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You're surrounded by men of the United States Immigration Service. So just stay where you are and we'll be... Look out, Keeley. The pilot's getting away. I think I'll stay out west for a little while. Did you ever hear of Fedor Colander? One of the passengers aboard that plane. That's right. He's the fourth big-time alien agent we've picked up in the past 60 days. Illegal entry, all of them. How many more have gotten in without it being spotted? We don't know. But I have a hunch we're being flooded with them. Now, Colander's in the hospital at Blythe with a bullet in his shoulder. He's in no condition to talk even if he wanted to. But he had a telegram in his pocket that made it was a lead. Well, what'd it say? It confirmed a reservation he'd made for a vacation. Vacation? Where? At the Flying Mustang, a dude ranch, in Helena, Montana. Pretty stranger. About a hundred miles from here is the Crow Flies. But it'll take two days' easy bakar. Ten bapak nul. What about flying him? Well, he may be got a point there, stranger, if he ain't afraid of them mountains, that is. Pretty dang high of them mountains. I heard of fellas who were once... The plane ready yet, Zeke? Oh, howdy, Miss Doris. Yep. Gassed up, checked out, and all ready to ski daddle. Thanks, Zeke. Oh, say, before you go, Miss Doris, a fella here been asking about the Flying Mustang. Seems he's trying to figure out how to get out there. A man Zeke's talking about, mister? Maybe. What's your interest in getting to the Flying Mustang? Well, that comes out of hitting a private business, doesn't it? It's my business, too, mister. Oh, why? Why? Why? Because she's Doris Crandall's stranger. She owns the outfit. That's why. And I'm asking, mister, what's your interest in getting out there?  Who are you? My name's Ken Thurston. We're full up, Mr. Thurston. Better wire for reservation the next time. Maybe some time next fall. Would Fedor Kalender have to wait that long? What's Kalender got to do with this? His vacation plans have been interrupted, and I thought I might be able to take his reservation. Zeke? Yep, Miss Doris. Tell the boys at traffic control that I'm changing my flight papers. I'll be carrying a passenger. A landing strip. Looks like you handle a lot of traffic here at the Flying Mustang. Running a cattle outfit, even a dude ranch has big business these days. And in big business, the airplanes replace the horse. Or haven't you heard? Not being a ranch hot to take your word for that. My handyman's riding up. He'll take you to your bunkhouse. When you get your gear stowed away, come up to the ranch house and meet the other guests. See you later. Yes, see you later, Miss Crandall.  That's right, Mr. Axe. Ah, long time no see.  I thought you were in Mexico City. Oh, I was. I was. But this senior rocus flew me up here and got me this job with that luscious Doris Crandall. Who's senior rocus? A big, hot shot cattleman from Argentina. He's the guy I heard talk about smuggling in the Mexicans when I called you and the chief about it. Believe me, Mr. Axe, I'm plenty glad you showed up. There's something screwy going on this ranch place. Like what, Pudsy? Yeah, like what, Pudsy? Oh, it's you, Mr. Sanders. You were saying there's something screwy about the flying Mustang, Pudsy. Like what? I didn't mean exactly screwy. Exactly. Oh, Mr. Thurston, this is Mr. Bert Sanders. He's the big shot in charge around here. That means I'm forming of the spread, Thurston. In any information you want about the outfit, you can get from me. Not from any cookhouse waddy who's been pasturing on local weed. What's the matter, Sanders? Is the flying Mustang got something to hide? Look, mister, maybe you're here for a vacation. Maybe you're mixed up with some of that business going on at the ranch house. But whatever it is, let's get one thing straight. As long as I'm forming here, I'm running the things the way I see them. That goes for you and all the rest of the... Oh, Mr. Thurston. Stop worrying, Thurston. Just a couple of the boys leveling their sights on some coyotes. For a cattle man, Sanders, you've got a bad sense of direction, unless your boys are shooting coyotes in the ranch house. Martini, perhaps it will make restitution for the way Madeleine and I started you. Oh, well, I... After all, Mr. Thurston, we must have a drink to our newly formed acquaintanceship. Sure, Miss Trent, a Martini, it'll be. Bueno, bueno. You send you to Sanders? I don't drink during work, you know, as Mr. Rookus. That's your wish. And I still think there's something mighty funny about those shots. I thought we had explained it, Mr. Sanders. Julio was boasting of his ability with the revolver. I asked him to prove it, he did, by firing at a target out the window. If you have any other comments, I suggest you make them to Miss Crandall. Your horse is saddled and ready, Miss Trent. I'll be at the corral any time you want to take that ride. Thank you, Mr. Sanders. You're very sweet. But you needn't wait for me. I'm going to try to persuade Mr. Thurston to ride with me instead. Well, Mr. Thurston, will you accept my invitation? Be glad to, Miss Trent. Oh, good. I'll be changed and ready in 15 minutes. Right. Yeah, she's a wonderful woman, Madeleine. Wonderful. Too rich, too bored, too willful, but wonderful. Another drink? Not just now, thanks, no. Tell me, Senor Lucas, where are the other guests? Other guests? But there are none, my dear friend. We three have the flying Mustang to ourselves. Well? You are surprised at this? A little. Just as you were surprised to find your friend Puzzi at the ranch? Ah. See, I find him a most amusing person and most informative. Tell me, did you manage to capture those Mexican nationals who attempted to cross the border? We did, yes. Ah, bueno, bueno. You're happy about it? Oh, but of course. Was it not I who learned of the plot in Mexico City and told Puzzi of it? And now you and I meet here at the Rancho in Montana. Strange coincidence, eh, Senor? Is there? You know, Thurston, I am most intrigued with this idea of smuggling people over the border. Perhaps you would care to exchange information with me later at your bunkhouse. I'll be there. Bueno, Bueno. I would not miss this opportunity for anything, Senor X. Tired, Madeline? Oh, no, Ken. I could ride like that for hours. But we're nearly back at the ranch house. My main purpose in coming out here was to talk. What about? A friend of yours, Fedor Colenda. What do you know about Colenda? Oh, I met him once, casually, before the war at an embassy ball in Budapest. What makes you think he's a friend of mine? Well, Doris Crandall told me you'd assumed his reservation. Frankly, I was a little surprised to learn he was in the country. I thought he was in disfavor with the government. Tell me a couple of things, Madeline. Of course, Ken. You and Rokas were the only guests at the ranch when I arrived, but at first Miss Crandall said there wasn't room for anyone else. Any idea why? No. Except that Doris is a rather peculiar girl. Any other questions? Yeah, that shooting episode in the ranch house, what really happened there? You didn't believe my story to Sanders? I might have. If Rokas didn't have powder burns on the shoulder of his jacket. Powder burns? Rokas wasn't shooting anything, he was the target. Oh, if you knew Julio better, you'd realize how ridiculous that statement is. By darling, he hasn't an enemy in the world. Mr. Zersen, you... Oh boy, oh boy, am I glad I found you. You've got to do something, Mr. Zersen. You've got to do something. What's wrong? Somebody's been shooting at coyotes again. That's what's wrong. What? And they got him too. Right in your bunk house. Send your Rokas. Julio? What's happened to him? He's murdered, killed, even dead maybe. Oh, blood all over. 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Attempting to track down a well-organized effort to smuggle alien agents into the country, Ken Thurston finds himself at the flying mustang, a dude ranch near Helena, Montana. Right now, Ken, the beautiful Madeleine Trent and Putsi are entering the bunkhouse, where Putsi claims to have found the murdered body of Julio Rogus. You see what I mean, Mr. Thurston? Yeah. What was it, Ken? Whoever shot it in this time didn't miss. Who else knows about this, Putsi? Oh, nobody. Where's Sanders? He said he was going hunting for snipes or something. And dolly's kindle. Oh, the last I seen of her, she was going into the airplane garage. The hangers? What would Dorothy be doing there at this time? Ken. Yeah. There's your answer, Madeleine. Looks like dolly's taking a little trip. Is it, Chief? Will you get the reports back to me as fast as you can? Right. Did he find out anything? Can you hear me? Chief! What's the matter, Mr. Thurston? I think somebody just cut the phone wire, Putsi. Oh, that's all it... Huh? Cut the phone wire? That's right. Hey, I don't get it, Mr. X. Well, what's going on this range of place? Anyways, cutting phone wires, murdering people, why would anybody want to bump out that Rokas character anyway? The usual reason, he knew too much. Knew too much about what? Smuggling aliens into the country. Huh? I have an idea. He was going to tell me about it when I got back from that ride. Somebody else must have thought so, too. Hey, what if that somebody thinks I know something? It's a possibility. Well, don't just stand there. Call the police. Call the... Well, Mr. X, the telephone wires, we can't call nobody. That's right, Putsi. Oh, I was looking for you, yes, but... Well, I didn't expect to find you sitting in a plane. What are you doing up there? Oh, you might call it a test flight. Test flight in a closed hangar? You'll be surprised how much you can learn about a plane just doodling around. The fuel tanks are full, and there's a flight map and the pilots can pop it. Know anybody in Victoria, British Columbia? Victoria? That's the flight destination marked off on the map. Oh, Kenneth is a long way to go to report a murder to the police, isn't it? Yeah, but not too far to pick up guests for a dude ranch in Montana. Either I'm very obtuse, darling, or you're being deliberately frost- Ken! Watch it, Madeline. Stay right there. Can you see him, Ken? No, he's gone. Do you think it was Sanders? Could be. Carrying a grudge against us for taking a ride together? A better guess is that he didn't want us to talk to Doris Crandall. Doris? Yeah, she's back. Coming in for a landing now. The passenger with her, Ken.  