No, I'm usually loud enough Let's see So hello everyone, my name is Bjorn. I'm a programmer So I've been a programmer for many years. It's a struggle every day, but I get through it Just believe in yourself and you can do it So I'm gonna talk to you guys about what is DevOps? You're gonna have a lot of repetition now from which Serena's been saying so you're gonna have to live with that Very thorough very. Thank you for that So why do I think I can talk about DevOps? So for the last couple of years I've been working very heavily in a lot of places helping people Understand what DevOps is I've been helping implement DevOps culture in Singapore government agencies I've been in banks.  I've been with a bunch of people So that's why I think I I can talk a bit about DevOps So my background is that I am primarily a back-end developer doing a bunch of things But I worked in a bunch of different themes and because of that I become one of these known full-stack developers meaning that In my case, I know a lot about doing back-end work and I have a rough idea of how you do things in the front Then I can muddle it through So what that means is also that I Have a pretty good idea of what it means that all of the other people in the stock that I'm working on is doing like I don't fully understand it, but I've gotten a lot of empathy for What it is that it goes into what does it mean when you're dealing with influx or with react or whatever that is like I don't understand. I don't have to but I understand there's a lot of work to it and Empathy is key because DevOps at the end of the day. It's all about culture It's a culture that everyone should be working together The the point there comes into that we're developers. We are operations people the sys admins Scouring away figuring out what disgusting drivers aren't working on a Saturday morning because something with bananas It happens business people figuring out that yeah, the Increase in taxes it meant something now. I have to change everything new feature has to happen really fast It just goes on QA is so on like we all have to work together But what does it really mean that we all work together? And what are we trying to achieve by working together? Well, what we're trying to do is get our code into production because what's the point of writing code? Building the software if we people aren't using it. We need to get people to use the stuff that we build and Preferably as quickly as possible That's why we have a tooling to help us out with that and we should do it to as much quality as possible because What's the point of releasing bad software to people that want to use it? That's just gonna lead to frustration frustration leads to people leaving and Terrible for customers to leave because I like their money Hey end of the day, right But so how do we go about actually achieving these things because What we want to do is that we want to have quality. How do we get quality? Well, you write some tests TDD. I am a big agile guy Despite what it might look like Hey, it's okay. I'm me So practice TDD that's my key thing I would recommend everyone to do It's just gonna make your life so much easier, especially when you're trying to go up as all of these agile practices really comes into play and DevOps is a culture of also taking care of this. It's all agile in the end and The other things that comes into now we start talking a little bit more what people generally talk about comes to DevOps Provisioning so what does that mean? Well, it's pretty much things like you get your servers off the things that you used to do Once the thing that you just get written down that yeah Yeah, we got a server someone took two weeks off and they installed it and now we have it working Please don't mess with it too much. It's gonna be fine Create databases.  So if I do a deployment and my tests weren't perfect. They're probably not I'm human after all They're they're never gonna be a hundred percent tests are always gonna be about what you can cover as a developer at point in time When you're writing it, that's why we do pair programming as well because that will help us better see a different point of view and Having deployable artifacts will help us get things out quicker and back again when they go wrong and of course automated deployments because We can't get our stuff into production fast unless we know what we can have it can happen at a click of a button or even better automatically and The thing you can notice about all of this is that this is all about what people do like pretty much this is all about like the things that we need to get done to actually make it happen, but How do we actually do that and The way of that is it's tools of course It's always about tools in the end like we talk about culture, but which is the important bit It's about the outcomes, but we do need tools So we have tools like ansible chef puppet Which is like the thing that you install some kind of agent or you log into a server It will install this package that package configure engine X put the patch you on hold whatever it is That's what you have. That's a good tool to have in your belt if you're doing that Maybe you need to create a easy to instance or Connect to the Google cloud and need to give them a server terraform fantastic tool for provisioning infrastructure Tell it that I want a survey. It's gonna be this big. It's gonna be ten of them. They're gonna be named like this So it works great together with ansible. You can get that to configure the way you need It takes time, but that's pretty much what it is a lot of people these days are using container orchestration Which is more like Kubernetes like nomad or ECS from Amazon These tools are all about containers and it's all about making sure that you can get your code take that artifact Put in a container run it somewhere Generally when you have it up and running it's a lot less work than doing something like Ansible and so on so I would if you if you're starting out look into that Amazon together with their Fargate is Really no frills way of going about it. If you want to look into it Then you want to probably look at cloud provider API's maybe there isn't some particular tool that fits the bill exactly for you Each organization is different. Maybe you have specific deployment scenarios. You have to care about Knowing that you can just connect to their API's and do it yourself is very powerful and really empowering Which also comes into custom scripts. I personally do a ton of these at One of my previous gigs I wrote something like 40,000 lines of bash It it it was a particular deployment scenario involving 12 service three data centers and the government I begged for pearl Which for those who know So The question then also becomes how do you know that you need a tool? Oh Well, apparently I forgot to enable the thing that makes it the only do one at a time So yeah, so did it take a lot of effort manual effort to do something? So yeah, so a lot of the ways people go about this is that well It's really complicated to get the oldest automated tooling I spent a day doing it but it only takes half an hour to do it manually take some screenshots. It's all done It's good Yeah, but if it's runnable code, you know that if you run it again, you can see when it works Documentation just stays there and the ten the tendency with documentation, especially with screenshots is that it's taking with a version That version was changed one and a half years ago on no one has updated nothing works anymore and names have changed everything Runnable code is always a winner. The code is documentation as it were Make sure everyone does things the same way like in my company. We have a deployment process Do