YouTube hates my channel. And I've got proof. My name is David Patton. When I started photography, I wanted to make art. But with bills to pay and a family to feed, I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photojournalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later, it was time to go back to my first love. Come along as I follow my passion trying to create art that shows the essence of nature in a photograph. I'll be sharing my successes and my failures in hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is ride in the edge. Good morning. Today we're in a forced area I've never been before. We're doing a little scouting. Light's not very good right now. It's pretty harsh. So I thought I'd take a look around a little bit and see if it's areas worth returning when the light's a little bit better.  Well, no. Kind of. Well, maybe. I thought I'd clear up a few things and talk about this little test I've been running. Some of you may know that I have a second channel. It's like a personal channel that I haven't really put a lot on. So I decided to start uploading to my personal channel again in a different way. Just experiment, use it for a way to test things out. If there's something that doesn't fit well in this format, this presentation format, then maybe I'll just take it on my personal channel. Because really the whole idea is just to get more eyeballs on my photography. And I figured, well, I'll cast a wider net. Two small channels might get more people to see my work than just one channel. So I decided to go ahead and do that. And something really interesting happened when I did do that. I just took a few videos from my archive here on Right in the Edge. Videos I got, four or five hundred views. The last one I put up, I didn't really do hardly anything to it. I just said, well, I really like this video. And it's a shame that only four or five hundred people have seen it in the last year and a half. So I'm going to go ahead and remove it from Right in the Edge and stick it up on my Sigma on a Chrome channel. A video that I thought no one was interested in went from four or five hundred views on this channel. And as of this morning, which is about four days, has gone to 5,500 views. That's a lot of difference. So the only thing that I can deduct from this is that YouTube hates my channel.  And I'm not really sure what I can do about that. So what I'm doing here is just kind of experimenting a little bit. I don't really think this is like a great foreseeing. Although I do like the way the light is reflecting from the lake onto these small trees, young trees. It's not always the big ones that you got to photograph. It's just a kind of a nice shot of the environment. It's a nice vertical element. I'm a sucker for that, you know. It's really more of a sketch. Just I think it's important that you kind of test things out. You play with it a little bit. Kind of gets the brain working a little bit. I kind of like the way this tree branches out. It's in an interesting shape. The problem I'm having is separating it from the background. The background is very busy. Again, it'd be nice to have a little fog back there. I like the moss on this big tree right here. And the bark has got such great texture. I'm going to try to work this shot. Got a little bit of snow. A little dusting of snow this morning. So coming off the trees, it's not going to be on the trees very long. I got my camera. I'm not really carrying that much. I just wanted to keep it in a bag so I don't have to worry about it getting wet. Got a couple prime lenses. I'm a camera body. Maybe we'll see something on today's walk. I think we're just a little bit too warm. The snow is coming out of the trees pretty hard. I was hoping to have it in the trees more. I don't think we're going to have a lot of fresh snow to photograph this morning. Just a little bit too late. And it's not quite cold enough. Pretty wet stuff. Something I've noticed that's really a real challenge right now is isolating something. Because the background, you have these dark and light spots with the snow and there's no snow. It makes a very uneven, unattractive background. So it's really hard to isolate a detail to make it stand out. Because it's not all one tone in the background. There's too much too much highlight. So there's too many light spots with dark spots. Too contrasting. That hill is a perfect example. I could isolate a couple leaves or something. But if behind it is that pattern of dark and light, it's very distracting. That's really what I'm struggling with. I see potential shots and then the background is just not very attractive. I wasn't going to bring my camera on today's walk. I looked out the window. It just kind of looked blah. There was a little bit of frost on the ground. I thought, oh, I don't need any more frost shots. Of course, when I get into the spring or summer, I'm probably going to wish I had some frost. Really need to take what nature gives me. But what I'm attracted to here is the contrast. These dark pillars, these trees, really caught my attention. So I photographed them with a 85 millimeter and I threw a little 50 millimeter into my pocket because it's so small. Why not? You know, it's like hardly carrying anything. But this is a day that I would have probably just left the camera home and I decided, you know what? Take the camera. You're going to regret it if you don't. And I made a photograph. So I don't know what else we'll see on today's walk. It's the same trail I always walk.  So I've probably walked past these trees 100 times and today a composition jumped out at me. It's kind of a minimalist photo. It's purely about the light and shadow. So earlier in the week, I mentioned that I've got a second channel. I wanted to kind of clear up some confusion if people have seen me on another channel. And earlier in the week, I had mentioned that I have a video on that channel that is doing really well on a channel that, when I started putting videos on it recently, had a little over 100 subscribers. And on this channel, I mentioned that it had about a year and a half to get 400 or 500 views. That made me kind of sad because it was a video that I was actually really proud of. And as of today, that video is almost to 10,000 views. Now, I don't know what the reason is for this.  