Namaskaram, Meshwain. Sadhguru, Namaskaram. Yeah. So, you're doing well in Chennai, Chennai is exploding with all these infections, huh? Initially I felt like I was okay, but now I'm getting really edgy, I want to go out and play or do something like that, I'm getting really edgy inside the house. Hmm. No, but Tamil Nadu was well controlled in the beginning, first three weeks, but now it's going off. But is it… isn't it like the fact that it will go in high numbers all over the country? I don't know because the numbers are increasing every day, it's getting a really concern. Yes, it is. At the same time, almost seventy percent or seventy-five percent is within twenty districts. That way it's not spread, but now this migrant labour has gone across the country, back home. So will they spread it there is a question, but I generally feel the rural population may be having a enough immune system within themselves that they may not be casualties their big time except very vulnerable, very aged group of people. See, everybody is talking about these herd immunity and all this stuff.  Or in the world. So that is not really an option, but if it goes away, runs away in that direction. No, but Sadhguru, tell me something in this current situation where we are standing. What is the direction that people should look for? Because at one side of it, a lot of people are looking for livelihoods. A lot of people…  Then there are another set of people who are struggling to run their businesses, the economy is suffering. What is the answer to this? How long will people have to fight the bullet? See, no nation can afford to close itself down forever, okay? We have done exemplarily well actually. Over sixty-five days we've been closed. I think with ninety-five percent pass mark, maybe two to five percent might have failed, but largely we've done that. But the nature of the virus is such, if there is one person left with infection, he will again start a new cycle. That's how it is.  That is what we are seeing. So, having said that, it is… Unfortunately, maybe in the end we only have to think of herd immunity, but that will be a terrible thing because our parents, grandparents will all get wiped out. That's what it means. So, there is… See, there is no clear voice from the scientific community anywhere in the world. To say this is the nature of this virus, we can do this. There is no clear voice about that because nobody has figured out what exactly it is. There is still debates going on. I was talking to, you know, this Global Doctors Association and they are saying every day they are publishing now, writing 128 papers per day is being done, thousands of papers. Every day somebody is discovering something new about the virus and they're writing on it, 128 per day average is happening. So, that means we are that confused, all right? So, without a clear perception that this is the nature of the virus, this is how it will behave. Even if we don't find a vaccine, at least if we have a proper, you know, treatment protocol, we can feel comfortable. Right now there is no treatment protocol. Somebody says, take hydrochloroquine. Somebody says, take that Ebola drug. Somebody says, take the HIV drug. Somebody says, drink Lysol. You know, it's like variety of things. Well, we are giving Nila Vembu to everybody. We just shooting, you know, we're shooting in the dark literally. Only thing we can do is strengthening the immune system. For this we have protocols, which is what we are doing and we're trying to mass, you know, implement it as far as possible. Some simple yogic practice, little bit of care about what you eat. And a few other Ayurvedic and Siddha concoctions which will boost the immune system. This has got nothing to do with the virus, something to do with us. With the ability to fight. Sadhguru, just one more question I've been wanting to ask and I seem to find it very difficult to get answers very clearly. You can ask me any question. Don't throw me carom ball and all. I'll hit it for a six. Be careful. No, I will, I'll come to your cricket abilities very soon, Sadhguru, because I've seen you play all sport. I want to understand what are you? Are you a bowler or a batsman, Sadhguru? I was an all-rounder in the school. But once I got to college, I got more involved with field hockey and kind of dropped my cricket. Okay, but did you find cricket exciting or hockey was a better sport? Hockey was more xy exciting because you're always on your feet and doing something.  But otherwise those days, if they put you on the boundary, you just stand there for 20-30 minutes doing nothing in the sun, okay? So, it was not, it was not my cup of tea. The question I wanted to ask was, in general over the last, I've lived for 30 years. So, in the 30 years, whatever has been struck, you know, a massive earthquake in Christchurch, a tsunami in the borders, Indonesia, India, all these borders, for everything that has sort of been very emergency, we have found a mechanism to deal with it, right? At least, if not then and there, we had a tsunami alert system, an earthquake, you know, a resistant building mechanism, alerting people, all these things are always come about and we boast ourself as a very modern tech, we're very, very advanced in terms of technology. How did we not see this coming? And like literally you said, three, four months and most people are not able to come up with an answer, isn't that scary? Well, see whenever major events happen, we find answers for tsunami after the tsunami is over, all right? So next time, will it work the same way? We don't know. But natural calamities, there is a history of thousands of years of memory and history and experience of it. Even though we are surprised sometimes, we still know what it is, because it hits you at a certain time and it's over. If a tsunami happened, 10,000 people died, that's it.  That's a different kind of thing. So earthquakes have happened in Bukujarat and all it killed nearly, I don't know, from hundred thousand people, I think. So, but it's a one-time thing. Only thing is, it also destroys your property. This leaves your property just cleans you up, all right? This is a different kind of thing. This is the nature of virus. In the last 50 years time of the 335 diseases, nearly seventy percent are zutonic. That means they've come from the animals, either bacteria or virus. So this particular virus is not a deadly killer. That is the advantage and that is a big disadvantage. See, when the influenza and other things happened, the what is called a Spanish flu today, it just killed everybody. When the plague came, it just wipes out a whole village. So, the response to that was different. Here, the problem is most of them are asymptomatic. Nearly eighty percent are asymptomatic and they're going all over the place spreading. There's no sign of any illness. So it's like you're sitting, you and me could be carrying it and we don't know because it doesn't show any signs. That is the biggest problem and it is largely aiming only at vulnerable population. It is not going for the general population. Below one year of age, infants and over sixty-five, seventy years and in between, for some reason, if their immune systems are not strong enough or if the exposure is too heavy like medical personnel are dying, police are, you know, unfortunately it's taking at all. That is because of the level of exposure. So having said that, why we don't have an answer is definitely there is something strange about this. But at the same time, in at any time when we had these epidemics and pandemics, especially the virus attacks that we have had, we never figured it out. It just went away by itself because virus doesn't see you as an enemy. It is seeing you as a habitat. So it is not interested in killing you. Probably in a few months it will learn the nature of the strength of the human system and adjust itself. You know, kind of mutate itself to a lower level of intensity where it can live with us. Right now in our bodies, millions and millions of, you know, viruses and bacteria are living with us right now. For example, tuberculosis for example, if you take it, right now India has set a goal by 2025, we'll get rid of tuberculosis. The basic test that is done for tuberculosis around the world is called Manto's test. If you and me go for a test, any Indian goes for a test, we will all show positive. We all have tuberculosis basilar, but we don't have the disease. But all Indians have it. So the tuberculosis basilar, we want to eliminate by 2025, but they're all living with us and we have no issue most of us. Only if its concentration goes to a certain point, it becomes a disease, otherwise almost all Indians carry this quite normally. If the same level of basilar happens to, let's say, an American or a European person, they will fall sick. We are not falling sick because we have lived with that for so long. So that is what we are looking for as a solution, that's what herd immunity means, that at some point we may get used to the virus. But before that, how many lives will it take? This is a... this is not a decision that you make. It may go that way, unfortunately. Okay, an interesting question I've been wanting to ask you for a long time, this thing where you speak about Rama and Mahabharata and all our so-called mythology now, everybody has a different connotation to whether it happened or doesn't... didn't happen. No, that argument is only in Chennai. Whether it happened or not. These are beliefs, I do not want to get into it. But you said something very interesting when it came to all these epics or mythologies, however you seem to believe. You said there is so much to learn rather than testing the authenticity of whether it happened or not happened. Right. Do we have anything tracing back to those times in order to deal with such a situation that we are in right now? See, the advantage that those times had was the concentration of population was... has never been like this, okay? So if it did happen, let us say it happened in Ayodhya, it would not come to Chennai for sure. Only Rama came, he should have brought but fourteen days quarantine would have happened by the time he walked down. I mean, he walked through the Ram Sethu thing as well, so it must have gone there as well, not a problem. No, no, by the time he walked from Ayodhya to Tamil Nadu border, more than fourteen days, so quarantine was over. And he must have travelled, he must have walked through, right? Yes, by foot. So it would have taken months, so by then it was over. It is because of air travel. It is essentially because of air travel, so quickly it's across the world. Right. In fact, I felt like I came into India from New Zealand in March, when the virus was actually hitting through the, you know, Singapore and the Chinese region and going into America and all that. At that point of time, it didn't feel like... I mean, all of us were sitting in the... inside the zone of saying, you know what, it will not happen in India.   