we want everyone to follow like obviously it happens through cei But before we had cei up and going because I came in late we had to do it from our laptops and Having that checklist of how to do all the steps Nah, I'd rather have a script. I can check all those things and it does it much better than I do because I get bored easily so much much better and What do you do when? Well, this you which hits the air what generator as I say Do you take two weeks of downtown or your business stands still or do you? Just spin it up again. Maybe we'll take half a day. It's what it takes It's one of my previous gigs one of the we had that happen every week we took down one of our environments spun it up from scratch saw it everything was still working and Sadly almost every week something went wrong because we didn't think about the fact that we aren't always Starting over from a good known state. We have to start from nothing and It's really valuable to know that you can do that and I will admit that Right now this will not work in my company in my team because I haven't spent the time fixing that I will get there some work on it, so You need tools like it's important the tools are important, but at the end of the day if you're talking DevOps It's not about the tools It's it's about the people doing it and it's also important to think that just because you're buying things It doesn't necessarily mean that you're getting The story behind it Also, just because a tool is big and fancy and because everyone is using Kubernetes doesn't mean that it's the best choice Sometimes maybe the best tool is something you make yourself Doesn't have to be that big. Maybe you figure out that Like for instance, I have a service in my company that figures out. What is the next? What's the next version I should use for the thing that I just built? We have 20 odd services when they get a version number. Yes, I could build something and put something on flask or on Sinatra I can get it up and running Also using Amazon. They have something called DynamoDB and if I use the Amazon CLI I can just ask them to give me a number and it does Works great. It took 10 minutes Best spend time ever still running So to give an example of a deployment scenario when you have this kind of automation which I said running on CI CD It's because it all comes down there It's the place with a lot of these things happen at the end of the day because you don't want it to happen on your machine But for the sake of argument, let's assume that you start there So the way my deployment process starts with I run all of my tests to make sure that everything is green I don't want to make sure I push something that's wrong The reason I have this in the script is because we have multiple code bases using many different things different versions of Python Lots of setup. It's a lot easier if I just don't have to care about exactly how that happened That's another it's avoid a checklist Then I want to deploy this this particular thing onto staging. I don't I just want a new version I want you to build this thing for me since I know that my tests are green and please do that But what goes into that? So you build a deploy package that goes into my artifact Repository and I can then pick it up later and I can roll it back Curious that central database for number to use so that we know that we can refer to it later So when we say that deploy 27 failed, we know that it's deploy sent 27 everywhere If I deploy build 27 in staging and I say that I want build 27 in production. It's the same package I know it. It's fine. I don't have to worry about drift And especially important that hopefully you also have all of your dependencies in your package So you don't get stung stung by that because that can be annoying and Yeah, upload packaged repository for archiving Deploy it Notify monitoring environment. So we know that there has been a deploy if we start seeing anything that's a little bit odd Maybe we can tie it back to that. We deployed something because it said tests are still at the end of the day written by humans We're gonna miss things. We don't think about everything. It's what it is So to recap what I have talked about is so DevOps is a culture about collaborating with other stakeholders who they are depends on where you are and what you're doing At the end of the day. It's it's your your situation that matters It's about getting a code running as fast as possible with as high high quality as possible Somewhere so people can use it. You want to keep that cycles as quick as possible. That's what you really want So what that was is not is tools like you don't buy DevOps I Don't at all have strong opinions about this The closest thing you come to buying DevOps is the help of getting it set up by a good company like Mavericks but that's it and DevOps is not a person It's something that you as a team do like you don't want to be in a situation where there's one person that knows What's going on? This is an effort that everyone should be involved in everyone should feel Responsible for their build if it goes red you go in and fix it if if if nothing is happening You have to pick up as a team to work on it. So the idea of hiring a DevOps engineer to do DevOps, it's like having a collaboration person that does all the collaboration for the entire team.  It's like saying that you are a developer because you use a VIM I mean first off No, it's emacs Secondly, it's it's all about the outcomes. It doesn't matter if you It doesn't matter where the code comes from as long as it works and that's what we all should care about and remember that When it comes to getting things out, you should know where you're coming from You should make sure that you have your fundamentals, right? You work on your tests You work on your design patterns you work on how things fit together and it's work on how it works with the product because Delivering shit faster just gets it messy and any questions Yeah, so I just couldn't figure out how to segue into this but I really want to share this gif so here goes You


It is chaos in Fishman Island already a prophecy that Luffy is gonna destroy everything and a princess with an obsessive stalker And yeah, it's kind of chaos There's a lot of moving parts as of now if you missed my reaction to the last two go check it out We're gonna hop into these if you knew the channel don't forget to drop a sub and let's get started Zoro versus Neptune What do you mean how did he get it did he still have his blades? There's a new god of the sea yeah, that's true how powerful is Neptune Zori oh true wait they just burst the bubbles actually wait That's kind of OP guys chill brook would just like die basically you can't swim She can make bubbles gigantic bubble Oh, yeah, baby What Wait, she wasn't even like making it. She just found that. Okay, dude. Yeah, let's see Zoro versus Neptune. I'll take it I want to see how strong he can get Neptune recognizes Zoro stronger than anyone else here What a way to test post time skip Zoro's strength fighting the god of the sea It's a good thing that Luffy is befriending her kind of gets some brownie points That god dang shark bro. He's my favorite character on the show like why he looked like that Yeah Oh my gosh Luffy, you know, she's sensitive He does not care bro.  