All right guys, well, we'll be getting started in less than two minutes, just like to kind of do a quick little intro here at Cybertrain University. This is the May cyber expo, we've got three great speakers, including myself at one. We've got Norman Hallett and Tom Busby coming up, Norman's going to be coming up first. This is something that we do every month. We do a cyber expo, we get some of the greatest masterminds of trading to kind of give you the feedback and everything is more or less totally different as in the education goes because you're going to have somebody's going to talk about stock trading, which will be me, you have Norman's going to talk a little about discipline, you have friend Tom Busby there, he's going to talk a little bit, a lot about regarding about futures and options.  So listen, there's a lot out there that you guys have to understand that when it comes to trading, I know everybody wants to trade, doesn't mean you should, OK, and that is the issue when it comes to trading. Everybody goes out there, they try to trade, they get themselves in trouble and don't understand that there's a psychology part of it. There's a discipline part of it. There's also a strategy behind it, you know, but you'll notice that a lot of us trade roughly about 70 percent of the markets. They all trade about the same, OK. The only one makes 30 percent different. It's just a different market, you know. But but I was just on I was just on a, you know, on event with timing research with Norman Hall of actually on Monday.  And Norm is going to talk a little bit about that where, you know, everybody doesn't know how to lose money. You know, I have an old saying and it seems like it's getting more popular by the day, but losing money is actually a very good thing. And the reason why it's a good thing, because we know why you lost, you're not going to do it again.  But then we didn't realize like, wow, this is great. And next thing we find out that I can spend next 50 years with this person after going two, three years in a marriage.  So if you knew that from the beginning, you might have probably took it a little bit more seriously before you actually, you made it. And listen, I love marriage. I've been married for over 20 years. I've got three wonderful sons. I'm very fortunate to marry a great woman. But for some of us, we know that, you know, we get married for the wrong reasons. And trading is exactly the same.  Oh, what's going on with Amazon or Facebook? You know, there's a whole world out there. There are things that you're qualified to train as things that you're not qualified to trade, and that's where the discipline does come with it. Now, I don't want to take too much time, but it is 11 o'clock and I want to get right into it. And I want to introduce our first speaker. Now, let me tell you a little bit about Norman, OK? I don't know if you know this guy, but he's been doing this educating for almost four decades. He's 40 years. He told me seven years old, 70 years old.  You're like 50. He's like, no, I'm not old.  But were you getting that magic juice, the fountain of youth? You got to pass it on to me because I mean, I got my hair, but I'm just starting to go gray. But he's been he's been around for a long, long time. I've done so many events with him.  And that's why we like to have Norman to come out come out here. And he's one of the pioneers that started this before most people ever would ever touch this industry in general. But but he does have a very good niche where if you're a futures trader, a forex trader, an option stock trader, you can kind of apply everything he's doing because a lot of it is discipline and the psychology part of it is so difficult to succeed when it comes to trading. But, you know, like I said, he's if you ever get the opportunity to meet him in person, he's the nicest guy. He cares about everything. He always wants to work, you know, help people out. But it also in not only that, but he also makes an investment in his in his in his preaching.   The whole point about it is that we love what we do and great education never stops. So without without further ado, which Norman always loves that word. He always abused me about it. But without that, I want to pass it over to him. He's going to talk for about an hour and, you know, just sit back and enjoy ladies and gentlemen and, you know, stage all yours.  Thank you, Fausto, for the terrific introduction. I hope I can live up to it. I want to thank you for having me here. Let's also thank everybody for coming and being part of the presentation. I think you're really going to like what's going to happen in this next hour as well as the next couple of few hours. My presentation is going to be on six effective ways to play stops. That'll be the beginning of the presentation, where I will show you a number of different ways to play stops.  I mean, if you think about it, play stops is just a way to get out of something that's not working out or in any case, of course, preserving a profit. But in generally, it's a defensive posture. So sometimes it seems that there aren't very good outcomes when you play stops, you get knocked out and then it goes without you and so on. But there are necessary evil in the in the trading world because you need to prevent yourself from taking a large loss. That's the most debilitating thing when it comes to the mental and emotional issues of trading. And of course, as Fasta mentioned, my my my focus has always been on the mental and emotional issues of mental and emotional issues of trading. If you think about it, 91 percent, 92 percent of traders don't make money. They lose or they stay the same. Most of them are losing. Only six, seven, eight percent are making money. And when I go to large venues and speak and so on and over the years, over the decades, I've also noticed that it's probably 91 percent of traders who don't give any mind to the mental and emotional aspects of trading. So I put the two together. I think if you start paying attention to the mental and emotional aspects and having a trading plan that respects your attention to mental and emotional aspects, then you're going to do a lot better and actually making a living from this in many cases. So my focus, as I mentioned, has always been on the mental and emotional issues for decades. And then what happened was that I realized I was helping traders to be disciplined to trading plans that were just lousy. They didn't have any risk management posture and no real control to the trading plan, poor execution methodologies and so on. And so I decided I would choose to make simple trading plans. I've always been into simple trading plans. I'm a guy that likes to make as many trades as I can. I believe that that when you get a trigger the way you want it, you want to take advantage of as many of those as you can. I mean, in a 70, 30 world or 65, 35 world or whatever it is, wins to losses, you're much better off, I believe, in making as many trades as you can and getting through to the next trade, getting, taking the next opportunity. Of course, not curtailing a profit when it's running for you. I'm not talking about that. I'm just saying that if something is not working out, I'd rather exit and go to the next trade, as well as operating a simple trading plan, one that doesn't have so many screens that I don't make it a trade every two years on it. So I'm, that's my thing, mental and emotional control and making the trading plan simple. And at the end of this presentation, I'm going to give you a simple trading plan that you can work with. I think you're going to find a very, very, work very well for you.  I want you to, I'm going to offer you to be a founder at a ridiculously low price that you may want to be involved in as we even move further into this trading plan to tighten it, tighten it, tighten it. Even in its skeletal form that I'll be showing it to you, you're going to see some very impressive results, but I'm always looking to be even better and better. And so that's what it's going to be all about today. So let's get going. There are six effective ways to play stops. What you're looking at here is me on the left. And that's my brother, that's my twin brother, my late twin brother, Bob on the right and my older brother, Dan in the middle. He's a year and a half, I'm sorry, he's 13 months older. And just to give you a little background on me, I'm smiling now just like on that picture on the left. I was born to a parents that just my father was in World War II and he got home and they had kids. And here we are, we lived in the living room of my grand, my father's parents' apartment for two years. The three of us and my parents living in my grandparents' living room. They said my mother lost her sense of humor during that period of time and you could probably understand why. But I got a very close family. There's another brother that came eight years after me and my twin brother, so the four of us are terrific buddies. Of course, I mentioned my twin brother Bob passed away which I still think about every day. He was the good twin. So you're being taught by the other guy today. But then when I was 31, I finally got married, I stopped, I was in the nightclub business and the restaurant business in the 70s. I went ahead in 1979, I joined an auction firm and started selling Makata Metals Corporation options. This is before exchange traded options on the physical metal, on physical gold and silver. Makata still is the largest warehouser of gold and silver in the world and I think the large, independently held corporation in the world, the gigantic. And we used to sell options on their metals before exchange traded options. Anyway, years later I ran that firm until 1988. I was a regional vice president for them and had 60 brokers under me and so our job was to do as well by the clients as we can in the world of gold and silver. But in 1981, a couple of years after I started with that firm, I met my wife and of course I was trading during that period of time. I helped the brokers out and then I'd go back in the upstairs and that's not trading. It's where I got my first experience trading but I was all over the place. My wife happens to be a subconscious trainer and the discipline trader, she's the one that supplies all the content, helps the traders with me on the mental and emotional issues, helps you to put into your head the things that she should be thinking about when you're trading and your own self-concept as a trader. But it was her that turned my trading around and that's why I wanted to bring it to the world and started the whole thing 20 years ago the discipline trader. But again, as I mentioned, the discipline trader had an issue with helping people stick to religiously the lousy trading plans. So a couple of years ago I decided to have a new focus along with my old focus and that's simple trading plans. And again, we're gonna show you one at the end but Tisha turned my life around and hopefully you have somebody in your life like we've been married not 38 years. And we do other things. Every trader has to have an outlet.   