And Laura, as Quinn, I am an independent consultant specializing in technology and website strategy for nonprofits. And I especially work with organizations on the beginning stages of projects. So try to take their project from a kind of fuzzy vision of what they want to happen to an action plan. So you have a technology project. So let's say you need computers or a new website or a constituent relationship management system or maybe even you have a interesting new idea for a technology solution. How do you find technology funders? There are almost no specific sources of funding just for technology. How you ask for money for technology really depends on your current funders and the specifics of how they think about what they're funding. Don't rule out the possibility that you might have a major funder who could be compelled to support technology. So for instance, maybe you've got a donor who made their money in the technology sector and is really interested in a $10,000 technology project. For foundation funders, start by talking to any existing funders you can get on the phone about your needs at a high level and the way that they support technology needs. Honestly, it does the whole sector a favor when we have a conversation with our funders that technology infrastructure like pretty much all infrastructure doesn't magically happen for free. Something that needs funding as well. All right, so let's start with funding for technology infrastructure, which is probably honestly the hardest. So let's say you need funding for computers or to upgrade your constituent management system. It's really hard to ask funders, so honestly, either institutional or individual funders to support infrastructure. It's just not sexy. It's just not the type of thing they're excited to fund. This probably starts with talking to your current funders, especially foundation funders might be a source for this, to understand how they think about this. So it's like a conversation about unreserved funding or about operating funds. Some funders will support general operating. Some have specific programs that are like might be a different person to talk to or some just don't do it. So some funders will say, I'm sorry, I don't support technology and as much as I might like and probably you might like that that was not the answer that is unfortunately what some funders will say. But you could also think about potential sources of unreserved income at your organization that could be moved around to support technology infrastructure. And then perhaps you could fundraise for something else. So basically you could look for more funding for a program or do an additional gala or additional individual fundraising drive and use that for your technology infrastructure. Okay, what about technology as part of an existing program? This is a place where nonprofits have found it a lot easier to ask for funding. For instance, maybe you can load technology into a project budget as an operating cost. So you have a line item and it is technology. So for instance, a lot of proposals have a line item for shipping and mailing. Why the heck is shipping and mailing a valid expense? But technology isn't. That is just kind of crazy 1960s. So another way of thinking about a technology for an existing program is to say in your proposal that new technology is needed to successfully carry out the program. So to succeed. So for instance, you'll need mobile phones for your field staff or a client serving website and make sure to say why that technology is directly related to the programmatic goal. So just say, and we're going to need this. But to say, and here's why it will help, what it will help with. We'll be able to help more clients and here's how many. So to be specific, what about technology as a new project or a new program? So this is the easiest to visualize, but not necessarily easy to get funding for. So this would be, say, you need a new website or a new constituent relationship management system to effectively do your work. That may absolutely be true, but the way that institutional funders are set up. So foundations, it means they rarely have programs that that type of grant will fit under. It might actually be easier to ask for general operating funds. So to increase your general operating funds or just operating funds to cover the project, though, if you can say you're using the technology in kind of a different and a new way to facilitate a core part of your mission, that might be more interesting to funders. So to say, instead of just, we need a new website to say, we need a new website that is going to be primarily about providing to historical documents about the county or connecting those who want to do maybe sewing projects with shelters who need pillows or blankets. I'm making fast stuff up right now. So, and those can be the core of your proposal to the foundation or even better if you have a technology project that feels like it does things in a whole new way where the project is the technology. That may be something that funders find sexy for better or worse. Many funders like to fund things that seem like they haven't been done before. So in general, like for most things, sending out proposals to people or foundations, you don't really have a relationship isn't likely to be worth the time, a technology, except maybe a really interesting new use of technology just isn't a great way to form a new funding relationship. Instead, it's best to focus on the funders you already have and what they're likely to fund. If you're wondering what specifically you should cover and what you should put in a request for technology funding, stay tuned. That will be in part two of our series.


Hello, my name is Dr Jay Simon Rhoaf, researcher and academic at SOAS University of London. I'd like to talk to you about the understanding research methods summer school that we're going to be running online in the summer of 2020 here at SOAS. It would be a great opportunity for us to welcome you and to help you with your research. Our job is to demystify what research is about, make it accessible, make it relevant to the work that you're doing. Even when you might not consider what you're doing as high level academic research, maybe you're working in the professional sector, private sector, NGO, nonetheless research is something that's fundamental to lots of the work that's undertaken these days, particularly as we're desk bound due to COVID-19. We have to be able to utilise different methodologies, different skill sets, making sure that what we're doing is valid and, you know, accountable to whoever our stakeholders may be. That might just be yourself in completing a piece of research for an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or to a board of trustees or governors, but making sure that what you're doing is rigorous, well thought out and well resourced. Research matters whether you're an academic, putting together scholarly papers or working in the field, working in the likes of medical world or anywhere else. We have to be able to understand the values that underpin research, where does research come from, why should you care and what difference it makes to the outcome. These are important ethical and moral considerations in the way you conduct your research and on this course we'll explore each and every one of those, making sure that you have the appropriate skill set to be able to engage with your project, deliver to a deadline and to make sure that you can do so in an ethical and well thought out way. Hope you'll be able to join us and feel free to be in touch with any questions. Thank you.


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I got the me back truck So I got two of these cars here. I mean I got the baby back truck so that's a little different and you know It's my favorite cars the baby back first got money up the first car. Why is the favorite car? This was the first car when I first got money. That was the first thing that I bought a me back It's only this if y'all never got a chance to see this up close I never got a chance to see this one up close. Look at that. Look at the screen in there, man Come on, man. Get the details man. Look at the screen in that puppy, man. Oh my god We're having a virgin Rest in peace to Virgil man How much this right here right these these over sticker right now still he says six hundred thousand collectors though Six hundred that's two and that's two million. I was in cars three cars two and two ounce three cars They just three car. Look look at the lamp. He just leave the door still Look at that crazy now. Not now.    Oh, man That's two that's two point six in cars man, and this is only my Vegas cars That's for another spot in L.A. to keep my L.A. My L.A. collection 25 years old 25 years old doing it like this My neighbors get mad when I be parking on the street stuff like that. So I can't keep all my cars here I'm thinking about getting a garage or something. Let's keep let me ask you a question, man How do it feel to be the youngest in the boxing game doing it like this? I mean, I knew that I was gonna be here one day I worked hard sacrifice so much to be in this position. So it was like it was only a matter of time Yeah, cuz I could I could honestly say At 25 only I don't even think Floyd was doing it like this. No Nobody was doing it like me. I see maybe Mike Tyson Mike Tyson. Yeah, Mike Tyson might have a tiger or something at 25 So he definitely was doing it like this but but Tyson in the onus company. Yeah, no Tyson was signed or somebody What was the importance of owning that like, you know, could you start a young only your own thing?  Yeah, no, that's what we set out to set out to do me my pops We wanted to be able to control our own destiny, you know, if no fights happen It wasn't because of of us. If you if you're looking my career, I go from promoter to promoter Network to network to make the biggest fights happen and get paid the most You're the only one in the game that only at your age Maybe Canelo Canelo Anthony Joshua the ones that's really not knocking off the big money, right? It's cuz it's cuz they able to go to network to network and on this right So basically, but the youngest nobody was doing it at 25 ever ever I was the youngest promoter in the game at like 1920 years old when I was fighting on showbots So when you say that no cuz I want to get a streak and me and Gil talk about a lot of that And it seemed like with a lot of fighters a lot of times it'd be five six four five people in a pocket Ain't nobody in your pocket. No, I don't got nobody in my spot here I'm doing copromotional deals with with the promoters. I mean, I'm seeing all the numbers. I'm looking at everything I'm knocking off the money for real, you know, these guys they they take a guarantee and they okay with that Which is cool. I'm not gonna get that that's that's the you know, the regular way to do it But um, no, I want to see the numbers. I want to see the gate I want to see the how much money the the network is playing up the stuff that these that these fighters And don't know nothing about but that's for me to teach them That's for me to teach the people before me and and after this major. Let me ask you a question Why is it that?   Well, that's what your dad was supposed to do Yeah, I mean it was more you know coming from the knowledge my pops did the game You know, he knew what we wanted to be so it was even you know, you can have as much money in the world But if you only got that game that knowledge To be able to apply it, you know to the sport, then it don't matter And I'm and I'm the type of fight I'm fighting everybody. I'm finding best fighters in the world These dudes don't have the resume that I got so y'all can say what I come from But just look at my resume looking actually fighting the best fighters in the world Now seeing your dad say You know when doing sparring Floyd Mayweather was the day he knew that she was the best in the world You know, he said you gave Floyd a good old Richard Simmons Jane find a workout, right?  