you just never really know until you're in the field what you might like, what you're good at. Just like I thought criminal defense wouldn't be it for me. And then once I got in the field, it opened my eyes and I discovered even that that was the field that I was passionate about. So Sabrina, welcome to you, our lawyer. Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. Yes.  And so we've been emailing each other, keeping in contact, pandemic parenting. And she's like, I know somebody that I think will be great on your podcast. I was like, send them to me. Tell me all about it.  But would you tell the audience a little bit about yourself? Sure. Again, thanks so much for inviting me. I'm really happy to be here. I am Sabrina Thompson. I am a immigration attorney. And I love saying that word. It's a fun word. I wish I could take credit for creating it, but I did not coin the term. It's a real term. Premigration is a new and developing area of law that combines criminal defense and immigration representation. And so that's my sweet spot. That's what I do. I've been practicing as an attorney for about 15 years now. I started out at the public defender's office. That was my first legal job. It was actually my first real job too. And it was fascinating. I absolutely loved it. It was, you know, some of the best years of my life. I learned a lot. And I took what I learned there and went and hung out my shingle about 10 years ago. I started my practice so that I could incorporate immigration law into my work because it is a work that I believe that I was created to do. And that's the reason why I decided to go work for myself. And so I've been doing that for the past 10 years. And so that's cool about me. So 10 years is a good amount of time though. I mean, what is it about criminal law, which is criminal and immigration law? Yes. Okay. What is it about that those two practice areas, the two of them together, that has been so entertaining for you and made you so successful as a lawyer? So I've always had a special connection to the immigrant community. I'm a daughter of an immigrant. My mom is from Haiti. And my father is petition. That's a small island in the Caribbean called St. Kids. That's where he's from. And he's always lived there. He hasn't lived here in the US. My mother immigrated here when she was pregnant with me. And I was raised by her and her family and just a community of immigrants. And so I have a very strong connection to the immigration mission and vision and the dreams that, you know, many immigrants come here and hold on to understand all of that. So when I went to law school, it was really with the purpose of finding a way to serve the immigrant community. And when my opportunity came at the public defender's office, I decided to pursue it, but always knowing that at some point in my career, I would have to make my way to practicing immigration law. But how the two intersect, that is especially intriguing. A lot of people don't realize when they have criminal charges, even some things that are considered minor like traffic charges. If they are not a citizen of the United States, those charges could actually have them end up in immigration court. They could end up facing even as grave consequences as deportation. People don't normally think to incorporate their immigration status in their criminal defense work, but it's something that's necessary. And at the time that people usually find out, it often is, if not too late, close to too late. And, you know, things can be difficult to undo on the back end. So I started seeing a lot of that in my work as a public defender, you know, I would be representing people who were non-citizens and finding people coming back like, oh, you know, what happened in court two months ago, two years ago, it's given me a problem with ICE. I need to undo it. What can I do? And I realized like, wow, it would be better if we kind of dealt with this on the front end instead of trying to undo it, you know, on the back end. Yeah, I can tell you, I've never thought about the two of those integrating criminal law and immigration law. I had never considered that. In fact, those were my questions. Like, is there a lot of overlap? But it sounds like there is. So yeah, in recent years with the different administrations, there has been, I guess, like a target almost within the immigrant community. So immigrants who have criminal or trap serious traffic charges are considered like an enforcement priority. And so ICE looks to generate cases against those people, right? So if somebody is here and they're out of status, or they don't have status, and then they also catch a criminal case that puts them essentially on ICE's radar to deal with their immigration problem. That's terrible. Different administrations do things so differently. Like, you have no continuity of enforcement or programming, like stuff changes whenever there's a new president in a new regime. It's pretty sad. So Sabrina, you've been on multiple 40 under 40 lists, you know, super lawyers of Maryland, things like that. Is that all from your criminal and immigration practice, or is it from some of the traffic law that you practice or what? It's from my practice doing all three. Those practice areas intersect really easily. And so the work that I do kind of one on top of the other, you know, it comes together. Okay. And so when I saw that you practice in traffic law, is that literally, you know, misdemeanors from people in car accidents or driving infractions, things like that, or what? It is. Sometimes it can escalate to become a felony. For instance, I had a DUI matter that I handled not too long ago. It was an unfortunate situation where a driver had an accident and her passenger was killed. And so ultimately she was charged with a felony for, you know, what resulted there. So even though it started as a traffic case, it escalated to be a serious felony charge that we had to deal with. So yeah, even traffic charges can end up being very serious cases. Yeah, that is one of the scary and amazing things about being a lawyer. The fact that we get to see how things can escalate, how they can start out as something just so small, you get comfortable and you get familiar with the nuances of life, even driving. I would have never imagined if a passenger, you know, died that that could end up being a felony, right? And it sounds like not only are you familiar with this, but you do this every day. I do. I do. Yeah. So, okay. So what exactly is it that you love about being a lawyer? Like you have said that you love lawyering. You love lawyering.  I think specifically what I love is fighting for justice, right? So people who are facing charges sometimes have done bad things, sometimes have not. But I'm a firm believer in the idea that everybody deserves quality representation, you know, regardless of what they are accused of having done, everybody deserves to have a competent, qualified and zealous advocate, you know, when they're up against the long arm of the law. Yeah, okay. And so you just take that attitude with you every day when you go to work.  I'm showing up whatever comes to me. Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. It's my driving force.  Is there anything specific about your personality that you think has made you a great lawyer? Like, is it the administrative part? Is it the organizing?   I am, I've been told and I like to pride myself on the fact that I am a great communicator. So that serves me, you know, in my role in advocating for my clients. Okay, very cool. So part of communicating and advocating is writing. I know lawyers, we love to write or we love to read or usually it's both. And I saw that for your day-to-day tasks, you do a lot of pre and post summaries, you do a lot of discovery requests, things like that.  I don't love it. Okay. Well, I said that one up wrong. I am at my best when I'm in court, you know, and it's funny because one of my closest friends, right? One of my near and dear sister friends, she's also an attorney and she hates being in court, right? And so it's just funny, you know, because we're so close, but we're so opposite in that way. I absolutely love, love, love being in court. I'm at my best there, you know, when I'm working. The writing and the research, you know, I do it when I have to, obviously it's a part of the job, so I do it. Okay. I mean, but that's why you're in litigation because you want to be in court, you want to be talking? Yep. Yep. Yep.  Yeah, that's where I want to be. So when you were in law school, did you know you wanted to get into litigation or did you kind of have a rocky path? So it's interesting because I knew I wanted to do something to help immigrants and, you know, kind of work in the immigrant community. But when I took immigration law in law school, it was like, you know, all these rules and regs and it just felt like a bunch of theory and it didn't feel like, you know, I could do anything meaningful with it. So I kind of like abandoned that for a while and said, well, let me pursue some other things. And I was sure I wouldn't like criminal defense. So I wasn't looking to do that at all. But my internship opportunities, both summers of law school came in prosecutorial offices in New York City. And I was like debating, like, should I do this? Because, you know, I've always been like, I don't want to do criminal law and I don't want to work for the man, like all of that. But, you know, it was like, that's where the opportunity was. So I took the job. One was at the New York City District Attorney's Office and the other was federal at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City. And I mean, it was fascinating. The experience was amazing. Once in a lifetime type of work. But I realized in those jobs, that's where I really realized, like, oh my gosh, I have to defend people. Like this system is unfair. This, this is not right. What these people do, like, I've got to be a defense attorney, like I have to. And so after I did that work, I did a criminal justice clinic at Howard, my last year in law school, doing criminal defense work and absolutely fell in love. And I said, yeah, this is, this is where I got to be. Okay. I don't hear stories like that too often where you set your mind to it and you stay in that and you enjoy it. Right. A lot of people will think, oh, this could be fun in a year. You're like, okay, the internship is not the same, but you still enjoy it.  