Even today, you know, I was talking to a couple of my cricketing colleagues and they happen to say, you know, it's become normal, we have to deal with it like cold and fever. We are not yet there, right? No, no. See, young people may deal with it just as cold and fever. That too, if they're, you know, if they have a sturdy constitution. But that's not how it is. People are just falling dead all over the place. When nearly half a million people have died, you can't say it's cold and fever. But at the same time, every influenza in America kills fifty, sixty thousand people like this. But this is not going to pass like that virus. This can continue and come back in waves and waves. It is possible. But we still don't know. We... I have a gut feeling in India by mid-September, towards the end of September, it will be largely gone and our economic activity will be back to normal. It may not be where it was a few months ago. But in terms of activity, it will be back. But I have no data, not an iota of datas to support my gut feeling. There's no data. No gut feeling is the best feeling that we all can have in terms of reassurance. But just in other notes, I saw some article and some video where I'm sure you're aware of Leonardo DiCaprio was doing a lot of things with regards to climate change. He had put out a tweet and an Instagram post saying a lot of people who have been affected by pollution over the years are tending to receive this virus in a very, very detrimental fashion. Is this virus in any way a relation of what we have done? You said there is something funny about it. Any relation to what we have done to the environment and how we have, you know, sort of just polluted and populated it all over the place. Is it... Is it our doing? Population is definitely our doing. Pollution is also our doing. Or is there any doubt about it? No. Any other than that environmentally, how we have, you know, not... not respected nature over the... See, right now one of the major reasons why people are dying because of the virus is hypoxia. That means not enough oxygen in the system. So lungs collapse after some time, whatever happens, other systems fail. In a way, if you're living in an Indian city or let's say any big city, particularly Indian cities, in many ways you're heading towards hypoxia. If you just travel on the... let's say Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore roads for one or two hours every day in open, suppose your car is not air conditioned and you're open like on a two-wheeler or you're just walking, then definitely the oxygen levels in your blood will be lower than what it should be. So definitely you are moving into that vulnerable population region. Maybe not necessarily, but you're in the direction at least for sure. It may vary from individual to individual, but when you live in this kind of atmosphere where oxygen levels are low, carbon monoxide and other particulate matter is heavy, definitely your pulmonary system is not at the same level as it should be. So you are becoming a vulnerable population, even now you're seeing almost seventy percent of the cases are just in five, six cities in the country probably, about ten to ten to twelve cities maximum. Rest of the country doesn't have it. The rural population doesn't really have it. And one more thing that I've constantly been telling in the ashram everybody is practicing right now is to stay in touch with the earth. If you stay in touch with the earth, your immune system is always many times stronger than other people. So this is one of the treatments we do for all the patients who come. I must tell you this situation. We used to, earlier now we are calling it rejuvenation center, but at one time we used to call this Isha yogic hospital. There was a hospital. So about ten, twelve doctors from Michigan area, from the Ford medical you know system, they came here because they were very interested in the yogic hospital. So I couldn't meet them. They were here for about three days and I'm talking many years ago, like about twenty-two years ago or so. So they came and after the third day, it seems they got very angry. They called me in the morning and said, Sadhguru, their doctors are all very upset. They want to leave right away. I said, what is the issue? We said, we don't know they're screaming and yelling. I went to meet them. Then I said, what is the problem? They said, you said there is a yogic hospital. We walked around everywhere in the center. There is no hospital here. Oh, I said, okay, your idea for hospital is that there must be beds, people must be lying down, somebody must be serving them. If you provide that kind of hospitality, nobody will get well. See, children always like to fall sick. How old are your children? They're about five and three-and-a-half. Yeah, that three-and-a-half guy watched him because they like to fall sick. Because when they are sick, everybody does mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu-mu and all that, they love it, okay? Every child learns in an early age that if you are unwell, if you are miserable, if you cry, you get lots of attention. If you're happy, joyful, screaming and dancing around, you don't get attention. This is the thing that every family has to change. So I said, no, no, no, that's not the way it is. I had about hundred and ten people on that day who are going through some treatments. I said, see, in this hospital, we wake them at five o'clock, five-thirty, they have to be there for the sadhana. Eight o'clock, sadhana is over. Then I put them to work in the garden or in the kitchen or somewhere else where they have to use their hands and everything and they may get little more rest than others. That's it. They're under medication and practices, but they have to be involved and especially with the earth, they must be involved. Then I took them around and made them meet all the people who are working in the garden. Our patients are all working hard. So they will want to get well if you make them working work hard, always. Because you said that you need to be in touch with earth. I'm asking this. There are two schools of medical treatment. It's not two, maybe more than that. But off late, I'm getting attached to this sort of theory where the body knows to treat itself. Are we over-treating ourselves because we get an influenza or a virus? Is there a tendency that we over-treat our body and kind of misguided? I would say I cannot comment about you as an individual, but as a human population, this generation of people, are we over-treating? One hundred percent, we are over-treating. We are overdoing everything. In the sense, right now, the pharmaceutical industry is bigger than the food industry, I think. Am I right? I think it is becoming the biggest right now. The largest industry is arms and armaments. Second largest is pharmaceuticals. The third one is alcohol and tobacco and these things put together. So one is a clear depth. Another takes you towards it. Another pretends to get you back. Having said that, I'm not trying to discount the impact of modern medicine. You and me are alive today, probably only because of modern medicine. Otherwise, small things could have killed us. Average life expectancy of an Indian was twenty-eight, twenty-eight years in 1947. Today it is seventy-three or seventy-four, which is a significant achievement for the nation. But that's not happened without vaccines and things like that. Otherwise, anything, smallpox, this, that could have killed us. So our life, we owe it to modern medicine, there's no question. But in present conditions, at the level of concentration of populations that we have, without modern medicine, I don't think we can survive. Without pharmaceuticals, you cannot survive. There was a time when people lived in nature, there was substantial space for every human being, then it was possible to just eat some leaves or eat some fruit or just fast for two days and get well, all this. Even now you can do if you're maintaining your lifestyle like that. But every day you are out in the town meeting a thousand people and mixing with people, then if something catches up, then you better take some medicine, otherwise it'll be risky. Sadhguru, another important thing as far as I was concerned, I was very enamored by the whole thing of Kaveri calling, right? And you explained in detail about what Kaveri calling is and how much of deforestation has happened and we need to reforest them to get the land back, water needs to be… I mean, water… the land needs to have the ability to hold the water on and all that kind of stuff. How far are we in the zone of rehabilitating? I know it's a long-term process, but how much have we made strides, Sadhguru? See, the significant thing is the Karnataka government announced subsidy for the farmer. For every three hundred and twenty-five rupees subsidy has been allotted. Not only that, for… for somebody who encourages somebody to plant a tree, he gets five rupees. Suppose you are the farmer, I make you plant hundred trees. Now I get five hundred rupees for this. So now we are training youth to be agents of change. So they can take this up like a part-time profession, that they meet the farmers in the local areas because they know each other, they're related largely. They can talk to them and encourage them and may facilitate this stuff because both will benefit. He will get subsidy, this guy will get five rupees commission for that. So this process is already on. This monsoon we were to go full-on, but now we are like a little slowed down. But still, I think in Karnataka we are planting about somewhere around seventy lakhs or seventy-two lakh saplings which already farmers have been booked for. So this is a comprehensive thing that it is a combination of trees so that the land rejuvenates. Right now UNCCD is very concerned about India because our soil is dying. See, when we say soil, we are just talking about largely thirty-nine inches of top soil on an average in the world, there is thirty-nine inches of top soil. Almost all life happens in this thirty-nine because of this thirty-nine inches of soil. Tamil Nadu and southern India largely considered a blessed land because where we are right now, we have nearly eighteen to twenty feet of top soil, which is a fantastic thing. This is the reason why agriculture has been on here for over twelve thousand years or so, there is history of agriculture because in some places here, not so in southern Tamil Nadu probably, but in this part, western and northern part of Tamil Nadu, fifteen to twenty feet of top soil, this is extremely rich place that way. See, we may think richness means we struck oil, gold, diamond, this one, that one, but for the next generation, if you want the next generation to live a rich life, when I say a rich life, I am not talking about your stock market or your bank balance or something like this.  Rest of it is just, you know, accessories to life. The real life is in this, how wonderfully a man can function, a human being can function, simply depends upon how pure is the air, how clean is the water, how nutritious is the food that you consume. If there is no strength in the soil, right now nearly forty-two percent of Tamil Nadu soil has been declared as fallow. That means it's becoming desert. So there is a whole movement to stop this desertification, but nothing much has happened on the ground. Too much talk has happened, conferences have happened, papers have been written, but on the ground, this is where Kaveri calling came in. For that, so many people are protesting against that. Do you know this? And they're all located in Chennai only. They all... they're saying it's dangerous to plant this many trees. Can you believe that? They're saying it's dangerous. Before these people came or I came or you came, what was here on this land? This land was all trees. So how does it become dangerous to put back the trees? Simply because they're... they're only looking at it in some way. You know, because there is no money in this, that's their problem, I think. Because in every ecological thing, conference, go here, go there, there is money. Now action on the ground, there is no money you have to spend from your pockets. So nobody's interested in this. But Karnataka government has taken the policy changes very quickly and very, very responsive on the ground, things will happen there for sure. It should have happened much larger. We were preparing for a very big... this thing during the monsoon, but now we've kind of toned it down a little bit because we don't know when it will become safe for our volunteers to go village to village, meet people, do these things. We are not sure about that yet. It doesn't look like monsoon is about to start already pre-monsoon showers are coming here. So anytime monsoon will start pouring within the next week's time. So we are still not ready because we don't want to send young people out there and suppose somebody, you know, these are all dedicated people, we don't want to kill them, they've come, they're willing to give their lives, that doesn't mean we can take their lives, all right? So because of that, we've slowed down a little bit, but still over seventy-lac saplings will go. See, we must understand this, the difference between this and aforestation is that this is going into farmland, private land. That means they will take care of it because it's their commercial interest. That is the fundamental difference that I've been trying to beat it into everybody's heads, but after talking for hours, in the end they ask, where is the land? Really, I've just been seeing in various places I've been going and speaking to responsive people who hold responsible positions. After explaining everything for one hour, in the end ask, all this is fantastic Sadhguru, but where is the land? The land is in the hands of the farmer. Only if you make it lucrative for him, you can put back these trees, otherwise you will only talk about it. We have a lot of this discussion on farmers, right? Every year pre-monsoon, post-monsoon, we have… we hear small, small stories of farmers committing suicides, farmers struggling to pay off the debts, all these things are a regular feature. But aren't these people that are the ones that are putting food on our plate, should we like for example, say like an engineering or a medicine, where we, you know, put children into it, promote the industry and make it a bigger industry? Is it time for us all to invest and say our children must feel agriculture is attractive? Is… has the time come really? 