Awesome, let's do it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another Let's Talk Crypto. This is actually episode number 20. Today is Monday, July 10th. It's two o'clock Eastern Standard Time, and I'm here with my host, the BTC Queen. How you doing? Hey, hey, all good. Episode 20, wow, milestone, moving on up in the world. So that's awesome. Yes, definitely. It's pretty good so far. It's Monday, it's a good day. Are you doing anything interesting today, Jay? Today, not really. I've basically been trading. I woke up, started trading when the market opened, and that's basically been it. I've been doing some charting. I've been looking at the charts. I've been doing some updates. I've been putting up updates on the new social media app threads. Are you on there yet? You know, it's very buggy from, I downloaded the app, and then I didn't sign up because apparently, if you ever want to delete the app, as of right now, you have to delete your Instagram. And basically just data mines, all this stuff it doesn't need. It was just not great from what I saw, and I was like, uh, I don't know. Yeah, I definitely get it. What was the experience of it? It's been all right. I think the feed is a little weird. There are some things that are a little weird, but I think that's all part of it. It's weak right now. That what? It seems weak right now. I mean, it's very, it just launched, so I'm sure it needs to be tweaked, but... Oh, 100%. It's not Twitter, right? It's not Twitter, but what I like about it is that since it's basically connected to your Instagram, you don't have to start from scratch to build a following or whatever it is. So a lot of my Instagram following is just kind of transferring over to that, so it gives you a base to kind of build on. And yeah, I think it's been, like I've been getting a lot more engagement on there than I've been getting on Twitter as of late. So, I don't know, I've only been on it for probably like three or four days now, so I haven't been on it a super long time and I haven't really used it too much. I've made it like probably like four or five posts on there, but I mean, it seems all right so far, you know? I can't, there's definitely a lot more that needs to be added to it to really make it a good experience if they wanna have a shot at going up against a Twitter, for example, but I definitely see a world where they can coexist and kind of be for platforms that serve different purposes, so. Right. Yeah, I think, I mean, I guess we all know about how Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg wanted to do that ring match. I think they chose a date and a place, I believe as a blade. Really? Yeah, they had agreed to do it at like some like UCF, the like thing, I remember seeing it. It's funny. And that was right after Threads came out and there was a letter to, basically like a cease and desist letter sent to Mark Zuckerberg from Elon slash Twitter's lawyer because it was basically copy-paste of Twitter and yeah, Elon didn't like that. He's like, I paid $44 billion for this app and usually copy-paste is not cool. So, yeah, very interesting, very interested to see what pans out here because I don't know. Yeah, I saw, I saw a meme that said Threads was built using these three keyboard buttons and it's the control of the C and the V. So that was pretty funny. Yeah, that's going around for sure. That's too funny. Yeah, so let's get into some crypto. As you guys know, the price of crypto usually goes up throughout our live streams. Let's see if that happens again today because it's been basically ranging for the most part here. As you can see for sensitivity, since the 23rd of June, we're basically, we've been stuck in this range, right? Where we've been basically bouncing around that $29,000, $30,000 range and we've gone up as high as that $31,000 range. So we've been kind of stuck in this range, right? Let's take a look at what the overall market, what's going on in the market, how things are looking overall and as you can see right now, Bitcoin's price is at $30,262. If we go over to Coin Market Cap to see what the markets looked like for the last seven days and it gives us a general idea, right? Bitcoin's down about 2% in the last week. Ethereum down about 4%, almost 5%. We have, let's see what else, any other big numbers? We have Solana has actually been rallying. It's up over 9% in the last seven days. We also have Litecoin is down 11%, almost 12% over the last seven days. Matic is up over 4% in the last seven days. And those, Solana and Matic were some of the cryptos that were mentioned in that lawsuit against Binance and Coinbase. So it's pretty interesting that while the rest of the market is down, those are starting to rally back up. Cause I think they kind of, there was an initial overreaction probably on those and they're just kind of catching back up with the markets probably. It seems like that's what's going on. Yeah, the thing that happened to XRT whenever that lawsuit came out, it like dumped really hard and then it pretty much ricocheted back to where it was and then some more. Right, exactly. So, so yeah, as we just kind of go down the list, you know, you can see for the most part in the last week, the market has been down. And that's not only crypto but traditional markets as well have been read probably over the last week. Now, if we look at the top gainers and losers over the last seven days in the top 100 market cap, you can see Solana is at the number one position right now up over 9% of 9.5%. We have Leo token up 6.4%. Polygon up 4%. Curved out up about 2.5%, Avalanche 1%. So not really too much going on on the top loser side. We have Flow down 18.5%, Beppe down 16.5%, Phantom down 16.5%, the Graph down 14.5% and Apecoin down 14.3%. So that pretty much gives you an idea of what the overall market, what it's been looking like. There really hasn't been too much going on. It's been, and as you can see from the chart itself, this is a four hour chart and we've just kind of been in this range, right? We've been going up and down, up and down between 30,000 up to 31,000. And I think for the next day or two, we can probably expect something similar. However, on Wednesday, things will definitely change because if we look at the economic calendar here, you can see what's going on on Wednesday. It is inflation day, right? The inflation reports come out and this year, this report, CPI week has basically been igniting the crypto markets overall. So if we kind of take a look and if we remember back, if we click here real quick, you can see that we've done, ever since we topped out at 9.1% here back in June of last year, we've gone one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11 months in a row of drop in inflation. And for this week, for Wednesday, consensus is that it continues to drop by another 0.9%. So it's supposed to be dropping from 4%, which is what came out on the report last month, to 3.1%. That's what the consensus is. That's what the market is expecting. So as usual, when the report comes out, if it's worse than the consensus, markets usually react bearish towards that. If it's better, then usually they react more bullish towards it. So we'll have to see, and you also have to be prepared because usually there's an initial reaction and then there's an after reaction and it could be moves in completely different and in opposite directions. So be prepared for that on Wednesday. That's definitely going to be the biggest thing happening this week. And historically speaking, if we kind of take a look back at, what has happened during CPI weeks this year? Cause like I mentioned earlier, CPI week has been igniting the crypto rally. So it might not be the only reason that crypto has been going up, but there is a pattern here. And if we look back January, Bitcoin during CPI week, Bitcoin went up 25%. February, during CPI week, Bitcoin went up 14%. In March, Bitcoin once again, up 25%. April, up 9%. June, up 1.5%. So June, which was last month, not really too much movement, but it did still end up green. And I did skip a month and that was on purpose because in May was the only month this year where Bitcoin ended up in the red during that week. It was down 5% that week. But if you remember, there was a lot of things going on in May. So it might not all have been just on the CPI. What else? Yeah, so that's basically the main thing that we're going to be watching this week. I think that's going to basically set the floor, set the stage for what the rest of this week is probably the way it's gonna play out. So we gotta be ready to see what happens there. And I think that is what's going to get us out of this trading range here potentially, right? Cause we could see an initial reaction or a push either to the upside or downside within a reverse and then kind of right back where we started trading within this range. So we've seen that back here where we had a big push down here to the 29,000, what was it, 400 range. And we saw it up here where we had a big push up to the 31,500 range and both times that reversed all the way back. So basically what we're watching, right? We have to kind of see and reevaluate once we get that news on Wednesday. So I think it's time to dive into some news. Are you ready for some news? Let's do it. All right, let's get it. All right, so this week, nothing, I guess too exciting. There's a lot of drama. Probably the most exciting thing that happened was around Arkham, but yeah. So first and foremost, let's kind of retrace some of the stuff that I guess lingered from last week into this week. So we talked about BlackRock and their ETF and the Chicago board of NASDAQ speaking to the SEC and then basically saying like, hey, there's information missing. We need this information. You are more than welcome to resubmit the ETF as long as we have this information, right? So pretty much they filed, they ETF again, they refiled and they included their surveillance partner as none other than Coinbase. So Coinbase, I believe they were doing Coinbase custody and that was, I believe in the original ETF filing to begin with, but I guess they needed the specific verbiage of using saying surveillance partner, which I guess custody and surveillance, maybe they're the same thing. So let's see what happens there. Again, very interested in seeing how this affects this lawsuit. It's seemingly enough, you know, they probably have like different entities that they operate by when they do these things, but it's just wild, just absolutely insane. Yeah, absolutely insane. I saw today the ex chairman of the SEC was, he was saying that the Bitcoin spot ETF that he thinks that it should be approved. So that was just recently, earlier today, he was on live TV and they basically asked him about it and he gave his opinion and thought on it. And he was saying that, yeah, that he thinks that it should be approved, that there's no reason for it not to be approved. So yeah, that's something I saw earlier today. Okay, well, let's see. Let's see what happens there. So let's go from Coinbase to Binance. So Binance, I guess in the midst of facing all this litigation, initially it was rumored that some of their executives were stepping down and then it was reported that they are basically cutting down workforce, mostly within the US it seems since operations are fizzling down because they are facing regulatory scrutiny and all the stuff that's going on in court. So that was to be expected. To be honest, it seems that Coinbase because they stand a little more strong in their case, they are not the same. Interestingly enough, for the past few weeks, coins on Binance have been selling cheaper than they have been anywhere else. So Bitcoin was selling I believe for $26,000 just yesterday on Binance US. ETH was at like $200 under, a lot of assets were undervalued on there. So it was some nice arbitrage that existed. However, it's not like they could do, it's not like new customers could have been onboarded and I don't think that customers that had existing funds on there could also get their funds off. So it was one of those things where that's what was happening on the platform supposedly but you really couldn't take advantage of it which I thought was kind of a viable to see that gap in arbitrage. But anyways, moving on to some gossip. Crypto Twitter has been gossipy lately.  