How are we doing guys? This is trey. This is going to be a video from trey collins, not from tracetrades on youtube, not from tracetrades on twitter. This is a one-on-one conversation with you guys, because it's no surprise right if you're paying attention to what's happening within the community, whether it be reddit, twitter, youtube, there's a plethora of different platforms out there right, you can see that there is has been a change. There's been uh, even in some cases, division and opinions and thoughts and curiosity and attention where people are focusing, and i find it important to put out a video to maybe answer some of those questions.

I've thought about this a lot right. Some of the things that i wish i'd done differently has been less scared and that's the truth of it. It really was in some cases being scared was scared to say what i think about certain situations. You know, and at this point i just don't give a.

I i it's created more problems than good by being scared to pull the trigger on some of my thoughts and uh. How would how you guys would view it? You know, i want to tell you this. This is how i'm going to start i've built. I shouldn't even say i built you guys built my youtube channel and my twitter off of amc right.

You guys did that. You did that. I put out videos about stuff that i thought and you guys watched it and i was able to fortunately build some sort of community around that within a very large community, and i owe you guys that content that you you signed up for right, there's a reason. I don't push other stocks on youtube or twitter, despite being called to and and asked to non-stop all the time right.

I get tons and tons and tons of mentions on on twitter and youtube and stuff about different things, but i owe you guys this. I owe you this, i'm fighting for two things with you right. I want to see an amc squeaks and i want to see change in our markets and i think there are a lot of people out there. A lot of voices and opinions that uh that differ from mine.

You know people are different, i'm not going to bag on that, i'm not going to beg on people and what they decide to do, but as a consumer as a viewer, as somebody who goes out of their way to watch somebody like myself or others on youtube Or to consume things on twitter. Be curious. Ask questions, that's! Okay! That's absolutely! Okay! Right! It's not a bad thing, but i also ask you then right to ask questions about the things being studied. What's getting looked into myself as an example, i started my youtube channel.

Uh on december 16th of 2020. january 25th was my first amc video. Since then things have evolved a lot back here i was stupid. I was stupid.

There was a lot of things i didn't know. There was a ton of things i didn't know. I was learning literally as i went and i'm still learning as i go about the the way the market operates and where true corruption lies and what the what the root of evil is within the stock market, not even just amc, because this goes far beyond the Single stock or far beyond gamestop those two stocks are a piece of it they're, a piece of thousands of stocks that exist and out of those thousands, you bet your ass there's a lot of corruption and bad things that happen within all of them. That's absolutely the truth.

You know, and since learning since trying to grow and evolve, i've just come to the realization that i have to change what i do on a day-to-day basis. There's a reason that i don't put out ta videos every single day. It's because i don't think that's the battle, we're fighting right now. Is it important to stay, updated and informed and uh? You know understanding of what's happening, absolutely right, there's videos for that.

They exist. They absolutely exist the education's there, but where i think the change comes and where you can really see growth is far beyond just the amc squeeze. It goes into as well the market not being able to allow such situations like that to become in the first place. You know i want to see that too.

That's one of my end goals, that's what i want to see and because of that. Consequently, i've changed the way that i put out content, at least to some extent, i'm not going to push other stocks. Never will right not until this battle is done at the very least, i'm trying to grow any ball, and in that growth i've made a mistake a couple, and i think one of them is that i have allowed infiltration to some extent within the community. What do i mean by that right? I have a responsibility with whatever 394 000 subscribers.

I guess that's what i'm at right. Now i have a responsibility to put out credible people. If i'm talking to people there's an association there, there always is there always always always is and will be, and with that being said, i have allowed certain people to have platforms that sometimes i think shouldn't you know and i'm sorry for that. I really am.

That's a up! That's a big up, and another thing that i really should have done different is be transparent on how much i've made there's a lot of anger. There's a lot of people angry at hey. These guys are getting paid to talk about this. They can pump out any sort of they want on a day-to-day basis.

They can say whatever the heck they want, as long as it gets a click who freaking cares right. That's why you see so many freaking youtube videos out there of just random nonsense that in the grand scheme of things sometimes doesn't even matter, you know it's because views make money. Here's the truth. You guys tell me all the time.

Trey you've helped me. I appreciate you, but i can never repay, literally and and mentally. I can never repay what this community has done for me. I can't i absolutely 150 000 can't i can try.

I can try to keep putting out valuable content and doing what i can to make other people's lives. Better i'd say influence, but i don't even like that word because i don't want to influence your decisions. I simply want to create thought. You know.

I simply want to have a community for you a place where you can go and be entertained and learn, because i think that's what i provide. I try to educate and i try to entertain within a basically what should be an emotionless stock market, a place of pain. You know where people go to freaking die or become millionaires and within all that, not only have i made money because i have right youtubers make money. I've made a lot, i'm not gon na you.