100% that needs to happen. If that doesn't happen, there's no food security for this country. Right now we've taken some kind of rudimentary surveys. What I see is not even 2% of the farm community want their children to go into farming. That… that is what it is. So in another 25 years when this generation passes, who will grow food for you? Right now in this country, there are nearly 65% of the population who know how to conduct this magic of turning mud into food. Not a simple thing.  I'll tell you, you come here, I'll give you ten acres of good land, very fertile land. Grow ten varieties of crops and show me. You will see it'll be a total failure. Even if you were an MSc in agriculture, still you will be a failure. Generally. Except a very few who come from that community who know how to do this. Because it may… because the farmer looks illiterate, people think it's some silly thing to do. It is not. It is a very complex and very time sensitive operations, the way it is done, the farming. Because the guy looks undernourished and badly dressed, we think it's something not important. You and me are eating, only because of him. And it's not a small achievement. One of the greatest achievements of this nation is, we are managing to provide food for 1.4 billion people without any major imports of food. There's no any major import of food actually. We're exporting a little bit as few small things are coming in. But generally we are able to provide. See, even in a situation like this, right now this virus situation, even now during this pandemic, we have enough food. How to reach that person who has no money is another problem. But we have food in the country. Suppose you don't have food in the country, then that disaster is a totally of a different nature. So farmer has done a fantastic job with no great technology, no great science, just with traditional knowledge. The only problem that he is facing, why you're seeing the suicides and other things is, one thing is, there is no power of scale over generations. Because we have history of thousands of years of agricultural history, over generations it's become smaller and smaller and smaller. Today, the average land holding in the country is one hectare, that is 2.25 acres. In 2.25 acres or for every 2.25 acres, there's a barbed fence, there is a borewell, there's an electric connection, there are pipelines, it's a complete waste of resources. For the amount of money that goes into it, there is no way he can get, he get to make it lucrative or profitable for himself. So this is what is leading to this. So right now this FPO movement, we have one of the best run FPO's in Tamil Nadu is run by us here in this region. It's an organization of about 1200 farmers. Now we are seeing how to scale this to 50,000 farmers. Right now on the ground, nothing much has happened. All we have done is to show them it works, all we have done is there are three, four youth always on the phone negotiating these products. Just with negotiation their income has gone up 300%. Just with simple negotiation and timing the sale of the produce, this is all. And another thing is the inputs, we have set up a super store where all the inputs, whatever the dealer margin was about 25 to 30%, that is going straight to the farmer, that 30% itself is a big, big thing for him. So we are looking at if you put 50,000 farmers together, it becomes a major corporation run by them. You can hire professionals, you can hire scientists to say, you know, agricultural scientists to see what crops to grow, how to grow and everything. We can hire, you know, marketing experts to do this or we can consult, we can handle this internationally. All this we are looking at because from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, the latitudinal spread that we have in this country, the types of soils and weather conditions that we have in this country, twelve months of the year, you can just grow almost anything that grows anywhere in this world. And if we handle this capacity, this latitudinal spread and 65% still being capable of doing farming, if we handle this right, then we can become the breadbasket of the world.  Every child goes to school, by the time he comes to… till 10th standard, he need not pass, he just keeps going. Without learning two plus two, millions of them have reached ninth, tenth standard. Only in tenth standard, he gets filtered. By then, he's physically not competent to work in the farm, mentally, completely, in a different way. He thinks he's educated just because he's gone to school. So we are completely destroying the future of farming in this country. It is time-educated people invest and invest their children in the farming because it can be done in a very good way. There is enough science and technology. What is lacking is scale. Scale can be achieved by bringing them together as a farmer producer organization. There… there were many tax and other things which we got relaxed now.  But if ten of us farmers got together and made an FPO, then there is thirty percent income tax. So why will we come together? You're ensuring we don't come together. So I appealed to the Prime Minister and he relaxed. Up to hundred crores earning, there is no tax. But now we are pushing why hundred crore limit? If farming has to survive in this country, you cannot give teachings. You cannot run agricultural institutions. All you have to do is make it lucrative. If it's lucrative, it will survive. Sathguru, forgive my ignorance if this question is not pertinent. But the, you know, if you take a look at big communities in India, right now, one is the movie industry is big. I'm not well versed with the movie industry. The cricket industry is really large. But so when I speak about the cricket industry, until couple, they've lifted the 1983 World Cup and later on in Sachin Tendulkar came into play for the country, the game was largely not money driven. It was, it was telecasted free of cost on TV. Then the TV rights came and the players started earning more. Is there, is there a possibility the way you're saying how large a scale this agriculture is? Is there a possibility that such people can come into the mix and make this a really large and phenomenal industry? Is there a possibility? Yes. What else do you think I'm doing? That's what I'm trying to do. We are putting our energies behind it. We are raising money for this and above all giving a voice to it. See right now, because you mentioned the word suicide, suicide in not some, see individual people unfortunately will commit suicide for variety of reasons. When over three hundred thousand people commit suicide in a matter of fifteen to twenty years for one reason, one particular reason of farm distress, nearly three hundred thousand or more than three hundred thousand people have committed suicide. Let's say in this century, in the last twenty years, it's actually in about fifteen, sixteen years, let's say twenty years, because some people will always debate, no, no that guy died because he had family issues, this that they're saying. But I'm asking you, usually the explanation is, that's because he couldn't pay his bank loan, he killed himself, this happened, that happened.  Definitely not. Right now, the distress is the soil is so poor. Soil is so poor, why did it become poor? You can keep the soil rich only by putting organic content into it.   That's how it should be. But right now it is plowed and left open for eight, nine months. It's really dead, first nine, ten inches, twelve inches where the crop goes is completely dead. Whenever you fly from Chennai to Delhi, now you're in the Delhi team, I heard. So you have to fly Chennai to Delhi. Every five minutes look out of the window. You will see India looks like a brown desert, except a few green patches here and there. Most of it is a brown desert because these are all agri… agricultural lands. When there is no crop, they're just plowed and left open to kill the soil. So this kind of practices we have come to, because we saw Europeans doing massive, you know, industry like farming. But now they've all changed. But we didn't change. We are still doing the same thing. It is very important. See, suppose you grow one ton of let's say sugarcane or paddy or whatever from the soil, what you have taken out is one ton of top soil, isn't it? You have to put it back. How can you put it back? The only way is leaves from the trees or animal waste. Trees are gone long time ago. In Kaveri basin, eighty-seven percent of the tree cover has been removed in the last seventy years. And animals are all traveling abroad. There are no animals on the farm. People think tractor will do it. Tractor will plow it, but tractor will not enrich the soil as animals would. Animals would work also and enrich the soil also.  And we are thinking just by putting salts, everything will be okay. For all those people who don't understand what I am saying, you know, in our meal, in southern Indian meal, without salt we are not eating any food. Little bit of salt and so many other things. Instead of that, make it ninety percent salt and ten percent whatever else you want to eat.  Okay. Thank you, Sadhguru. Any... anything else, anything else, Sadhguru? Well, the sport in the world may not be the same for next twelve months probably. No spectators, so there is no big excitement and stuff like that. But I think this is a time we should learn to live with because there is no point risking. Those people who are vulnerable, risking their lives is not our business.  We have to respect that and we must make sure that the casualties are minimum. And at the same time we must focus on putting this nation back on the track, whether it's economy or sport or culture, everything should come back as quickly as possible. We can't just be locked up forever, but in a very responsible and conscious way. Thank you, Sadhguru. It's been a... it's been a pleasure, it's been a dream for me to do this. Thank you for having me. Thank you, sir. Namaskaram. Thank you very much. All the best for you for whatever match is coming up. Thank you, Sadhguru. Namaskaram.


