Okay, good afternoon everybody and welcome to the event. This is the Bookmap Academy event and we do these special events every now and then.  He won it last time. So we're gonna go through his setups and the way he looks at the market. I'm gonna turn it over to Owen in just a second. He will do the introduction. They spent some time together going through the content and what understanding a donkey face is background, et cetera. If you're interested in signing up for the Bookmap blue jacket, you can go to bookmap.com slash blue jacket. It's a competition and it is integrated with the Bookmap Academy and you will be posting now in the Bookmap Academy room. So let's go through some disclosures and a couple of other things. General disclosure, all Bookmap limited materials, information and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure, trading futures, equities and digital currencies involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. One more thing, if you are unaware, right now we're having a crypto march madness competition. It is crypto is near all time highs and so we have this competition is free and open to all. You will have to be in the Bookmap Academy. I suggest connecting, joining. There's lots of prizes to win. You can use your phone right here. We'll provide the link for you. It's competition.bookmap.com and you can sign up there and just keep a tab open. And when you see some interesting things you can trade right from that tab and continue on with your futures or your stocks trading. So without further ado though, let's turn it over to Owen. Hi everyone, nice to see you all. I'm very excited about today's event with Donkey Face as Bruce mentioned. He's a winner from last month's Blue Jacket. One of three winners actually, but somebody that stood out with his really in-depth trading tutorials. And so we want to explore that today more. You've probably seen him around in the community but I'm getting to know Donkey better and I want to introduce him to the rest of you as well. And we can explore things like his values, disciplines and one of his main setups. Really interesting stuff. I spoke to him offline yesterday a lot and I'm really excited to see what he shares with us today. He's been trading for a long time. He's a very humble guy. Talks about a lot of different interesting things related to trading and life generally. And so yeah, thank you Donkey for joining us today. Thank you for agreeing to this. How's it going? Yeah, happy to be here. I'm tickled pink that you guys asked me to do this.  That's a bold move by you guys, but I'm happy to do it and I've enjoyed the time getting to speak with you and Bruce. So I guess we'll just dive in. So if you guys are ready to get started, I will as well. Oh for it. Okay, so a little different. So I'm not gonna actually start with order flow. I wanna emphasize the things that I know make me a profitable trader. For starters, I've made every mistake that anybody could ever dream up. I probably have some record somewhere for the most evals blown. So there's the disclaimer there. But prop firms are such a huge topic right now in trading, that's such a change from when I started about 15 years ago. And through this going from SIM to Prop to Eval, personal accounts, all these things, I think it's very important that anyone who is going down this prop firm route, that they draw the line in the sand. Eval is different than trading. SIM, PA is different from trading. Eval, and then when you're trading your own personal account, you ought to be a totally different guy. That's where the epitome of professionalism should be. And I would say that the interest in props is worth talking about. And that's been the biggest take-home that I've had with all of my failures with it. I totally do not expect myself to trade and Eval the same way I would a personal account. And I'm gonna be more willing to over leverage and do riskier things. Because you can't really make money, but you can lose the hundred bucks or so that you put up. When it gets all the way to my personal account, which is generally my leader account or the main account that I focus on, that's when I put on a different hat and it's all professionalism from there. And anything that I mark up a best practice for me, it has to have been a trade that was taken on a personal account. I'm not interested in marking up any of my SIM or Eval stuff out. Cause I'm just, I'm being a donkey on those, not Mr. Donkey, but like an actual donkey. So that's the first thing I wanted to just kind of like, anybody out there trading prop, just make sure you're not like beating yourself up for foolish behavior on SIM and Eval. But always keep in mind that you should be training to do this for a career if you want to and you get good at what you practice. So at this point in my career, SIM is detrimental. So maybe that would resonate with somebody. And then the very first slide that you see here is the trade plan that I have right now. This is a very alive document for me. I make minor adjustments to this, at least weekly, the wording and the reason it's very interactive and personal for me is that if I just read over it really quickly, it means nothing. If it's in a live document that I have to take care of, I change the colors here and there, I change the wording. And the very top thing on this is a great quote. It says, no work done with impetuosity and excitement was ever well done. And the old proverb, make haste slowly is a good one. And that's from one of my favorite theologians of the past, St. Francis the Sales. The top category that you see here is values.  And I'll zoom through those really quickly. I'm not gonna talk about each one, but the reason they're at the top of my trade plan is because they make following the core disciplines much easier.  The reason I follow my core disciplines is because I have trained myself to think of breaking those as telling the people that I love to screw off or my values. I'm saying out loud that my values are not important if I'm not willing to follow the core disciplines below. So that's a little mental trick that I've had to learn along the way.  But I will follow things based on my values. And I think everybody needs to really dive into why they wanna trade. And if it's just about the money, good luck. I know several full-time traders at this point in my career and none of them really do it for the money. The money's great and you can make more trading than anywhere else, maybe not anywhere else, but it's great money. But if your purpose isn't bigger than the money, you're gonna struggle with all of the roller coaster of emotions. So that's my little rant on, this is where I start every day, a thorough dance with my trade plan and the things that you see highlighted, gratitude, self-control, patience, calmness. These things transcend trading. And if trading isn't making you better at those things, then why are you really trading? Nobody's gonna remember you one day because you were a great trader.  He was a really nice guy. I think all of that transcends trading or any job that you have. And that's kind of where I approach everything when it comes to trading. And if I'm not approaching it from that, I shouldn't be at the computer. So just a quick little rant on the beginning of every day for me. And you can scroll through this. That probably took a little longer than I wanted, but we'll get going quickly here. The main point with the trade plan is everybody should have one.  And it shouldn't be copy and paste from somebody else's. It should be alive for you. It should be yours. And you should know it inside and out. So if you're not doing that, you're not really running a business. So the next slide is another, I'll be really quick with this one. So sound performance psychology, one of my has become dear friends of mine, strong had sound trading psychology. And when I was at the deepest, darkest pits of despair in my life, after having some businesses closed down, I lost a ton of money trading. My marriage was falling apart. All of these things were going on down there at the very, very bottom. I found this six for 250 pound guy with a beard. And he was a trauma therapist for about 20 years or more. And he was also a full-time trader. And I was like, finally I can talk to somebody and not have to explain to them anything about trading. And if I could point my finger at one main thing for the health of my life and the success in my trading, would be working with this guy. Not to sound cliche, but I would say he saved my life. And if not a plug, there's no incentive for me to plug him, but it's very important to my life. And this is a main reason why I'm able to do what I do every day. So just a little logo there of his. And then the next slide you can zoom right through. If anybody's interested, I can drop the links for Sean because trading can do a number on you. I know we've all been in dark places trading. And if somebody says they haven't been there, then they're not really a trader and I don't believe them. So there you have it. There's my little rant on psychology. I think it's probably the most important part. Of course, great psychology without an edge means nothing. So here we are on to the schematic of my number one setup.  And I'm not gonna spend a ton of time on this because everything you need is on the schematic if you wanted to try to look for the trade that I look for. The short version of this trade is it requires movement. You wanna see the market moving directionally. That's not when you're taking your trade. That's the setup for the trade if you're looking for an ancient exhaustion. When price finally gets to a level, preferably a big, bright liquidity zone on book map, and starts to give you some sort of price action, you can then start to look for what should be a very low heat, quick, scalpy type trade. So that's the elevator pitch for this setup. If you really wanna dive into this, I'll provide the schematic if I've already posted it up on the Bookmap Academy and maybe even on the book, or the Bluejacket channel. You should be able to understand this after about 30 minutes and then you will need several hours of practicing the entry mechanics. That's the only part that's kind of difficult. If you're trading NASDAQ, I think it's foolish to use market orders. Depending on, for this style, it's definitely foolish. Other people can get away with market orders, I cannot. So if I'm trading NASDAQ, limit orders are a critical part of this trade. So it's all right there. And if you, I have an inverse color on the next slide, it's just because it's principle. I actually made it four-ancient. My buddy who, he was actually a mentee, but I'd say he's more of a mentor now. Dear, dear friend of mine, but I made the inverse color so he could print it without ruining his printer. So then the next slide is, I'm a one-trick donkey. I focus on one trade. I try to master every nuance. And then along the way, my analysis, my hindsight analysis is always, how could I have entered better? How could I have avoided this loser? All the nuances revolving around one very, very specific trade. I have learned hundreds of setups over the years and traded every market you could dream up from Borax, the crypto, to agricultural commodities. I've traded it all. Penny stocks and options and I've done all sorts of trading. And that's great to know all sorts of different ways to make money, but it wasn't making me money. So I really laser focused on one style of trade. And this really, really interesting thing emerged is that now I can see the market very clearly and can sometimes participate in trades that are not this. But when I divert my focus to other types of trades, it all starts to get blurry. And I end up having these too many, if this, then that type of questions. Is it going up or down? Do I need to be long here or short here? This setup cooks in the direction. There's no question about which way I'm trying to take it. It's very easy cognitively for me. I pummeled through that word ironically. But this is my setup. I can share the files for anybody that wanna print it out and you book map really, really makes it easy. If you look, if you scroll back up to the