All right, there we go. Okay everybody, let's get started. Let me just get the record up and running. We'll start broadcasting live on social media. Hi everybody, my name is Fausto Puglisi from Cybertrain University. I'd like to thank you all for being here. We're gonna have an excitement. A lot of good excitement's been happening. Obviously you've seen what's been happening in the market. We had a lot of big moves that happened in the market yesterday. Actually today was actually a pretty good day too. There was some really good movers. I'm looking forward to show you some really nice, nice stocks that we've traded. Some of them were up pretty big and it wasn't really about why they were up. It's all about following the big iceberg orders and that's what we're gonna be talking about. So what I wanna do is I wanna just tell you about what's gonna happen in the next two days. Now this is a two day event. We used to do it as one day, but you know what? I'm like, how about just giving everyone an opportunity to review what you've learned and come back tomorrow and put it to the test. But we're gonna hopefully give every one of you here registered to dive in and learn how to trade and hopefully with everything goes well, maybe you could be one part of our family. Now we got two lessons. Today we're just gonna talk about the reality of the market, how we trade today's markets. We're gonna talk about level three, level four. I'm gonna teach you a little bit about how they work and then we're going to give everybody the opportunity to come into the trading room live tomorrow morning. And then with that, we're gonna give you a quiz.  And then we're gonna kind of privately do a private live trading together and take everything that you've learned and see what you thought you knew and apply to the test where I'm gonna actually show you why 90% of people fail in trading. Now what I'm like to do, so don't forget it's a two part class. If you're watching this recording and you missed what happened today, don't worry about it. It'll come tomorrow, catch up where you left off. Or you can watch both recordings and go from there. Now what I like to do is I like to go to the market and I wanna kind of show you a couple of stocks that are moving in the market. And what we do here at Cybertrain University and how we trade today's exchanges. And so there were a couple of stocks that are moving in the market. I don't know if everyone saw the stock KAVL, very inexpensive stock. You could see it had a really nice move here at 9.30 in the morning. It ran from $2 and it ran to a whopping $3.70. Now it's up right now 141%. I'm gonna bring this up to you down here. I'm just gonna show you this right here. Now despite a little confusing, a lot of bells and whistles, but I wanna kind of show you what we've got going on over here on the left-hand side. Hold on, let me get my crayons out here so you guys can follow along. Right here on the left-hand side, these are all our instructors and right here are all our live traders. Now all of you are gonna be invited in here to come in here. And right here in the middle, you could see this is our live trading chat room. We do live audio broadcast, the first hour and the last hour. But I'm just gonna show you how we're giving clips of images of what's moving in the market. You could see right here up on top, this was our watch list up here. You could see what we were trading. These are stocks that were moving. The really nice stock that was moving this morning was the KAVL and DraftK, a couple of other ones. Some of them were moving, some of them weren't. But we have a watch list that goes on. We do a broadcast that we do a service where we'll give you alerts, an alert service. These are basically what that's happening. And so kind of just kind of show you what's moving is that there are a lot of stocks that are moving in the market and some are better than others. And when you look at some of these stocks and you start shopping around, you're like, well, why is this stock moving? Why is that one moving? Like here's another stock that we found this morning too, J-O-E-V. I mean, look at the movement of the stock, $3.80 to 4.80. Now I want you to do the math, all right? If you bought a thousand shares of that at $3.60, that's a 3,600 all investment. You sold it an hour later, okay?  Let's say half, 50 cents on a thousand shares is a $100,000 a year salary. I don't know about you fellow traders, but I think I'm pretty good with that.   Some of you probably can't afford to buy a thousand and then you do what's the next biggest mistake.  Well, I could trade the option, it's got good up.  You could make your money for the day and you're done for the day. So what I'm gonna show you is how we shop for these stocks, but most importantly, why did that stock go up? Why did it go down? And how we would have a game plan because I'm going to teach you how to read the future. I'm gonna teach you how to read something called iceberg orders. So now before we get started, just to add a curiosity for everybody here, anybody here that is not a student of Cybertrain University, just give me a chat back and say, you know, on new, just type in the chat room, new. Lee's getting super excited. Well, I'm glad you're getting excited Lee. Okay, Jacqueline, you're new. Okay, Lee, you're new, anyone else? Dominic, you're just a trial, new member trial. Ken, you're new, all right. Jim, all right, good, good, good. Now we have a lot of students in here that always like to come here and like to always learn something new. And not only that, but they always like to know where they were when they first got started. So that's one of the reasons why we always like to mix it and match it here. All right, so let's talk about, Scott, to you too, Rick, good, perfect. All right, so let me tell you one of the categories why people fail. You see, everyone out there wants to teach you how to make money, all right? And by the way, want a little advice? If you see anybody kind of showing off their car, showing you a big cash on the dashboard, of their trading desk, whatever it may be, do yourself a favor, stay away from people like that. Listen, unfortunately, there's a lot of big actors in here. I've been doing this for 30 years. And you know what? It's not about, and they're probably making the money. I'm not saying they're not, but let me just tell you this. Do you want to learn how to make money or do you want to learn how to stop losing it? Okay, because everyone here is just trying to make a day's pay. And the way I've learned how to trade, and I'll tell you a little bit about my history, is that I was a market maker. And when they hired you, they hired you because they thought you could be successful. Their concern is that you don't lose money. And the reason that you have to learn first is you have to learn how to stop losing first before you can start making. And a lot of it has to do about being afraid, overconfidence of trading, the greed factor, refusing to take losses in the market. People make mistakes like that. And then obviously they over-analyze things with indicators and newsletters and TV and what, you know what? These are the main reasons why people fail. And I want to kind of teach everybody here what you have to do to eliminate a lot of these things that are here. Okay, that's what we need to focus on. So now you have to ask yourself, how do you know what's stopped to trade? So I'm going to ask everyone that question. How do you find and know what you want to trade and not trade? Just to let me know. I want to see how everybody answers this question.  Evaluate the R volume. Jacqueline doesn't know, okay. Anyone else? Orders, Rick, okay. Just kind of reading this off and seeing what people are picking out. If you can't answer this question, give me a question mark. That's really what comes down to it. Business and fundamentals late. All right. Well, let me tell you how I was trained and how hopefully I'm going to teach all of you to do the same. You follow the money. That's all we do. We follow the big money. You got to remember, we are the ants on the floor. We're just trying to get the crumbs. There are people like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, high-frequency trades, big institutions, they are, you know, they're interested in buying companies, selling companies like, I'll give you an example. Past two days, we were trading Nordstrom, okay, the big department store. They just came out with news that they want to go private, okay. They want to buy back their stock. The stock's been doing great. It's been doing great today. It's been doing great yesterday. Who's buying it in you and I? Maybe you and I could benefit from a little bit, but you need a lot of, you need someone to buy a lot of those shares to buy back the company. Well, how do you know they're really buying it? How do you know that maybe it was just speculation? These are things that I'm going to teach you how to follow the big orders. So before I explain that to all of you, let me kind of introduce myself first, because some of you that do not know me and some of you that do, I started trading over 30 years ago. I'm actually one of the original day traders that started in today's industry. When I started, it was about a thousand, now there's over, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of you around the world. I started the first educational school in the industry. We've also, I've known some of the biggest traders in the industry, and great traders surround themselves with great traders. And we always learn from each other.  