Hi, thank you, nice to see you. Welcome to Seymour's world at Think Tech, Hawaii. Can you tell I just came back from Russia? I spent the last two weeks in Russia with my wife Sue. I was working a little bit and playing a little bit and we had an absolutely wonderful time. It was actually a trip to study a little. Can I take this hat off with you guys' mind? This is a military hat that we received as a gift from Konstantin, who is my host. Actually, we could bring up maybe a picture of his website and I'll explain a little bit about what he does. His name is Dr. Kostin and he works out of St. Petersburg, Russia. He was here in Hawaii and was a guest on Seymour's world. What Konstantin does is really help the government in all of their efforts in their economic planning. He is probably one of the foremost consultants when it comes to international planning as well. So when he came here to Hawaii, it was during the Sochi Olympics and he gave us a very, very in-depth interview of what was going on in Russia. Now that was several years ago and he asked me to come back to Russia because I had been there before and to study a little bit about what's going on in Russia and where it's at.  Is Russia doing this or doing that? You can watch CNN and do all that kind of stuff. I want to give you a little bit more about the in-depth Russia. What's happening with the people in Russia? Well, first of all, we all know that one of the major issues has been the economy. And the economy has slowed pretty dramatically. The ruble has dropped by two-thirds. That means as a tourist coming to Russia, you are saving a huge amount of money and you could buy a lot of goods. And we're going to talk about some of these goods here. But more important than that is what's happening to the people because of the embargoes that are being placed by the Western world. In effect, the first issue we find is that most people are still very, very happy in Russia. They don't intend to move to the West. They like the opportunities of the West. But here's an example of what is going on and why it is going on. Sue and I were having dinner in a restaurant at the St. Regis Hotel, a very, very nice hotel in Moscow. And our server was a young woman, about 25, 20, no, a little older, probably closer to 30 years old, spoke perfect English. And we got to know her a little bit. And I asked her, you speak such good English. Did you learn it in school? In your gymnasia, gymnasia in Russian is the equivalent of high school. Or did you learn it in college? And she said, sir, I'm an attorney. And I looked at her and I said, pardon me. And she says, yes, I'm an attorney. I make about $400 a month. And I have to work as a waitress to help my lifestyle and what I have to do in life. And I was flabbergasted because we know in the West how much attorneys make.  Doctors are also making an average of $400 a month. Now it's not all bad news because they get a free apartment with them. But the way the Russian government has made this work, you get the apartment, but you only get to own the apartment after you work for seven years. So for seven years, you have to work at very low wages. You live in that apartment, but then you get to own the apartment after seven years. Some say that's good. Some say that's bad. So I asked her point blank, I said, would you like to move somewhere? Would you like to move to the United States or England or anywhere? And she said, no. She loves her life there. She loves her family there. She wishes she could make more money. And she realizes that she is doing well where she's at.  So I think one of the biggest topics that we have to discuss is, is everybody in that same boat? No. The first thing we have to realize is the style of living in Russia is very, very good. People are able to go out to dinner, restaurants are full, they travel quite a bit. They're not affected too much by the international economy because they live within their means in their communities and in their country. We of course look at products like this, caviar. And we say, wow, this is caviar from Russia and it's very expensive. This caviar here in the United States is $58 for this tin of caviar. It's not the most expensive. It's the middle of the road caviar, but it's $58. Sue and I bought this caviar in a supermarket in Russia for $3. Now vodka, we all know vodka. We know it comes from Russia. This happens to be a very good vodka. I priced the vodka here locally, not this exact brand because it's not imported directly as it is, but a similar brand. This vodka here is $38. This vodka, when you buy it in Russia, is $3, which is the same price as Coca-Cola in Russia. So it is so strange when you're sitting at a restaurant and you order a vodka and many people do orders vodka and they say $3. I mean, we can't even believe that it's that price. And then if you want to order a Coca-Cola, it's the same price. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to just take a little sip of the vodka, if you don't mind. Ah, thank you because I didn't want to show me drinking vodka in the air. It's probably not good. Let's start with the Kremlin. The Kremlin is what you're seeing right now. The Kremlin, of course, is something that you recognize as the home of Mr. Vladimir Putin or, as I call him, Vladi. No personal connection, but I like the name Vladi. The Kremlin that you see, the original walls are there, but the wall that you see that is on the right and the left side is the new wall of the Kremlin. It is a huge property. It is absolutely magnificent. We took a tour of the Kremlin. We saw everything that we could see. And the funniest experience I have is this story. Sue and I were with a number of other tourists there. There were probably a few thousand tourists. And I said, look at what's across the way. And when I looked across the way, I said, that's a very interesting building. I stepped off the sidewalk onto the pavement of the street. And immediately I was stopped by guards with machine guns. And they said, yet, yet, yet, which as we all know means no, no, no. And I had to step back on the sidewalk. And I realized, wait a second, this is pretty strict stuff. This is not that easy, not that free. So the story of the Kremlin and seeing all of what was going on during that time, it's an example that dictatorship is not the same as democracy. And the dictatorship that Vladimir Putin has, it may work very well over there, but I was not too satisfied with it. I think that, and, you know, Donald Trump has said something that a lot of people are taking offence to, that Mr. Putin has done a very good job. Well, I can tell you from the inside, we didn't see that he is not doing a very good job. The streets are so clean. There is not one bit of dirt on the street, not one homeless person on the street. There are people driving Mercedes and Porsches and BMWs and fancy cars. And then they could be part of the oligarch system. There's no doubt about it. And they could be part of the new Russia. But at the same time, we saw people from all over the world coming, visiting Russia, understanding what was going on in Russia. Here's an example, as you look on the screen, of a typical beautiful old building. And in this building alone, this was a very, very nice office building in Moscow. Look at the workmanship on that building. All of Moscow, St. Petersburg, most of the major cities are exactly like this. They are beautiful. You can walk for miles. And we did walk for miles. And every single corner, you're going to see buildings like this. Let's go to the next slide. Now there, of course, is the famous Armitage. No, I'm sorry, that's not the Armitage. That is Red Square. And the Red Square is where everything happens. Any time you see the marches and you see when they have their tanks and everything go through, this is where they do it. It's impressive. That building goes for blocks and blocks and blocks. It's really beautiful. Oh, there's Vika. Vika was our guide in Moscow. And there's Sue, of course. Vika, as you can see, is about six foot two. And Sue is, what I think, a very reasonable five foot seven. And she took us around to Gorky Park. I want to stay on that slide for a second, because Gorky Park is in the middle of Moscow, which is a 15 million, there's 15 million people who live in Moscow. And this is a huge, beautiful facility where all Moskvites come on the weekends, on the holidays. Everything is provided. They have bullcourts. I don't know if you're familiar with what bullcourts are, but that's a game that they play and people play and there's marches and it's a very, very amazing thing. If you could take New York City and take Central Park, this is about five to six times the size of Central Park. Absolutely beautiful. I want to tell you a little story about Vika. Vika is about 28 years old and she's married to her husband. And she is absolutely a wonderful young woman who's starting a new business. What's her business going to be? And part of what I do, as you know, is consulting. And she wants to open up a business catering to Chinese tourists. You're probably saying Chinese tourists? Yes, because Chinese tourists are the number one by 10 times of any other tourist coming to Russia. And we saw them in droves. We saw them in St. Petersburg. We saw them in Moscow. We saw them in the Kremlin. We saw them in the airmitage. There are so many Chinese tourists coming to Russia. And yet they don't have a way of truly servicing them. Here's the story that goes with it. Sue and I were in the gum department store. Gum department store is the largest store, it has about 450 stores inside the largest shopping center in Moscow. And we're touring around and we see all these fancy stores, Chanel's and Louis Vuitton and fancy watch stores and all that kind of stuff. And we go into one store that specializes in food, a matter of fact, like this. And we walk through the store and we buy a few things that we needed. And we get to the cash area and there's three Chinese men with shopping carts. And they get to the caviar's area like this. Nobody to help them. And they are taking the caviar and shoving it in because it's so cheap. And shoving it into their shopping baskets. They're taking vodka, they're taking these dolls that you see, and they're just taking as much as they can. Now it's amazing, you have to understand that being so cheap in Russia and being able to take it out may be a different story. But China and Russia have an agreement where there's no duty and no tax. So they're able to take all of this stuff back. And what Vika is going to do, she is going to set up a business where she will have an online store for the Chinese people to be able to buy goods from Russia. So I can tell you, I was so impressed with her. And a lot of the other people that we met who were not aggressive in nature but very interested in doing business, very interested in finding out how to do business around the world. And of course today, with the internet and social media, that is very, very easy. We've got to take a short break and we'll be back with more of Seymour's World in Russia. Let me just make sure you guys get a good picture of this, my hat. And of course I need to take another sip of my vodka. I'll be back in a minute. Thank you for watching Think Tech. 