YouTube ‘Guru’ Who Got Rich While His Fans Got Poor
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A thorough investigation into the "stock doc's" (Meet Kevin) stock picks.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Meet Kevin: "The Stock Doc"
2:02 - Investigating Kevin’s Stock Picks
8:44 - Kevins Income from recommending stocks
9:25 - Kevin’s Stock Portfolio
12:24 - Kevin's ‘expert’ course selling
13:41 - Why Is Kevin So Bad At Picking Stocks?
15:40 - Avoid growth investing because of Kevin?
17:07 - Kevin wins, fans lose
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this was a massive amount of research. kevin has hidden all his videos now, so this research can’t be done again.
On sort of good thing for Kevin is that he was quick to admit he was wrong on FTX unlike others. Graham Stephan deleted all the videos from one of this channels that were 100% sponsored by FTX and then he wait well over a week or two before even addressing it. He thought his viewer were dumb.
Graham has always sketched me out.
He was also a real estate claim to fame, who seems to now have been focusing on TH-cam for at least 6 years full time.
These guys claim to get rich in some way, but for some reason all focus solely on TH-cam.
@jacobcoughlin1822 well he became like most gurus more money is made telling people how to do it than actually doing it yourself.
Glad to see someone finally call him out
Kevin’s etf’s returns
Since inception 37%
YTD 62%
6 months 38%
@@marketgeek2647 You're delusional. This video is a day old
theres been afew videos way before this calling him out
lol echoes been calling this dude out for ages 😂 this is nothing new☠️
He was right about Tatooed Chef, the downside WAS limited. It stopped going down at $0.
Lol
I believe he said he didn’t like it he made a video on why it’s trash and some youtuber got mad but he’s a clown every stock he says to buy short it
The other imbecile pumping that was Jeremy Lefevre, shouldn't these people be in serious trouble by now?
He's definitely a good salesman. I watched him a lot for a year or so but eventually got tired of him. Luckily I never actually followed his investing advice. He's just all over the map, probably has ADHD or some other disorder. After he posted his DUI video and was basically making a joke out of it and not admitting he messed up I stopped following him. It showed his true character. I feel bad for his wife and kids because I could definitely see him crashing down and ending in bankruptcy but who knows I guess.
Same here.
Bro is a bit of a narcissist. He kinda gasses his audience over and over again. Also, he blocks negative comments so it really hides his unlikeablity.
The DUI is when I was officially done with him. He’s out there putting people’s lives at risk and didn’t take any ownership of his actions.
when i watched his first video and i was like damn this guy is dumb. 2nd video and i block him. 😅
@@meehanasap If you really want to succeed in trading, you need to treat trading as a full-time business and not as a part-time hobby. Learning how to trade successfully can be a tough endeavour.
TH-camrs like Kevin who pumped worthless stocks in 2020 and 2021, were largely responsible for the young investors who were down 60 and 70 percent in 2022. So many of those investors were wiped out, which explains the rising popularity of SCHD and similar etfs and index funds.
Hopefully these investors learned a lesson and move on and recover over time .
@@muradshawar True! I hate to see anyone lose money, especially a young guy just starting out!
@@Duke_of_Prunes same here but it’s all part of learning I’d rather them learn when starting out vs in 10 or 20 years . They’ll always remember to stick to quality and keep spec plays limited to a very very small percentage of there portfolio
@@muradshawar Yes, I can still remember 1999 to 2000, when 40-50 year old men were taking second mortgages on their homes to buy low quality internet-based stocks. That taught me to always focus on quality. Hopefully this generation has learned the same from 2022's big dip.
Kevin’s etf’s returns
Since inception 37%
YTD 62%
6 months 38%
Looks like we need an inverse kevin index.
Kevin’s etf’s returns
Since inception 37%
YTD 62%
6 months 38%
Good luck with the etf bich
😂
@@marketgeek2647lol you could have just bought tesla clown now for the etf to tank.
He has an etf that is doing really well PP
I prefer the inverse cramer much easier to follow
I knew he was a liar when he claimed to speak German fluently…then he said he’s reading up on companies like ASML in Dutch…yet he clearly only speaks English. He even said it in a later video contradicting himself.
Kevin was the main ring leader of all youtube Gurus. He alone singlehandlely destroyed a lot of lives
There were many guru before Kevin ever made his first video on stocks.
