Hello there, it's Sandy Allnog, and I'm going to give you a tip to make any card 25% cuter than it might have been otherwise. Because we have some things that we do as crafters, as artists, that we kind of need to unlearn because we think the center of the page is the most important place. Well, I'm going to use this stamp set and another one from Colorado Craft Company to prove to you that the center is not where it's at. Because if you stamp an image, so it's partially off the page, it gives the viewer a little more engagement in their imagination when they look at it. They're wondering where are these characters coming from? Have they just walked on stage? Is there something else going on off to the right that I can't see? There's just a mystery to it that you don't get if you just stamp this thing in the center of the card. This one also has adult bunny and two little bunnies, one on either hand of the adult, and this allows you to just use part of the image without having to mask anything off from the other side, so you could choose to do that. Or you could even just have the adult bunny with the little bunny masked off entirely and just have part of the image coming in from the outside. I'm coloring this using some Tombow markers, these are water-based markers. You can do the same kind of thing with any brand. I've colored directly onto the watercolor paper here and I'm using rough, so it's giving me a lot of texture, a lot of really nice edges for the watercolor, and where I'm trying to blend it into a really light color, I'm just using a lot more water in those areas. And then I can do the same thing with the little baby bunny and adding water to the gray marker that I've already colored onto the paper. If you have markers that don't do this really well or they end up getting kind of stuck, you could always scribble some marker onto a piece of plastic, a CD case, a craft mat, that kind of thing, and pick it up and paint with it as you would with any other kind of watercolor. And then I'll just add a little tiny bit of grass at the bottom, just something to ground them and create a feeling of a scene without painting an entire scene. And this ends up being a clean and simple card. It takes hardly any time to do. It's really simple to do and you end up with a card that has a little more cuteness than if these were just plopped in the center of the card. So this other stamp set has these kitties on it and I thought the kitties would be cute to use with the bear. And I've stamped them all at the bottom. The bear, I just hung his little feet off the bottom. The kitties, I had to do one little post-it note worth of masking on either side of the kitty so that I could create one kitty at an angle and then the other one is lower and in between the first kitty and the bear. Very simple masking to do. But it collects all the images coming in off the bottom of the card and the bear looking up draws the attention upward to that little bug. But there's plenty of white space. You could certainly add a scene behind it and you would still get some of the mystery that you're getting as far as what's going on on the ground. Where would a bear and two cats be in the same scene? That kind of thing. But it still has that little bit of mystery and anchors the image down at the bottom. Imagine if you had them in the center of the card. You would not have that beautiful, clean and simple white space all around it. And I've talked about it a number of times in some design tutorials that I've done. When you work with the thirds of the card, the thirds of the layout, put things in the bottom third, the right third, the left third, dividing your whole surface into like a nine block and then choosing one of the outside ones rather than the center one to put your focal point. And these little images are great for that because they're down at the bottom. They're sticking off the bottom. The kitty has all kinds of scenery around it in the stamp that I didn't want to clutter up the card with. I wanted it to be really simple. And here I could use just the kitties without having to worry about drawing in feet or anything, trying to do crazy masking. It was just a little bit on the left and right to make it just the cat itself. And then when it comes to the coloring of each of these images, you can get really complex. You can get really simple with it. It doesn't really matter at all. It's even more fun sometimes if you have really beautiful complex coloring in the image and then leave all that white space. And it draws such attention to the coloring that you've done in that little section that it just adds a cuteness factor. I just I can't tell you how much it means to have something off center like this rather than plopped dead in the middle of the card, which is a lot of what I see. It's a very natural place to put things. We are built in our brains, in our modern world to try to be symmetrical, make everything even and measure from left to right so we get directly in the center, et cetera. That's not what's going to work artistically. Here it left me room for the sentiment off to one side of the flower, drawing attention to the flower with that color and the bear looking up at it. I mean, there's just a lot of things to be said for a card like that. This one is also from the little pond set that the kiddies came from has this little duck laying on his back chilling out, which is what I would love to be doing right now laying in some sunshine. And I'm going to paint this one with straight up watercolors and adding some orangey color, some Aussie red gold to my new Gamboge. And then I'm going to mix a little bit more of the the red with it. This is a cool red, a quinacridone rose to put in there so that I end up with a little bit darker orange for the feet and then use some nickel azo for the beak. And then a bunch of sap green for the leaves and things that he's laying on top of and then creating a really simple background underneath. But again, this one peaks off the left side. It's not plopped right in the center. And I don't have to make a whole scene out of it. I can make just a little vignette here at the bottom by putting a little bit of light color down here and then using a lot of water to soften it out. It has the nice sentiment drawing attention right there, a little pop of that orange for the bug. And I've got a clean and simple card that has a really interesting focus. And it's just going to be a lot cuter than if that duck were right in the center of the card. So whatever medium you color with, you can do this with colored pencils with whatever. Consider doing some cards where whatever the main image is is only partially on the page and see what that does for you. Maybe even stamp one in the middle and then one off center and see if you can visually sense the difference. All right, that is it for me today. I hope that was helpful information. I will talk to you again very soon because, you know, I'll be back with another video in just a couple of days. Take care. Thanks for subscribing and for hitting the like button. I'll talk to you later.


Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. I've got the great pleasure today of being in the studio with Peter Macaulay, who is the president of the FTTH Council for Asia Pacific. Peter, thanks for being with us in the studio today. Great. It's wonderful to be here in Asia Pacific. It's where fiber up the cable is happening and where broadband is happening in the world. Great. I'd like to talk to you a little bit about broadband, actually. I wanted to find out what's the current fixed broadband development status in Asia Pacific? It's incredibly fast growing and we have countries and areas in Asia Pacific with 100% homes passed. So we've got an incredible success here of fiber deployed. And we've gone now beyond fiber to the home and now we're doing fiber to the antenna. So now we're putting the fiber deeper and deeper into the network. So fiber deep is our current status. Now, given that most developing countries in Asia Pacific adopt the mobile first, how do you see the future prospects of fiber in the home in this region? It's incredibly good because all of these wireless devices are based upon wires and those wires are fiber. And so the testing that's being done now in Singapore, for example, by SingTel with their 4.5G and 5G, some of the early testing, shows that we need to have to the antenna to these small cells 10 gigabit. So it's no longer good enough to have a 50 megabit per second. So wireless back call or microwave back call is not going to work anymore. We need fiber to the antenna. So the fiber to the antenna is pushing the fiber deeper and deeper into the network. And unfortunately, this is the most expensive part, deploying the fiber, doing the trenching, doing the HDD, the horizontal directional drilling. And now we're looking at use cases where we can have fiber to the home, fiber to the building, fiber to the antenna, all using the same fiber. So these are the key challenges, really, in promoting fiber to the home construction in Asia Pacific? Yes. It's looking for that common use of how do we reduce the cost of the fiber, the trenching. And we're here in Bangkok. It's very similar when you go into Cambodia. It's very similar when you go into Vietnam and to Hanoi. The actual city centers are weighted down with masses of copper and fiber. And we know we can see which ones are the fiber because those are the ones they put extra spare loops, which adds to the weight. We need to have some regulatory policy. We need to have a plan moving forward to get those underground to create a common utility corridor. And that utility corridor will be used for multiple broadband applications. So we see that as an enabling, necessary factor to move forward. And cost aside fiber to the antenna has got a rosy future ahead of it? Very much so. We all want to go faster and faster with our mobile device. And now we're being promised with 5G, we're going to all be going one gigabit if we can imagine a thousand megabit per second on our mobile device. That for sure, for sure, will need fiber to the antenna. So fiber to the base station, fiber to the antenna is a must-have. And it becomes so expensive we try to put in parallel networks. A network to the antenna, a network to the home, a network to the business, we need to look for commonality. So some of that commonality is now possible with the technology such as NGPON2 where we can do fiber to the home mixed with fiber to the antenna with a dense wave division multiplexing. So those technologies have now converged. This is a very, very exciting time. And this is happening quickly in Singapore and Hong Kong, in Japan, with NTT, but also in China and in Malaysia and Thailand. So we're seeing this moving very, very quickly. Also in places that just recently have got wireless for the first time in the world and that's in Myanmar. This is the last country to be covered. But we've got fiber going into India, Pakistan. Fiber deployment is moving very, very fast now. Finally, I'd like to ask you here at ITU Telecom World 2016. You're taking the time to come here and mix with all the key players here. I wanted to find out, sir, what do you mean your impressions of it? This is very impressive. This is so well organized. This is a great, great, great conference, a great exhibit, a good chance to see how the service providers are making some of these decisions. What the regulators are doing in different regions is going to be key for how we move forward with broadband and fiber to the antenna, fiber to the home. How that gets deployed and how we can do that cost effectively is what this conference is all about for us. This is fantastic. Peter McCauley, thank you very much indeed. You're welcome.


