The key things that I want to accomplish here is to show you a little bit about the program, but I also want to introduce the importance of interacting with the clients. So we're working with computers and equipment.  So let's go ahead and do that. I recruited a volunteer. Can you come join us, please? Oh, we switched up on me. Okay. Good. Okay. Good.  So things always work out. I'm going to need to just get you to slide over enough here, so this computer monitor is not going to be for your watching. Julianne. Julianne, hi. I'm going to put this on your ear. So let's get a little bit of background. Ostensibly you're here for something, and you can make it up if you like. Okay. But what we're going to do is measure your sympathetic nervous system, and I want to begin to teach you how to keep that in a nice balance, because most of us are overalls, and there's two parts to our system. There's our sympathetic nervous system, and our parasympathetic nervous system, if you think of a car.  So in life, we don't want to be driving without our parasympathetic nervous system, helping us out along the way. So what would be something that we could talk about that... Yeah, my quick elevator story would be a former All-American athlete. And eight years ago, I did a brain injury in a car accident, and I've been in therapy ever since. Okay. So I have autonomic nervous dysfunction, especially in the visual motor area. Okay. So there's a true physiological component here. I need to be respectful of that. So this is like Diana was saying, don't just charge in. Okay. So what I want to do is say that anything uncomfortable that you feel, we're going to stop right away. This is not a no pain, no gain scenario. Okay. The idea is to help you be more relaxed and to feel calm. Oh. Sorry. Good, good. All right. So to help you feel more relaxed and calm, not uncomfortable in any manner. As a side note, if somebody has trauma and may feel too relaxed, that could be a very uncomfortable condition for them. So that can actually lead to anxiety and sympathetic arousal. So without knowing enough about you, I want to be very careful about that. So I'm going to take a few more stops and pauses in this and I normally might. Okay. I actually did this once in a presentation and the woman almost passed out on me. And she was like, oh yeah, I have had a lot of trauma and so I've learned to ask a little bit, not just think everybody in the room is perfectly normally adjusted except me. So what we're going to do, I just want to see your best relaxation for a few minutes. So I'm just going to take what's called a baseline and I'm going to take some measurements. This shouldn't hurt you. I just want you to do anything you would normally do. Don't try to do anything different. We just want to see how you relax. And so what I've done is I've... Oh, can't find the center. Easy fix. You never want to get panicked when something like that happens in front of 40 people. Stay calm. Do your own heart rate variability. And so I'm starting to look at things already and this is a measurement of her pulse using the HeartMath program here, taking a baseline that's disturbing to get back. So HeartMath uses what they call a coherence ratio. That's over here. And it measures in low, medium, and high is their terminology. And you want to be in high coherence. You want to have a nice high amount of synchronization between your physiological system and, of course, it can drop to medium. And then also go to low. So right now, doesn't this look... Oh, but you see what happened? Changes are happening. So you start out and she's 100% in the green. Now, she's also got me in the background talking and I'm talking about her, so there's distractions and that's going to change things, but isn't that perfect for our demonstration? So we see changes that are happening. These red lines are a break in the recording, meaning something physiologically happens that interferes with getting a true recording. Now that could be anything from a smile to it could be hyperarousal, it could be tension, but it lets you know something's going on. When you have your equipment set up, ideally I can't do that here, but I want to have it set up so that I can be like this, so that I'm a coach, not that I'm just taking measurements here and looking and I don't care about what's going on over there. So... Am I supposed to stay still and not talk and not smile and all of those things? Well, you're doing your best relaxation. So whatever's relaxing for you, okay? So if you would be in a stressful situation, if you're upset, what would you do in order to quiet yourself down? And I'll just give her another minute. I usually run this for three minutes because you see a lot of changes happen. We saw she started at 100% in the green, but then that changed again. We can take into consideration why that changed, but let's pretend this is a clinical situation because these changes happen anyway. Okay, Hartman has what they call a power spectrum. Essentially, what you want to do is measure there without getting into a lot of terminology. We're just going to stick with the Hartman terminology for here so that I'm not switching back and forth. But we want to measure somewhere in this light blue and you can see this jumps around and this is looking at the ratios that we talked about earlier where if you have a very low ratio, that is usually an indicator of stress. Likewise, a high ratio and now things are settling down here and moving into a more stable realm, the realm that we would like. And look what's happened with her breathing. So their measurement shows a very nice rhythm of heart rate variability happening. Remember, the Barriflex records first, so there are going to be changes in what she's doing that there's going to be a delay from when the Barriflex records that and sends that information to the brain and we see a change ultimately in blood pressure and heart rate. So this can look good before we actually see a change in the coherence ratio. Alright, so we're looking at very nice, she's stayed nice and stable so we're going to stop that and you can take a break and that actually ran a little bit long for somebody that I'm taking a measurement of I would have wanted to check in with her how are you doing, everything okay, it would be good to continue, I would have been watching you a little bit more closely making sure. And what I would have been doing is watching the rhythm of her breathing at the same time. So I'm watching is her breathing happening up here, is it happening down here in her belly? How quick is it happening? The last person I measured did three seconds of breathing in and eight seconds of breathing out. So we knew right away that we wanted to make a change on that. A lot of people will say, oh yeah I read about this and I do this in yoga and it's supposed to be six seconds in and six seconds out. True, that's the average but what we're looking for is your ideal. So that's the beauty of the biofeedback here. I've had plenty of yoga teachers come in and I'm like we could really improve that and I think you'd feel a little bit better. So can you see over to there? Yeah. Alright, so now I'm going to do a little bit of lecture about heart rate variability. Good, alright. So what we want to do today is work on something that's been going on for ages and ages back to when we first started to understand human physiology and think about it even if we didn't have the terminology that we have today we were aware of the fight or flight reflex that we have and back in the time of the caveman this was a very important reflex to have. It meant survival or not. Caveman's walking along looking for food and a bear jumps out they have to decide am I going to try to get dinner or am I going to try to save my life? We still have that same physiology. We have not evolved very much in our brains in that regard but we do not any longer have bears jumping out at us so not responding to an email might look to our brain like a bear. It needs to respond. So let's just understand a little bit about how the heart and the brain are connected. I'll talk to you in a moment about the vagus nerve but first let's understand whose job is what. So who is responsible in our bodies for our nervous system? Do you think it's our minds in our brain or our body and heart? Yes absolutely. And what about what controls our neurotransmitters? Where do you think they are controlled? So we've got a smarty pants here. A lot of people will start out with saying neurotransmitters brain and then organizing incoming information they'll think the brain but yes your heart helps with that too and you can start to see everything. We're educating a patient you're better than the average patient so we want to be clear that the heart is not a metronome it doesn't be there are chambers and there's a rhythmic process to it and that's what we want to do is we want to find your ideal rhythmic process and then see if we can interpace that with the rhythm of your breathing. Those variations are important to us that's what allows us to be as adaptable as we are and so we're going to be taking some measurements and ultimately what we want to do is see measurements that look nice and smooth most people can look at that and see that that just seems like a better thing than that and when we get frustrated when we get upset when we get worried when anything happens that we're activating our physiological arousal we are at risk for losing that interface in our system so our goals today are to understand how it affects your body hopefully, again you would have come in with maybe less understanding than you have so hopefully you already have some improved understanding of that we're going to learn how to control your personal heart rate variability my goal is to get you to learn something today so that when you go home you feel like you can practice it and practice becomes a very important component of this like with anything else we can do it once or twice but if you don't practice it's not going to have the magical effects that it can have there we go we're going to have to practice let's talk a little bit about how heart rate variability affects the body the vagus nerve connects the brain stem it swoops all the way through your body and connects to your gut your whole body is connected via this largest nerve in your body so if we look here it connects all of our organs and we're going to look to help teach the brain the vagus nerve how to be more resilient and how to keep itself more quieted so we've got the whole overview of our nervous system and when we are activated when the nervous system when the brain detects that there's something that puts us at risk our body becomes sympathetic and start to activate our organs into our fight or flight reflex so things will happen our pupils will dilate things if you look at these do any of these things happen to you as a result of what you've been through? we've got accelerated heart rate some people feel that I'll get an accelerated heart rate I'll have sometimes a slight urinary incontinence that just makes no sense because I'm not sneezing or coughing or anything yeah the gut stuff a lot of people will feel their anxiety and how do you know you feel anxiety I feel it in my stomach so here what you want to do is help people identify how do you know you're anxious if I came from Mars and I never heard of anxiety but you're telling me you have some anxiety or you