Uhh... did you forget about Jeremy from financial education? A LOT of his picks went to zero or dropped over 95%... like TTCF, Voyager, HNST, OTLY, PLNHF, Avant brands.....
Honestly, he destroyed no one. People blindly followed him, instead of learning and doing their own thing. So, they destroyed themselves!
@@jdanruck I seriously dont know why this cooper academy guy is picking on Kevin, when there are a lot worse fake youtube gurus out there... *cough* Jeremy *cough*. That clown just sold out his OTLY shares for a greater than 95% loss...
These are ridiculous claims.
This hit piece on Meet Kevin was so incredibly deserved. The dude has been grifting his audience for so long and I hope the majority of people hit the unsubscribe button on his putrid channel. Love you guys!
I agree. Reminds me of someone familiar 20 years ago - I think it was the Infomercial Guy.
The other day a guy tried to convince me to exchange $360 USD for Vietnamese money.
Ngl, just recently I started to invest and I’m only putting money into etf and mutual funds with Fidelity. Not individual stocks, I don’t think I have the stomach for it now. Specially that I can only invest around $100-130 monthly between my brokerage and IRA. 😢
finally someone with a following calls him out
He was also promoting FTX like crazy, I think a lot of youtubers are getting paid to promote garbage for money. So be careful out there!!
Back in very late 2021 I still remember watching him on his TH-cam-channel, making fun of those people who said there would be a substantial drawdown in the markets due to rising inflation. He was laughing at those who predicted rising inflation and was 112% sure it was just transitory. When the markets then started to fall a few months later - suddenly he had turned 180 degrees and then he wanted people to believe that he had said all the time that the inflation wasn´t transitory. He just isn´t very trustworthy.
Meet Kevin will be the literal meme of the everything bubble.
Thanks for posting.
We have a number of these types posting out of the UK, almost all as you highlight are clueless but still folks follow and fall for their output.
You are doing a worth while job calling these people out.
Keep up the good work
It's quite sad to see him go down like this. Man was admirable during his first years, he preached hard work, investing in tangible assets like real estate, and just keep on holding. Now he's become the Chihuahua of TH-cam just pumping garbage stocks and bailing out.
BS. He is an honest well-educated hardworking businessman. You can’t blame anyone for what irrational markets do.
And he hasn’t gone down.
Lol.
He ain’t going anywhere.
You just been deceived. Beautiful talk, nice suit....empty from inside.
@@WorldCollectionsyour comment explains why there are 2 millions followers still following him. You people are just so simple in mind and the kind like him feed on your simple brains.
@@insanecrypto7422 Lol. 🤡
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wow that’s stirring! Do you mind connecting me to your advisor please. I desperately need one to diversified my portfolio.
Do you mind sharing info on the adviser who assisted you? I’m 40 now and would love to grow my stock portfolio and plan my retirement.
One of the biggest 🤡s on TH-cam! There are not enough videos on him to do his mistakes, grifts and lies justice!
I believe that a similar video could be created for almost any individual recommending stocks. While I value their advice and consider it as an opinion, I always make sure to conduct my own analysis. I find it beneficial to listen to different perspectives
That's good for you, but people unfortunately are fucking stupid
I don’t know, this was particularly bad
Really great video Cooper. The editing is amazing, great job. You're right, it's all about the incentives. And we finance TH-camrs must no fall into the hype-related content, it's too tempting!
Fund managers: 'We need to steal from the sheep. Kevin, you're up!'
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this video together!! So many of us have been scammed by Kevin. He even bans people from his Discord once inside if anyone speaks negative of him even though we paid his course for Discord access. Please spread this video to others.
i understand the point of this and i definitely agree w the sentiment, but a few of the stocks you listed (affirm, ttcf, etc) were calls he made then weeks or months later a fundamental part in the company had changed and he sold out much before the entire dropoff. i think thats important to include.
TTCF was fundamentaly broken from day 1 as the company lied in their investor presentations.
True. Same here, I agree with the premise, but the video was definitely a bit unfair in omitting information like that. Didn't present the complete picture.
@@NextSurvivor cope cope cope. The premise (of callouts such as this) here to highlight the over-arching grift and all its players (Kevin in this specific example). These influential figures are not who they are without an economic environment of exuberance (ahem 2020-2021). There is loss porn everywhere and no Kevin is not ultimately responsible for your individual losses, however he should be exposed for what he is....a piece of the grift.
