So first, we're going to do some introductions. My name is Christopher Newland. I am a cloud architect with Red Hat. Prior to that, I was just a general architect in our services. I've been working in the container space for about 10 years now, starting with OpenVZ, with the US Department of Energy. After that, I've been moving along from different microservices to now focusing more on modernization and migration. So I'm also an ambassador of the conveyor community. Hello, good afternoon, everyone. I'm Valentina. I'm from Red Hat. I'm a principal architect. I focus on adoption and application development. It's my pleasure to be here today. My name is Jared Burke. I'm a managing architect with Red Hat. I've been here with 12 years based out of Austin, Texas. I focus on all things containers and application migrations. Hi, I'm James Bench, Vice President of our Digital Practice and Technology Consulting Services. We do a lot of digital transformation work, agile transformation, low code, no code, and then full stack software engineering in both the .NET and Java platforms. All right, so a little bit about the community that is sponsoring us. So we're here representing conveyor. Conveyor is a CNCF community and project. So there is a tool called conveyor. You may have heard some of the other tools. If you've heard things like Crane and Tackle, Move to Cube, these were all projects that were under the conveyor community umbrella. I'm happy to announce today that we've consolidated that. So our new website, conveyor.io, the big new version of that just went out last week. And along with that, we are consolidating the projects down to one simply called conveyor. So if you're familiar with the Tackle tool, that has been rebranded. And then some of the things around the conveyor community have been either moved inside of that single tool or have been discontinued. So we're putting all of our eggs in one basket, especially from what we're hearing is the most beneficial to this particular community. So definitely check out conveyor.io for all of the updates there. And this talk specifically is going to be really a fireside chat on just migrations. Talk about our experiences. All of us have been doing this for a long time. Some ways that the conveyor tool can be incorporated in that. And a lot of just lessons learned from large enterprise migrations from a variety of different sources. So this could be containers moving from on-prem to into the cloud, or it could be going from a mainframe application all the way to being cloud ready. So a variety of different experiences and things that we'll be talking about today. So we did ask our community some questions before coming. So the way this talk is going to work is that I have some predefined questions that have been sent to us. And we're going to spend about half to three fourths of the time going over those questions. But then we're going to open it up to the audience. So if you have a question, I'll let you know. We'll be starting Q&A a little bit earlier, probably in some of the other talks, just to give you the audience some opportunities to ask our panelists some questions. But I'm going to start with Valentina. What are some of the biggest challenges enterprises face when taking on a cloud native migration? That's a great question. So the first thing that I have seen when working with customers are when they focus on modernization as a only one-time thing, instead of seeing it as a journey. So when you embrace modernization as a journey, you start looking at different things and not only technology. You look at people, processes, and technology. When looking at people, you will look at, for example, do I have the right skills? Do I need to train my people? And with processes, do I have the right methodologies? How would all those fit together to create in a plan? The second thing that I have seen that is critically important is understanding why we are doing this. Why containers are important? What is the value for my business? So we have seen that containers brings a lot of value from increasing security, reliability, high availability, also accelerating your software development lifecycle. How all those values connect into your business? Can a story that really aligns to your mission and to your vision and communicating that back into your company at all levels? When you speak at a company and everyone really gets the value, you not only get the alignment, but also the commitment, the inspiration, the motivation behind it. I have seen that sometimes customers see this as a priority, right? When you focus, when you're working with feature development, you are always competing with priorities. But when customers understand the value and they have this articulated to all the different levels, that is just a different game on the modernization. It's just competing completely different. And they are able to move forward when those prioritizations are having problems. The other thing that is very important is when you create the why, you really create a plan that connects to it and look to create metrics that can measure back into the why. So if you're saying, well, for me it's important to reduce cost. So how you can measure back that you are really getting that value from your modernization. And that's when you really get successful. Absolutely. Where are some areas that people can start? So let's say that someone is in the planning stages very early on of enterprise migration. What are some of the considerations that you should be taking when they're starting this journey? Yeah, absolutely. So that's a great question again. So we were talking as a team again, the importance of having, once you have that vision articulated to everyone, create some working groups. So ensuring that everyone on the room, whoever needs to be involved from developers to platform engineers and devops, are aligned and I'm working on early stages. But then you may wondering like, how should I start? Like where to start? That's what everyone is asking. And the important thing is creating, we call it a pilot project. So you can create a pilot project to start measuring what you want to obtain. What is important for your company now to start working on any modernization? Is it sometimes customers are concerned about the time that it will take me to modernize? How much time it will take me? So we take an application that maybe has a lot of complexity. Maybe you want to prove the business that this has value. So you work on a line of business and choose an application that is important and critical for them. So depends on your criteria and what you want to prove, you will select one or a set of applications to measure back. This will help you not only to understand reduced complexity, reduce risk, provide value, but also how you can plan back into your whole modernization journey. So create after that, create, don't try to do everything at once. Create a plan with faces. And that will help you to see where should I start. Should I start with a more complex one that I already resolved? Looking at similar archetypes, like I have Java applications and maybe I want to focus on. Or should I want to work with this line of business that I know modernization is very important for them? The other thing that is very important, Conveyor has a way that you can set up all of these. But the other thing that developers are wondering is how do I know if my application is ready to move into containers? And this is what Conveyor has a really good way to create different paths. It depends on where you are, to show you where do you want to go, and how much those changes do you need to do in your Java application. So Conveyor is a really great way I have been using with customers. It saves a lot of time, it provides amazing features. Yes, I think we are in time. So Chris, I will ask you, you've been working a lot with customers as well. What are the non-technical challenges that you have seen when working with them? I think going off some of the conversations and give some examples of some of the things that you were talking