Knowing what you came from and what you used to do, you're pretty discouraged that you see Christians celebrating Halloween.
Why?
I don't know how you can cheat on God.
I don't know how you can cheat on the Lord Jesus Christ because I don't see sickness coming on Good Friday and coming and hanging out with us, right?
You know, I come out on Halloween, I had a demonic wedding.
Why would you put your kids, your family, why would you put your purpose, your destiny, why would you put your whole eternity in a demonic altar?
But people say it's just fun, candy, kids are having costumes on, but you say it's much more.
The candy, you know, I never shared this before, but this candy, people from different walks of life pray over these candies, witchcraft, they pray over the candies.
You're not gonna, people, though, you don't know the person that you're not gonna know, she's a witch.
Okay, you don't know she's a witch, she's doing Wicca, she's practicing New Age, and you knock on her door, and you come in in legal rights of this witch, or this wall, or this person's practicing this stuff, giving you this kind of candy.
Now you're taking that stuff home, you put that stuff into your body.
Amen?
And on top of that, Emton Levain said, out of his mouth, you know, he was the ruler of the Church of Satan, right?
Out of his mouth, he said, I want to thank every Christian parent For allowing their child to celebrate Halloween one time a year.
The devil's holiday.
And it took Adam and Eve to lose everything because of one mistake.
Man, I love that interview with John Ramirez.
It's real.
I mean, Halloween should not be celebrated at all.
Like, the enemy shows up in many ways.
I said in the last podcast, as you guys remembered, that he shows up in our money.
He shows up in movies.
He shows up in music.
He shows up in our church.
He can show up in your children's school.
We have to be armored on a day to day basis we have to literally pick up our word and protect ourselves.
This is no joke anymore.
I have this here.
This is my Bible.
It's Commentary Bible with John Kirsten.
We have to arm ourselves with the word, guys.
I could talk to the cows come home about market manipulations and stock market gains and safe money strategies and how to reduce the taxation on your portfolios.
That stuff is easy.
What I can't do is tell you to humble yourselves and get on your knees and accept Christ as your Lord and Savior.
This is an atrocity that's happening right now with our children.
And you guys know what's going on with the children.
And this Halloween, it's just...
I'm not celebrating it.
I never have.
I grew up not celebrating it.
I'm okay.
I'm teaching my children.
Look, if you want candy and cavities, I'll give you the candy and I'll pay for the cavities.
But we're not dressing up.
We're not participating in this nonsense.
So, make sure when you say Happy Halloween, make sure that you aren't bringing those curses to your family.
That's what Satan wants from you.
He wants to kill, devour, and destroy you.
But we have a bigger God.
We have a bigger protection.
We already know how the story ends.
So, for those of you that are actually participating in Halloween, you probably noticed when you went to the drugstore, CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Sam's, Target, wherever you buy your candy, that it was very expensive.
Extremely expensive.
It's not just toilet paper anymore and gas and food.
It's stinking candy.
Candy is very expensive.
I'm not much of a sweet tooth person, but I do like those Tootsie Rolls, those fruit ones, the flavored ones.
Those are so good.
But the content on those things are ridiculous and sugar.
And if we look, actually, you know, I'm going to be a geek about this and nerd about it.
I want to show you the charts.
Why in the world is candy so expensive?
The easy answer is, you know, Biden, right?
That's the easy answer.
But it doesn't make mathematical sense.
It doesn't make quantitative or qualitative sense.
So if I bust out the sugar chart here...
We already spoke about the death crosses last podcast.
We're going to talk about golden crosses.
Now golden crosses are the opposite of death crosses.
When you see a golden cross, this basically means the short-term moving averages cross over the long-term moving averages.
Insinuating that there's going to be a rally, but this rally will have legs.
It will be sustainable.
And check out this chart on sugar.
It just skyrockets as soon as it happens.
And that was early in September.
So we've had a whole month and a half of just complete skyrocket sugar prices.
And this is why candy is so expensive right now.
So what we do here at my firm, Cortez Wealth, we look at charts.
We look at analysis.
We look at technical analysis.
You guys know I don't like Biden.
You guys know I'm far right.
You guys understand where I stand politically.
It's not a secret.
And I have to move all that to the side.
Just like a weightlifter is in a gym exercising and he wants to isolate a certain muscle, he's going to target that muscle group.
He doesn't care what anyone thinks.
He is looking at himself in the mirror to make sure that particular muscle is being worked out.
It's the same thing here.
The charts do not lie.
The mirror does not lie.
When you take your blood and you get your lipid test and you want to see your markers and your cholesterol and your A1C and your triglycerides and your wrist measures for heart attack.