"Incentives are what drive human behavior. Understanding incentives is the key to understanding people. Conversely, failing to recognize the importance of incentives often leads us to make major errors."
*Buying a stock is easy, but buying the right stock without a time-tested strategy is incredibly hard. Hence what are the best stocks to buy now or put on a watchlist? I’ve been trying to grow my portfolio of $560K for sometime now, my major challenge is not knowing the best entry and exit strategies... I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.*
The market is volatile at this time, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor that can provide you with entry and exit points on the shares/ETF you focus on.
I agree , I assumed I had a hang of the market at first, I gained $50k one year and I was super elated, not until I stumbled upon a portfolio-advisor whose been guiding me since the market's been sham after the pandemic, to my utmost surprise I nettd a whooping $280K during this dip, that made it clear there's more to the market that we average joes don't know
That's fascinating. How can I contact your Asset-coach as my portfolio is dwindling
stephanie morgann is widely known. You can verify her and use her services if you want.
@@cubinn4142 The erosion of my financial reserves due to inflation adds to my concerns. At this point, I require precise market trajectory information, but I find myself unsure about the appropriate course of action.
Great video. After losing money myself in several of his stock picks, I've resigned to the fact that I watch him for entertainment only, he is the absolute worst at stock picking. Although I would listen to him regarding real estate, in which he is an expert in. Real estate, yes; stocks, no.
To be fair, on the TTCF pick, he did say to get out of that well before it went bankrupt. Probably around $15 a share, he was already against that stock. So it's actually very unfair to fully discredit him on that pointing out that it's now pennies a share. And if you're going to point out his ETF, you should mention that it has outperformed the market significantly both year to date and since inception, a result of timing, really, but still.
Never take stock advice from anyone. Even if they are professionals. Play your own hand. Learning different approaches is what is alright and mesh them together to fit your risk tolerance and intuition.
I think with any person that gives stock breakdowns or news you take it with a grain of salt and you need to take your own due diligence to verify their findings.
Kevin is the Jim Cramer of youtube
Cramer is at least watchable from time to time, but Kevin is insufferable!
Thx for taking a time to do the research, it is extremely important.
I'm surprised you chose Kevin to do this type of video on. Please do a video on Jeremy from Financial Education! A LOT of his picks went to zero or dropped over 95%... like TTCF, Voyager, HNST, OTLY, PLNHF, Avant brands... Only reason his "Public" portfolio is up so much this year was because he had money from his viewers and subscribers to re-invest when the stock market was at its low in 2022.
Well it was really strange, when back in 2020 this guy kinda just was "there" and had a +20 mio USD stock account. I watched a few videos for entertainment and realized that he actually selling "investing courses". Then in late 2021 if I recall it correctly, we shows how accounts in one video. Man, the accounts where all over the place, he as trading ARK-stocks back and fourth, had forgotten that he owned this and that stock, his position sizes made absolutely no sense, like 10% Tesla and 0,0003 % Docusign etc. Then our beloved "long term investor", sold all stocks on one monday in 2022, just after proclaiming he wouldnt sell any stocks the friday before. Considering that the overall stock market crashed a bit more than it had already crashed at that point, potentially made him look like a great markettimer. That made me especially mad haha
Kevin even recommended Kabbage for PPP loans. But Kabbage also went Bankrupt and scammed small
Business by not giving forgiveness when there is legitimate reason for doing so. Kevin is the master of recommending bad companies.
great video! thx for the effort put into it for the rest of us!
P.s. ad revenue is little compared what you get for getting new clients to any broker . Lifetime spreads cuts, new client arival bonus and more
Awesome video. Wow, detail and well outlined. Love it
Damn, wasn't expecting this deepdive at all. Great video
It''s the people who buy those courses and listen to what he's saying that made all this, people are so gullible these days, I mean of all the places to get financial advice, meetKevin? really?!
The only way you make money off of his advice is to literally buy and sell when he does. Because he made off like a bandit. Buying and holding and DCA would have ruined you if you took most of his picks.
DCA works both ways. If a stock has had major growth and is well beyond your original position size, it's time to start averaging out and get it back to your original percentage. You can't buy the dip if you don't sell the rip.
Well to his credit, he now has his own ETF (PP) so you can track his official record publicly.
PP is up 30%
Finally, someone exposed this guy!!
