Readers,

Welcome to The Starting 5 Newsletter! The 30 Second Newsletter with stocks, motivation, and tunes! Hope you enjoy!

1. Stock Performance 📈

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY): $604.24 ▲ +0.68%
Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ): $537.00 ▲ +1.01%
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA): $428.50 ▲ +0.65%

Introducing The Warm-Up — the once-a-week newsletter breaking down the music behind the world’s top athletes.

Founded by two former Division I athletes, we’re not here to clutter your inbox — just one email a week with the pre-game playlists, locker room anthems, and go-to tracks that fuel champions and teams. Song-by-song, we show you what today’s top performers are listening to before they dominate.

It’s like having that teammate who always had the aux cord… now in your inbox.

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2. Crypto Check-In 🪙

Bitcoin (BTC): $105,384 ▲ +3.22%
Ethereum (ETH): $2,435.72 ▲ +6.24%

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3. Motivation Of The Day 💭

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill

4. Term Of The Day 📚

Risk Parity

📖Definition: A portfolio allocation method aiming to balance risk contributions from different asset classes, not just their dollar weights.

📊 Why it matters: Helps investors avoid being overweight in volatile assets like stocks—promoting steadier long-term returns.

💡Example: Instead of a 60/40 stock/bond split, a risk-parity approach might tilt toward bonds or other low-volatility assets to equalize risk exposure across holdings.

5. Song Of The Day 🎧

🎧 Song of the Day Track: “Gabriela” – Katseye
Why it hits: Released June 20, this bilingual Latin‑pop/R&B single (with a cameo by Jessica Alba in the telenovela‑inspired video) was just voted Billboard’s Favorite New Music and topped their poll with 43% of the vote

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