And when there's a big failure rate, there's a lot of negativity. And when there's a lot of negativity, everybody's going to say, well, I tried it and I lost whatever. So I am here to hopefully educate all of you to kind of realize if trading is for you or not, because listen, it's not for everybody. Now, for all of you here also, I'm going to give you access to my book at the end of the presentation. You can actually, it's a number one best seller. You can go to Amazon, you could pay me $47 or you can stick around, I'll give it to you at the end for free. So you probably don't want to miss it. It's a great read, it's a color book, great pictures and diagrams, it's color, you'll love it. All right? Now, also I've been showcased on a lot of the exchanges and TV stations, everything. Because the thing is, I love to go out there and teaching people what they should do and what they should not do. That's how trading's work. But listen, it's not about me, okay? This is all about you. You're here for the reason is to know that, listen, how could I do this as a career? How could I, I'm about to retire and I need to make supplemental income and Social Security's not paying enough or I lost a ton of money with a broker and you know what, I want to take matters in my own hands. These are the things that, what this is all about because like I said, I live here in New York, this is the financial capital of the world. I've learned by some of the best traders in the industry, some of them live in my town. You're not going to beat these people, but you know what, they know that everyone here wants to succeed at it and you can't convince everyone, but that's why I'm here, because if I can convince you, you could figure it out on your own. So regarding about that, to be a good trader, the reason why people fail is they keep looking backwards, okay? They always look at these indicators, these newsletters, these analysts, you have to understand something that by the time you know what's going on, by the time you hit the button, it might be too late, okay? Because you're looking at what happened in the past. We need to focus on the future. So the future is stop looking at the rear view mirror and let's start looking at the front view mirror, okay? And that's what most traders do, they make that mistake. They start looking at things at like bolager bands, MACDs, Fibonacci's, and let me tell you, they're great, but they're invented by mathematicians, okay? They haven't been invented by traders and you know what? What's great about them is they're always right, but they're always lagging. You're focusing on historical data. You need to focus on the future data. And when you have all these indicators out there and you're knowing which one is better, you listen to one person and he tells you and he convinces you how great it is and then someone tells you why he reads it better than him.  So what is the right indicator to use everybody? The right indicator is what we call the KISS method. Keep it super simple, okay? I could tell you that probably 90% of you are reading the market more complicated than I would even read it, okay? You end up being an analyst and that's what it's all about. You're not an analyst, okay? Analysts, it becomes paralysis. That's what ends up happening because those indicators are always lagging. So let's go stop looking at the past, let's start looking at the future and see how the future actually works. Well, the first question I have to ask you is this, okay? It's within the question. What makes a stock move in the first place, right?  Supply and demand, but that's only partial credit. What really makes things move is the big orders. Now, when it comes to those big orders, how do we find them? We have to look in the future, okay? Finding those orders is basically the basics of trading in the first place. Now there are four ways of viewing orders, level one, level two, level three and level four. Now, does anyone here have any of these? What's the highest one you guys have? If you don't know how to answer these questions, give me a big fact question mark, just out of curiosity. How does everybody know these? Two, Lee has none of them. Ron, you have three, okay? Just looking at reading everyone's quote here. Dom, you got three. Robert that has no idea, he's got a question mark. Scott question mark, okay? Just kind of reading these off. Come on, listen, there's almost 100 people in here. Don't be shy. No one's gonna pick on you. No one's gonna yell at me. No one's gonna rat you out, okay? If you don't know, you don't know. If you don't have the answer, you don't have the answer. So let me kind of explain to you what the difference are. If you don't know the answer. Level one basically just tells you the best fit and best offer, okay?   I mean, you really don't need that.  So level one is great. It was good back in the, you know, in the 80s. Then in the 90s, we are all offered level two. Level two was great back then, but it's been outdated since the 90s, okay? And the reason why it was great back then is because, and let me kind of show you what we got right here, is that right here you got buyers and you have sellers. The only problem here is that you're seeing what the stock is trading at that exchange like the New York and NASDAQ, you're seeing what the best price is trading there at and how many shares. You're not seeing all the bids and all the offers. So you're kind of more trading blind, okay? So what do we need to trade successfully? Something called level three, okay? Now it looks like I got my thing all messed up here. All right, so my question to you is this, I don't know if we can do a quick poll here, anyone here have level three quotes? Just give me a yes or no. I think we have, oh, there they go. Thank you very much. Here's the poll that we got going on here. Just let me know, yes, no, I'm not sure. So for some of you who are afraid to type it in the chat, we're gonna share the poll with everybody so everybody can see everybody answers this question. Now as everyone's answering this question, I'll explain to you what some of you, what you're looking at. So right here you have the buyers and right here you have the sellers. Those are buy orders, those are sell orders, okay? We're looking at Apple, all right. Now you have three columns. The first column is telling you how many orders are out there. The second column is telling you how many shares make up that order. And the third column is telling you the price. Whoever wants to buy the stock for the most amount of money is up on top. Whoever wants to buy for less money is down at the bottom. Same thing over here in the ask. Whoever wants to sell their shares the least amount of money is up on top. Where once more money is down at the bottom. So what you're looking at is one big market, one big negotiating market, okay? Who's the buyers? Who's the sellers? Where they are at the market. Now you're looking at the actual NASDAQ exchange, okay? When I started, you had to be licensed to look at this data, okay? And then when I started, I had to pay $1,000 a month to get this data. Now you get it for $15 a month, okay? You don't got to be licensed anymore. You don't have to see on the exchange and you're going to pay 15 bucks. Now, 15 bucks you could see be like, that's still a lot of money. I mean like, or why would I pay a subscription for something if I don't need it? Well, let me explain to you what we're looking at and then you'll see the value of it. All right, so let me just clear this out. And I'm gonna end the poll. I'm gonna share the poll with everybody. So you could see how many of you here do not have NASDAQ level three. So, there we go, let me change the slide. So what we reason, what we're gonna use level three for is we need to find the iceberg orders. That's the reason for it. So iceberg orders are big block orders at a specific price, okay? It's not what's on top of the wards, what's at the bottom of the water. And I use this because I came up with the word of the Titanic. I don't know if anybody, I guess everybody's familiar with the Titanic. Sad story, all those people died on that ship. You didn't realize how close they were towards the iceberg because it wasn't was on top. It's what's on the bottom. And what we need to focus on, in which a lot of you don't have, you don't have the radar to look at the bottom because you don't wanna hit an iceberg.   So you need to know where those iceberg orders are. And that iceberg order is what makes major support and resistance levels. And there are specific orders at specific prices. They're not at every single price. There's an order at every price, but there are not big block orders at every price. So the overall size is what we're gonna look for when it comes to trading. And remember, I came up with that word a long time ago. I'm gonna coin it and I did a video on it of those iceberg orders because of that. Now, getting back to iceberg orders, basically we need to see what happened in the past, okay? Because the past sometimes will be indicative of the future, but not always. And that's what's gonna happen and what we're gonna look at next. So let's just dive into a couple examples here and see what we're talking about. Here is an example of Tesla, okay? Now, we always wanna know where support levels are and where resistance levels are. Well, you can't have a support level unless you have the buyers out there. And when you look over here, you'll notice on the chart, the stock hit a support level right here, where it finally came down. And then when it hit this price around this 174, it went right back up and went right back to 179. Now, why did it stop at 174, okay? The only reason why it did that is because on the buy side, when you look all the way down here, you had over 2,000 orders out there that made up over 200,000 shares. Now, you'll notice there are orders everywhere, 3,000, 1,000, this is a pretty big, 29,079, but you're talking 200,000, all right? So when you go from 177 and you're like, well, how much lower could it go? Well, the real big order is right there, 174. And that's the reason why it went there. And believe me, it stopped over here and it stopped over here, but the real order was down there. And that's what makes a support level, okay? The buyers. Now, we clear this.  I know a lot of people out there, you always hear the story, people that teach don't trade.  Actually, when we're done today, you're all gonna be invited, come and see the afternoon. And you don't wanna miss it. And then remember, it's a two-part lesson.  