First question is from Elena Badina, what are your thoughts on the whole 30? Have you ever put a client on it? I actually, when I think back to all the different diets that are out there, diet books and protocols, I would have to say that as a trainer, you typically are customizing everybody's nutrition plan. But if there was ever something that I just pointed someone in a direction like maybe they weren't, they didn't hire me, they had questions. I have actually pointed more people towards whole 30 than almost any other diet out there. I just think that the principles behind it are really, really solid and probably aligns the most with the philosophy that I would teach my clients. We've talked on this show many times about, you know, I remember having clients and they'd come back and they would be struggling with the diet and I'd be kind of asking them, oh, well, you know, I'm eating good and then I find out they're eating out here or they're eating these things that I think are just really tough to track and they're processed foods and I'm like, oh, they're probably also under reporting. And I'd be like, listen, you can eat, instead of us trying to calculate and count when you're going out to eat whole foods, your own whole foods. It targets the major offender, right? It does, it does. Which is great. And then it focuses you on having to go get food, which is better than eliminate this, eliminate that. Like, I need to be able to get more of these whole foods. How do I do this? I have to actually cook it. Totally. And it's like, it brings it back to that simple thing where if you're in charge of like, you know, chopping everything yourself and putting it together, it's a much more intimate and you know, much more sustainable. I think that, I think you nailed it right on the head right there with the, the part that we learned later on I think as trainers was when you tell clients they have to eat this really restrictive diet. They, they have a hard time with that because it's still, it just feeds into that whole, I can't, I can't have things and or like a punishment thing or it's only because I'm on this diet right now and then I'm going to be off the diet eventually versus, you know, I figured this out later on of like, oh, right away when I would start to adjust someone's diet, I would actually never take away. It would, I would start to infuse things into the diet. So instead of me saying like, oh, no more of that McDonald's or no more of that, what I want you to do is start eating, you know, a two cups of broccoli a day. What I found out and I figure, I figured out was if they ate a certain way and that was, they're very consistent, even if that's bad, you know, bad choices, like eating fast food and stuff, but they never sat down and had, you know, two cups of broccoli in their day. When I asked them to eat two cups of broccoli, it naturally would eliminate something that was bad in the diet or that was, you know, inferior to that as far as nutrient wise, right?  Like they don't feel like you're restricting them. You're just kind of putting parameters of like, hey, let's stay away from like all the process box things and eat around these whole foods. And I've had a lot of success. I've had a lot of clients that have had a lot of success with it. I think they notice a big difference. I think they notice the satiety. I think it speaks to the point that Sal always brings up that, you know, processed foods are hijacking your body's natural systems that tell you that you're full. So when you eat whole foods, it's a lot harder to do that, even if you do season up and stuff like that, which does that a little bit, but not to the same extent. Well, what I like about whole 30 is, and I do like it, I would agree with you guys. I think it's, if you had to pick a diet, that would be the one that I would say pick. And here's what I like about them is that they have an elimination diet kind of built into it. And so what I mean by that is they allow, they tell you to remove the common offenders that people tend to have issues with. Things like, you know, like certain grains like gluten, for example, remove those out of your diet for the first 30 days. After 30 days is up, reintroduce some of these common offenders and then see how your body reacts and responds. I like this because it brings a new level of awareness to a person. A lot of people don't realize that they're eating foods that they have digestive issues from, or there's certain foods that cause them to feel a particular way. And so when they eliminate them for 30 days and then reintroduce them 30 days later, they start to pay attention to how they feel and they start to notice like, oh, wait a minute. When I eat lots of bread, I just don't feel good. My body doesn't feel good or my appetite gets out of whack or my mood's kind of whatever. Maybe that's what happens when I eat bread. Let me take it back out and see what happens. Whole 30 does that. And that's the part of Whole 30 I like the most. It has that elimination component kind of built in. Most diets cut things out, leave them out. Whole 30 doesn't necessarily do that. It cuts things out and then it says reintroduce them slowly and see how you feel. So I like it. I like it for that. I think people have had a lot of success as a result. It's not foolproof, of course, but it's good to know how your body feels because the way you digest things is very individual. The way you react to foods can be very individual. There's a psychological component that's very individual. Some foods may be psychologically triggering for you. There's also your metabolism and how your body works with these foods, your microbiome. It's all like a fingerprint. So Adam and I may go and eat a meal and that meal may make him feel different than it makes me feel. And I'm talking about everything from physiological differences. I may get bloated from a meal or I may feel fine from or I may get tired or I may feel bad or I may just have an emotional connection to that food and it triggers me to eat a lot of other foods. That's also something that we have. We have emotional triggers. I like that component. You take things out, reintroduce them, see how you feel. It gives them a little bit more of a sense of awareness than most diets tend to do. I like that it's a strategy at the end of the day. I look at diets as a way to kind of provide a structure if you're unstructured in the way that you're eating and so it helps you to kind of really take that mindful time and experience and pay attention to the signs and symptoms of what your body's telling you through that process. Here's the foods that they cut out in the first 30 days. I brought it up. I just wanted to be 100%. So it's dairy, grains, alcohol, legumes, added sugars, carrageenan, MSG and sulfites, and then junk food. Now those are the most common offenders in terms of making people feel bad or giving them a food intolerance. Dairy is a big one for me. Other people, it could be legumes. Basically, if you're looking at people with their food intolerances, those foods right there probably cover, including the preservatives like MSG and stuff, those probably cover, I don't know, I would estimate 75% to 85% of the most common issues that people have with food. So if you cut those out and then you reintroduce them one at a time after 30 days, like, okay, I'm done with my 30 days. Let me reintroduce dairy real slow because that's what the whole 30 tells you to do. And then you start to notice like, oh, that's where I'm getting the bloat. That's where my bloat was coming from. It's from dairy. Now you know. Now you know what's causing these issues and you can eliminate them or keep them in if you want. So that component is really what makes me enjoy it the most. It's the biggest commercial elimination diet protocol that I've seen. Otherwise, I haven't seen too many that have that kind of commercial viability.