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I look forward to being with you. Aloha. Hi. Welcome back, or shall I say, Pasiba, Nastrovia. Welcome back to Russia, and our trip from Russia.  Excuse me, will I get my throat? I think I could really start liking this stuff. Okay. Let's get back to Russia. I've got four pages of questions from people, so I'm going to try to answer them as best as I can. I'll take the hat off, because it makes me look a little strange, I think. The first question is, what do you see as a difference since the collapse of the Soviet Union? Well, I think the major difference is the freedom that democracy is given to Russians in many ways, and the first one I saw was religion. Every church we went to was magnificent, the Church of the Blood, and we're going to show you some. The Church of the Blood, St. Isaac's Church, the Hermitage, which, as you know, is one of the most beautiful museum churches in the world, the largest, by the way, in the world, is totally open. They're not warehouses anymore. All of it, everything has been redone, and the gold, and the lapis, and everything that you'll see is now back to what it was when religion was allowed in Russia. And here's a perfect example. This was actually in the Red Square area, and we walked into this church that you're seeing. It was beautiful. It was absolutely amazing. We couldn't take pictures inside, unfortunately. But you could see that the Russian government is allowing freedom totally. And you will see even a synagogue that we went into that is one of the nicest I've ever seen in the world. This picture that you're seeing is part of another church that we went into. You could see the dome on it and the ceiling inside, totally restored, spent millions and probably billions of dollars on restoring what was there. It was so beautiful. Let's see another one if we can get it. There is another ceiling of another church, and as you could see, it's all stained glass, all done by hand, all giving the feeling that you could express yourself in religion in any which way you can. Let's see the next one. The Hermitage. I want to stay there for a minute. The Hermitage is blocks long. It is magnificent. First it was a palace for Peter the Great, and then they turned it into a museum. So it's the only museum palace in the world. It is the largest. It would take days, days and days to see everything. We were extremely fortunate that we were able to get a private tour of the Hermitage. And after three hours it was like information overload, and when you have information overload, it's almost impossible to be able to see more and more. But look at the front of it. You see what's in front of the Hermitage that day? They're going to have a parade. They're going to show the people of St. Petersburg all of the equipment that they have ready to go for the winter. And they actually had a parade that day with thousands of these vehicles. It was incredible. Let's see the next one. Ah, another one of those churches in St. Petersburg that makes you think of a decorated cake. This is called the Church of the Saviors Blood. Beautiful, amazing. Entrance fee was $2. It was inside the workmanship was beautiful. I think we even have some pictures of the inside of this one I was able to show. There you go. Look at that. It was wild. And you can step right up. You can touch it. Everything there is for people to get very well acquainted with. That's a close-up of the domes of the Church of the Saviors Blood. Now you know that St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And it was built by Peter the Great because he wanted to imitate Venice. So it was built on a system of canals. And the canals that he had connected the city entirely so that you don't need taxis. You could get anywhere by canal. St. Petersburg in my opinion, and I visited over 100 countries in the world, is probably one of the most beautiful cities. There's another picture of it, and that's taken from up above. Let's see the next one. Now this is a synagogue. Now I have to tell you that antisemitism is quite prevalent in most of Europe.  You have to go through a magnetic gate and you have guys with machine guns not here. And how impressive is that that you could go to St. Petersburg in Russia and walk right into the synagogue. It's beautiful as you can see, totally restored to where it was. There's 12,000, I think 12,000 Jews that participate in the synagogue with total freedom. So that was one of the things that I was most impressed with. Let's see the next one. And this is of course a typical Russian government building. And you could see it's in St. Petersburg. You can see the boats. That's one of the canals. It's beautiful. We couldn't get into the building because it is a military building. This is where their defense department is and all of their other departments. But it's really quite something. Now I do want to answer a couple more questions. Has capitalism truly taken over from communism? The answer is no. As much as we want to believe it, we all know that Mr. Putin won the last election by 86%. I have to tell you, he really won the election by 100%. Because it's very difficult to mount another party against him. There were others. We saw a lot of campaigning by other people. But he is truly a very, very smart man in his own way. And he has his finger on the pulse in Russian.  He is that powerful right now. Next question. What about graft and corruption, as described in the media? I really didn't want to cover this, but there is in every society, and I think even in our society. I mean, if you see what's going on with Hillary and with Donald and what they're accusing each other of, I don't think it's any different anywhere in the world. And I think I have no definitive proof about it, but obviously we believe it's there. I mean, just today, and today is the 7th of October, there was a release that Russia was truly responsible for all of the hacking. So who really knows? What do the average citizens think of Putin? Well, believe it or not, I honestly felt a very similar feeling to what I had when we visited in China, where the people respect their leader, but are not going to say much about them. And in my opinion, I think that most people in Russia and in China, and in Vietnam for that matter, are very cognizant of the fact that they don't want to say anything against their leaders, and Putin is one of them. Next question. What is the result of the oil price collapse? Well, I mentioned the first part, and the first part was the rubble. What's happened to the rubble? It's down by 65% right now. So their exports are obviously much less expensive, but the sanctions against Russia by the Western world is having a fairly large effect on it. You couldn't tell from the tourists, and they are bringing those tourists in by bus loads, by boat loads, and by plane loads. So tourism, I think, is going to be one of the major factors in the resurgence of Russia. Here's one, I guess, from somebody Jewish. Being Jewish, did you feel or sense any anti-Semitism? The answer is absolutely zero. I did not feel anything, and of course, that was well expressed in my discussion about the synagogue, zero. We did not feel any anti-Semitism whatsoever. So I felt more anti-Semitism in Germany than I felt in Russia or in France, for that matter. It is obviously prevalent, and it's there, but it's not evident, which is important. Is the ordinary citizen better off today? Probably the most difficult question to answer, because the ordinary citizen has to live within their means, and their means in Russia are not easy. With the rubble where it's at, they have to live with Russian products. If they're trying to import products, it becomes extremely expensive. So who knows, it's a difficult issue and not one that I can actually discuss without going into great, great detail. What you see on the table here are all Russian goods. So this is a box of wonderful chocolates. This is a box of chocolates for export, but given to people, and you could see all of the different highlights of, this is from St. Petersburg. And this box cost us $1, $1 US, but of course in rubles, it's much more expensive. Caviar that you see here at $3 in rubles is very expensive to them, and you don't see too many people buy them. Now this item that you see here is totally touristy, and of course, everybody buys it, and you know them as the Russian dolls. And what happens, of course, you put one doll into the other, and then it goes like this, and then it goes into here, and this goes into here, and this goes into here, and look at that. Can you see it? Now that is, I think, the quintessential Russian gift, because everybody calls them the Russian dolls. They have another name, I'm sorry, I can't remember it because I have too much of this. Excuse me, I have to take one more drink. So it's one of those trips that I had, and thanks to Konstantin, I have to say for those of you who are interested in doing business in Russia, you should contact him, and you could reach me or come back to our show and we'll give you his contact information. But he was, there's his website, Konstantin Consulting, and he was wonderful in explaining to us everything that, how what we saw was, how do you translate it into American thought processes versus Russian thought processes? I think if you ask me what was the most important feature of our trip, the most important feature was to see people smiling so much, people happy, no dirt on the street, no homeless on the street. So socialism is still alive and well in Russia, but capitalism is there too. That's how you see Mercedes and you see all of those other things that are going. So I wish I could tell you more about Russia, but unfortunately our show has to end today, or it has to end now, and I want to give you one final important fact that you must remember about Russia. If you want vodka, drink Russian vodka, because it's delicious. Aloha.


