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Don't take anything personally. Your truth is personal to you. Your own opinions and point of view reflect your own agreements and are personal to you. It's no one's truth, but your own. Mockin' wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries trading up 53 and as except 113, S&P's up 17 and a half. Gold, gold contract. Up $3.50, trade at 2,004 ounce. You get silver up 24 cents, 24 dollars 83 cents an ounce, light sweet crude up 85 cents. Trading out at $79.59 a barrel, notes and bonds. 10-year note. Down 14 ticks, trade in 111.20, the 30 year down 19 at 125.18 and King dollar. King dollar right now trading, where is she? There it is. Trading flat at 101.355. The euro is at 110, the yen is at 141, the British pound is at 128 to one U.S. dollar. iPhone numbers<PHONE_NUMBER>, give us a call folks, wanna know what's going on in your world and the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Well, we go over to the spy first. You know, took out the high from about a week, well, just about a week ago, right? Let's take a look at this. Yeah, about five days ago. That high there, that was generated on the spies, 456.43 and we did 456.73. Right now you're at 456. The contraction is pretty dramatic. We had 35 million shares and we had reached the high with 65 million. We'll see how this next 30 minutes, I mean, 60 minutes go, but the bottom line is that you're up there with light volume. You're gonna have the Fed do the announcement at two o'clock tomorrow. We're gonna have Microsoft and Google come out with the numbers right after the close, but literally Microsoft and Intel, I mean, and Google, the way they do it, they come out right after the close. Now, if you take a look at the futures, this is kind of intriguing, that we missed the highs just by a spec. You know, the high was 4609.25. We hit 4608.75.  We'll see how this baby shakes out. Right now you're on the second one, but that was a quick sell down. We'll see how this shakes out. Now, you can see what it was doing. If you're watching Target TV, you're going right into that monster bar. So you'd have to get below 4598 in order to basically say that you're gonna get the lower price because the top of that bar we got into, which is the 4602. And that's where we are right now and you know, dug into it, but that's a long bar, man. So the bottom of that bar is that 4596. We go to the end cues. Well, first we just look at the cues. We take a look at those cues. And the cues, you know, you got your 27 million shares, that 27 million is going to the 71. So, but bottom line, it's up. And then if we go to the end cues, we take a look at the end cues, which we're gonna see. That's interesting with the end cues. See, it's interesting, you know, it's interesting about the end cues, the end cues didn't have the big bar that the S&P had to get that S&P going, you know, because that bar came in at, what is it? 1300 hours, so it's one o'clock. And the bar, this is gonna be intriguing, man, because this is saying that the Nasdaq's gonna, basically the Microsoft and Google's just not gonna come in. Because this test of this doesn't have it, which is really unusual, actually. Gold, let's go take a look at the gold contract. Gold contract rejected lower price out here again today. We take a look at the gold contract. So, yeah, gold, get down to 1990, said, see, I don't wanna be a, you had lighter volume pulling back, you're inside the higher range now, you're at $3.80, you're trading out as 2004, we get over to the dollar, we take a look at the dollar, it's gonna be, the dollar's gonna be moving on this statement tomorrow. The take is that we're gonna get the aspect of a quarter point hike, the real question is, is that what's gonna be in the statement? And what the dollar had just done, the dollar just did a 50% retracement of the last move down. Now listen to this, this is pretty cool. If you're wondering, we had talked about Michael Wilson from Morgan Stanley before. He's a big dude with a good track record. And he, I talked about this yesterday, that he threw in the towel, right? Well, listen to this, this is wild, man. When I was listening to this this morning, that let me get this, I gotta put this back further so you can see how this works. Cause this is a trip, this is quite a stat. And this is what I was talking about earlier, that not since 1929 folks, okay? When the market has done more than a 76.8 retracement of the low, not since 1929 has not that market gone on for another bull, versus taking out that low.  It's quite a stat though. So this is gonna get really intriguing watching this whole thing shake out, man. So we'll see where it's gonna go, but that's quite a stat. Yesterday, when he was basically throwing in the towel, I'm saying this, this is intriguing.   And I'm suspecting, I'm actually suspecting when I heard this this morning on Bloomberg, when they came across with that number that that was one of the things he was looking at, saying, okay, man, the retracement is so big that the bottom line is that, we think he thinks at this particular point that, yeah, you're gonna get a pullback, but what that stat says is that you're not gonna go take out that low that was established. Hey, but guess what? Stats are stats, that's the bottom line. Let's get over and take a look at Google. So we take a look at Google. Google right now, not much action, man. You know? Yeah, I mean, Google has action on the way down. It's up 159, but that action's on the way down. Microsoft has been on a tab, you know, in belief. I mean, this is something else for sure. The real question is, yeah, Microsoft, Microsoft's a different ball game. We probably got a ying and a yang after the close. Stay right there, folks. 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We have our core positions from this past October, plus the one going all the way back to 2020. So there's a core position, we've traded around it, but we did take a short position a couple of days ago as so far that's held, but I'll explain what I'm looking at here. So for some time, I'd say for, since May, in fact, I'll show you this chart right now. I use it, one particular indicator, the 914, it's an IP and moving average over the 14, it goes green and under it goes pink.  When everything else is giving yourself signals, if this is holding strong, you've got to have the patience. So in a way, I didn't have the patience, I used some other technique to start the short position, but this here, the gray line, the thick gray line is the price of the Dow. The green line is 9 period moving average, the black line is a 14 period moving average, I'll give you some of this in my show tomorrow, I did it to Dow, I'll do it again tomorrow because it's going to be really important and Thursday we'll see what happens. But look, there's one little S right there and that says to short and when it's L, it means to go long. And if you look at this, this is way back, I showed this as a daily Dow chart, five, three, 23, it's the third of May, at 33,684, the Dow is the thick gray line, 90 a May is the green or pink, that means if it goes over the black line, the 14 period moving average, it changes color on the upside to green on the downside to pink. So it changed because there was a very sharp pullback, yes, the price of the Dow. And I was saying, look at the way the, there was a deterioration in the distance between the green and the black period moving average right there in April going into May and that there was a sharp pullback, would there be a pink change? Well, there was a pink change. When we did this, as we were coming into this area right here into July, there was another sharp decline, but the