What you're looking at are, we raise butterflies which we raise monarch butterflies and what you're looking at is a bunch of caterpillars, monarch caterpillars that after they make a chrysalis 10 days later, they turn into these butterflies of which we dry out in these little cages we have. And anytime you come to my house about one o'clock in the afternoon, we'd be glad to have you help us release these butterflies. They can jump right on your hand and then they go. So, you gotta relax as a trader because the trading is intense and it takes a lot of focus. It may seem like all you're doing is buying and then selling and rooting for it in between. But as you're adjusting stocks and doing things along the way things are, you know, they, they, they, it's stressful. Come on, we all know that. That's why we're here. I guess to also to help eliminate some of that stress. So let's get into the six techniques that I wanna cover. And then I wanna kind of show you an application in the simple trading plan. The Bollinger, but I'm gonna show you more than six and I'm gonna go through them because, you'll see why. The Bollinger Bands is getting to be more and more popular. I just learned about this a couple of years ago. The future features of the Bollinger Bands trading plan or a stop, a stopping methodology is riding, it rides the favored side of the middle band. In the Bollinger Bands, you've got the two extreme bands Bollinger Bands metal, it's a volatility measure. And as the markets get more volatile, the bands expand. I'm gonna show you that in a second. And then there's a mid band, the average of the two bands rides in the middle of the two, up and lower bands. And it's that middle band is the break point. You ride the band, you ride the price until it crosses the other side of that mid band. The problem with the Bollinger Bands is as with many stopping methodologies, it's a little tough in ranges. There's only, ranges can be tough to place stops in and this is not as effective as it could be. Here's a chart for the, this is a chart of WTR, which is Aquamarica. It's a water stock that I, the methodologies that I teach you, whether it's simple trading plans, the stopping procedures, they all work on any market, whether it's stocks or futures or forex and they work on any timeframe in all these cases. So here you have the WTR stock moving around. It doesn't really matter the price. And we're just looking at the stock itself and the movement in price. Each bar, of course, I'm assuming here that you're familiar with the candlesticks and red meaning that the, that we closed on the low of the candle and if it's red, it closed below the open. If it's green, it closed above the open. But this blue line is the outer, is the upper Bollinger Band and this is the lower Bollinger Band in red. And this white line is the midline of the Bollinger Band. So, as you can see the drop here happened, you had a consolidating market here. So the bands were not far from each other. Once this thing dropped, the Bollinger Bands gave you room on both sides of the midline, of course. And as the market tends to tighten up again, the Bollinger Bands will come together. So generally you're looking for channels like this when you're trading via Bollinger Band and you're waiting for a breakout and a widening of the band. So this would be an area where I'm sure a lot of people got caught. This is probably a report that came out or something. This is not, this is normal for that kind of, this is a look that I'm seeing here. It's not really normal for it to, without some tremendous news where it closes here and then opens down here. But assuming you're looking for a spot to get into a trade, let's say the market gap down and you wanna get short here. Okay, you're getting short in placing your stop.  So in other words, wherever the Bollinger Band, wherever this midline is, so you're here, so you'll be placing your stop up here because all of this, of course, didn't exist when you shorted the market here. You'd be placing your stop here. And as the market came down, you'd be moving your stop with each band above, in this case, whatever bar you're looking at, you'd be moving your stop. When you got to here, your stop would be on the other side of this bar. Well, as the market moves sideways, the Bollinger Bands are coming together. And so, of course, the midline is getting nearer to your pricing. And at this point, right here, this small red dot here, from here to here, at this small red dot, you'd be having your stop. You'd be stopped out of this short trade. And you can see, here's another long trade. If you got in for whatever reason here and rowed this up, you would be breaking the band here. We're breaking the midline here and therefore, you'd be out of your long trade at this point here. So it's a simple way of having a stop, but it respects to some degree the volatility of the market, but it can whip you around a bit. When you see action like this sideways, it's always good to think about tightening up your stop because if it breaks in the wrong direction, and this Bollinger Band actually did that for you by coming all the way down here by that time. So that's what this Bollinger Band is about. I would say that as far as distance from the midline, give it a few ticks. One thing I will state right now is that if you're dealing with where to place your stop in this particular case, how far above or below, I mean, how far above the band in this case, a couple of ticks, 10 ticks, that's up to you. I like to give it a little bit of room, five, six, seven, eight ticks increments, a tick increments. I don't like to make it one tick because it is too easy to get knocked out. Now, neither one, I've seen successful traders do the one tick thing and that's fine because really you'll get stopped out more but if I'm widening my stop when I get stopped out, I'm gonna lose more money. So in the very long scheme of things, it tends to even itself out. It's about your own ability to stay positive and it's your own ability to keep what I call a positive expectation. If you find yourself getting knocked out a lot or if you take bigger losses than the smaller losses and that makes you feel horrible and somehow it's ruining your canther in the market, then you wanna tighten yourself. You may wanna think of not taking so big, taking more losses but smaller losses. You've gotta figure out what you can handle and what you can't, what keeps you positive. You gotta stay positive when you are trading. So let's continue. The second, this is the Fibonacci level which is one of my least favorite, although it's used by a lot of, especially those that are math oriented and I'm math oriented and I have, my degrees are in math and somehow though, I find that Fibonacci wants to be exact but seldom lands on the Fibonacci levels and therefore supports that makes sense in the long term. I don't use it but a lot of people do, so I'm showing it to you. Fib can act as a support or resistance level during a trend. Stop loss methods, this particular for stop loss, this particular one also doesn't work in ranges very well. I will show you one that will and that's mostly the pattern types but let's take a look and these lines, I'm sorry these are a little hard to see, I'm using a different presentation vehicle, I'm on a different computer today but don't worry too much about it other than knowing that these shadows of lines here are Fibonacci retracement points and you probably have used them before, the ones that are popular are 0.38, 0.62 and the 50% line, in recent, you've got a 73, I don't use them in 23 but what happens is you see this movement up here, this move from down here to up here, the length of this particular up move and then all of a sudden you have a corrective action. You say to yourself well how far is this correction action gonna go? So what you do is you take your tool and you start at the bottom of the run and you go to the top of the run, you let go of your Fibonacci tool and it plots these lines for you and you're looking for the market to stop at one of these lines and then look for a trigger for continuation in the right direction. In this particular case, if you look at this level right here which I believe is the 30, looks like the 38.38 level and these are, you can't see it but there are wicks that come and hit that line. They don't always, but I showed you one that did, sometimes they'll drop a little bit below or a little bit above but the idea is that you need to look at this level as a level that you're going to have some support in on the way down. It certainly didn't give us support at this upper level here but it did give, it looks like after this steady area here, market drop came up, came back down and now it tested it again here and survived the test here. The fact that you have two bottoms here, you're gonna be whispering double bottom to yourself and you'll probably take a trade here. When you take that long trade here then you're going to put your stop a few ticks below this Fibonacci level, wherever that may be. If you have a wick that came below that level here, I would adjust that to a few ticks below that wick level as long as it's not too far different than the Fibonacci level. So, and as the market moves higher you're going to move your stop up to in whatever way that you want and I suggest two bars, not one bar. A lot of traders like to put it below one bar and as the market expands, you put it below one bar and then with this tail, you would have been knocked out of this trade here as you would have had it below this bar and you still would have been knocked out with two bars in this area someplace here. So, you want to trail your stop but your initial stop will go below here. Now that's the Fibonacci, this is a subtly, but I don't want to confuse you if you're not used to Fibonacci. You can study it and deal with it but again, it's another support level. You're going to defend your stop on the opposite side. Okay, moving averages. Somebody did comment here that moving averages with the way they like to use their stops. And it can give you a lot, the thing about it is it can give you a lot of waiting for a break of the moving average. You can give up a lot. In other words, and that's true of a lot of stops as I mentioned. The market will back up and if you've got a deep stop you're going to give back a lot of your profit. So, which is why I give you this nuance. This is my first nuance. It's a nuance in all of this. I've made four simple trading plans. I'm trying to make one every few months. This is again, the latest one is a loaded gun which is the best one so far. And but I want to say that you want to start with two positions. You want to initiate your position with at least multiple positions which is the minimum of which would be two. Okay, because in any trigger, whenever you get in on a trade, generally you're getting in on a trigger that really means that the market is about, as a reason to go up, it's decidedly gone up because of some indication. Either volume or whatever you use. That fact usually makes the next bar or two in your favor. I say take some profit in those bars to put a little in your pocket and then manage your remaining positions even if