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This really is the best time of year. You really reflect on how great life is and the fact that you're alive and you're breathing and you wake up in the morning.  But it's an awesome, awesome time and I just want to make sure that everybody really understands what the whole point of life is. The stock market is a stock market. Again, at the end of the day, it's a job like anything else. Your overall family home happiness is the most important part. Everything else is kind of a cherry on top. So let's talk about the markets. Okay, let's talk about the markets last week, right? If you guys, if only guys don't only follow me on the weekend update. You remember last week, we talked about something that I probably haven't said in probably a decade, okay? That last week was probably one of the wildest weeks I can remember. Monday, last Monday session, I got literally ran over. I mean literally ran over. The spreads were completely wide. The liquidity were dead. You get one buyer to show us up if you're short and you're dead. If you get one seller that shows up if you're long, you're dead. And what we saw was very, very scary. Last Monday was the whole market structure. I mean literally the whole market structure collapsed right in front and had nothing to do with a bear market. Again, we've been, yes, and I'm saying it again. I've been saying this bear market ever since we clicked below the 200-day moving average and now media officially it's a bear market. Okay, so apparently we're not in a pause anymore or a correction. At least they acknowledge we're in a bear market. Okay, cool. Great.  So nothing changed materialistically from last Monday to what we've been doing, especially since, again, the double top. Again, for those of you guys that follow me week after week after week, this is just kind of a structural balance of what we can go through. And once we close below the 200-day moving average, that's it. That was the sell signal. And the most important part was structure. Again, what's the most important bit for any trader? I don't care what you trade. The most important part is having structure. You have to have the ability to control risk, that you control your emotions, control the trade, right? Control everything that you need that's going to make your trade very, very progressive from an adult point of view. You're not in deer and headlights. You're not hoping, you're not praying. We're not in the hoping and praying business. We're in the collecting data, okay, identifying sentiment and waiting for confirmation business. That's all we are. And last Monday, we had none of it. Okay. The market was going up. Stocks were getting destroyed. Two, three, four dollar spreads. The market was going down. Stocks found bids and started exploding up. So the market structure was incredibly bad. Last Monday, it kind of spilled over the Tuesday. And as we talked about, obviously in the live webinar, we see the different quality of trades we had from Wednesday to Friday. You started slowly but surely seeing how the market structure came back, right? You saw the pivots were moving a lot more smoother. There wasn't a lot of hiccups. Yes. There was the liquidity. Not as where we want to be. Of course not. Because again, we're in a bear market that translates into less market participants. But again, at the end of the day, a trade is a trade is a trade. A pivot is a pivot is a pivot. So towards the back end of last week, we started talking about how, you know, better the structure was and we closed out the week. Well, okay. And the question going into this week was not if we were going to continue to sell. Our biggest problem was, well, is the market structure going to restore or will we see a repeat of what we saw last Monday? And we quickly got our answer. Okay. Quickly got our answer. Very, very good solid trading week. Okay. Really, really good for all you guys, especially who've been following me on Stocktwits and Twitter. I mean, I've been putting these pivots as close as real time as possible. I mean, really, I really want you guys to see the power of the pivot within like 20, 30 cents of a Netflix pivot or so. And I really want you to see the power of the pivot and what you could really achieve when you understand this process. And this week was really good, man. We saw some incredible moves, very violent, very, very aggressive, and they were very, very structured. And again, there was absolutely no difference. I mean, last week, the indexes got crushed this week. Again, look at the scoreboard, you know, the NASDAQ, the Dow Jones had their worst week. We really, really think about this. They really had their worst week since 2008. Again, what was it 2008? Oh, by the way, that was Armageddon, right? You guys remember the mortgage crisis? So materialistically, are we there? No. I mean, but again, you have to look at the data and kind of figure out why this market's selling off. So you look at the data, right? So you had the Fed on Wednesday. You had the Fed on Wednesday. And here were the bullet points, okay? You have real estate slowing down, right? Real estate slowing down. Everybody knows about the problem with student loan, right? It's starting to build and build and build and everybody, a lot of it, well, I can't say everybody, but a lot of economists are whispering the word recession, recession, right? Recession. So logically, what does the Fed do? They raise rates, okay? Again, new math is working one plus one equals six. So the market gets destroyed. I mean, completely destroyed. The market goes from up 300 to down 100 in like seconds. I've rarely seen Amazon go down 40 points within 40 seconds. That's what we saw. We saw Netflix going down like eight points in 40 seconds. So the people who bought into the Fed, they got massacred, absolutely massacred. And again, when you really think logically and take a step back, I was sort of in the live webinar, you would have to be on some serious pills, serious, serious pills to get long minutes before the Fed was going to come out with an announcement in a bear market up 300 points a day. Where was your value? Where was your safety then? Unfortunately, all those traders who couldn't answer those questions before see what the possible outcome could be. They felt the ramifications of what actually did happen. So very, very violent week to the downside. And here's the key point. Here's the really key scenario that we talked about on the Qs the whole week. This 155 on the Qs, 156 on the Qs was the weekly trend line, right guys? We've been talking about this weekly trend line for two weeks. And I said, any close below 156, 155 is very, very bearish. And I said, well, there's a punches chance it could spill over into next year and we could test that 146 level. And when I said next year, I didn't expect to see two days from that, you know, two days from my point. And we went down again, stocks trade from support to support, right? And we balance and we held that 146 level. So you can see how aggressive this market is. You can see how aggressive technical analysis can be. The only question is, are you embracing technical analysis or are you running away from it? Okay, that's it. It's all, it's not scary. Okay, it's not scary if you are in control. The problem is unfortunately social media is a lot of new traders exposure. Okay. The only thing that you know about the stock market is social media. Okay.  You got to sit on hands, you cash is a position. And all you're doing is completely negating half the market. Okay. You're completely negating half the side of the market, half the ledger that you can trade on and you can do very, very well. Okay. In a bull market, when the market is going up, it takes like two hours for some of these stocks to go up $2. In a bear market, when you have a pivot and the algo hits at the same time, you could catch a $10 candle within three minutes. Again, we're seeing this over and over and over again. So if you know all this, why are you completely putting yourself or eliminating yourself from the equation, okay, of trading both sides of the market? Again, God gave you two eyes, two ears, two feet, two hands, right? Why would you possibly eliminate half the market that you can take incredibly aggressive action on? And again, I really do believe it's the lack of informational, proper information that you're dealing with. Again, when I started, I was on a trading list with some incredible, incredible traders. We had that intimate personal relationships that we built as a human element that we sat next to each other. We conversed. We spoke. We understood concepts. We understood why things were happening. We had the human element. And now, unfortunately, again, this is reality.  And the reality, they're 22-year-olds teaching 21-year-olds how to make money in the market, which is incredibly insane. If you really think about it and you break it down to bare bones, the only thing you need as aspiring trader is embrace technical analysis. That's it. Okay, you don't need me. You don't need you. You don't need the other guy down the road. All you need to do is adapt personal responsibility and just accept that technical analysis does work. Again, you don't need to trade pivots. You can trade options, futures, forex, Bitcoin, whatever you want to trade, okay? But accept there's always another way that you can make money. And the one thing that I keep on seeing over and over again, and it's really, again, for me, it doesn't make a difference. I'm not in that world. My life doesn't change one way or another. If you're trading, these things are not. I used to trade small caps for about seven years. Okay, about six, seven years. And I found out one day that, well, I'm starting to lose my edge. And for two weeks, about two, three weeks went by and I started losing an edge and I started losing consistency. And I had to make that tough choice that, well, you know what? Maybe there is no more money left than these things. Okay. And again, can you make money once in a while? You catch a runner or this that the other thing. Yeah, that's fine and dandy. But it really, it really woke up to the fact that the consistency level in these names were gone. So I had to make a choice. Okay. I had to make a real, real choice. I could sit there and try to grind it out and grind it out and grind it out and burn mental equity because again, you started seeing all these small cap alert services with a thousand, two thousand people and they kept on skewing these trades over and over again. I used to buy a stock and, you know, my whole thing was, well, I wanted to swing this thing with like a 15 cent stop for two weeks, three weeks. And the next thing I know I was getting stopped out 35, 40 cents later in 30 minutes because they were all buying these things. They were all dumping these things. So I lost that edge. Okay. And I had to make the decision and I left. I know a lot of you guys and unfortunately, a lot of you guys, especially a new, you're not well capitalized. Okay. I get that. Okay. I do get that. Um, but again, your force fed spoon food, you know, spoon fed that the only things that you could trade a small cap stocks. And I'm telling you the days old that there's a huge universe guys, I promise you there's a huge universe out there. Again, I don't care if you trade with me. If you don't trade me, that's your program, but I'm telling you for your, for your incredible longevity based case, you should really try everything. There's futures. There's options. Um, anything that you want to trade this big caps, there's mid caps, there's beta, right? There's something out there that you're not familiar with, but unfortunately a lot of new traders. Okay. They're in that position of kind of a bad marriage. Okay.  