Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing well. And today we're going to be continuing on with our VGC series eight content featuring another rental team today. And this one is a very exciting one because it does feature one of my favorite all time restricted Pokemon. And that is restroom. So a big shout out first to Stu, who's over on our discord and Patreon community. Here's the rental code. I'll throw it up at the end of the episode again. We'll have a few games with the team now talk through it and we'll have a lot of fun. Hopefully you enjoy it. Let me know down in the comment section what you think of this team. And of course, if you've got rental teams, you'd like to see featured on the channel, then drop them down in the comment section below. Don't be too sad if I don't feature them straight away, though. Obviously, a lot of people are suggesting teams at the minute. It's going to take me a little bit of time to work through them all. But don't worry, I will get there in the end. So without further ado, let's jump into our first match of today. OK, first up today, we have a team of Kyogre tornadoes called Tana Glastria Porygon 2 and Incinero. So pretty hard matchup for us to start with, honestly. It's got the rain elements there with the tornadoes, the Kyogre. So instant tailwind support. And they've got a pretty good trick room mode as well, where they've got the Glastria that can take advantage of that. But we do have our own talk call. It's going to be imperative to us in this game. They do have a good way to reverse the trick room if we get it up with their own P2. So you'd imagine they'd probably see the P2. You're going to see an integration with P2, tornadoes, Kyogre. And maybe I don't think our Tana comes to this match. I think Incinero makes a lot of sense, honestly. I think that's probably what we'll see. So on those grounds, do we go for a trick room early doors? Or do we bring our rain mode and kind of go down that route? Because that's something that we could do.  Venusol could be a nice option. If my opponent wants to bring their trick room, then they've got that. I think we definitely need talk call. And then do we want our psychic mode? I think maybe Ryperia might be a good one. We don't really have the options as B control here. But again, I don't think it's massively necessary. So we'll see what my opponent does, what my opponent goes for. We'll get into this first one today, my friends. And hopefully we can get a good win for Stu and the team and for all of you at home. And it's not going to be an easy matchup. But then when do you ever have really an easy matchup in Pokemon anymore? Not really. Every trainer is good or to a good standard. And most teams at this stage in the meta game are pretty well built. So we have Tornilus and Kyogar coming out from my opponent. And we've got a couple of options here. Couple of options where we can get our sunup with our talk call. We can go after the Tornilus. We can go for Blue Flare. Or we could keep the Venus all in and go after the Kyogar. They're going to be able to... Yeah, the sun matchup is difficult here. I think what we'll probably better off doing is going after the Kyogar. Let's go after the Kyogar and get our talk call onto the field. Because I don't think if you max Kyogar, I think you probably got a Hurricane here. Or you probably got Tailwind. Tailwind more than anything. You may go Rain Dance. You may go Rain Dance. Rain Dance would be terrible for us. And honestly, another Rain Dance would be bad. And that kind of wins the weather ball pretty easily here. Against what my opponent is trying to do. And also going for Tailwind and Max Geyser. We'll get the rain back up for my opponent. But we do have switches in. Two things like... Oh wow, the Max and the Tornados. No Tailwind. So that's what we like to see. Well, well, well, well. We should be able to get rid of the Kyogar here. Potentially. Or we're going to be able to weaken it enough. I mean probably not. Because we're probably going to see Airstream into Venus. Or that's probably what my opponent's going for.  But I mean, in the sun it's not really going to be doing too much to Reshraum anyway. And Torko should be able to kind of handle it. Don't know if we're going to handle the Airstream very well. No. But we do survive. So that's not bad. We win the Weather Walk in general. Because if the Kyogar decides to stick around. There's a Water Spout here. The Reshraum taking that like a champ. Situations like this where you wish. Like, oh no. I'm not going to mention. I'm not going to mention. Because we're going to get the Wormwind off. It's going to be useful.  But we do weaken that Water Spout. If that's what we see from my opponent. Now we don't have the speed control to kind of help us out as much as what we wanted here. But we do have the opportunity now to bring in Venus all. Got firstly powder into the Tornadus. Because we should. I don't know. Did we still outspeed it in the sun? We should do. We should do. Should do. I'm saying I don't know the speed of the Venus all. Where it might get a little bit tricky. Where we don't. But I think we'll go Max Flare. And we'll go sleep powder into the Tornadus here. The Kyogar is pretty pinned where it might want to switch out. We might see it switch out. We might see a Max Guard onto the Tornadus if they feel threatened. But it does protect. So the double tap into the Tornadus was definitely the right call in this situation. They go Airstream again. Which is not ideal for us. Because we're going to just straight up lose Venus all. So it's not max speed Venus all. Yeah Tornadus. But let's see how much we can do with the blue flare. I mean I would be confident that we could potentially take it down. And once the Tornadus kind of falls. Restrooms got a pretty easy run here. Because the Kyogar. He oh man. Sashed. Sashed. Sashed. Does it does enough to keep us in this game. Right. Period. Not the Pokemon we want right now. But doesn't do too bad a job against stuff like. The Kyogar. Now does my opponent have anything else that can come in and take. Now I think we're going to Max Quake now into the Kyogar slot. We have to protect Ryperia. Even though the sun's up. I think we have to protect it. Yeah they're going to switch the Kyogar out. Which makes a lot of sense. P2 coming in. Again we're going to lose our. Yeah the problem is now they get the tail wind up. And the Kyogar is going to be in a phenomenal spot. Okay well they're Max Garden so that's not so bad. And we protect as well. Okay well we're not going to take down the P2. So we're still in a not a bad position here. Because we can Blue Flare the next turn. With this Max Quake we're going to be in a good spot. To go Rock Slide, Blue Flare. And then I think with the health that the Kyogar's on. I don't think it's going to be able to beat the Reshiram. One on one. So we'll soon see what my opponent goes for. But I'm pretty sure a Blue Flare. In the sun life or boosted versus the P2. Is going to be enough to take it down. And I would be confident of that. And we'll go Rock Slide as well. Because that will get the Tornadis. That'll do a bit of chip to the P2. If we need the additional. But I don't think we do. And then I think we'll see a tailwind here. But that's better for us in general. Because if we see a tailwind. It means the Tornadis is an attack in here. Because it can go for a Hurricane. And that can do some decent damage to the Reshiram. I think it's probably the Hurricane. It's the best option for my opponent. Wow. Okay. Well we're just going to see the Kyogar come in. Kyogar probably goes down here. You know. I don't know if that's the right play to be honest. Because like we are going to see a Hurricane. But Reshiram should take the Hurricane. And if not then. Yeah. I mean we like we're so bulky. So bulky. Blue Flare coming out. It doesn't really matter about the rain. Because now we've got Draco Meteor. And we've got a Ryperia to deal with. With the P2. There's a rock slide. P2 could definitely you know. Could have Ice Beam. So I could do some work against the Ryperia. But I'm not going to be able to out damage us. No way. So. And with the special defense boost as well. That Ryperia has got from our. Already a Max. Oh they've got. They've got Glastria as well. Of course they got Glastria. Okay. Well. I think. I think. I think. I think. I forgot they got. Yeah. Another Pokemon as well. Can a Draco Meteor get the P2. Can it. With a rock slide. I think we've got a rock slide again. We could super power the P2. But it's kind of gone all in. Okay. Well this is not so bad. Because we should get the Draco and the rock slide off. Before they're able to move. And then it's just leaves P2 by itself. So allies which kind of bite my opponent here. Where I'm not really too fussed about the Glastria. In all honesty. At that point in time. I'm more concerned about a trick room going up. And preventing that. We do get the rock slide. Make contact. That's the beauty about these spread moves. And now we're in an amazing spot. Just to deal with this P2. Between what we got left. And maybe a Draco Meteor again. We all minus two now. Might be enough to pick up the knockout. May not be. But at this point. It's our best option. And a high horse power right now. Because a super power we don't want to take the defense drops. Oh well the defense drop in the attack drop. But we do pick up the win.  