it's just one position in a two position approach. Okay, so I give you that because I don't want to leave without mentioning that. I can't tell you how much you'll improve your trading results by trading multiple positions and peeling off the first position on the initial move, on the initial reaction to that trigger, okay? So in moving averages, you want to watch the moving average slope to avoid a false change of direction. I'll show you what that means in a second. Mostly when I give you the simple trading plan, that's something we have to watch because that simple trading plan uses a moving average. So using a moving average to set your stop, it's dynamic, it moves as each bar goes, you're moving your stop because it's moving average. And you gotta give it some room because moving average really is just an average. What I like to use exponential moving averages is because exponential moving averages gives a little bit more weight to the more current bars. So when you're using moving averages and you're using it to place stops, I suggest you may want to try exponential moving averages for stop placement. Okay, here's a, this is overstock. It's a stock I follow because it's really in the Bitcoin world. They use the underlying technology that they're, believe it or not, and it's kind of moves, it did for a while, doesn't really anymore use it with Bitcoin. But here is, let's say, this is three moving averages. This is the 200-day moving average. This is the 50-day moving average. And this is the 20-day moving average. So just different moving averages that I always have on my charts and I just clip this one off. Let's take the 50-day moving average. Let's say we're working where we're, well, if you're using it as a stop, you want a moving average that hugs it fairly closely. Now the 20-day moving average may not be enough for you. I find it good. This is a daily chart. So I think the 20-day moving average makes sense. If you have more risk tolerance and you want to use a 50-day moving average for your stop, you can do that. But the idea is that if you use this closely moving average at 20, then you're staying with the moving average. And if it crosses on this side, the opposite side of the moving average, you were looking at a downtrend. So here we are above the moving average. You would have been stopped out with a close stop. If you kept your stop considerably away from the moving average, 10 ticks or whatever, you may not have been stopped out here. So you've got to find the right medium for yourself. Again, matching your own personality. But you can see how the market, when it's going strong, will honor that moving average. Here's where you would have been stopped out and not involved in what's happening here. Here's another short trade here. Here's a long trade using the yellow moving average where you would have got, this is a nice trigger right here. I'm gonna talk more about this trigger later with a very small body or doji followed by a dramatic move in the next candle. That's a big time signal, one of my favorite signals. And so you would have gotten in here. You would have put your stop underneath this moving average and kept it under the moving average as this trade matured. And gotten stopped out here. So you would have gotten in here and you would have gotten stopped out here. So you would have had from here to about here. Not a huge trade for all this time that you spend. But I will say again, that if you follow my nuance here and take two positions here, not one or multiple positions, three, four, five, whatever it is, whatever your count size can stand and liquidate one of your positions out of two or one out of three on this first thrust up. Get out of one here. Okay.  So one of the trading plans I'm working on right now is just a matter of taking advantage of these thrusts which come often. And then moving on to the next situation with the thrust. But don't go doing that until I've tested it and so on. I'm just telling you that the idea of using multiple positions and peeling it off, I think is an idea you need to think about adopting. Okay. Now doubles your risk from that standpoint, but if you're doing it on a trigger, you know, here's another trigger type formation, small body at the top of almost looks like a shooting stars type thing, followed by this candle leads to another trigger. So this is a really good trigger, not to worry too much about it. Now, when you put your stop in, you know, you're going to want to, if you're using a trigger like this, you want to put it on the bottom of the trigger formation. I'll show you more about that later. Okay. So that's what the moving average stops are all about. Here's the fourth technique, price formation and price patterns. I'm going to move a little faster now because I've got a lot to say here. It really goes by the book, beware of stop-loss, you know, people look at flags and head and shoulders.  I don't know if they actually exist or not, but it certainly seems like they're out there doing it. I know that there was some trading plans by some very negative people that are trying to take advantage of that, knowing people are going to put their stops on the other side and a very strong move based on other indications and they just pick people off. In any event, I'm not sure that's even, but the idea is that you got to give all stops a little bit of room. Let's take a look at some penance and flags. And this is not the perfect chart probably to do it, but I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time on it other than to say, you know that we have flags when you see a, you know, a flag like this, where you have a consolidation of some sort with a line moving higher and a flat top, more of a flat formation on the top. When you see a break in that pattern, you go with it and you put your stop at the opposite side of the breakout line or break down line in this case. So you'd be putting your stop up here and as the market matured, you'd be following it one or two bars. Again, I'd recommend two not one. And so that's all I'll say about that. Here's more of a channel right here or a pennant where you see it started to go sideways, you join the bottoms. Now, there's a, you know, whether you use the wicks, ends of the wicks to join your lines or you use the bodies, I try to use bodies a lot. I use them both, I had to change them if you really want to know the truth. I think that there's, you know, I think there's some intelligence to both. The idea is that I think once you decide to join one for a certain approach, stick with it. Don't go moving it around and moving your stop just because it broke the body and not the wick line. Make up your mind. It's like whether you should take a hit in blackjack or not, you either always do it or you never do it.  So here's a band that was formed, the channel of flag that was formed or a pennant, I guess. And it looks like we had a bit of a false breakout here.  So this didn't really work very well, but you had some nice close stops maybe. And if you didn't have a close stop and you had to stop closer down here because this is a small channel, you could probably put your stop just above midway. You would have been in this trade all the way until we reached, this looks like a head and shoulders. I've given you the arrows, shoulder, head and shoulder here and so, and you draw your neckline through the bottom of the beginning of the first shoulder and the end of the second shoulder, which was at the bottom of this where I drew it. And if it breaks that, you're going to initiate a new trade. Well, if you initiate this short trade here, you're gonna have your stop above the neckline. So it's whatever training formation you're looking at, you're putting in your stop at the other side of whatever breakout line that you used. Okay, enough about that. And here's a, well, I guess it's not enough about that. I got another chart here, the soy, the soy tends to, I find soy tends to work well with flags and pennants. I'm not showing you any breakouts here, but I'm just showing you how in this particular case, I use the wicks to draw the line. And here I use these two wicks and then I, because it seemed to be coming down the market and see these two wicks were formed, this one here and this one here. So I drew the line, maybe looking for some sort of a thing that never really reached. So as we came down and spent time, I decided to make another line. Here's where he starts creating a fan, which is something that I tend to do that traders with experience will tend to do. And that kind of gives you another target up here. If you do go long here, you can have another, you have a target to maybe take a partial profit and what may be a resistance up here. So some of these lines could be useful in other ways. I'm just kind of showing you that. All right, trend lines and support resistance. Technique number five. Very popular, probably the most popular. So it's a self fulfilling prophecy. I don't know, but I tend to think that it can be. So again, use a little room to put in your stops. Again, drawing trend lines is subjective, suitable for ranges, this particular, and you'll see why it's easy to see. And support flips into resistance. That's what support resistance flips. I mean, here's the S&P market. It's a recent contract. You can see the fall that we had in December and then this movement recently. And you can see that once these two, now of course this part of the chart didn't exist when this top happened and this top happened. So I drew the line. So happens that it really gave me a nice indicator here. This is an obvious trade to take, of course, because you've got a, I usually wait for closes before I initiate trades. I always wait for close. So here's something that was a shooting star against a resistance area. I mean, that's a short trade if I ever saw one. So at the end of this day, the close here, the open and the next day with confirmation, you're shorting this market. You'd be here, you'd have this market all the way down, then you'd be putting your stop above this, above the resistance area. So if it breaks resistance and moves high, you'd be out. But quickly, once this bar happened, again, that formation, I really liked the small head, like almost a doji in this case, a shooting star followed, indecision followed by a major decision. And look where it leads, led all the way to this down here. Now, what happened is, once this happened, again, this didn't exist. We got a bottom here. I connected these two bottles. So I got two really nice support and resistance lines that look, look at this, worked out really well over here, gave us some action over here. So these, you know, as you extend them out, they still have meaning because there's a lot of people with defended positions here for the very long term and defended positions here. They'll defend them even later. What I mean by defending is, I'll talk about that some other time. But, so here we had a pulp below, but it closed within.  