what happens if you invest 100 000 into
a tiny penny stock and then publish
videos on social media talking about set
investment and how much you like the
stock i like the stock will it skyrocket
a thousand percent making us millions or
will nothing happen at all
i will admit although very hype i am
slightly nervous about this video but
first stocks why do they move why do
they go up or down well it's kind of
like an auction system based on supply
and demand there's a lot of people who
want to buy up a stock the price will
start going up since there's a limited
amount of shares on the market so to
compete with each other buyers need to
bid higher so the stock price goes up
now on the other hand when holders of
the stock all want to sell off the price
goes down right since they also compete
with each other and want to get rid of
their shares and this all kind of gets
automated so the final result we see is
basically just a pointy line on the
screen showing us the average of these
transactions but what determines whether
people want to start buying or selling a
stock information we're talking news
articles stories earning reports press
releases court filings social media
so there's some information out there
that hypes up a lot of people to buy up
a particular stock the supply and demand
scale will tip causing more demand than
supply making the price of a stock move
up now hypothetically what if you bought
into a stock and then just told everyone
how much you like the stock those people
may or may not buy into it but if they
do it would cost the stock price to move
up and well now the shares that you
initially bought could be worth much
more money i wanna carefully explore
this concept so we're gonna break this
video down into four parts part one we
gotta figure out the legalities of doing
something like this because i'm kind of
nervous about it and i don't wanna go to
jail part two we figured out the right
stock to invest one hundred thousand 000
into part three i make some content
talking about the stock that i like and
i'm invested into part four we see what
happens
okay legalities if we search up pump and
up on google which is like the most
common type of thing you hear in regards
to penny stocks and small market cap
publicly traded companies and this whole
world so if we search that on google and
then go on this official government
investing website here's what it says in
regards to pump and dub schemes in a
pump and dump scheme fraudsters
typically spread false or misleading
information to create a buying frenzy
that will pump up the price of a stock
and then dump shares of the stock by
selling their own shares at the inflated
price so that's not what we're gonna be
doing in this video i will not spread
false or misleading information and i
don't plan on dumping my position so
with that out of the way i'm still
slightly hesitant on this experiment so
i reached out to a lawyer that i've
previously used for
you know what not applicable to this
video his name is ian corzine and he
actually specializes in social media law
and cases and has a great youtube
channel that i'll be sure to link in the
description below but given that this
experiment will involve social media and
we've talked in the past i felt that it
would be appropriate to reach out to him
about this so i called him up and he
actually offered to make a video
response for us so here's the exact
question i asked ian would it be illegal
for me to create and post a video online
in which i talk about a particular stock
that i like and hold in the video there
be no false information and i disclose
the fact that i hold the stock and
here's what he had to say about that
the answer vlad to your question is
absolutely not it's not illegal for you
to talk about a particular shock or
multiple stocks it isn't illegal for you
to talk about the fact that you're
holding a stock and finally it's not
against the law for you to give
predictions to your audience about the
future of the stock for instance it may
increase in value it could decrease in
value that's totally okay under the law
you know where you get into problems is
when you give investment advice now
investment advice is when you
recommend a particular stock to your
audience and tell them they should
invest in that that's giving advice
about financial matters and you have to
be licensed to do that but otherwise
what you were talking about is just
talking about stock giving your
predictions about a stock that's totally
okay under the law whoa my man ian thank
you so much once again i wasn't even
planning on including future predictions
in the video that i was gonna make about
my investment but apparently it's
completely legal so we might have to tap
in with that other than that you heard
the man not illegal as long as i don't
give financial advice which i never do
i'm not a financial advisor and i never
claimed to be
now to find the right penny stock for
this experiment i do want to actually do
some research and find a decent company
not just invest into the smallest market
cap company on robinhood to start off my
research i'm going to go on a website
called finviz.com which you can use to
filter through publicly traded companies
there's a bunch of really cool filters
on here that you can use to find certain
types of companies so for me i'm gonna
start off by turning on the exchange
filter to nasdaq to make sure the stocks
are not over the counter and are
tradable on robinhood for market cap i'm
putting micro so very small companies
under 300 million cap that should give
us mainly penny stocks daily trading
volume on setting to over 5 million
which means there's been at least 5
million dollars worth of shares
exchanged today then relative volume i'm
gonna set to under one which means that
today's trading volume wasn't an outlier
and that this stock didn't just have one
good day of volume but that has a fairly
consistent 5 million daily trading
volume and then last filter i only want
to do u.s companies so these parameters
today are giving us five results two of
them aren't penny stocks so i'll look
through the three companies that are and
i'll be back soon with which one i
believe has the most potential and is
the best for this experiment
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okay it's been a few days the three
companies we narrowed down to previously
they were all pharmaceutical biotech
type stuff so honestly i just i just
couldn't do it i couldn't really get
behind any of them and on top of that
some of them were roney rona related so
i don't want to get into all that and
have the algorithms potentially limit my