All right folks welcome on back here for another fantastic edition of our weekly workshop I'm a cast inside our live trading room and across on social media namely YouTube there Traders talk so great to have all of our students here joining us Abdul Margaret Dave Allen Chuck Marguerite Kathleen and Drea all of us just joining us inside our trading room first And then again if you're on social media right now the handle is at cyber trading you I'll pop that up on the lower left there that you'll see any of our new members joining us on social media today live Or on the recording even just make sure to hit the like or follow subscribe button right there It goes a long way for us But also so you know when we're streaming we do these workshops each and every week But I know we simulcast across the market and inside our trading room each and every weekday Monday through Friday So with that said man, we got a lot to talk about right obviously on the screen right now This stock cgc is pushing up pretty nicely A bunch of trades from earlier this morning that we have the chance to go through and on top of that Well, I'll tell you what I mean the market right now Ain't looking too good You know we pulled back going into a 30 9 o'clock steady downtrend. We've only continued a little bit there since Even here I was elaborating this to our students just in our trading room earlier As far as like a potential gap long-term or mid to long-term like there might be a gap fill here over time So this could be the beginning of a pullback The reason I bring this up is because it goes to show especially on a day like this That we could easily make money on stocks going up, you know, not every stock is following the S&P or the Dow ESN Q whatever you want to focus on as an index or major, you know market mover So, you know just before I had cgc up on the screen. I was going to get to this eventually I I'm still in on this trade right now. It's pushing up pretty nicely up to resistance at 9 There are other trades moving though this one here to a CB this one's pushed up still at this point holding What we have from earlier VV PR, you know pre-market push then after the open It goes to show that as long as you're working together in a team and you have the chance to you know group together Brainstorm together with different stocks. Hell. I'm not watching every stock it you know every minute of every day So I'm always looking at the trading room seeing myself rich Fausto and then our students Andrea Brad Kathleen Grant Leda all our students that have been with CTU for a long time Well, you know, I know that they made good call-out since not just you know the stock making a push But where is there a big level? Where is there a big buyer? Where is there a big seller? So actually, you know, I'll get to some questions that came in just before this workshop started But I'll tell you what no webcam today, right? Don't see the webcam popping up, right? I'm a hot mess hot mess today actually no longer But basically without going much further as small little health scare last week and heading into today I was like freaking out actually this morning overnight. Well all as well Knocking on wood, but you know the hot mess and with that in mind earlier this morning I was a lot more worried than I am now obviously and I didn't really take the time to prep many charts at all I didn't take the time to go through my levels. I was too worked up, you know too much going on in my life Let me ask really quickly Dave Margaret Allen Abdul just all of our students in chat right now You know, hopefully it hasn't happened to you to where there's actually been a major medical issue, right? You know, we pray for everyone's health here You know, there's always scares though has that happened to anybody of late where you know Perhaps there was a bit of a scare You may have had to go to the doctor you're freaking out mentally and it's throwing your psyche off with trading Rose your psyche off from trading, right? A lot of us right Bill wishing you well my friend and all of us of course, you know Margaret Scott So I knew I wasn't alone with that like kind of generally everyone kind of goes through different issues But when it comes to risking money when it comes to making intelligent decisions with our money Well, what do we do? Unfortunately, we're gonna be a little bit more reluctant to take trades because we know that things are off, right? Whether you know, they're actually happening or it's a scare, you know, thankfully all as well but it's to say that there's always going to be something that could throw you off and In that case, I'm not going to be as keen to just jump in a trade to jump in a trade So to stick on VVPR for a moment, I will tell you I was watching this with my student Manny earlier on a coaching call and It is popped and I was looking for a pullback right down to this line Right in this moment here at the time and it just did not make that Stupid under and over and it's not so stupid mind you but you know, I'm a stickler to my rule set and Again, I'll take a trade when I feel most confident about taking it Especially on a day where my psyche is off or I have a lot going on things just kind of boggling in my mind So this I was looking for an entry. It just did not do exactly What I wanted it to do in accordance to my strategy and it just took off without me So that's like an even further, you know kicking, you know, what that's a real big like tease right there This thing flew without me All right, what do we do? What do we do right now? This thing is running up without me now. It's even worse All right, well, it's you know it pretty much rinse and repeat It's a matter of saying hey like, you know, is there another stock that maybe isn't up You know a thousand percent or let alone a hundred fifty percent at the time two hundred percent now 277 percent live right now Well, if there is a stock that's only up 30 percent 20 percent 40 percent compared to this All right, perhaps there's more ground to cover right Now hey really quick. Does that make sense to everybody there? Just that simple like train of thought You know, this is up so much in pre-market not just the trend but percentage-wise you gotta imagine at some point This is gonna pull back so you figure it's probably just best to move on right like figure out a stock That's maybe not up as much right So that's where I'm looking around elsewhere I jump off my coaching call of my student Manny at the time at a 30 log into the trading room and You know, we were looking at this AI and C beforehand before we had jumped off you could see right here I had a level at $4 There was an even better level on this at 380 But point being what I did on this trade at least was I waited I waited a decent chunk And you know it ended up making a nice move here where pushed above $4 I did survive this shake as it pulled back nasty little shake there but it ended up failing to break a lower low and Beaking that nice little push back the next candle So easy to say but that did help me out where it pushed off the level and it made the better move afterwards in pre-market So, you know, it's a matter of seeing hey just $4 you'd figure to be a whole number level But not just that and it did hold pretty nicely at first in pre-market But the more times that we see buying from that level I'd imagine something's got to give right again My popsicle stick references I phrase it in class You know just let's say you have that popsicle stick in between your fingers. You're twisting it. You're bending it You're flicking it you're snapping it Probably not going to break it in one shot But you know the more that you snap it and twist it in whatever you're weakening it, aren't you? Okay, seem to be said with just any horizontal price level I mean honestly any sort of level whether it's a moving average or VWAP line or no trend line even so here Just that $4 horizontal price level first break here It was lackluster it pushed up a little bit, but then it came back down You know failed to make that big move shortly after so the more times it could at least nip this on the way up There's a better chance for that better push. So I was more diligent here waiting for this push I failed to get in from 380. I wish I could say I did that I know a couple of our students maybe Chuck or Alex got in there from 380 More or less once it broke above 4 again I took my entry from there led to still a pretty solid run, right? Ended up getting out is right around 429 430 even Abdul says do you have a hard time getting filled in pre-market? Very good question there that I can just kind of segue towards Yes, and it depends on a couple things, right? Let's say right now not pre-market Let's say right now even just real-time like 1130 in the morning 1115 in the morning For this stock AI and see does it even moving well? Yeah, not really How many shares would you trade at the stock for all of us your life? Maybe a hundred shares maybe 200 shares 500 thousand how many shares would you look to trade at the stock right now? Reason I ask is because you know for a stock that has a thinner order book and larger spread It's gonna be a lot harder to get filled in general regardless of size whether it's 200 shares or a thousand shares So with saying that you know it's a matter of a on larger share size plus being on a thinner order book That's where it's gonna be even that much tougher, right? So in pre-market you're gonna see this type of order book more often compared to you know much tighter spread better liquidity out there Leonard says thinner the volume lower the shares. Yeah, absolutely, and it's not to say that you're not going to get filled It's not to say you're always going to get partially filled. No That actually happens pretty infrequent to me in times or I should say hold on That's it I came up from you know much less often than not it happens to me So it's not as often But it's been known to happen especially on just stocks that have this type of liquidity though It's kind of why I harp to you so often at least focus on stocks that have better order books tighter spreads All right, so you know to at least go back as far as the whole concept of all right.   It's a matter of being more restrictive with your strategy and saying okay as long as the stock is making You know a perfect move where it's testing a significant resistance on the way up or on the flip side If it broke above resistance already and ran off of it then perhaps that resistance could initially look to become Support so you know furthermore when the market opens up and you have the chance to put your seatbelt on a lot easier to You know set stops on trades It's going to be easier for you to take entries right so in pre market I still wasn't fully focused the AINC trade got me a small profit But even that took a little while to get going, you know, I missed out on the huge pop on VV PR so I still felt a little like you know not a Discouraged really that's not the word to use but it's to say I missed out on a huge opportunity So you know I still got to realize you know there's gonna be other trades out there But I want to make sure that it matches what I'm looking for in strategy That's it Even this it's easy to say this in hindsight, you know after a stock like this shakes down as nasty as it does We just move on from it pretty much write it off But this resistance line at 560 did flip into support at first didn't it? So if you did have that level set up and you were hyper focused on this trade as it was a you know pulling back At least you know at the time it was approaching that support You could say all right. Well, what if it ends up testing it goes under then over? It's the first time it's testing it right where my cursor is That to me is like a really sound setup, you know, perhaps more of a captain hindsight comment looking at what had happened You know it actually bounced back up pretty nice. You had a good chance to make some you know You know decent money. It didn't continue obviously didn't make the higher high, but it was a good day trade It was a good little bounce off support, right? Now though. Hey, what about other trades that we were calling out from earlier today? Well really after the market opened I was taking some losses and some break evens TPS T was one of the trades that I was More focused on at first, you know kind of going back to at least You know stocks that you're more prepared for I didn't have these lines set actually from earlier today Or from this morning rather I had that from I had these lines from yesterday So these were actually saved overnight from the class I taught yesterday afternoon, you know for all my students like Abdul Who else do we have here that's gold or platinum Scott Dave Lee Allen Bill Roger Alex, you know You were with me in the phase 2 class yesterday So we were talking about a couple of different levels point being you know this TPS T trade of 541 did not hold support here too Nicely