But if you were looking to get short, you wouldn't be yet here. This would get you short if you had no trade on. And then you'd be putting your stop up here. If you had put your stop up here and did what I suggested, waiting for a major move on the downside to take out one position, you probably took a little bit of a profit here, maybe waited till it got to this resistance on the way down here. Maybe it took out one position here, a second position on a three position phase here and then waiting for what I call lewd and lascivious for the rest of it. So it came down and you did very well on this and you're either trailing it with one position or two. Same thing on the way up, we had a hesitation here. So, you know, support resistance, pretty obvious, but I want to get to one that isn't so obvious. This is another one in copper where we're kind of jumping up in time. So I want to, again, this is a trend line connecting bottoms. And there's another way to move your stop. If you were in on this particular, let's say you're in on here on this movement, you drew a trend line, market came off that you drew this trend line because you've got in on this formation here on this jump that took out this high, you're long here. Now you're going to put your stop below this trend line that you drew connecting these two bottoms and you're moving your stop, you know, as it comes up along the trend line. One other way to move the stop, once you've got the initial stop in here is to look for these swing bottoms. When you see another swing bottom, then you would be moving your stop from here to here. Another one, this didn't look like, this started to flatten out here. So it would have been out over here anyway, more than likely when the trend line broke. So I like to continue, if I'm using a trend line stop, I like to continue with the trend line because really these bottoms are only going to hold usually if they honor the trend line anyway. So, all right, average true range. I want to state it and then I want you to play with it after this is all over and you hear all the speakers and so on. You're using an average true range. Somebody showed me this couple of years ago, I just think it's genius. Average true range really respects momentum and volatility. So you set it to 14, which is the default setting for average true range. And you want to have a new calculation and I'll show you that calculation with each high or low as the move expands. Okay, let me show you what this means. Here it is, I'm going to have to state it to you. So you write it down. Again, it's very simple. I don't do anything too complicated. But here's a chart, just look at the chart real quickly. You can see that maybe you've done nothing up to this point but at this yellow arrow, this could have been a trade. I mean, you're watching this level right around here where I'm drawing the arrows, holding held here, held here, held here.  This is a nice place to take a trade. So, I mean, you couldn't join a support and resistance line here, taking the trade and put the stop under here somewhere. But here's how to do it with the average true range and I like it because it respects the volatility of the market. Here's the formula. You take the close of the entry bar. Here's your entry bar. You take the close of the entry bar, which in this case was 147 and 1530 seconds. I probably shouldn't use bonds because we're in 30 seconds. The math is a little tough, but this bar closed at 147 and 1530 seconds. Well, the average true range during that bar is right here, which is 0.3650. If you convert that to 30 seconds, you're looking at 1230 seconds. So it's 1230 seconds is what the average true range is here, 0.3650. So you double that. So now we're talking 0.730, okay, 0.73. You double the average true range and you subtract it from the close of that bar. So the close of that bar was 147, 1530 seconds. We're subtracting twice 0.365, which is 1230 seconds, so it's 2430 seconds. So 147 and 1530 seconds minus 2430 seconds is 146 and 2330 seconds, which is right here. Really a nice place to put the stop. Happens to be right below this wick, but it's a nice place to put the stop and it honors the volatility of the market. So when I say move to stop, when you get additional hot, here's a meaningful high. Nothing's no reason to change your stop here and then boom, we have another stop here. So let's do it again, let's move our stop. In this particular case, the closing price here is 148 and 1330 seconds. 148 and 1330 seconds. We look at the average true range during that period of time and it's 0.44, which is roughly 1330 seconds. So twice 1330 seconds is 2630 seconds. So again, you double the average true range, subtract it from the close of the action bar. So in this particular case, we've got an action bar for, so 148, 1330 seconds minus 2630 seconds is 147 and 1630 seconds, which is right here. So you can see how that's nice. Now, what's interesting is, it's almost the same distance from the close of the bar and here it's the same distance, but we have a higher volatility. You'd think that it would be further away, but remember, we're measuring it from the close of the bar which happens to be way up here. There's a big candle. That's why this line hugs it a little bit more, even though it's a higher volatility. So it takes a lot of things it can tap. Here's another into account. Here's another bar that I felt was meaningful. Well, it took out these highs. So you'd be recalculating here and you'd be setting your stop here after that recalculation would be stopped out in here. So that's kind of a nice trade. But again, if you took my advice and the nuance and the multiple positions you got into here, you took a profit somewhere in this bar here as it expanded. When I take my profit, I like to see it expand an equal distance to my entry bar because I like to get in on expanding bars if you're saying, well, what do you mean by expanding bars? Somewhere when I see it's about the size of this bar, I'm looking to take profit. I'm taking it and then moving on. So I'd probably take my profit somewhere in here and then you're managing the second position. Try this average true range bar. I think you're really gonna like it. Really gonna like it. Okay, I promised you, well, I wanna show you just the last slide. Under the last swing low, we talked about that for other stopping techniques, a time stop, if something's not happening, if I get five bars in a row that are going sideways, I'm looking to draw a band around the top, a line of support and resistance around that range of sideways movement. And I'm looking for a breakout one way or the other to keep me in or keep me out. But I'm looking to get out because it's not happening. The further you move from the action bar, the less that action bar has an effect. So money stop, I don't know if we talked about a 300, I mentioned if I use $100 or $10,000 as an account size, small account of $10,000, you don't wanna take any more than $300 risk on any trade. So is it smart to just set your stop at $300? A lot of people say no, I say maybe. There are some places where, and I'll show you a couple of those in a second, especially after jump triggers, what I call jump triggers, which is all I try to get in on. I don't have a problem with doing that for small accounts. It allows you to get into trades, it allows you to keep your risk at a point where you can handle it. And most of the time, some triggers will expand and you'll be able to actually take one of the trades out if you use my nuance of two or more positions, okay? And then two bars back. I mentioned as the market's going higher, put it at the low in the case of an upward move, couple of ticks below two bars back, okay? So here's the simple trading plan. This is, now we're gonna get really exciting because I just wanna spend about five minutes on this and then get you an offer. And in five minutes, I'm gonna be able to explain this simple trading plan. Okay, here it is. Oh, forget that. First let me explain it. The first line here has no meaning. I didn't erase that as you're making the slide for the other slide. Simple trading plan fits on one sheet of paper. Okay, it fits on one sheet of paper. Simple. It has one primary analysis technique and then a loading gun that I'm gonna give you right now. The loading gun trading plan uses a eight bar moving average, okay? It has a repeatable entrance trigger. I'm gonna show you that formation in a second. A trigger to enter on. It's got a defined strategy, okay? And it contains a complete contained trading strategy and it's customizable. I won't get into the last part so much here except for that's part of what the nuances are. I will say that if you go to the discipline, if you go to, I'm sorry, simpletradingplans.com, you'll see the three trading plans that we offer right now in a package for different kinds of markets. What I'm gonna show you today is a fourth one that I've developed over the last few months that I think could be better than the others. I think it is, maybe it's because it's the most recent one but I really, really like it and I think you're gonna like it in about five minutes from now. Because when you, in fact, after this, when you go home, when all of these, when the speakers are over and you start looking at this simple trading plan on charts, you're gonna want to sign up and be a founder of this because it's very inexpensive and I want you to be part of this because the release comes in June of this year. I mean, next month, June, is the launch of this particular simple trading plan, Loaded Gun, but I want you in before so that you can play with it and work with it and give me some testimonials that I can share with other people. So I want you to be successful with this and so that it can help in my own market. It's selfish. But you're gonna play one third of what everybody's gonna pay less than that. So let me show you what the trading plan is. Okay, here it is, here are your rules, Loaded Gun. First of all, the analysis that we're using is the analysis that we're applying is the exponential moving average set to eight, not nine, a lot of places have nine, 10, seven, eight, eight, eight, eight, okay? The trigger is a two candle setup. I've kind of mentioned it, a doji followed by an extended candle that closes above or below that moving average, okay? So the two candle setup, the doji followed by the extension that crosses the EMA, okay? Here are some clear examples of what I mean by those particular extensions, the two candle movement. So you have a doji, this is almost a doji. A doji is where it's totally equal. Again, I'm assuming really that you know about candle sticks and that the green bar means that the close is above the open, red means that the close is below the open, but open here, closed here and these, the wick, the stick below and above the horizontal line is where the trades occurred outside of the open and closing range. So here you've got, this means indecision. Here we opened at a certain place. We didn't range very much even during the day and we closed about where we open. They can't decide what to do with this market. Well, the next bababoon, they have made a decision and a strong decision. This trigger I find could be the best trigger around that I've found. And so I like to take advantage of this trigger. Okay, that's a buy