strength of this nine period moving average said, uh-uh, I'm not changing to pink yet. Even though it looked like it was absolutely about to do it, it didn't do that, it went green, and here's the price of the Dow, it's still very well above the nine and the nine's above 14. So in that sense, the other technique that I used, using on balanced volumes and other things was premature based on this reading. And if you look at the S and P, this is going to the S and P, same technique, just making this a thick, great line, this is the price of the closing price of the S and P. And he has the green line, he has the black line, it's a lot closer, but it only went negative in May, the Dow made it negative for quite a bit. Look, this went for one day and then it switched to green. Look at the QQQ. Same thing, one day it switched to green. It rose that line, yeah. And look, it's getting closer and closer, if in fact the QQQ index 100 trading vehicle starts to trade below, it would probably have to go down to 371, it's a 370, and I'm probably even lower than that, for that green line to go pink. But it's getting closer and closer, but you can't, you shouldn't presuppose that it's going to happen, you've got to wait for it to actually happen. So I've kind of jumped the gun a little bit, we'll see what happens over the next day or two, but that's the way I'm looking at this. So I thought I'd just demonstrate, I like to show things that work out well, I like to show things that are, where I've gone against my actual technique, and then sometimes I use a combination of techniques, but this is the one that says, I'll go back to the Dow right now, the Dow is up at 63 points at this stage, and you can see to get that gray line to come all the way down, to change that light green nine-speed moving average to close under the black to go pink, you'd probably have to go to 34,500, 34,200. So I talk about something else very often, and then let me just get out of this, I want to show you something else. I talk about the dark news cloud cover, and I've had webinars, I've discussed this many times, and what I say is that most of the time, there is bad news sitting out there, but the market just ignores it, and then the same news on another day could be really important. So I called this back in November of 2022, I said, there's a dark news cloud cover, and it's going to be resistance, but I had small little squares, I just made this one very long one to say, hey, I think now we're getting closer to maybe taking out that high, the 34,712 higher back in December of 2022, and now we've gone above it for a number of bars, this is a daily chart, one, two, three, four, five, six bars, now we're above that resistance. So that says to me, are we really looking at all the negatives out there sort of dissipating, and now this is a great support area instead of a resistance area. So those are the things that I'm going to be tackling over the next coming, in the coming weeks, because what we're looking at is some of the stocks that have been really fantastic are now starting to stall, and some of the stocks that were just horrible, like a triple M, has suddenly come alive, or even the XLF, so this is a, I usually talk about a bifurcated market, this is like a tri or quadruple focated market, because there are now so many sectors that are doing different things. So I've got my prices that I'm looking at, and we've built up a little cash position here, because I think there's going to be some, for instance, the artificial intelligence area, there's some weaknesses crept in, we've had some stock that have done really well, waiting for them to pull back a little more so we can add back some that we've taken off. So this is a fascinating period, just in terms of looking at the structure of the market, and all those, it's like a chessboard, looking at all these different moves that are going on, but what I always like to say is that, if there is one, if there's an area that can take over what was strength as weakness comes into the strong stocks, and the weak stocks can start to move up, that gives you a nice counterbalance. So I don't see any major sell-off right here, I don't see that, I do see the signs of some kind of a sudden sell-off, and it could be fed inspired, we'll see what happens. So parameters are clear, I'll go through them again in my show at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.  Basil, you have a great night, a safe night, and of course we look forward to show you tomorrow morning. Thank you very much, Tommy. Thank you. Stay right there folks, you're coming right back. 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There we go. Okay, so let's get over to our man, Mr. Tim Ord. And don't forget folks, you can reach Tim Ord every trading day at Ord-Oracle.com, that's Ord-Oracle.com. Tim Ord, what's going on, brother? Well, I sent you over three charts, did you happen to get them? I have them. I have them. All right, we'll take a look at that VIX chart. Okay, let's see. Which is chart number one. And it's kind of, it's not a huge divergence here, but this is an hour chart and the second window up from the bottom is the SPY and the window above that is the hourly VIX. So I wanted to show you what's kind of going on here. When you got the VIX rising along with the SPY, it's usually has to vary sign. And I noticed those, this is an hour chart. So this is kind of a, not a major divergence, but it is still a divergence. But this chart goes back to last August. So I guess it's close to a year going back. But we had a divergence back in December of 2022. And we had another divergence in February of this year. And pretty much didn't have any divergence. And now we've been having divergence. And so it looks like about mid-June on here. And you both got, even though the VIX is still low, it's around 14 and change, or 13 and change. It's still higher than it was in mid-June, even though the SP's are higher. And so this is like nothing real major, but it tells me probably the upside is coming to an end. But in my opinion, there's really no major top here forming. There's probably more of a sideways pattern. Okay. So anyhow, I got out of my position on Friday. Yeah.  Today's Tuesday, be what? Last Wednesday we're testing that high. Yes. And most likely, you know, I'm just eyeballing it here, but probably we're going to have a lighter volume than the previous high of last Wednesday. And that's a little bit more bearish, you know, the F1C meetings tomorrow at two o'clock Eastern announcement. Right. And so it's- And right after the close, Tim, we have Google and Microsoft coming out with numbers. Yeah. It definitely could put some sort of volatility in the market.  It didn't really turn super bearish here, but you know, we're starting to see some signs. And also the weakest quarter of the year starts July 7th to run into October 7th. Okay. And we're in that period now. Let's look to the next chart. Okay. This looks like, this looks in the bigger picture as it goes back quite a ways back to 2017. I do a lot of stuff with the trend. Trend to me kind of majors kind of a euphoric, but it works best at bottoms. Top says it just kind of gives you some warnings, but the bottom window is a 10 day average of the trend. The next window higher is a 21 day. The next window higher is a six, three day. Yes. So you got basically two weeks a month and three months time frames. And the beginning of, it looks like about July, the right smack beginning of July. All three of those time frames hit in bearish categories and that's that pink area I got showed. There is. So anyhow, when you get to trend that low for three months in a row, which is that six, three day thing, and you know, it's the upside starts to weaken some. Yeah. So you need, I guess you need panic. You need fear in the market for it to move higher.  