You're like, I'm having a great time every day. Yeah, I do work that is very meaningful, you know, for me. So yeah. And, and, you know, I realized along the way that I am the kind of person that has to be working in a way that I enjoy, you know, because I'm not really cut out, you know, to do work that doesn't mean something to me that doesn't feel rewarding. That's not changing lives and helping people. That is just, it doesn't work for me. So yeah, I'm happy to be able to be doing work that I love. Okay, very cool. And because you work in so many different areas of law, you know, the criminal law, immigration law and then traffic law as well. What do you do to unwind? What do you do to stop thinking about the law and just enjoy being Sabrina?  So when I'm not working, I don't get too much time to myself these days, because my kids, their little, well, two of them are little, I have a, an 18 year old and I have a five year old and one year old. Okay. So, you know, they keep me busy. So there's not much unwinding that takes place. But when I do have some time, I enjoy dancing. So I do Zumba. I make time to get on my Peloton when I can. And I also love just hanging out with my friends. I have a couple good, good girlfriends that, you know, I like to bust it up with when time allows. Okay. Yeah, kids are really good for distracting you when you didn't even know you needed a distraction. You're just like, well, where did that come from? My little one just started daycare last week, because, you know, she was born in 2020. She was with us, my husband and I were working from home the last two years. And she already has a daycare code. So she was home with me all day. And I was like, well, this really threw a wrench into my week. Like I've just gotten comfortable with having all day to run errands and do stuff. And like, I was like, Oh, I can't believe I did this for two years, two years, just the two of the three of us, honestly, in one place. I was like, it was a nice week. It was a nice break I had for a week. So yeah, I've been there. My five year old when she started daycare, she got sick on the second day. So yeah, I remember that vividly. Yeah, but I'm like, okay, fight immune system. So we don't got to do this again. So I jumped right into it and didn't even get your background. You went to the University of Maryland for undergrad, and then you went to Howard for law school. Are you from the DMV area? You know, I'm not, I like to say I'm a citizen of the world. My husband tells me at this point, I'm from here because I've been here the longest, which is true, I have been here the longest. But no, so I lived in the Caribbean when I was very young. I was born here on the West Coast in California. And then I went to live in the Caribbean for a while with my father. And then I came back here and grew up in Philly and South Jersey. And then I went to undergrad at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. And then that's in Princess Anne, Maryland, and then came for law school. And then I just decided I was going to just be here. You know, I really liked the vibe in DC. And it just felt right, you know, to stay here and put down roots here. And so yeah, I've been here ever since law school. Okay, cool. And so I made a note that you don't mention that you're a law school graduate, but as a practicing attorney, most people that come to you are coming for your legal services. Yes, for the most part. Okay, so it's not like you say, you know, I went to law school, they're hiring you because they need a lawyer. You know, that's funny though, because so on this side on the private side, yes, people kind of just know and assume that I've gone to law school. But funny enough, you know, there's this common myth or misunderstanding that public defenders are not lawyers. So when I was a public defender, people used to regularly like routinely one time I was in court and I got a really great result for a client.  And I just say, you know, I might do that one day. Yeah, that was nice and humble of you. Thank you. Great suggestion. Like when I say people really, I guess the community and the people that the public defenders serve like the clients, many of them realize that public defenders are actual lawyers. So yeah, it's funny that you mentioned that. Yeah, well, that's when I started the podcast, I thought I was only going to talk to people who either didn't pass the bar exam or never took the bar. But then I started to realize there were so many interesting and cool lawyers out there. I was like, I'll talk to everybody, it doesn't really matter. So I do make a point to ask, you know, do you tell people you were a lawyer? Like, I've talked to photographers and architects and they're like, no, it doesn't matter. But I've never heard that about public defenders. So yeah. So speaking of DC, you are licensed to practice in DC and the Supreme Court and also in the district court. Do you have a favorite court that you go to or one that you really enjoy or have great experiences at? So I am licensed to practice in the US Supreme Court, although I've never done any cases there. And then my other licenses are in the federal court in Maryland and then in the state courts in Maryland. So immigration is interesting because it is federal jurisdiction. But the court where I used to be a public defender, I guess it's probably my favorite court just because I know everyone, you know, I know the judges, I know the court staff, I know the prosecutors. So it's just, it feels kind of like home because, you know, when you go there, everybody knows your name in other places that I go, you know, when people are not as familiar with me. So I guess if I had to pick one, I would say it's that jurisdiction. Yeah. Okay. So have you had any experiences in the United States Supreme Court?  I'm not, I don't visit it regularly. I've been there, I've sat in on oral arguments before, but not routinely, you know, it's a nice place to be and it's, you know, it's very interesting, but time is tough. You're like, but I got a job and kids and...  You know, it doesn't leave much time for fun things like that. Yeah. Okay. So Sabrina, I just have one last question here and that is what would you say to someone who is either in law school and trying to find a practice area that they want or someone who went to law school because they thought it was a good idea, but they don't know what to do next? So I would say to someone who's trying to find a practice area, you know, to keep an open mind, right? Because you have to be careful of your preconceived notions and stereotypes because you just never really know until you're in the field, you know, what you might like, what you're good at, just like I thought criminal defense wouldn't be it for me. And then once I got in the field, it opened my eyes and I discovered even, you know, that that was the field that I was passionate about unknowingly. So I'd say keep an open mind. Yeah. And if I can add to that, with what you're saying about trying something new, what if they're in the practice and you don't care for that, but then you open your own practice in the same area works for you, right? Because you did it working for the state or the, you know, whoever. And then you did it at working for yourself with your own practice and it is different. So Yeah. Well, for sure. One thing about working for myself, it affords me freedom, right? Which for me is extremely important because I have small kids and I really just enjoy my freedom. So that has been a wonderful blessing for me, you know, and working for myself. Now, working for myself does come with its fair share of obstacles, challenges, hardships, all that stuff too. But I have found that the good outweighs the bad. And so, you know, it's worth it for me. But yeah, for anyone, I would say if you find that, you know, something is not working well for you, don't be afraid to try a new way of doing it. You may discover that there's a better fit for you out there. Yeah, I agree. All right, cool. Well, Sabrina, I didn't have any other questions. Did you have any questions for me? Do you practice? I don't know. I used to work in trademarks and e-commerce. But I left March 2021. And I left to just do like consulting. And I've been doing that now. People hire me for like three or four months at a time. Some of it's remote, sometimes I go into the office. But no, now I'm just sharing my knowledge and having the freedom to say, oh, I guess I'm not working on Wednesday. My kids here with me. So that and then the podcasting. Yeah. So did you decide after law school that you didn't want to practice? No, not at all. I did not like the bar exam at all. I went to law school in Louisiana. I went to Southern University and I, the Louisiana bar exam just kicked my butt. And I was like, okay, while I was waiting to get my results, I moved back to Ohio. So now I'm in Ohio and I'm like, well, do I want to take it there again?  Like he's in, he calls it DevOps, like development ops for HR company and payroll. So we were both crazy workaholics. And then something changed. I really don't know if it was parenting or the pandemic that changed. And I was like, I think I want to be able to do whatever I want. And I had never considered that before. Like I was always like, give me a check every two weeks. I cannot wait. I like the stability. And then I was like, I think I want to do my own thing. I think I've seen enough. I think I've seen so much stuff that I could just do. I can make my own rules. And I've been doing it. I do have a great safety net. He has a nine to five. I'm on his insurance. So I'm not, you know, I am still getting leads on my own and making sure that like the stuff that I'm doing is profitable. But I'm, I'm able to just kind of make up my own rules. And it's nice. So we were both crazy workaholics. And then something changed. I really don't know if it was parenting or the pandemic that changed. And I was like, I think I want to be able to do whatever I want. So yeah, so I did not practice, but that was not by choice. It was by chance. I was like, I'm not doing, I can't, I took it in Ohio once. And then I was like, I'm not paying for it again. I'm not going through the hoops. I'm not turning in 15 years of credit reports. Nope, there's got to be something else for me to do. And I, there has been. So yeah, yeah, nice. That's that. All right. So thank you, Sabrina. It's been my pleasure. Thanks. Uh-huh. Bye.


