Okay, we are officially recording and what I want to do is now I want to dedicate the next however long to the end of this webinar, I want to answer your questions and I think Bow is here.  Can you hear me? Yo, what's up, buddy? Hey, what's up, man? How you feeling, man? Alive? Dude, I know you woke up like 15 minutes before the open overslept and you still killed it. Crazy, right? I'm just following the MIC process, man. So what I did today was this, guys, I literally woke up in a panic mode 10 minutes before the open 6.20 market time and that never happens, by the way, guys. That's very rare for Bow.  I was a back choice. The first thing I did is I jumped on MIC.  Right there, Alex and the other mods have already did a scan for me of the entire market.  So I kind of cheated today, pulled up the list of the tickers that they were watching and then I put it on my level 2 and that's what it was. Dude, that was instantaneously from this watch, just like, okay, I need OCGN and I need Ovid. Like, let me just say I woke up 10 minutes before open and I made enough for almost the lifetime. Don't worry, I'll give you a good deal. Okay, maybe with a good deal, I can afford it now. Just text my line. We'll figure it out, bro. Two and three, four, five, eight, five minutes. I mean, that doesn't mean it doesn't take much, guys, seriously. I mean, you trade well. Just think about this, 1,000 shares times 10 cents, 20 cents, that's 100, 200 bucks. But guys, look at the point, Bow almost never does this, but he has only 10 minutes before the open and this is all he needed to make a lot of money, man. I didn't know half of the difficulty, in my opinion, is knowing which stocks to trade and which stocks to avoid. For sure. And so, knowing the list of which ones that Alex is looking at, the moderators are looking at, I already know they've already figured out which ones to avoid and which one to focus on. Now, let me actually ask you a question, bro, because a lot of members ask me lately that are coming into the club, right, that aren't actually members yet and just a couple that are members that are brand new a couple days in and they go, Tosh, how are you guys finding all these stocks, man, or what should I be focusing on? Dude, this is my answer and tell me if you agree with me. I say, I'm like, pretend you're a new member, I'm like, bow, dude, literally between our watch list that Alex puts together every single day and when you have 2,000 members commentating for two hours to three, four hours before the open, I said, guys, if it's not on our radar in the main chart, which you cannot miss, it's so like in your face, you shouldn't be trading it because we're not looking at it. So those scanners that you're using are useless, dude, you don't need them.  Yep. And if you are long, a lot of these tickers, they, the stocks have already broken down.  Bro, we're in here, we're in here for three hours before the open talking about like the, the stocks you should be watching, let alone the watch list, like everything is predetermined. Yep. Everything is predefined guys. There's, there's nothing that you will be like guessing by the open. You have, we have everything that you need to be ready by the open bell, everything.  Hey man, I'm making, I'm trying to catch up to the lifetime. I don't need a discount soon. Yeah, you're going to need that discount. Nice man, nice 840 line. I love it. I love it. Shorts are losing the edge a little bit as a reversal hour comes to a close right now, but I know Bao somehow always milks another half hour. And then it's really not a match for shorts. So that, we, we talked about this earlier guys, there's windows of opportunity for longs and shorts. Uh, if you learn on your own, you would freaking lose all your money before figuring that out.  I shouldn't be trading short during the zombie hour. Or I should not even be going long during, um, times where the stock's broken down cause trading man, trading is like this. It's actually reverse of common sense.    I've ever bought this all the time. It's on sale. And so if you're shorting, people love to short stocks are up too much. Bullshit man.  And so when you do that, there's no one buying anymore.  Well, check, check this out on SOS, bro. So within MIC, you guys are going to actually really start learning of a time-based trading. These areas that I've kind of implemented, these kind of borders that I've put up, these are the short edge. You have the first hour or reversal hour. Dude, this is zombie hour.  If you're a zombie, bro, what time do you start zombie? Exactly at freaking 1030, bro. That's insane. Unbelievable, right? Unbelievable. Look, just draw a line, bro.  This is the edge for shorts. This is the edge for longs and then shorts have the edge again. Now shorts are diminishing their edge right now. As we get closer to the end of the day.  Here, man, I want to show you something for everybody to see it here. This is the power of knowledge, of knowing the zombie rule. Let me, let me highlight this and piece it to you. Which by the guy we've made, by the way, guys, we've made zombie hour and stuff sound really simple because look, it is simple, but it still took about 10 years to really, you know, look through the microscope and learn this for you guys. Like this is not just something that a chat room can come up with, man. This is, yeah, dude, look at that. Wow. Nice stop, bro. You knew exactly it was, it was time.  You got a higher low forming off the bottom. You have volume coming in and you have zombie hour coming in with a ramp above your side. Dude, it's perfect stop. It's a perfect stop. If you did not know this education, you would say, Hey, it's under VWOP, you know, it's broken. Wrong, dead meat.  