golden gaps, which pinpoints institutional money in the stock market here to present, make fast profits trading 30 minutes a day, is Ms. Melissa Armo of the Stock Swoosh. Welcome back to Trader's Corner, Melissa. I can hear you sound a little far away, though. I think my mic's closer. Can you hear me now? Much, much better. And it's too far away from my pile of papers on my desk, so. Mine probably looks similar, if not worse. And good afternoon. What a lovely day here, and definitely an interesting time to trade. So, you know, just going right into the segment from the previous guest, who was talking about doing fast trades, really in this type of environment where the market is in a very, very tight range, which it's been really for the last 16, 17 days, but really almost since last fall, the market's been in a range. It's just widened and closed off even more recently. The best way to make money is to get in and out of trades fast. So, again, the longer you're in a trade, the more that you're at risk, at risk for what? For the possibility of a positive trade going to, turning into a not a positive trade where you're breaking even, or it could even turn into a loss, or a trade that you're up in and you think is going to work, then turns against you. So, we're in a very, very, very interesting time where the market is hanging on by a thread based on every single solitary thing that the Fed says. So, next week, the Fed is a meeting. And they're probably going to increase interest rates, even though people think this is the wrong thing to do. They're probably going to bump up rates another quarter point in May. And so, how will the market react to that? Well, it's going to be just more than them raising rates or not raising rates. It's going to be really listening to every single solitary word that Jerome Powell says. Are they going to continue raising rates? Are they going to back off towards the end of the year? So, it's an interesting time to trade. For me, what I do, though, I focus on stocks that gap. I'm going to talk about some examples here today. If you have any questions, you can plop them in the room. I can see them as we go along. And because I do gaps, I'm looking to trade basically the first 30 minutes of the day into the open in and out between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time. If you have any questions for me, you can email me at melissa at thestockswitch.com. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Skype. And I try to always put any TV hits or showing where I'm going to be on on Skype. I was just on recently on Newsmax talking about the banks that are falling apart, some of the banks that collapse. And of course, there's First Republic now is in danger of collapsing and that stock has absolutely tanked in the last couple of days if you've been watching that as well. And sometimes it's dangerous to trade stocks like that because it was halted several times. I think it was about two days ago. It was halted. And you've got to be careful. I say stay away from things that are that volatile. Well, I love to trade volatility. You want to trade something where you can make sure that you can get in and get out. And when stocks get halted, that can be very dangerous. But again, another telltale sign of showing what's really going on in the market. And you say, well, what can you really do to make money? Long-term investing, well, many people are interested in it and it's paid off. So particularly in years like 2021 where the market was extremely bullish. And really after the 2020 election, when the market rallied even after COVID, the fact is though that times are different now. If you're looking for retirement and long-term investing, that's not what active trading is. Active trading is you're in and out quick. You were checking it out. And you were trying to make money as fast as you can and booking it. It could be $100 a day. It could be $500 a day. It could be $1,000 a day. It depends what type of stocks that you're trading. And it also depends on the size of your account and your risk. So I put in here so far this year. I forgot to add in last week's, but this is year to date through the 14th of our stats for the day trades in the live room. This is with an average risk of $2,800 per train. And again, I run a live trading room where I call the trades, the entry, the stop and the exit were on pace this year. Again, this doesn't include the last week to make quite a bit of money this year with a risk of a little bit under $3,000 per trade. Now, these are all trades on margin. Most of them are shorts. I'm mostly short, which we'll talk about today. Some of them are longs, but again, I prefer to short. So we're going to talk a lot today about shorting. And the reason I like to short over going long is because again, I like to do the fast trades and panic comes in fast. Stocks sell off faster than they rally. So we're up $185,435 for the year so far in the day trades, and we're just moving forward and we're going to just keep chugging along here. The thing is that we're four months into the year. Next week is May. Actually Monday is May 1st. And if you're not on target for the year, or if you don't even have a plan of action for what you're going to do for 2023, or if you're behind, you're actually behind on your monetary goals for the year, then you have to kind of take a step back and regroup. So the best thing that you can do for yourself is say, okay, can I really make money in the market? What is my belief system? Because a lot of times people have a negative belief system and they keep trading and they keep risky money in the market, but they really don't believe that they can make it. They actually think the market's rigged. The reality is that the market isn't rigged against you. There are big players in the market that have a lot of money and they control the market and they control stocks. If you learn how to trade with them, you will be successful because fighting them is a losing battle. So the fact is you can make real money in the market. I'm doing it. I'm teaching people to do it now for 10 years going on 11.  You're working against yourself. And so is everyone else in the market. Because when you go and do a stock and you take a trade, you're trying to take money away from somebody else. So you already have people out to get you the second you take a trade every single day. Because if you're shorting something, somebody else is going long. And you want to make sure you're in the right direction. So assess and look at yourself in the mirror. Your real belief system about making money in the market and being successful. I always believe that I could be successful doing this. Even then when I started out, when I started trading in 2008, I was not successful. It took me three years to figure it out in my system. But I always believed that I would be successful. I didn't really make any sense to me why I couldn't figure this out in two months, three months, six months. It took me longer than I thought, but I am so glad that I did it. And it may be taking you longer than you think, but it doesn't mean that you can't do it. Okay, because remember, if you give up, guess what, you're never going to make it.  I guarantee you one thing, if you quit, you definitely will not make it. So guess what? Don't quit. Keep going. You got to keep figuring out and a positive attitude really helps. What else will help? You got to get serious about it. You got to get serious about trading. You got to get serious about what you're doing. You have to get serious about what you're risking money in. Again, a lot of times right now with this market, people are going along and going short the same stock the same day, the same hour. That's zero conviction, zero percent conviction. You have no conviction in anything whatsoever at all. If you're doing that, you have to take it seriously. Take a class before you trade. Practice what you're doing. Practice small size before you take bigger positions.  So for me, I always focus on gaps. I only do my system and I also mostly go to the short side. Okay, so my focus is mostly, mostly to the short side, but there are billions of billions and billions of the market. So the very idea when you think about it, the philosophy, the point of it, that you can make money, the answer is yes, you can. So it's really about the system that you're using and it's very important to use a system that is consistently profitable in any market conditions, whether it's bullish, whether it's bearish, whether it's choppy, whether it's sideways, the success or failure of whatever you do really has a lot to do with the quality of your system. And unfortunately, not a lot of people have systems that are trading and then there's a lot of people that have systems that are just not any good. They may work in one market, but they may not work in another market condition. So you may make money for a couple of weeks or a couple of months and then it may stop working forever. It never work again. So you've got to find something consistently. For me, gaps has worked now for 15 years. So I've never done anything else and I never will do anything else because ultimately the reason, the crux of the philosophy of what I'm doing is I'm looking for institutional money. So I'm going with the control. I'm looking at taking a position and I'm looking at getting in something that is being bought by institutional money or that is being sold off or shorted by institutional money. There is only ever one person in charge of any stock or anything on any given day. Period. That's it. Only one. There's only one direction that anything can be at any given time and it's the control. It's the control of what? It's the control of the money. You have to be able to spot that, find it, see it, and then you have to go with it. So I developed a system which is called the Golden Gap, which is a 26-point rating system as a checklist that I do every single morning before I get in any trade at all, before they open, before I even open my trading room. I rate gaps in the morning and I rate as many as I see as many as I like. Again, I tend to go to the short side first. We did do Microsoft. We did call them Microsoft. We got in them yesterday. They went today. It was a really nice call. I do do options and day trades. We'll talk about a little bit of options here too, but the big play we did really in the last two weeks was Tessa. We did like pretty much every trade that we did in Tessa. We did puts in Tessa. We did puts in Tessa before the earnings. We did day trades in Tessa where Tessa was the gap of the last week and it was a short and we will talk about that briefly today, but it's the 26 points that tells me where the money is going to go. Is it going to drop? Is it going to go up? Is it going to continue in the direction of the gap? And again, whether you do as a day trader, whether it is an option, it's 100% up to you, but a lot of people do like options simply because they do not have margin accounts. Now, I do have a margin account, but if you want to do day trades and options, you can. If you want to just do options, you can. If you want to just do day trades, you can. You can trade options fast, fast meaning one or two days. That's fast for me and an option. Okay. We're doing the weekly options, but you can get an option in 30 minutes if you want. Okay. I'm in and out of the day trade, sometimes five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. Again, trying to trade the first half an hour of the day, but as far as looking at options, I still think weekly options are short.  