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Hey there, Chris here and welcome to day three of our IELTS Grammar mini course. So make sure that you check out day one and day two, you'll find them either on Facebook or YouTube. There's some really, really important information in there but I think this one is going to have the biggest impact on scores because we're going to show you exactly what to do to improve your grammar and specifically how to improve the accuracy of your grammar. We talked a lot in lessons one and two about the difference between range and accuracy and I told you that the most challenging thing for students is more accuracy than range. So this is all to do with how to improve the accuracy of your grammar. So what are we going to do in this lesson? We're going to look at the single biggest mistake that students make that we see every single day because people email us every day saying how can I improve my grammar and they go away and they do this big mistake and then they come back and they haven't improved. We're going to give you a little bit of a talk on strategy and how to think strategically about improving your grammar and then we're going to go into step by step how to improve your grammar. So the single biggest mistake that we see is trying to improve your grammar by reading a whole grammar book. So we get I'd say 10 to 20 emails a day from students and that goes something like this.  I'm not saying that grammar books are not useful and we will actually include using grammar books in the plan but just sitting down with a whole grammar book and trying to read it is kind of like trying to improve your vocabulary by reading a whole dictionary. For one it's very very boring you're not going to get through a whole grammar book in one go you're going to lose focus because it is incredibly boring and also I'm going to show you in a second you need to be more strategic than just getting a whole grammar book and reading the whole thing and because it's a big waste of time if you actually do that. So let's look at an analogy. All right so imagine you go to the doctors and you say I feel unwell. All right so the doctor wouldn't say to you oh well you feel unwell just you know go at the back and we'll shoot you in the head and that will be the end of it. No what they would do is they would try and figure out the part of your body or the system or exactly what is wrong with you. So imagine you have a problem with your liver. All right. Imagine you drink too much alcohol. They're not going to try and work on your teeth. They're not going to try and work on your eyes. They're not going to try and work on your skin or your heart. They're principally going to focus on the liver because that is the actual problem. So what a lot of people do is they think that improving their grammar the best way to do that is to read the whole grammar book. You need to be a lot more strategic about that in the same way that a doctor would be strategic and find out exactly what is wrong with you. So let's say I go into the doctors and I say I'm feeling really unwell. The first thing they would do is identify what the actual problem is. So the actual problem is my liver and then they would tell me what to do. So they would say quit drinking.   But then once they've identified that and they've told me what to do, it's up to me to then go and do these things. So I have to quit drinking. I have to lose fat by exercising and eating more healthy. And if I don't do these things, this is not going to fix anything. It's going to I'm going to remain sick. So if you just read a whole grammar book, but you don't actually do anything with that grammar book, you don't actually do any practice or actually try and fix anything or learn the actual rules or just sitting reading a grammar book and not really thinking about it. It's exactly the same as going to the doctor and them telling you what to do and you're not doing it. And we'll come back to this metaphor at the end. So step one, just as going to the doctor and finding out what is actually wrong with you, the first stage, the first step in the improvement plan is identify your main weaknesses. So there's no point in trying to improve every area of grammar. And this is not students fault for because a lot of this comes from textbooks and courses.  If you go to a course in your local area, they'll and it's a grammar course or a general English course, they won't often tell you exactly what you need to work on and just focus on that. They'll teach you everything to do with grammar and a lot of the time that's a waste of your time, especially in the context of IELTS because you there are certain areas of grammar and I don't know what those are for you, but it's probably one of these could be verb subject agreement, tenses, articles, conditionals, prepositions, countable and countable lines, punctuation. You need to figure out which of these areas it could be other areas, but most of the time it's one of these or two of these or three of these. Which of these areas is the main problem? And then you're going to attack that problem just in the same way as if you went to the doctor, you're not going to try and improve everything unless you're incredibly sick. You're going to improve one or two areas that are actually causing the problem. So the first stage to improve your IELTS grammar scores is to identify the exact areas of weakness. What do you have a problem with? You could be aware of this yourself or you can get like a friend who's very good at English or a native English speaker or a teacher just to look at your writing or to, you know, look at your or listen to you speaking and they should be able to identify pretty quickly what the problems are with the students that I work with. Just listening to them for, you know, one or two minutes or looking at one essay, you can identify what their main issues are. So let's have a look at this set. There are these two sentences to show you to demonstrate why this is a problem. So I just literally took a book off my shelf, a random book, and this was the first the first two sentences from this book. So some revolutions begin with a gunshot, others with a party. This one kicked off on a Friday night in downtown Athens in 415 BCE. So imagine that I'm writing this sentence, but I have a big problem with articles. So here's an article. Here's an article. Here's an article. This one kicked off on a Friday night. OK, so most sentences have articles in them. Imagine I have a problem with articles and I don't know how to use them. Most of my sentences are going to have mistakes in them. All right. So that's a major problem. Imagine that I have a problem with prepositions. Again, multiple prepositions in just two random sentences. If you had a problem with prepositions, most of your sentences would have problems. And there's so many other areas of grammar. That's just two out of these. Imagine you have a problem with punctuation. So here we are. So those are just three areas. Imagine you really struggle with those three areas, articles, prepositions and punctuation. You would have multiple, multiple mistakes in multiple sentences. You are not going to be getting a seven or above in your writing or your speaking if that was the case. So what would we do? We would attack those areas. So let's say, for example, you need to work on this. You need to work on this and you need to work on this. But you're pretty good at this. You're pretty good at this. You're pretty good at this. That's no problem. And that's no problem. So what we've done is instead of focusing on everything, we're just targeting our weak areas in exactly the same way that a doctor would treat a patient, they would attack the weak areas or treat the weak areas. And that is what you're going to do. That is the first step. Step two, learn the rules of that grammar. Grammar is simply the rules or the law of a language. All right. That's all it is. So it's not very interesting. It's not very sexy. It's not very, you know, fun, but that's what it is. It is the law of the language. It is the rules of the language. But luckily, rules can be learned. All right. The law of something can be learned. It is pretty easy to do it. You just have to put the work in and do it. I'm a former lawyer. I can tell you that it is not that complicated. You just have to sit down and learn the rules of something. And there is a huge amount of online resources. Waiting for you. British Council has some great and free resources and just breaking down the rules and in particular areas of grammar. And all you have to do is look at them or you can go and get a good grammar book. Most grammar books will be pretty much exactly the same because they're talking about the exactly the same thing, the rules of that grammar. Another way to think about it is to use logic. IFTTT. Some of you will know what this means. If this, then that it's a really good way to think about programming language. If you're a programmer and this is a good way to think about it. For example, you could apply this to articles. Do I need an article before nine? If you don't zero article. If you do, then it's going to be either a definite article, the or indefinite article or it could be or it could be on. Within these, there's so many if this, then that, for example, if it was United Kingdom, right? That is a group of nations. So you're going to put the United Kingdom because that's the rules, the United States, the Philippines. Or if you are going to, let's say, I'm going to see a movie. There is a rule on why I say a movie instead of the movie or zero articles. And you can break it down into this kind of logical way of thinking thinking about things or just look at the rules. It's not terribly exciting, but it has to be done. So again, looking at this, why? Let's say we're looking at articles again. Why are we going to use this one here? Why are why here? Is there any other articles? So why are these the indefinite article instead of and why is it instead of there? Why is it zero article? There are rules, definite