Okay, welcome. So today, first of all, I'm Eric Windish. I'm with Docker. I work as a security engineer and I am the maintainer or core, I guess, mini-PTL of the Nova Docker driver. It's actually underneath of the compute program, so I don't technically classify as a PTL for this, but I'm the main driver of that. We have some other engineers, which I'll get to later. I like the little show of hands of how many people may have seen the previous version of this slide deck at the last summit. Okay, so a small number, maybe a third less.  It is a containerization solution that's not just containerizing your processes but also providing image management, providing utilities and an ecosystem around that. There's a API which you can access over UNIX Soco or over TCP with TLS authentication, and that allows you to manage and control these containers in a way that things like LXC and OpenVZ in the past hadn't done. It allows this bundling of image management and so forth to provide provisioning tools that make containers more like VMs from a management perspective, right? It solves that major management issue. And it allows this build ship run paradigm to exist. And what we want to do, or for what many people in OpenStack want to do, is to bridge the gap from their OpenStack installations to Docker so that they can use both. There's an ecosystem of products around Docker in OpenStack. These are the primary projects which actually orchestrate Docker in OpenStack. Now, there's another more projects which actually use Docker in various ways such as COLA to bring up your OpenStack deployment. Different distributions involve or include Docker in some way such as RedStack, I'm sorry, Red Hat RDO, Morantis is OpenStack fuel system, Ubuntu, Pack and Stack, which is a set of puppet modules or manifests bring up Novodocker, which I'll explain a little bit later. Tempest and the Teacup, which is part of the Defcore initiative, they have a suite of tools you can use to verify your OpenStack deployment against what is considered core, and that can run inside of a Docker container. So the four up here are Nova Compute. So we have Kubernetes, we have Heat, Solom, OpenShift, Mezos, Cloud Foundry and Magnum. And these are all tools that are able to orchestrate and use containers. And these tools, actually, well, Magnum is still very early stages, but the other ones, in theory, you could use today. The idea is that we can bring up an environment with OpenStack where these tools can now use and communicate with Docker and orchestrate it. So going back a little bit more to how Nova Docker itself is working. So here is a Docker, sorry, this is a hypervisor environment, right? This is us running Docker in a hypervisor under a VM. And we can demonstrate, right, this is now running Docker with Nova Docker, and you can, this is just, Nova is running these containers. But of course, you can run Docker over here and containers under there as well. And this is one of the powerful things about Nova, right, is that you can do both. You can have VMs and you can have Docker in the same environment. You may want the bare, you want the bare metal performance of Docker and the provisioning aspects of it without the complexity of running Ironic. You want the additional security constraints that you have by disallowing your users or your applications to overwrite firmware on your machines without having to deploy dynamic routes of trust or static routes of trust with TPM. And you can also work with Ironic if you wish to. And again, there will be slides online. And this is just the kind of the vision of, yes, you can run Docker in Docker. And once you do that, all of these things will be able to talk to that. So to get this, it is currently in Stackforge. It was in the Havana release inside of Nova. We had taken it out, was actually taken out by force because testing wasn't ready. There were some various political reasons why it occurred. But it happened. It's been taken out. And actually I'm really happy about that. And it might sound like an appeasement to try and say that I'm happy about it, but I'm really happy because we were able to actually get code merged, which turns out is actually really close to impossible inside of Nova. And we're able to make the sweeping changes and improvements in the driver that we wanted to make by having it out of tree. So you download the driver and you set it in your compute driver. And so now this is the big thing that changed right in Juneau, was that now you can put images directly in the glance. And it looks fairly similar to how you might otherwise upload images to glance. In this case, we do have to export the data from Docker. We use it with Docker save. And then we pipe that to Glance Image Create. And with Glance Image Create, we can import that and give it a name of Cirrus in Glance. And you also note container format is Docker. So that'll let Glance know and Nova know that it's going to be a Docker image. It only works on Docker driver. And finally, you'll be able to use Nova boot. It's actually become amazingly simple compared to how it was two releases ago. So beyond that, we do have networking support. It's fairly comprehensive at this point. We have Nova Network, of course, Nasera, OpenContrail, OpenVSwitch. Most of the drivers in, most of the popular drivers do work. If there's a driver that you're looking for that doesn't work, it seems popular enough that people might want to make it work, just kind of file bugs and push it through. And maybe we can see if we can get it implemented. So I do want to have Ian Main come up. Ian is our first plus two contributor. He works at Red Hat Canada. And I'll let you take it from here. The mic, there we go. Yeah, so I am Ian Main. And we started working on Nova Docker maybe about eight months ago with Eric and some of the other folks he mentioned earlier. And my goal really was to get the continuous integration testing going again because we had problems with that. It was pulled out for that reason. So yes, we want to get as many tests passing as possible. So we first step, of course, is to look at all the bugs that were just generally in the Nova Docker driver. And from our efforts, now we now have just over 1700 tests, tempest test passing. But we do still have many things turned off like volume support, resizing suspending rescue and migrations. A lot of these things don't really seem to apply to containers, except volumes, of course. So after dealing with all the bugs and other issues, we started looking at adding support for things that were missing in Docker itself that containers generally support. The first one we saw that was seemed pretty clearly that we could support was pause and unpause. So we basically drove this feature through, through Nova Docker, in through Docker, submitted pull requests upstream. And it was accepted into the Docker project. It was well accepted. It was a good feature. And it had nice side effects like being able to use pause to safely commit containers without having to worry about file system corruption. Next thing we saw that was a big area that was lacking was volume support, sender volumes. So this one, I've written now two different pull requests for this, not received quite as well as pause and unpause. The big issue was that it was the first API that actually modifies running containers. And Docker was a little bit worried about that change and how it's going to work and how it will affect the user experience. So we would keep working on that one. I have another pull request in now. And I've been insured by core Docker folks that will go in. It's just that they're trying to get the experience right and make sure the infrastructure is in place for all the work properly. So we have sender volumes functioning now, actually, you know, locally with all my patches in place, we can make use of them. Then we started looking at what are the use cases actually of volumes because as Eric was saying earlier, mounting them normally in an unprivileged container is not very easy. So direct access, at first, we're like, well, at least we support direct access to block devices. But that's not really a very common use case. It's not something that many people want to do. So then we're looking now at, you know, we need to look at the security issues and figure out, you know, maybe fuse already supports user space file system mounting. And through support of user namespaces, we can make this work in Docker with the unprivileged container. So I think that's probably the direction we'll end up going in. It definitely highlights again the differences between a VM and container. With the security implications, you know, you're passing in a file system that's completely supplied by the user. And any kind of I don't know of any exploits, but it's possible that, you know, the exploit could be crafted. So with this, then, you know, it passes a lot more tests in Docker, which is great, a lot more tempest tests in Nova Docker, we can enable volume support. One of the things that still stuck out when I did that was proof of concept of boot from volume. I mean, from volume. So I actually did a proof of concept of that is not great code. I need to re look at how that will work. But I also got that working as well. So I think that's it. Thank you. So this one to add that in terms of the testing, the testing that we have today is gating not only the Nova Docker code, but we have a silent gate for Nova. So every time a change is made to Nova, we actually get reported whether or not that is a breaking change to us. And we're going to be applying shortly to have that activated so that Nova developers will know as well. And the booth and volume is interesting that Ian mentioned is because we can do that today with unprivileged containers. It just introduces some complexity for us in terms of answering new problems such as now do we have to support rescue or do we have to support snapshot of volumes, which is a whole lot of code that we're going to have to support and maintain. And we want to make sure that people actually want that code before we start working on it. So with Kilo, we're talking about sender support, as you've just heard, security groups. Now security groups is a main, a big one that's been lacking. And I believe that code has now been merged. It may need some improvements, but it certainly exists now. And I imagine it should work. We have the Docker Pi change with which dims supplied. So this removed about somewhere between a quarter to a third of our code base, removing a bunch of custom client code with a library, right? That's a great win because everybody benefits from better libraries. And privileged containers, right? So there are people that want to run uncontained containers with Nova Docker. It turns out this is a viable use case that people want. They don't care about the security implications. Maybe they want fast track support to sender, whatever the case is. We're looking to supply that in some way. We're figuring out what the interface for that would be. Because obviously, we don't want to turn that on for everybody in all cases. That would be something probably an admin level configurable at the setup of Nova. Or even in that case, maybe only executable by an admin of user in specially crafted environments. And we want more plus two contributors, right? So Ian is our first plus two contributor besides myself. And technically, Ryan, sorry, Russell Bryant. So, you know, Russell actually created the repo and he kind of got grandfathered into owning a plus two, but he's never actually exercised it, so it doesn't really count. And finally, this is our last point, is use the code, right? It's ready for people to start using. We have production users of this code. People have been coming to me and telling me we are using this in production. It's great, right? Some of them have been kind of burned by some of the changes we made because we've been making changes very quickly. But we have production users and production users are using Neutron, believe it or not. Which is almost more surprising. But use the code and submit bugs, fix bugs. We'd really appreciate it because the more people we have doing that, the more plus two contributors we can get. And the bigger we can build this community. So, I'd like to take questions and Ian will