This is a very, very honest question. A lot of you guys started trading in the last three years, right?  Okay. Raise your hand if you've made a dent in your trading career. Okay. And these are trading the hot stocks. These are trading the stocks that everybody wants to be in. This is trading the sexy. This is trading time square with the bright lights. Okay. Again, in the most rabid bull market. Okay. That I can remember in the last 20 years. Okay. One of the biggest ones. Okay. And again, you don't need to answer me. It's all self reflection. At some point you have to look in the mirror and say, look, if I want to be a professional trader. Okay. I have to find my edge. I don't care what that edge is. I have to find it. And if you have to try out, okay, six, seven different ways of trading, eight different ways of trading, nine different ways of trading, you do what you have to do to find your edge. How long again, can you really afford to go another year? Okay. With going through the same cycle and oh, by the way, who's to say we are going to turn around in 2019. Okay. There are no breakouts. Okay. There's technical damage in every single stock out there. Yes. You're going to have days that you can have rabid, dead cat balances three, four, 500 points. The problem is every single chart is broken. Okay. You have no course of reference. You have no safety net. You can't just close your eyes and say, I'm going to buy the stock and hope it goes higher. You need a course. You need an exit point. And with dead cat market bounces. Okay. The only thing that we've been seeing that's really, really aggressive are ranges. Okay. This is what's the greatest part about pivots are we don't care. Do I want a bull market? Of course I want a bull market. The reason why is the liquidity is a lot better. Okay. There's much more market participants, which means, well, we can take advantage of uneducated traders on the other side of our trades. And the market is much more fluid. And by the way, everybody's in a good mood. Everybody loves life. The food tastes better. You're better looking, right? Everything is better in a bull market. However, we don't need a bull market. Okay. And the greatest part about trading pivots are you have points of interest. Okay. You have supply and you have demand. When a stock confirms supply. Okay. Big bottle. Stock confirms supply. It goes higher and stock confirms demand. It goes lower. So do we want a bull market? Absolutely.  We'll be okay too. And again, at some point, you have to turn around and say, how long can I afford to sit on my hands? How long can I turn around and say cash is a position? How long can I trade a market that is incredibly, let's be honest, incredibly manipulated? Okay. And this isn't a good market. And now I have to make a career trying to squeeze water out of a rock. Again, these are all personal questions. These are questions that I had a face with for a long, long period of time. And finally, I just had to find a better way. And hopefully for 2019, every single new aspiring trader will put themselves in a position that they could actually win instead of actually hope. So crazy market, right? Crazy market, again, worse week since 2008. Okay. Crazy action. Again, if you look at from the macro point, this is kind of where we're going into next week and possibly into the new year.  Any close below 146, you can see it, right? Any close below 146, we are headed to about 141. Okay. And again, stocks trade from support to support to support to support to support to support. So again, is there any guarantee we're going to go up in 2019? Absolutely not. We're not fortune tellers. Okay. We're not trying to predict the future. We're trying to gather information, collect data, understand what a sentiment is and wait for confirmation. And that's it. That's all we're trying to do. Very good. I thought this week was really good. Okay. I only traded for, I can't even say I traded on Friday. I put on a couple of positions on Amazon. Very, very good solid, very good solid week. There was only like three pivots, three or four pivots that triggered on Friday. I was done by, I think I traded for like, I was in the room for like an hour and a half, an hour and 40 minutes. I was just, my mind was already into it. I want to just kind of start my weekend. But again, you don't need a lot. Okay. You really don't need a lot. And here, you know, here were some pivots. Here are some pivots. Again, this is from the private Twitter feed. And just to give you guys really, really quick announcement, January 1st. Okay. January 1st, we have, as everybody knows, we have a private Twitter feed. That's only 20 bucks a month. Okay. Guys, if you can't sit in front of your computer and you can't make it to the live webinar, obviously, people ask me, what's the difference in the live webinar and the private Twitter feed? Number one, the private Twitter feed is 20 bucks. Okay. It's less than a dollar. It's less than a dollar a day to be there. And it's just strictly pivots. Okay. I don't tell you how to trade these pivots. The live webinar is strictly hands on trader development. We show you how to trade these pivots, what to do, what not to do. You see everything playing out live. You see all my executions and see why these stocks are trading all that good stuff. Nobody's trying to trick anybody. It's all about developing really good savvy adult traders. That's all it is. That's all it is. No nonsense. No BS in between. We trade real stocks with tremendous order flow and these pivots are real. So the most important part on Friday's session was some pretty good size, some pretty good size moves. We tweeted this out early in the morning. Only, I think only three or four pivots triggered. One of them was Nike. I forgot to post this. One of them was Nike and only went up 30 cents. Again, it's very, very tough to buy stocks in a bull market. Here is the pivot on Nike and again, it only went up like 30 cents and came right back down with the rest of the market. Here is the pivot off this 73, 85, 74 area. It went to like 74, 30. So that one failed. But if you look at some pretty big stuff, and again, here's my point about the pivots, they don't have a bias. They don't care which way the market goes. So here is the ranges for Friday. You have 137 to the upside, right? And you have 135 to the downside. That's it. Okay, we don't care about what happens in between. We don't care about 135, 39. We don't care about 136, 34. We care about building above 137 or building below 135. And you see why, right? And you see exactly why. And here is the pivots right here. Here's 137, right? 137 and all this down here was 135, right? 135, 135, 135, 135, 135. Stock got destroyed, completely destroyed. And not only did it break the 35, it broke on the nightly watch list at 131 level. That was the previous day's low. And the stock went down to 28. Big, big move there. Tesla, there was actually an upward trade in Tesla. Congratulations, you guys, who call it this. Again, I talked about this. 321 needs to reclaim and to spike, right? And so here is a Tesla pivot right over here. Here's a 60-minute channel, right? Here's the 60-minute channel right over here. And I said, once it breaks this 321, the stock can go. And again, the rallies that you're going to have in a bear market are going to be very, very quick. Okay, sometimes they're going to be 40 seconds. Sometimes it'll be five minutes. They're going to be very, very quick. So you have to be very proactive, scaling out on the way out and use the break even when it stops. But you can see, took out this 321 level, went to 323.5. If you look at it like the five-minute view, you can see how fast it actually went up there. You know, pretty, excuse me, very, very, very quickly. Here's the 121, 321. You can see how fast that was. So that's that there. The biggest move definitely came on Netflix. This was definitely the biggest move right over here. I tweeted this out. I tweeted this out before the pivot. And again, I want to show you guys, especially, you know, just to show how powerful, right? How powerful the pivot is when you know exactly the moving parts. And I tweeted this out. I said, hey, listen, you know, here's the first tweet. 60-minute view. If you confirm and can test yesterday's load, it's going to flush, man. It's going to flush again. Here's the candle into support, right? Here's the candle into support. And we knew that 253.50 was going to be the term. That was the big number there. And we talked about it right here. 253.50 lying in the sand. If it builds below, can flush. 251.8080 is yesterday's load. So use that as a guide. So basically speaking, if it takes out, if it holds that 5188 level, you want to use breakeven as a stop. But if it builds through, it could really, really flush. And if you look what happened on Netflix yesterday, just the destruction. So here was the pivot, right? So here is the pivot that we talked about that tweeted out the 253.50. And it took out the previous day's load, 251.88, and just got absolutely destroyed. Just absolutely destroyed. Went down like $12.13 within like 30 minutes. Just an absolute brutal aggressive market if you are on the wrong side of these pivots and you just don't know what you're looking for and you're trading the market as a victim instead of a predator. It's a very, very important level. So going into this week, again, can we have an individual day that the market rallies up 500, 600 points? Sure, right? In the most bearish markets, bearish scenarios, you're always going to have very aggressive, incredibly aggressive, dead cat balanced days. But again, when you look at the cues from the macro point of view, until we break this whole downward cycle, okay, we're at 147, we're talking about minimum 161, okay? Minimum, okay, can you have days in between? Stock's going from supply to supply to share, absolutely. And those days you're going to trade individually. But until we break the minimum 161 closing basis on the cues, at least breaking this downward cycle, don't talk about the word breakout. Don't talk to the word bottom. We don't know if it's a bottom. We don't need a bottom, okay?  We don't care about a bottom. We're not in the guessing business. We're not in, you know, we don't take opium, okay? Collect data, understand the sentiment, which way the wind is blowing, and make sure you are trading on the right side of the market.  