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Hi, my name is Leon Roe, Coverage E-Trader and Trading Coach at trading180.com and we have two traders in this video, Ebbe and Fitz, who joined me, joined Trading 180 a while ago. And I just wanted to get their opinion, their views and of the mentoring group, how they're applying fundamentals to their technicals and really kind of go over the results, what they've been getting in the group and really just getting on his opinion. Right, brilliant. So hi guys, how are you guys doing? You okay? Yeah, good man, how are you Leon? Yeah, doing well man, doing well. So Fitz and Ebbe, right? I guess I'll speak to maybe Fitz first. Give us, I guess maybe a quick background on how you got trading as far as how you got into Forex and how long have you been trading or were you trading before you met me? And then the question goes out to Ebbe as well. Well, it's been five years now, it's been a long journey, five years of this and basically it started with being awake and then there was this guy that had a chat. So I was like, what's this about? And he said, oh, this is trading Forex blah, blah, blah. And I was like, okay, cool. So how can I get into it? So he gave me like a little explanation of how Forex works and everything. And I was actually quite intrigued. So I go home and I'll start looking into it. And I was like, okay, cool. I mean, there's something that I want to do. So I started researching online about trading here and there and then there was a time I saw, I understand, an advocate for a seminar in somewhere in Milton Keynes because around that time I lived in London. So I remember catching the train going all the way to Milton Keynes and then obviously going for this Forex seminar and I was like, damn, this is good. And it was all about the kind of monies you could make and all of those things. I was like, yeah, I want to do this. So then on that very day, I just decided I was going to sign up for this course and I remember paying three grand for it straight away. Three grand. Yeah, that was my first introduction to Forex. But then in as much as, I mean obviously like we both know, I mean, you can never select anyone's course or whatever because obviously, whatever anyone gives to you, it works for them. That's why they're able to sort of like document it, put it in like videos and whatsoever and then send it and then sell it out there. I mean, what they didn't explain or maybe what I didn't understand was the fact that it was a day trading course and I was working full time. So it wasn't really working for me. Right. It wasn't really and I was searching around, searching around and I was making losses, I was blowing one account after another because obviously there was no time to trade. And then going online and then obviously on YouTube all the time, trying one person, trying the next thing after that one day I came across your video. And when I came across your videos, I mean, I was like, wow, this is good. And I started watching videos after videos after videos and then one day I remember reaching out to you, I sent you an email and I said, I've watched a lot of your videos and I'm interested in this. So can you take me on and you're like, yeah, you got back to me, sent me an email, got back to me and everything. And to be honest, I didn't have a clue about fundamentals whatsoever. I mean, I knew a little bit about fundamentals, but it was just about trading news. So it was about basically waiting for the news to come. And then once you see the reaction based on what's happening, then you just obviously jumping based on the volatility that this thing comes up, you know. Yeah. Yeah, try and get that. That's what I knew about for me. That was fundamentals. Yeah, and that is a lot of people's interpretations of fundamentals. It was mine as well for a very long time.  Yeah.  Yeah. In contrast to the expectation, right? Yeah. So that's been. To be honest, I didn't even know what it meant. All I knew was, you know, it's a high impact news. The markets are going to move. So once it starts moving, you jump in. And that's what I was doing. Sometimes you make money. Sometimes you lose and everything. So when I heard you speaking, I was like, OK, this guy is going to be better. Anyway, so let me try him. So I've come to you and then now Leon is going on about and then you need to know inflation. And then Leon is going to buy inflation, interest rates, GDP, this and this.  I don't know. I remember. And I remember I was reading when we had that group on Telegram. Yeah. That was initially on Telegram. And there'll be trades because I had friends who had also started trading. I mean, obviously they were technical traders and they'll be taking trades and they'll be sending me this trade. It's like, oh, I'm going to this and I'm making money.  We have to wait to. Is this the right thing? Is this the right course for me? This is kind of what it's doing, you know? But then it was because I didn't understand fundamentals then, you know? So at the second stage, I had to take a back step and like, listen. Your focus is in too many places. You're trying to do this. You're listening to this person. You're listening to that person. You're listening to the other person. There's so much. Listen, it's either you stick to Leon, right? And understand what Leon is trying to teach you or else you're just going to go round and round and round. And by that stage, I've been three years into this journey. Yeah. So then I had to sit down and now start applying what you were teaching, which was about get to understand the fundamentals. And when I started getting into fundamentals, initial fundamentals, initially, I was reading all over the place that I was trying to remember. I was coming at you, Leon. What is it about money supply? And then this and that. And then Leon would be like, no, Fitz, I'm teaching. You know, it's all over the place. I remember. I remember. I always come back to you and it was like, no, Fitz, stick to the main ones. GDP, inflation, interest rates, central bank, monetary policies. I mean, they said they can't employ me. They said, stick to this. And I was like, oh, but then this person is saying this, this person is saying this. But then obviously I had to. I mean, sit back and say, OK, listen to what Leon is saying and then just go by it. And that was where the change began. You know, I remember when, you know, you started giving me some trade ideas. Yeah. And then I was like, yeah, Fitz, it's just about, you know, you're getting the direction, right? It's just about then the technical analysis getting in, you know what I mean? But once you can get the fundamentals correct, you're more than likely going to be on the right side of the market at some point, right? And you're able to buy low and sell high. So, Ebbe, what about you? How did your journey start into forex trading?  My interest started, I think, Lex Van Dam had a show called Millionaire Traders. Yeah, I remember. I can't remember the year, I think 2007 or eight, one of them. And I watched the show and the way he trained the people and Anton Krill was there and the way he handled the people. I loved it. I said, wow, this guy is no nonsense guy. I like people like that. So that sparked my idea to get into trading. So I was in junior at that time. So I didn't really spend time and looking for courses. But then after I came out of uni, I paid for a technical course. I don't want to say the name, but I pay like 2,500 on the course. And yeah, I didn't learn nothing, to be honest, about moving averages. They haven't learned nothing. And in my head, I was thinking, is this, this can't be trading because it's too easy. It can't be that something needs to happen. So I was going through YouTube and I discovered some other guy which I paid for his course. His course was a bit cheap, like 215. I learned fundamentals from him. And someone else on YouTube gave me Anton course for free. So I was like, okay. So I looked at that. Then that course that I paid, that's where I mess fits in that group. Right. Right. I met him there and he, I messaged him. Because normally I don't go to list people. I messaged him and I was like, hey, what's up? Young boy, blah, blah. Just talking and we connected and he told me about fundamentals. That's not because that time then I've learned fundamentals with money supply. All of that stuff. And I was like, oh, that's cool. New orders. Then fundamental list that most people have then fits and then with supply and demand. Oh, I've got, I paid for a technical course as well with that teaching supply and demand. I can't remember their name. Then I met another guy that also does supply and demand, but I didn't get grass. I learned it, but I felt like there's something odd about it. Even though it's cool that people, you know, that rally base, rally drop. I understand it, but in my head, I was like, no, there has to be more than that. Even though that works, there has to be a way that can connect with the structure on the charts. Then fast forward, I mess fits in that group. But then we're talking and you start, you know, this guy is, is, is, is supply and demand ways crazy. So I'll check out on him on YouTube. That's like a cool style. I watched video. I didn't even finish that video. I can't remember what it was on supply and demand. I just like 10, 50 miles to outfit. Okay. Connect me ASAP and I was broke at that time. But I was like, you know what, I'll find the money and pay for it. Like, I don't care. I just need this guy. So then fits connect me to you. Then I paid for the course. Then straight in. I went through everything in your group. I watched every video took my time. Every video. Then I was like, wow. Okay. This, this is the guy. Let me stick here. I'm not going anywhere. I just stick to this guy. Then this method. And then, and then trade. And this is where I am right now. So I took it serious, like serious. When I joined you, then I took it really, really serious. Cause she clear all the noise. Yes. And then just focus on what needed to be focused on. And right now, right now, even if I haven't read fundamentals for like two seconds, just go in and understand it quickly. Yes. And I know what's up. That's it. So thank fits and thank you as well. You're welcome. You're welcome. And yeah, I do remember when fits, you know, introduced you to the group. I do remember.  One of the questions I guess I wanted to ask was, you know, we talk about fundamental analysis, right? And, you know, everyone has kind of different, I guess, understandings of what fundamental analysis is as we kind of spoken before some of me first get into Forex trading. A lot of people think that fundamental analysis is going on to Forex factory and just watching, you know, pressing buy and sell when news comes out. Right. But we understand is obviously a lot more than that. We look at the relationship between interest rates, inflation, GDP, you know, and risk sentiment, for example. Yeah. But, but, but if someone is out there listening and they're saying, well, you know, well, why should I learn fundamental analysis?  And I've heard from, you know, these traders on YouTube and TikTok that everything you need to know is in a price chart, you know, Elliott Wave works and all of that kind of stuff works. So why would you say to somebody, what would be what, you know, the advice you would give someone as far as, as far as why learn fundamental analysis? And I'll give that question, I guess, to Fitz. Why was the benefits of, or some of the benefits of learning fundamental analysis? Well, when it comes to trading, like, I don't know if you remember me saying that everything works. I mean, for someone to try, for someone to obviously implement it with their trading, right? And then feel confident enough to document it and claim and make money from this. Then it must work for them.  