be available as well. Anybody who has questions about sender support or more about our testing. Right. So, the question was why do we prefer to use the Docker registry instead of Glantz? And the Docker registry, first of all, is more native to Docker. We have image signing now. That we may be able to work into our Docker registry integration eventually. But it's certainly at issue currently. Right. Because those images, we have to pull it down. We have to make sure they're signed and that there's a trust anchor with Glantz. We have issues where we have image layers. So, Glantz is not aware of those image layers. So, with the Docker registry, we can pull down deltas and we can't do that with Glantz. With Glantz, we're uploading a whole image and we have to download that whole image. The whole process of using Glantz over the Docker registry, since we made a change, has significantly impacted performance of running, of first-run containers. Right. So, if you are running a container for the very first time, from an image for the first time, it's now much slower than it used to be. But we have much better open-sec integration by doing so. So, the question is if the neutron support is available in addition to Docker networking. So, what we do actually is we specify net none for the Docker containers. We do not have Docker specify or set up namespaces. And we set up our own namespaces in Nova and join the Docker container into the namespaces that Nova creates. Right. So, the question is why is OpenStack doing a new project magnum instead of using Kubernetes? So, first of all, I will note that Nova Docker is agnostic to this. Right. So, Nova Docker, the idea is that it will work with any of these solutions. Now, agent could probably better handle the question about magnum, but I was there when we were designing this. And we had three days and we discussed for almost one full day, should we use Kubernetes? In fact, we were going to use Kubernetes, how do we use it? And by the end of that day, we decided this was not going to work. And the decision was moved forward, okay, well, then what do we do now? And an architecture, an ideal architecture was drawn up. And part of that, too, is that there are things that the OpenStack community wanted that we heard voice was that we wanted multi-tenant support, which Kubernetes wasn't offering. We wanted the community wanted support for LXC and OpenVZ that Kubernetes is a Docker solution. And that's great, right? I don't mind. But the community did express some interest in LXC support. In fact, there was a design session yesterday, which was renewed where about maybe a third of the room, you know, indicate a strong preference for having LXC. More questions? Sure. The question is about host aggregates. So actually, in my presentation from the last, from the Juno Design Summit, I actually showed an example of using this scheduler for such a thing. So you can use, if you have a multi scheduler, multi-hoppervisor environment, right, the scheduler can help you schedule to the right hosts. We also have examples of how you can schedule containers to be co-located onto the same host. So you can schedule your container to be co-located with another container of the same tenant. So you can do, you know, a multi-tenant NOVA with single-tenant container spawns, right, via the scheduler. The scheduler is actually very powerful. You might have to write your own plugins or you might just have to craft commands to NOVA and give it scheduler hints. The question is, do we do anything for linking Docker containers? And the answer is no, right? So Docker NOVA does not do that. That's why I write that sweet spot for us is being able to run Docker in Docker because once you do that, then you can link those containers. So you can run a container that runs three other containers inside. It becomes a container pod. And containers in that pod can be linked. Anybody else? Okay. Yes, it works with Neutron. Yes. I was hoping we could have a little live demo of that, but there was a presentation done, I believe, yesterday by Eric Lopez at VMware, previously Nasira, and he did a demo of this. So when that presentation goes online, you'll be able to see a demo of NOVA Docker working with Neutron. Sorry. So the question is, if the only way to make Docker containers talk to each other is via a Docker and Docker scenario. So without Docker and Docker, containers can talk to each other in the same way that NOVA instances can talk to each other at a VM machine level view. But to get the Docker links, right, the links feature of Docker, you're talking about running container pods and running that Docker and Docker. That's an interesting one. So the question is, this code is out of tree so you cannot use the OpenStack trademark. Are there problems with that? I don't see that as being a problem. I believe it's okay for us to say this is a driver for OpenStack NOVA or that this is a driver for NOVA, right? Because it is a driver. This is not part of OpenStack. We don't say this is a driver that is part of OpenStack. This is a driver that's available to work with OpenStack. And that's, I think, okay. We're pretty close to being able to get back into NOVA. Really the biggest hang up, because the big hang up before was the testing. And that's been solved. Where we have a hang up is really that we're actually afraid of merging the code in and not being able to change it again. Because the code review backlog for NOVA is so deep that if we get accepted into NOVA, this code will be frozen and it will never change it again. So we're looking for more drastic change within the community to help us be able to change code and get code review in and get code merged. Because if we're not comfortable doing that, then we're not comfortable reintegrating. So the question is, does Magnum in the long term replace a NOVA Docker driver? And the answer would be no. This is a way of using NOVA to bring up an environment that Magnum can orchestrate and run. From a Magnum perspective, this would be, for NOVA, what is Triple O? So Triple O can bring up a NOVA environment. This kind of can bring up an environment that a Triple O can bring up NOVA. NOVA can bring up Docker. Magnum can orchestrate Docker. Something more of that nature. If you're talking about a wider ecosystem. All right, is that it? I think we're out of time. Alright, thank you everyone. Thanks guys.


There's a lot of debate around the case involving Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the killing of her mother, Dee Dee. And there's one of two camps either you're with Gypsy or you're against Gypsy, but in this video I kind of want to talk about what's going on and bring up the possibility as is Gypsy Rose Blanchard manipulating us? What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel something I like to do is just pull different topics from the news or pop culture or sometimes the YouTube community and try to see what lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So probably I'm guessing if you're watching this video you know a bit about the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case. She is currently in prison right now for second degree murder of her mother Dee Dee. Her boyfriend is actually the one who did the act, okay? She talked him into it, he's the one who committed the murder, alright? And anyways one of the reasons this happened was Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. Her mother made her believe that she had all these different illnesses. She was very abusive, she was very controlling, all sorts of things and Gypsy's belief was that her only way out was through killing her mother, alright? And I want to talk about this. So I want to talk about kind of the history of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the possibility of us all being manipulated but I want to bring up a couple of things that I just keep seeing just on various videos about Gypsy Rose Blanchard including my own, right? Something that just keeps happening, keeps happening over and over and over again is like two things. One of them is somebody said that I lack compassion, excuse me, I'm extremely compassionate. And I discussed this in one of the videos I did about Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Like one of the things is that I think we as a society need to learn is that most people, most, most people don't just become criminals, okay? Anything from theft or drug trafficking to even things like, even worse like abuse and violence and things like that up to murder. If you look at most of these cases, these people had a messed up childhood. This is one of the reasons why I believe in a few things like early intervention and using prison as rehabilitation. Like we need to start realizing that most people in prison had a messed up life. I am very, very compassionate towards that just as personally as the son of an alcoholic mother and as somebody who was an alcoholic and addict myself. I know a lot of people who came through the addiction treatments that I was working at who have very messed up childhoods. Now, the second thing I want to talk about is the idea that Gypsy Rose Blanchard, like this keeps coming up, she did not kill her mother, all right?   Okay, listen, listen, listen, just me and you real quick. Charles Manson didn't kill anybody.  Okay, I get it. But I just want to kind of put it in perspective for you. Charles Manson was an extremely manipulative man.  And he ended up going to prison for life for this thing. And like, I don't know if you've learned about Charles Manson and his childhood, but it was not exactly a bed of roses, okay? He was originally named no name. His mother tried to trade him for a pitcher of beer.  Like so many different things happened to Charles Manson, where you can look at it and wonder, okay, were these circumstances, were these circumstances what turned Charles Manson into the monster that he became? Because I would argue, probably, you know what I mean? Like, I am of the opinion, just, you know, I'm not a psychologist or anything like that. Just based on my own experience working with people at the treatment center I was at, my own studying, my own research and everything. There is more power in nurture than there is nature, all right? And there are some people who are just born psychopaths and things like that. But if you were to look at it statistically, most people who become criminals or do messed up things had a messed up childhood. That's just the fact. So to say that Gypsy Rose Blanchard did not kill somebody, she manipulated somebody into killing somebody. Now, what we need to understand and something I'm going to make a video about is like the cycle of how this goes on through different generations, right? Like there's been recent news about Gypsy Rose Blanchard's grandmother, you know, Dee Dee's mother, right? And you can see how this goes down the line. But here's what we need to understand about Gypsy Rose Blanchard. It is ingrained in her as a survival mechanism to manipulate, okay? Like Gypsy Rose Blanchard, since she was a child, she was taught a few things. She was taught that lying is okay, lying is a way of survival, and how to manipulate people, all right? Now, this isn't her fault. This is not her fault in any way, shape, or form. This is what her mother taught her. And her mother was trying to survive and keep the lie going. But Gypsy Rose Blanchard was taught how to lie and manipulate, all right? So she then in turn took that and she used that to convince her boyfriend, her then-boyfriend, into killing her mother.   But she's trying to convince her fans to write letters to try to get her early release. And like the issue that I see with this is, is that nobody's looking at the clear history of manipulation. Like nobody's looking at that, all right? And I know that Gypsy Rose Blanchard is getting mental health treatment in prison, probably not adequately for what she's been through.  This takes a lot of time. I have been sober for almost seven years now.  