have some loss of control help me understand where that is in your body yeah and mainly if I'm really anxious my voice, my throat constricts and then I can't speak anymore so I usually carry it more up here in my chest and I'm actually a lifelong asthmatic so I don't know if that's been a factor of my whole life in my asthma I actually really do have asthma it's kind of a question I ask now so you have a lot of nice awareness about your physiology and that's going to be really helpful and that'll help us to be able to measure how this is helping you a lot of people don't have a way of knowing if they feel better but you're so in touch with yourself that we'll be able to tell what kind of changes you experience you might even feel that today you want to give a little bit of a suggestion I expect that this is going to happen look at how good you are at knowing yourself somebody as good as you is going to feel a nice effect sometimes depending upon the level of the person sophistication with you I would talk about the amygdala and how the brain stores information and how it likes to access that file people with chronic pain that's an important concept for them to understand that with chronic pain the fight or flight system the amygdala is super activated it wants to protect them alright so now I don't want her to see that so we took the baseline you're good you're good so I wanted to tell you a few things that I'd like to work on now she actually did very well so I want to ask her rather than tell her how did you do so well what did you do to relax yourself well initially I didn't I thought I was going to see something on the screen so I kept waiting and waiting and so I was just but then when you started talking I was like oh I guess I'm not going to see something on the screen so that must have been when I changed that I was like I'm just assuming I changed because you said so and so then I that made me anxious like I'm not going to get to see what's going on and then when I asked well what am I actually supposed to be doing here again then I just closed my eyes so that I could just shut out everything else and I didn't try to intentionally breathe for some reason I have I have trouble with that oh you did very nicely with it so close your eyes that's an important piece of information when you close your eyes if your brain is well adjusted your alpha should increase okay so people whose alpha is not regulating don't close their eyes they don't like it so that already gave me a little bit of insight so we'll see if we see that when we get to the neurofeedback as well okay but I like hearing that I like it when somebody likes to close their eyes and so you did a very nice job of relaxing yourself here what we're looking at is the rhythm as measured by the sensor that we have on your ear developed a very nice pattern there's a little tiny hiccup in there but that's okay nobody's perfect where you know what we want to do is get this to be if we could get this for all the time that would be super good so what we want to do is get a nice measurement of understanding how long do you like breathing in how long do you like breathing out in order to achieve this so I'm going to have her teach me first before I start teaching her and ultimately what we want to do in addition to those beautiful waves that you made is we'd like to get this peak to shift over to here a little bit okay this peak if it's quiet or if it's low it's telling me that your mind is a little bit talking and that fits with what you were telling me you were thinking about a lot of things while you were relaxing and again it's a demonstration but this is something clients will have too I was thinking about if I was doing it right or I was thinking about why I can't do it they think about a million things so we want to get this just this peak shifted a little bit so let's do it again and I'm going to watch your breathing a little bit better this time and I'm going to let you see the screen and all we're looking for is to make nice peaks and valleys like that and after we collect a little bit of data we'll watch where the peak is there it will move unlike what now we're just an average so we're collecting, we're just getting a reading and if you look at this over here I usually count to myself so one, two, three one, two, three two, three one, two, three so the out is a little bit longer but that's okay just without there you go nice and I think that's happening because you're making that breath just a little bit longer a little time a bit longer let's keep watching I can see she's got nice belly breath going on so that's good as you're breathing in the air is going all the way to your belly which I like and could you put your hand on your belly so that you can feel that because when you're at home practicing that will become a form of biofeedback for you oh isn't that lovely let me see the red because I had her move so that's not a problem we don't care about that I made that happen and let's have you put another hand up on your chest and see if we can create a little bit less movement on the chest and bring the air all the way to your belly so if you could imagine for instance that there's a balloon in your belly and as you're breathing in you're filling up the balloon and as you're breathing out you're emptying the balloon so the air goes all the way to the belly and then breath out I'm actually making it harder for you I know if I can not put my hand there okay if I touch your bottom hand let's take a break and how does that feel it's going to feel a little different you usually don't breathe with me holding on to you therapy where they try to retrain my breathing and breathing was one of the one of the first things that they do is that I had a brain injury so I wasn't breathing correctly or whatever correctly okay if you light-headed so it's just hard but you the coordination of it if you actually feel it's actually got to be that I could feel I could feel that I could feel that that was actually okay and do you know it's hard to do and especially if you have other intervening variables that are definitely making it harder for you if you can do this laying down so if I were in the office I would have her lay down and I might put if it's a kid I usually put like a stuffed animal on their stomach or something adult maybe a box of tissues but when you lay down it's easier to get that air into your belly so when we tell people to practice at home practice laying on your bed practice doing this before sleep I think what I'm doing is I'm feeling is instead of coming out I'm feeling to go out to the side I think what I'm feeling is that the belly breathing is not so much coming out this way it's coming out to my sides versus here it may be because I'm sitting up like it's not a familiar feeling to you so it's a change and that's how we're going to get really good at this is to see changes happening so I don't want you to feel unhappy that you're feeling it at your side that's much better than feeling it up here yes so if we can get it to the side there's no reason we can't get it to the front in the future it takes a little bit of practice and one of the things that happens is once we have established a way of our patterns of physiology they're going to take a little bit of nudging to break so that you already made a change that's terrific and I think the sitting up for me is wanting to engage and it's probably a protective thing it's like okay there's a whole bunch of people out there I've just sort of armored up a little bit here so to get it to go out towards the audience it's like it doesn't want to do that at all let me ask you this do you have a busy mind or a quiet mind? very busy she knew that right away okay not everybody knows it who doesn't know it are the people that have quiet mind so raise your hands raise your hand if you have a busy mind see how fast that goes raise your hand if you have a quiet mind okay and raise your hand if you don't know you have a quiet mind okay people don't know how anxious they are till they feel less anxious and people don't know what a blessing it is to have a quiet mind until they don't have it so with a quiet mind person you can do things like start to engage emotional experiences that are pleasant so HeartMath actually wants to teach you to teach your clients imagine times where you felt appreciated imagine times where you felt really good and calm and connected busy mind people turn that into a nightmare they'll be like okay yeah I can remember the time I went on vacation and I felt very calm and I haven't been on vacation in a long time and I got to start looking at my checking account because I haven't balanced that in a long time and they just go up and run away with it don't do that with busy mind people don't give them that task give them a task like imagine your organs being connected and as you're breathing I taught you about the vagus nerve I just want you to think about your organs only your organs and then ask is that something you feel like you can stay with if not imagine a whiteboard you've walked into a classroom and the board is totally clear you're sitting down you're going to work on relaxation but anything that comes in your mind is going to get written on the whiteboard and erased your job is to keep that whiteboard clean that's your only job and that keeps them busy okay because their thoughts come in they write them on they wipe them off if two come in at a time they have to wait their turn one at a time wipe it off I will do the counting for you so let's do this one final time and here we go again I'll do the whiteboard yes now you're going to do your best relaxation I'm going to take the microphone from you again I'll hold it for you we light the hand on your chest and your belly so go ahead and let's do that and we've got that nice count that was working well I'll count it with you in two three out two three and if it works for you breathe in through your nose as you're doing and knife out through your mouth imagine there's a straw in your mouth you don't have to blow hard just let the breath come out through the straw I'm going to rest my hand on you again two three two three keeping the whiteboard empty and fill the balloon you have two jobs and only two jobs the air is going past your heart past your stomach all the way down to your belly there you go all the way down passing the lungs in the heart the belly when you're ready you can take a break tell me how that was for you the whiteboard was impossible oh too many thoughts we didn't like that I just couldn't even I couldn't even see in my mind's eye I saw this board I couldn't really see myself am I supposed to be sitting in a chair in front of this whiteboard do I go up there do I get up every time when you started queuing me into my organs that was much easier okay so good so we're going to work on the organs you could see if we want to look at her history she actually did worse than she did on her own let's pull up a quick history right because the more I try to think about some task yeah so there's her first one all by herself we see some nice coherence in there and then the second one pretty good but that was there's some physiological disturbances in there the sensors just not even reading third one not so good there's her whiteboard and there's what she figured out on her own okay and we need to let our patients be our teachers there is not the way to do things our job is to