You know, so it took me coming to obviously sign up to you and you explaining the whole fundamental analysis to me and how to apply to my trading, you know, for me to understand that for you to have a trade, I mean, for you to get into a trade, you must know the reasons why you are getting into a trade. You know, it's just not about looking at the price charts and then deciding, okay, you know what, prices are going up, so I'm going to buy. Prices are falling. The market, yes, prices, technical analysis plays a role, you know, but there must be a reason, a fundamental reason to be in that trade. And that's sort of like, if you've done your analysis well and then you get into that, and then you get into the trade and you understand fundamental analysis, you've done your analysis well, and then you get onto it and then you obviously open your charts, right? And then the technical base helps us for increase.  But fundamental analysis gives you the reason why you want to get into the trade because it tells you because with the way we analyze things, I mean, we are aware of what the central banks are saying, what they are trying to focus on based on their monetary policies that's affecting their economy, right? So that's also like, gives you an overview of okay, now this is what they are saying, and this is the kind of data that's coming out. So based on the data that's coming out, right? Does the data tally with what they are saying? Where are the divergences whatsoever? So you have that kind of reason and then we kind of go through the hedge funds, the analysts, you know, what their reports, what they are kind of saying as well too. So it kind of, it sort of like validates the same reasons why you want to get into a trade. And you get into that trade without confidence. So for me, I'll say that fundamental analysis is giving me great confidence when I'm getting into trades because I know that, okay, my line, I mean, my line of thinking is exactly what, I mean, people that obviously paid so much, analysts whatsoever, you know, that's, I mean, it's along their line, their line and mode of thinking. And because we're focusing on what the central bank, which actually controls the currency, is thinking as well too. So yeah. The great point. That's the main reason, yeah. A fantastic point. Have you got anything to add to that, Ebbe? So why should, why would you say to somebody who was maybe thinking about learning fundamental analysis, what would you say it is about fundamental analysis that, you know, you think is definitely essential? What has it done for you? So for example, it could be like, well, you know, currency selection, for example, it could be things like even the ability to hold trades and things like that. So what has it done for you? Yeah. Fundamental has given me the foresight to be able to forecast the markets three months, six months and yeah. So with that, I know, okay, if everything aligned, I Ebbe, like Fitz said, following the monetary policy, following to see that data meets the narrative or the quarterly basis, then once I know, okay, I go to the chart, look for area of value, demand zones, supply zones, if I'm looking to sell, if I'm looking to buy, and if those area get respected and then they see a reaction, I put my entry in with a control stop and then I ride the train, ride the train and then I can add on to multiple positions once there's a pullback, right?  It depends on how tight your stop is and where your stop is. Exactly. Yeah. So I do that and that's it. That's the main thing with fundamentals. It's very essential to know fundamentals. And let me know about liquidity hunts as well, because I remember one time, it let me know, sometimes we may think like, because right now, I'll give you an example, like the hero right now, fundamentally it's weak, but it's doing a liquidity pool, right? Prices keep going up until the richer place where they'll start selling. I know there's a pullback of selling that came in two, three days ago that people took that, but I see going to the 1600 before you start turning to come down. I ignore the buy. I'm just waiting for the sell to go in, right? Then sell it to 110, because that's where the analysts are focused to get to around that range. So I'm just waiting, beating my time. And I knew the buy was going to come in. And since you mentioned that, it made me very careful in certain trade I take in pair selection. I saw by knowing the part of Lee's resisted. I love it every time I'm saying that. Right, yeah. So both of you have really kind of picked up on a lot of things. So, you know, to kind of summarize, I guess fundamental analysis is things like pair selection, right? So a lot of technical traders will literally look at, you know, the whole 28, 29, 30 pairs, right? And, you know, with fundamentals, you're actually selecting the pairs that are most likely to trend because we're basically essentially saying we want to trade the strongest versus the weakest, right? What the term is the fundamentals by looking at the fundamental analysis, again, interest rates, GDP, inflation, monetary policy, risk sentiment, we can see whether, for example, the euro is strong or weak and what the European Central Bank is likely to do with the currency through monetary policy compared to, for example, the US dollar, right? What are the Fed doing with interest rates? Are they hiking? Are they likely to hike, hold or cut rates, right? Are the European Central Bank likely to hike, hold or cut rates? And then we can just look at the data, look at their decisions or what they're likely to do by the rumor in a sense, and then forecast the massive trends, the huge trends. And, you know, I've done interviews with, you know, lots of other traders and one trader in particular who was a scalper, I think it was Lawrence and he was saying to me that he used to go for like 20, 30 pips. You know, he's now going for hundreds of pips. He's made hundreds of pips like literally in trades, right? And he was like, it's amazing. Do you know what I mean? So also as well, fundamentals, and we'll go over, I guess, you know, some of your trades in a sec, but fundamentals also allows you to hold trades with confidence to see where a currency is actually a bargain price because we also know that price doesn't equal value, right? A lot of people think that price, looking at a price chart, that's the value of it. But not price and value are two different things. Something can be expensive and something can be a bargain. Do you know what I mean? So it doesn't mean that because price is what it is right now that, you know, we've got, you know, that's basically the value of it. That doesn't make any sense. But yeah, good answers on that. So from a, I guess, a trading psychology perspective, right? So it all has, I guess, my mentoring and the group helped you with your trading psychology because without that, you know, technicals and fundamentals are just not going to work. If you keep repeating the same mistakes over and over and over again, or you're not aware of the mistakes that you're making, then, you know, it's going to be very difficult for you to trade technicals and fundamentals, right? So, but being in the group, starting with Fitz, how has the group helped you and supported you with actually, you know, trading psychology? Well, just to summarize it, I mean, I'm a very confident trader. That's it. I mean, every trader. Yeah, that's it. I mean, I'm a very confident trader.  I mean, the strongest against the weakest or like you, or the trend that you use most, the dog with the least fleas. Dog with the least fleas, yeah. I love that.  And I have a friend who has a group. Yes, a group of about 5,000 members. I mean, actually, actually, it's not, I mean, this was in those days of my search, of my going from place to place to place to place. So it was actually a group that I joined, I paid to join and everything, right? So, I mean, me and this guy, we've developed some kind of like friendship. Right. I mean, I've been talking a lot about fundamentals and everything.  So he was like, Fitch, I want to add a little bit of value to my group. So I love the way you always talk about fundamentals. So could you come and give a short lecture on fundamentals, right? And then I was like, okay, so I was asking maybe, I was like, should I do it? And he's like, yeah, yeah, you can, you can, you can. So, literally, I gave this talk on fundamentals, explaining, I mean, obviously, our main points, which would be inflation, interest rates, GBP and everything. And I finished and he was like, wow. He was like, wow. And every, every watch the video and every was like, Fitch, that was really good. I had this guy say to me, that at least I've, I've watched your video four times. And every time I watch it, I mean, I get more to understand from it, you know?   Because just people, people out there, I remember, was it three years ago? Or three, was it three years ago? Yeah. When we're just shorting euro, sorry, the dollar against the euro, all the time. Yeah. Yeah. And in between, right? Obviously, the euro will rally a bit, make a, a correction or a pullback here. And those pullbacks would be massive. Yeah. And we're sitting on our hands and I'm getting people sending me charts. They're making money and I'm sitting there and I'm not making no money. And I used to be restless. I'm like, nah, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. He gave me. But I mean, to come from that stage to a place whereby now I could, actually be confident enough to lecture a group of 5,000 people on fundamentals. I've come very far. That is fantastic. And I've come very far. And Fitz, you can, you can attest to this, right? I've always said to traders in the group, if you know it, you can teach it, right? Yeah. Correct? I've always said that. So you thought you've always said that, right? If you know it, you can teach it. And the fact that you're now teaching it and you're showing other people how to use it, brilliant. You know what I mean?  Your trading psychology is there and it's a brilliant thing to hear. And you know what? Well done, man. Well done. But you know you've got to refer some people to trading 180 as well. You know that, isn't it? Definitely. But, Ebi, how has the mentoring been with you and the improvements maybe with your psychology? So when you came in first of all, maybe were you making certain, you know, maybe mistakes and then, do you know what I mean? Just through learning and being in the group, ironing out those mistakes. Yes. When I came through, I struggled to take profits. Right. I'm like, because I was like, ah, it can go a little bit further. It can go a little bit further. But then I watched your video where you have that profit target range. So I always, whenever I do my analysis, I always include that where I take the profits and stop loss and everything. So it's already there. So once I put the pen in order, I don't care whatever happened to the trade. Right. Right. Then I come back again to see. You know what I mean? A couple of days. And that helped me to not worry about taking profits like higher. Just target whatever, one, two, three, take it, let it remain around and just chill. Brilliant. Brilliant. And just being in the mentoring group and the fact that you can ask questions. Questions, yes. You can get feedback and things like that. You know, that I guess is worth its weight in gold. And it was for me, right? When I was being mentored, because I put out a post on YouTube recently that was asking why traders felt that they failed or they're not profitable. And so far, I think something like 55% say that it's trading psychology, right? Which is, obviously, that's what they think is there is obviously, you know, truth to that. But if I've said, if let's say, for example, you've watched, you know, a thousand YouTube videos and you've watched a thousand technical analysis videos. Yeah.  