about, especially who is in the room at the beginning? Do we have the right people on day one? Usually what I find the answer is no. When we ask different organizations about their migration efforts, they'll usually bring in the networking guy, maybe an app dev guy, and then someone maybe from the security team. It takes a lot more people usually. A lot of times you're not thinking of all your stakeholders. There might be an organization that isn't directly involved, but may have direct impact on your migration. The biggest example I can give, especially in a lot of industries, there's some types of policies that are driving certain restrictions. The things that come to example, healthcare, government, finance, all these have some type of governing body that has certain policies that you're needing to meet to effectively drive security and other things within your organization. A lot of times these things aren't known, especially if you're running on-prem and you're going into the cloud. A lot of times when you're moving into the cloud, you're having to take more things into consideration. Geography becomes a very big issue. I know for me when I worked in the energy sector, we've had things all on-prem within the United States. Well, when we were moving to the cloud, there was times where we were moving things to Singapore or even Russia or China, and we had to be very careful. In healthcare in the United States, we have HIPAA, and that's the governing body over how certain information is shared. So PKI, personal information, that becomes a big key. And a lot of times there's people within your organization who manage these policies that you may not even be aware of. I always recommend to try to hunt those people down because more often I see these type of things derailing migrations for three months, six months, a year, or sometimes even putting projects completely on hold. So these are some of the things to be being considering. With that, I have a question for Sheridan. It really just comes right into what I was just talking about. Who and what within my organization should be involved early on when planning a large-scale enterprise migration? That's a really important question, Chris. And to answer that, I think you need to think about who some of those folks are, right? And when you are planning those, we have some of those people are things like your business leaders, unit leads, application owners, architects, operations and support, cloud native teams, specific platform teams, such as your computer infrastructure teams, your storage teams, your networking teams, security. Notice there's a lot of folks that are involved in that, right? And it's not just the people that you need to have involved early on to be successful in large-scale migrations. You also need to think about the what those people can bring to the table, right? Thinking about what the analysis and assessment phase is going to be like, understanding those data requirements, what those people can bring to the table in order to be able to connect to the why, right? Understanding what those business requirements and business needs really are. What is that data from the application perspective, right? So when we start to think about that, what these people can bring to the table, we're talking about what's the general application? What does it actually do? What about the application architecture? You're gonna need to know how it operates, right? What is the, it's operating life cycle. How does it perform its performance characteristics? Does it have a, what's it all for a life cycle, right? What type of life cycle does it have? Is it real, how resilient does it mean? Is it a single app or is it high availability deployed in multiple regions? Security and compliance are also important and databases and dependencies, right? And you can see there's a lot of areas of data that you have to go get with a lot of different people. In order to be able to get together that data, leveraging a tool like Conveyor can help you get away from spreadsheets doing, having to organize that data, being able to collect it in a very organized, methodical way and then take the data that you've collected from the people and the requirements and be able to start to do the analysis and assessment phase and plan that migration so that you can begin to continually understand what the various priorities are, think of the Rs and determine which of your application portfolio needs to actually be migrated, can be retired or re-platformed or others. Nice. Thank you, Jared. So, James, I know you've been doing this a very long time. You've been involved with different federal agencies in the US and things in commercial space. What are some of the lessons learned that you found after you've done these types of large scale migrations that you wish you had known beforehand or different approaches that you have taken? Yeah, there are things that it's really easy to underestimate. So when you're thinking about a large migration and, again, think big, think an entire critical business function that has departments tied to it, nearly it's so important to the enterprise that it basically has its own IT, dedicated IT infrastructure associated to it, IT staff is dedicated to it. So think of something that is that tightly woven and core. Some of the biggest challenge that was easy to underestimate was how much of a culture change that it actually takes from an IT governance perspective. So when you're doing this transition, let's say, into cloud-native Kubernetes and Docker, you have to introduce so much more kind of technology that is not in the approved software list. And normally there is a process, if you're in large enterprise IT, where security has to go through, approve it, scan it, and they do that process for each and every product you're needing to introduce to actually get this launched. So at the very beginning, you have to really take stock of the inventory that you're having, and you need to make sure that you work with them to kind of change how they perceive what does secure software actually look like. And knowing that if you're building now into a DevSecOps capability, that all of the scanning layers that you're doing, all of that will actually provide what they're really needing is to know that is there something vulnerable that you're introducing into the ecosystem. And I think if you can help convey that early on, very early on, that'll help kind of overcome kind of one of the key roadblocks is really are you on the approved software list? Classic governance processes around release management. When you're transforming into this type of capability, you're able to deploy much more frequently. You're able to remediate things faster. You're able to take production issues and recover them quickly because you have this now a new capability to deploy. But if you have formalized, kind of classic enterprise IT governance processes around deployments, that process really slows down. And a lot of it ends up being again, education early on, where you have to tell them or show them that actually security is completely baited into our entire build process, our deployment process. There's checks and balances. We can measure the hash of what we built, the image that we built and actually what made it into production. All of those controls are now baked in completely. And so again, what was the point of having all of those controls in the first place was to ensure that that was happening. But now it's completely baked into the entire lifecycle. And so now that paradigm has to change and it comes with a lot of education. So underestimated that, that hurt, that's hurt before. So we tackle that kind of early on. And then the other one is the development team. If the team has been working on that kind of monolithic application for a long period of time, when you're moving into this entire paradigm, agile tends to have to kind of come along with it. And so transitioning them to kind of an agile, methodology and approach, tying that agile methodology into your deployment process, into your build process. All of that takes a lot of culture change. And so don't underestimate kind of needing to kind of stack that upfront when you're doing the planning process. Another kind of key lesson learned was really around security. 