I mean, if you also notice, I got the STY circled there on top, which is the top one. So anyhow, we're running into the, you know, those highs we had back in early 2022, right smack Adam. And so that's kind of a resistant zone.  Came in the market very quickly, didn't it? Right? Yeah. Right. Matter of fact, I got out and also, you know, like the first day down, you know, the trend really got high. I'm thinking, well, this thing didn't go down much. It went down for a couple more days after I got in. But you know, that, that signaled some energy to the market, to the upside. So I'm thinking, well, this thing's not done yet. Right. And now we kind of backed off, you know, not this week, but last week. And the trend on that back off was, you know, like 1.85 really didn't have any energy to get going higher again. So, and you know, we've been rallying up here yesterday, we broke above a couple of previous highs of a B Thursday and Friday of last week. We broke above those minor, it's a minor high on lighter volume yesterday. And now today we're above that, you know, well today's volume be higher than it was in the previous high of last week. You know, it doesn't look like it. So I think we're running a little bit of trouble here. You know, I don't think it was a big short line that still may happen, but... No, no, that's why I can't apply... Right, no, I'm with it. That's why I brought up the aspect of the last time. We had a small pullback and because there was like panic, I mean, that was so intriguing to me, like when you explained in that, because I could see how that could happen again because I think there's a lot of people including myself that are nervous up here. Do you know what I mean?  He threw in the towel yesterday, right? But the stat, Bloomberg came out with the stat this morning. What the stat was is that when you go over a 76.8 retracement from the low, the bear market low, which we just did, not since 1929 has that not gone to a high or high. Isn't that wild? Okay, oh, the Fibonacci relationship. Yes. Yeah, I didn't do the actual statistics, but we're way over 61.8. Yeah, no, we're over the 76.8. So when I heard that stat, I'm saying to myself, this is intriguing, they, you know, anyway, I just wanted to throw it out there because it is intriguing, but at the same time, I can picture that you get a short-term pullback and you have that going and then, you know, those little panics. Stay right there, Tim. We got a quick break, folks. Tim and I are gonna be coming right back. We have the Dow Industries right now up 63 and ASICS up 113, S&Ps are up 18. Tim and I are coming right back, folks. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. Sign up for Rocket Equities and Options Report today with a 30-day money-back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. For all the details and to start your subscription today, visit the front page of TFNN.com. 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In other words, this thing can turn bearish next week but the bottom window is the 18 day average of the advanced decline percent for GDX. Next window up is the GDX up down volume percent and in a nutshell, if they're above minus 10, both of them, markets in an uptrend period and below minus 10, markets GDX in a downtrend period. And they both turned up pretty much close to July 1st, both turned up above minus 10. And even though the market did retrace here last week a little bit, both of those indicators remain well above minus 10. So we're in the 20s right now, both of them around the 25 plus 25 range. Yes. So we're an uptrend and it's nothing really, how far we'll go, we don't know, but as long as that remains blue, I guess you might say, that's when both indicators are above minus 10, the uptrend should continue. And I went back as far as you could go. I forgot, when did GDX begin? I think it began in 2011 maybe. Let me get a fire right now. But I know I love this chart, Tim, because I love it so much is that what you had is that you had the aspect of the, even though the 2006, 2006, May 22nd, 2006, yeah. Okay.  We had a couple of days of strength, but you just pulled back, but yet that, this stayed higher, much higher actually, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's got the advanced client in it and it's got up, down volume in it. Right. So it really, on a short-term basis, it really shows what's going on in the market. And so, you know, I went back to 2006 as far as you could take it back. Yes. And it really, it doesn't spin year-round when both of them are up above, you know, minus 10. Right. It's going to keep going. How long? Don't know. Don't care. I know. I do care. I'm with ya.  Right. You know, even though the market went back up and tested that high in May, both of those indicators remain weak. Right. So I thought that was pretty cool. Yeah. So, so it catches the trend. So it doesn't really worry about the weakles, you know, and that, you know, to me, I'm thinking this thing's going to remain blue, in my opinion, all the way in October, you know. Right. Don't know if that really happened or not, but I'm thinking that's probably a good chance, but this is a good indicator for, you know, playing options too. Right. Right. You know, because the windows are anywhere from the month I think I've seen one last year about six months on this, but most of them are a month to three month type time frames, which is perfect for option trading. No, big time. Big time. There's no doubt about that. Pretty wild, man. Yeah. Yeah. So, but yeah, I just wanted to present that to you. It's kind of like a, is you don't have to do a lot of thinking, you know. Right. No, no, I'm with you. And we know, you know, particularly, well, the market's trend period, but in the gold market, man, gold trend's like a monster. I mean, if it's going up, it likes to go up a long way. If it's going down, it likes to go down a long way. So this is always a cool little tool to have in your toolbox. No doubt about that. Yeah. Yeah. So anyhow, I wanted to just put a point there. I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it, but right now we're in a bullish trend and how long, don't know, and that, you know, it could be months. I think it's going to go on through October or so. Yeah.  Tomorrow or two, we get the Fed announcement. So it's going to be really intriguing because, you know, the market expectation is like, okay, you're going to come up with a quarter point. And of course, the whole key is, is that, okay, what is, what is the statement going to be? Like, okay, we're going to, you know, continue to go up or is it going to be another pause? You know, what, where, where are they going to go with the, the structure, the interest rate structure here, which, you know, no doubt is going to affect everything. So this is going to be intriguing. I think, yeah, I think the marks kind of, at least how I'm reading it anyhow, that the mage is kind of flipped sideways. I think the core points are obviously already built in because the market is rallying into that. And there's a 90% kind of consensus that is going to be our core point read. So it's already, you know, okay, baked into the market, what the market does after that, I don't know. But that's, that's a problem. I don't see anything real bearish here. I just see some minor diverges and, but we'll see. But, you know, we'll get some panic again, cause we need some panic in the market to build energy here to get going to the upside again. Is that one chart I showed you in that 10 day, you know, the 21 day and a six, three day average. You got to get pretty low is running out of kind of energy to, you know, running out of panic to keep this driving market going higher. Right. So I'm thinking we need some back and forth here to build some energy. And I think you're in, we're going to be harder than what we are right now. No, I know, I remember the first time you said that.  