th, I'm having a particularly rough day in the self-confidence realm, and I remembered that mindset thing. And I think it was something like, I thought the word, like, I'm not good enough or I'm not smart enough, and that took me back to that talk and then I was like, wait, there was a book. And so immediately, immediately I went and bought the book and started reading it, and it has been really, really amazing almost to the point where I thought about trusting this talk, because I'm like, I'm not talking about imposter syndrome, I'm talking about mindset, but I don't know if that's completely true or whatever, and it's still relevant because because it's the, it's still relevant because the journey is still there, you know, like I can say, read this book, but if you don't know the whole story behind it, maybe you can't relate to it as much or it might be harder to... Yes. I'm gonna skip that. So there are passages in the book which are nearly word for word thoughts that I've had, so it really resonated with me and that's where I'm currently at with my progress. I have a lot of time at work to put these... put the techniques and the thoughts or the things from the book to good use at work because I've been traveling for two weeks and there's like a whole Christmas break thing before that, so there's about a week, but I have been putting some of it to good use here, and I've gotten a lot more out of my interactions with people here since reading that book, and so I highly recommend that book. The BLDR version of that is still go watch this video, go read this book, but I feel like without the other stuff you wouldn't necessarily have the context to understand why it registered or why it had so much impact. Yes. It's called Mindset, the New Psychology of Success. Yeah. I was thinking about having a slide with a bunch of stuff, but I'll post it later just because I wasn't sure how to... like, do I just have the whole thing and without knowing about the other parts of my journey, you may not have the context to know why it registered so much with me. Because I really do feel like I heard that message a month prior to actually receiving, like internalizing it. So as always, your miles may vary and the important thing is to recognize imposter syndrome to call it out because you can't fix a problem you don't know you have. And if you're struggling with it, ask for help. If you notice someone else struggling with it, offer to help them, try to reach out to them, do what you can to help them. As a community, we can help by making this normal to talk about. By reducing the vulnerability required to ask for help to discuss this, we can... people will hopefully start asking for help sooner and when they ask for help sooner they'll be able to get the help they need much more easily than when they have a lot more impact. Do you have any questions or if you want to share some of your own experiences or strategies, just kind of opening it up for this. Okay. I will bring a mic around people who want to talk. Whatever you want to do. I'll sit on that. I'm a fellow imposter syndrome poster child. I went through most of high school being very, very into computers and then I decided that I just really wasn't good enough to be a software engineer because I wasn't that good at math. And so I went to school and got a double major in philosophy in the history of math and science, which really good degree. I've really enjoyed and I've learned a lot and I've grown a lot, but you know, looking back I'm like, wow, I lost an opportunity to do really good comps I education, which is a little sad, but but the number one thing that happened was I got out into the world and I realized that I was never going to stop loving and wanting to work in computers. So I started working in computers and the more I worked with people, the more I realized that I was better than I thought but I was definitely not really good. Like they're those really good people and I had an epiphany moment and I think my epiphany moment and the way I reached my epiphany moment is what might help some people. It was the first time I wanted to make a modification to someone's code who I really idolized and that was anyone here familiar with Moxie Marlin Spike? He writes really good code and he wrote a piece of software called Knock Knock which is a port knocking implementation that's really, really good and this last year I decided that the thing it really needed was system d support because it doesn't have it so I decided to go and write system d support and the first thing I did was I popped over the source code and there are no comments. There's nothing.  I mean Knock Knock's a really good piece of software but it was the moment when I realized that, you know, I can write a piece of software and modify a piece of software like this guy who's just amazing so I encourage you, find one of the lesser projects of someone you absolutely idolize, you know, maybe not their Magnum Opus, you know, maybe if I looked at maybe if I looked at Signal right now I would feel a little bit worse but find something and look at it and you try and modify it and see if you can't do better than them because you probably can so that's my story. Thanks. While I'm walking the mic over I'd just like to echo that one of the things that I've found the most helpful has been I noticed that my own imposter syndrome comes out as comparing myself to others going wow, such and so is just better at this than I'll ever be and then when you talk to them enough about it you sometimes realize they've got it too they're comparing themselves to somebody else and then you go wait maybe this doesn't make sense anyways, who am I handing the mic to? You. Hi, is there anything that you changed at work like what you worked on? Did you have anything like can I help boost your ego other than just talking to co-workers and your boss but actually did you change anything that you worked on? That's a really good question so the question is did I change anything I worked on to try to get like an ego boost or something like that? I think I'd flail around to try to find some projects that I could get easy wins on or maybe not easy wins but I could just start making some progress on and I think there's there was just a lot of resistance to that internally or in my own self about that so I didn't have a whole lot of success with that after reading the mindset book I think I would actually try to find something that was a lot more challenging and try to tackle that because then it's a really big win but I just haven't had the opportunity yet because it's been kind of a crazy month just because I've been traveling and working stuff like that. Hey. So I started working with Jeremy like a year ago at a different company and I want to say that like the first three four weeks there I had like massive imposter syndrome compared to him but one of the things that helped me the most was there were so many things that I felt