Happy to be invited by Joey Choy as a guest on his podcast! 😊 We had a candid conversation about what financial freedom really means, the mindset behind building long-term wealth, and my personal investing approach. Catch the full conversation below for more practical takeaways! 🎥 https://youtu.be/JzaGbMfrjSA?si=itg2cJhgNJDZpsPz

Channel
FIRE with The Joyful Investors 💡
@thejoyfulinvestors
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,857subscribers
+15 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001287092581 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thejoyfulinvestors |
| Created | Between 1 April 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thejoyfulinvestors |
Topic
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 61% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 06:40 | 1,857 | +3 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 02:21 | 1,854 | -4 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 07:17 | 1,858 | -2 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 05:48 | 1,860 | +4 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 00:57 | 1,856 | -1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 04:35 | 1,857 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 08:38 | 1,858 | -1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 13:23 | 1,859 | +5 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 21:07 | 1,854 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 16:28 | 1,853 | +4 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 07:57 | 1,849 | +4 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 16:53 | 1,845 | +3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:01 | 1,842 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:52 | 1,842 | first reading |
Engagement
18 posts held, back to 26 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
24 reactions across 11 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 58.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 14 | 58.3% | |
| ❤ | 8 | 33.3% | |
| ✍ | 1 | 4.17% | |
| 🆒 | 1 | 4.17% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 12 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 24 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 26 June 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
A story recently went viral about an individual living on $150 a month and calling it financial freedom. Here's some of our honest take on this and hope that it gives you something to think about as you embark on this journey. 💭 https://www.instagram.com/p/DbkqUilCe89/?igsh=MnA1YXRxZzQzcWZi
🧩 Let's go back to the building blocks of investing. "Don't put all your eggs in the same basket." It's age-old investing advice, but in today's market, many portfolios are becoming more concentrated than investors realise. More money is flowing into the same stocks, sectors and themes. It has worked well so far, but what happens when sentiment changes? In our upcoming webinar with Billy Toh, Regional Head of Ret…
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📈 The real driver isn't the Fed funds rate — it's the 10-year yield REIT income is long-duration. Cap rates and valuations track the 10-year UST, not the overnight rate. So even with the Fed on hold, if long yields keep climbing (as they did post-Warsh), REIT valuations will feel the squeeze anyway. 🏢 Not all REITs are equal here Longer WALE + lower gearing = more insulated. Higher leverage + shorter lease profiles …
The Fed held rates. The vote didn't. 3.5–3.75% — unchanged. But three dissents pushing for a hike is rare, and it exposes a real fault line inside the FOMC on inflation risk. Fed Chair Warsh gave little away: inflation is cooling, but energy, AI, and tariffs remain live risks. He hinted that rising Treasury yields have already done some of the Fed's tightening for it. What this means is that a September hike is sti…
[🛡️ Cybersecurity Stocks Are Falling: Buy the Dip or Stay Away?] As AI becomes more powerful, cyber threats are also becoming more sophisticated. In this episode of Money & Joy, we explore the growing connection between Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, and why cybersecurity remains one of the most significant long-term investment themes to watch. -------------------------------------------- 🔍 In This Ep…
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FIRE with The Joyful Investors 💡 pinned a photo
The market has been a wild ride lately. 🎢 One day, AI and semiconductor stocks are surging. The next, they can plunge in the opposite direction. When markets move so quickly, it is easy to feel like you are constantly chasing the next shiny object or second-guessing your investment decisions. Having the right investing framework can help you navigate the markets with greater clarity. Whether you're looking to diver…
Most investors make one wrong assumption about their retirement. They assume a flat 10% a year and plug it into a compound interest calculator. So we ran the real numbers to share with you the wildly different possible outcomes that may unfold. This is also known as the sequence of returns risk, and it works differently depending on where you are in life — early crashes barely hurt you while you're still accumulat…
The AI boom has put markets like Taiwan and South Korea in the spotlight. But does that mean investors should overlook the US? We believe the US market still deserves a place in many long-term portfolios and we explain why in our latest IG Reel. 🎥 Watch more here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dat5rqWpqve/?igsh=NXRjdXRzZmhqOTBh
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[What Most Investors Are Missing In US-China AI Race? | H2 2026 Market Outlook] Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the stock market. But is the biggest investment opportunity in the US, China or both? In this replay video of our recent Half-time Investing Playbook: Winning 2H 2026 in Stock Markets session, we revealed the 3 biggest investment themes: ✅ Artificial Intelligence (AI) ✅ US-China tech race ✅ Intere…
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It was a great joy to see so many of you spend your Saturday learning with us at our Half-Time Investing Playbook: Winning 2H 2026 in Stock Markets! ✨ The thoughtful questions and the willingness to challenge long-held assumptions made the discussions truly meaningful. During the session, Coach Hazelle explored how investors can navigate major themes 🧭 such as the US-China AI race, inflation, and geopolitical tensi…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @thejoyfulinvestors. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@piranhaprofits · 22,894
Telegram ranks this channel #47 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 19 September 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“FIRE with The Joyful Investors 💡” (@thejoyfulinvestors), 1,857 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thejoyfulinvestors.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.