From the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante. Hello everyone and welcome to this CUBE conversation. You know, data protection, it used to be so easy.  Now, business disruptions at the time, they were certainly not desired, but they were definitely much more tolerated and they were certainly fairly common place. Today, business disruptions are still fairly common occurrence, but the situation is different. First of all, digital imperatives have created so much more pressure for IT organizations to deliver services that are always available with great consumer experiences. The risks of downtime are so much higher, but meeting expectations is far more complex. This idea of one size fits all, it really no longer cuts it. You've got physical, virtual, public cloud, on-prem, hybrid, edge, containers, add to this cyber threats, AI, competition from digital disruptors. The speed of change is accelerating and it's stressing processes and taxing the people skills required to deliver business resilience. These and other factors are forcing organizations to rethink how they protect, manage, and secure data in the coming decade. And with me, to talk about the state of data protection today, and beyond, is a thought leader from one of the companies in data protection, Arthur Lent, is the Senior Vice President and CTO of the Data Protection Division at Dell EMC. Arthur, good to see you again, thanks for coming in. Great to see you, Dave. So I'm going to start right off.  How are you guys responding to that competitive threat? Well, so the key thing that we're doing is we're taking our proven products and technologies and we've recognized the need to transform and really modernize them and invest in a new set of capabilities and changing workloads. And our core part of that, with some changes in leadership, have been to shift our processes in terms of how we do stuff internally. And so we've moved from a very big batch waterfall style approach where things need to be planned one, two, three years out in advance to a very small batch agile approach where we're looking a couple of weeks, a couple of months in advance of what we're going to be delivering into product. And this is enabling us to be far more responsive to what we're learning in the market in very rapidly changing areas. And we're at the spot where we now have several successive releases that have been taking place with our products in this new model. So that's a major cultural shift that you're really driving. I mean, that's allows you to track younger people.    What's that dynamic like? It's like we're the largest startup in the data protection industry. But we've got the backing of a Fortune 50 company. Nice. All right, well, let's get into it. I talked in my narrative upfront about business disruptions. And I said there's still kind of a common occurrence today. Is that what you're seeing? Absolutely. So our latest data protection index research has 82% of the people we surveyed experienced downtime or data loss within the last 12 months. And this survey was just completed within the last month or two. So this is still very much a real problem. Why do you think it's still a problem today? What are the factors? So I would say the problem's getting worse and it's because complexity is only increasing in IT environments. Complexity around multi-platform between physical servers, virtual servers, cloud, various flavors of hybrid cloud, data distribution between the core edge and the cloud, growing data volumes, the amount of data, and the data that companies need to run their business is ever-increasing and growing risk around compliance, around security threats. And many customers have multi-vendor environments. And multi-vendor environments also increase their complexity and risk and challenge. Let's talk about cloud. Because we entered last decade, cloud was kind of this experimental throw some dev out in the cloud. And now as we enter this decade, it's kind of a fundamental part of IT strategies. Every CIO, she or she has a cloud strategy. But it's also becoming clear that it's a hybrid world. So in thinking about data protection, how does hybrid affect how your customers are thinking about protecting their data in the coming decade? So it produces a bunch of changes in how you have to think about things. And today, we have over 1,000 customers protecting over 2.5 exabytes of data in the public cloud. And it goes across a variety of use cases, from long-term retention in the cloud, backup to the cloud, disaster recovery to the cloud, a desire to leverage the cloud for analytics and dev test, as well as production workloads in the cloud and the need to protect data that is born in the cloud. And we're in an environment where IT is spanning from the edge to the core of the cloud and the need to have a cohesive ability and approach to protect that data across its lifecycle for where it's born and where it's being operated on and where value is being added to it. Yeah, and people don't want to buy 1,000 products to do that or even a dozen products to do that. They want a single platform. I want to talk about containers because Kubernetes specifically, but containers generally, one of the hottest areas, it's funny, containers have been around forever, but now they're exploding, people are investing much more in containers. IT organizations and dev organizations see it as a way to drive some of the agility that you maybe talked about earlier. But I'm hearing a lot about, you know, protection, data protection for containers, and I'm thinking, well, wait a minute, you know, containers come and go, they're ephemeral. Why do I need to protect them? Help me understand that. So first, I want to say, yeah, we're seeing a lot of interest in enterprises deploying containers. Our latest survey says 57% of enterprises are planning on deploying it next year. And in terms of the ephemerality and the importance of protection, I have to admit, I started this job about a year ago, and I was thinking almost exactly the same thing