Recognize him? Should I? You met him once before the war at an embassy ball in Budapest. Ken! Yeah. He's our old friend. Fedor Colendo. I don't get it, Mr. X. What's that no-good spy Colendo doing here anyways? I think he's come to meet some old friends, Putsy. Huh? Listen. The minute it's dark, take one of the ranch cars. Head down the road to Helena. Uh-huh. Call the telephone you come to. Put in a call for the chief and tell him Colendo's here. He'll know what it's about. Well, Miss Crandall, welcome home. Thanks. Any particular reason for being in my bunkhouse? You wouldn't come out on the landing strip to meet me's who I came here. They're thoughtful of you. Why the, uh, 45? I was also thoughtful enough to ask your friend, Colendo, about you. Did he give me a good reference? Maybe you'd like to answer that, Colendo. We are always glad to oblige an old friend. Aren't we, Mr. X? Myself mixed up in these things I don't know. Shootings, killings, spies. Ah, I should have took my Uncle Ahmed's advice and married that rich day in Vienna. So what if she did have to shave once a day? With a million bucks, I could afford a barber. Now I got to sneak out of here in the dark, maybe get shot at a couple of times, and all because I was... Hello, footsie. Huh? Going somewhere? Oh, it's only you, Miss Trent. Nice night out, huh? I asked you if you were going somewhere. Oh, yes, yes, sure. To get help before we all get bumped off out here. Maybe... Hey, what are you doing with that garden? Nothing. If you change your mind and head for the airplane hangar, otherwise you might join Senor Rokas. I'd join Senor Rokas, but he's dead. He... Oh, my. Ropes, footsie. Luck. These things got me tied tighter than a bomb. Uh... What gives, Mr. X? What gives? Why we're all tied up in this airplane hangar? Why? Who's after us and for what? Mugging enemy agents into the country is a profitable business these days. What's that got to do with that Madeleine pulling a gun on me? Just protecting her vested interest, footsie. Huh? She's the boss of the outfit. Oh, that's different. For a minute, I thought you said they're boss of the outfit. That's why she had Sanders kill her boyfriend, Rokas. He'd tipped us off once and was gonna do it again. When she tried getting himself earlier, it didn't quite come off. But... But he said it was a target practice or something. A cover-up for her. When you love someone badly enough. Oh. But what about little Doris Crandall? How does she figure in all this? Would you like me to take over on that one, Ken? Mr. X. Hello, Madeleine.  When the blizzards of two years ago nearly wiped her out, she was very grateful when I financed her.  How long do you think you can keep fooling on, Madeleine? Oh, just long enough for my next plane to arrive from Canada. It's due any minute. Carrying one of the most valuable cargoes I've ever handled. I see. Then Doris will try to fly you and Putsy back to Helena in that plane. But unfortunately, it's going to crash. For a crash? Sanders tells me it can be done quite easily. He'll take the plane up with the three of you aboard, set the automatic pilot, and bail out. Oh, but we could get killed that way. Even hurt, maybe. That plan from Canada is coming in now, Madeleine. And Sanders has Doris outside. What about these two? Cut their ropes, Fedor, and take them out to the runway. As soon as the others disembark, see that they climb aboard. I'll hold a gun on them while you tie them up again. Very well, Madeleine.  What fools you are. You know, someday you will learn that nothing, nothing can prevent us from obtaining our objectives. Yeah. So, stand over there. Thank you, Sean. Anything to say? Now, for you, Putsy. Hurry, Fedor. The plane is landed. All right, Madeleine. All right. There. On your feet, Putsy. Okay, okay. I'm on my feet. Here, Fedor.  Huh? You see them, Thurston? Ten of the finest espionages in the world. Gouverchev, Madison, Faran, Stryker. It may take them time, but when they're through, there will not be a military secret left in this country. Fedor, there's something wrong there. Those men. They're not the ones we were bringing in. That's right, Madeleine. Our chief better take them. Chief? All right, all of you. Stand where you are. You're under arrest. Arrest? No! Shoot them, Fedor! Shoot! Don't bother trying. Fedor! Sanders, he's trying to run away. What do you know? He didn't make it. Round them up, man. Watch out for snipers. How about it, Ken? You okay? Yeah, yeah. Thanks, Chief. What about the pain from Canada? We waited until it got across the border, and a couple of army jets forced it to land. You had your information down fat. Good. Oh, Chief, this is Madeleine Trent. He's operating the outfit. Yes, but apparently not quite smartly enough. How did you get that information out? Those planes and the hangers have short-wave radios, Madeleine. Radios? I had forgotten. You forgot something else, too. Something that every American's cool kid knows and believes in. They say it every day. It might be a good idea if all of us said it every day. And meant it. It goes. I pledge allegiance to the flag. Our star, Herbert Marshall, will return in just a moment. 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Hyperplanes, a mid-cube. So now I'm going to, I apologetically told you that we're not going to care so much about the cat zero metric, even though we're going to be interested in cat zero cube complexes. And I said we're going to move towards more combinatorial way of thinking about things. The objects that it turns out we're going to care about are hyperplanes. And I'm going to start by defining them. A hyperplane in a mid-cube is a subspace that you get by restricting one coordinate to one half. So for instance, in this three-cube right over here, which we're going to conveniently identify with a product of three intervals, if we restricted one of the coordinates to a half, then we'd get that mid-cube over there. And there's two other mid-cubes in that three-cube. And well, maybe in this two-cube, there's that mid-cube right over here. And in this one-cube, there's that mid-cube right over there. You all know what mid-cubes are now. A hyperplane in a cat zero cube complex, which I will call X tilde to remind you that it's simply connected non-positively curved cube complex, is a subspace which is built from mid-cubes in the following way. It's a connected subspace whose intersection with each cube is either empty or an entire mid-cube of that cube. So maybe I'll get a picture in here of a hyperplane, or maybe a few, so bear with me for a moment. Do I really need so much clutter over here? Maybe not. All right. So here's a, I think it's a simply connected non-positively curved cube complex, right? Has anybody checked that it's a cat zero cube complex? You inspected all the links of zero cubes. And let's try to find a hyperplane, and let's do it in a suggestive way that kind of is going to help us understand what these things are. So let's start at a mid-cube right over here, this orange mid-cube right over there. And what are the rules? The rules are that if you intersect a cube in a non, if you have non, if your orange object, your hyperplane, has non-empty intersection with a cube, then actually your intersection has to be an entire mid-cube of that cube. And right now, our cubes are all closed cubes, by the way. Right now, it intersects this two-cube right over here at this point. But the rules are that you have to intersect at an entire mid-cube. So I've extended it. Likewise, that two-cube, right? And it's still not a hyperplane now, because notice that it intersects this three-cube over here, it intersects it at a point. So it has to intersect it at an entire mid-cube. And similarly for its neighboring three-cube. Well, now I've got a hyperplane. Let's draw another one. I think you probably can do it yourselves now. How about this yellow one right over here? There's a yellow hyperplane. Let's see if green is visible on this board. Yes? No? No, yes, no. Red, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But you said that the cubes are not necessarily embedded. So when you say intersection, is it just a pullback or should it be the image of it? Well, it's just a subspace. So I don't think I did anything wrong here. So I have an object. And I have a cube complex. And oh, I see your question, I understand. So what he's asking about is, well, do cubes actually embed inside of a cat zero cube complex? So it turns out that every cube in a cat zero cube complex is going to embed. And so you're going to be safe for certain concerns that you have. All right? We will get to that soon. OK, so you see there are some other interesting hyperplanes. I don't have to draw more. And in fact, I think it's not obvious. Anybody who's thought of non-positively curved cube complexes was eventually led to hyperplanes. But I think Sagiw was, I think he was first because it's tricky because there's actually a literature on things like cube complexes called median spaces that precedes the topic from other area in math by 70 years or so. So it's hard to say if people have been there already earlier since the group theorists are a little bit oblivious of that topic, although that's changed in the last 10 years. Every mid-cube lies in a hyperplane, so meaning every mid-cube of a cube within our cat zero cube complex lies in a hyperplane. Let's call that hyperplane V. Any hyperplane V separates x tilde in the sense that the cat zero cube complex minus V has two connected components, actually even stronger than that, what we call the carrier n of V, which consists of all the cubes, the union of all cubes intersecting V, all the cubes that carry its mid-cubes has the property that it is isomorphic to a product of V and a 1-cube. This carrier of our hyperplane turns out to be a convex sub-complex. I'm going to talk about convexity later, but you can understand it for what it means. Any geodesic whose endpoints lie inside of it lies inside of it. And you know about the metric on cat zero spaces that I described already. I'm going to tell you about another metric in a moment.  The world is filled with many cat zero spaces, many wonderful spaces that satisfy this cat zero inequality. And cat zero cube complexes are among these spaces. But what really distinguishes them and makes them have extra wonderful features are these hyperplanes, these separating hyperplanes. And so let's see some examples that you're familiar with of cat zero cube complexes. Trees are the simply connected one dimensional cat zero cube complexes. And I already mentioned Euclidean space. That's Euclidean two space over there, cut up into squares. And maybe the hyperbolic plane broken up into squares. I'm sure most of you have gone ahead and played a little game of tiling the plane by something and sort of see what you get. And you learn that you have to make the squares very tiny as you're going outwards. You get a nice, if you have the tiling with five squares meeting around each zero cube is my favorite. And well, the hyperplanes in these objects or the hyperplanes in the trees, you might not have noticed them, because they're so small. They're just single points, the mid-cubes of edges. The hyperplanes inside of the tiling of the plane. Yeah, you know about that, but they're barring. And the hyperplanes over here seem just a little more interesting, et cetera. You kind of, they are going to look like some nice circle, arc of a circle that would intersect the boundary in the right way if I drew this properly. Well, idealizing this picture, I hope.  