And it's something that almost seven years later, where it's still a struggle for me. But, you know, like I try not to lie. I try not to manipulate. There's so many things that I have worked on for years. OK, because that's something that helps keep me sober. So I'm in a little bit different situation. But, but I don't think enough people are asking themselves, like, is it possible that Gypsy Rose Blanchard is manipulating people because it is still part of her own human behavior? You see what I mean? Is it possible that she's trying to develop empathy or sympathy, not even empathy, but empathy and sympathy, I guess, to try to get people to understand why, why? And, like, I think it just becomes really apparent when I go through the comment section. And it's, I think, I think this wouldn't be such a concern for me if people had more of a balanced argument, right? But from what I've seen in a lot of comments just across the Internet is just like, yeah, she should have killed her. She should have killed her. There was nothing else she could have done. She should have killed her. Now, if I'm playing devil's advocate against myself, I would argue, yeah, you know, she didn't know of another way out. She was, you know, she didn't know what other options there were. She was legitimately afraid to leave.  She would convince these people that she's incompetent. I get it. I get all of those things. But, like, it just scares me that there, there's a portion of humanity that believes that, like, this was a 100% justified murder. Like, that really scares me. And I think that's why I'm really passionate about this.  You know what I mean?  Like, she could have left. She was afraid to leave because of what her mother had done. But I just see a lot of people justifying murder. And that really scares me. And I don't know if I'm alone in this thought process. So I would love to hear your thoughts down in the comments below. But, like, let's have a discussion about this. Like, do you have anybody who's manipulative in your life? Do you know anybody who used to be manipulative? And now they're not. How long did it take them to get better?  You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. I just want to talk about this. I love just engaging in conversation. But these are my thoughts, so I would love to know yours as well. But like I said, too, I have other videos planned. I want to talk about just kind of breaking the cycle of family abuse, whether it's verbal, physical, whatever it is. I'm going to make a video about that at some point, too. So anyways, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. And a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing. 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Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. That's drunk.  Of course not. We still have to talk about the two Barbie Super Nintendo games, Barbie Super Model and Barbie Vacation Adventure. Well, more like one and a half Barbie games since Vacation Adventure was finished but never released. I still have not seen the new movie, but it looks pretty funny, which strikes me as strange because I never imagined Barbie having any kind of personality. Since she was meant to be something you could imprint anything you want onto it, even if it's as weird as Oreo Barbie, a Barbie with a dog that craps and you make her pick it up, or Christmas Humpty Dumpty Barbie. Geez, you think she's warm enough in there? The only officially released Barbie licensed game on Super Nintendo was Barbie Supermodel made in December 1993 by Software Creations. Hey, wait a second. That's the same folks behind Ken Griffey Jr. presents Major League Baseball. Huh, maybe this game is good. But really, as a development team, they're all over the map, making great games like Griffey and other solid efforts like Equinox and Plock, but also some truly terrible games like The Tick and the SNES port of Revolution X. And that's exactly the part of the Spectrum where Barbie's Supermodel falls. Here's how the game works. You start out driving around in your pink Corvette, and apparently some people really resent that because they drive diagonally straight into your blind spot. What is this, Albuquerque? You collect points and all that, and then you drive to a war point where Barbie has to pick out what she has to wear for this photo shoot for Barbie Magazine. This part is kind of weird because your score is predetermined based on what you picked, and the game waste no time demonstrating it has the taste of a suburban mom who subscribes to good housekeeping and watches Regis and Kathy Lee every morning. Like for example, the game expects you to pick something like this to get the best score.  This looks way better. You're wearing Billy Ray Cyrus' jacket with mom jeans and Jake the Snake Roberts' boots. That's quality. Zero. Come on.   Gotta make sure the makeup is all different colors, too, so you go full bathroom clown. What are these earrings? Bird houses? Well, at least I got 40 points out this one. What is this outfit so you can look like Robin Williams on Morkin' Mindy? There's also neon Elvis jumpsuit Barbie wearing a WWF title belt and shoes made out of fruity pebbles. And there's the Olivia Newton John 80s look, except you're still wearing cowboy boots for some reason. All of these got zero points. This game's got no taste.  After this part, you're in a winter setting, then you're in a bike in the park, and that's pretty much the entire game. I mean, yeah, of course it is. This is meant to be a simple Barbie game for kids, but, you know, wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't cover this one. I do want to give a shout out to the music though. You just know when certain dev teams get assigned projects like this, some of them clearly didn't care what kind of a game it was, as long as it gave them an excuse to bust out a sick baseline. I should also mention that this game also had versions on DOS and Sega Genesis, so you can ignore this game on those platforms too. Like I said earlier, there was another Barbie game planned, Barbie Vacation Adventure, for both Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, but it was cancelled for whatever reason, despite being completed, and despite making Barbie look like Candace Cameron. If you really want to, you can find the realm of this one floating around out there. This is another one made by Software Creations sometime in 1994, although this game actually has, you know, gameplay sometimes. It's laid out in five different locations placed on this map, and dear god what is going on in Iowa. That is horrifying, so we're gonna do that first.  Yup, that's Iowa, alright. It takes about two seconds to catch it, and then you do all the classic carnival games like throw stuff at cans, a test of strength, and throwing stuff in these emotionally scarred and tortured clown faces.  I'll give this game credit for, you know, trying to be a game, I guess, but this is as boring as it gets. The controls feel slow and cheap, the visuals are bland, and again, the music might be the only redeeming quality this game has, but even then, you know, there's a reason this game was never released. So yeah, it probably goes without saying at this point that these games aren't worth your time today, you could probably answer that just from reading the title, and yeah, I understand that they're meant for small children, but I would like to point out, the mentality behind both of these games is the thought of, well, these are games for girls, and girls don't play games, so who cares?   Two low-effort wet farts that only sold copies because of the license. Avoid these games. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


For 22 years, I made myself believe that this disturbing series of events never happened. I successfully convinced myself that I imagined it all. Then I spoke with a friend that I hadn't contacted in a long time. He confirmed the whole thing we went through this together. I'll do my best to accurately present the entire story, just as it happened. Because apparently, it's all true. The story revolves around a Ouija board. I hate to even say or type those words. I haven't touched one since 1997. I was 13 at the time, an age when most of us like to investigate the curiosities in the world around us. It's no longer just having sleepovers with friends, playing various video games or getting into high school sports. Girls were starting to become appealing. This was a time when professional wrestling was just starting to really take off. And a group of my friends were diving into horror movies and scary stories. This is something that always appealed to me. Ever since reading scary stories to tell in the dark, I was hooked. This series of books came out when I was about 8 years old. They sold them at our Scholastic Book Fair. Looking back, these stories and illustrations were way too intense for 8 year olds in my opinion. But I sure did enjoy them. We all like to be scared. We like to feel something more than the everyday mundane drudge of life. My friend Philly and I enjoyed getting together to watch horror movies and scare each other with urban legends. We started doing this almost weekly, especially during the summer when school was out. Of course, this was pre-internet, so all we had media-wise was actually running a movie or physically going to the theater. And since most horror movies were R rated, we couldn't get in to see them. I'm sure to most millennials or post-millennials, this sounds like a nightmare scarier than any real life story. Because we got tired of running the same movies over and over, we often focused on urban legends, what we call creepypastas today. We might find some books at the library that had them, or we just made up our own. But we really wanted to feel some actual terror.  I bet every group of friends had one of those Parker Brothers board games stashed. The infamous Ouija board. Just a simple game, a toy, really. They even used to advertise it. A board with the alphabet, numbers, yes, no, and goodbye. I suppose this was inevitable. Every kid has to learn for themselves that these are not to be played with, literally. And metaphorically, growing up in a God-fearing family, I knew this felt wrong. There was something about this board that just wasn't right. I also could see through the marketing strategy that Parker Brothers were targeting these specifically to children, like all board games. But this was different. They only wanted kids to play this, not adults. You played Monopoly and shoots and ladders with your parents. You sure as hell didn't play the Ouija board with them. I felt this was wrong, but I also didn't know anything for sure. I was 13. My current 35-year-old self has a hard time understanding what happened and why I dove into this knowing that the outcome would not be ideal. I found it, my buddy Phil said, under my sister's bed. This was the start of a series of events that would haunt me for quite a while. Of course was the board. We made sure no one was home when we pulled it out. There was an air of mischief around this thing. Certainly we couldn't deal with his sister finding us in her room and definitely not Philly's mom finding out what we were up to. The board was glossy and new. It looked like possibly we were the first to use it. The device that two or more people used to glide over the board, revealing the answers to your questions, was almost ivory. I wanted to research what this was called, but I don't even want to start down that rabbit hole online. If you've noticed, I don't even want to call it by its name simply referring to it as the board. I'll call the gliding thing the oracle for this story. We had only two sessions with the board that was enough to keep me away for 22 years. The first session was incident free. We asked a few silly questions, what our future held if we'd get married and have kids, stuff like that. Even though I'd never played this before, I still knew not to ask certain questions. Like what was the name of the person we were talking to? Maybe we figured that out from all the hours spent watching scary movies. It was the second session when things got weird. Me and I were going back and forth with the board, asking simple questions about our future lives. I remember asking where I'd live as an adult, and the board said Seattle. I was living 2,000 miles away from Seattle at the time. This is when I felt the aura of the board shift. The air became static, like a thunderstorm was brewing. One were the sky turned red. The oracle we used to piece out answers to our dumb questions had moved slowly before. Now it was jerking, almost skimming off the board as it flew to the next letter. I can tell you this about the game. It is real, and neither one of us was moving the oracle. My hands weren't even on it at some points, but back to the Seattle question. I was and I still am a huge baseball fan. I have rooted, unfortunately, for the Detroit Tigers for my entire life. The mid to late 90s was the explosion of Ken Griffey Jr. to Major League Baseball. I loved watching him play. I got his jerseys for a couple Christmases and birthdays. I'm sure most people know that Griffey played for the Seattle Mariners. I loved how that national S looked on that teal colored uniform. I started researching the city of Seattle, and I thought how cool it would be to live there. Do you see where this is going? This board was not plastic and glue to me anymore. There was something controlling it. Something powerful and dark that knew I had this particular city on my mind at this time. I didn't let on to my buddy what I was feeling. He didn't seem to let on that he was afraid either. So we kept going. The next round of questions is a blur to me. All I remember is the Oracle going mostly to know when we asked a question. Even if it wasn't a yes or no question that was required. Then I asked the last question that I would ever ask the Ouija.  