An important thing not mentioned here is that when the market started dropping in 2021 he was one of the only finance TH-camrs telling everyone to bail and he even shorted some stocks and then bought back in near the bottom. His portfolio has actually done really well.
This is kind of context, but not the fullest, don't you think?
But based on "influencers" you can be making the wrong decisions.
He was speaking about investing in Peloton unironically 😂, I never took his advise or research seriously.
Still he has more success in his passionate sham live style that we could ever dream, so congratulations to him! 🎉
Short everything this man touches
Excellent video and very good research into yet another successful Con Man. It's amazing what charisma can achieve, as we have seen with Kevin, DJT and countless others. As PT Barnum said so long ago, "There's a sucker born every minute". Kevin's success is inevitably transient due to his shallow pool of quality content and I'll bet $10 that this channel is thriving well in 2 years and Mr. Kevin is in the Internet History Museum. (BTW, you have a new subscriber).
Trump 2024, you fwit
This guy is intelligent, energetic, ambitious , very hard working and a slime ball that you could not trust a word that comes out of his mouth
Memo to TH-camrs, NEVER RECOMMEND STOCKS! YOU END UP GETTING INTO A LOT LESS TROUBLE THAT WAY!
Earlier this year, he "Made a promise" video, promising to never run another ad on his channel. About 40 days later, he had his channel covered in ads again. Not only had he started pushing more ads on his channel, he was even running a streaming ad banner across the bottom of his screen.
Great video, thanks for these contents !!
That title and into hit hard. You're doing a good service to the community with this video I guess.
Thanks for exposing these grifters!
I guess is never to late to start exposing this kind of people. I remember MK from 2 years ago when I was new to the stock market I did trusted that dude I even bought one of his courses, what a big mistake 😢
I remember when he first started talking about the market. And within weeks, he had courses to sell
After seeing this, I'm seriously considering following Kevin and shorting any stocks he picks.
Good work mate. You win the prize for honest investigative financial TH-cam journalism.
I mean statistics speak against growth investing, the value premium is very robust. But a lot of it is caused by low profitability, and insane valuations through low discount rates and extreme growth expectations, which makes them bad investments during euphoria times.
Rule number 1 in youtube finance content. If the youtuber doesn't tell you not to simply believe in him and think/analyze for yourself, then there is a high chance that it be a scam.
EXCELLENT content! I hope you do a video on Stock Moe. There’s a lot of shady TH-camrs who pump up stocks and try to sell their advertisements.
You may need as much as $2.6 million to maintain your current lifestyle due to inflation, which will continue to be impacted by high inflation, lower market returns or value projections, and stagnant wages. Achieving a secure early retirement may be more challenging than ever.
An obvious investment approach to a recession is to buy stocks in companies that are likely to have steady demand even in a recession. Typically, these are major consumer goods, utilities and healthcare companies. Of course, this kind of decision is not for the average person to make and an investment advisor is highly recommended.
You're right! These factors certainly play a role when I'm considering whether or not I should buy a stock, but I never buy a stock based purely on these factors. I always seek the advice of my financial advisor, who has helped me earn more than $300,000 in a diversified portfolio that has experienced exponential growth.
@@Jack-smith991 How can I contact him?
@@Martin-Combs123 Well I will put his info below this comment. You can look up his name and you will see all you need to know about him
Daniel Price CFA
The unfortunate thing…EVERYBODY who is a content creator is in it for the money. We wouldn’t have so many content creators if money wasn’t involved.
Even calling out people for wrongdoing is a profitable niche on TH-cam and social media…
This is a great video production. Great job to you and your team. Oh yeah, Tattooed Chef went bankrupt to.
bro the intro just did it for me, rflmao!
Honest channel! Subbed brother
Excellent breakdown of his agenda and approach, good work.
Wow, I knew Meet Kevin was off on some picks but not to this extent. Best moment was when Kevin said " you will never see me sell a how to pick stocks course" and then later on that is exactly what he did. He also just basically laughed off his DUI arrest and DUI'S are never funny. Would of been a great used car salesman.......
I watch him occasionally usually for an earnings report or a fed meeting analysis. I'm not really big on stock tips from anyone.
Thanks bro I totally agree with your video
It's amazing what good looks and a slick personality will accomplish in a relatively short time frame.
I only started making money in the stock market once I started listening to SOME of his advice, because i switched from swing trading to paying attention to macro economics stuff, but I learned to not touch those type of small cap "disruptor" companies and stuck to the big boys making hundreds of billions already.