So you know what's going on, and you already were inspecting, testing it against that cat zero cube complex over there as well. I need to, before I go on, I need to be a little bit honest about the metric that we're going to focus on. We just suppose that in the terrain that the complex is a cat zero. Could you repeat that? In the terrain, is the cube complex always cat zero? In a cat zero cube complex, the following hold? Even for the first one. This is really true. This theorem's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you don't assume that the cube complex is cat zero. If it's not cat zero, then if it's not cat zero, but it's still non-positively curved, for instance, then you could end up with a situation like this. And you'll have a hyperplane. You might sort of know that you want to define your hyperplane. You start off and everything is looking good. You have this mid-cube, and you have another mid-cube, another mid-cube, another mid-cube, right? And then another mid-cube over here, another mid-cube. And then, whoa, you're going to crash into yourself, bang. And over here, we all know that that orangey red thing is a hyperplane anyway. We know it's true, but it didn't quite satisfy the definition. So this can fail. This can fail, if you're careful and you're ruthless about the definitions. But you do get what's called an immersed hyperplane. Well, that's really fine print. You probably can't see it. I'm going to talk about these later. They're going to be very important to us later. So it's good that you've, I think it's good that you've brought them up now. All right, so let's get to work over here now. My McGill students were waiting to watch me watch at least the blackboard. I didn't hear them giggling about it. Let's bring some stuff down, just a little hook. So I'm sorry about that. The metric that we will use on a cat zero-cube complex is the taxicab metric. I think people like to call that the L1 metric. We're not really going to use it a whole lot anyway. But let's be conscious of it. It has the distance between points equals the length of shortest path that is piecewise parallel to axes within cubes. So in contrast to the picture that we had before, where we kind of went across diagonally in order to get there quickly, now what we will do is we will force ourselves to travel in a very rigid way, always staying parallel to the axes. So what did I do? I went from here to there. So for the cat zero metric, I don't even want to draw it. I'll just make little dots with my fingers. We did it like this. Now what we're going to do is we're going to travel just parallel to the axes. And the length is whatever the sum of the lengths were. And unfortunately, we don't have uniqueness of geodesics, right?  But now there's even traveling around a single square, even traveling around within a single three cube, there are many ways, even if you restrict yourself to traveling in the one scale, to never mind traveling within the interior of the three cube, there's lots of ways to get as a geodesic from one zero cube to the other. But if you like the one skeleton, which I do, there's this way and there's also this way, for instance. And there are many ways, right? So here's a pink way. So it's certainly not a geodesic, it's not a unique, there aren't unique geodesics. There are geodesics, though. The truth is that I am mostly going to, well, almost entirely, focus on the metric on the one skeleton. It's going to be good enough for our purposes. And the L1 metric, or the taxicab metric, agrees with the usual path metric when we just focus on the zero cells. So let me say that in a more cleaner way. Induces the same metric on the set of zero cells as the usual path metric. And in particular, geodesics in the one skeleton between vertices are geodesics in either the taxicab metric or just the graph metric on the one skeleton. So for the most part, you can just think about the path metric on the one skeleton over here. Yes, we are not going to be cat zero. So unfortunately, we're going to use the term cat zero cube complex, but we're not going to be using the cat zero metric. What we are going to use is the enabling condition that the links of zero cubes are flag complexes. That's going to be a very powerful condition, and it's going to control everything that happens over here. So when you write x0 tilde, this is the set of zero vertices? No, when I write, yes. So this really means that. OK, but then if you have a square and the two opposite vertices, the distance is square root of 2 in the previous metric, and now it is 2. So it is not the same metric. Right, yes. So you say it induces the same metric. It induces the same metric on x to the 0 as the usual path metric on the one skeleton. The cat zero metric, forget about it. I'm only told you about it because I was pressured to do so. My roof is just going to confuse everybody. In fact, it's beautiful, and it's extraordinary that Gromov threw these out as, oh yeah, these are good examples for you guys. Do these non-positively curve cube complexes to give you many nice cat zero metric spaces? But the cat zero metric, in my experience from thinking about the cube complex as something that's just about cube complexes, if you're using the cat zero metric and you're sort of moving more towards traditional common and total group theory arguments with thin triangles and constants and whatever, it turns into a huge mess. But if you just say, I'm only going to use the flag complex that the links are flag complexes, you support that? All I care about is that cat zero spaces are contractable, and for that, I have to use the cat zero metric. No, you don't. You could just use the, and it also works when there are infinite cubes as well. OK, so it's interesting to try to, there's a sort of theme of combinatorial non-positive curvature, which is alive and kicking right now, and we'll see what wins out the geodesic metric non-positive curvature or combinatorial non-positive curvature, it's interesting, what's going to happen for art and groups, we shall see. I think I better go back to my lecture, and where was I? I did the taxicab metric. I'm going to tell you now about immersed hyperplanes and convexity. Yes, I will. I'm actually not going to use the metric a whole lot, it's going to come up for a bit now. An immersed hyperplane in a non-positively curved cube complex, you already know what it is. Let me say it in a slightly more formal way, is a component of the space obtained by starting with the disjoint union of the mid-cubes of cubes of x, and gluing them together by gluing mid-cubes of cubes of x together along sub-mid-cubes. I'll just say along sub-cubes, cubes. So what is meant over here? Let me move this guy up a little bit, bring it back down in a moment. Let's draw one, let's give myself a ton of space. They're on the floor because I throw them on the floor, right? Which floor? Are they camouflaged? OK, are they both there? Cool. Organized. I need that guy up, take his friend down. OK, so here's a picture of immersed hyperplanes. So here's a, ooh, this is too much. OK, so there's a three-dimensional, non-positively curved cube complex. And let me draw some of its immersed hyperplanes, but I'll draw them on the outside. So maybe I'll give myself a little hint to make it easier. I'll take that little square and I'll start with that. So here's this one as that little square. And then there's that one kind of mid-cube that was there. And then there's another mid-cube of this square, of this three-cube, rather, and it continues on over there. And actually this, the first two-dimensional mid-cube kind of continued like that. And that is one of my immersed hyperplanes. But there are others, right? There's also the green one with a purple one over here. Maybe I'll add it over here. And it continues like that. And I guess there's another one over here that I forgot about. I'll put it over here, see. And there's another one over there that maybe I also forgot about. OK, and perhaps there's one more that I also forgot about. There's three more that I forgot about. In the definition, do you still require that to be right? So you have to continue going until it's possible? Yes, yes. And in fact, I think you all know what they are now. In fact, if you had taken the universal cover and you looked at the hyperplanes in the universal cover and then you quotiented them by their stabilizers under the action of the fundamental group, then the components that you get when you quotient are going to be these immersed hyperplanes. The objects that you get when you quotient the hyperplanes in the universal cover by their stabilizers are going to be these immersed hyperplanes. But you can think about them downstairs in the base space just by just collecting all of the mid-cubes that are living inside, just the disjoint union of all of these mid-cubes glued together in the obvious whenever they should be glued together because they share a sub-mid-cube. And if you do that, you'll get this. So now we know what immersed hyperplanes are. And they're going to be very important for us. As for hyperplanes themselves, they have what we might call carriers. So these are immersed hyperplanes. And they come equipped with maps, their components. They come equipped with this map. The carrier Nv of one of these of an immersed hyperplane, you probably know what it is. You just kind of thicken it up. Is the cube complex obtained by gluing together ambient cubes instead of mid-cubes? So, well, I guess in this picture over here, there would actually be that purple hyperplane is actually living inside of this carrier right over here. And likewise, the others. I'm not going to draw them all. And usually they look just like products, but not always. It could be a little more complicated than that. Okay. Are you good on what the carriers of hyperplanes are? Yes, of immersed hyperplanes? The orange-red picture. What's the carrier that's going to be simply connected for us? Okay. So let's draw it because it's self-crossed. I'm going to draw it. It looks like this. Maybe it wasn't drawn in a way that makes the embedding so clear, but it doesn't matter. You'll deal with it. I think it looks like this. And I'm not going to draw it as red and orange because give me a break here. Okay? I can't control myself. All right? So an n-cube is