I can picture the same thing happening. And if that's what happens, well, you know, we'll be ready for it. I mean, that's what's really pretty cool here because, you know, if they, it's up that quick. Yeah, you're right. You know, what we know the signs to look for when we start seeing panic, you don't get scared with the crowd. You know, yeah. Right. Yeah. It was, it was separated. So we're not the crowd anymore. We're part of the, I don't know, all the smart money, I guess, I don't know. Yeah. Well, the thing is so intriguing about this.  Do you know what I mean? It's like, okay, a dollar's not worth what a dollar was five years ago, man. Not even close. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, not even close. So it's like, okay. You got a higher number. Okay, well, you got a higher number. Okay, but now if you cash that in and want to go buy something with it, well, you're not going to be able to buy as much as you bought, you know, five years ago. If we were talking about the same number, that would be. You know what I mean?  That's right, that's right. Yeah, in the stock market, it was like, okay, yeah, that was all about inflation. You know what I mean? I think it was going up thousands of points every day, folks. It was insane. Yeah, amazing. Yeah. Well, listen, man, you have a great night, a safe night, and we'll look forward to talking to you Thursday, Tim. All right. Thank you. Thank you then. Okay, and don't forget, folks, you can reach Tim at odord-oracle, or c-l-e dot com. That's od-oracle dot com. And Tim's on the free 30 point on Tuesdays and the free 20 point on Thursdays. There are the folks coming back. Are you ready to take your trading to the next level? 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Space weather this week picks up a bit compared to last week taking a look at our earth-facing disc You can see there's a lot more active regions in earth view this week They've all rotated in from the far side of the Sun or they're beginning to emerge and on top of that We're seeing more solar storm activity as well. In fact on the 9th. We actually had two eruptions We had one on the west limb in the north and then a more energetic one that launched in the south Both of these solar storms are going to go mainly west of earth But we could get a glancing blow Starting around the 12th and possibly into the 13th the bigger story though is the filament eruption that occurred on The 10th this one was kind of a soft wispy solar storm eruption But it definitely looks like it's going to be earth-directed possibly a direct hit Sadly, we don't have coronagraph observations right now to lock down the impact time But it looks like it'll be sometime around the 14th So roar photographers at high latitudes could definitely get a show doubt It's going to get to be a big enough storm to cause issues down at mid latitudes But you just never know meanwhile We also have a few big flare players on the earth-facing disc So big radio blackouts are definitely still on the menu and we have some new regions Rotating into earth view from the far side. In fact as we take a look at stereo This is our far side monitor Stereo a and it's looking at the sun just a tiny bit from the side. You can see the Regions in the on the east limit especially one in the south This region is going to be rotating into earth view over the next day or two And it has definitely launched a few minor solar storms It looks like and it could actually be a big flare player So definitely going to have decent solar flux risen and definitely going to have radio blackouts remain on the menu for this upcoming week For more details on this week's space weather Including how these big flare players could affect space traffic and radio comms come check out my channel or see me at space weather woman calm


Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our demo. Today, I will give you a live demo about auto scaling over OpenStack hybrid cloud. First of all, I will give you a short introduction to our company. We are EasyStack, which is the name of our company and also the name of our product. We are the leading OpenStack service provider for China and Asia. In June of the release, we have contributed a lot. And we are the number two contributor from China. And we have been constantly contributing to the community until now and for the future. Right now, we are focusing on OpenStack services and solutions. We provide various solutions to our customers and consulting and product deployment services to our customers. This is an overview of our solutions. EasyStack, the us platform, which is based on OpenStack, we have software defined computing, networking, and storage. And on top of that, we have billing solutions, monitoring, and a ruler, which is a deployment tool to quickly deploy our solutions and the product to our customers. The EasyStack connector, which is my focus today, is a connector between our private OpenStack network to the public cloud. It provides the secure VPN channel between OpenStack network and the public cloud. So for today's demo, the hybrid cloud auto scaling, our solution uses the following key technologies. First of all, it's a VPC-based overlay. It provides a secure channel between OpenStack network and public cloud network, your own tenant. Also, we have a distributed virtual router, which reduces bottleneck of a neutron L3 router. The compute node can handle the north-south flow, so we don't have the bottleneck. IPR router, which is also critical because you don't have a lot of public IPs. If you can allocate the IP address to your router, then you can do some port forwarding from your router to your subnet, right? The next one is a hybrid connector. This is the core of our solution. It can dynamically create the secure VPN channel between your OpenStack tenant and your VPC or your tenant network in the public cloud. Our auto scaling in this demo is best on hit, but you can also use other solutions to work with our hybrid connector. Also, from our dashboard, you can see the layout of both your private network and your network in the public cloud. Now, let's see the architecture of this demo. This is a very simple scenario for this demo, but the solution also, you can have other scenarios supported on our solution. In this demo, I have three kinds of virtual machines. The HAProxy for load balancing, the flow, the traffic, or the WordPress. The WordPress uses MySQLDB on the DB virtual machine. At the first, all the VMs are in our private OpenStack cloud. When the load become high, we can auto scale the WordPress VM to the public cloud tenant. So the HAProxy will load the balance between the WordPress in the public cloud and also in our OpenStack cloud. The WordPress in the public cloud also uses MySQLDB in private cloud. You can do the same for the DB clustering, such as auto scaling the DB VMs also to the public cloud. The easy stack connector here provides a secure channel between the public cloud and the OpenStack private cloud VPC. And it's very secure because from the public network, you can access the WordPress VMs. With the introduction of this architecture, I will show you the live demo. This is our dashboard for easy stack. And to enable the hybrid capabilities for each... Excuse me, OK? Please give me a second. I'm sorry for the issues. To enable the hybrid cloud for each tenant, the admin have to manually