100% bring them in, bring your security officer in as early as possible. So the security office has to essentially manage the enterprise security kind of across the board.  Maybe I'm just doing one scanning tool on the OS layer, but I'm not really understanding like all the different layers now that can be scanned. And I can provide a security footprint at any moment of time. So because they don't understand all of that or the number of ports that had to be open, which is far less than what it was before, just really all of that education, we end up having to do a lot of training early on and the security officers that are gonna do the assessments and really help teach them what does it look like to have a scaling infrastructure? What does it mean to have this kind of capability? So having them on almost on day one, through the entire migration has been critical to kind of like some key successes. And then the kind of the last one I'll highlight is if you've worked in a large enterprise application for a long period of time, you'll have your pet peeves, you'll have your tech debt that you know you've been sitting on for a long time, and you'll want to tackle all of that tech debt as part of the migration. That is a very slippery slope that can actually lead you into some trouble. What you really need to make sure is that you have functional parity between your current application and then your migrated version of the application. Be very particular about which tech that you're gonna tackle, which one you're really gonna have to refactor or not refactor, be mindful of like what do you really need to do to actually make it into the new paradigm? Once you're there, you will have a new development capability, a faster way to resolve, and then you can tackle the functional instead of the core ones that you had to tackle to move it into the new environment. Nice. Thank you, James. So we'll move over to our Q and A here in a second, but I wanna do some summarizing what we've been hearing. Two major takeaways, I think, and something I always tell my clients on day one when we're talking about large enterprise migrations like this is that migrations are usually more of a people problem than a technology problem. So I'll repeat that. Migrations are more of a people problem than a technology problem. It's about identifying the people who are in the room to begin with day one and identifying the people who are not in the room day one who need to be there. It's very important to have organizational buy-in throughout your entire organization, even if you think a business unit doesn't have anything to do with your migration, they should at least be aware because there might be some things that you're not aware of, how they have some stake in what your operations are doing. Another big thing is just try to do the most analysis you can upfront. The more information you have about your applications and your current platform and the platform you're moving into, the more you're gonna be able to pivot and make critical decisions along your migration path. But yeah, no, those are all great things. I think that we're showing more and more from your experiences that this really does end up being very much a people problem a lot of times, who's involved upfront. So I am open for questions from the audience. Does anyone have any questions for us? And I'll just go ahead and repeat. So if you could speak up and I can just repeat it back for the camera. Okay, we do have a couple of questions that were submitted in. So I am going to take a look at the next one there. Jared, I have one for you. So there's a trend with more and more migrations going into managed services for Kubernetes. So things like EKS, AKS, Red Hats, Rosa. What are some of the complexities you're seeing in these types of migrations from maybe the traditional on-prem migrations we've been seeing prior? Well, a lot of that gets to where you're starting from. But at the end of the day, a lot of the managed services help actually kind of get you started earlier because you don't have to worry about as much of the infrastructure, getting it up and running faster. Again, it comes back down to having, knowing your why, being able to understand your reasoning, learning and adapting from that and improving it on those. As you on-prem, you start to have typically more security requirements. You happen to things that are not always as organized, right? Things we don't always have the right people. You don't always have the right applications. And so what ends up happening on-prem, you tend to have more challenges. Especially if you're going from on-prem to the cloud, it's easier to go from on the cloud back to on-prem. You tend to have more security controls that you can put in place on-prem than you do in the cloud. So that's really where some of your major challenges come in is that security, making sure that your applications can run in the more less secure environment than typically your enterprise environments. Using tools such as Conveyor can help you understand your applications, what complexities that they have in them, the dependencies, security challenges, and what changes you may need to make in order to be able to deploy in your target environment, such as Reso or ARO. Thank you, Jared. Just doing a time check. How much time do we have? Okay. Thank you. We have a question right here. Can you come up and then I'll repeat the question? Actually, I'll just give you the microphone.  Thank you. Yeah, this might be easier. Am I loud enough? Right, so you mentioned that it's not as much a technology problem as it is an information problem. So, sorry, as it is a people problem. So by that, is it a question of distributing the information, getting the right information to right people, or is it a question of getting people to buy in and basically persuading them to make this decision instead of that decision? That's a great question. And to answer it, it is both. The one that I see more often is an information issue. So usually there's been some organizational buy-in and it could be that someone is seeing an email or heard at a meeting, so like a director level or manager level that they knew this migration was coming. So from there, there's buy-in, they're not saying no, let's not do this. But then from an information standpoint, it's more that that person doesn't know how maybe their business unit interfaces with the operations of your infrastructure team or your DevOps team. And that's usually something that's known by like a tech lead or a business analyst who from this other business unit who thinks it's not involved, they're not having the right conversations or they're having the right information to be able to say, hey, actually, we have some stake in this. Maybe there's a legacy application or there's a policy or we have an old application that ties back to this mainframe that you're retiring. It's things like that which I usually see tripping things up. And then like I gave there at the beginning it's a policy issue too. Maybe there's someone that's making policies like in healthcare and you think your team is good because you've checked off all these things on a box, maybe a form or a document where maybe you don't know that things are changing in two months from the policy person and that person then comes in and says, hey, wait, this is all changing January 1st. We gotta pull the brakes. From a buy-in perspective, this one's a little bit more rare, but I have seen this often where a particular business unit has decided to make a migration and they have not actually gotten buy-in from other groups. This is usually like a networking group or maybe a storage group who are unaware of the migration but are a critical part of the migration. These are the types of things if I'm seeing day one, I'm usually like, we need to stop this meeting right now.  