So that is a nice victory for us to kick off with today for sure. And we'll move swiftly on to our next game of the episode. Okay next up today. We have a team of Calyrex Shadow Rider. Galarian Zapdos. Stack attacker. Trevenant. Wigglytuff. And Stunfisk. So it's just the maddest mix of Pokemon that we've ever seen. We've got trick room elements of the team. Course from the Trevenant. The Stack attacker. And Calyrex can all trick room. Got a defiant user in the Galarian Zapdos as well. It's going to be tricky to get a trick room up for sure. I don't really like. I mean if trick room goes up we're not in a bad spot per se. Because we do have right here at Orcal that we can kind of lean back on a little bit. Resurum can do a bunch of work in this match. It can. It really can. I think we do lead Resurum here. I don't know if I want to consider Venus or Venus or could be good. But I'd worry about the expanding force if we're not able to knock out the Calyrex. And also the Galarian Zapdos gives us a bunch of problems as well. We may be better off going like in DD. So we've got a bit of redirection support. Got a bit of help and hand support. And then we've got two Pokemon that can come in and operate in a trick room environment pretty well if we do see the trick room. Which is kind of what my opponent's hinting at here. And also by leading with our faster mode. We kind of almost invite our opponent to set the trick room up for us. So it's almost like baiting them in. Which is always kind of something that you want to try and do if you can in battles. But a weird mix of Pokemon. I'm not like really knowing what to expect. You know the sun really helps out Trevenant with its harvest ability. Probably got something like Citrus Berry.  And we're in a great position now where we can nuke the Trevenant. It's just do we really ignore the Kalorex. Because the Kalorex is a real pain for us to deal with. Where we might be better off going for a help and hand. And just nuke the Kalorex like turn one. The other option is going follow me. It's just the expanding force. Whatever we do. Expanding force is going to really bite us. And we don't really have a switching for that. You know. So it's all about being able to kind of nuke the Kalorex as soon as we can. Or go for a max quick. Potentially get a special defense boost and redirect. And then the next turn go for a big max flare. But I think in all honesty I think we max flare the Kalorex. Get rid of that now. Help and hand boost. Try and get rid of it. I don't see the Kalorex max. Oh they are maxing. Oh they're maxing. They're maxing. We should have redirected. We should have redirected. And then indeed he could have just soaked it up. We could have just got an attack off this turn. Maybe max quicked into it. Got the special defense boost. And then potentially went for a help and hand boost the next turn. But the fact that they are maxing here. They're going to just hit us with so much damage. Which is not good. And we're not going to be able to pick up the knockout. But then indeed he should be sticking around for this next turn. That's the one thing that we can kind of rely on. If they do go after the rest of them here. Which you would expect them to do. It's the max quick that I would really worry about. If I was well. It's a max quick that I'm really worried about in this situation. The help and hand is great and all. But at the same time the max quick. Max flutter buy. Well we'll take that every day of the week. I mean you're leaving Resha or Malone. Indeed you're going to take that. We go down to minus one. But at the same time. I don't mind that too much. Because means indeed he gets to stick around like I say. We get the help and hand blue flower off. Which kind of mitigates the minus one drop. We do some nice damage to the. The caloric shadow item. We get the sun up. Which is always very useful. We'll see what the wood hammer coming out. The big old hammer being dropped. Now this makes it a bit more tricky again. Because although it doesn't make it tricky again. Because I think the thing is. We can bring talk all in. And it does pull a little bit of attention away from what my opponent. Is going to try and do you know. They can go again for the max flutter buy. But then they're not getting the most out of their kind of max moves. They're not using or utilizing the max mind storm. Like they would probably preferably want all the max. Phantasm. Is well both very useful. Powerful attacks that you know. If you're running shadow color. Actually want to be pressing those buttons most of the time. Not your max flutter buy. And we've got the sun up as well. Which is definitely helping. Resuram right now with its max flares. So although we are minus one. My opponent's not in the easiest position to just start clicking buttons. Because I don't think a max mind storm. Would get resuram from this range. And if you're okay the max garden. I'm predicting the protect maybe on that talk call. What's Trevenant going to do. What is Trevenant going to do. It went after the Trevenant here. But I don't I really need to go after the Kaloex more than anything. Polter guys. Polter you guys. Don't care. The thing is the talk calls more important to us. Than the right here right now. Because right here I can't go one on one. With the with the Trevenant. Whereas the talk call can. Even if the tricker is not up. Max wormwood would have been a useful attack as well. Maybe to reduce the damage there. But yeah max fans hasn't coming out. Right here hanging on with one HP. Now that goes to show how good stew has calc this team. I don't mind that at all. Because we should be able to now pick up the knockout onto the Kaloex. With a final attack. And that trade off to me is worthwhile. Now we might lose right here. But we may see an attack from the Trevenant. Like Polter guys into restroom. It'll do a decent chunk of damage you know.  It's a good amount of damage right. It is a good amount of damage. But we're sitting in a good position now. Because we've got rid of the fastest threat on my opponent's team. At least the present. And we've got stacks coming in now. Which is just you know. It's probably gonna have the shukka berry. But stacks has to be our priority. Stack attacker has to be our priority here. Where we go after it. I think we have to blue flare. Depends if I think you know what. I feel I feel like Trevenant is probably going to be able to outspeed. Right here here. Do we just get rid of the Trevenant while we can. And then just go. Yeah I think that's maybe better. And hope it has a lot of shukka. Which it will have. It will have shukka. Okay the why god coming out is the way better option for us all together. They must be expecting some sort of spread damage. Is this gonna be enough though. In the sun. A blue flare. We've got a life orb. No it's just not quite enough. They had the ochre berry there. But just yeah. Have they got shukka as well. Because even if they have now. It gets rid of it. And it puts us in a range where yeah. Earth power will be able to pick up the knockout onto it next turn. So the why god not really the best player there. I mean you can kind of see where they're coming from. Maybe thinking a rock slide would come out. But our blue flare. But I think the options from our side of the field were. You know a little bit more. Obvious I would say. So we've got earth power into this beast.  Is it electric ground. Yeah. Electric ground. I mean. What are you going to do. You know high horse power picks it up. I don't know what stunk fist is going to do. I have no idea. We'll go for the earth power though. And in the Russia I'm going to stick around for a little bit longer. Hopefully we might get taken down this turn. But it does give us the free high horse power from right period. Into the stunk fist. Now however we're pronouncing it. At least they remembered its name. That's all I'm counting on. But wow. Okay. Not doing. Zip. Zip. Doing zip. So that's fine. We do pick up the win. Very good game to my opponent. A nice kind of interesting build to see as well. You don't always see builds like this on the ladder. So it's nice to see the kind of innovative team building from an opponent. And always nice to be able to feature those on the channel. So we pick up two wins. We'll jump over now and get you that rental code. Just to remind you what it is for today's team. So friends here is the rental code for today's team. Thank you again to Stu for providing us with this team. It's a really fun one. And I think one that you're going to enjoy if you try out on the ladder at the moment. There's lots of different modes in there. You've got the Venus or Toko mode. Very good. Resurrem is just an absolute monster. It's one of my favorite restrictors like I mentioned at the start of the episode today. Then you've got some really cool picks as well with Ryperia. You know something that has been forgotten about. But very very effective in what it likes to do. And especially in that trick room environment. Where you've got a pretty seamless kind of trick room setup with the hat indeedy.   So then that leaves Resurrem where you're not bringing it. So you haven't got that restricted Pokemon as well. It's like okay can we get away with bringing hat and then not the indeedy to get the trick room up if you need it. Or take advantage of Resurrem you know. So like that you would go maybe Resurrem. Hat arena. I just feel like the indeedy you can see why it's there. It's very useful. Redirection is always a useful option. But I feel like it restricts your options when you've got four Pokemon to pick in a match. And sometimes you may have to sacrifice the Resurrem. A lot of the time if you want that kind of more heavy trick room mod. But with that said friends we're going to wrap it up there. If you do try the team out let me know down in the comment section how you get on. We'll wrap up and I will see you all for another episode very soon. Take care of yourselves until the next one and have a good one. Thanks for tuning in. Bye bye.