be coaches we have a student we have someone we're coaching and we're helping them find the best way for them to be successful so hopefully that now this is an amazing lesson because many of my providers have tried to get me to just empty my mind and be in touch with my body but my habit is to be a thinking you know I like that's where I'm comfortable that's where I think I'm comfortable but evidently I'm not like I can see here I am not my best state for relaxation so it's a you've just demonstrated to me how I must change this pattern break out of what my perceived comfort zone that how false it is so what do we do with this I'll take this off thank you we practice this is not going to help you if you don't practice we we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of practicing being over aroused so we have to put many hours into stabilizing our arousal not hundreds and hundreds and hundreds that's the beauty of things we can learn them the body likes to work efficiently when it learns to work efficiently it's going to hold on to that so I the research on this is 20 minutes twice a day that's what improves heart rate variability I have had about five clients in 15 years that would practice 20 minutes twice a day don't do it they just don't do it but if you can get somebody to practice three times a day for three minutes a day now you're starting to have an impact and people will come back and say oh I was having a fight with my husband and I tried to do that heart rate variability and it didn't help of course not you've got to get good at it first you don't like go to the pool and jump off a high dive before anybody even taught you how to dive off the side of the pool so we've got to practice and then we'll go to the high dive and take this into a real life situation that was a great demonstration it was you're going to feel disturbed for a little bit do you have this program or do you have a the program itself is not expensive at all a couple hundred dollars like I said the app on the phone is very robust so I wouldn't shy away from that the sensor cost about 150 dollars so what can you add to that I would like to add that thank you very much it was a great example and I think it really fit perfect what we want to teach it today because when we talk about breathing and respiration to our clients the other day I was telling my client okay we're going to learn how to breathe I said oh yes I forgot to do that all day right I was like yes it sounds so simple it sounds so ridiculous it's something that we do all the time but learning to breathe properly to self-regulate is a whole other another page that we have of the background that Angelica explained us so you need to educate the patient to understand the importance of doing it and you saw that even a simple physiological function can be very hard and for people that have some trauma experience it's very difficult it's extremely difficult to focus about the breathing to connect with their body and as Angelica said we need to be the coaches there is not a way there is no one way that we will work with everybody this is why you need to have very good supervision and mentors that can help you to go through case by case and of course you will adopt your experience but yeah there are some people that if this is not working even that you start building up it's baby steps one another this is why we have other physiological training that we can add find that could be easier to begin probably somebody will be easier to start just with temperature skin conductance or the opposite we usually try to integrate first some techniques of biofeedback and then neurofeedback but I have lately some patients that there are studies connected to their body that it's so hard for them to identify their physiology that I needed to start with neurofeedback so then we could go down to train biofeedback so it's really very individual and you need to you will learn a lot with each of your patients and your clients so it's not as easy as it looks and you need to get the proper training and support to help to help people but that was a great demonstration so now we want to demo an neurofeedback session who here hasn't seen a neurofeedback session who hasn't who has not one person the rest of you haven't seen a neurofeedback session and I know they are streaming live so probably some people outside here they would like to see how it's a session so we will do a very fast demo and I know you have a lot of experience some of you but we just want you to demonstrate how it's a session, how it's a different equipment unfortunately I don't have my equipment with me so I will need some help here using this equipment that I'm not familiar but the bases are the same this is a good moment to talk about different equipment and how you can decide what equipment to use many people just call to ask what type of equipment you are using if you have a successful as a successful cases a successful practice thank you that means you have the right equipment right and we are like no the equipment doesn't make you better clinician the equipment is the least important it needs to be a successful clinician all the equipment everything will do more or less the same everything you find in the market will do more or less the same so have different graphs different games different things but the bases are exactly the same so the equipment won't make you better clinician your training and education will make you a better clinician what side okay so Juliana we don't know what is going on in Juliana's brain right so I need to be very careful what I try to do even for a demo practice so I'm not going to do a real training right now because we don't know how she can respond but we'll do we'll run like two minutes a couple of minutes session so we can understand a little bit so we I will that's my my orientation I will prefer to have a brain map I have the brain map with me I have my full clinical intake including medical records when we're talking with somebody outside in the break it's like how important is to know the medical background of the patient to understand is something going vascular something that we don't know and we have risk to use this instrument so you need to have a full medical records to understand what is the medical history risk medications very important what type of medications they are using so we have everything integrated and we decide the protocol okay for this demo we decided to train set over the somatosensory cortex in right in the center of the of the scalp and we need we always use if this is one channel training is the most simple protocol and we always need to have at least three sensors connected to the patient so we have the active electrode the active electrode is the one that is connected to the training site okay the location where we're going to do run the training then we have the reference and the ground okay the reference is the other channel the other electrode where we're going to read the brain activity okay this is electrical activity it has to run from one side to another right so we need two spots where it's running and we are reading the electrical activity and you need the ground so Arthur is helping me to prep the skin this is very important to have good connection we need to make sure the electrode is well connected to the scalp we're trying to measure very tiny activity right so all these conductive paste and sensor are helping us to amplify and to see a big signal so we are able to train it so we really need to make sure that the skin is very clean we use a proper conductive paste and the proper supplies to have good connection it's very important to do this properly we need to explain the patient that there is a procedure sometimes hopefully not could be uncomfortable rubbing the skin until it's very clean and we try to connect are you okay? okay so right now she's all set up she has her active electrode her two reference this is a device that the reference go in the mastoid on the back of the ears okay there are some equipment that use reference on the ears or could be somewhere else in the body but this is a more typical the ear electrodes or the mastoid electrodes so she's all ready and we are going to try to read her brain activity can we just see the raw signal without training just to talk about it yes? okay so we're not training right now okay so I can talk about what we're looking to the screen okay so this is what you will see most of the equipment they will show you what you are going to train right so this is the raw EG signal and then they have the different bands here so they divided the different bands so you can clearly so when you have the raw signal the first thing you want to see is that there is a real and clean brain activity and real means that we don't have electrical activity in the environment that can contaminate the signal or of course the natural artifact or contamination that is movement, eye movement, muscle tension and some physiological functions that can interfere with the brain activity so we need to understand what to read that, how we are looking at so this is a whole six months course to learn how to read an EG and how to identify artifact and how to identify if it's real activity or not but if I ask Julian that she needs to be relaxed and calm and try to do this with your eyes open or eyes closed probably closed so you don't see anybody this is a whole other subject about training with eyes closed, training with eyes open there are some people for personal reasons that prefer to do it with eyes closed eyes open this is why when we record that QEG we do it with eyes open and eyes closed this is one of the reasons why we need the data eyes closed as open but also it helps us to identify what would be more efficient to do the training with eyes closed just for the demo and we'll ask her to close her eyes when she closed her eyes when the patient closed her eyes it's much easier for us because then we won't have artifact of the eye or at least a little bit less there are some people that when they close their eyes they have eye fluttering but it looks like she doesn't have much fluttering and she has a little bit of eye movement not much really so now the next thing is ask her to relax and I know just saying this can be very difficult so people just try to relax and then the opposite so you just make them feel comfortable try to talk them softly try to help them to find the comfort zone and try to guide them in the best way so they can actually relax so you have to prepare them you need to know very well your patient to help them to find a comfortable state where they are as relaxed and when I'm talking about relaxed I'm talking about muscle relaxed I will talk about later mental relaxation but right now it's important about muscle relaxing you need to have the proper sitting for the patient there are some people that feel more comfortable sitting straight, there are more people that recline a little bit can be comfortable I definitely prefer to have some support to the shoulders so there are many people that carry a lot of tension so just being a little bit supported help them to better relax so help them in that to find the best position the best sit and then probably the hardest is helping to relax their face their jaw it's very easy that they get tense here and being tense from the jaw it's very easy to contaminate in the temporal lobes they get that evident because we