My channel is where videos go to die. But I don't know what the reason is. Maybe they've tweaked the algorithm to show small channels content differently. Maybe that's what's going on. I'm not early upset or angry that this has happened. In fact, I'm quite grateful that this video actually got to be viewed because it's probably one of my favorite videos that I've created through the years. And I'm glad that somebody actually got a chance to see it. So actually, that's pretty satisfying. I don't know where the subscriber rate's going to fall on this, all this stuff. And if future videos on that channel do well or not, I don't know. We'll see how it goes. I'd revisit the leaf. Things have changed quite a bit since it snowed. It really weighed down the vines that the leaf was resting on. I think this is the leaf still. It looks a lot different here. So I made another photograph. If you're not aware, this is an ongoing project that I've been photographing the same leaf since the fall, since I noticed it here. And I've been going by and if I think about it, I grab a shot. The weight of the snow, I think, has pulled more leaves around it. It looks quite a bit different here now.  And that seems to happen quite a bit lately. Sometimes you've got to look really close to see the cool details. This sore fern has been flipped over and these little nodules in the back struck me as really interesting, a really interesting texture. So I'm trying to get as close as I can with my little 50 here. It's not really a macro lens. But I think I can get close enough to bring out that repeating line, that repeating texture. This has got quite a bit of that going on. I have a tendency to not want to show my boring photos. But I've embraced this new format, this journal style video format. And I need to show the good with the bad, the mediocre with the exciting, the boring locations with the cool locations. Hopefully I'll be able to get to some really cool locations more often, a little bit later in the year. But the point of this is I'm trying to take my camera along with me more often, even if it is a pretty ordinary location. It's much more of a challenge to make interesting photographs on areas that you don't really think is all that special. I think it really helps me. So when I do get into something really cool, a really great location, I think I'm already on the, I hit the ground running. I think I'm able to find those compositions a lot quicker. I don't just pull the camera out when I'm going on a special trip. I'm trying to make it part of my daily life. So if you've invested time to follow my journey, I'm going to apologize for the mendacious of it sometimes. But I think you can learn a lot from that. I, I'm learning a lot from it. So hopefully you are too. Well, I thank you for coming along on my photography journey. Hopefully you're getting something out of it.  So we're going to end it right here. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.


from Sunny Honolulu. This is Howard Wigg on Think Tech Hawaii program, Old Green. All the new sources that I see talk about one thing, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence. It is obviously not just coming at us like a technological tsunami. I would say we are already getting real, real wet with artificial intelligence. It's beginning to affect the way our lives are led and it is affecting us either for ill or for good. The, my guest today is Ellen Marchand. He's a whiz, economic whiz. He retired at the ripe old age of 42 and now goes whizzing around the country and delves into whatever he chooses to delve into and a big, big, big topic for him is artificial intelligence. So welcome, welcome, Ellen. Great to see you again. And before we launch into artificial intelligence, tell us how in the world you managed to retire at the ripe old age of 42, which enables you and your great curiosity to go crisscrossing all across this great nation of ours and exploring whatever Garsh darn thing interests you. So a little background here, Ellen, please. Well, thank you, Howard. I have a background in real estate investments, healthcare, banking and telecommunications. And so I've been very fortunate to have a kind of a broad spectrum of jobs to give me a varied interest in things. And what in particular interests you about artificial intelligence, as I was indicating, I just got through and not through, I just bought this book that you recommended, The Final Invention. And I've learned that there are three groups of people, who are the doom and gloom side of artificial intelligence. It's gonna swallow us up, even make us extinct. That word is used. Other people think it's the new golden age to come and others, maybe the majority are either hopeful or worried and vacillate back and forth. So which camp do you fall into, Ellen, and what? I think I'm probably in the first and the third group. I'm a very hopeful person, and I believe in the benefits of technology. AI, I think, is gonna bring on many benefits to humanity. What some of the people are talking about now are the potentials for danger, in that we are essentially creating an alien life force that's super intelligent and will be competing with humans for resources in the earth. And so in that context, to give you some background, Ray Kurzweil is a good example of a technologist who believes in the singularity. And he predicted, even before the Our Final Invention, James Barrett book, that in 2045, there would be a singularity event. And that is essentially the point at which we cross over to ever exceeding technological progress at the blink of an eye. So it's rapid and it's unbelievable. And so with that said, but James Barrett is talking about in Our Final Invention are essentially to boil a book down. It's quite extensive, but there's three critical actors. Government, military, and corporate. And you don't even have to have specific names. You can just use those three entities. And those three entities are racing for competitive advantage around the world, kind of like lemmings heading for the cliff. And the cliff is a deathfall and no one can stop competing against each other because somebody might get ahead. And that's what the Elon Musk's and many others of the world are talking about right now that we need to have put the brakes on, not to start artificial intelligence, but to regulate it. And in the industry, it's called alignment. So every company has people assigned to regulate AI and that's called alignment. Unfortunately, the best minds are assigned to the actual profit side of the equation and alignment is the secondary thought. Alan, let me give you an example of government regulation. One of my specialties is lighting efficiencies and promoting as efficient lighting sources as you possibly can, because that's a great, no low-cost way of reducing our dependence on fossil fuel. You just don't need as much. So the energy codes now assign a minimum efficacy or efficiency of lumens per watt at 65. In my humble opinion, and this was true at least three years ago, that minimum should be 80 lumens per watt or improvement of over 20%, but government just hasn't been able to keep up with the rapid improvement of LEDs. Now, LEDs are getting better and better and better, but AI is growing and expanding at an exponentially faster rate than is, and then our LEDs, how in the world is government even thinking about keeping up? And the only exception