So sometimes it just doesn't make sense to do something when you have your pain and then it's got to have such a big move so far out. And again, who would have thought? Who would have thought that the year would have turned out the way that it's been so far in the last four months? If you bet on either side of the coin and either side of the market was going to rally or drop, you would have been wrong in both points because the market has been such and such a tight range. So again, if you did say, for example, at the end of December, say you did spy leaps, whether you did calls or where they did puts, you know, you're probably down in both that you did right now, even if you did long term something out for like 12 months. So this type of market, particularly, I think it's important to focus on the fast moves to book money. Someone's writing something there. What is one book? I can't recommend any book at all about trading. I'm sorry. Again, you think I didn't look for books when I was learning how to trade? No, there's no one book out there that I can tell you that you're going to get what you need. And I haven't written a book and I probably won't because I just don't have time. But if I ever get the time to write a book, you know what I'd write a book about? I'd write a book about something that will have to do with people's mindset. Because after teaching people now for 11 years, I started the Stock Swish 10 going on 11 years ago. This is 11th year here. I know what people's problems are. They don't stick with one thing. If I had to criticize traders and journalists as a blanket statement and just generalizing here 100%, traders don't stick with one thing. I have, it's one of the reasons I'm successful, a number two, because you never get good at one thing if you jump around, and number two, traders have terrible mindsets about money. So if I ever wrote a book, if I took the time to do it, the best thing that I could offer people of my advice and knowledge and experience of all the years that I've been on this planet alive is all the people I've come in contact with, particularly Manhattan, New York, all my experience in television and everything in trading and teaching adults, because I teach adults, I don't teach children, but the fact is that people's mindset about money is probably what I'd write a book about, and that would obviously help you with trading. The reality is that many people don't have a good attitude about money. I could say I'm lucky in the sense that I have a good attitude about money, but it doesn't mean sometimes I don't get frustrated if I have a bad day trading, but I'm very good at turning it around. I'm very good at turning around, like I talk to myself in my mind where I know what I need to think to get what I need to do. So I keep moving ahead in my own personal life, in my professional life, in my financial life, because I keep setting goals for myself and bars for myself to move forward, and I believe that I can. Ten years ago, if someone said there's no chance in hell, you've got to get on Fox News, so no one knows who you are. I would have said, fat chance to that, and I did it. So the reality is that if you don't believe in yourself, no one else is going to believe in you.  But I think so many people, this is a problem also, I don't want to get too off track here, but this is a problem, I have a trading room. The trading room's closed off, we can't see other people's chats.  It's just people complaining and commiserating, and a lot of that is in Reddit too. Actually, I don't participate in Reddit, I don't go Reddit, I don't do anything with that at all. Most people will cling to each other and just poison each other with negativity. I'd love to say it's the other way around that people can bring people up and live people up, but it tends not to be that way. Human beings, I don't know if this is just the human mind or how it is in general, tend to slide deep down into the mud and go into a negative attitude far easier than they do to get up to a positive attitude.  It doesn't matter how long it takes you, I hear this all the time too, I've taught people that are in their 70s and 80s, and I said, I had a guy email me, like the last webinar I did. He said, I'm too old to do this.  He was younger than my father, he was 76, my father is 78. I said, what do you mean, 76 is fine, 76 is young, you're alive, you're not dead. I mean, the mentality that people have for some reason, and I don't know why, is that after a certain point of life, if you haven't made it, you're never going to make it, that's not true. That's not true. If you think like that, then basically every year that it's your birthday, you think you're one step towards death, and that's ridiculous, okay? You're here, you're alive, you're lucky that you're listening to me today. Think about how grateful you should be that you're even listening to my wisdom today for free, by the way, okay? So I just got one outfit of tangent there. But the fact is, I can't recommend any books, let's get back into what we're talking about here, in reference to training, you do have to have the basics, but the attitude part of it, if I ever wrote a book, is absolutely, absolutely the number one thing, and you have to encourage yourself. You have to be your own best friend, you have to be your own best advocate. One of the other benefits I think people get when they come to me is the lecturing I'm talking to you about right now. You know, people get this from me in the room, they get this from me in my classes too, as a mentor, okay? Because if you think you can't do it, I'll tell you that you can do it. But you still are the one doing it. You're still the one that has to press the button, you have to press it, and you have to get in, you have to get out, okay? Now let's get back to what we're talking about here. The golden gaps system is a system that I use, which is a rating system that follows large institutional money. Gaps are created with large institutional money. That is what makes the gap. The professional gaps that happen and play out in stocks are formed by one thing, and one thing only, large institutional money. For example, Metta. Metta was a good example. Microsoft was a good example. Amazon earnings are out tonight. I have no idea what they do. They could gap up, they could gap down. I may trade Amazon tomorrow, I may not. I'll know tonight when I see it, if it's a good gap or not. I will tell you that. It's out after four o'clock, okay? So I'm not in Amazon. I don't know what it's gonna do, okay? But I know I'm gonna watch it, and I know it's gonna gap, and I know I'm gonna rate it, and then I'm gonna know after rate it, if I'm gonna do it, and how, okay? So what's the big money gonna do with Amazon, for example? What do the big money do with Tesla? They dumped it, okay?  Again, we're gonna look at that chart here in a minute, but you've got to have a formula to rate and qualify the gap, to get the confirmation and conviction that the large institutional money is on your side, and then you play it, okay? So I'm not trading in the pre-market or the post-market, like I'm not gonna trade Amazon tonight, no matter what it does. I wait, look at that time frame, then make a determination and a prediction, what I think it's gonna do in the live day in the first half an hour of the day, and then I take it, and then I can enter, then I can out, okay? So gaps are an event, and they create a sense of urgency. Hurry, hurry, hurry, just like with the banks. Remember, everybody was bracing to take all their money out of the banks, and then even the banks that weren't in danger, people were scrambling to move money around, if they had too much money in banks. You think everyone in Alizum, Manhattan only has $250,000, people don't have bank accounts at 52 banks. You know, there are people that have hundreds of millions of dollars right here in the building I'm living in right now.  There's a reason that they saved that bank, okay? But the fact is, panic is something that, once it starts bleeding through the system, creates this level of fear that doesn't go away like that. It doesn't go away by the FGIC just coming in and saving one bank.  I actually walked by and never even saw the First Republic. I never knew what it was. I just walked by and said, oh my God, that's First Republic yesterday. The FGIC doesn't want to come in and save them. Like, they're trying to force their hand at the larger banks to come in and buy the bonds of First Republic. So it's, we live in just this web, okay, this web where everything's interconnected, companies are interconnected, the banking system's interconnected, okay?  All you have to do is just go in every day and you'd be happy with $1,000, $2,000, even $5,000 you could take out. It's the amount of money that's in the system is so massive and so huge and the control that these institutions have, like it's all, you can't even, it blows your mind when you think about it actually. It just blows your mind.  That is such a small amount. Considering what's in the market and what's going through these companies and corporations that control everything, okay? So again, you need to be smart and you need to take advantage of that and you can by actively trading, okay? And again, this is not long-term investing. This is in and out. Chunk it out. You take it, get out and whether it's in 30 minutes or whether it's in one day for an option, you're in and out like that, okay? Anyways, gap trading is incredibly powerful. It's an event. It's an event. It's an event whether it's up or down, but again, today we're talking about shorts. Trading golden gaps is a powerful and profitable to trade because we're trading a slight amount of money and that's how you're going to make it, okay? Surround yourself with like-minded people. Surround yourself with people you want to emulate. If you want to be rich, you better start making some friends that are wealthy too. Stop spending time talking to people that have a negative attitude about money and it's not hard to find those people right now. Why? Because we're going into a recession probably. We're probably in a recession now. Really. Let's be honest. If not, we're going to be in a clear, clear recession by the end of 2023 and everybody knows we're in inflation, so you have plenty of things to complain and whine about if you want to be negative. You're not going to change that, okay? If you have a job and you want to make extra money on the side, trading fast in and out of the morning is a perfect thing to do. Doing options on the side where you're working full-time is a perfect thing to do. You can do that while you're at your full-time job because you may not get a raise at your job because companies are cutting back, okay? And nobody's going to tell you, well all of a sudden there's going to be this huge discount on things. No, inflation may never go back down to where it was, but the cost of eggs and milk and cheese and steaks and everything we buy at the grocery store may never go back down to where the prices were. Now oil fluctuates, that's true, but we may not be down to gas prices that we were back before the 2020 election, you know, before COVID for another five years. So at the end of the day, okay, you can make extra money if you don't want to change your lifestyle, but if you want to change your lifestyle and live a less-better lifestyle, that's up to you. I'm trying to live a better lifestyle. I certainly don't want to live a less lifestyle, so I mean the fact is that you can make extra money on the side and it's all about predicting events beforehand and then taking advantage of it, aka Tesla, which we did here, and I'm going to go over this trait.  I didn't have the chart in here from yesterday, but yesterday it really fell off the planet, broke 160, fell all the way down, broke 155, this was really the short of the week. Someone's asking me something, supply and demand. What do you mean by zone trading? I don't know anything about what we were talking about with that. Supply and demand, what do you mean supply and demand? Like what's your question? I don't get your question about supply and demand. Detail that out for me. This was last year's results, so this was last year, but I did take two weeks off last year, I moved. 