trigger. Here is a similar version of the trigger. It's a little bit bigger range. I don't like this a whole lot, but the fact that it's got a very long tail on one side. If this is on the bottom of a run, the market's coming down, you've got a bottom of a run, you've got, this is almost a hammer. Strictly, this wick on the top wouldn't be there for a hammer. Thor would never accept this as a hammer. So I can't, but the idea is that it's a very small body and it shows indecision followed by a movement, a dramatic movement higher. Now I'd like this movement, I'd like this bar to be more dramatic. I would definitely like it to be more dramatic, but I can't, I don't, I can't have it any more dramatic than this because that's the way life is. So let me take that away. So, but the fact that we are coming off a long candle makes this more meaningful, the pulling away from the candle. It's kind of a formation that the market may be reversing. If this formation crosses the eight person, if this, the eight bar formation, then I'm in. Here's a cell candle, same kind of thing only on the cell side, small indecision followed by a dramatic decision. What you got to watch in a trigger like this is that this doesn't create too much of a risk because if you're taking a short trade based on this trigger, you're putting your stop above the formation. Okay, in this particular case, you're putting your stop below the formation, below the formation. So you've got to measure that because markets can reverse and take you out too and you don't want this stop to be below your tolerance level. Okay. All right, so here's an example of a setup crossing the eight day moving average. Here's your eight day, eight bar moving average. You've got a trigger here, small body extension followed by your extension of the move. But here's again, here's the perfect version of it. Doji movement here. When I see that, I move my stop from here to up here because now I got a new formation, a trigger formation. If it breaks this trigger formation, I'm out. So I used a repeated, that same repeat formation to move my stop. In addition, again, I'm taking multiple positions on the first extension, whether it be here or here, I'm taking out one position out of two. Let's say I do the minimum of two positions. I'm taking out here and now I'm managing the final position. Okay, I'm managing the final position and the exit strategy tells me the rules say if I get two closes over this line, two close on the opposite side of the line, that second close, I'm out. So I don't have that happening here, but I do get a chance to move my stop from here down to here because I see the formation again. All right, so the loaded gun exit rule again is when two bars cross on the opposite side of the EMA. So you wait for the trigger. If the trigger, which is the doji and the dramatic bar, cross an EMA of eight, then you're in the trade and then you put your stop in at the top of the formation and then you ride the EMA as long as it'll take you until two bars cross on the other side of it. Okay, let's take a look what that means. Here's a perfect entrance on, this is a S&P. Okay, here's a beautiful, this is the daily chart of the S&P.  So now you're in here with two positions. You're putting your stop down here. Market starts to move higher, moves higher and you're taking out your first position right around here about equally distance of here, probably taking it out here. Now I got one position I'm managing. No, I didn't cross the line, but maybe it did. I get, I zoom in and I'm really strict about this. I zoom in and yeah, it looks like it did cross, but I need two crosses, no, we're back over. So now I'm, two crosses in a row, I should say. So here's another one, here's one cross below. Here is another cross that was actually below. So you're out of the trade here, even though if you kept it on, there's a nuance that would keep you in that I've explained to the founders. But here is, you would have missed this, but that's fine. We had a nice big trade. Here's an interesting, I don't like this signal for two reasons, even though it would have worked out. One is that the risk is very, very big here because it's a big candle and this is not enough in decision for me. You'll see this plenty of times, so you can wait for what you want. Look at this, here's one right here that didn't turn out, small body, even though it's not as small as I like, big candle, stop up here, riding it down, nowhere to take out that one position. One close above, two close above, you stop that at both positions right here, so you're taking the loss from here to here. So that didn't work out, but you've got a scheme to limit your loss, okay? To keep it within your own range. Let's keep going. Here's one that is a soybean. Love the soybean, you'll notice that certain stocks, certain, Japanese yen, I just had a really nice trade because some of the currencies, Japanese yen been following this. Look at this, repeating the pattern many times over. I mean, it's amazing. You gotta watch it, but sometimes these patterns can lead to exhaustion when you see this. So I'm very careful when I see sideways movement after our trigger. But the first trigger usually doesn't, hey, I got four here, but again, follow the rules. Trigger, sell two, nothing, do nothing, do nothing. You're looking for closes, two closes above here. You've got your extension, you're getting out of one of your positions here. You're holding onto the second position or for the last three positions, if you have five or whatever it is, you still don't have a closed boom. You may, if you had five positions and it took out two here, maybe you take out another one or two here. You're keeping it, it's keeping going, it's keep going. Here's your, you got scared here two days, but it didn't, here's a close above, close below, close above, close below. You're still in it. You're still in it this entire time. Unbelievable, tremendous. So this is the loaded gun. And I'm saying to you that when you get rid of me today and get rid of the other speakers, but not before you listen to them, check these outs on your chart and you're going to see that this is the beginning of something big. And I've developed some nuances that makes this even better, okay? Here's a gold trade that I can't really expand with the format I'm using right now, but you can see, here's a small trigger here that got you in all the way down. And it happens, I did this because you can see the trigger in many different time frames. This is a screen I trade off of. Here's my, you can see I had a nice profit in this particular trade. And I got in over here, here's where I got in. This looked like a, this was a shooting star-ish looking thing, even though it's not at the top of a run. And this is an expansion, but I've already, this is a dramatic, the moving average is moving down nicely. I got in here and this was the profit that I had at this point. And this is on a 15 minute ticker, okay? So you can see, here's a four hour ticker and you can see the formation. It's a very, very powerful formation, but here's the entrance formation. Here's where you're getting out of your first position. Here's where you're managing it. He got scared as hell, but you're looking for that second close and you never got it, still in it. So take some patience, and when I take this profit, I move my other stop to break even immediately. Didn't mention that, I should have. Anyway, I just wanted, I need to make you an offer here because the loaded gun simple trading plan is something you really need to have and I'm gonna almost give it away to you here. I'm doing this in three classes and you'll get access to all of the launch stuff when it's launched officially, but I'm doing three private classes, 10 traders per class. Loaded gun trading plan explained is the first meeting. That's gonna be on Monday at seven o'clock, the last week of this month in May. The second class is Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Monday, I'm gonna explain in great detail over a full hour, hour and 15 minutes, the loaded gun trading plan in total explanation. I gave you some of it today, most of it, but I need to slow down and really emphasize certain things. I'm gonna give you a new on sheet. There are not, I'm also gonna give you the simple trading plan on one sheet of paper after that first meeting. Now after that first meeting, if you're not impressed and you don't think the money that I've taken from you is not worth it, I'm gonna give you your money back after the first meeting if you don't see it from there. I've had nobody's ever asked for any of the money here on any of the simple trading plans. So you won't be doing it, but that's my offer out there. The second meeting on Tuesday, the last Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., all of these are recorded, okay? The nuanced sheet, where I explained all of them to really even, and the list is growing as I just got a new nuance from one of the founders who's working with us and having fun with the system, said, hey, you know, I've noticed that I did this, and I'm making it a new one. So I've looked back now, it's about to be a new nuance. So you're helping me on this too. And then the Q and A at the end. So I explained the loaded gun, the nuances, and then Q and A in the end. And then we have follow-up meetings a couple of weeks after, a few weeks after. I wanna, you'll always be the founders. You'll always have a special place, okay? And it's 10 people, and it's on a platform where you can see my face, I can see your face, we can talk about it. You don't have to see your face. We can, we have audio back and forth. We can really get into it, because you need to understand the plan. It's very simple, but I need to emphasize certain things about it. It's gonna be released to the public somewhere between $9.97 and $14.97 for you, for the founders, $297. It's next to nothing. Listen, I'm not belittling $297, but what people pay for trading plans and things that are complicated and don't work. I'm doing this because I want the testimonials and I want those people who recognize, it may be you'll need a little experience recognizing it, but once you start looking at what you trade, you're going to say to yourself, whoa, this thing, this thing can work. It's what, you know, let me get into it. Let me, so do it now, because it's, I mean, take action now. I'll give you the link. And then again, if it doesn't look like it, you know, I'll give you your money back. But again, here are the exact dates, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. The last Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, they're all at seven o'clock. They're all being recorded. So if you can't make it, if you're in, you know, if you're in Beijing, you can see the recordings of these things. And you'll have access not only to the recordings, but all the other launch stuff after it's launched and you won't pay anything extra.  Okay, for the loaded gun founders, it's 297. That's the link. simpletradingplans.com forward slash LG, LG for loaded gun. Okay, simpletradingplans.com forward slash LG. I, please take advantage of it. I mean, simple is good. And I've been around decades and the more complicated you make it, the more you're gonna hit your head against the wall. Simple is good. But the plan of saving, keeping what you've earned in the trade, keeping your stops moving to defend is really what you should be concentrating on. Use a trigger that worked and I've showed you one here, but that's not it.  I wanna show you how to defend so that you can keep the profit that you make. Okay, that's it for me, Fausto. I really, as always, I always appreciate you having me.  Thanks and thank you everybody for coming.