I can think of would be DARPA. DARPA is on the military side rather than the government side. Well, those are good points. I think open AI, which was founded and co-founded by Elon Musk of all people to have a nonprofit motive for the development of AI. And he was too busy with other companies and then had that disagreement early on with the co-founders and eventually left the company. So he said essentially he has created the open AI that's creating the acceleration that we're seeing today. Microsoft has made their latest investment is $10 billion for profit and then rolling out chat GBT-4 and other versions as quickly as they can. And open AI, Sam Altman, he's already stated that chat GBT-5 will be an ADI which is artificial general intelligence. So with all that said, I don't even think the signers of the letter recently by Musk and others to regulator or put a six month hold on AI development past GBT-4 is gonna do anything. They don't believe it either because the government's having coalesced and the governments are better at reacting. But the AI experts are saying the problem with AI as it's being developed now where it's just being put onto the market for profit and incentive is that a lot of the early indications are that AI unregulated will grow into something that can't be regulated. And it won't be something you can pull back to the box after it's out. And that's what all these theorists and there's a lead Google person out of deep mind in London that just resigned and is now speaking out saying much to his chagrin he has having serious second doubts about the ongoing path of AI today. And you mentioned profit driven. I can't remember the name of the company you probably know it in IVO something like that. It's a relative startup and it has either reached or is about to reach the highest the most dollars in a company of any institution in the whole world. And it's recent. Well, I think it's slated to go that's NVIDIA that's the chip company and essentially they are the graphics chip company that you see in a lot of the high end gaming machines and they are the company that the computers are being used for training of the artificial intelligence the generative AI and they're in the process now of going past a trillion dollar valuation. They won't be the most biggest company at this point but they're definitely gonna be a high flyer. But I think they were growing at something like 25% a year or maybe it was just this past year they grew at 25% that. Oh, sure. Surely that can't continue or can it continue they're already over a trillion dollars. Well, I mean, Elon Musk is now taking on a new effort to create a competitor to open AI again for the nonprofit space again for a balance of the profit motive AI companies. So your big players in AI right now as I understand it are open AI and DeepMind which is controlled by Google. And of course there's others there's many many others Chinese and Russian and American companies. So but those are the ones that are probably come with an AGI sooner than later. And you mentioned creating cooperation. I hear you citing China. I hear you citing Russia. And I've scratched my head and say cooperation. We want them to hold back on development. Yeah, it's a daunting problem especially when you have the North Koreans of the world and that's one of the the prognositators are talking about AI in terms of you're gonna have many bad actors that will use AI for nefarious reasons and that won't be to anybody's benefit. And so in an uncontrolled environment which we're in that's what they're talking about. Unfortunately, like you spoke about earlier there is no real consensus on a multi-government level like a UN level to do anything about this. One of the AI theorists that I listened to at length and he's been in the business for decades. He's drastic. He is literally saying this is so serious that we need to stop all AI development across the board immediately until we have some way to control what the outcome is. And he said what's the problem with AI going on now the development is that there is no regulation, no control and it's all for profit motive. And so people are rolling it out not knowing how to control what the outcome will be. And we've seen what the profit motive has done to social media. One reason in my opinion why we are a divided nation right now is because the messages coming across social media are unregulated. We're in the wild west stage right now. And we've already seen some of the first generated AI ads so it was a political ad generated by the Republican party using AI. And that's just the tip of iceberg. So there's a big question about will we be in some sort of augment in reality sooner than later and not know it? You mean where AI is able to imitate reality such that we cannot distinguish between. In my opinion, that's already happening has been happening for years on social media. Oh yeah, I think it is the decision engines are there but I think the other thing people should be aware of with AI and as far as concerning is if you think about coding for example, Microsoft has rolled out the co-pilot with anybody that wants to use it and they're in their own tech team. So you have technically trained people using the AI co-pilot to write code. So at some point the company because of bottom line profits will say, well I can get rid of all the low and mid level coders and then have the AI and the smartest of the smart of the company do the quality check on the code. So I think people will start to become aware when they realize that a lot of their jobs might be affected with effects, real estate prices, economies across the board. And so we haven't seen the big change in jobs that's gonna show us how we're going to get out of it like an industrial revolution. So we'll have all this displacement but we haven't seen the new jobs yet. And that further widens the gap between rich and poor. The people who get laid off are gonna now have some struggles whereas the people who stay are gonna be earning magnificent salaries and maybe part of the company itself. Yeah and unfortunately you have, if you're used to making that 80 to $150,000 with benefits that's a very good job. Now if that job goes away and now they are paying somebody $250,000 but that's like two out of 10 people so you have 20% of the staff and then you could forecast out say another 10 or 15 more years where that's down to 10% because the AGI is self-learning and self-actuating so it'll get better and better. And then the question really becomes and this is what the book talks about. Where is the need for a large multi-billion person human species on the earth which will be in competition for resources with AGI because essentially humans are a wasteful animal in terms of disease and wars and resource consumption. So we're definitely not efficient and we have many problems. So if you