Hello children. I get older. You get older. It's kind of amazing. My motto is not dead yet. Could we could have other discussions. So I'm assuming that you've read Bastard out of Carolina. Who here has not read Bastard out of Carolina?   I was very I always tell people that my notion was that you are supposed to finish the book and throw it at the wall. That last couple of pages are just supposed to push you right over the top. Amazing to me how many people actually have done that. I broke the spine of your book. I had to buy another one. This is a secret plot. I Hope to finance my child's education with the broken books that people would replace. I can make a lot of jokes. And in fact, that's one of the things I tell people. If you grew up in this country working class queer Any of the various categories at which one feels constantly endangered. One of the life saving things that can happen is you can develop a very specialized sense of humor. You find things amusing that other people will just fell down and weep at. There's a lot I find amusing which let me just say is more and more difficult every day. Every day. I have reached the point. I figure it's like when I was young and I was a believing Baptist. I know you don't think that's possible, but I was young and stupid. What can I tell you? When I was a believing Baptist, I felt that it was my Christian responsibility to try to read the Bible and think religiously. I was helped along by a lot of really bad gospel music, thank God.  But it takes everything I've got. Possibly it's taking everything you've got. Possibly it's gonna take everything we got for a while. If you come through difficult times, one develops a specialized sense of humor. Minds undergoing changes every day. Possibly yours is too. Some things are not funny.  Violence in the family. The loss of any sense of your right to be here. The slow destruction of the soul. The loss of faith in your own family. A sense that your people love you, but it don't do no good. A distrust of your own nature. That leads you to believe that while you might be able to, possibly you should not reproduce. For fear that you would visit on your own children. What you grew up experiencing. You know what I'm talking about. You read the book. Except for two of you over here who I will take a side later.  I wanted to write a book. First of all, that was honest. And secondly, that was beautiful. I needed it to be beautiful. I needed the language to sing. I needed a sense that there was meaning in shaping story on the page that there was purpose in speeding blood in the reader's bloodstream. There was in fact a power in taking hold of a reader and taking them somewhere they might not want to go.  I'm going to read you a short section from the middle of Bastard. For those of you, the two of you that didn't read it, ask somebody. Bone. Because indeed he was the first to call me bone, but I'd have about a dead by the time we were living in West Greenville. Dog bone, penny bone, sucker bone, milk, tooth, goat, head, horse head, tiger bone, collar bone, hip bone, foot bone, knees and toes. You God, you are hard as bone.  That's what Daddy Glenn told me. You are cold as death. You mean as a snake. You're twice as twisty. Ah, but he was careful not to hit me when one of the aunts was visiting and never much when mama could see except for those times he could justify his discipline dragging me into the bathroom while mama waited on the other side of the locked door. It was when Reese and I were alone with him that he was dangerous. If I ran from him, he would come after me, shake me so hard, my head wobbled loosely and he'd joke, Oh, chickens and goats got more starched to them than a boat ride. Even a half boat ride like you. It was the bones in my head that I thought about. The hard porous edge of my skull cradling my brain reassuring me no matter what happened. I could heal up from it eventually. It was the heat in my heart, my hard gritty center. I would link my fingers behind my head, clench my teeth, rock back and forth. The sturdy stock we were said to be came down in me to stubbornness and bone. Oh, I was always getting hurt. It seemed in ways mama could not understand and I could not explain. She worried about how careless I was, how prone to accident. Maybe, maybe your thin bones she'd guessed and started buying me vitamins. I did not know what to say to her. To say anything would mean trying to tell her everything and then to have to describe those times when daddy Glenn would hold me tight to his belly, call me sweet names I did not want to hear. So I remained silent, stubborn, resentful, collected my bruises as if they were unavoidable. There were lumps at the back of my head, not swellings of flesh and tissue, but a rumpled ridge of bone. My big toes went flat and wide, broken within a few months of each other when I smashed into door jams, running while looking back over my shoulder. How, how could you do that mama asked? How? I wasn't supposed to run in the house. Oh, she's always getting into something, daddy Glenn complained. Lucky she's such a hard-headed brat. And I watched him from under lowered lashes. My head turned slightly to the side, careful not to grin out of my unmarked, stubborn face. Boom, baby mama begged me, be more careful. Boy, that makes, I'm 68 years old. I have arthritis in my hips. My coccyx was shattered when I was nine. It's created some difficulties. The collarbone was broken when I was 11. I remember, I remember the terrible feeling of conflict, of wanting help and being terrified of asking for help. Most of my life I have tried to imagine what could be changed, what could be put in place that would save a child like me, the child I was. The child too many children are these days. What can you do that would offer help? I got my Wonder Woman fantasies. I got my time travel drop out of the sky with a giant sword, dreams. But what can you do? Really, there is a part of me that would like to swing a sword. There is a part of me that would like to reap vengeance. But there is an old, sadly educated part that looks at families and children and thinks more about putting in place genuine assistance, ways to interrupt ways to make change. You can't kill everybody, no matter how you might dream about it. And that is the hard part to talk about. Those of us who come out of violence, who escape violence, who walk away not fully sane, but in some sense vindicated, we dream of violence. We want a swift and effective answer, earthquakes possibly, large buildings falling on the unexpected, car accidents. I used to dream of car accidents. It's amazing what a Chevy can do to the human body if you put it in enough rollovers. I would dream about that. Imagine all the children lying in bed at night dreaming of car accidents, falling buildings, outrage, vindication. What kind of a world does that make when those children grow up? I want a world, I want a world in which those dreams are not even born, where we learn to stretch for glory, run for pleasure, swing our arms for the sheer delight of making wind, not for revenge, not for terror. Yeah, so they asked me to speak to you about this book. I've been interviewed a lot. I tell people I'm old as dirt, twice as complicated, layered, textured. And I have been a radical lesbian feminist since I figured out my mid-tween tens. This is very complicated to say, especially in June.  And we find ourselves, or I find myself trying to track it back. When did I know I was a lesbian? I remember when I went and looked up the word. I remember that I had been told nobody used lesbian. I grew up in the Red Dirt Country in South Carolina. I didn't hear the word lesbian until I heard it at school, in high school, and found it in the dictionary. But you had to look for the right dictionary. It's fascinating to me how the world is constructed around denial, so that even if you go to the dictionary, there are necessary words that we're missing. No, what I heard, dyke, bulldagger, them, I was them. But I did not know I was them. What I knew was that I was seriously inappropriately female. That I did not want to be my mama. I did not want to be my aunts. Now I loved them, I worshiped them. I did not want their lives. I did not want to be in the service of any man, or a family, or even in the making of babies. No matter how charming they can manage to be. You want me to shout again, don't you son? Yeah. I wanted to be something else. I did not want to be a man. For one thing, they smell funny. This is something that became apparent to me, particularly as I entered adolescence and developed a sense of smell. There's a glory, glory in being my mother's child sleeping with my two sisters, one of whom had a challenge of getting through the night without pissing on my leg and having no sense of smell. This is a wonderful thing. And then suddenly I became an adolescent and I developed a sense of smell, and not only did I realize my sister smelled bad, and she was making me smell bad, but Lord God, my boy cousins, Jesus, they didn't even seem to know what they smelled like. Frogs and tadpoles and dirt and grease, vast quantities of grease. So I found myself thinking, why, why does everybody want one? But girls, girls smelled like fresh baked bread. Girls smelled like butter and honey and blackberries crushed between your fingers. Girls. This of course led me to the conclusion that I possibly was an inappropriate female. Very possibly. No sign of the word lesbian. And actually, I did not even think I had yet earned the right to call myself a bulldagger, even though I think I heard that by the time I was eight. No, I just knew I did not want to be the female like all the other females I knew. I wanted to be. I wanted to be something not yet seen on the planet. And I went searching for it. And in the way of smart, arrogant little girls who scored high on intelligence tests, and were oblivious to make up high heels and the whole tradition of subsuming your intelligence, I decided that there must be in some book the kind of female I wanted to be. Where do you find them? Where do you find inappropriate girls except in books? Louise and May Alcott. Come on, you know, Joe, she was going to write books and stomp through the world. Of course, by the end of the book, she fucked up completely and married that Lori, which I never believed for a minute. I mean, I would have kept him, maybe, but not marry him.  