They're like this is war crimes He already beat Neptune. Oh my gosh. I thought it was just the foot soldiers Oh My gosh Some god of the sea bro like over leveled for this area, man Like what the hell is this crew, bro? Like what actually is this crew? Come on How is it decided when they say like english words like come on because I it's very interesting to me Yeah, Neptune, uh, it's a little embarrassing Oh, I see as his back. Who would take over after him? Would it be the sons of the the princess? When the princess get home Now they're gonna be stronger than Neptune. Oh, yeah, wait, how do you get it recoded? I'm guessing they have people here for that, but nobody's going to Oh, do you need a new world pose? This is only good for the grand line. Uh-oh They're home coming home to chaos Oh There's hovering there dude that brother is so hyped like like all the time Zoro answers Oh my gosh I'm just not intimidated by these guys Wait, what if they just don't lower the gate? They just can't get in Zoro doesn't even know how to lower the gate Hey We're not a part of this. Dude, this is quite the mess they've gotten themselves into Don't say Austin Zoro, please. Are we the villains? Bro's actually leveraging them glumy robin woman robot raccoon and a dirty water imp bro Wait, yeah, where's chopper? Oh my gosh. It's hard keeping track of all the crew, bro I was wondering about Frankie and Robin. What a chopper. Wait, he was with them Oh, he's taking care of Sanji. That's right. That's right. God dang dude. It is hard to keep track of all them Our crew is so large now Why do they have no other way I guess it's a security thing to have no other way in I don't have a layers of bubbles dude. How did the the axis from Noah get in them? That's crazy Yeah, I was gonna say the message from Jinbei There's another C. Jinbei and Luffy Yeah, like I think they have some foot in the door being friends with Jinbei Yeah, well, I guess the the rest of the straw hats don't I haven't even ever met him They get big rep for being close to him. At least Luffy does not to fight Against Horty. He knows that Luffy would want to The sea forest? That's it. Okay. I mean it is worrying though that he specifically said not to fight against Horty It's interesting the implications of that like whether Luffy would lose or what would happen if he defeated Horty It's getting mysterious. This is always what I like about like new islands like new arcs Like it's kind of setting all the little moving pieces up. Also, I just realized there's stuff in the foreground Like and chopper just took his bag on that one. Is it different? I'll pay attention And now they're getting a bad rep though that they've taken him hostage. Yeah All because of well, I guess there's a couple things But it's mostly the the foretelling of the destruction of the of the island Is that in the kidnapping of the mermaids? Oh no Oh no, but they won't get caught up Why does chopper look like that?  Is this just in his arsenal now? Oh, Sanji's a baby What about Frankie and Robin? Oh, and yeah, Luffy is still just chilling with the princess Why?  That's where we're supposed to be going How far is the sea forest? And why does she want to go there?  It sounds like a cannon Oh my gosh, wait, it is them. They're launching like torpedoes Oh, he's just worried about her. He could they they could do him a favor. Yeah Oh I mean they could also just reunite with Luffy there and then he'll be like, oh, we're going to the sea forest Because that's where she wants to go Brooke's making up for the lack of saunji energy here right now Ah with Last of it lascivious and I've never seen that word in my life Take him to explain things His face he's just gonna say no Brother But Brooke is really just booking it there. He's just sitting crisscross in her hands Why the sea forest? Is it supposed to be like really pretty or something? Is jenbei actually just chilling there? Also, like I said, if they do find jenbei, then like they're very strong with him And he has really good pull just with who he is He can literally clear everything up instantly for the whole crew. I think he's literally like a national hero It seems I love that goddamn shark. They're gonna ride him to go there, aren't they? Is that a guy like pinned to the side? Oh my god, those were men they were firing. Oh my gosh That guy's psychotic Wow, what's true love this firing troops, bro I don't understand how these axes and stuff are making it through in the first place Do this for fish these poor fishman pirates like this is the like unluckiest day ever He put her in megalo Wait, that's actually so sweet Oh, I'm gonna dip. Oh goodness. This is too complicated Like all luffy had to do was go. All right. Let me go tell my friends Maybe they'll want to come along too by the bing bada boom problem solved, but no 534 Oh freaky. Oh, that's right. So freaky's going to try to find tom's family Wait, this could be a really cool interaction if he does find like relatives You know deshi the other's people Wait, tom's brother So is he driving this tax? No, I guess the taxi is just like the fish itself. So sonny's just chilling Somewhere of course the chris split up man. Oh, they're going to the sea forest This just gets more and more convenient. So robin's not with him though. She's probably just lurking somewhere in fishman island Oh Luffy convinced her to be brave. He'll protect her Oh, dude, she's so adorable though Oh, he didn't even I don't think realized that she yeah, he didn't realize she was in his mouth She's gone. They're gonna think that luffy like kidnapped her or something, bro Looks like this is our fault We're behind you. Oh, he's too goddamn quick with it Oh boy, it's cold. Yeah, get up. Come on. He'll do it one handed. I don't care Yeah, go tell him nap tune send everything into a panic Honestly, luffy's kind of like keeping her safe since they're really like just literally throwing people at the castle Oh, yeah, I bet well, these are also like they said human pirates So they they kidnapped them from crews and then used them they launched them So I'm guessing when hordy attacked those those uh, what that one ship just joined a bunch of them Can't swim Oh, yeah, so he's a fish man Yes, he's a fish man, and he's a devil for a user. That's insane So how does work like water work? Can he not sweat? He has a bubble. Can he not swim? I mean, he doesn't have a bubble Oh, they're in a bubble right now. They're because the humans are Hot joint Is he part of hordy Jones crew like group? They they didn't say that he lives here Wow brave of him to speak out against hordy I really do like hordy's voice though Yeah, hordy's just trying to carry on what our along wanted God, oh two looks creepy man next to hordy. I think he's yosu The all about the money is our longing jail like what happened to him Oh This history though is cool. This is like the next generation of fish men pirates like rebelling Dude Oh man throwback. That's a part of me that misses our long They were the youngsters back when our along was running things That's you look at him. He's so creepy. So did our long not use those pills Yeah, it's so poetic and he knows that loopy's here interesting Dang Yeah, they're count like one million percent against humans not not even like in the slightest. Are they considering anything? Like is using his mark on him He is like a rat. Oh no, dude No, go to hot john. Wait. So does he not have the princess as a mark anymore? Or how many marks can he have? Oh, no It's such a messed up devil for bro He just wants him to run endlessly from him. I don't think hordy cares that he's trying to kill him But he's not working for him. They're working together. Dang. I'm surprised hordy doesn't see him as like a level above vanderdekken He's not that ego Run hoddy! He can just toss the arrows Oh, that's terrifying.  