And also, I wanna see how good you did on your quiz, okay? And you might wanna see the same. Getting back to resistance levels. Look at this stock, how it went all the way up. Coinbase went to 270 and it came right back down to 145. Now, that's a pretty significant drop. And sometimes you'd be like, damn, I wish I knew I got out sooner than later because sometimes you can convert a winner and it could become a loser. How could you have known that? Well, if you look on the sell side, you wanna know where the other sellers are on the other side. And you look down here, and you'll notice right around 270, right down there, there's about 100,000 shares that's gonna be sold. So listen, I don't know about you, but do you really think a 2,000 share seller is gonna make a resistance compared to the 100,000 share seller? Could you just imagine what you're looking at right now? You know, as well as I do, that there are buyers and sellers out there in the market, in anything. You think you're the only one that's out there trying to buy a house that's competing against it? Problem is you don't know who your competitor is and you wish that you knew, so you know what you're really paying for it. Well, on the stock market, you can, okay? Now, I don't know about you, but just kind of jumping ahead, I'd rather look at see this than use some Fibonacci, okay? Rick has a good question. Do they fill all orders until the big one? Rick, we didn't get to that question, but I'm glad now you're starting to think outside the box. Right now, Rick, what I just need to understand from you and everyone else, Jacqueline, Jeff, Scott, all of you, did I lose anybody yet? Is that really the next question? Did I lose anybody? Just give me a yes or no. Now just imagine, we've just been talking for about 10 minutes. Look, how much you've just learned in 10 minutes that how much you could have been made better and smarter trading decisions if you knew how to read the new way that other orders are out there, where the street is, where main street is, okay?  Let's go, let's talk, let's look at Boeing, for example. So Boeing is going down.  Obviously, you know the news on Boeing, the max jet has been having issues. And unfortunately that catastrophes, sometimes they make opportunities for us, okay? So the question is, how much lower could Boeing go, right? Well, there's only way to figure that out. Where are the orders? Because some of you be like, oh, this terrible news, I would never buy Boeing. Listen, is Boeing going out of business? Okay, we think Boeing has only one thing. They do military, they do everything, okay? But sometimes bad news like that, you know, trickles in and it might be an opportunity to jump in. You gotta follow the orders. Now, what happens when you look at the sell side, you'll notice that the sellers are still out there, okay? So in this example, you have two iceberg orders, one at 177 and 178, all right? Now, the next thing you have to ask yourself is, where are the buyers? Where are the buyers on it? So as the stock is trending down, where are the buyers? The big block buyers are right here, okay? Right down here at the bottom, 178 and 177. So as much as you have the icebergs on the, we see on offer, now you gotta see where the buyers are. Now, what do you think happens next? Stock took a big hit, gets right down to that 177, boom, it shoots up to 180, like that. And you can see it, it took a big hit in the early morning and once it hit that big hit right in the morning, if you would just wait and you were patient and you didn't lose, just wait, wait, wait, there's your nice trend. Now, has that ever happened to anybody?  Or how about this? Do you ever buy a stock as soon as you buy it, it goes down? Has that ever happened to anyone? Dominic's is sure it does, right? Don't you feel like they're watching you? Sometimes I feel like they're watching me. You know what the problem is? They're not watching you. You're not watching them. If you knew he was out there, you would never sold it. Cause some people freak out. I had a student the other day, new student actually. He said, look, Fausto, I wanna take you class if I got one problem. He's like, I'm like, what is it? She's like, I believe everything you're doing but I did an option trade, okay? And I bought Tesla and I got, and I got cold, meaning she bought the stock. She ended up buying it and she was losing a lot of money on it and she wanted to get out and she was losing a lot of money on the trade. And I said, well, listen, let's go look at it and let's go check it out really quick, okay? And I said, she's like, I have to sell it cause I can't afford to take a loss. I'm getting crushed right now. I said, listen, you're in a hole, okay? Tesla's not going out of business, and it could probably go a hell of a lot lower which I agree with you and you don't wanna lose any more money out there. Why don't we go look and see what the orders are? Well, guess what? We're gonna come back and check that out, okay? And I'll show it to you in a real live markets but these examples I deal with all the time and the reason why I'm bringing her up is because this happens, probably happened to you. Let's go over another big buying opportunity. Amazon, trending down, right? Where's the support levels in Amazon? You think the past is gonna help you? Well, the only thing that's gonna help you is where the future orders are. And if we'll notice right around 10, 15, 10, 10, 10, 15 Eastern time, all of a sudden we start seeing these orders starting to show up. 154,000 share buyer at 171.50.  Exactly. Hit that support level, hover there for about 10 minutes and hit it, hit it, never wanna get past that 150,000 shares. Finally hit it, boom, we're right to 173. Why do you think that happened? I don't know, maybe at 171 orders out there, 154,000 people orders, shares made up of the 171 orders out there. I mean, that's the only way I could see it. I didn't need some shanking indicator telling me that. How about this? And by the way, I wanna kinda like point something out. Why is there a New York Stock Exchange? Right, like why did you have the physical, I mean, I know things have changed, but think about this for a second. Why are the, why everybody go to New York Stock Exchange? What were they doing down there? What were they doing down there? Anybody know? Why did traders go to New York Stock Exchange? Okay, oh, very good Dominic, great way of explaining it. Okay, great way of explaining it. To see what the other traders are doing, right? Well, guess what? Wouldn't you wanna see what the other traders are doing? You see now with technology is, after what happened with Hurricane Sandy, everything went electronic, so they didn't need to go to the floor anymore. Now it's, everything's all remote. So I mean like, so what are you doing? You think anything has changed? Nothing has changed in, in, in, in, you have the sense to market, you know, from the day it started till today, only top problems you have to physically go in there anymore. Let's look at Google really quick. Google's got a big move, right? You know what? Good traders always look to take a profit. How do we know how to take a profit? We need to know where everyone else is trying to get out. And when you work your way down to 150, and you look all the way down here and like, well, you know what? We're about a dollar away from a really big iceberg order of 100,000.  Eh, maybe, you know, I don't believe it. Yeah, go ahead. You don't believe it? When we go to the real market, if you don't believe that's a real order, I will find one of those orders and we'll use your money, and we'll go out there and execute that order and you tell me if it's real or not. And I can almost guarantee right now, I don't think anyone wants to take that bet. Okay? Nobody would take that. Cause let me explain something to you cause people ask me all the time, how do we know that's a real order? How's that real? How did the, then why is it there? You think the exchange, what do you think is the Wolf of Wall Street? You think this is, do you think this is like, these are fake companies?    It's the real orders. Now they could cancel an order. Let's say anyone can cancel an order, but you really think 777 people and who's with each other? Come on fellow traders.   This is fake. This is fake. Yeah, you know what? How do you really know it's fake? Okay, you know what it's fake? Let's go out there and tell them, and this is what I do this all the time. I'll give you a good example. I do a lot of public speaking and I had somebody in the audience. You know, I was at one of these money shows and this guy was just an angry guy, right?  And right away, I'm like, sir, you think it's fake? How about this? I said, I'll make you a bet, okay? How much money you got in your pocket? He's like, what does that mean? Well, you think it's fake, right?  I just wanna make sure that when I lose, I take the money from you to cover it. Now, if it's fake, I will double the money that's in your pocket, okay? He's like, well, I'm not taking that bet. You're like, well, why not? You said it's fake orders. I do whatever I'm like, listen, obviously you're angry, you got yourself in trouble. I don't know who trained you, but you know why not? He was just basically, now you really saw that there were orders out there. And that was one of the reasons he got really frustrated where somebody else told him something differently. Listen, if you wanna ever learn from a really good trader, you have to learn from market makers. And there are a lot of them out there. I wanna talk about Tesla really quick. Tesla had a good run here, okay? Good move movement. Game plan as a trader, you gotta know where to always take a profit. Coming up once again, coming up to 163,000 shares seller out there. I mean, I don't know how many times they need to show it to you, but they do this on every single stock. What happens when we get to that 175? I don't know, maybe it comes back down, right? But I don't know about you, 166 to 175, that's a pretty nice profit.  