schematic, the black one, if you look at the pink price line, right at the very top. So you have the big green candle and then you have the price line in magenta. I'm not able to easily see that. Assume that this is a five minute chart. The candles are five minutes. I'm not able to see that price line very easily without book map. So I can then zoom in on book map and see this price action inside of the currently forming five minute candle. And that gives me the framework for where to enter and where the take profit will be. And you don't see this on a five minute candle. The setup you see from the five minute chart and then the entry in the mechanics come from a zoomed in view on book map. So I definitely wanna note that and you can scroll back down. So one trick donkey, that's me. And then it's an adorable animal, I agree. Then the next slide, I'm pretty, I'm 99% sure Bruce Lee didn't say this but I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. I kind of fall into that category and thank God that Bruce Lee affirms me in that regard. With that said, I do know someone who is also in the book map academy that trades between 10 and 15 setups. Does it every day and makes money every day. I've seen it live. It's your one and only crash F16. He can trade a million different types of setup and he knows what he's doing every time. It's no wonder that he was a fighter pilot. I'm more like the guy on the big plane that just presses one button. That's good for me. So with that said, here's kind of the nitty gritty of where my setup emerged from. This is called an overlap ruler that my really dear friend, Ancet and I made. Well, he made it and it was my idea but he made it. So what you can see here, if you really zoom in, you don't have to zoom in. I'll just tell you what it says is that this is measuring the percentage of overlap of two adjacent candles. So how much is this candle overlapped by the very next candle? And I capped it off at 100% and then I can measure a certain time period and over and over and over. This is really zoomed in, this is a 900 tick. Over and over and over again, the number is above 60%. On really, really good days, it's above for my type of trade, it's above 70%. So even zoomed in and sometimes a 90 tick chart or 900 tick chart is like 10 seconds on the NASDAQ. Five seconds, 30 seconds, it's a very fast chart. And if you go down to the next one, you can see the same approximately 64% number on the five minute chart. So we go from 10 seconds to five minutes and the same number of about 64% shows up. And then if you scroll down again to the 30 minute, I have one measurement of the entire session and the number is about 62%. And then I have one measurement of the last 14 bars and it's 64%. So why is that relevant? Well, if you reference the schematic above, you now understand why this setup exists. And I need, often I'll wait for a 30 minute candle to close so that it sets up the stops and targets of my next trade. And I'm always looking, if it's a big full body green candle, I'm looking for say 12 to 30 points against that green candle on the next candle. So that's the premise behind my setup. My biggest nightmare in trading is taking heat. I don't really care how many points I make. I care if I took heat or not. And this is a setup that shows up over and over and over even more in a high VIX environment. Please God, give us a high VIX environment again. In other words, I need volatility. The more volatility in range, the more money I will make, but I'm always taking the same amount of heat. And it shows up every 10 minutes, every 30 minutes. It's a really predictable, it occurs often. Now, if you have lofty goals and 100 pointers, this is not the trade for you. This is a scalpy counter candle trade. Now there is a continuation trade that emerges from that, but so that's the premise of why this trade exists. And if you go to the next trade, this is just a quick view of what I look at on my, one of my big screens. This is a two-minute chart of the NASDAQ. It's got, I've got the S&P at the top, Apple. And then I've got all of my levels will be marked on this, but you can kind of see the structure that I would be looking for from a two-minute chart. Trendline breaks, wave symmetry, and then that yellow line, that yellow dash line is the 50% of a closed 30-minute candle that I put in a yellow box. So you can see this overlap. So the 30-minute candle closes and then you've got about a 20 point move back up to its 50%. And then the continuation would be off of that 50% to continue with the change in trend, which was down. So that's quickly the example of an overlap trade right there on a two-minute chart. And then at the very, very bottom of that chart, if you zoom in, you can see there's two indicators. The one that says donkey volume oscillator is something that I came up with on my own. It's based on total volume percentage increase and decrease. It kind of works like a MACD, but I find it to be much more accurate because it's volume derived and not price derived. And then the bottom is a classic stochastics with some add-ons that I coated into it. And in general, I'm looking to ride a trade from the red to the green or from the green to the red, those circles at the bottom. That kind of gives me the time that I want to be long. If I bought in the green circle, I want to stay long until the red circle. So it's a one half cycle on stochastics type trade. And I was doing that long before book map and then finding book map with how I use that stochastics, which stochastics doesn't really work too great anymore, but the idea behind it going from overbought to oversold and vice versa is how I view the sub chart. So you can keep scrolling through. And this is probably top five most important things you could steal for your trading. Notice there's a blank column that says book map levels. Every day before I take a trade, I fill this out. It's your traditional open high, low close, RTH and ETH. I'm very focused on two minute opening range of London open, two minute closing range of the London close and the two minute New York open range. So that's the purple boxes and the orange box. And then everything else on the chart is from the worksheet that you see to the left, all of those open, high, low, close type levels. And then the middle column that doesn't have anything filled in will be filled out every day from the two charts below.  So this is the most basic simple anybody can use book map like this and get value from it. Every day before I take a trade, I take this very zoomed out view of book map. And if there's a yellow circle, it's plotted on my trading view chart. Now I get it that could change throughout the day but I want to know what it is before I take a trade, you know, what set up the day. So I'm doing this normally 30 minutes before market opens. So each one of these yellow circles would make it into the worksheet above. And all of that fancy stuff that I can talk about with my setup is totally out the window if it doesn't happen at one of these levels. It doesn't matter how many times I see it set up if it doesn't set up at a level, I'm not interested.  So that's great. And then you'll another image of the same thing on the next slide, I believe levels are probably, okay, levels are probably the most important component. None of this matters if it's not happening at a level. And then this is just a quick look at how I would approach overbought and oversold on stochastics that set the framework for how I'm using book maps sub chart, which is the next section of this. So it's been about 25 minutes. I've got two slides in here that talk about book maps definition for volume pressure imbalance, which I rely on heavily. I don't need to go through that book map provides that information, we can drop a link. I don't really think you need to know what it is to use it, but there it is. And then price change is the next slide. I rely on price change as well. And then it finally gets into the book map posts. This next slide, I can take a pause real quick. It's been about 25-ish minutes. Does anybody have any questions? Is Owen or Dan or Bruce, do you guys have any comments or wanna slow me down? You can. Looking good, I think. I don't have any questions right now. Maybe towards then we can open it up to the public. And now Bruce, do you have any questions? No, no, I mean, he's explaining it quite well. I have no questions at all. Okay, great, good. Well, just interrupt me if you want any more details, I can do it. On this chart, this is a five minute candles or the candles that are the overlay candles. This was from yesterday. And you can see a really good idea that would match the schematic above. So from the hard left of the chart to about the middle of the chart, we can all clearly see a consolidation period. Now, that doesn't really tell me anything unless it's at a level. Well, we had a level that 18-4-80 was on all of my charts as a level. And then you can see some of the, I still have the algo band on this particular image. I have finally made another screen for a TraderMap Pro without that nasty algo band. But you can see that there was some interest on the heat map around this 18-4-80 level kind of as the ceiling and the floor of that was kind of 10 points below that. So what I'm observing on the sub chart is price change and VPI or Delta percentage kind of banging their head on the wall. Every time price tried to go above 18-4-80-ish, those would max out and it would roll over. And then of course, everybody can see the yellow circle on the bright red heat map level. That's the target. And I know that's the target before I find a trade. I get three red circles on the sub chart. So that's Delta percentage and price change, banging their head on the wall on the ceiling three times without price going up. So in a way that sets up a little divergence. Price change and volume pressure were in quotes, maxing out and price wasn't moving. Great, now I can look for my trade. So after you see the divergence, price makes a very, very minor high for this part of the session. And then it drops about 10 points. That's perfect for me. Now I'm gonna drop a limit order somewhere in between that drop, a cell limit and hope to get filled. Well, in this case, I got filled, I can't remember the exact number and I'm targeting that liquidity level. The first barrier will be that white trend line that's going down on price. I gotta see it break below that enthusiastically preferably. So once it starts going my way, take no heat on this trade, it's awesome. Then now it's trying to milk it for as much as I can get. And one way to do that, and I can think, crash for this as well, is how I'm using the sub chart and how that overlays with how I used stochastics I truthfully don't really use stochastics anymore. It stopped working about four years ago. I don't know why, maybe I stopped working, who knows. But I wanna try to ride price from during the time period from that red circle to the big yellow circle. And that'll generally give you between 10 and 30 points depending on the market conditions of the day. And the other thing that I noticed was this, I guess it's a spoof on the heat map. You have this somewhat bright band down there at about 18, 440, and then it stopped and I put a yellow box. Now, I don't know how to interpret that. I don't know if that means it's gonna continue lower, but anytime I have confusion that's a reason for me to exit. I've already made some points, put the money in the bank, move on and look for another setup. But the premise would be to ride price from one extreme to the other from end quotes overbought to oversold in this case. And it really provides a nice speedometer for the time period that you can, in real time, hold your trade. Now, I wouldn't expect anybody to top ticket and bottom ticket, but it gives you the window of where you can capture some points. So this move, very conservatively, this move is about a 40 point drop. I'm really only interested in about 10 to 15 points of that. And the very top and the very bottom are for other people, that's not for me. Now, I guess I have developed a knack for because of the limit order strategy on the entry. I sure do have a lot