you were. I came in, we had an advanced development project going on around how to protect Kubernetes environments, both to protect the data and the infrastructure. And I was like, yeah, I see this as an important advanced development priority, but why is this important to productize in the near future? And then I thought about it some more and was talking to folks where the Kubernetes technologies, there's two key things with it. One, it's Kubernetes as a DevOps CI CD environment. Well, if that environment's down, your business is down in terms of being able to develop. So you have to think about the loss of productivity and the loss of business value as you're trying to get your developer environment back up and running. But also, even though there might not be stateful applications running in the containers, there's generally production usage in terms of delivering your service that's coming out of that cluster.  And then the last thing is in the last year or two, there's been a lot of investment in the Kubernetes community around enabling Kubernetes containers to be stateful and to have persistence with them. And that will enable databases to run in containers and stateful applications to run into containers. And we see a lot of enterprises that are interested in doing that, but now they can have that persistence, but it turns out they can't go into production with the persistence because they can't back it up. And so there's this chicken and egg problem in order to do the production, you need both the state and the data protection. And the nice thing about the transformation that we've done is as we saw this trend materializing, we were able to rapidly take this advanced development project and turn it into productization. And we were able to get to a tech preview in the summer and a joint announcement with Pat Gelsinger around our work together in the Kubernetes environment and being able to get our first product release out to market a couple of weeks ago. And we're going to be able to really rapidly enhance the capabilities of that as we're working with our customers on where do they need the features added most and be able to rapidly integrate in with VMware's management ecosystem for container environment. So you got a couple of things going on there. Kind of describing the dynamic of the developer and developer is such a key strategic linchpin now. See, because the time between you developing function and you get it to market. I mean, it used to be weeks or months or sometimes even years. Today, it's like nanoseconds, right? Hey, we need this function today. Something's happening in the market, go push it. And if you don't have your data, you don't have the containers, the data in the containers is not protected, you're in trouble, right? Okay, so that's one aspect of it. The other is the technical piece. Help us understand like how you do that. What's the secret sauce conceptually behind protecting containers? So there's really two parts of what one needs to do for protecting the containers. There's the container infrastructure itself and the container configuration and knowing what's involved in the environment so that if your Kubernetes cluster goes down, being able to restart it and being able to get your appropriate application environment up and running. So the containers may not be stateful, but you've got to be able to get your CI CD operate environment up and running again. And then the second part is we are seeing people use stateful containers and put databases in containers and development. They want to roll that into production. And so for there, we need to back up not just the container definitions, but back up the data that's inside the container and be able to restore them. And those are some of the things that we're working on now. One of the things that I've learned being around this industry for a while is people who really understand technology. They'll ask questions about what happens when something goes wrong. So it's all about the recovery is really talking about is that's the key. How does machine intelligence fit in? So stay on containers for a minute. Is machine learning and machine intelligence allowing you to recover more quickly? Does it fit in there? So a key part of the container environment that's different from some of the environments of the past is just how dynamic it is and just how frequently containers are gonna come and go and workloads may expand and contract their usage of IT resources and footprint. And that really increases the need for automation and using some AI and machine learning techniques so that one can discover what is an application as it's containerized and what are all the resources it needs so that in the event of an interruption of service, you know all of the pieces that you need to bring together and automate its recovery and bring back. And in these environments, you can no longer be in a spot to have people handcraft and tailor exactly what to protect and exactly how to bring it back after protection. You need these things to be able to be to protect themselves automatically and recover themselves automatically. So I want to sort of double click on that. Again, it's 2020. So I'm always going back to the last decade and thinking about what's different. When beginning of last decade, people were afraid of automation. They wanted knobs to turn. They even exiting the decade recently and even now people are afraid about losing jobs. But the reality is things are happening so fast there's so much data that humans just can't keep up. So maybe you could make some comments about automation generally and specifically applying it to data protection. Okay, so with the increasing amounts of data to be protected and the increasing complexity of environments, more and more of the instances of downtime or challenges in performing a recovery tend to be because of the complexity of having deployed them and having the recovery procedures right and ensuring that the SLAs that are needed are met. And it's just no longer realistic