00:00:07.000Just wait We've got a special show for you this weekend.
00:00:25.000We've all watched politicians enter public office and somehow emerge considerably wealthier, while ordinary people are left wondering how they make such remarkably well-timed investments.
00:00:36.000Ban members of Congress from profiting on information that, frankly, only members of Congress have in the buying and selling of stock.
00:00:44.00086% of Americans say that members of Congress should not be able to buy and sell shares of stock, individual stock, while they are.
00:00:53.000Members of this body, and they are absolutely correct.
00:00:55.000I sat down with Ross Givens, a veteran trader and former JP Morgan vice president who tracks the publicly disclosed trades of politicians and corporate insiders.
00:01:05.000We look at what they're buying, what that might tell us, and whether the rest of us can use the same information to our advantage.
00:01:11.000Should members of Congress and their spouses be banned from trading individual stocks while serving Congress?
00:01:33.000Now, what I understand you do that's sort of novel, and in a way, the world has been waiting for this, is a bit like the X Account Unusual Wales, looking at the trading of people that sometimes one could argue appear to have knowledge that I'm not suggesting insider trading or the misuse of congressional insight and clandestine info from, for example, Nancy Pelosi.
00:01:58.000But if that isn't what she's doing, and I believe it isn't because I believe she's a good person, she is better than every single hedge fund at beating the market.
00:02:07.000I think she beats Warren Buffett at beating the market.
00:02:10.000What is it that you do and that tradersagency.com offers that's comparable to what Nancy Pelosi and other people inside Congress who may appear to have inside information are able to do?
00:02:47.000They tell you what stocks they're buying.
00:02:48.000And all we've done for the last 10 years is take all that information that's available for free, filter it down to the stuff that's obvious, where you see several of them buying all the same stock or same areas that are tied to committees they're on or CEOs and CFOs all buying their own stock and just follow along because it's undeniable that some people have access to better information.
00:03:12.000They are clearly using it to make money.
00:03:14.000And so you can either sit there and be angry about it and hold a picket sign, or you can go, All right, well, at least they're telling me what they're buying.
00:03:22.000I'll follow along, make a couple of bucks for myself.
00:03:35.000That doesn't mean we necessarily have to be involved in a housebreaking and attacked with a mallet or crash our Porsche Carrera, but we can have the advantage of knowing what people who might know more than we know are investing in.
00:03:50.000During the time you've been doing this, mate, what would you say has been your most notable success?
00:03:56.000Which trade has given you the most excitement as well as, oh my God, this has paid right off for me and my clients?
00:04:08.000They passed this thing called the Chips Act that gave all these billions of dollars to NVIDIA, Intel, and the semiconductor companies to get them to make stuff in the U.S.
00:04:18.000And right before that bill passed, I mean, the week before, she went and put millions of dollars into call options on NVIDIA, turned a million to five million.
00:04:26.000But probably our biggest win, we did a little oil trade.
00:04:30.000A little oil company went from $3 to $60 in a couple of years.
00:04:35.000And what happened was, you know, when COVID hit and our government overlords told us that we have to stay in our house and close our business and we can't go anywhere, the price of oil went from $80 to like $10.
00:04:47.000And all these oil companies who Are you know spending 50 bucks a barrel to get out of the ground and then sell it at 70 or 80?
00:04:53.000Are going, we're going to lose our shirt, we can't make any money at 10, we're going to be out of business.
00:05:00.000But what had happened that no one knew was that that company pre sold all of their oil for the next three years at like 80 bucks a barrel.
00:05:10.000So it's kind of like the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in the Forrest Gump movie, you know, so they're the only ones that survived the storm, and all the other shrimpers went out of business and they took over the market.
00:05:21.000Same thing here, all the little You know, oil miners all spread out, the wildcatters all over Texas all went out of business.
00:05:29.000And then it, and when the stock was like three and a half bucks a share, we see all the people in the company buying millions and millions of dollars.
00:05:37.000It turns out, you know, that this comes out, they'd hedge.