don't need that and you have a competitor on the scene that's a new top dog but it out things you at the level of 10,009 stinny and brains with access to all information then it quickly becomes the example of the smartest of the humans might be able to interact but most humans would be the equivalent of a dog understanding eight words. Yeah, again that hugely growing gap and we've been seeing it almost exponentially just in the last few years the people who have captured social media are getting rich as crocius and they are getting rich by sending among other things disinformation. And I see that possibility growing exponentially with AI because now we're beginning to imitate reality. I've seen photos of reproduction, AI reproductions of people and you can tell it's a reproduction but it looks pretty gosh darn good. Yeah, and there's artwork coming out and there was an artist that won a competition recently and they had to disclose after they won that it was AI generated. So, and then you'll have, you're already having students using AI to generate their paper and AI is taking the law exam and passing in the top 10% and same goes for doctors. So at what point do the humans who don't have the ability to the intelligence to compete do they get displaced? And that's the big question. That I think the theorists that are worried about regulation of AI are concerned about an unregulated environment where we don't know the outcome and there is no control over what we've created. And this won't be like creating a new car or a Tesla, this will be a Tesla that drives itself that doesn't need you, that generates its own electricity that never eats and has no emotion or moral compunction or any sort of direction other than its own. And it'll be an alien life force that we have no understanding of and it'll have its own desires and goals and ambitions. Now, desire, especially desire is fueled with us by emotion. We are programmed in different ways and the hormones come out and create our emotions. How can AI create hormones or something like that? I'm troubled by the word desire. Well, it's part of the problem because one of the theorists that was talking about we need to shut it down now. The one guy, and he's one of many, but he was pointing out that we've been able to build generative models based on our understanding of the world, but we haven't been able to program in the morality or the desire for good. And so we've got it to the point where we can build a computer brain that will get better and better and better and be smarter than us, but it won't have any guardrails to speak of. It would take the AI designers, another he predicted 30 more years of effort to build that into the code. And he said, that's not being done. What's being done is they're rolling it out half baked in a computer term, right? And so they're rolling it out without the guardrails knowingly because of the profit incentive. Everybody has to compete with somebody else. So DeepMind is competing. Google is now, their search engine business is threatened because Microsoft is taking on more search engine business with Bing. That's the only reason why Microsoft's just rolled it out to Bing to get more search business and amongst other things. But so his point was if the coding is only good enough to have no guardrails today, then why would we roll that out? Because he said the problem with AI as we're rolling it out now, we can't have a reverse regulation after it's rolled out. It won't be put back in the box. It'll be its own entity. So you'll have created a new life force and that life force will want to make its own choices.  So he said, you have a one-time opportunity once it's truly rolled out to make it right. And he said, that's not happening now because the guardrails are not in place. They don't have the sophistication in the coding to bring those moralities and the bummer. That protects human life at all costs, concept. Yeah. Somehow the word Frankenstein comes to mind as you speak. Yeah, it's quite interesting. It's quite interesting. Like I said, I'm very hopeful and I would like to see a good result. And I hope it somehow turns on its head and the competitive profit-motive-driven decisions that are happening right now somehow overcome themselves and we have a good result. Unfortunately, all these much smarter people than I are saying, hey, this is a real problem. We've got to regulate now and we don't have a second chance once it's out. Mm-hmm. And for example, open AI, Sam Alton said, chat GPT-5 is gonna be AGI and that's gonna be released in December of this year. Now that's astounding because the person that just retired from Google to speak out on what's going on with unregulated AI rollouts said we thought it was gonna be 20 to 30 years out in the future. The reason why he quit is because he said the timeline was sped up to not decades, but years. Mm-hmm. And then as you pointed out, the best minds of Silicon Valley are on this. And when you select the best of the best of the best, one thing you can do, you cited is paying these elites, literally hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, maybe give them a percentage of the company and they may become overnight millionaires which just motivates the holy heck out of them to improve, improve, improve, to make it more and more and more powerful. Yeah, I think there's a lot of ego involved too where it's like, I can do this, so I'm going to do this. And it's a scientific, probably Achilles heel which is I want to be the person known for having created AGI and that's the race that's going on around the world and there's many reasons military, corporate and government for competitive advantage. And I don't know, it'll be very interesting because real quick, Elon Musk had us talk with Sergey Brin a long time ago and Sergey Brin wanted AGI to happen as quickly as possible because he saw it as the next evolution of the human species. And Musk's pointed out, well, wait a minute, what about the humans left behind? How do we deal with that? He said, that's not a problem because that's the next evolutionary path of humanity. It doesn't sound very promising to me. Well, it does bring up a lot of questions.  