I would be so pissed Swim on john! The arrows don't slow down because he throws like the the axes and stuff too No, he still has the mark on the princess because he was shooting the men at her at her throwing the men No, this is gonna be so messed up. I won't stand for it No, dude, I won't accept the hot john death. He hasn't even been in the picture long enough at least It is one piece. I will hold my breath until I see like a basically a funeral Oh, that's why it's the glove. Oh I see I see I see if he touched anything else with that hand. I see You guys are cheering for a stalker, bro. You're freaks Where's hot john? So then he just started yawinking guys up to her. Ah, yeah Now I'm guessing we're back to the present. Is it gonna explain how it gets there? That's why he likes vanderdekken. He's the only one be able to pierce through the defenses That's why he sees him as equal footing But why does what he throws bypass all defenses and security and everything just how powerful his devil fruit is So horde's trying to infiltrate the palace too, but this changes everything that they're here What is that shadow? Survive hitting the wall. Yeah, bro. You slam into the wall. Oh, the vanderdekken looks huge Dude, horde would be so much more intimidating if he was like, I think designed a little differently and his aim wasn't horde jones Like vanderdekken's design is kind of growing on me. That is so crazy It is suit out It's still interesting that jimbae warned luffy not to fight horde though Like he knows horde is a problem obviously and he knows he would be And I think he knew that luffy being who he is would lock on the horde as an enemy dude I still can't get over this form Is she there? Who are you talking about? Oh my gosh. She's not even there anymore Even if it kills me Oh He's like sure Yeah, no problem. My god He deserves everything coming to him I think he could cook handcuffed.  That's why he's just hurting all of them It's making a worse name for them. I'm sure people are watching too Yep, yep A bunch of deep sea fish I love chopper's voice, man Yeah, man. Yeah chopper at a boy was that kung fu form I have a doctor He made it Save him chopper Nope And who knows where Robin is I think it's a good thing like they came here at the perfect time to hopefully save the island It's pretty cut and dry now. Yeah, horde jones and the new fish man need to be stopped The question is how many like civilians would side with hordes like sort of mentality What did I say they would think that somebody kidnapped her owns Honestly, just free all of them and then just fight alongside them to like earn their trust Zora and nami aren't worried at all. Yeah, we already occupy it They are just not very yet. So we could probably cut all of them down instantly if you wanted to but they're kind of like hostage soldiers It's kind of sad. Yeah, luvia is actually saving the princess right now of anything Oh Look how adorable bro. She's seeing the world after a decade, man. It's gotta be shocking She's gonna look down to see hot john bleeding down there Oh, that's adorable. Yeah, what is the sea forest? Oh No, the music. Oh no Don't do this to me. Why does she want to go to the graveyard? Her assassination broad daylight What Ten years wait So who's assassination?  That's so sad But it's interesting it threw the fishman islands up or 10 years ago when she was assassinated Okay, I like this mystery though surrounding the island and how everything's exploding very quickly Like we were introduced to hordy jones his sort of mentality and he's just attacking like it's nothing He wasn't like we will attack in four weeks from now at the strike of dawn. No, he's just like Hey Now's as good of a day as any I'm assuming it's been a plan in the making for a while But we're just here right at the thick of things mad But again, I like all these little moving pieces going everywhere, but not everybody's in the know I feel kind of comfortable though considering how strong the straw hats are now and especially because jimbay is here But we've seen how strong jimbay is too now It is a matter of fact that they're not in that like the correct environment Like the water everywhere is kind of a threat and we know that hordy jones and all the new fishmen can fight it in it So I'm guessing that's really gonna come into play to kind of nerf the straw hats because like I said They're over leveled for this area of the game, bro Because that's been it from since 533 and 534 my one piece watch through a drop of fat like on this one If you haven't already and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Bye space


As a spiritual mentor I believe that mindfulness and love are two of the most powerful tools we have for finding inner peace and happiness. In our busy and often chaotic lives we can feel disconnected from ourselves and the world around us. Our minds can race with thoughts, worries and distractions, making it challenging to find a sense of calm and contentment. However, when we cultivate mindfulness and love in our lives we can find a greater sense of connection, understanding and compassion for ourselves and others. Mindfulness is the practice of awareness and non-judgmental observation of our thoughts, emotions and physical sensations. It is the act of being present in the moment and accepting what is without judgment or resistance. It helps us to tune our distractions. It works with us in a way that calms our minds and focuses our attention on the present moment. Love, on the other hand, is a feeling of warmth, of affection, of compassion for oneself and others. It involves accepting and valuing ourselves and others as they are, without judgment or conditions. Love can help us feel safe, secure and happy and it is a powerful force for healing and transformation. While mindfulness and love are very distinct practices, they are very interconnected and can strengthen each other. Mindfulness can help us see more clearly, understand ourselves and others better. It can cultivate a greater compassion of patience and love. Similarly, love can help us again be more patient, be kind and be accepting towards ourselves and others and provide the motivation to practice mindfulness. When we be love, when we look after ourselves, when we hold ourselves with compassion, we trust ourselves to make the right decisions and we don't beat ourselves up when we get them wrong. We show compassion, understanding and love to ourselves. That allows us to bring into love and patience for others. As I've spoken yesterday, when Wayne Dyer says, if you want to give somebody 12 oranges, you have to have 12 oranges. If you want to give somebody love, you have to have love for yourself. So why not start today? Why not have a bit of love for yourself, for you to be able to then go forward and love others with more compassion, with more patience, interconnectedness of mindfulness and love. Here's a meditation of loving kindness. I hope you enjoy it. Have a wonderful day. Be love and give love. See you soon. Bye-bye. And as always, like all of these meditations, they start with by you getting comfortable, closing your eyes and taking a nice deep breath in. So by sitting or laying down in a comfortable position, we just take a few deep breaths in, so we're going to take a nice deep breath in. We're going to hold it for a second. We're going to let it go. We're going to take another nice deep breath in. We're going to hold it for a second, and then we're going to let it go. And one more. Take a nice deep breath in, hold it for a second, and then let it go. And then just breathe gently and comfortably in your own natural breathing rhythm, just breathing in and breathing out. And at that point, if you feel any discomfort, if you feel any pain, if you feel anything, just take your breath to that area. Just take your awareness to that spot and just breathing in and breathe out. If you have any thoughts or anything that pops into your mind, you can accept, acknowledge it. Just let it go. Don't attach it to it. Don't unpack it. Just come back to your breath. Just be grateful for being here present in the moment. Feeling yourself becoming calm and relaxed. And this mantra is, or this meditation is a series of words that I would like you to repeat to yourself after I've said them. Loving kindness meditation is a wonderful way to bring and align your heart, your soul with your mind. So as you just breathe in comfortably, say these words to yourself, may I be happy, may I be healthy, may I be peaceful, may I let go of sadness and bad feelings, may I be free from anger, may I be free from pain, just following your breath, may I be free from difficulties, may I be free from suffering, may I be healthy, happy and peaceful, may I be filled with loving kindness and may I be at peace. And then just continue to breathe.   