Yeah, let me give you guys some ideas. They're all on the short side, because again, that's where the market is right now. But again, can the market trap shorts and kind of midway confirm upward channels, 10, 11 o'clock in the morning for cash flow to the upside? Absolutely, I have no problem trading both sides of the market. But from the macro point of view, let me give you guys some pictures of where we could see some strength and weakness. The only one that kind of like on the two-sided market is Tesla, okay? You can see clearly both sides of the candle. The top of the range here is 223.5, okay? So if it starts building above 223.5, can it get to 226, can it get to 27? Sure, why not? You know, it's a good, good cash flow move. Dollar, $2, $3, nothing wrong with that, especially in a bear market. So if it starts building above 223.5, 224, you get a spike right to the next supply. But you can see it right here. Two candles right here. If it starts building below this 314 level, it's going to pull, and it's going to pull very, very aggressively. ESRX, you know, I kind of like this ESRX setup here. Again, look at the close. First close into this big rising support. Does this look familiar? Look at the cues, right? Let me show you the cues on the weekly. Let me show you the cues on the weekly. You see that first, you see that first close, right? You see this first close here? Below support where it went. Okay, now look at ESRX's chart, right? Exactly the same thing. If you look at ESRX's chart, first close under the rising 100-day moving average. If it confirms this 92 level, and this is a shot, it goes to 89. Again, you're risking 20 cents on the trade for a possible $4 move. Again, a lot of value there. ESRX, excuse me, that was ESRX. Clock. A lot of these semiconductors just look awful. Clock, right? Again, here's the bottom of the channel. Pretty simplistic looking chart. If it starts building below 84.50, you get hit. NXPI. Again, another semi. Again, look at the bottom of the channel here. If it starts building below 69.70, you can see the move measured potential, 63, 64 bucks. Keep an eye on that. Qualcomm. I know some of you guys called Qualcomm yesterday in the live webinar. It was off the watch list. I think the number was 56 and went all the way down to 54.80s. Excuse me. I think Monday, if this thing starts confirming Friday's low of 84.60s and confirm like 53.50s, you got the next leg down. Keep an eye on Qualcomm. Google, I'm so sick. I was waiting for that 1,002 break for like three weeks on Google, and I didn't trade yesterday. That 1,003 break was big. Here's 1,003. Here's 1,003. It broke 1,003. Went down to 980. So sick, but that was the big number. We're watching this thing for next week, 980. The pivot's below 980. It's going lower. Keep an eye on that. And Expedia. Look at Expedia as well. Multi, multi week breakdown. It closed below the $100.26 level. If it closes, if it gets below 109.90s, you have the next leg down. Again, what is the risk? 30 cents and $100 stock. Again, these are free, free trades. So, guys, it's a new year. It's a new year coming up. There's an expression that a lot of people use new me, new year, but I'm telling you as the day is old, if you're trading exactly the same way, nothing is going to change. I promise you. It could be a different date on the calendar, but if you don't make those necessary steps to find you're a niche and stop breaking and stop trading the normal way that social media has really put down your throat that you have to do the whole one minute charts, the whole small caps. You will find yourself in exact same position, maybe even worse where you started from. So, guys, God bless. I want to wish everybody a healthy and happy Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. God's help. I'll see you all in the field on Monday. Take care, guys. Have a great, great day.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2023 Panini Origins football four box pick your team number six from jaspyscasebreaks.com Those are the box remaining from the case that we popped open thanks to the group of people who bought spots straight up Always appreciate that Let me set my focus here. It's a hard time focusing on Just set it at one Setting right there. No autofocus So big thanks to this group right here for making it happen Cliff you ended up with last ball mojo with the cowboys big chunk of teams ended up in that random number block And we did that randomizer in a separate video. So for that big group of teams right there. It's a serial number break nice Let's set this This right next to me over here And now let's use the die to see which stack of four we're gonna do we'll go One two three four five six four one two three four. So we'll do the middle of the stack right there We'll do these some other time. All right. Good luck everybody two autographs and one memorabilia Per box on average That's the kind of stuff that we're looking for Good luck everybody. Thanks for getting in Mistaken there should be a couple cards on the bottom We got Luke schoonmaker for Dallas has to 149 That goes to Clifford There's John Mets you double oh two out of 125. That'll be for John John with no H. This is gets the John with an H Texans Josh Shag of Raiders It goes to Kevin And Jameer Gibbs Detroit Kevin Smith Kevin M with the Josh J. Gibbs and Kevin Smith with the Detroit Lions Kevin S Nice Jameer Gibbs Alright and your hits We got we got Michael Mair rookie patches 107 out of 199 scored his first touchdown of the season On a nice off-balance throw by Aiden O'Connell Kevin M Raiders Got an autograph and a redemption Devon a shame Rookie Otto for the Dolphins. That's the net that's the Raiders next matchup It's gonna be a tough one Miami that will be a random number block Team and that's not numbered So that's gonna be randomized to someone in the group. I'll actually set that there to remind me on the randomizer and the The redemption is gonna be rookie jumbo patch autographs turquoise Card 21 and that will be T a Tan Tanner tank tank Dell For Houston that's gonna be for John Got the Texans straight up Tank Dell and CJ Stroud Looks like they have a nice connection together Nice Congrats Box one done another redemption down there. All right, we got DJ more 141 out of 149 And it goes to bears So if you're not familiar with the random number block you go by that digit right there not those Not there, but that one right there So that goes to Chicago one And that'll be for William 122 out of 125 Zach Charbonnet for Seattle That's also a random number block team that goes to number two be for Anthony Khalil Herbert that'll be part of that randomizer with for the number block and the Bijan Robinson also part of that That group as well winner take all 69 out of 99 Roshan Johnson rookie patches Like I said bears are a number block team. So that'll go to Chicago 9 Kristen JJ. What's up? Then we got Shawn Clifford Going to Jerry who got the Packers straight up the redemption. Good luck everybody rookie jumbo Jersey autographs Card seven J Hey Jax Jackson Jackson Smith and jigba Seattle That's gonna be That's gonna be a random number block team that goes to zero that's gonna go to Tristan and the number zero Thanks JJ a peeky blinders vibe. Yeah, I've heard of that show But I've been wearing these I think they got it from me I've been wearing these pre-peaky blinders So next time you're sitting around with your friends watching peaky blinders. You're like, hey, that's they got that Joe Jaspi look All right, there's another redemption down there. It's a little unfortunate kind of a lot of redemptions But there's Calvin Ridley 9 out of 99 for the Jaguars. It's gonna be for Jacksonville 9 That'll be for Tristan 51 out of 75 Tyree kill Dolphins one that will be for William Curtis Samuel is a number block team, but not numbered in Jalen Carter Random number block team But not number All right, and over here we have 7 out of 75 Marvin Mims hometown roots relic from Frisco, Texas Which is in the Dallas area? Denver Denver number seven Kind of see the numbering right there. Yeah Denver number seven is gonna be for William The on-card autograph is to Jay Spears red ink Nice 42 out of 99 Tennessee Titans are a number block team Tennessee to Anthony without and the redemption rookie jumbo Jersey autographs card 29 I see K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E notes Michael Wilson Wilson Michael Wilson is a wide receiver for the Arizona football Cardinals He's from the Southern California area was born in CME Valley and it's Omar with the Cardinals got the Cardinals straight up nice All right fourth and final box. Good luck everybody. There's Rishi rice for the Chiefs That's a number block group not numbered trailing Berks Titan. That's also part of that group K-Shon boot that will be for the Patriots buta buta buta That goes to the Patriots random number block group 29 out of 125 boot of Baker I'll go to Omar and Garrett Wilson is also part of that Random number block group that'll go to Jets one and that'll be for William Behind Clayton Tune will go to Omar.  So hopefully he he does well That goes to Kevin M. Got my Raiders straight up and back here tank Bigsby rookie Jersey and autograph for Jackson the little ding right there, but But Jaguars and that is not numbered So that's gonna be part of the non-numbered group Winner take all so let's do that randomizer Nice stack of stuff here tank Bigsby some base cards Bijan Robinson rookie And a day of an a-chain All right, so now let's flip back to that number block group Gather everybody's names right here You dice new list name on top Gets that stack of cards after eight five and a three eight times. Good luck one two three four five six seven and Eighth and final time that is for Luke. There you go Luke You'll get these non numbered card groups right there. There you go gang I'm Joe for jaskies case breaks calm. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us And I'll see you next time for the next break


Our defense was phenomenal Joe. We had 80 digs and it we were relentless and it seemed like every time there was a long rally we end up winning that rally and that's just a crusher when so many great plays on each side because their defense is also phenomenal and and to put the final ball down or force them into an air I thought that was probably the biggest thing tonight. I think we were just so pumped up that and then you know Shannon Bailey came in you know plays in the the back end of the rotation had 15 kills again tonight but only had two errors so she had a really great night and Simone Guest had also had her first double-digit kill so two freshmen in a huge game really came through. Well it just balances us out. I felt like we had an advantage in rotations four five and you know the back three rotations tonight and it just so happened that Shannon and Simone were in the game then and that's where I thought we had some nice long runs. Sarah Straub another freshman got back there and served had a really nice serving run and she's an excellent server and plays decent defense for a middle.


