Good morning, traders. It's Monday, March 4th. My name is Charles. I'm from a community called Pirate Traders. And we are focused on the ES, the NQ, and how it moves through the two-way auction process. Just waiting to make sure the live stream is working here this morning. Yes, it is. All right, well good morning to everyone in the chat demo trader, Sergio, NAP and Mark. Welcome, welcome. Please say hello, please smash that like button. I sure would appreciate it. All right, well let's jump into the market this week and figure out what we might be expecting to see. So as always, I will talk about intraday sort of levels to watch, but first I wanna zoom out and give myself a little bit more perspective by looking at the market on a larger timeframe, okay? So I'm gonna start with the monthly timeframe. What stands out to me about the monthly timeframe? Is that the market is bullish. We are one time framing higher, meaning we are making higher highs and higher lows on the monthly timeframe. There is no reason to assume that that cannot continue. You know, that we couldn't go higher for another month and another month and another month, right? It is worth noting though, that since we broke out above the previous all-time highs, we have not come back down to backtest them, which one would assume eventually at some point, we will do. So we have the momentum. There's no reason they can't keep it going on the monthly timeframe, but we are keeping an eye on the fact that eventually that momentum has to come to an end. Market can't go straight up forever. So let's zoom in a little bit and look at the weekly. Same thing here. We see a lot of momentum on the weekly timeframe. We had a couple of weeks here around the beginning of the year where the market did a little bit of balancing, but all in all, we are just continuing to make this move higher and higher and higher. So if we're looking for that larger pullback on the monthly basis, the first signal that that is gonna happen will likely be when we make a lower high and a lower low on the weekly basis. But again, for now, they have the momentum. No reason they can't keep it going. All right, so let's zoom in a bit more. We'll take a look at the daily timeframe. So on the daily, things get a little more interesting. We can see that this market has not been going up in a straight line, not at all. It has been pushing higher and balancing and pushing higher and balancing. We got this first push where we broke away from those previous all-time highs. We balanced with price. We had a pullback with price. It was immediately bought back up and the momentum continued. Then we spent some time balancing off with time, going sideways in a range, bringing in new buyers, bringing in new buyers, and we got a continuation. Then we literally did that once again last week, another week of balance with time. I'm gonna go ahead and mark that on the chart here. So that balance area is gonna look something like that right there. And why am I marking it? Well, because we broke out of that balance last week, which means at some point this week we are likely to come back and back test it before we continue higher, okay? Now, this is on both markets, the ES and the NQ. Both markets broke out of a balance area last week and so they are likely at some point this week to need to come back to back test that breakout for continuation higher. And the reason I bring that up is because we are now going to zoom in and take a look at the market profile chart to get a more in-depth view of where the market has been spending time, where it has been bringing in volume, what kind of business have they been doing? So we've got Friday's range. Friday the market broke out of that balance area. It came back up to test previous all-time highs. It had a little pullback, a little bit of cessation and then it immediately started pushing higher. Well, what was interesting to me on Friday was not the fact that we pushed higher. That was to be expected. When you've got blue skies, the market can just keep going and going and going as we squeeze more and more shorts and bring in more and more FOMO buyers. So the move to the upside did not surprise me. But what did surprise me was the fact that once we pushed up, let me just elongate out yesterday's profile, once we pushed up, we never came back down. We just went sideways up at higher prices. We spent enough time and brought in enough volume to pull the points of control up here to the upper end of the range. That is extremely bullish to see. It is a sign that they are turning the new all-time highs into a fair price to do business, a fair place to have two-sided trade and to just go sideways. So that caught my eye at the end of the day on Friday. Well, now we've got the weekends worth of information to work with and what did the market do all weekend long? It basically just went sideways right here around the highs of Friday. So that is a sign. They don't need to pull back. Not yet, right? Not at this moment. Do we think that they need to pull back and back test those previous balance areas? Yes, of course. We just talked about that on the daily. They got to pull back and back test these breakouts, okay? But do they have to do it right now this morning? First thing, no, not at all. They've spent enough time and brought in enough volume up here that they could stay up here and continue higher. So this morning, when the market opens, I will be using Fridays high, the new all-time high as a chop zone high. And I'll be using whatever is the overnight low. We still got another half an hour before the market opens so they may drift lower. But whatever is the overnight low at the opening bell, I'll be using that as a chop zone low. And basically just assuming for the first hour of the day, they're likely to chop around in that range. But if they get above yesterday's high, if they get above Friday's high and turn it into support, that is very, very bullish that the momentum will continue because it's a bull market, you know? And if they get below whatever will be the overnight low at that time and they get resistance, well, then I will assume they need to pull back down to back test the breakout from these previous balance areas. So what would be the level I'd be looking for them to test? On the ES, that's gonna be 5112, okay? 5112 was a weak reference on Friday. So that alone increases the odds that if the market is heading lower, it will likely get to that level, okay? Now that may be all it needs to do. It may just need to tag that level and then it can turn around and head higher. That is also the highs, you know, from the balance. Let me zoom out here a little bit. So you can see where the market got a lot of resistance in here. You can see where the market ran out of steam in here. You can see where the market got a lot of resistance in here. So if there was an area, forget that that weak reference is even there. If the market was pulling back looking for buyers, looking for support, well, this node would be an excellent place for those buyers to step in. So the confluence of both of those things, the confluence of the fact that it is a weak reference that needs to be repaired. And right below it, there is support that could potentially turn around the market and take it higher, makes that a good balance area high to me, makes that a good area to look for the market to reverse, to find some buyers in reverse and head back up. If it does not, so if the market pushes down their repairs that weak reference and then continues to spend time and bring in volume back inside this previous balance area, well then the odds instantly change and the higher probability is we're gonna get a larger pullback with price. That to me is a less likely scenario. It is of course possible and I will know what it looks like if it's happening and you better believe as a trader, I will change my mind instantly if we start to spend time and bring in volume inside that previous balance area, I will very instantly become a bear but the higher probability in my mind is that we either just go sideways up here at higher prices and then continue higher or we pull back down, find support and then turn around and head higher. These two scenarios are a higher probability in my mind than that larger pullback, okay? So I'll be thinking, is there support, is there support, is there support? Looking for an opportunity to get long down there around 5112 rather than getting bearish for that larger pullback and what would change my mind is if we don't get that balance. If the market stays inside the previous balance area, continues to spend time, continues to bring in volume, then I get more bearish, okay? So now it's the same exact principle at play in the NQ this morning. This was a previous balance area in here. We'll call that balance area high 18106. Again, it's the same idea. Where did the market run out of momentum previously? Where was their support and resistance previously? Likely if the market comes back down there, that's where the buyers will be waiting to reverse the market back up. So the same thing as I said with the, excuse me, with the ES, overnight high, which is weak by the way, because it's a new all-time high. So that increases the odds that we will revisit it, but overnight high and whatever will be the overnight low when the opening bell rings in 20 minutes, that will be my chop zone. Well, I will assume it's gonna bounce around, but if it gets above that overnight high, turns it into support. Green lights, baby blue skies. It's the bull market, you know? And if they push below whatever will be the overnight low and they turn that into resistance, then I will be looking for a larger pullback. Now there are a lot of levels inside Friday's range for the NQ, where they could potentially find support without having to come all the way back to that balance area high. I'm looking at the base of the single prints at 18294 as a potential support. Same thing at 18275 potential support. And then once again, 18252 potential support, okay? Whenever the market creates multiple distributions like this where it leaves behind single prints, it significantly increases the odds that a later market, meaning the next day or a few days later or whatever, will come back down and backfill those singles. However, there will likely be buyers waiting at each one of those levels. So those are three potential support levels. If we do get below that overnight low and we do get resistance, okay? And then the last one is this area right here around the halfback, where we brought in a little volume yesterday, had a little two-sided trade, that's around 18228. So any of those areas could act as support, okay? The NQ, if it were to push below the overnight low and get resistance, may not need to come all the way back to the balance area high. However, if none of those hold this support, so I'm looking for a bounce, doesn't get it, looking for a bounce, doesn't get it, then that larger pullback to 18106 would be in play. And again, that is the least likely scenario in my mind.  It's a bull market, you know?  It does not have to do it. As long as they keep buying dips, as long as they keep bringing in more buyers and more buyers, they can just keep bringing in more buyers and more buyers. That is the nature of blue skies. That is the nature of being in an area where we're making new all-time highs all the time. Everyone's trying to short it because everyone's convinced it's got to flip in reverse and they all want to catch that high tick.  