rules that you can look up and reference that will tell you why that is. You could do it now in two seconds by googling it, googling the rules of that and thinking about it. And that's what you have to do. I'm afraid. Again, not terribly exciting, but it's there for you if you want to learn it. And what happens is a lot of people who are frustrated with learning grammar, the main issue is they just don't want to learn the rules. They want to learn a quick fix or get a quick like a hack or a shortcut. There's no way of doing that. You can't immediately learn all the rules of a specific area of grammar by, you know, learning some quick trick. You just have to sit down and work them out. Step three, practice those rules. That's just the first step, sitting down and figuring out what the rules are. Now you have to practice them, because if you don't practice them, you won't be able to use them because when it's not testing your knowledge of all the rules, it's testing your ability to use those rules. And luckily, you'll find a huge number of free practice activities online. Ask Google. Don't ask me. I'm not Google. Google knows a lot more than me. Ask Google and go and find article practice activities, preposition practice activities, present tense, past tense, whatever you want to learn. Just put it into Google and you'll be able to find it. It's pretty easy. Step four, produce, try and produce error free sentences. So you're going to learn the rules. Then you're going to practice those using practice activities. But then you need to produce full sentences using that area of grammar. If it's something like articles or prepositions or punctuation, pretty much every sentence is going to contain them. So it's all you have to do is produce sentences. So you can do this when you're doing a writing practice or you're speaking practice. And if you don't do that, you're never going to be able to do the thing on test day because it's remember, it's not a knowledge test. It's a doing test. Can you produce the actual grammar in sentences? So you need to work on that. And step five, feedback. All right. So when you produce the sentence, are you using that area of grammar correctly? And you can use self correction. So you could one thing that you could do is use your phone and just literally every phone these days has a recording option. Download an app that allows you to record your voice and get some practice questions and then listen back and self correct those areas of grammar, or you can do a essay under exam conditions and then look back and try and figure out what the mistakes are or you can hire a teacher or you could use a friend or a family member who is a very high level English learner or a native English speaker if you know one of them to give you feedback on that. But the key is to view each mistake as an opportunity. Every mistake that you make is an opportunity for you to improve your grammar. You should see mistakes as a really good thing. So we often work with with students and we send them like a full report on their grammar on our grammar course. When somebody joins that, we get them to write us an essay and then we go through and we tell them every single mistake that they made. And a lot of students when they get that report, like every sentence has multiple mistakes in it and they're like, oh, my God, I'm never going to get better and I'm terrible. It's like, no, this is great. Now, you know exactly what is wrong and now you can learn from those mistakes and improve them. So here is the grammar improvement plan. Identify your weaknesses. Once you have identified those areas of grammar that you need to work on, could be one, could be two, could be three, could be four, but try and maybe limit it to the maximum three or four because you don't want to, you know, try and learn everything. Normally, people have one or two areas of grammar that they they really struggle with and they need to work on. Learn the rules. It's free for you online. You can find that by Googling it or you can get a grammar book. Number three, practice. Again, loads of free practice material online and in books as well, produce, produce sentences with that grammar and get feedback and learn from errors. All right. One thing I just add, do not use artificial intelligence like Grammarly or something like that to try and correct your own. Grammarly is for native English speakers who know when they've made a mistake. Grammarly cannot tell you why you made that mistake and help you figure out why you did that. And that's not really useful. Again, you can self correct. The best way is to actually get a teacher to help you with that. You know, you wouldn't try and fix your own car. You wouldn't try and like if you went to the doctor, you go to a doctor, if you had a medical problem, why would you try and fix your own grammar if you can hire someone to help you with that? So exactly the same. We'll go back to this. Imagine I go to the doctor and there is nothing wrong with my liver, hopefully. But imagine I do and I say that I'm really sick. First of all, they would identify that the problem is here. Then I would learn what to do. The doctor would tell me what I need to do. Then I would need to do those things. And then a few weeks or a few months later, I would go back to the doctor and they would say, you didn't you didn't stop drinking or you didn't do this or well done, you did and you would get feedback and you can apply that system exactly the same way to your grammar or pretty much any any other part of language. So hopefully you enjoyed that mini grammar course. If you didn't watch lesson one or lesson two, feel free to go back and please do email me in a few weeks or a few months after you have implemented that grammar improvement plan. It's always great to hear people who hear from people who do actually put these things into place and actually do them. But the key guys is actually doing it. You would not believe the number of people who we give this system to and then they do nothing with it. All right. There's no point in watching any of these videos that if you don't do anything, it is very, very simple. Anybody can do that. Anybody, it's free. All right. There's no barriers, but it's not easy. There are no easy ways to learn grammar. And that's what you have to do. So thank you very much, guys. It was a pleasure teaching you this week. And if you need anything, feel free to get in touch with us. There's my email, either myself or one of my team will get back to you if we have time. And if you have any questions about grammar or anything like that, feel free to post in the comments. Thank you very much, guys, and see you soon. Bye.


Man so many DK Palo right now. It might not be talking mate. I've got faith.  He's a mad man.  Oh, that's got to be GGs. There's no way he loses this night.   Oh, maybe not. Maybe not dude People to clean up.  It's crazy man. It's ruining the game


It's our favorite time of the year. Yes, it's football season. The sounds of the bands, cheers to the fans, the battle on the grid iron, and most importantly, tailgating. Eating and drinking, just play as team loyalty and just having a good time or signs of a successful tailgating regardless if you're at home or at the game. Did you know you can get food poisoning by not following proper food safety practices? According to the Center for Disease Control, every year approximately one in six Americans or 48 million people get sick from eating contaminated food.  But don't worry, there is a winning game plan for a safe and successful tailgating season. So get ready to gear up and team up to tackle food safety by the following four simple plays. The first play is clean. Wash your hands for 20 seconds with warm soap and water before, during, and after preparing food and before eating. If water is not available at the tailgating site, bring water for hand washing and cleaning. Pat clean, wet, disposable cloths, or moist towelettes and paper towels for cleaning your hands and surfaces.  Store your utensils in a clean container to take with you and use during your tailgate. Rinse fresh fruits and vegetables under running water. Okay, here's the huge question. Is it safe to wash meat before cooking? That's the million dollar question. According to the CDC, you should not wash raw poultry, seafood, and other meat before cooking it, even though some older recipes may call for this step. Washing chicken will not remove the harmful germs and bacteria that may be present. Instead, it only spreads bacteria to other foods, utensils, and surfaces. And most importantly, it does not prevent illness. That leads us to our next play. The second play is separate. Raw poultry, seafood, and other meat can spread germs to ready to eat foods unless you keep them separate. You separate plates, utensils, and cutting boards for raw meat, poultry, and seafood. Keep raw meat, poultry, seafood, and their juices away from other foods. The third play is cook. Use a food thermometer to ensure foods are cooked to a safe internal temperature.  The only way to tell if food is safely cooked is to use a food thermometer. You can't tell if food is safely cooked by checking its color and texture. Do you remember when we discussed washing chicken? It only creates a bigger problem than what you were trying to solve. Cooking poultry, seafood, and other meat to a safe internal temperature is the best way to kill harmful germs and bacteria. So what internal temperature should poultry be cooked? It's recommended that chicken is cooked to 165 degrees. You can find recommended temperatures for chicken and other meats by visiting www.foodsafety.gov. Marinades are often used during grilling for flavor. Don't reuse the marinade from the raw meat or poultry on cooked food. Reserve a portion of the marinade before using it to marinade cooked meat. The fourth and final plate is chilled. Never leave perishable food out for more than two hours. Bacteria can multiply rapidly if left at room temperature or in danger zone between 40 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. You're outside and it's hotter than 90 degrees Fahrenheit. You shouldn't leave perishable food out for more than one hour. Use an insulated cooler, packed with ice, or frozen jail packs to carry in stored cold perishable foods. And that's it. By following these four plays, clean, separate, cook, and chill, you will have a winning and safe tailgate season. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to get back to this tailgating. Me too. Let's go, Bulldogs! Happy tailgating! The previous was brought to you by the Urban Supplemental Nutrition Education Program. The USNAP-ED program makes nutrition easy, tasty, and affordable. To learn more about the Urban SNAP-ED program, visit www.aces.edu-urban-snap-ed. You can also visit the USNAP-ED program on Facebook.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey guys, good morning everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccidentTrade.com weekend update show. Hope everybody is doing okay. Again, welcome all our friends from different various social media platforms from Facebook and YouTube and Stocktwits. Obviously a lot of our following comes from Twitter. Hope everybody's having a great weekend. Hope everybody is enjoying life. So let's talk about the markets, right? Before we go into really solid week of trade, okay? One of the more aggressive weeks of trading. We'll talk about that in a few minutes. But I've always maintained, especially for new traders, again, we try to do these videos, these weekend updates geared to the trader. Sometimes it'll be geared towards the intermediate trader, the experienced trader, but I want to focus on the novice trader here. I've always maintained this. The worst thing you can do as a novice trader, number one, you really don't have a big bank to play around with. You really don't have any tangible process that's giving you any consistency. The worst thing you can do, and I've said this for years, is wake up in the morning and open up your platform and stare at the pre-market high list. That's the absolute worst thing. Because you are putting yourself in a position that you are about to tackle a trade, whether it's long or short, of a stock that's really made a good aggressive emotional move. That's what it is. It's a very, very important part to understand that. So when a $2 stock goes to 7, and you are looking to buy it at 7 for a 10-set move, you are really so far behind the 8-ball that you're not even realizing that. And I know a lot of the times the sexy thing to do is short that stock that went from 2 to 7. How can a stock go from 2 to 7, go any higher until you realize your account is 16? So a lot of the new traders, they focused on more of the reactionary trade, the sexy trade, the aggressive trade. And they don't realize that sexy, aggressive, fun, exciting, or all derivatives are of emotions.   And you start to look at your P&L, which is the most aggressive emotional entity out there.  And it's all good, right? It's all good until it starts going the wrong way. And then you realize that the stock you got into is a crapshoot, right? The stock you got into is retail based. And the one thing about the retail is, retail is always the last to know, okay? The mom and pop in Wichita, Kansas, the day trader with a $1,500 account that's trading 50 shares. Retail is always the last one to know. Retail are the pawns on the chessboard. They're always let out to be the sacrificial land. Retail is always the one that goes down first.   And the greater good on a majority of trades that are macro are institutionalized, okay? They're all institutional money flow. When it's time for retail to enter the trade or even realize what's going on on the sexy trade, they're about to die. They just don't even know it. And there's no better example, okay? There's absolutely no better example than what we saw on Tesla this week, okay? So Wednesday, I believe it was Wednesday, right? So Wednesday, Elon Musk announced that he will be coming out with, where Tesla will be coming out with an announcement the next day at five o'clock. So you're talking about of two full trading cycles on Tesla shares. Logically, there's a big short interest on Tesla. And logically, you know, once the momentum is going to come, Tesla is going to start to spike. So I want to show you the difference between retail and institutional participation in the same stock, in the same catalyst, in the same interval. And here's what we're talking about here. So Wednesday, I think it was either Wednesday or Thursday. So I tweeted this out pre-market and put this on our Twitter feed. Again, everybody knows, you know, this is my favorite stock to trade. So I wrote here, Tesla 304 build important. Obviously, once it starts committing to that 304 level and starts building, it should spike. Now, here's where the institutional money flow came in. If you look down here, right? I tweeted out, 320 coal sweeps are coming in, okay? And again, I'm not an options guy. I don't trade options very, very often, but I'm not a fool either, okay? I understand when there's a correlated pivot, whether it's on the 60-minute channel or on the daily channel, that is confirmed by a deep out of the money short-term expiration option sweep. It's going to attract a lot of attention. So this trade turned out to be a really great example where institutions came in, where retail came in, and the moral of the story is retail gets destroyed again. So let's talk about this. Let's talk about the art of the trade, and you decide for your own yourself if you traded Tesla in the last three days, where do you fall in, right? So you had your pivot 304 build, right? You had your pivot 304 build. 304 build was right over here. This is the upper channel of the 60-minute interval, okay? So here's technically where you're supposed to enter the trade when it starts building. So that's what we did. And then next thing we know, you get institutional money flow coming in on March expiration, right? So March expiration was like a three-day, basically a three-day rental for these guys. This is a 304. They were going in on the 320 calls. They knew, right? They knew the money flows that had come in. They knew the real reason the stocks would get the 320, not because this is like the greatest announcement coming out of all time. They knew retail was going to come in and bid off the stock over and over and over and over again. You know, jumping over each other to making sure the stock goes to 420, right? You guys remember that 420 thing, right? Financing security, right? 420. So you start collecting aggressive data, right? You start collecting aggressive data and Tesla makes this move. Remember, retail is coming in later. They're not in yet. They don't even know what's going on yet. They're coming in yet because there was absolutely no reason to buy Tesla here at 304 unless you're trained to look at the meat of the bone, right? The meat of the bone. And if you're trading channels, this is a perfect 60-minute sneaky interval that we traded perfectly. So you started seeing aggressive money flow coming in. You started seeing the institutional money coming in over, repeated buys, 315, 320 calls, over and over and over again. And then logically, with the short interest, the stock starts to spike, right? So retail starts chasing the stock from 304 to 310. So you talk about a $6 candle. Remember, the 320 calls came in. So that's kind of where they need the stock. And then over and over again, the news starts to spread, right? Over and over again, retail jumps into here, retail jumps into here, and they keep on chasing and chasing and chasing. The one thing that retail traders get confused of making money or making money properly, okay? They're chasing the headline. They don't want to miss the trade. They want to make sure they're the ones that tell their friends the story. I was right. I was right. I knew about this news before anybody except for the people who bought the stock at 304. And as each candle grows and grows and grows, more shorts again squeezed, more new new retail is coming in. Because again, no professional trader is buying the stock up here. After a $7 move in a candle, what raise your hand if you've been trading for five to 10 to 15 years, are you chasing the stock up $7 on one candle? I'll wait, right? So more retail is coming into the stock, right? So at this point, they're turning around and saying, tomorrow here comes the announcement. Here comes the announcement. Here comes the announcement. You don't want to miss it. You don't want to miss it. So let's talk about this, right? Let's talk about this. So we know 304, right? 304 was a 60-minute channel, right? Again, collecting data. We know 304 was a 60-minute channel. We also know, okay, there's a reference here, that institutional money keeps on coming in over and over again at 320, okay? So you got that. You got that, right? You got check mark one. You got check mark two. So now the day starts getting better and better and better and better and better. Everybody's buying Tesla left and right, left and right, left and right, left and right. And then we get to the next day, right? And then we get to the next day, okay? So we get to the next day. So here's the question, okay? Here's the question that comes along. And this is the funniest part about it, is as we're up four or five points in the trade, some guys call them your sheep. That's a whole different story. So we get to the next day, right? The next day comes along and this is what happens, okay? This is what happens. People start buying the stock left and right, left and right, because again, we know there's a big announcement coming. The problem is everybody knew what the announcement was for the exception of the $35,000 car, okay? Everybody kind of knew for the last two days what was going to happen. The only people that didn't know were retail, right? They were still chasing the big announcement. And when the big announcement finally came and I tweeted about this, I tweeted about this the same day and I said to myself, well, let me get this straight. You didn't buy the stock at 304. You didn't buy the stock on the 316 confirmation, okay? So right, so you got 304. You got 304. So you didn't buy it on the 304, okay? You didn't buy this on the 316 confirmation. Okay, there was also a 316 confirmation, okay? You didn't buy this on the washout, okay? Into 312, which we did in the previous day, okay? So you didn't buy it at all. But for whatever reason, okay? For whatever reason you need to do, right? So here's the 313, right? 