This week on the anxious truth, we're talking about the intersection between anxiety anxiety disorders and neurodivergence issues like ADHD or autism spectrum disorder. So let's get to it. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome to episode 277 of the anxious truth, even though I made a mistake during the interview that you'll hear later and call to 276. It's not. This is episode 277 of the anxious truth. Welcome. I am Drew Lincellata, creator and host of this fine podcast and YouTube channel. If you're watching on YouTube, hey, YouTube. This week, we're talking about the intersection between anxiety anxiety disorders and neurodivergence issues like ADHD or autism spectrum disorder. I have a special guest on this week who is pretty experienced with this well trained in this and I trust to talk about it. It's a question that I get asked all the time. I have ADHD or I am on the autism spectrum and I don't know what it means for my anxiety or my anxiety recovery. Can I still get better? Can I use these principles? There's this method air quotes work for me. So I have Dr. Terry Bacow with me today. She's a clinical psychologist based here in New York City, not too far from me. Again, she takes a clinical, she takes a CBT approach to anxiety and anxiety disorders. So what she says, we'll stand very familiar, but she also has a particular interest in neurodivergent issues. And she's rubbed elbows with a lot of people who are very well versed in those issues, very well respected in that community and published a lot of really good work in that community. So when it came time to actually address this and answer some of those questions, Terry seemed like the obvious choice to me. So we have her on this week. And before I get into that, just a quick reminder, as always, every week, the anxious truth is more than just this podcast episode or this YouTube channel. There are 276 other videos and podcast episodes that came before this. There are books that I've written on anxiety and anxiety disorders. There are very low cost, I think, pretty affordable workshops and courses. There's the podcast I did with Josh Fletcher called Disordered. All of those things can be found on my website at theanxiestruth.com. So if you're looking for more than just this particular video or you want to know more about this approach to anxiety and anxiety disorders, go to theanxiestruth.com, check it out, avail yourself of everything that's there. People tell me it's helpful, so I'd like to think that it is. I'm pretty proud of all that work. And I appreciate the support that all of you have shown me over the years in producing that work. So go check it out. Let's get to it in this episode again. I kind of messed up. I said that it was episode 276. It's not 277. So if you want to get to the show notes for this episode, it's theanxiestruth.com slash 277. But the interview with Dr. Prakow was really great. We went for about 25 minutes. It is jam-packed full of great information from a great source reputable that I trust. So I think you guys are going to enjoy it, whether or not you are dealing with neurodivergent issues for yourself or a loved one, or you're just interested in the topic. She was really great. I'm definitely going to have her back for sure in the future to talk more about this stuff. So let's get to it. And then at the end, I will come back for a wrap-up as usual. I hope you enjoy it. Let's get to it. Hello, Terry. Welcome. Thanks for coming. Thank you for having me. You're very welcome. It has taken us a while to get together to do this, but here we are. And we're going to address a topic that I know I get asked about a lot. And I needed to find somebody that I can trust to talk about this. And you wrote that really most excellent article with this ADHD focused. And I thought, and I'll put this all in the show notes, by the way, I'll tell you about that later. But I thought if we could talk about that intersection between sort of anxiety recovery and neurodivergence, it would be super helpful. Absolutely. Yeah. In your practice, is this something that you see on a reasonably regular basis or once in a while? How common is this intersection? Do you think? I see so many clients who have either a primary diagnosis of ADHD or ADHD co-occurring with an anxiety disorder or condition. And it's incredibly common. I think this is not my practice. Yeah. What makes it, and the question I get asked all the time. And again, I've always promised to get somebody on who can answer it. Because I don't feel qualified enough or experienced enough in that area to really address it is where, what does it change? So if there is that co-occurrence there, the co-morbidity, you're dealing with an anxiety disorder and a neurodivergent issue like ADHD, what changes? What's different? First of all, I'd like to say that over that tends to be about 28%. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's quite common. It's more common than not to have anxiety co-occurring with ADHD than any other condition. And in terms of what changes, I mean, I think that the way that we make the distinction that anxiety is something that, you know, interferes in a daily life. It's really problematic. It's sometimes crippling. Whereas ADHD is a disorder of executive function, which I could talk more about. Yeah. What's tricky about this is that a lot of folks with ADHD are understandably anxious. Okay. Because it's stressful to have problems managing time, pretending, impulses, keeping track of things. So it's already stressful where you feel like sort of normal life stress anxiety that you would expect. Absolutely. Okay. I think we all have daily stressors. I think people with ADHD, they have this whole other level of stress, which is keeping organizing and we use executive function.  Yeah. That is something that we do every day. So if you have ADHD, it's going to be incredibly stressful. It's going to add a level of stress amongst other stressors that we all have. Yeah. So in a situation where that is what's going on, we add that additional stress factor into the additional demand if you will. We'll call it demand. So you're under a heavier load anyway. So when you're helping a client like that and you're creating a treatment plan and you're helping them address their anxiety disorder, I'm guessing this is a thing we probably need to take into account, correct? Yeah. Yeah. So I'd like to validate from a client. This is something that you're really struggling with, the type of other things that most people struggle with. And it's okay to be stressed by that. Yeah. That sounds like a very important thing because in this community surrounding the podcast, one of the things I hear people do is they get very critical of themselves. Regardless of their status as neurotypical or neurodivergent. Why can't I get this? And I'm sure you hear this all the time. You know, I know what you're saying, especially on maybe your social media content. I see, yeah, I get it. You know, Dr. Packow, I see what you're saying, but I can't seem to get it. So for somebody who's struggling even a little bit more has an extra layer. Is that a bigger problem? And it's so common. So many of my clients with ADHD and with anxiety struggle with self esteem and do the harder themselves. And what I try to do is provide with that kind of discourse, that good education. Just information. Right. Well, I explained that the neurodivergent brain has different neural anatomy that ADHD is a neurobiological problem. And how can you be hard on yourself for having different wiring? It's genetic. It's not the family. It's not your boss. It's not a choice, certainly. So I try to be displaying by kind of giving some information about the science. Yeah. And sometimes the approach, I've seen your material enough to know that you have that CBT approach to anxiety disorders. And I think that is hard enough for anybody to put their brain around. Wait, I have to go toward what I fear? Like everybody struggles with that concept. So it's normal for anybody to have a hard time understanding or accepting that concept. And I think being nice to yourself if you struggle, maybe even a little more because of just the way you're wired. It's just like being left-handed or right-handed. It's not your choice. So that self-compassion element has to be even more important, I'm guessing. 100% and self-compassion. I'm really glad you used that term. Yeah. Because the science shows that self-compassion is so much more effective than self-criticism and motivated behavior change. It's the other way. The more critical you are, the worse things are going to get for you, even though we might think it's the other way, correct? Exactly. So the more critical you are, the most diverse hormones you're going to release in your body, the less productive you'll be. And self-compassion, being kind to yourself, makes people more resilient and enables them to cope better. Okay. So if you get into the nitty gritty, first of all, let's, I know there's going to be a ton of questions here. So how does somebody, let's go back to the beginning of this. Somebody who may be struggling with an anxiety issue, a chronic or disordered anxiety issue, that isn't really even sure. Maybe they haven't been formally diagnosed yet. They suspect that something might be a mess, but they don't really know. Right there. What would you do with that client if they walk in? So a client that has anxiety, but it's undiagnosed. Undiagnosed, no, undiagnosed in terms of ADHD or. Yeah. I can't tell you again how common that is. So I spent 10 years working at a wonderful, a patient clinic called the Hallibur Center from my doctor, Matt Hallibur, who has written 20 books about ADHD, including derivative distraction, delivered from distraction. And the number of people that we saw that came in as adults, undiagnosed, is kind of bananas. And some of the folks who made their life are all of a sudden discovering that they have an ADHD diagnosis. It's more common than they would think. So if a client comes into my office and suspects that they have ADHD, what I would recommend is to get evaluated immediately. This is advice-less information to have about yourself. Yeah, it sure would be. And I'm guessing they may struggle even more with like, I can't get this. Things are different for me. I don't know what's wrong. Yeah. Well, nothing's wrong. You're just different. And we need to address that or take that into account. I'm guessing. Yes. I mean, I think that these folks suspected something is wrong. Something is a little bit off. Yeah. But once they have the diagnosis, they feel so empowered. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds like a really big deal. So in that evaluation process, who's going to do that? So there's a number of different ways ranging from the least expensive to the most. Okay. The gold standard would be neuropsychological testing, which certainly is expensive because that's the balance. But then you've got a bodily test and a full 15-page report. If that cuts prohibitive, then you could go to a psychiatrist and have a clinical evaluation. You could also go to a psychiatrist who could evaluate it. Yeah. That should be clear about that. That is not, that's a doctoral level psychologist. That is, okay. We always want to give people the right information here. Yeah. Let's speak for a second because I know that people are going to need this information and there's probably people listening right now that have light bulbs going on or I need to look into that. What, I want to be really sensitive about this and I don't want to like bad math anybody, but Terry talked about, you know, a neuropsychological evaluation, a psychiatrist that's a medical doctor and a psychologist who has gone through five years and additional advanced training of PhD level person. I hear ADHD specifically talked about in coaching circles and things of that nature. Do you run into a problem where you have people who probably shouldn't be diagnosing this, trying to do that? Have we seen this or? That, so I don't quite encounter anyone who shouldn't be diagnosed. I think you're talking about providers. Yeah. So in other words, like, you know, well, I have a coach that told me that I have ADHD. Okay. Coaching, I would be honest, in the world of psychology is an actual thing. But what I mean by that is there are executive functioning coaches who are quite talented. Sure. That being said, a diagnosis really should not be made by a coach. I think a suggestion can be made by a coach. Okay. You should get this checked out. Not. You absolutely have it. You can't tell someone that has something without them having a real understanding or clinical assessment. That about maybe some questionnaires. Yeah. Very good. Okay. That's a great answer just to clarify, you know, for people listening, like, where should I go? Who should I listen to? I love how you pointed out the value of the coaching function. Maybe once that diagnosis is there as extra support. Love it. But in terms of getting the diagnosis, you need to make sure that you go somewhere where that should be diagnosing you. So just something to keep in mind. Yeah. So now that you have the person who you know that this is an issue, there is a diagnosis in place. They're dealing with an anxiety disorder of some kind. Where does what changes in terms of the treatment? Anything. Let me explain. People will say, you know, they'll say, well, they read the books that I write or they listen to this podcast or they see people like you on social media. Like, I hear about accepting and facing and exposures, but I have ADHD. So what's different for me? What do I do differently is what I hear all the time. So what would change in terms of treatment approach if you have the diagnosis, if you got diagnosis, first and foremost, I really do recommend medications, psychiatric medications. ADHD. The kind of analogy that I'd like to use with my client is that a similar medication about that and main things like whether they're considered by brands, but for them, it's not for us. It's sort of like wearing glasses. So you could have blurry vision. You put on the glasses and you see so much clearer. You can focus. Everything comes into focus. So I always do recommend medication to my client. But beyond that, I would recommend CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy, and possibly executive functioning coaching, which is suffered from CBT. It does have some CBT intervention. Yeah. But that's a supplemental thing there that I like the executive function coaching. And I think I love the way you brought medication into this. The glasses analogy I get, if I take these off, I'm done. I can't see anything. Why would I not wear them? So I mean, I think some clients need this idea of medication and have a stigma attached to it. Yeah. And I think in our community too, in terms of anxiety disorders, that can be such a divisive thing. You know, I know that there are people that feel like if I'm taking medication to deal with my anxiety, I'm not doing it right. I'm failing. So, but if you're medicating the ADHD, you're not failing on the anxiety side. That would be a really harsh thing to say to yourself. A hundred percent. And I say the same thing for anxiety. They take psychiatric medication for anxiety. The clouds, so to speak. Right. Anxiety just as ADHD is neurobiological genetic. Months of families and not a choice. Yeah. I do also recommend, in some cases, SSRI or other types of medication for anxiety. Couples with CBT. Yeah. And especially if you're dealing with another, a secondary issue to dig your heels in and say, well, I'm doing it wrong. If I get medicated, it could be really unfair to yourself. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. Does the treatment itself, I mean, I know this is, well, clearly, since we're using more like divergence, everybody's going to be a little different. But does the treatment itself start to change? A little bit? Is it slower? Is it different? Is it? Yes. Yes. It's different. So if somebody comes to me and I have ADHD or other neurobiology burden, I might sort of change my approach as a little bird to try to simplify the therapy, you know, in terms of the skills that I'm teaching. So for example, cognitive behavior therapy, we're talking about thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Yeah. One of the hidden gems of CBT, I think this is maybe something that's not so glamorous, but incredibly potent, is problem solving. Okay. When you think of problem solving, it's like, oh, anybody could do that. But CBT therapists do it really well. They collaborate with the client. Mm-hmm. You say, okay, you have this exam. You have this challenge. Let's break it down into smaller components. Yeah. Attack on it. It's really more dangerous. It's like, okay, you have this exam. You have this challenge. Let's break it down into smaller components. Yeah. Attack on it. It's really more didactic in that way, meaning that it's a little bit more of a therapist collaborating with the client to figure out a solution. I guess that makes sense because people sometimes look at it, especially if they've never been in therapy. Well, I'm going to have CBT, which is a big, wide, huge umbrella. And each client is going to look a little different, neurodivergent or not. It doesn't matter.  It just means that the implementation of CBT for you with your therapist is going to be tailored and for you specific to solve or to address your specific challenges. It doesn't mean you're beyond hope or not or more broken. I've heard that. Can I get Peter? That's almost that. Yeah. I think that sometimes CBT gets a little bit of a bad back because it can be marginalized. Sometimes some CBT approaches are problematic. But I apply CBT as a really flexible manner. Like he said, challenge each client. What do they need? What skills do they benefit from the most? Yeah. Or maybe in that manualized treatment, what doesn't work for this particular person? Maybe fact checking worksheets is just not resonating. It's not striking a bell. So we're going to, we don't have to use that. Well, we'll work around that if need be. So, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think again, that's a hope thing or a, there's the fear in that community that like, does this mean that this won't work for me? People will ask like, does that mean the things you write about in your books or in your pockets won't work for me? That's incorrect. It doesn't mean that. Sure. So to that I would say, and I have to reverse it in bias, but CBT does work. It works for most people. And certainly it's not for everyone. Some people prefer a more sacrilegial approach. I'm similar to a virgin and excited. Yeah. You really want to go to the CBT bath. It's concrete. It's solution pocket. It's action oriented. And the research that's the product. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Let's talk about people get confused sometimes about like CBT is again, it's a huge umbrella. It encompasses a bunch of different types of treatments. More. If we're talking to people who say, well, is it old school CBT? Like, but the worksheets and everything. Is it more like act? Is it DBT? What is it? It's all of those things, correct? Yeah. And then there's the neurodivergent community. You're going to take bits and pieces of other, of a bunch of it. I'm guessing. Yeah. So I, I, we talk about, about CBT. That's a good point. I mean, I think that folks who practice over the space therapy, like CBT access, CBT, love acronym. Oh boy. They're everywhere. I'm a fan. I use them all day long. That's true. We love naming the treatment, but I think it's helpful to figure out what are we practicing? What's our theoretical orientation? What are the skills? What tool box are we using? Yeah. And at the CBT, CBT do have different tools, and different philosophical, to a degree, ideas. I do all of it. I like to integrate all of these tools. Yeah. That's what I do. Yeah. It makes sense. And especially if you're dealing with a person that is individual or unique needs, you're going to use some things. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I'm guessing I might be a little more act-based for this client if that works for them. I might be a little more DBT-based if that works for this client. Everybody's going to be a little different. Yeah. So the perk, the cocktail, but I do recommend that we get what the client needs, what skills, what to do with them the most. Yeah. Makes perfect sense. Can we, I don't know how long we've been, I can't see my clock because of the sun. Okay. We're about 20 minutes in. What about for younger people? Is this something you feel comfortable talking about? Adolescent child populations? Another question I get asked, my child was just diagnosed. What, what, what, what does this change for them in terms of their anxiety treatment? So the intervention with the skeleton across the age spectrum. Okay. Meaning children can take some FDA approved medication or ADHD. And they do benefit from monthly from CBT as well. Yeah. So the rules, again, using that term very loosely rules would apply even for children or adolescents, teens, young adults. Yeah. A child or adolescent psychologist, what made you tell her these girls to make them more child-friendly, more understandable, maybe some more diagram, some more game to really make it more palpable for those clients. Yeah. Same principles, but targeted at the developmental stage. Yeah. Yeah. You got to take that into account. Yeah. And technically, children, the answer of ADHD isn't childhood. It used to be for the DSM, you had to be under 12 to get the diagnosis. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of my clients who are adults, I see money 18 and over, they've had it the entire night. They might not know it, but they've had ADHD the entire night. And they did, yeah, they didn't know that. That's how we started the conversation too, like the person that, well, something I think I might, I don't, I don't know. And I've never been diagnosed. So I think this is so helpful. Because I find that it's, it's a sense of despair sometimes. It's also the, the sense of despair comes from the multiple labels. You know, I've read, I'm already diagnosed as ADHD or autistic, whatever it happens to be. And now I also got diagnosed with OCD. You know, so it feels even heavier to them sometimes. Like I have, I have all of these problems. Do you see it that way? What's the role of those labels for you? Sure. I think that's one interpretation. It's an understandable one. I would be unfazed by that. I would say it's not uncommon to have comorbidity. It's not uncommon to have more than one talent and treatment can help you. And we discovered to be a little more creative with that treatment to be able to help you. Oh, you present a very accessible and, and, and friendly look there in turn. I don't mean, not every therapist is going to be friendly. That's fine. But at least a welcoming approach like, yeah, that, that's okay. You may have two or three labels. Who knows, four labels. It doesn't matter. It's just, we can still work on that is what I'm hearing. Yeah. You know, if someone has OCD, they also have ADHD. It's potential earlier conversation. I might approach that differently. I might not give homework. Because I might expect a client might struggle with that with the organization of the homework assignment. Yeah. But it's still treatable. Interesting. And I bet that's where you could start to use some of those other tools. You talked about executive function coaching.  And that might be a wrinkle that goes into your treatment, but a good thing, a positive thing for you. Yes. And I collaborate frequently with executive function and coaches and that my clients that are in CBT with me. Yeah. Might be a good coach in addition. And I really always make a point to touch base with that person so we can work together. What a great conversation. Executive function coaching, but that sort of fall in the realm of like occupational therapist and that type of training along those lines or is that more psychology? I'm interested in this now. You got me. Now I'm asking for me. I think that I'm just more familiar with it than I do so much of this work. And I think maybe to some people that might say, what is this? Right. But we say that I'd like to need the coaching to the coaches. Yeah. And they do really well. But the reason for that is one of the most, you know, I talk about certain interventions that are really potent when it comes to ADHD, one of the most powerful skills is something called body doubling. Have you heard of that? I am now learning, learning something new every day, if I'm not careful. So body doubling is literally the presence of another person who can just sort of partner with you to help you get the task done. So a lot of times when you have ADHD, you're feeling really disorganized in your mind, the task initiation is really challenging. But if you're a partner or your spouse, your friend is with you, all of a sudden you could get started on the paper or that household task. So what coaches do is they provide the body doubling, that kind of stuff with them and they say, what do you need to get done today? That's amazing. Now I'm all curious. I'm going to keep you for another hour. I promise I won't, but if I'm challenged by the treatment work itself, I have a task to accomplish today and that might be to do my ERP homework or do an exposure that I plan with my therapist. The body doubling could be used in that situation. I know this is very specific, but might that be a supportive way to do that? Continuously, yes. I think that's a good question. And again, that's just one of those things that says, if you are in fact coming from a neurodivergent place or at that point of view or that experience, look, there's an adaptation here that could, if you're struggling with the implementation of treatment, there are specific adaptations and support tools that can be used to help you through that. Yes, and I think that's going to show the advances that we've made in the field and I think that's going to be one of the things that we're going to show, the advances that we've made in the field and in treatment approaches, including acceptance of neurodivergent. I'm really like this trend towards greater acceptance, greater research, because it's a reality. Yeah. Can we talk, let's wrap it up in a minute or two, but I would like, if you could, if you feel comfortable, can we address, we've talked a lot about ADHD. What about other neurodivergent issues? Sure. The one that I see outside people, I still hear people use the term, I'm on the spectrum, I know that those terminology is changing, or they will use Asperger's and those type of labels. Same approaches or those are just extra wrinkles, different ways that you have to maybe adapt or customize treatment, I'm guessing, in those situations too. Of course. Okay. One of the things that we say about the autism spectrum is that I think I don't want to make a generalization, but there's a lot of concrete thinking, a lot of maybe rigidity that I see sometimes with dark patterns. I think it's what CBT is for, is for helping people think more flexibly and less rigidly. Yeah. So it can be really useful in that situation too, I'm guessing. Yeah. So I mean, I think it could be a little harder for folks with ASD, but I still use the same approach. You know, if someone is really stuck on an interpretation or an idea, I would try maybe to have them reframe an assumption. Yeah. And it's a little complicated, but there's ways to present that in simple language. Yep. So I do think that CBT is really a great approach for neurodivergence because of the concreteness of the tools that are presented things like problem solving, challenging thoughts, facing fears, behavioral experiments and so forth. Yeah. So it's a little bit more concrete. You can grasp those things a little bit more easily. Yeah. That's not very esoteric. Yeah. Great. This has been so great. I cannot tell you how much I've enjoyed this conversation. Like we should have done this way sooner. I'm sorry for taking so long to have you on, but how can people, how can people put all of Terry's links and stuff in the show notes? So just stick it, stick with me when we're done with the interview. I'll wrap it up what you usually do, but what's the best way for people to find you? And you wrote a book. I know you wrote a book and I love the title. Yeah. For people to find me, it would be maybe at Instagram, if they like social media, that would be at Dr. Terry Backout, at Dr. Terry Backout. Yep. And they certainly have a website that is the same, that was Dr. TerryBackout.com. Yeah. That's the best way to meet me. And my book is hosted up here. It's called Goodbye, Anxiety, a guided journal for overcoming worry. And this book has many of the tools that I talked about today. Yeah. It is really bad for young adults and teenagers, but I find many adults enjoy it. Yep. Because it's short, it's not too long, it's easy to read, and I really break it down in accessible ways. There's a lot of humor in it as well. Yeah. Again, I will put all, if you go to the anxioustruth.com slash 276, because that's his episode 276, I will have all the links including to Terry's book. And if you follow along with me, you will love Dr. Terry here, because she speaks the same language. So you're going to get everything she says. Thank you so much for coming. I appreciate your time. I said thank you so much for coming. I appreciate you. You know, I appreciate you. It was my pleasure. Oh, and before we sign up, a public thank you to Terry here, because for those of you who have needled me incessantly about being in Vogue Magazine, as you can see by my horrible hat and my, like, I am the last person ever that should have been mentioned in Vogue Magazine. It was Terry that was responsible for that. She was the one that recommended me in the article. And thank you so much. How much fun that has turned out to be. Everybody's picking on me. It's the fun. It's the thing ever. This is why I did that. This is the exact reason. It's so rewarding. Yeah, it was great. So I appreciate that show of support. And again, you guys should go follow along with Dr. Bacow. I will put all of her links there. Thanks a bunch. Thank you. All right, we're back. I cannot tell you how much I actually enjoyed talking to Dr. Bacow. She is such a welcoming to me, a welcoming presence for somebody who feels like they're struggling with multiple issues. And I know many of you in this community feel like, yeah, I see what you're saying, Drew, and I follow all the accounts, but, you know, I have ADHD. So I don't know if this is going to work for me. I love that she presented a very optimistic, very welcoming, very friendly, very accessible approach to these things. It doesn't mean you won't get better. It just means that maybe the way you get better would be a little bit different and maybe more customized for you, which is a good thing. We actually want that. One thing that Terri talked about when we were off the air that she didn't get to say in the actual interview itself is she really likes to take a strengths-based approach to treatment, which is something that, as a therapist in training, we are taught all the time, right? So everybody has some strength that they bring into this process. You included. So if you're feeling a little bit of despair or confusion, because maybe you have multiple diagnoses and you're not sure how that's going to work, always remember that there are strengths there and Terri felt so strongly that she didn't say it in the interview. She's like, oh, maybe we can throw that in afterwards. I'm here to represent for my friend Terri that she and most therapists will try to work on your strengths because you do have them even when you're feeling maybe confused or discouraged or a little bit lost or don't know where to go next. So that's it. If you guys want to get to Terri, Dr. Bacow, you can just go to the anxioustruth.com slash 277 and I will have all of her links to Instagram, her website and her book, which is called Goodbye Anxiety. Again, another very accessible bit of work. She's just very friendly and easy to deal with. So you could check out all the links there. And I think that's about it. That is episode 277 of the anxious truth in the book. You know, it's over because the music, new music, but music nonetheless. And what can I tell you as we end the episode? I'm just going to ask you the same favors that I always do. If you're listening to this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or some platform that lets you rate or review, leave a five-star rating or take a second and write a nice review if you really dig the podcast because it helps more people find it and then more people get help. If you're watching on YouTube, like the video, subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bell so that you know when I upload new content. Leave a comment, ask a question. I will interact with all of you guys and it really helps the channel. So thank you so much. That is it. I will be back in another, not next week, but the week after because the anxious truth is every other week now. I do not know what I'm going to be talking about. I really think I do. I think I'm going to do a Claire Weeks episode because I do have a lot to say about Dr. Weeks. And yeah, I'll be back for that. So pop back in in two weeks. I'll have more for you. Hopefully this has been helpful. Remember, no matter how small the step is that you might take today toward recovery, accounts, take it, be proud of it and build on it. See you next time.