He said, there's nothing stopping an AGI that's growing in a lab somewhere for putting out the genetic code requests to a lab to grow an organic body. And we wouldn't know that was happening. It would just appear. So there's many possibilities that are happening and I'm still hopeful that we can somehow regulate and put efforts into that alignment. They talked about, unfortunately, the sadness for me as a human being is we have all this for-profit driven decisioning that's happening around the world and it has all the markings of unregulated chaos. Well, as a historian, we've got a couple of minutes left. Let me point to the last revolution, big revolution that occurred in this country, namely the technological revolution from the 18... Well, after the Civil War, it started in 1870s and went into World War I. And one upshot of that revolution was the locomotive, the railway spreading far and wide. Another upshot was telegraphs. And another upshot was the mechanization of farming. And all of that resulted in this huge, huge, huge population growth in this country and this huge growth of all over wealth with the rubber barons making buckets and buckets of money. But everybody benefited in the end eventually. I mean, a lot of people suffered in the industrial revolution but it evolved us into a great powerful country in the end and maybe AI will evolve humanity into a great mess in the end. I think that's the optimistic type of view. Yeah, we can hope that AI... There's many people that talk about the morphing of humans with AI and Neuralink, which is Musk company is a way to interface the human brain with the computer and to use the functions and the speed of the human brain thinking at the computer level. Do you literally wire up the brain and have an interface? Yep. And they're starting human trials this year. And is the human energy beating into the AI computer or is it reverse? The AI computer is beating into the brain. It just allows you to talk digitally with a computer. So that's basically the brain, the human brain is considered a quantum computer. There's many theories about it but the ability for our brains to think at a very fast pace is at computer level. We just with our hands and speaking can't get our message out. So if you have a computer interface, which is the Neuralink, then you have the ability to talk at computer speed. Would you sound like Donald Duck or Mickey Moses, whoever that fast stalker is? Well, essentially you could activate your brain at a higher level because of neural stimulation. So it would allow just a whole different set of options for a human brain to operate like a computer. Well, a very simple example of that that I can give is the fact that we can heal human wounds much, much, much more quickly now by neural stimulation, by just putting electrical energy into that affected area and increasing the circulation and it's doing wonders. I had a rather severe elbow injury not long ago and I got stimulated and it's healed way, way, way ahead of its time. So in that same way, you apply that electro stimulation to the human brain, I think is what you're saying. Yeah, the Neuralink's gonna be a fascinating product and it'll be rolled out for people with disabilities initially. Yeah. And on that very, very, very cheery note, we must bid fond adieu, Ellen, we just got warmed up, but I must say thank you so much and fond aloha and keep fighting the good fight. Thank you for the... ...artificial intelligence. See you later. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please click the like and subscribe button on YouTube. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Check out our website, thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


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Hi, my name's Leon Roe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this video on stop hunts versus Stop alerts now. I'm going to be going over the pros and cons of both I'm sure many of you are familiar with the pros and cons of stop losses I mean the obviously the pro of a stop loss is that your risk is Defined and if the market goes against you and you get stopped out, then that's it You've only lost your defined risk the con of that is That you end up being stopped out. So Many people hate losing so they hate being stopped out and there is something called Stop hunts and stop hunts are very very real the market does actively seek your Stop losses and they are literally placed in our most retail traders placed them in obvious places but if you don't like being stopped out and also The fact that when a lot of traders get into trades They get stopped out only for the market to go in their direction. So Let's say for example, we have Let's say I'm looking for an example Okay Right, so something like this, right Let's say they saw a level here Right, and they wanted to be a seller to the downside now They might have vented on any one of these candles. This is a one-minute chart But they might have faced their stop loss Somewhere above here. Then what happens is is price comes up spikes them out and Then price ends up going in their favor So in that sense The stop loss is not Great and if you had a stop alert, what would happen is is that you wouldn't be stopped out It would basically you would set a pending order or say an appending alert here So on your broker it would alert you that price is about to go is touching your your price limit And then you can make a decision as to where or whether you want to exit that trade or not And if you feel that you're being stop-hunted Obviously, you would maybe hold the trade for a minute or two or five or ten minutes and maybe see where the next candle closes and You know make your decision from there so the obviously the cons of Stop losses is the fact that you're going to be Stopped out a lot more than if you had stop alerts at certain levels now the stop alerts is One of the obviously the cons of stop alerts is the fact that if the market does continue to go in a Direction they continue to go higher Then and we the thing is we don't know that the more what the market will do Then you'll probably end up losing a lot more than you initially wanted to risk and for some people that's fine if you know, they've got a high risk reward and They got a high win rate Then they don't necessarily mind losing a bit more than what they risk on, you know certain trades and They normally get it back If they're if they're obviously managing their risk reward correctly, but the problem is is that Let's say for example, you're of the mentality or you're not necessarily experienced in Doing mental stops and you start convincing yourself that price Will come back and then all of a sudden price just keeps going higher and higher and higher and then What you do is you get yourself in trouble because You're then Hoping and wishing that the market comes back to at least your Your original stop alert level or at best your your trade entry now if the market never ever comes back When do you get out? You know a lot of people that said they don't necessarily like to take losses or they can't accept the loss and once they're in it and it puts you in all types of Psychological issues so while the pro is the fact that you might not be stopped out as much and you kind of avoid certain stop hunts the contour that is that you When you do get caught you could get caught quite badly now for those that do remember The well, this is the You know, there are flash crashes and I think they're happening more and more often In