This is not going to work out. And that is a conversation unfortunately I have to have with many clients. Does that answer your question? Are we at time? Five minutes? Okay. One of the other questions was, oh, right here. Hello, thanks for losing it. So I have a question about failed migrations. So you've been doing it a long time. Have you experienced any learnings from that? I have not failed the migration, so that's why I'm up here. But I'm usually picking up after usually multiple attempts of failed migrations where they tend to, where they have fallen over, which is where you end up picking up from, is a little bit of the question that was earlier asked, is when you're doing this effort, there is a lot of gates that end up needing to be kind of passed before you can actually end up in production, in full production. Security ends up being one of those kind of gates where if you don't really give them the education and get their kind of understanding about how that is on really at the early stages, that from my experience is usually the place that projects get killed. They won't actually engage security, they'll go ahead and do the implementation technically correct, technically built the right thing, and then as they go for the security assessment to actually be authorized to go in a production environment, they get stomped down, and then they get delayed for months on end, trying to then catch up and educate security on how to do it, what does it mean that it's secure? Where is all the logs being captured and where does that get sent? How do I manage my CVs? Oh, we do images now? What is that? Getting them in early, so security ends up usually being the area that gets stuck.  The other one was the IT governance component, making sure that you get all that approved software in early, many of my clients are full-on enterprise organizations, it could take three months to get one new piece of software introduced in the enterprise. And in these types of things, when you're introducing this much new stuff, you're talking dozens, dozens and dozens of new software that you'd have to do that you typically would have to, each one would take three months. So making sure you group that together, you're doing that early on. So you're just getting ahead of these major time killers that will pretty much strangle out a project and have it fail. Yeah, I want to add as well, that's a great answer. The other problem that we have seen is scalability. So you need to look at scalability from every point. Whatever you are now, how you can scale even in the infrastructure, do I have enough infrastructure to accommodate all the workloads that I'm expecting? How I can manage that multi-cluster strategy or hybrid cloud strategy? And the other problem that we have seen is in terms of developers and DevOps, sometimes the companies start not with the right tooling or the right approach or the right templates, and they ended up spending a lot of time trying to recreate things that the industry have solved already. So if you are just getting started, I guess you were into the booths and hear about what's going on there. So learn about what the industry is doing and then try to recreate something that someone already solved and use best practices and think, will this be scaling in my company? And having the right methods, it will help a lot. We have seen from customers it's reaching out because they have those problems. I don't know how I can move forward because I don't have templates to, I don't know, deploy my applications or these templates are broken or doesn't work or where I even can find the documentation or how I can be trained. So all that's all the factors that we have seen really slowing down and breaking on the motivation on the people. So wanted to add that. Thank you. Yes, that was a great question. Thank you. I think we're coming up to time. So I just appreciate all of you being here. I do ask that if you can, please give us a review on our talk. This data is very, very important. It helps us know how to improve as speakers, but it also helps us know what CNCF is looking for when we're giving these types of talks for the conveyor community. So please, please, this is really important to us. This type of feedback is a big impact on how we do our talks to come. So thank you for being here. I do appreciate the conveyor community for sending us as well and have safe journeys home. Thank you. Thank you.


All right, good afternoon cyber trader is welcome on back here this Tuesday September 28th shortly after 2 30 p.m Eastern time and of course this time the day welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting great to see all of our students and trial members alike I see your see here Corey s who had called out the AI Ki stock We got Patrick Christopher M. Norman all of our students and members alike Like I'd said just before great to see everyone and if you're joining us today on social media Facebook live or YouTube welcome on back So I'll tell you what markets down today. Everything's down crypto took a huge hit We'll talk about that tomorrow. Hopefully a bounce back up before we talk about it But nonetheless, it's been a down day across the whole board crypto the major indices you name it So that doesn't mean that we can't make money Right. I mean hey skip in the chat board dino skip wrote hello ALF from outer space, right? I got go go on the screen here So, you know, hey, I'll start off on this stock But we'll go right to the ALF trade right away after there were a couple of nice pops that we ended up catching And if not pops then perhaps some bounces that we took from the late morning early afternoon that led to some nice runs up So, you know, again, it's to say that just because the markets down doesn't mean that we can't you know find some Opportunities on the way up. So hey look at it right now. Go go Gio Gio making a new high the day right now as we speak So right away, I'll put this stock on our afternoon list to begin It was a stock that we were watching not on the morning watch list But shortly after the open as you could see stock ended up making a big pop ended up consolidating for a while there after under 15 but eventually once it broke over 15 it essentially used it as support to propel it up to where it's at now So right now. I'm more interested in two things number one would be I mean Well really first would be level three looking at the ECN books or otherwise even level four as I'll type it up There now, but otherwise I'm finding the answer to answer to this question now If there's any overhead to resistance or if there's not maybe this is all-time highs But you can see the stock hit a high back from late January right around 1570 1723 that's the high $17 and 23 cents. I mean that was the the last peak the last high back from January 27th Take a look on the weekly chart or monthly chart perhaps otherwise and yet prior to that I mean it's been a long while since it's been around these prices, but dating back to early 2015 Lee 2014 The stock was chopping around 15 20 bucks So not nearly close to all-time highs as we had thought just by looking at the one-minute chart there But obviously having a really good day of the go-go stock. So we'll put this on our list to begin All right, so skip just wrote before hello ALF from outer space Skip if you don't mind what are you still in this trade? And if so, what's your price? Where are you in from? I'm currently in this position on 500 shares. I closed out half my position just before this meeting started I was in I'm in from $8 and 25 cents. I took like 20 cents off the table on 500 shares letting the other half ride Oh, he says Alf ALF Alf is a character from TV a little above my head there, but nonetheless either way I mean this stock has taken off into orbit into outer space at least dating back to late June early July as Fausto commented on earlier this morning, but you know, it's what I'll say here I mean it follows up to what I always say it's that if we happen to see a stock like ALF make a big run-up as we had back in late June early July and Honestly, I'll guarantee