00:05:41.000Not only do they thrive, they buy up competition, pennies, dollars, and, you know, it's every thousand dollars was 20,000 in a couple of years.
00:05:50.000And so obviously they don't all do that, but like these are the opportunities that are out there.
00:05:55.000And it's information that no one would know.
00:06:00.000And so when we see that the CEO and half the board and the VPs are all buying this stock all at once for the first time in five years, totally out of nowhere, we kind of use a little bit of common sense and go, all right, either they know something or at worst, it's probably not a bad time to buy.
00:06:18.000And that's what puts us in front of these.
00:06:20.000And more often than not, the stocks do well and we make some money on it.
00:06:39.000And I just think it's such a huge advantage for the average person.
00:06:42.000Well, there's a lot to cover from your last answer.
00:06:45.000Firstly, Pelosi, she retires as the GOAT.
00:06:48.000She goes out at a game, irreproachable, knowing that no one's going to catch them stats.
00:06:55.000Then you correctly assess my level of understanding of trading markets by using Forrest.
00:07:02.000Gump and Bubba, uh, Forrest Gump and Bubba, and their enterprise as my reference point for, uh, for, uh, commerce, correctly assessing the level to which I understand these things.
00:07:14.000And what I like most of all is that even without what can be an incredibly, uh, intricate and esoteric requirement for understanding to invest, you're saying that with a combination of AI and observing like a Robin Hood.
00:07:32.000Watching aristocrats moving through Nottingham Forest, watching them, what them aristocrats and what them wealthy elites are doing, we can have a punt.
00:07:42.000How do you get involved and use tradersagency.com?
00:07:49.000And what is the minimum amount, like if I want to do a bit?
00:07:55.000Well, the minimum amount is one share.
00:07:57.000I mean, we're not managing anybody's money.
00:07:59.000There are millions out there following politicians like Pelosi and the others, but.
00:08:05.000We hold these events once or twice a quarter to show people how to do this.
00:08:11.000We do all the research and send it to them, but anyone could do this on their own.
00:08:15.000So, you know, come Thursday, they're free online databases.
00:08:19.000I'll show you how to access the trades, what to look for, what to look out for, and just how to filter if it is really obvious stuff that you can use to find some good opportunities.
00:08:31.000And so that's really all we're doing trying to help people see that it's, you know, that it's doable and how to do it.
00:08:38.000What about my friend Nick, who's a former U.S. Marine turned dog trainer and entrepreneur?
00:08:44.000Who says that if we do anything other than invest in indexes, the same as Warren Buffett, he's going to punch us in the face?
00:08:53.000I would say he's got a rude awakening coming.
00:08:56.000I mean, I don't want to get into all the technicals on the index.
00:08:59.000Obviously, it's had a great last 15, 18 years.
00:09:05.000But if you go back, if you want to index, if you indexed all your money in 2000, 10 years later, you hadn't made any.
00:09:13.000So we're very much, if you look at like the 100 year picture, This little 18 year has been great with the government borrowing and printing and pumping stuff up.
00:09:24.000But there are decade long periods where you would have lost money holding an index fund.
00:09:31.000So I think there's more opportunities out there.
00:09:35.000And we're proof that we beat the index every single year since 2017.
00:09:50.000So, you feel sort of this kind of mad confidence of like the same way as I suppose the entire internet space is, oh, this is what Joe Rogan does.
00:09:59.000You know, this is his HRT or this is his cold plunge workout.
00:10:04.000This is like we can apply that, I suppose, through the aggregation of information to anything.
00:10:11.000In a sense, it's a principle that's born of the information age.
00:10:29.000But you have 435 members of Congress for the last 10 years that, as a group, have vastly outperformed.
00:10:37.000You have all these executives at Coca Cola and pharmaceutical companies and all these public that have vastly outperformed over not a quarter or a year, but decades.