it tried I jumped in it stopped me out. I tried again It took me out break even here actually was afterwards it pulled back I washed out profits at this point so break even here But still didn't make the high or high that I wanted right? It happens right but at that point. I'm not just going to jump into other trades just to jump in Let's kind of go back to the drawing board for a quick second Rescan the market mind you Actually a little housekeeping note. You might see my gainers list here kind of all out of sorts That's a little glitch on my platform today. I'm using Then Zynga pros scanners as always just kind of on the side here anyway But you know, I'm always scanning throughout my day and in my morning I'm jumping on a coaching call with one of my students at 1030 and you know at that point You know I had a reschedule actually with my student You know you see had grandchildren come in and of course family comes first me I told him like let's just reschedule I think it's best for you, you know But with that in mind, I'm going back to the drawing board. What's next and I'm seeing ACB This is where we go back to ACB. This is where we go to CGC and This moved up a little bit higher since that's fine. I was kind of expecting it to to a degree But look at this resistance here. It was holding under this area for so long, right? And this is after 1030 like I'd said But it was holding under that level for quite some time, right? It's easy to see I think it's very easy to see that it's not just one little flash pop one little peak No, no, no, it's holding under that area or maybe even just that one-price level What is that 482 481 maybe for like 25 minutes 30 minutes now the question begs why how and Otherwise, where was the actual big volume filled because our whole mantra here at CTU is to follow the big money You know, not only is that a big level maybe on this one-minute chart, but it does show at least on the daily chart, too Hmm little higher 492 495 is right there a few days in a row where we had those tops But where actually was the big volume? That's like the larger question on my mind Now I had enough time here just across the last 20 minutes prior I jumped on my coach and called my student and You know, I saw right here.  So at what price that's the question Well, I'm gonna ask you what price. Oh, man, this is moving up nice here. That's good Give me a second here. Give me a second here. Give me a second here ECB All right, there we go Let's just do a little bit of That there we go Now there's only one part of this heat map or this whole window actually it's not on the actual heat map portion of it Believe or not, that's my hint.  What price would you happen to see that be at? Again, it's not on the actual heat map portion of this but What do we got? Fill quick to the punch on 477 Margaret saying 472 Both good answers when you look at this column CVP because both actually stick out nice Now this is where I'll show you look at the column to the right of that though Delta Delta Actually shows the difference between the Red and the green on that candle. Believe it or not are on that price level So it certainly seems as if at 477 we have a lot more green than red do me, right? now I Can really dig into the old-fashioned tape here for you if you want but you know for right now would just kind of keep it simple and I'll put a line at 477 namely here and more or less just the more times it can nip that price You'd like to figure it can make a big move Shortly after you know if we have so much buying there and it keeps testing that price on the way up I'd like to think at least we should get some more decisive reaction then Maybe this is like four pennies on the way up three pennies on the way down if there is that much You know volume filled at that price in general let alone buying you'd figure the move should be up and We should at least see it hold above that price as support So that's where I ended up taking this trade on a CB I got out as like we were starting traders talk as I did like at 511 510 Now that's because my other trades after the market open kind of sucked. It took losses and break evens I went nowhere after 930. I actually gave back most of my profits, you know from from the AINC trade That was a nice one that held me above water at least this Well, this definitely takes me at least back into the profit if not a lot more and then now at this stage I still have the CG say Now the difference rather pardon me the similarities between CGC and ACB or both are within the same sector The reason I'm trading both are because I'm familiar with both You know when when one moves the other tend to tends to move so that's where at least for right now It's actually trying to hold support got to be a little mindful of a break here coming up live Already just kind of nipped under this year at like 873 Yeah, it's pulling back. It might be time to get out on this trade here, too. Let's see 33,000 share print got filled at 855 Give this just a little bit. I don't mind hanging on for a split second longer right now We're still above water here on this trade Yeah, it's some resistance here at 848. Perhaps that could be support as low as yeah, that's fine I'll move my stop up on this trade now Just to basically like 845 844 even It stops me out. I take the money so be it But that's where we take the money and run on one and we try to keep the other just in case if it can make a better move I started to but now at this point We got to manage it manage it a little bit tighter and we'll look to see if this could become support and for this to Move back up. All right, Alex says is your audio disrupted. I don't believe so audio should be good folks Let me know Got your question just in private chat Alex So we'll get to your question just a bit a couple in the main chat as well all good from everybody else and Alex you were good to go too. Nice. All right, Alex said he fixed this issue. All right really quick Let me scroll up. I got some chat that came in from earlier. I just want to make sure I can get to first All right, so How about this we got two different Abdul case how about this there we go nice So we have our gold student Abdul who had asked that earlier and our new trial member Abdul here just mentioning Can you please recommend any strategies or content to me to master book map for scalping? Okay, so You know book map in general might I say and and I mean this like you know We put out some good content ourselves on our YouTube channel here at CTU, you know like for free You know book map themselves has a great channel Fausto and myself are both on there at times to do different webinars with them And they have other you know presenters that you could like poke at I never like to mix and match strategies too much So that's the one thing I'll say there like don't like just like kind of use one like all these different people's strategies But it's just the overall concept of how to use book map all together now That's where I'll tell you though in our classes in our like main Curriculum that we provide like after your trial membership with CTU if you want to become an actual student join us in the phase one stock course I Just came off a class yesterday folks. I'm still kind of in class mode here I got my PowerPoint, but you know actually right here if you see Abdul our trauma trial member here phase one at the bottom class 12 Intro to quote-unquote level four that right there is what we you know nickname book map So that's a whole 60 minute like detailed class that I do in our beginner course the phase one Right tend to go over just how to use the basic principles of it the heat map All the other columns namely the Delta column I even try and hide Not to like hide any information, but you know just really quick note if you're on think or swim You know you have a lot of these tools to your arsenal I don't think that you can get that Delta column perhaps, but outside of that all of these other tools here that you could use All right, so you know if you have further questions on book map all together That's where I'd say just you know you could private chat myself a duel or you could email me on top You know after this workshop later on today, and I'll be more than happy to at least address any other questions. He got there All right, so we jumped a private chat next from a from a man Alex So he says Fausto had a tip this morning. He said three simple tops Very three. Sorry. He said three triple tops. Jeez my dyslexia there If not moving up closely to drop can you confirm that I heard him right? Thanks. All right, so let's repeat that again. I have bad reading skills Fausto had a tip this morning. He said three triple tops if not Moving up likely to drop. Yeah, I mean, it's the same thing as saying, you know the 32nd rule It's the same thing as saying if it's not gonna make a big move in one direction It's gonna make a big move just the opposite way, right? It's the same exact concept. That's all You know that's literally it It's the whole reason behind CgC making a stronger push over time even on this trade here my entry on the stack was off of 832 831 ish even that was a strong iceberg level from earlier this morning. So Who's this area? Who's this area altogether? That's what it was So for myself on this trade there was a bit of an iceberg level here since the market opened up at 836 They got filled On the way up. So, you know green and then we also had some big green here at 833, you know, that's my price where I got in from on this trade So, you know, it took a moment of time before it ended up making the better push But you know more or less if it wasn't going to hold support Then it's more likely to pull back if it's not gonna keep its foot on the gas pedal in terms of Trend in terms of buying even just before, you know, I had a you know manage my trade here at this point And say oh shoot if this ends up failing to you know flip this into support It's pretty strong chart level here. I have you know, it's not just the tippy top that we focus on It's more of the consistent one two three bars right there four five six right there You know, that's that's pretty solid. That's a solid chart top So, you know to kind of just jump back that's where I see even here like hey if this wasn't gonna move back up I'm still not out of the weeds necessarily, you know, I'm gonna profit on this trade regardless if it does pull back more But you know, it's just if it fail to push back up here It's not gonna be a surprise to see it dump back down It's not to say every single stock makes a full-fledged reversal mind you But do we want to give back over profits? No, did I want to give back my profits earlier on TPST?  