And that's when I realized I could make my own stories. I could write about runaways. I could write about girls who develop psychic abilities. This, of course, coincided with my long-lasting and deeply appreciative relationship with science fiction and discovery of the Andre Norton books. Who here has read Andre Norton? Praise Jesus.   I wanted the ability to read minds, although that did not seem to me to so necessary. I mean, I could look at anybody's face and half figure out what they were thinking.  I wanted the ability to take revenge on the world, or at least, at least slow it down, every now and again, stop it, make it rethink. Most of all, I wanted a way to forgive myself. I know this is hard to understand. I know that it's complicated, but I have never known an incest survivor who did not struggle profoundly with the whole issue of forgiving yourself. Do you know that for centuries, the prominent theory was that if a woman was assaulted, that she would die of shame, that there was something so devastating about being raped, that, of course, a good woman would collapse in upon herself and vacate the planet, leaving behind the husk of a body so fouled? Are you aware of that concept? I was raised in the Baptist Church, I was very clear, and when I realized that, wait, wait, what he did, wait, does that mean I am not a virgin, and if I am not a virgin, and here I am, I'm 11 and I am not a virgin, then I'm no longer worthy of God's love.  I understand, I understand, we've progressed enormously, enormously, nobody really believes that anymore.  How do you forgive yourself for not dying?  I mean, if you were not good enough to have, I don't know, I always thought of it like Tinkerbell winking out, the light should have gone out of me, and in some ways the light did go out of me, but on the other level, there was a meaty, powerful part of me that did not want to die, that wanted to live, and even that I was ashamed of. How do you forgive yourself for wanting to live when you are supposed to have wanted to die? Possibly you've not given this any thought, even now, even now, 25 years after the publication of this book, I get letters from girls who think they should be dead, who cannot forgive themselves for being alive after what has happened to them. How do you forgive yourself? One of the reasons I began to write was to put on the page reinvented stories of girls, of families, of people who find it hard to forgive themselves and must go on in the world anyway, of what I know to be true in families where violence takes place. The hardest thing in the world is to love books, to be a desperate, hungry reader, and read books in which you are completely denied, books that tell you things you know not to be true, books even about incest, books even profoundly spoken of as feminists that on some level only made me feel worse about who I was and what I had somehow survived and who I was trying to be. I needed there to be some other books in the world, and at some point I decided, God damn it, I got to write them myself. And that's pretty much what I've been doing. It is not simple, of course not. I mean, let's be clear, this is a very peculiar way to make a living, telling lies for a living, telling lies and talking all the time about telling the truth. It's a marvel, I don't just fall over dead from the contradictions. It's a marvel, and it's a damn fine marvel. Instead, I go through the world leaving a wake behind me of little girls that want to write nasty books. I encourage them in the way of their ancestors. Right, nasty books. Tell the truth as you know it. Tell the truth as you know it. The world has changed dramatically, wonderfully, painfully since I was a girl. There are, in fact, far more resources for the kind of child facing the things I faced at 9, 10, 11, far more recesses, not enough resources, not enough well-designed resources that can genuinely provide the kind of life-saving intervention that so many young people need. But there is, in fact, an awareness that this stuff happens. This last weekend I had a young woman visit from Scotland, a baby writer. Not really a baby writer. Probably you should have to call her an adolescent writer. She got two books. She knows what she's doing. She's very young. She would be called punk if we were still calling anybody punk. But she's in Scotland, so they got a whole different standard for that. Very working class. And she wrote a book about growing up in care. Do you know what that means? It means being in the family justice system. It means you were rendered in an intervention. You went into what in our country we call the foster care system, but in Scotland it's just the care system. It's an amazing, wonderful book. It's called The Opticon. And it's essentially about 12, 13, 14-year-old girls going to prison for being who, in fact, they were made to be, for going into care at the age of three or four and developing a resistance to institutional maudres trying to not be the animal that those institutions make you over into sometimes.  And I smiled at her and thanked her tenderly and didn't tell her I'm a diabetic and can't even consume either one. You don't do that. Raised with manners. You take the present and thank them kindly and offer them nuts. I feed people nuts these days. I've been known to go bad and make biscuits and butter, but fuck, I can't eat those either. But she sat at my kitchen counter and told me about being in care and reading Bastard out of Carolina and feeling like there was somebody else in the world that understood the kind of stories she wanted to write. And everything that she has done since, she said, followed from that. And I did not know whether to be proud or guilty. It's been a complicated life for her, I could tell. And then she read me a couple of paragraphs. And I heard that thing I love, that life saving thing. I heard a woman speaking in her own voice preaching what was true, absolutely true to her, saying what no one else had ever said before. Not that she had invented a new language, but she had invented a new language.  But she was telling tales out of school. She was holding her class, her origins up to inspection. She was finding it complicated, painful, and still good. Almost made me cry. I had to take her out back, make the dog run circles around her to distract her and me. I've read both of her books now. I've ordered her poetry up online. I love bad poetry. She got some spectacularly bad poetry. But I happened to believe that bad poetry is the beginning of great narrative. That all story begins with language that goes too far. Fearless, transgressive, dangerous. By the time she decided they had to start driving south, because you know, they really, really needed to go get another bottle of wine. She had figured out I was not going to open the one she had brought. They really, really wanted to see San Francisco, the legendary city of sin. I told her a few terrible stories about San Francisco.  Let's say I wouldn't know. I've gotten a little older. Nobody invites me to sex parties anymore. But I could call a few people if you're really interested. She was interested. The younger always interested. I walked her out to her car. At her car she stopped. And she did that thing I cannot stand, cannot stand, but have learned to endure. She burst into tears, flung her arms around me. Now I do not mind women flinging their arms around me. I'm rather fond of that. I do not mind women that push their faces into my neck. Sometimes I don't even mind when they weep on me. Sometimes they keep it minimal and don't embarrass both of us. Then she'd step back from me and she says, you don't know. I used to pretend that you were my mama. When I began to write, one of the things that I thought about over and over again was that I can never have children at syphilis at 13, not treated sterile as a scraped out apple core. Never going to make babies. Damn sure intended to make books. It's complicated. The rage you feel at being robbed of something you're not even sure you actually would have wanted to do. And it has been hard for me becoming a mother.  All that stuff I swore I'd never do. And there I was doing it. And then these baby writers come up to me and they look at me like I'm the mama hen and their little chicks. And when I'm not worried they're going to pick me to death, I'm worried they're going to expect me to play mama to make peace with it. Given another 70 years I might manage. Short of that, the best I can do is love them anyway.  Go write me a book. Go write me a book. Tell me the story that only you know. Make it scary. Give me your secrets. You know, you know the thing I know. We're readers.  You get on the public transportation. I guarantee three quarters of the people in this room carry a book. Yep. You go to dinner. Even when you go to dinner with friends, there's a paper back in your bag, right? You read. You read all the time. You need stories. You have your favorites. Some of them. Another title comes out from that one. Damn. Louis Erdrich does another book. I'm online. I'm buying the hardcover if I can or waiting for the paper. I have a list of people who as soon as they write another book, I buy it. I have a list of people that I would gladly shake hard to make them write another book.  And I'm like, Oh dear, I'm working as hard as I can. I know. I know how scary it is. But you know things no one else knows.  You can tell secrets. You can shame your family, thereby earning your own happiness and their discomfort. Amazing how those things go together.  I'm trying to write you another one. I got, I'm working on two. Jesus, I should be embarrassed. Well, I am. But I deal well with it, don't you think? Shame is a state I learned to live with at an early age and I have made peace with it. I will never be, I'll never be quite who I hope to be. But then again, my goal was way past anything you can possibly imagine. We're talking magical transgressions.  I wanted to be able to lift them out of themselves and take them into the world as I knew it, which is what you do when you write a book. Okay. They said you might have some questions.  