Then my question would be to you. If that is the case, then why don't you watch a thousand videos on trading psychology? Right? Because all the information should be there, right? For your trading psychology for you to get better. But, but traders will do that and still not be profitable. Yeah. There's a reason why. And it's because you're not getting feedback from someone who knows what they're doing. Mentoring, right? Mentoring is so important from the right person. Yeah. And so when, you know, traders will watch, you know, all the videos under the sun. It's very difficult to actually get, you know, the feedback whether they're doing something right or wrong. So I have a bit of a thing and I guess from a psychology perspective, whether, you know, there's a quadrant, right? Where, and you've probably seen this where you can do the right action, the wrong action, the right result and the wrong result. I know if it's, you'll know this as well, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, so you've got the right action doesn't, just because you do the right action and take the right trade. Yeah. Doesn't it won't always equal a profitable trade. Right? No. It won't always equal a profitable trade.  Yeah. But you can get the right result, correct? Yeah. That's true. Right. Most people will justify their actions by the result. Yeah. So what they would do is they would take maybe a poor trade. Yeah. But win that trade and maybe have two or three or four winning streaks, right? Trades in a row. And then they think they're doing the right thing. They're following the process. But in fact, they're doing the wrong action and continuously doing the wrong things will eventually over the long term, medium to long term in equal to a blown account. Yeah. Whereas, for example, doing the right action and following the process of things. Yeah. Doesn't always lead to a profitable outcome. But if you keep doing that process and keep within that process, eventually over the medium to long term, you will see the results. Where trade is messed up psychologically is that they confuse the outcome with the process. Yeah. So if they think that if they win a trade, two trades, three trades in a row, they think that that is basically what I'm supposed to be doing. And then, but from a psychological perspective, they get confused later on because they're like, well, what happened? Right? What happened? I was taking all these trades and I was winning at first. I was winning more than I was losing. And then all of a sudden I'm starting to lose now. The strategy doesn't work. And then they start chasing their tail, right? You know what I mean? But the point I guess I'm trying to make is this, is even being aware of that fact within the group, I guess you'd never heard that concept before outside of Trading 180, right? No. I mean, Leon, when it comes to mainstream, yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. Because I remember when the first started with you, every time I come to you, Leon, they said, I don't understand. He's like, okay, give me a few minutes. Next thing, Leon drops a video. Next thing, oh, we got two minutes. Come on. I mean, let's do a Zoom call. And it was, it's always that constant, constant memory. It never stops. It's like you are always there, always there for the group. And that's why I run and the group is actually grown so much to the point where even though I'd be honest, I'm not actually because of other schedules and everything, but whenever I have the time, I come in there. And because you've grown the group and so much, there's people that have actually taken up that mantle and role of helping newer people that come on board and guiding them as well too. And plus, I mean, mate, you're doing well. You've done 2 webbeds every week.  And then the weekly... The weekly... Fundamental videos. Fundamental videos and all of those things. In between every day, you are dropping 2, 3 videos in a day onto the group. Apart from dropping the videos, you are explaining things to people, going through people's chats and everything. It's like a full-time job. Yeah, that's when it comes to mentoring.  Thank you, man. No, no, that's true. Because she got so many videos. Literally, sometimes, even you still do new ones and I'm like, but the answers is there already. I still do new videos and it's good. It's good.  Now I'm thinking like an analyst before I actually commit my money, my capital in the market. Yeah, absolutely. I've seen the change in both of you and it's brilliant to see. And as you say, you're more thinking like an institution, like a bank, right? You're not just saying, all right, there's a level of support or supply and they're going to try and get short here. And we're just going to look for some technical analysis, right? You're thinking more from a macro level. And when it comes to things like managing money and doing things like that, to do that from a technical analysis perspective is going to be very, very, very difficult for anybody to really say, all right, I'm going to give you my money. Anyone who's serious anyway, if you don't know the relationship between interest rates and inflation and really can you call yourself a forex trader? If you don't know fundamental analysis and risk sentiment analysis, interest rates, inflation, GDP, the relationship between, can you call yourself a real forex trader or are you just a technical analysis trader? No, it's just taking analysis. It's just looking at the charts and then looking at what price is doing and then just following, following suit. Yes. For the ace basically, yeah. Yeah. And getting to know price patterns, double tops, double bottoms and wedges and this and whatsoever. I mean, there are patterns and there's times that don't work and there's times that they wouldn't work and everything. But for me, I mean, after coming to you, it's about why not be much more confident about your trades?  Give yourself reasons why you get it into trades. It's what you are thinking in line with monetary policies, what other analysts from the mentor analysts are thinking. So that's also like, do you see that confidence as to whether to commit your capital or not? Yeah, yeah. And yeah, there's no brainer when it comes to that. Absolutely, but trying to explain that to somebody who's not, who's still very technically driven, it's very difficult to explain that. And again, the statistics still show the statistics haven't changed, right? No. Still 90% of traders lose 90% of their capital in 90 days. If you go to a broker, they are mandated to show you how profitable their traders are using that platform. And what you'll see is you'll see a number that comes up and it will say 70%.   I mean, I'm awake with the broker now. Are you going to? Yeah, well, there you go. I know, it's like. Right, so Fitz knows first hand, right? So you know that it's like at least 80%. Some brokers maybe 75%, 85% depending on the broker. So around that region, right? Of traders. It's more. It's about the same to be about. It's probably more, but maybe they're massaging the figures. You know what I mean? They don't want to put people off, right? That's true, yeah. But the point is, Fitz, I've been doing this since, what, 2013, right? Profitable since around about 2015, right? And the statistics have not changed. If technical analysis was all you needed, there's hundreds and thousands and millions of videos that you can find on social media, all talking about support and resistance, Wycoff, you know, even supply and demand, right? So you can get all the information out there. Yet statistically, things have not changed in the years that I've been here trading, right? So it's got to be more. There's got to be more to successful trading than technical analysis, because anyone can learn technical analysis. It's not, it's not the hardest part, right? So, you know, Wycoff, all that kind of stuff is not, it's not hard, but yet statistics are still the same.  Right, so let's get into, for example, just one more question before we get into maybe, you know, maybe you guys explaining, you know, maybe your biggest trade or last profitable trade. I want to just find out, maybe like Fitz, actually maybe Ebbe, I lost Ebbe, what was your biggest ah-ha moment? What was your biggest light bulb moment being with Trading 180? So many, but the one that clicked my mind was my ah-ha moment is where, let's say, you've got your fundamental projection, but then price is moving up. If you want to solve a price, it's moving up, right?  Yeah, against you. Then that was my ah-ha moment was like, oh, so they're not ready yet, they're just trying to put money in. So, okay, I'll just click back and chill. That was my ah-ha moment because I've done some fundamentals, however, they have, most of them didn't explain it like that. Because that happened last year, the Euro trade, right? Everyone was talking sell, sell, sell, but Euro's still going up, fundamentally. Like still going up until when they reach one, two, three, then they drop. That was where I sold from as well. I took profit at 1117, let's chill. So, that was my ah-ha moment. So, thank you for that. That's all I can say, nothing else. Brilliant. Brilliant. What about you, Fitz? Oh, for me, it was to do with the learning, basically. When I first came on, sorry. Sorry. It was to do with the fact that fundamentals involves so much. So, obviously, once you start learning something, there's that bit of you that wants to go out there and then try and find out so much about the topic. So, I was out there trying to read this and I was trying to read that and I was trying to read that and all of those things. But then, that moment was when you said to me, Fitz, concentrate on the core fundamentals I'm teaching, which were interest rates, inflation, GDP, employment, monetary policies. That's sort of like because the thing with fundamentals, it's so broad and when you go online, there's so much to read. You could be reading from Bloomberg, you could be reading from Yahoo Finance, you could be reading from wherever. But then, when you condensed it into those core topics and said Fitz, concentrate on these things. Once you concentrate on these things, you realize that it's the same things that the analysts are talking about and the central banks are talking about. And doing that, it just basically made fundamentals so easy to understand because now, the moment you start reading, I mean, analyzing and doing your research into fundamentals, you know the things that you are looking out for. And it just makes life so much easier.  What?  