You always ready. Yeah, so Was the workout really a workout like did you really work him out near? Yeah, I was he taking it easy on you We talking about Floyd now. No, I mean, um, Floyd never said he was take taking it easy I mean, I haven't heard that one time, but um, you know, I still respect the great to the sport It's the sport even when they don't you know, they don't show the same respect But you know, I value what Floyd has done, you know for the sport and he set out the blueprint for me to follow So, um But as you're working now, whatever happened that day happened that day Only me and Floyd know and the people that was there at least how you will well They leaked this to the some some swarming footage That's why I said when the greats when a great lead this one put it Give it to Brian, right? It's not mistaken, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, Brian leaked you and take no, but he didn't leak this one Highlight right a highlight tape and then the highlight tape Tank was going in in the highlight tape. That was his best moment to the sparring and We never seen what I did. We didn't even see me throwing up throwing no punches We know they had no sparring on go especially at that top level. Um, actually tank on y'all podcast like that What do you say you got tired or something? And then that's when I started working on whatever the case may be. Um Um But we just didn't get a chance to see I feel like we stripped the fans to really see What great work is like and you know two guys at at the top of the game right now You know going at it at a young age. We didn't get we should they stripped the fans of it And I would love for to to show the world, you know, what really happened deep down deep down deep down inside Do you do you believe you and you and tank ever gonna get get busy? No, I mean, I I definitely think so. I think it's only a matter of time Me me me, you know, I got me again. We got different opinions about that. I always say Uh, I'm more tank. I think tank won't be crazy because I I seen him. I seen him in I seen him Take take it's a little different. I've seen him, you know, and I'm and I'm more martial art boy No, that's why but that's why The fight is it has to happen because it's people like you that They take away people like you may think I'll make they think I wouldn't do it It's so many people that just want to see the fight.    So, you know, I mean both of y'all two good fighters But it's like I just want to see us people get that paper. That's all No, you know It's only right that we break bread when um when the time is right. Yeah, it's gonna happen This episode of million dollars worth of games is brought to you by Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, bdb new bomb new Amsterdam vodka my favorite new Amsterdam vodka as uh Comes from america's heartland. You know his distilled five times It's filtered three times for a clean chris finish. Now.  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So in the amateurs we was we was you know back and forth We was back and forth, you know, he won one and I wanted next he wanted next and then we got older And that's when that's one thing is right. You keep talking about Ryan, man. I'll just think tank.     He's gonna be leaking. That's you The like oh puss be the like oh pop in the car just gonna stop slick though. That's what I'm hoping it I'm hoping the car. I'm hoping listen. They've got the best jab in boxing. All right, man Well, we got to see this. That's what I show take listen man. Hope folks take come on man. What are we doing, man? What I got I think I think it's around boots and it's got the best jabs in boxing I think from the time they come out from round one being so they come out is no filling out Got the most power I like I like boots, but we can say he got a good jab But I showed it on the elite level we really seen boots on the elite level. Yeah, you're not saying that Not saying that you're right. You're right. I think he definitely will get their elite level boots. It's crazy No, he is but but he wouldn't see that. No, I've seen listen.  I'm not doing all that I See boots I I seen boots in that ring for sure. I seen him in a joint I didn't spar with boots. I ain't saying spar spar. I have my body the body joints on Boots isn't a little he's special. He's throw up to when he get in the ring So did you see what he did to my man in Atlantic City, man? Who that dude was like He was a he didn't know what country he was in Yeah, I thought listen. He beat that boys. I thought somebody got stabbed in a prison fight. It was blood everywhere Do you see what he did? He got a fight one of the top guys in Who Keith Thurman, that ain't for me to determine. I'm not I'm not critiquing it. I mean, I know I'm not going against it But what I'm saying is at the end of the day is she's different at the elite level And I was watching Keith Thurman when I was in jail back in the day, man Yeah, come on man. There's some top guys in 147. That's old news man. I was in the belt now So that's where he's been on fights. It was Nobody He can fight He tried to size me up man, whatever, you know me I still beef when I see you his own all that man. I mean the peace treaty is off, but no, I'm just saying like Who is the top fighters man, all right top five right now top five fighters From you man. I don't want to Include in myself or not including yourself. Obviously me for sure. I like but I Think I think Joshua at the top of this game right now Who else who else Better be it better be at the top. Oh, how many you just say that's for better be it better be it Oh, oh, better be it. Oh, no, you can't do that. You can't do that You won't say for you ain't got sick or in taking it Relax Canelo you got to go with Canelo so you left you core and booths and booths and booths tank and booths it was three I fall Okay, you and she core What about it?  We offer she court a fight He didn't want that Offering some real money or was it play money man audit at the top level all this is real money Well, it's gonna make more money and that's right Then he ever made it all his fights combined while he ain't take it You said all his fights combined all his fights. You always offer some real paper like that. Come on now This is all his fights combined. He's gonna make more money That probably had to do with him if you turn to that. No, he's an animal. I don't know all his fights can buy That's a lot of money All his fights how many fights he had shit 15 17 so you telling me Me was gonna make some good money, but let's take a look at this right here, man Let's talk about this man Let's talk about this. Let's talk about who stack it and who can't be who really going it out here Who's rip come on man. This look like a mall first of all I just want to tell you that look like a mall look look how you got to get the views look You got to get one of you then another view and then another view That's how you doing it 25 years old 25 look at the door. I got big the door is big the door is big you getting money Look at this man Soon as you went to look at this man. This thing crazy. Look at this man This next level man All you boxes out there, right? There's up-and-coming I'm gonna check the kitchen out man Make sure you got some food about it But it's how you you watch my hands But it'll be at a different level. I mean, I'm sure I feel like this is why I know I know I love He know my heart, you know my intentions He know that the type of fighter that I am the type of person that I am so he rewarded me It was only right and you know, he's seen me me and my dad working Doing the right things for a very long time and that's what everything I got, you know, I deserve because I work for it Even that You write it down on the board. Yeah, no for sure. I didn't hand you will knock out Ryan Garcia April 20th, inshallah Yeah See that. Yeah, it's on the board right there for 20. I complete masterclass by a composed and dominant ring general Devon he instilled. Yes.  Look at that, man. That's beautiful. No, I'm saying even look at this man.  You know, I'm studying After the fire I'm gonna go to Napa, you know, I'm saying figure out the expensive wines The you know, I'm saying the ones that we just give out to the ladies when they come over just to you know Where they have they don't really know what you know, it's just That's how you maybe have some some real chicken tundra's one of these spicy chicken Couldn't drink some wine, baby. Ain't about nothing Look at this man. What is this? I think this I think he got I think he got me kitchen stools I Think he got me on his kitchen stools. Yeah, he's just well put together man. Look at this man This we have about 15 20. I'm running around He chase and he pray got some Snort coming out about some girls. Oh, he's Man, I'd be doing laps in the pool man. I'd be you know working out. I know you'd be working out I do You know, I'm saying keep my body right during this during the summer because built that I don't be doing too much Look at that man. Got the waterfall back there once in a while. We have right Of course, of course back there. Got the waterfall back there. Look at it, man. Got the grill over there you know This is this is life man 25 That's what's scary about it. That's what's scary. I'm only 25.  That's all you gotta do is gotta keep the next 10 years 15 years depending on how long you want to do it. I've been keeping my foot on the gas, but now I want Price it even harder, right? It's I'm predicting 675,000 people you by I think he's gonna do a million Despite it's big man. It's huge. You know, that's a lot of pay-per-view buys 675,000 at 80 a while That's a lot People people really want to see this fight this despite it's been it's been a long time coming 1.5 YouTube insha Allah I do absolutely Absolutely, I think I think people think that Ryan got a shot Even though I crazy is and I think that people are going to pay because they want to see you lose If he's playing crazy or if he's really I don't think Ryan has a shot Are you getting what we're gonna have you get knocked out?  Yeah, I don't I don't think I don't see it right now. It's just my time It's my time And that's and that's what I'm gonna show that it's just Right now, I'm just in that groove where I can't be beat when it's all said and don't be close when it's all said done You think you'll be Top five highest paid boxes ever. Yeah for sure for sure. I mean what years you got in the game Man, I got so many years. I'm not even thinking about How much longer I got because it's so long I'm only 25 10 more years. I'll be 35 so but I still so long so it's I want to accomplish so much more. It's so much left on the table right now I can't see myself stopping no time soon. I love what I do You know, I'm not doing something that I feel like it's a job. That's the best part about it. I love it Yeah, I genuinely love it. I love the grind. I love I love every part of it I love part when I'm starving when I'm hungry When I'm dieting and I'm tired from training Sparring good days the bad days. I love all of it So, I just can't see myself stopping no time soon Just see that's the belt that I like out of all of them Yeah, cuz that looked like a real belt all the other belts didn't look like nothing That's the cuz you got the golden all it on there and it got all them legends on there I can't check Like you you got the standards one thing y'all understand Gil had the fastest boxing career of all time He lasted like about 90 days. He was a journeyman in the gym They was beating down and all this sparring joints. He never went pro and you know, and I don't know man It just was like my nice. You had no nice game.  They just tell you it's back in the day when I was walking with taste I was spot. That's him. I was I was with spanks and you know, it's sugar rate limit because what we was doing That's him. He knew he had no professional fights.  