So does this market need a pullback? Yes, it does, right? We can see on the daily timeframe for both the ES and the NQ, they do need a pullback. Does that mean that pullback is gonna happen today? Not at all, which is why we'll be in a chop zone watching that overnight low to see if we can stay above it, both markets. Any questions from the chat? Looks like they're trying to front run a pullback right now on the ES here. I know this sounds strange to say, but that is actually bullish to see because once that opening bell rings, however far they pull back, if they can hold that low, whew, that would be bullish. Good morning to the demo trader, Sergio Knapp, Mark Chaitown, let's go. Debbie B, Cloudy, I'm gonna totally say this name wrong. Cloudy, good morning to you. Bill is here. Jay, Willie T, Sebastian. Sergio says, do you make the live every day? Yes, so every single day, from 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., I am live to my community, the Pirate Traders Brigade. If you're interested in joining, you can see the link up at the top of the screen, piratraders.io forward slash join. It's only 10 bucks, and you can hang out with me every day. I also made a video on my YouTube channel this week where I went through and kind of showed some of the insights that I gave throughout the week last week and how they played out if you're looking to get an idea of how things work. We got 97 people hanging out, only 27 likes. My favorite question of all, are you a seven figure profitable trader? No, I am not. I do not make millions of dollars a year. I am a six figure profitable trader. But I'll get there. That's the cool thing about being profitable. Your profits compound, right? I manage my risk based on my portfolio size. So as I get more and more wins and my portfolio grows, I'm very slowly sizing up and taking larger and larger trades. So I absolutely do predict that I will be a seven figure trader, but I'm not there yet. Lots of more skills I got to work on first. Thank you, Macky Max, appreciate you. YouTube Mark, many thanks. So we got like 15 minutes until the market opens. I've covered my analysis. That's the nice thing about trading the two way auction process. It is actually quite simple, right? It's not that complicated to prepare myself for the day. What are the things I think is gonna happen? I think we're gonna go sideways and higher or get a very small pullback and go higher. Okay, great, what are the levels to watch? The overnight low, the week references. Okay, great, I'm ready. I'm ready for the day. So if you guys have any questions for me, hit me up. Now there's no way to know if this liquidity will still be in here when the opening bell rings, but whenever I see extremely large pools of liquidity sitting above or below or both price, in this way, I assume it means the market is gonna be a little bit manipulated by the bots today. Basically you got computers trading against computers. And so by doing this, by somebody going in and layering a ton of orders in above price or a ton of orders below or both, essentially it confuses all the other algorithms, right? Because the algorithms are using the liquidity that's currently in the order book as their decision-making mechanism. If there's tons of liquidity above or tons of liquidity below, they don't wanna get too far away from there. So let's say this big pool of liquidity wasn't up here and we just had this one below. It would mean even if the market started to go higher, it's probably not gonna get that far because those day trading bots will be afraid to go too far away from this node. And if it were, you know, vice versa, if this one weren't here and this one were above, even if we started to pull back, I would think it's probably not gonna go that far. Seeing both of them there makes me think they want more of this. They want more chop in a tight range. They wanna just spend some time going sideways up here. So we'll see if those disappear once the opening bell rings. But obviously that is part of the mechanism at play right now. Why the market is grinding around at such a tight range. If that is going to be the case and it is gonna be a day where we just grind around in a tight range in the upper end of yesterday's, you know, profile, we will also see a lot of icebergs in the book map. This iceberg setting, the way I have it set up just basically shows me when larger players or computers are trading the market. So if we see lots and lots of icebergs above and below, we know that's just bots trying to keep the market in a tight range. So that is something else we'll be watching for. Again, in 10 minutes when the market opens. Clowdoo says this is NASDAQ. So I have both the ES and the NQ. I mainly focus personally on the ES. But if you have questions about the NQ you can ask me throughout the day. As I've said right now, they're both doing the exact same thing. They're both just rotating at the upper end of Friday's range, which is at the all-time highs, which is bullish to see both markets. The thing that will change my mind is getting below the overnight lows. Okay, right now the overnight low for the NQ is 18,312. So if once the opening bell rings, they stay above there, it's bullish. If they get below, we watch to see if they can turn it into resistance. FighterPilot says, good morning. Take a look at Charles' community and speed up your learning. Take the course. Charles understands the complexities of trader-skill development. Get after it. Thank you, brother, as always. Yeah, I mean, that's the idea is that it took me years of treading water with my trading, of winning some, losing some, trying this market and that market and this tool and that tool and this chart set up and that chart set up. And like just bouncing around from thing to thing to thing to thing before I began to understand the basic concept that, and of course I'm talking about day trading now, which is very different than, you know, long-term investing or even swing trading. But as a day trader, it is just basically a complex skill, like any other complex skill, whether you're trying to learn to play a musical instrument or you're trying to get really good at a certain sport or, you know, the game of chess or poker or whatever it might be, right? It is simply a complex skill and you develop your skills as a trader the same way you do in any of those other mediums, right? You don't get good enough to be an NBA basketball player by trying every sport there is to try. You do it by just learning the basics of how to play basketball and then practicing day in and day out and putting in that effort consistently and staying motivated and focused and working through the hardships, knowing that you're gonna have to practice your three throw a thousand times before you're gonna be able to nail it in a game with the whole huge crowd watching you. You know what I mean? Trading is exactly the same thing. If you're bouncing around from this to that to this to that, let me try this, this isn't working, let me try that, that isn't working, blah, blah, blah, blah.  You're never gonna get to that professional level. What you must do is pick one thing and just become the best in the world at it. Just be totally focused on that one single thing. For me, that thing is trading the ES as a day trader using the two way auction process. Basically just measuring are there more buyers or sellers in the market?  So I do my best to teach that because I think it's very different from what a lot of other people in the Furu space are teaching, which is like, you just need this new software or this new doodad or whatever. Doodad, do they call them doodads or am I totally wrong? Thank you, demo trader, appreciate ya. Frito says, Sierra chart is dead in the water, uh-oh. That's not good. Sun says, can you get this trading software with crypto? Yes sir. So both the book map chart that you see on the left side of the screen and the market profile chart that you see on the right side of the screen are both useful in any market, okay? Any market you wanna trade at all. Every market is just a measurement of buyers and sellers. So book map can show you where is the current liquidity in that market and how is it changing, right? And any market profile software can show you where does the market go? How much time does it spend there? How much volume does it bring in? That could be any market you're trading, that could be a good insight. I don't personally trade crypto but I know book map has some very cool tools for combining different markets. So you have spot exchanges all over the world that have slight differences in volume and liquidity and things like that. And you can combine it all together on one chart.  Four minutes to market open. Good morning, Michael. Welcome. Navar, okay, man, sorry. I keep screwing up these names. Nivara, Narvary, sorry. What is the bottom little thing on the book map? So this is one of their add-ons which is called market pulse. And basically the way I'll show you the settings, the way I have the settings set up right now on this market pulse, I'm just experimenting with it to see if I like it right now is I'm using the volume pressure imbalance as a measurement tool. So basically, is there more volume at this moment? Like at this second, is there more volume going long or going short? And if there is significantly more volume going long or going short, the further it'll go green, if it's more short than long, the further it'll go red. And I've got it set up so that if it crosses the 92% level, so that more than 90% of the pressure is buying at this exact moment or selling at this exact moment, then it makes a little noise. And you guys will hear that. It'll be like brrrch, brrrch. It's very annoying. But the idea is a lot of times the market will actually reverse after one of these singles. So there it just hit for a second, okay? So a lot of times, if the market is going down and then you get that red push all the way to 100%, that is actually just taking out the stops from the buyers. So right then and there, it'll turn around and start heading back up and vice versa. So I'm just playing with it this week to see if I like it, to see if it's useful. I don't know that I'll keep it. But it is very interesting as a conceptual idea because this is something that happens when they take out those stops, when they just sweep the order books and they just take out 10,000 orders instantly or whatever. It's very hard for your brain to see it on the chart and to keep up with what's happening. You would literally have to be staring at the book map at that exact second to see it happen. But this just makes like a little noise.  Is this a level where I was looking to buy support? Is this a level where I was looking to sell resistance? And then also what comes next, right? Because let's say, so for example, let's take like this level right here around 51 42, that is likely to act as resistance as the market pushes up into it. Let's say we get that, there's resistance there and then we get that buying brrrch where it takes it out. That likely means we just stopped a bunch of sellers and now we can reverse and go lower, right? But what if it doesn't? What if we get that noise brrrch and then it keeps going? Well, that's a sign of new buyer stepping in. That's a sign of a change in the market. So it could be very useful for that as well. Again, I'm still just experimenting. Okay, we got one minute to market open for those of you that are just joining the channel. I am seeing on the ES 51 32 to 51 49 as a chop zone where the market is likely to just grind around. If it gets below that low and it gets new selling meaning they turn it into resistance, I will be bearish for a pullback to 51 12. If they look below and fail pulling right back up in, I will assume we're gonna keep going sideways. Same thing with the all-time highs. If they get above there and fail and pull back in more sideways, if they get above there and turn it into support. Well, that's about as bullish as you can be. Blue skies, baby. And it's the exact same thing on the NQ. So we're testing that overnight low right now, which is at 18 three, we're just poking below it now. So the question will be for the NQ literally as we speak, do they push below and then turn around and head right back up into the overnight range passing back through the opening price or do they start to spend time and bring in volume down here? The more time and the more volume, the more likely they need to pull back, okay? Right now it's a look below and fail, which is bullish. So I'm looking for some chop. I'm looking for some sideways grind in this overnight range and looking for more information based on how the market handles that. Let's also just zoom out real quick and see. Yep, that liquidity that we were talking about earlier is still sitting above and below price, increasing the odds they want a choppy sideways day. It's a chop zone. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. It's a chop zone. Very tight range here. Don't get mad at me. It is what it is. So these are the support and resistance levels I'm watching. What happens when we push up into resistance? Does the market reverse and come back down? What happens when we bounce into support? Do we turn around and come back up?  Gold go up up. Yeah, it's weird.  