Ricky Gutierrez is a 28-year-old entrepreneur and CEO of Techbud Solutions with a net worth of $3 million according to Techiegamers.com. I first came across Ricky on YouTube from the recommended videos list. The title had a click bait headline – “How I made $200,000 by the age of 21” and an eye-catching thumbnail. After watching that video, I learned that not all of the $200,000 was earned from day trading stocks. He made the money through various entrepreneurial ventures and real estate, buying his first property at 20!
He seems like an honest, likeable guy and understands a lot about investing for someone who’s in his mid-20’s. His latest course, Learn Plan Profit is perfect for beginners interested in learning the basics of stock trading within an interactive community.
In addition to following Ricky, Humbled Trader and Steven Dux are other traders worth watching, Dux has over $10 million in verified profits.
YouTube Channel
Over the last 4 years, his YouTube channel has grown in popularity and has built a large following. He teaches newbies the basics and fundamentals of trading penny stocks along with some real estate investing advice.
His channel appeals mostly to young millennials, new to the stock market. Gutierrez uploads free helpful lessons teaching others how to build watchlists, read stock charts and answers questions related to penny stocks.
Ricky is currently mentoring his younger sister, taking someone with zero knowledge of the stock market, giving her a simple framework to follow and teaching strategies to grow her Robinhood account. It’s funny how he avoids revealing her name to avoid creepy guys stalking her!
Techbud Solutions
During his videos, he continually advertises his Facebook group, Techbud Solutions. It’s a group of like-minded individuals who share ideas and learn together. Techbud Solutions has attracted a staggering 283,097 members, that’s an impressive feat!
The Facebook group isn’t very active, but the discord groups are active. There are separate groups for different financial assets such as cryptocurrency, stocks and real estate. While the groups are free to join, Ricky does have a premium course on the Teachable platform for people looking to take their education to the next level.
Learn Plan Profit
After years of producing free content, Ricky finally decided to monetize to his video lessons. Learn Plan Profit provides a solid framework for beginners traders to learn the basics of stock trading.
The course covers:
- Strategies to find hot stocks worth trading.
- Risk management and technical analysis.
- Best indicators and chart patterns to follow.
- Mindset lessons with a strong focus consistency and personal growth.
- How to scan for swing trades and top the six golden rules which indicate the best time to buy.
- How to trade ETFs – talks about building watch-lists, chart patterns and futures.
- Quizzes to help members learn and retention information.
- Bonus content offers advice on real estate investing and reselling exotic cars for hefty profits.
Some people think if they sign up they’ll be driving around in a Lamborghini within six months. To get to Ricky’s level, it will take years of dedication to learning. Ricky’s success didn’t happen overnight. He revealed before in an interview he traded penny stocks for five years without making money.
Is Ricky a Scam?
My initial review of Ricky was negative mainly because I’m a sceptical person. I saw this young guy driving around in a McLaren, talking about real estate/day trading and immediately thought scam artist!
Selling trading courses is a lucrative niche, day traders such as Jason Bond and Cameron Fous make millions every year through selling education to newbies. Low-priced stocks are prone to manipulation so I presumed Ricky’s plan was to build up a large following to sell alerts or pump worthless penny stocks.
Ricky is a savvy online marketer and understands how to build an audience using the power of YouTube. His channel has 780,000 followers approximately and his videos have attracted millions of views. He creates eye-catching thumbnails, with a headline to attract views – “how to make $100 a day in the stock market.”
Recently he uploaded a video where he picked up a random stranger in his McLaren supercar. The video is a clever viral marketing tactic to advertise his service and appeal to a wider audience outside of his normal viewers. More than likely this video will receive well over 100,000 views.
Although I dislike the way he drives around in super cars, advertising this cool lifestyle, the videos serve as motivation for his students. Too many people within the finance industry are so formal and boring, learning about technical analysis isn’t fun.
Ricky is an exception, he likes to create videos to make trading more entertaining. Listening to some online educators talk about resistance and support levels in a dull, monotone voice turns beginners away from the industry.
Conclusion
There are hundreds of people online selling day trading courses purely to make money off young naive millennials and I hate seeing people getting scammed. I think Ricky is a great teacher for new traders without any experience.
In my opinion, charging $350 is too expensive for the average person. It would be more reasonable to charge a smaller fee of $150 or offer membership for $50 per month.
James Kelly is my name and penny stocks are my game! Former day trader turned long-term investor with a decade of experience in the market. Over the years, I’ve joined dozens of trading services and I aim to provide honest reviews to help traders make better decisions!
Ricky Gutierrez says
Suck a Giant bag of Dicks Ho. I’m RICH BIATCH!
Joe says
Mature Ricky, Real mature.