How do you feel? Listen, this is what I want to know from you champ. How do you feel? You know, it's crazy. Why don't people call people champ when they ain't champ like you know, yeah, champ I remember I was in jail with dudes that used to box, but they never had no no belts and now We know it's crazy. It's crazy that you say that cuz If I'm not a champ, I'm not calling it no champ.  I was a little kid But I don't know it's just but it's champ the room Because the reason I'm asking that is because it's it's 15,000 belts. It's the belt. They got a American I Never fought nobody but I'm getting the belt because Somebody they got all these type of belts. I heard of it's fit. It's different at federations and I don't know Associations and non-profits they got belts all type of people got belts. So what is a real champ? What belts you got to have? How do you what is a real champ in box? No, I mean you had a had a Major belts to WBC that one the IBF. That's the one that I be at the WBA and WBL Then them is the top four them is them It's the ones that would that make you the champ the man.  So that's why it's so many different. How do you feel? About what's going on? This your real feeling is Because you know boxing is boxing but with these fights outside of boxing. That's so big Is it any? Is it any fear there or any worry of? You know that that becoming more bigger than like boxing No, I mean, I think it's bringing more eyeballs to the sport of boxing. I'm not mad at it I feel like you know a guy like Jake Paul. He bring it. He brought a different crowd Over to the sport of boxing made boxing even bigger. So I think I think it's good for boxing and I'm I mean I'm good. So I'm I'm not, you know worried about it I got a big enough following where I could even which I wouldn't but or it wouldn't it would have to really make sense for me To go like fight a guy like MMA fighter and Bring him over to boxing which it was all I just have to make sense But right now no because I'm fighting. I want I'm fighting the best fighters in the world I'm fighting the best Let me ask you this question. You being 25 years old, right? You got all the cars.  Do you feel as though right now 25 years old being an undisputed champion being a two-weight champion? Do you feel as though you're a Hall of Fame fighter right now? Yeah, I mean I try not to To think about that Too much because you know, it's still so much more. I want to accomplish and I try not to really, you know Get too focused on what I already accomplished because I want to just keep, you know Setting the goalposts further and further and further and further. So um If I just said I'm done today will I go to the Hall of Fame? 100% okay now with all of your peers I'm talking to Tank Davis. I'm talking to Shakura Stevenson. I'm talking to Ryan Garcia's I'm talking to Tia Fimo Lopez. Do you think that any of them? As far as their accolades and what they accomplished Not anything as far as money wise. I'm just saying Accomplishments in the sport of boxing. Do you think any of them? Are Hall of Fame fighters yet? um No, I think um With the exception of Tio, I think Tio I think Tio has has a good resume became That last fight looked a little crazy man. I was there.  I'm just saying Tio I ain't don't don't don't don't step to me because your box has got to have to step into me I know martial arts so we ain't changing the sport, but I was in there. I'm like, I'm like that's almost crazy, man He wasn't looking that good in that one, man. Yeah, no he um He didn't look good at all. Um But you know, he's he got a good resume. Um, so yeah, I would just say the exception to him now You at the top of your game What box in the 80s You would have loved the fight that was at the top of the game and what box in the 90s. Um, I mean I gotta go with the You know, they say arguably the greatest lightweight of all time. That's Roberto Duran So Yeah, well Sugar Ray Leonard, um Yeah, but they say the greatest the greatest lightweight would would have been that's lightways when I became undisputed And that's where it was. That's so that's why I said lightweight We'll say I would say Roberto Duran. He was an animal. He was crazy. Yeah, he was crazy How do you feel it would have turned out? um Obviously, I respect the grace of the sport. I'm big on that. Um, because they said they paved the way for for fighters like me Fighters like like me and other fighters today. So I I don't be trying to say nothing bad about the the ones that came before me But um, obviously I feel like, you know, I'm the best best fighter ever So and it and only time will tell So, of course, I think I would have won who in the 90s Uh, I'm that that was that was Roberto Duran. He was in the 90s. Uh The 80s Not to the 80s in like, but it'll go you don't matter go it Yeah not to the 90s Ernie's weight No, but you got the early to early to early to early Because it's the guy named Chance Crawford.  I think he had Floyd Floyd Floyd was An early 2000s. Who you would have liked who who out of them who who you would have Out of who out of them fighters. He just said that was late in 10s Crawford Floyd, of course, you know Floyd huge. He retired with the Oh, he was you know, he's They say he was you know, the best he was nobody defeated him and he he fought The the top fighters. So I would have to say Floyd I ain't gonna ask you the other question for that because obviously you're gonna say you Of course now Who do you say right now and they could walk out of this game? Because Gil said he said some people but who could walk out right now and go into the hall of fame Right now. Um, Terrence Crawford Canelo um Tyson Ferry What about the big guy you always say? I think Joshua. Yeah, I think Joshua um What about Earl Spence? Earl Spence Yeah, I said Earl Spence. Why are you taking time with that? No, I'm just gotta think I'm just thinking of his resume Um, Earl Spence for sure I think Danny Garcia is a hall of fame Lama Chinco I think Danny had like two belts. Yeah Or something like that Then he wouldn't do one-on-one at 147 as well. Yeah, 140 and 147. Yeah Cool boy, sir I'm not think cool boy still got some work to do. Yeah, two belts and one Cool boy my boy, but I don't think that his resume is Is that a steep yet? He still got some work to do But like I think got a lot of talent. What about Tank? It's your core I always want to know. I just want to know. Um He said no already. No, he didn't say all of us. I did say no already.  I wasn't I was on doubt Yeah, and you think tank ain't going to the hall Right now take a step off. He ain't going you want me to tell me tank ain't going to the hall I mean the best fighter on his resume is who Ryan? Who's the best fighter on his resume? I'm just I don't understand this Hold up. No, just tell me who's the best fighter on his resume. What would you say? Maybe pit bull crews maybe This is what I'm trying to this pit bull crews going to the hall of fame. No, this is what I'm trying to Pit bull just became world champion yesterday. So Everybody this is what I'm trying to figure out about boxing. So I mean against the ball Yeah, no, but ccc y'all be saying that but we didn't have times when people step in the rings and anything could happen in that ring You see anything. No, but why do people why people say that and then you know Somebody's a bum. We quick to say somebody's a bum, right? But you get in that ring anything to happen And we had seen it time at the time, bro, you get in the car You the crash a thousand percent So but I'm just saying like y'all these dudes that don't mean you weren't a good driver that mean But y'all saying that like somebody else for you So it can happen sometimes take the biggest in boxing He does but we we talk about boxing We're going on popularity. Yeah, we talk about we're going on because that's the case Ryan Garcia Right go to the hall of fame too, right?  I don't even think he ever even fought for a belt You feel what I'm saying? So And he's up here. You feel what I'm saying? Because he can he sells out arenas people was interested in them, you know So Off to what they accomplished so far. That don't mean they're not going to the hall of fame I'm just saying if you ask me right now, what's so so so so far? So no Let us say he's at every belt. All right. It's about belt. Is it about 35 year the wbc And I thought a guy who's already I'd be the guy who's going to the hall of fame and loma chinko already Right because loma chinko was the fastest too big division boxing in the history of the sport. All right now. Listen This one i'm trying to understand y'all saying that It's about belt or is it about who you fought? Like what is that how do they go? Is it about both? Yeah, so you got to have a belt to go to the hall of fame you saying who you fought Who you fought is who has the belts, you know i'm saying like The the the the guys who you fought is the champions. That's what you know determines it If that makes sense, i'm a little thrown off about the tank job.  Yeah, I was personally with jake paul right right now. This is a casual window who jake paul is He's huge. Yeah, but he's not going to the hall of fame because he ain't here You can't put no jake paul and tank in the same conversation No jake paul is talking about you know, we know he's doing the money but I understand that we're not talking about probably he's jake paul is jake paul is doing this thing. He's good You said tank the biggest right, but we talk about boxing. We're not talking about outside of boxing Right, what we're saying is Is a new era where people are huge Without accomplishing those huge accomplishments yet. You feel what i'm saying? That's why how big is ryan garcia? That's why if you got somebody like chicour stevenson, right? You can you can understand why he would be visibly frustrated because he's like ryan garcia just made 30 million dollars I'm a silver medalist at the olympics I feel like I would beat this out of ryan. Oh, no, he would without doubt But i'm not making that type of money so And and you'll start to feel like wow you feel what i'm saying, but ryan garcia got 10 million 12 million 15 million And chicour might got 1 million so All social so it's a difference. Is it right? I don't think it's right But it's a difference so at the end of the day you got some dudes that's more popular But they ain't accomplished more and it don't be about belts and be about money with the new guys because If I don't never got to fight a champion and I can make 30 million dollars Make me 30 million dollars It was a little different and the tables was terrible. Would you ever had money or the belts? I mean both at the end of the day you can't no you and no but it's You can't feed your family with no with no belt, you know at the end of the day I I just I take care of my family so I feed my family but um You know, I'm I want the accolades. I want to be a great in this sport I want my name to be remembered with the with the greats and that's why I went down the route that I went And that's why I'm earning the money that I earned because I'm fighting the top guys the best guys in the world I'm putting it all on the line every single time Not for the money but for it for for the legacy for my name to be remembered But i'm getting rewarded in the process you got shout out to My man your dad Bill Haynes I just feel to have a dad that's going to the end about you and a which way and i'm talking about his promotional game It's like Bill is one of the biggest promoters in boxing right now. I don't care what nobody said for sure It's a blessing every time and he And he just doing it because he is that and he you know i'm saying this is truly how he is It's what he this how he feel about me. So he he ain't gonna let nobody talk bad about me He's gonna argue you down That's his and that's how most dads is but just the world doesn't see he doing it at the at the highest level He argued with you know, you got five followers and You're following Six thousand people we still argue he argued down just because that's the type of father that he is and that's how most fighters That's how most fathers should be Do you think that's do you think growing up?  