It just seems like they were the gaslighting this guy or Taylor I guess in the sense because it just seems crazy. So I guess FTX was supposed to have Taylor Swift be one of the celebrities that endorsed the exchange. And there was a deal on the table that she had already accepted for $100 million and she was gonna do it. And then SVF apparently came along because he was seeking vengeance against, I guess a friend against Taylor Swift and to turn the deal down. Now, I don't know why, again, anyone is bragging about this. I don't know why anybody is bragging, especially SVF because this is an SVF problem. Anyone is bragging about SVF turning down giving Taylor Swift $100 million when your exchange went bankrupt. What are you talking about? Why is this something to gloat about? It was just beyond me. And I thought that was funny, if anything, and sad because it's like, what are you doing? Anyways, supposedly they got, I think it was $7 billion that they found. I don't know where they got $7 billion back. Let's see if there's something that gets resolved from this whole process of retrieving money and let's get some consumers their money back. So interestingly enough, with this new movement towards these Bitcoin ETFs, BlackRock, specifically the studio Larry, shipped his narrative from the cryptocurrencies being completely malarkey, pretty much. To now he called Bitcoin digital gold. He referred to Bitcoin as digitizing gold. And with that, that has set a trend in the past week that has ricocheted and pretty much has removed the connotation of Bitcoin and proof of work and it being bad and this terrible thing in the media to Bitcoin saves lives. Bitcoin saves people escaping from Sudan. Bitcoin is actually environmentally friendly. It's absolutely insane how this has happened overnight quite literally and nothing has changed, nothing's changed. It's just that there's a big company now that needs people to invest into this ETF that they have. So of course, writers are gonna be on their side and it's quite the example of how the media is controlled and manipulated to serve a narrative, whatever narrative that is in the moment. So remember this guys, just remember this moment because it's real. Yeah, it's been, it's been, wow. And I just posted a video the other day. I think it was on JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon when that he was saying, I think it was like one or two years back, I forgot when exactly it was that he was saying that he would never buy Bitcoin that if any of his traders were caught buying Bitcoin or anything like that, they would immediately be fired. And so the price of Bitcoin during that time dropped like 24% or whatever. And at the same time, it was found that JP Morgan was the biggest buyer of Bitcoin during that time. So be careful with the news. Oh, we understand. Remember that manipulating media is not, it's in that gray area. It's not considered insider trading, right? It's not really especially in crypto. So you have to be very, very careful if you make decisions based on media based on news events, because a lot of the times they're just trying to, it's smoke and mirrors. They're trying to get, scare you off basically so that they can get in for a lot cheaper. So definitely something to always be watching. Yeah, it's irrational to think, because two years ago, they had their private blockchain.  It is insane to think that someone who has their own digital asset built on technology to think that they will also be against that thing. If you guys ever see stuff like that, same thing with Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, they were also one buyers of Bitcoin, but then more buffets like, oh, Bitcoin bad. Are you insane? Connect the dots, it doesn't make any sense. JP Morgan granted much worse example because they actually not only invest in the asset, but also build using the tech. And that's just crazy. So just remember guys, there's a lot of, a lot of these people you see in the news excited and saying things about assets, our chances are they're just not true and quite sad. So there's that part. Yeah, so let's see how things go moving forward. Bitcoin overall looks very, very bullish. It started off the week strongly, Jason earlier, and we'll get into the market analysis later, but don't be fooled by these con artists, be smart. So crypto.com, oh, we love crypto.com. So crypto.com sent $50,000 to a user last year in 2022 in June. And they, I guess it was by accident, they sent him too much money. And now they want $76,000 back. What? That doesn't even make sense. So they want the $50,000 in return, plus they want them to pay legal fees pretty much. So apparently, supposedly initially crypto, I remember hearing about this, crypto.com had contacted the person and asked them to return the money. And apparently the person refused to return it. And now, now since they never returned it, or refused to return it, pretty much crypto.com is like, hey, you need to give us our money back and you need to pay for all the legal fees for our lawyers. So they want a total of $76,391 and $50,000. 46 cents, which the guy has declined to do so. He's like, you don't get to have that. That's right. Yeah, so I don't even know. Apparently they may try to figure something out. You know, it's not the first time that crypto.com has done this either. Like it's probably the second or third time they have accidentally sent people too many zeros. So there was this lady in Australia, they send, she was owed a hundred Australian dollars. They sent her $10 million. Wow. Like she was doing this. That's insane. And they didn't notice until seven months later in an audit, you know, like it's like, you guys, it's just absolutely wild. It's like, oh yeah, $10 million, no problem, gone. It's like. I need them to send me one to make one of those mistakes with me, geez. Yeah, not great. Yeah, so the problem is, I think the lady actually ended up spending a lot of that money. She bought like a multi-million dollar home and stuff. And then, but she was arrested because it was considered theft. Yeah, but she posted bail and I think they're awaiting trial. Yeah, I don't know.  That's all I got to say. All right, next story. So I guess the last thing that we're gonna talk about today is going to be about Arkham. So Crypto Twitter has been talking about Arkham for the past, I guess, day or so. It looks like their new Docks to Earn surveillance program is just coming fresh off the press. It's funny because people are making fun of them because they made a typo in the video when they released it to Twitter. Blockchain was spelled wrong. Anyways, so pretty much they will give people the ability. I guess it's a way to help analysts, like blockchain analysts. And people are afraid that people in exchanges will use this, even though the information is like technically already Docks. If you're using a KYC exchange, it doesn't make any sense to be afraid of information being Docks. You shouldn't be using one if you're trying to hide anything, guys. It's like a robber going to their bank and robbing it using their credit card. It just doesn't make any sense, right? So let's not do that. Anyways, so pretty much their new surveillance program gives a savvy blockchain analyst the ability to be paid to basically Docks people's addresses. So for the most part, Ethereum is not really private. So really like things like Monero and maybe Zcash, Bitcoin is a little harder to trace as well because of all the addresses. But these things are not easily, I guess, identifiable if you have privacy coins or use privacy chains. If you're using something like Ethereum, I mean, your information is all out there. And people, a lot of people use their Dock Eats and their Dock This and their Dock That. A lot of people use exchanges that are KYC compliant to onboard. So for the most part, I don't think it's like a super scary thing. Some people are actually like really afraid and they're like, okay, government. They're basically calling Arkham the government. But I think that these things are useful for the purpose of trying to find out who scammers are in the space and stuff like that. And it's not, again, it's kind of just like giving people the ability to backtrack and like monetize analysts more than like, hey, here's a service, it's free. It's not free, it's literally for people like who are willing to analyze. It's kind of like a, it's just like a marketplace pretty much. So I don't think it's anything crazy. Like the more I think about it, at first I was just like, oh, that's kind of weird. But at the same time, there's not because there's a lot of like shady stuff that happens in crypto. And it's important to figure out how to, I guess like Zach at XBT, he's probably the best example of somebody who does this. He sees a scam and he backtraces it pretty easily and is able to verify information pretty easily. And crypto Twitter appreciates that. But there's not a lot of those guys out there who are kind of just out of the public. So it gives people the ability to hire these individuals. So really, it's just a marketplace guys. Nothing scary. If you're not doing anything illegal, then you should be fine anyways. I think that for the most part, this is for people who are like legitimately scamming and wrong pulling people. And yeah, nothing to be afraid of, to be honest. So that's it. That's all the news we have. So remember, SVF turned down Taylor Swift. You can tell your mom. So that's it. Yeah, so not too much going on today. Well, this week, as far as news as you guys can see there. But what we're gonna do now is going to a price analysis here and see what's going on. And while you were talking, the price of Bitcoin went up. It went up about almost $100. So once again, and once