The Atlanta Falcons improved to three and three on the season with a 28 to 14 victory over San Francisco at home last weekend. Welcome to the Falcons Ottawa presented by AT&T. I'm Derek Rackley back, all three of us in the studio. Although as an Atlanta fan and resident, I think we're a little bit bummed that you're in the studio DJ because that means the Braves are out of the playoffs because they should still be playing and you should be off chasing them around the country. But you know what they say, it is what it is. It is what it is, man. I just knew we were going to be out traveling. We'll see you guys to be on Zoom again. I know how much you guys love and enjoy that. Look at this face. He hates it. But yeah, man, it's tough for the Braves, man. Not a good year. Well, it was a good year, but it didn't finish it well. Didn't play well in the postseason. Anyway, but we got DJ Shockley. We got Dave Archer again. I'm Derek Rackley. We're going to talk about Falcons stuff here. How about we do that? Because at the end of the day, this is a Falcons podcast, not a Braves podcast. What are we going to talk about today? We're going to talk about Marcus Mario to showing out. We're going to talk about the Falcons playing three-phase football, offense, defense, and special teams. And then we'll look ahead a little bit on what it's going to take to beat the Cincinnati Bengals, who also come in at three and three this season. So without further ado, guys, let's get a headline reaction. How would you, Dave, describe the matchup against San Francisco, the win against the 49ers at home in a headline style? So you give me one line. Is it one word? Is it one word? It just depends on what kind of writer you are, because if you're a good writer, it's one line, it's succinct, it's to the point, and it's like, bam, get their attention. If you saw me play with the relationship I had with the writers, yeah, no, no, no. So no writing for me, but what I would say is my word would be impressive. I would go with impressive, and the reason I would say impressive real quickly, not to steal any headlines from shock. Yeah, yeah, chance of that. 14-nothing you jump out. They close the gap to 14-14. How many times have we seen everybody go, oh, start running for the aisles. They've reeled us in, and then boom, you go back down to get another touchdown before half, and go ahead and take control of the second half. Impressive. Like it, impressive. DJ, what you got? Can I say one thing before I give my headline? I know you guys may have- What if I said no? I'm probably gonna say it anyway. But I wasn't here last week, so I'm sure you guys covered it, but I wanted to make sure that I give my guy Arch's flowers from last week. Oh yeah, calling them all solo. Calling them freaking games solo. That was awesome, man. Appreciate it, man. I mean, I thought about that spot, I was like, man, that'd be different, but Arch crushed it, so I just wanted to make sure. I gave my dude his flowers, right? Nicely done, nicely done. Hopefully we didn't turn too many listeners away. What? My mind would be Falcons continue to prove physicality in win. Okay. All right, so I thought- Long headline. It's, I got a long paper. I like that, you know. Yeah, he got that like, 11 by 17 style. No, not, no, not. The old paper, the old one. Everybody got their own style, so that's what it is. All right, guys. Good, and I'll give you mine real quick, and I'm gonna say Falcons have an identity and they stick to it. That don't fit either, right? That don't fit either. That one too long, took my identity. There's just one comma and stick to it. Like, I thought it was actually pretty good. It's good. Why you come back?  Cause you was with Arch on my title. Like, you got all your shooting cannons at us, Arch. I just wanted to know. You was on Arch's side, that's why. Both y'all's stuff is getting shortened down by the editor, that's what you know though. The editor ain't letting them headlights pass. Dave was like, you gotta learn from me. It's just called impressive. All right, so Dave, talk about it. Let's talk about impressive. Let's talk about Marcus Mariota because it's inside of 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter when he throws his first and only in completion of the game, right? And what I think, and I'm talking about my headline, is have an identity and stick to it. What does Arthur Smith and his team decided that they're gonna do? They're gonna run the football and they're gonna throw the ball enough to keep it honest, but not put Marcus Mariota in this offense in a situation where he tries to do too much and makes the critical mistake. So what was so impressive that you saw in this matchup last weekend? Well, I've been talking about this guy for several weeks now. Anybody that's been watching the podcast here, and we appreciate you by the way, I've been talking about how this guy is a good player and that he's doing a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff at the line of scrimmage to change things at the line of scrimmage. He has reads on zone read. He ran for a touchdown on a zone read. His RPO reads to pull and throw. And then when he does get an opportunity to get a full pattern route, and he's not getting a lot of these now, guys. A lot of people are kinda compare him to Patrick Mahomes and all these guys that are just dropping and throwing it all over the yard. He's probably getting somewhere, he had 14 throws in this game, he pulled it down probably two or three other times. So let's say you got 20 opportunities to throw the football, pulled it down five or six. He's probably getting somewhere in at eight or nine, maybe seven full pattern routes.  Most of these are two-man routes. A lot of times they're one-man routes, Jack, you know. So to that end, to go 13 or 14, and I would argue the one miss is he threw it away. It was third and short, third about five, tight coverage threw it away, tried to preserve the field position there. So I think he's playing at the highest level. Play the game for me, can I say that now or do we got something later? Absolutely, bring it. I didn't read the script, so my bad. Before the half, before the half. No question about it, the run by, where he pulls it down, only DJ Shockley and maybe one other guy could have made that run, but to knife through and get 16 on a third and 12 when he was dead in the water.  He had a guy free in the pocket. He made a guy miss in the pocket, made a guy miss at the second level and split two safeties to get the first down. That was a ballsy play, no question about it. Heck of a run, he had what, 50 yards rushing and sprinkling with his passing. That's pretty good. He mentioned that DJ and maybe one other guy, but we had another guy here on the show a few weeks back, Michael Vick, that I'm pretty sure could make a run. Yeah, that was the other guy. I couldn't think of the other guy's name. Okay, that was the other guy. I've seen him convert a couple of third and 12s on his own before as well. DJ, what stuck out to you is some of the key plays or maybe momentum shifters or impressive as Arch talked about from the game on Sunday. It's interesting, Arch bring that up because that's one of the plays because today, before we do our pockets, always do a breakdown that people can watch on linefalcon.com or YouTube. And that play on third down was one of the plays that I pointed out is they want a stunt. They had a stunt from the defensive income loops all the way around and they do a good job of kind of sorting it out but there's pressure in there and he has to make a move like Arch said and move over and picks up the big run. There's so many things that I think people don't really understand that he does in a ballgame that helped his team win. Arch talks about changing plays.  I think the other part that people feel to realize and it would never come up in a stat sheet is toughness and his ability to stand in there and make throws. There was a throw in the Tampa game where he throws an out route to Drake London. He's got Devon White coming screaming right down at him on a free run. He stands there and delivers it. Drake London catches for a first down. There's a play in this ballgame. I'm not sure what down it was, but he hits OZ across the middle and it comes from a stunt. He has a guy beaming right down on him again but he stands in there and delivers a strike to OZ across the middle for about a 15 yard game. Those are some of the plays that you never see on the stat sheet that never really comes up when, you know, you're looking at ESPN or you're looking at highlights but that's something that his teammates can see on tape every single week and say, we know a guy that's tough enough to stand in there and make the throws. And then there's another part that I think is interesting that goals kind of, people don't even really think about it is, they about how much stuff they do pre-snap and then how much stuff they do post-snap with motion shifts. And he has to be the guy to get everybody lined up, make sure everybody's set, make sure everything happens. And then when the ball snap from all the pre-snap movement, he has to make sure and see what's going on on the outside because the defense has to change as well and the ability to make quick decisions off that I think is really, really important. Arch talked about some of the RPO stuff he does, seeing it and then just being a better athlete. I mean, San Fran on that touchdown, they had it played. They had the dive covered. They had the DB sitting outside waiting on Mario to, he just outruns the guy. That's kind of stuff that, you know, it's hard to teach, you just got to have it and he's playing some of the best football.  