This podcast will run through the deliberation of a new investor who's seeking advice through social media.  Since fundamentals don't matter it must be the case that the masses are succeeding using alternative strategies to value investing or investing using fundamentals, right?  I'll discuss the difference in application and the evolution of a speculative trade, the mental deliberation that's responsible for influencing so many people to enter hose trades and the psychology behind second guessing those trades.  How do you want to live your life?  I've seen a number of the very few social media creators that I respected before fall victim to this line of self-indulgence that, "I can beat the S&P 500" or "Fundamentals don't matter" or "Stocks only go up..."  Inevitably individuals WILL be responsible for the decisions they make unfortunately I think the reliance on others to make those decision and buying into group think is all too often becoming the norm on social media.  I humbly offer my retort...