Consider two roads. If they cross, then either everyone takes their chances of intersection, or traffic in one direction has to stop so traffic can pass in the other direction, or you can build a bridge or tunnel to allow continuous traffic flow. But bridges and tunnels are expensive, so if you don't have to build them, you might not want to. Since not all graphs are planar, we will need to build some bridges. But how many? Let's think about this. Suppose two edges hit a graph cross. While the edges must stay on the surface, we can add more surface. So we say that we add a handle. Remember that any graph on a plane can be embedded on a sphere. So if we add a handle to a plane, it's like adding a handle to a sphere. And consequently, we say that any graph can be embedded on a sphere with enough handles. So how many handles do we need? Suppose a graph has E edges. Since any two edges can cross, there are E choose two potential crossings. So if we want to eliminate those, then we could incorporate E choose two handles. And consequently, a graph with E edges can be embedded on a sphere with E choose two handles. And remember, the important question to ask is, can we do better? And in fact, we can on your homework. While we can find an upper bound, a particular graph might need far fewer handles. And so we define the genus of a graph is the least value k for which g can be embedded on a k-handled sphere. Now for simple graphs that can be embedded in the plane, which is to say on a sphere with zero handles, we must have Euler's formula V plus F equals E plus two. But what if a graph could be embedded on a k-handled sphere? Granted, this will need to find a suitable modification of Euler's formula. Our proof of Euler's formula relied on the result that V plus F minus E is constant for a planar graph, even if we remove an edge that isn't a bridge. But nothing in the proof required our graph E planar. It only required that the removed edge did not separate two parts of the same face. So if a graph is embedded on a k-handled sphere, V plus F minus E is still constant as long as we adhere to the requirement. Now on a plane, we were able to reduce the graph to a tree with a specific relationship between the edges, vertices and faces, and this allowed us to compute V plus F minus E directly. But if we're not on a plane, we can't reduce our graph to a tree since then we'd be producing a graph that could be embedded on the plane, and V plus F minus E would be equal to two in that case. Fortunately, the part of the proof that establishes the constancy of V plus F minus E does not change. So this means that for any genus k-graph, V plus F minus E is some constant, and to find it, we can take a genus k-graph and find V, F and E. In general, when we add handles to a sphere, we don't care about the size or shape of the handles, or for that matter, the size and shape of the sphere. So a sphere with one handle added is also a torus. So let's go back to the utility's problem. Remember a torus, a one-handled sphere, is a rectangle with opposite edges identified. A graph that doesn't cross opposite edges is not really on a torus, it's on a plane. And so we know that k-33 could not be embedded on a sphere, but could be embedded on a torus. So we can count the edges and faces of k-33 on a torus. There's six vertices and nine edges. And the number of faces is, well, let's see. What we'll want to do is we want to identify where we can wander without crossing an edge. So let's start over here, and we'll indicate our first face by where we can wander without crossing over an edge. Add crossover, and again, and again. So these four parts are really all part of the same face. Now for the middle section, because we could go from top to bottom, there's one face. And in the last section, we have one more face. And so there's three total faces. How do we find v plus f minus e is?


Okay, here we are with Oliver Cameron, VP of Product at Cruise. Oliver, can't wait to talk with you about self-driving cars and the future. But before that, why don't you tell us a little bit more about how you broke into product? Absolutely. So the truth is, I mostly fell into product management. When I was young, the thing that I was most passionate about was building products. And my means to do that was coding, right? And the truth is, I never became passionate about coding itself. Like I would consider myself a very mediocre software engineer, but what it meant and what it enabled was this ability for myself to make something out of nothing, just this super satisfying feeling, right? So that was really my first taste of product. And that led to my first startup, which ended up going through the startup incubator, Y Combinator back in 2011. And that was really my first step on the journey to product. So as I look into your own career path, you started as a builder, which is awesome. And then there's been a VP of product at companies such as Udacity and now Cruise. So how does someone go from being a good builder to really be a good builder of teams? So most of the skills tend to be transferable, right? There is a need in a small group of builders to communicate well, to get the team excited, to be really focused on what problems you're solving. And it turns out most of the intuition that's necessary to do that in a small team transfers rather well to that of a big team.  And need to be very different. But it turns out that the skills are mostly transferable. The truth is though, the slightly longer story is that it's a process of iteration, right? What works at a company of 10 people tends to break down a company of 25 people, as it does to a company of 2,500 people, which is where Cruise is today. So learning those lessons, making those mistakes, trying out different things, experimenting, those have been important to me to understand what tactics I need to be using to share an exciting path with the teams I work with. So for people who are not familiar with Cruise, which I don't think there are many who are not, but what do you tell us a little more about what is Cruise about and more specifically, like what you're taking to the future of self-driving cars? Absolutely. So simply put, Cruise has built the most advanced self-driving cars in the world. These are cars that can drive entirely by themselves on the streets of San Francisco, which is a ridiculously complex place to drive. And what we're doing with these vehicles is putting them to work in two different applications, ride, hail, and delivery. With ride, hail, people will be able to request a car like they can Uber today, but the experience is significantly better, significantly more comfortable, safer, and just better across many different dimensions. And then we also have a delivery business. And the idea is that these vehicles can not just move people, but move goods. And we're today partnered with Walmart to be able to do that. And both of those businesses are growing very fast, which is exciting. So that's some school. Now, I'm looking at your background, right? And you've worked in software for the longest time. Now you are living an organization that has both software and hardware components. So how do you actually merge both worlds just to make sure that there's a smooth transition? And the end user, which at the end of the day doesn't need to know all these details, is going to use an app to request a car. So I hear this question a lot and I hear it because folks tend to have a bit of a freakout moment when they transition from pure software into something that involves both software and hardware. And I personally went through this freakout myself. And the truth is it's less about the area being more complex or anything like that. And it's more about scaling your own ability to connect dots. So what I mean by that is I truly feel the great PMs, not the good PMs, but the great PMs, they intuitively understand which dots to connect at any one time. And what that means is that in more maybe consumer software is, well, engineering needs to connect with design, who needs to connect with product, who maybe there's some sort of operational element and connect all those things. Now, in self-driving world, there's just more dots to connect. You have legal dots, you have hardware dots, you have operational dots, you have marketplace dots. Like you have all of these different parties to connect to make, like you said, this one experience of pressing a button and a car showing up feel utterly seamless. And really it's about scaling up yourself versus learning a new discipline. And that just takes time and some experimentation. And I think it speaks to the mindset of great PMs. You're tasked with figuring out complex challenges. And that doesn't probably you haven't never figured them out before. And maybe nobody has ever figured them out before. So I think that's the kind of the exciting piece of being in a position where you have to learn fast and you don't need to be the expert of every single piece. You probably have to build a team of experts. Exactly that. I don't anticipate any PM broadly speaking is the subject matter expert of every single thing. But what I do expect the PM to be able to do is again to understand, well, this person needs to talk to this person and we need to make this happen by this day. And as long as they can help each partner team that they work with understand what's necessary to ship a truly great product, then that PM is more than doing their job. So you mentioned that you're running some there's some cars in San Francisco. I live in San Francisco. I see your cars all the time, really for the rest of the work. What is the state of the art in self-driving and when can we expect to see some global adoption of this technology? It's a great question. So the state of the art and this will sound self-serving, but it's just true is a is a cruise self-driving vehicle. And the reason I can confidently say that is the case is because there is a big difference between the tens of companies that are out there testing self-driving cars and the number of companies that have successfully removed the need for human oversight on those self-driving cars.   