of trades where I don't take more than two points of heat and that's amazing. Like that's my favorite thing in the world. Even if I only make five points, if I don't take more than two points of heat in the first 20 seconds, I've done something well. Okay, so that's a quick view of overbought to oversold type of concept that you can do on the sub chart. I add a zero line on the sub chart, the white dash line to kind of give me my zones of bullish versus bearish. Now, another really interesting point about the sub chart is the cyan and magenta line is CVD. So that's gonna be a slower moving line. And then price change is the fastest moving line. And the volume pressure index is typically right in between those. So price change can tell me to get ready for a VPI type trade. And if it's gonna be a bigger trade, maybe I'll have CVD turn my way. And I'll get more points out of it as I get the confluence of all three speeds of sub chart lines. So that's another way I use it. And then the next chart is just a two minute chart of all of that book map stuff. So all that stuff you saw on book map was happened inside of that yellow circle. So you can see that that's kind of an extended move down. Clearly the trend is down, but it would still meet the criteria that I'm looking for. Now, on that trade, if you're looking at a two minute chart, you can look at that as a continuation trade. So I have a continuation trade on a two minute chart. And then I have my bread and butter ancient exhaustion on the much more zoomed in book map chart. Now I had some other levels marked. So I knew I needed to keep that one on a tight leash. So any reason to exit once it goes my way is great. And then that's kind of all the new stuff that I had. And then the rest of the slides on this presentation are from previous posts that some people have probably already seen. And this does get a little repetitive, kind of by design. I'm looking for the same criteria every day. And if it's not repetitive and somewhat boring, then I'm doing something wrong. So this slide is actually, I actually like the colors of this one. So you can see we get, the first thing that we need is movement or enthusiasm. And then you all of a sudden start to see some at a level. You know, we have, that was either a mid price or the orange line at the top was a pretty good level to trade off of. And then I get the price action. You can see a rising wedge. Some people would call this a Wycoff top or a complex head and shoulder. There's all sorts of things you can call it. But the criteria that need to be met for me are enthusiasm, which you can see it has clearly had a big move. Then we get exhaustion at a level. And then the failure part of my criteria is somewhat discretionary, but I need to see attempts to continue the trend that get hit with a hammer. It is really useful to see really big volume dots at a level, but price isn't continuing. That tells me that, you know, either they're changing hands, that there's something going on, but they're failing to continue higher. And then if you glance at the sub chart, you can see the quote unquote overbought section of the sub chart in the red circle. And I have what I would call a little rising wedge. It's kind of sloppy. So all I have to do now is find a good entry. And then the goal would be to ride the sub chart from the top to the bottom, which is exactly what I did on this trade. So that's, I could say it a million different times in a million different ways, but this is what I'm looking for every single day. I miss trades pretty often because I demand that I use limit orders. And I leave a ton of points on the table because a lot of these can often turn into actual reversals. And on the NASDAQ that could be 60, 70, 80 points. And I would be lying if I said it didn't bother me when one went 60 points and I only got 13. It bothers me a little, but that's not my game. My game is leverage up as much as I can, try to have no heat and try to be out of the market within between three and five minutes. So that's what I do. And then the next slide, I think we just have more examples of the same thing. So this is that same trade on my Ninja Trader chart. And I don't think a book map presentation is necessarily the platform to really dive into my, I call it proprietary indicator, me and Anchit made it. Anchit's a brilliant coder, but Donkey Delta is my version of book maps VPI. It's a representation of Delta percentage. And I'm very, it has a lot of sentimental value for me because we developed it ourselves. And I've looked at it for much longer than I've looked at book map. And it's so nice to see book map and my version of book maps VPI overlap. And they tell the same story so often. It looks different visually, but they're telling the same story so often. So you can see on this Ninja Trader chart where that last slide came from. So we had a rising wedge into a level. I find a good limit order to get in and I get 13 points. Now I think what's really interesting about this chart is that 20 candles to the right, there was another rising wedge into my level and it would have given me 30 points with no heat. And then all the way to the, well, right in the middle of the chart, I missed along. So you can see three really, really good trades in a very, very short window. And I only was able to get in one of them. And that's one of the negative things about demanding to use limit orders. So this isn't all perfect, no system will be. But I prefer the negatives of this system relative. I'm not a, I can't be a low win rate guy. It doesn't suit me at all. I went in, I went out and I want it to work every time. It won't work every time, but that's what I want. The next slide is just another, this is where I believe I'm headed with VPI and donkey Delta, which is again, Delta percentage done my way. Donkey Delta here shows really, it does a really nice job of showing the trend direction in that green box. And then it gives you a really nice entry. The bulls, the buying is clearly strong. And then it dips negative for just a short spot. And then that matches price action. You have a beautiful bull flag here that I'm typically kind of scared to enter because it's not necessarily an ancient exhaustion setup. But I know that going forward, NASDAQ follows through so well that if I can develop ways to use the tools that I use to find maybe two out of 10 of my trades could be continuation instead of reversal. I don't wanna do more than that cause it might fog up the windows. But I think this is one way and I'm certain that this is possible on the sub chart to find these types of continuations. First of all, you need price action. And then I already know that there's ways to participate in this on the sub chart. So that's just a little humble brag there cause I love how my donkey Delta looks and that's what's up on my screen beneath book map. And then there's a few more examples of these ancient exhaustion trades, rising wedge at a level. The criticism of this trade was that yes, I had movement but if you look at how it moved it was a very slow, the inclination of the move up was not very steep. So that's not enthusiasm. That's not gonna, for me, that shouldn't interest me but I justified this one. Thankfully it worked but I would rather see more of a parabolic move to set up my trade than this slow grindy thing. I feel like the slow grindy thing has been the death of many of my eval accounts. If I get caught in some sort of slow grind up I'll just try to short it over and over and over and it never works. That's why the criteria of enthusiasm exists. It's like, it's not, even if it's moving up if it's not doing it enthusiastically you should either be long with it or not interested. And I wouldn't believe a trader if they told me they had never tried to short a market that grinded up all day multiple times. I think we've all done that. So some of these criteria exist so that I don't get caught in slow grinds up or down. And then one more trade, there's a few more slides I think. Now this is the perfect example of enthusiasm. We have on the left marked enthusiasm one, you see this giant parabolic impulse move drop. Great, now I'm interested. And then we get this falling wedge price action. That's perfect for me. This is the easiest kind of trade for me to participate in. And then right there on the, you can see on my little drawing wave, I believe it's wave five to six in the falling wedge. That's the sign of strength that I need to know where to put my limit order. I'm gonna put it right in the middle of the bottom of five and the top of six. And then hopefully I don't have to bite my finger and I was longer than 15 seconds after I get filled. If I get filled, and in this case, I maybe took three or four points of heat for maybe 10 to 15 seconds. And then it just launched my way and the question becomes, where's the logical place to get out? And for me, a very logical place to get out is always at the 50%, which is that middle yellow dash line. I have four marked on that. That's the 50% retrace of that candle. And that's great. Now, the criticism of this trade is that I did not allow the sub chart to make a trip from the bottom to the top. It turns out that if I get filled, it turns out that if I had waited for this to complete the trip from the bottom to the top, there was another 50 points in this trade. So, maybe in the future for me, I'll try to leave a runner for that. But I'm pretty happy with anything over 12 and a half points on any trade. And then finally, we have another one from February 29th. And here we are again, same criteria. We get the enthusiasm, the impulse move up, and then we get some price action that I can identify as failure. Some people would see this as a tilted head and shoulders. And then the, so I have three, two boxes that say three, right? The second box that says three with the final push up that fails, the impulse move down from the top of that to the neckline of the head and shoulders tells me where to put my limit order. And I'm going to put it right at the 50% of that. And that's how I'm getting into these trades where I'm not taking much heat. Now on this one, I didn't take the points and it came back and tested my entry. And then I bailed and the next time I was considerably in profit. So it's only almost 10 points. And I do believe this dropped significantly after this. But anytime I take heat or my entry gets scared, I will, as a best practice for me, take whatever it gives me after that. So if donkey takes heat, donkey's looking to scalp it even less than 12 points. Like just get green and let me get out of this. I did something wrong. So I think this is a really good example of a trade that I would have thought would have given me 40 points. And then I was really upset that I didn't take the 12 points and then somewhat happy that I got 10 points out of it. So that roller coaster that you experience in what was less than two minutes is why the very first slide that we talked about today is the most important slide to remain present and patient and mindful. Else you'll do so much crazy stuff because of the emotional roller coaster that can happen to you in less than two minutes. So I spend the better part of my day doing things so that I can be calm on this roller coaster and not to get away from the technique. The technique is irrelevant if I can't be mindful and calm. It doesn't mean I have to feel good, but I have to be present, calm, composed, grateful. All of these things are the... You need to flood the system with all of those happy emotions or I should say useful emotions. Otherwise the panicky anger will have you exiting this at the wrong place or entering it at the wrong place or chasing or all of these things where all of this brilliant technical stuff that you can learn means nothing. You can't access it if you're angry or panicky or fearful. So all of the cool stuff we can learn on book map or anything, whether it's trading or not is not accessible in real time unless you are able to be present and to be present and mindful during a crazy trading session which is every day if you trade requires a lot of practice away from the charts, meditation, prayer, you better have your finances in order, you need your version of not needing the money to be a good trader.  