And just imagine, see their faces in front of you and say these words to yourself, I spread this loving kindness out, I send love to my family, may they let go of sadness and bad feelings, may they be free from anger, may they be free from pain, may they be free from difficulties, may they be free from suffering, may they be healthy, happy and peaceful, may they be filled with loving kindness, may they be at peace. And as you breathe, feel the love and kindness filling your heart, imagine that you're glowing with this energy of love and you can now spread this energy to your friends, those people you're close to and say these words to yourself, I spread this loving kindness out, I send love to my closest friends, may they let go of sadness and bad feelings, may they be free from anger, may they be free from pain, may they be free from difficulties, may they be free from suffering, may they be healthy, happy and peaceful, may they be filled with loving kindness, may they be at peace. And next think of somebody, a sibling or perhaps a friend who's made you unhappy or feel bad, somebody who's upset you maybe recently, somebody who's just not shown the level of self-awareness that you'd want. Think about them, perhaps they made you feel bad or uncomfortable, but you have the power to warm their heart too and you can release any bad feelings. They're saying these words to yourself, bring them to mind, bring that person who you may not have gone on well with recently, I spread this loving kindness out, I send love to someone who has made me feel bad, who has made me upset me. But I let go of sadness and bad feelings, may they let go of sadness and bad feelings, may they be free from anger, may they be free from pain, may they be free from difficulties, may they be free from suffering, may they be healthy, happy and peaceful, may they be filled with loving kindness and may they be at peace. Now you're really going to see the magical ability of love, your loving energy travels like light, it travels fast, far and wide.  So say these words to yourself, I send love now to all the people everywhere on earth, may they let go of sadness and bad feelings, may they be free from anger, may they be free from pain, may they be free from difficulties, may they be free from suffering, may they be healthy, happy and peaceful, may they be filled with loving kindness, may they be at peace. In fact, may all beings in this universe be free from suffering, may all beings in all universes everywhere be free from suffering, may all beings of all kinds in all directions be happy and at peace above and below, near and far, high and low, may all types of beings, humans, animals, trees, birds, anything seen or not seen, may all beings and creatures with no exceptions, may they all be happy, healthy and peaceful, may they be filled with loving kindness, may they be at peace. Now everyone to whom we have sent love to is sending that love back. So say these words to yourself, may I be happy, healthy and peaceful, may I let go of sadness and bad feelings, may I be free from anger, may I be free from pain, may I be free from difficulties, may I be free from suffering, may I be healthy, happy and peaceful, may I be filled with loving kindness and may be I be at peace. And then I want you just to take your heart, to take your awareness to your heart and just check in with your heart for a moment. Just allow yourself to connect with your heart and allowing it to open and let all of this beautiful spiritual love just to pour in, filling those chambers of your heart with that beautiful golden spiritual light of love, healing and rejuvenating and cleansing, giving you that energy that you need to see us for the week. May you be happy, may you be healthy. Thank you for joining me on this meditation. Have a wonderful day. Be love and give love.


What is going on everybody, Astos here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be doing an overall market update, looking at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq. We're going to be talking about one trade that I made today on the 22nd of March in 2019, as well as taking a look at some other stocks and ETFs here on my watch list. And as you guys can see, and I'm sure a lot of you guys already know this already, the markets today were absolutely bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody day. We're going to be talking about my perspective on this market, what I think is going to happen. And of course, we're going to be taking a look at some individual stocks here to see where they could be potentially going next week. 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That's a beginner, intermediate, whatever you guys are, in terms of trading and investing, you'll find value in those two communities. So let's talk about what ended up happening today in the stock market, guys. Like I said, absolutely insane day today. I was not expecting this whatsoever, but the S&PX, the S&P 500 ended up closing the day down 55 points, down about 1.9% at the close. The Dow Jones industrial average today, guys, down 460 points, down 1.77% at the close here. And the Nasdaq composite guys got absolutely pummeled today, down 170 points, down about 2.25%, nearly 2.3% on or really at the close of the market today. So let's just take a look at the S&PX, talk about some technical points here, resistances, supports, and where I personally see this index going based on some different conditions here. So we all know we've been expecting a pullback in the markets here over the past couple of trading days slash, I guess you can say at this point, week or two trading weeks, because we notice here over the past couple of weeks, and for everybody out there that's been watching the channel, you know this, I talk about this all the time, you know, we've been pushing up higher highs, higher lows, all of 2019. And notice how every time we've pushed to a high in the S&PX, we plateaued for a day or two, and then we noticed a significant dump, right, a significant correction, a significant sell-off. This previous one, which was back, and I believe was it February or something, we'll see here in a minute. Yeah, it was actually more towards the beginning of March. We saw a 3% correction, and then we saw from the bottoming out point here, it was a higher low, meaning the uptrend was continuing. We ended up running all the way up to about 2860, which was yesterday. Yesterday, we saw that nice little pump up to 2860. We had a green day yesterday, I believe it was around a 1.3%, 1.4% in the S&PX, very solid day. And that, this could have been or, you know, honestly, this could be the point in time where we reached that peak, and now we're seeing that retracement in the S&PX. So we can see from the top here, you know, this was a 2% pullback nearly from where we peaked off yesterday to where we ended up closing today. So honestly, you know, this pattern is