So for me, that was my moment. Really it made so much more. Yeah, and before the house, you've condensed the fundamentals, the main core ones. I used to pay attention on PMI numbers a lot. PMIs and everything, and I'm like, then that, since when I joined you, and you mentioned, oh, it's good to know about them, but however, it's, the core one is the main one that gives you the directional purposes, you know? And then now, whenever there's news PMI numbers I just look at it, oh, okay, cool. Then I knew where, if the market is expanding or expansion or contraction, I got that idea. And then that's also part of my ha ha moments. I forgot to mention that. Thanks, Fitz, for reminding me that. That's definitely, definitely ha ha moments for the fundamentals. So filtering out the, you know, the irrelevant news, I guess, right? And also as well, from a from Fitz's perspective, it's the focus.  You know, that was one of the first things I said to the new traders that joined, right? Which was focus, yeah? Focus is so, I guess the word is so essential because you can kind of get pulled from pillar to post, not just with fundamental analysis, but even technical analysis.  That's one of the things that traders and people, I guess, just can't, it's the inability or the difficulty in focusing and having that discipline, right? To just focus on one thing and any, and just focus and practice and repetition, you know? So yeah, brilliant, brilliant. And I'm really, really glad that you've had so many aha moments.  And I know, I guess, just because we kind of went over it just before, Ebbe had the, it was the Cad Yen, wasn't it? Yeah. Right, and it was back in September, right? September last year. Yeah. And so first of all, Ebbe, I want you to just break down from a fundamental perspective why you were looking to buy the Canadian dollar at the time and sell the Japanese Yen. Okay, so from the fundamental view, CAD was the first country to start to talk about tapering. Right. And then their data was improving. Right, so it's a taper. So tapering just in case anyone who's listening is not necessarily, you know, clear on tapering. Tapering is basically the reduction in purchases of bonds, for example, because they're buying government debt, yeah? So what they're doing is, is that they're reducing their government debt buying, that's what's known as tapering, which should be positive for the currency. And number two, in terms of risk, that may have decided not to take the trade. They were the country that managed the COVID better than the others. Yeah, brilliant, yeah. Right, so and then I was looking at it and what the central banks was also looking at at that time was employment numbers getting better and then unemployment dropping. So and then they've front-run everyone.  And then with the yen, everyone knows the yen. I don't even know how to explain it yet. They just stuck in the limbo for decades, right? Stuck in the limbo for decades. And they just, I don't know, man, the yen is weak at that time, right? They were in lockdown and then the government was still buying the bonds at that time. So I was like, okay, that's a good divergence. So let me just go into my chart. And then I remember we had a volatility at that time. So I was just waiting for price to get cheaper. So I held our hold on and then price got around to the 18, 8,500 area. Right, period. During September, so the 8,520, you said it was somewhere around here, wasn't it? That's it, yeah, 8,520. Do you remember where roughly maybe your stop-loss was? Yeah, my stop-loss was like below that week. You know that week on the left? This one here. No, no, the big black one there. Yeah, it was below there. Okay. It's a daily chart, yeah? Yeah, it was a daily chart. It was below there. So somewhere maybe about 15, 20 pips below that. That's it, that's it, below that. Okay, so about here. Yeah, okay, brilliant. Then I took it. And you took that trade. Brilliant. 92.440. 92.440. He managed to pick literally really nice. Brilliant. Fantastic trade, man. Yeah, I gave fish that trade, it didn't took you, so I was laughing at you. Fish didn't take it. You know, fish remember when we did the analysis after I used the trade. Yeah, but I mean from the perspective of you had the fundamentals correct, and whatever fits maybe hesitated on the trade isn't even necessarily here or there, because sometimes it's like, for example, I might think to myself, I'm not too sure about it fundamentally, or maybe technically, and then the trade might still go. But the main thing I guess is the consistency in the fundamental analysis, because even if you don't necessarily jump on, you're not going to catch every single trade and trend.  Like how many pips was that? Something like maybe about 400 or something like that? Oh, no, maybe yeah, 600 pips. 700 pips, 700 pip trade, right? And it's just, it makes all the sense in the world. Like I said, we're not always going to get in on the same trades all the time. Yeah, but as long as you can consistently know and understand what is likely to happen in certain scenarios, then that is really what matters. And a great trade, mate. I remember this trade. I remember this trade 100%. I do remember it. I actually missed this trade myself, I think, because, and I can't remember why, but I remember this was in, you know, the way that I trade was a CPR, right? So there was a level, yeah, that was it. And I think, I think, I, do you know what it was? I think I was in another, I think I was in, I was in two other yen trades. So I think it was because I couldn't take this because otherwise I would have had too much. I would have been exposed to the yen too much. I think that's, that was what it was, but it was just a choice, you know, that it was, it was basically just take your pick when it came to selling the yen, right? You know what I mean? But the main thing is that, you know, you can't catch everything, but you get the, you get the area, right? You know what I mean? You get the direction, right? And you buy low because we understood that price doesn't, is not, you know, correlated to value all the time. And when it's not, this will end up being a bargain.  Fantastic, mate, fantastic. Fitz, what about you? Biggest trade, last profitable trade? Oh, you know, you know me, there's always been one trade that I like so much. I mean, one, well, I mean, there's other pairs that I trade anyway, but there's this pair that I kind of like, really like. And I love my, back in the days when I used to send you chats, a lot of my chats used to be on that, which is the EuroNZD. EuroNZD, yeah. I love that pair. Yeah, we hear you, we hear you. I love that pair, look. I just love that pair a lot. So, literally, since I would say from, is it November or there about in 2020? I've never, all of just basically, that is so EuroNZD. Yes, I'll get out at a certain stage. Yeah, 2020, right? So, it was around November, you said, yeah, November 2020. Actually, I think I remember this. Yeah, all of that is just so EuroNZD. Really? That's all I do, that's basically. Look at that. It's my bread and butter, it's my bread and butter pair. So, explain it fundamentally then. So, fundamentally, obviously, we had COVID, which hit really hard in 2020. Yeah. But in towards the latter part of 2020, then we had certain economists coming out of, so not coming out of COVID, but they were sort of like handling the whole COVID scenario much better than everyone. And everywhere, the markets everywhere were risk-off. That means, I mean, investors were obviously trying to put their money into safe havens. So, I mean, we had big rallies on the JPY and then the CHFs and everything. But then these commodity currencies, obviously, because China, which was Australia and New Zealand do a lot of business with, they sort of recovered much better than everybody else in terms of COVID. So, I mean, they were still doing it into their manufacturing and everything, their GDP was growing up and everything. So, because this commodity exporting countries like New Zealand, Australia and everywhere, so I mean, a major part of their exports are into China, are into China. It's sort of like help their economy to grow in the midst of the pandemic. And they're knowing that they sort of like handle the whole COVID scenario much better than everyone. So, we had that appreciation in their currencies. And Europe wasn't doing too well with them, just with COVID. I mean, it had impacted everybody's economy greatly. I mean, we had lots of people dying over here in the UK, in a Germany everywhere. Germany being the largest country when we talk about a Euro block, you know, it had a big impact on them everything. So, it was a case of trading like you've always thought as trade the weakest against the strongest, you know. In any case of the carry trade as well to interest rates from these countries were obviously much better than Europe as well too, because there wasn't really much going on for Europe and they had everything going on for them. So, it was a case of just basically, they being the strongest, I was shutting them against the Europe. Yeah. So, just to, I guess, a quick recap, I guess, it was pretty much because I do remember this time as well like around November. So, you had the vaccine rollout, right? So, there was vaccines were being developed, right? And I think they were coming out. So, we had more risk on because of, because the market was expecting economies, GDP, to start growing, right? Yeah. So, it was basically a case of which economies are going to grow fastest and which ones are going to lag behind. And at the time, the Europe were not handling the virus very well, whereas New Zealand had gone into pretty much zero COVID policy and they were pretty much ahead of the curve when it came to GDP, right? So, it was light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, I do remember this succinctly. So, there was divergences between GDP on the growth. Who was going to return to the recovery phase sooner? Who was lagging behind? There was that divergence there, right? Massive divergence. Yeah, massive divergence. If you go back and you check the GDP figures around those times, for New Zealand and then even for China, because a lot of things were going to China as well, too. The GDP was just increasing and increasing, you know? And it went on so well. So, it was, that's been the biggest trade for me because it was my bread and butter. Brilliant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brilliant. So, it's literally like, you know.  And again, you raise a fantastic point, right? Because ultimately, there's two things going on here, right? So, what traders will generally want to say is, is that, well, fundamentals allows you to understand value, first of all, the fact that the New Zealand dollar was a bargain up here. And we know that for a fact because prices went down. That's what it is. Now, there are periods that are going to happen where you might get a week or two, right? So, between March to maybe April, there was a pullback.  