Anyone have any questions? Anyone wonder that or we got to go find whoever is talking in the comic tent. But the line was damn long. Air conditioned in here. Well, I have a question. Okay. Okay. What you're working on writing is it does it happen to be any speculative fiction?  I'm sorry. I know that's a terrible thing to say for those of you who are retaining your allegiance to the whole what would Jesus do?  But I do all the time. Yes, actually, it's a weird thing. Very weird thing. I got real sick a few years ago, and I nearly died. It's an interesting experience. I don't know if I can genuinely recommend it, but it is transfigurative when you don't die. The getting really close to dying and not dying. I recommend that because the getting really close is astonishingly educational. And it relieves you of a whole lot of, or at least it relieved me of a lot of deep seated terror. I spent my earliest years from about the age of five on being convinced that our stepfather was going to kill us in the night.   And that birthed in me such a terror.  Well, clearly that didn't happen.  Just kind of astonishing. But that fear, regardless, has always dogged me. And I think one of the reasons for writing is to try to live forever. But when I was so sick, I'm so sick, so weak. And I was in, I would go unconscious and kind of come back to conscious and unconscious and kind of come back. And it was interesting this kind of moving back and forth. And it was an astonishing, I kept thinking of books I'd read about people in coma. And a lot of them were damn accurate. Somebody must have been writing from experience. My experience was that it was hallucinogen. I was moving in and out of consciousness in an interesting way. Two things happened. I started having this dream. I was walking up a corridor. And like, it was in an apartment. I knew it was an apartment. I knew that I was in New York City. I knew that it was an Upper West Side apartment. I've seen how them and people live. It's kind of a Woody Allen apartment. You know what those look like? Nobody's ever actually lived in a Woody Allen apartment, except Woody Allen. And the whole hallway was lined with bookcases. And there were books on every bookcase. And in the way of us book lovers, I was reading the titles. I have never been able to go into anybody's house without reading all their titles or their books.  So I'm reading the shelves in my hallucination. And there were titles I recognized. And then there were all these titles I didn't recognize. And I woke up very curious about all these titles I didn't recognize. My son was standing beside the bed. Now, I should explain to you that by that point, I'd lost 70 pounds. And I didn't have any muscles in my legs, so I couldn't walk, which is awkward if you have to go to the bathroom and you have to have help.  So that I hated becoming conscious because I'd have to pee and I'd have to ask for help and I'd just, oh. But I didn't actually get fully conscious. I just sort of swam up, looked at him, went down, came back up. He was still there. Wasn't making a sound. Our boy is very tall, six foot tall, even three years ago. I looked up at him and there were tears running down his face. He wasn't making a sound. And I remember thinking very clearly, fuck, I've got to live.  And then I started thinking about that apartment and those books on the wall. And suddenly, like the fog coming over the hills off the ocean, I knew exactly, exactly what happened in that apartment. I knew where it was. I knew who I was coming up the hall. I knew, I knew, I knew. It was 1972. I knew. And I knew how she got there. Yeah, I'm writing the science, fiction, fantasy, time travel. God saved me. Feminist revolutionary manifesto. I ever get it done.  That's all you can ask for. Yes. Did that answer your question? It did. Thank you. I am like a balloon. You push a little pan in air comes out. Until I go flat and lie down on the floor, which could happen. My health is better. I've regained most of the weight I lost.    Let me just say I recommend exercise while cussing. It means that the other people who gravitate toward your part of the gym tend to be more friendly and people that can't stand it move away. And that's all good. That's all good. So you know, next time you got to go do physical therapy because also it helps with your breathing. One more question. Yes, ma'am.  Is it a boy? So far. Yeah. Hard to say these days, isn't it? It is. Yeah.  What, you know, when I was young, I believed that I couldn't have kids because I was queer.  So so I'm curious though about that transition from radical queer feminist to parent mother of a of a boy child. I know. And and just also in I reread bastard out of Carolina this week and I was noticing lots of things about masculinity in those books that we are trying to actively, I don't know, suppresses the right word, but to not teach him since he is likely going to grow up to be a straight white guy. Most of them do. Right. And so, so we're, so I guess my question really is, do you have any, any insight to offer us? That's so selfish. But if there's anything you would want to tell yourself 25 years ago or 30 years ago, as you were Oh Lord, going on that journey, I would be so grateful to hear it. There have been serious moments in time when I would have said, think again, or just think, think, think, because boy, you don't know what you're doing. We had no clue what we were doing. This is the essential thing. I don't regret it at all. I love my son. He's quite a remarkable human being is also a challenge, which I believe is the way it works. It's a challenge for a writer because you have to, there is a certain necessary selfishness to get the work done. That's very, very difficult to manage along with all that demented mothering syndrome that I, not all mothers are demented, but I was and still am. And I think it's being raised in the South by a mother who took it pretty far. And even though, you know, it's just very complicated and getting to a point where you accept your foibles, foibles, what a great word, is necessary not to go crazy. The other thing is to accept your helplessness. I mean, there's a lot of stuff you can do and you can attempt to not, I love that you first use the word suppress and then rethought and no, you have no power. You think you do? No, no. I actually believe when my son was born, it was, Alex was in labor for 24 hours. And then within three minutes, she went into distress. They went into emergency C-section and I swear to God, they wrestled that baby out of her tummy and flat no time at all. They had, and they got me out of the operating room, but they took me behind glass and I watched the whole thing. It was like watching ER was really unsettling. But then they produced this basketball, giant basketball covered in mucous and scum and handed me this gummy thing which then unrolled and was beautiful and wiggled and moved and I looked into that child's face and fell in love. I figure it's probably growing up on country western music that did it, but it was instantaneous and terrifying and it only got more terrifying and actually even more so now that he's about to be 25. This was not something I intended. I had a whole lot of anger about being sterile, but I took up with a woman who when we were dating told me that someday she wanted to have kids and I was like, well, you can get another woman do that with. I was open to a line marriage. She could bring in a couple more and they could, you know, help her with that part and I wasn't going to do that. But she was really serious and she was real about it and there came a point in our relationship when she said, if you're clear, if you're really clear that this is not something that you want in your life, I won't have children. That's an enormous thing for her to have said to me. That's an enormous thing for her to have decided.  I can go talk to a therapist about this. I couldn't do it to her. I couldn't do that to her. I couldn't say, no, you can't have children because I don't think it's a right for me. And I'll tell you the other thing.    Not aware of the statistics of turkey-based or birth. And I was just, I thought she going to give birth. It's going to be her name on the birth certificate. If I don't like it, I can walk. Lesbians have been walking for a long time. I can just, and for a writer, no problem. I'll take a gig in Kansas. She won't follow me to Kansas. And I never did that. I never walked. There were times it's been very, very difficult and very complicated. And there are times I have been scared out of my mind. It's been very, very difficult for him being the child of two lesbians and feminists. One very butch and one crazy, occasionally strident femme. He did, in fact, in junior high, while they were learning computer searches, put my name in and up popped the poster for the lesbian sex mafia. And there I was in Fitchnett hose in a skimpy bra, beaming into the camera.  My God, she's fat, isn't she? I'm in Fitchnett hose. Turkey, look at the hose. Don't look at the, but you know, it's been hard on him. It's been hard on us. I believe, I believe absolutely, that if there is a God, he's got a damn fine sense of humor. And that he visits on lesbians baby boys, and that he visits on baby boys challenging mothers, and that we are not going to be able to control much, not even ourselves, but we can at least make the attempt. And you do not know what's coming. You do not know, you do not know how you will fall in love and what will come of it. I don't believe in marriage. I don't believe in true love. I've been married. I'm married. I wouldn't be married except for Joel Gomez and Kate Kendall. I was like, I don't believe in marriage. And Kate's like, you got to get married. You're famous. We need this. It's a legal struggle. This was two days before the big vote that made it illegal.  And Joel was getting married. And I thought, fuck, they're spending a lot of money on getting married. But maybe if we're really sweet, they'll let us get married at their wedding, save a fortune and have a really good time. And not only did they let us get married at their wedding, but Joel married us because she was a library commissioner. And then Gavin Newsom endowed the commissioners with the ability. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know what's going to stumble out of the woodwork of your brain. And you're going to be different. You're going to be different. He's going to be different. I can't quite say she yet, but whatever. I don't ask anymore.  So that spirit of acceptance does get a little thin now and again. I wish I could tell you a mantra that would make it all work. The only thing I am genuinely certain of is build a family of friends. I believe in that. And I think that's one of the glories of the gay community, the lesbian and gay community, is that we learned early on that when our families were broken, that our principle of family could incorporate those people in our life who were genuinely loving and trustworthy and that that too constituted a family. And that over and over in my life, my friends have saved me over and over. I really, really deeply recommend that all all of us honor that sense of not just community but family. The person you call when the government shows up at your front door. I know, I know they say and they're not doing that but it could happen again. It's happened before. Whoever shows up at your front door. And besides, I also recommend that you get a strong core of people who can cook. It makes a big difference. I don't want to be pragmatic but I am pragmatic. You should eat at Jules' house if she'd let you. We have the same recipe for pot roast and that makes all the difference. She's born in Boston. I'm from South Carolina. How did that happen? Now one more word. Some of you, it seems to me, are people of a certain age. You know what I'm talking about.  I have days when I think, how did I live this long? We lived this long because we are necessary. I am pretty sure about this. We know things. We know things. I mean, I understand there are no more mimeograph machines. Doesn't matter. We still know how, we know how to put together a phone tree should the internet go down. We know how to call people together.  We know how to pay attention. We know how to endure. We know how to have faith. Some of us know how to write or make art or sing. But all of us, all of us know how to speak from the heart and accept what's going to happen. It was a little resistance thrown in. Thank you so much.


Hey friends, today is the day the Magic Kingdom transforms into Halloween. I am so excited I just can't wait to see the Mickey pumpkins and all the Halloween decorations Something good to start off 2020. Let's go do this First thing that I noticed though They don't have those big Mickey pumpkins greeting you and nothing in front of the train station One thing you definitely can count on though those beautiful Mickey pumpkins. This is the first one. I'm seeing I've actually been lingering out front and haven't attempted to go inside But here we go. I'm excited. I can see Main Street USA is all lined up with its Mickey pumpkins, but No scarecrows out front or any of the other Halloween decorations It is great just to be able to see those Mickey pumpkins lining the street again. I love it Halloween is my favorite time of the year Christmas definitely comes at a close second, but man, there's just something about the spirit of Halloween I just love it and take a look at the characters.  I'm so happy they did this actually My favorite thing has to be the Halloween party cast member costumes being out and then just take a look at Haunted Mansion right there He looks so scary, and he's just acting like he should he's perfectly in character So excited. I got the feeling coming down that ramp and actually I hear some frightfully good music So maybe we're gonna get a glimpse at what the parade or the cavalcade is gonna be But look at your strutting away like that. He is my absolute favorite. I absolutely love your the funny thing is is Actually, I've been here for about an hour, and I basically have just stayed in this central hub area and main street Because I just really said I know there's a big great magic kingdom park But I'm really happy with just seeing Halloween Another awesome thing is you can see some people dressed up this year because Disney's allowing people to dress up And that's the first time ever so it's really awesome that you can get a little festive in your favorite Halloween outfit I'm sure they probably have the Halloween dessert or treat at Starbucks, but right now I bet you it is an extremely long line The line actually for Starbucks is wrapping around the crystal arts building right here Wow, and plus don't forget you got a queue up on the inside there I really love how some of the cast members are actually all decked out and they're Mickey's not so scary Halloween party Costumes, that's awesome. I wish I can own one of those actually and it's not a great Halloween day Unless we take a trip into the Emporium and actually see what kind of Halloween stuff They got going on here Most of all of this stuff has been out for a while But it just feels good to come in here and take a look see like I remember strolling through here on Mickey's not so scary Halloween party nights just cooling off because it was way too hot in my costume So it brings back good memories One thing about coming to Disney on like opening day or first day of things You don't actually know what to expect and sometimes you just find yourself waiting around because Literally don't want to miss anything so something cool could happen and on the first day if it doesn't go Well, it may never happen again, so you want to make sure you see it So that's what I'm doing right now hanging on Main Street. Like I said, just waiting to see if something cool happens Oh, and I think I do hear something. I think I see something Maybe waiting here is actually gonna pay off and I'm with my friend world of Micah. Look at that We're waiting out together We're gonna just keep on staying because you never know what's gonna come down Main Street next This just makes me so happy here guys One thing I can point out is they're actually going around and doing a little crowd control and telling people that if you're not with one party They need to put a six-feet distance in between Anybody else that's not in your group. That's awesome I was just about to leave and all of a sudden it got really Spooky I think I'm done here I will be back to the Magic Kingdom many many many more times now that the fall and Halloween decorations are up It's just great to actually see some Halloween spirit this year when I thought nothing was gonna happen Anyhoo, hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye


good morning everybody can everyone hear my voice let me just turn on the screen sharing here yes okay yes audio and video is good okay great great how is everybody good good good okay just before we begin here how many of you guys are new that's your first time in any of my webinar for any of our webinars at Urban Forex? Raul Smith, Minto, Paolo, Dan okay great great so welcome to the community and you guys will probably notice that this is a really closed community where everybody is tied together and we make sure we look out for everybody as much as we can so again welcome to the community and today what we're going to do is discuss a strategy around support and resistance now last time I touch you guys how we do support and resistance and many of you guys requested okay now it's time for a strategy okay so we're going to discuss that now before we get into the strategy part let me get into a little base recap of support and resistance again and what we're going to do is as we go through all of this this is going to be a one-hour pretty much a one-hour webinar we're gonna split the webinars the first half as a learning experience and the last half as an interaction and we'll keep all the questions to in the middle and towards the end of the webinar okay if there is any audio issues let me know here let me let me reset the audio one more time see if that helps one moment how many of you guys have actually audio issues can you make the candles darker yes I can okay I've reset the audio it should be fine if it's still not fine this is recorded so not too worry there okay for those of you who need a darker charts let me make them dark for you all right great yeah I'm sorry mark but it's recorded so not too worry there now base recap on support and resistance now okay the traditional books when you when you learn support and resistance is they tell you that the area where the market turned around from is your level of support or resistance you know for example here this would be considered your resistance or up here this would be your resistance and this area down here would be your support okay now this is the traditional saying that this is your support this is your resistance okay anything below the current market is called support anything above the current market is called resistance now that's not the way I particularly do it and I've introduced this method to hundreds in fact thousands of people now that you know the way you do support resistance is not that way okay and here's the here's why support and resistance like anything else works with level of strength okay that there is a million support resistance you can technically draw resistance on top of each candle if you want to really get into the nitty-gritty of it and you just go crazy I'm like okay this is resistance this is resistance resistance and sooner or later you become like Einstein you know crazy hairdo so you don't want to do that you don't want to do that you want to understand the level of strength of particular support and resistance level now if you guys want to take notes take notes support and resistance the the best levels consist of three things that's particularly that same particular level that you draw must be a level that has been used as support and it must be a level that has been used as resistance and finally the third thing there must have been a big candle that broke through it at one point these are the three things for support and resistance let me give you an example okay let's take a look sort of into the past let's