Yeah, let somebody else try to get to 300. But as of right now, I wanna get out of it. By the way, anyone here trade options? Anybody trade options here? Okay, great. What makes you think makes an option move? The movement of the stock. Don't you think you need to be a good stock trader first before you be a good option trader? Don't you know that some of those big iceberg orders are covers for those option calls? And listen, as you become a trader here at Cybertrain University and we show you this stuff live, it's all gonna make sense. Listen, there are a lot of different people out there that have a good strategy and it might work for them, but it might not work for you. You gotta start getting back to basics before you can start getting more complicated on knowing how to short and how to trade leaps and whatever it is, all these crazy ways, styles of people trade. Now let's dive into something called level four. If you thought level three was good, what do you see level four? So level four, envision this. You actually have, right here, level three quotes, right, you see all the orders, but now you're seeing it on a heat map. Now you're seeing who's out there, if they canceled, how long they've been out there for. So imagine, and I know people love charts, listen, I like charts too, I mean, but the thing is to have a chart confirm an order, you need to see it out there. And now when you're seeing it on a heat map, it just makes it that much clearer. And by the way, these are things that we're gonna show you live in the market. Because remember, like I said before, we practice what we preach. Now, let me just clear these out and change the slide here. And I'll explain to you what we got here. There was a big buyer in Tesla right here around 9.42 in the morning, 9.44. And you'll notice that it disappeared, okay? What happened was the person was out there, got executed, didn't get executed. So he started running the stock up. But if you look at it over here on the right, you won't see as big as an order as it was there before. So it's nice about level four, is that you can see back test and make sure if he was out there and then where he is right now. And I'll give you a good example here, okay? I wanna show you something pretty cool. There's a stock that's moving pretty good here, Sones. Okay? And I wanna point something out. Looking at this stock right here, I wanna do a little test. Where do you see resistance levels on SOUN? See if everybody can answer this question. All right, some of you is saying right here, about this 20, okay? What else? Where else do you guys think? You got some resistance levels here around 780. Anyone else? Anybody else see some resistance levels? Okay, one of you just said right here, right there. Okay, good. 740, okay? Now, this is the $64,000 question. How do you really, really know that there was resistance there and if the stock was to go higher, how do you really know that where was resistance in the past is gonna be the same resistance in the future? Okay? So question to ask all of you one more, more question. What makes stocks go up and go down, everybody? How do they go up and down? Just write B&S. Could everyone just write B&S in the trading room just to make sure we raise here paying attention? I didn't hear from you, Greg, I didn't hear from you, Jim, John, Paul, Rick, Scott, guys, what are you doing?  Just, if you don't know the answer, just write B&S, okay? Buyers and sellers, buyers and sellers. I just wanna make sure that I've got a pulse, okay? You really wanna know where you wanna find the orders? Where do you guys see orders? Where do you see a big block order on the stock? Let's see if you can figure this one out. Dominic, you're right. What else? Scott, you're right. Congratulations, you passed the test. Bill, you're right. Margaret, you're right. So let's point it out. You got 1.3, 134 million shares looking to be bought at 820 and you got another 300,000 share buyer at 750. So you could see why the stock hit resistance levels here and then you could see what happened. He pushed down the stock here, he pushed it down a little bit more and then he really came down here, which is right around that resistance levels and then you could see that it came down and all of a sudden this guy started showing up here and then you could see how it got darker and darker but the real resistance level was at 820, okay? Let's go back to the chart, right? Let's go back to the chart. We said, now let me eliminate everything here. So you said 7, oops, 750, delete this one and that really pretty much I would delete this one. So you're talking right around there, around that 720, right around that 720.  I mean, because resistance levels were at 740 earlier this morning, but it's not there anymore, right? Now it dropped down, that guy dropped it down. So if your game plan was like, oh, resistance was in the past was 740, no, no, no, it's 920 now, but you wouldn't know that unless you saw the orders out there, okay? So did I confuse anybody? See what I'm saying? That's what trading is all about and this works with every stock, it works on Google, it works on NVIDIA, it works on, I mean, I don't know if anyone here have any of you guys subscribed to my YouTube channel? You haven't done it yet?  I'm gonna, I have some longer ones too, but we got over 3,000 videos there. Look at the popular ones. You can get this day to yourself. So good, I'm glad a lot of you got it. Now if you haven't gone it, listen, we post a link up there now, Instagram, YouTube, just click on that. I mean, here's our channel right here. Please click on which says subscribe, and watch some of the videos here. I mean, we've got great videos, the short ones. I mean, this one right here was pretty awesome. These are new ones I just came out with. This one right here, had to trade the Fed rate, but you could do most popular. You see this one got like over 2,000 views. I mean, there's some pretty good ones here. I had one that was on, I also have a cooking channel by the way, but yeah, these old brain, we just started doing some shorts, but we have some really good long ones. You can see here on the book viewer, most popular, 31 views on how to trade it on thinkorswim, you can get level four. I mean, there's some how to trade the matrix all out there. So please subscribe to the channel and so you guys could get those alerts and everything. All right, so listen, you're more than welcome. All right, so let's go back and talk about what we covered. Being very too analytical.  It's all about keeping it very simple. So when I invite all of you guys come to the trading room and you come back tomorrow, you'll see that a lot of what we covered is not that involved. The hardest thing to teach you is the greed and discipline. That's what it's all about. It's the greed and the discipline. You learn those two things comes with experience because it's not about making money, it's about controlling losses. Now, what we're gonna do is tomorrow, who could come tomorrow for the second part of the class? Who can come tomorrow? Lee, you can, Bill, you can. Good, good, good. All right, so this is what I wanna do. I don't have it up here right now, but we're gonna post up the link for everybody here that wants to come live and join the trading room right now. All right, let me just bring that up right here because I don't have the link. Could you guys post up the link for the $9 trial? It wasn't on here because I wanna invite everybody to come up for the trial. Give me a, there we go. All right, so here's the trial. Now what we're looking, now you could do it now or you could do it tomorrow. Okay, but we got for $9, I'm gonna invite all of you guys to come into the trading room for one week, okay?  So if you wanna wait till tomorrow to do it, I mean, you can wait till tomorrow, okay? But if you wanna get access to it now and kind of see the stuff come to, see how we're gonna trade the afternoon, I mean, today's been a great day, the market's up 300, got a lot of good stocks that are moving. Click here now, register right now for $9. And by the way, money back guarantee too. Listen, I don't need your $9. So this just tells me if you're a real person or not. We don't wanna invite anybody into the trading room. There's a hundred of you here, I don't know who you are, where you came from. So this kind of just tells us if you're a real person or not. When you register for this, we ask you five questions, let us know what about you, what kind of trader you are. You'll also get my e-book, okay, with this trial and you get a couple of, you get some workshops.  So just click on that link, register, and then also you're gonna get an email, take the quiz, right? And we'll get the quiz taken care of too, okay? And we'll see how you guys do. We're gonna go over the answers on that quiz. And also when you take your quiz, it will tell you how you did, all right? It'll let you know if you pass, failed, whatever it is. So quiz is actually pretty fun, take it seriously. It's only like 10 questions, all right? Any questions before we go, fellow traders? Any other questions? No problem, Margaret, listen, we're not done right now. Remember, you got a week in the trading room. We got another part of the workshop tomorrow. We do some live trading. We do about a 30 minute workshop tomorrow. You're gonna have access to the trading room just right now, register for the trial, get into that trading room, get ready, and then take your quiz. But if you're not ready, no problem. 