are up here so we won't see that evident but if you are training in the temporal lobes and they are tense here it's very hard to have a clean session so actually many times when you are training on the temporal lobes the first sessions are just helping or teaching them to do to learn how to relax their jaw or probably you will start with the MG value feedback and teach them how to relax their jaw or how to jump into P3D4 training so actually she is doing pretty good in being relaxed now you give them instructions about helping them to find the mental strategy to have a successful neurofeedback session and this can be a whole lecture about mental strategies what they have to think about it what they have to focus about it what they need to try or not try about it and you can explain in different ways depending of the patient but really this is not a cognitive task they don't have to try cognitively anything or voluntarily anything they just need to get the brain get the conditioning and go through the session for many people this is very hard to get they need to try something they need to have the control of the session they need to understand what they can perform better so sometimes just the first 3-5 sessions is helping them to find the mental strategies so they can leave the brain do their job give them a specific instructions sometimes it's not very helpful ok so giving them a specific instructions about imagine you are in a very relaxing space you are in the beach you are with your pet you are in a warm space it could help them to in the ideal world is try to give us less instructions so they can figure it out their own mental strategy Eddie Dulliver he is in University of London doing some research about phenomenology of neurofeedback and he has a very nice study where he put 3 groups one group he gave instructions please pay attention the screen second group try not to pay attention to the screen just try to think about your ongoing day what you are going to do after here tomorrow the third group didn't give them any instructions whatsoever just sit them there leave them alone who do you think perform better which group perform better or learn better the third one they figure it out by themselves so this will be in the ideal world but of course we cannot just hook them up we need to give them some information so I I give them this information actually the same that I just told you this study and I tell them I need to give you as less instructions as possible and you need to figure out your mental state okay you will have the visual cue you will have the visual and auditory feedback this is something very important that you need to consider when you are running a neurofeedback session you want to make sure you have an accurate visual and auditory feedback this is operant condition and training and your brain needs to understand when he is in condition or not okay so this is why we are getting some with super entertainment neurofeedback games right of very busy with visual cues and auditory cues or just leave them the video without very clear feedback so you need to find what is the most appropriate screen for your clinical objectives and for your clients as well right because there are many preferences there are people that really get engaged in some type of screen if it's a children of course we need something a little bit more entertainment so they can actually sit and perform something but really having just a green light with a beep this is as efficient as having these very fancy video games and graphs we are just sitting with an ADHD kid with a green light and a beep they will come back after one session right so just try to address the screen that really fulfills the operant conditioning the learning procedure and that your client feels comfortable and you can give them the options and you never know we have these puzzles with pictures right and let's say landscape pictures in a forest and then my client is so anxious in a forest environment so they are getting worse if I shove the forest no forest so we need to ask depending on your options I have this, this and this what do you think you will like and you will feel more comfortable and you like it better so these are all the things that you need to consider but I am talking not much but well you have here your raw signal you have your different bands and then you have to choose your protocol right based on all the information that you are gathering the most conventional protocols you try to inhibit some frequencies and you want to reward some frequencies the brain learns better and faster if you tell them what not to do right the only inhibition protocol is not that the brain won't get it but it will take it longer to understand so you always want to tell them you cannot do this but you need to do that and if it is a reinforcement protocol it is okay for you to do that but try not to do this you always need to have the inhibition and the reward for the learning purpose so the learning procedure happens faster and better so you choose here your inhibition bands and your reward bands that I don't have idea how you choose it here but here, here okay okay okay right now she is training there is no feedback there is no feedback hopefully so did you see how we have the three bands inhibition and the reward and every time here, okay so Juliana is seeing nothing because she has her eyes closed do we have audio if the patient is going to do it with eyes closed then she needs a very clear auditory feedback so the brain gets one sensory pathway to learn so yeah probably if we don't get the audio okay but let me explain here you have your band this is also visual cues for your patient you need to explain that these two bars we need to have it underneath the threshold this bar is a reward band so you want it to make it larger and bigger so this is a visual cue before you start running the training of course you need to explain here what is in the screen so they need to choose what they can pay attention or not so they have the three bars and then what happened in the picture nothing Christian are you more familiar with Nexus you use it more often could you come up here please just to get the right screen to come up in terms of that's audio audio that screen what volume I think it's actually for eyes closed okay so the audio is having like a relaxing music the volume is switching it's alternating so the volume of these it's conditioning to if it's in targeting and getting the thresholds in the three bands simultaneously for a certain amount of time then she will get increase of the volume right if she's out of condition she won't have the high volume so you explain this ahead of time okay so the audio it's a little bit low but basically with eyes closed this is the feedback the audio it will be louder or lower depending on the condition and you just let them find their mental strategy if they can actually achieve the feedback and just to give gentle reminders about being relaxed and about being alert right when they are with eyes closed it's very easy to get in a drowsy state and go to sleep but of course we want to make sure they are alert and you can read that in the raw signal if they are getting drowsy you will see more higher data activity slower so you can bring them back to be in alert state and be focusing the music and the sound okay I want to stop now here I'm going to stop because I just don't want to do like a real training we don't know what response she can have but well yes no okay but she's no and I mean I'm glad everybody most of you have done a session but I think just to have a little bit more of details or ideas and I know every clinic has their own tricks to help the clients and the patients to perform better it's very good because this is learning we need to give them feedback about the session right somehow or another and and you can show them the raw signal and show them what was the amplitude through the training if the session was not as successful try to give them yeah you show them the data but try to give them positive reinforcement you were trying it's a process you will learn it eventually it's a matter of continued learning and try to encourage them to keep doing it some people when you give them negative feedback they feel very bad they say well I cannot even learn this I'm going to fail they try to be very sensitive of how they can address the feedback and information but it's part of the session to give them feedback of how they perform and of course if they did modify the frequencies in the direction we want this is a big big positive feedback and encourage them to keep learning and we will talk this afternoon about what you do around the session how you need to keep progress how you need to keep your nose how you need to continue the relationship with the patient and all that that is very important during the session thank you very much a couple of things that brought to mind prior to getting into this profession I was a dialysis clinic social worker and it was impressive to learn about clients or patients rather that after a transplant would develop an affinity that the donor gave or provided so an affinity for peanut butter all of a sudden after their surgery and they come to learn that the donor had an affinity for peanut butter an affinity for chess and they never played chess in their entire lives but after they got this organ so all that to say that there's more and more evidence becoming apparent that we hold memories not just in the brain but throughout the body and so doing the bio feedback so that it doesn't hijack the brain is so important it's been important for me I'd like to tell clients, my own clients a simple way to describe it and I'm relatively new to this field versus some of the top brains here about three years but maybe I can bridge the gap between the general public and the more experienced folks I'd like to tell my clients that it takes about this much energy or this much yeah, this much energy for you to get through your day successfully but if you're using this much energy to hold some of the tension, some of the distractions or coping skills that you're not fully aware of then you've got this much energy to deal with this much day and it just doesn't add up so doing these types of exercises and making this a bit less where we're not coping unconsciously or maybe even legends in our own minds about what it is we're doing towards solving something but all we're actually doing is creating tension that it just broadens your horizons it's a beautiful thing I hope you enjoy your lunch we'll need to be back here promptly at one purchase the lunch we have them available for $15 for your convenience it's also kind of a donation to the organization they're available by the food area and so please enjoy and we'll see you promptly at one