And he was five games in coming to this one. Dude's still trying to get his mojo going. He's still trying to figure out, all right, what's going to make me successful? And I think he's doing that. And he's kind of found his rhythm. We all got a chance to watch the game, but sometimes it's like you look back at it and you see, okay, starting quarterback through for 129 passing yards and two touchdowns and they win this game by two touchdowns. So it's like, how do they do it, right? So some of the things you guys talked about individual plays, sometimes I like to take a step back and just think about like the most important parts, okay? Why did they win? They ran for 168 yards and they held San Francisco to 50, okay? Couple that with winning the turnover margin three to zero. Like you can sit here and talk all about this new age of NFL football, throwing it all across the yard. If that's how you run the football and that's how you are in a turnover margin, you're going to win a lot of football games, right? And I would bet you that if Arthur Smith cannot kind of draw it up, he would say, yeah, this is what I want. I want us to be able to win the running game and to protect the football, take it away on defense, right? Not only that, guys, let's flip it over to the other side of the ball. Because what I was impressed about was we go into the fourth quarter arch, right? Get a couple guys banged up, okay? In the secondary, right? And they know, and they're going to start taking some shots down field. So then what happens in the fourth quarter? You get Darren Hall with a next level pass deflection on IUQ when they try to take a shot down the field, right? And then the very next play, what do we get? Deflection, interception, right? So there's always this talk about next man up mentality, but you just never know what's going to happen. Tyrell goes down, Oliver gets banged up for a little bit, right? Hey, word. So these guys are not only getting a chance to perform, Dave, but they're coming in and they're making big plays that are becoming, that are really pivotal in the outcome of the game. Absolutely, I'm glad you brought it up, Rack.  Okay, who's at corner? D. Alford. Well, D. Alford had been playing nickel since the middle part of training camp. He hadn't played any corner. All of a sudden he's at a corner, because case he's out. You mentioned D. Hall. Darren Hall comes in for AJ Tyrell. Now Mike Ford slides into the nickel because you see Isaiah Oliver leave the game and you're going, wait a minute, okay, I got a Chehu's 28, you know? You're trying to figure out. The thing that was impressive about it was not so much that different guys were on the field. You mentioned the play on Euk's deep post route. Hall goes up with the right hand, bats it away in a perfectly played one-on-one setup. But go back to the play where he creates the interception. They're running post-deep over, okay? And he's playing outside technique on the post route, looking back to the inside. Okay, how many reps has he gotten in a week to get ready for that? Okay, probably not many because that's been AJ out there playing that spot. They sprinkle in a few reps for some of these other guys, but not nearly as many as the first team gets. And here comes Debo Samuel on an over route.  That to me is well-coached and then from a player well-absorbed understanding your responsibilities because he could have come in at either corner. He could have been on the other corner. He's the next corner in. De offered's not the next corner. So if Kasey'd been in, he'd be on the other side of it. So he wouldn't even have seen that. That would have been going away from him for him to be in the game for AJ and to play it that way, phenomenal by just the coaching and then having the guys being able to absorb it. I mean guys, it's like, DJ, how many times do we see when you end up having to go that deep in the depth chart, especially at the corner position. It's like quarterback starts licking their lips, right? Like we're gonna go take a shot and it ends up happening and the offense makes a play. But he steps in there and then not only that makes two excellent plays that could have really turned the momentum around in the game, right? So you've got that. And then the other thing I wanted to mention and it didn't really result anything in the score book but was their four minute offense at the end of the game, forcing San Francisco to burn timeouts. They actually don't get the first down. They have to pun it away. But it was like they did their job.  What else stuck out to you defensively? Cause this is not all of just an offensive game. Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable. You're looking at the fact that those guys did not blink. They got in the ball game and in those moments, you're talking about corners who, you know, you're standing over for a long time and you haven't really had the opportunity to get your adrenaline going like that. Maybe you've been on special teams, you've been doing some other kind of stuff. But to be in a position where you got a youth who's had a really good ball game and you have him on that deep post, how many guys in that spot have we seen panic and get a PI? Yep. Or how many guys we see in the moment, Arsh talks about with passing things off that you're actually so locked in that you can see that and then be able to break on the ball and make a play and not have a PI or being in a position that's supposed to be, those are things that gives you a lot of things to be excited about when it comes to this defense because regardless of who's in there, guys are doing their job. And the other big thing I saw on both sides of the ball, nine to 14 on third down for the offense, three of eight on defense for San Francisco. That means for one, you're staying on the field, you're doing a good job of getting them off the field. And early in the ball game, the Falcons were in a lot of third and two or three. And late in the ball game though, they had some seven and eight, nine that they had to convert and did a good job. But the third and 13 Arsh talked about, that's one. And then on the other side, you know what Debo Semi is about. You know, Jimmy Robbler doesn't really throw the football to a lot of people. And for you to force those turnovers, there were a lot of different looks that DMP's put into this ball game that I thought Jimmy Garoppolo was holding it. He was looking, he was searching and it was hard for him to find open guys. So give this defense a lot of credit for playing the way they did. This is a team that's tied for fourth in the league right now in takeaways, one off the lead. I mean, that tells you a lot about what this team is doing right now and being able to get after opposing offenses. Let's talk about a couple of the young guys on that side of the ball too. Troy Anderson gets the start at linebacker. He had 13 tackles in the game. In fact, he had a huge tackle on special teams where he ran the returner down to prevent a score there. And then how about Arnold Ebecati? He continues to come. He got a sack taken off of the board because of a holding penalty on Lorenzo Carter who was beating the daylights out of Kittle trying to get off the ball, which was another story in itself. Just the physicality, they put some of those guys that are kind of finesse players through. Kittle being one of them. They beat him up pretty good. But give Ebecati some credit too for getting around the quarterback. I felt like Garoppolo. I talked to Arthur Smith on Monday in our coach's show and I said, was it just me or did I kind of had a feeling as a quarterback? You kind of sense it through the guy that's playing. He felt uncomfortable the whole game. It just sensed that he just wasn't settled. And I think it's because of that rush and it's not getting home yet. I know the fans, I know you want sacks. I think it's coming, but this is a group that makes a guy feel uncomfortable. I thought Brady was uncomfortable a few times a week ago. So just to throw a couple of guys in there, Ebecati and Troy Anderson, a couple second round picks that are getting it done. Yeah, and you mentioned Anderson on special teams making the tackle, DJ, I think it's another area. Like generally, when we've been talking about special teams, it's Yong Wei Ku, right? Like he ends up making the kicks that the Falcons need to either get in a game, win a game or something like that. But it's not, it's Avery Williams. Like Avery Williams stepping up and making some big returns. This close. It's looks like it's gonna pop. Exactly, right? Like his value to this team, right? Guy that used to be a defensive back. Now he's getting snaps at running back, but he's still a legit return and he's doing his job in that role. Not turning it over, number one. Number two, getting some returns that are helping give them favorable field position. And that's the number one thing is giving your offense maybe one or two extra first outs. He's averaging 17.8 yards on punt returns. He's averaging 24 yards on kickoff returns. And you're talking about just changing the field position. Sometimes we always talk about that with punters, you know? You pin them back to the one with pinion there with an outstanding job. He kicking them high. He's doing a great job of that. But also on the other side of it, giving your offense a couple more first downs. Starting them out instead of, hey, your fair catch is on the 10 yard line. He's making a couple guys miss.  That's great starting field position for your offense. It gives your office a coordinated ability to say, okay, we're not backed up. I can call my regular offense so we can get this thing going. So that is a hidden, hidden gem for the Falcons having a guy who's aggressive for one. Cause we've seen the last few years where we've had some guys who just want a fair catch it, which is okay. But now we got a guy who is not afraid to catch it and make some guys miss and get a feel and start their offense in prime territory. Shock talking, hidden yardage. Right? There we go. Head coach him. I don't know, man. There may be a future for you. Look out. Real quickly, let's just stay on special team. I know you love this, Rack. You might have the two best gunners in football. I mean, Mike Ford, every time the returner looks up, Mike Ford's standing right there. He's unbelievable. And how about Kaderra Hodges? You mentioned pinning at the one yard line, played it perfectly. He's another guy that's outstanding on the edge. You got two guys with pinion, banging it the way he is from the point. That's a weapon. And the hidden yardage shocks talking about those two gunners getting down there. It's fun to watch.  It was nice to see him just kind of look back, make sure I'm not in the end zone. Here you go, guys. You can start with this on the one yard line. So yeah, we talked about the three phase performance. And again, some of the players that we talked about, some of the stats that we talked about, you're gonna win games in the NFL when that's how things end up shaking out. This episode in part, brought to you by the Home Depot. Everything you need for your next home improvement project is just a tap away on the Home Depot app. The Home Depot app digital toolbox gives you access to how-to guides, project calculators, and image search so you'll know exactly what you need to pick up. With the tap of the finger, you can rent and reserve the right tools for the job. Also, browse through millions of items from top brands that you can have delivered right to your door. Whatever your project, find exactly what you need with the Home Depot app. Download the Home Depot app today. So let's look ahead now. And it's interesting guys, because I had to remind myself when the Falcons bi-week was, right? Because now's the time when NFL teams start having their bi-week, right? So it's like, okay, what do they need to do before the bi-week? Not Atlanta. Bi-week ain't coming for a long time. It's gonna be December until we start talking about that. So what do you do?  