HOW CORDAE QUIETLY BUILT HIS POWERHOUSE STOCK PORTFOLIO

Rashad Bilal (0:00)

I want to have an investment conversation, because people don't really know that you are really into investing. And we learned this when we first met you, probably five years ago, and we interviewed you, and you was talking about all the investments that you made during the pandemic since then. And like I said, like, I'm not just being facetious, guys. Like, he's actually in the EYL University classes. Like, he watches the classes. He's actually doing things on his own. He's studying charts.

He's actually a real investor in real time.

Troy Millings (0:31)

No, this is, and it doesn't even come as a surprise. When we met you five years ago, we were like, he's going to be one of the ones to come back full circle and hear that you're still investing in it. But to hear the stories that we talk almost maybe once or twice a week now. And I'm like, I don't think the people understand the knowledge that you have and all the research that you've been doing. And you were pretty candid. I've been watching y'all and I've been learning from y'all, man. So kudos to you for number one, taking the information, but even more so executing on the information, man.

Rashad Bilal (1:00)

So off rip, let's get into it, man. Let's, for people that might not remember that episode, tell them how you got started investing because it was during the pandemic and you made some crazy investments during the pandemic. Are you still holding those investments that you had made?

Cordae (1:16)

For sure. Buying hold, H-O-D-L.

Rashad Bilal (1:21)

Thank you.

Cordae (1:22)

Yeah, come on. Generational buying time, right? One, I try not to call myself a great investor. I've just been mega blessed to come in at the perfect timing. I was on tour, obviously pandemic happened March 20, like March 30 of 2020 And I just had all this extra, just dry powder for lack of a better word, just sitting in a savings account. And so I've been doing a lot of research and I also was hearing a lot about stocks, you know, watching you guys. My little brother's dad was putting me on to like stocks and things of that nature. So I just bought like the simple stuff, you know, Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA and them lots, man. I still, you know, how you can look on your Charles Schwab and them lots, man. And them lots, say them dates and, you know, that NVIDIA say $30, you know, average price, it's a great feeling, man, you know. So buying whole, dollar cost average. Then now the only problem when you get in stocks early like that, and I have the same issue with Micron, I have such a hard time buying on like these little dicks now.

Yeah, right now, perfect example, Micron, my cost basis at like a $580, I'm like, yo, I do not want to get it to $600, but I just believe in memory, at least for the next year, you know, and put that right there. I believe in memory at the very least, if I'm being bearish for the next year for it to keep running up. So I go on that tangent to say, yeah, just from watching you all, I kind of had this little tool that I do now when I'm buying something new.

Obviously, if it's something that you guys are like mega bullish on, and then I'll like use my chat GBT or Claude and cross reference, I'll be like, okay, what does Leopold, Gavin Baker and Nancy Pelosi, what's one common stock that all of them own? You know what I'm saying? And David Tepper. And so I just go to all the people who has like the biggest gains, like I said, including, if y'all talking about it, then I see like Leopold, Gavin Baker, Nancy and Tepper all in the same thing. And they're all in Micron, all in Amazon. Then I'm like, okay, let me load the boat on those. You know, once I get it at a good price, obviously. You know, I kind of do the 200 EMAs, you know, 50 EMAs, but I'm more of just like, I'm repeating, you know, a lot of the sentiments, I'm saying the stuff that y'all say all the time, but it don't hurt to repeat gold. You know, gold don't get old. But it's just buying good stocks at good prices, man. That's really what it's about, honestly, for me personally in my journey.

Troy Millings (4:00)

Your journey has been incredible, and watching your journey has been more incredible. I want it now because you're finding new companies, right? Like, we've had conversations, I'm like, oh, where'd you hear that? And then like, I'll go research a company. So when you're doing that, what exactly are you looking at in terms of a company before you say, yes, I'm going to invest?