313 back test. So you didn't buy it on the 313 back test. You didn't buy it on the 304 initial break, okay? So keep this in mind. Retail is not participating at these levels, okay?  Until we get those levels, until we start seeing these levels here and then I said, okay, okay. You didn't buy 304. You didn't buy the back test of 313. Now I wrote any build over 316. The short's gonna have a problem, right? So 316 comes along, 316 comes along, and they explode the stock again. And here comes retail. The market's about to close. You didn't love it in 304. You didn't love it in 313 back test. You didn't love it in 316. I must have the stock at 323, right? I need to own the stock at 323. Stock has just gone from 304 to 323. I must have it at 323. I don't wanna miss it. I don't wanna miss. Take a step back, right? Take a step back. It doesn't need to be tested, okay? It doesn't need to be tested. It could be a $7 stock that goes to 15. It could be a $2 stock that goes to 9. It could be an $11 stock that goes to 26, okay? Your job as a professional trader is to assess risk.  Well, there's several questions you should be asking. But one of the most important questions that you should always be asking is, is there a value for me in the trade? Is my money safe? Is the risk defined? And how much meat of the bone is left, right? So when you're buying a stock that's up 200%, 300%, every single new trader wakes up and says, let me see where the hot stock is. What's the hot stock of the day? You look at the pre-market high list, you got a stock that goes from a dollar to four and a half. Oh, I'm gonna short it, or I'm gonna buy it, right? And all you're doing is you're magnifying your exposure as a retail trader, okay? That's all you're doing. There's no institutional bias coming in at levels that the average true range of the stock is 99.5% already in, okay? There's no professional trader who's gonna buy these things on a dip because the value tier system, no matter what you trade, is always at lower levels, okay? So you're never gonna get institutional participation even on a back test, okay? So what you're doing in reality is you're fighting other retail traders that 99% of the meat is already off the bone. You're literally finding the other 1% for crumbs. And when the stock finally back tests in the completely opposite direction where you are, then you realize that you've been exposed.  You're exposed as a trader that has the lack of ability that has a process. And the problem with that is you keep on repeating the same thing over and over and over again and you're getting nowhere. So all those traders that I constantly hear on social media always complaining about, oh my God, I got burnt again. I'm holding the bag again. But yet you keep on doing the same thing over and over again and you're expecting different results. At some point, you have to stop, okay? At some point, you have to look yourself in the mirror and say, well, wait a minute, I'm doing this for six months, a year, two years, two and a half years. I'm doing the same thing over and over again. I'm not finding any consistency. What's wrong with this situation? And until you're looking yourself in the mirror and say, well, wait a minute, I'm not getting anywhere doing this and there has to be a better way, you'll never put yourself in a position for longevity. That's a fact. That's not an opinion. I don't care what you trade. You could be chasing up a $200 stock, a $300 stock, a $50 stock. It doesn't make a difference. But if your only process is looking at the pre-market high list or the pre-market low list, okay, to short stocks down 70% or buy stocks up 200%, you have a floor process. It's a fact, okay? You have a floor process. If you didn't have a floor process, right, you'd be consistent. And the one thing that I hear all the time from especially many new traders is, well, I've been trading these small caps for two years. Well, I still can't find my consistency. Well, why don't you stop trading the small caps, right? Well, I've been trading futures for two years. I can't find any consistency. Well, maybe you should stop trading futures, right? There's always something out there. I say this every single week of all these updates. You'll never know what you could possibly be good at until you try everything, right? Until you try everything. There's no such thing as the perfect process. There's no such thing as the perfect type of way. The best way of trading is what makes you feel comfortable. What makes you sleep well at night, okay?  But when you're constantly chasing a stock or chasing a trade, that's 90%, 95%, that's average true volume or average true range is already in. How do you expect to make money? Or even so, how do you expect to be consistent with that money? And it's a very, very important part of trading that many people don't discuss. Many people don't even know because they think this is normal. This is the normal way of trading. And when they realize a year, two years, three years later, they've kept on doing the same thing as pretty much everybody else and they're expecting abnormal results. Well, again, you're in the same pot. I say this every single time. If 90, 95%, whatever the number is, the social media number is, if 90, 95% of traders are not making money, right? Well, why would you want to be in the same trade as them, right? And again, 304 came and went. Not a chirp, right? Not a chirp. Social media and everybody will woke up and say, well, Tesla's breaking out of 315. I mean, this is $1011 later and the chasers on. And slowly but surely retail was the forefront. They were the pawns. And again, at the end of the day, they became the sacrificial lambs. So again, if you want to be a professional trader, guys, if you want to have really good longevity in this business, you can't lead with your chin. I mean, again, I say this all the time. You cannot lead with your chin. You have to lead with your shield. You have to be protective first and after a second, and not the other way around. Because again, when you constantly put your feet to the fire, I mean, what do you think is going to happen? You're going to constantly get burnt. And that's a fact. It's an opinion. It's a fact.   It's time for a change. You've got to look in the mirror. You have to be truthful to yourself. If you want to be a professional trader, aspiring professional trader, you have to make that change. Nobody's going to do it for you. Okay? Nobody's going to tap you on the shoulder and say, hey, by the way, you should try this. You have to wake up because again, at the end of the day, it's your harder money. If it's your dream and your passion, whatever the case may be to be a professional trader, you have to exhort every single avenue to make yourself better. If not, you're going to go away and you're going to become a statistic like everything else. So again, if you want to become a professional trader, make sure you're putting yourself in a really, really good position, okay? Your foundation is rock solid. Your process is rock solid. Your ability to remove yourself from emotional levels is getting to where you want to be and you want to make sure every single day you have a true shot of making money. And that's a very, very, very basic way of looking at trading instead of the hot, the sexy, the exciting, okay? Your trading is supposed to be boring. It's supposed to be lethargic. It's supposed to be predictable. And it's supposed to be highly probable because if not, you are in Times Square where nobody lives compared to the Upper East Side where all the people are off. So you have to make that choice. You can only do it. Nobody else is going to do it for you. But if you want to do this for a living, you have to make proper choices. So hopefully that will help you guys because this is exactly what I see every single day and I see all the traders complaining about it constantly over and over and over. So that's that. Market flat this week. Action was really, really good. Bears, again, continue to, you know, they're continuing to look for the top, right? They're looking for the top of the market and the market is not topping out, okay? The market is trying to really repeat the same thing over and over again. If you saw all the action every single day of the week, they were showing weakness every single day. They were showing strength every single day. There was no fear. And every single time, especially the Nasdaq 100, every single time the Nasdaq 100 hits some sort of support level, right? It kept on bouncing right back up and started the repeating cycle of squeezing shorts over and over and over again. And Friday was pretty much the same thing. They opened the market lower. They looked at the bulls again. They looked at the bears again in the face. They laughed at them and they started squeezing higher. The only question for Friday's session was how much aggression would there is going to be? The one thing that I noticed on Friday's session, there wasn't a lot of ranges that were expanding, okay? The only ones that were really, really expanding were Google and Amazon. We'll talk about Amazon in a second. Obviously Tesla, they got completely destroyed from the lack of any really, you know, any good news. But what I noticed was a lot of ranges were contracting, okay? And when you come to like really over extensive levels, you start to see two things, okay? Two things possibly occurring. You possibly could see something called the rounding top, okay? Not to say we're in, but again, we're trying to adapt more clues to see if this potentially is happening. After you have a really, really big, especially