like I should know that like I had just been hired at this job and there are these things that like oh I'm just supposed to know that. I don't want to ask the question of something I don't know because then I'm going to look dumb and simply just getting like forcing myself to just whether or not whether or not I look dumb I'm going to ask the question anyways nobody ever cared but that was such like an improvement to my ability to work and then you know get over these feelings. That was my share. And one thing that you can do to help the people around you who might suffer from imposter syndrome is give them positive feedback when they do something you think is awesome. It can be really easy to just not say anything but then they can imagine that maybe you're like criticizing it and just too polite so give people that feedback. So I think this might be more of a comment than a question but I do some studying in the more mental aspect of things and hearing about this and from kind of researching imposter syndrome it kind of reminds me of BPD in the sense of like borderline personality disorder so this is the question then so my question is when researching did that kind of come up like in a search sort of you know BPD or imposter syndrome? You're on a mic though so I don't know. The question is during my research did BPD ever come up about this and the answer is no. I'll take a look at that though and see if there's anything that kind of resonates with me about that. Now borderline personality disorder. Well just from what people were saying how it was you kind of feel like everyone else is doing better than you even when you're doing something really good or you feel like oh I'm worthless I shouldn't deserve this job with BPD people do still feel that on a level like that. Thank you that sounds really interesting I'm definitely going to take a look at that. I'll go ahead and give a try at sharing a little bit about imposter syndrome too so about three years ago I got out of the Navy what I did was I built bombs and I decided I didn't want to blow people up anymore so I need to get a real job so trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life and it has to come with a career switch right so my skill set is really really different now than it was then so I get hired by a major corporation in management because managing people is kind of the same whether you're building bombs or putting food in cans as it turns out and I remember my first week being just terrified because I was like they're going to know I don't know about this industry they're going to know, they're going to know and then slowly I realized well actually I think I kind of know a little bit more than I realized this is working out and once you start getting those little victories, those little pieces that start coming together and it's hard to recognize them because you're like overcome with fear the whole time and it's really important to stop and catch those and I remember like my specific imposter syndrome moment with technology was the first time one of my bosses found out that I had this huge interest in like software development so he's like I got a project for you, you're going to be the product manager for our business application and suddenly I'm sitting in the room with people that I want to be doing their jobs I want to be part of their team like this is the stepping stone for me right now and I'm terrified because they're going to know, they're going to know that I want to be where they're at but I don't have their skill set, they're going to know I'm going to say something wrong and look like an idiot kind of like I'm the IRC the first time you get on IRC and you ask a dumb question and everyone's been in that one so there's hope out there for you even if you feel that way after two months of that project that same place they offered me a job immediately they said we want you to come work for us as a project manager just based on what was going on there so I just wanted to share that with the group and say there is actually even though you're terrified the whole time there is light at the end of the tunnel and it's not a train they're probably also just as terrified by the way oh god so I guess I'll do sharing first and then a strategy that I actually learned from my company so at my last company student fresh out of college like nothing was expected of me, no problem and I got lucky and ended up reducing incident time by 80% for 20% of incidents which is like hardcore metric like yes this is awesome, measurable success, woo and then leverage that to get hired at a video game company, lifelong dream awesome, sweet and going through the interview process like there is no way I'm going to get this oh god I'm working here and kind of the whole basically at that point you've already had one job you're no longer a student fresh out of college first job you got your two years of experience and then you're sitting across from an engineer who's been doing this about the same time and they contribute to five open source projects and basically define part of the engine it's like oh shit so for me personally one thing that helped was kind of and this might sound terrible it just worked for me may not work for everyone else I'm now considering myself a software engineer training right I'm not part of the official engineering organization technically data analyst even though I write software like this is where I'm at and I am going towards that growth and yes I'm not as good as that guy but that's okay they've had different experiences than I have and I'll be damned if I'm not going to get there and then strategies that we were taught by funny the head of project management at the company was like I'm dealing with software syndrome this is how I deal with it she mentioned tracking what you've done and what you've accomplished and sharing that with your manager and be like is this good and the manager would be like um yes and doing that for myself that she had taught me is like yes super so just a couple strategies so thank you hi so I guess I'm truly an imposter in here because I'm an English teacher and not in the tech field of any sort but I want to let you know that even as an English teacher and this is my first year teaching I am going through the same struggles the same type of imposter symptoms and syndrome and feeling like an outsider within my own department and there was a couple of things and I guess I'll sort of do it now but Amy Cuddy who did this wonderful TED talk about how body language shapes and I can even feel it right now because a minute ago I was sort of recluse up and closed off and feeling very nervous but now as I stand and as I stand with a better posture I get more confident and I feel more confident and you said earlier exactly the Peter Pan victory so um all of that and so earlier you were talking about being aware of your emotions well it's the same with your body language being aware of