I knew we're going to grab that dude. And then because this is on its way up, bow is doing what's called front side shorts require front side covers. So let's, let's zoom in on this a little bit. As you guys can see on the way up, dude, he's shorting on the ramp and the parabolic up into resistance, but he knows that he's got to cover this wash because it could keep going. This is the stuff we teach you every single week and our members are thriving on each side of the trend. They're either staying safe if they're shorting any kind of front side or smaller size and they're capitalizing on the back side because that's when you can theoretically or, you know, confidently hold a little bit longer because you have more of an edge. Does that make sense?  I mean, that's the stuff that you would never figure out by yourself because you wouldn't even know about the existence of a zombie rule and you keep wondering why, why, why are you getting screwed?  You were up, man.  They're up.  Yeah, it took, it took bow the algo crusher for 10 years to really iron this out, man. You guys don't think you can do this alone. Dude, you need to understand how hard this is without our team. We make it look easy, but that's because you have two decades of experience talking. This is not something we whipped up overnight, man. What do you, so about this guy goes zero, zero hundred says, would you flip long at this point on your stopout?  So this is what, what, what I should do if I'm a better trader.   Yep. So a lot of our members, if you are a long biased trader, man, start peeking around zombie hour as stocks, what we call hovering VWAP. Okay. We talk about that later, but, um, the hovering VWAP is a rock. Look at this. It's hovering, right? It's consolidated and peaked out. And now it's just an eyesight view.  They're about, look at this, like tightening of price action, bro. The proof is in the pudding, man. I mean, you have a low right here. You have a higher low right here, bro. This is forming and just tightening price action. Look at this. These are all lows. And then you get that squeeze and now it's off to the races, bro. Yep. This is stuff they say when the range starts to tighten consolidation. Watch out. And you guys could also watch the volume. I mean, look at the volume in the front hour. Like where does the look volume is if you want to pull up CO HN right now, CO Cohen, CO HN.  Look at the time. Well, what time is it? Yep. Reversal hour ended six minutes ago. It ended right here. Three o'clock. We have a three o'clock rule.  If you were shorting, I will draw a line. This is where we tell shorts to cut off. Look at the time. Look at the time to the hour, to the minute.  Right guys. This is where you lose the edges of short for the rest of the day.   I'm telling you guys, the problem, the problem, the reason that the reason they over the reason they overcomplicate, because they don't know. They think that everything's complicated.   And now the reversal thing. I mean, dude, you could just make a living all of these rules. Isn't that insane? Dude, people aren't going to believe us because it sounds so simple now. Literally, it sounds too simple. Like it's too good to be true. It's like, dude. Oh man, you guys have any questions? Guys, ask your questions right now. You got me about to answer them. Seriously. Get your questions in. I want to see a lot of questions. We have too much free stuff. There's no more questions. Yeah, they're like, who's giving out free lifetime today?  Oh, we gave away the rules for free. No, we need to start just doing like raffles every single week of like mugs and notebooks and lifetime giveaways. Seriously, we should auction the stuff. I don't think you'd find it cool with an auction.  I don't know, man. I don't know what I got to win. I would outbid him just so I don't have to go on that date. Just send one of your clones, man. We know you got like 10,000 clones floating around out there. When you love to trade, how do you walk away? John, when you realize that you lose money if you stay?  Dude, don't be too horny for a trade, man, because if you are, you're going to give it back, man. I can't tell you how many years I would smoke the morning and I'd give it back in a zombie hour because I didn't know it before Bao. Before I became friends with Bao many years ago, I didn't know these things, dude. Before MIC, these things were not talked about, dude. Bao brought old decades of information and taught everybody. Like, dude, there were days where I got smoked. Just keep trading because you think you can make more. David says he's always horny. I'm not going to ask questions, but I'll bet it's true.  Well, it's like the Mike Tyson quote, right?  Until you learn MIC's teachings, you're like, oh, now I know the real plan. Everybody thinks they can trade alone, dude. Everybody thinks they can trade alone until they lose half their account. And then they hit a bow and DMs. They're like, can you teach me for free? I just lost half my account. We're like, what? Teach you for free.  We talked about this in many of the training fish videos. Slow grind walk-ups avoid. Only hit the quick spikes parabolic. Exactly. I could not agree more, man. If it's slow grinding, trending, follow the trend. Follow the trend, man. But like what Bao did right here on SOS, right? Like this was a good example. When Bao hit, where was it? Right here. This was a bit of a parabolic move because it was such a walk-up from lows but into a really big resistance that, yeah, you can try this out.  The beauty of shorting the outer line is the ease of the short. I mean, that's top. If you short the outer line, the stop should be very obvious.  