to expect people to have to do all of those things in excruciating detail. And it's really just necessary in order to meet the SLAs going forward to have the environments be automatically discovered, automatically protected and have automated workflows for the recovery scenarios. And because of the complexities of changing we need to reach the point of having AI and machine learning technologies help guide the people owning the data protection on data criticality and what's the right SLA for this and what's the right SLA for that and really get a human machine partnership. So it's not people or machines but it's rather the people and machines working together in tandem with each doing what they do best to get the best outcome. That's great. You'd be helping people prioritize and the criticality applications like that. I want to change the conversation and talk about the edge a little bit. You guys sponsor often like IDC surveys on how big the market is in terms of just Zettabytes and it's really interesting and thank you from the industry standpoint for doing that. I have no doubt edge is coming into play now because so much data is going to be created at the edge. There's all this analog data that's going to be digitized and it's just a big component of the digital future. In thinking about data at the edge a lot of the data is going to stay at the edge maybe it's got to be persisted at the edge and obviously if it's persisted it has to be protected. So how are you thinking about the evolution of edge specifically around data protection? Okay, so I think you kind of caught it in the beginning there's going to be a huge amount of data in the edge. Our analysis has us seeing that there's going to be more data generated and stored in the edge than in all the public clouds combined. That's just a huge shift in that three to five to 10 year time flow data. Lot of data, you're not going to be able to bring it all back. You're just going to have elements of physics. So there's data that's going to need to be persisted there. Some of that data will be transitory. Some of that data is going to be critical and need to be recovered and a key part of the strategy around the edge is really again going back to that AI and machine learning intelligence and having a centralized control and understanding of what is my data in the edge and having what are the right triggers and understanding of what's going on of when has an event occurred where I really need to protect this data? You can't afford to protect everything all the time. You got to protect the right things at the right time and then move it around appropriately. And so a key part of being successful with the edge is getting that distributed intelligence and distributed control and recognizing that applications are going to span from core to edge to cloud and have just specific features and functions and capabilities that implement in the various spots and then that intelligence to do the right thing at the right time with central policy control. So this is a good discussion. We've spanned a lot of territories but let's bring it back to the practical uses for the IT person today saying, okay, Arthur, look, yeah, I'm doing cloud. I'm playing around with AI. I've got my feeding containers and my dev staffs doing that. Yeah, edge, I see that coming but I just got some problems today that I have to solve. So my question to you is, how do you address those really tactical day-to-day problems that your customers are facing today and still help them plan for the future and make sure that they've got a platform that's going to be there for them that they're not going to just have to rip and replace in three or four years? Okay, and so that's like the $100,000 question as we look at ourselves in this situation. And the key is really taking our proven technologies and proven products and solutions and taking the agile approach for adding the most critical modern capabilities for new workloads, new deployment scenarios alongside them as we modernize those solutions themselves and really bringing our customers along in the journey with that and having a very smooth path for that customer transition experience on that path to our powered-up portfolio. I mean, that's key because if you get that wrong and your customers get that wrong, then maybe not it's a $100,000 problem, it's going to be billions of dollars a problem. Billions, fair. So I want to talk a little bit about alternative use cases for data protection. We've kind of changed the parlance. We used to call it backup. I've often said people want to get more out of the backup, they want to do other things with their backup because they don't want just to pay for insurance, the CFO wants ROI. What are you seeing in terms of alternative use cases and the sort of expanding TAM, if you will, of backup and data protection? So a core part of our strategy is to recognize that there is all of this data that we have as part of the data protection solutions and there's a desire on our customers' parts to get additional business value out of it and additional use cases from there. And we've explored and are investing in a variety of ways of doing that. And the one that we see that's really hit a key problem of the here and now is around security and malware. And we are having multiple customers that are under attack for a variety of threats and it's hitting front page news. And a very large fraction of enterprises are having some amount of downtime due to malware or cyber attacks. And a key focus that we've had is around our cyber recovery solutions of really enabling a protected air gap solution so that in the event of some hidden malware or an intrusion having a protected copy of that data to be able to restore from. And we've got customers who otherwise would have been brought down but were able to be brought back up very, very quickly by recovering out of our cyber vault. Yeah, it's a huge problem. Cyber has become a board level issue. People are scared to death of getting hit with ransomware