looking pretty healthy. You know, we're pushing up higher highs, and then we're seeing those corrections, seeing about a 1, 2, 3, 4% correction every couple of weeks here. So in terms of the uptrend pattern, everything is still intact. But I want to show you guys some key technical points here where if we break these points, we could be headed towards lower, you know, lower dollar value here in the S&PX. We could be seeing some more red days to come. So we actually broke a very critical support level today at about 2820 in the S&PX. We broke above that a couple of days ago. We trended above it nicely. We pushed up to 2860. It was looking like we were trading in this horizontal pattern between the 2820, you know, old resistance, which was a new support, and the next resistance, which is at about 2870. And we can see that massive sell-off we saw today brought us below that support, making it a new resistance again. And now we're trading on top of the next support, which is roughly at about 2790 to $2,800. And we can see here, take a look, the S&PX closed right at $2,800. And this is one of the, you know, very interesting things, really the key things that you guys need to be keeping an eye on for this upcoming week is whether or not we're going to end up breaking this level. If we break this level, especially the 50 S&P support and the 2790 to $2,800 support, there's two different supports there, you know, this is going to be a very, very key, really critical break in the S&PX in terms of technicals here. And we could be selling off even stronger from there, which is why honestly, I didn't take any positions quite yet, you know, in my swing trading slash day trading portfolio for next week, I didn't take any re-entry positions in the stocks that I was talking about yesterday due to this possibility. And I honestly, I just want to see where we end up opening on Monday in terms of the futures before taking a position in two of those stocks that I was talking about, NVIDIA and Activision Blizzard and those you guys that watched yesterday's video, you know that. But, you know, honestly, even if we do break this level, you know, we're still going to be technically speaking here on an uptrend because until we break this level, right, 2720, which was the previous lower high, which constituted the continuation of the uptrend, until we break that level, you know, we really can't say we're moving down further on a, you know, on a technical basis because still technically, even if we make a low here, that's still a lower high or a higher low rather from the previous, which means the uptrend is still intact. So if that makes any sense, let me know in the comment section, I'm sure all you guys know what I'm saying here. So until we break this level, you know, I think that the uptrend is still intact on the SPX. And honestly, there is some potential for us to get to this level. If we do break the $2,800 level, $2,790 support this upcoming week. So that is what I'm going to be watching in terms of the SPX here. And let's just hop and see, you know, on the five day, five minute, the break of that support, you can see it even clearer, right, the 2820 support, we ended up plowing through it today, right, and this was the support from the previous couple of days. And if we take a look at the 20 day one hour chart, you know, we're still technically trading above the 180 SMA and holding it as a support right now. So that's another level to keep an eye on if we break this level. And then we break the longer term chart support levels, you know, this is going to be a very good sign that we're going to possibly sell off more.  You know, I wasn't really expecting this much of a red day today, but, you know, we have been pushing up so a red day was going to come and it ended up coming today, guys. So let's just take a look at the Dow Jones industrial average. We said it was down about 460 points today, down about 1.77%. And we briefly were trading above this resistance, which was a new support a couple of days ago at about 25,800. We were holding that level, looking to push up, break out of the $26,000 level, and potentially get to the $26,200 level, which was the next resistance. But obviously, with what happened today, the bloody market, we ended up breaking that support. Now it's acting as a new resistance, with the next support being at around $25,400 for the Dow Jones. And on a technical basis here, guys, we're noticing, you know, this is looking like kind of a double top, although it didn't top at the same exact spot. You know, this is looking a little bit bearish in my personal opinion. It's like a hybrid pattern between a double top and the beginning of a head and shoulders, if that makes any sense, right? We can see the left shoulder, the head, and then the right shoulder. And it also kind of looks like a double top at the same time. So this is looking pretty bearish in my opinion, in terms of this pattern on the Dow Jones. Honestly, if we were to break the $25,400 level, I wouldn't be too surprised if we went to the $25,000 level, and we did something like that as illustrated by that little trend line that I did draw for you guys. And this obviously all depends on what the overall markets do. Let's say we end up selling off next week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which is a possibility. You know, this could very well come into fruition. We can see this exact pattern that I drew for you guys. This can definitely very well happen if we do end up selling off next week. So just take a look. You know, it does seem a bit bearish right now. Just something to keep an eye on here in terms of the Dow Jones. So let's hop over here now to the Nasdaq Composite, the one that got hit the absolute hardest today, down nearly 2.3%, 2.2% at the close, and it's still falling here after market hours. Again, these are the futures. We can see, you know, this one was, I guess you can say, the most overextended out of every single index, out of the three major ones that we talk about here on this channel. We can see the crazy run it's been on since the 8th of March, really from $6,900 all the way up to about nearly $7,500. This index has been on an absolute tear, breaking resistance after resistance after resistance, hopping above higher levels, higher levels, it seems like every single week, right? So this pullback that we got here in the Nasdaq, the fact that it's the biggest pullback out of the three major indices doesn't really surprise me at all, right? Because again, we were overextended, we were, you know, pushing up for day after day after day with minimal pullbacks here over the past couple of weeks. So this pullback really was due for the Nasdaq. So now let's just take a look at some levels that I'm going to be watching here over the next couple of trading days really heading into next week. So we can see we broke their resistance at $7,400 a couple of days ago. Then we broke the next resistance at about $7,500 yesterday. And now we failed to hold that as a new support and we broke that making it a new resistance again. And we broke the next level of support making it a resistance again. And now we're testing the $7,375 level as a support here as well as the 50 Simple Moving Average as a support as well. So if we were to sell off next week, you know, these are levels I'm going to be waiting to see if we break beneath of, right? If we break this level, which it seems like we already are doing here after market hours again, these are the futures and we break the 50 SMA, the next spot I'm going to be waiting to see us potentially go in the Nasdaq is going to be at around $7,300 flat here, right? This is the $7,300 old resistance, which is now going to be the next support level. And from there, if we sell off even further, you know, $7,200 is going to be the next price target in terms of the Nasdaq.  