Yeah, today we are going to visualize some of the data from Drupal.ovg made available via its API. This data is somewhat indicative of the community behind Drupal.  So I am Hussain Abbas. And actually, this is the second time I've been given the last session of the day. It's always a challenge. Back in Barcelona, I was the only person between everyone and the beach. Over here, it's everyone and whatever is around here. I have been working with PHP since about 15 years and with Drupal for about six years. I'm now a technical architect at Accident. When I came to New Orleans, actually not just this Monday when the conference started, there was a haunted history too organized by Amazilabs. And throughout the tour, the guide, the tour guide who walked us through paid special attention to all the specifics and the numbers of everything that happened. And even though I believe, I mean, of course, it's just stories, all these haunted stories at these various houses. For example, this house over here, I don't think I can pronounce this. But even though these are just stories, it's really just about the numbers.  And I like to collect these as data. I'm actually always been fascinated with collecting numbers and data of my own personal life. In an organized manner, and I just don't mean Excel, I religiously check in everywhere. I use Strip It, I use NuCache, I use all these apps that basically collect data in a format that I can use. And I can process them however I want later. And that brings me to Drupal contributions. So I've been a contributor to Drupal core and modules and everything since about two or three years. And until recently, there was no real way to quantify that data. It was actually available. I just didn't know about it. And you might have heard of DrupalCourse.com that basically counts the commit credits you have on Drupal 8. So that was the only metric I had, basically.  You know, identifying what's causing community contributions to stay in a long tail. So if you have looked at those contribution graphs, you would know that around 70 to 80% of people just have one or two commit mentions. And we were looking at how we can pull that up. And of course we looked at data from Drupal.org. And we got this data from Drupal Association at that time. And I always wanted to get the access to the raw data. And eventually I found the API. I didn't want to scrape, obviously. I didn't want to scrape Drupal.org. I found the API this year when in Drupalcon Asia, which was held last February in Mumbai, a company called Azri Solutions organized a contest, basically, you know, to build a visualization for whatever data you collect from Drupal.org. And I participated. I didn't really expect to win. I've never won things in life. But I was actually hoping that whatever libraries I build out of this contest, I would use it for my own projects, which I had, you know, there are a lot of projects which I quite shelled up from quite a long time. I was hoping to use all of these libraries over there.  You know, a lot of, you know, just getting the users took about a week on my instance. Well, anyway, in spite, you know, whatever, I actually won the contest and I'm actually hoping to take it further today. And in that process, I want to just share some numbers and some of the things that I found while building all these visualizations. So a little bit about the technology itself of this website. It's called drustats.com, by the way, DRUSTATES.com. It's, well, the idea is that, you know, I mean, I just, I'm hoping for more contributions to that in terms of, not just in terms of spirit, but pull requests as well. It is, it's built with Laravel 5.2. It uses MongoDB to store all the data. It's convenient, you know, MongoDB stores all the JSON written by Drupal.org API as it is, you know. I don't need to worry about the schema or whatever differences I need to verify. And actually it has got a great aggregation pipeline, which actually helps in processing all the numbers. And it's pretty fast. For a single instance, it's actually pretty fast. I use Beanstalk for queuing.  So all the nodes, different type of nodes, forums, issues, modules, and all that. They get updated every 24 hours. And on the front end, the graphs, the charts themselves are shown using a D3, that's a data-driven document library. And I use Bootstrap just for the, it's a very simple thing. There's not much to it. Just uses Bootstrap, you know, for just getting it up and ready. Quick note on D3. D3 is actually very, very basic if you've used it. You'd know it's very low level. There are various reusable libraries on top of it. I have not, I did not really have time to evaluate each one of them. So suggestions over there are welcome. So data collection is an important part of data science, but it's actually a relatively simple one. You know, what is more important is asking the right question. All the data in the world are just numbers until someone asks the question to transform that data into the information that you're interested in. And my main goal with this information is not just to present the data I've collected, but also to identify what questions we can ask from this data. So let's jump in. Projects are an important point of community and it's actually useful to know how they're growing. So this chart shows the growth of all the projects. Yeah, this chart shows the growth of all the projects since the beginning. It's since around, you can see from 2004. You can see roughly, as of right now, we have about 34,000 plus modules, 2,000 themes and 1,000 distributions, also 200 core projects. So core projects are basically Drupal.org, sorry, Drupal core projects, which have been forked for testing and playing, and some 20 or so theme engines. You can, actually on the website, you can filter out these data, but in this chart you can't really see because most of it has been taken up by the module itself, just the modules. So you can actually see the difference between the modules and themes. It's what, almost 20 times modules are present and compared to the themes. So a few things of note over here. Around 2011, you can see that there has been a slide, there is actually a jump in how the projects have increased. The curve, which was growing slowly, suddenly accelerates. You can actually see that clearly over here. So this graph is slightly inaccurate because, well, it's more like a histogram and I should have used a bar chart. But for the most part, you see it's accurate. And you can see basically around 2011, that suddenly there were what, 60 projects created, 60 plus. And I'm guessing that's when Drupal 8 development started and a lot of projects got out of core or something. I mean, I've not really evaluated this further, but it's actually an interesting thing. What's even more interesting is that after that, we are seeing consistently more projects being added in. So until 2011, you can see, on average, around five projects get added in. But after that, it kind of doubles almost. Doubles or almost triples in some cases. And the graph is kind of fuzzy. That's really because it's on a weekly cycle. It's just not resolved to that resolution. It just shows, I mean, all the jumps. So the projects, from back-of-hand calculations, I saw more projects we created on Friday, if I remember correctly, number two other days. So that's when you see the peaks. Actually, on the website, you can zoom in to see the dates wherever these peaks are. We can look at it a bit later. We can look at it after the, I think. This is, actually just a bonus graph here. It's a bubble chart sorted by all the modules, sorted by the number of downloads in each module. So, well, there's no surprise. The views is the highest over here, followed by AC tools, token. This is, there is a similar chart for all the projects, not just modules, but that's mostly just filled with modules. It's a, obviously, Drupal core is the highest number of highest downloaded project. And the highest downloaded theme is Zen. But apart from that, it basically follows the same structure, these modules, that chart is mostly filled with all modules. Well, another way to look at project is the number of issues. So this chart over here, it shows all the projects on d.o with number of issues. So you can see Drupal core, for example, has 74,000 plus issues. Webmasters, 22,000. Webmasters is the Drupal autology content, content on Drupal autology, and that has around 22,000 issues. And so on, you can see this over here. Now, this could actually be assigned to, this could actually be a way to see the active projects on d.o. It's not so much of a sign of the code quality of these projects. It's more about how many people are involved with that project and how many issues were created. The next one, this chart is slightly different. It shows the actual open issues right now per project. And this is kind of, you know, you could correlate this with the quality of code. So again, no surprises here. Drupal core is with around 14,000 plus open issues at the moment. Open issues is everything, open, active, fixed, all the issues get fixed. Issues get closed after two weeks after they're fixed. So in those two weeks, they're still counted as open. And RTBC, all this, you know, needs work, needs review, all these issues are counted as open. And there are such, 14,000 such issues on core, 4,000 on views and so on. Okay, and really, what can be seen here is that, if you can imagine, it's more of a long tail. That Drupal core has significantly more issues or open issues compared to any other project. You know, it quickly falls down. It's from 14,000 to 4,000 to 2,000 to 1,500. And then it kind of stabilizes. So this is what is a long tail in this graph. It's not shown here though. And that's another interesting thing about how the projects get developed. So Drupal core is a highly organized effort. Everything, every commit that happens, happens through issues. This is usually not the case with many of the contrib modules. Many contrib modules are very