So they're gonna face the Cincinnati Bengals this week. They're coming off a win against the Saints when Joe Burrow went 28 of 37 for 300 yards. So Arch, let's just talk to me a little bit. Talk to us. Talk to them about the Bengals, what Atlanta's gonna see, and what some of the areas that are gonna be the key areas that they gotta win in order to get another victory. Well, this is a multiple offense. Burrow throws it all over the yard. He's got three guys. T Higgins, Tyler Boyd and Jamar Chase are phenomenal outside receivers. Chase had the 60 yard touchdown late in the football game that won the game in New Orleans for him. By the way, Joe Burrow shows up with the national championship, Jamar Chase in New Jersey. I don't know if that was a nice touch on his part. Last time they were in that building, they won a national title. So that was pretty cool. So when you start thinking about their attack, Joe Mixon, good running back. P Rhin's a good running back that comes off the bench. This is a talented offensive skill position group. Therein lies some of the issues that Cincinnati has problems with is the offensive line's been a little bit leaky. And I think that they've been leaky some this year. They were a sieve a year ago even though that team made it to the playoffs. I think he had what, he was sacked like 10 times in the playoff game, in one playoff game. Still won the football game. That tells you how talented they are. But this is gonna be an all day fight for the back seven of this. You're gonna have to try to find some pressures which Dean P's will with a multitude of different guys coming.  And they may all be ones. They can all play. And my worry, and I'm just gonna go ahead and throw it out there. My worry is, okay, if you get in a game that's a track meet, can you play that kind of game? We have not had to do that. Our run game and our defense has kind of kept us in games, kept them somewhat low scoring, 20s. If it gets into a track meet, can you do that? Here's one thing I'll say. Just let's just review some of the Bengals games this year, opening the season 23-20 overtime loss, right? So they didn't light up the scoreboard there, arch 17-20 loss at the Cowboys three point game again and then 1917 loss at the Ravens. Okay, so three of those games all decided on a field goal or less and they did not light up the scoreboard in those. However, some of the games that they did win 27-27 and 30. So they do have the potential there. Atlanta saw a team in Tampa that has three really good receivers. So it's not like this is the first time the defense is gonna see it, DJ, but you figure if they're gonna win, they gotta stick to their same game plan. They've gotta have success running the football and Marcus has gotta go out there and play a clean game. Doesn't have to necessarily be 13 or 14, but he needs to not turn it over and if he has to throw it away because it's tight coverage on certain occasions, throw it away, live for another down, live for a punt. I think both of you guys bring up some awesome and great points to this ball game because when I went back and looked at it, I was looking at those numbers and the three losses by a combined eight points. That tells you, guess what?  You're gonna be in a ball game.  It's gonna be one of those type of ball games. And then you think about some of the guys in this ball game and you mentioned those receivers. You think about how Joe Burr wants to throw the football around. Looked up some numbers. He's targeted T Higgins and Jamar Chase 101 times in six games. So we're talking about those guys on the back end. We have to be ready. Well, guess what? You know they're gonna throw it. You know they're gonna target those guys. I mean, Tyler Boyd's got 300 yards himself. So it's gonna be interesting to see how we go about attacking Joe Burr. Because guess what? You mentioned you've been sacked a lot. 21 times this year, fourth in the league. So this offensive line is susceptible to it. And we just talked about we want more sacks. We want to be able to get out of the quarterback. So maybe a game where you can do it because they've done it in, you know, all their ball games. So it's gonna be one of those type of games where how do you go about attacking this Cincinnati offense and defense, but you have to make sure you do similar thing that you've been doing. And I think running football has been key for us. You talk about getting into a track meet. Well, the number one thing to keep a team like that off the field is you're running rock. You keep the ball. You possess the football. I think we've done a good job of time possession the last few ball games making sure that we, you know keep the ball away from whoever we're playing. But that's just the end more of this team. I think this is a team that's, that's designed to be able to get in your face, mall guys get downhill and then after the game go have a few beers with the fans.  You know, you have some fun with it. I wonder if they'll let them in the suite in Cincinnati. Could they go in the suite in Cincinnati? Have a beer with those guys? No, it's such a, such a great thought about the way they've run the ball. And guys, you thought about, okay, Tampa really pretty good against the run. Okay. And two of the better linebackers in the league and Levante, David and, and Devin. Yep, see two more next week. Then you went the next week and you went, okay, pretty good D line leads the league against the run couple of pretty good linebackers Greenlaw and Warner pretty good players. And you found a way to get those guys blocked. And they were playing a ton of eight man box. They play single high safety shock. You saw it whenever they went too high. They had no, they had no answer. So they rocked the safety down and they still didn't necessarily have the answer. The one thing I would like to say about the O line, let's give the O line props. You talked about that. What I like about the two young backs is it's almost, they run the ball almost to pay homage to the offensive line because they run violent. They run like the O line blocks. And I don't know that I've seen that in a long time where you got guys that kind of mirror their offensive line. Hey, we're coming off. We're fighting, we got doubled. And then all of a sudden here comes the back and he's running the same way they're blocking. How crazy is it that there were times in this game where there was not, maybe there wasn't anything there. It could have been a negative yardage run and these dudes find a way to get two, three, four yards or fall forward.  You guys know this from our old time days when Alex Gibbs was there, right? Alex Gibbs always used to say, find me one, two or three yards. Like I will never forget him fussing Warwick done up and down. You better stop dancing. If you don't get North and South and pick up two or three yards, right? And I think sometimes DJ to your point, that's a lost art. Like a lot of running backs wanna try to do something fancy. They wanna do something spectacular, heroic and make somebody miss. The linebackers and DBs in the NFL are too good, right?  But if you can grind it up in there for two or three yards, keep on schedule with the change.  You've got some chances. I saw Warner step in the hole this week outside. He's as good a linebacker as there's in the league, right?  Steps in the hole and Tyler Algier, they're one on one. And he tries to drop the hammer. Algier runs right through him. And Warner laid on the field for a while.  It was BYU on BYU crime, by the way. But I mean, unbelievable the way the two backs run with that ferocity. And again, it mirrors their guys up front. You know, we talked previously about AJ Terrell coming out of the game. Arthur Smith said that he didn't expect anything major. I didn't know if there's been any developments but he was saying that they need him back on the field for Cincinnati. No doubt. And hopefully that ends up being he's gotta has a good week because he's gonna have his hands full because they're gonna take some shots down the field. And we got one that's really good in AJ Terrell. Real quick, let's talk about the division, of course. Falcons three and three, guess what? Tampa Bay is three and three as well, right? New Orleans with that loss to Cincinnati last weekend. They're two and four. And of course the Panthers, they're in a rough spot right now at one and five. They're kind of reel in, go in the wrong direction, fired a coach and everything.  They're tied at the top of the division right now. It's not a bad place to be. A lot of football left to go. A lot of football left. But at this point, there was, if you talked about some of the national pundits out there, the outlook was not good for this season for the Atlanta Falcons. And so far, they're taking care of their business. And you're talking about being in a spot right now where you're at the top of the NFC South and you're playing the way you're playing.  They're kind of fun to watch, you know? They're in every ball game. And they play a style that's different than a lot of teams.  They always bring it to everybody. They got the number one ranked defense. And you go out and rush the ball 40 times on them. That's a statement. So I think this team is in a very good spot. I remember we all talked about it before the year started. This team was gonna be a lot better than everybody on the outside said. Now, true enough, we had a chance to be out here a lot and watch this team. But this team believes in each other and listening to the guys talk to Arch after the game, there is something inside that locker room that they believe in so much. And you can see it definitely transfers over when they play in the ball game. And I'm still waiting on Arch to put on the shades like they're at home at all. CP had them on a couple of weeks back. They had them on, didn't he? There we go, man. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. That's it. There we go. Well, let's talk about it. The thing that I thought stuck out about this week was there was so much conversation about Grady Jarrett and the play that was taken away or whatever it was or wasn't. This team didn't miss a beat. They just stayed with the task at hand. Let's move on. Let's move on. What'd they do? They moved on. They moved on and dominated the football game in three phases as you talked about. Tall order this week, but hey, we're in first place right now. Shiny, baby. Shiny, baby. We talked about physicality running the football, too. I think the fact that it's still happening in Cordero Patterson is the same way, guys. Like he's a former wide receiver, but he's bulked up and he will run through some people. So hopefully they get him back in two or three weeks and he can add to another phase of this game, as obviously he was a big part of this offense. So that's going to do it. We had a lot of fun. These episodes tend to be a little bit more fun when you've got a lot of good stuff on the field to talk about. So, hey, boys in the building over there, that direction. Keep it going. Let's keep it going. That's going to do it here for the Falcons Audible presented by AT&T. Thanks so much for joining us. 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