Who knows, right guys? But we could also sell off even further, especially if the futures are pointing red on Monday and large caps are continuing their sell-off. You know, this could very well sell off even harder, you know, this upcoming week. And I'm very honestly, very, very excited to see what does end up happening. So that is pretty much the wrap up of today's market update. All you really need to know is it was a very big red day. This was the sell-off that we've been waiting for over the past two, three weeks of trading because of the stock market has just been pushing up and up and up, well, at least the SPX and the Nasdaq were the Dow was struggling a bit with Boeing. But, you know, overall, the markets just have been bullying over and over these past couple of weeks. And this was the very much needed pullback. So next week, are we going to sell off even more? Are we going to break some more supports here? Are we going to continue to have red days? That is what I'm going to be waiting for. And I'm very eager to see this upcoming week. So let's talk about very quickly here, guys, what I ended up trading today.  Yes, it was TVIX, my favorite go-to ETF whenever the markets are red and aggressively selling off. Because when they are aggressively selling off, we've seen this in the month of October to December, this ETF goes absolutely bananas, haywire, it goes crazy. And let me just point this ETF to you guys that don't know what it is. And it goes up in price whenever, again, the markets sell off, specifically the SPX, the S&P 500, that is what it tracks. We can see today, you know, the big sell off that we saw about nearly 2%. This ETF went up 21, I think 22% at its highest today, which is absolutely unreal. 20% move in one day in TVIX. And I was able to capture a pretty fat chunk of this due to the massive, massive, really, I should say, the quick sell off that we saw in the SPX.  But when the SPX is selling off aggressively, I mean like 1%, 2% in the matter of an hour, two hours, three hours, that is when you see the massive spike, the quick spike in TVIX, which is what we ended up seeing today. And we can see it went from $26 all the way up to $31.31 or 34 cents, rather, at its peak. And if we can just see, you know, in the matter of, let's say, three hours, three hours and 20 minutes, this ETF was up 16% from where it ended up opening up, which is absolutely unbelievable. So the fact that we did run up very quickly, I ended up getting more profit than I typically get on my day trades. Typically, I'm taking anywhere between 1% to 2% on my day trades. And in this specific day trade here, I ended up taking 3.6% again due to the massive, quick, spiked volatility move that we saw, you know, in the SPX, which in turn pushed this up like a rocket, right? We can see, you know, once we ended up breaking this level here at 2680, which was a pre-market resistance, and we saw the aggressive sell-off this morning in the SPX, I just automatically knew that today was going to be a very aggressive sell-off day. Just take a look at this, guys. Within 20 minutes of the market open, look how quickly we were moving down. We were down about 10 points at this point within 15 minutes. Then literally 10 minutes later, we were down another 10, 15 points. This sell-off was quick. It was very quick, which opened up that margin on TVIX. So I pretty much just built my position here at about $27, and I believe 10 cents I ended up getting in, ended up honestly holding through this pullback. And I held it for a little bit longer than I typically do because the SPX was confirming to me that we were going to continue to sell off on the one day, one minute. And how did I know that? Because we were getting rejected by the 50 SMA, and we kept making lower lows. We kept pushing down, and we really just kept getting rejected, and we failed reversing out of this downwards pattern. Right here, you know, this could have been a point where I was like, okay, we might be reversing to the upside. But once I noticed once I started to see rather red candlesticks starting to form to the downside here, we were struggling to break them. We were struggling to break out of this resistance on the next push-up. That was telling me we're making lower highs, lower lows. We're continuing to push down, which is why I just held on to TVIX. And we can see back on TVIX, I made about 3.5, 3.6% here. You know, I got in at about 27.10. Up to this point, I was up about 4.2%. Again, I held through the pullback. I should have honestly sold up here, but I got a little too excited, held through the pullback. And then as the downwards push was confirming itself, I ended up just locking in the profits on this next little pump at about 3.5%. And I honestly could have held it more. Obviously, I would have made 15% on my money, but I didn't want to get too, too greedy here, guys.  You should have just held on. I would have made, you know, you would have made another 15%. But again, you know, I'm typically aiming for 1% to 2%. And the fact that I nearly doubled that with 3.5% and I was already getting a little excited here, and I kind of missed out on a higher profit, I just wanted to lock it in at 3.5%. And that's exactly what I ended up doing.  You know, this is my go-to ETF when it seems like we're going to sell off. And when we do sell off, when we have the confirmation, when we have aggressive sell-offs, you know, this, oh, my God, this is an absolute moneymaker right here for me. TVIX. So let's quickly talk about some other stocks and ETFs that did poorly today. I'm not going to talk too deep into a couple that I'm planning on trading next week, because I'm going to be talking more deep into those, you know, on Sunday's videos. So make sure you subscribe and stay tuned for Sunday's video. If you're not already subscribed, then on Sunday, I typically talk about 10 to 15 stocks that I'm looking to trade. And I also have some stocks on that video on Sunday that you end up calling out either in the comments section or in the call-out section in our Discord chat. So while we're at it, drop a comment now down below on this video on any stocks you want me to cover in Sunday's video. And if you're part of that Discord chat, let me know in the call-out section what you want me to talk about, and I will gladly, gladly talk about it in the next video. So, you know, a couple that did very poorly today, let's just talk about the ones that actually sold off, sold out of yesterday. And this is the perfect, perfect example of locking in your profits and how important it really is sometimes when, you know, you see a stocks a little bit oversold or overbought, rather, you know, you're already up in the position and you're, you know, you're asking yourself, you're kind of in a dilemma with yourself, should I lock in my profits now? Should I hold it through the next day hoping it goes up more? You know, that's what I was kind of in a dilemma with yesterday, right? And I locked in the profits on ATVI and NVIDIA, both of those moves I got 5% to 6% on, and I was up 5%, 6% and I figured, okay, we're already out of resistances, we hit my target, so might as well take the profits and wait for a reentry. And this is a perfect example of locking in profits at a good, good time, right? We can see ATVI here, you know, my goal was to lock it in here. We had that big move yesterday of about 5%, lock that in, and to reenter down here. I did not reenter today, like I mentioned earlier on in this video, I want to wait on Monday, see what ends up happening there. But now that we sold off here, you