gorilla run like we've had in the last month or so, you start seeing buyers that are tired, okay? And you are seeing sellers that are not there anymore because they got burnt all the way up through this whole move. So you're seeing and you're exposed every single day to a couple of things. You're seeing strength, you're seeing weakness, okay? And when you see strength and weakness in the same day, that means that the ranges are contracting. The one thing that I hate, okay, because I'm a range trader, I trade these beta stocks that have provide you generally the biggest ranges of the day. The one thing that I don't want to see is a contracting range. The last thing I don't want to see is Amazon trading in a $4 candle, right? A $4 channel for three, four hours. You don't want to see that, okay? You want to see expand the channels. But these are all clues to what possibly could happen during a roundabout top. Now again, nobody's saying we're in one, but it's something going into this week that we want to at least understand that it's possibly could be there. Because again, it's like gravity. Eventually gravity pulls stocks down. And the market is strong until it's not. The big level we really have to watch this week, especially in the NASDAQ 100, the Qs, is this 171.76 here. Again, we're $3 away from that. But it's something in area that we want to see. Because again, the bottom of this candle here is the 10-day moving average, which represents for me the birth of the trade to the upside and the birth of the trade to the downside. So if we close below the 10-day moving average, that's where we want to pay attention. That's when you want to kind of scale out your lungs and start looking at the short side. But until we get to that level, again, you can't put the cart in front of the horse and you have to make sure that you are going where the sentiment is. And right now, rinse repeat, rinse repeat. We're opening up lower. The dips are being bought. There is no fear. We are still starting to get contracting challenge, which I get I don't like is a small red flag. But until these stocks, and it sounds so simple what I'm about to say, but until these stocks actually stop going, they're going to go up, right? It's very simple, very idiotic to say, but it's true. These stocks are just not going down. And the perfect example of that was Amazon, right? We talked about Amazon for a week and a half, right? It just can't get going. The market's rallying. Why can't Amazon go? Why can't Amazon go? Why can't Amazon go? And this was the tightest channel up till Monday, up till Friday. This was Amazon was trading literally from 55 to 1600 for three weeks. I know it sounds like a lot, 50 points, but the average true range from this V bottom on Amazon, it was days, it was trading 50, 60 points. So 50 point moving, three weeks, range bound, talking about a range bound contraction, that was a very big problem. And I know a lot of bears were turning around and saying, well, if Amazon can't go up with the rest of the market, if Google can't go up with the rest of the market, well, they have to go down, right? Yes, theoretically. But until that happens, until you get confirmation to the downside, again, you can't put the cart in front of the horse. And what we saw Friday was a perfect example of two things happening. We say this again, we've been using this now in the live webinar for a couple of weeks. It's been really, really good. I started really paying attention to option flow. Again, not an options trader. I'm probably the biggest novice in options that anybody knows. But I know one thing, when there is a big bit, when there's an aggressive buyer coming in, either at the money with an incredibly large bet with short expiration, or out of the money with a very, very large bet in a short expiration, usually the money flows in the start coming in after it. And we just saw trade after trade after trade this week coming up the same way. And Amazon, I didn't trade a lot of things on Friday. I traded Netflix to the short side, I scouted it through the short side. And I got into Amazon twice. I did pretty well with Amazon twice. And the breakout on Amazon was 1656, right? 1656. And at the same time, you saw about 1.5 million of the March 1652 or 1655 calls being triggered at the same time. So when you have technical analysis combined with option flow, usually good things are going to happen. And you just saw Amazon just gap up, reclaim that 56 level, and just really, really start going aggressively. And the one thing that I've always told traders and inspiring traders, whatever worked for you in the past is in the past. The market's always changing, okay? I don't care how many years you're trading. It's going to be, again, 20 years for me in May. And the one thing I'm constantly trying over and over is getting better, finding a bigger edge. And I started using these option sweeps about several weeks ago. And it's really added a phenomenal dimension to everybody in the live webinar. These sweeps have been great. And when you add that and combine that with a channel being confirmed either in the 60 minute or on the daily chart, usually a good thing is going to happen. So something that we always want to get better and kind of just make different adjustments as we go along. So Friday session, Friday session didn't have a lot. But again, that's the whole point. You don't really don't need a lot to do very, very well.  I mean, here's basically the day on Friday. We start out, we start out with ZS, right? Start out with ZS pre-market. They came out of good earnings, 58, 60. It needs to build. And again, again, it was a pretty basic, pretty basic setup 5860 was, excuse me, 5860 was right here. It was the pre-market high. Once it broke, the pre-market high started building very, very aggressively. Again, congratulations to all you guys who caught that. Amazon, yeah, so Amazon I wrote wants to break out. I'll show you in a second what level we started buying it. The second trade I took was Netflix, right? Netflix, it builds below 350, 70. It can get hit. And I shortened Netflix at the whole number because again, I'm trying to get some more liquidity. It's going to be harder to get liquidity below that number. And you can see here, you know, the low, the previous days low was 5770. And once it started going down, when it was lowest, like 54 and change. So that was fine. You know, that was fine as well. And here's kind of my point. Here's the option flow coming in 1.5 million at the 1652 area. I really, you know, took the stock up.   Here's the levels. Again, nobody's trying to trick you. Technical analysis is technical analysis. Any close over 1656 is super bullish. And, you know, the stock just went. The stock just went. I mean, here's where I put in pre-market rejection 1656. It needs to build above to go. You know, yada, yada, yada. Technical analysis is the only thing you need. So for all your new traders, for all your new traders that are sitting there and you're looking for some alert services, somebody else to tell you when to jump. It's all in front of the charts. Okay. You don't need to look no further. It's all about technical analysis. And when you really embrace the idea of technical analysis and stop being the pawn and stop being the sacrificial lamb that's out on the forefront just to get slaughtered. When you start really embracing trading, you start being in control of your trading. And I'm telling you right now, there's no greater feeling than being in control of your trading. Okay. Waking up every single morning with a high probability that you will succeed, not because of a stock. It's because of your process. So going into this week, again, you know, you got to give the bulls the benefit of the doubt of the bulls below this 171, 176 level. I have to be bullish. Okay. Until the market gives me a reason not to be bullish. I will be bullish. Amazon, I still continue to like, again, first close over supply. I know a lot of you guys are holding Amazon calls or holding Amazon equity. If it can start building, if it doesn't gap up on Monday, if it starts building over 1675, you could get a move here to 1725. I like Apple, right? I like Apple here. Any close on Apple over 176. Stock looks really, really good. FISV looks really good, right? FISV looks really, really good. Nice looking setup for all you guys who don't trade beta. Look at this GCI, right? Beautiful chart. $12 break on GCI. You know, this thing could look good. Let me show you guys a couple more ideas that I do like here. Let me give you guys a couple more ideas. Let me see what else I like here. I like UPS. UPS had a good call activity on Friday. I believe 2000 of the March 112 calls traded on Friday. It starts reclaiming Friday's highs. It can go as well. And look at the CRSP, right? Look at the CRSP as well. Beautiful chart. Beautiful, beautiful chart. This thing can start reclaiming this 40, 10, 40, 15 level. A really, really big move. So I hope you guys had a really good week. I'm very, very encouraged by the action. Fantastic job for all you guys in the live webinar. Great job. Just absolutely great job. Again, it's all about teamwork. It's all about conviction. It's all about, you know, having a process and running with it. And it's all about longevity. Guys, I want to wish everybody an awesome week. Hope everybody does well. If you're joining us in the live webinar, the trading strategy starts up at 9 o'clock, 9.05 Eastern time every single day. All you guys are joining us on the Twitter feed. Starts up right before the open. So guys, have a great, great weekend. God bless. I'll see you all in the field on Monday. Take care, guys. Congratulations for putting in the time to take control of your trading. You're one step closer to owning your future and achieving the success you desire. Want daily trade ideas directly from Dan? Straight off his personal watch list? Unlock our free PS60 vault where you'll get nightly updates on pivot opportunities we're watching for the next day's session. Click the link in the description to get started today.