reach when i post my videos so i just
ran the scanner with similar but
slightly tweaked parameters today and
one of the results happened to be a
restaurant called muscle maker grill
which sounded super familiar and turns
out i've actually eaten there before
when i was in north carolina for a
sneaky business trip a few months back
and i really like the place the whole
concept is that it's fast food but it's
healthy has good macros and it tasted
good i honestly wish there was a
location in my area i go to chipotle to
get the same kind of vibe but it gets
tiring eating there every day whereas
this restaurant has a variety of healthy
options on their menu
i like the stock i like the company
we're buying in
okay so now that we have the stock let's
go ahead and invest 100 grand into it by
the way this is also gonna be on margin
so crazy risky stuff here okay slight
change of plans robin hood was giving me
like over 100 grand of margin
but for this particular stock i'm only i
guess allowed to 60 000 and i don't want
to deposit any new money into this
account because i'm trying to grow it
for my initial investment so we're gonna
have to unfortunately do this with 60
grand instead i mean that's that's still
a lot of money anyways current price is
at a dollar four cents 60 grand
swipe up whoa you guys got to check this
out my full order didn't even fulfill
yet only about 4 000 of it did but look
how the stock just skyrocketed there's
no way this could be a coincidence right
did
did buy buy order really was that enough
to move it like this okay but this does
present a new issue because now that the
price is higher my original order won't
fulfill so should i just buy up the full
position in small orders i think i'm
gonna try that
wow this is crazy anyways now it's time
for me to make a video about this
investment about the stock and company
that i personally like
and here's the thing i don't know if my
limited amount of exposure will at all
move the needle with this stock price
but if my non-accredited analysis
somehow does move it i'm not gonna dump
my position i'm not selling out of it
probably at least until this video comes
out but even then i might still hold it
for longer that said i'm going to try to
film something with a little viral
potential right now and i'll play it as
the next clip and post it tomorrow
september 29th boom i'm investing 50 000
into this penny stock hear me out it's a
small but growing fast food chain that's
focused on making healthy food they went
public as of last year and just as of
last month they posted a 228
revenue increase in their second quarter
filing this is mainly due to recent
acquisitions they've made but also just
from them improving their stores but the
fact that they're getting into new
acquisitions to me shows that they're
focused on growing i mean they're even
now working on accepting bitcoin as a
form of payment at least to me this
company seems to be very focused on
growth and their future the stock ticker
is gril company name is muscle maker but
this isn't financial advice the company
could come crashing down or it's
possible for this to be a unicorn 100x
investment opportunity and that's why
okay i posted the tick tock earlier
today around 10 30 a.m and it already
actually got some decent views
unfortunately though the whole market
has slightly been in the red over this
whole last week so our stock also opened
up in the red today but at market close
the tick tock was sitting at just under
100 000 views which i'm pretty happy
with and the stock price i mean there's
no way to know if my analysis had any
effect on the price for sure but if we
look at the graph here's where the video
went up and the views did start ramping
up towards market close so i don't know
was my analysis the reason behind this
sharp pointy stock line going up
i don't know we're not done yet though
this is like a midway update i want to
see what's going to happen if this
tic-tac gets even more traction
overnight will it create buying pressure
in the morning and will we see a spike
at market open that's going to be really
interesting to see but we'll find out
tomorrow morning i'll see you guys then
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guys wow do we have an update it's been
an eventful evening and morning
yesterday after posting the tick tock it
actually got taken down at around 100
000 views they don't want to see a seat
whatever nothing new no big deal you
already knew that i came in there though
appealed it beat the case freebie treezy
not sure if that had a negative impact
on the algorithm or whatnot but even
after getting taken down then getting
put back up the video got another 100
000 views so this morning before market
open it was sitting at a little over 200
000 views in the first 24 hours market
opens everything is red like i said
things have been looking rough for the
market over the last week i'll put up a
graph of the snp today maybe one of
those square stock maps so you can see
the full vision but you know what wasn't
red grill stock baby this morning this
stock was up by around 15
the value of this publicly traded
company basically rose 15 overnight
that's insane doesn't really happen
often and the trading volume is double
of its average today i'll put up a
picture of where i bought in and when
the tick tock was released compared to
the stock price
and it's an interesting graph to look at
now it would be a severe logical fallacy
to think correlation equals causation
i'm not taking responsibility for this
but
me releasing my analysis on this company
may have had an effect on its evaluation
which is absolutely nuts also to be
clear i'm not selling my position a
synonym phrase that can be used for this
is i'm not dumping my position even
though i'm up like thousands of dollars
i'm not selling anything until this
video is up or until i maybe even make a
tick tock about all of this or maybe
i'll even hold the company because i
actually like the stock craziest part of
all of this though is i only posted one
tick tock imagine if i also uploaded the
same video to youtube shorts a full
length youtube video put up some
instagram stories wrote up some tweets
i mean who knows what would happen i
think this video truly illustrates the
importance of doing your own research
and not blindly following stuff you hear
about online like a lot of us including
myself do we're living in a crazy time
gotta think for yourself don't blindly
follow anything you see online this was
a crazy experiment hope you guys enjoyed
this video please subscribe and have an
amazing rest of your day
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