Hey everybody, how you doing out there? Lee Lowell here, smartoptionseller.com Today is Saturday, November 6th, 2021. Here we go again. Yes another Saturday synopsis What do we do? We look at charts I try to take my 30 years of trading experience and give you some ideas of what I'm seeing on the charts what I'm looking for and Where I expect or hopefully expect stocks and the index is to go in the future as an options trader it is paramount it is extremely critical that you have an idea of Where a stock may be moving to next if you're going to be trading you need to know or have a decent idea of where the stock is going and The way that I do it the only way that I do it is by looking at the stock charts the charts Give me all the information I need all that fundamental data about a company whether it's their earnings You know the revenue the dividends PE ratios all that stuff gets reflected on the stock charts because all that information is Factored in and when that information is factored in stocks trade for a certain price and You can see those prices on a stock chart and stock charts can tell you can give you hints of where the company or the stock Price might be moving next that is what I do that is technical analysis And I'm here and I make these videos for you to try to help you become a better trader to help you understand and see How technical analysis? Aka chart reading could help you become a better trader because if you know where a stock may be moving to next you can make higher Probability trades now. There's no guarantees in trading not every trade is going to work out not everyone's going to be right but if you want to make higher probability trades then Learning how to read charts learning how to read where a stock is moving to what patterns They're making how they interact with technical indicators can give you a huge leg up in becoming a better and more profitable trader So I make these videos try to help you out try to give you an idea of what I do for a living basically and and what I'm looking for on my charts so Sit back relax for you know half hour or so however long these videos are usually and I'm going to walk you through what I do what I see and what I'm looking at when I look at a stock chart All right, so let's just jump right in If you've been with us for a while This is a very familiar screen. This is my e signal charting platform a lot of people ask me What do I use what you know what what platform to use what charts do I use? So I go over some of that information first I try to tell you you know the the company that I use you know What indicators I use and then we just go from there So this is e signal these signals been around for a long time You know we're 20 close 30 years Maybe they are data vendor data provider of charts and quotes for stocks commodities options all that all right So we open up the chart And we always look at the S&P 500 first because I feel that's the the best measure of the market as a whole and many People feel that way as well a lot of times you'll discover and I say this each week When you have enough people looking at the same things it sort of becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy whether you whether you believe in that or not It happens so everyone I shouldn't say everyone but a good portion of the people that track the markets think that the S&P 500 is like you know the king of The overall market and I feel the same and what we do is we look at the SPY Which is the exchange traded fund for the for the S&P 500 trades like a stock can get in and out All day long and it just mirrors the movement of the S&P 500. It's just one-tenth the size Okay, so we look at the SPY and what you'll see on my chart here is this is a daily bar chart a daily Open high low close bar chart Okay, and I can open things up. I can widen out so you can see Each vertical line here each vertical individual line is one day's worth of trading and it has the the open of the day Which is signified by a little dash mark on the right side of the bar The top of the bar and the low of the bar signifies the the high of the day and the low of the day for that Stock and on the close it has a little dash mark on the right side of The bar you can see right here this little bar. It's got a little dash on the right side. That is the closing price of the day Okay, so these are daily open high low close bar chart bar. It's a bar chart now some people use candlesticks I don't use candlesticks. We can easily change it to candlesticks. So these are candlesticks I don't have the red and the green colors that typically signify whether it's an up day or a down day I just use one single color and it's the open high low close bars. Okay What else do I use? I try to keep things very simple to help me understand where a stock is going to move. I have three Moving averages on the charts. I have a 20-day simple moving average a 50-day simple moving average and down here is the 200 day simple moving average and when you change lengths, this is One minute charts one minute bars. Okay, people that are hyperactive people that trade intraday use One minute bars to help them gauge how to get in and out a lot of times during the day so each vertical line is one minute worth of trading and the Moving averages become they're called period moving averages. This is the 200 minute moving average 50 minute 200 moving average and 20 minute moving average So when you change from a minute to daily charts this the moving averages are still based on 200 Units of movement in the case of my daily chart the 200-day moving average is based off 200 days worth of Trading on the minute chart. It would be 200 minutes worth of trading. So just some people ask me about that So we want to clarify and down here is the 14-day RSI indicator that we use the default default numbers are the 14-day and what does the RSI tell you it's more of a momentum more of an overbought oversold type of indicator and When it gets the default if you put the RSI on your charts for the first time the default is the 7030 lines It goes from zero to a hundred, but the default you have these horizontal lines here is 7030 meaning if it gets up to 70 it's considered overbought down to 30 it's considered oversold Well, I I move those out. I'm up to 80 and 20 gives me a little bit more width or height I should say to really show some extreme overboughtness and oversoldness and So I've I over the years. I've figured out the 80 20 levels are pretty good and When something gets overbought or oversold it doesn't necessarily mean this the turnaround is gonna happen right then and there It's just more of a warning guide that hey, you know flashing things are getting overbought Just keep an eye on it or if it's oversold keep an eye on it because a turnaround may be coming soon Okay, so that's it. That's all that I use the RSI and three moving averages the rest of my The the rest of the way that I figure out where stock might be moving next is based on patterns and Things like this just chart patterns, they're called. This is a W pattern. We got triangle patterns wedges All these things that you can find and use you can look online You can do a Google search for chart patterns and there's a website that I that I tell people about called chart patterns calm that will show you all these things you got channels and W's and symmetrical triangles and ascending triangles ascending wedges is all these things that will show up over and over again on a chart and they typically Produce the same results. So as you look at charts over the years You'll find these patterns that happen over and over again in human nature doesn't really change. So the results typically are the same I Mean I've looked at hundreds of thousands of charts over the years and these patterns creep up time and time again And they they pretty much have the same results. So if you're good at spotting patterns It will help you With your profitability of trades. Alright, so let's take a look at what the market has been doing Let's talk about what I've been seeing showing you over the last few weeks of these videos Now we always like to look at the SAP 500. Like I said For the last, you know, almost about a year now Almost a year that the the market had been in this nice slow uptrending very safe easy uptrending channel beautiful slow moving Upwards chart great, you know, if you're long the the market, this was a great year for you from last October to this October or September was great. What happened in September of this year? Right around September 1st This was the all-time highs of the SAP 500 right around September 1st We entered into this little down trending channel. Now. I always say this every week Stocks trade on momentum stocks move in a certain direction Until something changes that direction typically that could be an earnings announcement or some kind of big worldwide event like the pandemic But that that was over very quickly as far as the stock market was concerned So stocks move on momentum until something comes along and pushes it in another direction now I think Well, obviously you can see we've made all-time new highs again here But what was the reasoning for the stocks to go down for this six-week period starting September 1st? Everything was in a nice uptrend all of a sudden September 1st rolls around. What happened? Why? Considering where we are now. Where where did this? Why did this little pause happen? People ask me that all the time They're really To me there really was no reason other than seasonal seasonal August September and part of October typically seasonally annually Our more bearish is a more bearish period for the year August September part of October There really wasn't any other reason that I saw. I mean Covid numbers are still out there that that could be a thing inflation, you know, the US Federal's are Potentially raising interest rates though, but those that narratives been out there for a while But come September 1st. I think it was just more of the seasonal People, you know, we're scared of whatever and they were taking profits and Once we entered this downtrend and I drew the channel, you know, this is called a channel You can connect the tops and the bottoms and try to create this channel pattern a few weeks ago I was saying The until the market pops outside to the right-hand side here of this downtrending channel We need to be on caution because if we're trying to get bullish, we don't want to get bullish while the stock The market is making its down move within this channel. So Patience was key at that point, you know, you don't want to jump the gun But once it started to trade outside of the channel and started to move above the moving averages Then it was go time right around here When the S&P 500 was in the low 440s and then you can see look at this just just incredible power move the last few weeks Once a stock or index gets on its mojo It's off to the races because everyone starts to pile on because everyone's watching the same things if you learn how to spot These patterns just like millions and millions of other investors out there all looking for the same thing Once the market moves outside of the downtrending channel Everyone's watching for the same thing to occur and look what happened it just got powered higher and Everyone jumped on board and now we're at all-time new highs Friday yesterday October on November 5th. We made new highs didn't close on the high, but Made a new high so more all-time highs for the market. I think this is a good thing I'm bullish until the end of the year, but doesn't mean that we won't have pullbacks Through the end of the year, of course, we'll have a pullback Especially when you have a power move like this there has to be a little profit-taking you know gravity-inducing pullback because You're you're we're not on completely overbought area, but the RSI has certainly gone on a great tear higher and I I would like to see a pullback because The market's gonna keep going up But when you get these vertical moves up and that's when the down moves become violent and nasty I would