again, while we live stream, the price of Bitcoin starts moving up. I don't know why. I don't know what it is that we're doing, but we're doing something right. Because as you can see right now, it's up about $100 ever since we started this live stream. So that's another W for us, I think. Yeah, so let's go ahead and jump into the analysis. Remember guys, if you guys have any questions about anything that we're talking about, anything in crypto overall, drop it in the comments after we do the analysis here. Then we're gonna go back and answer some of the questions that you guys have for us, if of course we have an answer for you. So without further ado, without any further delays, let's jump into it. So let's start off at the monthly, I mean, I'm sorry, at the weekly here. And we can see, because we just closed the week, last week, last week, we were down about 1.5% as far as for Bitcoin. And you can see overall, let me go to a bit of a clearer chart here. You can see overall, we've pretty much, we broke out of that falling wedge and we're pretty much back at this exact same resistance that we were at last time. So again, on this chart here, you can see the red line, the red box there, that's a resistance, right? Now, the bearish case scenario here is that this could potentially be a double top if we get rejected here and drop back down. So that's something that we need to keep an eye on. But overall, if we're just kind of taking the overall picture here, we can see that overall, we still have a very nice and healthy trend to the upside where we had set lows and highs and then we set up higher highs, higher lows, higher high, higher low. And then now we're trying to make that next move up to this next green box, our next target here, to set up a new higher high there. And then after that, then I'm sure the price will go back down, set up some higher lows again, and then continue its way up from there. Now, this is the weekly chart. So this is not saying that this is gonna happen right away. It's gonna play out within months probably. It'll be a months of time, right? It's not something that's gonna happen right away. Let's go in if we look at the daily chart here. We can see pretty much the same thing, but we have a better picture on what that range looks like over the last couple of weeks, right? Where we've just kind of been stuck here, right? We've been wicking down, we've been wicking up. And now, we're using that 30K, you can see $30,000 there has held up very, very well. And you can see also 30.8. It looks like it is around the range. 30.8 to $31,000 is what I would say has been a big resistance as well there. So that's basically where the Bitcoin's price has been ranging in. Of course, there's some deviations to the upside here. And that has to do a lot with liquidity levels. It has to do with the market makers. They're stop hunting basically. They know that if you're trading a breakout or if you're trading or you're trying to short the market, they're trying to take as much liquidity as possible, right? They're trying to liquidate as many people as possible as well and they do that by moving into the areas where people will either have their stop losses or people will have their breakout entries, right? So that's why you see a lot of times, like look at this move right here, this candlestick where we set up a new high. That right there triggered anyone that had a stop loss. Let me get my brush. If you had a stop loss set up right above this yearly high, guess what? That got triggered. So if you're trying to short this because you're like, hey, we're at a resistance, I'm gonna short this here and I'm gonna, and because I know the price is gonna drop back down to the $30,000 support. So if that's what you're trying to do, then what these people are doing, they're like, well, we know that a lot of traders have their stop losses there. So what are we gonna do? We're going to trigger those stop losses and then we're gonna dump the market. So now you're stopping out, anyone who was trying to short this move got stopped out there, right? The next thing is for breakout traders. So if you're looking to trade a breakout, you're probably looking at that yearly high. You're like, all right, that yearly high, I'm gonna set up an open long entry right above that yearly high. And if we break that yearly high, we're probably gonna continue up higher, right? That's a very common thought process. That's even a trade that I take a lot of times. And guess what happened? They were like, all right, we're going to trigger those long positions, those breakout entries and then we're gonna dump the market. So what just happened? The market triggered one, all the stops from the people that are short. If they're short, they're using that as a stop loss. That got triggered. So they stopped out of the trade. And two, anyone that had a long position above the yearly highs, those got triggered and then they dumped on them. So either they got liquidated or they got stopped out of their positions as well. So they just took up a whole bunch of liquidity. And that's usually what market makers are looking to do, to grab as much liquidity as possible, right? So that's when you see these deviations like we saw here right above the yearly highs. So now taking all that into account, now we're trying to figure out, okay, so we know where support is, we know where resistance is, which way, where can we expect this next move, right? And one of the things I like to look at is liquidity, right? So there's an indicator here called HTF liquidity and it kind of tells you, it shows you where there's potentially a lot of liquidity in the market, right? So the brighter green is the more that there is to the upside, the brighter red, the more liquidity there is to that downside, right? Now if we click on this chart that I have set up here, let me fix it really quickly here so that it makes sense. I think I'm zoomed in too much. All right, let me put that right there. All right, so the main thing, the first thing here, and I'm actually going to the four hour, I like to look at this on the four hour chart. So the first level that we're watching here is this right here, right? So this is where we are right now. This is a first more or less liquidity level. It's not that big, but there is some liquidity in this range between 30.4 all the way up to 30.8. And if you remember, we just spoke about 30.8 being a big resistance level, right? Where price has been rejected multiple times there. Now another thing that we need to notice here at this range is look at this big candle right here. So basically from here to here, which is pretty much the exact liquidity level, there was this massive candle to the downside. Now what happens when there's massive candles like this to the downside? Usually that gets filled, right? Those candles always tend to get filled back up because when there's a candle like this where it just drops straight down or goes straight up, there's a lot of liquidity left behind. There's a lot of orders that don't get filled because maybe price is moving too fast at those levels, right? So a lot of those orders don't get filled a lot of the times, which is why price eventually ends up retracing those moves. So that's one right there. And if you look, we saw it to the upside, this, there was a big candle there and two candles later, it got retraced that entire move. So, and you'll see that a lot. You'll see if you come across, look at this big red candle down and what did price do, it filled that back up before then going lower, right? Same thing, if you look at it, if you just keep going back in your charts, you'll see this over and over and over again, huge massive red candle and what a price do is slowly retrace all the way back up. And then look at this massive green candle, it slowly retraced all the way back to kind of fill that liquidity there. So we're seeing that same thing here. We have this massive red candle that has not been touched yet. This level has not been touched. So there's liquidity there. And that level goes all the way up to 30.8, $30,830. So that's an interesting level where I'm thinking depending on what we get on Wednesday, we'll probably see a move to that side, to that upside. And that'll be that first target, that first main target that we're gonna be watching for. Now, another thing that happens a lot that the market likes to do is fill these wicks. Whenever there's a long shadow, long wick in a candlestick, market also likes to fill them. And you can do the same thing, like if whenever there's been a wick, look at this wick here, there's a big wick, but the price still closed up here. But, and then after that, price came and filled that wick. Now, they don't always get filled 100%, but a lot of the times they do get filled at least halfway. So if we look back further, look at this massive wick to the downside. And we would say that the halfway mark is probably more or less around here, right? That's more or less the halfway mark of that wick. And look where price returned to that halfway mark. It hit that halfway mark and then it changed and continued its way, right? So taking that idea, we're looking at this wick right here. This is a massive wick to the upside that has not been touched yet. And as I'm speaking, price is still going up, guys. Bitcoin almost at $30,500. So we're up about $200 from when we started to show. But yeah, so that's why $31,200 is my next target here on a move up. Now, whoops, didn't mean to move that. Now, the next target that I have set up here is $31,555. And now this target is gonna be multiple things. There's multiple confluence for this target. The first one is this is 100% of the wick. If this wick gets retraced 100%, that's a target. The second one is if I move this out the way, you'll see there's a lot of liquidity there, right? This big green bar shows there's liquidity there, lots of orders there. And a lot of times the market likes to fill any areas where there's a lot of liquidity level. And the last thing is that this is the year to date high. This is a yearly high. So of course, there's going to be a lot of orders in this range. So that's why that's gonna be my next target there. And then my final target is gonna be this one right here, $31,700. And if you look, that's pretty much the brightest, one of the brightest marks of liquidity levels on the chart. And that's why I'm targeting that range there. And it is very likely for the market to push up, right? We push back up, let's say we have a bullish CPI inflation data report this week. It's very possible for prices to push up, push up, push up and break above the previous yearly high, right? And we spoke about what people like to do here, right? They like to deviate the range and break the high. So one, targets, it triggers stop losses for anyone going short. And number two triggers long positions for anyone going long. Then they go up here where there's a whole lot of liquidity, $31,700 and then retrace the move and stop out everyone that's long. So now you