your body language and how you portray yourself to the world because how you portray yourself is also how people react to you so if I were to sit here and stand with myself closed off it's unlikely that anybody would want to approach and even talk to me and talk to me about their troubles so if I were to of course you know become more aware of my body and as you can see my voice isn't as shaky as I stand and as I talk to you and you're standing up there with your victory Peter Pan pose and many times in front of my class it's something that I would really encourage you and encourage this audience to look into would be Amy Cuddy's How Body Language Shades Us which is a wonderful TED talk and you can find it on you know TED.com or something like that but yeah there you go thank you so I've been dealing with imposter syndrome for years and it wasn't until I actually found an open source project where I felt like I had a mentorship I actually part of the finance project which is a very large python project that has a huge umbrella of applications underneath it and I found mentorship there under a bunch of other people that have the exact same syndrome that felt the exact same way and they helped me guide through it I'm now the maintainer of one of the largest request response libraries in python called Webob you've probably touched it without knowing and if you've used OpenStack, you've used Reddit you've touched it and it's scary but that's what helped me get over my imposter syndrome it's helped me grow because I see people using my source code I see people using my stuff and I'm getting out there and you know this to me is still scary I'm standing in a room full of people as you can probably tell but to me that is a big thing is the open source community as a whole has helped me tremendously grow and I think it can do a lot for other people too find a project where you're interested where your interests lie that you believe that you can make a difference and make a difference even if it's not an English teacher find something you're interested in there's got to be projects out there to make education better for the world there you go so that to me was a huge help yes, there's other people out there who are successful Chris McDonald made Supervisor which many of you probably run in Docker he's helped he's been through this too he's helped me get those contributions out he's told me my code sucks and helped me make it better and get it there so now it is good and now I can help make other people successful too so please go do open source I think it will help I was thinking back earlier and I think imposter syndrome is quite common and I think as you get farther along what I've determined is the companies I haven't had it at are companies that after a while I regretted being there because I felt like when I showed up and I had imposter syndrome there was a very high bar of talent and I had a bunch to learn so you start getting that muscle you're comfortable to it and it's not something you totally fear because if you move into a company and you immediately have no imposter syndrome that's what you'll be at so that's my perspective Jeremy will you share some of the ways that we talked about when you are talking to somebody who you're star struck by they're like oh my gosh I can't believe this person is talking to me how do you handle that I think someone else actually touched on that pretty well I've tried to listen more than talk because you don't need to necessarily prove your worth to them just ask questions show interest in their conversation I'm actually it's very difficult for me to talk to somebody who I find I am very star struck by just because I feel imposter syndrome myself it's something I've been working on but listening helps a lot and before I hand off the mic just to add on to that just remember that they're people just if it helps when you're having conversations with just random strangers really famous in some subculture that you've never heard of and go yeah I can talk to people who might or might not be famous and just treat them treat them like the people that they are rather than some glorified thing up on a pedestal that doesn't have any flaws I would like to say that you know everybody in this it's a very competitive world out there and everybody faces imposter syndrome at some time or the other and while it's very good to be open to feedback from your colleagues it's also important to filter it out so sometimes when people that you work with on a daily basis give you feedback it's very easy to assume that they're right and if they give you feedback and say oh you're not good at this you're automatically assuming that you've done something wrong and you're going back and trying to fix it so it's important to step back not react to it immediately I felt that it's helped me out I used to react very quickly to whatever people said and say oh something's wrong I have to go fix it but now I take a step back and I see that sometimes they may not be right all the time so it is important to do that to make sure that your confidence is not low can you hear me actually I want to take it back on what you were saying here like everybody else of myself had the impasse syndrome I've had a few careers and it's always there I think a lot of it sometimes is how we were raised parents don't go to school to learn to be parents some of it is learned some of it too I think we're in the tech industry and it's an awesome industry I'm slowly learning to program and do some of the stuff that engineers do but in the years that I've worked with teams it always amazes me that some of the most brilliant people that I work with have such what people say it's low self-esteem and of course a lot of people in the tech industry are introverts so maybe there's a connection there but what I have noticed a lot and I think this is not only LA it's really across the country there's there's a culture of in many places you'll find a culture of putting on a pedestal certain very brilliant people and that's great, they're brilliant it's awesome but I think that all of us sometimes without taking away our own accountability to work towards whatever we need to work at we also need to help ourselves in really managing that culture that is really kind of unreasonable because I see people who have worked really really hard at what they know and they're really really good but because they're not that that person getting the attention they're pushed to the side and if they're the kind of person that's having this imposter syndrome you can imagine how that builds on so I think as a community we all need to work at managing that aspect of where we all just are star struck but there's really there's really so much more to it so to your point you don't want to always just believe whatever feedback you have you got to learn to give yourself credit for where you came from and what you've done and everyone is so different everyone