It was nothing profound or deep at all. This is what I asked. Would the Detroit Tigers ever win another World Series? The Oracle moved so fast to goodbye. I thought a tiny trail of fire would be on the board. I'll never forget looking at Philly and seeing what I'm sure was the exact same eye bulging mouth open expression that I had on my face. We knew that one of the rules of this game was when the board said goodbye, you put it away immediately. I think we even read about that in the instructions. We threw the board into its box, hustled to his sister's room as fast as two hostess cupcake and Mountain Dew filled teenagers could. Philly chucked the board under her bed. Like nothing happened. After a few breathless moments, we finally started to let out tiny little laughs, lighting up into big belly laughs as we hit the floor rolling.  After the madness finally started dying down, we moved on like nothing happened. I should have stated right from the beginning that it was late at night when we started playing. I'd say it was about midnight as cliche as that is. When the board said goodbye to us, it couldn't have been more than one in the morning. Philly lived in the country across the street from a cemetery. I know now it's really getting into cliche territory, but I swear it's true. There weren't many houses around. If you wanted to walk to your next door neighbor, you better plan for a good 20 minute hike. Well, finally we started to get tired from playing video games and we decided to step outside. We looked at the graveyard, noting how calm the night was. A large section of Philly's house was covered in rose bushes. They were wildly overgrown and not kept up. Needless to say, nothing would be able to get through those bushes without getting pretty diced up. We heard rustling, again the night was calm and I don't remember any wind at all. At first we could just hear the bushes, then we heard movement. To this day I do not know and I do not care to know what it was. It could have been an animal, but I highly doubt it. We knew something wasn't right and we bolted for his house. Even now, writing this, I can feel an eerie presence. We both knew somehow this was related to the board. Philly suggested we call it a night and try to get some sleep. I wish that was the end of the story. Just a few short hours later, we woke to a series of faint knocking sounds. I couldn't determine where they were coming from, but it sounded like it was outside the house. We both cautiously got up and moved through the kitchen to the front door. I slowly peeked outside and saw something that made my heart drop into my stomach. A man was standing right outside the door. He had creepy looking horn-rimmed glasses on, outdated even for the late 90s. Philly had a porch in the front that was raised about five feet up from the ground, and the man was on the ground, so we were actually looking slightly down at him. It's an image that's burned into my mind. He didn't move. He just stood there. We once again fled to his room and slammed the door shut. We didn't call the police or his mom. We just sat in the room not sure what to do. After a few minutes went by, we stupidly decided to go see if he was still there. He was gone. I successfully convinced myself that there really had been no man outside the house. I just couldn't handle what was happening. Philly did the same. Finally, day broke, and we dismissed the disturbing events of the previous night. I don't even think we discussed what had happened. About a week later, I got a call from Philly. He said he had a dream that we were playing the board, and a hand came up from the center and reached for his head. He said he tried to push himself away from the table, but he was moving in slow motion, like when you're trying to run away in a nightmare. The fingers on the hand were long and spidery. The skin was ashen gray. They skittered slowly up his face, lingered over his eyes, then grabbed a fistful of hair. Philly tried to scream, but no sound came.  As Philly's chin was pulled through, it felt like the bitter cold of outer space.  He couldn't breathe. He woke up gasping for air and felt pain on the top of his head where the thing had grabbed him. I hated to admit that, but I had the same dream. Right there, we decided to meet up and make a plan to get rid of the board.  When I arrived, Philly wasn't inside. This was before cell phones, so I didn't have the option to simply call him and see where he was. I checked out back, by the garage, and there stood Philly, with the board sitting atop a pile of kindling in a metal barrel. His mischievous grin told me what his plan was. We lit that sucker on fire. Nothing happened. Now I was really freaking out. We've all heard the stories of people attempting to burn a Ouija with no success. Philly wasn't phased, though. He pulled out a jerry can full of gasoline and doused it. Finally, the board erupted into flames and quickly burned to nothing but ash. It was over. As far as I can remember, nothing happened after that. We never spoke of anything we experienced that night. Over the years, I chalked it all up to an overactive teenage imagination. I may have told a handful of people once or twice, mainly just to tell a scary story around a campfire. I know that I've said this a few times, but I've always treated this like it never really happened. To me, this was all imagined. We did play the game, but the rustling bush, the man, none of that happened. Over the years, I've moved quite a distance away from Philly. We kept in touch, one of us calling the other a few times a year. Ten years ago, I even made the thousand mile trip to go see him. Fast forward another ten years and I decided to make the trip one last time to see my hometown and get together with Philly. He invited some people from the area and struck up a massive bonfire. In between bites of pizza and swigs of beer, I recounted the story of that night. I told him how I imagined the aftermath of our decision to use that board. I know you're gonna think this is crazy, but I thought there was a man standing outside your house that night. I said, Philly looked at me as stone cold as he could and said, Yeah, I remember that too. I remember it all. My blood went cold. My friend went on to confirm exactly what happened that night. Word for word, just like I remember. It was like we were both back there again 22 years ago. The Ouija is nothing to play around with. I haven't touched or looked at one in over two decades. How a piece of cardboard can summon some kind of evil from another realm is beyond me, but I know it can happen because it happened to me.


C'est un peu... Oui, oui. Donc, la première fois que ça commence, il y a une minute. Et la première fois que ça commence, il y a 10 minutes plus tard. Ok. Ok. Je suis heureux. Je suis heureux de ça. Ok, c'est cool. Vous sortez du micro, c'est ça? Oui. Mais c'est juste ça. Allez, mettez le micro. Voilà. Regardez. On est gens. On est gens. On est gens. On est gens. On est gens. On est gens. Ok, les amis. Je vais commencer. Allez. Ok, donc salut, tout le monde. Je suis Juan. C'est il. Je vais présenter 2 présentations après ça. Aujourd'hui, je vais vous présenter un projet qu'on appelle EZJIT, un livre qui s'essaie de projeter les compilations de Shusten pour les codes plus en plus. codes. So, as I said, it's a, actually it's a compiler assisted library, so it's not only a library for random consideration. So it's not a virtual machine, a magical virtual machine that optimizes your code and looks at it and monitors it and does a lot of tricks. And it's also not the building blocks for a just-in-them compiler, like the LLVM or like the LiveJet is. So, to figure out more or less what it is, I'm going to show you a quick example. So here, trust me, this is a convolution kernel, we are playing a convolution kernel over a video stream and, for example, if you look at the mask, the mask size and the mask area, that may be changed by the user at any time during the execution. We also have, okay, the input frame and the output frame and we also have the dimensions of the image and the number of channels of the image. This may change depending on the video input, it's not the same for a webcam that may be for a HD video or something else. We can make some assumptions up early, but we don't know the exact value at compile time that these variables will take. So it could be profitable to generate a specialized version for the kernel function for the values that are taking actually at one time for all these variables. So, how do we do this? We use the easyshell library and how do we do that? We change the code like that. So we have only one header and one function called in the entire library. I don't know here if you are familiar with ST-Divind, anybody, have ever heard of it. So it's a standard C++ construct, it's really all, I think, and it allows you to get a function object by binding the parameters of the function that is passed as parameter. We try to respect the same semantics as ST-Divind. Because it's practical to not have to learn a new interface. So here what this function code is doing is, it's specializing, it's generating at random a new version of the kernel function, it's going to pass mask, max size, and mask area as the first, second, and third parameters of the new function of the code to kernel, and it's going to put the actual value of these variables in the new version. So for example on some optimizations like constant propagation, loop and rolling, can do some extra work now, now that they have this new information available. We are going to take the first and the second parameter of the newly created function, and we're going to forward it to kernel as the input frame and output frame, and then we're going to also fix the image dimensions and the number of channels to the values taken here, and this is going to give us a function object that we can call, a semi-function object, like we do here, and it's going to compute the same function as, it's going to compute the same as the code that we seen before. What's cool about this is that we're doing everything in C++, so everything is a C++ object, we can do everything that we do with our typical C++ object, so we can store it on a vector, move it around, store it on an STD map, for example to create a code cache, and we actually provide, so we have a second thing that we provide with the library, that it's a simple code cache that allows us to not to have to recompile the entire code, if we already compiled it before. So the syntax, it's the same as before, and the only thing that it changes is that it will return a constant reference because the code cache, it's owned by the cache, and not by us. How does this work? Okay, I said it was a compiler assisted library, it's because it actually needs some compiler help. So we have one LLVM plugin that is loaded, that is going to pass the codes to our library, now it's going to embed the code associated to our library.