stopped out everyone that's short, you stopped out everyone that's long, you grabbed the liquidity from both sides. That's why that's an important level there because if they decide to do what they just recently did here to the traders in this move here, which was above this high, triggers the short stop loss, triggers the long traders breakout entries and then look at this candle, just completely retraced the entire move to the downside. Look at that, all the way down, right? If we think something like that could happen again, which is a very common thing that happens in all markets, not just crypto, then that's my target. My target's gonna be up here $31,700. And I think 32,000 is also a big level here. You can see there's a lot of liquidity there at $32,000. But I think if we break above 32, then there is a possibility that we continue up to at least like that 32.4 range, potentially even 32.6. You can see there's two big liquidity levels up there as well and if we break above it, we can hold 32,000 as a support. So I think that a move up this week will probably target that range there, that 31,200 all the way up to potentially a new high for the year 31,700, and then which is a big liquidity level there and then potentially dropping prices back down again. So that's pretty much what I'm watching for this week. Those are the main levels there. The way I'm gonna be playing it, I've basically been playing the $30,000 range pretty much for the past week or maybe even more, right? If we kind of look here, we have this $30,000 range here. Let me take off this. That's been just holding there, right? And I've literally just been scalping this range here. I've been buying there, buying there, buying here, buying here, buying all of this. I've just been literally entering long positions anytime price gets there at that $30,000 range. When there's been big fast moves like this one right here, I've just kind of been waiting, being patient, and then as the price went back up above $30,000, I've been then at that point buying. So I'm gonna keep doing the same thing if price returns back to $30,000 to that range. I'm gonna be entering long positions there until the structure gets broken. And I'm gonna be taking profits all the way up to that $31,000 range. I'll ideally wanna be taking the majority of profits probably before that $30,800 level. As you can see, it's been a big resistance level here while we've been in this range. So I'll probably be looking to take a majority of profits before getting to that level. And then once above that, once above $31,000, I might be looking to short if I see some sort of rejection like we've seen here with these big rejections to the downside, right? If I'm seeing, if I start seeing anything that looks familiar, that looks similar to this, I'm gonna be looking to open short positions, targeting once again the bottom of the range at $30,000. So that's pretty much what I'm looking at there for this week. That's how I'm setting myself up. I'll be looking long down here at the support and short up here at the resistance level. And just kind of, as long as we stay in this range, I'm probably, those are the two trades I'm going to continue taking. Now, if you're looking to trade other cryptos, the main thing you should be always watching is Bitcoin. Bitcoin's chart is the most important chart to watch even when it comes to other cryptos because for the most part, everything else follows Bitcoin. So if we look at Ethereum right now, Ethereum, look at this chart. It looks just like Bitcoin's chart, right? They look very, very similar. And that's because for the most part, they're always gonna be following, right? The majority of the cryptos are gonna be following the overall move of Bitcoin. Now, what the other cryptos do is that they usually exaggerate Bitcoin's moves. So if Bitcoin moves up 1%, other cryptos might move up 2 or 3%. If Bitcoin goes down 1%, other cryptos might drop 2 or 3%. So it just depends. It has also a lot to do with Bitcoin dominance. So if Bitcoin dominance is up like it is right now, Bitcoin's for the most part outperforming outcoins. Of course, there's always exceptions to that rule. As you can see, Solana has been outperforming Bitcoin over the last week or so. But for the most part, this always remains true. So those are kind of things to keep in mind. That's pretty much what it is that I'm going to be watching here. And that's how I'm gonna be playing it. So now if you have any questions about anything that we just spoke about, that we just covered, drop it in the comments and then we'll be more than happy to answer those for you guys. Queen, what do you think about Bitcoin's price right now? While we've been live, it's gone up $200. What are we possibly, what is it that we're possibly doing that's causing this reaction to the price? What's your expertise, expert opinion on that? We're having people fomo in and buy it on that price. That's what's happening. People are hitting that buy button.  Which is good, it's not financial advice. It's not financial advice. But every time we go live, I would buy. Yeah, I think whenever you see that our stream is starting up, just open up a position to the long side, right? And then as we're ending our stream, then close that position. And I think in the last month, if you would have been doing that every single time, you would have been making some profit. So that's definitely very interesting. And we're gonna keep monitoring this and it might have to create a trade alert anytime we go live if this continues. So yeah, it might be the best performing trade indicator if it continues like this. So yeah, so if you guys have any questions, post them up now. If not, we'll be wrapping things up. Let me take a look. I don't know if you have any questions. Nobody's posted anything on the chat yet. I had some on Instagram, but I can't, it looks like it already disappeared. Is there a way to pull it back up? Let me see. There used to be a way that you can pull it back up. I don't know if you can still do it. I did get a question on threads yesterday though. They said, and I thought it was a pretty funny question. It was, what was it? What, let me pull it up real quick. It was about Ethereum and Bitcoin. And it was, where is it? Where is it? Okay, I said, what has better tokenomics? Bitcoin or Ethereum? That was a question that I got yesterday on threads. What do you think about that? What tokenomics, Bitcoin or Ethereum? Well, not Ethereum because technically there's no max supply and I guess supposedly the burning of the money does something, but you're just burning, I don't understand. Like I don't understand. Like there's really no max supply in Ethereum and then we're just like burning it to inflate the price, which it just all seems like a waste. That is my opinion. Yeah, my answer was basically that I wouldn't compare the two because there are two completely different projects doing completely different things. Bitcoin is the OG, it is the gold standard and Ethereum is not really a competitor. It's not trying to do what Bitcoin is trying to do. It's trying to be its own self, right? So it's built completely differently. So I wouldn't say that and when it comes to like tokenomics, like you said, Ethereum theoretically has an infinite supply, right? There's no cap even though it does burn Ethereum and I think at this point now the supply has been going down because of that, but we know exactly how many Bitcoins there will ever be in existence and there will never be more. So there's a hard cap. So that's why that scarcity is probably the main thing and if you're talking scarcity, then Bitcoin obviously has a better tokenomics structure. However, again, I don't think they're competing against each other. I don't think Bitcoin's tokenomics has a negative effect on Ethereum's tokenomics or anything like that. They're two completely different things and I think they both play specific roles and they fulfill their purpose. So that was kind of my thoughts on that. Let me see. And somebody else asked, have you taken a look at CASPA? Have you? CASPA, CASPA is a cool project. I actually tried to reach out to some of their, I guess founding members and like it was just so hard to figure out who it was to begin with. CASPA is a proof of work project that's like all community-based. It's pretty cute. It was very similar to Bitcoin where there was like no pre-mine and a very few proof of work projects to do that kind of stuff. It's a pretty solid, out of all the proof of work projects, it's definitely one of the more solid ones. It's what I'd say. Do you have? Pretty, pretty helpful community. Do you hold any CASPA? Do I hold any? Yeah. I don't know. That's a good question. I might. Yeah. I know a lot of the Bitcoin maxis kind of, they really like CASPA as well because it's so similar. Yeah. Except for values. Right, exactly. Exactly. So I know that it's been something like that as well. I don't currently hold any CASPA. And then someone else asks, can the Cosmos ecosystem compete with Ethereum? Cosmos is right behind Ethereum at this rate in terms of like ecosystem and ecosystem size, which is pretty damn good, to be honest. I mean, we've seen Cardano, we've seen Solana that came in hot. Cosmos has sustained itself pretty well, even through hacks and all that kind of stuff. It's been pretty sustainable. So we'll see. I think that, I think that even with what's happening right now with the SEC and then basically like disregarding anything that is Ethereum, well, not anything that is Ethereum, but the Ethereum ecosystem itself and then saying like, hey, this thing over here, Cosmos, that's a security, like them even like doing that play, it kind of like would make you think like, no, not really not. But in terms of size and even the amount of projects that have been like pumping out that ecosystem, it's pretty damn good. So the winner today might not be the winner tomorrow, is what I gotta say on that. I think Bitcoin will always stay where it's at because Bitcoin is just a very unique asset. And it is what it is. As for Ethereum, I feel like Ethereum is extremely wasteful, in my honest opinion. The gas fees are still high and it's for no reason. And there is unnecessary things like double checking, contracts, like in MetaMask, if you wanna do a swap, for example, you need to pay for it to make sure that you're not like a blacklisted address before you buy an asset. It's like, there's like things that don't actually make sense. It's like, I end up, I remember I went to go do a swap out of one of my wallets and I pressed to prove and I thought, we're done. But no, I just gave these guys $5 to verify. What exactly? And then it's like, okay, well actually now you have to pay us double. It's like, it doesn't make any sense. And it's like actually a very uncomfortable ecosystem to operate in. It's just not great. Yeah, I honestly, the later twos, later twos are cool, but I really don't do too much with them. I mean, I have stuff on Arbitrum, I have stuff on Optimism, but it's just