going to kind of make appearances n times within the carriers of all of these immersed hyperplanes. Right? Once for each of its mid-cubes. All right. Now let's check some important things. The orders of the lectures is important because we are in lecture three. Yes. We are in trouble. There are my disk diagrams. Not here. Not here. Not here. Ah. Here. We will go with the flow. It's going to be okay. All right. So we mentioned immersed hyperplanes. Yes? Since you're already in lecture three, we can just take it away. No, that's not necessary. So you say that it is not always a product, the carrier? Okay. You want an example? Okay. So you've seen this example. I forgot what it's called. You've seen this? Yes? All right. Okay. We will return to it. It's important. Okay. Now we know immersed hyperplanes and it worked out for us. Let's talk about disk diagrams now. I thought the carrier lived in the universal cover. So why isn't the carrier of this infinite string of squares? Because this is the carrier of an immersed hyperplane. And that was the carrier of a hyperplane in the universal cover. This is consistent with the definition that we gave before. It turns out, right? You have to know various things. You have to believe that hyperplanes exist and embed and so forth. You pull apart things only when there are different hyperplanes in the projection. Okay. Tell me, what are you asking? Are you asking me to tell you, are you asking about the definition of the carrier of an immersed hyperplane? Maybe just of an immersed hyperplane. I guess I... You're asking what is an immersed hyperplane? So the reason why you get two distinct orange and red ones there is because they're distinct, they have distinct projections. I never use the word projection. So you're looking at the red and orange mid-cubes over there inside of that three-cube? Okay. So if you take all of... So we intuitively define what an immersed hyperplane is to start with. And then I gave you a hint about how to make a rigorous definition. The hint of the rigorous definition is that you take all of the mid-cubes. You take their disjoint union. And then you glue them together. Really, it's enough to identify sub-mid-cubes of mid-cubes. That will perform all of the gluings that you want. Okay. And, well, that three-cube is going to, in this sort of rigorous definition, that three-cube contributes three mid-cubes, a purple, an orange, and a red. And they're going to live in, well, these two happen to lie in the same immersed hyperplane, right? And this one lies in another. You're good now? I move forward. A disc diagram. We're disc diagrams defined in this conference. So a disc diagram is a compact, contractable, two-complex, let's call it D, with a planar embedding. But you know what? Let's put it in the two-sphere. Here are some examples of disc diagrams. And you know what? I'm going to stick to disc diagrams that are built from squares, because that's what we're going to be focusing on. Here's just a tree. There's a single point we sometimes call the disc diagram trivial. These are all two cells. And these are compact, contractable, two complexes. And I've embedded it in the plan in a very particular way. The boundary path of the disc diagram D, or boundary cycle, is the attaching map of the two-sphere containing infinity. There's a pointed infinity, haha. And if you look at the two-cell containing the pointed infinity, then it has an attaching map. And here it is. That's the boundary of the... There's a whole two-cell right over there, and there it is. That's its boundary cycle. Likewise here. I guess I didn't really need to do this sort of nifty way of catching it, but it's useful for this guy, because there's more than one embedding. There's more than one embedding of this two-complex in the two-sphere. This one basically has only one embedding. There's that, and then you can reverse the orientation. And this has many embeddings. And so you really, in order... Well, you could say that if you had declared what the boundary cycle was, well, I'm not going to be fussy about the orientation. Here's the trivial boundary path. Okay, it is a famous fact, it was a theorem of van Kampen that was long overlooked, which says that for any closed no-homotopic path, p to x, this is going to be, say, a two-complex or a complex, there exists a disc diagram, d, and actually a map from d to x, such that p is the boundary path of d. Okay, what do I mean? Well, if it's a very nice way of seeing the no-homotopy, so we know that no-homotopy means that it factors through a disc on the way in, but there's a more combinatorial, this map is a combinatorial map, and a combinatorial map. A map between cell complexes is called combinatorial if it sends homeomorphically to open cells. So cells, one cell goes to one cell, two cells go to two cells by homeomorphisms. A very, very nice map. So you have some complex, something really messy and complicated, and you have a path p, and you know that it's no-homotopic, well, you can actually see that it's no-homotopic by exhibiting it as the boundary path of some disc diagram. And of course, if p factors through this disc diagram on the way to x, then p is no-homotopic. And actually, it's basically a simplicial approximation theorem, if you have a no-homotopy, so you're factoring through a disc, but it's really a topological thing that's happening, you can adjust and choose and actually factor through a disc which is kind of tessellated. Oftentimes, it's still homeomorphic to a disc, but sometimes it will have singularities to it, these are called singular points. So this isn't really homeomorphic to a disc. It has cut points. All right, so we're going to use this. We're going to use this. Excuse me? Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, so we're going to... Of course, once you start with this, you're interested in minimal diagrams, minimal disc diagrams have fewest cells. Usually people focus on the number of two cells, and they call that the area of the disc diagram, among all disc diagrams with a given boundary path. So the combinatorial group theorists view this disc diagram as the proof that P is an homeotopic. They view this disc diagram, and you can actually think of it as encoding the path P as the product of conjugates of relays if you're thinking about a group presentation, if you've seen this before. And while we like short proofs, so we prefer to find a minimal size disc diagram that shows you that it's an homotopic. Now, if you're working in a cube complex, when d to x is a disc diagram in a cube complex, d is a square diagram. It's going to just be mapping into the two skeleton. And we're going to focus on its immersed hyperplanes are called dual curves. So let's give a picture that will explain all this. There, there's a disc diagram right over there. I don't know if it's minimal or not, I didn't check. And you already know what these dual curves are. They're just what we would have called immersed hyperplanes. Here's a dual curve right over here. Here's a red one. And here's a yellow one. Maybe there's a green one to test the green on green theory. So everybody knows what dual curves are now. And these dual curves are kind of, their carriers are ladders. So for example, the carrier of the yellow dual curve looks like this. Let's see, it looks like a crooked ladder. And well, I guess in principle, they could be cylinders. It could look like this also. That could happen because it's in a disc diagram. And the disc diagram is a contractable two complex. You said it was in a cube complex. D is a disc diagram mapping to a cube complex. You think the carrier in D, not in X. That's correct. So the lingo, unfortunately, the lingo is a map from a disc diagram. So the disc diagram is living inside of the plane. And when we say a disc diagram in X, we mean a map from that disc diagram to X. And we're talking now about the dual curves, which are these immersed hyperplanes in the disc diagram. So let's state a quick theorem that if D to X is a minimal area diagram, disc diagram, then D has no, and there's four configurations that we want to draw your attention to. It has none of these. And it's statements about how, it's statements really about the carriers of dual curves. This is the most important. There are no bygones. So I'll even say no bygones. There's a little furthermore that's interesting, but I'll kind of leave it out over here. Let's talk.  What else do I got? I don't have a lot, huh? It works that way. It works that way. Whatever I want, no. That's Friday. So let's talk about the, I'm going to describe the method of proof, but I have to sort of be, I have to tell you maybe how the story fits together. What we're going to find is that, here it goes, method of proof. Indira made me do this. Hexagon moves. So if you ever see, if you ever see this, either of these configurations inside of your disc diagram, you could swap it and replace it with the other. Because if you see one of these, there's actually a three cube inside of the cube complex, and you could take that disc diagram and you could push it across the three cube to get a slightly different disc diagram. And there's another important thing that you might do. If you ever see two squares in your disc diagram that are meeting along a path of length two, they're forced, since the link is a flag complex, they're forced to map to the same square inside of x. You didn't mention that it's not possible to make it. Oh, you're kidding me. That's not over there. It's over here. Thank you. If you have a pair of squares that are meeting along two edges, right, then those squares have to map to the same square inside of the cube complex x. Why is that? Well, the link, these two corners of those squares, have to map to the same corner of a square at the image of this white vertex over here. And the links are flag complexes, so there's only one edge joining two points in the link. So if you ever see two squares that are meeting along a pair of edges inside of a disc diagram, they have to map to the same square in x. But that means that, well, you could just, what it means is that these two edges are the same as these two edges. So if you ever have this, then you could have just cut it out of the disc diagram and replaced it with that. And so your disc diagram, which has this, what's called a cancelable pair, can be made smaller by just doing this simple replacement. This is a very important notion in combinatorial group theory, right over here as well. If you have a disc diagram that contains this picture, you can replace it by a disc diagram that contains exactly that picture, because these two hexagons, these two hexagons have the same boundary path. So I am going to stop now, which is an incredible display of self-control. Thanks, good self-control.