I've been following it and it got me here. It worked Uh, you know, it's it's still working and um, I wouldn't want to know either way You know guys they they sit at a father's son duo doesn't work in boxing Um and guys get to the top and then they seem to fall out when they start getting some money You're running when they get some some fame or whatever, but with us we it only made us closer It only it only it only makes us better. You know that we achieving our goals and our milestones How do you feel you seem to know our Who to that won't tobacco with today?      It was just it was just corny I just think you know at that at the age that Bill and Nard is that you know Like come on, man, what we'll be doing like we going to the bathroom with it Yeah And it's not going to the bathroom. So you just talking so it's just It's corny but um, it's boxing. Well, what can you expect a lot of this be corny? Top five. Who the top five promoters in boxing? Promoted companies promote like like like like if if if if you if you want some real stuff If I'm a young fighter I got my thing together. I'm knocking out whatever I'm doing my thing From one to five Who promoters would you recommend that I get with? Oh to get some money? No order, right? I'm talking about to get me to get some money and they're gonna play no games They're gonna be playing my paper.  I gotta my first one. I gotta say Um, I gotta say Eddie her because that's why I started with that's that's that's who I got here with to this point Shout out to Eddie her okay here in the mat room. Um Then we got to go with Al. Al Haiman number two. Al Haiman. Um Oscar that's what I'm working with, you know, right now three golden boy Go to the way to make this fight happen. That's Oscar and Bernard. They together, right? Yeah Yeah, I look the one out there never hated promotions never hated promotions for sure because that's number four, you know, that's That's that's the formula right now. That's the We the new guys with the new guys that's that's coming to take over and You know, we're doing a co-promotional deals. We're not just you know signing everything off to to oscar Letting him, you know pay us now. We we see and we see in everything. We see in all the numbers We see we see in everything. Um, we also work with Eddie too So so so hold we need one more one more five and I'm gonna ask you a question Oh top rank you gotta go with Bob Aaron for sure. All right. So now You're saying co-promotional and I need to understand this if I'm a young boxer and I'm coming up um And I got a couple dollars Can I have that option to say no?   Um, I don't want to sign over all my All my everything to you. I want I want to you know, have some say in my career Yeah, you know, definitely I And that was the plan to inspire the people before me and after me to to that This is the new way to do it. This is the devil. Anyway, what what other fighters is doing a co-promotion? like you, um Maybe Anthony Joshua was doing it um A little bit. Um, I would say Canelo Not too many for me No, I don't think bud doing it I don't think bud doing it because everybody got their name out there. Yeah Yeah, but just because they said they got you know, they got whatever whatever promotions They they whatever their name is and their promotions that'll mean that they really really They just they just using that to make it look good. You know, they ain't really seen the numbers They ain't really, you know, um, I think blood might have did it for the oil fight, but I'm not sure um They're not no real promoters. They just be talking like talking like that, but they I'm I'm really seeing them numbers I'm really, you know, uh having saying what's going on in them contracts How does a Ryan Garcia Devin Heaney Ryan Garcia fight in April 20 Ryan Garcia is a A C level fighter, you know, he's mediocre. You got a C level. Yeah. Yeah.  I'm gonna I'm gonna show them that it's just I'm just on a totally different level I'm just way better. I'm a step one of crushing as you get knocked out. Yeah, I think so We we we seen Ryan be very aggressive. He's very, you know, he he get overly aggressive. He make a lot of mistakes. We've been studying him. Um We we're ready for all that and uh, I think the night We're in early. I think I knock him out for sure. How does it feel?  How do I feel for you? Like this is the big stage. This is the moment every I'm talking about the crowd going to be Star studded pack. Yeah, like how do this feel for you personally when you you know, this is what I dreamed of These are the moments that that that make me This is the one where I where I get up for and I and I really show that that I'm that I'm a star and uh, I mean I am who I say I am You know and I can only think I love for this opportunity because it's been a long time coming And uh, like I said, I always say is I knew to my I knew that I would be here one day And the time the time has finally come For me to prove myself and you know in front and when when when all the lights and everything Uh, everybody watching all the eyeballs is is is on me now It's time for me to to step up to the plate and knock it out the park So you you basically telling me that If you're not present Well, because I'm gonna be present if you're not present On 420 All right, that's a crazy day too. Oh, that's okay. That's his favorite day. That's his favorite day I mean if you ain't if you ain't present It's because you it's because you can't be present because everybody everybody that's somebody gonna be there No, but see and everybody that's somebody going to be watching it on pay-per-view too You got to get you listen. You got to get your pay-per-view is listen. I'm telling you right now I like like me personally. I ain't gonna hold you I've I've been I've been to a lot of fights big fights your fights. They are y'all but When you see people when you go through the bar as the sports clubs The energy be crazy. The way people be locked in So this is the new era boxing. Yes. It's locked in so yes It's different right now. It's the new fly flashy To be and I was in cars just in Vegas. Yeah, that's just a video even his la cars and la house think about it 25 years old your biggest in the game Own in this. Yeah, I know only his No, but this what and and I don't even really like to even show my stuff like that because You know, I'm just be trying to protect my peace and you know, I'm saying I believe in evil eye And all that but you know, I just want to inspire the The young kids coming up that you know, you don't got to go to the streets to get it my pops was in the streets I could have easily went down that route because I seen him. He had he had cars. He had this he had that but I want to be different I want to I want to do the break the family cycle and I put my all into it like literally I put everything into You know to get to this point and it worked. Sometimes it don't work But it worked so I don't I just want to show people what it's what it's like when it's work when it works And me my pops did this together we we created this together This is major. So and I got a great team, you know, I got a great team that definitely helped me get to this point it's still helping me uh But uh, you know me my pops set out to do this And uh, we wasn't stopping until we get we we get to where we want to get get to And this is the only the beginning this only part of it Just imagine 10 years from now where I'm what I'm gonna be doing You know, uh You know, I know a lot of people And I'm not gonna say nothing But I heard some rumors of who might be walking out with you. But I got a couple artists in mind um But I but but this guy's a huge a huge artist. Yeah, I mean huge artist So it's gonna be like is new york city is going down Brooklyn It's going down. So I know brooklyn gonna be in the building because we in brooklyn. Um It's gonna be a movie that night Get your pay-per-view if you get there get there You don't want to miss it. Get there put that thing on. I know you I don't already know the players come They gonna have that thing on the diamond's gonna be shining all over the lights You gonna see it man.   We won't be there. You won't be there If you ain't there you won't be at the crib or you won't be at the sports bar You won't be at the lounge. Who be like it's going down. Everybody's gonna be watching that fight It's not even a fight. This is an event. This is an event This is this is bigger than any fighting the world needs to tune in because it's gonna be big Gigantic Back to this joint This joint now since 1931 It's going down, but listen man make sure y'all tune in taping man. It's going down million hours worth of game Demahaney You already know what it is and it's just like that right


Tom here from Lawrence Systems, and I am joined by Harun Mir, the founder of Thanks Canary. You've probably heard the ads before if you listen to any tech podcast, this product is wildly popular. We're not here to talk about that, but a little background in case you didn't know who Harun was, and welcome today. Thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here. So Thanks Canary, I think I probably first heard about it on some security podcast, definitely cool, and you have a lot of insights into the world of honey pots. And that's kind of what we're going to discuss today. And of course, the goal isn't just to talk about how cool they are or anything like that. This is not an advertisement. This is about how you can play with them for free, really easy. And I started this on Twitter and we were laughing and we're going to we're going to show some of the results of me just tweeting out of would you click this link? And boy, a lot of people were clicking the link here. Let me go ahead and throw a couple of things up here. If you're not familiar with Canary.tools, you can check them out over here. The Canary.tools is the commercial product and if you're interested, but the open canary is also adjacent to that. And this is actually what's really cool is you offer this whole free open canary project. We're not going to talk about this day. This is later. This is, I believe it's a little bit, it's a little bit more complicated to set up because this is building your own honey pot, but absolutely. This is a free open source download on GitHub. All this will be linked down below and they have plenty of documentation. And good documentation is great, but it's still there's a few setup things you got to do to configure these, but it's all in there. What needs no configuration is what we're going to talk about here is the Canary tokens. This is just fun. I've been playing with this this morning and you can just I'm learning out IP addresses in the post-production here, but these are all the people thus far as of just a couple of hours ago before we started this video that clicked the token with my clickbait title. Would you click this? It's super interesting because if you take canary tokens, people have been talking about the idea like honey tokenish things or honey docks for two decades, people have been saying, insert some records into your database. And if you ever see those records on the wire, then you know you've been breached or why don't you just do this? And of course, InfoSec people always say these, why don't you just things? Yeah, except you can't do it in production and it's too hard. And then you've got to create infrastructure to make sure that it's running and create infrastructure to make sure like all of that stuff. And so with canary tokens, we wanted to make that easy enough so people don't have to think about it. It's like, here, you should just do this. Yeah, you can literally just copy and paste these and we'll give a demonstration at a moment. And the concept isn't completely new, of course. This is just reiterating old ideas. One of the cool early examples to me is in