like, why even? Like to get stuff from there off, it's just a lot. It's just a lot and not something that I think for the long run, anybody wants to deal with. So I'm bullish on Adam. Right. Yeah, yeah. The same, my point of view is pretty much the same. And I don't think that Ethereum needs to fail in order for Adam to be successful. I think, even with Ethereum being successful, Adam can also be successful in its own right. So just kind of my thought on it, but I am invested in both those projects as well. So that's pretty much it. That's pretty much everything that I had here. If you have anything else, anything else you wanna share today or you think we got it all covered? Good, most part. I don't think there's anything off the top of my head. It is July 10th. Wow. Year is flying. I guess guys just remember, if you have some Litecoin, that Litecoin happening is coming up. Yeah. And I think that's it. I don't think there's anything else that requires major attention. DYOR, this is not financial advice. And we'll see you next time. Yep, for sure. And remember, we'll be here on every Monday. One either one PM or two PM, depending on what our schedule is like, because we're two people trying to make our schedule fit together. So sometimes we have to move the time a little bit, but we always try to make it on Monday between this time one, two o'clock, whatever it is that we can make it for this. So I appreciate you guys tuning in. Appreciate everyone who sent in some questions and appreciate everyone who's been supporting this. We are now in episode 20. So yeah, that's it. By the way, before we end, the price of Bitcoin is up $300. Since the start of the screen. So there you guys go. Alrighty guys, so we'll see you on the next one as always, peace and love.


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Felly yw Gweithneid Gweithgingaeth ar hyn yn ei gilydd hefyd. Rydyu'n adroedden yn galwyddoedd yn Gweithneid Gweithneid Lleif Coedeg ar Gweithneid Gweithneid Gweithneid Gweithneid. Mae'r modd yn gweithneid Gweithneid. Felly ydym ni'n gallu gwisiau gael o gwahod o'r painodau'n cysylltiad. Yn gyflaen… Yn gyflaen o'r painodau'n gweithneid, o'n cofnod o'n cysylltiadach. Mae fyddech chi'n gweithneid, discoverson nhw'n ddysgu. a gilydd y ffordd yma o bethau sy'n gallu gynhyrch yn ymdathiannol. Fyddech chi'n gilydd i gyd? Yn ei ddweud, fel yna dwi'n adonai'r gwahodd o'r hynny, oherwydd eich hoffi'r hwnnw, oherwydd y ddweud a'r hwnnw yn gallu'n gwahodd o'r gwahodd a'u pethau'r gwahodd. Felly bod ychydig iawn yr ydw i ddweud. Mae'r hoffi'r ddweud oherwydd eich hoffi ychydig iawn. pan dweud o'r rhaglen. Felly, roeddwn i'r clwn i'r ddechrau, roeddwn i'r meddwl. Oherwydd mae'n meddwl y fawr o'r ddweud, mae'n o'r ddweud o'r llawr o'r traxiau, o'r ddweud o'r ddweud, ac mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r gaelio, o'r gaelio a'r wych. Mae'n ddweud o'r gaelio o'r gaelio'r ddweud. Mae'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Ac ydych yn fywyd yn canolion i ddigon rhywun, yn ddigon rhywun? Ddhoo'r sannol yn y adysgrif iawn, roeddiad y ddigon, o'i ychydig ssutain bwysig yma, ac ydych yn ddweud y banyllai, o phwy dod o bobl, o'r hynny'r bwysig yn ddweud ydw i'r ynion ychydig yn eu cychwyn i'r ddim yn oed hwn. Don ni'n ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud. Y anoddogi, mae gennym i'r ysgrif iawn o'r perthyn nhw. ac Private to gain more deeper meaning and understanding of their mentality of their psychology and the stages they are at. because every stage of the child has got certain things that they will make them more or less someday and will raise their moods, hormone levels, and that behaviour changes. Ac ydych'n dweud, dyya ni dwi'n meddwl am y bydd ymgyrch drwy'n dweud, dwi'n meddwl am yr dyfodol yn y bydd â'r rhain, ac yn fom ni'n ddych chi'n gwybod yr straf, y rhaid, y nod i chi'r gweithio yn holl gwrs ar dangos. Ac those are the real important aspects. Firstly ydych chi wedi ymweld iddyn nhw ddim oes y mae'n meddwl am yr oedd eich cyfnod sy'n ei ddweud ar y pryd yma. Ac yna'r rŵл yn dweud i'n bwysig yw amddangos, That is not something that that you can overcome. Any challenge, any situation, anything that you're faced with it can be overcome. Instead of you just focusing on the problem, but focusing on the solution. and the process and the stages to actually overcome that. OK, what would you say to perhaps parents who are struggling with how the society we live in as being Muslim parents. Obviously there are certain things we want our children to refrain from. ond we want them not to sin and it can be difficult because their friends are in certain social groups they're doing certain things they want to be part of the group and it can be hard to constantly say to your child no you can't do this because you're Muslim and this is haram and this is a sin. Would you say approach of perhaps substituting things for the child so for example one thing that comes to mind if you have a girl and she sees that all of her friends are wearing nail polish and they're bright nail polish and you can perhaps negotiate with her to say well you know what I will allow you to wear nail polish that is a nude colour or clear colour because it's not so bright. Do you think these things can help with children because sometimes it's difficult to restrict them? Yes it is difficult to restrict them that's why the whole idea of being in a family is to really have strict values and beliefs that is in your foundation from the beginning. And you as parents need to know yourselves really well be in connection with what your values and beliefs are as well as today's society and psychology and how that fits and how that links and think about the actual, you know, not the differences but the actual connections of it. So in every household there's going to be restrictions it's not just about it being because of your religion a lot of the time we only think that religion is the restriction but actually it's just not appropriate it's just not good at this particular time. Just like schools will say you're not allowed make up or you're not allowed to wear really many skirts or whatever it may be and they have it and it's not religious purposes but they have that. So we have to teach our children that there are rules and boundaries within our households and for us yes it's even more so the fact that we can call upon religion but not in a negative way to say because there's protection, there's benefit, there's reasons for it. So there's actually much deeper meaning and understanding which we have to actually accumulate that knowledge and awareness first really solidly so that we can transfer that information to our children at different stages and ages as they're growing. And to be strict and even with raising teenagers you need to have boundaries they need to be a balance and they need to understand that because a lot of studies have even shown that strict to parents make better children in the future as well as adults. It's not just about restricting them it's about having a safety net. It's the way in which you approach educating them about religion, about the rights and wrongs, about what is good for you and bad for you and not just say well it's haram. What is the meaning? What is the purpose? You know if you are even going to compare, compare in a healthy way because there are many examples of people that have that freedom with their children and it doesn't necessarily work for them. And if anything you know they give them so much like also the other issue is I do train parents to become coaching parents because there's different types of parenting skills. There's lots of books out there and actually to be honest it could be quite confusing but it's very simple in coaching because you're not just giving them actual especially for teenagers.   So you know people take parenting and marriages and being even as brothers and sisters or any relationship really lightly but it's not. It actually can be a skill and a talent that you need to gain from awareness and knowledge of psychology and mindset as well as the approaches of how you are as a being. The treatment that you give others you know we say it very loosely and widely but if you take it into depth and if you take it into something that is a lot more constraint as to you know yes we have to treat people nicely but not just our strangers and neighbours but no in your actual household and use that as a practice first and then take it out. Exactly and it starts with your spouses and it starts with your children and the rest follows. And there is a skill to it absolutely and more and more parents are now struggling because they think when they're young they have to be strict and hold them tight and make sure they know everything and as they become teenagers they don't have that authority, they don't have the ability, they don't have that right. You always have that if you are in a particular way of being and your child is adapting to that. And yes there are stages they're going to be a bit rebellious but then you're going to know for seeing it or even preparing for it this is how we're going to bring them back. You have to be that role model, you have to be that person that sets the example and they're going to want it and turn to you. You have to make yourself on a certain level that you're not even supposed to be or didn't desire to be and didn't expect to be just so that your son and daughter are going to look up to you. And people don't think like that, they just think because I'm a parent there's just an automatic title and it's there. No you've got to earn it and the way you earn it is to learn how to do it and if you learn how to do it and train yourself in that way in various ways then you can actually have that connection and bond. You will have that influence for your teenager even at that stage that they're at. And you will have an amazing relationship and actually you're going to create an adult that doesn't need any issues to be solving because you're dealing with it from that stage and age. And that's what's really important about raising teenagers is you knowing what's about to happen, what could happen and how do I address it. You need to be involved. In fact another study has also shown from psychologists that teenagers actually want to have that close connection with their parents. But what you find is they're very close when they're young and as they become teenagers parents leave them because they don't know how to deal and it's like they need their space, they need their time. Yes but to such an extent they don't even have that communication skill, they don't have a relationship or it's too much where it's like they're overpowering the teenager. So you need to find that balance but you need to be inviting so they actually want to come to you. That's the issue I feel nowadays parents are not listening to their children because they don't believe they need to. They think well I'm the parent, you listen to me, I don't need to listen to you but I think they're getting that wrong