this folks and I don't expect anyone to put in this effort But if you go back on previous afternoon afternoon meetings, I did back in late June early July We talked about this run. I said it then as I'll say here if we can try and even just get a fraction of this type of run-up Or the run-up that we had back from late June early July if we can get a fraction of that type of run-up here this morning I'll gladly take it and that's practically what it happened today Now the stock ended up making a nice slingshot from $7 and 60 cents as soon as the market opened up It ended up getting a little choppy above 8 if anything it was like $8 and 10 cents that led to a real breakout level and Essentially used as support just before now I'm in this trade from the next 10 cent level above that essentially I chased it but in from around 820 or in from 827 I got in above 820 itself, but yeah for right now I mean this stock also alongside the go-go stock will put this on the afternoon watch list I had overhead resistance ahead also. I mean it hit it right on the nose at 870 the high of the day I have a line there for my pre-market charting. So that's a little bit of a concern That's what led me to take half my position out But nonetheless if this can keep going and maintain its trend I wouldn't be shocked if we end up seeing nine by the end of the day So we'll see we'll put the stock on our list also here. All right, so I'll tell you what we'll keep things simple We'll go right from top to bottom otherwise. We'll talk about the SNO a trade We'll talk about the dat stock here in just a bit. So let's go to well, that's the warrants SNO way So I wanted to talk about this here very quickly And I was looking to do that in traders talk our weekly Q&A workshop that we host right in cyber group every Tuesday For any one of us on social media Facebook live YouTube. We've actually done that a few weeks ago for you folks It's on our YouTube channel or otherwise you feel more than free to join us live inside our trading room by going right down to the Link on the banner below the stream, but what I want to talk about here History has a tendency to repeat itself Look at all of the big red candles on the daily chart or bars Whatever, you know, it's to say that this stock has come out with a news, you know Quite frequently over the last year year and a half and all those big red candles or bars are days Where they've come out with news and pre market or from the after hours the day before and you know by the time The market opens up just dumps off So if history has a tendency to repeat itself then I wouldn't be nearly as interested in this trade at the market Open maybe just maybe the stock would have found some support and for a squeeze back up over time But clearly that is not the case as you could see right now Oops as you could see right now only continuing to break lower here or it seems to be All right, so we'll keep it going otherwise the dat stock DATS That seems to be a short squeeze to the warrants are number three the actual equities number 10 We'll get to that also coming up pretty shortly ABVC my first look at this stock right now ended up making a nice run up earlier in the afternoon But you know I say it all the time here also when the volume dies off on the stock when the volume traded per minute Just drops off very sharply Unfortunately, so does the stock I mean honestly I'll just jump right ahead to the a and y stock from yesterday afternoon at 2 30 Eastern time the stock ended up Making a big pop got halting on the way up off of news. I think Elon Musk in relation to it So obviously the huge name you would hope to see the stock would like make a really nice run But look at the volume look at the volume traded per minute And especially once support broke a bit later on prior to 3 p.m. Eastern It only continued dropping off right it traded in a tighter range perhaps But gradually just continued to decline So unfortunately the same was to be said at least or the same could be said on the ABVC stock here Notice the run up failed to break higher the volume totally weighing down. So, you know listen 27% it's a cheapy But right now I got to see a lot more out of the stock for me to put this on our watch list so far and a little bit Pricier here UNFI ended up making a nice pop-up earlier today And it's at the highs right now if it's that all-time highs, then I'll definitely be more inclined to put it on our list Not at all-time highs So all-time high was like around the 80s plus back from 2015 Stock seems to be like right around historical resistance. Maybe a few points away. Maybe on a swing trade This could be an interesting level to watch here right under 50 If not 50 perhaps the combination between 50 and just 49, you know that range of resistance here from the monthly chart You could just see holding really well. I'm not as inclined to put this on our watch list as a day trade for this afternoon Just given the price I mean, I like that it's at the highs But this could be an interesting scenario for a swing trade to see this continue to squeeze up over time Get closer to the 49 to 50 range and then drop off This plague stock PLA G this one dropping off going into the market open I was more keen to follow the others at least you know early on. Oh, no, I see ALF at 835 Do I get stopped out? Ah took me out. All right I ended up taking 10 cents on the other half my position But you know, I'd rather not be a jerk and not set a stop on this trade Only to go through this meeting come back to it and to have it down a 780 So, you know stings I just got stopped out on the second half my position here But nonetheless, I took 10 cents on it out or 8 cents on it even I was in from 827 So I still gonna keep this on our list, you know, hopefully this makes you know Hopefully that this can make one more squeeze back up and if so, I'll be all over it But for right now the dat stock still seems to be pretty strong here watch I'll jinx that too. No for right now though this stock I don't think is running up off of any given news I know that one of our gold students Christopher M. Made some post in the trading room or not some post He posted a link from seeking alpha, but it wasn't really like a news report It was more of like a blog an opinion about the company is saying that it's overvalued by 70% with no revenue So, you know, perhaps this will come crashing back down very soon But nonetheless that shouldn't deter anyone from trying to day trade this stock the stock breaking all-time highs Not only today, but day over day over the last week or so straight So, yeah for right now, I'll put this on our list be very careful trading it It's not an easy stock to trade as you can see right now beginning to drop off here from that 1375 price or 1370 price. But yeah for right now, we'll see if this can make another run back up, too All right, so we'll keep it going little disappointed there on the ALF But that's fine market was down today and then perhaps making a lower high or double top here to pull back down And if so, then I would expect the inverse ETFs like UVX Y VXX Etc to move counter to what the indices are doing and what the S&P ETF here the spy is doing I'm not as interested in trading ETFs right now Anyway, so pass on them, but if you tend to follow them more than us here in our room Then perhaps that could be an interesting idea. I'll tell you what CEI we talked about this earlier in the trader stock workshop We did the full a to z review on the stock at least from what from what had happened upon the market opening up And in fact actually we talked about this big crash also, right? We had talked about how yesterday's closing bell print price and it crashed much below that price But it was right off of $2 and 72 cents once it broke under that price and right back above that price It led to a really nice slingshot Good for just about 50 cents like for a $3 stock. That's insane. So I'm a little reluctant putting this on our watch list for the same reasons that I was reluctant on trading the stock upon the market opening Up and I'll tell you what I