has something so different to offer I'm glad to be here with everyone tonight because I feel like I've been dealing with this most of my life because I keep going to I've worked in a lot of small businesses and even a few bigger ones and it's always seemed like you go there and you know what you're doing and then you go there and you try to fit into the culture you try to mold yourself and at some point you finally get it and you're like okay I finally get the I finally get what's going on it's another place and it starts all over again and that can be a little personally jarring at times so I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with that if anyone's got input on that more recent case of something going on is I've been dealing with the posture syndrome where I'm at now and I've been dealing with it for a couple of years and I've been trying to get over it and now I find that like there's a competing goal of dealing with the posture syndrome versus changing priorities and changing goals it's like okay I was good at something or at least I was being told hey I'm great at this, don't worry so much now I'm being told I'm not as good so I was like what do you deal with that what do you deal with that shift and expectations in that situation so that I really connect with that because when I was at my last job there were a lot of new people coming in and they were bringing in these new ideas of new technologies and that sort of thing and I felt like I was just struggling to keep up with what I was already doing and they want to come in and bring some new things and since I'm an ops person I have to know all these new things so I started feeling a posture syndrome even later on like after I had already established myself and so I really feel that there have been a lot of changes lately so it's, yeah I can totally handle that I just want to piggyback on what you said about the book Mindset I was actually gifted that book from a CEO that I met on a plane and I was going to a conference I was on my way to the conference and we were having a great conversation he asked me about what I was doing at the time and I remember saying I wasn't really completely fulfilled because I'm just not that kind of person and that kind of person was to be able to explain or teach technical things over email in tech support and I think our whole conversation was going really great until I said I'm just not that type of person and he asked for my we traded the info and two weeks later I got Mindset and he said you're kicking ass, you're doing a great job read this book it's going to help and it took me a while to get through it because there's a lot of examples of different growth like growth mindsets and fixed mindsets and it explains a lot how you can be a growth mindset in a lot of things and a fixed mindset in a lot of things and how you also have people around you that have growth mindsets and fixed mindsets and I was able to distinguish when I feel that I'm naturally good at things and when I'm not naturally good at things or at least I haven't been put in that situation enough times to feel like I'm a natural I really like the fact that you mentioned that book because now I've given that book to my younger brother who now lives with me in San Francisco who often times says I can't do that because it's just not me and he's pushing through that book too but it really really helped a lot I think to read that book and then you start to kind of see how people themselves are either growth mindset or fixed mindset with that certain topic or situation and then you can try to teach them and help them in a growth mindset way as well so I think we've got enough time for I guess these three last questions or comments that I've seen people's hands for and pretty soon we're going to have to hand over the room to the AWS boss but anyways here it goes just one really useful resource I've had is it's an interview of Ira Glass it's him talking about how he got to where he is and it's just Google search Ira Glass taste and it's just about you not being as good as your ambitions and you seeing the gap between where you are currently and what you want to be doing and it's really really helpful I just put that on I kind of put it on repeat and it's like his voice is so nice anyways so I can't like it's not bad so it's really useful if you don't if you're feeling this really really good oh Ira Glass taste just Google that it's the first video I R A G L A S S and then space taste or space between iron glass too I had a small idea but in all small ideas maybe it's helpful I find that I hope it's okay to plug stack overflow during my lunch hours I'm a C++ guy I find people that have questions that I can answer you get feedback you know you know it you gave the answer it's in a sense casually peer reviewed and that's great to say nope I really do know it I'm giving answers and they're helpful to others that was my two cents I definitely started well I've been dealing with this for a long time and it came to a head in the last six months at the company that I work for and I saw this talk in my CTO it was like you need to go to that I talked about this very recently but yeah so I I work at a very small company I'm the lead developer and very small we have four programmers so there's a CTO, me and two junior devs that picked up programming last year or two so I'm very high up on the spectrum of skill at our company but constantly feeling just like I'm not good enough and part of it is the CTO is straight genius like insanely brilliant guy but yeah I started having this issue and for me in the last year I didn't recognize it initially which made it more of an issue in it and naturally spirals and it got to the point of like I've never really struggled with a lot of anxiety things like that in my life and like six months ago I started having like crushing anxiety the point of like having panic attacks struggling with depression and things I'd really never seen before and talking through that with him I started recognizing some of these like distortions that I was putting on things where I was talking about a situation and then he would be like that's not at all how it is like that's no that's not true and the thing that was really dangerous that moment was he's dependent on my performance and you know for the company to succeed for him to succeed in his job so in my mind I added a distortion of he's just lying to me to make me feel better so I can perform which is really dangerous because all of a sudden I added a distortion so he couldn't help me and he said that was positive in my mind I was like oh he's just trying to make me feel better so I can get past this and continue performing but yeah one of the things that was really helpful was like one of the things that talking through it with him I mean I'm blessed with he's very open minded and very helpful and very you know listened as well but he pointed out that I wasn't recognizing