do this because when you enable the hybrid, easy stack connector will allocate some resources to set up the channel for the tenant network. And sometimes you may not want all the tenants have the capabilities of hybrid cloud. So we have these settings here. After you do this for the project, the project admin can set up his own public cloud accounts and credentials from his own tenant here. I take the AWS public cloud for the example and to save some time, I already set up the account. So in this project, we can freely scale our workloads to AWS. Also, to save some time, I already use Hit to create the stack of our workloads. Three VMs now for the HAProxy, WordPress and DB. Also, I set up the internet access here. You can see that I can access my WordPress application here. Right now, for instance, if we have high load of the WordPress from users, then how can we scale the WordPress VMs to the AWS cloud? We use the Hit alarm to do this, to trigger the actions, to scale the workloads. But I don't have the load now, right? There isn't many people accessing my WordPress now, but I have my colleague who has a simulator to increase the load to my WordPress and trigger the alarm, which will scale my workload. Right now, I ask my colleague to do this. He will notify me when the workload is active, and we can see we can go back to the network topology. As I mentioned, you can have a unified layout of both the private cloud and the private cloud network and your tenant network in the public cloud. We have slow network connections here. OK, at the same time, waiting for this page to load, we can go to the WordPress and see this again. Refresh this page. It's also working. But you don't know if my AWS VM is working, right? To prove this, then we can shut down my previous WordPress in the OpenStack cloud and leave only the VMs in the AWS and go back to this WordPress to see if it will work. Right now, I will shut down my WordPress in OpenStack. It's loading. Anyway, I think it's shut down now, and we go back to WordPress and refresh this page. If you may know that the network connection in China to access AWS is very slow, so it may take a minute to load this page. OK, this page is completely loaded. And right now, only the WordPress in AWS is active, so I already show you that our scaling is working. It's too slow here, so OK, it shows up. You can see the AWS VMs from here. It's triggered by my colleague. And right now, this WordPress in my OpenStack cloud is dead. Only these VMs is working. Also, you can see the networks here. The first one is a private network in OpenStack. The third one is also the private network in OpenStack. I can think that this tenant could connect both of these private networks to AWS with secure VPN channel. The second network is the network from AWS. And all these AWS VMs are connected to these networks. So you have a unified view to your VPCs, both in private and public cloud. Also notice this router. This router is for the tenant. And you can create freely and allocate a floating IP to this router. We also have the scheduling mechanism to schedule the router to computer node. And it has active standby, high availability. If the router is dead on the computer, on the computer node, the router will be rescheduled. The standby router will take effect. OK, I think this is all the demo for the hybrid cloud. If you have some questions, I have 50 seconds. I can take one question. OK, if you want to know more about our solutions, you can go to our booth right behind this theater at E15. Thank you.


Alright team it is your biggest fan the real Casadero and let's see let's just see if we can close this thing out in 10 minutes Now I will tell you this right this is a part of it This is the third part in a three-part video series that is sort of like an expansion to a nine I don't even know how many parts that other series was it doesn't matter But this is a response to a question and I thought a lot of people be able to use this because a lot of people are Internet like what should I charge for my product and service? How much should I charge?  We have been programmed by television by TV by all these different places to focus on price in the last video We talked about how to it's the first video. We talked about how to get it to get a meeting So now you're in a room and you're talking to somebody in the last video we talked about Asking questions Because the questions are gonna uncover the information you need in order to determine a price and in this video We're gonna carry on with that and I'm gonna show I'm gonna show you how to not only Determine a price but also how to get the client to pay you That price Right, so you went in cold you got no price right because we don't think about price We think about value we're trading value for value, right? Their value is in the form of dollar bills Our value is in the form of solving a problem saving them time or making them more money. That is it That is it. We want to over complicate stuff, right? Oh, well, we're gonna build your website is gonna have four pages and we're gonna SEO optimize it And then we're gonna put pixels on it and we're gonna we're gonna do ads We're gonna do all this stuff.  Are you gonna help them make more money? Right? What can you do for what can you do for me? Right? That's what people care about what can you do for me, right? Okay, so anyway So we're asking these questions, right? And we're getting these answers and and our goal is to gather enough information To determine whether or not the product or service that we have to offer because they don't even know what we're selling yet The product or service we have to offer They qualify for now There's gonna be a hurdle in there for a lot of us some there the person we're talking to they're gonna say they're gonna say well How much? How much do you charge? Right, they may ask you that as soon as you say how much do you charge? What do you do? How much do you charge you say? Hey look? All right, I understand that price is a concern is a concern for everybody. It's a concern for everybody But what I want to find out is whether or not I can even help you It can't can we can we agree that? that Price in the absence of that and we don't even we don't we don't want to even say it like that We can say can we agree that the right service? Well, man, this this this is a tough one right because we're trying to overcome this question I know how I know how I will respond, but I'm trying to figure out a way to explain this So you guys so you guys can internalize it and you can really understand it So they say hey, you know how much do you charge you say? All right? I understand you know everybody's concerned about price What and you and you should be number one? I'm not here to sell you anything I don't I don't have a particular. I don't have a particular thing to sell you I have a skill set, but what I want to do is I want to I want to find out if I can even help you at all Can we it can we agree that price is irrelevant until we until we know what we're dealing with and they're either gonna Say yes or no most of the time like 90% of the time they're gonna say yeah, right? They kind of they kind of make sense and and when they say no you say well, okay I under I understand that Because I don't have anything like put together out of the box right because every business is unique and every business sells their Products and services in a different kind of way. I really don't have a concrete answer for you I don't want to promise you something that I can't deliver and I don't want to I don't want to promise you something That's not gonna work So, you know, maybe maybe maybe we aren't right to work together now some people they'll go hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on Hold on right and I mean like at this point you're like getting up like you know, I don't want to waste your time I know you got a business to run. I think this place is fantastic and whatever you're doing is fantastic I just thought that maybe There's a possibility that you could use your website to get more customers But I you know, I understand if you don't want to have this conversation and then you get up to leave Right, that's called the takeaway and they're like hold on you know hold on hold on hold on well Well, um, well let well tell me some more right tell me and now you have control you have to take control Right, so now once you have control you say well, well, well, okay I just I just want to ask you a few questions, right in in and I really I really just want to I want to get out Of your hair because I want you to keep doing what you're doing because the food here is fantastic, right? But anyway, like why are we why are we sitting here today? Why do we even meet today? Right and so we talked about this in the last video So anyway, so we've gone through these steps, but that's how you overcome that hurdle, right? And if they really insist on price if they're like, well, you know man, you know This is just driving me nuts, right? And and I mean like you give them a range and I mean it doesn't have to be anything crazy But you just pick the amount of money that you would love to get and I mean like within reason You know like say let's say for instance, right? You would you would love if you could sell websites at $2,000 a month Or some credit or $2,000 $2,000 a month, whatever you say. Well, typically, right? My services they cost they cost between two and $10,000 a month. How does that sound and they may go? Well, you know, that's more than we expected to spend You say well, what did you expect to spend? Now now this is this is interesting, right? Because if they say that's more than we expected to spend That means they're already thinking about spending now you just have to determine whether it whether you can help them That's more than we expected to spend and you just be quiet. You just watch you just sit there That's more than we expected to spend And now you just sitting there watching them and and and and they know that you're waiting on them to tell them to Tell you more and they go That's that's more than that's more than we expected to spend but Right and then now you can go on to the next step, right? So so sometimes you just want to listen and just wait that dramatic pause Right and then you can say well, well, what did you expect to spend? Well, you know, we expected like $1,000 a month Right or $1,000 right just just one time you say well, what did you get that number for? And you're asking these questions, right? But but eventually once you've gathered all the information, right?  May have to make this I may I may have to make this four parts I call this a three-part series But it's so important that we ask the right questions and I and we were already seven minutes into this because I began to reiterate on these things But we got it we got it we got we get we gotta gather the right information So the information we want to gather right is we want them to we want them to put We want them to assign a value to our services on their own So if if they're asking what the price is we say between two or ten thousand dollars and they go Hey, you know like that's that's not what we expected to spend and you're just waiting and they go You know, we thought this was gonna be like a thousand bucks a month or something like that All right, and then you can say okay. All right now You know like, you know, okay, they're at a thousand bucks a month And there's a process we can go through in order to increase that number to what our ideal number is It doesn't always work. It works probably 80% of the time, right? And if you spend any time around sales people good good sales people like you know this, right? But most people have it most people spend time around terrible sales people I was fortunate enough to be in a position where I learned where I learned how to sell And so I know I know how to do this.  I apologize I pop but if you guys really want to learn this stuff, it won't matter man It could be a hundred parts, right? Like if you're serious about getting to the next level you'll watch all of the parts, right? But also you can find this stuff over more Expanded editions where I like I get down deep into the nitty-gritty of all this stuff to really make people masters At at going out and finding clients and then if you're in the code. Oh man, bro Like right getting down into like the deep Mindset that you have to have in order to go out and build a business as a developer And I mean like and not just any business like a Big business like you can go out and you can get these clients and And they'll pay you month after month to help them grow their business. That's over at the code 365 startup lab but anyway code 365 startup lab comm but We're gonna close this one out and then in the next video We'll we'll close things out, right? I just I don't want to miss anything, right? I want you guys to get the most value possible, but I don't want these videos to be too long So in the next one in the fourth and final iteration We will cover Getting to getting the the ultimate value getting to the yes


Today on The Anxious Truth, we're talking about exposures and exposure therapy. Specifically, we're talking about the two primary ingredients of effective and successful exposures and why you might be missing one or both of those without even knowing it. So let's get cooking. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode number 192, 192 recorded January of 2022. If you are new to the podcast or to the YouTube channel, I am Drew Linsolati, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. This is the podcast that talks about all things, anxiety and anxiety recovery. So if you are struggling with things like panic attacks or panic disorder or agoraphobia, this is the place for you. I am happy that you are here. Welcome. If you are a returning listener or a returning viewer, of course, I'm happy you're here too. Welcome back. Today, we're going to talk about the two ingredients of successful and effective exposure and where the most common mistakes are in putting those ingredients together. Before we get into it, just a very quick reminder, this The Anxious Truth is more than just this podcast episode or this video that you're watching right now. There is seven years worth of free podcast episodes. There's a free email newsletter that comes out every morning with recovery information, lessons and tips. There's all my social media stream and there are three books that I've written. So I urge you to go over to TheAnxiousTruth.com and check out all the resources. Check out the books. They're very useful. They're good books. I'm proud of them and they're helping a lot of people. If you haven't checked them out already, go ahead and do that. At a minimum, go look at all the free stuff that I have to offer. Subscribe to The Anxious Morning email. It's right there on the homepage of the website. Yeah, go avail yourself of everything that I have out there. It's more than just this podcast episode to help you with your recovery. And if you really dig my work and you want to find some way to support it, you can do that at TheAnxiousTruth.com slash support. And whether you support me morally or you're just cheering for me or you're supporting financially in some way, thank you very much. I appreciate all of it and all of you. So let's get into the topic. Exposure, specifically the two