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Just everybody know you'll have access to get in there. And also, everyone that does register, you're gonna be able to talk to an education advisor here. And listen, there's nothing better than to be able to talk to someone at a company that really knows to answer your questions, all right? Any other questions, everybody? Anything else? Yeah, everyone, like Margaret just saying, everyone just feel free to come in there. Ron has a question, level three along with Insight Fowster has been a best value training education. Thank you very much, Ron. That's very thoughtful. And you know what, our goal here, just let everybody know is a lot of you traders really don't qualify to trade. And that's okay. Think about going to the doctor and you think there's something wrong. A bad doctor will do the surgery because he wants to get paid for the insurance company. A good doctor will be like, listen, you're perfectly fine. Here's all your tests, you're okay. So, and we all know we'd rather go to that doctor than the other doctor. Well, the only way to see that is you gotta be, we need to do our homework on you. We wanna make sure, you wanna make sure that when you're getting yourself involved in is the right thing. Some people just like, ah, let me go out there and trade, if I like it, then I'll learn how to do it. Yeah, that's not the person I want someone to trade my money or do brain surgery on my loved one. So, you know what? You gotta start somewhere, but I can tell you this, trading does require education. It does require a little money. Nothing is free, okay? If you're looking for free stuff, as much as you think there's a lot of free content out there, believe me, at the end of the day, those books, those videos do not talk back to you, okay? 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I'm getting too close to something there, I'm just going to go this way. All right. Apparently, I'm safe over here. Okay. Has everyone got a food coma? Like I have? Anyone that's feeling like they want to go to sleep? No? Okay. So today I'm going to talk to you guys about a project that we did at Boomcom Pixels, which was for one of our bigger clients, which I'll talk about in a second. I'm pretty much just going to tell you a story. Hopefully it's not too boring. And then you guys can ask me all the questions you want. I have, I may not know all the technical details, so I apologize if I don't. But let's get started with this one. So, nope, turn it on.  My name is Thomas Hurd. As we just mentioned before, I'm from New Zealand originally, so I've come probably the furthest distance you can to get to Finland. By trade I'm actually an industrial designer with a, I also did service and system design when I was studying. And that's kind of through a very long process led me to what I do now, which is at the moment managing a team of designers and sort of graphic UX developers to build a lot of experiences, as we call them, at our company for our different clients. And one of my big things is about really focusing on user experience. And I know that's a really, really almost overused term, but I think that the experience that you give all your users, and I'll talk about that in a moment, is really, really important and almost more important than anything else you can kind of come across in a project. So the project that we're talking about is a company from the north of Italy called Torgla. They are basically dealing with bathrooms, building products, pretty much anything you need to build a house, they sell. They're mainly selling to businesses, small businesses, big businesses, contractors, all those sorts of guys. And they've had a shop online for quite a while. They have a few customers that order online, but the main reason that people use it is just to find out, okay, how do, like, do you have this product or can I get this product from you? So they came to us. We'd already worked with them before, and we'd actually done another website for them. And they said, okay, we want to change our online store. But the current person that we have doing it, they can't really continue anymore. And even if we could continue, we want to really overhaul it, and we think that we just need to completely start from scratch. So they came to us, and we said, cool, we can go through this. They, basically, the big challenge in some ways was the fact that they were using SAP, which I'll get into a bit later. But also, as we were talking about, or as was just mentioned by Daniel before, that a lot of WooCommerce shops are quite small. So I think on a scale level, they're not really tested. This store had 7,000 products, okay, big, not crazy. But there's actually 30,000 product variants, okay. There's 660 categories, still big, but okay. 10,000 attributes, this was really fun. And then just to really make it really exciting, we had to have two languages, of which neither was English. In some way, we actually had three, because we have to translate everything from English, and as I said, we had to do some SAP integration. So quickly at the start, what do we actually sort of approach this from with them? They were a little bit skeptical, and they really were wanting to make the right choice about what they did with this new shop. They knew they wanted to invest money, they knew they needed to invest money. So on that side, we're like, yes, this is good. But the question was like, okay, how do we actually convince them that we're the right way to go? So luckily we had a lot of freedom with these guys. They said, we trust you that you're gonna design it the way that it should be. We trust that you guys are experts in what you're doing. So luckily for us, that was quite easy. But they wanted us to do something really different. Italy is kind of behind in the internet, quite a bit. It looks very 2000s, most of the websites. Also, things like here, we have, everyone's pretty much got 100 megabits per second at their home or office. They're lucky if they get 10 in a big office, and they pay thousands to get fiber and store to their home. So there's quite a different shift in the way that we have to think about it. Then they said to us, okay, well, we had this old supplier who made the old shop, but it was all closed source and we couldn't do anything with it. We had to pay them heaps and heaps of money every year just to keep it going, let alone if we wanted to add something to it. So we want it to be open source because if we want to change, like if we want to switch from you guys or if we just, we want something more secure and more trustworthy and more reliable. So we said, okay, we'll do this on WooCommerce. The whole open source thing and having an easy access to a pool of developers kind of ruled out magento. And we had had experience in the past with building an online shop with Drupal and that killed that right there. Sorry if anyone likes Drupal. The last thing was about making it flexible. No, maybe not the last thing, but one of the last things. As I said before, they wanted to really overhaul the way they did things. And this meant that they had lots of intricacies that are involved with their business, about different ways that people have to order products, the way that the system had to integrate with SAP and a whole bunch of other things. And then, of course, as I think Lisa was saying earlier today, when we're talking about the user interface and user experience, not just their clients experience, but also their experience administrators of the site and of everything within the site that they had to take care of. Because the old one was horrible, it didn't make sense. And that also leads to another thing, which I think is often overlooked when we're developing websites or these sorts of tools for clients, is that we sometimes have a chance to sort of build this internal efficiency or create an internal efficiency by taking tasks that they used to take forever to do and somehow integrating that into the website or the tool that we're building for our clients so that they can actually... It's not just, OK, here's a new website, this is more than a website, this is actually a tool to help you do your work faster or more efficiently or better. And the last thing that they were sort of quite big on is that we had to help them convince their customers that they should move on to this online platform. So basically, in the past, they had a few people... Well, a few, they had a certain amount of customers who were ordering online from their existing store. They had the majority, though, ordering via order forms, like written order forms, or through phone calling up and saying, OK, I want this, I want this, I want this. So they wanted to really move all their customers to the website. They wanted to start shifting their client base to the digital age, as we like to call it. So for us, the idea then sort of became, OK, WooCommerce, they were very happy with this, they were on board, it was great. Then we got the joy of going from their old shop to the new shop, because as I said, they had 30,000 product variants in two different languages, they had an existing shop where everything was translated, all the products were there, all their customers were there, everything. So we got the fun job of migrating this. The old website, as you can see in the background of this, is... I don't even know if it's 2000, I wonder if it's 1990s, possibly, maybe. It was horrible. Then, document what? There was no documentation at all. So we had to kind of dig through their databases and understand how it went, usually not such a bad problem.  