rather have this nice slow uptrending movement in instead of this You know vert almost a vertical move up because then when the selling happens It becomes fast hard and violent and that scares people. We don't like that But anyway, this is what the market is giving us We have to go with what the market gives us so now I'd say maybe a little cooling off period could be Healthy let the moving averages catch up. Let the price action come down They'll meet in the middle maybe somewhere here and then that's the cue to get on the next Bull run to the next all-time high. So the S&P 500 looks good Let's look or I should say it looks it's had a nice powerful move. Let's look at the the NASDAQ Which is we look at the QQQ the triple Q's for our guide and same thing tracks the NASDAQ This had an even more powerful move higher the last few few weeks It all I mean It's the same as the S&P 500 but it seems a little bit more vertical meaning more almost straight up in the air And you can see the R size a little bit more into overbought area than the S&P 500 But it just had this power move and it came out of the down trending channel So right around here was the QQ to get in it got out of the channel got above the moving averages And it just gone on this tear So again, I'd like to see a little bit of a pullback get the moving averages to catch up and then move on to the next round Will that happen hard to say it's it's a higher probability that we might that we will have a pullback Who's to say it could happen in one day it could happen in a couple days We don't know but those are the things that I'm looking for and Let me just pull up this one website here for you real quick. This is the this is the The CNN money fear and greed index. I look at this every once in a while, you know, I see people write about this This fear and greed index is right now at 85 Which is is calling for extreme greed meaning when markets go pretty vertical like that You get this extreme greed reading where everyone's on board Everyone's buying and everyone's jumping on and everyone's long. There's no more short sellers out there So everyone's on one side of the market And you get this fear and greed index getting very high and that that should be a sign saying, okay Let's you know, maybe put on the brakes a little bit here just one month ago You can see we were at extreme fear down at 27. That was all the way over here So that was your key to Possibly by if you look back on the charts about a month ago. We're in November 5th November 6 now So October 5th was right around Right down here right at the bottom of the of the channel And that's when we were at extreme fear in the market. Everyone was scared everyone was starting to sell so right on The lower end here. That's when we hit extreme fear That's the reversal point Okay, so the market moves inversely to the to the extreme and fear gauge at extreme fear That's when everyone's selling you're typically gonna have a bounce that no one's looking for and up here extreme greed is When typically the sell-off would occur. No one's no one's expecting it So just keep an eye on these things these things. I want to talk to you about so we fit all-time new highs Then that QQQ got above 400 for the first time the S&P 500 That was got up, you know above it's 458 100 468 now, so we're hitting we're hitting good numbers. Let's take a quick look at the Let's take a look at the Dow Jones and see where we are with that. Give me a second here and Pull up the Dow Jones. Where's my Dow Jones index here? Open this up above 36,000 for the first time ever the Dow Jones was was more of sideways action We've been talking about this finally got above the resistance line here And it's off to the races just like the S&P 5 and S&P 500 in the Nasdaq Dow Jones Above 36,500 it looks like did we hit it or not? Maybe just missed it by a hair. Anyway looking strong looking for the possible pullback to to blow off some of this overboughtness and Then once it pulls back hits the moving averages possibly and then it's up for the next ride till the end of the year So markets that the general indexes look strong Maybe in maybe due for a pullback, but after that it should be the next bull run will occur All right, so I like I like how the market is embolished through the end of the year But I will take these pullbacks as opportunities to potentially Get in for the next round of buying and in our newsletters. We're looking for bullish activity That's what we do We look for bullish setups when a stock or index looks like it's you know on the pullback and ready to go up That's our cue to get in we look for the bounces off the moving averages look for bounces off support lines You know even look at that fear and greed index every now and again That's what we do. We try to time our trades For when we think the bounce is going to current and we've had we've done a few trades in in these last few weeks While the market's been going up and it's been working out pretty good for us So let's take a look at some individual stocks, which is what we do typically every week every Saturday And I'll usually look at some of the more popular Popular stocks that people have a lot of interest in Typically we look at Apple first one of the most popular stocks of Microsoft had eclipsed Apple as the most Valuable company just in the last week or so. So Apple's still sitting at number two right now So we have Apple around 151 dollars a share Just kind of in this Slow uptrend with a lot of fits and starts a lot of ups and downs It's it's it's not the smooth uptrend that we've seen in the S&P 500 It has big peaks and valleys. So that makes trading a little bit harder It's a little bit more of an emotional roller coaster with Apple or at least it's been the last year or so Here was all-time highs for Apple had the down move got its mojo back and we're out, you know, right here 151 dollars a share Apples in in an upswing definitely in an upswing, but it comes with pullbacks So you have to have patience if you if you're invested in Apple You just have to stick to your guns and know it's a great company But it's trying to get through all these fits and starts which can be aggravating at times But Apple still it looks good now. I think through the end of the year. It's just gonna keep moving higher But beware of certain pullbacks Tesla which we love to talk about because it's just gravity defying gravity defying We've talked about Tesla the last few weeks. I mean look at this look at this this vertical massive move From you know 850 dollars a share all the way up to 1250 you'd almost hit in just the last couple weeks That's just insane of a move been overbought Been overbought through this whole time the RSI. I don't can't recall Another stock or index that has remained above the 80 level on my RSI for this long of a period of time it is definitely overbought what the charts are telling me but It's still been going up and I said last week that the market or the stocks could do crazy things Longer than maybe your money could last if you've been buying put options and trying to short the stock here You have been getting burned badly right thinking Tesla's gotta fall at some time. I'm just gonna keep buying put options and trying to short this thing And you've been getting reamed. That's very scary very It's a tough trade I mean, yes, we we we know it's going to have a pullback at some point but Taking a chance and shorting the stock and just buying put options You could end up losing and people have been losing. It's just staying up here. It's very it's for me It's defying all the the the things that I've known about chart reading all these years So I personally have been staying away From trying to get involved in this now I still sell put options on tesla But way way way out of the money way down here 200 300 dollars per share very You know one week two week options because I don't think tesla is going to drop all the way down here, but I'm not long or short the stock or or doing any positions that That work with strike prices up in this area because it's just too risky You don't I mean it could keep going up or it could drop 200 dollars a share in one day We just don't know at this point, but it's extremely overbought. I like to watch it because it's interesting I'm trying to learn things from this But tesla just You know people have just been powering this this this thing higher So I can't make a call when it's going to drop. I just know that it is overbought it is Um still overbought, but there is some divergence here With the price action going up The rsi is starting to fall down a little bit. So that could mean the selling. I mean the buying is getting Very tired up here So eventually it's going to pull back at some point. Will it pull back all the way to here? Hard to say. Maybe we'll have a pull back just to the uptrending 20 day moving average don't know yet So i'm just keeping an eye on it because it's fun to watch uh, the value the most valuable company Is microsoft And microsoft has just been killing it Has been doing great. Also just following the index. It's just gone vertical all time new highs Getting a little overbought on the rsi as well So if you're if you're thinking about getting bullish microsoft My my idea would be, you know, maybe wait for some of this froth to come off You have a little bit of pullback and wait for it to meet up with maybe one of the moving averages So you can see how it has been hugging along the 20 day moving average for a while If it comes off, it doesn't stay below the moving averages for long Here it was in the nice channel had the nice movement. You can time the balance is pretty good But microsoft maybe a little overbought here. I mean the stock most stocks and indexes are are getting overbought here So it's caution Remember the the fear and greed index where everyone's everyone's on the the bull train right now Sometimes it gets a little overheated and needs a good little pullback. All right, so I want to just show you some examples. So verizon. I talk about verizon all the time. This is verizon And I love the company. It's a great and it's the it's the largest wireless carrier in the us I would love to get long Verizon but not while it's in a downtrend These are the things that you have to think about when you're looking for a trade and you want to be Long a stock or buy the stock Look at a chart first and say would you buy this stock if I didn't tell you what this stock was what this company was Would you be interested in buying this thing? It's just been in this downtrend And why try to buy this thing when it's not showing you a signal that it's time to to get long When The the price action shows me it's in a bullish mode. Then maybe I'll entertain the thought of getting into verizon Right now. No, it's in this downtrend. It's fallen down below the channel made a low here Could be making a double bottom here. I mean it was oversold here went up a little but now it's come back down Until I see verizon bounce above the upper line of the channel here And the moving averages start to curl upwards Then I may entertain getting long verizon that probably won't happen till at least 54 55 dollars a share. It's close to 50 It's at 52 dollars now. So a couple more dollars. It has to show me some price action Same thing we've talked about chlorox. This is chlorox still meandering down here in the lows Kind of sideways action until chlorox starts to get above at least this line