important ingredients of effective and useful exposures. So before we get into it, exposure, what is it? I assume that if you're listening to this podcast episode, you have a pretty good idea what exposure is already. But exposure in a nutshell is the act of intentionally putting yourself into situations that trigger uncomfortable feelings, anxiety, panic, all the sensations, the thoughts that come with it, fear, vulnerability, discomfort, all those things, uncertainty. So exposure is what we do when we intentionally trigger those things. Sounds crazy, right? But that is what we do. And that is really a primary ingredient in terms of the way out and recovery. So if you're not sure exactly what exposure even means, by all means, head on over to TheAnxiousTruth.com, use the search tool on the website, and just put in the word exposure. You're going to get buried in information. There's a ton. I've written a lot, I've spoken a lot. It's in TheAnxiousTruth, my main recovery guide. If you need to learn about that, head on over to my website and search for exposure and you'll see what it is. But assuming that you know what it is, let's talk about why you might be like, okay, I know what it is and I'm doing it, but I'm not making any progress. Let's look at those two main ingredients of effective and successful exposures. The first, they are willingness and acceptance. Let's look at willingness first because it's the first one that we need to develop. And it's also the easiest one to deal with. Willingness just means you are actually willing to go and do these intentionally difficult, scary things that will trigger you. Air quotes trigger. That's willingness. Now, willingness comes in degrees. So in the beginning, when most people hear me talk about this sort of stuff, they're like, no, no, no, that's clearly not for me. I'm not going to do that. That's crazy. Those people are unwilling and everybody starts being unwilling. I get that. If these are new concepts to you, you're like, yeah, no, I'm not doing that. And I don't blame you in the least everybody starts that way. So it's okay. But when you do start to become willing, usually it's like, okay, fine. Like it appears that I have no choice. I'm going to have to do it this way. Let's do it. Okay. So you start to build a little willingness, but sometimes willingness comes in a spectrum. And at first you're willing and you're doing stuff, but you might only be doing it once in a while, either when life makes you do it. Like generally speaking, you're not going to do scary things, but when life makes you do them. Okay, Drew said I have to do exposures. I'll go do this thing. So you're only doing it when life makes you do it or you're waiting for the days where you feel good enough. Okay, this is a good day.  That's really common. So we really want to define the first ingredient of willingness, full willingness when you can say, yeah, I'm really willing now is you've decided, okay, I'm going to have to do it this way. And you're doing it consistently and regularly. So willingness sometimes starts by looking like, okay, he said, I got to do it.  But then you don't do anything for another two weeks. Yes, you were willing to do that. And maybe that was different than the way you used to do it. And that's great. Full credit for that fist bump for that boom you deserve it. However, that's only the beginning of willingness. You are fully willing when you say this is the way I have to do this. I don't want it to be that way because it's unpleasant. I feel you we all we all agree with that. This is the way I have to do it. And I'm going to do the work consistently. I'm doing on a regular schedule. I'm going to do this work every day. Even when I don't feel good, I'm going to do this work. I'm not going to wait for good days. I'm just going to wait. I'm not going to wait until life makes me do it. I'm going to be willing to intentionally do these exercises that I know I have to do pretty much every day. Right? I'm going to follow the schedule of my therapist, the counsel I gave me, do my homework, I'm going to do my exposures all the time. Okay, excellent. That's willingness. So if you say, well, I'm willing, but you're only doing it sporadically here and there, you start, you stop, you only wait for life to make you do exposures. It's not really exposure. I call it interruptive, interrupted avoidance. Or you're only doing your exposures or meeting those challenges on the good days. If you feel good enough, but then you retreat on the bad days, you're willing. You're just not all the way willing. So you got to get to the point where you are all the way willing. This is the work I have to do all the time consistently, even on the days when I really don't want to or I feel like I can't. So that's the first ingredient, willingness. And it takes all of us a while to develop full willingness. So if you're not there yet, and you're working on that, I get you. It's okay. It's really, it's okay. You're not failing. You're not doing anything wrong. You're just following the same path that most people follow as they go through this process. They start by like, I'm not willing at all. Then you get to like, okay, fine, I'll do it. But you do a little bit here and there, then a little more than a little more. And then you realize like, I get to do this all the time. So I get that if you're not at that point yet and you're still kind of like resisting it, I get it. You're developing your willingness. It'll come over time. Just keep going. Once you've got the willingness part down, yep, I'm willing to do this.  Great. Second part, acceptance. Now, I know this is a word that causes a lot of confusion. We talk about it all the time. I've probably spoken hundreds of hours behind this microphone about the word acceptance. But in this context, I want us to look at acceptance this way. You, I just have to, when I am now willing to go and do this work every day, now I have to be accepting of the fact that I'm doing a scary thing. And so it will be scary. I'm doing a difficult thing or a challenging thing. It will be challenging. That is acceptance in terms of that second ingredient of a successful and effective exposure. I'm willing to do it. And I'm accepting of the fact that I will feel afraid, uncertain, vulnerable, challenged, whatever it is, anxious, panicked. I will feel those things when I do this. And I will do my very best to practice navigating through them, as opposed to trying to suppress them, stop them or run away from them. That is acceptance in the context of exposure. So a lot of people get to the point where they are willing and they've developed just about that full willingness, but they're still not really there on the acceptance. Here's an example, a quick example for you would be the agoraphobic who says, okay, I know that I have to start getting out of walking. So I'm going to do that. And they do it once in a while at first, then they realize this isn't really helping me or they learn more about it, like I got to do all the time, then they decide, I'm going to take a walk every day. And that's great. Except when they do their walk, they load themselves up with safety devices, the phone, they're talking to a friend, they're doing all that. Really, my phone decided now was the time. Sorry about that. So yeah, they load themselves up with safety devices and avoidances, or they literally will hit the eject button and run away from the exposure as soon as the panic begins to rise, they're halfway around the block. Nope, I'm going home, I'm out. And then they do the same thing day to day to day, and they can't figure out how to do this. Like I want to do it, but it's not working because I keep panicking. Correct. You