get you some tips and clues okay now for example we take a look at this area here okay um I'm a Rosie the everything is recorded in case I still okay let me do this let me turn off the VPN see if that makes a difference one moment please give it a second and okay how about now is it better now hopefully okay I'm going to repeat this one more time and we'll see hopefully it's better or not if not just wait for the recording okay the three things for support and resistance information okay the first thing the level that you draw must have been used as support it must have been used as resistance okay and last but not least there must have been a big candle break from this level which indicates this level being strong okay let's go through this example now how are you supposed to draw support and resistance is it just this tip here okay the answer is no support and resistance can range from the body all the way up to the tail okay what is a tail a tail is basically telling you that the market tried to push but it could not closer it came down and closed so if I draw on this particular body at the top of this body do you see any single body coming out of this area no right for two days nonstop not a single body was able to come out of this area it pushed but it wasn't able to close outside of it which means this area has just as much as strength as does as does the tip this is how you create a range you always need a range when you're drawing supremacism it is not the traditional one line method that is taught okay because if I say the support is at 1.2555 your chart 1.2555 is not the same as my chart your brokers numbers are different than mine's okay so you always need a range to get a sense of idea okay our charts might be different but it's not going to be a hundred pips of difference it's going to be a few pips this is why you always need to have a range next thing when you draw this area okay this is your resistance it's above the market so resistance resistance over here we had a big candle break one big candle breaks through this indicates that this level that we drew is a strong level okay this is a strong level that we just broke through okay now we've had resistance big candle breaks here also take a look big candles coming through this area did we have support you know we had resistance let's go back and check did we have support in this area let's go back oh well what do you know take a look at this you see how this entire area of 28 January 29 January gets covered okay covers both of these areas as support so we have support we have resistance and a big candle break oh sorry let's go forward we've had a big candle break as well so this area now indicates now that we've crossed through now even once the market crosses through the traditional method that explains is once you cross a level that level becomes the opposite okay this was resistance it broke through a big candle now it became support okay this because we know this area is strong we're going to be using this area in the near future also and the market tends to respect it not once but twice and on and on and on because you know this level is strong and it's been coming in from the past for quite some time okay now the strategy part everyone understands support and resistance until now everyone with with me so far okay now let's get into the fun part okay we're gonna get into the strategy part when do you draw support and resistance that's the question okay okay yeah I drew support resistance on the past you know yada yada yada I get it how do you know if the market is running that you need to draw a support and resistance level when do you need to do it let's take a look I'll show you how many guys are familiar with divergence divergence hidden divergence you know any other words that are attached to it okay I've also explained it in the previous previous webinar I think okay for those of you who don't know it no problem we'll we'll go into it right now all right now let's take a look for divergence I like to use an indicator called statistics I'm gonna go to insert indicator go down to trend and it's in your list oh sorry go down to oscillators and it's in your list here called stochastic oscillator I click on that I use standard settings which is five three three whatever it is I click okay and this is how it looks on my screen now let me remove let me remove this period separators so in the charts are even more clean okay perfectly clean all you guys see just the charts and the indicator now right now let's go through this now take a look at this thing right here let me show you an example of how a divergence or okay we're gonna use the word opposite in this webinar okay what I'm gonna say opposite is if the price is doing opposite of the statistics that means price is going to change directions okay I'm gonna repeat that one more time if price is doing opposite then what the indicator is doing price will change directions okay so I'm not gonna use the word divergence hidden diversions confluence and all of that nonsense I'm gonna simply use the word opposite okay now let's take a look at these charts now the markets are coming down we create our first low okay I'm gonna mark this low I draw my line saying that okay I have my low right everyone see that this is a peak right here we're gonna do the same thing on our indicator I'm gonna mark the low on the indicator this is the lowest point lowest lowest the market continues to move it moves up and then it starts to go down as it starts to go down we have what we call a breach we've gone below our recent low right we've crossed now is that the same case in our indicator have we crossed below this line at any time no we don't have the breach here since we were going in a downward movement we're gonna connect our bottoms okay when you're going in an upward movement connect your tops when you're going in a downward movement connect your bottoms we're gonna connect our bottoms okay from this is our first breach it was here and we're gonna do the same with our indicator around that time the market was here or so somewhere let's say and you can see that the price is telling you it's in a downtrend while the indicator is telling you it's in an uptrend what we have is opposite when you have opposite market tends to price tends to change directions okay in this particular case price was going down boom price changes and goes up this is just a just an example I'm showing you right now I'm gonna go into one more example and then we'll get into putting this together with support and resistance all right we can actually use this and this let me get you a more clear example there's tons of examples of this there and kind of get you guys the most easy to understand yes I will I will do it on us dollar Japanese yen also could you do it on a US dollar or Japanese yes yes I will okay so let's take a look at this the market comes here creates a high then it goes down okay I'm gonna mark this high right here I'm gonna do the same on my indicator market comes down goes up we have a breach we've gone higher than our previous high not the case in our indicator it's not gone higher than our previous high we have opposite since we were going in an upward movement we're gonna connect our highs at that particular time we only saw this candle we didn't see this candle from here at that point we were around here somewhere opposite right from here to here totally opposite things indicator saying downward movement while price is saying upward movement okay since price is in an upward movement and we have opposite means price is gonna turn around in this particular case price takes a reverse okay everyone understand the concept of opposite or diversion so far okay now let's put this into action I'm gonna remove this line since we already know there's a divergence now or opposite and we see it's clearly at this point we have this information on the timing is actually immediate but I'm mark I'll explain that situation to you now when you have the situation of opposite remember if you're just looking at this information of divergence what happens is you're relying on your indicator which is deadly never rely on your indicator okay now in this particular case the indicator is at this particular moment when this candle actually went up the chances are the indicator didn't cross we don't know if the indicator is gonna go down what if the market actually continues going higher and indicator continues going higher too you would never know that this is a divergence then what you do is you need to at this moment when this happened and you're like hmm there is a possible divergence start drawing mark this area with your line and check is this an area of support and resistance let's check it out let's go into the past and see what is this area if we can get that far let's see should I shrink it more see if that helps maybe four hour charts would help wow okay we don't have any data going further back other than probably the daily charts that's okay this example is gonna be a little bit difficult to explain but let me use an example that we did today earlier for forex watchers people in our conference room what time frame do you draw the line you begin with one hour and you work your way up I'm gonna explain to you guys that thing right now in in our conference room at forex watchers we were looking at the four-hour chart today on euro USD okay this is in fact why I have a trade running now take a look at this I'm gonna remove all these lines I'm gonna zoom in a little bit more take a look at this we have a high here we mark our high we have a high here we mark our high price is going down as it's coming upwards price is coming upwards indicator comes up we have a breach now we have a breach on the indicator but we don't have a breach on our price what we're gonna do is we're gonna draw since we're going upwards we're gonna draw our tops from here to at that point was here we're gonna do the same with our tops here from here to this area does that look like opposite to you okay this indicates price is possibly gonna reverse and turn around in the direction it's going the direction it was going was long and we wanted to say we have a short when the