here. Maybe above the Down trending 200 day moving average You know, chlorox is still languishing down here. I wouldn't get long chlorox yet either even though it's a it's a good company So that's chlorox. Um, what other stocks we look at? amd Another power player some of these chip stocks have done great this the last couple weeks look at amd was in this channel. I mean this triangle I thought maybe it was going to pop down below the support here But it found support and popped above The down trending line and it's just powered higher Same thing with nvidia if you've watched nvidia same sector nvidia has just gone vertical look at this thing I mean gravity is going to take over at some point overbought well overbought here Uh, it has to pull back at some point And I can't say when that will happen, but it will But how far will it pull back It's hard to say until the price action shows me it's pulled back Some of this has eased off off of overbought maybe bounce off a moving average Then I would consider You know getting long again if I was wanting to get long this particular stock So a lot of stocks getting very overbought making vertical moves higher It's hard to keep up this momentum up here You need to have more and more buyers, but when you get overbought like this The buyers are starting to dry up And eventually you'll have a pretty violent move down So just keep an eye on these stocks that have gone vertical All right, because the down move could be scary But doesn't mean the next bear market's going to happen It just means the froth is is being taken out and then it it's healthy And then it could get ready for the next run higher All right, so let's take a look at some other stocks that we have Um, I'm trying to see some patterns Let's look at snapchat Because we we did some action in our newsletter this week for snapchat I wanted to show you what I was seeing here So this is snapchat snap is the symbol And it had its earnings big down moving its earnings typically This is a pattern that I've seen over and over again. You have a big down move you have this This is where it closed one day. This is where it opened the next day You got this big long bar right here And it starts to make what's called the descending wedge descending triangular wedge Which typically will end up popping back up to the upside Once it gets to the apex of the triangle here And you can kind of see it's sort of making a little bit of a rounded finding trying to find the support But the thing the things that's tipping me off is that the rsi had come down gotten pretty oversold and as the price action was still Moving down to a degree the rsi was moving upwards. That's called the divergence Okay, where the rsi starts to move up, but yet it looks like the price action still sort of moving lower And eventually all the sellers are done and then it can start to move up again Will it happen overnight? No this big move has to be digested for a period of time It has to everyone has to you know collect their thoughts and figure out where we're going next So it'll it'll It'll find its way down here. It'll it'll commiserate down here for a while with other people You know, we all got sold we had to sell out and people are trying to find out You know, what's next and it's finding some support and eventually the bottom feeders will come out and start to buy it back up The other thing Is was the volume that was there on the big move down We had the spike in volume right here this one day spike and then the volume started to cool off again to more normal levels That just means that or that's telling me the sellers are done There's no more massive selling anymore And we're trying to find a bottom here. So We got we took a bullish play in snap by selling some put options. I can't tell you what exactly that was Because it's not fair for paying customers Or paying members, but you know, this is this is some of the things I look for. Okay Same thing with intel sort of had the same Down move had the big one day down move was was getting oversold here I didn't pull the trigger on intel just because You know, i'm not the hugest fan of the company Right now. I like amd a lot better and obviously we can see amd's Stock chart is a lot nicer. It's been going up IBM had the same kind of Had a big gap down big one day Down move was a spike in volume as well I don't not showing it on here But you can see the rsi started to turn up and the price action started to turn up as well For those of you who are long peloton or been watching peloton They had a big move down yesterday and friday one day You know hitting oversold on the rsi So maybe over the next few days, we'll see what the price action looks like So you want to start to look for patterns You know the channels the the the triangles these are things it's very important to understand how these patterns play out Because they tend to play out the same over and over again So watch for the patterns And and and see how these things play out, you know, just watch it You don't even have to be invested just just for your own knowledge What else twitter? Sort of making the same thing kind of in a down move. I'm waiting to see what the rsi is going to do here Um potential trade possibly for twitter in the near future. Uh, what else do we like cosco? is Killing it mcdonald's doing well pepsi's doing well Facebook i'm not a huge fan of facebook, but it just keeps coming back it gets sold off and it keeps coming back They're having their name change soon I'm staying away from facebook. What else do I have in here? That's really about it As far as the pharmaceutical companies. Let's talk about the pharmaceutical companies real quick Walmart, I love walmart Eli lily so the big news of the week was, you know, the last couple weeks murk came out murk came out with their Pill that they've been testing for covet Instead of being injected with a shot you can take a pill. It hasn't been finalized yet, but the trial results Um, you can see the massive move up was on the news that they've had this pill Now fiser just the other day Came out with their own news that they have a pill that seems to be more effective than murks So fiser got jacked higher and murk. Let me just go back to murk Got dropped first sizable Drop basically took away all the gains it had made on its announcement for the pill I love the the health care sector the pharmaceutical sector We got into a trade on murk yesterday because I still believe in the company it still creates Medicines and drugs that people need not just for covet but for other ailments So when you have this nice it was almost an you know an eight nine ten dollar pullback and murk It was time to jump on board. We were able to sell You know strike prices down here Still a lot of cushion and so we got into a play on murk But you know, it's just it it can be treachery sometimes scary the health care sector. So I like the health care sector Everyone's going to need health care within their lives It's just a sector that is is going to be here for a long time and long term on bullish on the health care sector. All right, so That's about it for today My thing keeps jumping here. Once again sp y s and p 500 getting a little overbought here Oh once let's just look at the vixx real quick So people have been asking me about the vixx this week because I I don't talk about it all the time The vixx moves inversely to the general market as the market moves up the vixx comes down What's the vixx? The vixx is the volatility indicator. It's basically a fear indicator tells you Are people scared or complacent in the market right now And when the market is going up nice and smooth the vixx comes down That means there's you know, not a lot of fear out there And when the market's tanking everyone's fearful. That's when the vixx spikes. This was during the pandemic, right? Everyone got scared the vixx went up. So as the market has been going up lately the vixx really hasn't Um Hasn't been going down. It can't get through this 15 level Much so someone was saying is that is that? Divergence because the market's going up the vixx isn't going down The vixx almost looks like it's ready to pop up again So what i'm saying what i'm thinking here is that you know, we got a lot of greed in the market A pullback I think is necessary and the vixx, you know, the players are thinking the same thing We may have a pullback And the vixx will spike so there may be some people trying to front run this thing a little bit We may see some fear creeping up in the next few days as the market pulls back So yeah, maybe there's some divergence here. We'll see what happens. All right, so We're about 35 minutes in here. Let's try to wrap this up. I like the market Probably a pullback which would be healthy, which would be good so we can just have another bullish run into the end of the year All right, so let's quickly go to Um, here is that's the fear and greed index. Let's go to website smart option seller.com Put selling basics. We're all about put selling here Please download a copy or send me your name and email address in this form here. Get a free copy We'll send it to you and Within this youtube video, don't forget to subscribe hit that red subscribe button in the bottom right hand corner of the video Leave me a comment. Leave me a thumbs up. Let me know this is Quality content for you. I try to put out some good information for everybody And send me an email. I'll answer you I'll answer you. All right. So that's all for me today I hope everyone has a great weekend and a great trading week ahead. Hope to see you back here next saturday This is lee lull signing off


You can kill us. Zambians will be born out of our blood. We will continue to fight. We are such a people. If you have got back it's famous. One Zambia. Here. Chabira Ichin. Chabiransu Chiyunipnit. He is said to be the founding father of Zambia. On the African continent is known to have provided refuge for most regional liberation struggle leaders like Nelson Mandela. Living out Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia's history would be a serious omission. Those were born in the immediate post independence era up until 1991 only new doctor Kaunda as the only Zambian president ever. Such was the stay at the helm of power in Zambia. Doctor Kaunda was at the helm of Zambian politics for 27 years from the aftermath of independence in 1964. For most Zambians and the world over is fondly known as KK. Only mass public opinion could dislodging from power and it came as a surprise. It made headlines then when the outside world least expected. Credit is given to the winds of democratic change of the 1990s which traversed the African continent. At least the strongman of Zambian politics was no longer what had been perceived then to be wamuyayaya a local word meaning eternity. But who is KK? His life in politics dates back to 1953 when he was appointed secretary general of the African National Congress and the presidency of Harimwangan Kumbola but he would become the eventual head of the new state of Zambia at 1964. KK's life in politics is one marked with ups and downs like any other. In the pre independence era he spent some time in jail because of his anti-colonialism ideologies. To dates KK has gone down in the history of Zambia and Africa as one who championed the struggle against white oppression both locally and across borders. In the then northern Rhodesia KK took the struggle to the apex forcing the British to negotiate