You wanna clean up everything away from the charts because if it's messy away from the charts, it will likely show up on your P&L. And then all of a sudden if your life is messy then your brilliance that you should have at the chart is gonna be messy too. So that would be a little pro tip there. Clean up your life before you try to be a professional trader and practice all of the mindfulness stuff. I spend way more time now. I didn't my entire career. I spend way more time now doing things to prepare myself mentally to trade than I do spend actually trading. And I bet you could put a pin on the calendar as that being a very substantial moment in my career when I went from being capable of making a lot of money to actually doing it consistently. So we're 50 minutes in. I feel like I've talked the entire time. Hopefully it's been somewhat enjoyable. There's a few more examples of these trades. I think there's three more slides that we don't really need to go over. They're always the same thing. But if there's any questions or Bruce or Owen or Dan or anybody, I would love to hear from you guys in this. And thank you for having me. Traders love to talk about trading. So I appreciate the platform. Thank you, Donky. I think you made me realize I need to call my girlfriend after this event. And fortunately I don't have a dog but I think before I put my next trade on, I'm gonna try to get my life in order. I'll send you the therapy invoice after this. Yeah, yeah, well, I'll definitely need to, you just said I need to make sure I don't need the money. But now I definitely need the money before I put the next trade on. A few questions I have for you and I'll bring them up as you were speaking every once in a while. You could do on a roll. I'm just curious as well, by the way, everybody else if you have questions, write them in YouTube comments or here in the discord and we'll try to get to them. Let's take this opportunity to rob the donkey. But I have some questions in terms of, you mentioned limit orders. You only use limit orders. Could you explain why? Yeah, that's a great question. So again, this is very specific to NASDAQ. I don't think you really need to use limit orders on ES or RTY, which are the other two vehicles that I trade. I focus mainly on NASDAQ thanks to Crash F-16. He got me on NASDAQ back in November or December several months ago. And it's been so great. It's like an old glove. I used to trade NASDAQ exclusively, but got away from it. I fell in love with ES for some reason, but the limit orders very specifically on NASDAQ for me emerged from Mr. Gary Norden. I purchased his class and one of the slides from his class explained the edge that you give away by using a market order instead of a limit order. Now he's trading strictly off the dom, but you're essentially giving away the first 30 seconds or so of your trade. If you just click in, especially on the NASDAQ, in general on the NASDAQ, you could, I actually have hotkeys on Ninja set up for this. When I click the button to short, it puts the limit order eight points above where I click the button. And then I'll drag it where I want it. And so often where I want to market in, I could have at least gotten between three and nine points better just by market in in quotes, not actually market in, but instead of marketing in, you have the limit order three to nine points above. If you can over time capture between three and nine more points on every trade that you're right about, that's much less heat and that's a lot more money. But the importance of limit orders emerged from me going through Gary Norden's amazing class. Now I have not completed the class. I kind of took some key points that I could implement right away. And the downside to using limit orders is that you miss some moves. But it's more important to me to not take heat and get filled at the levels I have and they emerge real time than to just get in. I don't need to be in. I get to do this every day. I don't need every single trade. But I want every trade that my limit order gets filled on. So that's where the limit orders came from. Now that said, I don't really think it's all that important on ES and RTY. On NASDAQ, I think you're given three points away if you're not limit ordering in. And it doesn't have to be sitting there all the time. Like you can kind of see based on what I just spoke about, I get the push that I need and then I know where it is. And that happens in 20 or 30 seconds that I'm identifying where I want my limit order. It's not sitting there at a level waiting. It's where I put my limit order emerges from the price action in a very small timeframe. So my experience is that most people who are using limit orders in the retail world are doing order block type trading. That's not at all what this is. Not that that's bad or good. That doesn't matter to me. But I'm not just, I don't just have a limit order sitting there waiting all day to get filled. It's, and perhaps the biggest benefit of using limit orders is I can change my mind without losing money. So instead of being in the market, changing my mind and losing two points, I'm just not filled yet and I can cancel it. So a lot of the money that I quote unquote make or a lot of the money that I don't lose is because I'll cancel my limit order. Maybe I identify too much strength or I see the heat map stacking or I'm not sure which coach it was that said, you'll see the heat, they're bullying price up. Well, I don't wanna go short against them bullying price up but that happens very real time. And if I'm in the trade already, I'm losing points on that. If I've got a limit order, eight points above where I want it to be in, now I can just cancel it. No harm done. So I think that's a, I think that answers the question. Definitely does. I like that quote, it seems that trading sometimes is about money you don't lose as much as money that you make. So using limit orders in a small way definitely makes a lot of sense. Another question that I have when we spoke offline, we didn't go down this path in the conversation this time but when we spoke offline previously, as we saw you've got a few of your own proprietary indicators that you've worked on with your friend and we spoke about how you've been trading for a long time, you've done a lot of trading and back testing and development of these indicators and how you would like look at trades and plot it out on paper and it's very visceral and you're kind of sitting through these trades almost in real time, even if it's a back test or a hypothetical trade. So do you think there's some value in pen and paper, like really, really feeling through the trade and the drawdown, how long it's taking rather than just in the modern day, you've by thong scraped, you can just run a back test, you've got the output in five seconds where you haven't really lived and you haven't had the blood and tears and sweat that it takes to actually take those trades. Do you think there's value in this sort of manual back testing? So, Owen, what an amazing question that is. So I can tell you, so this overlap concept, it emerged from my distaste for being right and price moving against me a little bit along the way. I don't like it. Like, if I'm right, just go straight up. Well, that's not how the market works. In a perfect world, when you're right, you get full body candles and there's no overlap at all. Those are really, and you can just candle trail all the way to infinity. That'd be wonderful, but it doesn't happen. So the frustration of experiencing the little bitty, ebbs and flows of it, especially when it's ebbing against you instead of flowing for you, it dawned on me along the years of trading that, well, somebody had to have taken the opposite position else I wouldn't be taking price action against me at this point in the trade. So somebody's making money on that, whether it's an algo or I don't care who it is. BlackRock, it doesn't matter to me who it is. Somebody took the opposite position or exited a position, something happened. And so I started hand drawing the overlap. I had legal pads, stacks of legal pads with percentage overlap, I was manually doing it with a calculator, trying to be as accurate as I could. And I had volumes and volumes of this. And this was before I knew anything about coding. I probably could have made it then. But so what I started to notice was it didn't matter which timeframe I picked until I was outside of the daily chart. The overlap doesn't happen nearly as much on a weekly or a monthly candle, one candle to the next candle. But inside of a daily, almost every candle has price action from its next candle that overlapped. And if it's gonna show up that much, and I think the actual number that I have every time I measure it is over 70% of the time, the current candle will be overlapped by about 60% of the next candle. Okay, well, I saw this over and over and over again. And then I started, I used to have a knack for not taking heat using stochastics. That was maybe four years ago. But over the last several, maybe two to three years, it's like no matter what I did, I was taking heat. And so I really went even deeper with the overlap idea for entries. If I wanted to get long, I was gonna wait for the current candle to close and then put my limit order at the 50% of that candle to try to get a slightly better entry. And then that emerged into, well, if this happens on every timeframe, and I have a 40 or 70.30 minute candle, well, then I've got a really nice runway to go against that candle on a two minute chart. And that's enough points for me and it's fast and it's predictable because 70% of the time, it will be overlapped by 60%. Well, if you have a 30 minute 80 point candle, that could give you 40 points. And it's sort of off topic, but my buddy Crash F16, he's got this system I snipe and it's basically finding the same snipes that I find.  This way just speaks to me because like you said, I hashed it out on pen and paper or legal pads for months and months and months of collecting data on overlap. So is there value in that? Well, I can't speak to the other side of not doing it, but when you put that much sweat into something, you're likely to take ownership of it. And I think it's the taking ownership of it that bears fruit. I've mentored a few traders here and there over the years and it's very sad for me to see a trader who's struggling, trying to do exactly what someone else told them to do. It's like, listen, you can learn somebody else's trade, but you gotta take ownership of it. And if that means drawing it on posty notes and napkins for five years, do it. Because until it's your trade, good luck.  So maybe that's a long-winded answer, but yeah, I think there is value in doing the manual labor instead of just making a quick bot and check GPT. Yeah, now I see why they call you donkey, right? You do the work, you do the hard labor. I earned the other stuff. Like I said at the very beginning of this, there's no mistake that a trader has made that I haven't made. And there's probably a lot that I have made that traders didn't even know you could do. So I have made every single mistake and somewhat jokingly, I have probably blown more evals than you could dream up, but it's always, every time I go to an eval, it's because I'm done with my personal account. So it's, you know, I always kind of keep things in order. I know I'm gonna act like a jackass if I'm on sim or eval, so I don't really care. Yeah, perfect. I'm not seeing any questions, Bruce. You see any questions coming in from the community? I feel like if not, they're missing good opportunity to ask somebody who's been through a lot of stuff. Yeah, no, I don't see any other questions at the moment either. See what prop firms you recommend, Donky. Okay, that's a good question. So Apex is the biggest and the baddest. The guys at Trade Day, they're from the UK, they are the best kind of humans in the world and I would highly recommend them. You know, you can dive into all the rules, but unless you're looking for props in Forex, I think all of the futures props are pretty legitimate. You can't even get into that game without being legitimate. There is, he's actually a buddy of mine. His name is Leon Grimm. He just started, he's an excellent trader. He just started Phoenix Trader funding and it's awesome. And he is amazing and they're very new. And I think there could be advantage to joining a new one. So I would recommend Phoenix Trader funding. And he's such a cool guy. So I would love to throw his name out there if I could. But yeah, so, you know, there's, let me emphasize, there is danger in simulating an eval. There's a lot of benefit from it, but you can develop a lot of, I won't use the actual word, but you can use a lot of screw it type mentality. You just don't care. There's no skin in the game. So I'll just fire this trade-off.   