For our next presenter, who you may have seen on Fox News, Fox Business Network, RT America, Cheddar TV, CBS News, or many other stations, she's an expert stock market analyst and the founder and owner of an international education company where she teaches people how to successfully trade the stock market. Her trading methodology is based on a strategy called Golden Gas, which pinpoints institutional money in the stock market. Here to present, make fast profits trading in 30 minutes a day is Ms. Melissa Armo of the Stock Swoosh. Welcome back to Trader's Corner, Melissa. Thank you so much for having me. Great to be here. It's a Saturday afternoon. Likewise.  I can't wish you a Father's Day, but, you know. I know. Actually, my father just left this morning. He came yesterday to spend two days with me in New York and he's going home right now. He's driving back to PA and we had a wonderful, wonderful two days and happy Father's Day to all the Father's Day is out there for tomorrow. It's a great, beautiful weekend here in New York City. Great weather. So luckily, some people came here today to listen to the different speakers and hear everyone talk and get some ideas. You know, if you're a father or a grandfather or a pop-up and you have extra time and you want to trade or make money on the side, trading is something that you can do that doesn't involve trading for 40 hours a week or even the six and a half hours a day that the market is open. You can trade a selective time period and make money or you could trade options where you put the trade on and then after you take the trade, you put a sell order and you don't have to watch or babysit the trade all day. So trading is something that everyone could do from every walk of life. Actually you have to learn how to trade before you risk funding the market and obviously you need the money for an account, to open an account and brokerage account. But it's something that everyone can learn and again, I get this question all the time. People say, well, I'm too old, I'm too old to trade, I'm too old to learn something new. That's absolutely, absolutely not the case. No matter how young you are or how old you are, you can still become successful trading the stock market. And I think once people get bitten by the market bug and they want to trade, they kind of never lose sight of that dream. They always want to do it. They may take a break, they may come back to it, take a break, come back to it. But I think the commitment is really such a big part of some of the success I've seen with clients that I've taught over the years. People that stick with it have a higher chance of success because they don't take a break and step back. They're fully committed to doing it and they just push forward. And sometimes that's the best thing you could do. It's like if you're walking up a mountain or you're on a hike or you're going through some kind of thing where you're training for a marathon or any physical exercise that seems grueling, the best thing you can do sometimes is just push forward and push through it. So welcome everyone. Thanks for having me. We're going to talk today about how to make fast profit shorting. We're going to focus on shorting in just 30 minutes a day. And anyone that has any questions, you can plop them in the questions section there. I can look at them and see them as we're going along. This is me. If you've seen me, you may have seen me on TV. Again, I'm here in all national news networks. I talk about the stock market and I also talk about the economy, which is very interesting because the economy and what happens, the fundamentals of the economy don't always match up to the market reactions. So the way that I train is based on technical analysis. Now, sometimes the fundamentals do match up with the technicals, but not always. Anyways, if you're interested in more information after today, you can feel free to call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. And you can also email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. And you can see me on TV, too. If you follow me on Twitter, I try to post my hits when I'm going to be on there. So I took this picture. Actually, it doesn't even look real. It looks like a postcard. I took this picture walking in Central Park. I lived in New York. I lived in New York for quite a while, but I recently moved in the last seven months to Central Park. And the quality of my life has changed dramatically since I've moved to a different section, even in the same city, even in the same town. And what I've realized coming near the park is that more than ever, the quality of life is very, very important. I sort of knew that years ago when I did mortgages, which is how I transitioned into becoming a trader. I wanted a new career. I was working seven days a week, far too many hours, every single weekend as a mortgage broker, because, of course, realtors were showing people houses. I felt like I had no quality of life. I think the last straw for me was it was Christmas Day. And I was with my family. And I actually had a client, not even a realtor, but a client was calling me and texting me about an investment property that he wanted to buy on Christmas Day. And that was it for me. I knew I needed a new career. And at that time, I had no idea about trading the market. I didn't know that you could trade the market. I didn't know anything about anything at all. And then, lo and behold, I decided to look into it. And it was just happened by chance. And sometimes things happen by chance. But one thing I've learned over the years, and again, moving brought me closer to this as well, that working less hours and having the ability to stop trading in the morning, go out and walk in the park, having the quality of life where you're not working weekends really, really makes a big difference. First of all, it keeps you young, okay, and youthful. You're less stressed the less hours that you work. So yes, sometimes it is about the money. The more money that you make, obviously, sometimes you can have a better quality of life and less stress. I know a lot of people in New York, actually, that make a lot of money and they're extremely stressed and they have no free time and they have a horrible quality of life. So money is a part of it. It's a part of it. But time is important, too. And yeah, I'm sure when it's hard, time is money. So the most money you can make, the most money you can make in the shortest amount of time actually is where you want to be. So I've developed the system over the years. It took me about three years to develop a system where I take fast trades. I get in and out quick in the morning and that's how I make money and then I have the rest of the day to myself. So I think this is important question since we're talking about it here. Again, it's a Saturday. How would you rate the quality of your life? And again, you don't have to answer in the chat. You can, but really on a scale of one to 10, being the best life you could live, one being not so much, where does your life currently stand? Someone is bringing up health. Well, obviously, that's obvious, the quality of your life. You can't have a good quality of life if you're not healthy. Obviously, obviously Arthur's bringing that up too. So if you have good health, if you can pay your bills and good health means physical health and also financial health. But again, part of having good health is to be able to get out, exercise, be out, not sit at your desk all day, 40, 50, 60 hours a week, which people are still doing by the way. Yes, people are not going into the office but they're working 40, 50 hours from home behind a desk now. So again, and you know what? People are having less socialization. So it's, I mean, I've seen a change even in New York and the city where people still aren't coming into the offices. At least when people came out to the office, they had socialization, they be bopped out at lunch, breakfast, got a sandwich.  So quality of life is very, very important no matter how you look at it. Some people want to trade the stock market for a living to make more money. Some people want to trade the stock market for a living to work from home. I work from home, I live in my apartment in New York. Some people want to trade the stock market for a living to be their own boss, which is if you trade for yourself, you're trading your own money, you are your own boss, okay?  Some people want to trade the stock market for a living to have an unlimited income potential. That was also one of the reasons that I decided to do this because when I was doing mortgages, again, how hard I worked and how many loans I did had to do with the commission that I made. And so one of the things I liked about trading the stock market was I still had an unlimited amount of income that I could make. Again, depends how many trades I take, depends how the market's doing that year, depends on how many good trades I take, depends on how much I risk, okay? Same thing for you. Some people want to trade the stock market for a living to work less hours than a normal job will require. And again, this is really important, especially if you have a family, if you have kids, okay? And you are a few hobbies, like my father loves to golf. You want to do things in the afternoon or on your weekends. But while all of those are good reasons to want to trade the stock market for a living, what it really boils down to no matter what it is, is to having a better quality of life, okay? When you think about the number of hours that you spend working your career, whatever your chosen field is, whatever your job is, your career is whatever you've spent the last 20, 25 years doing, or depending how young you are, or old you are, could be even more than that. You've spent a huge chunk of your life working your job, okay? So again, if you're absolutely in love with what you do, you might be fine working 50 hours a week. But if you're not, that's a different question. And I think again, as the years go on, that the world changes, which we saw since COVID, people are really questioning, wait a minute, wait a minute. Do I really like this career? Is this what I want to do with my life? Where do I want to go? Is this my dream job, that kind of thing? Again, money is a vehicle. So trading may or may not be your dream job. It's my dream job for me, because the freedom that I have and the money I can make, and the fact that I can work from home, and the fact that I can live in Manhattan, which is a fabulous place. So for you, your dream job may be something else. But again, money is the vehicle. So if you can make $1,500 in five minutes, you have the rest of your day to yourself to pursue something else. It could be the arts. It could be painting. Okay, it could be sports. It could be music. Something else in your life. Writing a book that you couldn't pursue if you weren't making money trading, and then you'd have the time to pursue more so than if you had a 40, 50 hour a week job. But if you can learn to successfully trade the stock market for a living, you can have a better quality of life. You can have all the things above and more that I just talked about. Sure, if you're successful, you can get rich. And many, many people want to, and that was, again, one of the reasons I decided to trade was because I had the unlimited income potential. But it's not just that. And as the years goes on, I realize more and more of that, that more money really means you have more time for yourself. You have more freedom in your life. And the quality of your life is important, okay? And the older you get, the more important the quality of your life becomes. And you can relate it to health as Arthur was bringing up health. You can relate it to that. Again, if you're less stressed, you're gonna have probably better health, okay? Because stress deteriorates you, it ages you, it ages you faster than otherwise. And a lot of times people have stress at their jobs when they're working a lot of hours or just dealing with the corporate America. Now, what do I mean? You realize that there are things in your life you don't want to waste your time doing anymore.  