missed a huge opportunity, right? I mean, I didn't trade this at 930 I felt that I I missed it from 3 and I didn't really look back and it moved all the way up towards like 344 So I Be remiss to not put this on our watch list because I'd missed out earlier today The only great that I have on it is the fact that it's traded a lot of volume today I mean over half a billion shares 619 and counting million shares and then otherwise I mean again, we had talked about this from earlier today today the stock opened up from Thursday last week at 158 Now it's at 315. I mean granted we see stocks make a hundred plus percent moves in the course of one day Let alone four but and again I don't say this to anyone here more myself than anything But we can't get spoiled with these type of types of moves, right? You know eventually this thing is gonna come crashing back down I like the way that this is squeezing up for us right now, so We'll do it. We'll put it back on our list here the CEI Just be careful though of a false breakout because like I just said given how much the stock had moved up over the last 3-4 days being there at the right place just at the wrong time could be very costly Keep the train moving. Oh and DS looks like this is trying to squeak back up for right now It's trading not really a whole lot of volume per minute. So Not too particular about it Fausto was all over this TMP trade upon the market open today ended up making a sharp pop up But he had even pointed this out himself You know when the volume dies off on these stocks when it's trading very thin volume that makes it even more dangerous. So You know ended up consolidating right under 1050. I guess it broke higher here, but just ugly after All right, so here's Corey's call out Corey s one of our trial members joining us live inside cyber group today He had called out previous to this afternoon meeting starting the AI KI trade off of 90 and obviously now It's beginning to break above it. So hey, it's a cheapy We normally don't trade these you know cheapies blow a buck because normally they don't make as concise of a move But for right now this seems to be so we'll put this on our list here the AI KI could call from Corey s Dogs not much going on there SNMP. I don't know 132 is like that's like pre-market prices All right, folks, that's just about all I got on the gainer side I mean that wouldn't expect much on the gainer side with how much the market dropped off today So let's hop over to the loser side here and I'll tell you a stock that's missing from the top of the loser's list And actually I'll jump to it right now because you know God knows where it's at right now. Oh Not EPT. I'm sorry not EPT ALT. Look at this stock ended up getting crushed this morning off of bad pharma news I think bad phase one clinical trial news I don't know what what drug or what you know what it's treating for but it was down big I mean not down as much as we've seen other companies over the last two weeks given a bad FDA news for their drugs or Bad news regarding their phase two trial perhaps. I think the stock I'm thinking about is the PTGX stock Got clipped last week that never really made a big bounce back So on the ALT trade man This thing ended up making a hell of a dead cat bounce popped as soon as the market opened up when it drops back down though You would anticipate for it to eventually break lower and this just held perfectly right over 11 And then bounced up perfectly from that point made nearly a three-point move and then you know for right now It's just so flat. I'm not as keen to put it on our list just yet That's the last two words there keep in mind because if this ends up beginning to show more signs of life on the way Up then I'll be more interested on it. It is hard to borrow. So if or I'm sorry, sorry about that It's easy to borrow it is shortable. So if this does crap out the other way, perhaps that would be the more more interesting play For right now pass on it just all together But if he did well on the stock earlier today, I would have no doubts that you would be watching this at least heading into the final 75 minutes here All right, so we'll see what else is on the loser side though I mean a whole bunch of crap hard to borrow so we can't really short those like we can the ALT expi down big also pretty expensive, so Nova vax can crushed IMD both really expensive Like I said Bitcoin and crypto took a hit of course with the markets all together BTCM down 8.67% Not a whole lot happening now All right folks Let me know if there's anything else that you would want me to check out up down left right because that's all I got for you here Let's see from Debra M. She says still has a hundred shares of that from 368 I read somewhere that it's supposed to grow into the next Facebook. Well, congratulations Debra I mean hey smaller position size, but that's why we you know hold on to a smaller position Just to see if it could happen and and that paid off. Excellent Jumping back to YouTube Facebook live today. No chats got a bunch of us joining us on social media today Which I always appreciate I'll tell you what we don't need to force any stocks on our watch list That's for sure. So if we touched them all it's fun APRE is the one I was gonna bring up here from Benzinga Pro at the end It's the only stock I was gonna bring up and it actually looks pretty good So APRE is up 9 plus percent broke over five just a moment ago treating a whole lot of volume off the highs there I mean really above five 503 505 even 491 that seemed to have been a pretty big level. I mean perhaps from consolidation Just before so we'll see what happens on this APRE I like this so far and the reason why I like it even more than anything folks and if you're familiar with this stock Then you would know but I don't expect most of us to be it's just for me to say it's like I'm here all week So this APRE stock ended up taking a huge hit going back into the end of 2020 And if anything, I think it was a natural gap I was trying to look cool by going to the monthly chart there, but it on the daily I think it shows a legit gap. Yeah, look at that. That's what I'm talking about All right, so those types of moves like you know if you're here day to day minute by minute like I am not everyone is It's just to say that that's the type of things that you remember So APRE if this doesn't make this huge run up to try and fill the gap today Then obviously I'll still be interested in it come tomorrow morning at least so definitely for right now this APRE trade We'll put on our list looking really strong so far this high back from The hell is it December 28th 2020 that was at $6.77 Just a little fun. We'll have right now a little fun. We'll have six seventy seven ended up holding pretty nicely here But otherwise I guess on this day It was more of a pre-market move up and then it fell right back below that line and since hasn't really even tried to Come back so you know, hey, perhaps this could be the beginnings of a nice day to day run I don't know that for sure don't take that a swing trading advice folks But looks for like for right now this stock is looking pretty good for us heading into this afternoon All right, so I think in total folks we got two we got four We got six stocks to work with you're heading into the market close and that's perfect I don't like to put too many stocks on our lists to begin with so I think that we're good All right, so for all of us in social media Facebook live and YouTube I appreciate you stick with me each and every day each and every afternoon if you're interested in joining us here for The final hour and ten minutes of commentary live inside our trading room As I said before feel more than free to buy going right down to the link on the banner below just to get yourself Started on a week long trial with us But otherwise for all of us there right now William Debra Nancy My guide dino skipped there in the chat board got John James all of us otherwise I look forward to speaking to you folks coming up pretty shortly from now. 