You know, but my best behavior always comes on my personal account. Preferably my best behavior would come on sim, eval, PA and personal, but I'm too much of a, I don't have that endurance to be that well behaved across all of them. So I save all of my very best behavior for my personal account. So, you know, that's an interesting thing.  Oh no, not at all. I had a question on the limit orders. I really like this idea.  All right, now I'm gonna do limit order with an offset. Eight or nine ticks or so. And you're waiting for it just to come back and fill you. At that point though, do you ever chase? Because maybe it has pulled back some, maybe five or six ticks, but not a full eight or nine. So that's a great question. So it's, yes, I will chase it. I consider that not best practices. The best practice is to just let it go. But I will chase if I chase it a little bit. So say my offset is three points. So 12 ticks, or even more, say 20 ticks. If it gets really close to filling me and then doesn't, I'll give it a couple more moments and then drag it a little closer. If I get filled, let me word this very precisely. If I get filled in a way that wasn't best practice, then the recipe after that is to take anything that it gives me right away. So if I chase, I'm not allowed to sit there and watch it. I have to take four points, five points, whatever it gives me and on the NASDAQ, that can be 10 seconds or 20 seconds sometimes. But unless it's the order, unless it's the spot that I originally wanted in at, I'm not allowed to sit through a pullback. Interesting, all right. So that sounds actually more like kind of psychological. This is what I do then. Yes, yes. Yeah, interesting. And I think a lot of times some of my quote unquote psychological tricks, eventually I'll study it enough and find out why it worked. And I think there's a time component that's very hard to, everybody can look at volume and price. Well, the other third thing that's real is time. And that's the nuanced part of it, where say you're in a continuation pattern, a bull flag, and it's kind of going your way, but it's not. It's like, well, at what point is this taking too long and you should stop believing in it? I really do think there's a time component, especially for my setup. And one of the things that has emerged is if I don't get filled where I wanted, it's probably, say it was a short, I'm trying to get filled on a short. It doesn't come all the way back up to fill me. One narrative can be that it's just trapping more sellers before it goes up. So it's staying at a lower price to set up the move long. And now all of a sudden I'm not interested. Now I'm against the masses. So sometimes not getting filled will have me switch the narrative, like, oh, it's gathering up people to sell it to after they take it long. So the time component is very important. It's not uncommon for me to have a limit order sitting there. And if it sits there more than 20 seconds, I'll just cancel it, which is again, another iteration of a trick that I learned from the Norden method, from Gary Norden. Who's a million times smarter than me, by the way. I love it. I love this overlapping and entry on the pullbacks. Just great stuff, because you're right. I mean, it always does seem to kind of come back a couple of times. You know, the Holy Grail is when it comes back and all of a sudden the heat map lights up for you. Like, that's the best. If I have a limit order sitting there and I can see on book map that the heat map is also heating up right where I want back in, it's like, okay, somebody else wants to do this too. To me is kind of the narrative. So that's kind of the Holy Grail, which means, which does mean that I need to actually learn how to do my executions on book map. So I have to actually have to climb that mountain at some point, because I get so much value out of where to place limit orders from what I'm seeing on book map. It's a little harder for me to see where to place them on my ninja screen than it is to see where to place them on book map. So I do this little, it's kind of clunky, but I'm pretty fast at it. Thank God that you guys made the crosshairs that put the number on the side. So I can use my cursor on book map and see the exact price I want, and then I'll drag my orders on ninja to that. You know, often I'll have my, I'll often have my limit order somewhere out in the ether and then drag it down when I'm ready as part of the mechanics for it. I'm generally using hotkeys as well. So I go between the mouse and the hotkeys, but yeah, again, thank you for the question. Anything else? I figured you'd have a lot of questions for me, but I kept talking, so. No, I mean, yeah, we can help you with that with the trading functionality because I think you would like, we have an offset feature on limits. So just input, you know, how many ticks you want and just whenever your trade is set up, just, you know, hit limit, limit buy on, you know, best offer or limit sell on a best bid and it'll offset it. And then you can drag it around if you like as well. Perfect. Yeah, for sure the functionality is there. I just gave it a very short window to solve the mystery and I didn't. I'll get there. I do think it's important.  So it's a little frightening to switch off of that but, you know, if there's value there, I'll do it and I'm certain there is value. You know, Gary, not to bring up Gary Norton's name a million times, but he loves trading on the DOM and recommends BookMap's DOM. So a guy like that's not going to just say that lightly. And, you know, so there you have it. I'm certain all of the functionality is there. Yeah, yeah, no, we'll schedule some time at donkey and definitely connect. Yes, this is being recorded, Rob, no problem there. Good, good, good, good. Well, you know, I don't, I could talk about the intangibles and the meta part of this ad nauseam and, you know, the main thing for anybody who's not where they want to be that I would emphasize is it's great to learn everything but along the way you need to be making it yours, somehow and if you don't make it yours, you won't be able to problem solve real time and trying really, really hard at trading and not having success can bring you to a really, really dark place. So, you know, the quickest way there is often to lean into the things that aren't comfortable. Everybody wants a system. Everybody wants a perfect system that they can just follow perfectly. And I might have found a guy that has a system that does that because I've seen it real time but in general, perfect systems don't work and the people that would be teaching you a perfect system wouldn't be teaching it to you if it did. Yeah, that's hard medicine to swallow but you know, I mean, I think it's the truth it just, you have to embrace it on your own and make own it, make it your own. And once you do that, you really understand what you're doing. And especially for, well, I think this applies to every trader except for the few anomalies here and there, focusing, there's so much value on focusing on just one setup. You actually get better at all of the other setups by just isolating and focusing on one. You can start to frame the bigger moves off of this one idea and it really simplifies the cognitive strain on that. And you know, I'll talk until you turn my mic off about how important it is to make sure that trading, if you really love trading, if you can't wait to trade, I'm not very optimistic.  It can't be an obsession, otherwise it's just like any other thing that could be bad for you. You know, I've mentored, let's say five guys, maybe it's more than that, but let's say five. And of the five, the one who is the most exuberant and gonna work the hardest, kind of like me is the one who has struggled the most. The other ones have their values in order and I had a mentor once tell me that there's a lot of things interesting in trading, be very careful what you get interested in. And I think that's a really great quote to take to it. Check yourself, if the most exciting thing you have to look forward to is trading on Monday, we really need to do an analysis of our habits away from the charts. And in that same vein, I told Owen off line, I actually scaled down on Mondays. Like over the years, I found out that Monday was my worst day. Well, why? Because I was so excited to trade on Monday that I don't behave as well. And I may be forced trades and take trades I don't want. Well, Friday, alternatively, is my best day trading for my career. Well, I don't even really wanna trade on Fridays.   So I just handle business on Friday and then I leave. So, you know, all these old cliches we hear about trading, less is more, it's true. It's true, less is more. At some point in your career, you will realize that less is more. So, you can take the soapbox from me anytime. No, I mean, I would love to keep going. Maybe we'll do another one with you. I mean, there's just like, just a lot of wisdom here. And I should get this down. Not everybody loves psychology, but a full-time trading psychologist is the guy that you would wanna talk to. You could do a special event with Sean with sound performance psychology. Like it is incredible. It's like, I swear this guy was watching me for five years before he talked to me. He knew exactly everything I was doing without me ever telling him. It was just amazing. And, you know, I've got a giant heart for the guy because he helped me out of a really rough time in my life. So. Yeah, I mean, it would be great to get him. So, well, let's do this. Well, we'll wrap it up and let's try to get Sean or maybe a conversation with you and Sean and how you guys work together. That would be pretty amazing. Yeah, I would be willing to do that for sure. Okay. I won't tell all the dirty details, but I'm pretty open about everything I've experienced. And, you know, I think it's, I think there's fruit in being vulnerable. So. Okay, we'll make it PG though. Yes, of course. Yeah, we won't go crazy. All right. Excellent, excellent. Well, yeah. Thank you very much, Donky Vase. Owen, any last words with Donky? Yeah, just a huge thank you. That was amazing. So many nuggets of wisdom, as Bruce said. The recording will be available later so we can go back and rewatch it if we need. Thank you, Donky, again, taking the time out. That was fantastic. Let's stay in touch. Maybe let's do some more events in the future. Yeah, I appreciate you guys. And the final plug that I will give is, you know, I didn't know all of the ins and outs of the Bookmap Academy and the Blue Jacket Competition.  And I have, I've gotten so much fruit, even non-trading related with the interaction on the Bookmap Academy and the format of it. Everybody's so helpful and there's clearly some very talented traders. I don't know how you guys find all of the talented traders and put them in one place, but I've learned so much from Shark and from Slowdown and especially from Crash, that guy basically helped my hand for a week. And it's, there's so many Jacks thing, the last special event. I mean, it's so good. There's so much talent. And I would encourage everybody to be more vulnerable because that's the realest part of trading is what it does to our emotions. Forget the pocket book. It's what it does to our emotions.  All right, we'll go ahead. Go ahead.  Thank you, Panky. And thank you, Bruce. I'll let you close it, Bruce. Thank you for presenting both of you and thank you everybody for joining. Great, yeah, thank you as well. All right, take care, everyone. Good night.