cartography when they designed maps years and years ago, companies would put a fake city in there and they would put a fake city and that way they know someone else just duplicated their map. So it's the same kind of concept like you want to know someone touched this is someone duplicated to someone copy this. Is this actually my database out there? Yeah, it's it's such an old concept, but it's such win for defenders. And and one of the things is like canary tokens sometimes confuse people because some of them look really familiar. Some of them look foreign. Some have really high signal to noise ratio. But if you spend a few moments understanding them like honestly, they're free, but they some of the best things you can do to detect attacks on your network like literally we've had people tweet us to say like they discovered Russian hackers breaking into their web servers just with free canary tokens. So like even though it's free, people should absolutely just go use it. Like we get nothing out of it. Like like we don't have this is part of a give back. This is the hacker ethos and that's in for anyone who hasn't bothered to research her own here. He definitely been in a hacker community for a minute. So you want to have a conference or two, you know, the nicest way I've been called old yet. Thanks, Tom. But the the concept here with the canary tokens is really simple. And we can create things like what I did this morning was create this web URL token. You say where you want the notices to be sent to you. Give a note why this was triggered and you could just drop this web URL in there and I went a step further and did a tiny URL and I tweeted this out. I say, you know, who would click this and it turns out and that's what these examples right here are. Is yes, a lot of people would click this and it gives me a little bit of insight into different areas of people clicking. And matter of fact, I had commented. Hey, why how come no one from South America and then right away some South America. Very fresh and I'm sure there's even more more. On the right, if you click the one of those dates, what you actually find is more information on it. So if they running special plugins in their browser, if they and this is such a simple example, but it's it's so powerful, right? Because essentially you saying if I can get an attacker to visit my link, what can I find out about it? Yes. And and once you have that primitive like like the top two tokens there, if you look at them, the web bug and the DNS token. And if you check out the DNS token, you'll see that's equally simple, right? So you put in your email address and the system will give you back a unique host name. And the logic here is if you can get an attacker to look up this host name, you're going to get a you're going to get a message from the system. So if you just copy that and and host it or in this look up it or anything, what you'll find is you'll get an alerted that email address saying, hey, listen, this domain name that really only you knew about, somebody just looked it up. And and with those two super simple primitives that say what tell me when an attacker views a page of mine or tell me when an attacker looks up a domain name, you can set traps in bunches of interesting places that that no conventional security tools go like you can start booby trapping your slack or booby track your booby trap. That's probably you know, and this is probably a great example if the Twitter the infamous Twitter hack that happened was last year, if they would have had because they had some of the two factor information, I believe it was inside their slack channel. And then what happened was the threat actors essentially were able to get into the slack channel. And then they started clicking on everything. It's exactly that right. So so literally, like if you take the slack example, if you go back to your first one and you create a URL, and then you go into your own slack and look for a conversation that's 10 months old, where you say, good morning, guys, and just change the conversation to here's the link to the password file guys. And what's going to happen is when your slack gets compromised, the person's going to go into slack search and search for password secret customer name, they're going to find this URL click on it. And you're going to get a message saying, listen, this URL that really nobody should be clicking, somebody just clicked. Yeah. And with all of the canary slash canary token things, like what you're looking for is that one piece of string to pull on because stupidly, because of the way our networks and complexity has expanded, people don't know that they compromised for months. And so what you're looking for is that heads up that says, Hey, listen, this thing that shouldn't have happened happened, go pull on this thread to find out why it happened. And it gives you a start. Now, and I want to point something out here. Now I typed in an email address, which is just my test at launch systems.com email address. But if you read the fine print here, it's provided an email address or web hook URL. So you're able to build automation around this. So if you have, you know, your own web server, and you've got several web hooks, and you could tie this together with a web hook that could tie to some triggering program. Once again, this is free. This is like something you can start dancing around, putting this around your infrastructure and go, All right, let's a drop a few here and a few here and gain a lot of insight very quickly or low effort here. Exactly. Right. And two other things are worth noting there. One is we don't want your email address to mail you and sell you like that's literally just for the notifications. Like we'll never use it. I should mention this too. One, I've been testing each for a little while too. I did not sign up. I literally can pop open any window. I just type in the canary tokens that are there's no sign up, whatever email or web hook you want to use, there is no way for her room to contact you. His marketing team doesn't get the copy of this. We absolutely don't. So it's just for that alert to get through. And the other thing that's really cool, if you look at that, that stock page, right? So we ask you for your email address.  And that reminder is interesting because like you said, when you say spread these around, it really allows you to fire and forget them.   And then you know, okay, like this is, and of course, if you take this to your company, you'd be saying CFO's laptop, CEO's laptop, prod one, prod two, domain controller one. And so you drop them, you forget about them. And the alert self identifies, you get this ping telling you, listen, the token that you left on domain controller one just got used. And so immediately you know where to go, start looking. It's it's a super low effort, super cool way to go. This this is probably one of my favorite tokens, this AWS token. Yeah, and I if you were running any type of AWS, AWS infrastructure, or if you're not even that it probably Yeah, you should probably have this in there because this is irresistible to someone inside your network. If they see that there are some access credentials, can you do anything other than try them? I mean, I want to try them right now. It's why I love this so much, right? And there's multiple reasons to love it.  And that's a legit AWS API key. So, so there's no way to eyeball it and say, is this legit or not? And as an attacker, I have to try it like, like there's nothing I can do. And, and we didn't even intend it, but there's some hidden benefits of this, right?  So so now they own your mail systems, they own everything. Like this triggering is happening completely off site, right? Because when they test the key, they're logging into Amazon. And Amazon sending the message to us and we sending it to your phone or to your email and saying, Hey, listen, this AWS key that was only on your production server, someone just used it to log in to Amazon. And so in terms of fidelity of message, it's super high fidelity, like it's clear you've got a problem. Yeah. And I think that's an important factor because we always talk about what could have missed a detection? Like what could have missed the what's going on type things like if did my security tool detect if an intruder's in there? And of course, the beating ourselves up when a security tool doesn't detect, you're like, Oh, I never detected why didn't it? And then we're mad at the tool company. But this is a very actionable intelligence that we can say definitely confirmed, not suspicion, not a weird thing going on. Something was in here because they tried the credential. And by the way, the AWS key technically is available credentials is valid for you, not your your company. So it becomes there is no way if there is no second guessing this one, which I think exactly right. And what you said about about detection like that is also super interesting because like, like everyone who's who's tried to do defense right now knows, like, you just get brow beats, right? Like, like, like, you're trying to harden your network. And then there's a new black hat. And you find out that maybe your monitor can be compromised. And maybe the office phone can be compromised. And maybe the firmware on your blue Yeti mic can be compromised.  And, and you try to patch them all. But once an attack is on your network, they therefore reason, like, like there's actions on objectives that they've got to do. And let me use the AWS key I found is one of them. Like, let me read these secret docs that I found is one of them. And, and it really flips the case around where now attackers have to worry about what they touch, rather than defenders having to catch everything. And again, like, you'll see there's someone who's tweeted us saying, since they've discovered tokens, now they're scared to use anything they find on an engagement. Because when they're on an engagement, anything they find could potentially be a token.  Like, like for free, you make attackers lives harder. Yeah. And it's, it's irresistible. And you, you even have one question I did have from a technical aspect, the Windows folder one, I looked at how it works where it creates a desktop I&I file. Um, has that cued people onto it or they still can't resist going into that folder? Yeah. It's, it's a good question. So, so look, there's certain, like, for, for some of the tokens, we'll tell people that tokens, like, analogies are terrible, because they work till they don't. But, but like tokens are closest to chipwires.  But when you know the floor has chipwires, like it just changes the way you have to roll, right? You just can't. And, and so like for almost every token, you could do really clever things to try to identify if it's a token or not. But if an attacker has to do that on your network, you've slowed him down about a thousand fold. Yes. Like, like, otherwise they're just running through their, like, bulls in China shops. The Windows folder one's pretty cool. And I threw this one up and everyone who is paying attention, I said, how many people will scan this? Because obviously none right now, because, but in post-production, I'm going to be watching this one here. It's such a winner.  Like, you take this, you have it in a sticker under their phone battery. And, and like the only way someone's getting to that. And, and the cool thing about most of the tokens is a little while back, Colin Mulliner did a talk on embedding these tokens inside of binaries to detect reverse engineering.  You surf to that web endpoint because you, like, maybe there's stuff there. And, and so now with, with his system, you get told, hey, someone's engineering, reverse engineering your binary and you can start doing cool stuff around it.  