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My name is Melissa Armo and I own a company called the Stocks Wush LLC. And today is a very exciting lecture because it's one of my favorite topics which is how to trade on the side of institutional money. This is something that a lot of people I think want to know about and think about vaguely but don't really talk about amongst their friends or other traders because they're really not sure how to read this. So we're going to do a lot of teaching today. I have a lot of charts in this lecture. So let's get started. If you'd like more information you can go to my website at thestockswush.com or feel free to email me after the lecture at melissa at thestockswush.com as well. So really ask yourself and I'm sure there's a reason that you're here today. Do you want a career where you can earn more money? You might be trading right now full-time, you might be trading part-time, you might not be trading at all but you actually want to investigate it because you're interested in doing something where you can earn more money. And ultimately it's really about change. Going into the fall of this year 2013, coming into the beginning of 2014, many, many people are thinking about making changes in their life and you've got to sometimes change what you are doing if you want to see improvements to your trading or your life. And really if not now when? It's about change. If you continue doing the same actions then you can only expect the same results. If you want different results in your trading and your life then change is required and not only that it is necessary. Okay? So if you want to be more successful in the market and in life then learning a trading system that will bring about the financial results you've been looking for is really what you have to focus on. So change what you're doing and the sooner the better. So let's start by looking at things from a brand new vantage point like this guy here. He's way up in the sky, he's floating on the cloud. He's looking at things, he's looking down at the earth and he's looking from a new vantage point. A vantage point that is advantageous to spot opportunity and opportunity in the market. Opportunity can translate into money if you know what to do with it in the stock market. So really it's about a foundation which I have found in my own personal training and now I'm teaching to people and this is what we're going to talk about today. It's the cornerstone of success in the market. One of the cornerstones to everlasting trading success and longevity is consistency and I think many people here probably already know that but I'm here to remind you today because without this it is hard to stay in the market for any length of time. In order to be consistent a person needs proper focus on what counts, what's really going to pay you. If you've been dreaming of being successful in the market for years but the success has eluded you then stop and consider why. It's time to elevate yourself and your trading to a brand new level and what better time to do than going into the fall of this year. This requires a deeper understanding, a better comprehension and an overall wider perspective of what makes individual success possible for a trader or investor in the stock market. Trader Thomas is saying he can't see anything Kathy and Kevin. Can everyone see my pointer here? Can everyone see this pointer? Let me know. Trader Thomas is having some some hot com issues it looks like. If you can let me know. So this is really the number one way to trade that we're going to talk about today and is following the institutional money. This lecture has a very powerful message. The message is you've got to become a specialist in reading institutional money. In order to become successful in the market you have to become a specialist okay. A specialist in reading institutional money or what I call power money in the market. This is the name I just made up. This is power money and this brings momentum and opportunity for you as an individual to trade. Every trader in every level must learn this skill set. It can be acquired with education and you've got to learn what to look for. Institutional money is in charge. A big flow of money going in a certain direction is what moves to the market. Stocks and creates momentum and also sets trends in charts. When you are looking for institutional money you're really reading the side of the power in stock. You want to be on the side of the power in order for you to make money trading. Institutional money is in charge in the market and stocks at all times. I must be clear about this. At all times even if you think it's not it is and I'm going to show you some charts today. It's in charge always, always, always, always. I put a chart here of the market in today's lecture. This is actually a current chart clipping from today. I have been reading the market bullishly for months and how have I been able to do that? Even this big red topping tail we had here, the pulling we had here, this topiness we had here, which we're going to break over by the way. All along the way here I've been reading this and calling the market bullishly because I'm reading what's happening in the gaps. We are higher this year in the overall market and I had a conversation with someone yesterday that made me want to talk about this in detail today about the QQQs because he said to me, this is a friend, he said, you know what? We've been running up so long now we're just we're extended. I plopped this bigger picture here of the market for you to see that we are not extended. Yes I do do intraday trades, John. We're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about that. So we're not extended here in the QQs. We're not extending the market. We've barely just begun. Do you see this here? We have barely just begun. In fact this rallied up here based out and rested. Rallied up here we rested and rested and rested. We ran up here, this is 2012, came down, rested. Rallied up and came down and rested, rested, rested, rested and pushing higher. Every time we rest in here, every time we rest in here, we are getting ready to make another leg up. So we're not extended. Okay this, here's an example of extension. This, doom, it's all the way up here. This was back in 2000 and 2000, 1999, 2000. The market went almost vertical straight up. This is extended. Okay. This is not extended. This is actually a nice, consistent move going forward and what is making this? This is power of money. This is power of money that's buying in the market. So when you see things like this, if you're thinking the market's coming in or it's top, they are pulling. That's it. We're going to break over this area and no one should be shorting anything in here. Okay. We are higher this year until otherwise noted unless we would change our trend, which we are not doing right now. And so how am I reading all of this? I'm reading the institutional money that's coming into the market and it's moving so nice and so smooth and so clean. This gap up that happened here back in July is holding incredibly well and we were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. 13 days up in the market and the market gapped up and this gap is beautiful and is going to hold. Now, how do I know all of this? Because I read gaps. This is what we're going to talk about today and this is institutional buying that came in, that came in right here and it's holding and it's going to move us higher. So you have to understand what's going on in the overall trend of the footprints of money. Read the footprints of institutional money. They're in the market. John's asking about intraday trading. Yes, that's what I do. I'm a day trader. However, I'm reading the overall trend in the market and in stocks. I'm trading to help assist me to make a lot of money as a day trader. This is how you do it. You have to look at the bigger picture. So how can you read the side of power? Where is it located? To get paid in any regard, intraday, day trading, swing trading, court trading, you've got to be with the side of the institutions. You have to be with the side of the power and how do you read it in gaps?  Gaps make the trend. They set the trend and they continue the trend in stocks and the market. They set the trend because they are definitive and demonstrative change and show a price in what is called an event. Gaps are a real show of the power of money. Gaps either continue the trend or in fact change the trend, which is very important too. If you follow the gap, you'll be following the power of money. So it's about institutional money which happens in gaps. There is only one thing and one thing only that can move the direction of a stock, money. Not a little money but a lot of money or what I call power of money. Power of money is in charge. Power of money is in charge of the stock's direction. Power of money is in charge of the market. Trends are set and moved by the power of money people of which there is a lot of in the market. There is a lot of these people in the market and if all of us in here and everybody, everybody in every trading room got together and if we all traded and I called a trader and we all took it together, we wouldn't move anything a boot. This power of money is what moves everything and no amount of individual traders will ever move anything like this power of money and that's why you got to trade with it and that's why you can trade with it and make money. Even as one person, even if we all got together, it wouldn't matter. The amazing thing is that it's negative as traders and analysts talk about the power of money people, they are the reason that one individual that you and me can be successful in the market and I am so grateful for them because it wouldn't be for them. I wouldn't be able to see things clearly like I do. Trade accurately like I do and make money consistently like I do. It is because of this because it's so clear to see this that we're able to make money. It's in the gaps. Gaps happen in the market on a regular basis. However, some gaps are better than others. Some gaps are what I call nothing gaps and some gaps are very powerful displays of institutional money. We're going to go over some examples. The most important gaps in the market are gaps that signify a change in direction or a bigger move in the same direction and that's what happened in the bullish gap that happened in the market in July. Understanding which gaps are meaningful and which gaps are not meaningful in the market will help you to know what to do and when a change is occurring. So gaps have to be qualified by using a checklist. This is how I do it. I go through a checklist in the morning of a rating system. I look at 26 points and this checklist tells me what to look for in the price of the stock and the gap. So it's about learning a way to read the side of power and the momentum. Here's an example of Facebook. I've been talking about Facebook for a while now. Ever since it fell off the planet when the IPO came out and now again here it's been very interesting to discuss even in the last two months. Facebook back here in July closed. This is the day before the earnings in July 24th at 2651. The earnings came out overnight and the next morning it opened up here at 3354. This is on July 25th. This is a bullish gap. This is a display of number one power and money and momentum. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing but power and money that can make a stock be down here at 2650 and open up here and hold, beautifully by the way, at 3354, which this gap is going to hold. So here's an example of power and money. Power and money that has now changed the trend in the direction of the stock and the stock is going to break out to all-time highs probably before the end of the year. It's already gotten over the IPO price which was 42, 05. This is an example of institutional buying. What would make this power money? So what do you do as an intraday trader? You buy it. You buy the gap. You buy it right there. You buy it on the day. You buy it as a swing trade. You buy it as a core trade. Look at how beautifully it's carried up through here and even when it came down in here it held, held and followed on through. And all this is going on and it's fantastic. This is momentum. This is how you make money and make money easily by the way. So you've got to learn what institutional buying looks like. Here's an example of a charted and uptrend. This is TWC. Look at the nice, fat, green bars of this stock and an uptrend. From this first gap that happened back here in June, June 14th, this is a $10 bar. $10. Now this stock does move pretty, pretty big. This is over $100 price point, but still this is a ginemungous bar for this chart. It's a gap up. It's a beautiful gap up and a buy setup followed on through. Low of this bar is $95.79. From this date here in June 14th, all the way up through here, the stock is now about at $1.21. So the stock has moved $25 higher. Like 25% of its price grew basically overnight in a month. Look, this is institutional buying. This is a gap. This is a gap. This is a gap. Beautiful. Okay, this is what institutional buying looks like. What is not institutional buying? Well, let's look at an example. A&F. A&F gap down here. This is back in August. I watched it. It was actually a nice gap that I wanted to short. Didn't set up right. What happened? It opened down here. This is an August 22nd at $37. Ran up here $2. Now it's a $2 bar. Yes, I see the $2 bar. But this is not institutional buying. What's going on here when this thing is happening? It's short covering. People that are short the stock, that have been short the stock in A&F, that are covering the short here, they are taking profits. It's profit taking from the short side. This is not institutional buying, even though it's a green bar. Now, how do I know this? Because I know how to re-gaps. And what happened? Lick any split within two to three days afterwards. It didn't go over this high. Drop down, broke the gap, fell on through, and down here in the low, it's like broken $35 since then. And the open here was $37. So do you see the follow through? This is not institutional buying. This is short covering. And you have to understand with the difference what it looks like. So learn what institutional selling looks like. Selling meaning people selling out of the stock or actually even shorting the stock. Institutions are allowed to take positions short. Here's another great example of something that is falling off a cliff. This is Jack. Jack the night before the gap up here closed at $11.48. Literally, the next day, it closed after the gap closed on this day, this giant mungus bar, the biggest bar in the chart, closed at $6.90. In this month's time, the stock is worth less than $5 now, like around $5. All of this happening just from the gap. Here's an example of institutional selling and shorting. Exiting the stock, people that are long and actually want entries short to move it down. Here is an example of institutional selling.  So here's an example. What is not institutional selling? Another big giant mungus red bar, but this is QCOR. This is not institutional selling. How do I know? I'm reading the gaps. Here's where the stock closed here. This is back in June at $36.71. The stock gapped up. Gapped up here. It opened at $50. It gapped up $14 over a night. Had a big red bar, but this is not institutional selling. This is just profit-taking from the stock being in an uptrend. And guess what happens? Within less than a month, the stock gaps up again.  So you don't trade it as a buy. You could have bought this for a Swingercore trade. It's a good gap. And it carries on through up here. And all of a sudden now a gap's up here to $59.75. And look, it's at all-time highs. It ran over $75 almost.  This is not institutional selling. John is saying institutions cannot afford to be in $11 stocks. That's false. Absolutely false. They are buying these things. They are selling these things. They are shorting these things. I don't know where you heard of that. That's false. Okay? You want to be with institutions and they are trading stocks like this at these price points. $8 price points, $10 price points, $60 price points all over the place. They're doing it. So the key to large profits and ultimate trading success is in training with power and money. Institutions are wanting to make money any way they can. It doesn't matter the price of the stock. They want to make money, whatever it is, something that moves, something momentum, something they want to get in, whatever reason they want to get in. And I've seen institutions moving stocks that are at a $3 price point. Okay? Farmers, a lot of farmers actually at those price points when they fall off the cliff. So think intellectually. This is about using your brain and recognize that institutions can help you make money. They are not against you. Okay? They are there to assist you to help you make money if you know how to read them. The thing is that many, many people don't. But if you want to make real money in the market, you've got to learn how to read it. So learn to trade a system that can read the side of institutional power and focus on the right information. The most valuable information for people to trade can be found in reading price action and gaps. Understanding chart reading of gaps and how important the patterns of price are in the market will assist you in being profitable. Reading power and money when it sets up will help give you conviction to trade, and this helps you take risks. Seeing when and where the power and money positions are getting in is like finding a goldmine. Okay? Because you want to see it and get in it before it has the momentum and moves. Seeing gaps clearly and how they are creating trends, changing trends, and making momentum is a very powerful way to trade. You can use this information to enter trades yourself so you can get paid along with the power and money moves that are happening in the market. Because once they press the button, it's go time. As soon as they press the power button, like when Facebook was bought, that's it. It's go time. Get in. Boom. Go time. Jay is asking me what are the fundamentals behind these gaps? I don't read fundamentals and gaps. You can do that. However, I'm focusing on the price. The danger, if you want to read fundamentals, is that you don't focus on the price and you focus too much on the fundamentals, and if they don't jive, then you'll make an incorrect decision. At the end of the day, you've got to read what's going on real time at the price of a chart of a stock based on the technicals, which is how I trade. If the fundamentals assist you in getting conviction, read them, do them, trade with it. But if you make a decision based on fundamentals and it goes against what the price is, you may air and lose money in your trades. So I tell people, focus on the price. If it helps you, do the fundamentals too. I don't, and I don't actually need them to trade. You don't really need them to trade. Trading with power and money is the easiest money for you to make in the market, because profits add up quickly, specifically when you're in stuff that moves. This is how it feels like some days I get in stuff and it's like, they just go so quickly. It's like making money, like growing on trees. And it's really just because you're getting in with the momentum. You're getting in with the power of money and they move stuff. They move it quickly and you can book money fast. So let's talk about this ARL. This was one of these things that even I, even though I raided the gap in the morning and I took this trade and I played this thing. When I went back and saw the money I made it on the day and took this trade and looked at it and talked about it. I really, even myself just, you know, it was such a great example of the power of institutional money almost that I just, I had to do a talk on it. So we're going to talk about this today. ARL gapped down a couple of weeks ago in August. Okay. This was in August 23rd. ARL was 16 days down when a gap like here, 16 days down in Canada. Now there are many, many different people that trade gaps out there. People think the gaps fill themselves. That is incorrect. It does not work. It's wrong. It's a wrong way to trade gaps. People also do something called novice gaps. I don't do those. They go against the trend. And that's exactly what many, many people were trying to do. There were day traders, day traders, not professionals in this gap. I raided the gap. The gap raided according to my rating system to trade to short. I aggressively shorted this. I'm going to show you the trade. It was a thing of beauty. It raided per my system so I did it. And it was 16 days down. Okay. So you think that something's too far? The answer is no. You think it's too far up, too far down, too extended up, too extended down. The answer is no. Trends continue themselves until they don't. That is the fact. Whoever said that the trend is your friend was not wrong. You do know how to have to read trends and how to do that in gaps. But the fact is that this stock was in a downtrend. And the gap down here continued the trend. And it broke. So what happened here was a dump, an absolute dump. The last of the Mohicans, anybody that was long the stock dumped it on the day and traders, traders kept trying to buy it. I know because I talked to people and they were losing their shirts. And I was in it short in the beginning of the day. And I'm going to show you the trade. So it was actually not only a dump of people that were still long the stock that should never have still been long it. It was actually people that took new positions in the short. In fact, this is what John was talking about. This is shorting is going on in here. Shorting is going on in here. So people are asking some questions here. Let me just answer these before I move forward. Fundamentals work in a different timeframe. Ames is saying, yeah, again, I'm not anti-fundamentals.  That's the point I'm trying to make. Randy is saying, do you focus more on gaps? I focus only on gaps. Gaps is the only strategy that I train. It's the one thing that tells me how to read the institutional money. It's the one thing that has momentum behind it. And I have 100% conviction in trading them and nothing else actually. So anyways, here, let's look at this. The night before at August 22nd, it closed here, 10.98. Now it gaps down here. This is the next day. It opens at 9.37. So right here, it's almost a $2 gap and it's 16 days down. Talk about conviction. And I shorted this thing too. The current price as of yesterday, I didn't clip it from today, was like $7.84.  This is continuing and actually this is new. New people in this. You can tell. You can tell when you are in something. When you are in something long, when you are in something short, you can tell when you fill power because you get in the position and you don't even have to do anything and you're out money if you're in in the right direction. That's the way this thing really played out. It just fell off a cliff. So this is how you tell where the power is. So I want to just go over this here because if you don't understand how to read power, here's where people were trying to think that this was going to go higher and buy it. Why? The stock opened here when green had this one green bar here and went up 20 cents. Now if you went aggressively buy this, you would buy this here, but the stock went to the lower of the debt. But that's not how I looked at it. I'm going to show you the trade on a one minute chart, Ames, because that's how I took the trade. I'm going to show you on a one minute. Jay is asking good questions about high frequency trading robots and basically machines. You know what? I did have something in here about this today, but I had so many other charts that I took it out of the slide presentation. If we have time, we can go over to the trading room when we're done here tonight and I can show you live some things about machines because I did have some things about that and I think that's what you're referring to. We can talk about the end if we have time. So anyways, here people were trying to buy this and it wasn't a buy, but I just want to show you here. The stock, this is basically did a pop. It went boop and that's it. So a couple people that had shorted this in here pre-market, they made this little topping tail here. This is what this is. That topping tail is this green bar here and the red one coming back down on top of it. It's a few people that did a pre-market short that covered. And guess what happened to everybody else? More selling, more dumping, more shorting came into the stock and then I was in the trade. So this thing was so weak. So, so, so, so, so, so weak. It got down $2, it ran down 16 days and barely a pop is all it had to give. So this is momentum. Do you see this is institutional selling. It's institutional selling and it's also shorting too. It's everything.  