Look at the channel here on NVIDIA. Maybe NVIDIA wakes up tomorrow with fingers crossed. Maybe Roku wakes up above this channel tomorrow. Fingers crossed, right? Facebook, not horrible, right? Not horrible. It needs to confirm. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys, good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access a Trader dot com nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. Happy Monday. So what's going on? Obviously, the big story over the weekend, if you watch the weekend video, I really loved the stay at home shorts today. I really did. I came in, I was pretty good with my game plan. I knew the names that I wanted to sell. I saw the futures up 200 points when I woke up. And then by the time I got washed up, came upstairs, came the news that Moderna had their own success rate with a vaccine.  Pre-market, they just all got killed. Zoom, I loved. Obviously, I couldn't get a piece of it. There's no way, right? Zoom was down like 5% pre-market. They literally took down everything pre-market. Docu, Zoom, Peloton. So literally, my game plan was set ablaze. And it was done. That was the part of the day that I really liked. But unfortunately, again, there's nothing you can do to combat news. Again, congratulations for all you guys who did come in long, some puts on Zoom. But again, unfortunately for me, it just wasn't in the cards. I think what today really showed us was that, again, once your window and your game plan is gone, you have several choices. Number one, you can feel sorry for yourself, which is there's absolutely no reason. Because again, a game plan is just a game plan. Again, there's nobody dying in your personal life. Nothing's happened. You just missed an opportunity. OK, you can live with that. You have your second choice to start trading random names, trying to recapture some price action that's already happened. Or you can stay patient. Because again, the most important part of trading is you never know, right? You never know what's going to fall into your lap. Sometimes your window on the names that you trade are going to close. But again, there's opportunities somewhere that, again, if they fit your specific criteria, you can still muster up a day. And that was the most important part. If you look at what happened when Pfizer announced their COVID results, what they did was they gapped up the market and they really killed a lot of the names, especially the Nasdaq names. And if you saw what happened today pretty much throughout the day, and you see me kind of tweeting about it is, even though the Nasdaq 100, you look up and you look at the NDX and it was up 75 points, if you trade beta, you know, darn well, the only stocks that really participated for some of the day, and I can't even say most of the day, some of the day was like a name like Apple, right? Like name like Apple and a lot of the semiconductor names that already had big runs into supply. So we were really getting shut out. And it's so amazing that even though we missed our window, I was joking around on the Twitter feed today. And I said, today was probably the biggest quantity of non-beta names that I think I ever, like literally I ever put into the feed. And they were all literally like either EV names, right?  But like I've always said this, you know, you're not trading this, like again, a lot of people have this misconception, you need to, you know, you need to trade Amazon to trade a PS60 theory. It's the furthest thing from the truth. I prefer to trade beta, right? I like these stocks because again, they're institutional driving vehicles, no pun intended. But you can trade literally any, any vehicle, Bitcoin, crypto, mid cap, small cap, whatever you want to trade. As long as there's a range, right? An expanded range and volume, really big aggressive volume, you can trade anything via pivots. And today was one of those days, like I put in like five or six of these weird symbols. And again, maybe some of you guys traded them today that have nothing to do with us. Maybe they're not weird to you, but they're definitely weird to me. And it really does show you, again, speculation money is really, really aggressive. What I don't like, what I saw, what I continue to kind of not see is, you know, is random, excuse me, as specific beta names not really participate. So for example, when you look at Amazon's chart, right? You have third day in a row, literally third day in a row of lower highs. And if you're considering the NDX was up 75 points, the Dow was up 470 points. It's amazing that Amazon was flat in the day. You look at Tesla, right? And again, there's some sellers that came in and there was some 490 of 370 weekly put buyers that came in. But again, they couldn't really take the stock down. And you can see here, they couldn't take the stock up. Netflix, right? Even a name like Netflix, they say, you turn around and say, okay, look, enough's enough. Shouldn't the stock really start to participate is their business really predicated on the stay at home fact? They're probably not. But again, you can see the stock was weak. Baba continues to go lower. It's having a really, really aggressive move down. Apple was the only one that really participated this morning. But again, when you look up, you know, it's part of the Dow, right? It's part of the Dow. It's part of the Nasdaq 100. The stock was only up a dollar. You look at some of the other names that just did not participate. You have Twitter that was down. Zoom obviously down for reasons. Roku, although it was up $4, if you look at Roku's chart, right? Roku's not, you know, it's not where we need it to be. And again, there's a level here that I like for tomorrow. There's a level I like on the video, for example, above here tomorrow, but they didn't fall into the sweet spot. So ironically, this was kind of one of those rallies today that we saw in the end, the X. Of course, like I said before, the semiconductors were incredibly strong, right? If you go through the semiconductor names, you'll see, but most of the names in the semiconductor group, not named NVIDIA, AMD, Micron, most of the names are not tradable. They're very, very spready. They're, you know, like LRCX. People love LRCX, right? As a trading vehicle. You ever try to trade LRCX, right? Dollar spread 100 share wide. Very, very tough, you know, very, very tough way to make a living. So, you know, the ironic part about the day, again, we still continue to see a huge disconnect between the Dow stocks and the Nasdaq names. Again, you can see Boeing, obviously you can see which one is leading the league, leading the league in scoring today. Boeing is just an absolute monster, a big way on the Dow Jones industrial average, but I think it's time, right? Right guys, I think it's time for these beta names to wake up. I really do. And again, nobody's turning around and say, tomorrow's gonna be the day they're gonna rotate out of the Dow stocks into the Nasdaq names, but can a brother get a little piece of the chicken as well? Right? I'd like to, you know, trade some of these beta names as well. So I'm really, really hoping some rotation comes out of the Dow, goes into beta, because again, they might not all wake up, but if you start looking at charts little by little, maybe we are one day away for these Nasdaq names to wake up. Like I mentioned, NVIDIA might be a day away. Again, you can see the 60 minute view, right? Look at the chart. Look at the channel here on NVIDIA. Maybe NVIDIA wakes up tomorrow, fingers crossed, maybe Roku wakes up above this channel tomorrow, fingers crossed, right? Facebook, not horrible, right? Not horrible, it needs to confirm this channel, but you can see here, they're not there yet. And that's the point. We want to wait very, very patiently for these stocks to wake up. We wanna see aggressive money option flow, at least out of the money option flow. Again, we're in the sweet spot of the fourth quarter season. Come on, bulls, this is your time. You gotta get aggressive. You gotta start buying. Again, we haven't really seen any deep out of the money calls on any of these names. So again, something needs to click, right? The Dow is either going to drag everything down and these names are weak. They're gonna continue to be weak or the Dow is gonna finally rotate out of the consumer cyclicals, out of the old school brick and mortar and go into technology. Again, if it's all the same to everybody, I would love to see a beta rally, something to spark these things because again, when they go and everybody knows, even if you don't trade the Amazons of the World, the Apples, the Facebooks, the Tesla, and the videos, they're feel good stocks, right? People love owning them. People love trading them. And then when they go, they really, really go. So let's talk about macro really, really quickly. Again, cues are doing nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong led by the semiconductor. You can see first close above this little mini channel. You can see here a lot of room to the upside. Hello, beta, right? That's our cue. Go, right? So they're doing nothing wrong. If you look at the spies, right? Spies are wanting to test all-time highs. So we're setting up here, guys. We're really, really setting up. But again, like we say every single time when we have a game plan, we can't preempt the game plan. Like again, I had a game plan to short the stay-at-home names and they all gap down 4% or 5%. Nothing you could do about it, but we can be prepared. So obviously I am definitely watching beta for tomorrow. They might not confirm tomorrow, but at least we have initial indication of interest from the cues taking out the previous channel. And now we just need to see the money flow. But I do like a lot of it, continue a lot of these EV names as well. And as I mentioned before, and these are the pivots, as I mentioned before, there was a lot of non-beta pivots, say. Names that, again, I wouldn't usually not even look at, but they were really, really strong and the momentum continues to name in that group.  But RIDE 1890-19 needs to build. Look what this RIDE did, right?  So here is the 1890, right? This whole area, this whole channel here. Oh, excuse me, right here, 1890. This whole 1890 channel, it takes out 1890.  I still like it tomorrow. If they could trap shorts on a really weak open and go green to red and take out this channel, this thing could go to $25. Why not? I mean, this group is ridiculously strong. KCAC was awesome, okay? When this thing finally confirmed that 1975, 20 area, look at this move, man. Look, this was an absolute brilliant move. I couldn't, I just, it was shocking how fast it went up. So here was the 19, how the hell was it, right, 1975? Oh, here it is, right here. So it went red to green 1975. It takes out the 20, right? And just absolutely explodes to 21 and changed. It was like a matter of minutes. So again, great job for all you guys who caught that as well. I was shocked. My last set was a 21.  FSR never got to the area where we needed to anyway. I forgot to put in the price. Amazon 384, if it builds below can flush. So it put in its initial move. It just never put in its second entry. Here's the 384 that I was looking at. It put its initial move all the way down to 3072. It just never gave us a second entry. And this is where I'm saying, maybe these things want to wake up. So never gave us a second entry on Amazon. Tesla obviously never got to 400.   I knew there was a ban there. And I knew it was going to bounce off the ban. For some reason I had a mental fart. And it went down, I shorted the second entries. It went below 123, went down to 122 and change. I shorted the second entry at 22, only went down 50 cents. The problem is I knew there was support there on the five minute and I still took the trade. Yada, yada, yada cost me 90 cents. Again, not the end of the world, but the point is I shouldn't have done it.  Again, it's going to happen to everybody. So again, deal with it. GP monster, again, you can see how many pivots and how many trades there were on non-beta names there. GP138514 needs to build. Look at this GP did. Again, another electric tractors, electric strollers.  