Yeah. And, and lets you know. And like you said, the signals and noise ratios are truly important as well. We, we are, we get, especially as defenders, we get such decision fatigue and notification fatigue because we're like trying to, what do we say? What is this and that? Is this good? Is this a threat? You know, false positives, they're challenging and they're always the, the goal of any of these security companies is not to give us that many, but the reality of these security companies is that when each one of them is not trying to give us many cumulatively when we're using a security stack, we all preach defense in depth, but defense in depth means having several tools that communal cumulatively make my day harder. Is alerts to death. Yeah. It's, it's interesting. Like, like the reason we do tokens, like the same as our canary stuff, like we aim really hard for low alerts. Like we've got customers with like hundreds of canaries and these are canaries, not even tokens. And they get four alerts a year. And literally that's what we go for is, is like you should be getting like our customer success team, if they see you getting an alerted date, they'll reach out and say, listen, something's wrong. Like you've deployed this thing wrong. Yeah. Cause, cause ideally these things are drop them, forget about them. And when they go off, cancel your weekend plans because yeah, because they're in exactly. Right. That's that is very cool. I think this is, one of the things I like is this is so tangible for even the most basic of computer operators. Like you just, like you said, you can put these on people's desktop. You can put them in your desktop. If, if you're just curious, if the kids are snooping through things on your computer, because you share a computer, drop a couple of things on there. And why not put, create a word document that says all my passwords. If someone clicks it, someone was on your computer, it's kind of as simple as that. Yeah. It's, it's exactly that. And part of the thing, like, like when you think about it, like, like you'll see people who are new to InfoSec. And you don't want to believe that it can be that simple. Like people will say like, but, but surely an attacker wouldn't click that. And it's like, really, like I've been on hundreds of pen tests. And that's literally how you own networks. Like you find a document saying server passwords dot XLS. And that's, that's how that stuff works. Yeah. And unfortunately, recently there was a rather large company that was breached. And we found out that's where they were keeping the passwords in reality. And they should have at least had a token they would have known as it turned out that the threat actors were in there for a little while. And this is persistence is something they try to maintain, especially the larger the company, the more likely that they won't do a hit and run, they're going to do a strategic attack. And people sometimes underestimate until they get hit how advanced the threat actors have become. And knowing they're in there is so key, because somehow they have evaded for whatever technique they may have used, whatever security and defense in depth, they've navigated around that. But boy, they are not going to be able to resist once in server passwords dot XLS. Oh, count me in. It's why they did like, like even if you are super sophisticated attacker, like the chance to spread, like it's, it's just your day job. Like that's what you've got to do. And so again, it ends up working super nicely as a defender, because it's all the stuff that's been done to our users. Like you just doing it in reverse. And the joy of it is that this really shouldn't be someone's full time job. Like you don't need a counter intel team dropping tokens. It's like literally take five minutes, create some tokens, drop them, forget about it. And when it goes off, you'll know. And if you made a mistake and put a token in a place where too many people are bumping over it, you'll know. Like if you get two messages today, delete that token or disable it. So that token doesn't bother you. And it costs you nothing. Right.  Exactly. I can't really call the easy reason not to do this type thing. Neither can we. Like, like literally that's our pitch is like, it's going to take you five minutes, just do it.  We're super dumb, but we work. So like, take five minutes and drop us and go do the other clever stuff. Just do this. Yeah. And so far. Yeah, simplicity, simplicity at its best here. I will leave links to where you can check all of these things out. And maybe if there's enough people commenting, I'll dive deeper into what you the instructions are pretty clear if you wanted to use the actual canaries. You can run that other one on a Raspberry Pi, right? That's, yeah, open canary this even people online who have tutorials select drop open canary on a whole high. Totally the low hanging fruit that you get started today, get started. You can pause this video and have while we made this video could have made probably 30 or 40 different tokens and already had deployed places. That is so easy to do. I don't know why you wouldn't want to do it. So sounds sounds like the way to go. Yep. Well, thank you for joining me. This was awesome. Like I said, leave links where we can get to everything and look forward to playing with these in the future and hoping no one trips over them, other than people on Twitter that I've been link baiting because that's just been kind of fun. Actually, we'll refresh it one more time because I did this just before the just before we started looking and I see more of them popping up. It's just growing. Nobody nobody yet from South Africa that that seems like something that that needs to be resolved. Like, yeah, why are no South Africans on this? Yeah, you know, I actually realized some of them fell off because there was one right outside of Madagascar. I don't see that one. And I thought there were two at the beginning, but there's definitely more. The cool things too are this can be downloaded and exported to Jason CSV. So you can you can download all this and start parsing and analyzing it deeper. So yeah, absolutely. Awesome. I should have just added a South Africa in there. But there you go. Yeah, we were. It'll pop up. But oh, yep. Hey, we found you. That's that's me waving from from Cape Town. It's that it's all done in real time. All I'm doing is refreshing the page and they're popping up, which makes it that much more fun. All right, thanks for joining us and awesome. Thanks so much. And thank you for making it to the end of this video. If you enjoyed this content, please give it a thumbs up. If you like to see more content from this channel, hit the subscribe button and the bell icon to hire a sure project. Head over to LawrenceSystems.com and click on the hires button right at the top to help this channel out in other ways. There is a join button here for YouTube and a Patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated for deals, discounts and offers. 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Welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stock swoosh and I'm going to review one entire month of trains newsletter trades options trades from the gap options newsletter. This is from the month of June and it took me a while to put this together but I've gotten so many questions. What can you expect on the letter? How many trades? How many winners? How many losers? What return on investment? And you know are there a lot of trades in a week or a month? And so I thought this would be a good idea particularly because we're getting into the end of the summer beginning of fall period for earning season. So earning season starts in about three weeks. When earning season starts we have a lot of trades. We have a lot of gaps and we usually have a very active season. The month of June and why I picked this particular month was towards the end of the second corner earning season. So there's four quarterly earning seasons in a year. So this was not an overly busy month is the point. So this is probably an average to slower month. I may call more trades on a busy month for example in the month of October November will be busy months when we have a lot of gaps and there will be a lot of earnings trades. I do gaps for news. I do gaps for earnings. I do gaps with the market. We'll go over these here. I did not put the charts in this presentation. You can look up the charts yourself. So I have every single letter the timestamp the letter when it was sent out and then the trade and again the trades are emailed to you in live time. I do not have a monthly subscription to the newsletter or a quarterly subscription to the newsletter. I have only an annual subscription to the newsletter. It works because you never know how many trades you're going to get in a week or a month. So you really have to be committed to being on the letter for the entire year. I think people get the benefit out of it by deciding how many trades are going to take per day and per week and assessing their risk accordingly based on their level of experience trading options and the size of their account. So this is an advanced trader risk that we're going to go over here. Again I've been trading since the end of 2008 so almost 13 years. If you are new and you have a small account you should be risking a beginner amount. You can take options with a cash account. You can open up an account trading options at any retail broker with as little as $2,000. Your risk has to be a size accordingly. You can take one contract. Your risk should be close to equal or similar to equal in every trade you take. Will that mean that you cannot do some of these trades? Yes, some of the ones are very expensive. If you have a small account you can't do. But again I'm calling plenty of trades in a week and a month for you to benefit from the calls on the newsletter. So this is a whole month. I'm going to go over all the trades. If you have questions, getting my information here. Oh there's me and Steve Forbes. I haven't been to Fox Studios in a while. Let's see if they get people back in 2022 for live, live hits. If you have questions you can email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. You can call me at 99-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. Okay and if you want to sign up for the Gap Options newsletter again go to my website www.thesstockswish.com. The newsletter is $69.99 a year and you can sign up at any time. As soon as you sign up you'll start receiving the newsletters. Again it's on an annual basis. So if you sign up you know October 1st you'll be paid through into 2022 October 1st. So everything that I do is based on one strategy. What? It's based on gaps. I make money using one strategy in the market. I'm telling you that's the way to do it. If you want to do this and you want to make money you have to be consistent with what you do and I find that the focus that I get for rating my gaps each and every single solitary day really helps me stay consistent with my trading. Too many people are doing too many different strategies and they're all over the place and they're changing their mind every different day and also a lot of people are trading and don't even have a strategy.  