Now, for the companies, again, cruises the first in San Francisco that have successfully removed the need for that person in the front seat. That's a that's a huge leap and that presents the state of the art in this in this field. And, you know, this technology really stands on decades of development in robotics and software in machine learning and sensors and compute all to make that simple looking thing of removing a human in the front seat happen. So you think about the design thinking approach now to to a real car. I mean, we're not talking about software, changing the color of a button, you know, moving things around on the website or mobile app. How do you really apply that principle like user testing? How do you make sure that, you know, you're taking the input not just from machines in terms of safety, but really the user just to eventually make them see, make them feel safe enough choosing this technology over what they are used to doing today. So this is where self driving and other industries is one and the same, right? We're building a transportation product, whether it's self driving or not. From this perspective, it mostly doesn't matter. We're building a transportation product and we look at metrics like any other transportation product would look at. We look at repeat usage. We look at star ratings. We look at the extremes of the product and we use those things to guide our guide our roadmaps and our intuition. And ultimately, I am a huge believer of assembling a team of PMs that does have a strong intuition about what's necessary. You can have a whole bunch of data, endless amounts in fact. But I do believe it's important, in fact, critical that you empower your PMs to make decisions that might be unpopular according to data that they are strongly attuned with what the needs of their customers are. And the truth is, again, it goes back to old school product management. What's the best way to develop that intuition? Talk to your customers, right? Ride along with them, watch their facial expressions as something happens in the car and develop that intuition that you can then use to inform what you build and when you build it. So when I think about the mission that the company has, it's really incredible. We're talking about replacing the manual cars for self-driving cars, and I am aware of the benefits. But at the same time, there is like a mental barrier there for a lot of us where we're used to driving by ourselves. Like how and then as I think about you building a team of really smart people who are going to make this mission happen, like how do you go about finding that talent? Absolutely. So the key you pointed out there is that this is something brand new. This is something that hasn't been scaled in any sense today. And as such, when building a team to go attack this problem, the core or the key thing I look out for is what things have you built that simply wouldn't have happened were it not for your input that you drove. And that to me is a great signal of folks who have not just, you know, perhaps hidden in the background or folks that have have been able to kind of piggyback on momentum that a company already has or other team members, but folks that really took ownership to say, I'm going to make this happen. I'm going to shift this thing. And in self-driving, you just can't have enough of those people because it's such a complex world with so many challenges and so many gotchas that you need, again, a density of people that have solved problems and made things happen almost by themselves. You mentioned in the beginning that companies around 2,500 people today in terms of product team, like how do you structure the product team? How many people work on the brother product? So Cruz has two product teams. We have what we call consumer product management, and then we have technical product management. I lead the consumer product management team today. We're about 24 p.m. based across four different product areas. And it's just a world-class team that I'm incredibly proud to work with every day. You know, when you think about it, it's really insane. There are 24 people tasked with one of the most critical missions in the world.  And I think I love to ask this question because when you look at a big number, like, oh, a company's over 1,000, 2,000 people, that's cool. Then you look at the product teams, they're not just the p.m.s, right? I'm sure you're also interacting with engineers, designers. What are, like, other than the engineer, designers and marketers, which is, like, the most obvious things, what are other teams that your product team has to interact with? So, Cruz, we have a commercial operations team because, you know, we're going to be deploying hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of these vehicles over the coming years. And to stand up those fleets across the country, across the world, that's an intense task, right? And a very exciting one. So, we collaborate very closely with this team to say, what are the limitations of scale? What is preventing you from deploying a further 100 vehicles in this geo? And we then take that problem and try to turn it into a tool, into a bug fix, into a product area, whatever it might be, and try and solve that particular problem. I find that work to be particularly fascinating because that's all under the surface. A customer, a rider is likely never to directly experience that. But by optimizing these things, we improve the customer's experience quite significantly. So that's a team we work very closely with, especially as of late. And I can imagine also the legal barrier that it has to roll out a worldwide product with different legislation. So something that is physical. So, I mean, it's not something that I can see very commonly in e-commerce platforms, at least at the very beginning, like, as a PM, how much do you really have to be aware of? Limitations that are not just technical. There's many, many times over. And this is, again, where the great PMs separate themselves from the good PMs, right? That there is a handful of constraints that they are given. Most of those are real and legit constraints. Some of them turn out to not be constraints. And the great PMs know when to push on that. They know when to change those constraints and what comes after it. So short version here is we have many, many constraints. And that's OK. You know, it forces fast decision making. It forces us to get creative when we're building products. Like you're saying, it's not just technical limitations we have. We do have legal limitations. We have operational limitations. We have product limitations in many cases as well. And we have to work around those to ensure that the customer never never feels that there's a limitation. For all day care, it's simply as a product that works. So for you today, Oliver, you're now you talk about how great PMs anticipate some of these limitations. You are now in a position where you are taking care of your team at the same time you're looking into the future and trying to anticipate some of these situations. So how do you personally invest in yourself and make sure that you are also growing? It's a good question. Well, the truth is, whether I like it or not, that the challenges that I am and have been presented with just enforce growth, right? Like Cruz is an incredibly ambitious company. And I wouldn't have it any other way. That ambition forces me to learn new things and forces me to learn from mistakes and continue growing. The truth is, though, you know, when I look at my career, one of the things I felt is that I've taken companies from zero dollars all the way to that sort of hundred million dollar mark in annual recurring revenue. And that's a period I really enjoy that. That's effectively something from nothing, right? And taking it to reasonable scale. The next step of going from a hundred million to a billion in revenue, and I don't say that lightly, but that's that's a step I look forward to a Cruz. That that's a step that I think we all surprise people by how fast that step occurs here. And that's something I'm looking forward to understanding and learning. Well, OK, you can take something from zero to a hundred, but a hundred million. How do you then take it from a hundred million to a billion? What new things will present itself? What challenges will be unearthed along the way? It's going to be it's going to be quite the journey. Yes, to to grab things up, there's some people in the audience. Then when all of us are product people, different stages in our careers, not everyone is a VP yet. So, you know, you were to look back and think, OK, like, what are some of those key moments in my life that really helped me take those lips of faith? You just talked about one of them going from zero to a hundred is different than going from a hundred to a billion. So for people who are meeting their careers today, listening to you and thinking, oh, my God, like those are really cool projects, the challenges to face. How can they really accelerate some of some of those steps and get to where they want to be a little bit faster? So most of the time, I think a lot of folks talk themselves out of asking, right? So if I was to to put a point on the moment in my career where a lot of things changed, it was a result of asking someone for something. So here's an example. Back, I forget the date, but I'd started building my first iPhone app and it was close to completion, but it wasn't quite ready just yet. And this was just me in my bedroom. I've been tinkering with jailbreaking and a few other things. And I just thought, I'm just going to build something new. And when I was a teenager, I'd started to get to know a bunch of folks in the Mac ecosystem. And there was this one guy that came to mind who I'd saw as I was growing up, advancing to lots into software distribution effectively. And I it was like 1 a.m. And I built this app and I didn't really know what to do with it. And I just thought I'm going to age me. I literally went on a AOLs instant messenger. And I thought, maybe I still have his name. Maybe not. I don't know. But let me log on and see. And I went online and I saw he was there. So I thought I'm just going to send him a version of this app. I'm just going to get his feedback. And through that one connection, which I'd randomly built up on like message boards in the Mac ecosystem, he connected me to a publisher for my first app. And this publisher offered to publish my app and promote my app and help me, you know, get this thing out the door. And that moment really triggered so many subsequent steps for me. I owe a lot to that one person and that one chance encounter of saying, will you help me take this a little further than I feel like I can currently take it? And I often feel people just sometimes don't ask or they don't feel like they can ask or they feel like it would be rude or something of that nature. And the truth is, you can only just ask with no replies. It doesn't matter who cares. But if they do answer and it does tend to have to be something pretty cool, well, you might have found this kind of game changing moment in your in your career. I think that's that's beautiful and I'm very powerful. I think to not self-reject is important because you already have that know. But thank you so much for your time. It's been a pleasure to learn from you. Thank you. This was fun.