But why do that when the path of these resistance is just to the downside, right? That's great. It's just when the pullback is just giving you a bit of a racist to get you, that's it. Cheaper prices. Exactly. It's just giving you cheaper prices. But where traders mess up is that they try to pick, and I was saying this again today, right? One of the hardest things to do is to consistently pick turning points, right? Probably nearly impossible to do it, you know, to a consistent level if you're doing, you know, highs and lows, right? No one tells you this. No one tells you this. This is the reason why support and resistance trading on its own and the face doesn't work. Yes, you can see in hindsight, yeah, yeah, you know what? It worked here, it worked here, it worked here. But when you try and do it consistently and buy and sell at highs and lows, or what you think are highs and lows, it's very, very, very difficult to do. Yeah, consistently. So eliminate, first of all, what the direction that you don't want to trade in, yeah? So focus on just the direction that you do want to trade in, which the trade off to that is that, all right, on the up, when prices are going against you, or not even against you, but when prices are pulling back, you're not going to make money on the pullback, fine. But it's not about making money on the pullback, it's in fact just looking to buy, like you say, for cheap. Is that a cheap area? Yes, the market agrees, excellent, made some money there. Does it pull back to that cheap area there? Yes, it does. We'll make some money here. The more times a level is touched, as we know, the less it becomes a bargain. So we buy the New Zealand dollar there. Cool. But then if it doesn't work out there, there's a stop-punt right there. There's a stop-punt. You know what I mean? There's a stop-punt. We'll get involved there, right? We just keep shorting. So when the market pulls back, you keep shorting. And then the market pulls back again, comes back to that area there. There's a little bit of a stop-punt right there. On that level, you just keep shorting. Do you know what I mean? It's just short and fits.  I was shorting the euro dollar for about two years. Fits, you was there when I was there when I was doing it. There's no need to keep trying to buy and sell, right? The amount of money you make is not dependent upon the amount of trades you take. I could take two trades, make 600 pips this month, and then compared to somebody who's taking 60 trades, and maybe might only break even, right? It's not correlated. The number of trades you take is not correlated to the amount of profit you make. Just because someone's taking and day trading and taking five, six, 10 trades a day, doesn't matter. Do you know what I mean? It doesn't matter. Yes, they've got more opportunities. They're taking more opportunities, but are they taking the right opportunity? Are they taking the market's opportunity? Is the market saying, yes, that is where we think is a bargain? We know we've supplied them our strategies. We've got our fundamental analysis. Yeah, stop time. CPR. CPR. We do it on a consistent basis, right? We do it on a consistent basis, and we've been doing this for years. Fitz has been with me for a few years. Ebay's been with me for a year or so. I mean, and you've seen me do it year in, year out, right? And you're doing it year in, year out. So, guys, I want to probably wrap up there, and I just want to say thank you for doing this, for proving to people that trading 180, you can turn your trading around, right? Because many times it's really kind of sold as a scam, right?  Scammers, the scam is everywhere, right? Everywhere, yeah. But the actual making of money and being profitable in trading is possible, correct? It is possible. And achievable, yeah. And it's achievable. Yeah. You know, it's achievable, and you can do it with hard work. And you guys are proving that. The other guys that I've been interviewing, they're proving that. And brilliant, man. I just want to say thank you for your opinion. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And you've changed us.


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Okay, we're back live here. This is Sapphire now. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, and I'm going to be hosting the wrap-up of day two with Wikibon co-founder and CTO, David Floyd and Wikibon analyst, big data analyst, Jeff Kelly. Guys, day two is in the books.  We had a variety of conversations in the hallways here on theCUBE with customers, partners, the ecosystem. It's all about Hannah and the cloud is evolving. As I told Schnabay, it's up in the air. He kind of got a kick out of that cloud and sky. Kind of put it together, a real sharp guy. But, David, I want to ask you guys, David and Jeff, what you think of day two. Okay, day one was Hannah all day long and today we heard business value. I think we heard business value as a theme very, very consistently today. And their starting point in discussion is business value. They think in business value terms. And that from a marketing and from a ability to get into high levels in the business side is part of their secret source, part of their success. I think there is a sometimes an over-valuation of the products they have in terms of the business value and some claims which were very interesting but maybe a little excessive. But the fact that they were focusing on that and focusing on getting the nods from the executives in the audience, that to me was very impressive. Very impressive indeed. And it's something that from the technology sales point of view other companies should be doing more of. That there's clearly getting customers to do the talking, getting the business value of their products over is something that every high-tech company should be doing more of. Jeff, I made a comment in the Q and A kind of hinting, not a jab, but kind of saying you guys have been hiding from big data. Last year, Schnabe told me that that's not a big message for them in terms of trying to hype it up. Although he considers themselves a big data company.  I think absolutely. Big data is a broad term and a broad category of both technology solutions and also kind of a mindset about how you monetize data and the new data, assets, data sources that are coming online today that are now available to the enterprise. So, if you look at that way, there's no question that SAP is a big data company. I agree with you that they're hiding from that term a little bit. We hear it occasionally here at this show. Again, last year, occasionally, year before that, not at all. So, I think the issue for SAP is one, they are a marketing machine and they like to keep control of their messaging. And so, they decided at a high level that it is not in their best interest to associate themselves with big data. Perhaps they are thinking about some of the technological limitations of their portfolio, as David was mentioning earlier. And it's not a good idea to kind of tie them to the big data movement, if you will. Because once you bring big data into the equation, people start thinking, okay, on structured data, various data sources, they start thinking things like Hadoop. And when you get into that conversation, SAP simply doesn't have the functionality of the product line to support some of those workloads. Now, that's not to say, again, that HANA is not a great product and it's not very good at what it does. But once you bring big data into the conversation, you really open it up to a whole new level. And I don't know if, my opinion is that SAP just doesn't want to have that conversation right now. You know, they're pitching very much HANA as the be all and all. They're talking about analytics.  Mobile and analytics is huge. But it's too consumer, you know. It's analytics on a fairly narrow set of data. It's the data that SAP has. And they're extracting that and they're doing analytics on that. And they're doing a very good job. They're doing real-time analytics on that data. But it's not the same as taking a fire hose from the Twitter plus a fire hose from the web itself and extracting the noise. The signal from the noise. That's us. So David, you know, business value. I love to hear the executives got so smooth, especially Bill McDermott. You know, the question comes up as total hard fastball. He kind of fouls it off and answers the question. Then he pivots directly to business value. Shnava did the same thing. That's obviously their messaging. When in doubt, always go to business value. Take the moral high ground. Well, let's drill into it. Because you had some compelling business value data you shared on theCUBE today. I thought that was really one of the highlights of today's CUBE sessions were your presentation of your data. What did you present? And what was the big takeaway from your research? Well, so what we looked at was consolidation and virtualization of SAP. And we looked at it from two perspectives. What was driving it from a business point of view, the business value of that consolidation, of those applications, and what was driving it from an IT and a technical point of view. And we looked at technical first and there's a very good sound case for using virtualization, consolidation onto higher performance servers, onto flash, onto high performance IO, and reducing the number of cores, the number of actual servers. And from that reducing the cost of the Oracle, the cost of the infrastructure. And most important, almost most of the important level the cost of the people themselves. So there's a clear business case to be made within IT of consolidation. But the real interest is, why are they doing consolidation, not necessarily just of SAP, but why are they consolidating all the different versions of SAP that they have in each of the divisions or in the different companies that they have. Why are they trying to do that? And that's where the real value is, to have a consistent view of data where the data means the same thing, where you put the data in each of the subsidiaries or divisions, and that data rolls up directly into that single instance of the, quote, truth about the organization. Truth about the financials, truth about the shipments, truth about the inventory, truth about the work in progress, et cetera. I got to ask you, Jeff, about your opinion on the big data value proposition, because big data has a lot of pretty tangible benefits. And one of the things that David pointed out as research we discussed was, there's a lot of labor efficiencies and obviously operational efficiencies. But beyond that, there's new efficiencies that get created, new revenues generated, new decisions are made faster. So part of big data is making decisions faster. What have you found in your research around some of these new values that are soon to be quantified? I don't even think David probably collected all of them. And there's probably some zillions we missed. So what are you seeing? Well, sure, there's lots of benefits that big data brings on the business side, beyond some of the technology-related benefits like augmenting your data warehouse with something like Hadoop to offload some of that data, make your data warehouse perform better and lower the cost. But on the business side, I mean, there's just so many different benefits depending on the vertical you're in. I've done some research recently around the use of big data retail organizations and there's things like dynamic pricing. So retailers are taking in streams of data from internal sources, from suppliers, from could be market data, bringing that into an internal source, analyzing it in real time to make real time decisions about how their pricing products are either often online, but in some cases even in brick-and-mortar stores. So if you're able to do that, and if you tie that to a particular business goal, then you really have something. So perhaps it's not always trying to find the optimal price to sell the most product. Sometimes your goal might be, for instance, to undercut a competitor for a certain period of time. You need to bring in data from that competitor, you've got to bring in market data, and you've got to understand what that's going to do to your bottom line. And it makes sense that you can kind of turn the knobs and levers to hit the right price point. So that's just one example of some of the business value that big data can deliver. And that's