What's up guys. So something amazing just happened this week. I exited three of my positions within my portfolio and the total profits is $73,000. So in this video, I want to dive deep into what kind of trades I made, which stock I invested. How did I make $73,000? And what is that in terms of return? And we're going to go through it one by one. So then you have a good understanding of how to do it. And I'll also include three tips when it comes to investing into stock market. So let's get started.

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So the first doc we got here is actually C a E. It is a Canadian company. You can buy it in both us and Canada. And I purchased it after the Corona virus market crash. And you can see my exits trade right here. And during that time, you know, airline was not very popular. A lot of people don't believe that airline can recover so on and so forth. So what happened? It took a while, but then eventually the market has formed a bottom. And what's important when it comes to CAE is that I invest when it is not popular. You know, I like to invest in stock star, not popular is not momentum driven stock. Instead I focused on discounts. I focus on buying stocks, start at a deep discount. So at the bottom, you're going to see the calculation I got for CAE. My entry price is $14.92.

Now I invested in the U S version of the stock. So this is in USD. So you can go back to the charts and see where I invested. It's around May, 2020. So the price is fairly okay down in terms of capital. I put in $42,522. So that's approximately 2,800 shares or so, and afterwards I just held onto it because I understand CAE. I understand the business model. It provides trainings to pilots, and it's kind of like a software as a subscription, except for airlines, and understand how the contract works so on and so forth. So when you think about it, having such an in depth understanding of the stock, you're going to invest in is going to give you a competitive advantage and you can see it in this case. So I held on to CAE for approximately six months and below, you're going to see the profits and it is 44% across six months.

And I took profits earlier this week and the price is $21.50. And the market value is $61,000. So this is a gain of $18,753. So not that for six months of waiting. Now, you got to note that I didn't say six months of work because actually didn't do anything. I just invested in companies that are great at a discount with proper research and, uh, held onto it for six months. That's what passive investing or semi-passive investing is all about. And if you are looking to invest in discount to stocks, then here is tip number one. You want to invest in companies that are not popular at the moment. So when you invest right, you want to be looking for a discount. And if everyone is looking in the same area, you're not going to find discounts. You need to go to where people are not looking, then you're going to find discounted opportunities.

So in terms of the charts, if you're familiar with the charts, or if you have taking the free chart course I offer below. Then you may be familiar with the indicators I'm using. Now, in this case, you'll see that near the bottom of the charts, I have a couple of green lines and that is Ashley, the price I entered, and it will actually match back to the previous image. I show you where I enter into the stock. And right now the price you see, the latest price is the price I exited and that's approximately $28. Uh, so not that I still have some position for CAE, so it's not a full week sit yet. And I got to say, I'm pretty happy with six months of return. Now, the question is, is CA you're going to go up. Well, probably it's a great company, but am I happy if the return?

Yeah, totally. I'm happy if the return and that's, what's important now I'm sitting in cash and I'm just waiting for the next opportunity. So onto the next dock, which is chef warehouse. So for this stock, I actually entered around me as well after the Corona virus crash. And chef warehouse is kind of like a delivery network for restaurants in us. Um, and it's actually a stock pick that came out of investing accelerator. So that's pretty amazing. Thank you for the team. And when I was investing in this stock, I actually wasn't familiar with this company initially until I start doing research over it, understand the business model, understand what everyone is doing and how the market is looking at this stock and how it is being impacted. And after a careful assessment, I determined that, well, it's actually a good buy. And I got in at approximately $12 during that time I put in around $54,000 into the stock.

So it's quite a sizeable amount. And I held it for approximately six months. So in terms of shares, that's 4,500 shares. And for this doc, the recovery is actually faster than I expected. And it jumped up shortly after the election was over. And my gain as of last week was around 75% to 71%, depending on which transaction you're looking at. So the net return on chef warehouse is actually 74%. And you can see down below now when it comes to the value of the stock, it grew from $54,000, which is the capital I put in to $94,000, $970. So that is quite a significant gain. That is also for six months of waiting. And during this time I didn't really do much. I track the stock. And I guess there are times where I was a little bit worried because you know, it wasn't going up as fast as I wanted.

And I also took a quick profits for a part of the position because it went up and I knew that it was going to hit some sort of resistance. So that took some profit there and reinvested that capital somewhere else. But for this stock, it follows the same tip, as I mentioned earlier, is that you want to look at what is unpopular. And from this investment, I made $40,000 in profit. So that is pretty good. So tip number two, you really want to understand the strength of the business model. Now, when you're looking at a lot of restaurant stocks during the COVID time, it would go down a lot and chef warehouse is one of them, but you will also see some restaurant stocks, for example, like QSR, which is a fast food restaurant chain will bounce back quite quickly for a chef warehouse. It didn't bounce back that quickly, but then I knew that it is able to survive per se, and then still deliver value within its network to the restaurants, so on and so forth.

So even though people don't notice it yet, I knew chef warehouse is going to be fine. And when you're analyzing chef warehouses financial statements, you'll realize that management is actually very conservative. They actually have a lot of cash on hand. Their business itself is very healthy. There might be a slight dip in terms of the revenue or profit in the short term, but overall, you know, that management is making rational logical decisions to preserve the business as much as possible. So that's where I have confidence in them. And once you know how to do fundamental analysis in a fairly short amount of time, like 20 minutes or so then you will have that confidence too, because you know exactly what you're looking for. So this is the charts for chef warehouse. And in this case, you can see that I entered near the bottom somewhere between $12 to $15, depending on which position you're looking at.

Uh, I averaged up a little bit in this case. So the overall profit is still $40,000 in a moment that jumped up after the election. I was very happy with the return of 74% or so. So I just exited and I'm sitting in cash at the moment to wait for the next opportunity. Now, the third and the final investment, it's a bit ridiculous is American express. Now for this investment's Ashley got in early November at that time, the Q3 results with just announced and for some odd reason, the market panicked and starts selling American express, which I know it's a great company. And at that time I was actually looking at visa, MasterCard and American expresses at the same time. And I was doing a side-by-side comparison from financials to business, to the charts, to all the analysis that I teach and investing celebrator after doing a very thorough analysis across all three companies, I realized that American express is actually undervalued compared to MasterCard and faeza.

And when you look at the financial results, the recovery from COVID American express is actually recovering faster than the other two companies, whether you're looking at the earnings presentation, whether you're looking at the financials, but for some odd reason, when you look at the charts, it doesn't really add up. So that is another signal of an opportunity. And you'll learn how to do that too. Once you figure out how to read financial statements and all the other analysis put together. So during that time, when the market is shorting American express, I got it. And for American express, I used stock options. So I'm not going to go into the detail of the stock options here, but as around $25 for the option, if you don't know what an option is, don't worry, it's kind of an advanced topic is kind of complicated, but just treat it as a profit multiplier.

And I invested that before the election happened. Uh, so the market was still a little bit, you know, scared or worried, and the market was going down. So that's how I'm able to pick it up at a discount. And I was planning to hold it for 12 to 24 months as surprisingly within one week, it jumped up from $25 to $42.50 overnight, and it was surprising. And then after analyzing the situation, the risk and reward, I decided that, wow, you know, what are the odd stats? You can make $42.50 from $25 in one week. So I took the profits and that is a return of 70% in one week. So now for this position, I'm sitting back on cash again and waiting for the next opportunity to happen. So that's a brief summary of my most recent three investments. I'm a long-term investor. So right now I'm actually having quite a healthy amount of cash. Uh, so then when the next opportunity comes along, I can invest in it. So I'll keep you posted the next time I exit

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