But Papa's asking me some questions and some other people too. Let me go through this ARO trade and then we'll talk about some of your questions here in a little bit. Just hang with me here. I want to show you how this stock here, this is a one minute chart of ARO closed. I squished it together here so you could see the stock never got a rally the whole day. What does that mean? That means that people shorted this and didn't barely cover any of their trades to the downside. It means it got continuous selling all day. It means if you try to buy this as a novice gap or gap fill and you tried to buy it anywhere in here, anywhere in here, any support area in here, anywhere you tried to buy it, you got stopped out and that's what also continued it down. This bled, it absolutely bled into the close. It actually closed under the whole number. It closed under nine bucks. That's how weak it was. Rallyed a teeny weeny bit the next day over nine and fell off a cliff here where it's at here now. Do you see it? Look at the moving averages. Everything's pointing to talk about things going down fast. Here it is. There it is. Here was the play. Here was the play in ARO. This is a one minute chart and someone had asked about the five minute. I really traded a one minute chart in the morning. You get better entries. You get better risk to reward and the setups are clearer for me. Honestly, it's aggressive, but these gaps do tend to set up right a ways in the beginning of the day between the first five to 15 minutes of the day. If I'm not in something by 10 o'clock, then I'm probably not in something because there's no directional momentum that's going to happen on the day. I just do something else. The entry time is 936. The price was 933. The stop was over 942. It was a nine cent risk. Again, you can risk whatever amount of money you're comfortable with. I'm going to show some beginner examples. If you took 5,000 shares, which you very well could have done, stocked plenty of volume in it. $450 was a risk. The exit wasn't even at the low of the day, but the proper exit was down into the drop there at $875. The total profit you could have made was $2,900. The risk to reward is 6.4 times the amount was made in profit. This is to the downside. Again, quality, quality trades provide good risk to reward. How do you get that? You're getting the momentum moves that are happening by the institutional selling and shorting that's going on in the stock. Here's the beginning of the day. This is 930, 931, 932. A couple of people covered. That's it. Shows that it's not going any higher. Rallies 20 cents. 933, 934, 935, 936. Boom, you're in. Stop over here. It breaks and it just falls. It falls and drops off a cliff. You're looking to get out somewhere into the room next to reversal time. Somewhere between 10 o'clock and 1030. I don't trade the afternoon. I'm usually flattened out of everything by no later than 11 o'clock. But the stock actually continued more in the day and I think the low was like 859. Beautiful trade. Again, the risk to reward is over 6 times the amount that you risk. If you're a beginner trader and you don't want to risk $450 that you're new to this, if you only risk $45, $45, you just took 500 shares. You say to yourself, wait a minute, this thing, I'm so new to this. Let me just figure this out and make sure this is really going to have the momentum in here. It's really going to be assured. It looks like assured to me, but let me just make sure. I'm not going to risk that much, you say to yourself. $45, if you'd risk that, you would have made $290. $290, just risking $45 and you put him in a stop and if the trade fails, then you take the loss. You lose 45 bucks. Either way, whatever you risk, it doesn't matter. It's the idea that the risk to reward pays your 6.4. How do you get quality trains like this? The setups, the stops, the clarity in the entry, the risk to reward, the momentum, all of this, it's because of institutional money, whichever direction you want to take it, whether it's bullish gaps or bearish gaps, it doesn't matter. But when you read the side of the power of money, right, these are the kinds of quality trades you're going to get. And to be honest with you, ARO really was a swing trade and is actually a core trade. And I had clipped this last week on August 30th. The swing trade I had in here to get to this target, which it hadn't yet, the swing trade target was $8. Yesterday, it broke it. It got to it in basically a week. It got to the swing trade target in a week, like an absolute perfect, perfect thing. Count the number of days down. This is 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23 days down and that includes a $2 gap. So if you had taken your position and taken it as a swing trade with 100% conviction because you rated the gap, you understand gaps, you understand power and money, you understand that this is a new opportunity here, opportunity to make money. You take the position, the stock breaks, people are trying to buy it as an obvious gap, but you're with the institutions, you get the move. It goes to the swing trade target within five cents. And it actually broke, like I said yesterday. You could have made 14 times the amount in basically a week from the day of the gap, week and a half. So if you had risked $450, you could have made over $6,000. Risked her worth is 14 times. Again, you can't do this unless you know what to do. You have to understand gaps. You have to understand power and money, but you got paid so easily here. All you did was take the trade and held it through. And look, it broke and broke and broke and broke and broke. Okay? Trading with the trend. Trading with the trend and trading with the side of the power. And here's the core trade. Core trade target is $6. Now, I don't know when it's going to get here. A core trade is something that you're in for a longer term. It's not like a swing trade. Swing trades you're in for a week to two weeks. You're looking for a certain target, which this did it. But a core trade, you could be in for a month or longer. I don't even think it's going to take that, though, to get this to the $6 area. But do you see how if you don't understand how to read trends or gaps when this gap happened, here it was, you're squished together. You might have thought this was a buy. You might have thought this was a buy to support down in here in this double bottom, but the fact is it wasn't. How do I know? Because I understand gaps and I have a system where I rate gaps and I'm rating the gaps based on the price. It's all based on technical analysis. It's all based on price action reading. The price of the gap and how I'm reading it in the chart is telling me that this is a short, not a buy here in the double bottom, not a buy at support, and that the stock is going to keep breaking. The core trade on this is close. I mean, it's a dollar, something away now after the last two days. And if it gets there, you will make 37 times the amount risk to profit when it hits that core target. You can make over 16 grand, and it's not that even that far away. This isn't even one of those dreamy, dreamy, dreamy targets you'd even have to wait a million years for. I mean, this is a very realistic core target on this arrow at $6. Of course, there's other targets if you want to be in this for longer, but you have to be realistic about some of these things too. And we're in a bullish market, you know? And look at this. We're in a bullish market and look at this thing. It's falling and falling and falling. So it's really power money that's making it. Power money sets the trend and continues it for larger moves, and that's the beautiful thing about it. You're going to ask yourself, do you want to be different or do you want to be like everybody else? Do you want to have an edge or do you want to be like everybody else? This peacock is different. He looks amazing. He looks beautiful. He's not a normal bird. He doesn't look like everybody else. And by golly, he stands out, but he's got an edge. He's noticed wherever he goes, people look at him, people talk to him. He gets a lot of attention. If you want to be a good trader and make a lot of money, then you've got to trade with an edge, and that means you're going to have to be different.  And neither are the machines. And I do want to talk about Jay's point about the machines, too. The answer is yes. You want to have an edge. You want to be different. You don't want to be like anyone else. You want to read stuff and be with the institutions. Learn how to read the footprints of power because trading with that is going to help you make money and make money easily. And as far as I'm concerned, this is the only real way to trade, to be consistently profitable in the market. There are so many things out there. So you could spend years looking at stuff, reading books and taking classes and doing all kinds of things. At the end of the day, you have got to get paid. And how are you going to do that? Momentum that comes as easy as you can possibly make it that makes sense. And this happens by being with the institutional money. And luckily, what shows that is what happens in gaps. So remember, gain a vantage point that shows you opportunity, which happens in gaps because of the price. So learn how to earn money. It's one thing. It's great to have money. It's great if you have money. If you have money to trade, great. But if you don't know how to earn money, then the money that you have is going to go away quickly. The earning, the earning power, the knowing how to earn it, that's what really counts. Earning power is what counts, knowing what to do, knowing how to earn it. If you know how to do what you have to do to make the money in the market, you can get up and duplicate it every single day. If you don't know how to do it, the money that you have is a fixed amount. It will be gone quickly. You need to learn what to do to earn it. Earning power is more important than having. This is really important. If you want to trade for living, you can do it from the comfort of your own home. I need a computer. It's one of these really nice careers where you can do it in the morning like I do. Trade for an hour or two and you're done. And you can do it from home. So I teach a class teaching people how to rate gaps and find gaps that are gaps to play like I just showed you today. It's called the Golden Gap Course. The Golden Gap Course teaches a 26-point rating system to find the best stock to trade each day, the one that has the institutional power behind it. The course also teaches you how to enter and exit the stock on the day like I showed you in the examples because that's important too. That's how you're getting the risk to reward. The course teaches price analysis and technical analysis on an advanced level. And again, everything I do is based on technical analysis and everything is based on price action reading. That's what's telling me what's happening. Because at the end of the day, how do you tell when something like Facebook is going to be a buy, you read the price. Just like you knew when the IPO opened and it gap down the next day after the IPO and fell off a cliff that nobody