Oh, not as many as I thought, OK. Sorry, this gets a bit techy, but you have a Boolean, you have a Boolean column, you define it as being a Boolean, yes or no, true or false. They like to use spaces, for true. So we're looking through this database, I remember there was one time it took us four hours, searching through a database, trying to work out where this one little flag was coming from, and then my colleague realized, hey, this is column with random spaces every now and then. Lo and behold, that was their true or false. Even if they'd used that, it wouldn't have been a problem if they'd actually documented it. Hmm, fun. So how do we do this? And this is when I'm going to start giving you guys some advice, or at least our experiences. It may sound really obvious, but take it one step at a time. Don't try and do too many things at the same time, because if something in one part goes wrong and then you have to start changing things in the other, it just gets a mess. So we started off, first of all, by having all that fun of digging through their databases, and we actually created, quickly with a PHP boilerplate, just a really quick way to output the data that we had and to work out what we needed and to make sure that we could get all the data correctly. Nothing to do with WordPress at all, just us purely querying a database. And then we went on to the building the scripts, making sure they all worked, and then we actually started implementing it and copying everything into WooCommerce. Just one tip, don't upgrade stuff when you're trying to do this. I think WPML at that point had a big upgrade where they changed a whole bunch of stuff and we had to start a whole bunch of scripts from scratch. So as I mentioned before about designing efficiency, so now I'm talking about how we can start making WooCommerce and taking it to the next level. First of all, I want you to all think about your users and not just the ones who are using the website on the front end, but the people who are having to input things or manage things on the back end. As Lisa mentioned before, actually at the end of the day, they're the ones who are paying your bills, so you probably want to make them happy. So try and make things simple for them or explain things. I know that maybe for WooCommerce, most of it's there, but I've seen some horrible, horrible back ends where there's just random fields with names that don't mean things, so my advice on this respect, think of also your actual clients as users administrating things. With this store, we had a pretty simple brief. They had to be able to load the site quickly in Italy with their slow internet, find things really quickly out of 30,000 products in which there was a bunch of attributes, and then be able to order things quickly. So in terms of the loading, that's not too hard, you just sort of optimise things. The ordering is luckily taken care of by WooCommerce. The searching was something that we really had to spend a lot of time on, and basically what we did is that we spent the majority of our time on the things or the interfaces that the users would be looking at the most. So basically searching, finding things within search results, and then once you go from a search result to a product page, actually finding the actual product that you need. We had a lot of tables of variations because that's how the users are expecting to see these things, but you might have 40 variations. So we had things like when you would click from a search result, it would actually highlight the variation and scroll you down to the one that you're looking for. So you really didn't have to search through this list of 40 things again that you've already searched for to try and find the one that you want to order. So in terms of crafting a store, so this is sort of getting into the actual development side of things. There was a lot of challenges. We had taxonomies, we had these fields, we had SAP integrations, and it was quite a big test about how WooCommerce can scale. So first of all, WooingCommerce, as I said before, we had to customize. We had to add brands.  So we really had to kind of do a lot of extension and manipulation of what WooCommerce could do and really try and make sure that it worked and it was secure like Otto was saying, we had to be really, really careful with security, especially since this is a store. And on top of all that, the biggest joy in my life was internationalization, which I will talk about quickly in a moment, but that probably was the biggest issue of everything that in terms of playing with WooCommerce. And then it was about taking not just SAP out to dinner, but SAP's mother out to dinner because this wasn't some SAP one new sort of this cloud system that they have. This is SAP from the late 1990s. So it's really not fun. But we've got integrations working already. They're basic, basically in terms of efficiency, it allows things to be imported directly as soon as they're added to SAP, so new products. And we are working on bi-directional integration, so going from WooCommerce back into SAP. And then lastly, the whole scale of this thing. I mean, it was huge, at least from my opinion and what I've seen, there aren't many stores with this many products. So, we were taking WooCommerce really beyond where it could go or where it maybe had been used before, and we had a lot of interaction with the team at WooCommerce. I think there's a few feature improvements. We were basically the people who discovered the bug that they then fixed, which has now made things faster. As I mentioned, the, what are they called? Not variations, the attributes, that's the right. The attributes were a huge problem because we had 10,000 and I think WooCommerce was sort of saying to us, okay, we think we've had maybe 1,000 in one shop at once, so this was a total big thing for them. But they were really, really good. So, if you're thinking about WooCommerce in terms of a, there's a little bit of a plug for them, I guess maybe, but they were really, really good at getting back to us and really helping us, not just for our sake, but also for their sake improving their product, so they were very responsive. And then my favorite, favorite thing of this whole project, which I think everyone here gets to deal with at some point in their life, if not every day, is internationalization.  For us, this was the biggest cause of problems on this entire project and we had a lot of them purely related to trying to make this site work in both German and Italian. The biggest challenge was actually we didn't really have much control over how the sort of, some of the plugins we were using, WPML. Which basically is the only option at the moment if you want to store. They did their best at supporting us as much as they could. We did have some frustrating moments, but generally they were trying to help us. And I think, again, as with WooCommerce, we were really pushing the boundaries of WPML working with WooCommerce, so for them, it was also kind of this path of discovery and working out okay, we never even thought that we would have this many variations or this many attributes that we would have to deal with, so now we have to rethink about how we maybe do some of the programming. But what are the alternatives? Unfortunately, as I said, there's not really anything. I believe the last thing I saw that Polylang has got, someone has been building a integration with WooCommerce, but I believe it's very basic. I'm not sure if it's totally production ready. Don't quote me on that, I might be wrong. But I would really like to see other options, so I'd like to see Polylang being given an option for WooCommerce, but I do understand it's a lot of work to get these things working, and WooCommerce by itself is very complex, let alone adding an internationalization there. Lastly, we had, well, maybe not lastly, but we had this PDF export, so this was the kind of big custom thing we had to build. They had this in the old shop. I forgot to bring it with me, but they have a catalog about that thick, which their old system could export as a PDF. So we had to produce this and we had to make sure it was exactly the same, basically, because that's what they were expecting. This is my conclusion.  I'm really sorry, but they're horrible. The only ones we could find did one of two things. Either they required you to install stuff on your server, which isn't always the easiest option, especially for your maybe more everyday WordPress user, or they have very limited abilities, like you can print the page, it's like, well, I can do that from Mac OS, I can print a page and I can say PDFs are wide. Okay, I don't get that. But that was my general approach or sort of feeling about that. So when stuff sucks, build your own. And that's exactly what we did. So we had to make our own plugin, which spits out these big print-ready PDF catalogs. It took a lot of time, a lot of efforts. I can't remember exactly which library we used, but we tried a few just to make it work. If anyone's interested, the main catalogs, like we have these huge thick catalogs, those are generated every night because new products are being added daily. So it's not something that we can build and then suddenly, okay, we'll do this again in a month. It actually has to be done every day. And I think it takes about 10 minutes to generate one catalog. But these other smaller catalog sections, you can actually download on the fly. So the new sort of thing we built for them was that you don't have to download the entire catalog. You can actually download a subsection of what you're looking at. So if you're just looking at taps or something like that, you don't need to download every concrete bag and everything else that they do. So does it work? So after all this massive project that we had that I think took about a year in total from an original estimate of six months, yes, it does. For them as a client, things have been going up, up, up for them. They've had an increase of online orders of about 15%. They've seen a massive increase of visitors. A lot more people have registered. So one thing about the shop actually that I forgot to mention is if you want to see prices or order anything, you actually have to be, you have to actually have an account with them since they're a B2B company or supplier. And they've actually had an increase in international visitors which is kind of a weird side effect that they weren't expecting but as good because they're wanting to expand a little bit internationally in the near future. So pretty much all good for them. Sort of as a summary, the main sort of from their side of things, the benefits are looks, speed and reliability. So we really managed to improve the look. I think it's much better than what it used to be. The speed especially with the help of AWS, Amazon Web Services, we managed to really get going and it's just much more reliable than their old system. Their old system had a bunch of issues with just falling down basically every now and then with no apparent reason. So for the clients, every part of maintaining their shop is now so much easier and there's things that have been sped up because they no longer have to edit products manually. They just import them straight from SAP. So into the future, we're still working with this client and doing a few things. The next thing we're looking at with them is actually using the REST API in combination with SAP to take advantage of customer specific pricing because some customers have very specific pricing and improving a lot of the