2022, this is an average risk of $2,800 per train, $651,000, $7,000, this is all last year, and I took two weeks off to move, so I'm not doing that this year. I might take a vacation, I might just do a staycation and stay in New York, because I haven't had much downtime even the weekends I've had off to actually enjoy where I'm at. I've been going in Walks Central Park probably every day, not today because it rained, but I'd like some time to enjoy my new neighborhood. But ultimately, the nice thing though about trading is you can grow and get better over time if you trade more and get better, and I think that's the problem with a lot of people, they just struggle to ever get good at one thing because they jump around too much. Getting into the market then today we're rallying. I didn't see where we are right now, but this was where we are this morning, we actually gapped up. So what's again? A stock closed here, this was the QQQs, and again we do do the ATFs, the market gapped up this morning. Why? Because meta was up, meta affects the market. Again, Amazon's out tonight, that will affect the market too. So a gap up is where at four o'clock we close at one price and we close at a higher price the next day. A gap down is what? Where the market or stock or anything at all closes at four o'clock and a 9.30 in the morning opens at a lower price, that's a gap down. I tend to focus on gap downs, that's why we do Tesla. We also did the market here on the state too, that was the 25th. Now, a lot of people want to talk about shorts, they want to talk about short squeezes. Could we have a short squeeze in the market because there are people short? Yes, we could. So you can have a short squeeze in the market where you have too many people that are squeezed out of the short position, so the market could all of a sudden then push higher. Yes, that could happen. That could actually actually happen. I don't know, I'm not predicting it's going to happen, but I'm telling you that it could. The same way we could push down to the downside and people are long, but a lot of people only want to do shorts when it is a short squeeze. We're looking for shorts every day. There aren't short squeezes every day, okay? But if the market really wants to go, there are people that are short the market, that are betting to the downside already. This is a picture again of this morning at 1040 of the QQQs. If we really want to go up, but we really want to rally, or really want to blow through the top, and if the Fed says something next week that all of a sudden makes the market excited, yeah, we could have a short squeeze in this market. And then all the shorts are squeezed out, and then you would want to be what? You want to want to be long. The institutional money will be taking us up, will be buying the market, okay? Let me see if there's any other questions here. Salvador, I didn't understand your question. Anyways, it's about proper alignment with big money. Big money controls the market, big money controls the world. You can see that even in everything that we have going on right now, like I said, with multiple industries. So it is about making good choices. How do you find quality trades? You need a good system. So my system tells you how, what, and when. How do you make money in the market? You got to trade a strategy that's profitable. So for me, it's golden gaps. I'm looking for large momentum. What stocks am I trading? Anything that rates 20 points or more per my 26 point rating system? I trade the gap only in the direction of the gap. I do not do gap bills. When do I trade them early in the morning in the open when they set up and trigger? So again, I'm in and out quickly. I'm looking to do the same thing pretty much every single solitary day, and that's how you get good at it. That's how you can tell it. There are gaps every day in the market, like Tesla. There was a ton of stuff today, a ridiculous amount of stuff today. Today we did cat, but we could have done five different things. You can do five different things, but I'm trying always to get the fastest trade. Sometimes we're not in a trade in two minutes. Okay, so again, once you get in and out quickly, then you don't have to worry about other things that are going on. So we're going to look at one week. This was the week of April. Again, I didn't have time to put the past weekend, but we made $14,390. This is with a $2,800 risk. This was $410. We made money in Tesla, lost in Snow, lost in Zoom. The 11th, we made money in Amazon. Twelfth, we did AAL. Thirteenth, we did NP. And this is unusual, but I did do two trades on this day. C was a long and B egg was a short. And we made money in both of those. That was the start of earnings season on the 14th. So this is a good week. This is an average week. We had two losers. People always ask, would you have losers? Yes. The trades in parentheses and the stats in the year-to-dates and the annual numbers are the losers. So we had two losers this week, and we still made good money. Now, let's go over every single trade. Somebody's asking about something here. If you want a trial, I give trials for a week. You have to email me at melissabestopswish.com. Supporting resistance is fine, but that's not a strategy, Salvador. Supporting resistance isn't a strategy. It's something you can use just like anything else. It's an indicator you have on your chart, but that's not a strategy. Okay. Okay. Let's talk about Tesla. So Tesla was 410. Take it up here. Stack close here, gap down. We closed green, but this is actually a tail that we shorted and made money right in here, and we got in and out. So we shorted this and we made money. Boom. And that was on 410. And then we got in and we got out. And we made 6,100, or you did it, if you risked 3,000. So short was 179.60, exit was 176.55. This is a daily chart here. Someone's asking. It's a daily chart of Tesla. Then this is snow. We lost in snow on 410. And again, here is snow. Stack close here, gap down, fell. We got stopped in it. It flipped. So I didn't make money in the snow then on that particular day. And zoom was in the other day that we lost in the zoom. Here was the 10th. Close here, gap down, dropped. We stopped in zoom. So three trains on that day, but overall that was the start of the week. That was the Monday. Then we did Amazon on the 11th. Let me find it here. Stack close here, gap down. We shorted it. Boom. Again, this is a daily chart. We got in and out. 47.50 is a great amount of money. The size was here, was 5,000 shares, and we captured almost a dollar. Again, if you risk a dollar, you're looking to make a dollar. If you risk 50 cents, you're looking to make 50 cents. 412, we did AAL. This is a little rinky dinker. We didn't make quite 100% on this close, but again, it went to the target. So I got out. It did keep going. 412 was AAL. Stack closed up. Here, gap down fell. So if you held this, you can see it broke 13. So I got out of this really quick in the morning, but it actually would have been a massive treat if you had held it all the way down, because we entered it at 1360, and it broke 13. I just didn't hold it all the way down there. Sometimes I say I get out of the train where I get out in the room, but if you want to hold it longer, you can.  MP then we did on 413. Close to your gap down. This was a good one. Again, in and out quit. This kept going where I get out of it too. Again, risk was 2970, May 2790 close enough. Close enough. I'm looking for targets. I'm looking for time of the day. I'm looking for the markets doing. C was a long, like I said, unusual. This also kept going where I got out. I got in and out of this quick because I had made money in the other BA 1750. Here was the gap. This was a gap up close to your gapped up rally. Here it was. We also did calls and C. We did options and C, and this almost went to 50 on the day and it did go to 50. Again, I got out of this quick. I did not hold this either. Tesla I helped. Tesla, I believe was lower. Tesla, I did a bunch of trades and C. I got out fast. It was also Friday. BA we did here. Close to your gap down fell. 202.35 was the entry. Again, 200 was a target. Went there, boom, out, done. Finish. This kept going though too. Again, take your money and run to the bank. This came all the way down. Drop $2 from where I got out of it. But again, I like the fast trades and I don't have to worry about anything at all. Someone is asking Harold McHale getting the risk amount, the difference between the entry and the stop. How much money do you think someone need to trade the strategy? You need a margin account which is a minimum of $25,000 at a retail broker at a prop broker. You could probably open up a margin account with $5,000. You're going to get 10 to 1 margin, a retail 4 to 1 margin. If you can't open up a margin account, if you don't have $25,000 and you don't want to go prop, then you open up an options account which the minimum in an options account at a retail broker is $2,000 and you can open up a cash account. Whether you do day trades, active day trades, or options has to do with the amount of cash that you have. Hope that answers that question. Anyways, it was a good week.  We didn't do any options today. But this is one of these things again where if your mindset is such that you believe that you can do it, you will do it. And it's not about making money in every trade. You will have some losses even with me, but it is about making money more than you don't which you will with me. So the fact is you have to be consistent. If I didn't lose in any trades, I would essentially risk my whole account all the time, every day in every trade. I don't do that. You have to have parameters. Look at again what happened to the banking institutions. They had parameters. They didn't follow them. Poor management and poorest money management took down that bank in Silicon Valley. I mean, anybody could saw last year what interest rates were doing, how they were moving against bonds for long-term bonds. And I mean, they ignored it. So, and then when people wanted to take all their money out, then they couldn't. And there was a run in the bank. So it took them down. People always could say, oh, I need so much money to trade. I don't have enough money. I can't do this. I don't have this much money. You'll be waiting forever. You have to build it. Start slow and build it. If you're waiting for what? Waiting for you to win the lottery? Seriously. Start with what you have now. Stop complaining that you don't have enough. Trade with $2,000 and build it up. If that's what you got to do, that's what you got to do. Okay. Everybody has parameters. They have to work within. Okay. That's what it is. All right. My niece right now, she's in New York. She's going to ballet school. I'm her aunt. So, I mean, her parents are, my sister is her mom. And they were telling me she took, she has a limit on her debit card that she could take out cash every day. And apparently she took all her money out and she was allowed to take out that one particular day and her parents freaked out.   If your dad wouldn't have had you cut off at a certain amount, what would you have spent all your money? You have a limitation. And she's in school. She doesn't have a job. Everyone has limitations. Okay. So complaining about them isn't going to get you ahead. It isn't going to get you anywhere. Okay. Again, think positive. Think that you're going to get somewhere. Think that you can get somewhere. Be willing to do what it takes to get somewhere. You know, so many people are not willing to do what it takes to get ahead, which sometimes mean sacrifice, like my classes on a weekend.  But guess what? It should be fun. You're looking, you're learning how to make money.   