I'll go into that in detail in another lecture but people are trading without strategies and they're all over the place doing different ones and they never consequently get good at anyone's strategy. I'm good at gaps because this is all I do and I coined my strategy and called it golden gaps because it's like finding gold in the market. You will not learn my system by signing up for the newsletter. If you want to learn the system you have to sign up for the class. I teach the class once a month but I do think taking the class helps you with the letter. There's no prerequisites so for the newsletter so if you just want to sign up for the newsletter for one year receive all the newsletters boom there's no prerequisites you don't have to do the class. I think the class helps you though okay so that's my two cents on that any education helps you in my opinion. So for the month of June we had a 68% win ratio for the trades. There were 21 winners zero break evens 10 losers and 31 trades. Average just per trade this is an advanced trader risk which we're going to go over here today was $8,000 total profits 189,075 for the month and average attorney investment was 100% which is good. If you have time to watch the trades I do have the targets in the letter. If you do not I would just buy the caller put or whatever I'm calling in that particular day and I will put a sell order at 50% or you can put a sell order at 100% but if you can't watch it I really would put a sell order at 50% to make sure you get out because 50% is a good profit okay and not every trade will go to 100% so if you have time to watch it though for targets I would that's my two cents. Again some people are doing this part time and they're doing other jobs some people are trading full time it's up to you but the targets are included on the letter so we're going to go over each and every trade this was from Tony you know people are making money in the letter again I don't think it's that difficult because you're following momentum I'm very specific in the letter which you'll see you've got to take profits and you do it and we have more winners than losers which is important that's how you make money and again a 68% win ratio is pretty good so this was the first week of June an expiration date of 6-4 I called Amazon expiring 6-4 was caused the 3300 calls this was back 526 expired again June 4th this trade did not work now again how do I play every trade I play them to win or lose so like if I call a trade on a Monday to expire on a Friday and it's down the first day I don't kill it before Monday before 4 o'clock I don't do that so I give trades a chance to work that's me some people kill them if they're down 50% some people kill them over down the same day I call it and it doesn't go I don't do that okay just so you know so I'll let it just run out and sometimes trades work okay even the last day so just because somebody doesn't go immediately doesn't mean it's not going to work but in this case here this Amazon did not work this Amazon lost so this was a losing trade back the expiration date which was June 4th and just a tip I would still sell out of your trades at zero even on the last day we're still in them just to get in the habit of selling out of everything because I think that's important because you don't want to forget to get out of trades that are winners or you're going to end up buying the stock outright in the shares again that's an explanation and a lecture for another time but I get into a good habit of just selling your trades the last day sell it for a penny if you can sell for 10 cents whatever I call this five calls again was bullish here in the market at this point uh 420 calls expired 64 I call this 527 this trade had some value left in it for the last day was not a total loser but basically did lose okay cost was three sold at a buck 50 so saved some out of the cost of it but ultimately wasn't losing trade by the end of the day did not go did not work right this was the 420 spies again you can take one contract spend $3 which would be 300 bucks you do not have to take an advanced trader risk but again all of your trades should be close to equal or similar to equal in your risk that you take in your trades NVIDIA beautiful gap 527 called the 630 NVIDIAs expiring 64 these were calls again a call is a long you're going long we went long this bullish gap exit was 528 great trade again you take it one day you exit it the following day it blew up cost was a dollars which was not cheap again one would have cost you 800 but more than paid sold a 22 profit 14 000 returning investment 175 percent great trade went to the target surpassed the target's beautiful trade and again this was a bullish gap this was a call okay we do calls and we do puts so I get up in the morning and I'm rating the gap you do not have to know how to rate the gaps to be on the newsletter again if you want to do the class to learn the rain system you do it it's the golden gap course if you just want to get the trades in the letter you sign up for the newsletter many people just want to sign up for the newsletter they don't have time to do the class on the weekend and they just want the trades that's 100 up to you I also stacked these because I love this gap in this rally call the six fifties this was on Friday the 28th expiration date 64 this continue okay cost was six sold 11 profit 6000 risking 7200 return an investment 83 percent nice trade I just want to go back here show you the time of these actually you see this was Friday morning about 10 15 but this previous one here was right before the open 925 so most of the time I will call trades I'd say a majority the trades are called in the pre-market before the open could be eight o'clock in the morning could be 9 15 9 20 before the open but usually pretty early okay now sometimes I will call later trades if you call 10 15 late but that's what happened here okay so just letting you know the morning is the time to be focused to do the trades and get in the trades very important time gotta be your desk you see here this altar was called at 837 this was a call 345 calls again expired the fourth this altar did not work it just never went right this will cost nine dollars a contract's risk was 7200 again let it ride out did not play out you could have killed this at 50 percent loss but I ride them out to see where they go and this just did not go right so altar did not work we'll see where that does this next learning season did another call on the spy for the follow-through here 425 called it on 6 1 expired 6 4 I'm usually doing the weeklies just so you know in this case here it did not work this time either so this just was stubborn again this was June despite the fact the markets been bullish we just didn't have the follow-through around this particular week in the market so this lost this was from Monday I think it was Monday or Tuesday to the to the Friday okay yeah that was the Memorial Day weekend that was Tuesday but it felt like a Monday because it was the day after the holiday then we did 6 11 the next week okay again I'm doing the weeklies so 6 2 I called the apple 125 calls beautiful move okay exit 6 4 it did it again look at this thing to do something and then take it and get the move I'd say 24 to 48 hours so the call the 6 2 exit 6 4 and the expiration date was June 11th but I actually could have ironically I could have called this with the expiration date of June 4th it would have been a little bit tight I'd try to give slight cushion with time with options but this was still a pretty cheap price of the buck 50 for one contract for a week and a half out so 60 contracts where it was 7500 sold a 2 profit $4,500 returning investment 60% that's a good trade remember for every trade if you want to hold something and you could have held some of those navities longer you're you're you're not booking the profits and then also you're holding up your money that you're using in the trade to hold on to the trade to take the trade so if you book the profits one of the profits you've guaranteed the profits when you book it once you book a trade that you're up you can't lose in it and then obviously have the money back in your account to take another trade so I think that that is something that people have to be aware of to remember trading we're chunking it out chunk of chunk of chunk it but this was a nice trade and I could have called the timing tighter really and it and what would have mattered it would have been cheaper so the it would have been less than about 25 at that point okay did another navinia Wednesday the second six seventies this just flew for the following week since 11 but again took it got out boom got the momentum got the move cost was $10 a contract risk was a thousand sold at 38 profit 22,400 return and investment 280 percent a fabulous fabulous trade again any trade that goes and blows through 100 percent is a just a phenomenal trade and we have trades like that I'm good enough at what I do to call trades like that your expectation is not that every trade is going to go like that but we absolutely do have huge trades again that's my experience my ability to be able to see the momentum that's going to come into something once I see the gap and rate the gap and the quality of the gap and how high the gap rates that I can determine if it's a really good trade and again sometimes I will do what we did with this one well I will just stay on top of it stay on top of it and and do different strikes in it okay which is exactly what we did with this navinia and we did another one too so this was the same day I think hold on yeah six two called the 665 again worked expired 611 six contracts cost $13 risk 7800 sold at 42 profit 17,400 return and investment 223 percent this is again why I think it's important to determine how much money do you want to lot to each day and each week you may not want to do more than one navinia you may not want to be in more than one trade at a time or you might want to be in two or three or four as many as a call depending on the cash that you have to to risk but this was just such a nice gap and I think everybody just piled on in this because because we had even done this the previous week but this really ran up huge trade again you could have taken one contract and still made over 200 percent it would have cost you $1,300 for one contract which is reasonable then I also called the 675 navinia as it expired the same day but again had the move take it book it get out get the momentum cost was $10 a contract risk was 8,000 sold at 35 profit was $20,000 return and investment 250 percent what a nice trade okay again to to to get these kinds of gaps and remember this was the end of earnings season so we're definitely going to get trades like this in October and November in the thick of earnings season I mean they're there you just got to look for them in the market you've got to find a spot in the gap and then we did the 700 navinia again it ran up I mean this really was phenomenal uh 611 expiration cost was $4 20 contracts risk was 8,000 sold at 18 profit 28,000 return investment 350 percent now why was this one so much bigger return in investment than the previous strikes why because on this particular day again time of the day I called this one was really early 956 okay early in it was far away from the strike now while $4 may not seem cheap to you again one contract was $400 it really kind of was in navinia but this was so far away in fact I don't have this chart in here let me just pull this chart up here to show you that's one of the reasons this was one we were in early and two again this is my ability to be able to just read price actions so well oh you're not going to see it right because the stock split shoot gosh darn it now it's not right now because this stock split since then so none of the members are going to make any sense but the reality is it was far away from 700 when I called this oops on this day that's why the return in investment was so much bigger for this particular trade called it early far away from the strike ran up big profit 28,000 risking 8,000 anyways the stock has split so the price in the video now it is not going to make any sense with this to show the chart I wish I had kept some charts of this maybe I'll have them somewhere so that was a nice trade and then later on that morning I called the 720s of course it worked too cost this is 290 25 contracts were 72 50 sold at 950 profit 16,500 again stacking the trades away from the strikes and you can do this if you're on the letter and I call something and you think the first one's too expensive which were close to the strike do one far away if one's going to work they're all going to run out do you know what I'm saying it something can be profitable even if it doesn't go to the strike or through the strike and forget in the direction right in the timing and that's what matters profit was 16,500 in this return in