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Hello guys. Good morning. I hope you're all doing good today. Welcome to another live Bookmap webinar. We've got JTrader joining us today, a professional stocks trader. These webinars are held every Wednesday at 10.15 a.m. Eastern Time and are part of our free education here at Bookmap. These live sessions give you the chance to look over the shoulder of a professional trader and see how they use Bookmap in their trading approach. Once we get going, please don't be shy and feel free to ask questions either in the YouTube chat or the Advanced Webinar Discord channel. A couple of things to run through before we start. We've got JTrader's contact info here. If you want to reach out or hear more from Joseph, check out his website, JTrader.co. You can also connect with him on Twitter at JTrader.co and just going to run through this disclosure. 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We'll start preparing my screen. Okay, I'm set to be here with the screen. Okay. Okay, you're good to go. All right. So hello traders. Session today on with Sam over here on Microsoft. So earning play. We had substantially good morning price section for what concerns on Microsoft. I was following this using S and also the overall sector. First of all, over here I'm looking at the bigger picture so we can see traders Microsoft on the daily chart. So we'll start doing analysis over here so that you can understand my lines and how I do this. So first of all, I start with the daily chart and we can see over here we have a structure which is lower high, lower low. So we have a market bearish for all entire here 2022. Now this point over here on Microsoft, we don't know if this will essentially be the higher low or we had like over here that we started making higher lows and then why so we need that to clear this 261, 262 resistance and then essentially starting making dips over here. So only on the break of this level and then starting to dip, we'll have a bullish shift into the market scenario. For now over here we have no play for what concerns on the long-term, a long swing. That's very important to clarify. Then I move over here to the early chart and I start digging more into the price section that we have on a daily basis. Essentially looking, you can see over here all these levels are or pivot points or levels of high volume profile nodes. So we're looking into those areas over here. What I like this morning was this low over here. So this is not inside but this is my analysis that I provide to members in the room. So this level is an important level for support over here. We have a demand but also as a cool flu is also these highs over here. So it's a pretty important level at 231. Over here I'm going to share the analysis that I did this morning and we can see over here this is 742 Microsoft earning play. I explain or I'm looking to play an overhounder. So essentially I fail to the shore side. So shorting with target 234 and then 231 remember 742 AM or dip into the pre-market support 234, for reversal to the upside. Essentially you can see that we had this and the chart that I shared also I post this on socials. From time to time I will put this on social like macro analysis over here in the higher time frame HDF together with order of flow and book map. So we can see that we had over here the trend line I was looking for this level over here. This was still early pre-market and then I set over here my levels 231 hit and then over here also 234. So cool flu is over here of signals for that 231. Very important area. The next we say step is looking so using book map and looking what we have around 231. 231 we have a big support area. You can see over here high liquidity zone. We had a major over here bear trap. So we had over here a break of this 231 and this is what the smart money or the big ends how you want to call it is doing. So they're collecting over here on this point. So they're collecting over here the stops from the long players. They're collecting also this breakdowns short sellers and then they start pushing back up. Essentially is the play that happened in the last not yesterday but two days before on Tesla. So the market was essentially giving morning breakdowns and then right away push. If you go back on Tesla even on yes you will see it. So here we dipped into this 231 and then we start bouncing over here and my next step will be going 30 minutes 5 minutes. We can go check the 5 minutes pretty reliable time frame that I like to use. You can see the previous lower 231 and this morning over here this was the open A plus setup. Well yes this is essentially what we had perfect pattern over here over under fail 231 and then push back up. So I'm going to put over here a couple of notes and I will also use over here book map. We're going to use this and this and this point and this point. So the first part over here of our analysis and our watch list while straightening over here the shorting level of strategy and target from strategy plus book map. So we had over here confluence of signals right. So over here TP 231 from watch list. So if this is not inside this is the plan that I gave at 742 looking for I'm sorry I have a little bit of cough today looking for the confluence over here of signals. Now what I'm expecting is if you break this level over here 234 we're going to see this or a possible fake out of this 234. So essentially another bolt trap at this area like this and I pull back right to into the 233 or I'll push the 234 okay. Over here we're going to look at Microsoft. So we had over here at the gate as I said over under and we're going to look right now for that or fake out or 235 okay. Over here you can see that's a correct break 234 so it's not faking out it's not having and giving a bolt trap. Now it's pushing strong to this 234 and 50. Next target will be 235 waiting this push. So we're going to revisit over here the trade. In this case we're going to go red to green so this is the important area so this green area is the open level above. We're going to push over here next step 237 so watching for that and now also looking at snow. So this is a gap that we had this morning above 100 on the day and we had over here a good trade short this morning. This was the resistance I was watching this 250 area. We had a short in here over here 240 shared in a room explained to my members timestamps everything. We got it over here 240s and this is one of my favorite patterns. You can see this consolidation in this area just in the pre-market and then starting to break the slow you can see all the way down distribution pattern came over here to the first target okay the first target started to curl 10 o'clock holding over here the open level now strong over here that's the reason why I have a precise and strict risk management so now we have a breakout high ball in this breakout short out of trap when I see that I'm short over here we get to the first target and I always say stop to break even now just waiting over here what looking for or the fail of 250 and lower highs lower lows to reshorter again or simply avoiding over here okay now this is strong in the moment you can see over here the breakout the volume stepping in and we need just to wait that area on the daily there's at this morning war there's 260 so you can see high volume area another main important reasons over here is 328 and of course we'll consider also the hold on a number so these are the three main levels that I'm watching over here so holding this level over here this blue line is the pre-market eye you can see a ton of volume was straight over there 245 watching over here as I said or for that daily level now we got the 259 it's breaking down the pre-market high so what I'm looking here below that pre-market eye is going to be another rejection where I can get in short on this area here okay I'm looking that for now we have a fake of the pre-market eye let's see if we can have another tray short just over here we see now sellers in some drop over here drop over here so they're selling over here probably longs over here that they got in they're just like when parabolic over here in this short squeeze now they're selling they sold over here they're selling a bit more over here what's microsoft as well so we had our push over here to 235 no short yet on this making lower highs this is a nice place that we had on book map gap and extension play we can see over here this morning fail I mean when we see this big fake out over here that's 720 this is the pre-market is the open right away extend the 750 you can see that over here we cleared two main resistances and then started to unwind these are some of the best pattern right now that is happening in this market because for now this is fader support over here below the open level this green we could have pops probably into this year of consolidation 630 over here we have a consolidation air 63640 we could have pops and still unwind over here Tesla this morning remember earnings season alright so start looking at when we have earnings this is going to be today tomorrow this week the whole week over here will be pretty interesting we had over here what I call the three-way pattern so peak peak peak we had this trend line break and then over here you see my levels I placed this 13750 140.70 and then over here this morning we had this 14280 so we had a morning push over here this morning I tried to grab partial of this on the long side then you can see over here we started like to to fail right okay here these three bars one two three so they're making lower highs at this point lower highs they're making higher low so there's a contraction over here you can see this flag or pendant right away they push and then they start fading all the way down this is my analysis on hourly so this morning I was saying or we're gonna have a push until this trend line over here we can look for a rejection or we're gonna have a breakdown of this support and the main target here 13750 on go if we are short 160 now hold this right with this 130 BXRX we're short from yesterday the 620 so we're here all the way down charge sheared everything explanation in in room so we're holding that BIAF we had a short yesterday 350 holding next start gonna be two dollars so we're gonna hold this for two dollars again all plays alerted time stamps in front of all room and we're looking over here for all this unwind we can still get to the two dollars okay BIAF over here nice extension yesterday all right let's go back to Tesla I'm watching we hear the possibility of a short below this trend line and rejection you can see that previous support now become a resistance so I like this pattern also we have the target as we said before this 13750 so potential still unwind watch as well traders at ES all right so here we have the previous support now resistance just quickly Joseph we've got a question yep Stan is asking what are the colored cloud areas on your charts I think it's talking about the volume dots or maybe he's talking about the the J lines I'm not sure but these yeah these are a J line so appropriate indicator that I use it's one you know one tenth of the system that I use are Fibonacci Expansion moving averages based on the Fibonacci numbers what I see over here over time is that they are essentially a guide for the trend so we can see we hear the first part right of the move on Tesla when this is above these other two so we have this selection this is bullish over here we