might panic when you do an exposure. So that's somebody who's got willingness down pat, but not so much in the acceptance. That's extremely common. Or another example might be the person with, say, social anxiety. Somebody has social anxiety decides, okay, yeah, I'm going to this time, I'm going to say yes, I'm going to go meet my friends for dinner, whatever it happens to be. And they get there and then that anxiety starts to rise and they hit the eject button and they run to the restroom and they they hang out there for 10 minutes and then come back and then no, I don't like this and they make an excuse. I'm sorry, I'm not feeling so great or hey, my boyfriend called and I got to leave. And they leave. So that was a willingness, but it was not they were not accepting. So if you are going into the exposures, hoping that you will be able to either power through them, or wiggle through them and find a way to do them without feeling the scary things or the challenging things, or you are literally ejecting and bailing on the exposure as soon as you feel them, then you only have half the equation. Now you have the willingness, but you don't have the acceptance. So when people wind up in a situation where they will say, I'm doing all the things, but true, I do all the things, I'm doing things, but I'm not getting any better. Many times it's because the acceptance part of that equation is not really up to where it's supposed to be, right? So they're powering through or they're wiggling through. And I know a lot of people that will say, yeah, I'm doing I was doing great. I was doing all my exposures for three weeks. I had no panic, because they're doing the expo that doesn't mean you have to panic. But I say something really important in a second, but they'll say like, yeah, and I was great. I was doing him and I didn't really have a lot of anxiety. But today, I took my walk and I've taken that walk for three weeks in a row. But today I felt really panicky and feels like such a setback and I'm back to square one. No, not really. Because the exposure is meant to expose yourself to the panic, to the fear, to the symptoms, to all the things that you fear. The word exposure is not exposure to the highway. It's not exposure to social situations. It's not exposure to scary health ideas. If you have a lot of anxiety, the exposure is to how you feel. It's to the fear. So when we do exposure, we're exposing ourselves not to a context or situation or task, we're exposing ourselves to the fear and the discomfort and the anxiety and the vulnerability and the uncertainty and all those things that come up in those contexts. So that is the important part. And when you do scary things, you will in fact be scared. So people with panic disorder or agoraphobia will often ask, well, do I have to panic to recover? And the answer to that in a nutshell, which kind of sums all this up, is you don't necessarily have to panic to recover, but you have to be willing to panic to recover that much, I am sure of. So the two effective, the two ingredients, the two key ingredients of effective and successful exposures that actually lead somewhere, although bit by bit, they don't lead places in big chunks. Unfortunately, we'll talk about that in a second. But those two ingredients of successful and effective exposures are willingness. I'm willing to do this. And I know why I'm doing it. I understand why I'm doing it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do these things consistently all the time and acceptance. And when I do them, I know that I'm literally doing these things to intentionally expose myself to all those uncomfortable feelings of fear and anxiety and panic that I've been avoiding for so long. Willingness and acceptance. Now, and like I said, if you are either kind of sporadically doing exposure, that would certainly explain why you feel like you're stuck and it's not working. This isn't working for me yet. Well, if you're only sporadically doing it, and people who only sporadically do exposures definitely aren't willing yet or fully willing, and they almost universally do not have the acceptance part down. Like in a way, the willingness, the full willingness almost always comes before the full acceptance. And then it's just probably mechanically, that's okay. This is all okay. So if you're listening to me right now and you're in that stage, where it's like, well, yeah, I'm kind of doing hit and run exposures when I feel like it, man, I'm feeling called out. People always joke of me like, I feel personally attacked by your podcast. It's okay, if you're along the path and you're just moving forward, keep moving forward, it's okay, you're gonna get there. But if you are sporadically doing it, you got to work on your willingness, work on that first, and then you're gonna have to work on your full acceptance. And in many cases, then my favorite word surrender begins to come in. So you have to be accepting of the fact that the exposure will put you face to face. Intentionally, that is the point of it. With the things that you fear, the sensations and the thoughts and all of those things, the anxiety, the panic, all that, it will put you face to face with those things on purpose. It's why we do it. And now you must surrender to those things willfully tolerate flow through whatever your favorite word is that's outside the scope of this episode, we talked about this stuff over and over and over. But you have to be accepting of the fact that that's the way it's going to look. All right, so if you feel like I am doing exposures, I'm doing the things, but it's not working. These are two things to really think about how willing am I am to am I to do this work. Sometimes it takes a while to get to and how accepting am I of what this work is really going to look like. Or am I trying to say I do want to do the work, but I kind of want to do it without feeling the scary things. I want to find a way to engineer my way to learn how to drive on the highway without being anxious. You really and I'll wrap it up here and I'll use the driving on the highway example as my illustration. Willingness and acceptance means I'm going to go drive on this highway, even though I'm having a really bad day. And I know that my job is to learn how to drive on the highway while I am afraid on the highway. I'm going to go walk to the park while I'm afraid of walking to the park. That's the point. That's the acceptance. So that's what successful and effective exposures look like in terms of willingness and acceptance. If you don't have both of those ingredients, you begin to struggle. You don't understand why this is why isn't this working for me? Why isn't it working? Or sometimes what happens is people will use the approach where they're very willing, but they don't really have the acceptance down and they engineer like a sort of anxiety free thing. Hey, I learned how to go to the supermarket and pick my kids up from school without panicking. I'm doing great. But then the one day that they do experience panic or near panic and suddenly they don't understand what's going on like, oh my God, I'm broken again. Yeah, because you what you did is you found a way to wiggle through your exposures little by little until you learned how to kind of just sort of get through them and skirt around the issue. Pretty common. So that's it. That is episode number 192, which is the ingredients of effective exposure, willingness and acceptance. Hopefully this has been helpful to you. And yeah, that's it. I'm not going to belay you with a point too much longer than that. So thanks for coming, guys. I appreciate that. I will play you out as always with Afterglow. 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