and getting their entire data corpus encrypted so that air gap is obviously critical and increasingly it's becoming a fundamental requirement from a compliance standpoint. All right, I'll give you last word. Bring us home. Okay, so the most important thing about the evolving and rapidly changing space of data protection at this point is that need for enterprises to have a coherent approach across their old and new workloads, across their emerging technologies, across their deployments in core edge and cloud to be able to identify and manage that data and protect and manage that data throughout its life cycle and to have a single coherent way to do that and single set of policies and controls across the data in all of those places. And that's one key part of our strategy of bringing that coherence across all of those environments and not just in the data protection domain but there's also a need for this cross domain coherence and getting your automation and simplification not just in the data protection domain but up into higher levels of your infrastructure. And so we've got automation taking place with our Power One converged infrastructure and we're looking across our Dell Technologies portfolio of how can we together with our partners in Dell Technologies solve more of our customer problems by doing things jointly. And so for example, doing data management that spans not just your protection storage but your primary storage as well. Your AI and ML techniques for full stack automation. Working with VMware around the full end to end Kubernetes management for VMware environments. And those are just a couple of examples of where we're looking to both be full across the data protection but then expand into broader IT collaboration. You're seeing this across the industry. I mean, Arthur, you mentioned Power One. You're talking about microservices, API based platform and increasing, we're seeing infrastructure as a code which means more speed, more agility. And that's how the industry is dealing with all this complexity. Arthur, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Thank you. And thank you for watching, everybody. This is Dave Vellante and we'll see you next time.


So good morning traders. Good morning everybody JT over here So we're looking at right now at Tesla DC T ENVB ES PO Manta, Amazon. So we have a big playlist big watch list for the day So right now I'm pointing out over here at Tesla this morning We had five on five I Will share right away one of the trade that we had on Tesla this was One of the setup that we took so you can see that We start joining short this morning Adding looking for that unwind the plan this morning you can see over here. This was a 929 one minute before the gate then the gate we said Tesla short pop and fail He has short pop and fail. So basically we started shorting Tesla. We started shorting ES Why a plus setup from the strategy? Bookmap gave us a very good conviction in this and as you know, I'm very direct. I'm not saying That you won't have losses, but you will have high conviction for your trades In this moment if you see over here book map, we had the major resistance over here 183 That is my pop and once I saw this starting to fail and Also over here. We had the main level over here too short Then you can see how unwinded made lower highs lower lows this is a Trend following trade because this morning we were fading. We are looking at the S and we are fading totally using ES is a main guide We had other trades on future as well so in this case we see over here one of the Members buying first of all, this is MN and Q and then shorting over here a rejection the same we had as I wrote over here short ES this just the gate and Then we had others setups on GCT Which was a small cap that we are watching Which I said this morning be very careful traders to trade this Because there's a high liquidity around all morning. This has history of extension. So you can see What did this morning over here? We start over here running from the 580 very early around 630 at extender over here until the 1180 and I I can show my timestamps. So you can see everything that I'm saying is Just the plan Again, this is the room boiler room where I screen share also so I share my chart We go over execution everything. This is 929 So we're going to be for the gate and I was saying over here. I'm gonna put this up I said GTC look to short 1150 or 12 for a pop-in fail. And if we have that set up, we will short Also, I was Putting just one minute before the gate this chart up explaining traders to short on a perfect setup So on a precise pattern with book map, which means to see over here the breakout of this level and also rejection The 1150 or the 12 what happened the stock? We had over here a push to 1185 Came all the way down and we are still holding the trade for the main target down here into that 8 or even better 750s, let's look at book map as well a lot of manipulation this morning I'm gonna zoom out over here just to show you the entire morning on a GCT look over here troops This was the morning long The push at this point we start having over here some sellers This is the only short that in pre-market alerted. I Roll with timestamps. I even want to share because so that you can understand. I mean Soon we also give a free trial in the room for a week so you can see exactly all the process This was at 8 o'clock. So that's my 2 p.m. And at 2 p.m. Let's look together over here what I said 2 p.m. Around 2 p.m. I run 2 p.m. I think was a little bit early Okay over here DCT at 751 fake out here of a 15 Short now it was not a 20 was 802 then I rephrase it you see over here times 752 risking 805 and then I said moving risk to break even one minute later and Then I said traders over here Look to stop break even bounce on GCT from demand area and I explained over here book map showing that strength and Then you know our pre-market streaming So the point over here for me now is just to go over the money Tony good morning home Let's go over what we do By the way