short is coming up that's the million dollar question that's the reason why we implement support resistance so I draw my line here first and I'm like okay what can I know about this area okay yes George in a downward movement you draw the bottom see you see how price is moving upwards here as price is moving upwards you draw the tops if the last immediate trend if it's moving downwards you drew you draw the bottoms does that make sense okay well we'll do more examples don't worry all right now so I draw my line here as I see this potential diverges because I don't know that the stochastics is gonna cross or not I don't know if it's gonna do that all I know all all I can assume is maybe the market continues going long and then it's no longer a opposite you know so I draw my line here I'm like what is so significant about this area and then I check okay so I draw my range right I take this area maybe I take the tail also and I start refining by looking in the past I go back and I'm like okay we have a big candle coming out of here we have a big candle coming out of here we have resistance let's take it a little bit lower so we can cover the bodies okay we have resistance we have support let's go further back ah okay so we have support again we have a big candle break again okay interesting let's go further back we're going we're going where are we gonna end up okay now the next question you guys are gonna ask me how far do you look back you know I get this question a lot it's up to you until it takes you to satisfy yourself okay big candle breaches here big candle breach here markets halt right here markets halt above or below but during this period you have big candle breaks remember a big candle breach indicates a strong level has been broken okay let's go further back if you want okay take a look at this complete support we're going all the way to 16th of November yeah until three rules are done when you have three rules you're good you know we you have support you have resistance you have a big candle break and you're up in 28th November so this level has been holding all the way back from last year you know it's not it's not really magic but you know that's it so you come back down to the current current area and you're like okay this is my area I want to sell from so we took a sell and the markets are now headed short everyone with me so far everyone understand this concept okay so now always remember one thing when you're doing this on certain currency pairs try to do them on all all three time frames when I say all three time frames is if you're a 15 minute guy do it 15 30 and one hour if you're a one hour person do it one hour four hours and daily okay in this particular case the four hours says short as per the divergence or opposite we take a look at let's take a look at the daily okay do we have any sort of information on the daily Vadi villain you can check out the video again maybe that will help you if you watch it a couple of times okay markets are going down if we draw down trend here and we draw down trend here it's the same right our indicator and information is saying the same thing okay so basically our daily chart has nothing confusing our four hour charts have opposite information our one hour charts currently has nothing but take a look at this we have a bottom here right um Kumar one hour and above is my preference we have a bottom here do you think we might have a possible breach hey it's possible if the indicator goes below this area that means we've gone below our previous low but on price look how far the previous low is how far is that low that's like 46 pips away okay it's already dropped what 45 pips that's another 46 pips for it to drop today seems unlikely if that okay there we go take a look at this next candle just opened right you see this do we have a divergence now or an opposite we have a breach live in front of us everyone see it now okay now what is the next thing we do now that we see this breach what is the next thing that we do check support and resistance very good come is it Kang or come which one I'm sorry if I'm saying it wrong all right so I draw my first line here okay if I'm saying it wrong or just correct me alright I draw my first line here I'm like hmm I wonder what is this area do you think the market is gonna stop here I don't know well let's check we have some resistance we have a big candle break so we have this piece of information what about our support okay so now let me remove this bottom line sorry okay we can refine this a little bit let's bring this a little bit higher here okay and we need to get our bottom area to okay now we're covering a lot of grounds see here hello will now we're covering a lot of grounds you see here we have a big candle break big candles coming out of this area that's okay well you can you can we recording it so not to worry you so you can see a lot of level of resistance here that's covered resistance resistance big count breaks again let's go further back support take a look how well the support's holding this whole time okay are we out by the support a little bit let's move it down a little bit and let's see if this is the this is our little range here okay it looks a little bit more messy like this but I'm gonna move it back to where it was okay this seems to be my ideal spot right Lorax yes this is gonna be on YouTube in the next 30 or so hours it'll be on YouTube and yeah if you're watching this on YouTube please like the video and comment and share your feedbacks okay so we have support we have resistance and not to mention we have a big candle breaks okay this area holds again and again and again in the past in the future not in the future as of yet but this area just keeps holding and breaks by a big area big candle so my initial thought process is this is the area that I'm expecting the markets to go along from does everyone see how I came to this conclusion okay so that means my current short that I have running I'm gonna have to go ahead and close because I'm getting a a mixed piece of sentiments around this area where I don't I don't see the short continuum very long if I look at my four hours you know the four hours is still going short okay it could be another candle or two and if that's the case we need to find another area below it if this area happens to breach but as of right now this area looks like it has a lot of strength because look how much market is contained here okay so that's our immediate reaction now that's that okay we just closed one trade now I think US dollar CAD was it CAD that we had a different scenario take a look at another pair to see if we have any other information let's see US dollar CAD well look at the pound okay let's take a look at pound pound is currently short right this was the last short area this was the last short area the current market is also low so it's on a downward movement so you want to connect your lows from here to here okay but you have the same thing you don't have opposite situation here you have a low to a further low you don't have an opposite scenario okay you need to have an opposite scenario first then the next thing you want to do is you want to make sure you pick the right support and resistance once that happens and the way to do that is to confirm that your support resistance satisfy those three criteria resistance support and a big candle break okay I believe one of you guys said you guys want to do US dollar Japanese yen let's take a look at US dollar Japanese yen let's go down to the one hour let's do I want to do a black chart I think Lisa you wanted it in a little bit darker okay so let's take a look let's insert the indicator there we go do we possibly have a breach happening right now and see we have our high we do the possible high here we have we need a candle to go slightly higher to give us our breach a proper breach that will say it's now saying opposite scenarios let's check the four hours to see what what is a higher time frame telling us okay any indications on the higher time frame we're in a downward movement when you're in a downward movement you connect your lows if you connect your lows you have a higher low and if you do the same thing here you have a higher low nothing really is saying opposite let's check daily to get an idea from a longer term side same scenario the markets are in the uptrend and this one is pretty much sideways or slightly up it doesn't the area you would have to start drawing right to see that which area matches up okay if you draw for example this area as your support resistance you need to check in the past to see does this area hold true in the past you know 14th February 13th February yes big candle break on 15th okay you know big candle breaks over here okay big candle break here okay so so far we have resistance and big candle break we're looking for support and then we have some whipsaw here so chances are this might not be a good area okay it has some strength but not the ideal strength okay so another thing is whenever you're in doubt don't trade yeah that's the rule of thumb whenever in doubt don't trade okay and you can see probably as the candles move your divergence thing will also I mean your indicator will also move as your price moves so it's very important that you make sure that it's a very clear opposite okay when I say clear it needs to stick out to a point where you're like for it not to be clear the price has to move a lot okay same scenario that we had with Euro USD okay alright so now anyone pick a pair we're gonna work on a particular pair that you guys pick we just did pound will Euro yen okay let's take a look at Euro yen and pound yen okay so we'll look at Euro yen and pound yen okay we're gonna start with one hour how do you define a big candle now the big candle has to be more than the average candle for example is this a big camp not sorry alright Hassan is this a big candle okay now the reason why you said no without even looking at the amount of pips is because you're comparing the size to the nearby candles right you do the same thing when you're looking for a big candle you compare the size to the nearby candles and see is it a big candle or not so for example these trades these candles