on to your bananas. They are more valuable than you may think. When you realize that you no longer buy into the garbage they preach online about getting out today, the future looks much brighter. The brokers of gloom and doom are many but seasoned investors chuckle at them and sit tight.

I own stock in gold, silver, movie theatres, EV's, and more and every stock is a golden banana to me. Price and value are two different things. The price today may never be close to the value of what you own. That is why my opinions are to hold my positions because world events change, political landscapes change, billionaires buy into the stocks you like, and my money would never work sitting in a bank collecting almost zero interest. I do not believe for a second that banks have your best interest at heart.

Build you a bunch and hand on to them. Do it slow and over time and before you know it, you have bunches. It only takes one big trade to change a life or lives of those around you. I do not like the way market makers and hedge funds operate, but eventually, they will loose enough to realize that guys and gals like me and you just want fair and equitable chances to grow just as big money does. The difference is up to now, I have seen the cheating and the payoffs to agencies who are supposed to be protecting us. There is a difference between a conspiracy theory and truth proven by facts. That is for you to decide.

If you really are not sure, take a look at failure to delivers, the use of dark pool trading using algorithmic means to ladder down a stock price and short selling agencies paying freelancers to write articles that tell half truths and focus on the negative or embellish to try and get people to sell out of the positions that they are shorting.

I have got quite an education on who and how and it is really sickening but it does not deter me from buying the equities I like. I am not going to name names about who and how they do it and I am not also going to say "trust me bro". Do your own research on the policies they are trying to get changed to hide their activities. It become glaringly obvious and mostly because they have overleveraged themselves with the flush of money that has been pumped into the markets in the last 18 months.

I am happy and content holding on to every banana until the day comes that real truth comes out. If you have seen the crooked in the past do what they do in the markets, you do not have to look far to see some of it still today. Be careful out there. They want your bananas. I have heard others say you cannot lose money if you don't sell in a down market. I tend to agree.

If you know what stock my golden banana represents, then your ahead of the game. You cant have mine, but you can get your own but that is your own decision.

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To Your Success,

Mark Green