for who's falling from the room over here. We're short 41 37 on Yes, and right now is 41 20 We have a beautiful wine on yes, so let me follow this trader because we're still in we're still trading this Some traders trading spy puts some traders are simply on yes So we had this instead over here on GCT We alerted the shore to this point. It came down We dipped over here the 760s, and then you can see this major liquid area Okay, I'm gonna zoom in so that you can understand the price section this point Bruce asked me Jay cover Please you know how traders can see that timing right and this is it So on the front side of the move we see that there's a high volume and they're gonna Break all these high level of liquidity. So don't short the front side. This is the front side of the move Why the front side? front side is It's formed by a sequence of at least Two higher lows and our highs at this point we start forming the first lower low breakdown and That's the first possible back side. We are forming We alerted the short exactly over here. Remember my alert is at 752 so over here Price is 804 I alerted the short 802 our risk was a 20 It came down over here to the 760 From the 760 I said move the star break even and then we start having this big push Thank you very much for your stuff Morning shadow. Good morning, buddy. Hope to see you soon. So traders again Because I want to reiterate this It's very important to understand the reason why I alerted there the short That's the first short. We had too short this morning on DCT to One was a break even One was a major win So let's review this Over here and let's zoom in a little bit more so you can see the timing Because I really want to show you and explain you so that you understand, right? And let's look together here. So this is ballroom. I post over here. You can see other members So it's not something arriving myself This is 752 Italian time. I said short 802 risk in 805 This case moved the risk at 820 so 752 is this point over here And you can see the price is it between 8 and 804 so exactly that moment. We alerted the short price dipped 780 came back and Then we said we moving the stop to break even and One and more and at this point I said, okay traders now If we have volume and volume start coming over here, you can see this volume. Don't risk more than break even Once we were at the gate So once this extended from there still a couple of points Into the 10th area and even higher into the 11 I Said let's look for a precise pattern of the gate Which is one of the pattern that I love to trade and I'm gonna share with you How you can get this timing because this is a very Say tough stock to trade, right? This is not something that it's easy to trade This is first of all is gonna trap a lot of traders a lot of traders will be front side You don't want to trade from side. You want to wait for that correct moment to get filled and Ideally get all the backside of the move So This is my plan over here again 929 J Trader, it's me I Right over here 1170 short TP one minute J lines 1170 is this level of here and I was pointing out. This is 1150 and 12 dollars I said on pop infill were short over there. Boom. We had almost a top and this was our risk You can see this major level of liquidity Then we started having spikes fake fake washes Spike fake washes Because the wars came back up wash it again back up. So all fake outs and fake washes over here Essentially, it was the distribution pattern that the only have the confirmation one We have a major crack over here and I guided from this point the traders all the way down all the way down over here on GCT so same traders wait for the first target 1040 and Why 1040? Well, just look over here 1040 this level. So we got a trader short from here Till here and now we're getting a trader short from still here down to the 750 This is the point so shadow Yes, buddy, we are short on yes, we're short emin and Q The reason why we shorter traders is because We had a major a plus at a pattern and I'm gonna share over here. What do you need to do? When for example, you short yes or spy So the shelter is asking Jay what he did in the room today. So we did this So I'm sure it took the perfect peak in the J line some traders over here shorted We took the first cover and then we're holding over here. The trail right now would be 4125 4126, but we are ideally looking for more in wine The plan that we had this morning was to short looking for that first major dip in a 41 20 Okay, so now we have the first trail coming up DCT DCT instead we're waiting Beautiful tape on this morning. This was a good read was not hard read over here in the tape and The next target as we said is gonna be 750 traders, I know that not all of you short, right and I Basically teach and trade both long and short Some traders in the room will only trade long All right, and some traders will trade both some trader will only trade short What we need to do traders we'd always to First of all look at the stats then start trading only one side becoming good on one side But the price action you have to read it So you have to know when something is long when something is short Then you can opt only take longer short But you have to read the price section because if you know that something is assured of course You're not gonna long it and vice versa So on something like GCT small cap you have to borrow So you have to find those brokers that of course now we have so many more versus like five six years ago Remembering trading small caps only in the last since 2016 17. So only the last six years Before I was trading to another market done in marketing futures Right now we have so many brokers that give you Hardware stocks this means that a lot of stocks will be so congested so full of short sellers Already from the morning and they will be trapped over here So they're gonna squeeze them because the short seller will stop out when you stop out What do you see we have to cover right and then it's gonna push push push push more the stock at a certain