Gold's going up up. Oil's going up up. Stock market's going up up. Crypto's going up up. WTF. Gold looking good. It could break out of this range. So you would want to see today continuation higher up towards the, we'll call it 2140s, right? Then you'd want to see a pullback to back test this support that they are literally breaking out of today. So you want to see the push higher. You want to see them come back down. Excuse me. If they can turn that into support, yes sir, they could keep this thing going higher. Bitcoin still on a rip, creeping its way towards those all-time highs. I would say those all-time highs are certainly in play now. So 68, we'll call it 68, 800 is now in play. Back to the ES and the chop zone where they'll chop it up. John Q says, never trade 10 contracts at 6 a.m. Barely made it out alive. Yeah, if you're talking about 10 ES contracts, boy, that was a tight range. I'm sure it was one of those days where it was like, you're green, you're red, you're green, you're red, you're green, you're like, ah, that's funny. Okay, so we are pushing higher to head up and test the resistance around 5141, but I make note of two things at the low. First off, the low itself is weak because we only went one tick below the opening price. We also have an iceberg waiting down there. That is going to act as a magnet so that increases the odds we will get resistance and come back through the opening price. Further confirming the idea of a choppy morning.  Bookmaps out here giving you this amazing insight for free, give them a little thumbs up to support the channel. See, this is what I love about this community, guys. We got Chi Town, we got Fighter Pilot, trying to help out another trader, get them going live. Okay, so we are passing back through the opening price. That increases the odds, we will repair the weak low and head down to test this iceberg at 5132. We will be looking for a bounce there as well. We only traded 11 contracts at the high of the day, so just like the fact that the low was weak because it was one tick from the opening price and we ended up coming back down for it, the fact that we only traded 11 contracts at the high increases the odds that whenever we find support we'll come back up for that. Further confirming the chop zone. Where's they will chop it up? It's a tight range too, man. Very tight range. All right, so it looks like the NQ has been playing tug of war right at that overnight low trying to decide can they turn it into resistance? They cannot or they have not yet. So that increases the odds, they will pass back through the opening price. Now I'm not making a call for the low of the day right now. It's still choppy. There's probably still hours of going sideways, but there is a chance if we get back up through the opening price now that could be the low of the day for the Q. What you will want to see is for the market to pass back through the opening price, get some resistance, come back down and then turn this node where all the tug of war has been happening into support. So if you can see all those things, you can see the market push back through the opening, come back down and find support, that would be bullish to me. Right now it's still choppy, but it's a good first sign to have a look below and fail of the overnight low as that is a sign there were buyers waiting to buy that dip. Back to the ES, you get some chop and you get some chop and you get some chop. Okay, so we're pushing up into some resistance here around 42, we can tell that that will be resistance because it was the fairest price to do business all night last night, just below the fairest price to do business on Friday. So if there's a place for sellers to do business, boy, the fair price seems like a good place. So we are looking for resistance here and then the thing we would expect to see if the chop is going to continue is for it to push into resistance and then get smacked back down through the opening price once again. However, if it pushes into the resistance comes back down and then turns the half back into support, that would be bullish to see. As of now, it's still too choppy to know. We gotta just watch what happens at support resistance and the half back for more insights. Okay, do you guys just hear that? The market pulse just told us we squeezed some sellers. Was it enough to reverse or do we have some more sellers to squeeze? Okay, so there's the resistance. So now the question is, are we taking the market back through the opening price or can we turn half back, which we're testing right now, man, such a tight range. 51 to 38, can we turn that into support? Here we go, right now. If we can turn it into support, that is bullish that we're likely heading up to test the next resistance. If not, coming down to test the support. Oh, so, choppity. Surrey Name says, I am struggling big time. Well, far be it for me to tell you what to do, but I will tell you one edge that I have found in my trading is to not take trades when the market is in a chop zone like this as delicious as they may seem. The problem is, once you enter the trade, your emotions go absolutely apeshit crazy because it's so choppy. And so you can't have any confidence that your support is holding or your resistance is holding. Okay, so we're testing the half back, can they hold it? If not, we're heading back through the opening price and it's not. The chop continues, folks. The buyers gave it a try. They didn't have enough buyers. So now we gotta head down to a lower price looking for buyers there. But so if you're trying to enter trades inside the chop zone, it is just emotionally very difficult. It's not that you can't call. Look, I just called the resistance level. I could have gotten short there. I could move my stop below my entry right now. I'd be in the trade with no risk, you know what I mean? But then I'd have to take another trade and take another trade and take another trade and take another trade. And by the time we finally break out of the zone, I've taken 10 trades, I'm exhausted. They were probably half winners and half losers. And I'm just like, I don't have any energy left for the rest of the day. So for me personally, I just choose to let the market grind and grind and grind. And I just try to understand what it's doing while it's grinding. I try to understand, are the buyers taking control? Are the sellers taking control? Who's got more oomph behind them? You know, we talked about this morning, what are the two main influences that tells me the chop is likely to continue? They're both from Bookmap. This liquidity here with this liquidity here with the fact that it's icebergs on every side of the market tells me they're just gonna keep chopping. But I don't know exactly where they're gonna reverse it. I can't. So instead of trying to guess and getting squeezed and getting emotional and dealing with the frustration, I just sit back, relax, give them an hour or two, let them grind themselves crazy. And then I look for trades and those trades will be much easier. Support will be tested once or twice and then it'll go. Resistance will be tested once or twice and then it'll go instead of again and again and again and again. There's a big difference between knowing what a market is doing and actually entering and managing trades in that market. There's separate skills. So I'm very, very good at knowing when a market is gonna chop but I'm very, very bad at entering trades. So my edge as a trader is to not trade and to just watch and to use the information I gain to give me insights for the rest of the day. What you begin to realize the more time you spend trading and by time I mean months and years that you spend trading, the more you realize that the fewer trades you take the better off you are. You only need one winning trade a day to make money in this business. That's it. One winning trade every day. So if you can avoid the five losing trades and only take the one trade that's gonna be the one winning trade over a series of days, weeks, months and years you will make money. You will be profitable. Whereas if you try to take every trade the market, I could get short here, I could get long here, I could do this, oh my God, I could do that. If you try to take every trade you'll end up wearing yourself out and you'll end up being breakeven at the end. You win some, you lose some. But if you limit the number of trades you take to just those A plus setups, those times where the market is telling you you should get in the trade, your emotions are telling you you should get in the trade, your risk management is telling you you should get in the trade, if you only take those trades you'll have a much better win rate over a series of days, weeks, months and years. What does that require? A lot of patience, a lot of willingness to just sit and wait for those A plus opportunities which is not easy. In the wise words of Charlie Munger the money is made in the sitting and the waiting not in the buying and the selling because it's a chop zone, doot, doot, doot, doot.  All right, NQ back below the overnight low that is less bullish to see. That is increasing the odds, the NQ needs a pullback here. Next support, 18 to 76. At this point, the more time and the more volume they bring in below that overnight low the less and less bullish it is the more likely they need that pullback. Maybe they get a bounce and they head right back up through but if they get a bounce and they spend more time and bring in more volume they need another pullback and so on and so forth. Look at these icebergs y'all working so hard to keep the market in a tight range. Michael says, I'm finally going to plunge into the pro version of window trader, remind me again, is there an offer discount for brigade members? Yes sir, when the brigade stream starts in about three or four minutes here you'll see the link in the description there. That one is for the light version of window trader which is the slightly less add-ons version. If you want the full version, the blue version just shoot me an email at ahoyatpiratetraders.io and I will send you the link to get you that three month discount.  Where you go with nowhere. So what we have at the high right now is what we describe as bad taper in terms of volume profile. They're stopping at literally an exact level. So that tells us they need to poke through at least once. Obviously not yet because those icebergs won't let it go higher but at some point today they should come back up through this high because it's just too exact of a reversal and that's computers. And when the computers keep doing that they keep reversing here and here and here and here. Guess what the sellers that are going short right now are doing? They're putting their stops up above there. So we'll get a pullback but then as soon as support come right back up for those stops above. Further confirming a chop zone this morning. Yeah. Okay, they just turned that bad taper high into a poor high. Same story. Increases the odds that at some point today they're gonna poke back through there but they might first need to push away looking for support and then come back for it. I was really hoping I'd have some more information to share before the end of this stream to give you guys some guidance to carry forward but unfortunately the market is saying no, sir. So as I discussed, we've got this huge note of liquidity up here around 51.60. Another one down here at about 51.15. If one of those disappears or both the market will likely start to make a move one direction or another as long as they are both there it's likely to just keep going sideways like it did all weekend long. Okay. As I said with both markets if they can get below the overnight low and spend time and bring in volume that could cause a pullback but at this point there's no way to know especially with the ES if that's even possible and same thing with the all-time high. If they can get above 51.49 they could bring in new buyers and just like Friday they could just keep it going and going all day long but first they'd have to get above there and turn it into support. So I unfortunately am still in waiting and watching mode cause we are still in a chop zone. So I appreciate everyone here in the book map stream I look forward to seeing you here next Monday morning if you're a member of the brigade head on over to the private stream. I'll see you there. Thank you very much. Bye.