they're all small candles okay this would be considered a big candle this is considered a big candle Abby Naveen I thought price has to move first before indicator moves what makes indicator to move and price lags behind so that divergence forms well Abby you can have advice versa you know when you have the opposite or a divergence scenario you can either have prices lagging or you can have the indicators lagging this is just indicating there is there's a shift in direction coming up it's it's another way of saying the markets oversold or overbought that's it but it's more of like towards a price action technique because you're not really using the indicators original methods of buy and sell okay alright now sorry we were doing Euro yen let's take a look at the current market situations another thing to look at is make sure when you're doing your opposite trading make sure you have at least something that is almost near the over overbought oversold area you know if you're trading from the movements that are within this area chances are that the divergence is going to be weak so try to trade them try to get the divergence as far out as possible the ones that are near the oversold or near the overbought you know if it helps you give a get a better direction okay current market conditions it's going downwards so we want to connect our highs okay our tops if you want to call them it's this way same thing here this way nothing really changes okay moving forward four hours let's take a look tops straight tops down okay not opposite okay make sure you have a clear opposite when you want to do this maybe I see a divergence on Euro pound now okay let's take a look at Euro pound if there is a clear example let's see Euro pound okay let the chart load up one moment oh on the daily chart okay okay well forget the daily chart we have something here also on the one-hour chart take a look at this the markets are in an upward movement markets went long we're going to connect our highs we had our breach when it went long here markets closed draw your line here okay so the daily chart tells you short you know that's the long-term movement long-term movement tells you short I'm sorry the one hour sorry this is the one-hour chart the one-hour chart tells you short let's move on to the four hours let this load up give it a moment sorry there we go okay no specific divergence on on the four hours okay it's an upward movement markets are also going upward on the indicators nothing really fancy there moving out to finally onto the daily chart Pistol is there a setting that can help tell the number of tips to take no this is something you need to understand using support and resistance where is the area for exit can we just look that Euro yen right I'll take a look at Euro yen one more time if you guys want but let this load one moment we'll take a look at pound yen as well sorry so after this we'll look at pound yen and then we'll look back at Euro yen okay now this is loaded now take a look at this okay we had our breach just now on the current candle and in this particular scenario we don't have that situation situation here now the indicator has to go higher than this high for it not to be a opposite or divergence we need to find out what is it about this area that tells you short the one hour telling you short as well so is the daily what is it about this area let's check is there any anything that comes in from the past okay we have some pieces of information let's draw our lines now where is the crime price okay the price is right up there okay so around this price we want to look for an area where does the market start touching okay we see there's a lot of resistance here okay big chunk of mess around this area lots of support and resistance okay so let's really find this okay that we want to monitor in this area you find the best one okay let me let me draw our areas here so you guys can get an idea okay we're gonna scroll back from here and see what is actually contained in this area okay well for one for starters we have this very good area let's go further back use the four-hour chart sorry okay this is the area that we were drawing everything from right we have our top line we have our bottom line we redefine it a little bit more okay there we go now we have a little bit strict containment of price and markets remember these big candles breaking through that's fine big candles are welcome okay but we have the certain amount of market being contained here so this is the area where we're possibly seeing a turnaround from markets can possibly go short somewhere around here turn around and go along into our next area which is up here where you will see the drop happen on a longer term frame a lot longer time frame which then the drop might come down to probably somewhere around here okay Naveen is there a divergence and proper support resistance done on Swiss franc market let's take a look okay after this one we do pound yen sorry we just take a look at this real quick okay yes we do take a look at this area we have a low we have a breach we have a low we don't have a breach okay since the markets were going down you connect your lows when the breach happened the market was going down so you connect your lows you do the same thing here at that time them indicator should have been here somewhere totally opposite so you're like okay somewhere around here the markets are gonna go along where is your question you start drawing your lines and you start looking back to test it's like where in the world is this area now okay so you take a look at this area like huh okay we have some strong levels of resistance big candle breaks perfect okay can we draw our upper range okay let's draw it let's get this upper range here as well okay now we we're we're defining an area okay let's go further back well what do you know let's go further back boom support and resistance contained okay I'm not making the stuff up it's just natural support and resistance is is simply the way to do it take a look market tends to repeat itself again and again and again you see so this level is clearly a strong level right okay big candles breaking through perfect we want big candles to break through a big candle is a representation that this is a strong level markets contained okay so coming back down to the current price we're like okay around this area is my area to possibly go along okay in the zone as the markets go along here you place your trade to go along and the markets are currently long now at the same time what is the trend of let's take a look at 18th of February the market goes up then down then sideways euro USD 18th of February whereas my oops okay it goes down then up then sideways is it doing the complete opposite thing do we have correlation okay example Swiss Frank usually does everything opposite of euro USD Swiss Frank on 18th of February goes up then down then sideways euro USD it goes down then up then sideways it's doing the exact opposite now having this said if you look at today's market if you look at today's market up sideways down Swiss Frank down sidelined up not to mention our divergences for both strategies occurred at the same time for both currency pair sorry you see that difference you see that change sorry euro USD give you and diversions or opposite telling you short Swiss Frank gave you one at the same time telling you long now you have three levels of confirmation you have your opposite you have your support resistance and you have correlation things are lining up okay and markets are moving the chances are if you probably look at them on a higher time frame these are probably seeing the same thing also take a look at the higher time frame okay markets was going down we have a low here so when you're going downwards mark your lows well let's mark our lows opposite yes okay you draw your zones you contain the market you have your area this is a perfect way to practice your support and resistance whenever you have a diversions or opposite coming up draw your support resistance within days very quickly you will know which area of support resistance is strong by a good trade and a bad trade you'll understand very quickly and you'll start to draw them better and better and better okay so guys repeat going over this thing what are the three things for support and resistance of you know yes you can do that as well okay for example I did this on the four hour I draw these zones right if I go down to the one hour take a look it makes more sense because you're like okay there's a whole bunch of tails coming into this area okay but it's nearby I'm Hasan it's nearby it's close enough which is better confirm the diversions MP or support resistance support resistance obviously MP is an indicator I don't like indicators this is a very powerful thing understanding your levels where the markets will halt because remember forget the traditional methods of doing it you know traditional methods are really outdated you know it's like from the Stone Age the reality is you need to look for these three things a level that's been used with support a level that's been used with resistance and a level that's been broken by a big candle which indicates a strong a strong break out a strong level has been broken the Harami thing living what is that I mean of MP can't work alone and mark so would you then address the final issue of timing the entry okay when you have your divergence the moment you have your divergence you start plotting and looking for your nearby support resistance and you see if that is the ideal area something we did here on your USD what we did was we drew it on the four-hour charts we had our we had our divergence clear divergence and then we started plotting our levels of support resistance so when it said happened we drew our lines were like huh what is this area okay we had clear levels of resistance and clear levels of support and big candle breaks it had everything that we wanted was right here perfect spot for us to take a short which we did which you guys saw you close in front of you candlestick patterns bullish Harami bearish Harami doget oh no no no no I don't they're all pretty much the same thing it's it's it's a headache so yeah it's 8 