know, Monday, we should be right around here, and I'll make my decision then on whether or not I want to reenter at this level right around here, right? Because this was an old resistance, it was a new support, we ended up running up, we sold off, making this an ideal entry point, you know, if the markets, just depending on what the markets do, right? So that is one example here of locking in profits. And honestly, ATVI is one that I'm watching next week. So I'm going to be talking deeper into this one on Sunday's video, just wanted to give you guys a little bit of insight here. And in video, another one that ended up locking in yesterday, where is that? I know it's here somewhere here, NVDA, you know, it ended up running very, very quickly, it was a little bit overbought, really, it was really overbought, it got to about 185, and I entered in at 173, guys. So I was already up, or 174, rather, I was already up about 5%, 6%, we were overbought, we hit near my target here. So I thought it was wise, I figured it was wise since I was already up 5%, 6%, lock in those profits, don't get too greedy, don't wish and hope that it runs up even more so you can make more money, so I can make more money, wait for a pullback for a better reentry. And that's exactly what we got today, the stock was down 3.5%, down nearly $7. And now I'll be able to reenter, maybe at 174 again, if we get down here, maybe at 175, or if we maintain this level, 178 would be a pretty solid reentry price next week, depending on what the futures are looking like, what the markets are looking like, there's a bunch of different things that I take into consideration before taking a swing position. So if I were to keep these positions, guys, just an example, again, I would have not been able to make the money that I did make. Just think about it, I was up 5%, 6% yesterday. If I were not to lock in up here when I did, I believe at about 183, I would be down on that position 3.5% today, let's say, which means my gains would be around 2% total, 2.5. So I would have made half the money I would have made if I didn't lock in yesterday at the ideal point. So that's just an example that you guys can really use to your benefit in your trading, in your own trading experience. And don't just do this based off of my opinion, guys. You have to practice the stuff, practice exit entries, exit points, entry points, stuff like that. That is how you master these different things. And this is just how I've learned it over the years, just mastering and practicing and experiencing many, many, many different trades and positions, guys, because trust me, I've taken thousands upon thousands of trades here in the stock market as long as I've been in the stock market, right? So those are just two examples there at the end in video. And let's just take a look very quickly. Rapid Fire is some of the big name stocks today.  And we saw the big pullback today of about $4, 2%. So this is a very due pullback in my opinion. We got rejected by $195, the resistance. This could open up a nice entry point as a swing trade. Let's say if we sold off closer to this support at about $188, $190, I think that could be a very nice entry. We saw Facebook today ended up selling off $1.7 here, 1% flat, not too crazy of a move here in terms of Facebook. Amazon ended up dumping pretty big today, $54 down 3%. Netflix down 16 points today, down nearly 5% on the day. Pretty big move there. Netflix, Google down about 2%. Microsoft down about 2.6%, which is really a pullback that I've been waiting for, guys, because we all know Microsoft has been hitting all-time highs. And a couple of other ones that we can see here, you know, Kron, down 7% today. It's looking like we're getting a big, big retracement in this marijuana stock. You know, CGC's down about 4%. Today, Tesla's down about 4%. Today, 3.5%. Walmart down about 0.79%. Square's down about 4.3%. These are just a couple of stocks that I attract here, guys. Johnson and Johnson down nearly 1%. You know, let's see what CAD did today. Down 3% today.   We had a nice green day yesterday. A lot of us thought that this was going to continue, but the market smacks you in the face sometimes, and this is one of those smacks, guys. So another one, let's just take a look very quickly, ACB today. We got that big pullback of 5%. This is what I'm going to be talking about in Sunday's video. This could open up an entry point if we do maintain this $9 level here. But let's say we break this level, which I kind of want to happen here because I want to get an even better entry, and we head to about 820. Wow, that's going to be a much better entry in my opinion. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video here. If you did, feel free to drop a like, leave a comment, subscribe. Make sure to stay tuned to Sunday's video. I'm talking about a couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm trading, and I'm going to be talking about a couple that you shout out on this comment section of this video or on the Discord group chat in the call out section. So feel free to leave your comment with the stock or in the Discord, leave a comment there with the stock, and I will gladly, gladly get to it. So I hope you guys, again, enjoyed the video. I really do appreciate you all for watching. Have a great weekend. I hope you all killed it this week. I'll see you all on Sunday.


Michelle was your healthy, personable college student and role at Penn State University. She was the captain of the women's varsity tennis team and quite the social butterfly. When she wasn't studying and chiseling away at classes for her degree in cybersecurity, she was busy coordinating several philanthropic events and submerging herself in college activities. In January of 2016, though, her life changed as a brutal snowstorm swept the state.  Though she was an excruciating pain, because she didn't lose consciousness, she figured that she would apply an ice pack to her head and monitor her symptoms. So about two days later, there was like an hour and a half period where I just didn't even know where it was. Like, I didn't know if I was home in New Jersey, home at school, couldn't tell you what day it was, couldn't tell you the month. My boyfriend looked at me and he was like, we're going to the emergency room the second the snow stops. Once the snow cleared up, Michelle went to the ER. She was told that everything was fine, but she knew she wasn't. For years, she suffered from constant chronic headaches, extreme fatigue, disorientation, light sensitivity, speech and vision impairments, and social anxiety. She had to withdraw from school as she continued to try and seek a doctor who could help her. Then, Michelle met Dr. Christine Grease at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. I remember the first thing that we had to do was not only address the migraines, which we were working hand-in-hand with her neurologist, but we also had to address the visual complaints. Because with every waking moment, the eyes are working, and it was a struggle for her. So we had to address the vision, we had to address the balance. We worked on a few things, and of course, we didn't want to put her at hold completely in her tracks. We wanted her to be able to keep on doing the day-to-day things that she enjoys doing. So ever since coming here and meeting with Dr. Grease and having all these treatments through her, my life has improved drastically.  I didn't think that being where I am today was even possible without her. Though she's still experiencing issues with her vision, concentration and balance more than five years later, Michelle is confident that she will heal from her invisible scar and bounce back from her concussion.