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Does everyone have halogen toxicity? Halogens are any of the elements, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine of the periodic table. These can occur in different forms and amounts, some of them being natural, most being harmful. The primary issue here is the lack of iodine in modern diets and high presence of these other halogens as pollutants, which end up binding to iodine receptors throughout the body and can even replace certain minerals when people have deficiencies. These pollutants are in our food supply, they're sprayed on common materials, whether directly or unintentionally. The three main halogens of concern are fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. I've touched a lot about fluorine and chlorine in my past water videos, but the dangers of bromine apply more so to people on a standard American diet that aren't cognizant of their food quality and water quality. So fluorine is in our water predominantly, it's sprayed on our crops as a pesticide, it is in toothpaste, baby food, as well as antibiotics. It is a neurotoxin, causes DNA damage, inhibits uptake of iodine in the thyroid, preventing the production of thyroid hormone leading to thyroid cancer and it can also lead to brittle bones replacing certain minerals in the bones in the teeth when we are deficient in others. Fluorine does occur in nature in a form that our bodies don't really absorb. Our modern chemical versions of fluorine that are bound to certain molecules become much more available to the body leading to the issues we see today. It is mostly known as a disinfectant in water, our drinking water, our bathing water, as well as pools. Just because you filter your tap water and remove the chlorine doesn't mean you can go in the shower without suffering the consequences of this, as chlorine can be absorbed via shower vapors. So you need to filter any water that is coming in contact with your skin, any drinking water, and that is why I unfortunately avoid pools. I haven't been able to find a salt water pool. I kind of dream of the day where I can actually go in the water. So chlorine leads to liver malfunction as it is a toxin. Imagine you're drinking water constantly with this toxin in it and your liver has to detox it every single time you're drinking it. Compromises the immune system by disrupting our gut microbiome.  You're disinfecting your gut microbiome. Not good. Bromine is a halogen that I haven't really focused on too much because it's not a concern as someone who filters their water and consumes high quality animal foods from local farms. It is in our water supply, it is in sports and energy drinks, it is that new car smell, so they actually spray it in certain manufacturing processes as a disinfectant and it is used in warm water pools and hot tubs because it is more stable at a higher temperature. Bromine is so dangerous because it is very similar to iodine in its molecular weight. Therefore it binds to all iodine receptors in the body. Fluorine typically sticks to the thyroid and although that's still horrible and can lead to many issues, bromine has been found to be at toxic levels in most of Dr. David Brownstein's patients. Big shout out to Dr. David Brownstein. That's where I really upped my iodine knowledge and learned more about what we have to be doing in the context of iodine and in the context of these halogens in order to prevent auto immune diseases and hypothyroidism. If you've ever met someone that is always cold, has cold hands and feet every day, can't seem to regulate their body temperature, no one is really getting enough iodine and then we have the presence of these modern pollutants that are making it even more difficult. Our ancestors, hunter-gatherers, these indigenous people, didn't really consume a super crazy amount of iodine. Some of them were in mountainous areas and they only came down to get iodine once every few months but they were not suffering in the presence of these modern halogen pollutants in unnatural levels. So what's the solution? How do we fix halogen toxicity? Part of this protocol is from Dr. David Brownstein. Another part of this is something I came up with myself. So obviously you want to say very well hydrated. You want to use a lot of salt and this is because salt is sodium chloride. It's sodium bound to a chloride molecule and then some other trace elements. Chloride inhibits the absorption of these halogens. So by consuming a large amount of salt you are removing some of these issues. This is why people need more salt and more water in the modern context. Again, our indigenous ancestors aren't necessarily something we can look at because they did not have these pollutants present. So very high salt intake, very high water intake helps alleviate the absorption of halogens. Dr. Brownstein recommends vitamin C and E for antioxidant properties. I disagree with that a little bit. And then the actual protocol is iodine, selenium and magnesium. Of course you can supplement these things artificially. You could use seaweed. I personally think shellfish and seafood is the best option here. You can suffer from detox symptoms such as headache, fatigue, aches, heart palpitations, diarrhea and brain fog. Imagine, if you take some iodine all of your receptors are going to release these toxic halogens that you've been storing your whole life. Dr. Brownstein says that in order to avoid detox symptoms you follow the first few steps of the protocol for a couple weeks before introducing iodine. If you start introducing iodine right away or in a large amount then you might suffer from the detox symptoms.  I used 12.5 milligrams of iodine per day. That is two drops of local's iodine. Sometimes people do up to 50 milligrams per day of iodine. But 12.5 is more of a maintenance dose. The reason I didn't use seaweed is because there are pollutant concerns in seaweed and iodine levels vary greatly with that source. What I suggest adding to this protocol is to filter and remove all halogens from your lifestyle. Go to a local farm by high quality meat, fruits and vegetables. Make sure that your water is distilled or reverse osmosis. Filter your shower water. Don't overlook the importance of vitamins, minerals, elements and fatty acids in your body in the healing process. Many people think they can just remove the negatives and they'll be good to go. No. You need the positives as well. Just because you didn't plant your tree in lava doesn't mean it's going to grow. The soil still needs nutrients. It still needs to rain outside. There are so many factors that come into play here, especially when our health is at stake. Big shout out to Dr. David Brownstein. He got me to do that iodine video I did a couple months ago as well as this. And yes, I've done many videos on water in the past, but I never really touched on bromine and I never really touched on the detox iodine protocol. So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully I helped some of you out. If you could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon and share the video if you can. Every single time I do a whiteboard video, I change my lighting configuration and you guys still complain about it. I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm just going to buy a shed in the middle of the woods and set up some natural lighting. So you guys can get Lugl's iodine, Lugl's iodine on my Amazon shop. It's down in the description below. There's a bunch of other supplements that might help you out there. If you do want to check out Frankie's Naturals, I do have a fluoride free tooth powder. I sell aluminum free deodorant, minimal ingredients, minimally processed hygiene and cosmetic products that are very cognizant of these pollutants. In addition, if you'd like to check out Frankie's free range meat, we are providing high quality nutrient dense animal foods at the most affordable price online. Frankie'sFreeRangeMeat.com for grass-fed beef, organ meats, fat, marrow, caviar, ruchies. If it can be a part of a healthy diet, we will have it boys and girls. Thanks again for joining me and enjoy the rest of your day.