Bonjour et bienvenue, this is La Modélise and welcome back again to my channel. In today's tutorial, we'll be recreating the Jacques Mousse La Mour PuffSleeve crop top. This collection has a romantic and sensual vibe, which is the characteristic of Simon Jacques Mousse design aesthetic. Before we start, let's take a closer look at the details of this garment. Cropped until the under bust. The top is cut until the under bust, which result to exposure of the abdomen or upper torso. So the neckline is square, and there is also a 4 eighths inch thick binding at the neckline. Pivoted bust dart. The bust dart is pivoted, giving it a faux French dart look. Exaggerated puff sleeves. For this design, the puff sleeve is intricately pleated, adding a sophisticated touch. However, since we are creating a dupe, a gathered puff sleeve is still a stylish choice. And lastly, back design. The back design is simple. While the original design featured back darts, we're opting to convert them into gathers, enhancing the tightness of the top at the under bust. To start off, I will use my basic torso block or sloper, and I will trace only until the waistline. So let's work on the front bodice first, since this will require a lot of contouring. First, I will transfer half of the value of my second dart to my first dart. To do this, get the measurement of your second dart if you have one, and transfer half of the value to the first dart and spread equally. And draw in the new dart until the bust point. And from the side seam at waist, mark in one centimeter or 3 eighths of an inch. From this mark, square in a slant line towards the underarm point. And disregard or erase the second dart. For the back, there will be no transferring of the dart value. Just erase the second dart, only if you have one, and we will use the back pattern as is. Next, from the bust point, I will draw in my bust radius plus 2 eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. And square in the under bust line, same value with your bust radius. From the new dart at under bust, mark out 2 eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter each side. And from these marks, square in slant lines toward the bust point. From the bust line near center front, mark up 2 to 8 inches or 5.7 centimeters. And square a line until center front and shoulder bust dart. From this line at center front, mark in 1 eighths of an inch or 0.3 centimeter. From this mark, draw in a slant line until the under bust line. Next, I will redraw my bust dart until the bust point. Next, slash through the waist dart until bust point. And close the shoulder bust dart until bust point. And re-establish the line at bust dart. From the neckline at previous bust dart, mark out 3 eighths of an inch or 1 centimeter. From this mark, square in a slant line towards the bust point. So these are the contours that will lessen the gaping at the neckline. Next, from the shoulder point, mark in 2 inches or 5 centimeters. From this mark, square in a line towards the bust point. And from the 2 inches mark at shoulder slope, mark down 1 eighths of an inch or 0.3 centimeter. And from this mark, draw a slant line towards the shoulder point. And these are the important contour guidelines for this kind of neckline. By the way, for those who are new to my channel, I have a separate tutorial for bodice contouring principles and it is available on my channel so better check it out. Next, I am gonna close the contour at the bust and transfer it on the waist dart. Next, at under bust, from the dart, mark out 2 inches or 5 centimeters like so. From this mark, draw in a slant line towards the bust point. This line represents the fall French dart. Next, cut out the excess at under bust and we will transfer the dart onto this line. And I will cut the pattern out from my paper. Next, take a small piece of paper and place it underneath the pattern right exactly at the new dart and tape it in place. Since I don't want my bust to be pointy from the bust point, I will mark down 6 eighths of an inch or 2 centimeters. And I will rejoin my dart legs following the new point. And I will also blend and mend the old dart at under bust. Next, I will close my dart and cut out the excess paper to formally get the shape of the dart. And this is how the front top pattern appears on my dress form or my model. And I will tweak the neckline and the under bust line. To correct my pattern from the under bust, I will mark up 1 eighths of an inch or 0.3 centimeter. Using my ruler, I am going to redraw and reshape the under bust. And cut out the excess. For the neckline, I will mark down 1 eighths of an inch or 0.3 centimeter and redraw and reshape the neckline using my ruler. For the back, I will close the shoulder dart permanently and transfer it to the main back dart. And leave the main back dart cut opened. From the shoulder point, I am going to mark in 2 inches or 5 centimeters. Next, at center back from neck point, mark down 4 eighths of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. And connect these two marks creating a larger boat-shaped neckline for the back. Next, from neck point at shoulder slope, draw in a slant line towards the back dart. From this line, either mark in or mark out 2 eighths of an inch or 0.6 centimeter. From this mark, draw a slant line towards the back dart. And close the neckline contour until the back dart permanently. And blend and mend the back neckline if necessary. Note, always check the length at shoulder slope to see if the measurements are correct. Next, get a piece of paper and place underneath the pattern right exactly at the dart. And tape it in place. To be sure, get the front pattern and place it on the side seam and mark in the under bust line. And continue marking down the under bust measurement from the bust line. And square in the line for the under bust like so. And draw a slight curve line at the back dart like so. And as I've said earlier, instead of sewing the dart, we are going to gather the back using an elastic. Next, I'll cut my pattern out from the paper. And these are my drafted back and front top patterns. For this sleeve, I'll be using my set in sleeve drafted from my back and front torso block. So instead of using the slope side seams, I'll be using the straight side seams. And I will draft the sleeve only until the elbow line. And I will draw in the slash lines for the puff sleeve. And next, from the elbow line, mark up at least 2 inches or 5 centimeters to shorten the sleeve. And square in a line like so. Next, cut through the slash lines like so. And here is my pattern for the puff sleeve. For a complete tutorial experience, I have a separate tutorial for the puff or balloon sleeve. And this is the part 1 of this tutorial and it is available on my channel so better check it out. Next, I am going to put sewing allowances to my side seams and the sleeve gram. At the hem, don't put any sewing allowance and make it sure there's an extra paper at the bottom. Next, fold at the hemline or fold line. And trace off the whole sleeve including allowance and important notches. This technique will save us a lot of time connecting the lining and the self at the hem. From the fold line previously hem, mark up to inches or 5 centimeters. And square a line like so. This line is where we are going to attach the elastic for the sleeve. The elastic should be the same measurement with your bicep weave. And don't forget to label the lining and self to avoid confusion. And please mark the important notches. And mark in the line where we are going to attach the elastic. And also the fold line. And this is the puff sleeve flat pattern. And here's how the sleeve looks like on my model with the front crop top pattern. I took the liberty to try out the puff sleeve on my fabric to see how it appears with an elastic on the lining side. Anyway guys, I hope this pattern making tutorial gave you enough tips on how to recreate the Jacques Moslemour puff sleeve crop top. And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to comment down below and I will reply as soon as possible. And if you like this video, give it a huge thumbs up. And if you super like this video, give me a super thanks. And if you're not subscribed yet to my channel, La Modelis, make sure to hit that subscribe button. And I will see you guys again on the next tutorial.


Hey, this is Jason with TradingReviewers.com and today we're joined by Alex Tamees, trader and co-founder of the My Investing Club trading community. Alex, it's great to have you on. Welcome. It's nice to be on. Hey, Alex, for those who aren't familiar with you yet in your story, can you tell us a little bit about your trading background? How did you originally become interested in trading? Yeah, so I mean, it's kind of a crazy story. I mean, I didn't think it was a crazy story, but everyone tells me it's a crazy story and now kind of thinking back on it. I guess it is kind of crazy, but I was I think either a senior in high school or a freshman in college and I had a part-time job at Starbucks just trying to make some extra money. My dad was going through some financial struggles, so I thought maybe like chipping in a little bit would kind of help him.  So there was a Starbucks maybe five minutes away from my house. So I said, you know what, I'll go, I'll be a barista there, maybe I'll meet some girls, you know, something something like that. And I was working at Starbucks. I was working part-time, maybe like 30 hours a week. And I was making, I think back then I was making either like 130 to $150 a week after taxes. And I had a girlfriend at the time. And what I would do is gas was I think like $4 or $5 gallon back then. It was crazy. So to fill up my tank was like 60 bucks to take her out to the movies was like 50 bucks. And then I had maybe like an extra 20 bucks to put in my bank. So I really wasn't making too much money. I really wasn't a ball. I wasn't really anything.  And in the meantime, I'd be able to kind of take my girl out and just have a good time. And long story short, my girlfriend dumped me. She found a, I'd say that he's a little bit uglier, but I guess some guy that had a little bit more money than me, she's very superficial, very evil, I would say.  I just want to make money. I want to, I want to be able to let her realize what she missed out on. And that was kind of my motivation back then. And obviously, like my motivations have changed since then, but I basically started like anyone else, man. Back then there were like thousands of online gurus like we have now. It was kind of like 10 people out there. So I obviously chose the guy with the flashy Lambo, chose the guy with the girls, the champagne bottles. And, you know, I said to myself, this guy doesn't seem like the smartest guy, you know, if he could do it, so can I. And that's kind of where the obsession started because, you know, I think the two biggest wealth creators in the world are real estate and stock market. And real estate requires such a large barrier to entry of cash.  I think I was 18, 19 years old at the time. My savings account was like 100 bucks. Like, you know, what am I going to do? But in the trading world with just like 500 bucks, you could open up an account.  Seems like he knows what he's talking about.  