in retail, and we're doing similar research. We've done it in banking, and healthcare, and energy. In mobile as well. Yeah, mobile. Remember we did some research in mobile where we looked at the cost of churn and the potential benefit of understanding a churn earlier, being able to identify the key things that are predictors of that, and put in processes, ultimately, in real time, that can be done that. And then, of course, there's the ad serving as well, which people like Aerospike are doing the work on, where huge amounts of volumes of data where they are pricing the ad, putting the bids on the ad in real time. In real time and related to churn, not just placing what are the most appropriate ads in front of people, but also understanding how valuable those people are. So if it's in the churn example. Or how not. Or how not. In the mobile churn example, yes, you may have some, when you know someone's about to churn based on previous patterns, you've seen it in other customers, you could kick off a series of events to help prevent that. But you may also determine simultaneously, well, this is not a customer that's worth putting that effort and time and money into saving. So there's different types of analytics that have to take place and be integrated. So there's a lot of business value that can get very complex, which is why there's so much focus, I think on the services side of this business right now, people trying to understand what are the possibilities? What are the different streams of data I've got to bring together? What are some of the analytics I need to provide? How do I actually deliver that? Put those into productions so I can make those real-time decisions. And that's often services-led. So yeah, there's a lot of business value to be had across verticals. If you can come up with a vertical that can't benefit from big data, I'd be interested to hear. So I don't know. I agree. Even agriculture could benefit. Oh, absolutely. Day two is in the books. We're doing day two wrap up an in-summary. It's business value. And we had this Jim Schnabe keynote, one more product. Tomorrow is going to be Vishal Sikha's keynote with the founder of SAP, Hassel Plotner, and we're going to hear that tomorrow. But you know, guys, just to summarize some of the things I heard that was fun was quotes, just some fun quotes. Business value. We talked about that. Best of breed, it's best, but not breeding. It was a quote by Bill McDermott. Great. That's best, but not breeding. Best of breed is what they want. One platform. For all, one platform, all problems solved. That was a sound bite by McDermott. Interesting factoid, the HANA projects, code name was called the petabyte farm. That was pretty interesting. 90% of the SAP's customers could run in memory on HANA. That was McDermott. But then, Schnabay off camera, and I was there with Eric Lundquist, who's editor at eWeek, and he and I were peppering Schnabay with questions. He said, quote, we have a two-year lead over our competitors with respect to HANA. And he said, and as he was talking to another judge, I overheard him say, competitors don't like that HANA exists. So interesting commentary. And then finally, he broke down the revenue of the question I asked her in the Q&A session that we streamed live. And he actually got some specifics. For their new opportunities in their growth strategy, in their innovation strategy, they're seeing currently a third of the new business, third of the HANA customers are non-SAP customers, new customers for them, a third are SAP customers, and a third of them are non-SAP customers running non-SAP apps. So very telling, it's really split across the board.  Not a lot of, you know, $4 billion, at least when SideBase was bought. There's a big part of the story here at Sapphire. Arib is not so much. So, those are some of the comments that I've heard. Any commentary on those guys? Well, like I said, I think that the one platform for all your data needs, I think sounds fantastic. And if they could pull that off, I think they would be sitting on a goldmine. But for some of the reasons we've talked about today, I don't see how that's possible with HANA unless they significantly increase its capabilities. And again, that's not to say it's not a good point product, but that's what it is. A petabyte of DRAM is pretty expensive. Yeah, well, I was going to say, John, you pointed out they could run 90% of their customers' workloads in memory on HANA, but would their customers be able to afford it? Yeah. That's the question. Well, it's a technical stat. Obviously, they want to swing the big stick in the marketplace and show the world that they got some of the power. We've heard 1,000 times faster. We've had some great interviews. I want to highlight and get you guys to wrap, as we wrap up here, talking about the VCE. We had the VC guys in here. We had EMC, which is a storage vendor who's done a lot of SAP virtualization. David Fleur, I want to get your perspective first about the innovation, the co-innovation between EMC and SAP, very, very strong. What's your take on that? Yes. The fundamental base of that technology is the VCE technology. They have dramatically improved that technology from the original days of just being a service-type company and sticking it together to a true integration of parts, putting the Cisco servers, the EMC storage, the VMware on top of that, and the orchestrational management level within that. So, producing a product, and on top of that, applying all of the changes to make that a single unit of operation by simultaneously applying all of the fixes to the server hardware, the storage hardware, the infrastructure software, doing that as a single fix on a three-month basis or a six-month basis, and then working with their customers to absolutely minimize the effort and risk of putting in these new versions, moving towards a continuous improvement model, the Apple-type model, as opposed to the new release every two years or three years. They have legs there with V-Block. Do you think they have legs with V-Block? I mean, V-Block has been getting traction and growing. They have real production use cases. What's the net net on V-Block, in your opinion? Well, net, the net, at the moment of V-Block is it's doing well. Whether, the key issue to me is, is that a viable model for EMC to continue? There are risks in that model. For example, what would happen if Cisco bought a storage company? And then put its effort into making the equivalent of VC of their own. What would they do then? Or should EMC buy a server company and go into that more and have more control on that outcome? Making it as a joint effort, I'm not sure that that is long-term viable. I can see a lot of scenarios where that might not work out so well. But the fundamental principle of putting that together, making it lower cost to operate, pushing that into the marketplace aggressively, I think is very good. That that's, that is adding value, much more significant business value than just the products themselves. I am very excited for SAP. I got to say, you know, and the SAP and EMC relationships you pointed out, but all their partners, we saw NetApp giving a great presentation out there.  And I think the nondescriptive operations mentioned that they have, you know, planned downtime is what SAP is moving towards that environment where Schnabe himself said, hey, customers don't like upgrades. That's the old model. We're going to have a platform and enable people. This is the API generation. This is what they're looking for. They want to be a platform. Another sighting note, we talked to the enterprise GM, Sameer Patel, new executive at SAP, great leader, he should do well there. But most of all guys, to wrap up, I'll get the final word in here and then we can break for the day because it's been a long day, is I am very, and you guys can comment as well on this point. I got to say, in following SAP with theCUBE here for this our fourth season, the swagger is at an all-time high. And so I am curious. I think there's something under the covers that we're not seeing. Schnabe and McDermott, McDermott's always pretty cocky in a good way and he's confident and he presents himself well. But Schnabe is very, very confident and it really shows. And so it makes me wonder what the buzz is going on around Hanna. Is a shoe going to drop? I know some of the things you commented on. So just, I'm putting it out there. Do you agree the confidence is at an all-time high? I think the confidence is at an all-time high. It is the basic model though. It's still of selling software, shrink-wrapped software or whatever software it is, two organizations and letting them piece the pieces together. It's not for nothing that a large number of the people here on the floor are service providers of one sort or another, consultants who are trying to add value, trying to sort out how to put SAP in. The risk to that model and the risk to the SAP ecosystem is that you get cloud providers with more data coming in from different sources, merging in the big data as well as the ERP systems, providing a service within a vertical that can compete very aggressively on price, on delivery cost, and most important of all on ability to integrate into the workflow of organizations more succinctly. That to me is the threat. And if those sort of systems are starting now in the garages in Palo Alto or in Boston, those are the systems which in three or four years time could mean a different level of swagger. At the moment, they have the market share. At the moment, they have the capability if they judge it correctly to go into that marketplace. But I think they've got to make more profound changes to their products than just putting in HANA. They've got to make it cloud friendly, multi-tenant. They've got to go after that marketplace. They've got to focus on providing something with more ability to follow the workflow the customer wants rather than imposing their own workflows. Yeah, I'd say they are certainly very confident for a number of reasons. I mean, right now they are, I heard one attendee mention to me earlier today that SAP, the Salesforce just has a knack for getting in front of the CEO of their customers. They're very good at that. They've got one of the hottest products on the market right now in HANA. They're writing whether they want to use the term or not the big data wave. You know, they're trading at a 52 week high. They're hot on Wall Street, very much talked about stock. So they have every reason to be confident right now. A lot of things go in their way. Again, in five years time, we'll see how that conversation changes. That's a wrap from day two. Some tidbits here. HANA is a revolution. We've asked people about the most amazing things we've seen. Well, revolution, maybe taking some liberties with that. But it's an innovation strategy from SAP. Their innovation strategy is outlined by the CEOs. A couple of years goes on track. Some new dimensions that are accelerating the change. That's HANA and the impact and the excitement that's generating. And obviously the continuous influx model of what the cloud's going to look like. Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud. I believe that's going to continue to be influx. We're going to be following it on SiliconANGLE and Wikibon. Thanks for watching. Stay tuned for tomorrow as well. Day three of our three days of exclusive coverage from the Global Press Center, Communication Center here at Sapphire now in Orlando, the SiliconANGLE and Wikibon. Wrapping up day two. See you tomorrow.