Again once more CGC like you could just use this Now I will mention that the time in between this test here. What was this at 8 or a 10 0 4 10 0 3 and This level test here at 10 43 There's a lot of time in between that What you want to focus on and this is where we teach this a lot further in our actual classes, but The more times it tests it in a shorter concentration That's where I feel bullish the more times in a shorter concentration So when you think about that it ended up beginning. It's better push from this level at this point. I Was ready in the trade from the 833 835 ish area But you know from this level it provided a great entry even from here It just took an extra nudge that's because you know just it was testing it more frequent in the shorter time zone All right Let's see really quick again from Alex just Asking in pre-market how to trade when stops are not allowed That's also a very good question and again. I'm not just pulling this back up just to be in class mode right now It's just on the top of my mind at least but hey Phase two when you graduate from phase one and move on to the phase two course You know, I do a lot more live market You know, I know that this is kind of live market to a degree traders talk here But I'm not like really doing X's and O's as much as I do in an actual curriculum But you know, this is where in phase two I have a whole class devoted to pre-market class 8 intro to pre-market right here So that's the full 60-minute breakdown on that more or less when you're using When you're trading pre-market, you can't use stop orders That's where you'd have to make sure that you're only using a limit order first But your price level is set a little bit I'm sorry your your limit price is set a little bit lower compared to where the stock is trading at So like even here, let's pretend. This was pre-market here. Let's pretend. This is pre-market Make sure my that's to limit All right, so if I wasn't able to set a stop here, let's say this is pre-market and of course, we know you can't trade Market orders and pre-market you can't set stop orders there Options market is not open. You can't buy your puts or calls there yet Alright, well here what you want to do is to manage this trade to make sure it could hold above 848 as support Well, you'd probably set like a limit price. Let's say like that not that low like 828 maybe even 836 something like that and just have your finger on the sell button That's as much as you could do in terms of you know doing what you would call a manual stop This is where I tell you for anyone that like is trading pre-market. Please make sure two things You know you're that you're trading a stock that has a more liquid order book first because with something like this It's a little bit easier to manage at least it gives you a little bit more to focus on in terms of liquidity and Normally for a stock that is more liquid It's not going to move as fast Comparative to otherwise it's not going to move as chaotic compared to otherwise. So I'm just giving you my thoughts here and it comes from being you know with CTU for 10 years teaching our classes and being a professional trader myself But everyone has a different cup of tea and I don't mean this in a negative way as much But it is true, you know, there are some folks here that that have a more like, you know Riskier personality where they look to take trades on like crazy spreads. I Don't want most students to be doing that because more often than not they lose on those stocks You know, that's kind of why we say that there's like a 90% failure rate rate in trading, right? so with saying that the reason is because people aren't as focused as much on the strategy and Focusing it on liquidity. So for a stock that has a bigger spread. There's more uncertainty behind it And typically when you're trading pre-market at least after 8 o'clock the order book fills in a lot more After even 7 o'clock. There's a chance Because some pre-market brokers open up their trading to retailers at like 7 o'clock. All right Maybe there's something at like 7 15 7 30 there is there could be But when you're out there like 5 in the morning for there is no need for that You know, the only people I actually coach on how to trade at that time are people that are like International overseas in Europe, you know, if they're in Belgium or Germany I got off with a student just yesterday, you know, that lives in Germany here and You know, hey, you're more in the zone because you're not wiping the crust from your eyes that early in the morning You know, it's probably like late morning early afternoon for you then and you're in the zone You're like you're me right now, you know, so that's what I tell you here You're a little bit easier to focus on at that time to trade for pre-market But even as such if our whole philosophy is to focus on the big money And there's not nearly as much big money out there at that time or even a 7 o'clock or at times even 8 o'clock You know, not every stock has a good order book then Then it's best to just kind of be more observant weight trade smaller size anything, you know, you could play around You know, you could you know trade that crazy spread stock, but just do it really for fun That doesn't mean that's high risk if you're trading in on 10 shares, you know You know, if you're doing it on small size that just means that you're doing it for fun And that's okay because you know that you're not going to lose big So that could be one way to kind of wean yourself into, you know Being more comfortable with pre-market trading just to trade a lot smaller size at first knowing that you can't really set stops all together All right, so current time 1137. I want to make sure that we have a Chance to go through some emails and then some other trades just from earlier today from yesterday All right, so Question from question from one of our new trial members, you know, thank you for your email Do you happen to use book map? There we go. We did answer that just before if so, what is the best setup for? They say TS I count that as trade station the broker, which is what I use here That's what you're looking at. But maybe they mean think or swim TOS From a video if I if I had if I have that right, you know Just let me know if trade station or think or swim TS they had said but you know more or less basically trade station here We actually have like files templates. We can email out to you You know think or swim has book map and I would just say contact book map or I'm sorry wrong contact Think or swim contact your broker there and ask about book map then in that case and they'll be able to discuss that with you We'll help you once you become a student really and once you begin to go through our classes We give you as much handholding as possible when you first join us and get you set up on two introductory calls with my With my colleague rich and then from there like three real coaching sessions one-on-one where we have the chance to go over trades that you've taken Go over trades that we're watching together privately So, you know, that's where I have a better chance to kind of break down think or swim trade station altogether either broker But basically book map if you want to just like kind of like a quick little instance of this year I don't mind just kind of going over one or two things right now Even like on CGC you could just see here. This is beginning to pull back seems like the 569 Level might be trying to hold his resistance right now chopping around it This was an iceberg resistance from earlier. It broke under it just before Support got broken through so support should be resistance at first here No surprise Now question is is it gonna flip it and pop again? Or is it just gonna pull back? You know, that's my risk that I'm running right now. You know, I'm in from 833 834 I think you know if it just breaks lower I'll get stopped out And so be it just take smaller profit on the remaining part But you know now at this point, it's just like if this could hold here and get back above this line Then there's a stronger fighting chance for this trade to make a better push later on today Let me ask you right now in the event where this stock ends up making a pop Makes a new high the day, you know makes a new move up What's our major resistance up top? What is our major resistance up top for all of our students here in chat and our trial members here When I say that notice, I'm talking singular not plural. So there is only one price. I want you to answer Should be an easy one all this answering it though in chat already a perfect ten right so You know ten dollars that area, of course will zoom in on it get you in the actual like you know area there But ten seems to be resistance, right? Now here though, this is where things get interesting notice that we had an iceberg order that was like on the sell side all morning here at 941 941 it was about 40,000 shares Now I wouldn't really respect that line too much since it got pulled But how long was it out there for? nearly an hour and a half So that's a long time in this day trading world that we live in is a long-ass time I mean that you know 30 minutes is a long time Why was that order out there? why Now I don't have that answer you don't have that answer don't even try and fathom like just You got to put ourselves in the shoes of a four-year-old at times a five-year-old got my got my lovely nieces Hannah and Eliza and You know they're growing into those that age age range right now, you know why? You know just kind of that curious minds, right? All right. Well, you know we got to put ourselves in those shoes Hannah and Eliza shoes So no why why is this order out there for so long? Well the more this pushes up and if this could pop I will still treat this as potential resistance. I will now Technically there's still about 15,000 shares out there like in between. I guess like you know kind of here Doesn't like look too distinct, but at like 934 ish 933 ish So, you know if this pops, you know, maybe this area in general could act as resistance Let me ask us really quick. It's below ten dollars.  You know in terms of looking for icebergs what common set of intervals and you know price levels Should we just normally be focused on anyway with right 50 cent level says Sam and then Scott whole number levels, too So, you know, that's why we got ten up top ten dollars, right? But you know as far as like hey, you got this line at 940 on the nose 940 it is I'll respect that Maybe I don't know 15k here. Maybe Well, maybe at 950 There's 18,000 19,000 there So it's more or less for me to say that it's not like ten dollars is just the only resistance level there There's gonna be an area I believe that this will hit resistance if this decides to pop if this just pulls back and so be it, right? Now the key word in those two phrases. I just said the first word there. I said it two times if right Remember how I always say trading is conditional So if the foot's taken off the gas pedal on this run and this does break a lower low All right, I get stopped out. I'm out of the trade and so be it take my money but If it's not going to make this higher low and this better pop up soon enough It's like pulling back now as we're talking if this breaks lower than odds are it's going to keep dropping So there's no guarantees with trading altogether Let's see if this could hold over time and the event that it does Perhaps there is a case that will move up higher later on We'll come back to it probably during our afternoon meeting at 230, but more or less I would still treat this as a Resistance in between from here up towards 10 All right So I'll tell you what that kind of answer that question from my trial member there briefly like I wanted to give you a little something there Right, but otherwise from a to z up and down like honestly You can like try and go through these traders talks as much as humanly possible, but you're probably gonna put in way more effort learning Via traders talks then you would honestly going through our organized full classes So, you know in the phase one class again I went over that just even a week ago or two for everyone live there intro to level four. Oh, okay Here we go. This is a good one. This is one for my student Matt Okay, Josh with the Bitcoin halving coming up Just wanted to get your thoughts just on what's ahead and as far as if there's going to be a very good buying opportunity on the miners Yes, and it's more or less for me to say that the mining companies are not going to be as Direct with bitcoins move we noticed that a month ago. So, you know with like stocks like clsk I mean bitcoin took a huge hit overnight. So we had a nice pull back on bitcoin Maybe I'll show you that graph in a bit But hey clsk definitely reacting with bitcoin with that down drop here today It's more or less to say like a month ago This had a nasty pullback or a few weeks ago nasty pullback and bitcoin was holding bitcoin was perfect It was moving up higher over time So that's where it leaves a bad taste in your mouth to try and expect strong correlation very strong correlation On a stronger move on bitcoin, you should expect at least a decent reaction with it but At least from a month ago or a few weeks back It's going to lead me to say If you're going to try and focus on bitcoin, I would say buy bitcoin or otherwise if you're not going to buy bitcoin Coinbase likely will have a better correlation with bitcoin otherwise. Just go to the ETFs ibit Let me just show you right now ibit blackrock bitcoin etf And I'll compare this actually with the Bitcoin graph I have up