And what I realized is no matter what, you will never be as fast or as sharp as the guy that's running these plays because back then I was a little bit too naive. I didn't really understand how this stuff worked. And just I guess a quick lesson is there's a main guru, a main pumper, and he has maybe thousands and thousands of followers. And he tells everyone that buying a stock at five, because it's going to go to eight. And he's buying at five and his followers are buying at 510, 520, 530. And if it doesn't go to eight, he says, you know what? The trade didn't work. I'm selling at 530 and getting out. And by the time he sells at 530, the stock craters to 490, 480, 470. And now you're left losing. So I was thinking to myself, all right, if he buys, I'll just sell quickly before his alert and I'll try to make money. I'm thinking, all right, I'm smarter than these guys. I could do it. And no matter what I tried, no matter what, I tried everything in the book. I would not be able to match his entries. I would not be able to match his exits. And after a while, I just start to bleed out, bleed out, bleed out. I was taught to buy the breakout. I was taught to, it's either you have a long strategy, you either buy the breakout or the short strategy is you short the pump and dump. Problem is, with a small account back then, there was no access to lowcase to short these pump and dumps. It was only the big guys that had access. So my first year was almost like a romantic relationship with trading. I fell in love with it so much that I just wanted to try it until it worked. I wanted to, maybe I wasn't buying the breakout properly. Maybe I was looking at the wrong side. Maybe I was the issue. Not the guy that was teaching me. Maybe I was the issue because this guy is making so much money. Why can't I do it? So it wasn't until I discovered what shorting was that my trading career just flipped around. I didn't know that you could short. I didn't know that it existed. I thought the only way to be involved in the stock market was to buy something and then wait for it to go up and that's how you make money. You either buy and hold or there's no other strategy. I didn't know that you could make money when things went down. And long story short, I felt very uncomfortable opening up an offshore broker. I didn't really trust anything at the time. I really didn't. I thought I was going to be scammed. I thought if I opened up an offshore broker and this offshore broker that I opened up does not exist anymore. So I guess I kind of did get a little bit lucky, I would say, that the broker was available. But what ended up happening is I still remember my first trade, my first short trade ever. I shorted 2,000 shares of a stock called VGGL, which I don't even, let me see the trades now. I don't think it trades anymore. So it was, I shorted 2,000 shares at $4 of VGGL. And within a few minutes, the stock went to 350. I made $1,000. That was it. That was it. I was like, I've got it. This is it. I found it. I'm so good at buying the breakout and the stock tanking. All I got to do is short the breakout and I'm going to make money. I'm just going to do the inverse of what I've been doing that's been causing me to lose money. So I thought, I thought I had it. I thought first trade, $1,000, you know, it just made sense to me. It just made sense to me.  So I lacked a process. I lacked the routine. I lacked a real strategy. I was now winging it. If a stock was up on a day, short. If the stock is down on a day, short. Short, short, everything that you see, short it because that's what I thought would be the solution. I thought that all these companies would just continue to just go down and I didn't realize what I was really doing. So my first year, I spent going long and losing money. My second year is when I discovered shorting and I found a little bit of success at first. You know, I had some beginner's luck, right? But I slowly started to bleed out my account again, right?  I did not have any criteria. I did not have any ability. I didn't know how to read filings. I knew how to read chart. I understood basic technical analysis but I was still missing a special ingredient in there. I was missing something that I didn't know. I didn't know what I was missing, right? So I think this was, I think I was 20 at the time and I was just chugging along and just grinding along. And at that point, I was looking for communities online. I'm trying to find someone that maybe is better than this first online guru that had the champagne and the cars and all this stuff. And you know, I went on Twitter and I was kind of looking around.  These guys are clueless. They think they're experts. They think they know everything. So I was kind of stuck and trapped into that rabbit hole. And as I was trading, you know, I was still attending classes, I was going to college. It got to the point where I started to maybe find a little bit of consistency in my trading about maybe middle of year two or something like that. And when I say finding consistency, I mean, I was making $100 a day. And when I was at Starbucks making $150 a week, all of a sudden I'm making $100 a day and I feel like the richest guy in the world. So I'm telling my parents like I want to drop out of school. Like this is it. I found it. In class, I am paying off kids to help me with my homework. I'm paying off kids to help me with some of my tests. I'm basically using this $100 a day that I'm making.  So I'm giving these guys $20, $20. And it just made my life easier because I would sit in the back of class with my laptop and I would make my $100 trading and then I would pay off certain students to kind of help me with some of my classwork so that I wouldn't get screwed.  Like this is not going to work. And the reason why they thought that way is because back in 2008, my dad had a lot of money in his 401k that just almost all disappeared. He panicked sold. He freaked out.  So I had my parents telling me to stop. I had my friends that had no idea I was trading. I would not tell a soul because I didn't want to. I just felt like it was personal. It was something that I wanted to kind of figure out. I wanted to just do and I just, I just wanted to indulge in it. So parents weren't really having it. Friends really had no idea about it. I was kind of isolating myself to be able to figure it out. And as I found more consistency, as I was making $100 a day, I remember my max size at one point was 500 shares. And it was 1000 shares. It was 3000 shares. And then I was basically slowly able to size up because I was able to build my bankroll. That offshore account, I got it from, I think I had a, I think it was a $2,000 account maybe. I think I had that $2,000 account at six times leverage. I grew it up to $10,000. And then that 10,000 grew to 30,000. I moved it to a USA broker. And then again, just started grinding and grinding and grinding. I remember my first big trade that I ever had was CLTX was the ticker. I think that doesn't even trade anymore. I think I made $67,000 in one day on that stock.  And then there was a conference going on, like there's a Las Vegas trading conference. I was going on and the guys that were running it were telling me to come, you know, meet some traders, network, you know, at that point, I think I was, I just turned 21 or I was just 20. So I was maybe able to just get into the club. You know what it was? The event was in October and my birthday was in September. So I just turned 21. So I got invited to go to the event in Vegas. They even wanted me to do like Q&A panel. So I went to the event in Vegas and I went with my dad because my dad didn't really believe in trading. He didn't really believe in the stock market. He said it was a scam, right? So I'm telling my dad, look, I made $68,000 in one day. We're going to go to the Sick Hotel in Vegas. We're going to be surrounded by traders. Let me show you what this world is really like. And it's not a scam. I promise you it's not a scam. I know you had your own experience, but let me show you. So we went to the event and we saw a lot of these traders, a lot of them humble, a lot of them good people. And we were watching a presentation from some Asian dude named Bao. And this guy was showing his P&L calendar of what he was trading. And he had like five red days in one year and you see 500K in a month, a million dollars in a month.  Yet the way that he's talking, the way that he's articulating. And after all the speakers that spoke, my dad was like, I like this guy. That's all he said. And at this point, I don't know who Bao was. There's just some guy on the internet that made a bunch of money, whatever. So we're talking. And that whole trip is a little bit hazy because I was definitely drinking and definitely partying. But I think I went to the club one night with Bao. We were just hanging out, not even really talking. And then at the end of the event, I think I texted him or I DM'd him on Twitter and was like, yo, it was like, such a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for like being so kind and like generous. Like thank you for sharing your knowledge just in that. And he was like, yeah, man, like it was cool. Like he met my father at there was like a cocktail reception. So my dad was very interested. He wanted to talk to him. So he talked to my dad. He didn't know he was my dad. So long story short, that's kind of where I the that's kind of where I figured out who Bao was, what his deal was. And if I never kind of took that leap of faith and went to Vegas, maybe my life would have been so much more different. So that's kind of where that whole journey started. That's kind of where I found Bao and it was you got to think too. It's like, everyone wants to be friend, a trader that makes money for their own selfish reasons. I wasn't really befriending Bao. I was just telling him like, Hey, man, like, thank you for like what you did. And like, it's going to help me. And like, that's always, I was just trying to be like, a good guy and appreciative of his, him being able to share his knowledge, right? And it just so happened that like, my dad really like got along with him as well. He thought he was a great guy. I thought he was a smart guy. Really appreciated how humble he was. And fast forward after that, Bao and I kind of kept in touch. We were in a kind of private chat room. I was invited to like a private chat room with a bunch of other big time traders. And we're all kind of sharing ideas. Bao was more of a technical trader. He's very, very good at reading and understanding charts. Whereas back then I was more of a fundamental trader. I knew how to read filings. I understood filings. I spent time learning it. And here I was being able to add value to these other big time traders, which is why they kind of kept me around, right? So we were in that private chat with, I would say maybe five or six big name traders, some of the big guys you see on Twitter these days. And we were all just trying to kind of help each other out, right? So that chat dissipated. A lot of people kind of didn't want to share their ideas anymore. Felt like maybe they were too smart. Traders have an ego. And I'm not that type of person, but I understand these guys are making millions and millions of dollars a year. And they have no reason to kind of share their ideas. So Bao and I kept in touch, right? So we kept in touch on Skype. And we would just be friendly and just talk and share ideas, you know, if there was a stock moving, let's say today EYG was moving. So we would say, what are the levels that you're watching? So I'm looking at, I see $6, 650, I see seven bucks. He's like, okay, I see the same thing. Now, whenever both me and him agreed on the lines or the levels, we knew that was a trade that we should take. If even one of us was off, that would either be a trade that we wouldn't take, or that would be a trade that we size in less on. So after a shipment, I can't even remember, maybe like a year of just like talking and just sharing ideas, I was kind of able to reverse engineer what he was kind of looking for. So Bao was mentoring me while I was also reverse engineering. It wasn't like, all right, these are what the lines are. This is where you should show it. This is what you should do. It was almost like seeing him trade, seeing how he traded after the fact and reverse engineering. Kind of like what we do at MIC, right? We show you our trades after the fact. We explain our plan, we trade, and then we show you the trades after the fact. So that's kind of what we were doing back then. And it started to become a friendly competition. We started to beat each other. We started to compete to see who could get better fills. And then, you know, we both started to find a lot of success, but there was still something missing, right? There was still something missing because as we would trade and as we would make money, there would be certain days that we would just give it all right back. And back then, we didn't understand what was happening. There was kind of like a missing puzzle piece in our trading. We would make $5,000 a day, right? And then every Thursday, that $5,000 would be like a minus $5,000 a day. And we just wouldn't understand what the hell was going on until we started to realize that, okay, you know, we're making money in the morning, but the middle of the day towards the end of the day, the money is shrinking. We're losing the money. So we ended up figuring out that, you know, past 1030 is when the volume shrinks, the algorithmic trading takes control and they use the low volume to bounce these stocks. So when you have a stock that goes from five to six and tanks all the way back down to five, you maybe think to yourself, all right, 450 is coming. I'm going to short more. Instead, they bounce it to 550, consolidate it, bounce it back to six, consolidate it, and then rip it through the roof. So after losing so much money, getting squeezed, we created a rule around it. It wasn't as formal as the zombie rule that we call today. It was just kind of the rule that, hey, it's time to walk away, right? It's time to walk away. Because as you know, that was addicted. He's addicted. He can't stop. And I'm the same way. I cannot stop unless someone rips me out of the computer.   