30 p.m. my time now it's 7 30 a.m. New York City time any last-minute questions I can go through a few more last-minute questions for five more minutes and then we will close the webinar Kilimanjaro what is hidden divergence now there's a difference between hidden and regular divergence you know one is where the price the price is the one that did the breach in this particular case what who did the breach here the indicator went higher than the previous high not the price see and there's one where the indicator does the breach and then the other one is where the price does the breach and not the indicator that's the difference okay and there's other ways where people actually you know if you the price goes lower high but then they draw the bottom you know it is nonsense like that also so just think of them as opposite the moment you have opposite price is going to change directions does this strategy work on gold the statistics and support resistance yes try them out in fact I would like to know and for those of you who like to practice this practice this on sorry let me practice this on our we have a page if you actually go to the groups just click on view all groups and where to go there is support and resistance you can post all your trades here you know we have we have a bunch of people who are going to be responding and you know helping you out with this and we have tons of trades and stuff like that and there as examples so go ahead and use them post your trades will help you out with it in case we do see any errors or anything like that okay yes 533 yeah just standard last question do you hungry yes I am hungry it is my time you know whenever it's time for me to leave the webinar food is my answer you're very welcome guys all right guys it was great to see you all and welcome to all you new members who are who have just joined the community I hope you enjoy the community there's any questions message me personally it's fine use the discussion boards everyone is there to help you out if you need anything I will help you as fast as I can as I get to the emails myself so good luck everybody and I will see you tomorrow we have another webinar for Willie on supplying demand so I will see you many of you guys there tomorrow thanks guys have a good night and thank you I will enjoy the dinner thanks bye now


Church CH you are see it. That's church. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one Yeah, we gonna talk man. I want to get back to like like y'all early on I remember Pippin Ken told stories about seeing magic done one when he was young and then having a you know Him being out of Milwaukee. Just just how did that whole thing use from your side? How did that even come to be? Okay? Check this out He came in Now Kenny under me now, okay, I'm the church in my church He's a great friend of mine. Well, he always hey man I want to come to the play ball because we did pimps up a hole down and I got a lot of brothers in there Okay, you know and I put that thing together and Kenny got a big check out of it I think I got a big check and Bishop got a big check but all the mother buzzers didn't get it done So when he came in and man, we're gonna be down mom.  You don't I say hold up player Now I'm gonna walk y'all in but y'all got to pay me Wow, so him and one his friends today Him just divine big Lonnie. You probably know Yeah, I think they just he just he just got over 200 million dollars out of some rapper something But he doing good money. Yeah, it's my man he was a One guy was real on Lonnie was real slick and sharp And bump your bro for you know it. He was real quiet because they thought he was a jab but Lonnie a bumpy chicken two seconds and so Invited them to the player ball. That's all your brothers have a seat I'm gonna get the bishop out. So we was on 87. They missed the G's player thing. We have Bishop behind the the wall and They got a chance to meet Bishop signing his books buying his books and everything I think that was the best thing that ever happened to the Milwaukee boys Snooke in all of them. They was marshmallows when they come down my game His players right now. No, they couldn't step up to us. We love you. No minister Well, Kenny actually came two or three years man. I was like hold up. Yeah Yeah, he came in he came in but he still had to go through Bishop That's right when he came in Kenny was good what he did he good Kenny was cold But some kind of way he fell off his horse and got out of sight. See a lot of time people get out of Get out of sight and follow on their horses. They can do good or do bad But he he stayed back and just did his thing. What are you doing now?  He's doing some some good At the hip-hop He's doing a lot of great stuff for the community like I'm doing put the guns down stop the killing He feeding a lot of people right now. He got a lot of rappels behind him. He's doing a great job Man, you know, why did you meet? Sorry? How did you meet Kenny Ivy? Kenny, um, was it that night? Well, you're gonna do something down one No, no So happen When we do play-up balls, a lot of the newcomers they stay in the back See my I'm always got my eyes open looking for that dollar She bit your bank on talking on him. He ain't gonna answer no phone. I said man, why you got a phone? You're never answered you can call them on the time. He don't answer the phone So they can get through me. So I talked to the brother. That's okay. I'm a fight y'all not y'all get a chance to talk to him So man, that's what it came in. They start coming in and snook at him They came in there with all that girls got the head done Which that's something we don't deal with in our game when guys mess with babies and stuff like that We we don't know nothing about all that because the game you got to respect the game in order to get respect but when they start the gas I mess with the keys and now we don't know nothing about that and Put a bad room on us cuz we don't live like that You got to be old enough to come around this organization. If not, we're not letting you in No, I get that man. I can't say it I think he said that him and down one had done and got mad at him because of the word it was a church or something It was something that he had he had see you know me and Bishop, you know, we had our little ups and downs You know one time I said something slick in the magazine.   And then we got on there.  I don't know two hundred dollars a size. Yeah, baby I gave this is some money man. I paid the church man. I'm with the church man.  And so it just we just all came to get was weird man How like, you know, it was confusing because you know me being peeping can and being the law mouth young dude and Bishop being the Layback player, you know, I'm saying it was kind of they thought it was conflict But it really wasn't you know, so I love Bishop and Bishop and Seymour. They put me in the game This what he said Like I said earlier My mother and father was preachers, right? Church CHU RCH. That's church now Church is CHU CHU. I designed the name. I designed the word. I made the name up What's the meaning of the word the meaning of it is When a group of people get together if you listen to the OJ say family reunion When a group of people get together longest positive and we're having a great time a good time No cussing no fighting That's what means church That's what it means when a group of people get together and we'll agree on the same thing That's called church having a party having church and my grandma used to say y'all kids going and get ready for church She ain't said church. She was old-fashioned Such that's why I got it from church. Okay, so what did Kenny say? Kenny said Man, they playing with the with the church. They're playing with the Lord. No, we won because it wasn't he wasn't church He would think it was church, but it's church and I explained to them all y'all see a lot of people don't know what I Guess they know what church me and they didn't know what church me like I said I have a pattern and I know what it is because I created it. So there's something I created the majority of all the rappers shouted in a Versus or what singing but Bishop dawn magic one the Snoop Dogg I elevated and took it to another level So that's what it is Wow that and that's and that's something else because when you think about just the way everybody used that word the way Everybody use y'all terminologies. How did that? How did you guys feel when everybody started in the hip-hop game with carrying those cups? And they was carrying them cups on every video acting as if they was It's like See that's the point Debbie the glass lady she created the glasses she been around us by 12 13 years You know out of 48 years and me and Bishop and We've been doing major things and all over the world But they still had to come through him the bling bling all the jury you see All the rappers talking about bling bling and jury and pretty cars It came from him man came from here. Yeah, cuz he exploded and let her know. Hey man For the hip-hop thing. He did the Dundella. Mm-hmm. You know, he he kept it off Because man uses man this this man used to come down the suite with his car Yeah, the big old rose was big old white walls on it him And that means in my rose watch with my nephew candy, man He made it way for a lot of brothers to rise flick a lot of guys want to be on the take a man We wanted I wanted to be a superstar, but he was one of the number one pimps You know, I don't see a lot of pimps In the game for the last 48 years. I've known him. He's still He's still dressing every day Like I say, okay, no man hit, but I'm just telling you him. Yeah, he will suit every day Even now he will suit every day and stay sharp and ride a slick green and gold every day I got his jury done and got his jury on bling bling hip-hop for all the hip-hop the rappers that came through us When uh, too short. Yeah. Yeah, we gave on it too. Too short came to Chicago at night like 83 82 Scarface there. Yeah, we remember all them boys, man We remember all them boys. Oh, okay We remember when they came here they came scratch they came here under us We didn't go to them they came to us man That's my friend. They came through us Boss talk one-on-one one-on-one. Yeah, we gonna