any wins which I think is a common thing you don't recognize your own wins you don't see those things as successes and you're always thinking about the failures what we did is in our quarterly reviews he started pointing out wins and that was something that was really helpful for me like the first time after we had initially talked about it the next time we had a review and we sat down and talked he was like alright so what were your wins tell me about what your wins were and I was like I don't know like I worked most of the time I didn't really have anything and then he started pulling things out and he did something like but even that and I don't know a formalized way but as a strategy that was something very helpful for me is like ask somebody that you know ask somebody that you work with like I don't think it would be viewed as super prideful but like legitimately tell them like in your mind what have I won recently what are things where I have experienced wins recently and you might be really surprised with what comes back and I found that super helpful to spin the thing that feels like fishing for compliments into just being a good employee by asking what do you think my most meaningful win for your priorities has been and just spin it around just a little so that you're being good you're doing what you should be doing but still ask what they think their successes are so I'm sure that you'll have a chance to keep talking about this if you want to give us an atrium there but I think we do need to hand over the room thank you so much thank you I'm kitchen on twitter so if you want to talk about this please hit me up and thank you Emily for sharpening the mic around that was awesome the boss is back there AWS people you are recommended to go 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Hey guys, it's MJ and in this video what I want to talk about is Bitcoin arbitrage bots Last year I made a video where we saw that in South Africa people are paying 20% more for bitcoins Than they are elsewhere in say America and Luxembourg And what is amazing is that I made that video last year and in certain days You can still see this 20% arbitrage just up for grabs Now what makes this quite interesting is that we have the same product That is trading at different prices at different markets So the very easy thing to take control of say of an arbitrage is To buy where it's cheap and to sell where it is expensive The problem though is that with these exchanges where you're changing fiat into crypto They do need a whole bunch of Verification you need say an American or let's just say you need local bank accounts And all the exchanges that you want to take advantage of There's quite a process to withdraw the cash there's normally a delay and then there are the whole transaction fees and converting fees and also you're dealing with USD RANDs and Crypto and it can get quite quite messy and so even though you've got 20% at the end of the day through all the effort Sometimes it's not just worth it but but We now live in a day back then there was basically You know Bitcoin was the main one But now what we have is we've got various crypto coins. We've got say Bitcoin We've got Litecoin. We've got Ethereum. We've got the Dodge coin. We've got Dash, you know, we've got the new Economy coin. I mean you've got Monero. There's there's just so many coins and What's also really cool is there are so many exchanges And This has opened the door for Quite a lot of cool things to happen because when you're just dealing with say crypto currencies One of their big advantages is that you can transfer them quite easily So what we're gonna be showing you in this video is how your Bitcoin arbitrage is or your bots should be focusing more at the Crypto arbitrage is between these various coins on the various exchanges Rather than worrying about the fiat currency also because I'm sure everybody else is busy doing that So what you would do is let's say you've got your your exchanges That have the various prices. I'm just making these prices up For for the example sake what you want to do is is Get all your information so one of the things that your bots are going to want to do is They're going to want to go and scrape the data so you want to scrape this data from the exchanger so To do a scraping program.  There we go. It's then gonna look at which ones to buy So we're gonna be looking at all the various coins and What we can do is we can buy say Bitcoins the cheapest there Like coins the cheapest there Ethereum's the cheapest there dogs the same price everywhere that one's at 40 that one's there and We go over there Now first thing let me just just say out over here for simplicity I'm using a Measure that is kind of all the same what you could do is you could use All of these as the the Bitcoin price so almost you take away Bitcoin See you're gonna be doing Bitcoin arbitrage, but not necessarily on Bitcoins value you're gonna be doing it on all the coins Coins is relative value to Bitcoin and the reason why you just want a standard Unit is just to make things a little bit a little bit easier Normally what you do is USD with the various other Currencies but what we can do is these can be there for the ratios to to Bitcoin What you would want to then do is you then know which ones you want to buy so these are all the currencies in relation to Bitcoin You then want to also look at which of the exchanges are The most expensive and these actually be the exchanges that you're going to want to be selling at Okay, so we're gonna be buying those coins from those exchanges and we're gonna be selling These coins at these exchanges. So what's gonna happen is our server will then come to bought three Until bought three that you need to sell light coin and you need to sell You know, nim It'll come to say bought one and it'll be like, okay listen here You need to sell Monero and to bought two you need to sell Ether and you need to sell Dash and it's gonna do the exact same thing when it comes to buying it will also send them They're buying Instructions, so it'll be like by light coin on exchange one bought one by Dash as well and by theorem at exchange three. So what you're gonna be doing is your server is Going to be receiving all these price informations and then it's going to be sending out instructions on What bots need to do what so basically what you're bots doing is it's sending out trading instructions Trading instructions now Essentially what you might want to do is you want to look at the percentage difference The greater the percentages the more likely you want to do that trade So for instance if we look at Monero, that's one over here We're buying at 50 and we selling at 70 that is a very nice spread Compared to say one where we buying at 38 and we're only selling at 42 So you what you want to do is you want to find the ones that have the biggest spread or if you're spread That's also known as the percentage if your spread is