Ricky says
The comment above was obviously not me as I don’t waste my time responding to hate, I do want to congratulate who ever wrote this as you tried to discredit me and my community. Reading this page, I can reassure you that old man Tim Syke’s and his team has to be behind this. Watch any of my recent videos, I show my trades, I show my profits, and I share my success FOR FREE. I think old man Tim is just upset he’s no longer relevant in this trading market as everyone knows he’s a complete pump and dump. Ask him why his fiancé left him, now that’s a real scum bag. If you want to reach me, feel free to join the my techbuds group which is the fastest growing private online trading community. Hope you end the year on a green note! 😃
lukelatin says
No. You do not show your profits. You show your daily profits only. Anybody can open multiple accounts and make different trades on the accounts. Some of them will be profitable to show. You never showed your “Overall P/L” on any of your accounts or list of trades for the last month. “Overall P/L” is scrambled in your videos.
Mike says
You haven’t shown any of your brokerage statements, you’re a fraud
Mike says
Dude, you’re a fake. You REFUSE to show your brokerage statements. Your parents own a dealership, hence why you swap out the cars. Give it up.
Exposing Scammers says
Ricky you are a complete scam artist.
Ricky Gutierrez says
Hate hate hate hate hate. Haters gonna hate, who are you? *crickets*
Keep hating to make yourself feel better.
Scott Hansen says
Sorry, James. You couldn’t be more wrong. I have been a member of Ricky’s Learn Plan Profit group for awhile now and am very happy with the material presented and the manner it is presented. Like you point out, Ricky is undoubtedly successful. However, he has been very transparent within our group about his trades and streams of other income. I can attest to the fact that the man does indeed know what he is talking about and offers a very achievable plan to success for the new investor for a ONE-TIME fee, not a subscription. Your review is uninformed at best and not a fair representation of what Ricky offers or his skillset.
As for the comments above, I highly doubt those were actually made by Ricky. He has way to much class for that.
Best of luck,
Scott Hansen
Fred says
You might be “happy: with the “material presented” but so where students of Trump University. What it means is that you are very stupid and easily conned by fraudsters. Ricky is a complete fraud.
Tim Sykes says
I’m gonna fuck your sister kid. Why ? because I’m richer than you.
Blake says
I have legitimately purchased the Learn Plan Profit Program thinking it would be different and would teach me something new but unfortunately it hasn’t. I am halfway through the program and I am watching the indicator explanations and how/why he uses them and honestly, the videos have worse explanations than other youtubers free content. Ricky has a tendency to repeat himself and go in circles but without actually explaining anything of value. Kind of like X = X because of X. Not X = Y+Z because of *insert explanation*. It is very common that I hear something like “When the RSI goes up to the oversold position it means that it is oversold. So I will wait for other confirmations etc etc etc. I’m sitting hear like “yeah no shit. how about an elaboration or explanation or showing so e in depth analysis”. His explanation of the RSI was a massive over-simplification as well. “Oversold means that there is going to be support right here *at the oversold position*. <— This may be a part of the oversold indication but this is not concretely what it means. There are many instances like this.
I do not work for Tim Sykes but I have heard of him and his penny stock scams. If I worked for Timothy Sykes I would not say this: "Do not sign up to Timothy Sykes' program, I have not taken it myself but I have heard from a lot of ppl that he is a scammer".
Honestly, the lack of in-depth analysis kind of supports my initial instincts when I came across Ricky. Unfortunately I got suckered in by the flashy cars and his internet marketing wizardry. If I were at the moment of purchasing his program again I most definitely wouldn't. Here's why:
1. This guy is waaaay to young to be able to impart any superior knowledge on financial markets.
2. Even if he does actually know how to day-trade he clearly doesn't know anything about economics or finance in the grand scheme. So in a down market he is probably not the person I would turn to for guidance.
3. The lack of in-depth analysis backs up my previous point. His videos are more like "Video 1: here's how I use this indicator. Video 2: Here's how I use this indicator. And so on, but no lessons on how to combine them all and have an understanding of overall market sentiment and so on.
4. Even though his course was cheap it is still just full of info you can get for free.
5. He is clearly a salesperson. If I were making such good returns I wouldn't bother recording and editing videos to put onto youtube. I'd just be trading. Clearly it is worth his time to do all this because it pays better than trading.
6. Ricky's style may work for him, can't really be sure yet if he just has good risk management. But if you do opt for his course just don't get all your information from him. There is a lot more to finance and trading than just lines on a screen.
I will edit or delete this comment if I work through his course and find that any of my above points are proved wrong but as for now this is my honest impression of Ricky G. And in the beginning I was a supporter but fortunately I have followed a few people and watched quite a few videos to know the difference between a knowledgeable person that understands markets deeply and someone who does not.