But the point is here's the whole, right here. Here's the whole 137514 area. Stock went to $17, just absolutely insane. TDOC177 held three times of bills below can flush. Not a big move at all. Again, they held up a lot of these stay-at-home names. But again, here's the 377, went down to like three, excuse me, 177, went down to like 175. Again, not a big name. It finished right on the day, but not a big move whatsoever. Right, just went nuts. And look at this. We talked about the CELH, CELH on the weekend video. I was saying I just really, really liked the setup. The problem for me was it was way too thin for me to take it, which is unfortunate because the stock absolutely exploded. CELH, here was CELH, it took out the 33 level, went all the way up to like 35 and a half. Again, we talked about this on the weekend video, just unfortunate. It was just way too thin for me to navigate. In the video, I still liked this 547 level, never got there. And yeah, and this was kind of my, this was kind of my, my comments in the middle of at lunchtime, I said, listen, stay patient. The scoreboard is bright, but it's very misleading. Tech is super weak. And at one point, the QQQs almost went red on the day. So just to give you an idea, but they did rebound and that's a good thing. So I would love to see rotation back into the Qs, into a lot of the beta names tomorrow. Would love to see one of these premium sessions with the apples, with the navities, with the Roke, who's of the world, Netflix, Tesla, God forbid they've been kind of dead money for the last like several, three, four days. Again, you could catch a move, but the most important part is you have to catch a move when they confirm. There was, and again, here's the beautiful, beautiful pivot. Again, that 1975, 20 still valid, really, really exploded. Beyond never got to that 28. Again, bingo, again, that beautiful move on KCAC. And really, really nice trader here on Zoom. There was a sneaky pivot back to the upside. 291.50, 292.00, needs to build. This was literally the only beta pivot of the whole day, guys. Think about that. Really the only pivot that really confirmed second entry, everything involved. 291.50, 292.00, right? So here is Zoom. So here is the pivot on Zoom. 291.75, right here. Very, very sneaky pivot. 291.75, 292.00, and went all the way up to 3.99. Again, maybe it has one more day to get going. So really good move on that as well. So again, I am definitely bullish on the market, but again, I am much more hopeful. I think that's the best way. I'm much more hopeful there is going to be a rotation fingers crossed out of the blue chip names, out of the down names and into beta. Well, again, we'll see. Don't guess, let the market tell you if we're going to have that type of scenario. Guys, have a great night, everybody. God bless, and I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


How difficult is that transformation you think you know I mean going from a label then going through being independent and trying to figure This wave out today. I mean both of them is is unique in its own way. So Some people don't like to manage themselves. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one I also I know you you know from in the basement and all that different stuff You don't experience that man like for more things or we're back then versus how they own and derived on the internet now Which one did you like the best? What what way do you like you like the direct to consumer way that they doing it now? Or the way it used to be I like both honestly. I think back then it taught you hand-to-hand hustle fan base meet meet them, you know people love you and then This way is good too because If you know, it's just you have to know the business so I look at it is most people always living in the past I don't even think about what I did in the past I love it because I could tour the world for the rest of my life. The music is great, but I always Take my game and strategy so whatever is now so that means if I graduated in 1950 Things have changed. Yes, you gotta be able to keep on changing. Most people want to have eight tracks eight that's a Concept tapes, right? That was the old house of days back in the days. No, you got to be able to not he got MP3 not he got on They got everything So yeah, so I've always been a way to being able to change You know with the time but how do a guy that gets a million streams to get forty two hundred dollars How do we build his brand up now or for four thousand dollars for a million streams on the whatever platform you hear these stories, man Like how is it you now? You don't have a 360 deal You don't have these things that these this machine that they used to have you have to create it I was talking to the res the sun and I was like man He's trying to figure it out right now. Like we we were talking about this like he was like, yeah, man I got to be on my team this way now Remain just independent and reopen my own doors rebuild my relationships with my own folk I don't need nobody's speaking for me talking about all he the next one. No, you know Did the right thing really today's society is it's more of an independent driven way that the music streams go to me Anyway, you know, I'm saying don't give me all this out there. I've got a good deal cool But you can make it on your own you can but but the misconception of being independent You got to have all the tools. That's that's it. You did bum I tell them every day because since I've been independent. I've been having to wake up check emails. I'm missing Damn, I asked for this. I call my mama already did it I'm sorry, bro. I'm gonna get better y'all You know, I'm saying I can't do it like I did it before how how difficult is that transformation you think? You know, I mean going from a label then going through being independent and trying to figure this wave out today I mean both of them is is unique in its own on weight So some people don't like to manage themselves.    Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one


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The life that you want is on the other side of the discomfort. The life that you have is on this side of discomfort. Today, we're gonna be talking about how to get what you want in your life through suffering. And I understand this sounds crazy at the beginning, but I'm gonna teach you a concept called applied suffering. And actually the first time that I heard somebody speak about this and actually put it in a really, like it was something that I already knew, but to hear somebody as successful as Will Smith speak about it really made me realize, oh my gosh, this is a concept that I can completely understand because I've done this in my own life. And I know many people who have done this as well by using applied suffering. So if you want to learn how to get what you want through some form of suffering, I know it sounds sexy, this is definitely gonna be the lesson for you. So I'm gonna talk about suffering and I understand that when we think about suffering, suffering has a very bad connotation.  Like I want the beautiful feelings, I want love and happiness and gratitude. Why would I wanna feel like I'm suffering? But we're gonna talk about how necessary it is to suffer sometimes to actually get what you want and to put yourself through some suffering in order to get to the beautiful side as well. And there's a difference between pain and suffering. These are two separate things. Let me talk about this before we dive into actually how to use applied suffering. So pain is inevitable.  That is pain. Pain will happen. And there's nothing that you can do about pain. Now suffering on the other side, suffering is not inevitable. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is an option. It is optional to suffer. And let me tell you what I mean by that first stop before we dive deeper into it. Pain, my father passed away when I was 15 years old. That was a painful event. Suffering would be, it's been 19 years now and to still have something like that holding me back means I am suffering from an event that happened into the past. So how can we use applied suffering? Let's talk about how to use applied suffering to grow. Now, one thing that people don't really realize is that pain is actually the stimulus for a human to grow. Pain is the stimulus to tell the human body, the human brain to take action, to move. Let me give you an example of what I mean. If you put your hand on a hot stove, that immediate pain is a stimulus for your body to move into action, to change. If you go to the gym and you work out, and I don't mean injure yourself, but I mean like you put yourself through pain through applied suffering, that would be, that is a stimulus for your body to grow. It's forcing your body to grow. It's forcing your body to change. It's forcing your body to move. It's forcing your body to do this, to take action. Putting your hand on a hot stove on accident, you'll immediately get the stimulus of this is painful, I need to move. So how can we use that to our advantage? And the thing about that as well before I actually dive into it is whether it's God, whether it's the universe, wherever it's whatever you believe in is the universe will also speak to you in a whisper. I always say as people, universal speak to you in a whisper.  And it'll speak to you in a whisper. You kind of get some ideas. You kind of get some things on how you should change. And then if you don't listen to it, it'll get a little bit louder. It'll get a little bit louder. It'll get a little bit louder.  And that change could be through a breakup. It could be through a car crash. It could be through a disease. It could be through someone that you love dying. It's just something where the universe shakes you up and is like, listen to me. This is not what you should be doing and you need to make a change. But we're not making a change usually then we usually have to get that universal wake up call because we're too busy being stuck inside of what? Our comfort zones. Humans become addicted to their comfort zones. Humans actually avoid discomfort. People fear uncomfortability. They don't even know if uncomfortability is a word. They fear being uncomfortable. They fear the unknown stepping outside of their comfort zones and humans will do anything, not everybody, but most humans will do anything that they can to avoid discomfort. And I'm here to tell you that discomfort is actually what you need to push you into the direction that you wanna go. And so when I talk about comfort zones, you may have heard me talk about this before.  I like to think back to our cavemen and hunter-gatherer days. What does this, why is this part of our brain still exist? And what benefit did it have 100,000 years ago that it doesn't really benefit us anymore? And when I think about a comfort zone, the way that I like to think about it in a caveman sense is it's kind of like your cave. So if you were to think of cavemen, the reason why they would go into caves is because you're completely surrounded by cave, which means that you're completely safe for what, 330 degrees?  And that's the only things you have to protect. So a comfort zone is like a cave. If you stay inside of that cave, you're safe. Now, we all know you can't stay in that side of that cave forever, but you will get that feeling 100,000 years ago if you were a caveman, you would get the feeling of safety, of comfort, of now I can finally rest, now I can go to sleep. But when you step outside of that cave, game on. You don't know what's out there. You don't know if there's a saber tooth tiger. You don't know if there's a bear. You don't know if there's something hiding in the bushes that could kill you. And so we have this natural inclination to fear stepping outside of that cave. The same thing works the same. It works the exact same way with the human brain of stepping outside of your comfort zone. You know where you currently are. You're safe. You're alive. But it's not probably not where you wanna be. You want more, right? And so you have to rise. There's a part of your brain called the amygdala, the part of the brain that creates the fear. That's the fear mechanism inside of your brain.  