I just went through all that.
Thank God I'm a clean bill of health.
But it doesn't lie.
Doesn't matter how you feel.
Doesn't matter what your neighbor says or WebMD says or this causing cancer properties.
Guys, I was res demivered.
I was res demivir-ed in the hospital.
Literally almost got ventilated in 2020.
The Delta strain.
You guys remember that?
I was res demivir-ed.
I've been checking my blood the past...
Every three months I'm checking my blood to make sure...
Because I was freaked out.
I'm like, oh man, I hear all these things about lungs and your kidneys going belly up.
My kidneys are clear.
My A1C has lowered.
My lungs have fully been restored by the grace of God.
There is nothing going on.
My triglycerides are level, cholesterol is level.
Even though I gained a little weight because I ate like a madman, I'm still healthy as a horse, clean bill of health.
And I honestly believe it's because I have been bold about my faith.
I have been bold about reading my scriptures.
I've been seeking God.
He promises good health.
It's biblical.
He promises good health.
So I am grateful for that beyond measure.
And as you know, resdemivir, yeah, it can kill you.
It can kill you.
But God has different plans.
And so that's why I can tell you about anything that's stock market related.
I can tell you about market updates.
I can tell you, oh yeah, there's a golden cross on sugar.
And when you celebrate Halloween and you're buying all this candy, you're going to pay.
Not just spiritually, but financially as well.
And you're cursing the children that are coming to your door saying trick or treat.
This is a whole scheme from the devil, man.
And the biggest trick or treaters are people that go to church.
I don't get it.
You could drive around your neighborhood and they have trunk or treats.
That's going to be safer.
Oh, man.
Oh, let me dress up like little angels.
Yeah, give me a break.
I'm telling you, man, we've gotten weak.
We've gotten weak in our faith.
We've been gummy bear pastors.
We haven't been doing the things of God.
We now accept gays in the church, like gay pastors.
We've completely walked away from being Christ-led to positive thinking, new error.
And, you know, I really see a lot of people going back to an Orthodox church rather than a Protestant church.
Because even people are waking up.
As these pastors are preaching, you know, come as you are, and it's okay to be gay and celebrate Halloween and get drunk and show up on Sundays.
Like, I really believe that God will not bless that.
I mean, we have to...
And this is not a message, right?
This is not a message to your feelings.
You're probably thinking, oh man, this guy is...
This guy is a...
I don't even care what you think.
This is myself, right?
So I'm being real authentic and raw.
And you can't have all these blessings, especially financial blessings, and expect you to live an ungodly life It doesn't work like that, homie.
Like, God will not be mocked.
He will humble you.
Look what he's done to my uncle.
Look what he's done to me, for crying out loud.
Right?
You guys know my testimony.
I'll do a whole podcast on my testimony soon.
I have to share it.
I have to get it off my chest.
But, yeah, the charts on sugar, man, it's a golden cross.
It's skyrocketing.
It's skyrocketing.
Now, we can go...
And say, oh yeah, it's Joe Biden's fault.
It's inflation's fault.
It's the war on Israel and Ukraine and Russia and its supply-demand issue.
Guys, it's the chart.
The charts are the charts.
And I can't look at all the politics and all the conspiracy theories and all of that because if we're working out a muscle, I'm putting my headphones on and I'm working out that muscle.
I'm not listening to what people are saying or these ads on gold and silver and this and that.
I'm looking at the charts.
And that's what you need to focus on because the banks already know how you think.
They study behavioral finance.
They understand that the evangelical Christian, the right-wing Christian, they have all the money.
They already know exactly how you're going to think.
And they already are ready to pull up booby-trapped setups, inoculations right before it happens.
And here we are.
Oh, I don't like Joe Biden.
I don't like Joe Biden.
And that anti-Joe Biden person is going to do this, this, and that.
And we're going to set up booby traps, rug pulls, bear market rallies, market manipulations, pull the carpet underneath them, and we win.
You have to think ahead.
If I showed you the trading floors, these guys are MIT grads, man.
Yale grads.
The smartest and smartest in the world.
And there's hundreds of them trading against you.
They already know this stuff.
I'm telling you.
It's so manipulated.
It's all rigged.
And speaking about that, We got these fake GDP numbers, right?
What was it?
5.9?
4.9?
I don't even remember.
4.9.
Let me look it up real quick.
So we have a high GDP number.
And Bidenomics, right?
They're trying to go for a win here.
Yeah, let me just double check.
Yep, gross domestic product expanded at 4.9 season and inflation adjusted annual rate in the third quarter.