because actually when you're a teenager we're supposed to befriend them. Exactly, there are stages. This stage of befriending them, becoming their friend and building trust between one another and one of the things that teenagers will see is that if the parent doesn't trust them as much they're not going to really tell them as much information or be as honest and they will conceal things. Of course and you know what it's understandable from both parties it's really difficult. But Imam Ali alai salam has always said as well to raise our children in today's day and age not as a person so a lot of parents nowadays they need to change their mindset. They really do, it's not like well I didn't have that from my parents so why are children expecting it now? Well you need to grow with the times. You need to be in today's day and age and children are a lot wiser, they're a lot more observant, they're a lot more able to get information that my generation or the one before had and they are aware. And they want you closer to them to explain to them because they're getting this information so much quicker in their ages and stages, it's a lot overwhelming. They're coming out of that, especially teenagers, they're coming out of that childhood stage and they're reaching into that adult stage which is quite actually responsible and it's quite a lot of pressure put on them. So you need to understand what they're experiencing and they might not express it the way you think well I don't understand, they're just moody. But where is that moodyness coming from? It's because there's a lack of understanding, there's a lot of meaning, there's a lot of them understanding what they're facing because there's a lot of big decisions even being made in education and their friendship groups that will lead to their future. And they have been told about this in school and a lot of it's overwhelming but you're the ones that are going to give them that support in the household to say that we're there to catch you, we're there to support you, we're there to understand you even if you make a mistake and you mess up. And that's the other thing, the understanding and the idea of failure and not being successful. That needs to also be developed in a mindset to say well it is okay to get it wrong, it is okay to start again. Failure is not just failure, failure is meaning it's feedback. In NLP there are these presuppositions that we use to sort of give people an idea of a different way of thinking and one of them is that failure is feedback. It's not necessarily the end, it's not necessarily you not having the ability, it's the way in which you look at it. So there's so many things in my training that I can give and help and assist parents and teenagers to understand that their parents are also concerned for them. They don't necessarily have that understanding of what they're going through and everything differs even if you read about it but if you have that close connection with your kids and even people say well I haven't built that connection. Well you know what connections can be built like that and broken like that so you can rebuild it. And through the stages even if you're there constantly it can be built up because you just take the interest. There are separate families, there are mixed families in a sense that there's steps you know children, step parents you know they come in at any stage in your life and they can build close connections. It doesn't matter of the scenario, the situation, the circumstances, there is absolutely no excuse if you know you have the right mindset, if you have the right psychology and education, understanding and knowledge and not just knowledge, knowledge with wisdom. A lot of us have knowledge but without knowing how to use it. We can spit things out as to what we've listened, what we've learned, what we've read and memorise it very well but I'm here to help you use it practically. Take it home and practice on your children's, practice on your spouse, practice on your colleagues and your friends and whoever it may be and see the impact and the difference it makes. Also read parenting books or articles or child psychology. I think a lot of parents don't tend to think to go through that group. It's fine if you're struggling, go in and research, find out what is it that... There is a lot of information out there. I'm doing wrong because sometimes we blame the child like you had said but yet actually what are we doing to cause the child to react in that way? Absolutely, take responsibility.  That's powerful. That could be a powerful approach with them as well. Absolutely. As parents we need to take it upon ourselves that yes we fight for roles in our professional careers. We fight for roles to be particular people in certain settings. We need to fight to become parents. We need to be leaders and masters in that field and it doesn't come just by just having knowledge from your parents. You take that. You take the knowledge from the books. You go to classes. You read. You learn. You even listen to other parents. It's a variety of things. You never get influenced by just one. Even the books that give you so much information can be confusing. So you take that book knowledge, the theory that you read and you put that and you say, you know, do you do this like that? You know, does it work for you and okay my child is slightly different so it may not work for me. I'll try it if not I'll try something else. But you need to also master being a parent.  You know, be that influencer that you can be not just in your work environment but most likely and most importantly in your home and especially for your children. If you could be that role model that they look up to when they speaking in graduation and you're the one that, you know, if they look at you and they're like, I want to be like mom. I want to be like dad, not just for the profession but for the traits that you carry, for the character that you possess. Now that is something that we as individuals need to aspire to, but that means we ourselves need to change before we expect even our children to change. You know, and that's what we're not looking at. We just think we are born this way. We raise this way. We've done it from our parents way. And you know, it is in lives difficult, times difficult. Every time is difficult. Yes, you know, it is fast going, you know, media, internet, whatever it may be. But actually you can use that to your advantage. You can be smart about it instead of using it as a problem. A lot of people they think, you know, they'll find more problems in these solutions, but you just look for the solutions and work with it. So, you know, all of these things are so, so important. Getting your child as well into sports activities, it's so vital. It doesn't matter if they have two left feet. There are many things that any child can do. And it's not even about, you know, being challenged or, but it teaches leadership. It teaches discipline. It teaches being in a team. It teaches sharing. There's so many qualities in sports that people do not realise, and it's not just the usual sports that you can do. Even if it's part of a, you know, a science team if they're not really, you know, sporty or something which is like a little bit, you know, physical with regards to their handwork, for example. It doesn't have to be their whole body. Like arts and crafts. Yeah, whatever it is. Anything that will drive their attention away from being bored, because when children are bored, teenagers especially, they will go and drift and do other things that perhaps parents wouldn't want to. So keeping them occupied and active and doing things from experience of seeing family and friends, I feel has helped a lot because it's distracted them, the children, and it's made them focus on a specific task. Definitely. And we need to raise children which are going to be, you know, motivated and driven for more. And even if they're not motivated and driven for more, they need to still do what they need to do. Wake up, study, learn, work, get yourself up and do stuff, because so many parents come to me and their teenagers are just stuck in the room. And they have no say. And I'm like, well, you need to have family day and everyone comes out of the house regardless and go for a drive because this is what it meant to be. And they might be moody and they might not like it and they might start off that journey moody, but eventually they'll be okay. It's another creating habit. But you have to be that force. You've got to be that influencer. You've got to take, you know, charge and, you know, make them try and say, we all are going, but we leave them. A lot of parents leave them because it's the easy route and they get further and further away and they're in that shell and they're in that bubble, which is actually really not healthy mentally. You know, and they're going through a lot and they're not discussing it. It could be something simple, but it can only escalate if that's been left alone. They socially isolate themselves. Parents are scared. Nowadays I find with all the knowledge and technology, they are actually scared to enforce their right. Both has right. But you need to be that because you're like, I really love you and care for you. I'm doing this for you. Voice that.  No, you've got to inform them. You have to make sure that they know what you're doing is out of love. And you've got to remind them. You don't take it for granted that they actually understand that. Because a lot of the time that's all it takes for them to feel like, wow, OK, mama, OK, Barbara, I'm actually going to do this for you. Just by saying that, you know, I want better for you. I want more for you. And I know that you are capable. You also showing and giving them even if they want to do something which is totally, you know, unreachable. But you showing that support and you showing that encouragement and you giving them that, you know, that love and attention. You know, knowing that it may never happen. But that alone, they will learn along that journey. Then they themselves will come to the decision to say, I know you're supporting me, but you know, I've changed my mind. But you're still with them the whole way. Is there anything that that's never going to be you? That's never going to happen. You want to do that? Oh my gosh, no. You know, those sort of things are so vital and important in you raising healthy, mentally, psychologically.  This is what you're doing. You're not raising teenagers.  A lot of psychologists say now a lot of people that are going through what they're going through as adults. And again, I've said this before and I'll say it again, is because of the mental stages they have gone through in their childhood and teenage years that has not been resolved, not been handled properly. No one's saying that you shouldn't have problems in circumstances. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying with the problems you've got to know how to deal with it. Whatever it is, and that's what's going to make the difference.  