Thanks for your valuble research.
Hi cooper, Please i need link to your academy
SHOULD BE IN PRISON...CRIME DOES PAY
Buy companies that make money, don't buy companies that don't make money.
I think this video is spot on. But it should include that Kevin changes his mind all the time about his stock picks etc. He can "flip flop" as he says himself from one week to the next. But ofcours he is a terrible stock picker. He is very good at talking. But he spends so much time on TH-cam and real estate that he does not have time to analyze stocks as is needed to be a good stock picker. By the way, you could make the same video about Jeremy Lefevbre or Financial Education. He is just as horrible an investor as MeetKevin.
I guess he will be taking over mad money when Jim retires :)
The full saying is "The jack of all trades a master of none, is sometimes better than a master of one"
Can you please tell me how to get that sound? I buy it but not get a good right sound. Someone have some tips for me?
I new he was no good when I saw the DUI video of him getting arrested driving drunk.
Welcome back 👍
Everybody sounds like a financial guru during a bull market.
The amount of hustle and effort he puts into his videos is admirable, but he is not an expert in stock picking. He is an expert in sales and marketing and making money
*How dare you? He's the savior of California... running for governor as, "Meet Keven". We Indians love him because of his CUPON.*
Any TH-camr who’s monetized is not going to give you good advice. The corporations pay these guys good money to give out bad information.
They will be concealed if they give out good information.
Now you know.
There is an early video of him talking about real estate. He says he feels great about investing in real estate because he knows nothing about the stock market- his words!!
please make more of videos like this.
My favorite word out of meat Kevin’s mouth is Ooppsie doopsies.
Love this vid! Any "advice" from him is down... A lot! These Gurus got me excited about investing in the first place but everyone can outgrow them fast! Robinhood was an entry, but with financial education you are already ahead no matter what!
Thanks for doing this. Meet Kevin should be kicked off of TH-cam. His picks are terrible!
The only problem is you have to sell as well when he sells. You can't just look at old video and pick all. Most have them he would have sold off already while most other folks are sitting on it
I've seen a couple of his videos. He has all the quality of a snake oil saleman
Easy to make this video after 2022 😂
The most laughable recommendation was Netflix and Peleton, then some vegan burger company. Anyone with a brain 🧠 could see the worst stock picks Kevin did 😂
Shift technology was recommended by him and went bankrupt too. ...good video.
I owned shares in all of Kevin's stocks, but they were trades. You get in and you get out. I don't look at speculative stocks like it is General Mills or something boring I can buy and sleep well at night even if my investment crashed.
Meet Kevin promoting a stock I was short was a bit spooky for me, because it did pump it and make me redder before I was green.
One thing i have noticed was that they make money from courses and youtube revenue. They use that money for investing so they don't have to use their own money to pile on risky investments. That's my thought with him. Although he was on millennial money, he already had wealth from real estate. Just a thought.
meet kevin always looked like a sociopath to me.
He is a textbook psychopath. People mix them up, but rule of thumb. Sociopaths tend to be introverted and may only be harmful to a few people in their circle, example a spouse, a coworker, immediate family, etc. Psychopaths tend to be extroverted and have no empathy or remorse hurting strangers, large groups of people, etc. The seek power, attention, money, etc. Example, celebrities, politicians, CEOs, etc
Lol, he has been high on some very bad stocks. Most of those you had I missed his videos on, but I do know flipped on TTCF when it was around 25 dollars, I remember that one. I will say his videos covering the minutes for the fed etc are pretty interesting. I would never invest because of his opinion on something but his insight does sometimes give you something to think about. More than I can say about most TH-cam videos
Thank you for making this video! ❤️ It's 100% correct what you say. I'm very sad I listened to him. I invested so much money on his recommendations and I've lost 15-18000$ so far. That's a lot for me. I'm still bagholding just in case some of the companies will short squeeze to Heaven or something. He is an extremely skilled charlatan for sure. Easy to get sucked into his crap. Bad person overall I think.. :(
This video is a great eye opener, also not to mention there is also a police cam video on youtube where Kevin got arrested for driving drunk. Kevin is definitely not a trustworthy person. He is more like Charly Ponzi, a confidence man to loose all your money.
The government needs to make an example out of these grifters. Lock'em up.
With hair THAT green, how could he possibly be wrong? 🤔