live right now It's a five-minute chart. Let me go to one minute Is this delayed? No, it's live. Okay, good 9 30 Yeah, it looks pretty similar to me. Look at that move You could generally see this is a very strongly correlated move these two, right Now to anyone in the know this should be no surprise, right? Just blackrock owns I don't even know the number but in the 30s of thousands I'd imagine if not much more in terms of actual bitcoin So, you know, they're probably going to acquire more and more over time more and more funds pouring into these ETFs all together So that's where you're going to see some good relation between bitcoin itself And these ETFs ibit is the one that I focus on though. So at least this is still not too expensive It's a good one to definitely try and you know look for on a swing trade long term All right, but you know bitcoin altogether. Yeah, we're going to pull back no surprise and here's my thoughts on this really It's no surprise to me. So Anyone ever hear the the phrase in our trading room if you're not familiar with crypto It is a okay, but for anyone in our trading room if you're ever familiar with the phrase buy the rumor sell the news right Now that's not going to happen here in crypto We're not going to have like a bear market. It's not going to drop like all the way back down and that's my strong belief I'd be shocked if that were to happen That's not going to happen here, but in terms of this bitcoin having event happening Uh in two weeks and like 13 days, I guess it is right calling it 13 days My thought at least was well, you're probably going to have some people sell off to try and shake like all the newbies out All the people that like just expect it to pop up perfectly once this big bitcoin event happens this having event So You know, you can go back it did pop up pretty quickly after each previous Having event there's been like three or four in the past, you know, 12 years So that's where like cyclically it leads to a very strong bull market So i'm long term on this, you know that but that's where at least short term very short term immediate term when this bitcoin having event happens It would not shock me to have this pulled back Try and do like a false break of support to stop a bunch of people out Probably sweep out a ton of liquidity on the buy side People look like real jerks knowing that they you know got their orders liquidated Uh people that look like real, you know greedy jerks knowing that they bought at the very top And then after that drop big squeeze Up that's my prediction. I don't know if I'll be right or wrong on that, but it's better to be safe than sorry So, you know, I've been buying over time really since mid to late january when I told you off of like 395 here Broke under and over that exact price and bam Well now at this point you see a distinct lower high on the bitcoin daily chart, right lower high All right, well lower high might equate to a double bottom at least maybe a test of support again So I think I have these up just from my like previous like kind of research here My charting just kind of this bottom here first this candle then this one held So around 60,000 could be a nice support level to watch out for as low as Uh, it's at 65 now. So, you know, maybe even by the end of this week, we could see it make that test Um, you know, it's a pretty strong drop today. So if it's not going to try and make that high or high It's more likely to try and retest the support Right. So that's all I'm focused on there for the time being and that would kind of align up with that whole having event Happening within the next few weeks or a couple weeks I think probably it'd be about like six weeks in my opinion before you get that real rally that everyone would expect 68 weeks All right, so I will tell you folks. Uh, that's all I got as far as emails or chats So if there are any other questions or stocks you'd want me to look at here before we finish up Let me know unfortunately I'll just see what so here on bottom right got taken out That's stopped out on cgc here. So if this ends up popping back up for us just afterwards I'll try and jump back in if it looks good. I have no need to just yet So right now it seems like this is pulling back now at the stage You know, maybe if it makes one more push later on we'll focus on it, but At least for the time being it was a decent move ACB even here this stock the other like pot stock we were talking about You know just more or less new iceberg seller popping up here at 525 So in accordance to cgc dropping back a little bit wouldn't shock me if we end up getting more of a pull back over time on this one here Bouncing back up for now. That's fine We'll see if this ends up holding support coming up later on if so then we'll try and look for that 940-ish area If not, then so be it. That's kind of my thought All right, folks again last call if there's anything else looking good up down left right That you'd want me to look at here call out just before we finish up Vvpr this thing's done Oh, Irene, this was a nice trade from yesterday a nice little push Had some huge volume filled at 625 and that's 635 for this trade It was more like throughout the morning that that it ended up running But going into the afternoon and we ended up seeing big volume traded at those two prices Well, I wonder why look what happened just early in the morning. It pulled back below those levels Uh, they were red to begin with So we would nickname red this selling maybe somebody new And you know with that in mind, this is a bitcoin stock also So the overnight drop on on bitcoin this miner ended up pulling back quite a bit You know more and more selling came into the afternoon, but perhaps it was the con before the storm Didn't even come close to this as resistance But I'd expect this to hold as a top year over time, you know kind of went up towards 620-ish 621 And then just made that pull back All right, so folks Hey, we're going to finish up for the time being going to jump on to a couple more coaching calls one on one throughout my afternoon 12 o'clock 12 30 one actually throughout my day I'll be back on the stick here at 2 30 eastern for the afternoon meeting And then uh, you know at least from there we got the full afternoon heading into the close all together So for all of a sudden youtube facebook live all of a sudden top, you know a couple things first and foremost I appreciate everyone just joining us all together here each and every uh Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock Just if you're interested in continuing a couple of options If you're not followed or subscribed to our youtube our youtube channel just yet Just uh bottom left right there still sticking up at cyber treating you just make sure to follow us on youtube Namely that's where we're hosting all of our education and videos alike But if you're interested in taking the next step joining us inside our live trading room with our students brad kathleen john grant michael Everyone there right now Just get that qr code on the top left with your phone with your camera If you're not as fancy with your phone or your camera no sweat actually scrolling on the bottom right there You got the old-fashioned hyperlink there uh ctu.co forward slash trial You could just type that in there on your address bar takes you to a nice landing page gets you signed up for a week Long trial to our live trading room, but that is where we'll continue our commentary at least throughout the duration of this day So you know for all of us there alive I'll be back on the stick like i'd said just this afternoon at 2 30 and we'll talk from then take care


Welcome back to the breakfast. It's time for our first hot topic and we want to take a look at the crisis rock in the Labour Party even as the cardinistic chapter of that party suspends three of its chit-tains and has distanced itself from the ilamidi apapafansion. We have our guest Mr. Loh Mefo who is a political analyst. Good morning to you Mr. Mefo. Good morning. Alright, the party... Yes, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you, loud and clear. Good morning, thank you for seeing me. Welcome. Alright, so the Labour Party is divided along two lines with the main party trying to clean the stable of that party by suspending those found wanting. But before we go into this discussion, we have a report on this very development play. Hereby affirm and assert our loyalty, support and commitment to the Labour Party and the National Working Committee of our great party led by our lawfully recognized National Challenge by Mr. Jullo's Aburi. All appointments and decisions made by the APAPA group on behalf of our great party remain null and full. All identified cardinistic members of the Labour Party who were part of the so-called next meeting that took place in Bauchi. In Bauchi State, when they taught me 2022, hereby stand suspended from the party. The ruling party are sponsoring some of our people so that they will take charge of the Labour Party in order to ease way for them to go and say, okay, we have drawn our case in the manner so that they have easy right. We remain resolute. We remain one. To create division in the party so that they can scuttle this reclaiming of our collective mandate. That is what is playing out. And that group that continues to parade themselves as a faction of the party, parade in one Lamele and APAPA as a fractional chairman of the party. They are not. The intent is to tear the party. They have not hidden it. They have been saying it. I am not the one saying it. I am accusing Mr. Peter Obey and the people of Ahmed as having been working for the PDP. And so their mission is to deal with them. Deal with them means when they take over the party, they will withdraw the case and explain them from the party. Oh, well, Mr. Law before you saw that, you heard that report, right? And I have been following the development in the Labour Party for quite some time now. And I am very disturbing, very unfortunate. The Labour Party rather than manager, it is an unexpected victory at various levels. It is trying to factionalise and then bring it to public approval. What has always happened to political parties in Nigeria, we expect that part, that Labour will be different. And stay away from establishment efforts. But this is not what is playing out. But I want us to also see it as an external aggression. The external forces beyond the party itself are trying to infiltrate the party. I listened to some of the comments made. And then one of the commentators was specific about the goal, the primary, strategical objective of this caution into the labour. And yes, two factions exist and live itlessly also. Because if you look at it, Lamidi Apapa was the deputy national chairman of Labour for ourselves. And where the national chairman advocates, normally the deputy national chairman from that part of the country, assumes the office in acting capacity until convention. This is what is playing out. But the question is why is Lamidi Apapa doing this to his own party when they are in the tribunal with very strong chances of even making a case and possibly clutching the presidency. Or at least consolidating on the fortunes of Labour. For me, like I said before, I see external aggression. There is a hijack going on, a hijack. The court has wedded in. There are two court orders. And I think the final resolution of the court appeal. Since one court order is in favour of Julius, the incumbent national chairman, another court order seems to favour Lamidi Apapa faction. Since the two orders are coming from courts of a coordinated jurisdiction, high courts, in this case. The only way to resolve it is to hate to appeal. And I am aware that both the factions have hated to appeal. And I think they need to really shift their shots and allow the appellate court to determine which faction is valid and should be considered the authentic national chairman or authentic national executive of the party whether it is authentic or acting capacity. I want to advise that look, what is before Labour at the moment is legal fireworks at the tribunal. And they need to all face it. You