"YOU CAN’T TRADE STOCKS IF YOU’RE SCARED — GROW SOME BALLS!"

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3:27What's the trading tip of the week? For my futures traders, I want to be very honest and say, I want you guys to have less fear and more kahunas. The thing I do love about the options market is that people who just started options trading, they're like eight contracts and they're going to hold. Meanwhile, futures traders play it too small. So a target that I love is 33 contracts go for 42 ticks on the S &P 500. that's a little bit over 10 points that should put you like over 17 grand per trade and if you get two or three of those in a month you'll be a-okay but the lesson for this week you have to learn when to put on size you can't play the one to four contract game forever because you're going to miss your window of actually making real money that can change your life that you can then put into the market or buy an amazing property like Rashad did on a discount you have to have enough cash flow to be able to do so so 33 contracts is the target i love go for 42 ticks you'll be at 17 and some change per trade do that three times a month and you'll be okay but have some balls to trade have some cool i'm with you you do uh i'm all about the mitigated risk but yeah having two contracts go to a thousand percent sucks when you could have had like five right it just yeah you gotta have the capital i just want to add to this because i've been i've been having conversations with people, especially since the last options class, about emotional intelligence.

4:54I feel like that's overworldly. The theme that has just been coming back into my conversations is the emotional intelligence. In life, that's necessary, right? To navigate through the world, to navigate through relationships, to navigate through business. You need to have... What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, You're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.

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6:46I am Matt. And I'm Joel. We are from the How to Money podcast, and every week we help you to spend smarter, save more, and make sense of what's going on out there. If you want 2026 to be the year you finally feel in control of your money, we're here to give you the tools and advice to help you make it happen. Listen to How to Money on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up, y 'all? Well this is Questlove. Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with A$AP Rocky ahead of his album release, Don't Be Dumb. He reflects on his journey from his Harlem roots to global icon status, discovering the hip-hop origin of his name.

7:22The ledge was on the TV. Rakim had the bucket hat Kangol join on. Pops was like, that's Rakim, that's who you named after. I just was like, damn, that got swag. Rocky offers a window into not only a boundary-breaking artist, but as a man committed to fusing creative ideas, community, and remaining unapologetically himself. Have you ever gotten roasted for any of your outfits? For sure. Some people don't be getting the vision. Look, they can roast me, they can cook me, they can deep-fry me, they can saute, whatever they want. It's nobody who can f*** with my fashion sense and my taste is impeccable.

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8:16This season on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, we've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani. Let's start with your cat. How is she? She is not with us anymore. Okay, great, great, great way to start. So this is a great beginning and hopefully you'll be able to, I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seyfried. Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you have that fire in you for this experience. It's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love and like it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olsen. I love swimming naked so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself naked.

8:53Yes, I love to be naked. I just want to be in my bra and underwear all the time. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or a girl? Oh my God. All the time. That's so funny. I know. So I'm always like, hi. I try to butch it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like Doris Day. No, I turn into Bea Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I have it. Invest in it. It's also needed, right? So when we see, when we have volatility like we did two weeks ago, how are you reacting to that?

9:31How do you feel when you see your account go down? It draws down because the entire stock market went down. Are you moving? Are you budging? Are you selling? A lot of people, some people, I shouldn't say a lot, some people will sell. Some people will say, oh, we've been here before. Some people, this is their first time. And they're like, hey, there's no way to start my investing journey. But this is why we always talk about long term. this is always why we talk about buy time because when you buy time you're buying into it the volatility of the market you can't control that we had this conversation the other day i'm like we made an investment i'm like look we got time we got we got some time on our hands it's a strong company we gotta really believe in the company believe in the research it's like have emotional discipline but when you do your research have conviction in it trust what you what you did trust what you did and even if right it there's a drawdown or it hits that threshold remember you had your plan right if it was 20 30 40 i know some people 50 all right well get back and there'll be another opportunity if you believe in that kind of if you trust the research that you've done have conviction but have the emotional intelligence to say you know what i understand what this feels like because the day that you run up 60 you should feel the same exact way it happened yep yeah right it should be even keeled have your seatbelt on trust the research trust what you're doing and just be patient and on the future side like 33 contracts for nasdaq is 33 000 es the 16 500 i'm not saying it's a small chunk of change but i know some people who are doing a hundred thousand dollars elsewhere and get nine percent and it's like if you're able to get two to four hundred percent inside of a trade or two at some point know when to put on risk if you have your you have to have your long-term portfolio set up first yeah and even with this drop this happened if you bought in march in april and last you should still be up a tremendous amount now you can put on some risk and if the market's falling to the downside and you're shorting you should be up even more stick to your game plan do you like to short the market hell yeah when it's falling and it's a great lesson only short when the market is falling and go long when it's going up that's why i say you have to obey direction yeah look at that month a week then day obey it always but when the market is falling the market is going to fall faster than it can rise right you got to take advantage of it i'm just not only in in futures is for sure i'm just never i've never been a a big put guy it's probably not worth the risk but the futures market is evenly weighted right right because they only care about the transaction and liquidity inside of it um so you're getting in and out inside of a day anyway so you're just playing the true direction that's what i'm saying in the futures market makes a lot of sense it's just i just don't have that there's a little upside around so much and like i said volatility happens but and if people do that great you can make money both ways right when the market goes up you can make it on calls you can make it on puts on the way down great if you're skilled at that great if that's your strategy great i just never have been big on it there's no reason to go short an asset that normally goes long michael burr i love you there's no reason to continually short an asset that goes up perpetuity yeah yeah speaking of that yeah speaking of the asset that goes up earners what's up you ever walk into a small business and everything just works like the checkout is fast the receipts are digital tipping is a breeze and you're out the door before the line even builds odds are they're using square we love supporting businesses that run on square because it just feels seamless whether it's a local coffee shop a vendor at a pop-up market or even one of our merch partners square makes it easy for them to take payments manage inventory and run their business with confidence all from one simple system one of the things we love most is seeing neighborhood businesses level up there's this west indian spot right in our community that started with a small takeout counter now with square they've been able to expand into a full sit-down restaurant and even started catering events across the city that's the kind of growth that inspires us and it's powered by Square.

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15:05Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

15:39off the year with confidence. Listen to How to Money on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This season on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, we've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani. Let's start with your cat. How is she? She is not with us anymore. Great, great, great way to start. Maybe you will cry. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or a girl? Oh my God. All the time. That's so funny. I know. So I try to butch it up for kids So they're not confused? Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like Doris Day.

16:13No, I turn into Bea Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, hello, all my people. What's up? It's Questlove. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with the one and only A$AP Rocky. He reflects on his journey from Harlem roots to global icon status and discovering the hip-hop origin of his name. The ledge was on the TV. Rakim had the bucket hat Kangol join on. My pops was like, that's Rakim. That's who you named after. I just was like, damn the f*** I swear. Listen to the Questlove show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

16:57A new year doesn't ask us to become someone new. It invites us back home to ourselves. I'm Mike Della Rocha, host of Sacred Lessons, a space for men to pause, reflect, and heal. This year, we're talking honestly about mental health, relationships, and the patterns we're ready to release. If you're looking for clarity, connection, and healthier ways to show up in your life, Sacred Lessons is here for you. Listen to Sacred Lessons with Mike Delaroach on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.