Ever since I started this channel back in September of 2018, I've gotten a lot of questions about Ricky Gutierrez Maybe it's because we both are about the same age. Maybe it's because we both love technical analysis and trading patterns. Maybe it's because we both have American flags displayed proudly behind our desks in many of our videos. Or perhaps maybe it's because we both spend a lot of our time driving girls around in our supercars.

Oh wait, no, that last one is just Ricky But the point is that I get a lot of questions from folks who are like, well, why is it that you do things this way when Ricky does it that way and vice-versa and I get this enough that I thought I'd make this video to compare and contrast our different styles of trading. But quick disclaimer: Ricky is clearly a big fish in the trading pond. He's been making videos for several more years that I have. He has some 1,600 videos and he has earned a massive following.

He is clearly somebody who has contributed massively to the niche, and he's good at what he does. That being said, everybody has their own trading style and this is something that he himself acknowledges in many of his videos. but it is very valuable to get ideas, strategies, and theories from multiple different personalities so that you could find and fine-tune what works best for you. And I know that a lot of my viewers also watch Ricky So this is going to be an insightful video.

I'm going to professionally explain some of our differences and why we have differences. They're based on my own opinion, but this video will be great for folks who are looking to hone in on their trading styles. And of course, the only thing that we ask of you in return is that you hit that ravishing like button. And of course, make sure to let me know what you think in the comments section below.

The first difference is that you'll notice that Ricky tends to focus a lot on natural gas ET NS You Gas and D gas. There are a few others, but he's mostly known for focusing on you gas. and D guess the reason for this seems to be because he finds the most consistency there. They have huge volume, have stable and predictable fundamental catalysts such as supply, demand, and the weather, and they are triple leveraged, so they provide great opportunities for you to trade off of.

It's also very convenient to play you guys and digas because when you gas goes up, do you gas goes down and vice-versa So it's easy to trade both sides of the equation with many other types of equities. You're going to have to find shares to short trying to play off the downslide. but that's not the case with leveraged Etfs pairs like you Guys indeed, yes and me personally. I Also trade natural gas I Love natural gas.

There's a lot of opportunities in natural gas, but here is where we differ. One of the things that I personally focus on is having a diversity of positions. I Really value my ability to trade like a spoiled brat and what that means is only taking opportunities that make the most sense, right? waiting for the price action to convince you to enter Now I'm not saying that Ricci himself doesn't trade like a spoiled brat, but what I'm trying to say is that if you're open to trading on multiple markets, you're going to be open to a lot of different opportunities. Some that have a huge amount of upside, you have more opportunities.

You're going to be less inclined to force trades on just you guys and digas if there aren't any great opportunities with that. For example, aside from my natural gas and other ETF Sandy TNS I Also trade opportunities with overreactions to earnings that's a big one. News events upcoming FDA approvals or Si hormonal overreactions. And yes, this is the classical and perhaps cliche diversification argument.

By diversifying, you leave yourself less reliant on the movements from just one sector and instead open yourself up to the movements for many different sectors and different opportunities as they present themselves. But to draw back with diversifying is there are more moving pieces. It does complicate your trading a bit and Ricky could make the jack of all trades but master of none argument. But the truth is, in order to keep it simple, all you need to do is use the same rules, use the same rules across sectors when it comes to technical analysis and tracking catalysts.

using a clear combination of technicals and fundamentals keeps it simple, but allows you to catch massive runners. However, there are a few other reasons that Ricky probably focuses on you guys and against you guys. and you guys have such high volume and liquidity that it allows him to trade with a much larger and consistent capital size than he'd be able to if he is focusing on a wider variety of positions. If you're taking positions in penny stocks, you're taking positions and overvalued plays or overreactions and they don't have the volume.

Doesn't really matter your percentage gain because if you can't put a ton of capital into it, then you're probably not going to make as much money. And Ricky of course likes to take heavy positions. And so I could see why consistency and liquidity would be a huge issue when it comes to trading a lot of different opportunities. And for him, he likes to focus it more on you guys.

Indeed, Yes, but I think it's really a question of what it is that you're focusing on. Spreading out your capital means that you are going to make less per each individual trade. but the goal of spreading out your capital is to profit from a larger amount of diversification and higher percentages in positions that are higher yielding. But it really depends on your skill set, right? Because if you're trading with a very large amount of capital and you're being very consistent with you guys, you guysyou may come out ahead of somebody who's diversifying.