Open up a trading account, putting money in it. Paying for a class. It was a cost to everything. Sacrifice. Someone's asking me about how much you can trade on options versus stocks. It's the same strategy. The strategy I do for day trades and the strategy I do for options is exactly the same. It's a 26 point rating system. So I get up in the morning, I rate everything I like. And if I decide that I want to do something, I might do it as an option and a day trade. If I decide that I want to do something as a day trade, then I may not do it as an option. Why? Because I don't think it's going to have enough follow through. So if I don't do it as an option, if I do do something as a day trade and an option, which we did in Tesla, then guess what? I really, really, really, really like it. But that's not every train. Some trades don't make sense as day trades. They do make sense as options. And some trades don't make sense as options. Or they don't even have any options. Or they don't have any volume. But as far as what I do, I don't spend any more time on anyone other than the other. I spend time in the morning rating the gaps. And then I make a determination if I want to do both an option and a day trade in it or one or the other. So why is the golden gap 26 point rating system consistent and reliable? Because of the power money. You've got to trade on the side of power money. It's so important institutional money is in charge. I cannot stress this enough. And I also have to stress how you've got to win more than you lose. Except the fact that sometimes you will lose. Nobody likes that. Be in a bad mood all day if you have a bad day. But don't blow up your account.  I mean, you don't need to have to be crazy to keep trading doing that same thing. Change it. Do something different. You've got to change it up. Again, sometimes something doesn't work and it's not your fault. So then just learn something else. You can make money because a whole idea is making money. That's why you're doing this. And you want to get better over time. And if you're not even doing something that doesn't work, then how are you going to get better over time? So for me, it is my 26 points. It is the checklist. This is what I go through to make the picks every day. I'm looking for a high probability of directional bias that will last the whole day. Ideally, you know, like we had that with Tesla. Then I want a big move in the day. Again, Tesla, early confirmation of the bias and the move between 9.30 and 10.00 a.m., we had that the other day in the market. I went right after the market on that whatever that was day was two days ago. I think it was a 25th. Then I said, oh my god, we're going to fall. Boom. And we did options. Got it. Dune. Got the drone. Fell into the clothes. Precise entries with follow-through and a good risk to reward. And then of course you want good target potential. But it's the trade selection because so many people just aren't doing the right things and they don't know what to do with it and they're flip-flopping and are there trading stuff that doesn't even move? I mean, we don't trade penny stocks. I'm not doing something to cost a dollar. Again, don't do stuff that's crazy or it's going to get haunted. Do stuff that's normal companies. You can say, oh, I know. I've heard of Target. I've heard of Walmart. Yes, I've shopped there myself. So then you say, yeah, this has a lot of volume. Things that you know of, all right, that they'll be here today. They'll be here tomorrow. Okay. But the checklist tells you what to look for in the price of this stock to read it correctly. And it really matters because that's how you're going to make money because you won't make money going long if you're short and vice versa. So what do you need to make trading work? Number one, a system to follow with rules. So my system has rules. If it doesn't meet the 26-point criteria of 20 points or more is a cutoff, then I'm not going to do it. Then I don't take it in the direction of the gap. Then I don't take it at all and I don't go the reverse. I don't do the reverse. I follow the rules. Not all gaps are good though. So I might get up Monday and there isn't any good gaps. Guess what? Then I don't do anything. You also need a method and a structure to enter next to the picks. This was Tessa. This was Tessa from Monday. We did it.  Here's the short in here. This is a one-minute chart. Again, I teach all of the entries in the class. I teach the exits in the class. I call them live in the room. Then you need goals. I think you need to be realistic with your goals. If you have a small account, $100 a day is $500 a week. $500 a week is $2,000 a month. If you're not making $2,000 a month trading, why are you trying to make $100,000 a year trading? $2,000 a month, if you look at it, is $24 grand a year. If you didn't make that last year trading, why are you trying to make like $100 grand this year? Just start with the amount of money you have. If you only had $5,000, you could open up an options account and see if you can make $500 a week. That makes sense, doesn't it? If you can make $24 grand then by the end of the year, that $5,000 account will have almost 30 grand in it. Then boop, all of a sudden you've got a margin account. You can day trade. You can do options. Instead of fighting, fighting, fighting with whatever you're working with.  You're not going to win. You should go with the flow. Anyways, number four, I think you need a talented mentor. If you have someone there to help you, to guide you, to give you the motivation and help guide you in all of the things that I know, just not the education learning we're talking today about the mentality, the mindset, what you need. I do think that helps. It helps in the good days. It helps in the bad days. It helps when you need it. When you're trying to narrow it down to one or two things, very often I can pick it because I've been doing this a long time and I have a sixth sense for what I'm doing as well. If we have time here, which we may not, I'll tell you what I think about Amazon. I'll pull up the chart for tonight since it's coming out, but I don't know if I'm going to have time because I started a little bit late here from the last person, but we'll see. Anybody's, the reliability in the system means sticking with one thing. For me, it's the daily. Daily, I look at it. I rate it in the daily. I do use stops. I'm very deliberate in my choices. Education is important. I teach a class once a month. My April class is this weekend. I know that it only gets people one day to make a decision or two days, but the class is Saturday and Sunday. If you want to sign up for April, the next class is not for another month in May, but you've got to learn how to train, and you should be thinking about what you're doing to make money. Now, really quickly here, this was Tesla. I just want to show, this was a trade I called, and I just want to show if you got out here on one particular day, if you held it, I called the 185 Teslas before the earnings. I did not hold it through this earnings. It's 185 or the 184 is I mean, or the 185s. I called the 185s on the 18th. So if you held that through the earnings, you could have made 269%. So for example, if you held it, you could have risked $1,300, I made $3,500. I'm telling you, I didn't do this. So I chose to get out because the day before I was up, but the fact is that that was my choice. So on this day, okay, I called the 185s. I called the puts. I was up on this day. I got out of the trade. I'll show you what I did in a minute. It was like 54% return of investment. It wasn't 269. I took the safe out. Okay, I was up 50%. I think it's good in an option, but I'm going to show you how some, so some of these calls I call are really huge. It gap down here the next day. Here's basically where it opened that on the earnings. And, and it was over 200%. So this was the trade that I did. I did the 185 puts and I took them on the 18th and I got out of them on the 19th and I made 54%. So I thought that was good. It was money in the bank, but I just want to show you here, this did continue. And if you held it, you would have really made bank. And one person that I know on the options letter, Muhammad did hold it. He did. Oh, here, here, here's the day. So I called it here. I get out of it here. Muhammad, I know held it to here, but it was a bigger trade there.  Even the last day, which I would never hold to the last day if I'm up, you know, 50%, 100%, whatever. The last day here, you could have even got out of that with a lot looking just looking here closed at 165. What am I saying here? Somebody's question. Do I only call puts and calls? Yes, I'm doing momentum trading. I'm buying puts and selling them and then I'm buying calls and selling them. So if you're interested in the class, again, you can learn what I do. The options newsletter is a separate suspicion. There is no prerequisites for that. There is a prerequisite for the live trading room, which you must be a student of the golden gap class to be in the room as a member. I often do specials to try to help people to support them to be in the room. But you can just sign up for the newsletter today and you'll get tomorrow's trades. So the golden gap course teaches one solid strategy to trade gaps effectively by reading the side of power in charts. And that's what I focus on. And it teaches a proficient level and advanced level to reach charts. So I'm just going to skip forward here. It's very, very important again for people to understand that education is a big piece of learning what to do. Unless you want to teach yourself and create your own system. I did it, but it took me three years. So it's a lot easier for you to pay me for the class and learn it in a weekend. You will have questions after that. You absolutely will, but I'll be there for you if you do have questions. Here's some testimonials from people. And now here is the class information. It's a full two day course in how to strategically find, pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps. The classes this weekend, April 29th and 30th, nine to five classes, 69 99. Now I am doing a special pay half now half later, which to try to help people. You pay half of the money and you do day two, which is all the entries and the exits you can start to trade. You're in the room then for 60 days trading. And then you pay for the rest of the class and you do day one then after the 60 days. And then you get the trading room free to the end of the year. Now, if you want to pay for the class full for 69 99 by tomorrow, you could do the class for the weekend and you get the trading room free to through the end of the year with the class. And the next class is not till May 20th and 21st. And then I have a combo which includes the trends, which is on May 2nd. I do have some people signed up for that. That's 74 99. Any questions from anyone here in the last few minutes? I think I'm good with time. Any questions from anyone in the last few minutes? Melissa, I apologize for the interruption, but I'd like you to ask them to email you with questions. I'm not sure if you were aware, but it's a 45 minute slot. I know I was, but I didn't get on right at noon, so I was. I was trying to get the full 45 in, but I was aware of it. Absolutely. If you'd like to answer a question or two, but in the interest of things, I do have to be fair to the next presenter as well. Thanks for having me. Melissa, I want to thank you for the great presentation. And those numbers are impressive. You have my attention, absolutely. And I'm also