So we are addicts.  For the longest time, we thought that the longer you work, the longer you trade, the more money you make. Actually, it is the polar opposite. The less you work, the quicker you're able to walk away, the more money you're able to keep in your pocket. Because I think of it as a casino, the longer you're in front of the tables, you're bound to make a mistake. You're bound to get sloppy. You're bound to get overconfident. If you have that ability to stand up and walk away and do it consistently, that's been my secret for so long. That's been my Bible has been a zombie role. So I know that was a lot, but it's all great stuff. You already touched on a lot of the things I was going to ask you. So that's perfect. You know, obviously, Bao has been a wonderful mentor for you. What's the most valuable thing you would say that you've learned from Bao over the years? Remain humble. Remain humble is the key. If you live below your standards, if you continue to remain humble, if you eliminate your ego and understand that you can learn something from other people, that is invaluable. There's too many people that have egos. There's too many people that are arrogant and the market will always find a way to humble these people. So if we continue to remain humble and continue to be good people, the world will find a way to reward us. Bao is very superstitious. He believes in karma. He believes in fate.  And what I've learned is if you are a good person and you do good things, the world has a funny way of rewarding that. So that's kind of always been something that not only Bao has taught me, but my dad has taught me as well. Remain humble is always the key. If you're making 100 grand a year, pretend like you're only making 40 grand a year, live below your standards, live below your means. I think that's what's... And be a good person, man. Be a good person. There's too much negativity out there in the world. There's too many evil people out there in the world that all it takes is really one good person to change the world. And Bao is the type of guy that has the million-dollar house, the million-dollar cars, millions and millions of dollars in the bank, real estate, this, that.  And he does that because that's the type of guy he is. That's just who he was from day one. Nothing has changed. And for me, what I'm learning or what I'm trying to kind of adjust to is that, man, if this guy has everything and he's this humble and he's this good, it's probably because he is such a good person that he has so many of these blessings in the world. So for me, it just makes sense to just continue to be a good person, to continue to help people. And no matter what happens with Bao, I think that's going to be his legacy forever is to always be a good person. Because if a guy...  At least have some respect. And Bao is still the type of guy that just responds to these people because he knows what it was like to be one of those guys. And it's like the thing that we preach at MIC is once you make it, once you get it, it is your duty to send the elevator back down because that's what we did for you when you were first starting. So I think that's something that's very important. I think that if people and traders remain humble, not only will their P&L grow, but their happiness will also grow as well. How did you guys end up working together to develop MIC? What was your motivation?  It was like, what is the point, man? What is the point? It's like, I felt like I was on an island. I felt like I was on an island and only Bao understood. He was the only other person that lived on this island with me.  But if you ask any person that has money, the reason why they are successful is because they fell in love with the game. I fell in love with trading. I fell in love with trying to be the best.  And because of that, profits were a byproduct.  So not only did we feel like there was something missing, now it was kind of where it was starting where all these gurus and all these scammers were starting to pump their stocks and pump their alerts and start to teach people the wrong way to trade. And after a certain point of betting against all these clowns, we start to feel bad, like shit, man. Here we are making all this money from all these idiots.  So we started MIC as a way to kind of give us an avenue to help people that wanted to be helped.  All these guys are looking for the $20 forex alerts. They're looking for everything. So we said, all right, for those that are hardworking, for those that are hungry, for those that are humble, let's give them something. Let's give them the ability that if they are willing to put in the work, they'll be able to accomplish their dreams. Because I didn't know how good it felt to help people until I started helping people. Bow has been helping people his whole life. And that's kind of what makes him high. And I didn't really know what that was like. So Bow was kind of like, you know what? He's like, if you are serious about this, if you're serious about it, you do all the work. You do all the work and I'll just help you out at the end of it.  I'm not doing anything else. I'll do all the work. So created the website, created, got all the lawyers involved, got everything set up.   All right, let's let's go. Like, all right, now I know you're serious.  And we've been friends already for a while. So it's hard to kind of find someone that you trust. And then, you know, Tosh got involved in the picture too, because Tosh met Bow at his birthday. Bow was meeting another trader on Twitter. And Tosh happened to be friends with that trader on Twitter. Never met Bow before Bow a bottle for his birthday. And just that small gesture was what made Bow trust Tosh. And then I got introduced to Tosh. And then we started this whole thing. And if I'm honest, we didn't think anyone gave a fuck, right? We didn't think anyone cared about trying to learn how to trade. We thought everyone just wanted to get the easy way to get rich quick stuff. And, you know, when we start, I might see me and Bow, we're like, all right, you know, we're probably going to get 100 members. And, you know, if we get 100 members, we'll be happy. And that'll be good enough, good enough group for us to teach. And, you know, I guess we didn't realize how much demand there was out there for something real, something that could actually teach you how to trade and not teach you how to be scammed. Day one, we had 300 members. After two weeks, we had 500 members. And two years later, we're at 1500 members. So it just goes to show that there are people out there that are willing to learn. And the strategies, the process, everything that we provide, we pride ourselves on it, right? Because if the product, if MIC sucked, we wouldn't have so many members. If it didn't work, we would not retain our members. What we're most proud of at MIC is that when someone joins, there's a 90% chance they don't leave because they realize the value there, right? When I went to college, I was paying 20 or $30,000 a year for college. And I didn't really learn anything. And with MIC for $2,000 for the whole year for 90% less, you could really learn a skill that's going to make you shitloads of money. Like today, I made $4,916. What we pride ourselves on is the fact that when someone joins, they stay, which means that we know it's working, right? And that's something that we're really proud of because, you know, I was talking about it on my Instagram Live. I made, I think it was on Monday, I made like yesterday. One of these days, I made like 20 grand. I forget which day it was. I think it was yesterday. Yeah, yesterday. So I made 20 grand. I was talking about like, I really don't feel anything, man. This 20 grand day feels like a $200 day. And then we had the video with on, right? So on came on, who was a doctor who started trading during COVID. And he had some success in the past, but he was missing something. He was missing. He was worse than bow. He was addicted. He was missing the zombie rule. So he implemented the zombie rule. And in two months, he's up 300 grand. And I told Bell, I'm like, bro, sometimes we work 15 hours a day. Sometimes we work 20 hours a day. And we get all these people that are not watching the videos and are not putting in the work. And it discourages us. It makes me say, fuck, man, if I'm putting in all this work and no one is really caring, why am I still, why do I still care? Right? Why do I still care? And, you know, after hearing on story and after hearing the success that he had, I told Bell, I'm like, look, man, that one story made those 18 hour days worth it. That one story of on being successful, following the process and now giving back to others, is why we started MIC in the first place.  And that is something that I think is very important. You could never judge a community based on the people that run it. You know, I'm a good trader, that was an excellent trader. But what we pride ourselves on is the fact that our members are successful. So we showcase our members more than we like to showcase ourselves. Yeah, that's so rewarding. MIC teaches a really great playbook of high probability setups. And the library of training videos is super helpful when it comes to mastering each strategy. I wanted to ask you at the moment, what's your favorite setup? Okay, so towards the beginning of the year, what I've realized was the first red day setup was incredible. It was, I was making money on Tesla. I was making money on everything with the first red day setup. But lately in this current crazy small cap COVID news market, the best trades have been coming literally from just shorting resistance, letting the stock tank and then shorting the bounce has been the thing that's been working very well in this market because the stocks are gapping up so high, so large, so quick, that there's so much meat, there's so much range that even if these stocks tank, you will be able to short the bounce and make money on it consistently. That's what I did today on EYG, BMRA on basically everything. So what I've realized currently in this market is wait for the top to be set and short the bounce. There's still first red day setups, there's still deathfire in place, but not in as much abundance as shorting these broken stocks are currently in this market right now. Are MIC's textbook setups primarily strategies that Baal has employed and refined over the course of his trading career, or are they the result of collaboration between the two of you? It's both of us, right? It's both of us. So the first red day setup was actually an OTC setup. It was three green days and then usually on the third or the fourth green day when the stock turns red, it tends to reverse. It still works on small caps, works on large caps like Tesla, works on everything because that is a signal for profit taking, right? When the stock goes red, it is a signal for profit taking. It's universal. I don't think that's ever going to disappear. The low hanging fruit setup was something that Baal actually created himself. It was Baal's secret strategy for the longest time ever and that was actually the first strategy that he taught Tosh and Tosh traded that strategy for a year and after Tosh found consistency using that strategy, we realized that, okay, that worked as well. The deathline setup was something that actually we created ourselves after MIC existed. We started to recognize more and more patterns. We started to realize kind of what was happening. So we created the deathline after MIC and we created the first Baal strategy after MIC. So if you think about it, without MIC and without the members, maybe some of these strategies would not have existed. So I now believe that everything happens for a reason. I'm superstitious. There are certain times that I won't shave my beard until a red day. Baal was wearing the same pajamas for like a month straight until he had a red day. So what I truly believe is again, we are trying to do the right thing. We are trying to be good people by creating MIC and passing the elevator back down. And the world has rewarded us by helping us realize new setups to help us make