But your amygdala creates all of these fears the same way that your brain would create fears of why you shouldn't step outside of the cave. Does it make sense to you? So a cave 100,000 years ago, because we don't have to worry about walking down the street and being attacked by a lion, but we still have that fear-creating mechanism called the amygdala inside of our brain. Now instead of a cave, we have comfort zones.  And so it's got built-in mechanisms to keep you alive. And if you can understand the way that your brain works and why it works the way that it does, you can use it to your advantage versus having it hold you back. So now that I've said that, the reason why comfort exists is to keep you alive, to keep you inside of that cave. But I want to tell you this, your comfort zone is where your dreams go to die.   I'm gonna have to push myself out of this cave knowing that the amygdala, the brain, is going to create fear to try to keep me there. And so what I need to do is this, not listen to the fear and to embrace the discomfort. The discomfort is your friend. It's crazy to me to think of how our society and how humans literally do everything that they possibly can to avoid discomfort. And the reason why is because I don't think that people fully truly understand that discomfort is your friend. It is built for you to push through because through pushing through, creating that pain and through that applied suffering, you will come out stronger and better on the other end. You will be a bigger, better version of yourself. And when you're a bigger, better version of yourself, you can show up for the world in a much better way. And the way I always like to think of it is this. I like to think of, I really believe that working out is so similar to just life in general. In order to create the body that you want, you've got to have applied suffering. You've got to sweat it out. You've got to push yourself harder than you want to. You've got to turn that little part of your brain that says, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. You've got to turn that off, shut it up and push past it. You've got to push past it. Sometimes the point of throwing up, you've got to push past it to actually make your body hurt to wake up and be sore because you've literally pushed your muscles to the extreme that your body has to adapt and come back stronger. That's exactly the way it works inside of your mindset and inside of your brain. So the discomfort, if you're going to create the body that you want to lose the weight or to gain the muscle that you've been wanting your entire life, you've got to be uncomfortable. You've got to realize that discomfort is your friend. Your body will change when you push past the point of being comfortable and force it to change. The same thing works with your mindset and with your brain. They work exactly the same way.  So if you feel like you're stuck inside of your comfort zone and you're like, you know what, I need to wake up earlier and you feel that resistance of waking up at 6 a.m. It's okay. That's not a bad thing. It's showing you that that's the point of your discomfort and you need to actually mentally push past it. What do you do? The same way that you force yourself to lift weight, to show up in the gym, to sweat it out, to almost throw up, you need to force yourself.  I'm going to do it. I'm going to push past the point of comfortable. I'm going to seek discomfort. And that's the main thing that I want you to understand from this episode is that you have to seek discomfort if you are truly going to have the life that you want. The life that you want is on the other side of the discomfort. The life that you have is on this side of discomfort. And I understand your life right now, it might be terrible.  I want more happiness. I want to impact more people. I want more success. I want more money. Whatever it is that you want, you want more. That's why you're here. And so if you're sitting here watching this or listening to this, you have to realize you have to push past that point of discomfort. When you hear the little, the key part is this. When you hear that little part of your brain that says, no, don't do this, don't do this, don't do this, that's a good sign. But you have to not listen to that little part of the brain. That's the important thing. The part of the brain that says, no, don't do this. You know, you can sleep in, skip the gym today, or you know, you're at the gym and you're supposed to do five sets, just stop at three, no one will ever know.   That little voice is showing you where your limit is and you've got to push past it to get everything that you want. And here's the key to what I'm going to say today and what I want to leave you with. Couple questions and I'm going to give you an assignment of something I actually want you to try that will help you push past this discomfort, which it's really fun. You're going to actually love this. And I'm excited to hear who actually does this. First question is this, when I feel that little voice that's trying to hold me back, the question I'm going to ask myself is this, is it going to kill me? Is this going to kill me?  But your brain still goes back to that fear mechanism, the amygdala of getting attacked by a lion when you walk outside of a cave. And so you have that built in fear inside of you. Is it going to kill me? No, okay, so should I listen to this little voice? No. So number one, is it going to kill me? Number two, can this help me grow? Going to the gym, pushing past the point of discomfort, asking that person out, whatever it is is going to help me grow, asking for the raise. So number one, is it going to kill me? Number two, is it going to help me out? And if those answers are both, is it going to kill me? No. Is it going to help me grow? Yes. Okay, then I need to go full force into whatever it is. And you need to seek the discomfort. Here's the assignment that I'm going to give you. I've given this to many people and I've heard so many different people say, how many different ways it's helped them realize that their fears are actually ridiculous. And I'm really big on breaking past social norms and not paying attention to social norms. And here's what I'm going to tell you.  I'm going to give you two different examples of what that could look like. And I've had people, I've said this before and I've had people send me videos. I've had people send me emails explaining it to me. And here's what I want you to do. When you go into a store today or a coffee shop today, I want you to do one of two things. If you walk into Starbucks, let's say for instance, and you're in line, what I want you to do is this. I want you to lay down on the ground for 30 seconds.   Is it going to hurt anybody to lay on the ground? Of course it's not going to. Is it going to kill you to lay on the ground? Of course it's not going to. Could it help in your growth? Yes, how would it help in your growth? By pushing you to realize nobody cares anyways. People are so busy thinking about themselves that they're never paying attention to you anyways. So I've had people send me pictures or videos of them laying down in Walmart. I've had people send me videos of them laying down in Starbucks, all these different coffee shops.  Oh my gosh, but the floor is so dirty, right? Who cares? Is it really that big of a deal? Go home, take a shower. It's not a big deal, you'll be fine. So that's the first thing that I say is you can lay down on the ground. The second thing, if you don't want to do that, is no matter what you do, whenever you go to check out somewhere today, here's what I want you to do. Ask for 20% off, no matter what. That's it. When someone's ringing you up, they say, okay, your sandwich is $11. Say, can I get 20% off? People will be like, why? I don't know, just because I want 20% off. They could either say yes to you or they could say no to you. But what you're doing is you're finding, I mean, that's uncomfortable. It's not the most comfortable thing, just ask for a discount for no reason, right? But here's what's funny. A lot of times people will just give you a discount because you ask for it. I literally had one time, I told this to a group of people and one of the ladies that was in the group sent me an email a couple days later and she said she went to go buy a purse. She spent $600, the purse was $600. And she said, can I get 20% off? The lady's like, yeah, I mean, I guess she can. She gave her 20% off, she saved $120 just because she asked.  So why not get used to it now? And if you get rejected, no big deal. That's fine, you didn't die from rejection.  It's not a huge deal.  Get comfortable asking the uncomfortable questions. Ask for 20% off. So that's one of the, pick one of those two assignments today. And what I want you to do is send me an email or if you're watching this on YouTube or Facebook, comment down below and let me know if you've done this and what you got from it. But I want you to either lay down inside of some store for 30 seconds, just lay down, time yourself and then stand up and walk away. Or number two, ask for 20% off and have absolutely no reason. Why? Because most people are afraid of doing it. If it's showing that you're afraid of doing it, it shows you that you're uncomfortable. And what we're trying to do is we're trying to train you to seek discomfort, to understand that discomfort is your friend. And the way that you do this is through applied suffering. Applied suffering is forcing yourself to find growth when growth might not even be necessary. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you wanna learn even more about mastering your mind, click right here and watch this video as well.  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My name is Susan Sallick. I'm a cardiologist with MidMichigan Health. I have a special interest in advanced cardiac imaging as well as heart disease in women. Heart disease in women is extremely common. It kills more women than it does men in the United States, and when compared to breast cancer, heart disease leads to one in three deaths in women where breast cancer causes one in 31 deaths per year. Heart disease in women can take many forms. The most common form of heart disease as in men as well is coronary artery disease or blockages in the heart arteries. However, other forms of heart disease can include valvular heart disease, meaning a valve is too narrow or too leaky, electrical system heart disease as well as disease of the heart muscle itself, not caused by one of these other causes. Heart disease risk factors in women include the commonly known risk factors like diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, as well as a family history of coronary artery disease in a first degree relative at a young age. Beyond that, increased stress, low activity level, as well as being overweight are other things that can lead to increased risk for heart-related problems. Heart disease can manifest as chest pain, tightness or heaviness, shortness of breath, inability to do everything that you once were able to do, minus age-related changes of course, lightheadedness, dizziness, passing out, palpitations, racing heart, any symptoms that are completely new and different for you that don't have another good explanation need to be paid attention to. What's recommended is exercising brisk aerobic activity 30 to 60 minutes most days of the week, eating a diet that's low in cholesterol and saturated fats, increasing fiber in your diet, lots of fruits and vegetables, quitting smoking, staying away from people who smoke around you so avoiding secondhand smoke exposure and maintaining a normal, healthy weight. Waste circumference is an important factor, keeping that less than about 35 inches is another parameter that can be followed. So whether you have symptoms or you simply want to look at your own personal risk for heart disease, talking more with your healthcare provider can give you a lot of additional information, help you identify risk factors that you may have not known that you have and also target what areas of your lifestyle and modification need to be looked after in order to be healthier.