Hello, Psych2Goers, and welcome back to our channel. We wanted to let you know that it is your ongoing support that helps us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. Thank you so very much for all of your support. Now, let's continue. Have you ever fallen head over heels for someone, but couldn't tell if they felt the same way for you? Or wanted to know if your overly flirty crush felt a deeper connection towards you? So many of us let our love go unspoken because we're afraid of getting rejected or feel uncomfortable with emotional vulnerability. All too often we let our opportunities for happiness slip away because we think, if only I knew for sure that they felt the same way, then I'd confess to them. But the truth is, even if we don't always have the courage to be as open or forthcoming as we should be with our feelings, all the signs could already be there. So to help you with that, here are 7 of the most telltale signs that someone is secretly in love with you. 1. They're always running into you. Do you find yourself repeatedly bumping into one particular person at school or at work? Do they usually show up at the same places or events that you're at? If you've conveniently run into this particular person at certain places you've been known to frequent, then there's a good chance that they're just there to see you. And though stalking is definitely not one of the best or healthiest ways to express your love, you might feel compelled to chase after your crush anyway, by finding as many excuses as you can to bump into them and try to chat them up. 2. They are quick to defend you. Another definitive sign that someone is secretly in love with you is that they're always quick to defend you. Whenever someone tries to say something rude about you or mistreats you in any way, you best believe this person will be there, ready to stick up for you. They're protective and caring towards you in a way that they aren't with anyone else. They're eager to help you out when you need it, and they shower you with praise, compliments and attention. 3. They're fascinated by you. Think back to the last conversation you had with this person. Did they seem interested in what you had to say? Were they listening attentively and eager to keep the conversation going? Do they often come to you for advice or seek out your opinion? A person who's fallen in love with you is fascinated by you and is eager to learn everything they can about you. They love talking with you and finding out what you like, what you dislike, how you feel about things and what your views are. 4. They're physically affectionate towards you. Does this particular person seem much more physically affectionate towards you than usual? They might be trying to express their feelings for you through their non-verbal behaviors. They might be too shy to actually tell you about their feelings just yet, or they might not even realize they become more physically affectionate and are doing it subconsciously. They find excuses to touch you or be close to you. They play with your hair or brush their hands against yours.  Whether they realize they're doing it or not, all of these are very clear non-verbal signs of romantic attraction. 5. They're more attentive towards you. Have you noticed that this person is more attentive to you and your needs? They pay special attention towards you. They're happy to do favors for you.  They make themselves available for you. They adjust their schedule to accommodate you.  6. They remember the little things. When it comes to the people that we love, no detail is too small or too insignificant to remember. We cherish every memory we share with them and listen attentively to all their stories because we're so much more invested in them than we are with others. So if you notice yourself saying, wow I can't believe you remember that, a lot of the time, chances are you're very important to this person. And if they know things about you that no one else seems to, from all your favorite songs and movies to your random ideas and opinions, it's probably because they're in love with you. Or, at the very least, deeply interested in you. 7. They always reach out to you. Finally, one of the most telling signs that someone is in love with you is if they're always reaching out to you and trying to find ways to get closer to you. Whether it's following you on social media, asking for your number or inviting you to events, these are all not so subtle hints that this person has feelings for you and is trying to pursue you romantically.  So did anyone in particular come to mind while watching this video? Have you noticed a friend or an acquaintance showing a romantic interest in you lately? Or maybe you wanted to find ways to tell if someone you like feels the same way? Let us know down in the comments below. Please like and share this video if it helped you and you think it could help someone else too. The studies and references used are all listed in the description below. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and the notification bell icon for more Psych2Go videos. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.


Top Tips for Teaching Absolute Beginners in English as an EFL Teacher Teaching the English language to total beginners is a challenge for any teacher, but it's so worth it. English teachers abroad are regularly faced with two possible situations. A. Teaching English to a class with zero knowledge in English, often young learners. B. Having to integrate a new student into your class who has never studied English before and now he or she has to pick up the language quickly. Where to start? Many teachers panic when having to teach total beginners of English because no matter how much you learned about teaching English in your TEFL certification course, the reality often looks quite different. However, there are a couple of easy techniques and tips for teaching absolute beginners in English as an EFL teacher that will make your life a lot easier. A. Assess the exact level of the students. You can already be prepared to teach English to total beginners before the first lesson has even started. Find out the following information from your co-teachers, the school staff or the parents of the student. Has the student studied English before? If so, for how long? Some students are placed in total beginner classes even though they have been exposed to the English language before. This means they might know some basics like phrases, words or even grammar. Can the student read and write in his native language? What is the student's native language like? If you're teaching English abroad, you will likely know what the native language of your students is. Use this information to find out whether the sentence structure is similar to English or completely different and also see whether the language uses Latin letters or a completely different script. This way, you know exactly what obstacles your students will encounter and can plan your lessons accordingly to make it easier for them. For example, Korean students might not be familiar with the English alphabet because they use a different script, called Hangul. So you will have to spend more time introducing individual letters than with students from Spain. For example, what brings the student to you? What is the goal of them learning English? For young students, it's usually the parents who send them to an English language school in order to learn English for educational purposes. When dealing with adult students, the reasons can be quite different. Some need it for their job, others simply want to pick up English for pleasure and some need to learn English because they plan to move to another country. Do the parents speak any English? This is important to know in terms of help with homework and study at home. Also, if the parents speak English you are able to communicate with them and tell them exactly what their child needs to work on. If they don't speak English, there usually is a co-teacher at a language school who can pass on any information from you to the parents or even translate in parent meetings. Some of these questions are answered during an initial interview when a student signs up for the language course. Others will be revealed over time. You don't need to have all the answers before you start your lesson. It's often also a great idea to conduct a level test in the first lesson or even beforehand to get an understanding of the level of the students. A quick Google search reveals countless resources for English level tests. Alternatively, many language schools also have their own level test resources available and even conduct these tests before they are placed into your classroom. What to teach absolute beginners in English? So now that you've assessed your students and have some information about them, you can focus on how to actually start teaching them English. A great idea is to think about the most important words and phrases for you to be able to survive in a foreign country.  It's often a lot easier to teach things like personal information and social interaction first to allow the students to orientate themselves in their new universe called English. Once they've got these basics down, you can move on to grammar. Here is a short list of what a newcomer needs to know when starting out on their English language journey. Personal and Family Information Name, address, phone numbers, age, spelling of their first and last names, answering questions about grade, age, school, teacher and where they are from, family members, words like brother, sister, mother, father, cousin, sibling, aunt, uncle, etc. Social Interaction Hello's and Goodbyes Asking and thanking Introductions to friends and non-friends, handshaking, kissing, etc. Yes, no questions and answers Asking for help Expressing emotions Classroom and School Items such as books, desks, whiteboard, pens, computer, etc. Class Directions Print, copy, turn the page, etc. People who work at school Places at school, library, cafeteria, gym Class Procedures, announcements, schedule, rules School subjects Time, calendar and weather Days of the week, months, seasons Say and write the date Yesterday, today, tomorrow What is the difference between a weekday and weekend? Telling time as well as concepts such as beginning and end, opening and closing, etc. Body Parts Names of body parts Verbs that are related to movement and body functions, run, walk, eat, taste, etc. Clothing Food Groups of food, grains, dairy, fruits and vegetables, fats and proteins Foods in each of the above mentioned groups Focus on food that is common in the student's country and your country or an English-speaking country as a comparison Breakfast, lunch, dinner and what is typically eaten Table manners, restaurant manners Home Rooms in a house Kitchen tools and appliances Incorporate numbers, colors and shapes Always aim to use numbers, colors and shapes when teaching all of the above topics For example I live on 123 Main Street or my house is blue Teaching the alphabet As mentioned earlier, the alphabet can be a tricky thing to teach Especially to those students whose native language does not use Latin-based letters Such as Arabic, Mandarin or Korean It is extremely important to go over the English alphabet carefully and spend some time on it Including focusing on pronunciation As for students whose native language does use the Latin alphabet Make sure that the students know what the letters sound like in English Are you ready to teach English abroad? Teaching absolute beginners in English as an EFL teacher is never easy but with these tips in mind The language journey will go a lot smoother Also, keep in mind that language learning takes time and effort So praise your students regularly and motivate them to keep going It's the best feeling in the world as a teacher to see the progress of your students happening Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today