above a certain rate that is More than the transaction fees Okay, the the smaller you make your spread the more trades you're gonna be making but the more you're gonna be paying in Transaction fees the greater you make it the more profit you're gonna be making but the less opportunities you're going to be finding So that is a trade-off that you need to try to figure out What you could even do is some sort of machine learning Algorithm that then determines that for you. So what you do in that situation is you set that spread as a random variable You then see how much profit you're making and then you tweak it and see what the profit is if the profit moves in a good way You keep moving in that trend. Otherwise, you reverse it until you find the sweet spot Or you could just say that's not the true 5% I mean that that probably be is the best way to start you can maybe use that as your Prior information and then do some machine learning Bayesian techniques to get a posterior wine and then join that you together Sorry, I'm going a little bit off off track. Let's let's get back to To the Bitcoin arbitrage. You can have a lot of fun like in between doing how these things are The final thing the final thing and this is where having a background in actuarial science You should have a little bit of an advantage over all the other traders is you now need to do your capital management Okay, essentially what you need is you've got bought one you've got bought two you've got bought three All of these bots need to have a reserve of coins So they need to have a reserve What I mean by a reserve is so when you're setting this up you want to almost say, okay, we want 100 light coins we want 200 of this one so that you can take Advantage of the buying and selling at a more quicker rate. You could do it so that I mean you come Sorry, I'm trying to to swipe on this iPad thing. How do I swap to the previous page? Yeah, you could have it so that you just have the buying straight away In which case if you're going to be doing this approach Sorry, we have Having a little bit of technical difficulties anyway, we back we back So you could have this approach where you you store a reserve of of each coin So you'd have say a hundred light coin in all the exchanges a hundred Ethereum a hundred hundred hundred and then buying and selling and adjusting like that Or you could have all your capital management just based around Bitcoin But what's going to start happening is that the exchanges that are doing a lot of the buying Their Bitcoin reserve is going to decrease and the ones that are going to be doing the selling Their Bitcoin reserve is going to be increasing Now it's very simple when you've got just a bot one and bot two But when you start introducing bot three bot four because the more bots you get the more of a charge opportunity You can potentially find it then starts getting a little bit tricky But what you'd want is to almost have another rule where bot one bot two But three have each got their own Bitcoin addresses and Then have a rule that says if bot two is doing a lot of selling Then or it's trying to sell but it is running low on Bitcoin. It can send a request for coins and Then the coins that are selling they're more likely to give So to do that what you would want is some sort of other variable that every time there's a sell you have a Give a variable and every time you have they buy there is a request variable that goes up and Then what happens is that when this request variable is going up It can then request coins from the exchange that is then selling them because they should have enough and then they can send it This does get a little bit complicated. I'm probably not going to go in too much detail Otherwise this video is going to be way too long But that is one thing where you want to look at your capital Management techniques that you have learned in financial economics and maybe write a little bit of mathematics Around this to just perfect it and optimize it so that because the worst thing is you don't want to so that the thing that wants to sell the coins Hogs all the Bitcoin so that the boss that are trying to buy Cannot buy because they don't have any bitcoins and then you have to manually go in and send and all that type of stuff You do want this whole process to be automated But yeah, there we go. I mean, I think that is a very broad overview on how you can design bots To trade on the cryptocurrencies exchanges try to get some sort of arbitrage Essentially you will have bots on the various exchanges. They'll be talking to servers the servers will then talk to other bots they'll be sharing information and Trade actions that they need to execute as well as sending the coins the thing is is that Arbitrage should be coming Less and less with time as as the market gets more liquid and gets more efficient This arbitrage opportunity is going to decrease So either dedicate a whole bunch of time right now and get this thing set up like ASAP or Risk the fact that you could put in all this work to set up an arbitrage But and then by the time you come to market You're too late. Everybody else has done it and the markets around the world have been optimized and are all efficient So I guess at the end of the day that is the risk that you want to take There are a whole bunch of other little hidden risks So I guess it's not a true arbitrage, but I did touch on that in the last video I hope you guys enjoyed this and as always Thanks so much for watching Let me know if you are into Bitcoin arbitrage trading and making markets and supplying it with liquidity and Profiting and how that's been working out for you. Anyway, cheers


Hi, I'm Aliyah and I'm from Artistically Crafted and I'm here at the Art Resident headquarters today and I'm going to show you how to make alcohol ink coasters. So let's get started. I've chosen this four inch hexagon shape. You can use any shape that you like and this is a non-porst material so the alcohol inks won't get absorbed into the ceramic. Also going to be using this 99% isopropyl alcohol and that's to allow the inks to move. Here we have our alcohol inks.  Our hair dryer will allow the alcohol ink to blend, a little bit of metal leaf, a small paintbrush with the silver leaf. Lastly, we're going to be using our art resin and that is just going to complete the poster set and make everything really shiny and beautiful. So the first thing I'm going to start with is pouring out a little bit of my alcohol into this cup.  It gives me that control that I need and it's just less messy. I'm going to start with my blue ink and a little bit of purple and then a little bit of the alcohol.  