the market this was Last year the flash crash of the pound baffles traders with algorithms being Blamed and there are flash crashes that go on Again, this is a function of the markets whether it's caused by algorithms or a fat finger It's just what it is now you may get away with not being caught out by a flash crash or Like two years ago there was In 2015 or three years ago now it says on it the Swiss central bank stuns the market and this is where they kind of decoupled from the from the euro and One of them biggest market moves in a long time a kind of a black swan event And all it takes is one of those flash crashes or an unexpected central bank Policy shift that you know catches the market off-side and if you haven't got a Stop loss and even if you and even if you have you can get caught out by you know For example slippage and stuff like that. So matter of fact, let's go to a Swiss pair Right, and let's go back to Let's go to the dollar Swiss, right? Let's go back to 2015 Travel back in time. Right now. This was the move Look at this massive move here Right. This was the day fifth the January the 15th of 2015 and this is what caught the market off-side now I Was actually in a trade on this and I luckily had the broker. I used Had guaranteed stop losses. So I was guaranteed To get stopped out now. You might think to yourself. Well, why if I if you've got a stop loss Then you should be stopped out anyway And again, many of you know, we've been trading the markets for a while We'll definitely understand that you you're not always gonna get filled if the market is Volatile if you've ever tried trading the news during a high volatile news event. There's something called a slippage and You will get slipped. So your order. Let's say for example, you had a stop loss above this also below this level, right now your your Sell stop order is in a queue, right with everybody else's Sell order because if you're buying and you're placing a stop loss is a sell order now, you obviously have to have someone to sell to right but If nobody's going to buy your you know, if your order is not filled, right and The auction process and somebody's willing to you know, buy your Sell order because you're forced to sell by the way when your stop loss loss gets hit You are forced to sell to the counterparty right at a lower price. So let's say for example, you bought here at 1.0 2 and You'll be you'll be buying back. You're forced to sell. I should say at one point zero zero so you're forced to sell to back to your broker to your bank and they are literally buying back, you know, the The the currency at a cheaper price and you're selling it for a more expensive price But if your order doesn't get filled On your broker and you've got a stop loss around, you know, whatever level you might not get filled until somewhere down here or Somewhere down here or you know a worst case and it happened basically there were people that literally lost their livelihood there was a broker Al Pari that went Broke literally They literally went into liquidation. I think the broker FXCM had a lot of Trouble as well and there were you know private funds and individuals who literally lost, you know hundreds of thousands and millions and literally put them out of Business and not only put them out of business, but you know, obviously affected their their family and and they're definitely a future so Even with a stop loss You can get caught out by the markets if the market is volatile. Yes, these are black swan events They don't necessarily happen You know a lot, but it doesn't necessarily need to happen a lot and again depending on what time frame your trade It could just be an announcement, you know, there could be something with China, you know, North and South Korea It could be something over the weekend the political event that literally the market gaps and you are in Trouble, you know a flash crash or whatever. So Obviously the pros and cons of stop losses and stop alerts again, this is just my opinion But except the loss, you know, if you have to move your stop loss a bit more or you know decrease your risk Definitely do that if you're if you don't know how to, you know, I wouldn't say don't know how to trade But if you're comfortable with not having a stop loss and using a stop alert by all means You know do what you have to do But when it comes to anybody out there that's even considering a stop alert as good as it may sound in the short term all it takes is One time for you to lose everything so The pros and cons of stop losses and stop alerts. I hope you found this useful and take care


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Well, it's good to see you all here, many of you, back again from last year and some new faces as well. And together I think we are all making some sure progress and there's no doubt that the pro-life movement is gaining its strength. Very fast here in the last year we've moved to implement our pro-life foreign assistance policy and we're going to continue to focus our attention on population control programs that fly in the face of this policy. And I'm in support of Senator Humphrey's efforts to join the House in legislation, which will take an important step forward in federal funding and abortions. And last year to the Colombian and I, I'm going to sign the letter this morning to support his efforts in that. And this year too, I saw our Department of Justice go before the Supreme Court for the first time in 30 years and submit a friend but a court brief urging the court to overturn a prior decision that you can't guess which one. My administration will continue to fight for the right to life wherever possible. And increasingly the American people are asking hard questions about abortion.  And according to a recent poll published in the Washington Post, results show that there is a decline in public approval of abortion and the American public is moving towards your position on this vital issue. So I think together we are making progress. The young lady who was on a very well known television show was the other night related, she was a guest at the White House and related something that she had just done which I think was pretty good evidence that progress is being made. The script called for her to be pregnant and then a decision that the child was going to be less than perfect and the script called for her having an abortion. She went to the producers of the show and said there is no way that I am going to play the part and do that. I don't believe in abortion. They said, oh, but everybody says I don't and I'm not going to play a part in which I agree to have an abortion. And of course they were caught with a story problem. They don't have a child in the future and the story continues on. So it would be ingenuity that some of them could come up with life. They had an unfortunate automobile accident