I'm on my way to Boston my flight was cutting cutting it close this morning, but it's okay. I just got coffee I'm going to see Molly. I'm literally so freaking excited Wow, we just had an adventure No Molly doesn't really like driving that much, but it was so fun and we're going to Whole Foods Yeah, she gave me a tour of the city. I've already been here, but oh My gosh, thank you. This is literally the best thing I've ever seen Okay, so I got a large matcha Oh, it wasn't even that I'd wait to vlog for like five seconds so people would think she's weird and in that time Everyone's still staring. I didn't even wait that long I almost I thought that there's gonna be a step so I like stepped down for a step There wasn't a step and we almost got hit by a car But anyways, it's off to a great start. It's off to a great start. So now are we going to your place now? Yes, okay. So now I'm going to Molly's see my eight cats I can't wait their kittens if you guys saw her tweet. Well, wait, I thought there was only four Well, other kittens had four kittens and then I have two older cats. Oh, yeah, and then I have two younger kittens still From the wild did you go to the wild? I got me all the kittens.  I love these cookies. No way Oh where Molly is now? It's so cute No, oh my gosh, Molly literally nothing has changed I don't know why are we like open up a new one before I do that all the time Yeah, I know I do No, you're good. It's impossible. Oh my gosh. It's so freaking cute. Oh my gosh I can't even find the food for life Fred love also guys.  I know I just couldn't control myself like I don't know. Yeah Over me Yeah, that makes sense Yeah, thank you so much. Okay, everyone. We've just been chilling. I have the worst headache I've had it for two days like when tell me why It's and this happens when you're like trying not to cry, but none of the above So when you've been crying really hard or you're trying not to cry and eat that really bad headache anyways, none of that is what happening but My head has been hounding for days and I or like it almost feels like you're like hungover But like that also doesn't make sense like none of it makes sense. So Molly has to get one of her nails fixed Yeah, it's on my thumb Home was a painful But I went this morning trying to get it fixed and she told me to come back later So we're going to get her nail fix because it's really important And oh my gosh, I didn't even tell them we're going to Chili's I know it's so weird because today on the plane I was thinking about matcha and the Molly text me and was like, let's get your green your grass juice or whatever and then I was thinking about Chili's and I was like, I hope Molly wants to go to Chili's this week And she said do you want to go to Chili's literally like five seconds later. I was like Yeah, so no we're going to Chili's it's gonna be so good Good morning, everyone.  I agree It's so cute. Um, I'm drinking.  So I'm just a Boston girl now Good morning, everyone We got ready.  Okay this Guys Molly's been telling me to buy it for forever and I used it and it's amazing. So I'm getting it Guys, we found the blue bottle. Well, I mean they knew where it was. It's so cute Guys they still have the plastic cups here I haven't had one a plastic cup in a while. I got a cold girl She asked me if I'd had a nola before and I said, oh my gosh, of course Molly got the nola Wow It matches my nails. Oh my gosh. It matches your nails. That's so cute They're our paper straws guys. Don't worry. Okay. I'm vlogging. Um Hey guys, we're doing some shopping. We got some blue bottle. I'm a little bit tired Also, did I even say in the vlog that I had an allergic reaction? I don't think so My eyes got really poppy this morning. I don't think I even said that in the vlog um They're fine from the eight cats. So they're so cute. Um, so we're just ignoring that my eyes got a lot better But I definitely did not look to my best. Yeah this morning. I was like Oh, she asked us in a photo and I almost sent you a photo and I was like, this is too ugly So, yeah It's so cute. Yeah, it's sort of pretty inexpensive. This is seaport, right? This is where we are. I'm just having Molly my tour guide They have a glossier pop-up. My dress literally just flew open. So I just flashed seaport. Um, anyways We made it to glossier. It looks so cute. It's all pink and cute. It's a pop-up But we love it. We're fans guys. Okay, look at this First off the music selection. This is like Ikea You know what I'm talking about with the paper. I know where you like. Oh my gosh There's a map and it tells you what you like Also, this is so cute I have this thing right here Oh my gosh, the glossier notebook Oh my gosh, it's so cute. I love that Guys, it is really cute though We have these and I'm marking off the things that I want The makeup they have the best lip gloss ever. Yeah, this would be it. I'm assuming Oh, look at the mirrors that we love. Good lighting It's so cute. Like, wow It's so cute. Don't look that full cute Wait, I need to know like how great are these powders and why is this so good? Okay, we just checked out a glossier. I'll give you we'll give you a haul later Oh, we can do a little haul. It's super cute. My dress. I'm literally flashing Boston. Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry everyone Guys, big fan of glossy is branding overall store experience But the fact that it was in different stores really confused us It threw us off and we weren't that big a fan. Also worry parker is literally everywhere now guys Sure, we've got a really nice subscriber at the glossier store. She's cutting us out. Um And her name is Monica and she's super cute. Also Molly and I accidentally have matching best friend necklaces From how do you say it? We neither of us can really say it Missouri Missouri I love their just like I love their jewelry, but I don't really know how to say it So now we're just walking around and it's really pretty and really cute We're gonna go to outdoor voices. I haven't actually been inside a store. They have one in west Hollywood though, but it's super cute They have a lulu Sephora Boston Amazing club that Molly recently went to I think that's so cool This is such a cute area, so we're gonna go look as we know Oh, I love that's uh Oh my gosh, wow Okay, we're at outdoor voices now and we found these sweats. I'm about to try them on and show you guys But they're just like perfect. They look great with my ease. They're clean. Um, but amazing So I'll keep you guys posted. They're so cute. I have a dress on so unfortunately. This is the fit, but They're like really soft and comfy. These are the mediums Okay, I just bought the sweats and honestly, I'll probably go back to LA and get the blue ones But I got gray and black and I love them So cute Morning everyone. It is the next day. Um, I'm wearing this is my urban crop top my Um, these are my jogger is that I just got from outdoor voices I also got them on black. They're both in a medium The black ones are definitely a little bit bigger, which is just weird But I feel like when they shrink they'll be perfect, but I'm literally about to live in these They're so cute. It's gonna be amazing. Um, Molly and I are having a work day Um, so we're gonna vision board and be very productive and do a lot of emails and just like work stuff So I actually we're literally so pumped guys. Also.  I'm about to make this matcha So Joe makes matcha at our house for this target brand that was so good And I just remember that we actually used to do this a year and a half ago But these are the vital proteins at matcha collagen. I got them at Whole Foods the other day I'm just gonna Um, put some omelette on the stove and then put this in and just hope for the best So updates to come people.  It does? Yeah, look at it right there. Oh my god. I've never done that before Wait, but is it all like see the thing about this apartment that I don't really like is the fact that the kitchen Like it's hard to film in because it gets so backlit with all the windows my whole house is like that So I've had to just unfortunately give up But I when I was doing the dishes earlier and like open this But the way the light was shining in the dishwasher made me so happy. It's beautiful I don't know why I was always just wondering if we wake up really early tomorrow at like 7 a.m It's so bright and it's literally so pretty Guys, we have some oatley oat milk I would make Molly some but she absolutely hates my grass drinks It tastes like grass. Yeah Comment down below if you guys think it tastes like grass healthy in some ways, but I can't drink the grass drink Molly, I think you've actually overall been healthier than me longer than I've been healthy This is really just like this whole I feel like I've actually only really been healthy Um since like December And you've actually been healthy I've been trying the healthy change.  So updates to come. Oh my gosh. She looks so bad. Okay So updates to come on my vital proteins match a collagen. Oh my gosh I didn't even think about that as collagen magic. It has everything you love. I love it. I know Okay, people.   Here's my grass drink. Um, it looks super cute I like this mug. Where's it from? Oh, it's super cute I use that one on work day. So I was thinking that if this is our work day, so I wanted to use the work mug, you know Now we're having this blueberry bread molly's mom made us and she really wants us to have and we're very excited Here you go molly Wait molly just goes. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh, they made ice cream christy better's vlog shows it. Oh my gosh We have to go get that today I wonder if wagons has it. No, look it up. Yeah, look it up Oh, hi friends. This is peaches peaches. Uh Meow again. Come on guys. They're so cute Peachy was just all by herself Oh my gosh Oh my gosh. I can't believe you're so cute Come on.  