their exits. Public civil disobedience characterized this constitutional struggle as freedom for the black man. This was alongside an armed struggle famously known as Cha Cha Cha and in the pre October 24 days the struggle paid off. The British succumbed agreeing to negotiate their exit at Lancaster House in London. Finally October 24th 1964 Zambia was born and KK became the first indigenous leader of the newly born nation in the southern African hemisphere. However KK continued his independent struggle this time beyond the Zambian borders. He worked day and night in this providing support and refuge to other fleeing African freedom struggle leaders. Zambia does not have the capacity to strike back at the enemy because the enemy has been prepared for the last 60 70 years in South Africa for the last 54 years in Rhodesia. What's more centuries behind them coming from the western countries best interest. That is the correct analysis of the problem and unless you understand it in this way you will be misled by the enemy. The enemy is bent on destroying your Morero. Zambians, we in Zambia are peaceful people, peace-loving. I challenge anyone to say today here that Zambia is a warmongering nation I met John Foster the arch fastest and resist on the bridge in search of peace I failed. I failed. Josh Onkomu came here and said he was going to make another try I said Josh you are done, this thing is dirty. He said I must try. I said you are a free man. He went to Salisbury for weeks he was there. He failed. He was in search of peace. Ian Smith has come here and I knew I would be subject to misunderstanding by my colleagues in frontline countries by my colleagues in the continent by my colleagues and others in her world. I have allowed Smith to come here on a number of occasions in search of peace but I am a man with clear conscience God is hearing me I can never sell out that thing. Never. Not me, not this boys here not this girls here we are men and women of principle we have done all these things in search of peace but it has to be genuinely peace based on genuine majority rule everything else you can give us Zambians will be born out of our blood will continue to fight in search of people. Zambia and its leadership devoted effort resources much more so humility to aiding neighboring countries to liberate themselves. This however came at a great cost such as becoming a country of target by colonial military forces and of course the loss of lives. To this day the old generations tell tier dropping stories of the eventual effects of this cross boundary freedom struggle campaign on the international front. KK traveled widely meeting world leaders in negotiations all in search of freedom for African countries. He was very convinced that Africans were capable of running their own affairs therefore he called for an end to colonial rule on the continent. Smith is a rebel he will always remain a rebel he will go down in history as a rebel a killer, a murderer the only reason why he is still there is that he is white that's not the reason why he is there if Smith had been implicated the day he declared UTI he would have received British troops that have arrested him and charged him with treason and tried him but because of his rich stock he has made his way for the last time and he has been allowed to get away with it. To this effect Zambia and KK have an indelibo place in the history chapters of countries such as South Africa Namibia, Zimbabwe and other neighbouring countries We in Zambia do not accept most times decision to make it world's best which is part and parcel of Namibia as part and parcel of South Africa we don't accept that indeed that is there like Robert he is of course what is here but Robert we don't accept that as we age the international community and survive that there is not much reaction from the people that is decisions of that matter they became white world's best belongs to the people of Namibia KK knew very well that Zambia was never free if its neighbours were still under colonial rule and when peace for means seemed to be failing it is argued that KK did give a listening ear to proponents of armed struggle now it exhausted the channel of talking now there is only one option left that is for the majority of the people to take up arms in Odiji and fight it out with smith's but remember that also aims the chances of farmers in Odiji getting compensation that also aims the chances of white farmers white civil servants or even black civil servants getting compensation and pensions etc industrialists will lose out that is the end because now compensation pensions will be settled on the battlefield therefore by the 1980s most of Zambia's neighbours were free from colonial rule Back home in the aftermath of independence KK pursued an authoritarian rule following the violence of 1968 KK uploaded other political parties with the exception of his unit it promigated what came to be known as the one party democracy matched to its advantage I think it is a great discouragement to my party by taking this a very capable young man to be put in detention and of course it has caused inconveniences to my party but I expected this and I think there may be many more inconveniences to my party but this should not mean to stop the train that has been put into motion by the wishes of the people of this country we feel we must go ahead even if some of our leaders are going to be detained in fact this was done by the British and one of those was detained for one year and when I came back I continued and we won our victory and therefore in this case this is not a remedy to the mistakes the government has committed I feel that even if all the central committee of our party was detained the masses will be in a position to find another set of leadership to guard them until we come back and therefore I am not frightened and I know the government and I heard that they were planning to kill my party in its infasi they will create a lot of cases to pin on my party and this was long before it was born and therefore I am prepared for these hardships the high cost of living as well as the general deteriorating living conditions gave rise to public outrage and for droughts it was these challenges that led to the formation of the movement for multi-part democracy MMD as cause for the introduction of multi-partism in Zambia continued to grow okrasi movement which you have started is irreversible and unstoppable nobody will stop this this has to continue now the pro-democracy movement the democracy this is my fundamental right it is the freedom and I am prepared to die for it kwaia bantum bale ukusalapo nga bale fogu tuadira nechironga ino chimona una fimbifika leba pokulachi infianya kwaia kuluana ifogu puisha ema chuishi bela unfomun so yo tulia fie kuntanshi kumuachuni na tekwaishu akumule kumuachuni na tumkulu siyamafumu yawa bai 1990 KK had no choice except to give in to winds of change ashering in a new era of multi-part democracy and elections and on December 17th 1990 KK signed the bill for the reintroduction to multi-partism in Zambia I want to say that I'm doing this very very happy indeed because I want to believe that this is the wish of the people of Zambia that we should go multi-party once again needless for me to point out that our experience in our first republic in so far as much partisan is concerned was a very sad one there's still some funny idea in some circles that we should form an interim government before elections I dismiss that with the contempt it deserves UNIP is a freely elected government through the mandate of the people we lead the country we administer the country and administer it in a most civilized way where man is central man as God made him we have made man our own image as God's declaration so apart from the principles the principles which guide us we run a civilized government here by those principles we still are mindful that what we do today others will emulate tomorrow those who rise by the sword will perish by the sword this has come out several times on this continent and elsewhere so I'm very proud myself to contribute or be in itchiness more way to this type of civilized society reconstruction so these men and women who run this government run it in a democratic way run it in a civilized way and so there's no question at all of anyone imposing an interim government on us to bring in, they want to come into power through the back door they are now frightened of the electorate UNIP has got back its famous chisoko and everybody one Zambia Chabuera Ichin I'm glad therefore to take this opportunity to say now those who want to form their small parties most welcome provided they know that we want peace in Zambia peace, stability unity and development this fellow is signing on behalf of 8 and half million Zambians date of ascent is 17th December 1990 this was to mark end of KK's reign at the summit of Zambian politics leaving the trade to a new era of upcoming politicians the MMD embarked on a country-wide campaign as a promised democracy and to improve the living standards of majority Zambians elections were called and Kaunda and its UNIP only managed 20% of the votes or the opposition under Ferdik Chilova got erased of the votes credit is however given to KK for conceding defeat in the first multi-party democratic elections of 1991 this is the nature of multi-party politics you win some and you lose some elections the whole thing is a new ball game to me and I'm waiting for the experts to tell me here is where you start now and your elder brother Kaunda ends there and I'll pick it up following these events Zambia has ended itself an international recognition as being a heaven of peace after conducting a peaceful transition unwinding the clock many years later life after the presidency was not very smooth for KK he was incarcerated before on charges of treason in the political drama that ensued the democratic changes of 1991 then Dr. Kaunda was detained for months and pressure was mounting for the release of Dr. Kaunda for prison former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere fought hard to ensure KK was released from prison and his efforts finally pent off and so I listened to my elder statesman and they are saying keep him away from prison so I called an emergency cabinet meeting last night and I informed them and we agreed that we will not keep him in prison we will move him from there and restrict him in his own house so that the former faced lady doesn't have difficulties in seeing my dear elder brother Dr. Kaunda he will consequently be restricted in his own home but there are conditions on this restriction and I hope he cooperates because if he doesn't we may be compelled to take him back to where he thinks he must stay our lawyers have assured us that we have got a very good case and they are going to battle it out their full capacity so even as we discussed from here I appreciate you to discuss and let us meet again on Tuesday I promised they made about accountability about transparency about governance good governance all these things they forgotten them this was coupled with other dramatic developments such as his being declared stateless today all these events are such that they make KK's life full of drama amid is retained recognition as the founding father of Zambia even as the sun sets on his life without doubt KK has a disfair share of contribution to laying the foundation of what makes Zambia what it is today