More than double the second quarter pace.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday.
The acceleration won't change if Federal Reserve plans to hold rates steady at their next meeting.
So the U.S. economy grew 4.9.
Yeah, all the Democrats, crack addicts have said, Yeah, I told you, I told you, the Democrats, we just clean up.
Meanwhile...
We got 200 people in Israel that are dying.
We have fentanyl.
Our youth are dying from fentanyl overdose.
All these...
We don't know what kind of people running up the border.
New York is now saying, hey, we don't have any room.
You could fly to Louisville, Kentucky, and there's a boatload of immigrants there.
There's a boatload of Raleigh and North Carolina.
There's a boatload out in Denver, Colorado.
All these rural places...
All across the map of the United States, they're infiltrating these areas.
They're finding land that us U.S. citizens never took advantage of, of the lower prices and a booming economy.
That's what is going on here, guys.
They are literally breaking down ground into their ferret.
Well, let me tell you something.
I really believe that the Latino community would actually help us I'm not saying open the borders, but I really believe the legal ones, because we tend to be more conservative.
We tend to be more God-fearing.
And if we make up half of the population, especially if we get as Americanized, eventually we'll get Americanized.
Not everyone comes here legally, like my parents did, and fought for our country.
But one thing that we really need to do is put all these immigrants...
In the uniform.
You want to earn your citizenship?
Go fight our war.
Take a bullet in the ass and see how that feels.
And then we can talk about your U.S. citizenship and the right to vote and the right to collect welfare if that is reasonable and Social Security.
But all we got to do is tax these guys, put the uniform on them, and we'll have this thing solved in a heartbeat.
But I'm not running for politics anytime soon.
I like what I do now.
Anyway, so...
So talking about the manipulations of the market, we already know gold is shooting up like crazy.
Here's a gold cross on gold.
Check this out.
So let me just show this to you right now.
Like gold is skyrocketing.
And so is Bitcoin.
Here's a chart on Bitcoin.
There's a golden cross on Bitcoin.
There's a golden cross on gold.
So market...
It goes havoc.
A lot of chaos in the market.
A lot of uncertainty.
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
VIX is shooting up.
There's a golden cross on a VIX. People are running to Bitcoin.
People are running to gold.
Bitcoin, as you know, is like the digital gold.
It's the same type of crowd.
It's my generation's version of gold.
Bitcoin is said to be over 100,000.
In projected growth, we'll see.
It's all speculation.
But what is not speculation is that there is a golden cross, meaning that there is a huge rally that is coming.
And it's already up 20% this month.
And typically with Bitcoin, you're going to see a rally in the winter and then a correction in the spring.
If you look at the history, the monthly performances of Bitcoin in October, September, Q3 is when it always rallies.
Also, there's a halving of next month, so less production of Bitcoin will be produced by next year through the halving.
So generally speaking, there will be a just-on-supply-and-demand that will go up as well.
And if you guys know, every four years, the production of Bitcoin goes down to halving.
So that is something else.
So the other thing I wanted to mention...
If your advisor is not telling you to get out of the market, what are you doing?
I mean, in my opinion, we should be in treasuries and cash right now.
Oh, and let me say my legal disclosure here.
I am not giving investment advice.
Everything on this podcast is for educational purposes only.
This is not investment advice.
I am securities licensed, but everything on this podcast is for educational purposes only.
If you are interested in booking an appointment with us, all you got to do is go to CortezWM.com or just simply call us 813-448-3446.
And we can meet virtually.
We can meet on FaceTime, Zoom, just a regular phone call.
Or in person.
So, if that's you, do not hesitate.
We feel that there is a market correction coming like you would never believe.
And we want to make sure that you're prepared for that.
And it's not due to politics.
It's due to what the charts say, by the way.
So, the other thing, I want to go back to my charts.
KRE. Holy smokes.
You guys know we've been talking about KRE for a minute.
A minute.
So if you look at KRE, there's a death cross right on February 22, September 2023, just this past month.
There's been a massive decline in bank regionals.
As rising interest rates happen, it's putting more strain on our regional banks.
So this is why I said state chartered banks are going to be a lot safer than your bigger banks or even regionals.
State chartered banks still have a backup system.
They just don't use the FDIC.
They use their state localized insurance.
But I do like state chartered banks.
Most of them are not signed up with the FedNow program, and you still need to pay bills.
We still got to pay bills.
We still got to do our everyday deals.
So look for a state chartered bank at your bank.
In my opinion, that's going to be a lot safer than the bigger banks that you see on Wall Street.