Oh my gosh Do you know hini too hini is my friend? Oh my gosh You're so cute I'm gonna cry No guys I like actually if yeah, no, which is it would be awful. It'll actually be terrible Oh my gosh, you're so cute. Remember when coca was like literally this size This is how small she was We're watching natalie I watched this video this morning, but oh my gosh Guys, I'm my number one fan. Oh my god. I know kenzie lizabeth merch kenzie lizabeth merch This is the best part of any trip to the mall I'm embarrassing. Why this is literally the best part. Okay. I'll show you guys my order I'll do an entire mukbang just to these pretzels. Okay. We'll do that in the mall We'll just set it up. It won't be that embarrassing. Molly. Also. I literally want this bag This is my vision in like this color. So like Yeah, if anyone has a guji contact, let me know because I want it gray And it doesn't have to be velvet preferably velvet, but I could do the leather as well In like the same straps, but just gray. So if anyone has a guji contact, um That can make a custom guji bag for me. Yeah, my business email is down below. Thank you So this is the best part of them all Look, this is what I got my nails match again again. Why do your nails match everything? Okay, so Should we go over this way? Yeah, we have to find someone to sit for you guys. It's really stressful. There's 20 people Okay So this is what you have to get lemonade, right? Yes, lemonade And then please ignore my saltaner hand. We can't talk about it. It makes me come on We have our bagel bagel bites our pretzel bites I noticed Molly got something else, which you always get spicy stuff hot salsa cheese sauce. I love that I Always get just the cheese sauce and that is my mall haul for today Molly just got our hair done Show them the big reveal. It looks really good. It's much better than it was before so her phone's at 1% So we're literally leaving it to charge But we're just going to the e-bar at Nordstrom. We're just going across the way We're just going across the way, but we're gonna keep it We're gonna keep an eye out because we don't want any robbers coming So Don't worry guys Okay So embarrassing I got my first try in Literally so long actually I had one recently for the first time in like at least a year And it was a lot for me But it's just like late and I can't be like too crazy right now Here we go You're nervous for me, okay, why is that she's scared for me because it's a little bit melky and sweet I'm actually kind of craving it and I never crave this anymore. This is my favorite drink for like years Oh, no, it's good. I like how I like them when they're sending me Nordstrom e-bar Oh Those are so cute, too We want to get matching ugg slippers Thank you Okay Oh, hi. Hey guys, we're getting matching ugg slippers Look at this drop.  We're trying them out. Oh, we're doing it So cute guys, I feel like I might need a size seven cute Guys, I'm so glad size seven is definitely for me These are amazing. Oh my gosh. They're like Literally perfect. You can't even see them Okay, yeah, we're definitely getting these Beautiful All right guys, we got our matching slippers. It's a tradition that Molly and I always get something matching last time It was tattoos Yeah, we'll do a try on haul for you guys So we're gonna quickly do a little haul Very little very little. I'll show you guys what I got from glossier half of this um Gone so yesterday as you guys know, we went to the store and everything fell out of my bag I had the classic glossier Stuff first thing I got was the lip gloss and holographic Not in focus. Did you bring that today? It looks really pretty. Yeah, I wore today and I liked it second thing I got was the birthday bomb calm Also wore that today Second thing I got was the lip gloss in just the classic glossy lip gloss. I love it. It's so great It's very glossy. I know I really like it too. It's just really little so I feel like I'm gonna go through it so fast Yeah, honestly, you do go through pretty fast. I think it's really pretty I got the same things as kenzie the birthday bomb.com lip gloss And then I also got the coconut bomb.com and I really really like this I think the packaging is really cute and it's actually really more challenging You got the coconut coconut and birthday. I'm sorry. I didn't do that. I don't know birthday Okay, I got the cloud paint in the color puff Um because subscriber that we met was wearing this as she checked us out and I was like, oh my gosh Her skin was glowing. It was amazing. No, that's just rude Yeah, we're gonna watch her. It is just amazing. So I got it and we'll see maybe I'll try it out tomorrow Um, and then I got the glossier melky jelly cleanser. I know have you? Oh wait, duh. I'm saying like today like you didn't try like last night this morning What I heard great things So I'm excited Okay now So as you guys know molly and ice tradition is to always get something matching We got tattoos which is on the podcast. We got matching tattoos that you can't really see And um, yeah Look at how cute I'll have a link for these below Her ugg slippers. I've worn ugg slippers every single day since seventh grade because I always have a pair And so I figured now was the time to get a new pair with molly And I know they have a light pink too and she said like yellow like yellow like blue They haven't been like purple every single color pretty much you could think of on their website They have them they're so cute. So I'll link them down below But um, yeah, we're gonna be wearing nice. We're really excited Bring them on right now. Yeah, I'm about to as well. I think we have to only make sense All right guys. We are Hey, hey We're now recording it is currently. Oh wait. No, we have to order our dinner first. Oh my god It's almost 10 p.m. So we're gonna order some food And though we're gonna get to recording with some Cute advice stuff. It's gonna be great I'm really nervous you guys because I whisper when I talk and can see it's like you have to be louder Yeah, even then yeah, and I yell when I talk, but for audio. They want you to be louder. It's a lot easier It's really scared right now. Yeah, I'm just gonna feel like you're gonna have to yell for an hour I should have like podcasted by myself practicing into answering questions No, actually though Okay guys, we just finished recording. I'm going to try out the glossier melky jelly cleanser This is the one that everyone's obsessed with but I got it in the travel size just in case they didn't like it Um, I will I'm gonna do a first impressions. Basically is what I'm trying to say. Oh my gosh. This is not in focus I just watched my face with it and it wasn't amazing for taking off makeup At all really but it's actually very moisturizing and every other face wash that I've been using lately is very dry So I actually really like this one, but I need to like take off my makeup with something else and then use it But I liked it. It was like very conditioning. So Um, it's a good. It's a I'm like, I'm literally so hungry But like I can't talk did I tell the vlog about what I did? Basically, I ordered Chinese food from Molly and I to 30 minutes away from us So we were waiting for uber eats and it went so far away So it's all my fault that we don't have dinner and I suck and we don't have chinese food anymore We're gonna eat chinese food and do face masks But we recorded so that's good Okay guys Molly and I are stepping out. It's currently midnight in our matching ugg slippers I literally had the flash on my phone as if we couldn't be more obnoxious as is Here we go. It's all the time Don't you're gonna get No, no Okay, so as you can notice should I just get those or should I get a burger? I'm like really hungry We'll think at both No, like I can't get both because I can't eat both, but okay. Can you order first? Yeah, sure Thank you. This is so cheap So after I call us quite the scene tonight Molly came to the rest I'm trying to drive really slow so that way your camera stays nice and nice We're listening to hot girl summer on the way to windy is at midnight So we're gonna listen to it again on the way back. Yeah, because there's nothing else to listen to Isn't it such a quick drive? It's so quick. I know so so quick Oh, Molly, let's just put it on my card. Oh, no, Kenzie already you already charged enough on it Kenzie's limit is up for the day They're the same things. Oh, we need our drinks. I don't know if I should try food. I might ruin it I don't know if I trust myself right now. We're calling it a night everyone Hey guys, it is my last day It is Tuesday. Um, today. We've just been filming so I haven't vlogged anything And then I changed it to comfy outfits because I'm flying home tonight, but we're about to go to chili So I'm very excited. I'm wearing my marshmallow outfit. Essentially. Um, these black spots are from outdoor voices But they're big and I need to wash them so they shrink a little bit Um, this is from ritzia and then my normal stuff. This is my airport fit. God bless Amazing the honey Chipotle chicken crispers from chilies. You're literally the best thing ever All right guys, so Molly just dropped me off to the airport, which is really sad. Um, I'm heading home There's literally no lines So I'm heading off to security right now and I forget that I'm not in LA so I'm gonna think this is even more weird This weekend was just so chill. So we've vlogged a lot But also like we just like chilled which is like really nice. So I haven't edited this vlog I don't know how much footage I have. Um, but it was just really chill and so good to see Molly and like just It was just great


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So I'll start and I'll make actually just a quick introduction to two things the sysmo octim and atmel start and Yes, atmel is not dead by far. So How does it start it how I've already presented osmo ram sim and the idea of osmo ram sim is to connect lots of sim cards to lots of modems now you have you need somehow to come to have lots of sim cards and They are not a lot of devices which actually support lots of sim cards. They are sim boxes, but they are very expensive They are not easy to find and they are always having a proprietary protocol So it's not very convenient. So if you have 32 sim cards or so on particularly because there is USB standard code USB CCID which supports which actually defines how to talk to smart cards or sim cards and Using just one USB device you can have up to 200 128 smart cards. So why not use this one? So we looked around how I looked around to find if there are such devices with 128 sim cards using the USB CCID profile and there is none The most we could find is actually this device which has five card slots. So these are actually behind a cover you have three here then you have one here and one on the side and That's the most we could find with using the USB CCID profile and even this one isn't very good because if you look at the CCID profile it tells you a lot about what the capabilities for example So here the interface class tells you it's CCID But afterwards it tells you which voltages to support only five volts Although you can have 1.8 volt 3 volts the protocol the clock you can have lots of clocks up to 20 megahertz So from 4 to 20 megahertz this only supports 4 megahertz and then the board rate the maximum board rate is 300 bits per second With sim cards you can go up to 3.4 megabits per second And the last thing which isn't ideal is here this max busy slots is one So this means that you can only talk to one sub card at a time and actually it is Multiplexing the interfaces you cannot talk to several at a time. So if you want now to have 128 You always have to multiplex to between all of them so because we didn't find anything which is capable of Breeding a lot of sim cards. They decided so sysmo come decided to build a device Which is called the sysmo oct sim and the oct in oct sim Stands for eight card slots, and it's the idea. So it's a USB device which implements the CCID protocol So everything which like PCSC tool, which is able to to read smart cards can use this device It has eight card slots They are not multiplex so you can talk to all of them at the same time To support all the voltages you can have high bit rates We didn't test up to very high bit rates But should be capable and most importantly it must be stackable. So if you want more than just eight card slots you can stack the Sysmo oct sim and then you can have even more even just over this one USB CCID maybe This is not implemented yet, but these were the ideas and these were the requirements for the sysmo oct sim Now we need to find some kind of microcontroller which is able to hand to have Eight sim card slots without multiplexing. So eight sim card devices and you talk with two