investment 228 percent again these trades were called on June 2nd exited June 4th but the expiration date was June 11th okay again that was far away from the strike too then on June 11th this week Tuesday 6 8 called Amazon 3300s when after this again again it was calls exited on 6 10 this trade worked so you see I did the one it lost a state on top of this Amazon cost was $12 7 contracts risk was 8400 sold at 48 profit $25,200 return on investment 300 Amazon isn't cheap I will say that but this this particular one for $12 that is cheap for Amazon I gotta be honest with you but again it ran up this was a call it was a long called it on one day exited the other day right before the expiration nice trade so it was from a Tuesday to a Thursday and 300 again you will get trades like this with me in the letter I'm that good at calling directional bias in stocks and also seeing where something can go even as far away because that was cheap for Amazon Apple the 128 expired 6 11 again calls we did a lot of calls this month this wasn't a total bust but it was a partial loss cost 110 sold at 60 cent save some on this just didn't go right wasn't going to go there didn't work so this was a loser albeit not a full loser spy for 24 calls again called with an expiration date of June 11 called on the 8th this was a partial loser 80 cents sold at 2400 was the loss okay this did not work save some out of this then on Tuesday the 8th I called the 338 QQQ calls this was a small profit on the very very very very last day it's it's interesting because it would have been up a lot more if I'd taken it out to the following week but then sometimes I just don't want to pay for that cost was 240 sold at three made $800 25% return investment the very last day which isn't bad so this this worked but it was just a little bit too much for the last day squeezing it out this would have been this would have been a bigger return of investment if I'd done it out for the next week but I would have paid out more for it but it worked as a winner June 18th expiration stitch fix this is out tonight we'll see where this goes tonight strike with 70 calls June 18th this did not work at all it just was a bust it never really went went right again I play things out to give a chance but this just kind of flocked flocked flocked flocked really could have done it for the 11th because it flocked called it on the 8th I gave that time it just didn't even matter time did not matter for this and very often it doesn't you know we're we're we're trading momentum they've got to go if they're going to go or they're just not going to go so why even give them the more time do you know what I'm saying that's kind of my attitude about these things RH 670 strike this was calls expired on the 18th this didn't work this lost you could have saved something out of it but the bottom line is it just failed um exited on with a partial partial loss on the 18th the very last day but it didn't work right tesla 615 strikes expired June 18th again called this Thursday the following Friday this was calls too uh this again was cheap for tesla to be honest with you across this 14 sold at 13 it was pretty much almost a break even just lost 500 bucks it should have worked but it didn't but sometimes things again go in your right direction but what you pay for them they squeeze it out too late you can see here it was the carryover from the previous week from Thursday to the following Friday and even though it moved the right direction it just eked out and didn't go Microsoft 257 15 expired 618 calls this was on Thursday the 10th this trade worked it was 44% return on investment cost was 225 sold at 325 profit was 3500 this is a little trade some trades are just trades you take it you book it get out you take it you book it get out okay it has the move boom you take it get out there's nothing wrong with that some people get out of everything the same day if they go green i again i don't do that but you could theoretically Nvidia 705 we did this again expiring June 18th and guess what it worked cost was $12 risk was 8407 contracts profit was 5600 a return on investment of 67% and again this was a quick in and out expire the 18th exited the 14th apple the 129 calls went after this one again this was a nice trade immediately with very cheap 80 cents sold for two everyone likes the ones that go the same day a column i get it and especially everybody likes the ones that are big return on investment in this was 150 50% percent you took it the same day got out the same day boom boom a fabulous fabulous fabulous trade everyone loves this the qqq 342 calls june 18th expiration 225 costs 35 contracts risk was 7875 sold at 360 profit 4725 return on investment 60% nice trade again get in get out get in get out you'd have taken this on the 14th and got out of the 14th again that was combined with apple okay to move up so the next following week was the expiration of 625 we did new videos again 720s expired June 25th this was calls cost was $12 again that was a good price for new video sold at 37 profit 15 000 returning investment 208% took it the one day got out the next day took it got out the next day 24 hours is good again this was called early 947 on the wednesday okay but didn't expire the following week but ran up the following day nice trade i mean this just was a really nice move i wish i could show you the chart before it split spy 417 we did a put expired june 25th it didn't work so started shorting the market around here then this was a difficult time in that month of june we weren't getting followed through with longs in the market and we weren't getting followed through with shorts in the market but we had a gap down here it didn't go through right apple of 135s did a call expiring july 2nd nice trade again an apple stacked it called it on this 22nd exit on the 23rd cost was cheap 70 cents sold at 140 profit $7 000 return investment 100% you could again just set your order you can watch the targets but you can just set your order too if you want to less stressful for you if you really don't want to worry about watching it or even if you just can't watch it you know you don't have the time to watch it okay 24 hour trade then we did tessa which can move pretty big too called in the 23rd exit 24 strike was 640 expired 72 this was $23 for one risk 6900 sold at 60 profit 11100 return an investment 161% a great trade tessa can really move these aren't cheap but it can move people fabulous and to have a move like that quick is good because again this didn't expire to july then the expiration date of july 2nd we didn't have any again strike with 770 expired on the 2nd calls of course cost was 18 dollars risk 7200 for an advanced trader risk sold at 33 profit 6000 returning investment 83% again you could have done one and spent $1800 and made money so again you can take one contract but your risk should be the same or close to the same on every trade you take i wouldn't say this was a fast trade well i mean you would have taken the thursday and would have got out the following week it was still before july then we did microsoft 270 expired july 2nd cheap buck 30 sold at 260 again just put the water in to sell you at 100% if you don't have time to watch it called on 624 ran up and again why don't kill things i give things a chance to work because this was called 944 on the thursday and didn't run up to when 629 plenty of time plenty of time to go okay then we did the 430 calls in the spy this finally went dirt cheap 55 cents really really cheap for the market sold at 95 cents profit 6000 73 percent return investment i get this question a lot we do things that are liquid i like to do liquid options liquid stocks i like to day trade liquid stocks we don't do anything that's low volume tesla 700 calls a lot of calls in here took it on the 24th as of the 25th 12 dollar cost sold at 21 75 percent return and investment profit 5400 again tesla is fun to trade and you want to get big moves on that because the stock should move big in that based on the cost it's great to trade stocks in this price point and not have to worry about margin that's the benefit of doing options you do not have to have buying barrel for something that costs 700 or even amazon that costs over 3000 you can take something and spend 1200 that's a 700 stop this is a benefit of trading options you can trade options with a small account and not have to worry about margin so i get up in the morning process of the gap rate it rate them get organized rate the gap using the golden gap checklist that's what i do okay so i am rating the gaps for the newsletter participants then i send out the trades my focus every single day is to make money that's my number one focus that is what i do it's one of the reasons that's good to trade with me because i like to be right i like to make money if you want to take the class you could sign up for the newsletter take the class later i have a lot of people that have done that they say i want to learn more i know the system works now i'm doing it i'm making money in the letter i think it's time for me to take the class but you achieve your goals by chunking it out you can easily make back the cost of the course in just a few trades if you follow along you can see this here however the larger benefit is truly learning the system so that you can use it for the rest of your life what if i stopped the newsletter one day so you know it's important to learn the system a really thing don't forget your longer term goals so many traders get caught up in the past live in the present moment and keep your eye in the future want to sign up for the newsletter do it start doing well do well make money and then sign up for the class you can learn it to prove yourself that this is something that you really want to do but trading for a living is something that you want to do you have to find a way to make it work in your schedule the class is always in the weekends okay you could be in another job and do something else and get the options trades because they're in live time get sent to you on the email the newsletter so you figure out a way to make it work for you that you can make a transition for yourself everyone wants to make money but not every trade is going to work you saw that here again you can have an amazing results and a profitable month at even a 68% win ratio okay you have to size yourself correctly financial freedom is important to people not just because of the world that we're living in now but i think this is something that as people become more involved they realize again they want to work from home they don't want to be relied on an employer look at what's happening with the vaccine mandates right now so there's a lot of reasons people want financial freedom you can make money from home you can trade from home if you'd like to learn the system it's called the golden gap system the golden gap course the golden gap system is a 26-point professional bearish gap rating system the purpose of this system is to help you evaluate which gap to trade each morning using a checklist this checklist tells you what to trade when and in what direction the 26-point checklist predicts directional bias in a stock and that's what i do so if you want to learn the system you can take the class if you just want to be on the newsletter you can sign up for the newsletter as is so i go through the checklist each morning i do all of this in the pre-market if you want to learn the system you take the golden gap course next class is september 25th and 26th class tuition is six thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars it's nine a.m to five p.m eastern time classes online you can be anywhere in the world and take it if you want to sign up for the trends course the combo with the golden gap this is on the 28th tuesday okay you save 500 dollars to the trends learn long-term trends which is good for swing trading and options if you want to just sign up for the gap options newsletter it's an