So now I can see where needs more ink and what colors have blended and if I like that a little bit of purple and just put it where the pink is. Just add that on blue just in the corner. Some more alcohol. I'm going to get a little bit more alcohol just to dilute this color a bit more. I want it to be really faded. Some mica powder just to add a little razzle dazzle. A little goes a long way. The mica powder has given a metallic lining so you can see how vibrant that is. I'm going to try to get all of the coasters the same color. If the design, if it doesn't match that's okay it'll just be unique to each coaster. And it's done. Now we're going to go ahead and add the silver leaf. I'm going to start from the corner and make a thin line and I can see where it's wet so when it dries it'll be sticky to the touch of lining here and attach it to that line that I had done first. So we're going to let that dry until it gets sticky and then we can add our silver leaf. I'm going to just take a few pieces and add it on to the areas where I can see the lining just so I don't waste the leaf. Just add it on with your finger just like that. And I'm just going to use my finger to remove all the excess and it comes off nice and easy because that adhesive we waited for it to get nice and sticky. Now I'm going to add the crylon spray just to dilly inks in and get it really ready for art resin. And here I've got my hardener and my resin. I've got a cup with measurements on it as a guide and a stir stick. I've got some gloves and I got my torch. Remember that resin and hardener is a one-to-one mixture and it's measured by volume not weight. I use a calculator online and I was told to use four ounces for my coasters and make sure that I'm scraping the sides. I'm scraping the bottom by mixing slowly. You're less likely to get all those air bubbles in there. I'm ready to go ahead and coat my coasters with resin. Just pushing it to the ends. Don't be afraid of drips. Right now we're going to go ahead and pop those air bubbles and we're all done. This just keeps our pieces totally protected from any falling debris. We're going to leave this overnight for 24 hours and we will come back in the morning and see how they look. See you tomorrow. So let's go ahead and take a look. These are so vibrant. I'm loving how I can see more of the deep blues here, more of the metallics in the mica powder and I love how they're the blue just transitions into the purple and the pink and that metallic lining from the silver leaf is just really vibrant really making me happy with how that turned out. To complete these coasters I'm going to put a little bit of glue at the bottom and add cork to it so I like to apply the glue. I get my next cork piece and I put the glue on top of that so any glue will fall onto the next one. Squeeze and apply that on and it just looks like that. So you just want to wait 24 hours for the glue to dry and once that's done you've got yourself a beautiful set of alcohol ink coasters ready to be used. So we're all done here and we've got ourselves a beautiful four-piece coaster set with alcohol inks and resin and I wanted to thank you all so much for being here with me today and I wanted to thank Art Resin so much for having me. If you have any questions or comments please leave them down below and I'll see you all next time. Bye for now!


Hey, it's Alex from AlexFergus.com and Peleru FX 2018 kicks off in Austin, Texas in a few days time and unfortunately, I'm not going to be there I'm staying in New Zealand this time, right? As I've been the last few few years I met a lot of good friends there and good networks Get a lot of emails lately saying hey, you know, let's let's meet up. We'll be good to see you again And my response is I'm not gonna be there So then of course they come back saying oh, well, can you recommend any good restaurants or some tips or you know? Give me some insider Helpful tips and tricks to get the most out of the experience. So I thought to myself, you know what? I was seen in the same email off over and over. I thought I'll just whip up a video and share that with everyone So if you are going to Peleru FX with this year or a lady year, hopefully some of these tips will help you If you're thinking of going then, you know, maybe some of these these little nuggets I'm gonna share with you will inspire you to go because it is a great a great occasion It's good fun. Yeah, it's all health orientating everything, but there's a good fitness idea. There's lots of up-and-coming Tech and gadgets and supplements and everything as well. It's not all like caveman paleo I mean, it's more alternative health and wellness So definitely check it out if you if you can and if you don't live, uh, you know, 17-18 hours Flying away like I do then. Um, hopefully you can get there. Anyway, these are my tips First thing if you are traveling a long distance, uh, head out to restore chryreotherapy It's about a 10-15 minute drive from the expo maybe a little bit further I just uber everywhere on there. Actually, it's not over. You've got to use a different app Or at least that was when I was there last That's maybe something you should look into Anyway, head out to restore chryreotherapy. Do it if you've never done chryro before do a cold-chamber chrysation They have the Normatech compression boots. They do all IV drips and everything I've been there both years after my long crazy cross Pacific flight. I get the IV drips I get all the good stuff and I feel a million bucks annual too. So I highly recommend checking that out Second thing while you're out there. It's in a little shopping complex area Hit to Whole Foods. It's it's like just across the road or in the same little complex Whole Foods It's the home of Whole Foods. It was where it was founded in Austin. So you have to check that out It's an an experience in itself, especially for my, you know, non-american listeners who are traveling over from Australia and New Zealand and even Europe, I think so you got to go check that out. It's very cool All right, so now when you get to the expo, the expo runs three days. All right, Friday, Saturday, Sunday For those of you who've been to expo's or conventions before you'll know that like the first few days are a lot better than last Last day mornings are typically better than afternoon. And it's just because it runs fresh, you know You know, it runs motivated, rearing to go whereas come Sunday afternoon like people just want to pack up and get home So I'm trying to get it on Friday. It's a lot quieter than this Saturday and Sundays So if you can go Friday, great. If you're going all three days, then lucky you. Like I said, mornings are good Though saying that I never got there first thing in the morning. I value my sleep too much But yeah, mornings are a lot better than last last thing, you know, a lot like the last two hours of the expo Another thing is it politics had a lot of speakers and that's the main drawcard for a lot of people for me personally I went for business networking and to see the Stores exhibitors and everything. If you're there for the speakers, great Look at the timeline, build an itinerary, but know that you can get access to all the Speeches and presentations later on. I don't know if it's part of the