point The big hands they have an agenda You see this major breakout you see the crack boom all the way down Simply typical pattern of gaping extension play. So we're gonna put over here some notes About this Think it's a good Stock to review together Let's also look over here the hourly chart. All right, we can use even this over here So that we only focus right now on the price action, right? Okay, so we're gonna use this over here and I would prefer to take a screenshot So that I can explain you on the screenshot All the major Levels that we had And we're gonna put over here. So we're gonna go over the price action to gather traders So for now it's still unwinding. So we're gonna hold this So we're gonna call this This is one of the setups. Let's see over here what we have Okay, I also want to explain you the volume. So we're gonna put over here volume up So we're gonna put volume So the use of the volume For this so we haven't had the volume there. Perfect. There we go Now if you have traders question on today price action on DCT because I'm gonna review it for you explain you How to understand the price action of these stocks, please tell me so we can go over this together Okay, this is gonna be an important lesson for I believe a lot of you They trade small caps and they want to learn how to trade small caps So first of all We're gonna have our levels and We're gonna have our levels off main demand zone and main supply area So this is the main relative low Then we start forming a new Relative low or hard low new relative hard low Another relative hard low another relative hard low that a certain point over here. We crack For the first time this high or low right and now let's look how this price action behaves Because this is very interesting over here and it makes you understand Okay, make it understand traders that patterns. So we can start applying over here And we're gonna write this as higher low Higher low Another hard low And a higher low so until you see these higher lows, you're not on the backside and Over here. We have a hard low And now we have this higher low. We're gonna write over here That all these higher lows, okay They're all essentially front side of the move So this is the front side of the move and this is the backside of the move and how to understand that So over here, we're gonna write front side form by sequence off higher low High volume And over here, we're gonna have the backside with breakdown plus retest So what we see over here? This Small we're gonna make it smaller this over here. This over here is our retest. So retest or rejection proves now that supply is In control So like this you can start understanding How the manipulation works, right? And then over here at this point to speak We have a major bull trap This level over here Gonna answer your question traders very soon. Just want to Finish to explain Few things over here Sorry make it in this way. So we're gonna write over here Frontside high volume no dilution earnings and What else we have history by statistics to extend so this stock extends and Then over here, we have all these higher lows higher lows higher low Harlow Harlow Harlow and a harlow At this point we have it here supply. So demand zone shifts Into supply area with rejection and the major over here trap is this is a bull trap this bull trap that you can see right now is actually what I've been trading over and over and over so We start always asking when you're shorting something like this in small caps Which is something like DCT? Do you take liquidity or better short provide so add liquidity? All right, I suggest a buddy if you're an active short seller To look to short the ask or add liquidity especially because with many brokers you will have rebates But also I suggest you that when you have a stuff like this major bull trap if you're gonna have a position You can only get filled often if you short the bid. So if you take that liquidity, okay? So the point is once you have this trap and this is the level that we alerted Until the one-minute J lines. I said to not cover and I said to wait. I said to simply wait I can Over here put it up one second You welcome buddy First one I said over here after the short that we have I said at 936 put the stop to break even GZ when going over this trade and then I said clearly at 938 when we are in this dip Take out one third and then I said Trill more if you're gonna have a push and then I said look for this major dip at 750 So huge wine on wine over here. Okay use on wine. So this is the bull trap Where we saw this bull trap so I can share with you some examples from The past if you go over here. This is a post But it goes much back between this since 2017 Where you see this major fake out? Like right here, right? So that's the main bull trap that we had. So this is very important over here Okay, so going over what I tweeted over here is very important. So this is a bull trap So the mechanism over here what is? big hands will start dumping and taking profit on new formed liquidity on the break out On the breakout base okay, and then over here we can see that first of all we start forming a lower low and Then another lower low. So we shift from making high lows and our highs This time over here to make lower lows So you can see the shift lower lows again This is the major point over here to understand What you're trading to understand the price section on something like this You can see over here than wine. This is simply Amazing amazing amazing using the patterns Okay, and also one point that I want to show you Is this major volume fake out Over here. This is a major volume fake out on the bull trap and that's also called liquidity shift Okay, so liquidity shift over here. Any question traders on this? Thank you, T-Boar. So now we're gonna look for this continuation Could we look at MVB? Yes.  