particular about this. There is always an issue for whatever change that goes in views, for example, of course. Others are not so much. There's an issue you just fix it. You don't create an issue on Drupal.org for it. So this, we can just look at the overall issue count on Drupal.org. It's as of this morning, it was almost 900,000 issues. And it's all issues, open, closed, everything. So this pie chart breaks up the issues into bug reports and further into the priority of each and the status of those issues. So it's actually an interactive, you take your mouse over each of the slices and it will show you how many issues are there under that. And you can actually filter per module. So this basically, I mean, it's again like I said earlier, it's about asking the right question. So if you are looking at, for example, one of the modules we saw earlier, like OG or views, what's, how do the issues look in those modules? This, you can actually go to the website and filter it just for issues on views module or issues on OG module. Another thing is that those big maroon slices you see most of them, they are actually closed and fixed issues. And like there are a few, there is a legend over there, I don't think so, it's visible on the screen right now. But basically in each slice, there are about 75% of issues are closed. So it kind of correlates with the earlier graphs we saw, which is about 20% of issues are closed. I'm sorry, 20% of issues remain open compared to the overall number of issues that are present. Then let's look at the users and of course users are the community. Drupal.org, again as of this morning, has about 1.9 million users. And this is how they mostly split up in different countries. It's no surprise, USA has about three and a half times that of India, which has twice the users of Great Britain. It's Great Britain internally, United Kingdom of Great Britain, which is about three times of Canada and Indonesia. Then it follows on, there is a list. I think Germany, I believe Germany is next. And there are about 757,000 users which have no country set. The field is null basically. And we'll come back to talking about the countries. There's another graph of how the users have grown in each country. We'll actually look at some other data there. But just some other things. So languages spoken by users on d.to. Again, English is, there's no surprise there. English is the highest, with 66,000 users speaking English. Say they speak English. Around 8,000 say Spanish, French, German and Russian. So again, it's kind of English is almost what? Eight times compared to other languages. But if you look at the amount of users that have not specified the language, you know, these numbers are very small. It's 1.8 million users have not specified the language, which makes this sample size too small to really discern anything. It's just a number for now. And the next, this next visualization just shows it further. This expertise is even of lesser value. 99% of users have not put in any expertise. So, but still from what we can see, you know, developers, site builders, themeers, they are mostly the same, 2,000 or 3,000 users each, 1,500 project managers, one and site building 300. So actually site building and site building are same, obviously, semantically, but this is a free text field. So users can put in whatever they want to. Anyway, this is like I said, again, the sample size is too small to really make out anything compared to almost 2 million users. It's 3,000 users saying developers is not really an indication of anything. So, over the past few years, this is how the users have grown on DDoTome. So, let's assume that if the UIDs have always been assigned sequentially, which right now, the UID is around, I think the latest UID is around 3.5 million. We can imagine, you know, we can guess that around 1.6 million users have been blocked or removed. It's very easy to, I think, they must be spam. We see small jumps in this data. So around mid-2012, you see there is a jump. And then they're like small, it's not really significant, but I think the most significant jump over here is in 2012. And this actually makes it a little bit more clearer where the jumps are. So ignore the first two peaks. Again, like I said, this should not really be a line graph. It should be a bar chart. This is just like a quick chart I constructed. So it's basically, you know, from the beginning, it seems like there were 2,000 users migrated. And until mid-2003, there were no new users. Until in 2004, there were again around 2.5,000 users migrated. So by the way, I checked this chart. The dates are actually the same for all these users, so it's not a bug in the code. But after that, you can see it's pretty accurate. So again, there is a peak in, like we saw in mid-2012. And we can actually see that in one of the upcoming charts, what that could be. This is, again, a small thing, you know, gender ratio has always been something I look forward. You know, in all the camps and meetups I organize, this is one thing I always measure, gender ratio. And on Drupal.org, gender ratio works out about, what was it? Actually calculated it, but I forgot the percentage right now. Around 74%, I think. So you have, as of again today, as of today morning, you have around 135,000 users identifying as male, 28,000 as female. Around 1,000, say, other, they are not specified, and 200 as transgender. And the users that have not filled this at all, they are about 91% of users have not filled this at all. So this sample size is still kind of small, 10% of the population is not significant, but at least we know it matches up with what we observe. Again, if you see, you know, we see the same jumps that we saw earlier. So similarly, you know, this is again a similar chart, but it's split by country. Now this was actually a heavy chart to render. It actually crashed Firefox, and in Chrome it stopped playing all the animations. It's basically splitting up all the users per country. So the big gray one you see on the, the biggest one you see on the bottom, that's actually users that have not specified a country at all. The next orange one is United States. After that, the red one is India.  All the other countries are close to, are linear. They're pretty much linear. You can actually see the gray is the part of the graph, which is responsible for the jump. It increasingly seems like, you know, that a lot of spam users that got in on that day. And so if you take that out, you know, I mean, we still see that United States and India have been growing, you know, faster than compared to other regions. But they're still linear. All the countries, they're pretty much linear. Which is what is expected, I think. You know, we are, our growth has not accelerated. It's, the growth is there, but it has been mostly constant. So all these visualizations, they are on roostars.com. Some of them are not listed on menu, but it's actually the same data, same code. And I'd appreciate feedback, contributions, you know, on that. Just create issues there, pull request or tweet on, just let me know by Twitter. I'm looking to, you know, keep building this website. So what do you think? And also questions, and of course, you know, please leave feedback for the session. Yeah, yeah, yeah, please. So what do you need to make it better? Well, like, like I said in the beginning, you know, it's important that we ask the right question. So all this data is there and all the visualizations are there. But if you're not deriving anything of value over here, it's useless. So it's important to ask the right question and we can always build that. Josh Mitchell, I'm the CTO of the Drupal Association. So my team, you know, works on Drupal.org, can do improvements to Drupal.org. We can also help others get improvements on the Drupal.org. So one of the things that I would love to see is some contribution around helping to find what should be in the API, what are the things that would help identify better data so that your visualizations can be more accurate. So any help we can get there, I think, would be helpful. True, yeah. So I'm assuming all the code for which drives this API is on d.to, is that right? I've actually not looked into it. I meant to look into it after Drupal.Koneshia, but... The documentation could probably use a little bit of help, but the basics are all on Drupal.org slash Drupal.org slash api. Yeah, that's the instructions. So what I'm saying is the code that drives this API, I believe it's a REST-WS. It's all under Project Drupal.org. Yeah, that's right. The main customers, but it is using REST-WS, the module. We've only implemented what is out of the box with REST-WS, but I think we would need to extend it to basically, the API of the trip would be doing that in a performant way, because some of those queries could be... Yes, so what I found over here was that there were many API calls that could actually be a lot better. So internally, users refer to a field collection, and field collection then points to, let's say, an organization, right? So this actually makes me... This actually means that I have to make the API call twice to get the organization for the user, right? Because just getting the field collection ID is not enough. I have to see what organization is storing the field collection. So things like these, you know, the same thing that happens to the projects. So projects have releases, but the releases themselves are under another field collection.  