But yeah, KRE, man, like holy smokes, it's already at 3841, and it's just been a downward spiral, guys.
Downward spiral.
Very upsetting, but it's going to get worse, in my opinion, because we have $400 billion in commercial real estate loans that are maturing, and they're going to have to somewhat figure out what they're going to do with properties.
Are they going to stay there?
Are they going to refinance at a higher interest rate?
Something tells me that they're not.
More people are working from home.
Just doesn't make sense.
So I wanted to bring up silver real quick.
Silver is very interesting.
Boom!
It just plummets.
It just plummets hard.
And then once it hits that bottom, it retraces all the way back up and touches that previous support resistance.
Actually, the resistance where it came back.
Then there's this little wick that goes past the resistance of the previous level.
And this typically is a tall-tail sign that it's going to screech right back down.
And this is what I'm predicting, that it's going to drop Pretty much at the same level where it did on September, pretty much actually October 3rd.
So if you look at the price of silver October 3rd, that's where I'm targeting where silver is going to be.
So if you're purchasing silver, I would wait until we hit that bottom because it is going to melt down, in my opinion.
Of course, this is not a stock recommendation.
This is just me giving out an opinion and should be used for educational purposes only.
So, they already know.
What I'm getting at is the banks already know this.
They already know that you're running and purchasing silver.
These puppies, right?
Silver.
And if you are trying to purchase silver, I highly recommend that you call our friends at Cornerstone.
And Cornerstone is just an amazing group.
They are a great partner of the show.
And I don't agree that you need to put all your assets into silver or precious metals.
But, give them a call if you are interested in buying precious metals.
They can ship it right to your door.
Pure as heck.
I mean, these things are pure.
So pure.
And what I do like about silver is they're...
You're not in a bank.
You're not dealing with...
You're just not dealing with any of, like, cost-based issues.
You're not dealing with the security on that, of, you know, account statements.
It's tangible.
It's run for the hills type of money.
But you can call them 888-747-3309.
If you're going to buy precious metals, do it responsibly.
Buy it at different time frames.
So if you had $50,000 that you want to buy...
Buy some at like $20,000 and then another $10,000 different date and then the rest on another different date.
Just space it out.
You don't have to buy it all up front.
Unless you want to.
I'm just saying you want to be prudent about the time frames of when you're buying it.
So, yeah, we recommend that if you're going to buy precious metals, do it with a Christian-based organization that doesn't charge over 20% commissions to buy or sell it.
Also, Be very mindful of charts, guys.
Be very mindful of the charts.
You always want to look at the cost and where the price projections are at.
Stay tuned with us.
We'll always keep you updated on that.
But yeah, I just wanted to talk about...
Just Halloween.
And it really was weighing on my...
Because my kids...
My kids were asking, Hey, are we dressing up?
And they know that we don't dress up.
And they wanted to do...
They wanted to do like...
A family night.
So what we do at my house is we do a family night.
We just watch a movie and have popcorn and make it a family night.
Shut the lights off and we just make it a family night.
So I love that.
I would encourage you to really consider if you're celebrating Halloween that you don't want those demonic spirits for generations in your family.
So I pray that you can get some discernment there.
And that things work out for you.
Hey, cool news, man.
My uncle is out, discharged today.
So thank you for your prayers on that.
That has been just a huge relief for me.
And as you guys know, if you missed it, last podcast I had mentioned that my uncle...
Had a seizure.
And he has seizure complications from a stroke he had several years ago.
And we just don't know where it's coming from.
And anyway, he's getting discharged today.
And he's on medication, but he's doing so much better.
He got ventilated.
So I was really, really, I was really down.
I was not crying.
I was petitioning to God, please save his life.
Please save his life.
And it worked out.
It worked out.
So...
There is a lot of chaos.
I say all this because there's so much chaos.
We have Bitcoin going up.
We have gold going up.
But silver is going down.
The market is going down.
KRE, the regional banks are going down.
If I can make it really simple...
What I would recommend is having an insurance contract that will protect your principal, that can do all these gold crosses.
They can look at the golden cross, the death crosses.
They can look at harmonics.
They can look at all the technical analysis, make trades on a day-to-day basis, and if they screw up, you lose nothing.
This is what we call principal protection safe money strategies that literally will protect your retirement.
You don't want your advisor doing this stuff.
You don't want your advisor doing this stuff.
You want a financial institution doing this on your behalf so your account can grow, so that you can be protected from all the manipulations.
Because if they're the ones with the block trading capabilities, they're market movers.
And so, in this environment, you need artificial intelligence.
You need human day traders.
You need volume with armory.
All that wrapped up together To protect you.