wanted it. So rate fundamentals if you want to, but don't ignore the price. And the price is what's going to take you hard to trade. And this is how I do it. And you don't really need to read anything with fundamentals if you know how to read price extremely well and on an advanced level. So I do look at a lot of things in the morning, but after you learn how to do it, you can figure it out quickly. It doesn't take a lot of time. You rate the gap in the morning, you look at the price the stock is gapping at and I go through a 26-point checklist. Again, this is a system. I'm a specialist in what I do. This is how to make money consistently in the market. You look for one strategy and you become a specialist in it and you become a specialist in reading institutional money to be with those people. The class is called the Golden Gap Course. It teaches one solid strategy to trade gaps effectively by reading the side of power in charts. It teaches how to read support and resistance to take positions in the right direction because if you're not in the right direction, you're not going to be able to get paid. You've got to get paid in the right direction. Big Papa Money has asked me a question here quick. He trains the German Futures at night. I've never traded German Futures, Big Papa, so I don't know if this would work for that or not. To be honest with you, I can only say for 100% certainty what I'm doing now, which is in the US stock market, trading stocks in the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange, but you certainly could investigate it and you could email me if you would like to ask me questions about it too. The class teaches a more proficient and advanced way to read charts by focusing on technical analysis and gaps, not thinking because something's extended, it's going to come in or get filled or any of that. It's really reading what's happening in the price and the overall analysis. And the class teaches how to get conviction. Conviction in your training to take these trades, to do them, and to do them with the market as a source of wealth by trading with the side of power for consistent profit. And here's my email, Big Papa, since you're saying you have to go. You can email me later. So the class is called the Golden Gap course. It is a two-day full course on how to strategically find, pick, and play stocks that are professional, get bearish gaps. Retakes are free. Once you take the class, you can retake it as many times as you need to. And if you're interested in the information, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. It is a complete system to use to trade. What do I mean by complete? The strategy, the rating system to determine the stock pick, the entries, the exits, the targets, analysis of support and resistance, understanding what's happening in the overall trend. Let me get through this year and then I will answer a couple questions here that people are asking me. The Golden Gap course is going to be September 14th and 15th from 9 a.m to 5 p.m eastern time. The cost is $24.99. If you're interested, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. Now, Three Crows is asking me how I scan for gaps. You can scan for gaps a million ways. Three Crows, anybody that has a platform. Every single platform in existence has a top 20 up and down gap list in the platform. You're paying for the platform, you're paying for the software, use it. Use it. Everyone has it. A top 20 up and down list for both exchanges in there. That you can use because you're paying for it. You can also go to free websites like Yahoo Finance, NASDAQ.com. You can buy a scanner if you want to. There's so many things you can use. There's free things you can use without paying for anything. And you are paying for your platform if you're ready to have a live trading account. So use that because they're going to be on there. But it's actually free sites you can use. So you really don't have to pay for anything but you're going to find the gaps and you're going to have to go through and rate the gaps after you find the ones that are gapping and then you go through and rate them. Bob is saying, how do you know when institutions are buying or selling in order to manipulate the price to their advantage? All right, let's talk about, give me one minute, Bob, because I'm going to talk about that with the machine question the J had answered. I think of that all my discussion and that's going to tie in together. So let me just finish this up this here and then anybody has any other questions before we talk about the machine and the institutions. So learn how to train to improve the quality of your life. I also teach a class on trends. This class is going to be October 1st and 2nd. The cost of this class is $9.99. It's a course on how to read trends and stock charts. These are two separate classes, one on how to train gaps and one on how to read trends and I'm offering a special, both classes for one price. And it's half off the trends class. It's a savings of $499. The cost is $29.99 for both classes. So the gap class is $24.99 and both these classes together are savings of almost $500 if you want to do them in September and October. So educate yourself to become successful in the market with gaps. Thank you so much and let me just bring up here my live charts. We do have some time here. I'm going to take this PowerPointer off. Just give me one minute everybody and then I'm going to bring up my live charts and then I'm going to answer these questions here that Bob and Jay have. And anybody else that has any other questions while I'm bringing this up, go ahead and ask me. Let's wait one second here.


I have a nail appointment today and I thought it was at 12 That's the time that I wrote down in my planner, but apparently it was supposed to be at 11 My nail girl just called me and was like, um, you're supposed to have an appointment? Where are you? Luckily she has time later today, so I'm just gonna go later this afternoon But I feel so bad especially like working in the beauty industry like I know how annoying that is I'll just leave a bigger tip than usual to make up for it But anyway, hi. If you guys saw my last vlog I had shared that I was kind of like going through a rough time and was in a little bit of a funk and you know, like trying to pull myself out of it and I'm officially back Sadness is done. We are... We're over it. It's behind us now And I just want to say thank you to everyone that was leaving really sweet supportive comments It really means a lot to me. I know I was like very vague about like what I was Going through and some people were like, oh, it might be hormonal or oh, it seems like you're always like Going through these phases like maybe you should get on medication or you should try this or you should do that I have been going through like a pretty rough time in general because like I said in that video like I've just Gone through a lot of change in my life in general over the last few months And really just like over the last year Honestly every time that I get in one of those funks or I'm feeling really sad or really low It's for a reason.  I just choose to not get into the nitty-gritty and share that online because it's just Personal and private obviously like I choose to share my life on the internet and that has like become my job now But it's tough when you're going through something that you want to keep private So I don't know it's like do I just disappear from the internet completely and then not even share that? I'm going through a rough time and act like everything is all fine and only share like the highlights and the good times or Do I open up a little bit, but then if I don't share everything then there's gonna be like you know Like speculation or people are gonna like offer input and suggestions that aren't like necessarily relevant or Accurate, you know, so it's a little bit of like a fine line to walk on all I'll say is like it's Relationship related things and family related things But anyway, we're gonna put all that aside because like I said, I really truly feel like I am coming out the other side of it Now and I am feeling a lot better. So yeah this past weekend I de-pleased my apartment for the last few weeks I just had a lot of things that I just like kept putting off I just didn't have the energy or motivation to do what I needed to do and I finally this weekend just felt like I snapped out of it and I Just had all this energy and the urge to clean. I am planning on Changing my hair and I've been thinking about this for a couple of months now I'm definitely at a point where I could use a refresh So I was like do I want to touch it up to keep it light or Do I want to just go dark? I do like this color a lot I really do but I feel like especially because I Am so tan all the time now living at the beach Like I just like it just kind of blends in with my skin tone a little bit I just think the dark hair would just pop a lot more. It'll also be a lot more low maintenance and Easier to deal with and then I don't worry about it like getting Brassy thing today is gonna be the day.  I live in the south. 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So Gotta do that when I get back at some point, but just got this t-shirt recently from H&M Fanny pack H&M men's section. I'll link it down below bike shorts from airy and then Amazon pillow slides We're just gonna run out run some errands first up is gonna be Cosmo Proth then we're gonna go get groceries I already have a grocery list on my phone ready to go So that way I won't be like aimlessly wandering the store and end up buying stuff that I don't need. Let's go Okay, I'm home got the goodies at Cosmo Proth I decided I'm gonna hold off on the groceries shopping till after my nail appointment So that way I just have more time and I don't have to rush when I'm doing my hair Especially because I do want to record a tutorial. I already have developer and all that So I just needed the actual color itself So I got two colors one is gonna be my filler and then the other one is the actual dark color So it's gonna be a two-step possibly three-step process. I might end up doing a gloss on top at the end So I'm just gonna grab everything that I Wait a second No, no, no, no, no, no, no Minutes right. Well, I definitely should have checked everything before I started are you kidding me? I definitely thought I had developer And I do I have 20 and 30 volume and tons of it and I have processing solution for like my gloss and all that But I don't have any 10 volume Developer which is what I need for this. Oh my god And I literally checked My stash last night and I was looking at like what color I had Didn't even like think about the developer because I just assumed like I always have so much developer I don't know when I ran out of 10 volume, but okay. Well, that's a fail. I could drive back to the store I'm trying to come back, but by the time I get back. I don't know. It's gonna be kind of pushing it I feel like and I really don't want to be Rushing so I guess we're gonna do my hair later tonight after My nail appointment and I'm just gonna have to be super super super super super careful and keep gloves on the entire time So that I don't stain my fresh nails because I was planning on doing the nude color. That was a fail I'll see you in a few hours I'm back Here's how my nails came out. I just wanted to do a Nice simple clean nude. I've been doing like the bright neon colors for a while now And I just wanted to go back to basics and keep it simple. I think this one was called like Havana cream Or something I feel so good to be home and knowing that I'm just like done for the day And I do not have to leave my apartment the rest of the day. It feels amazing.  