Hello everyone this is Amit Dan. I'm at the Wasaga beach and it's too windy so I'm not sure how how much you can hear. So Wasaga beach is the world's longest freshwater beach 14 kilometers long and you can see a distinct clean water few stores in front of us and I think there's a car show going on today at adanjournal.com. See you again. Good day.


Burnout is the result of misalignment between the work that you're doing and your core values, your interest, your fascination, and the meaning behind your work. I don't know your daily schedule, but I imagine it's pretty immense. I imagine you work a lot of hours. But the reason you're not approaching burnout is you find meaning and purpose in those hours. You're being of service to millions of people. So that's why you don't experience burnout.


The Doha Metro to start operating long hours until it That is the latest service update from the Metro link What does it mean? That starting April 17th, the Doha Metro will start operating long hours until the end of the Eid festival That does it mean that when you look at the other services that are being provided For example, we look at the Metro link We are looking at the Metro link, we look at their sale train Then we also look at what you call the Metro express services They will also be operating moving through what you call the same schedule As being announced by the Qatar Rail So what does it mean? That starting with the effect from Friday From Fridays, the Metro link, the Metro link, the sale train and also the Metro express services Will be operating from 2pm to 1am That is for the latest updates That is on the Fridays And when we look at on the other days The other days it will be operating from what you call from 6am until 1am This has been done in the due course that They are trying to long up the services for all those travelers That are going to move during the late times of the night And such that they can have access to those services So for those that love using the Metro services I think this is a very good opportunity And this is a very good chance for you to access the services at a very cheap rate And despite of the fact that the time at that time will be very late The services are being longed up And this is going to run until the end of the Eid First of all, this has been the latest update And the latest announcements that have been put forward by what you call the Qatar Rail Remember, Qatar Rail provides the services of the Metro link Provides the services of the Metro express And also provides the services of the Rosalea link to all the residents and the nationals And all the visitors that come to Qatar As a means of easing movement of people or moving or transport Moving from one point to another Within the shortest period or within the shortest period of time That is available at that time Remember, all these projects are being put in place That is to facilitate or to faster the movement of all the fans or movement of people During what you call the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Because it's one of the projects that was put in place You remember, when we talk about the Metro link We are looking at the destination that Orange go You look at the orange line, the red line and the green line And definitely you better move to all areas that you would like to move to And these are actually the latest updates that is on the group That is on its own That the services will be enlarged and will be updated Or the services will be loaned to serve Or to have what you call the customer criteria satisfaction Thank you so much for coming back to this channel By the way, if it's your first time to come across this channel Don't forget to press on that subscribe button And also don't forget to hit that notification bell Because it's on the way that will be updated When I upload a new video For the returning subscribers and for the new subscribers Thank you so much for supporting this channel And I really appreciate it Thank you so much See you again in the next video As we try to look at the latest updates around the group


for a creative zone. So our guest today is someone who's the infectious energy and passion not just creates great creative work but also strong creative teams. We're pleased to welcome today Sujo Dutt the National Creative Director of FCB Yolka. Sujo has done some amazing award-winning work for British Airways and for Nestle. He spent over 15 years at JWT when he started his career and he joined FCB at around 2016. So we're pleased to have you with us today and we'd love to speak to you about creating through crisis and how you manage putting out work for brands across different categories like Dominoes, Olympics etc. So first we want to understand from you how the entire concept of you know like creative concepting has changed over Thank you. Thank you for having me. Creative concept is at the very core hasn't changed. What has definitely changed is we have to now keep in mind circumstances and ground realities especially when it comes to shooting audio-visual stuff whether it is a television commercial or a digital campaign. So keeping in mind executional limitations and realities while creating an idea is the big thing that has changed. So now for some time to come I don't think we can think of ideas without thinking of how we are going to extend given the reality and given the environment in which we live now. So that's the big change. It's like you know you go out to bat knowing that it's a really difficult weekend so the plan is very different. So I also want to speak to you about your worker Dominoes.  Well to tell you honestly whether it's Dominoes or any other work that has been put together during this Covid time it is extremely challenging from footage to post-production to music to final computer projects everything is a really challenging task and you know it's the realities of doing this kind of work are completely different from what I'm calling the pre-Covid era. Right. Nobody is we can't all gather together. We can't be in studios. We can't oversee a lot of things collectively. Lots of there are lots of restrictions obviously so the entire creative process becomes quite the creation process not the creative process the creation process becomes very very challenging and I must say on an emotional level the the great thrill and enjoyment and camaraderie and creative coming together that we used to get before on shoots or when we went into execute that has now changed completely. It's really hard is all I can tell you. So tell me how are your clients approach this.  They have been extremely understanding and extremely mature. There have been no unreasonable demands made to the agency with regard to us. There has been a huge amount of understanding and I say that I say that very very honestly every meeting every pre-production meeting I have been a part of or every script narration every idea narration meeting I've been a part of has always begun with our clients saying we understand new realities and we understand the restrictions agencies are working under as creators. So I would say very understanding really really understanding I think it's a pretty I think it's it's a great commentary on the mature of marketing teams in India because it's all very well to say that you know I don't care how you do it get it done in this matter in a certain manner but I'm happy to tell you nobody said that nobody. So tell me at a personal level how is it creating amidst remote captivity because you belong to a world where you know there's a lot of personal interaction a lot of banter sitting over tea and coffee and you know like team chemistry so coming from that world to this. You know I get asked this a lot and I think I think there is one really important thing here for us to understand just because an industry or a bunch of people have proven themselves in different things doesn't mean they enjoy it it's these are two separate things I think people tend to I don't know why people seem to think that if something is being done well it must be enjoyable. I beg to differ. I think one truth is that the advertising industry and not just our agency all agencies they have done a superb job in adapting to this new reality as in creating at the levels we are creating at while that is one truth the other truth and this is my hypothesis I certainly do not enjoy it most creative people certainly do not enjoy it for all the reasons that you spoke about and my hypothesis would be that most creative people in other agencies also would say it's more challenging than enjoyable there's nothing I don't like this term what is normal about what's happening right now there is nothing normal this is a crisis there is this is not a new normal this is a crisis this is a continuously unfolding ongoing crisis in which we are creating advertising I think normal is the wrong word here so for me I think all our to all of us for the way we have dealt with the crisis but it is it is nothing there is nothing normal about it nothing very well put up finally somebody said I'm glad so this entire scenario is also brought in by the great deal of upheaval in the very world so where do you see the green shoots of opportunity for example I see a couple of things like I see so many creatives now doing work on their own then I see a lot of integration across teams somebody sitting from here somewhere working with the team in Chicago or even you know London so I see a couple of opportunities and you know things that have happened for good where do you see the good year I think if you look at it through the filter of creating in adversity if you apply that filter and that filter only then the list of positives is endless and you touched upon people connecting from all over the world virtually to make something come together you know you we have found new ways of creating advertising