have a so we have over here our markup of the chart this uptrend over here we have the distribution why every single push over here to this high is rejected so we have sellers in and then over here we're starting the possible mark down so the reversal the pattern on the break of this neckline 140.70 that is for me the the level that I need to watch in case of a reclaim we can go and push to 143 below 141 140.70 we're going to have them wide okay so Tesla over here above 140.70 is going to be a target to 143 instead below 140.15 we're going to have a target of 137 they're starting to reclaim over here the 140 we have some buyers over here you can see that they're trying to stack that 140.15 little higher highs over here on Tesla so I didn't long over here the lows I'm waiting over here if you can fill this trend line and have a rejection or simply avoiding this is one of the main plays that I main stocks that I trade during the week so I have every high confidence and pretty good win rate on something like Tesla main liquidity 140.50 remember getting traders to that main neckline over here right so at this point over here is a pretty high resistance area so let's watch over here so strong not a fake out for now just strong over here tape you can see how their break they broke over here the 140.50 and it's simply up trending so strong not finding a trend just waiting over here a lot of traders tell me when you see this big level of resistance are you shorting or are you selling if long well no imagine over here that this is still making higher lows just look over here even the five minutes hard higher lows besides this bar over here that makes a lower low that's you know part of over here the beer trap making still higher lows the trend is clearly up we're making also higher highs over here so do not find something like this when it's strong just stay with the trend and respect over here the price action so holding this 140.50 up trend let's wait traders have patience over here already treated six stocks this morning a good green day if you're in my room read you can see all that I trade in just trade with me or look how I'm doing it so for now I'm just waiting the pattern so I said the pattern here would be a reclaim of 140.70 and a curl okay so consolidation then bind dips too long or a rejection of this 140.70 a trend line break rejection in short okay so essentially I'm looking for two main plays this is one and that one would be instead a trend break and I'm looking into short here and long here okay so over here what what I like about this is over here the the bear trap at this point and pushed it upside same bear trap that we had over here the gate that's the reason why I was looking to long this and see still traders over here volume and now we have to wait no reason too short good liquidity over here there we are 141 what you see traders is that we're claiming that support area okay now let's disappear support area at 140.70 if we reclaim that the next star is gonna be 142.70 143 so this here over here I'm not buying the breakout like over here I will be looking for a consolidation above this here 140.70 and then looking to take a long go buyers over here so a lot of buyers possibility over here of an unwind okay just a pullback nothing crazy over here so you can see that we had a one to triple top and we can have a unwind over here ideally to this 140.30 but over here we still have no confirmation of the backside of the move that we saw before we're holding this up trend line right so you can see over here where we are right now because I said I want to see a break of this 141 consolidation above and then looking too long or below the trend line a rejection and shorting pops still below this 141 so the fact that we are pushing into that resistance a pretty good sign so big strain over here off the trend you can see over here the bear trap at the lows started making our lows our highs now let's see on this breakout I was going to develop there we are 141 breakout so I can see over here a ton of buying pressure look over here massive buyers okay book map you can see the confirmation of these big dots over here big blue dots so these are the buyers and now we're looking at that level of 141 here and ideally I want to see a consolidation so I'm not buying breakouts like this because often they can get right away a pullback directly again to a support so I want to see a breakout then a consolidation and then taking the lock so I'm waiting for that play so bouncing from 141 so big support and at this point I'm looking or the dip or no trade for me over here this is going to be just strong over here you can see these bars these bar making our low from this point over here 1053 this is already six consecutive bars okay if we're going to have a continuation of this trend I'm simply going to avoid taking the trade I want to only filter the A plus setups at the higher low because over here so I'm selling at this 142 stack over here here for resistance 141 90 a little back to Microsoft I'm still bounce over here no play at the gate over here the only main a plus sorry no play over here this morning at the gate in first few minutes but then we had a perfect unwind over here on this unwind below the jail is below the VWAP and now bounces we explain over here from this 231 and you can see over here now it's just like making up upper our lows and lower high so we have a consolidation area if you're going to hold this and start curling today what I expect is target readers we're going to be a fiber choice in an area this is how you have to do it from here down to here you want to look for those swipes from this point to this late area so we're going to look for 236 and 43 okay you're going to hold this that is going to be my target this area here that point over here I can look too short otherwise I'll look too short below the J lines below the VWAP as well and looking for a rejection you talk about focusing on a plus setups there Joseph I've got a question kind of on patience as traders we feel like we should always be doing something and spending all day watching the market can sometimes feel a bit frustrating so do you have any advice for anyone that's impatient or impulsive when they're trading yeah patience means essentially respecting your setups respecting your strategy and if you have no patience means that market will run you over patience in selling at the correct price so patient in waiting for the correct entry so a lot of the times we have to just sit and wait sidelines is not that we make money simply by taking a trade but also we make money by waiting for a trade and a lot of times I think in the career of every trader you will see a moment that you are more anxious you have more FOMO and how you prevent this well first of all you have to have your routine so understanding every single day that you're trading only when your setup is in play a routine to create a watchlist where you have these playbook setups and you'll be waiting for them the second thing is I would say management also off your shares management or your contract depends management also off your targets and also management off your risk-reward ratio so if we know that we're going to be profitable working with a certain setup because we have tested it and we know that we're looking for that risk-reward ratio so we're not going to cover or sell our position for one-hour profit but we're going to look for what our system tells us so that could be 3, 4, 5, 6-hour whatever that is and we need this kind of patience to hold often for the targets so it's not only traders you know patients in waiting for the entry because a lot of time traders are let's say not profitable and they're waiting for the entry they get maybe one hour 1.5 hour profit and when they get stopped out maybe 60% of the times they get stopped out one or 1.5 hour 1.5 hour loss what is going to happen you're going to not be successful and therefore you have instead to look for management's rate correctly so it's not only about taking the trade but it's also like holding your targets that's what I believe makes a trader profitable in the long term. All right yeah very good thank you for that. You're welcome so we're here at Trader we are back with Microsoft and we're seeing over here we have a wedge this is a pattern that as I said I traded the gate no but I wait the first few minutes seeing the rejection and then over here we short it in our plan over here we explained exactly with the target 231 over here 742 231 is target so we're looking for over on the two short that's the A plus setup and from that level we had a bounce over here and we went to that 234 which was another important level over here you can see this green dotted 233 and 80s then we had Tesla and over here this morning we had four main plans according to what was going to to happen in the in the scenario so I can bring up over here Tesla and this is my trend you can see over here all the way up we had over here a bounce play just last week console edition here this morning pre-market this was very early okay so I made over here the plan around 747 50 and I was looking for this side over here so this 146 and 50 for a push into it in a rejection the second one I was looking for a long in case of a fill of the 140 reclaim of this year 141 and then push to this target high the third one over here was on a fill 140 I went to look for this target here 136 so we go back over here on Tesla what we had over here was a fill this 140 we didn't get to this support over here 137 50 came back up so we can see that we have bars over here stepping in reversed upside now potential push to this 143 as we have proved to have bars over here at the lows at 139 140 so at the open level over here 141 still a lot high liquidated here nice set of higher lows the same top so we have over here two possible scenarios level of resistance this 235 we're gonna put over here Microsoft 235 level of resistance so we confirm the break of the wedge of this 235 as we were saying and start bouncing on this 235 then we're going to look for this area here want to see a consolidation above this here we're going to look for a possible divide looking for the upside what I don't want to look instead what I don't want to see instead is exactly what's happening right now so we had a fake breakout over here coming back in the range and just started to do this all the way okay so I would prefer to see a consolidation look into longer here this area and then taking a reversal long play any more questions Sam's I think that's it from from the chat I caught up yeah you've talked about Tesla somebody was asking about Tesla but we've been covering that yeah Tesla right now open level as we said at this point target is going to be 143 when I see over here reclaim like we did this morning so dip right away push back up over here now targets 143 143 we can look off for a rejection again and back into the range or consolidation above 143 break of this trend line and then more push the 145 so the next target I have on a hourly and daily chart over here they're trying to break this 142 let's see if they're going to push it these points of red to green it's a pretty good level where a lot of traders will jump in if we go green on the day so traders will be looking for a reclaim of this 142 and then after they'll be looking to play this long on a hold over here of this 142 which is the red to green area feel strong above 142 so it's dipping over here and starts curling now 142 