I thrive but even for me It's brutal out there And it's like rush hour right now. So like there's traffic and so many people are out and it's just like I Just couldn't wait to get home. So Glad to be back. But yeah, I Have pretty much no groceries in my house. So I just needed to do like a Good restock on some healthy things and in the past I would just kind of like make a list of things that just like sounded good to have on hand and then Things would end up going to waste especially like living alone It can be kind of tricky sometimes like things will just be sitting in the fridge And I'm either like not in the mood to eat it or I forget about it And then next thing I know it's gone bad So now what I've been doing is trying to like not fully meal prep But just kind of plan out like what type sorry Benny's drinking What kind of meals?  So I got some Bread to have toast in the morning. I'm not really like a big bread person anymore these days But I don't know just like some toast with eggs sounded good And then I got a couple of bananas which are not quite ripe yet. So I'm gonna leave those out Just got these for my smoothies Got some strawberries, which I also Got plain Greek yogurt So I like to chop up the strawberries and have it with the yogurt Then I got some kombucha, which I'm gonna have some of this soon I used to be obsessed with kombucha and I would drink one of these a day Most days, but I haven't had it in a while and I saw it. I was like, you know Pretty good. Then I got some frozen mangoes for smoothies. I Also got coconut milk for my smoothies and spinach for my smoothies I've kind of been feeling doing like an egg scramble kind of thing for breakfast So I got some mushrooms a red pepper onion Little potatoes turkey breakfast sausage and Eggs and then ground turkey. I'm gonna make some ground turkey meatballs for dinner And then I got a couple couscous mixes Just to keep it easy and simple. I like to keep stuff like this in the cabinet If I want a side dish with dinner and like I don't really know what to make or I don't feel like making anything crazy That's just so fast and easy. And then finally I Have all the stuff to do my hair with now. So I Got my 10 volume developer. I also picked up a Reckon JZQ Gloss in the shade 4N because like I said after I do the dark color I think I might want to throw the gloss on top just to really like seal everything in add shine make sure it's like all nice And even have my Drawer of hair goodies. So I'm gonna pull out everything that I need. I'm gonna need a cape Gloves Definitely Color bowl bottle processing solution for the gloss applicator brush comb tell me blend everything to make sure it's all saturated I need my whisk to mix everything up Little measuring cup All right, say goodbye To the light hair I am so excited to do this I've been wanting to do this for a few months now But it's always a little bit sad when I change my hair color, especially when I go darker because I know it's such a commitment and Going back lights again when and if I decide to do that at some point is gonna be a Process but like I said, I've been thinking about this for a while. I'm ready to commit I'm excited so Here's the before I'm obsessed I have not seen of my hair this dark and this length in So long the last time my hair was dark like this It was super super short and damaged and I had like all these like ugly choppy layers in it from breakage And my hair itself just didn't look cute So I felt like the color was just like blah, but seeing it now like long and healthy Let's go to the bathroom so I can Show you a little bit better and at a distance Uh I I'm in love. It's exactly What I wanted and I was going for like a Courtney Kardashian Dark brown almost black just like a nice neutral and it is her Ficked I just feel Like my old self. This is how my hair was like all throughout high school and like my early 20s like my college days I'm like right after college and with the nude nails like I just really It's the old me old Sam is back I can't wait to do my makeup tomorrow and get some pictures. I'm gonna get ready to go to bed now It's already like 10 p.m. So super tired tomorrow I actually am going for an interview at a salon. So we'll talk more about that Tomorrow good night. Good morning. I Am obsessed with my hair. I Love it so much. And now let's see myself with makeup on and it's styled and everything. I am just Obsessed I just did my usual loose curls with My one and a quarter inch curling iron. I have a tutorial on this style. I'll link it down below if you Want to check it out? Let me show you a natural lighting There we go. That's better If you've been itching to change up your look, this is your sign You should do it think about it. Give it a little bit of time. Give it maybe a few weeks And then if you're still are thinking about doing it just go for it Okay, I am all dressed and ready to go. Let me show you my outfit and Yeah, this mess I tried on so many different outfits because I was kind of freaking out and didn't know what I wanted to wear But this is what I settled on just a bodysuit with some jean shorts and a blazer and mules wanted to keep it like professional and cute but like Not too dressed up I really honestly was just like looking at the salon's Instagram page And I was just kind of going based off of like the aesthetic of the salon and how I saw the stylists were dressed in The Instagram pictures. It doesn't seem like they have a specific dress code. Everyone just dresses like Nice like they all just have really cute style. I feel good I feel cute and confident and I'm very Excited I took a break from doing hair for the last few months when I moved down to North Carolina And I started kind of like getting the itch to go work in a salon again But I'm like, I don't know like so on the fence about whether or not I want to start taking clients because Sometimes I do really miss doing hair like I truly love it. I really feel like it's my calling in life, but it's exhausting and sometimes I'm like, I don't even know if this is really worth it, you know what I mean like When you have good clients and you have good days, it's great, but when you have those bad days it really is like This shit is not worth it because it just takes a toll on you physically mentally Emotionally and I just feel like hair stylists don't get the appreciation that they deserve a lot of the times people think that it's like a much easier job than it really is so Yeah, I just don't know if I'm ready for that yet and plus like having to start from scratch and rebuild a clientele It's kind of a commitment, you know, like it takes a lot of effort and work and I don't want to build a clientele and start to really make a name for myself in this town if then in a year I decide that I'm gonna move somewhere else, you know, so I don't know I'm just still on the fence but the salon that I went to get my hair done at a few months ago Posted on Instagram that they were looking to hire a part-time front desk girl And I was like, oh my god That is perfect because I was feeling like I just needed a part-time gig something to like get me out of the house and kind of like Forced me to have a routine again and like give me some kind of purpose Because doing YouTube full-time has been really great, but honestly like I don't know It's just it's very easy to get stuck in a rut And I'm the kind of person that like I need to be forced to like get out of the house I need to be around people So not only will it get me back in the salon environment so that way I can get a feel for like Okay, do I actually miss this? Do I actually want to start taking clients of my own? But then I can see like what's the clientele at this specific salon like and what are the stylists like And what's their relationship like is their drama does everybody get along is it chill like how's the owner is she laid back before like actually Getting a stylist position and then being committed to that so I thought this would be like a really good way to like kind of dip my toes back in and just feel it out and At the last salon that I worked at we didn't have a receptionist we did a Little bit here and there there were a couple people that worked at the front desk like part-time for a little while but for the most part we didn't have a receptionist and I just answered the phone myself a lot of the times and booked my own appointments myself So I do have that experience and I'm comfortable like working the front desk. So I just feel like It's kind of perfect and the fact that I saw that Instagram post Right around this time when I was like kind of thinking about looking for a salon job like it just all really It feels like the universe Kind of like landed this in my lap, you know, we'll see obviously there's no guarantee that I'm a gonna even get the position Or be that I am gonna want to take it. I have to see Like how many hours is she looking for me to be there how many days what days etc How much is she paying? I do want to obviously make sure that it's like gonna be actually worth my while But I think that it could be really good for me I will check in with you after the interview to let you know how it went But yeah, wish me luck. It's a few hours later. I My necklaces are all tangled Should probably take these off actually The interview went really really well. I feel like we click really well She really liked me and I feel like what she was describing that she's looking for is literally me so I think it's gonna be really good and there's gonna be opportunity for me to grow and she said in a few months we can kind of like Re-evaluate and see where I'm at and what I'm thinking and if I decided that I do want to start taking clients there will be room for me to do that or If I want to stick with like more of the administrative kind of stuff She would love for me to eventually take over as like the salon manager Which is pretty exciting. I can't predict the future. Only time will tell how I feel once I'm there, but I Really like doing the administrative stuff like even the salon that I worked at before We didn't have a manager or front desk person It was a really small salon and for most of the time. I was there was literally just me and my boss So I really had to just like manage myself and I had a key to the salon a lot of the times I would be there with clients by myself so I really liked doing all of that stuff and I don't know like I I just kind of like maybe this is More the route that I want to go and then if I still Want to take clients every so often like maybe She would let me Take a few people like one or two times a month or something like that If I feel like that desire to actually like do hair but I'm very excited and Everyone there just seems like really cool and I'm excited for the opportunity to just make new friends and The other people that I will be able to meet now through this opportunity and you know, maybe I'll meet my future husband You never know. Anyway, I'm gonna take my makeup off and get ready for bed. I never use makeup wipes Honestly, I just keep them for The nights when I'm feeling super lazy, which tonight is that night normally I'll like melt my makeup off with coconut oil. I don't have an official start date yet She's gonna reach out to me later this week And we're gonna figure out some days for me to come in Over the next couple of weeks to start like training and shadowing and all that and just getting familiar With the salon and their scheduling system and whatnot and then I'm probably gonna start by like early September All right. I'm all ready for bed. I'm gonna wrap up this vlog here Thank you guys so much for watching and spending the last couple of days with me Don't forget to check the description for my link and discount code to native and I will see you very soon in my next video Bye, Penny with the say bye Bye