You can actually use frequency for brainwave entrainment, it's as if you are giving your brain a special kind of music to help it chill out or focus better, and we have different brainwave entrainment programs, but how long should you use it for? Each brainwave entrainment session has its unique set of frequencies, yeah? The number of frequencies decides how long the session lasts. Now, you might ask, how long should I use it each day? Well, it's kind of like how you feel about it, you know? Some folks might groove with it for 30 minutes, while others might go for a couple of hours. It's all about what feels right for you. It all depends on your energy sensitivity. It boils down to knowing yourself and what works for you. Now, talking about Qigong, it's fascinating, right? Some people are super tuned in and can feel the Qi energy like right away, but others might not catch the energy immediately, so for those who don't feel much at first, they might need a bit more time to sync up with the program.


Chuck with Razorback Offroad. Today we're inside our R&D shop where we've been very busy this winter working on new products. Today I'm real excited to share with you our latest cargo rack and it's this one here that's designed to fit the Can-Am Defender. Whether you're a duck hunter, rancher, farmer, whether you're in the construction business or you're in a metropolitan municipality, this rack's got a ton of features that I think you're gonna find very useful. As you can see here, we have a real nice cargo rack on top and we made this thing out of eighth inch aluminum. We've been testing this really for about two years. We have another model that's been out in the field. We really feel it's durable and it really holds up well. Some of the high points of this rack are the amount of tie down slots we put in it. So we've got tie down slots here so you can hook your bungee cord in, secure cargo over the top. We've got these tie down slots inside of the bottom here where you can hook more ratchet straps in it. We wanted to give you lots of options to be able to secure things down with the bungee cord up inside the cargo rack. But probably the most, I guess maybe you could say the heart and soul of this rack are the amount of it fits mounting points we have on it. So what we've done when it comes to it fits is we've designed a series of products that bolt on and every one of them uses the same four bolt hole pattern as you can see. So whenever you see these four bolt holes, you know it fits. So this is our universal tool mount. What's kind of neat about this is you can mount, you know what, let me go back here and show you an axe. I got one here that's already set up on here. So you could take this it fits mount, put an axe holder on it, you could mount it this way. You can take it, you could bolt it on this way if you wanted. We've also got mounting holes up underneath here. You could mount it up here underneath the cargo rack, all kinds of options. You can mount it out here on the outside, just tons and tons of options. The neat thing about our it fits tool mount is it comes with two of these rubber grippers that adjust and squeeze. We also designed our own little standoff. Sometimes with a shovel, you want to get this out a little bit further. As you'll notice, we have all these mounting holes so you can choose to mount the gripper here. You can move them up, down, you can turn them sideways. You get all kinds of options with these racks. And we're gonna go through that a little bit more as the video goes on and kind of really outfit this thing. Another neat part of this rack is we've designed this adjustable spare tire mount. So as you can see, it adjusts up and down for different height tires and it also adjusts in and out for different width tires. And this will bolt right here and it goes right into our it fits mount and then you can mount your spare tire right in here. Just a great feature that we think a lot of people are really gonna like, the usefulness of it. The other thing that we have is our RBO it fits rotor packs mount. So the really neat thing about our it fits rotor packs mounts is that it adjusts in and out. You can see it has the it fits bolt pattern. Again, you can mount this rotor packs anywhere you want in our it fits brackets. On my machine, I actually like to mount it upside down right here in the rack. But the reason that we develop this rotor packs mount is because in the summer, these fuel jugs tend to swell up a little bit.  And we sell a lot of these. This is definitely a product that works. I mean, we really feel that all of our products work. We don't build things that are gimmicky. A lot of people that know us will see us out in Moab or see us out hunting and we just get out and we beat these things and make sure they're gonna hold up before we put them in your hands. Now I wanna take a moment and talk a little bit about the hand rails and the mounting system of this rack. So as you can see, we have all these little D ring slots if you will here, places to tie down motorcycle straps. You can hook bungee cords in and rope. We put a lot of thought into the size and shapes of these. Got a lot of feedback from customers and we're very happy with it. We've also designed the bed rails here out of steel and we powder coat them so we've got a very strong side platform here. Here's the mounting bolts. And we have another video online that you can see how to install this. Andrew Varga, the gentleman that designed this. He's very proud of it and he did a great job of showing you how to install this. And when I talked to Andrew, he told me he thought an average person using basic hand tools, it'd take about 15 minutes to install this rack. There's no drilling or anything. I think it just takes a couple of in-renches and a screwdriver and you'll be good to go. So I'll talk a little bit more about some more of the functionality of this rack. I showed you how you can tie things down on the inside. What I wanna do is go ahead and configure this side of the rack out the way I run my machine. So I start out with mounting my ax to the inside. So we're gonna go ahead and do that real quick. Okay, now I'm gonna go ahead and mount, we're gonna mount one Rota Pax upside down here from the bottom of the tray so I can show you how easy it is to mount that. Okay, now that I've got the Rota Pax mount installed, I'm gonna go ahead and mount a water jug here so you can see what that'll look like. Now we've got that jug on. And I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and mount another Rota Pax over here just so you can see another option of mounting that. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and mount this Rota Pax jug here. Okay, there we've got that done. Now I'm gonna move out here and we're gonna mount a couple shovels on here. Okay, we're just gonna put this last shovel on and as you can see, you have all kinds of options here. I really like to have my long shovel here in the front so I'm clear out of the way of the tire. You know, while we were putting this together for you, I realized that I put the Rota Pax where we wanna put the spare tire so we're gonna go ahead and move that and show you the spare tire mount. What we'll do is we'll just move the Rota Pax to the outside. Okay, as you can see, we've got this rack fairly well set up. You know, there's 17 different mounting locations where you could put your it fits so the choices are really unlimited on how much stuff you wanna carry on this rack. You know, I always say at the end of each video we're a small company and I really appreciate all the feedback, the comments, we really appreciate it when you subscribe to our channel. You know, we're out here in the middle of nowhere and Mountain Home, Idaho and every time we sell one of these racks you're putting people to work and for that, I really thank you and I hope to see you out on the trail.