It really comes down to your skill set and what it is that you're prioritizing for me personally in a given week: I Might take several trades in natural gas or oil I make eight I'll take several trades in biotech plays and catalysts, five to six overreaction events and perhaps a few consistent runners. and that's a wide amount of variety where Ricky he's probably going to take about ten to fifteen trades in you Guys, and II guess perhaps a few other smaller positions in different fundamental plays. But you get the point. Of course, less is not always more, just as much as more is not always less.

but it really depends on your personality. But for me, it makes it a lot more interesting to trade a variety of sectors and gives me less sector reliance. Ok, next Ricky No longer really likes penny stocks. He started his channel and trading career with a much larger focus on trading penny stocks, but no longer likes them because of the overall downward direction, so he says.

And this is true. Penny stocks are easily trashed companies that will go down over time. They also have very low volume, low flow, low liquidity, blah blah blah. And for many you'll find that the movements are very sporadic, but with anything, it really depends on what it is that you're actually trading.

Trading penny stocks for beginners isn't really the best way to start, but where I differ with him is with Biotech. Catalyst plays a lot of the penny stocks that I actually talked about on this channel or at traditional penny stocks, but are mostly on the higher end of the one to five dollar range, have a clear Catalyst attached to them, and are almost always listed on major indices such as the Nasdaq, which of course has a higher standard for regulation. The ones that we talk about on this channel are also going through the official FDA approval process and they have beautiful reactions along the way. But the kicker with these is that we actually get the exact dates.

Oftentimes we get the exact dates at which the actual approval or a decision or phase data release is going to be coming out and that means that we could have a date at which we can trade off the price action. For example, a DM a SC YX and many others were examples that we talked about on this channel. They publicly announced that beforehand and then they had beautiful running up and pre anticipation and then of course the actual reaction. But these aren't for the faint of heart.

and if you're not trading with the trading plan, you're going to have a bad time. I Would say that these are a little bit more challenging than most of the tickers that we talked about on this channel, but they provide great opportunity and it's not really for everybody. and I never recommend that you trade something that you don't feel comfortable trading. Okay, next, where do we differ on indicators and studies now? I'd say we have the most in common with this we both use in film with thinkorswim and we use many of the same indicators.

For example, Ricky's is the RSI, the MACD and the SMA line the RSI our relative strength index. It's really great because it helps you find whether or not a stock has over-pressured in one way or the other. I have a huge focus on this myself, and Ricky often uses this in his trades as well, so you know we had that in common. So I agree with him there.

and he does use the long term SMA Y and he sets it to 180 just like I do and he has it in green which I have it in red but whatever. and essentially what I do with this is I use it to measure the overall direction I mean an uptrend or when a downtrend are we above or below the long-term right direction alyssum a line his is in green and uses it a little bit differently, but the idea is the same as far as I can tell. but he also uses the EMA or exponential moving average which is in blue now. I'm not a huge fan of EMA because it's a lot more reactive to recent movements and that means that it's going to be a little bit more foofy when it comes to actually entering, but that's just my experience and with different styles, it might make more sense or less sense.

I Prefer to use the SMA for confirmation because it takes an account an equal weight to previous candlesticks instead of placing most of the weight in the last movement. When it comes to the EMA, it's more reactive because it weighs the last movements a lot heavier. so if the mass movement went up really quickly, DMA is going to react a lot faster than the estimator, which is just gonna go like that. so it really depends on how it fits into your trading style and what your goals and objectives are.

But to be fair, he uses the V walk, which could be used in effect to cancel out the over reactive nature of the EMA, but this does result in an extreme amount of spaghetti on his charts. I Don't like to have tons of indicators open because it just sort of gets me away from my goals and objectives and makes it really hard to see what's going on. I Like to have a few high returning indicators on my chart I Don't like to have tons, but he sees these as valuable and tons of other people also see them as valuable. So this is again difference of opinion.

However, the V be quite valuable for measuring when you're trading within a fair range or breaking out and breaking down. Ricky Seems to do a great job of combining everything together, but for me it's just it's a little bit too much to look at. There's just too much going on for myself. I Used two different SMA lines.

One tells me the direction and the other tells me price break. That gives me confirmation and validation for execution points. But ladies and gentlemen, I've been around the block and I've experimented with many different types of indicators and studies, but for me, this combination allows me to easily measure elevating factors that lead to appreciation and can cut out at deprecating factors that lead to well deprecation. Um, in terms of actual entry points, Ricky seems to be quite consistent, which is important because you need to have a clear entry and exit point with every trade.