Our next speaker is Tom Tomas, check follow, who is going to be talking about fast data stacks, which is an OPNV project related to the integration of VPP and other FDIO projects into a stack, okay, so, do you still need to do your presentation? Okay, so hi everyone, my name is Tomas, I work on FDS, I contribute to this project, which is based on software defined working or let's say virtual network function. So, yeah, so what do we do? So, OPNV fast data stack is a platform that allows you to use very complex solution where you can just define your business logic that you have or that you want to implement in your network.  So, OPNV is a pretty complex suite, it's designed in a way that you can just install it and you don't really need to go through the all the complicated installing of multiple components that it used there and once you have it, then you can just use it out of the box, let's say. So, in this picture, there's a very brief description of how, when we decompose our program, then we are operating mostly on the network controller, network controller layer, where I'll follow up those routers and switches and we're trying to manage them and configure them by some kind of automation that we use that we implement in components above. Then there's a virtual machine layer when we actually spin up of VMs in our suits, so you just need to tell I want a VM on that node and then all the suits, all the suits should give you the node and you can use it right away and there are also services one layer above that takes care, let's say, about managing your nodes and running some services that are related to it. So, let's say a metadata service that can inject some configuration to your node and other services. Okay, so there's an open daylight, it's been discussed before, so we use that for configuring various underline network types. We currently work on VPP, we also down some work on OBS and also physical devices can be also incorporated in our suit. So, when speaking about GPP, GPP is a plugin in open daylight and it's a plugin that allows you to transform a policy into a network configuration of devices, so you take your logic, business logic use cases and GPP will transform it in a config. So, let's go on. Okay, this is another view on our suit, so there are also layers and as you can see on the bottom there are four layers, OBS, OBS, DPDK, which are also in some suits available as a use case and in our use case we add VPP, so our scenario is mostly open stack for controlling VMs and for having an abstraction layer on a very top. Then there is an open daylight where we use a GPP for receiving those requests from open stack and transforming them to underline network and also hypervisors for hosting the VMs, right, there's in the middle and then there are four layers. So, we're currently trying to involve VPP as an underline technology, so there are also other scenarios that currently are in progress. The first one which you see with Apex, open stack, open daylight L2, KV and VPP, that's already what's working in our scenario. Then there is L3 which is in progress, so we're kind of around traffic between the nodes without really touching the kernel space but just keeping the routing in the user space by using DPDK. There is also another scenario which is in progress and that opens stack directly talks to VPP. It's just that it exists, we don't really work on it now, but someone else is and here are some more details about our suite. Open stack is on a top, neutral plugin which is there, it's a key component because it allows you to define networks, subnets, ports, security groups and all this abstraction that is pretty simple to define. Then there is a REST API, so Neutron sends a REST request into GPP. There is a project Neutron or Bound that has a model, this is also a model-driven plugin. That's where the data starts. Underneath there is a GPP project which listens to this data model and reacts on changes in config data store, transforms by using render manager, VPP render, all this policy into a configuration on FDIO. FDIO is actually a collection of projects that includes DPDK, VPP and also Honeycomb. Honeycomb is like lightweight ODL that has it's capable of network network communication between ODL and Honeycomb. So as you can see we use Netconf there and because VPP doesn't have any API that could be directly used by ODL, Honeycomb actually transforms this network network request into and then uses a CAPI that is available on VPP. So it's not that we directly configure VPP with ODL, but we also use Honeycomb for that. So given the fact Honeycomb has to be on every node together with VPP. And there is also a system installer, Apex, and there are also system tests that are involved in PNV. So Apex is actually the project that or it's a program that installs all of this for you automatically and bug tests ensure that everything's working as it should. So here's a detail view on how let's say when a port is created, how it goes down to the VPP from very top of neutral in OpenStack. So let's say we create a port with some biting details. Those data are written into Neutron or Balmin ODL. Then they are mapped to GVP policy because GVP is a standalone application. You can define any policy also in there. It doesn't need OpenStack. It can work on its own. So the matter of fact is that the abstraction that comes from OpenStack has to be transformed into one that is in GPP plug-in in Open Daylight. And then we have distributed rendering of configuration on different nodes, different type of nodes. So if there is a VPP node, then the renderer manager will create a configuration for VPP renderer and VPP renderer by using topology manager or directly sending requests to Honeycomb can configure interfaces and bridge domains on VPP. The topology manager component is not a part of GPP. It's a standalone plug-in and it helps you create a full mesh topology based on where do you create the bridge domain. So if you have a bridge domain with the same ID on different nodes, then the VPP project will create and configure VXLanternals between them in a full mesh. So it kind of helps you. And VPP renderer, it configures interfaces on a VPP itself. So this is how it's currently done. Okay, here's a workflow, let's say, of how OpenStack nodes that some of the nodes or one of the nodes is VPP. OpenStack doesn't have the knowledge about where is VPP node or where is OVS node unless we tell it directly or unless ODL tells it. There are features for per-degree scanning into ODL data store and looking for a configuration for a given node. So it's a job for ODL to write data for OpenStack into its data store correctly so that OpenStack can read those data and save the proper configuration for a given node into its database. It's called agent database. It's in Neutron project. So whatever there is a configured by networking ODL, those data are parsed and they are saved in this agent database. And then later when you want to create a Nova instance or deploy VM on a given node, then you, before Nova actually creates it, it looks into this database, looks for the configuration for a given node. If it finds that configuration it uses that config and and then we'll create a VHOS user interface right there on the corner. So Nova will create a VHOS user interface in a server mode and on the other way, ODL will receive a notification that port should be created. The networking ODL is going to tell it and then GPP will configure an interface on a VHOS user interface but in a client mode. So when the VPP detects the socket file on a VM and opens it, then the VM is successfully bound to the VPP. Okay. So here we have an L2 scenario that we currently support. So as you can see, there are bridge domains on every node. We have a same bridge domain ID on these three nodes. So VPD projects configures the excellent tunnels between them for us. And because it's L2 scenario, which means that ODL doesn't route packets, it only switches them or formats them through the tunnels. Then we use Qouter, which is an open stack component for routing the traffic. So all we need to do here is to have a center, some kind of centralized node where we create the tab interfaces and they will connect to the Qouter or let's say Qouter will text them into its namespace and whenever there is traffic going from bridge domain to a different bridge domain, it has to go through the Qouter. The next scenario is L3 scenario where we do the routing by using GPP, Open Delight. So there's no need for having a Qouter anymore. All we do is to configure routing on a VPP. So what does it mean? It means that you need to specify a VRF where you would like to forward the packets or route the packets and into every bridge domain you need to assign a BVI interface. So it's like an interconnection between a bridge domain and VRF. That's what BVI interface does. It's a L2 type of interface. And the third scenario I was talking about that lacks GPP or ODL entirely. It's shown here. So there has to be an agent on every node which is actually managed by OpenStack and OpenStack directly talks to VPP and configures it with CAPI. Okay, and now here's a simple cookbook for how to create a VM. So what you need to do is to get an image as shown there and then by turning on huge pages and using the correct flavor, you can then create a VM out of that. There are also commands for creating a network, router, bridge subnets and ports. And then Novaboot will spin up the VM and VPP will ensure that or GPP will ensure that it's going to be connected to the VPP. Okay, so here are some outputs of such a demo but let me show you a brief video that we pre-recorded. Okay, let me stop it for a while. So this is a pretty complicated scenario that we're currently trying to work with. As you can see, there's the excellent tunnel, the green highlighted with the green car and for which we would like to do some performance testing. So we are currently about to test some performance. But in this video, we're just doing switching between the green bridge domains on one between those two nodes. So it should be running. Okay, so here you can see interfaces on the VPP. That's a command line output. So for reexampt tunnels, we need the IP address so that they can reach each other. Okay, then we install or we start graph. And there's a graph command for seeing whether there was a connection between the nodes, the remote nodes, and the controller. Okay, so this is probably another node, IP address of another interface. So these two are going to be used as a vague slant tunnels. Okay, and now we're starting to create some abstraction with OpenStack. There's a service listing. So services that NOVA uses and services that Neutron uses. As you can see, we have an L2 agent enabled, but we would use it if we would try to ping to the external networks, because there has to be some routing done. So we put a BVI interface in a bridge domain and then into an external network. And then we could go outside. But in this video, we'll stay inside. So as you can see, there's a metadata agent which injects some configuration into VMs and also DHCP agent that runs DHCP service on a control node so that we can observe an IP address. Okay, there's a network that's been created, a subnet. So this is a network. Here we have networks, external and the one we created, and also subnets, external and the one that we created. Router comes handy, but we're not going to route here. And now we create a port, which is actually on a kind of abstraction. It's unbound yet. It's going to be bound when we create a VM. So it's going to be binding details will be filled after Nova successfully creates a Nova instance. Okay, so here is a command for creating... Yeah, now we don't see anything. Okay, so now we try to spin up a VM. There's first and VM on a second node. As you can see, availability zone defines the node on which the VM should be created. This is horizon, OpenStack interface for managing entities that were created. So we're going to log in there and look for VMs we created. So they are booted. There's a config. So there was an IP address, which means that the RCP could assign IP address through the bridge domain. And there's another one. There's also going to be a leave config and now some traffic. So now we're pinging QRouter, which means that VPP created a BVI interface in the bridge domain. Now we're pinging the RCP. It should work. And now the other VM. Okay, thank you very much for your attention. That would be everything from my site. So there's pretty much time for questions, if any are. So if not, thanks again.