First of all anybody traded today traders. This is a lesson over here on the liquidity on DCT, okay EMVB so Stock with history of fading Okay, so I'm gonna put over here some stats and explain you What we're looking at. Okay. Why this stock today was important. So this stock I said in screen share The main point for me today will be shorting the stock Why? We're not sure But this was the plan pre-market. You can come see the timestamps and everything We took a first short and then nothing else While some traders in the room took long somebody that had a very good skill over here like In this case we have peer so I took the long over here First it took the long and it stopped and then took the long and started to take this big move over here So beautiful long by him, but why this why I was looking to short something like this Well, I treated this in the past and I saw back older I saw a lot of resistance into this morning this 430 area 440 area this level actually sort of the 444 area. We're gonna see soon better on The chart and on book map We have a micro float. This doesn't matter because a lot of times micro flow will simply fail We have gaps that stats that one time faded on day one one time random day one We had also an average extension 74% the company is what it is. We have here the news So why this is soaring because was a new as patent. So when we have these patent They generally tend to fail of course unless there comes high volume liquidity So my main point is really what I said even the pre-market stream. You could go Watch it on my YouTube. I said traders on the perfect setup So on the confirmation of our setup. I'm looking to show the CMDB and what we had over here so at this point when we opened Exactly at this level We had our short here It came down to the first profit. This is already 50 cents move, right? And then I'll break even and then we start curling over here. We had simply a Jayline cup pattern Jayline cup pattern amazing this came all the way up today and Personally, I missed it So sometimes you miss these big trades sometimes you mistreated by the strategy and that's part of the game But let's look over here Why we took the short Because at this time we don't know this is gonna be a runner at this time we see that we have a liquidity error here at 4 which is this level over here and Once we saw that that's my short Big heat map over here. You see the stall Risking just 15 20 cents max. So a good risk reward two two and point five are Washed over here entirely. So that's the entry level Exactly over here raising this came down and then when you start seeing volume coming in You see this blue dots over here coming in you simply put a star break even Okay, so this is the cup pattern over here that you can see after forming like this So on this bar if you dissect this with a 10 second chart, you will see that Cup pattern over here. So now you can see traded the cup pattern That form on the breaker that 450 over here. That's your cup pattern Exactly here. So once we see this You want to stay away because the volume of here start pushing We are talking about a four point fifty dollar stock in a volume of here around UK Use volume and came all the way up Nothing to trade right over here. Now this was The point so you can see simply how my jail has worked from here boom Same yesterday on OCA HTCR and others Okay, so those are the main levels that I'm watching um Going over book map Once we start to extend I said one thing After 10 o'clock said traders High volume Extending making our lows and I said multiple times. Don't try to short this don't try to short this because it's something like OCEA yesterday it's something like Uh, when we had the big extension that they want to lose see a month ago Some like we had a big extension on CXAI or SAI So don't start shorting these major runners Uh, there was over here a liquidity pool. So simply a breakout They stuffed it this high of day 670 and then unwind now it's forming a major level of liquidity Okay, so over here you can see the major breakout of this level So they simply go to push it above Dump it below and then fail into smear liquidity here But this is not a name or a plus setup to trade. You want to simply wait for the backside confirmed Let's look at tesla major win for the day big move down Again System work not perfect, but more all the levels over here that we had to trade What I can say about this is perfect perfect So unwind You're selling pressure Bookmap confirmation on these peaks Yes pushing down NQ pushing down So Nothing else over here we have What we what we have a poppin fill scenario and then fade it Okay, so we're calling alert in these lives explain this process when we're trading and You won't see anything like this out there because in the exact moment we take the trade we alert Before taking the trade we say i'm looking for this possible trader here So traders can learn simply by watching following they learn a playbook They learn a manual with all the setups. This is what we explain in our trading course Good morning sews. You know that you are Uh following this morning Good morning teabor So right now for who is short what I suggest always to watch. Let's put over here We can go into uh hourly chart And we can look what are the next levels over here of demand Definitely this so we're gonna look for the 176 so a major level of liquidity At this point So we're gonna point this is demand zone So we're gonna cancel this right now because this becomes an supply area This is the man zone over here and this is also the next target That we're probably going to have on tesla. Okay, so next target over here Anybody shorted today tesla So we can point out a few things over here so this is uh Breakdown I'm gonna put this in red And why the the reason why this is unwinding So teabor shorter 179 and 16 I believe buddy you shorter earlier So this is what I'm looking on tesla right now. I started So we have today tesla short We have uh took nq short gct short We just need to hold right now So i'll trade over here is saying about ee iq nice extension a lot of sellers over here into the 320 area Personally, I didn't look at this buddy It's uh, so traders asking. Yeah, we had a good