I made a lot of money. I've also had my life saved. I mean you guys really really more than you know when i started youtube. I did that because i was in a dark spot.

I was struggling bad and my life has improved substantially because of you. You know you watching you people who allowed me to have a platform. I owe you guys right as the content creator. I curate to the audience i curate to you.

I give you guys what you want. What you need to see, i made a lot. I don't care about brag, i'm not about that. I don't care the time that i made my youtube channel.

I made six hundred six thousand dollars. This allowed me to do a lot of things. It's allowed me to take care of student loan debt from college. It's allowed me to pay off cars.

It's allowed me to gift a car to my mom, to allow me to pay off my house in north carolina. It lets me go out to eat every day and get subway. It's allowed me to take care of my cat. Titan i'm privileged, i'm super privileged, there's, no doubt about it.

You know and if that's a dividing factor for you, knowing that i do have incentive to get views, i get it do what you got to do. There's people out there that do this for free there. Absolutely is i'm not here to make that decision for you, i'm here to tell you that i've made mistakes and i think the two biggest ones is allowing some people to have credibility that maybe should not being too scared to call out. As i see it and not being transparent enough about how much money i've made, because i made a lot, i've made off well and that's not even what this is about for me.

At the end of the day, i want to see the community evolve. I think the most difficult part of what we have as apes is the people themselves, it's very incredibly difficult to get millions of people to all agree on something. In this case. We all agree that there's fundamental problems within the stock market that allow things like amc and gamestop to exist in the first place right.

We want to see change for that. That is difficult, that's very, very hard. It's very, very tough right! There are people out there. 50 000 times more intelligent than i am.

I don't really think i'm that smart. I don't. I think i work hard and that's ultimately my uh, my strong suit. I think that's my strongest characteristic, but there's so many people out there that are very intelligent that have contributed to this this movement and i think, if there's any one thing, that's going to destroy this.

It's infiltration, i said it. I said it back on june 9th on fox business with charles payne. I said the only thing that could destroy this community is people who come in to push others away to try and divide the group. You know, and i don't even think it's hedge funds half the time.

I know people get labeled as shill or fud. I think it's literally just people who are frustrated and curious because they want answers, they don't have, and they don't know where to direct that. That emotion, that frustration and that, to some extent it arrives with me right, i don't think i'm not so freaking egotistical that i think i started the whole amc movie, because i don't, but i do think i was a part of it. You know i think i was.

I was very fortunate to be able to create, or these be part of, creating something awesome and in that there's responsibility, and i don't think i knew how much responsibility that was when i, when i you know, essentially got where i am now, where you guys got Me where i am now and i do now - you know i've learned a lot as i've gone and i've made mistakes and it's time to acknowledge evolution and growth. I started my youtube channel as a swing trading channel. That's what i did. I didn't give a about any of this stuff.

I didn't know about this stuff. Ignorance is bliss right, i didn't know it existed, and now i do now. I can't look away so what i want to do has changed fundamentally from back in december, when i started my channel, i just wanted to swing trade. I just wanted to make freaking stacks now i want to do other things i want to fight for a market.

I want to change the way the market operates. I want to leave a legacy for millions of people to be able to look back and say we did that we changed the way the system operates, so that average everyday people can have a chance at freedom. At the very least freedom, that's it at the end of the day, my friends i care about you guys. You know i make money.

I do a lot i've done well, i have i try to give back when i can. I try to take care of my friends and family. That's as much as i can do. I'm grateful.

I am incredibly, and i want you guys to know that i'm here in your corner, fighting, i think, there's a lot of people out there who can acknowledge people would probably just run and leave right. I made my money, i'm gone, no, you know what would actually break my heart intensely. This is hypothetical right fancy. Never squeeze.

I would feel like i stole from you guys that would that would literally eat my soul for the rest of my life. If we did not make change in the stock market, and all that i got out of that was some money that would destroy me. I couldn't live in myself, i could not. I couldn't i couldn't do it and it's easy for me to say right sitting behind a screen that says 600 grand on it.

That would crush me. I give a i do. Have i done everything perfect? Absolutely, not! No. I've got a lot of things to improve.

On and i'm trying every day, that's all i can do my friends and i think, there's a lot of other people who probably need to do the same, who maybe even realize it. You know the evolution of the growth. I want this community to be something that exists for a very long time. I want people to be able to look back with fond memories, happiness and realize that we did something amazing and we'll continue to do so.

So this is uh the new trey collins. If you guys want to know how much money i make making videos, tell me i'll do it, you guys want to know what i think of a certain situation that makes me uncomfortable to talk about. Tell me i'll. Do it there's a few times where i have? Let my own biases get in the way and cloud judgment of situations here.

You know i have to be better. I appreciate you guys, that's what i've got for this video peace.