Or just things that you're like, I'm not even, why am I worried about this? You say to yourself, there's just things that are not worth stressing out over. And you get a perspective, okay? And if anything, everyone should have a different perspective about the world in life since COVID. Again, we're three years outside of that, but the world has changed. You want to make a lot of money for sure, but you also want to realize the quality of the time that you're taking to earn that money if you break it down. And again, when I was doing mortgages, if I broke it down the number of hours that I worked divided by the money I was making it on each loan, it was probably less than minimum wage because I was spending so much time, so much time with each client and so much time with each real estate agent. But anyways, that's one of the reasons why I like the fast trades. If I trade faster than money, then fast trading means I have freedom and I have the time to do what I want, okay? Whether it's walking in the park, seeing the animals, the turtles, anything else I want to do, it's very calming for me to go out and walk in the park. And I made a lot of sacrifices to get to this point in my life to even be here, to even be where I'm at today. And it was, again, for many people, I find as teaching people over the years, I've had the soft switch business for going on 11 years now, it's a lot of people want everything wider ways, wider ways yesterday, today, the second, okay? It's the sacrifices. So it's the short-term sacrifice for the long-term benefit of getting to the point where you want, where you want with your training, where you want with your life, where you want to be, where your goals are, how much money you want to make. And again, whether that's taking a class or paying for a class or investing your time in learning how to become a good trader, your life will improve. And what I found, again, I have a business where I teach people my method and I also trade it every day in the live room. I found that many people have, they've shift where they really don't have an interest in learning as much as when I started the business years ago. Everybody just wants to take trades. They just want to trade and make money. Well, again, if you learn what to do, you're going to make more money and you're going to trade a lot better. And also it's important to learn what to do because if I ever stopped trading or teaching this class, if I ever decided to retire and not do this, then how are you going to know what I do when I'm calling the good trades that I'm calling? Learning and understanding is one of the reasons why I'm very good at what I do because I developed a system myself and I've been doing nothing but my gap rating system since I started trading, which is about 15 years ago. So we are going to talk about my system here today, but the point I want to make just to write off the baddest is to set the tone that review and revamp and think about your goals and your quality of life and what you're spending your time doing because I think a lot of people don't think about that and time goes so quickly. Look at it, it's June. In less than two weeks, it's going to be, and today is the 17th. It's almost July 4th. Can you believe it? The summer is halfway through. That's nuts to me. Before you know it, it's going to be Halloween, Christmas, the holidays. This year has flown by. So when you think about it, can anyone live in the shock market as a professional trader, the answer is yes. You absolutely, absolutely, absolutely can, but a lot of people, as I said, just do not have the right focus. They don't have the right strategy and you need that. Now I put here the results for last month in our live trading room. Again, I run a live trading where I call the day trades. These are day trades, these are equity trades. The average risk for this is $2,800 per trade for these results. You can take less risk. You could take more risk, okay? So again, I have the winners in here and the losers in parentheses, 59,912 for the month of May. We had a good month. I'm mostly short. So we will talk about shorts today and the reason I prefer to short is that stocks fall faster than they rally. That's just a fact. So again, you saw that even in Friday, okay? Things fell Friday. Adobe reported, Adobe started to fall. It's a market stock. I pulled the market down in Friday. We also had some data, but the market fell pretty fast on Friday. So stocks and the market tend to fall faster than they rally. I also put in here the stats for just to show me an entire year. This is again, an average risk per trade of $2,800 per trade. These are equity trades, which you would trade on margin, all calls I made to the room. The results for one full year, which was 651079. We had a good year. The market fell a lot last year, but I short in a bullish market or a bearish market. You can't deny that at this point now in the 2023 June, where we're at, we are actually in a bullish market. We've done shorts, we've done longs, we've done both, but I prefer to short. So that's what we're gonna talk about here today. So every day I get up in the morning and I go to find the best short. If I can't find the best short, I will go long. So for example, actually, it's kind of funny looking at how close we went long to video on Friday. We were in and out really, really quick, really, really fast. We made money going long to video, even though it closed red on Friday. Because again, I'm trading the morning between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time very fast. And my focus is that I'm trying to find a bullseye, hit a bullseye every single day in one trade, in one stock, in one pit. Having a strategy to focus on daily is very important and no distractions.  The problem is like I said, a lot of people don't. Now I also do options. We will discuss some options trades in here. I risk more money in my options trades because I wanna take expensive picks, some things that are expensive, expensive stocks, okay? And I also wanna hold overnight and take larger positions. This, so the results are higher for the options results for 2022 because I was risking $8,000 per trade. You don't have to do that. You can risk one contract. If you have a cash account, if you do not have a margin account, or if you have a retirement account, and you can only buy calls and sell calls or buy puts and sell puts. If you cannot short, if you do not have a margin account, you can do options, okay? So this was over $3 million a year for 2022 for the results, but part of it is my risk was higher, okay? You can take less of a risk, like I said. And again, some of these were calls, some of these were puts. We will go over options today as well. But day trading is part-time hours with full-time pay. You've gotta have an edge. For me, it's the fast trades. For me, it's also the shorts. And for me, it's the gap, which we're gonna talk about. Now, as I was talking about earlier, the economic data, things that are coming out, you can understand that money controls the world. Institutional money controls the world. You saw what happened earlier this year back in March with some of the banks that were failing. Will there be more banks that fail between now and 2023? There could be. There absolutely could be. Would that change the direction currently of the stock market? Yes, yes it would. And you need to know that. You need to know that specifically if you are in long positions for the long-term swing trade positions or whatever, because if something happens, as it has been happening, when the banks have been going under, they've been always, always going under over a weekend. When the FDIC has taken over those banks and they've crashed, it's always happened on a Friday into the weekend, they plan that. And so it's very, very interesting because again, institutional money controls the world. You saw interest rates bump up. If you paid attention to it before the Fed meeting this week, no, the Fed didn't raise rates, but they signaled that they will raise at least two more times this year or more. And they also signaled that they were gonna continue to keep rates high until 2025. That's a long time. So the market had a very mixed reaction to that. Positive in the sense that they halted raising rates this month, but not good because we're gonna have higher interest rates for longer than people expected. Some people thought they've lower rates this year. That's off the table as far as I'm concerned. I don't think they're gonna do that whatsoever at all. They never gave an indication they would do that. And I didn't think that they would either. I was looking at how fast that they were raising rates. Someone's asking about alerts. Do you have to be in the trade room to get the options? The options are a daily newsletter. The trade room is a live trade room for equity trades and you must be there. The options is a newsletter. They get sent to your email. If that's an alert, it gets sent to your email if that's what you mean. On your average options trades, what is your... I don't follow anything to do with those things. Whoever asked that, who is that person, David? I'm trading the gap on momentum, which again, we'll talk about here in a little bit. I know it started a little bit late here today, but I'm gonna lose track of my time. So I'll go over more about the options in a minute. I think that was David. We're trading momentum. Whether it's a day trade, whether it's an option, you can do a swing trades too. Momentum trading is one of the most profitable and fastest ways to make money trading because you get a big move. It could be up, it could be down. Learn how to take a position in a stock and it's just a patient that the stock will have an explosive move. You get in before the move happens, okay? That's how you make money, not chasing it. Momentum trading is very profitable and again, that's how you can make big money in the market. Now here's for example one that we did. This was Disney. We did a couple of trades in this, but this one here I have in here was Disney 522. So again, what is a gap? Let's talk about it. I said that I do gaps. A gap is when a stock... Well, let's just look at this one. A gap is when a stock closes at one number, at four o'clock Eastern time the US stock market closes every day at four and opens the next day at 930. It's when it closes at one price and opens at a different price. This was a gap down. You also have gap ups. This was a gap up. Market closed here at four and opened at a higher price the next day at 930 and then it rallied. This was a gap down. You cannot short every gap down. You cannot go long every gap up. That is why I developed a system to determine the direction of the gap so that I knew to play it. I do not trade the pre-market. I do not trade the post-market. I wait to do trades in the open. You cannot do options in the pre-market or post-market anyways, okay? So this was an option we did in Disney. I called it in 5.22. We'll go back and look at it. It was really cheap. 