and 50 is going to go that 143 we didn't have a consolidation just like for now breaking out and pushing back down to the 142 I've been only looking too long over here with some consolidation into the 142 area some of the trades of today are short on Amazon over here this is from the team Dan any more questions I ran a poll there on on YouTube asking people how many trades they take per week on average the results are quite diverse it's kind of what you would expect as everybody has different strategies and approaches but I'm just interested to know how many trades on average would you say you take per week per week we can say around if we're talking about stocks I differentiate because I trade both small caps and big caps so let's say I'm only looking at big caps I would say around 10 trades per week more or less okay so generally a couple of trades a day if I'm trading small caps I would say around 15 putting trades per week okay oh I'm you know not scalping I'm trying to take you know one or two position per stock per day maybe even only one if I you know take the other right one then of course if a position is running I may take partials so I could still consider you know one trade but I will scale out or I will possibly even know sometimes re-add if I have another setup but I would say like for big caps two position a day so like around 10 per week and and does it vary quite a lot like do you go weeks where you just don't see your setup and you just patiently waiting I almost have every single day the setups so it's very rare for one day I take no setups because the strategy that I teach works on a daily basis on a daily basis so is is really just like waiting for the pattern just like taking the trade and that's it that's it yeah the most popular was over 25 41 percent of the viewers take more than 25 trades per week okay so active traders day traders I like that some active traders I also posted in a a quote there if most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 percent of the time they would make a lot more money yes that's about picking your moments and waiting for your a plus setups and not being impatient exactly I mean everybody can get impatient the point is if somebody makes an error that enters and it's anticipating just you know like recognize it maybe you can cut it right away at least that is what I do when I see something that I did wrong I cut it right away and then I can re-trader later without you know a bad average or like adding to a losing position which I I don't really like to do in my trading so I have fixed rules for when I take trades same I need to do to close over here today a little bit earlier so what about if we can wrap it up over here it's around 11 20 yep sure maybe maybe you got just 60 seconds just one one final question if you've got time someone just worse can you quickly talk about the importance of one minute one minute candle close and doji's or inside bars I mean maybe it's not such a good question actually one minute is quite quite a random noise but I'll let you talk about it okay so we will need to trade to talk about this I at least one hour okay I use candlestick patterns in my trading and this is candlestick recognition pattern recognition that could be you know Harami and Gold thing doji inverted hammer hanging man all of this the point is alone it doesn't really mean much but in a scenario where we have other tools together with a candlestick then those can become some good entry points in your trading okay so is using those candlesticks patterns together with other signals for example you could have a let's say a doji stuffed together with a big heatmap rejection together with the vweb and that could be a good short okay or vice versa for long so a lot of these have to be filtered together with other signals that's the most important thing okay thank you that's that's great and as always so much value you've provided and thanks guys for watching if you learned something please hit that like button and join us again next time we have Scott Pulsini tomorrow and Joseph again next Wednesday thank you all for for watching thank you very much guys see you next week and thank you tray safe bye bye bye thank you


No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, right. Here is a new revised, but it's very significantly revised. So TFT prices finally came back down to earth after, you know, May chip and TFT shortages. And so we've actually updated our TFT supplier. And while we were doing that, I was like, well, you know, if I'm going to update the TFTs, why not update the designs as well. And so if you look on the back of this 2.2 inch TFT breakout, and that has an iSpy connector, also has the lovely new Penguin font that you have been showing off on Desk of Lady Aida, where the font is rendered nicely using this Python script that Paint Your Dragon wrote. We now have an iSpy connector. It's otherwise the same shape, same pinout, everything else is in the same location. But I want to show on the overhead, actually, you can just skip ahead. Yeah. Yeah, going on. So on the overhead, the iSpy connector is sort of like people like, oh, can you have like, you know, the Stem QT that people really love, right? You plug in iSquared C sensors with a cable, and it's just plug and play. You know, can you do that for displays? So this cable, you know, you can't just use two or three pins, you actually need like, you know, 12 pins to do SPI, especially if you want the SD card, if there's a touch screen, so this is a 18 pin cable, and it's a flex cable, and there's a connector on here, and it's pretty easy to remove. It's a flip top connector, so I really like that style, because they're a lot less likely to break. You slot the connector in, which of course is hard to do on the overhead. And you can control all these GPIO, the power reset, SD card, backlight, plug it out, whatever, whatever, comes through here. And then, for example, we have this little breakout board that labels all of the GPIO for you for easy wiring. And then, you know, this cable can be significantly longer than breadboard wires, but also makes it a lot easier to connect and disconnect and test. So here I'm just running like, you know, the standard graphics test, but what's nice is it's no longer tied to the breadboard. I can disconnect it.  Yeah, and we're going to have like a, you know, a feather and a STEMIQT breakout for this connector that like plugs in directly. But I do like showing it on a breadboard to say like, hey, it's nice as everything's labeled. And I'm using the 100 millimeter cable, but of course these cables come in significant lengths of availability. Okay, next up. Okay, next up, we have two more sizes of the SPI flash. We again have the Q-SPY flash version that is just like, you know, eight pins of all the Q-SPY connectors. But if you're using something with five volt logic, like in Arduino Uno or, you know, for some reason you just want to have it, you know, maybe data protected. There's a level shifter on there in an LDO. Also good if you are, you know, there's some chips that used to SPI flash chips that used to come with five volt compatibility. If you need to wire this up to something that needs that five volt compatibility. This is a, you know, windbond 25 Q64 series. Just again, that was one of the most popular SPI flash chips available. And we just wired up for SPI usage. So the hold and WP, the extra two pins are not used to set high. And you just get the SPI pins with chip select. For Arduino, we have a SPI flash library that you can use. You can format it as fat or a little a fast or use it as a flat file. So this is 64 kilobits, which is eight kilobytes. And this is the 128. Yeah, there's two. The 128 kilobits, which is 16 kilobytes, they're labeled kilobits, not kilobytes. You can see it matches the printing on the chip. That's why we say that. So I use 16 kilobytes. You know, that's not so bad.  And then reference them later. You know, if you're using a lot of storage, I always recommend an SD card. But these are mechanically stabler. And of course, they're less expensive, you know, and a lot simpler for some basic uses.  You have to erase them before you write to the pages. But again, our library takes care of that for you. All right. And the stars show tonight besides you, Lady Aida, our staff, our team, all the folks who work with Aida for the community, our customers, is the neopixel driver BFF. So it's actually, I designed this after Erin did that project with the, she was doing the jellyfishes. And she's like, well, I wanted to have a cutie pie and cut the neopixel. And I was like, oh, you know, there should be a little board that kind of does all the tough work of that for you. So looking on the back here, in the middle is that little chip in the middle is a 74HCT125 1G, a single gate level shifter that will take the three-volt logic level and shift it up to five volts, which I thought was a nice little add-on. And it uses the USB five volts to do that. It's by default using pin A3. And there's jumpers you can cut and solder the jumpers so you can use like MOSI or RX or TX. There's no like, you know, dedicated neopixel pen instructions are on the back. You solder it back to back. You can use sockets. Or of course, you can solder it directly if you like, I perhaps like sockets. And then the connector that's on most neopixels is not, this is JSTSH does not come in a surface mount version. So we put in a JSTPH connector. And I'll show it. And then I'll show you how you would connect to a neopixel strip that's not, so hold on, let me find my, wait, here's my demo. Thank you for your patience. Okay, so let's go to the overhead. So here I've got it RP2040 QDPI, which is a great neopixel driver. It has PIO support. And then you can see on the back here, I've just, we've soldered a little socketed version so I can remove it, but you don't have to, you can solder directly if you want. And for short strips, you can power it directly from the, this cable. Like this is a, this is, we stock these neopixel strips that have the JSTPH on them. You get five volts from USB, ground from USB, and that level shifted data. So here's the neopixel demo. A lot of neopixel strips like, you know, they don't, they either come with raw wires or they come with JSTSH. And again, there's no adapter, there's no surface mount version of that connector. However, you can use JST to socket cables, and then you just plug these in to the wires, just plug the wires in. And they're color coded. So red is power, green is, black is ground, and white is signal. We also have a version with plug male headers. So, you know, those, you plug it in and then now you have a removable plug version. If you're powering a ton of neopixels, like more than 30, honestly, I wouldn't power it from the USB port. I would have a separate five volt power supply, in which case you would just connect the ground and signal, and then you could cut the red wire off or just, you know, tie it around here and ignore it. And then you would power the strip separately, but have the signal and ground still come from this board. You know, we have Wi-Fi versions of the QDPIs. If you want to make a WLED project, this would be a great plug and play way to do that. It also works with the shower boards from Seed, so you want to use their Bluetooth board, make a Bluetooth neopixel project. It's just, you know, it's a very inexpensive little add-on, but it should just make neopixel projects a lot easier. Okay, and that is new products.