Hello and welcome to another episode of show and tell this is a special episode where I'm your guest today normally it's fill in the more sometimes it's no in Pedro but today I got to take the reins so I'm excited to see your projects and talk to you about what you've been up to if you're interested in coming on show and tell head on over to the aid of fruit discord it's a to fruit dot i t slash discord you can go to the live broadcast chat channel and in there you'll see a link for our steam yard or stream yard I've got steam on the brain is that steam deck stream yard where you can join in and we'll take a few minutes to take a look at everyone's projects have a little chat and we'll be done in time for ask an engineer which is happening right after this this week so thanks everyone and first off we're gonna bring on from did you key our good friend Kevin Hey JP how you doing I'm well thanks how are you I'm good so what do a couple really exciting things well the first thing is we had our first successful tests of the our new warehouse so people will begin getting their parts even faster and with a lot more technology built into it it's it's an amazing facility I'm still working on getting the approvals to do show and tell from deep inside one of these days and you just send a GoPro through the thing for us I would love to you know how many people have said that 360 camera on the belt and the 20 minute life of your order or something you want to do things it's amazing the other thing that's exciting which I'm gonna have to chat with no way and Pedro a little bit and learn a little more about 3d printing but we are creating a low spot that is going to be a digi key addition so little brighter so instead of all the lime green it's going to be red so we're pretty excited about that we just got everything finalized this week and we should be taking inventory very soon and selling these awesome walls about 3d printers oh that's really cool so those are going to be in that sizes what they do they do multiple sizes they do multiple sizes but the red digi key addition is going to be this the sidekick size 747 it's 300 by 300 it's pretty nice that's great oh it's a nice size bed yeah wow we're excited about it is that something that is going to be for sale online soon did you see did you have a digi website very soon for we're getting close so I mean I just thought I'd give kind of a sneak peek to the the viewers on show and tell that you know that's coming and the only restriction is that it prints red filament exclusively exclusively red filament which is exactly why I have white on it right now that's really cool that's exciting congratulations on that yeah well it's a great company to work with so we're we're looking forward to it is that one that integrates octa print or other so this one I have with the Raspberry Pi shortage you know it's hard to get pies but I'm running octa print on the new Pi 0W2 oh wow so it's a really small form factor and I was actually able to fit all of the hardware inside of the see if I can point to it inside of the controller box so it you know it's great and then there's I have a camera set up and I you know I have a how-to guide on how to get all that set up on on maker.io but yeah we're excited about it we're trying to do more maker things more 3d printing that's really huge that's so exciting to see did you keep doing something like this that's that's so very targeted at that maker type of community with 3d printer yeah and even you know education all the schools I was talking to our local school and they're getting a bunch of printers so it it's out there so that's great congratulations more guys you know in Pedro I mean they're the they're the geniuses behind it very cool all right well thank you so much for that thanks for that announcement and we'll check in soon to to maybe see you see that in action sounds good well thank you very much thanks take care all right let's see next up speaking of noe and Pedro and 3d printing and lol's bots what a coincidence two of our printers just died on us oh coming out of the garage kicking it out in there so yeah there's two available spots no kidding oh well that's gotta get filled I'll continue cleaning it off and getting my red filament ready and I don't know if you have noticed like the screenshot for our show that there's a lol's bot in there we're already ready to go really good fit I mean it was made to be yeah so this week switch cameras there we go yeah so PT sound or found these really cool Nike shoes that came out that have like these heels on the sides I let you attach three printed like clips to them so of course his request was some circuit playgrounds attached to that with some like little rocket boosters the Nikes come with their own sort of like printed not printed these are like injection molded it keeps saying that but it's like a TPU and of course it like barely fits on that there's no like mounts for anything so of course we recreated it so you can go ahead and get all of the STL files so if you want to edit it and attach any other sort of you know any of the Adafruit electronics on there so some you know air quality sensing or something or just do fun like you know all the kids have you know they run around you know this every kid shoe has the light up LED so of course I don't have any for adults why would they so here's a way to make your own so yeah I'll completely modular they were using like these like what is it these these screws that like were rusted so I was like dude come on what cheap out on that not use like these cool PC thumb screws you can go ahead and edit you know have those go on there like that so everything attaches with the screws and then you can of course print your own modified version of them because you know everybody has different shoe sizes you you can have the files you can edit it to your flip size so yeah and then the code for this super simple and make code so it's using like the g-force when you step it does a little animation and I don't definitely can't hear the pu pu kind of I heard a pu pu yeah and because it's yeah you you know doing all the make code stuff so cool you can go in there added like the iteration for this so fast so of course you have like yeah when you fall you have like a little animation and I don't think anybody will hear that but if you just happen to fall while you're doing your cool skateboard trick be alerted there and yeah just simple super simple little project you can do for any of these 3d printable heels for your Nike shoes and of course PT wants to highlight it so give them encouragement you know for other companies to go ahead and start adding these because you know it's super cool platform to be able to attach whatever 3d printed accessory you want yeah that's great I mean I like the concept of a semi standardized mounting system you see that like all of the like airsoft people who put flashlights and junk on their they all have like standardized rails and it would be nice to take that out of the gun world and into into fashion pretty cool yeah I think I liked your idea I think you had last week where you can like print like a heel part and have like so you can mess with people when you're walking do like bear tracks or something so there's lots of ideas you can do exactly yeah so check out the fusing 360 file or the STLs you can modify it and attach any craziness you want to your shoes really cool thanks for showing those very exciting love it thanks guys good luck on getting your little spot okay all right let's see next up we've got Melissa oh and Paul came in there by accident I'm sorry Paul pull you back out so that was a false alarm Melissa hey there we go hey about Paul so I wanted to show I'm working on trying to get this Macintosh here all fixed up it still needs a new battery inside because it's dead but I got Mac 8.6 running on here it came with like 7.6 this is when I got like a few years ago as actually a gift along with some Commodore 64 monitors and I just did not even try plugging it in until just recently and so I've been actually having a lot of fun getting this up and running which model of Mac is that oh this is the Performa <IP_ADDRESS> CD you usually find them online for I don't know maybe 150 or something like that but it came with the monitor and stuff I had to get a new keyboard and mouse because I didn't have one of those and I actually replaced the hard drive with a SCSI 2 SD device so it's actually running off of an SD card a little quieter a little more reliable exactly definitely more quiet what's your go-to thing to run on an old Mac that you get do you have a game or oh actually the thing I was trying to get running on here was hypercard and because I wanted to play around with that so I got that that's why I actually had to go with the 8.6 because it was wanting to install something on the 7.6 that I didn't have I have to go ahead and it runs fun now I want an old Mac thanks for bringing that on and show us your hypercard stack when you get it finished okay I have to learn it first though okay there's your project alright next up we've got Scott here and oh yeah the cameras are moving I almost only brought on Scott's screen see it's tricky when people drop the little buttons move alright what's what's new Scott hey yeah I have been experimenting with MDNS which is multicast DNS which Jeff had brought up in February and did a PR and then we kind of didn't do it but it's pretty neat because you can you can advertise a hostname so you can say like I'm circuit python and then in a browser you can say circuit python local and you'll go to that web page for that device that's on your local network so I got to thinking it was talking with the more and I got to thinking we could use that for a web workflow so you'd be able to do circuit python local and then it would take you to like an editor where you could edit the code on any of your circuit python devices that are on your local network which I think would be super rad so I've been learning more about MDNS and what I've got here is MDNS is kind of created by Apple and so they use it in a lot of places and I'm adding a new MDNS module to circuit python and what I've got here is the output when I look for airplay devices on my local network using MDNS so you can not only can you do the hostname lookup but you can also say like hey who provides this type of service and so you can see here that I have like my Apple TV and my MacBook Pro are both responding to hey do you do airplay for example so this is how you can do discovery of other devices on your network so the idea being that you can use the hostname resolution to get to one circuit python device and then that device can look and find all of the other ones for you and kind of let you know what their name is as well so I'm working on adding MDNS support to circuit python really cool it's crashing a bit right now so we'll see how that goes and I'm about to have a baby but yeah it should be a cool foundation for a web workflow for circuit python maybe you're the MDNS the baby yeah maybe it's a great workflow foundation yeah no so yeah it looks pretty neat I've avoided doing a web workflow for a while and I think this is kind of that thing that can make it really easy yeah whippersnapper the work that Lauren Brent and Melissa have all done to make whippersnapper really easy has been really impressive and kind of got me like seeing an easy way to do web workflow stuff so this is a piece of that all right well thanks for that I'm looking forward to it and how soon until we are going to have Scott out for a while is that coming up pretty quickly here the baby is due a week from Friday all right best of love yeah the next few weeks all right probably stop on the MDNS for a little while just prepare mentally and emotionally yeah I'll be taking parental leave once the baby arrives fantastic good all right thanks so much Scott we'll see you soon all right next up we've got Jepler hanging out here with some cool hardware welcome to my upstairs so this is a PC floppy drive TAC model and I've just been writing a floppy to it using our experimental Adafruit floppy interface so I'm going to pull that out oh boy just next door look at this baby it's gorgeous slot that in there and boot it up we'll be surprised by what we see I mean not me I know yeah oh hey that's excellent yeah if you can't read that that's the Oregon Trail a classic educational title of the 80s downloaded from archive.org written to a new floppy with Adafruit floppy on a standard PC floppy drive reading and booting on a genuine old Apple II computer so I'm really excited to see kind of one more format checked off that's true yeah so that's what's up with floppy drives this week great work thank you for continuing to check off those boxes it's it's really impressive all right well I'm gonna go dive this and Terry go don't die make it make it west go west all right we'll see thanks come on JP all right let's bring Liz on here hey Liz I'm not hearing you now I bet I need you yep so just quickly want to show I keep on my desk