smart cards using the iso 7816 protocol and This is very very similar to you are so what you do in the beginning whenever you design a product you go through all the Manufacturers of microcontroller you go through the product finder the parametric search and you start searching Who has eight you are so here the idea was to click USB device and as soon as you click USB device on the STM on the ST micro Controller website you only see that the most they could support is for use art So already there. There is no STM microcontroller supporting eight you out with USB Same for an XP actually it supports you can see eight or nine new art But only two of them support the iso protocol Even on the high high end ones so no an XP and then we landed on microchip microchip Which already still both at male and there we found one There's actually several of them and This is still an at mal because you see AT in the beginning so microchip both at male But they're still selling the at man microcontrollers and is I think they will keep the brand for a long time and not and Keep the separation between the picks for microchip and they are at male. So whenever you see at male in the beginning It is microchip, but you think the brand of at male and even the new ones So the microcontrollers you see here actually knew they are not produced by the x at male Which has been bought by microcontroller, but really microcontroller designed them and then the some series is just that Cortex microcontrollers and so we decided to pick this one Because this is the only one which is able to speak with eight sim cards at the time You could also have FPGAs, but we don't want to design our own core We want to take a microcontroller, which is capable of of doing game with Yeah, yeah, the other solution if you really wants to have a lot more sim cards would really be to have FPGAs and design your own core But that's not the part we took So this is the octim and this is how it looks like so you can see so this is the microcontroller we use it's a sam e 54 With eight slots you can see four on top, which is the daughter board And then if you look on the side you can also see the other ones So the idea is to have plug-and-play so we can insert and inject them all the time With all the requirements. So here you have USB you can have a USB over here Here you have a canvas where you could act not this one This is the canvas where you can actually stack the devices and here the footprint Which is not there is an internet bus if you want to connect it over internet But for for now this is just not a prototype because it is working But the software is not there We can connect over USB and talk to the sim card, but it's not USB CC righty ready the device is not being sold yet That would be the idea, but that's not implemented now, but that that that that that that that's the goal Yeah, so you use the canvas with two megabits to talk to all all the other one and then you have one USB bus of Yeah, we're recording so you can use this mic So you said That you wanted to use high speed I think or is it is high speed or full speed this controller It's full speed. Yes only full speed. Okay question answered. Yeah So this device doesn't work so you cannot play with it yet But if you still want to to play with the atmel I can recommend this development board by atmel It's quite packed. So it has the same chip and I we started developing on it There's a typo in their documentation, but it's the sam e 40 54 Which supports internet. That's why there is a e instead of the D And yeah, it has everything. We need the chip here. It has a quad SPI flash It has internet. It has the card interface that USB. It has micro sd slots lots of Ios And then two neat things that they are is it has an embedded debugger embedded flasher This is the USB debug you see here And also you can do power measurements real low power measurements because it has a second micro controller which is just there to actually let you measure how much power it consumes and For 70 euros, I think it's a pretty good development board and it's almost the only development board which support these chips so we started with this one and The problem with this is that Before when you never wanted to develop with atmel you could use the atmel studio 7 Which uses the asf 3 library which supports all the microcontroller and provided you with a high Abstraction layer for the for the microcontroller with all the code needed the problem is that with this new series by micro chip This microcontroller is not is not supported by atmel studio and actually all the new ones are not supported anymore by atmel studio That's a shame instead what they decided to do is create a new IDE Which is called atmel start with a new library Which is the asf 4 which is a rewrite complete rewrite of the asf 3 But the asf 4 is only available on the atmel start website IDE. It's not available on the atmel Atmel studio anymore and the idea of this talk somehow is just to tell you how the new microcontroller works and how atmel start works So you don't waste time Understanding how how it works because this is the only on the only alternative there is to develop on these microcontrollers Yeah, if you don't want to do everything there, I'll show you a bit of alternative afterwards, but the idea if you want to use a Library which is supported. This is the only solution you have so Here This is how the website is so there is no online offline ID anymore. Everything is online You can for example here. We will have and you can see it's pretty slow here. We can start with Looking at the examples and they have a lot of example codes, which is actually not bad And I have to say that the code is okay. There's still a lot of smart card. Sorry. The code is okay There are still a lot of bugs because it's a bit new but The third the support is not bad and here you can already set which board you want to to put on it for this Example code then it loads everything like in ID, but everything is web-based And this will have some some other problems first. You see it's it's damn slow and this is almost the fastest part So this is how once it finished loading routing everything. This is how it looks like So you have the dashboard which allows you to add the peripherals So for example here We only have one smart card which uses the disk driver to use that driver But if you want you can add a lot of other drivers So you have even middlewares you can have the dark the can and so on So this is how you add your components and once you add them you can configure the basic things the basic things on on this page The other part which is quite important on this new microcontrollers is the clocking system They have a huge number of clocks and every device can take a clock from almost anywhere So on the left side you have the clock sources or the clock oscillators which are actually creating the clocks and you can already see you have six clock oscillators just for one microcontrollers and Once you selected them you feed them into what they call generic clock generator and this allows you to Subdivide or to create other references for example. You only want You only you're creating a hundred megahertz clock for the mic for the core But not all the peripherals can be run at hundred megahertz So you have to provide the device the other clocks here This is what you see here the main device is running at twelve megahertz and now the smart card com Which is the use art is running at three megahertz And it also has a say another clock so you You do this here So one of the problems also is that they are trying to be intelligent somehow and for example if I use this digital phase loop and I say I want to use a source for the PLL the oscillator it will Tell me that this is not possible because Close here clock reference oscillator Close here there is this this warning sign It will tell you that you cannot use this clock because it is above two megahertz and the maximum clock You can use for this PLL is two megahertz now you do have a setting for the clock divider here So if you use two it Which is power of two it's slow enough the problem is that the IDE doesn't know this clock divider doesn't interpret it And not only that because there is this warning you cannot export your project So you cannot have the code which is working theoretically out of this IDE and compile it yourself so a lot of things is you have to Do whatever works and then change locally and You you it's rare that you have the sync between the configuration which is on the website and the actual codes because of lots of these small mistakes because the Start website is not complete yet. You can still file tickets and I filed a ticket with that Three months ago four months ago. It's still not not fixed But this is one of them so then you have also the pinmux which where you can select all the pins what they do Which you see from almost new IDEs and then here on the right once it's loaded you have all the output So this is nice for a start. So yeah, what is the format of exported data? Is it this is what I will show you now? So and and finally because it's an IDE you don't have these tabs you can hear click on view code And yeah, you have to wait until you can view the code because it's generating a preview So the code is existing, but it's generating the preview Oh, yeah, the configuration is wrong. So I have to fix that. So even that's a Yep disabled this Now you should be able to view the code. Yeah, and you see it's always this you just Click one thing you have to wait 30 seconds for one thing and then you you start to preview So I think the idea of Atmel start is really just you have to use this website to start But as soon as as you can go out of it, so just just take world the Base configuration and do everything yourself and there you have the code and it's it's not bad The badly done the code which you don't know So this is where you go to export project and on the export project You can see you can export the code for Atmel studio But at my studio doesn't have the library itself It's just that you can compile it on the Atmel studio and all the other compilers which you have even GCC so you have a make file and will download it so we again have to wait until generate the code and At some point we will have downloaded it See download Yeah, now it's finished on zip So it's a it's called 80 zip or 80 something, but it's just a zip file with all the information which is in there Smart card. Yeah smart and I might you don't know 80 zip. Yeah, it's just a zip file which contains the configuration and and the code itself Smart Yeah, but but yeah, it's then you just go into GCC and Surprisingly just type make and it works. So the make file is not badly done I didn't try the other the other compiling environments But at least you can download the code just type make if you have the non arm non AIB compiler And it works out of the box and then you can you can flash it you think the embedded debugger from from the thing So it's not bad and the code is not bad But you have to use the atmel start to start another pain point So this is atmel start another pain point is that you cannot download all the ASF for libraries for all the components every time you add With atmel start Every time you add on the dashboard a software It will add the code for this library into your archive But there is no way to come to download the complete ASF for library with all the peripherals Yes and no this is the this is another point the problem is that