00:13:30.000And then, you know, you realize pretty quickly everybody that does well has some kind of an edge, whether they've got some massive supercomputer, they're day trading, or they're really good at the fundamentals and identifying trends, or I don't know, you're sitting on Congress and you see the bills before they pass, or you're the chief financial officer and you see the earnings before it goes public.
00:13:50.000And so instead of trying to outsmart the market, why not just follow the people that do?
00:13:57.000And so I started researching this back in 2015, was overwhelmed by how simple this seemed.
00:14:14.000And then you needed somebody to take the phone calls and do supports.
00:14:17.000And you got to have a few more members.
00:14:19.000And it's kind of just run away over the last 10 years.
00:14:22.000It's still a pretty small group, you know, 1,000, 2,000 people in there.
00:14:26.000But again, we have a paid service, but we do these free things to show people how to do it.
00:14:33.000If you want us to do it for you, we will.
00:14:34.000But like, it's all public information.
00:14:38.000The adage, all you need to be a millionaire is tomorrow's newspaper today, seems particularly true in this instance.
00:14:46.000And you may know Mike Benz, he's real brilliant on revealing sort of deep state corruption and Telling stories about how power operates, and in particular, sort of some of the connections that exist between these peculiar non government organizations and vast global enterprises that own huge pieces of immeasurable assets.
00:15:11.000I'm talking your Vanguards and your BlackRock's.
00:15:13.000And also, though, he, like, and I hope I'm not misquoting him, but he would say, like, with someone like George Soros, you know, we're kind of invited to think these people are like intuitive geniuses that understand the mysterious movements of market.
00:15:28.000But in all likelihood, and this is Mike Benz, and I'm simplifying it, they have awareness of, for example, American foreign policy in Ukraine or the Middle East, and they know that a bunch of shale gas is about to become available, like investing in the equipment to mine shale gas or the storage or transportation of shale gas or the permutations of that are things that they get access to.
00:15:53.000So, the aspect of this, what you're doing at tradersagency.com, the links at the bottom of the screen there, what I like about it is.
00:16:02.000The democratization of information and why not?
00:16:38.000The source of, The world, they're in tell with the information, you know, what to buy, what's going to happen if this shale comes available or if things, you know, deteriorate with the situation with one of our Middle East partners or something.
00:16:52.000But yeah, absolutely, they have access to better information.
00:16:56.000And you take someone like everyone's favorite, Bill Gates, right?
00:17:14.000He's either investing in the World Health Organization, they impose, seek to impose vaccine mandates, or experimenting on vaccine technology in developing nations.
00:19:00.000And even when they do get caught, we saw this with Mike Kelly, who got caught red handed, five year investigation, got his text matches, and he caught him red handed insider trading in Congress.
00:19:12.000They concluded he, in fact, broke the Stock Act.
00:19:16.000And at the end of the report, they said, well, we decided he should have to sell that stock.
00:19:25.000So they spent millions of your and my tax dollars, Russell, doing this massive investigation for five years, all to come to the conclusion that he did, in fact, insider trade.
00:19:55.000It's like if you got caught breaking the law, like some people do in certain states in this country and don't get prosecuted, they're going, I guess it's fine to do that.
00:20:05.000And so that's what they've learned in Congress.
00:20:08.000So, if any of you that are watching this that are interested, and we talk about these kind of stories a lot on the show, we talk a lot about, well, Nancy Pelosi, we've made a real hobby, as many people have, talking about her trade and her accumulated wealth.
00:20:22.000I think it was she came, she entered office with maybe a few hundred thousand bucks, and she'll be leaving with a few hundred million dollars.
00:20:31.000And at least part of that, some people believe, is due to her uncanny ability to speculate.
00:20:36.000Nancy Pelosi may no longer be with us, not at least in the form of trading, but her legacy lives on.
00:20:43.000Why should you not benefit from the expertise and knowledge of corrupt members of Congress and the Senate?
00:20:52.000Thankfully, Ross is willing to broker that.
00:20:56.000So, what do we do if we want to participate, mate?
00:20:59.000Yeah, just click the link and get signed up.