handheld version of Oregon that's excellent yes I spent many an elementary school day playing that so one little thing I've been working on on the side is kind of a circuit Python based sequencer I really want to use this rotary coder that's in the shop and use a matrix as like a GUI so basically I'll just throw some random notes on it's just a C scale so everything should be fairly in tune and can you hear the figure? yeah really cool so you can slow it down to eighth notes or quarter notes if you're feeling really slow but 16th notes is really fun and then you can speed up the BPM or slow it down or if you really want to then you can use the scroll wheel and also add more notes so yeah it was fun figuring out like how to get the notes to stay on the matrix and also keep it scrolling and yeah it's just using the tone library to turn that note on the speaker oh that's really cool yeah you've gotten a lot of interface out of that click wheel like you're doing a lot of stuff there which is pretty interesting yeah so it's fun to play around with I'm hoping to maybe use this as a Eurek interface for sending out like one Vox sequences that's really cool oh I love that idea yeah and a great I love the matrix display for that kind of interface it's really perfect it doesn't feel like you're looking at a display exactly like 90s music gear kind of way it's really elegant I love it oh that's really cool you have a guide in mind for that perhaps I haven't chatted a little more about it alright well I put a vote for that because I'd love to see it and as I want to say it's my first week full time with Adafruit too way congratulations thank you yeah so exciting we're really glad to have you and looking forward to the kind of stuff you'll be doing with us so thank you so much yeah I'm really excited thanks Liz alright we'll see you next time see ya alright next up Paul I'm sorry I teased bringing you on before but here we are now good to see ya thanks for having me how's things what's new the third episode of the podcast the circuit python show came out yesterday with Professor John Gallagher of Boston College we had a real fun conversation about how he's using circuit python in college classes with his students I'm really looking forward to listening to that that's great and then next week we'll have Todd Bot oh good my good friend Todd I'm glad you I'm glad you're having him on so where can people hear the podcast where are you broadcasting to just search for circuit python show in your favorite podcast app we're everywhere we're on Spotify Google Apple podcast you name it we're on it how have you found is this the first podcast you've done it is how have you found the process so far any tips for people any lessons learned so far it's a little more work than you think you spend a lot of time researching every episode in your guest and what they've done so the time commitment was probably just a little more than I thought that's probably the biggest one but it's been fun I mean getting getting a chance to talk to these people in the community and getting to know them and being able to share that is really the goal and I think so far it's going well that's great now do you find that you're doing a decent amount of editing to get to a certain amount of time or a certain level of content like I've always wondered what kind of ratios people get with interviews versus what what they end up putting out we're using 90 to 95 of everything we talk about so you're hearing almost all of the conversation the only thing that might be professionally edited out is if we make a mistake and stumble over words like I just did but I actually pay someone to do it because I don't have those kind of skills and it's the same guy who does the editing for talk python to me the popular python podcast so he's doing a heck of a job it's funny occasionally I hear people do a retake and forget to edit it out they'll say something take that again they'll say something and you hear it it always makes me laugh great and so do you have a lineup planned out for a certain number of episodes already do you have a certain cadence that you're looking to get into to bank episodes for the future that's exactly what I'm working on right now so I'm calling a season approximately six episodes and I'll probably take a week or two off and then I'll come back with another six I've actually talked to so many folks that I'm probably into season three trying to book folks to come on and what is your background coming into this your interest in broadcasting as well as python you know we're in the middle of a pandemic and I needed a hobby no background in any of this I've never done anything like this before yeah oh that's terrific congratulations on the success so far and I look I've listened to the first episode I'm looking forward to taking some dog walks and listening to the next two and on into the future so thanks so much and if people over in the discord have any suggestions of people that they'd like to hear interview can they ping you over there anytime I'm always looking for interesting people to talk to great okay well thank you so much Paul and we'll see you soon thank you for having me all right now we've got make it hack in hello welcome can you hear me yeah are you great nice to see you so it's cool that you're running the show because I am showing off an update to my phone ringer yes excellent so it's a pretty small update but so this was version one and version 1.2 has a feather wing breakout so you can put a feather wing on this thing and if you don't have a feather wing you can put a lipo battery there a couple other things that I fixed were before I had like to do a bodge wire so I got rid of that and then not all feather wings have pull up or not all feathers have pull up resistors for buttons so or internal pull up resistors so I built it in so they can be added or something like that and then so I'm just demoing the feather wing OLED here and then these buttons are the same as these buttons so just demo of using the feather wing during it now so still works through the IO thing I haven't done any software updates but oh that's terrific I have I am looking forward to putting my kit together you were gracious enough to send me out a PCB so I've got all the parts ready and I'm going to build a bone ringer I have extra 1.2 so wait until I send you one of these so it has the updates on it so yeah really cool project for people who don't know who are watching this is not trivial to ring telephone yeah not at all lots of voltage needed lots of voltage some particular timing it's an AC thing right or a sine wave bang essentially two different magnetic coils back and forth it's not like you're going to walk up with a 9 volt battery and it comes up a lot for people who are doing theatrical stuff still as well as of course people want to do escape rooms or just have a conversation piece so I am so excited to put this together I'll wait for the revision on the PCB but really great work and for people who are interested you have a Tindy store is that correct where they can pick these up so they're not on the store yet I was waiting until 1.2 came out the 1.2 PCB just arrived this afternoon so it looks like everything works so they might be up sometime soon and can they check make it hackin yeah make it hackin.com got all my links on it and just for the people I guess who weren't here a couple or a few weeks ago whenever it was so this is a telephone ringer John said that you know it's not it's not trivial to ring it but just the setup that I have here is Feather goes here there's kind of like a spot if you do a stand off to put a battery underneath and you have a few buttons to ring a few different styles or whatever you want there's some indicator LEDs now there's a feather wing breakout you can do it from USB or you can put it on a battery I don't think the batteries last too long depending on the size that signal is fed into this boost converter boost it from about I think 4 to about 40 volts and then it goes into the Adafruit 8871 motor controller and then the motor controller signal from the Arduino or Feather and creates that sine wave then goes into the RJ11 jack and into your phone so that's how it works you go to I'll put the link in the in the discord but all of this is on github so I'll link that in the chat yeah so you've got things like US ring, British ring people with different patterns that are available that people could pick and it runs on Adafruit IO so you can ring it from your phone so cool you know that gives me a thought because I have a little alert that I've used during my live streams and there's a couple people who can use a glitch IO page to let me know if I've got my audio dropped because it's something I never use, you're mute for a while I should really switch that over to be a phone ringing because there's no ignoring that don't let him abuse it though you have to trust people with that awesome well thank you so much for bringing that on, great progress alright and last up we've got Mark hello so I said I'd bring it back the Game Turn Timer project that I've been working on is now in its final case and everything's working so you can set how many players set colors for every single player and then start finding out who actually takes the longest when you're playing your games and it'll just cycle through all this for as long as you take on the back now it's all on one of the PROTO boards which made it really easy to hook up the whole mess of wires which you can't really see clearly from all the segments on the front and the LED strips and the buttons yeah so it made it super easy to work I really like you did a thing there with the Molex connectors from your buttons didn't you so that you can plug them directly in the board so the blue LED button on the front screws in and I didn't want to have to solder it through and I had those arcade connectors which fit the button and then the other end was a connector that I just happened to have a spare connector sitting around that worked perfectly it's one thing that actually for a lot of people trying to build your first 3D projects that you print yourself it found was having like a bunch of connectors around is useful because you will mess it up and I have N trying to desolder it which is the worst thing in the world yeah sometimes it feels like about 25 to 50% of a project is interconnection of the wiring like it's just to get it right so that you're not hating yourself later you actually really have to do a lot of work to make interconnects happen yeah the wiring itself isn't hard it's getting it all hooked up but together and apart and together again yeah beta tested it with my friends playing a game this weekend and it's amazing how quickly everyone was as equally concerned about how long their turns were and yeah some suggestions are like you should figure out the total score divided by the time to figure out who's most efficient now they're gamifying the game timer of course yeah so we made a game of the game timer on top of it because we're a little bit too competitive at times maybe a separate device to do all of that work that watches the game timer excellent thanks and is this a project that you're thinking of documenting or putting up files? yeah I haven't documented yet I've got the code up on github if anyone's interested I'll post the link it's all done using the new async.io so it's a good non-trivial example of that which actually was able to learn a lot by doing it that way so oh that's great I'll post that link good yeah for people who are watching head to work discord to see where that link gets posted that's adafruit.it in the live broadcast chat channel alright thanks so much and we're gonna say goodbye to you and say goodbye to me because it is time for Ask an Engineer so thank you everybody who came and brought excellent projects thanks to everyone who hopped into the chat it was a really fun night of cool show and tell and like I said stay tuned for Ask an Engineer happening in right now bye bye