Structured cabling testing, why you should insist on structured cabling testing and what you should insist on. How do you test a data cable? A data cable can be tested in a variety of ways. However, with structured cabling testing, there are certain standards and reports that should be insisted. Otherwise, you will not know that the data cabling installed is actually working or will support the hardware it is supporting for data cabling transmission. Multimeter. This will test individually for continuity that connector one goes to connector one at the other end. This is an unsuitable test as it doesn't test for any performance standards. Network cable tester, mod tap device. This device will plug the data cable in each end and check all eight connectors are connected correctly end to end with no shorts or brakes. However, it will not test for performance or interference. Cable certification testers, level three testers. The first two testers will cost under £100. In contrast, a certification tester will be priced in the thousands. Thereby showing that the level of testing is vast and a lot more technical. What is a level three tester or cable certification tester? These testers will test the data cabling links to provide operational assurance. In this instance, by testing a unique set of network tests to a certain standard of tests and requirements. These are the only tools that give you guaranteed pass or fail results after the tester tests to a certain set of industry standards. Subsequently, this can be a test to a certain regulatory body or for a specified category of cable. It will tell you if the installed cat six cable is operating to the correct standard. Furthermore, to the specifications of that category of cable and not just connected correctly. How do you test a data cable with a cable certification tester? The testing unit will have a main unit and a remote head. The units are plugged in either end of a structured cabling link and then an operational test will be run down the cable and back along it for analysis. A few examples of the tests it carries out are. Length, how long the installed cable is an is it within the 100 meters max wire map are all eight cores wired correctly with no shorts and crossovers. Attenuation, the reduction in signal loss along the data cable. Next, interference from the transmitted signal coupled back. DC lock resistance, total resistance of two conductors at one end of a link. Return loss, loss of power in the signal which is returned or reflected. Structured cabling testing, reasons to have your installation tested. Firstly, if it's not tested, you won't know if the installer has. One, terminated the data cabling correctly end to end. Two, terminated the network cabling correctly in the right methods. Three, additionally terminated the structured cabling to the correct standards. Secondly, not all cabling terminations are equal. Poor terminations can result in the following. One, slower network speeds, i.e. only running at 100 megabytes instead of one gigabit. Two, interference on the data cable. Three, interference onto neighboring data cables. Four, dropouts, i.e. phone calls drop or lost connection to servers. Structured cabling testing checks that the correct patch panel ports go to the correct data module location. If the system isn't tested this issue won't be highlighted by the data cabling installer to rectify. Your system is then unusable from a management perspective. Finally, you have accountability. If you receive test results, it shows at a point in time that everything was installed correctly. Therefore working to the specified standard. This eliminates the blame culture later on. Furthermore testing checks that all the elements of the installation have been installed correctly. One, data cabling has been pulled incorrectly away from power without in kinks and twists. Two, the minimum of the exposed cable has been allowed for when terminating. Three, the cable is terminated in the correct format. Four, the modules are good and snugly fitting. Five, without these steps done correctly, the structured cabling link won't pass. Finally, structured cabling testing shows that the materials used are to standard as well as the data cabling installation. Poor modules, panels and cables will fail every time regardless of the quality of the installation. What is a fluke test in networking? Fluke is one of a few manufacturers of cable certification testers. The report below is from a fluke tester. Fluke makes a range of testers for structured cabling, fiber optic cabling and coaxial cabling testing. What you should insist on from your data cabling test results? One, that structured cabling testing is done with data cabling cable analyzer and not a cheaper mod tap tester. This is an example from a fluke tester. Without one of these test results per cable, you are taking a risk that your data cabling installation is not fit for purpose. Ensuring your receive these test results will give you confidence and peace of mind that your technology will work over the provided data cabling. For further assistance or a free survey, please email or call on the details below and click like and subscribe if you have enjoyed this video.


Moving on to the next part of our discussion of advanced financial derivatives. We're talking about spreads Again, I've got some extensive notes and some examples in the lesson content, but we'll review these concepts here in these slides Okay, spread trading itself. Now we're talking about here. We're talking about trading It's a technique that it takes advantage of the relative price movement between futures contracts Arbitrage that's a simultaneous purchase and sale of similar or identical commodities in two different markets in hopes of gaining a profit From the price differential. Now again with spread. We're not dealing so much with price as we are dealing with the price differences Marginal requirements are considerably lower than the requirements on single futures contracts because again the exposure Is the spread difference the difference between the price is not one singular price So that also makes them less risky than outright futures positions You're exposed to this movement in the spread either the spread widens or the spread gets Tighter as opposed to the price of the futures contracts themselves Here's some simple rules. This is for trading spreads for speculative purposes rule one is If you think the spreads are Going to narrow you buy low and you sell high currently So you buy the lower price and you sell the higher price to set a spread and then when the Prices do in fact narrow based on your expectations. You'll be able to go ahead and liquidate that spread at some profit Otherwise if the spreads are expected to widen if you expect the price difference to get greater You will buy the high contract now and sell the lower of the two different types of spreads One is the inter market now This is the simultaneous purchase and sale of different but related commodities that have a reasonably stable relationship to One other so inter market keep in mind inter market means Different commodities not the same commodity. So we have some different types of spreads and these are the commonly used Terms for these spreads. We have what's known as a crack spread Okay, this would be crude oil versus Unleaded or heating oil now if you think back to the lesson on crude refining You have a process by which you are actually cracking the hydrocarbon molecules and then reforming them into these other products So that's why you get this name here crude being the feedstock and the refined products being unleaded and heating oil And all three of these trade on the new york mercantile exchange therefore These can be used to hedge the spread that refiners are exposed to a spark spread It's natural gas versus electricity. Again, this would pertain strictly to natural gas fired power plants heating oil versus gas oil Again, this one can be broken down into another so we can use this spread Nimex versus ice now this is on crude oil spreads here We have a situation where we're actually using inter markets the markets are the different trading platforms So savvy traders can sit there and look at nimex prices and the intercontinental exchange prices for crude oil And they can take advantage by buying one and selling another or selling one and buying another electronically And then we have a frack spread now this is not to be confused with fracking which is a completion method for oil and gas wells What we're talking about here is again if you think back to the lecture on processing The processing plants take natural gas and convert it to natural gas liquids or the so-called fractions using a fractionation tower And so that's what we break down and get the ethane propane butane isobutane natural gas allines and condensate So since natural gas is the feedstock for a processing plant and the natural gas liquids are the output From that plant we can put on a frack spread to hedge those differences The other type of spread is intra market and this is also known as an intra commodity spread The idea here is we are using the same commodity But we're trading things like time or location So a time spread is the simultaneous purchase and sale of futures contracts On the same commodity for different delivery months. So for example, we could buy August 2015 natural gas contracts and sell the january 2016 natural gas contracts This would be a storage spread because the idea would be we would buy the august contracts Put that gas in the ground in august and then turn around and sell the january Contracts and take it the gas out then so that difference in price between august and january Represents our storage spread Then we also have locational spreads This would be the simultaneous purchase and sale of futures contracts for different locations So for instance in terms of crude we could use the wti versus the brent crude pricing And for natural gas we could use henry hub versus say for instance, new york city And here's an example of an intra market spread for natural gas Again, as I've kind of mentioned right here Uh, we in this example, we're going to talk about you know, august 2015 versus january 2016 at these respective prices So if you think the spread is going to narrow in other words, we start off at 290 versus 325 So we have a 35 cent spread if you think that that spread is going to become less You're going to buy the low which is the 290 and sell the 325 which is the high And then if you think the spreads are going to widen that is the price difference between these two months Is going to end up being greater than 35 cents You're going to sell the lower price to $2.90 and you'll buy back the 325 now again keep in mind This is for speculative trading trading for pure profit. This is not a hedging type of uh, Excuse me plan or scenario