90 cents. Again, it depends how much you want to risk. Say you want to take 11 contracts. $990 is a very reasonable amount of money and you could have made 12.10. Return of investment, 122%. So I called the Disney $90 strike put. This is a newsletter. If you want to sign up for this, I sent them out at 9.44 on the 22nd. This was a weekly. We're doing the weekly. So let's take a look at it. Here's the 22nd. Boom and boom. There it goes. So that was a put. So you see how the stock fell. It went boom and it went down. So again, we're trading momentum. In this case here, we had a gap down to the one like that. It went down, okay? It sold off. And so we did a put, okay? So the newsletter looks like this, where you would buy the put, the $90 put. But I'm looking for institutional money. Who is selling it? Who is buying it? What's happening right now in the overall market? You've seen quite a bit of buying in the last few days. Okay, you can go over the reasons, this thing, that thing, where it's gonna go. But right now you're getting some buying coming into this market. We're also been looking for things like selling. We shorted target, for example. That was a nice short. If you look up that chart, if you pull that up, I have that here in the lecture. Target fell, okay? But I'm looking for big money when I'm making my trading decisions and I'm honing it down. One trade a day, if that. I might put a few options on if I'm seeing that somebody's gonna go in the same direction as the market. Again, whether they're calls or puts when I'm taking a trade. But I'm always looking for who is in charge. So I told you that we did NVIDIA. Actually, this was not Friday's bar, but NVIDIA broke out here. I did a call on NVIDIA that ran up here this week as well, which was an options trade. We did the 395 calls. It was a nice trade. I actually got out of it a little bit early because I wanted to get out of it before the Fed meeting because I didn't know the reaction of that meeting. So I was conservative, took my profits, I was up, I got out. Because if the market had fallen after the Fed meeting that my trade would have reversed. But in reference to NVIDIA, again, I'm looking for momentum. In this case here, close to your gapped up, boom. This had a movement to the upside. And again, it was a call in the options newsletter, which was a long and you could have gone along the stock. And like I said, we did go along the stock actually on Friday. So you're always asking yourself who's in charge. The bulls are the bears. If the bulls are in charge, you wanna go long. If the bears are in charge, you wanna short. Because you've gotta make more money. You've gotta make money in more winners than losers. Meaning you have to have a high win ratio when you trade. So whether you're risking $100 a trade or $500 a trade or $2,000 a trade, if you're not having more winners and losers, you're not gonna make it in this game. You're just not, okay? So again, people talk about small accounts, big accounts, medium accounts. Whatever is comfortable for you has to be where you're at financially. Again, whether you can trade options or do day trades on margin, that's up to you. But the bottom line is you still need more winners. You need more winners than losers. And like I just got done telling you, I got out of Nvidia a little early, but it was a winner. You can't let winners turn into losers. And certainly not in this market. The market is bullish, okay? But I would say for the first better part of the beginning of the 2023, the market was chopping it. It was in a range for a while. Whether we hold this up trend or not, or whether we break off remains to be seen. Again, we still have six and a half months left in the year. But if you're booking money constantly, day after day after day after day, you shouldn't be worried about where we are long term in August, September, December of 2023. The bottom line is that you need to be consistently, consistently booking money, okay? And if you're consistently booking money, okay, then that's what you have to do. You have to keep going. Somebody's saying something, yes, I do trade. I'm not sure why anyone's saying about that. Again, I've been trading since I started, but again, I didn't develop my system. It took about three years. So I started trading in 2008, it's 2023. But when I first started trading, I wasn't doing this. I took one class. And then after that, I realized, I don't know what that person was. A little poppin' person there that was funny. It took about three years from 2008 to 2012 to develop my system. So when I first started trading, I was not making money, but then I did start making money. And actually I was in a trading room where I was talking in the room and I was actually kind of calling trades in the room. And then somebody said, you should start to do videos. So then I started to do videos on YouTube. And then somebody said, oh my gosh, you have a really good system, you should teach people this. And then I just kind of fell into it. So it was not like when I first started trading that I ever planned to actually teach my system to anyone. But I think one of the reasons that my system is such a good system is because I developed it for myself, not for anybody else. So the one class that I did take actually cost more money than my class right now, even though that was like 15 years ago, it taught me a basics of technical analysis. It didn't teach me how to make money. And so there's a lot of classes out there. And I think as you go along over the years, you have to make your own decision. Does this person seem like they know what they're talking about? Go into a trading room trial, you know, and follow the person for a while. I have people that are following me. I have a guy that just signed up for the class actually, he's doing the class next weekend. He's been following me for three years. Three years it took him to make up his mind. Now that's a very, very long time actually.  Again, I think that there's so many people out there you have to kind of use common sense when you're making the decisions for yourself who you wanna go and learn from. Also, this time of the day has to work for you. I'm trading between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time. If you're working or you can't do that, then you can't trade in my life for him. And also you have to be able to do options or have an options account if you wanna do options. But you can open up an options account for the broker as little as $2,000. So I mean, it's again, it's whatever works for you. Whatever person seems to connect with you or resonate for you. And that's what you have to do. But yes, I do trade and I've been trading for a long time and I didn't start out doing options. So I started out doing day trades. I was probably started doing options about it was like 2014, 2015. And actually my broker was the one that encouraged me to look into doing options. She's noticed and saw my trades and she would see that some of the trades would actually continue the second day. She's the one that said, Melissa, you should start to look into this, start to do it. And then I kind of just started doing them. And then I started applying my gap method to options too. And one of the things that's so profitable about doing options is not just you can trade high cost stocks for less money, but also that you can capture overnight moves. So if you, for example, buy a call and the stock gaps down the next day, it could be way through the money or you could buy or gaps up the next day. It could be way through the money in a call or you buy a put and the stock gaps down the next day and you could be up a lot of money if it's down if you bought the put the day before. That does not happen in every trade I take, okay? But that does happen in some trades which make them very profitable. So you're capturing overnight moves without the risk of having a swing trade. When you take a swing trade, I don't wanna get too off topic here, but when you take a swing trade you're still on margin to one or cash. When you have an options account to capture the overnight move, you have a fixed risk. So for example, if I risk $8,000, I can't lose any more than that. Even if I would short the market and then we would gap up on Tuesday morning, money the market's closed for Juneteenth, I would only lose 8,000 if the whole trade would go bust, for example. So you have a fixed risk which is like the insurance and that's the other reason why trading options is also advantageous. Let me see here. Do I check volume? Someone's asking about option flow. I check volume. I don't check anything that's not volume. No, I'm not upset at all except for the fact that somebody's window came up, somebody's picture came up, which is actually kind of funny because that was not me just so you know. I don't have my webcam up but my office is not totally organized yet. One day I will be totally organized and totally unpacked in my new apartment and then you can see my beautiful home but right now I'm still situated that. Let's get back to what we were saying. Institutional money is in charge of the stock market at all times. A big flow of money going in a certain direction is what moves the market's stocks, creates momentum and sets the trend in charts. When you're looking for institutional money you're really reading the side of the power in a stock.  Institutional money is in charge of market and stocks at all times. Now I was talking earlier about target. Actually I didn't do this move here. So this fell, again I talked on TV, everyone was talking on TV, it was a Newsmax talking about target. You know, we didn't do this, okay. We ended up doing a later trade in this here. It worked, it fell, okay. But you know, you could have gotten this here.  Again, this was not an earnings gap, it was a news gap. I talked about this in Newsmax how people were boycotting target. They were upset about some of the pride displays. Anyways, we did some options in this and we did some day trades in this. This was 612, right here, that little bar. We entered it here, 126.50, shares was 3500, risk was 31.50, eggs was 125.55, profit was 33.25. This is a trade on margin. If you cannot trade on margin you could have bought the 125 puts, okay. Or you buy as close as the strike as you can which would have been the 125s to get it down. And again, you could have made money. And again, I'm doing the weeklies, okay. Oh, here's the one minute. So again, this is 612. And again, in the trading room, I'm live in the room. If you want a trial to the room, you can email me. I call the trades live in the room. You must be there to get them.  So anyways, this close to your gap down fell, rallied. We shorted it, got the drop. Again, nice trade, beautiful trade, got the drop right in here. Again, in and out quick depends how much size you are taking. I don't think this is crazy expensive. This is probably medium priced in Target. Then we also did Mew. Again, we were talking about institutional, buying and institutional selling. What's happening in Mew? It's sold off. So the entry was 65.50, shares was 4,000, risk was 3,200, exit was 64.48. Again, I'm looking for a dollar. Whatever I risk, whatever my position size is, I'm looking to make one to one. And I did. So 4,080 was the profit with the 3,200 dollar risk on Mew. You could have taken 1,000 shares. You would have made a little over $1,000. Again, when I'm in the live room, I'm calling the trade when I'm doing it. You must learn how to do this, but I do offer trials where I call to get in first, the stop, and then I call where I'm getting out. You do not have to get out where I get out. You can hold longer. Like I said, NVIDIA kept going. So there are trains where I will take the faster exit and they still continue to go, okay? This was the Mew here from 6.8. Stock close here, gap down, fell. So that was the day that we shorted it. And again, this is a bearish gap. And again, this is the one minute. It's gonna watch my time here. So again, it's all about institutional money. Just talking about here, what is a gap? A stock gap to the opening price today is different than the closing price of yesterday's trading. A gap is a break in price action from one day to the next, simple. So in the case of Mew, again, it closed a four o'clock gap down here at 9.30 and fell like that. So again, it fell quickly and fast. That's what you're looking for. That's what you wanna do. Each and every single solitary day. Same thing with Target. Target, again, was institutional selling.  