ticket price or you pay extra But look into that because if you're only there for one day or even like if you're there for the whole three days You might find that you're better off spending your time on the trade floor or you know Meeting others and catching up with people At the expo rather than spending hours upon hours in a lecture room. So look into that Otherwise if you're there for business make sure you Keep it on this time timelines timetable and when there are big presentations happening like you know that the headline presenters that's actually a really good time to be on the trade floor because a lot of the crowd go to watch that Presentation so it's a good time where you can go up and really, you know, it's being quality time with you know these companies and Coaches and whatnot. They're all hanging around The expo. What else we've got real fit competition if you are a bit of an athlete or you like pushing yourself I'm actually wearing their t-shirt at the moment You've got to do the real fit comp even if you don't do all nine or ten events Just do a couple of them. It is good fun. There's actually something that I have won a little past two years So I'm not going to be there this year to defend my title, which is a bit of a shame But I mean someone out there can can go on and claim the title. So check out that you'll see it all littered around the expo I think their hub is usually in the middle of the expo floor But they'll have little activities all over the place and you'll see people do them So get involved in that. It's good fun. You can see how you compare to others and Yeah, maybe win something in the process a few stands to check out Ordering yeah, which I got here reason why you have to check these guys out is because they've just released their second Gin ring and they'll be shipping very very soon if not already and They're gonna have some Prototypes or actual rings of the new ones if you haven't seen in person You'll be able to go and check it out and play with it and feel it and look at that Hopefully they're showing their new app as well. So definitely check that out my mates Sitting up the store for the first time the primal hacker boys. So check that out. I don't know what they'll be doing I think they've got some supplements there. So stop it and say hi there vital choice. Um the favorite stand of mine Get the chili sardines the canch chili sardines. It was so good Even if you don't like sardines by Canada that and it'll blow your way It's better than like the you know overpriced meals and all that sort of stuff Just go get two tins of that and you'll be good to go for for a few hours and then finally the juve light Which I'm sitting I'm sitting here in my little recording studio behind my juve lights, which I'll turn on just to show you actually They if you can't see them just look for the red lights Like that. Yeah, it's pretty bright. So um, they told me they got a stool set up With a recovery room and correct recovery center So when your feet are all worn out and you just Over-talking to people and stuff and you just want to go recharge literally literally recharge hit over to the juve booth I'm not too sure where it is. But yeah, again look for the bright red lights And I think you can do free sessions on their red light panels and a lot of clinics charge You know decent money to to get ahead of the red light therapy So it's a good opportunity to go check that out Especially if you're exhausted or if you've been out partying the night before or if you are doing the real-fit competition And need a little bit of a boost I'd use it before the the sessions and after I just use it all the time. Anyway, what else business tips? Have you there for business three tips? Hit the stalls when the big speak big speakers and present Hit the stalls when the big presentations are all right because again like I said the crowd will go to that It's a good time to sort of network. All right Look into networking events. There should be some each day I think Chris Chris I used to sponsor them in the past. There was a little meet-up area and different theme days Like there's a blogging one Doctors and all that so look into that. It's worth going I mean again if you're traveling spin all this money to go to these events You must get the most out of it, right? And then the charity dinner Buy a ticket for that because Everyone who's anyone will be there So it's a good chance to network and meet people plus you get a good good meal out of it And it's for a good cause so I'm looking to that Final tip you've got to do this even if you're hardcore like paleo and all that sort of stuff We're going to Terry Terry blacks barbecue, which is just opposite across the road from the main entrance of the Convention Center It's like amazing barbecue, but I know the meat's probably not like Organic grass-fed paleo primal certified, but it's literally across the road So you got to go ahead that out one night for some of this like brisket or something like it was Really good barbecue. Anyway, um, yeah, that's my tip. So hopefully Hopefully that helps those first-timers or even people who have been before and want to get a little bit more out of it Sorry that I won't be there to meet in person Maybe next year You just have to come to New Zealand or Australia for an expert and I can meet you down here If you have any questions and you want to know a bit more about it let me know below in the comments if you are going and You're on your own or would be happy meeting up or like happy showing someone who's never been to Austin You know showing them around maybe drop your details below a link to your Facebook page or something can just say hey Like reach out to me because I know it does help, you know, if you're in a foreign town City or country even and you don't know anyone or you don't know how to get around and stuff It's always cool. Just having even one friend or someone you bump into and at least you feel like you know someone so People did that to me a few years ago. So that's why I'm like, well, at least I'll give you some tips Yeah, so anyway enjoy and have fun and yeah, make sure to do the real fit competition try and take out that so I can come and hopefully beat you next year and check out the stands and yeah go recharge in the juice center And then get good feed of Terry blacks as well. I'm jealous. I wish I was there All right guys, take it. Actually one last thing as well ARX if you haven't been to that stand That should have been on my list. If you haven't been to that stand Go to Eric's Booth will stand and have a workout on that machine. All right. It'll blow your mind. It's really cool If you're doing the real fit competition the one of the one or two of the events usually have the ARX in there So you'll you'll get a feel for it But yeah, that's a good good another good thing to add to your list So I'm sure there's many more as well, but that was just top my head. All right, but have fun