Another thing I noticed over here was because of which the user graphs are not really that accurate, because users don't have an updated timestamp, which means that I can never get updates to users. And actually there are, users have more entities than any other entity over here. So it's not easy to scan through all the two million users to find updates. I can do that with nodes because they have a change timestamp, and I can sort on changed and just retrieve the nodes I need to, changed within that last 24 hours. I can't do that for users. I can do, I can just get the new users. I can't get updates to the existing users. So these are a few things, and I'm open to contribute to make the API better over here. I just had to, you know, get into it. Yeah. That's part of why I was asking, because like I love the visualizations. Oh, thank you. Very worthy of a motorcycle. I'm gonna show you. But I want to figure out how we can get more of that and make it more accurate. Because I know from querying a lot of the Drupal.org data that, for instance, 1.9 million users is not accurate. We know that a lot of those are spammer accounts. Which muddies the data and makes it harder to see. Right. So the API returns only the active users. The spam users must be blocked, right? No. No? They're not written by the API. I'm gonna say of the 1.9 million accounts, some of them are spam accounts that were created that were never used to create spam. So we know that to be the case. So figuring out what that real number is, is actually probably more like querying all the confirmed users or... Exactly. Wearing all confirmed users plus users that have been created after the date that our spam measures were put in place, those sorts of things. Yeah, true. For example, if they have any comments or if they have created any forum, like any kind of nodes, for example. So that would be an indication. Yeah. True. I'd love to see contribution in that space. So thank you for pulling all that together. You're welcome. Thank you. So are there any plans of...  Are there any plans of embedding any of these chunks back into Google.org somewhere? Home page might be a great place, by the way, but anyway. No, I mean, I think Josh can answer that. But yeah, there are no plans as far as I know. I mean, I'd love to help in any way. But again, you know, the visualizations, I'm kind of happy keeping it running separately if that's what it needs. Of course, you know, any help. So I'm running this hosting on Digital Ocean. So yeah, so I'm happy to continue doing that. Of course, if Drupal.org, like Drupal Association, prefers to keep it on Drupal.org for some reason, I'm, of course, you know, I'm open to contribute over there as well. Josh, probably not the home page. We used to have a map on the home page. I actually think the home page is in the best place for visualization because it's already competing for so much attention. So you can see as we get the API better and we get that refined and we figure out what are the things that best describe the community. I would love to have those visualizations on Drupal.org and drive traffic to it because obviously you get more traffic by having it on the home of the community than being on a separate site. But happy to link to it as well. It's just a matter of getting them more accurate so that they really tell the story. Because some of those are awesome as they are right now and some of them we, like, for instance, the user things, things like that. But I can see a lot of the issues and projects that we can link to that right now. It is really valuable. Motivating, I think, Hussain, you've got a long way to go and a few, good few milestones out there. We could, yeah, you know, let's get this Drupal.org, and write the motorcycle. Thanks. And by the way, you know, seeing Indonesia as, you know, the top five was something new to me. Had it been here, I would have observed that, or, you know, noticed, but that's where visualization really makes a difference. That was a surprise to me. Germany was just after it. And I could just fit in six numbers on the slide, so. My name is Chara Scruzz. I'm from Ukraine and our guys from the Drupal Ukraine community did a similar project. But we analyzed Drupal.org stats, but our main goal was to compare countries. We compared Eastern Europe countries by developers activity on Drupal.org. But you guys did some other visualizations and actually your visualization are very good. Thank you. Maybe you can just, we release our project on Drupal.org. It's available like a model. It's called Drupal.org stats. Maybe you can found some ideas and implement it in better way. So it's like we can work together and make it even better. I'll be very happy to. Thank you. You can always reach me on Twitter. So I always go by the Twitter handle. I mean, the name Hussein web pretty much everywhere. Twitter, d.o. So, yeah. Thank you for sharing this data. I can understand why the folks at the Drupal Association would be interested in this. I was curious why you're interested in this particular topic. So, like I explained, data has always been something I've been fascinated about. I collect each and everything in my personal life as well. I mean, I religiously check in into each and everything wherever I go. It's on four square. I note down each and every dollar or rupee. We spend, we have Indian rupees currency, right? So I write down each and every, even if it's five rupees, I note it down that I spend five rupees. It's, I don't know, maybe you can, maybe it's close to an obsession, I guess. But yeah, I try to collect data and not just collect data, but have it in a way which I can process later. So of course, I've been interested into many open data storages as well. So for example, open data store for trips, open data store for flights. And well, I'm a bit of a procrastinator as well. So I'm not really done as much as with the data as I should, as I want to, but I'll get there someday. This is something which I just got around to. So you mentioned a number of times the importance of interpreting the data rather than just collecting it. And I was curious if there, if you thought of many potential goals that you might be able to take this data with. For example, maybe you could also pull in data from other communities and compare it with Drupal data and display it in such a way to help emphasize how Drupal does things in certain ways. Maybe, you know, contributions by gender, something like that. Have you looked at pulling in data from other communities that might be available? That thought has crossed my mind, but I'm not really, you know, I'm not really built up any ideas around it because it's a lot of effort to collect this data. This website took me about 15 whole days to build. You know, I mean, like I spent nights and building this for the contest to get it ready in time. So it's not on my top list, but it's something which I really want to do. But more important than that is the gender thing which you mentioned. This is something which I've been actively following. You know, like I said in the, I organize meetups in camps back home. So this is something which I always try to measure, you know, the gender ratio. So Drupal cons, we get the number in closing session. We'll get this conference's number tomorrow. But again, you know, in camps back home, I always see this number and see how it holds up to the industry trends, you know, which is around 20% which matches over here, by the way, which matches the camps I have seen, camps I organize back home and the camps I have been to in India. So this is something, you know, this is a number personally I would like to see grow. So that's one of the other things. And... I wasn't necessarily suggesting you to do more work. I was just curious if you had looked into if this data is available, or similar data might be available from other groups after our communities. Well, if it's there, that's great. I am not aware of any such place. I'm not really, yeah, I'm not really made any effort in that direction, yeah. I'm actually, that's the best thing about open source, right?  Then, yeah, that makes things easier for me as well. Thank you. Thank you. So I think, Mike, yeah. And it did the visualization. So let's talk about Royal Enfield, the motorcycle. It's one of the best motorcycles in India. Since 1955, I do not think there has been any other bike. So, that perhaps was one more good reason. Yeah, it was a reason to get it done finally. Add to that, I personally am very interested in how the community works and how certain decisions come to be made. And I do think it is helpful to have data to maybe compare ideas and then maybe test theories against that. So, visualizing it, I do think is helpful. Yeah, I agree, I agree. Okay, and if there are no other questions, I think we're done. Please feel free to, so I don't have my Twitter handle on the slide right now, but like I said, it's Hussainweb pretty much everywhere. You can tweet me there. I have a Twitter handle for the website as well, drewundasco stats, so you can tweet there as well. And yeah, that's the GitHub repo, Hussainweb slash true stats. So you can create issues or pull requests or just look at the code. So there are complete instructions in the repository. You can look at how to set it up. But I mean, if you have any ideas on setting it up, I would love to collaborate. There's no reason you have to go to and scan the whole dataset yourself. Yeah, so by the way, this dataset, the dataset that gets scanned, I strip out all the descriptions from the field. So my primary motivation in doing that was to not use more disk space than necessary. And anyway, I did not have any ideas on what to do with the description anyway. I have some ideas, it's maybe too early for that, like NLP processing and all that, that could be done on the descriptions. Really, it's too early. So for now, in interest of disk space, I did not store the descriptions. But what matters is the relationship between different entities and that's there. So I think that's more than enough to actually still keep asking the right questions and keep going ahead. Thank you everyone. Thank you. You can always look at it at drewstats.com, all this here, except some of them which are not in the menus. Most of these are there. Issues we don't actually, I mean, you actually have a box over there so you can go over the project issue.  Send it to you over, let me see the file. Oh, they're not got the link. Yeah, okay. I was one of the bobers. I know, I know.


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