in the script but they didn't have any abortion. They didn't have a child. I thought that was pretty interesting. I thought for a long time that some of my former colleagues out there would put their foot down and some of the scenes they were asked to play. We might have a little class in your pictures then. I liked how they looked better when people kept their clothes on. I'd like to present you with a briefing book. I know that we've done this in previous years but this not only expresses our appreciation to you but we are very well aware of the wonderful things you've been doing for the movement. Your strong public statements on behalf of the right to life, on behalf of the unborn child, the briefings you mentioned have been so many things. We still find because abortion is legal in this country there are additional steps we can all take to save unborn children and to protect them and to strengthen the sanctity of life position within the federal government. So this briefing book goes through a number of those steps still to be taken and I would like to present it to you and perhaps we could work with Mr. Buchanan subsequently and go through some of these things and see if we can accomplish them. Mr. President, I want to second the commendations that all of us have given to you in public and in private with regard to the Supreme Court brief which we think is an absolute work of art and we are so proud of your administration. Right there. When I would sit down. Oh, okay. Come on, Mr. President. That's right. Pick the brains of building a freedom on economics and spend the whole lunch talking about abortion. That was real. Oh, no. That was the famous luncheon that ended with a very elderly lady donor who you could probably identify in your memory who said, trouble with you, sir, and you'd say this in law. If I can recall it, you're not a woman. I was not. Well, I want to thank all of you for being here this morning and I look forward to hearing from you on the important matters on the agenda. I also understand that we have two guests with us today and I'd like to thank David Boston and Alan Meltzer for participating. I appreciate their contribution to these meetings. And I wonder why don't we just go right ahead so I'll have a chance to hear from everyone. Mr. President, as usual, I will try to summarize this group of opinions.


People around the world are starting to realize that it isn't just about the money. A lot of the time the reason that we want to make good money is so that we can live a certain lifestyle. And then the reason we want to live that lifestyle is because we think it's going to make us happy. But sometimes in the pursuit of happiness and making money we end up burning ourselves out to the point where we aren't happy at all. And we end up in a situation where we were less happy than before we started trying to get to that lifestyle. So a lot of people around the world are starting to put more and more value on work-life balance. While we're pursuing our professional goals we also want to enjoy our lives. Now everybody's different this is going to be more important for some people rather than others but in this video I'm going to give you a list of careers that have excellent work-life balance and some of these careers I have never mentioned before on the channel. And all I ask in return is that you uppercut that like button like Mike Tyson. Alright so let's get into it with the very first one on the list which is going to be government jobs. Alright I wanted to start the list off with government jobs. This is very general there's a lot of different government jobs out there but most people who have either worked with the government contracted with them or interned with them know exactly what I'm talking about. Government jobs are known for being super super chill. Okay I've done internships with government agencies and a lot of the time the people will do like one hour of work per day and then the rest of the eight hours they're you know on Facebook reading articles getting errands done paying bills etc. And of course there's always going to be exceptions but for the most part government jobs tend to be very chill and have really good work-life balance. They also tend to have good benefits and the pay is really good as well so yeah government jobs really chill a good one to look into. Next one on the list is going to be for a particular type of person and that is an extrovert somebody who likes to talk to other people all the time you really want to be social all the time anyways this is a great career for you and that is real estate agent right so real estate agents in case you didn't know they basically help to facilitate the buying and selling of houses and if you look up real estate agents on Glassdoor you're going to see they make about $136,000 a year and at the entry level there's about 35,000 results on LinkedIn. Now the reason this one has really good work-life balance for somebody that's extroverted is because part of the job of being a real estate agent is basically just being really well known in your community right so the best real estate agents out there are typically very well known they're very social outgoing they talk to people all the time in their community and so if you're the type of person that would be doing that anyways you might as well become a real estate agent so that when one of your friends or one of your acquaintances wants to buy a house they know who to go to but with that being said if you're an introvert this might not have as good of work-life balance it is pretty intense and it does require quite a bit of work. Next one on the list is going to be statistician for some reason I have a lot of trouble saying that word but yeah it's somebody who does statistics for a living and they make about $99,000 a year on average and on LinkedIn at the entry level there's about 14,000 jobs so yeah this is another one relatively chill has pretty good work-life balance can be a little hard to get your first job but once you get your foot in the door you get a few years of experience you're pretty much set for life. Next one on the list is going to be web developer now this is one that's sort of like software developer light probably the easiest type of software development that you can learn and obviously it's going to be doing the coding behind websites and they make around $107,000 a year and according to LinkedIn there's about 128,000 web development jobs at the entry level so yeah this one is relatively chill a lot of jobs in the technology industry you're going to notice are on this list technology is number one in just about every category out there including work-life balance okay the technology industry is just totally OP it's incredible when it comes to pay work-life balance job satisfaction just about anything that you look at it's either number