with phones using existing footage using animation using graphics all of that and being sharp about it yet and you know being strategically right and yet executionally trying to engage and entertain in with with one hand tied behind our backs so that way I think all in all reactions in in difficult times if you have to look at it through that filter it's been just amazing full of positives but again maybe I'm in a minority here I don't know what what what long-term gains we are going to get from this I I really don't know I I also don't confident enough to name any because we are squarely in the middle of a crisis right now and everything my agency is doing it's squarely focused on how we can create the best best communication for our client in trying circumstances when this crisis blow over then we'll maybe back and see so I want to speak to you about flatten the curve that FCB you know did and how it fits in the picture and you know what was really the starting point and working on that yeah that's one another campaign we are so proud of flatten the curve was born as a static digital campaign it was born as static posts and you know when the team came up with this campaign we all of us felt that this is such a beautifully simple way to deliver such an important message that we were very very excited right from the beginning and then our our chief creative officer she reached out to the UN AIDS office in Geneva and this campaign was sent to them and they liked this campaign so much they found it so simple and so useful and such a helpful campaign that they launched it on Easter weekend on all their social media handles it was primarily targeted because at that point of time a lot of people in Europe were thinking of taking advantage of the good weather and stepping out and therefore the UN AIDS team felt that this would be very very relevant at that moment and it got released to tremendous response and then we felt that you know if this is if this has come out so beautifully in static why can't we convert them in convert this into a film and fuel content is our internal content creation company it's a company owned by FCB so few content then collaborated with the FCB Ulka creative team to come up with this to turn this static campaign into a film so the campaign was converted into a film it was sent to the UN AIDS team in Geneva one day later they had released it it was on their social media handle it was on Twitter it was on Facebook it was just I think I'd be right in saying that they loved it enough to release it the next day and that makes us very very proud as FCB to create a campaign that is helpful, educative yet so engaging and again just we look at the way it's executed there is no shoe it's all graphics the music is created and then the whole piece is put together and look at you know it's just as everybody says if there is a good idea and a good campaign it travels all over the world like this one day right I loved it too thank you I like to like you know also leave a message to creatives on creating amidst adversity because these are trying time there is a stream of Deadpool news affecting allies there's so much media fatigue and in fact people tell me that it's getting tougher because there is more work from home than it was before so what would be your message to creatives on creating amidst constraints and adversity well I think not losing hope and you know proceeding forward bravely is the only way to go and I also absolutely want to say one thing I want every creative person every not just creative every advertising person who's seeing this to take a little time to congratulate themselves please take a little time to tell yourself how good a job you are doing because only we know how difficult it is and while it's it's it's easy to say that okay the job is done let's move on I think taking a moment to feel a sense of pride and feel a sense of achievement with every piece of work serves as will serve as a great motivation I do it every time we put out a campaign during this time I tell the whole team to take a moment and say well done and look into a mirror and say well done because it's it's it's really important it's very very important I think we do ourselves a great disservice by not appreciating and not giving ourselves enough credit we just keep keep moving and keep moving and keep moving but we must we must say well done to ourselves absolutely so thank you so much for your time and for this very candid conversation we enjoyed chatting with you thank you so much thank you yes thank you thank you bye


Anfyn Y Joshua, the world champion of the world kid from London phenomenal career what he's achieved is unbelievable He's fighting against Clichco, one of the best I've ever seen that unbelievable what he's came from We started boxing late but we all know now we get charged with we do think a new representative on that case and one on that case that you've saved the guy's life and he's probably thankful for it I'd imagine but how did that case come about? with the prosecutor and a sensible conversation with the judge. The conversation we basically had was, look, we understand that he's committed the offence. We understand that it is what it is. I don't mind saying that publicly because obviously, he's been very straight about himself. His on record is in a book. Otherwise, it'll have to be much more circumspect. The reality is he's done what he has done. But the punishment was going to end his career. The punishment would have ended his career. The punishment would never have fought in the Europeans, Felly o'r cydeilig, os ydych yn gyfwariad y cyfelfadau, mae'n gwybod.  Wrth i'r rhaniaf geilwyr i gylech, gyda'r hargyst victoriousen y ber brincwyr yn y morgylchedd o ynbaid. O'r hyn beth teidiad o'r llais yn bach, ychwanegu'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio a y Eurofynio, ychwanegu'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n Gweithliriaeth, i'n duw i'ch gweithio ar y USA, oedd elef iawn, ar y cyfle ddechrau ar y mewni. Ychwanegu'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio ar y Gweithwyr. ac mae'n iawn i'n cael ei gael i'n meddwl 300 ysgol ychydig i'ch cyflwyno i'n ei wneud i ddweud i fynd i chi'n bwysig, i'n helpu ffamil o'ch gwirioneddol i'r llwyno dychydig. A byddwch i ddim yn ei ddweud. A byddwch i'ch cyfle o'r cael ymlaen, o'r cyflwyno a chylo arall, o'r cyfle o'r cyfle o'r cyflwyno, ym mwy fydda'n gwybod iawn ffasio pob o'r cyflwyno, i'r prysyn o'r prinsin yn ymwneud o'r cwrsio arall i'ch byw yn edrych. Niddai yn cyfrifio ar gyflawn. Nid ydych chi'n gwybod. Y prysyn yn ymwneud. Y prosiectur hwnnw yn mynd i'r prysyn addysgol a dylai nhw'n gwybod. A chyda i'r gweithio, mae'r gweithio beth sy'n gwybod y telyd o'r lle, a'u'r cardiff, yn ymddi'r Gwbeth, mae'n gweithio'r sefydliad i'r hyn. Dwi'n credu'r cerddau. Yn fawr yng Ngwybodaeth, yw'r chi'n bwysig. Mae'n amlwch a chyfnigt er mwyndu ar fynd. Mae twdd yn gweithio, yw'r eu aceddiadau. Yn gweithio'r Llyfr Yn yn bwyng y ddechrau mewn gwahanol, rydyn ni'n dod i'r cymhwynt Clichco. Naet yr oeddd i'r Rhaglen, a rydyn ni23 yn gwaith. Rydyn ni'n rost, i'r fawr tyf yn dod, a rydyn ni'n gweithio'r rhaglen. Rydyn ni'n gweithio, a rydyn ni'n gweithio. I sat at the wedding, and it wasn't even my family, it was my wife's family, I sat at the wedding watching the fights with my wife kicking me under the table, I didn't go to the fight, I'm at least watching the fight. Because they didn't start boxing too late now, that's why I've got to give him so much credit for everything he's achieved, he's just a kid from London. That survival mode, you know yourself in these streets that drink drugs, violence, that was the norm. First and where he's fighting, he's from Watford which is... And to come through that, and to then be champion of the world, yes he's had that blip the last year or so, but that's boxing for you, especially the caliber of boxing now. It's unbelievable what he's achieved and how much that case there is outpathed his whole life. It's what they call a hinge of battle moment, they go back to us saying about what is, and it's a what is or it's a hinge of battle. There's a moment you can pick, it's very rare you can do it but you can see in his life, you can pick that one moment that changes everything. And it's that moment. How was it seeing him winning the belt? Did you feel anything for that or was it just another case? No I did feel some, I felt, I actually did feel well about that, more so than any other cases, simply because I got to boast about it a little bit. But not going to lie, but mainly because we played our part in that. We actually genuinely played our part in that and what he was doing was exactly what I told the judge he would do. So it's kind of vindication, validation for what I'd said because it was right. Often people think we just stand up and say whatever's going to work. And of course we try what we try, everything we can within reason for our clients. But sometimes you are telling the truth entirely. There's exaggeration and there's elaboration and there's all the different things. We never lie. You can't lie. We absolutely and then people may not believe that. But we don't. If a client tells us they're guilty, we can't represent them. The rules are simple and we wouldn't take the risk of doing that for someone we don't know. Say, well, you've told me that, but don't tell anyone you've told me that. Because the chances are they will one day tell someone they told you that. So you don't take those risks. But quite often you will put across the best case scenario and to see the best case scenario, especially when it is very much the best, the best case scenario you've ever given. Because it's not every day I get to stand up and say, but this man could be the head of the champion of the world. I got to say that one day and then he became that.