Institutional money was selling off the stock. So there's one thing that's in charge of the market at all times. It's power money. Power money is in charge. Power money is in charge of the stock's direction. Trends are set and moved by the power money people, of which was a lot of the market. And I think it's very difficult for traders because again, many, many traders wanna do things that are tricky. What I do actually makes perfect sense. It's common sense. People wanna do things that are tricky because they think that's how they're gonna make a lot of money. Again, it's not about that. It's about being consistent and having more wins and more winners than losers. If you have more winners than losers, you are gonna make money overall. You have to risk the same amount or close to the same amount in every trade that you take. That's how you can be consistent. Because what if you took one trade, say for example, and you risk $1,000 and then you took five trades and you risk $200? Well, you could have one bad trade and then five good trades and be breakeven or even upside down. So the point is that your risk has to be consistent and you also need more winners than losers. But everything I focus on is based on gaps. Gaps happen every day in the market on a regular basis. However, some gaps are better than others. And I'm always looking for the big move. This is another one we did. This was 524. Again, this was a gap down in the spine. Close to your gap down fell, boom. Profit was 3,450. And again, this was the spine. This was this day here. We shorted it, got the drop. So you need a foundation to trade. You need an infrastructure. For me, it is gaps, okay? And the thing is that a lot of people are buying the dips right now in the market. It is working because the market has rallied, like I said, for the last couple of days and the last couple of weeks. That's not gonna continue all year. So whether the market's bullish or whether the market's bearish, I'm always looking each day for something different to do. Some days I do do the market. Some days I do something different. But a stop is most there's gaps every day. Whether I'm finding a good gap or a gap that's not good is up to me when I look at the rating system when I'm analyzing something. And the reason I prefer to short and I'm focusing on bearish institutional money is because short moves happen very fast and very quickly. And again, we've done the market but the market's been rallying quite a bit lately. So I mean, there's times where we'll do the market but there's times where we're looking for very specific stocks like Target or even we did Foot Locker. This was one we did. Funny to look at this here now in the spy. I did the 415 puts. Again, this is crazy to think about now. This was a month ago. It was before my Moral Day weekend, May 23rd. I bought a put in the spy. I'll go show you the chart in a minute. I mean, to think about where the market's at right now this is crazy, but this was pretty reasonably priced. $3, 25 cost 7,500. So again, my average risk is $8,000 per option straight. Again, I have been trading options now for over eight years. If you're someone that is new to options trading I would say keep your risk under $500, okay? Or under $300. Even $1,000 is a good risk. So you could have made $1,500 for the $1,200 risk. 125% investment on this trade. Let's look at it. This was 8.36 in the morning. I sent it out the 415 puts. Here was the day. Again, spy closed here, gapped down, take it over, fell through into the strike. Gapped down again here, fell through. See it? I don't know if somebody's phone is ringing. Somebody's phone is ringing. Sorry, boxer again. The time of the day is so important to make money. And I will just- Melissa, I apologize. One of the other presenters got unmuted somehow. I'll just keep talking through it. This is like live TV where something happens like on live TV, which has happened before. One time I was on Newsmax to tell you really quick on live TV and the feed cut off of the anchor. I couldn't hear what the anchor was asking me, but I knew what the topic was. I said, I can't hear what you're saying, but I'm just gonna talk. And I just started talking because it was her Skype. It was on a Skype pit. Anyways, getting back to trading. Once you learn how to do it, it's really, really not hard. Does it mean that you never have hard days? No, I have had some hard days over even the last month. I've had some hard days where I'm gonna train. It doesn't go as fast as I want. It doesn't go as quick as I want, and again, or it doesn't go in the direction that I wanted to. With options, you have to get the timing right. So yeah, you can take a train and it may go, you could buy a call, for example, and it might go up. But if I don't get the momentum in that call before my expiration date, preferably before the expiration or on the expiration date, then I could lose in the trade but be right in the direction that the stock might be higher. So it's not that you're never gonna have bad days once you become successful and making money. It's that you have way more good days than bad days. It's that you're up week over week, month over month, and year over year. And again, how good of a week or a month you have depends on the quality of your picks. And it also depends on how much money you're risking, but you can't risk a lot of money until you learn what to do. So when I first started trading options, like I said, it was around 2014, 2015, I was only risking $1,000 in my options trades. It was enough that if it worked and I had like a 200% return investment trade, I made two grand, it was happy. And while I was still trying to develop my whole system doing it with the options way, then I only lost $1,000. So again, if you're new to options, I say keep it under 500, but you can start with 1,000, but that's a good enough amount that if you lose in it, it's not the end of the world. But again, I've been doing options now for over eight years and trading for 15, day trading, whether you wanna day trade or whether you wanna do options, it's totally, totally up to you, which depends on whether you have a margin account or an options account. But you need a daily focus and it's about having a high probability like I talked about which I teach in my class, which is a 26 point rating system. So I teach a class, it's once a month. Sometimes I get busy, I don't do a class one month, I'm too busy with TV and trading, but I try to do a class once a month. The next class is June 24th and 25th and I teach my 26 point golden gap rating system and helps you pick which stock to trade each day. It's a checklist, this is what you will learn in my class, you will also learn how to raise institutional money, you will learn the entries, you will learn the exits, you will learn targets and again, it's a full weekend class. It's nine a.m. to five p.m. eastern time, the class is online and it teaches you how to enter the stock each day. But it is about empowering yourself like I talked about at the beginning to make money in the market and you need a system to do that. My class is called the golden gap course. It's a full today course on how to strategically find, pick and play stocks at a professional bearish gaps, the class is online. It's 69.99 for the class, it's June 24th and 25th, nine a.m. to five p.m. eastern time and again, if you'd like a trial of the live room, I trade in the room live money through Friday, you can email me for a trial but you cannot join the room until after you do the course. The course is a prerequisite for actually joining the room. The room opens at nine a.m., I trade between nine 30 and 10, 10, 15, maybe I might trade till 10 30 and again, you can go to YouTube, I have tons and tons of videos on YouTube, some of the live room which you can watch to see what we do. Now I'm doing a hawk special, look at that. This hawk is on my roof, this hawk lives on my roof so I went up to the roof like about a month ago and I saw him, it was unbelievable. This hawk is huge, he was so close. I've taken a bunch of friends up there. In fact, if you go to my YouTube, I have some videos of him, amazing, amazing creatures. I mean to see a hawk this size up so close, again, I live right on Central Park. I mean, so it's crazy, crazy to see something this size is close. I mean, it was an unbelievable sight. It was an unbelievable sight. Actually, I took my father up there this morning, we didn't see him. He probably was out hunting this morning but I'm sure he's up there at some point today. Anyways, I'm doing a special really quickly for the class. If you sign up by next Friday, the class again, it's starting on Sunday, you get the training room and the options newsletter free through the end of this year and five one hour mentoring sessions with you. So the class is 69.99, everyone pays the same. I'm offering these bonuses, the hawk special bonus. Let me just see what people are saying. Hawks hunt pigeons, well, they hunt a lot of things.  Should be at least 10K. You know what? I feel like I'm trying to support people. I'm trying to support people. Some people think the class is underpriced. When they see the class, some people think it's overpriced when they paid for classes that are $1,000. You get what you pay for with me.  I'm trying to make it reasonable so people can put it on a credit card and pay. But at the end of the day, it is up to you if it sounds like something that you wanna do. And again, you can feel free to call me if you have questions. I think people have to sift through what's out there. But again, the level of commitment that's necessary to be successful must be there. Or you won't be successful. And so again, it's how much do you value your time, what you wanna do and do you wanna make it? Like I said, there's plenty of time left in the year to make money. Even if you've not been making money the first part of this year, you will be successful if you learn what to do. Okay, great. Thanks so much. I think I'm, am I good with time? You're fine. If I'm happy to let anybody run a minute or two over, usually the next presenter understands. But if you wanna end it here, we'll thank you. We'll ask any further questions to be directed to you through email or by calling your number. Sure. And that's it. Your topic, how to make fast trading in 30 minutes a day, had me on the edge of my seat. I love your golden gaps course. I'm curious what the criteria is. It's a lot. 26 things. Yeah, 26 things is a lot. These, before I get really quick, I took these pictures too in Central Park. Look at those turtles. I've become a nature girl. I tell ya, it's, this has done wonders for me living by the park. And again, think about the takeaway out before I go is think about the quality of your life. You do not have to work 40, 50, 60 hours a week to have everything you want. You can earn a good income and still have free time. So have a wonderful Father's Day weekend, everyone. Thank you, Melissa. Thank you for being.