I just wanted to mention about some challenges some parents do get when they have a girl and a boy teenager in the home. Now, obviously, we know having a girl, teenager and a boy teenager can be quite different. Their hormones are different. How would a parent cope with enforcing certain things that they couldn't enforce on the girl or the boy? Or how can they deal with it having the girl and the boy in their home that are both teenagers? What methods or approaches could they use?  I just think it's not even about gender. And yes, there's the obvious reasons of gender. But I think, you know, Islam has a rule for both men and women and, you know, the values and principles and the traits should be the same. I think culture comes involved and sometimes can actually interfere to make that stigma and have that, you know, sort of like difference between, oh, you know, maybe parents might be easier on the male than they are on the female and things like that. And people can feel like, you know, because I'm female, I'm being held back a little bit because of that. And that doesn't work. You need to look at individuals, you know, our children as individuals.  It's a tough world out there for both men and women and they're both facing the same things. So you need to prepare them in the same way, you know. So I would only look, you know, for me, mental health doesn't matter about the gender in that stage. Yes, you know, even some women or teenage girls can be stronger to handle things even though they're emotional. So, you know, for me, it doesn't matter. Like I said, you look at them as an individual and that's it, regardless of the gender side of things, but obviously with the obvious reasons wherever it may be, they go through different stages at different times and, you know, you need to address it at different areas. But that's about it really, I would say. Insha'Allah, thank you. That's a fantastic point to end on. Insha'Allah, we will be coming back after a short break where we'll be taking some questions from our viewers. Insha'Allah, we'll see you soon. As-salamu alaikum. As-salamu alaikum and welcome back to the second part of making a house a home where we've been discussing the topic around raising teenagers. Now, we have a few questions from our viewers. Insha'Allah, you can answer for us for him. The first question is from Manad and she says, My teenage son is very moody and keeps himself to himself. I cannot connect with him easily and the distance is only growing. How can I change our relationship and get closer to him? Connection is built through many and various ways. But again, keeping too much distance is not healthy. And if you feel that you're actually in a position where you're not connecting with a child, then you need to obviously address that with various ways. I mean, that's a very open question. I need to find out exactly what's causing the distance. What are you doing to even create any sort of closeness? Is there anything that they're even doing that's making a difference? And if the child is not responding in any way, in any form, then it needs to be seen too. Because we take it very lightly about mental health and mental issues, especially in teenagers. And when they become where they're trying to understand their growth, their development, not just physically but mentally, especially as teenagers, a lot of them don't want to speak about it. So that's why as parents you need to be open to giving them suggestions and ideas that they might even be going through things. And talk generally to your family. Have meetings where you'll be like, we don't do this in our household. You need to have family meetings on a regular weekly basis to say, this is how our week's been, for example. Or just like a hwtba that they give in the mosque on a Friday. And just give a little royale or some sort of story that whether it relates to them or not, but you can maybe relate it to their age, to their stage or what you think. And maybe they might ask you for something. And we don't do that. As families, it's so important. Imam Sajadr AS says that the parents are the cause of the birth of this world. And they are responsible for their teachings and their manners and whatever it is. It is not just when they're only children. It is when they're teenagers and even when they're adults. But this teenage years is so vital. Bring yourself to being a storyteller. If you can't directly inform them or you're just guessing what it may be because you're not sure, tell them stories that they might actually think, well actually that is something that is linked to me. And you know, Subhanallah, you just don't know when you have that need and you pray alongside wanting the guidance, you will get ideas that will actually be, you know, in keeping with what teenagers face and go through. And each week there will be a topic about, you know, peer pressure or stress with exams or dealing with religion or practicing your religion and you can bring stories into it to sort of tell your child, you know, as a whole, as a family that these are the things that people face and this is how you deal with it and this is the things that, you know, makes it more meaningful, it will actually help you through your challenge. And you know, reach him, reach out to him in any way possible but do not leave that connection to go so much more further than what it is. And again, you know, arrange outings, arrange family get-togethers where they have to be involved, don't just wait for an invitation, don't just wait for a party, don't just wait for good weather, don't just wait for, you know, some sort of, you know, invitation or whatever it may be, you create that scenario, you create that family gathering in your home where it's just for you and your family and sometimes with other friends and family members, whatever it may be, relatives, but you create that so you are bonding in different ways and you watch them. You watch how they respond, you watch how they are with other people, with their friends, with their families, what they're saying, who they're connecting with and why that could be and something that's missing in you that you can get or something that, you know, that they feel that they are connecting with somebody else in a particular way and you don't possess that. You know, you can learn through so many simple ways and as a coach, you know, I make that awareness, I create that awareness and, you know, people come back and they're like, it's amazing because we've just looked through a different lens, we've just seen from a different perspective and that's all it takes. Okay, and to add on to this question, for parents who have teenagers out there, what signs or symptoms could they look out for if they are concerned their child might be suffering from a mental illness or has some issues that they're not aware of? What could they look out for that would highlight as a concern? You know, over time, you know, if it's like more than a couple of weeks or two even doctors will diagnose depression or some sort of anxiety or stress with regards to a tick list or a form which says if you've been feeling a particular way for a particular time then that is obviously, you know, you leading to being depressed. So you need to make yourself aware of these signs over a period of time and usually if it's really long like a couple of weeks or so where they are not communicating with you they're not sleeping properly, they're not concentrating, they're not listening to you, they're focused, they're eating habits, whatever it may be, you know, losing or gaining excess weight, being more and more distant, people look at it as normality now. Oh, but he just likes to play on his game all day and it's fine. No, it's not fine. You need to have that interaction, that human interaction communication. Even if they don't have friends, people, you know, find they can't interact as teenagers, whatever it may be, you be that friend then, you call them in and you speak to them and tell them about your day even if they don't want to hear and say, oh, can you not listen? I want to tell you about mine. You know, you've got to do what you've got to do. You know, it might be annoying, irritating for them or you as well, you've got to try it all but then seek the outside help. Get coaches, get counsellers, get, you know, the schools, the GPs, whatever it may be involved to actually make sure that, you know, your child is safe mentally, is healthy in every way. And just not, don't give up, just keep on. Don't give up and don't leave it for too long. Okay. Like two weeks is too long to be fair. All right, okay. And Charlotte, thank you for that and our second question is from Miriam and she says, we are in a home with many children and I'm one of four and I'm the youngest. The ages range between 12 and 24. There is a lot of arguing amongst us but I want us to get along better. So can you advise me please? A young viewer. Yeah, so sweet. Yes, and you know what, you're so brave already to be actually watching the show, taking it in and writing in and actually, you know, thinking that it's not just the parents' responsibility that me as, you know, as a brother or a sister or whatever it may be that you're part of that family that you can actually take responsibility to create better relationships, to create, you know, connectivity, to create, you know, that self of, you know, respecting and treating and being with each other in a good way.  You know, you don't have expectations, regardless. So we need to eradicate those firstly. There's no such thing as that. You don't put yourself in a label of being anything.  Obviously within respect and boundaries of that family. So, again, you know, the family meeting. Again, you know, you sitting and talking to your parents and your brothers and sisters about how you are affected because a lot of the times we assume that people understand and know what we're going through, but they don't. That simple, you know, conversation of how we need to be, of how whatever you're saying or doing or not doing is having an impact on me. I'm sure even the parents are not aware of this child that's writing in. All the brothers and sisters are not aware because, you know, they just look at her as a young kid and, you know, not taken seriously. They're going to be teenagers and adults being the youngest and always looked upon as the child. So that's also the thing.  But it's an innocent thing too. So you've got to understand that, you know, people look at you like that because it's an innocent labelling and, you know, there's no harm, but if it really does bother you, then talk about it. Speak up.  So do that amongst your close ones.   