He emphasizes buying into an upper direction and I think he does this specifically because he knows that many of the viewers or beginners and we'll find profitability a lot faster by just simply buying into an upward direction and then combining everything else because being in an upward direction is one of the strongest elevating factors. He knows that if people aren't able to follow these harder to grasp concepts, at least if they're buying into an upward direction, it's going to be more forgiving. He talks a lot about natural gas reports and different news catalysts and then how it relates to the actual price action Now I Do this a lot with natural gas and with, you know, penny stocks and biotech penny stocks that I talked about. But it's really cool because a lot of people don't bother to pair the fundamentals to the technicals.

So many traders mistakenly emphasize just the price action, or they just emphasize the fundamentals and they don't think about how they relate. And if you're not carrying the two, it's going to be really hard to find moves and plan for moves ahead of time. And this is very useful for him. with you guys and do you guys, Because the natural gas report comes out once a week, so he's able to know that the natural gas report is going to come out at a specific time and then he can go and pair that to the actual movement and he knows that's either going to go up or down.

and he could trade you guys or vegans based on the bullish or bearish sign indicated by the natural gas report. So this is something that's very clear and concrete that he can trade off of every single week. But Ricky also emphasizes having a plan and following it to develop discipline. He's done a great job of explaining trading mindsets, trading, discipline, and stuff of that nature.

and I think this is something that a lot of people, including myself sort of don't really touch on enough mindset is something that's really hard to cover and get people to grasp on to. and while I have tried to cover it I don't think I've done as good of a job to make more content in that direction. And of course he also talks about the importance of trading with fake money first and growing up your account to prove yourself, giving yourself proof and not promises that you are ready to trade in the real world. But overall, we aren't wildly different in terms of how we actually trade and implement our training, but we are quite different in what it is that we trade.

If you like to focus on you guys, the big guys, where I have a little bit more of a variety of positions, doesn't mean that because I have a variety that that's better or worse, it just it means that there's more variety and there's just different pros and cons to both of those which I already covered. I Really like the optimism and likeable personality of Ricky that he presents in each and every single video instead of being positive I tend to spend a lot of my time yelling at you for being a maniac when it comes to trading. he always has some sort of motivational quote and is really very positive and very passionate about what he does and you could see it just so clearly with myself. I'm a bit more cynical I Have always thought of the stock market is this disobedient dog that it was my job to tame me.

My teaching style sort of resembles a prison guard with a power complex. Ok, now going back to the surface level: I will touch on the marketing styles. He has a very interesting form of marketing now. Ricky is clearly quite flashy with his success and he's been able to attract many new traders as a result.

I Know that there is this atmosphere on YouTube right now where if you market yourself with lifestyle products like flashy cars or houses or planes and stuff of that nature, that there's something inherently wrong with that. I Actually don't think there's anything inherently wrong with marketing things that you've achieved. Usually people that put this stuff down have to convince themselves that they themselves can't achieve that, and that's they need to put others down that have achieved it. I Think that for a lot of folks, this is actually the thing that motivates them to understand their why, why they are putting so much effort into trading, why they aren't just settling for whatever it is that they're currently doing, why they're actually trying to get better as creators.

To truth is that a lot of folks love that flashy, expensive lifestyle. And for them, if this is something that motivates them, then why wouldn't you put that in the video? It's also the symbol of financial freedom that can come with working for yourself and becoming great at your craft. And I think that inspiring people to become the best at what they do is a good thing. Of course there are different personalities and this will turn some people off, but the point is, if this is something that the Creator enjoys, then I don't have a problem with it.

In fact, these videos have been so popular that they've brought so many people into the tray that now go to all the other Creators as well. So I mean it's been a net positive for everybody involved. Okay, and not to end this video on a negative note, but when I was researching Ricky I came across tons of hater videos. The truth is, there are tons of creators that will go and trash other creators in order to sell their own products or to push their own agenda.

This is actually quite popular in many different education fields on YouTube and different websites right now, but I'll challenge you Whenever you see someone calling another creator out, look into the actual person who is doing the calling out and see if they themselves can be trusted. A lot of people assume that just because you're calling someone out that you're automatically virtuous and can be trusted, but a lot of time that's not the case. In fact, it's very lucrative right now to make videos calling other creators out and using their name. Fact: There are tons of bad actors that make a living specifically calling out people, so always familiarize yourself with everybody involved whenever you watch something with hate and then ask yourself, is this the person that can be trusted Anyways, folks! I Hope that this video was insightful and helps you learn a little bit more about different styles of trading and sort of got you on the right pathway to developing your own trading style.

I Wasn't thrilled about the idea of making a video on another creator at first, but as I got into it I was like wait a second. This is kind of cool because I can compare and contrast and see what people can learn from understanding the differences. Not. Anyways, let me know what you think in the comments section below and if there are any other topics that you'd like me to cover on a future video or something of that sort.

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