more money and educate more people. And it just seems so clear that if you are a good person and you try to help people and you do the right thing, the world just likes to reward that. And you could call that karma. You could call it fate. You could just call it, if you're good to people, good things happen. But I truly, truly, truly believe that if you continue to do the right thing, it's all matters. For those who are hearing about My Investing Club for the very first time, I just wanted to mention that your community has now grown to more than 1500 traders, provides members with one-on-one moderator phone calls, which is incredible. Four trading DVDs, a Slack chat room with 20 plus channels, weekly webinars and videos, an extensive training library with more than 650 videos and over 200 hours of high-level content, automated research tools, a community archive with a database of more than 500,000 messages, in-person seminars, meetups and more. One thing I've really noticed is that traders who have previous experience with other rooms immediately see how differently MIC is run. In your mind, what are the biggest things that set MIC apart from other trading communities? So that's actually really great. So I actually hope that people join these scammers first, so that they actually realize how much value we provide for our members. Because if you have not been, if you have not felt the pain of being scanned, you could never appreciate what it's like to be real. So for me, honestly, what we created is something that we wanted as traders. I can never imagine that I would be able to get on the phone with a trader that makes six or seven figures and have them mentor you. I can never imagine that every Tuesday there's a large-cap webinar, every Thursday there is a strategy webinar, every Saturday there's a Q&A, and then in between there's educational videos every single day. We created something that we thought could truly help people. So we have brand new videos every single day. I think we're at about 12 webinars a month. We're doing four Q&As a month. So we're basically providing you with all the resources that you need to be successful. Now it is up to you to attend, to participate, and to be able to utilize the tools that we are providing for you. And Jason, you're actually in MIC. So what do you think about it? What do you think kind of is our special sauce? What do you think works or why do you think our members are kind of finding consistency so quickly? As I mentioned, one of the things that you really notice when you have experience with other rooms is how differently things are run. And you know, in a lot of other rooms, obviously there is a lot more going on behind the scenes than what you might originally see.  And that's something that you don't see that in MIC.  You know, it's a completely different environment. There's a strong focus on process, risk management is huge. The resources that are available to members, the calls, you know, I mean, the moderator phone calls, that's something that's really And I don't know if people take advantage of it. It kind of blows my mind. Joe, one of our head moderators does weekly screen shares with lifetime members and people aren't attending that.  It blows my mind that people are losing money pumping stocks. And that makes me say, how bad of a trader do you have to be that you're losing money when you have thousands and thousands of people following you? Well, we do differently at MICs. I post my watchlist in the morning. I do a video watchlist reviewing that. I adjust my plan in the morning. I execute my plan and then I share how I traded, if I did it right, if I did it wrong, and that's the true way to learn. The true way to learn is to be mentored, not to be pumped up stocks. And I get it, right? I get it because I was one of them. I know what it was like. It was, all right, I'm smarter than them. I'm just going to do it. And then as soon as I make money, blah, blah, blah, and just the same story all over again. And you have stocks like today, like MNPR, you got these chatroom pumpers buying that 13 same 15 is coming. And now it's at $7. The stock is down 50% and all of a sudden you're no longer a day trader. You paid this guy $5,000 to learn and you blew your account in one day. Meanwhile, he made 20 grand on that trade. So it's just like people need to open up their eyes. I think a lot of people are uneducated to what is really going on here. There's other chatrooms, other communities that I won't name by name, but they buy stocks ahead of time. They alert it two days later to all their friends, all their buddies, and then they alert to their chatroom and then they start dumping. And there's just so many scams out there that no one has any idea about. And it's just, that's kind of where MIC needed to, that's where we kind of paid our territory.  If you really want to learn, here's something real. Here's what I do. Here's what Bow does. Here's what our members do, see their progress, see their success, see this, see that. And what I am most proud of in my own personal trading is it's August 12th, 2020 right now. I think I'm up almost a million dollars on the year so far. And the best part is, you know, I stopped my trading at 1030. So I'm only trading for one hour a day. That's what we're talking right now. Yeah. To me, it's like, how can I be upset or how can I be jealous or how can I care if I'm sitting here an hour a day making a million dollars a year? You know, you don't have to make 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars to be happy and successful and rich. You know, I'm working one hour a day trading. I'm spending the other 10 hours helping members, PMs trying to improve MIC. And to me, I found that, you know, I trade my best when I'm the least amount of stress. So I trade, I walk away, I help members, I educate. And because I help members, because I watch all the videos before they get uploaded, I am the testimonial that says, if you watch the content and you preach, this is what is possible, right? It's what's possible. Yeah.   You mentioned what you're up for the year. That's come from trading, real trading. It's not coming from alerts, you know, to other members and you have 500 to 1000 people, 10,000 people, you know, piggybacking on. Without alerts, without pumping, without anything.  And if I'm just truly 100% honest, about 90% of the profits that we make, we put it back into the business to be able to grow it because our, I guess maybe this is like, maybe I shouldn't talk about, but our strategy is to become so big that these pumpers, these scammers don't have the ability to scam anyone anymore. The reason why they're able to scam so much is because they're spending literally $500,000 a month in marketing and advertising and promotions.  So there's been times that I've dumped trading profits into trying to help the business because our primary income comes from trading, right? It comes from trading.  I have people that message me on Instagram that say, hey man, like, this can't be real. It's every day.  So I tell them, try it for a month. If you don't like it, it's $5 a day.  It's like, people just need to try it. And I think their biggest fear is either A, they've been scammed in the past and they think everyone is a scam or B, it's too expensive. And my, my defense for saying it's too expensive is this MIC is 200 a month. Maybe other competing people are $100 a month. What I say is you're trying to get a 50% discount on your education. All it takes is one stock like MNPR to 50% discount your trading account. Do you want to learn from the Harvard of trading? Or do you want to learn from the community college of trading? Oftentimes you are investing in yourself.  It is no surprise that we are growing fast rapid and retaining our members because it is in our best interest to teach members how to make money so that they could continue to stay with us. So it is in our best interest to help our members. And that's what we try to showcase every single day. Well, we're just about out of time for today, Alex. You know, I could go on for much longer, but I want to be respectful of your time. Before we go, could you tell us a little bit about MIC's upcoming bootcamp? What it's all about? When is it? And how can people sign up for that? Sure. So our upcoming bootcamp is on August 17th. You could sign up at myinvestingclub.com slash anniversary. So what we do for our bootcamp events is Bow actually trades live, right? So you're going to be able to watch Bow trade, execute live, explain the process and see how a true professional trades without pumping or learning and seeing kind of in his mind what he's like. So what we do is last year we hosted the event in Philly, but due to the pandemic this year, we have to kind of go virtual. So it's going to be a full day event where I'm going to teach people how to build a watch list. Bow is going to be trading live. We're going to have presentations from our moderators. And the best thing that I could tell people is with so many people online that you don't know who to trust, that you don't know anything about. Give us a try one time. Come look at our event. Come see our process. Come see our presentation. Come see how we run things. And if you're not convinced, I don't think you'll ever be convinced. Awesome. It's an event that I'm really looking forward to. And again, thanks so much, Alex, for coming on and taking the time to tell us a little bit more about yourself and also the MIC community. You're an incredibly gifted trader and you and Bow put together a wonderful trading community with MIC. I've been super impressed by the dedicated team of hardworking moderators, the top shelf educational resources, the one on one mentoring available to members. It's really, as I said, an amazing community. And I look forward to catching up with you again in the future. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. And again, if anyone has any questions, you know, you could find some of our videos on youtube.com slash my investing club. If you guys want to have, if you guys have any trading questions, you could DM me on Instagram, Alex underscore Temiz. Again, it's not a robot responding as usually me. I try to respond to everyone. So please don't don't waste my time with a question that you could Google, just be a little bit respectful. And you know, I'm always willing to help those hardworking people. Hey, thanks, Alex. So that's it for today, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. And until next time, happy trading.


Hey, what's up everybody? This is Daniel with SecureAgent Mentor gonna give you a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at what we do I'm the video editor. Here's my station. We've also got a green screen and studio in here We can just flip all these lights on and get going doing good videos for you Got Cody asking working in the back. What are we doing back here? We're expanding. We're adding appointment centers We're adding lead sales people because we can't keep up with the fact that everyone loves our leads and want them more than ever So we're expanding we're growing we're buying Computers and monitors and headsets and all kind of stuff. We're just putting all together double screens These guys are gonna be efficient back here. You have to be yeah, but if you have to have an i7 You've got to have a crazy nice headset. I'm talking sick big old gaming headset You've got to have always have at least two or three monitors all you guys have three monitors Yeah, just two back here starting right out of space. Yeah, just thinking bigger in 2018 being more efficient all about that Something to know real quick. We've got an agent in our office. It's January 20 Obviously, this is being shot for you released like 23rd or something. There's a 24th today 24th. He's already sold for one guy Sold 42 Medicare policies already this month in the first 24 days of the year. Wow My name is Ty James 2018 so far in January I've sold 42 policies and for Medicare and you can't do the one things we just need to do is Get on the phones call hire someone get some leads and call Because that's all I've done. I've sold 42 so far this month How insane is that? You know, he's on pace for like six or seven hundred new Medicare clients in one year That's how we roll.  So you don't forget and then it looks like we'll see you tomorrow at 3 p.m. Okay All right, brother, you have a great rest of your evening. We'll see you tomorrow at 3 o'clock. Thank you, sir We appreciate you. Yeah, you neither Thank you, sir