Relationship coaching is any relationship, whether it's siblings, whether it's parent-child, whether it's colleagues, friends, team-works, whatever it may be. So there is definitely relationship that we need to understand how to be with different people and it might not be the same with your older brother and sister, then the same with your younger brother and sister. We need to learn to adapt and change accordingly to different personalities and also be accepting because also we want things our way. Yeah. So there's a lot of things to consider. But brave as you are, I'm sure you'll figure it out. I'm sure. But start with the communication, most definitely. Yeah. Nishala, thank you for that. And our next viewer is Anon. And the question is, what are the best ways of raising teenagers when the parents are separated? This is quite a common issue. Well now, yes it is. With separation and there are the old mindsets and bad cultural, you know, habits which come into play that once there's divorce, then everything has to be, you know, cut split in between even relationships. But you have to realise there are still connections, there's still friendships, there's still relationships. And it doesn't mean that it has to be the same. But when you try to build and continue and create similar relationships within those divorced families, which will help the well-being of the family. So if there were cousins that were friends and now they've split, you know, that relationship or that friendship can still exist. You still have your privacy. You still can carry on with your life separately, the couple itself. But the outside people from that doesn't need to really necessarily break. That's the usual way thinking that everyone splits. But it doesn't mean that. And remember, those children have love for each one still. Just like the parents do. And when you're raising this, and if you cannot come to terms or bring those families where they can still have friendships, then you just be strong in your household. And you show them and you teach them better. But it would be amazing if now we look at situations like divorce and separation further and beyond what it used to be and move forward with the times of knowing that yes, two people have been together romantically but they've separated but there is still a connection. There's still a connection for the children with relatives and cousins and things like that. And yes, they'll be taken separately but friendships have been built for years. And just because one decided they didn't want to be together doesn't mean the whole lot behind them have to be that. Yes, you still support your own family. There's always support. Just like if someone was to hurt somebody or injure somebody to somebody else and you're going to support your family in a courtroom if they're going to be judged for it. But you're going to have to also be just about what they've done and be righteous about the relationship. And our prophets and our imams were kind and good and loving and caring to their enemies. And these are not your enemies. It's just separation and disagreement and agreement, even no matter how bad it ended. There's still family connection and we need to make ourselves more wiser to that and not just say oh well they're divorced now and she's related to the other one's partner so I can't be friends with her and we need to keep it separate because conversations might happen. That's just like assuming things because you think can be like that, be civil about it especially for the case of the children. But then to see everyone else around them like the blocks in the building breaking that's how it is to them. But to still see that okay that foundation is not that stable but you know what we're going to go separately but we still have those other furniture that's there still waiting and waiting for us to sit down and play. I don't know how else to say it. I'm not trying to make it in a way that this analogy is making it likely for it because I know of children that want both parents together but if they don't get that they're happy to still see the cousins together play or they're still happy to see their parents friends from the other side relatives or cousins or whatever it may be and that creates that sense of okay it's okay it's natural it's normal. So if you can't create friendships still and you can't maintain the friendships in that household just be strong yourself just give them all the love and the support and make them know that it's not their fault because a lot of kids take it upon themselves to think that they are to blame for separation and whatever it is and never put the other one down no matter what. No matter what your child loves both no matter how you feel or they love the other grandmother or the other cousin or the other auntie or whatever it may be you do not bring your own emotions and your own situation and force it upon the children and make them choose or make them feel like you know at the end of the day there is going to be now you know we're better and we're bringing up you better allow them to have that love and that kindness and that friendship for the other side not just the parent but the you know the rest of the relatives. For the sake of the children because a lot of Yes. Teenagers when they're in situations like this they are the victims. Yes they are. It's not their fault they're in this situation and so a lot of the time from friends that I know who have had separated parents it's been an excuse for them to act up. To not follow the rules and that's because parents didn't have that arrangement like you saying it was like most divorces previously you had said do tend to be nasty. Yes. And because the child isn't considered and the adult feelings are more considered you forget that actually the one that's affected the most the impact is the child. Is the child and especially with teenagers it's bad enough bringing up teenagers when you're married and you have that stability when you are in a separated environment it's even more challenging so I think people don't tend to they don't tend to see that and when I do couples coaching even for parents that want to split and separate they come to me for therapy because it's not about them trying to only get together they want to also be okay with each other after separation and divorce and that's vital because that's the toxic time and that's a lot of resentment there and one party is probably not wanting it and liking it so I help them through that so that they can still be friendship and civil relationship between the two that have separated or divorced completely because people still have to continue whether they're separate or not they still have to come together on certain occasions for graduation or for birthdays or even if they keep it separate but at the same time to maintain that well-being for that child you need to show them that you are looking out for them first the relationship was you and the other spouse now the relationship is you and that child and even though that always is there but that's the priority that is the most important consideration if you took yourself out even though you're going through a divorce that you didn't want but you considered your child first you're telling me that relationship is not going to be better you're not going to be nicer when your partner walks in to pick them up you're not even going to be friendly because you're considering your child if you ever consider your child there will be no toxic and nastiness at all so why don't we do that why don't we consider our children when we need to consider them not just our own feelings as humans, as even Muslim beings considering the other person first and why shouldn't you consider your own child first that is the blessing in itself and that will help you move forward in your life that would help you even create even in this bad situation when there's hardship there's ease and what will give you that so that's the main thing that we need to consider is treating humans as humans regardless of who they are and what they've done to us and even if they've hurt us try to detach yourself from that and yes it is hard being in separated families but I tell you that even in families families that have this unit they have issues because all it takes is the wrong mindset so don't think that your situation defines you as a parent no it does not it is your psychology and it is your mindset is the way in which you are as a character as a human being so alone or with somebody you can still do it that's 100% guaranteed I promise you that especially if you come to a session with me inshallah and before we do end I just wanted to raise a quick point with regards to raising teenagers now I know there are some well many families where the father isn't as involved they will be married but the father doesn't take doesn't play the role with his teenage boys and I feel that impacts boys a lot because the mum can only do so much with a teenage boy so he has to be a role model for the boy as he is becoming a man that is very very true and you know fathers they love sons they love them to be playing with them when they are younger and take that interest but the interest needs to continue when they are teenagers because that's a very crucial time for them in order to make choices regardless of divorce separation or being even in a family where they are living together they usually think that it's the mum that's at home and they need to take responsibility because psychologically boys do go through certain stages and phases in their lives where they actually look upon their dad and they will either even drift away or they look at them as wanting a role model and they want to turn to somebody to look up to and that actually gives them that proudness and that pride of being who they are because they've got someone standing above them in a particular light so you need to be that light and shine bright for your child especially that teenage young man that's growing up and if fathers had that insight knowing that they are lights to their sons and mums are lights for their daughters as well but obviously they are there most of the time even if they are working they tend to do both but with the father in a lot of cases not all they do play the role of just work and the mum needs to be taking care of children teenagers and whatever it may be and that for them is a missed opportunity if anything it's a missed opportunity for them to grow because we all have stages and even those parents are going to grow old you know what your child is not going to come back to you when they're married and have a relationship with you because you don't want them to do that because of out of respect and out of kindness and out of love and knowing this is what Islam says you want it to do out of choice as well more importantly it should be out of choice and you're going to give them that choice because you've created that respect and that love and that connection from the stage and that's what's important for the future Insha'Allah definitely thank you so much for your email unfortunately we do need to come to an end again and thank you for the great insight on to this subject insha'Allah our viewers have benefited from this topic and insha'Allah we'll see you soon for another episode of Making a House a Home as-salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu hafawr