you don't really know which one it's so so you have if you The problem is you can only add if you have the peripheral for it on your chip and then there are several Different drivers for the peripheral So you don't have on one chip enough peripheral that you can add all the codes all the different drivers for all the combinations You can yeah, yeah, you can automate so they will I'll talk about that later But yeah the idea is so but just to tell that the idea is that you just add your code and you cannot download everything the other problem Yeah, the other problem is then when you take your project back You are you want to add now a new peripheral because you're extending it you have to download you have to load your configuration file And then add the new driver. Yeah. Ah, yeah I'll show it here. It's CD Vim 8 atmel start dot 8. No, how is it called again? There is an 80 starts file somewhere in here and Vim atmel start dot 80 star Yeah, atmel start config So this is actually Corresponding to what you are configured on the on on the interface It doesn't have to to match to your code actually, but this is what's on the interface So what I do is a cheat very often. I put something on here, but in the code. It's a bit different But this is what gets so if you want to add a new peripheral You have to load your atmel start back on this interface again add the peripheral and then Re-export it the problem is that it's not always backwards compatible So whenever you have your atmel start it first forces you to use the new library So when you export it exports with all the new libraries So whatever you changed or if you wanted to use something different, it's completely screwed And also it's not always backward compatible. So at one point I wasn't able to load my configuration anymore I had to create everything back again Or I had to cheat with the atmel start because they they changed something So don't expect if if they do retry it But don't expect that in three years your same project will be able to be loaded on there Without fixing by hand or without reading the manuals and so on so pain point But just just be warned. So about automating it. Yes, somebody already automates So there's a github Adafruit ASF for which actually just uploads the configuration download the code And this is exactly what I'm using to actually have version control on this is a for and do whatever it is because they don't They probably have version control on the back end, but you see nothing out of it The only thing you can see here Load it, please if you go to help and support Now here version Here you see the version which you are using and then you have a changelog, but that's all they give you as information So now I'm monitoring this page to see whenever there's a version change And then I'm uploading to get all the code for at least my microcontrollers I didn't automate it for all the microcontrollers, but at least for my microcontrollers I can see okay. This is the new library. They added this this this is the other code So this is one of the small tricks now you can also Get bypass completely ADSF for library and if you're hardcore and probably not a bad idea I was just to take the datasheet you have all the it's quite well documented You have all the registers what they mean and they actually provide you with The same CMSIS library. This is for the Cortex M family You have the definitions for the core and what they call the device family pack Which is actually the definition for all the registers for this microcontroller. This is what you see Again here This is When you export project, this is what you see the device pack information This is what you see here So you have to download these two things and then you have the definitions for all the peripherals You don't have any functions and so on but at least you have the definitions and then you do everything by hand yourself This is maybe a bit more stable or an alternative To at my start, but if you want to use the ISF for library you're forced to use at my start to the web IDE and Here back here Yeah, and other things also this microcontroller doesn't come with a bootloader There is no bootloader in the ROM the only way and there is no JTAG anymore They only have serial wire debug with the two pins and you have to flash it with this So I recommend to buy one of these cheap $2 ST-Link V2 which are just SVD microcontrollers because they also have an STM32F 103 so it's a cheap development board even if you want to play with STM devices and you can flash as with the with it Because there is no bootloader Which was previously Samba on all the previous Atmel ships we decided to make our own For the sysmo octim, but that is you can generate for a lot of what is an ISF for and this is the Just go on on the git from osmo.com It's Osmo SF for the FU and this is a USB DFU bootloader as we do as we do for almost all of the products where you can flash your code using Standard DFU tool and you can even lock the DFU bootloader in the microcontroller itself But by default there is no bootloader Which is a bit surprising and Now yeah, now you're ready. You can completely develop on Atmel start You know how to use it the documentation is not bad If you go on the Atmel start website, you just have to wait forever always to to get some information because it's a bit slow and That's it any questions Yeah, why I don't know why It's like No comments Yeah, so I mean this this is probably it's not necessarily related to the development to doing but I'm interested in what's going on with this Idea of the web IDE, you know, and I'm also just not noticing that you know when you when you switch back to that tab You have this delay Why is it doing that like is there it's JavaScript? It just takes yeah, it's just takes forever to run on a decent machine So there's processing going on Locally, yeah, most of the things are locally except when you add When you add new drivers it loads it on the back end But most of the things are done locally. So they'll the code generation and that stuff is being done Locally on no no the code generation. You still have to download from the website. Okay, so this and I'm also Wondering did you happen to read any terms and conditions or anything when you started using this or what are they doing like are they I'm just I'm wondering where this is going in the industry like are they they're obviously logging everything that you do and and What like you know this is this this I have this sort of concern from the privacy and I put my privacy kind of hat on and surveillance capitalism stuff thinking like Why is a company wanting to know absolutely everything that you do or might want to do with their hardware? Or why would they why would they start doing this in the web and rather than just allowing you to download and IDE and do it Locally and do your own business on your own hardware. I have no idea. Maybe because it's web and it's fancy I didn't read the terms and conditions No, you don't need to be logged in so you can do everything offline and I don't I don't know if they How much they log I just read the terms and conditions for the code itself So it just tells you you whatever you don't know you are allowed to use it as much as much as you want and Distributed as long as you use it for microchip devices, but who wants to use this thing for other than microchip devices Yeah, and then there is the definitions for the the CMC's and the Apache codes the STD library So there are different licenses, but it is compatible with open source So you can release it without problem then afterwards what they do in the back end how much they look no idea I wouldn't necessarily have too much conspiracy theory about it I just thought they probably were thinking what is the easiest way for somebody to create or to to build an example project And I would assume that this is sort of the the the reason why Because I mean you don't need to install something you don't and then you have to worry about all the different operating systems and variations and and things and so I think it's really just To to lower the entrance barrier to get some working code on on the devices and the name start also Sort of implies I mean it's to get you started It's not that this is going to be your you know an IDE where you really do your development It's just to generate some examples and some some reference from which you then can do your actual development But then they could still make the full library available You which is just because I mean that they have this tool to you know help you get lead blinking fine Okay, but it still be nice if you could or even if the example project included the full as a for download Yeah, I mean that's just I think The usual problem with companies doing hardware is that they have absolutely zero clue about how to do proper software development And I don't I don't I'm not aware of any I mean please educate me if I'm wrong I don't know of any microcontroller vendor that would like have their Driver reference whatever code just in publicly available git repositories including the entire change history I think the only one who did that was XMOS and they stopped doing it a couple of years ago There are a couple of Chinese ones which are also doing it for example New photo everything is on their git and you can track all the different things. So you're saying there is hope that Once Chinese microcontroller vendors become more prevalent that finally we will have proper revision control That that would be sad for the Western companies, but I would say they deserve it if that's the the course of events I Yeah, see you cannot download your own version. So really the only way You Yeah, I do it only locally I didn't publish anything because yeah, it's just easy and I don't want to mess around but Yeah, the if you have if some driver is broken on their thing then it's and you are forced to use the new one It's it's it's good that you still have a backup. No, that's why I'm also doing it in the end We certainly didn't choose that microcontroller because of this at my start and if no and if necessary we would have just you know done everything from scratch But I think the controller itself is actually rather or this family of new controllers is rather nice to work with I also actually like the fact that it's Romless and you don't have to work around some buggy ROM loader That doesn't work reliable or whatever So you can just have your own without having to have two bootloaders training Which is what we did in the past that there is like the the the Samba internal loader and then we have another bootloader for DFU and then we have our application So we can just skip the initial state of some some strange ROM loader that makes Assumptions about how you do your board that are not documented and so on And I said, yeah, I think the trip is rather nice to work with So yeah, and and also I think actually sure there are bugs Kevin had struggled a bit with some USB stack bugs in the ASF for code but apart and of course there's lots of layers of abstraction But actually I think in terms of the API is it's rather nice to use and there's not always but there's oxygen Documentation in the source code So it's not too bad In terms of the actual code that is generated. Hmm. Yeah, I agree the micro trip The micro controller is not bad. The library is not bad. It's just that there is this Kind of ID where which you have to know and which you have to to take on you if you want to start with this project Well, thanks