bidirectional the bidirectional integrations that they have. And then also more interfaces. So they actually have a lot of in the past or they would like to have a lot more ways that people can order. They have some customers who order three products at a time. They have some customers who are dealing with massive, massive projects where they've got a spec sheet of 100,000 products they need to order and clicking through an online store for them just doesn't make sense. So we're building other interfaces to help them there. So WooCommerce, yay or nay. For us, our basic conclusion that is that it's a really good toolbox because it starts off working really well. It's really easy to do basic improvements or sort of enhancements through plugins but then it's very easy to customize and extend. It's not perfect, but then nothing else, sort of nothing is and I don't expect it to be. Of course, every time you wanna do something custom it's always gonna be a bit funny and tricky. But for us, it's been a really good experience and it's worked really well. And that is the end. Now you can stop listening to me. Cool. Thank you, Thomas. Any questions? We've got plenty of time for questions. Gonna move somewhere where the light is not in my eyes. Okay. I think there's someone at the back. Over there? Oh, okay. In the front first, yeah. Hey, great talk. Thank you. My question is, do you have any recommendations from a theming or user experience perspective for WooCommerce at scale? Having built a lot of smaller WooCommerce sites, I'm wondering how the either theming or user experience might differ at scale. Yeah, I think maybe from, it depends also from the side, like from the customer side, we actually spent a lot of time with the client understanding as much as we could from them about their users and about the people who are actually gonna be using it and then from their sort of building things and we didn't really get to have too much interaction with their clients as per se. So the sort of end-end users, let's call them. But they have a lot of insights because they've got a lot of research and they know their clients very well. So they were able to give us a lot of insights and they've also been talking to some of their key customers. So we did a, I guess a soft launch or like a pre-launch with a select group of their customers who are ones who are already using the old online store and some ones who wanted to use the online store but hadn't sort of got moved there yet. And so from their feedback as well, we've been doing it. So I think we sort of started with the base of, okay, let's ask them what they know, let's use it as our base and then let's just sort of trial and error a little bit because I think you can ask people what they want but sometimes what they want isn't actually what they need if that doesn't sound too horrible. Sometimes people don't know what they actually need. From their sort of point of view as a company or internally and the people who have to administrate it, that was the easier side because we knew we could sit there with them and work out what exactly they were doing and then go, okay, we can, first of all, we can optimize things for you and then we can really sort of create an interface that is, I mean, we didn't totally change WooCom or something like that, but we could sort of, for example, the importing from SAP, we could start speeding up their processes in the past, they used to have to write everything in two places. So, yeah. Okay, there was a question in the back, I think. Yes. Okay, the mic over there. One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one. Is there anyone upstairs, by the way, who wants to ask a question? Yeah, did you need many extra plugins for WooCommerce and what kind of? No, I'm trying to remember. I don't think so. We made a lot for ourselves. There were some very specific things. For example, there is a plugin, quite a popular plugin for adding brands to WooCommerce, but we found that actually just due to some very specific things we needed, that that wouldn't work. So I think we didn't use many publicly available ones or sort of externally made ones, but that was purely because this project was very, very specific in what it needed. So a lot of the plugins that we kind of came across, unfortunately, weren't really suited for what we had to do. Okay, more questions? There's someone upstairs. We have a question from upstairs, so. Yes. Could you go a bit deeper into the technical aspects of how you optimize the queries you had to make for the searching and stuff? Maybe not. That's probably my colleague is better at that. Fortunately, and he's currently not here. I know that, I don't think we did too much modification to things, to be honest. I think that luckily things worked pretty well. It was, I think the biggest help actually was just putting it onto the client, onto AWS. That was what actually gave it the grunt that it needed. The fact, I think, I mean, of course I'm sure that WooCommerce could be improved with what it's querying and things like that, but we pretty much relied on WooCommerce working the way it was and just making sure that we had a server that had the grunt to support that. One thing we did find, as I was saying, about finding these issues with in combination with the WooCommerce team, one thing we found was with those attributes that when you go into the interface and a product to actually select attributes, at that point it used to load those as it loaded the page. And so if you're imagining it's trying to query something like 10,000 attributes, it takes kind of a while. So pages were taking around four seconds in Italy to load. So we talked with WooCommerce and then I think they started doing it via AJAX. So now it doesn't actually matter. It doesn't affect the page loading time. More questions? There's one guy there. Yeah, there's one over there. Hi, and thanks for the talk. Did you have any other options besides WooCommerce? How did you end up with selecting WooCommerce? Well, like I said, as a company, we'd had experience with Drupal and one of the e-commerce sort of modules of Drupal. That was a challenging experience, let's say. And I think we looked at the others, but what the client was really wanting was something that was, I mean, first of all, with WordPress, that they were interested in that because they were like, okay, well, we know about it. We know it's being developed continuously. We know it's got a pretty good reputation in terms of it's not just someone on the side building something that they're going to suddenly cut development or something like that. And kind of the same thing for WooCommerce. Like, there are other store options, but I think for them, they just thought, let's go with the safer option of choosing the biggest one. So I think we were kind of in some way dictated by their desires that they wanted to have. They'd had, I think, a semi-bad experience with the previous supplier in having a very, very close shop. So that was pretty much, it was more them than us like this, in that way. Okay, the next question over there, please. Hello. The solution that you have built looks really nice. Are you planning on open sourcing any part of the bigger implementations that you needed to do? I think that there are, one thing we have been talking about is actually the PDF part of it because we've actually had a few projects where we've needed to have customized PDF generators. And as I said, we've never found anything that really works. We've actually been sort of using our own implementation of a PDF generator for about four projects, I think now. So I think maybe that would be the thing that we would probably look at maybe making open source, but otherwise we're not too secretive. So if anyone sees anything that like, hey, I really wanna know how to do that, then you can let us know and I'm sure we can help you out. Cool. More questions? Anyone? Okay, over there. If you have a question, by the way, you can already hold up your hand so then the person with the mic can see you and get to you. Hello. Hello. Thanks for a great talk. Cheers. Just a question on multi-language. Yeah. You know, it's quite important maybe in these regions and it doesn't have standard support. Yeah. You mentioned it a bit. I guess it could be a difficult area, you know, but all these things. Yeah. I just wondered if you, do you have any insights, you know, sort of going forward or in the future, if you would do something similar, you know, connected to multi-language particularly? Yeah, I think the biggest thing is to bring it in from the start. I know we've done one project where a client sort of later on decided, oh, actually it would be nice to have this multilingual and it was a bit of a nightmare, like this project, no, because we luckily knew from the very start that it would have to be, but I think from my experience with working, like I think every project we've done except for one has been multilingual. It really pays off to start from the beginning knowing it's gonna be multilingual and really thinking about making all your strings are translatable so you don't have this nasty surprise when suddenly you're like, why is this thing in English? Why isn't it coming up in whatever language I need it to be? The other thing that we found with the client and that's maybe been the biggest struggle for them is the interface with WPML because they do so much as a plugin, which I kind of always feel sorry for them because they're just trying to do so much that the interfaces can get very complex and very tricky for people who are not maybe so tech savvy to understand. So, I mean, I don't really know how to get around that. I guess for us that's generally we use polylang but of course with WooCommerce you have to use WPML basically but we've at least found from our experience that clients prefer polylangs interface because it's much more user friendly and much simpler to understand. So, if it's ever possible to get a simpler interface then I would totally go for that so, yeah. Okay, we still have time for a couple of questions anymore. Okay. No. Thank you very much, Thomas. Thank you.