setup over here by the system But you know, it's our trader to trade simply everything. So when I focus for example on Two big caps two or three small caps Um One or two future that's more than enough Okay, let's look at tesla. Let's continue with this I like the price section a lot. I like this morning what we had over here So right now we are in a sideways action, right? I'm not really looking to Do anything over here Uh by rules This is still an active short The correct trailing would be 180 So that will be by rules nothing more At the moment Any request traders No shadow, uh, the majority of times I will never short below One dollar stocks And the reason is very simple Uh, often those stocks will tend to squeeze If they have high volume, so I prefer to long them So let's see over here. What else we have this morning? We have a ride UTRS, EMVB, UFEB MEOA GCT ZURA APGN The ones that we traded this morning GCT PHIO, ENVB We had also This morning of your market UTRS And over here we can see now The movers like netflix This morning gave a very good bounce over here But the market is down so I will stay traders With simply the short patterns Like we are looking before in tesla Let's go to a new layout. We're going to look at charts We're going to keep up this There we go Still consolidation still waiting over here So yes unwinding NQ unwinding Tesla still unwinding stay with the market Okay, stay with the market traders So I'm going to review with you Other setup that we have so let's go back to GCT Let's put up this GCT We have the next target at 750 So we have some demand over here into the eight dollars Very small but still some demand you can see that actually We had two times over here A nice absorption Actually three times a night absorption over here. You can see They touch bounce Breakdown exhaustion downside bounce breakdown Exhaustion you can see over here this week to downside bounce So I'm not really liking this thing because we actually are short The price section over here is for us to get short But At the same time we start seeing some absorption some push so we could actually see Maybe a push to a 60 or even nine dollars, but for now is to hold this short We're just holding over here only 30 percent Because we got out 30 percent over here And then more in the swash Now this is going to be A level that we can see a fake out Of this 850 and then we want to see this major level over here 750 will cover more So half of what we have left and then a more to this unwind So this is GCT Okay So beautiful move this morning Let's see if they can push this 850 Also truly we have another extension right now ufab So if you're looking at low price stocks ufab A nice extension I'm talking for who can look at the charts Well, I've seen UTRS all the way down over here So very very tight over here So we're gonna follow it because if we have the fake out I want to share with you How it works the price section Just about patience right we cannot be streaming over here and expect every single time we have a setup We had already so many setups for the day We had five out of six working And this is the only thing that I'm looking right now to happen Meanwhile, I'm trying to answer all the questions that you may have Let's look also So we have a here ride Right we had a major extension with a very low volume this morning and fail. So this is a pump and dump or ride ee iq let's say m e o a I'm just looking at the scanner to see if I see something interesting You see that volume right here. This is the breakdown on gct The breakdown with high volume right here big selling pressure So let's go back traders and look over here into charts I'm going to still run gct because we are simply Unwinding breaking down this level Interesting over here Our main target is 750s. So we have tassel solar fader traders meta Making a higher low, but no play Amazon over here pretty sideways Shop a nice bounce. So remember pretty supportive here 750s. Yeah Let's look at tesla as well. So i'm looking over here some members are looking at Tesla sideways consolidation area So we're going to keep also an ion book map Until we have this liquidity area over here, which is the one that you can spot 180. We're Looking for this unwind this morning we had A setup short. We alerted. This is the wedge the opening wedge often. We'll see these breakdown Now you can see this Pattern so ideally want to see a breakdown of this 178 and unwind All right, there's any questions any more questions We are over here one hour in almost We went over embb gtc gct tesla. Yes before uh So if you want If you have questions reach out Okay, I think we're set So we're going to continue to look over here for who's in the room tesla We're going to continue to look over here at embb and also gct So the shadow is asking last you check findings before showing anything always buddy Every time before I show something I have to make my forecast And this includes also Looking at the filings looking the status of the company looking if we have the illusion So in this case when I'm looking for filings, it's a big process But the major thing is I will be looking if the company it's cashed in it. They they Have the illusion on okay, then I I write a precise forecast To see all right. We're ready to go I have four green lights out of five I will take it I will have five green light on five will put the size If I have three or two or one green light out of five I won't be looking to trade Okay, so this is essentially what I'm looking when I'm trying to I would say Do my forecast and the forecast is essentially a guide Then of course you have to still look for the pattern for the flow to confirm the trade Okay, so this is something that I explained in my course in the stock course Something that I teach to beginners advanced and pro traders All right, so hope this was useful See you back next week. This is j trader reach out to j trader code If you want to be part of the room and See you next time. Good luck


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