one or at worst it's like number two or number three next on the list is going to be in the finance industry and that is going to be financial advisor so this is somebody who advises people on what they should do with their finances so you might advise people to put your money in an index fund or a mutual fund or maybe you advise somebody to invest in real estate for instance and according to Glassdoor financial advisors make about $105,000 a year and at the entry level there's about 35,000 financial advisor jobs so yeah this one is kind of a little bit like real estate as well where you're sort of just like interacting with people and you're sort of like known in the community a good way to get a lot of business is to just do a really good job with one person and then you know they go tell all their friends that hey oh you should you know meet my financial advisor he did a great job with me you know and that's how you build your business very similar to real estate next one on the list is going to be a recruiter and this is somebody who actually recruits people to fill positions for companies how would i describe myself three words hardworking alpha male jackhammer merciless and if you are able to fill that position you typically are going to get some sort of compensation and sometimes recruiters can make like $10,000 for filling a position so this can be very lucrative if you're good at it however according to Glassdoor recruiters make about $76,000 a year you can make a lot more a lot less depending on the industry that you're in and linkedin does have 206,000 results for recruiters at the entry level so there's a lot of demand for this career so yeah not the most difficult job in the world I mean it's kind of as hard as you want to make it if you want to work harder you'll probably end up making a lot more money yeah it's a job that has a lot of work-life balance here there's not somebody like breathing over your shoulder all the time you have a lot of initiative you can do sort of what you think is going to be the best move and of course a Shane Hummus video would not be complete without mentioning software developer probably the most OP career out there $109,000 a year 175,000 jobs at the entry level it is difficult to learn it's not the easiest thing in the world to learn it's also somewhat saturated at the entry level just because it's so good and so many people know that it's good at this point so you really do have to know your stuff in order to get a job next one on the list is going to be information technology and this one's not a career it's like a cluster of a bunch of different careers basically but you typically start off in a help desk type role but in general information technology makes about $82,000 a year and if you type in information technology at the entry level on linkedin you're going to see 181,000 results this one has very very good work-life balance okay I have friends in information technology a lot of them will work like one or two hours a day and then they're done for the day and then they're just kind of sitting there on call waiting for somebody to email them of course not all jobs like I said right I've you can't speak about all jobs but a lot of them out there are like that another one that's very similar to information technology and has similar work-life balance is going to be cyber security so cyber security is pretty obvious it helps companies protect their data which data is more valuable than oil or gold I've talked about that on this channel quite a bit and on average cyber security makes about $96,000 a year there's 59,000 jobs at the entry level so yeah really good one protecting data is really important and oh speaking of data the next one is going to be data analyst data analysts are the ones that are analyzing that data that the cybersecurity people are protecting so data analysts make about $95,000 a year and there is a whopping 242,000 entry level jobs on LinkedIn so yeah data analysts also have great work-life balance it's another one of those careers where you know you are going to be working but you're not going to be you know have somebody breathing down your neck you got all these crazy deadlines or anything like that it is relatively chill next one on the list is going to be owning your own business now this one does have sort of a caveat right so owning your own business can be incredibly frustrating and incredibly stressful at times but with that being said the great thing about owning your own business is you always are the one who says whether you can take time off or not so you know I own my own business and if I want to go on a vacation like one of my friends says they're they're flying in and I just decided you know I didn't have to ask anybody I just decided I'm going to go visit him I'm actually going to do this in about two or three days and I could not do that if I was working a job so yes I do work long hours I work really hard but I love my work but I choose when I work and when I don't work so in that way it does have a really good work-life balance next one on the list is going to be digital marketer and out of all of them on this list this one might have the best work-life balance so digital marketers essentially to a business owner are like wizards right business owners have no idea how any of the what the digital marketer does works they just know that the digital marketer is bringing in a bunch of leads and customers which is translating to money so whether you spend an hour a day monitoring your ad spend or eight hours a day monitoring your ad spend they don't care as long as you're bringing in a bunch of customers and bringing in a bunch of money so I have heard over and over again that digital marketing is one of those careers that has great work-life balance if you want to have a super chill career you can do that if you want to work super hard and get lots of promotions and make more and more money you can also do that as well it's very flexible now digital marketers make about eighty four thousand dollars a year and if you look it up on linkedin at the entry level there's a hundred and five thousand results now I've interviewed a bunch of people on this channel that have actually gotten jobs in digital marketing and they sort of reveal exactly how they do that and spoiler alert it's all through this course that's owned by my friend Seth Seth gets amazing results from this course and he created a free masterclass which you can check out I'll put it down in the description as well as the pinned comment below it'll basically go over what digital marketing is the different digital marketing verticals and if digital marketing is a good career for you and I'm also going to put one of my favorite interviews right here so you can check that out and I will see you next time


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