And the only way I know that works are our safe money contracts.
I don't have time to talk about those today, but you can look at all the podcasts.
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But basically what's going to happen is you really only need four sectors in retirement to really be To really be efficient.
And the 60-40 model that has been taught for the past 70 years is dead.
And we'll talk about the death of the 60-40 model in the next podcast.
Let me write that down.
So what I was saying is that the safe money contracts really only have four different asset classes.
So we have, imagine having an account where Imagine having an account where it can go to treasuries, it could go to S&P 500, it can go to NASDAQ, and when interest rates rise and there's a lot of market volatility, wars, printing money, inflation, real estate crisis, etc., we can go to commodities and make money off of those devastations.
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Most advisors don't have access to this if you're with a big conglomerate because they generally don't make money off safe money contracts.
We have insurance on our house, our cars, our dogs, our cell phones.
You can even get travel insurance, but most people are running around with no insurance on their money.
And they're worried about a global reset.
Well, where's the insurance on this puppy?
This is not insurance, guys.
This is just an hedge.
You need a contractual agreement protecting your principal.
And a little bit of this as well.
It doesn't hurt.
And some managed money.
And you're going to be okay through our covenant process.
We're consistent.
We're not killing it in the market.
We're not losing a ton in the market.
We're consistent.
And if that's what you want, then give us a call.
We're here to help.
But I just don't want you guys to fear and be a victim of this next market correction.
And as we get into 2024, as we get into the holidays, there's no need to fear, guys.
My scripture today is Jeremiah 2911.
I've said this like a broken record so many times.
for I know the plans I have for you declares Lord plans to prosper you, not to harm you plans to give you hope in a future.
You get to say those verses.
If you believe in him, you get to say those verses.
You get to utter those words.
If your name is in the book of life.
You get to say those words if you confess that Jesus is Lord.
That you are a sinner and that you need him forever in your heart.
You get to say these words, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
Plans to give you hope and a future.
You get to say those words if you just ask them in your heart.
And I'm actually talking to you because you may think that you're a Christian, but you haven't been intimate with God.
You haven't opened up your Bible.
You haven't loved your brother.
You haven't loved your neighbor.
You've been stealing.
You've been cheating in your ways.
You've been seeking comfort and not going through the painful process.
Of getting it right.
Financially and spiritually.
Physically.
I'm calling you.
I'm challenging you.
So that you get to earn this scripture.
For I know I have the plans for you.
Declares the Lord.
Plans to prosper you.
Not to harm you.
Plans to give you hope in the future.
You can't say those words if you're living like a bat out of hell.
Monday through Friday, and come Sunday, you're showing up like a drunken bastard in a pew.
How on earth is God going to give you His promises when you don't even acknowledge Him as a Father?
We don't even live that lifestyle.
So I love this verse, because to me, I look at it as...
Man, God has us in the palm of His hand.
He already knows that if you're screwed up in life, if you're depressed, if you're sick, He already has that in store for you because He believes in the test.
He already knows He has the plans for you.
Plans to prosper you, not to harm you.
And so we ask ourselves, like, why am I losing money?
Why is things not working out?
Why am I upset with my wife?
Why am I not intimate with my kids?
Why have my kids gone astray?
I mean, it's the Romans 8.28, right?
All things work for the greater good who loves Christ Jesus.
We get to say that if we love Him.
And all things do work out.
And He says, For I know I have the plans for you, declares the Lord.
But we have to accept Him, guys.
It's really that simple.
We have to accept Him.
We have to live it out in our lives.
It shows up financially.
It shows up with our health.
It shows up in so many ways.
So I just ask you, invite Christ in your heart.
I use this platform, yes, to talk about money.
Money fascinates me.
The markets fascinates me.
Politics fascinates me.
There's a lot of things that fascinate me.
But one thing I will always do is the aim is the cross.
Whether I use money or sports or politics or...
Comedy, whatever you want.
I just want to have a platform so you know that the true riches is in Christ Jesus alone.
Guys, I'm out of here.
Excuse me.
Allergies are getting better.
I'm actually praying for my dad.
You guys saw my dad a few weeks ago.
He is actually going to the Rise of Kings event, pastors event.
And I'm going to be taking pictures.
I'm going to be volunteering.
It's going to be life-changing.
We're going to go through some pain.
We're going to do some work.
And my dad's going to come out, even though he's 70 years old, he's going to come out like a beast, like just a...
Just a warrior.
A warrior, man.
So I'm really excited.
So I'm going to be taping early the podcast for next week.
I'll be doing it Sunday night.
So if I'm a little off on my news and my current, you know why.