Well hockey isn't the only event hoping to make a splash during Bemidji's hockey day experience. The annual Burmidgee Plunge will also be a part of next weekend's festivities. The Bemidji JC's has partnered with Hockey Day Minnesota in bringing the annual winter dip into Lake Bemidji as part of the Hockey Day festivities. People from all over the United States and the world have taken the chili plunge. May seem crazy that people who take part in the plunge do it for a good cause. We want you to take the plunge because it's important to invest in our community and the organizations that we chose this year are the Bemidji Community Food Shelf and Northwood's Habitat for Humanity and both of those organizations are huge in our community. The plunge will be held near the Lake Bemidji South Shore on the 19th. That's next Saturday at noon. Registration is available online at the web address you see there and also from 10 until 11.45 on the day of the plunge. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Guys, you need to know that we as Christians simply cannot win. We cannot beat Beyonce in entertaining the world. We cannot appeal to the world more than the Jay-Z's of the world. They will love Sam Smith and they will love Lil Nas X a lot more than they will love us. As a matter of fact, Jesus says they hated him so they will hate us. It was never intended for us to win all of the world. It was never intended for us to be appealing to the world. We cannot offer them what they are looking for. They are looking to be friends with the world. And of course to be friends with the world is to be enemies with God. And so let's not be troubled at the fact that the world loves others in the world.


It's a two-point game with six seconds. Watch the trail, man. They trailed by as many as 22. It's Van Dyke for the win! Yeah! He got it! Utah has done the unthinkable! After trailing by 22, they were at 93, 92. Watched Edrick Bearfield. He crosses over, flips it back. Nothing but the bottom of the net. And the youths storm into Southern California and take nine-one, but take both wins. This one, impossibly.


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. My name is Melissa R. Melania in a company called The Stocks. Washington today went to go over RCII. This was a golden gap today, a bearish gap to short. So in the pre-market, well, actually, this started last night. I had a gap down last night on the earnings. Boom, boom, boom. Here's the morning. Actually, here was, no, here, 8.14. So in 8.14, it had not that much volume. It had like no volume here. Where did the volume start to come in? Well, it started to get better around 8.45. 9 o'clock really just had enough volume. So by 9 o'clock, this had the volume in here to actually look at it to rate the gap. So the stock was gapping down. Nice short here today. Target was $10. It got past the target. This was a good short today. If you knew my system, you would have got up in the morning seeing the gap, rated the gap. You rate the gap to determine the point rating system and has to rate 20 points or more per the 26-point rating system. This gap actually rated 21 points today. And like I said, the target was 10. I usually always like to take my trades between 9.30 and 10. But I don't always hold everything to the target because I like to just make money and get out. The first entry in this today was right here. Boom, into the drop. So this is a nice 75-cent move right into the drop in here. And actually, if you held it down to 10, actually, if you held it down to 10, you got a full dollar out of it to 10 o'clock Eastern time. But what was great about this was the stop. So the entry was 11.24, stop, 11.45. That's amazing, 20 cents, boom. So you could have been out of it here totally or you could have kept lowering the stop and then you could have held it to the target. It took till 10.30 to get to $10. But it did keep going then in the afternoon, as you see. I don't really trade in the afternoon, but you really could have taken a later trade here and another trade here and another trade here. You would have had to do that believing in having 100% conviction and would get to a bigger number or get to $10 or break $10. But the morning trade was the one and this was it. So nice golden gap here today and RCII, Renekar Incorporated, good short. This could follow through, could follow through and go to 9.50 or something like that. But this had a big move today. This is a nice body bar for this stock. From the high it's 11.41, low is 9.76. So don't get crazy with this tomorrow, but overall as a swing trade, it's a good short. Have a great day, everyone. Email me and Melissa at thestockswitch.com if you'd like to sign up for more information of golden gap classes this weekend, special class where I'm doing the class Saturday and Monday and doing the live training and live gap ratings on Monday the 8th. Because of course, February 7th, this is Super Bowl. Have a great night, everyone. And again, email me if you wanna register to book your spot ahead of time because I have a maximum amount of people I take for the class and it's a special class because of the Monday live gap ratings. Have a good night, everyone.


Welcome to Start Us Gold Crochet. This is Tasha. Today's tutorial will be on how to do a front post half treble crochet. So we're going to work around the bottom clusters here, which is something that I used in my pattern called Winter Blush. And it's a scarf and I used the double crochet three together quite a bit in there. So we're going to do this tutorial to help you work this pattern and also just so you can learn how to do it. So what you're going to do first is a front post half treble is basically a treble crochet and a half double crochet mix together, but you're actually working it around the post. So we're going to chain one over here and then we're going to insert our hook in the first stitch and do a single crochet because when you work front post stitches you want to work basically you want your front post stitch to fall right above or right below I should say the stitch that's directly above it as close to possible as you can. It doesn't always work out that way but so what we're going to do first is we're going to yarn over twice, then we're going to insert our hook to the right of the cluster, insert it in the back and out the front, grab your yarn, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two, yarn over and pull through all three. And there you've created your first front post half treble. And then normally what happens with these is you're going to turn it over. You can see that you skipped your stitch. This is your skipped stitch right here, which is directly behind the stitch you created that's in front. So you skip that stitch, we're going to single crochet in the next two and then this one falls pretty close above that cluster.  And then we repeat that so sometimes it's tricky to figure out which one is your actual stitch, oops sorry, stitch in which one's the skipped one. So this is our skipped stitch here. So we're going to go into the next one chain, I'm sorry single crochet and then single crochet that one and then yarn over twice, go in and around, pull up, there we've created three front post half trebles. And that's a really easy thing to do and it creates a cool little what I like to call like a tornado because it kind of looks like a tornado when you turn it the other way. All right, so if you have any questions about this stitch please leave them down in the comments below. The yarn I'm using here is, it's by Lion Brand, it's called Home, not Homeland, Heartland, sorry. And so that link will be down in the description below. And if you want to me to make a video for you, leave it in the comment below too. Thanks a lot guys, happy crocheting.