see, if a faction makes an attempt to withdraw the case before the presidential election tribunal, it will not stand because Obi-Wan is the number one petitioner followed by Labour. So if Labour withdraws and Obi-Wan does not withdraw, the case will go on. But it will cause some credibility issues because it has divided against itself hardly stands. If you recall, where the chief Edwin Ubezoke, former Speaker of House of Representatives, was the chairman of all the people's party, EPP, presidential election held with the Buhari as said the presidential flag bearer of the party. The party withdrew from the case but Buhari continued. So I just made the reference to that for now. We have to know that the withdrawal of Labour from the case will not stop there, unless it will be in self-decise to withdraw but it will cause credibility issues because presidential election petitions are both legal and political. This means that the political angle of the case will become a bit weaker but not completely validated because at the end of the day, we expect that it is the facts that will speak for the petitioners. If the facts speak for the petitioners, particularly for Labour, and Labour is able to factually prove that it won that election. So the justices will have no choice because their hands must have been tied. This is my overall impression about this. I think it is not good and Labour is not obeying itself any good at all. And going forward also for Ube and Ubedians, they need to learn from what is going on and they have to reinvent themselves and begin to think critically about even exiting the Labour completely and form a brand new political party. That may be the way to go. If this issue is not resolved, it may be the ultimate solution for Ube and Ubedians. Ubedians are not a political party. Ubedians are people who follow an ideology. That's why I said they need to consider seriously going forward. This is the point I want to make. If they are not a political party and they follow an ideology, it doesn't matter the name that it assumes. Whether it's still Labour Party or Ube, who they are following, moves to another party, they will still move to that party. Now, if you say that they have to reinvent themselves and move to another party, a lot of them are not even Labour Party members. So what other solution can we have to solve this problem, especially within the Labour Party? Because Labour Party is not Labour Party. Labour Party is a third force that if there are fifth columnists, the people who are the external forces, like you said, are trying to disrupt the process within that party. So wherever they move to, these external forces will still follow them there. So can we find a permanent solution that doesn't have to depend on a name? You see, if you understand the rule of political parties in a presidential democracy, you will see that there is no alternative to it. Because in our constitution, there is no provision for independent candidates. What that means is that you must come by way of political parties. If that is the only pathway available to the obedience, they cannot contest elections in Nigeria as obedience. That is one issue that must be resolved quickly. If they don't resolve it, they will have a problem. Why they are not famed on the ground in Labour is because they joined Labour. Okay, technical glitches there. I hope we are able to reconnect with Mr Law Mepho. Hello Mr Law Mepho, have you been able to reconnect with us? Alright, well Aunty, we'll get him back. We just have to banter, don't we? I was wondering, and it is him to talk about it, is because obedience cut across party lines. There are APC members who are obedience. There are Afghan people who are obedience. There are AA people all across board. There are people who identify with the ideology and the man who they have chosen to bear the flag for them for the kind of life they want their leader to be. So wherever they go to, if they are at threat, no matter what name they assume, there will still be a threat to the people who don't want them to exist. So if they are the ones paying others to disrupt the party, they will still be paying them no matter what umbrella they go under. So I'm wondering if there could be a permanent solution and that's what I really wanted him to talk about. He was trying to give that answer. But one of the things that I know is that all the parties have their problems. All of them, APC, PDP, and then of course Labour Party. Labour Party's crisis right now is as critical as it is because of the fact that they're in court, because they are the third force that has shaken the political narrative of late and the fact that the leadership, the national chairman has been involved in this umbrella that has led to a court ruling that's told him to stop parodying himself as the chairman of the party. But what are the implications of that? Can't the party move forward from there? Well, like Mr. Mifosa said, whether the party dies or not, whether it splits or not, there was an avenue through which Peter B emerged, contested. So they cannot say he came as an independent candidate. So there was a party, whether it dies today or not. And then he is going there as a person and the petition is in his name. Labour Party also gave their petition, but whether the Labour Party withdraws, Obie can still continue with it. That's one good thing about it. Obie can still continue with his own petition. It doesn't have to be that Labour withdrew and Obie lost. So whoever is paying these people, maybe he's not even also thinking about the fact that Obie, though contested under a party, is still somewhat independent when it comes to the case that is in court. Isn't it interesting, isn't it, that La Media Papa is being... Well, I don't want to say some things because we have no evidence to it. But the role he's playing in all of these and broadly working in the party is quite surprising because I do understand that the Labour Party south-west had collapsed its entire structure, and that's few days to the presidential election. Well, they debunked that. The governorship candidate came in our studio and debunked it that some people were probably those people who are now blossoming and doing what they're doing now, either ones that are parodying themselves or saying that the Labour Party has collapsed their structure. In that same breath where we heard that Labour Party collapsed their structure, we also heard that in some places in some local government, APC and the PDP collapsed their structure into Labour. Exactly. So everybody was collapsing and collapsing in another person's mind. Political calculations, horse trading. People have price tags. It's unfortunate, but especially in politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends. It's interest that matters to a lot of politicians. And it's unfortunate that in our crime, we do not have, as we have really established over time in the course of our discussions, political discussions, there are no ideologies. People just move from one party to another party as easily as you can spread butter on your bread and it's not good for the polity. It's not good for a position. It's not good for... But I've been told that we have Mr Lomba for back online. Hello, Mr Mefo. Yeah, sorry for the glitch. Okay. There was a glitch, I'm sorry about that. It's all of our glitch alleges in Nigeria at the moment. It's a welcome back. There was a very beautiful question my brother asked. What is the way moving forward? And I was stressing the fact that, look, I will come into the extant laws operating at the moment to not permit independent candidates. What that means is that you participate through a political party. Obedients, like we recognized, they are not a political party. And I am saying the problem they have in Nerebo is because they joined the adopted member as a platform. They are not Nerebo party members in the main. Many of them who joined Nerebo is just out of necessity and they are ready to move if it becomes really necessary. Now, you see, because it was an emergency arrangement and they used the platform for this presidential election, they need to manage the process carefully for the outcome because they allow it to affect their chances at the Charbonne and ultimately at the Supreme Court. They only have themselves to blame. You see, the establishment forces have moved against them. We should be expected. They should know that. Power is not the al-Aqat. You have to take it. That's the truth of our political process. It means that they have to be more strategic, more tactical in their approach. They are not to blame for what has happened. It is the establishment forces that are in favor of doing and trying to hijack the platform they use using some internal collaborators to achieve and their ultimate aim, like a rally identified by one of the commentators, is to see if they can hold on and enjoy the petition they have at the Charbonne and, since this is the most likely aim of the faction, they have one protection going for them. I mentioned that before, that Ubi is the number one petitioner and Labour Party is number two on the presidential petition. And it is the Labour Party withdrawals in an unlikely event that they succeed in withdrawing. It cannot stand unless Ubi himself also withdraws from the base which is not likely to happen. It also, that for me, is resting for one part. But you remember that I also said that presidential election petition is both political and legal. The political angle can be affected, slightly at least, because the optics, the public perception, we could be impression that Labour himself is not there, is not serious. And the judges themselves are also human beings. But if they are present in the United Solid Front, very solid front, because a house divided against itself cannot stand, if they are united, the possibility of getting something out of the tribe will be there. So... Would you say that these suspensions that we are hearing from the different chapters is a strong enough indication that they are cleaning up and that they are getting stronger? Well, the suspensions and counter suspensions, you know, these are the great capacity to find and develop in the political process. We do not need to worry much about that until the court says so. Anybody can say anything.  Like I told you, there are two factions because the court, the two courts of coordinate jurisdiction have validated the two thoughts for the same. You know, what that means is that let me say a firm faction has some recognition under the law, Julius faction has recognition under the law, to set aside any of them, you have to go to the appellate court and the two factions are heading that way. Indeed, the presidential petition is ongoing. So, you know, a peer court and ultimately the Supreme Court speak on which faction is valid. There is nothing anybody can say from now and that will really determine that is so definitive. It will not. It will not. It's just an opinion. That's the point I'm trying to make. And when I don't... Yes, let's wrap up. Okay. I believe that even the victims are not able to take over NEPO as a platform. They must consider seriously about the trans... you know, transiting into a political party. They have the number, they have the spread. So, they will finally be registered as a political party. And we will not advise that they are not a party. I advise they constitute themselves into a political party. That's my candid advice. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Lorme, for coming on the programme. It's always a delight to have you join us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for hosting me. Thank you. We've been talking with Mr. Lorme for a political analyst and we're looking at what is happening in the Labour Party. We do hope that the problems within the Labour Party will be resolved soon. And we're looking forward to a very, very bright Nigeria. We don't want to lose any of the political parties that has made impact in these elections and the political sphere. We'll take a short break now. When we return, we'll be talking tech with our guests. Stay with us.