What Bao means by this, guys, I'll put it in visual form is if you are shorting anywhere in here, I mean, dude, your risk is defined. You know what I mean?  So if you're starting in here, you can give up to here or if you're starting from say here because you wanna use it, I mean, stop out right here, man. The risk is defined. So this is another secret about stopping out. How do you know when to stop out? Take a look at what the lines are. Where is the next major line? Yep.  It's gonna hit your max loss. You're gonna short there. I'm gonna cover there at the top. Before it gets there, I determine, okay, where's the next line? Oh fuck, it's way too far out. I'm gonna stop out. Hence line to line. If they're this far apart, you know, here, let me move one for you. If they're this far apart, what are you guys gonna scale from here to here? No, you're gonna cut here and then re-attack here if that's the line you wanna hit. But if a line is, you know, say right there, if Bao's shorting right here and he goes, well dude, there's a huge nether ceiling right here. He'll scale both. Does that make sense? That's line to line trading. Thing with the lines, you can draw a million lines.  Literally.  So the art of drawing a line is an art in itself as well as a science. So with experience, you'll know this is why the watch list is so important. The watch list could be reverse engineered to figure out how they draw the lines, how Alex draws the lines. Yep. And if you ever get confused, guys, mine is always putting it near outer top. So like these topping little mountains, quote unquote, or mountain ranges, whatever you wanna call it. But I like the previous tops is where I draw all my lines. Yep. And if you can sync that, if you can sync that with a whole and a half dollar number, you are awesome. The nipples. Wait, what's that, Bao? The nipples? Yeah, dude. Actually, there's two nipples right there, bro. As Joe said one time in his webinar, this is his left breast and this is his right breast and that's the mountain range, you know what I'm saying? That's pretty much it, man. That's pretty much it, dude. Welcome to training. Don't fight trend. Oh, HR's in the house and she is not happy. Sorry, Mom and Tay. So as you guys can see, man, trading is super mathematical. It's super confusing if you don't know what you're talking about, but it's so simple and you can eyeball most of it if you do know what you're talking about. They had the lines after a while, I just eyeball it, I've been so used to it, but you should start with the exercises and just draw the lines. So this is where paper training comes in and start practicing it, man. You can print this chart out, draw it by hand if you like or use a charting program, like, you know, the free ones that you use. Yep. And guys, like it's so much, like Bao said a long time ago to me that always rang true, right? Like it always stuck in my head. Trading is as much art as it is in the science. So like in the beginning, I was looking at like every single tick, I was like, oh my God, we're at draw the lines. But dude, after years and years of experience, now I just eyeball it. Like you said, now anytime I really zoom in and I'm like, okay, is this the correct line? I'm lining up with what I eyeballed to, well, okay, if I drew my line seven cents away from the whole half dollar number, I'm gonna raise it to the whole half dollar number because that's a humongous psychological price target. So if I had it, you know, it's $7.94. Oh, well, dude, I might as well use it. You know what I mean? Just remember, this is not an exact science.  Dude, the algos would rape us seriously. So knowing where the lines are is an approximation.  Cause I don't know where it's gonna go. So like my whole point is the scaling gives me an average I like. And also Bowser's a little superstitious. Less I size, more size than most people.  Exactly. Oh, I think we, okay, we've got a couple more questions. Let's see. Do you trust, oh no, we answered that. Been learning options and it is awesome for building small accounts, Joe Kelly bootcamp. Oh dude, awesome. Sing praises, man. If you guys are not in options yet, definitely check it out. Bal, what gives you confirmation at the open if you want to short out of the gate or wait a few minutes based on pre-market lines? So what gives you that confirmation to go immediately or wait? You know what, man, I don't need confirmation. I have so much trust in my lines. I've done the research pre-market to know where my lines are. And I put what's called a fantasy order out. And that's how I'm filling these so quickly at the open. Over time, you're gonna have confidence in your system.  So what happens is this, if you missed that line, you're gonna end up chasing.  And so after a certain times of you doing that, you say, wow, I can put the order out. It's really scary though, unless you trust it. So what you do is you size down. What's the worst that could happen?  The fear people have is to blow up an account.   So what I do is I put out some starter positions of fantasy orders. So when they hit, I look at it and I determine, should I add more or not? Dude, and again, it's not rocket science. This is how you protect your accounts, guys. And this is how you trust. So if you find yourself being gun shy or whatever, set your fantasies and then set them smaller size, if you're obviously over VWOP and this is gonna be the best way to go, but so much of this game requires, what Val just said, it requires trust. He's been doing this so long, he doesn't even have to think about anymore. It's a reaction, it's a reflex, because it's so ingrained. He's like, dude, I've seen this a hundred times work. Look, three times out of, a hundred times, it's not gonna work, but man, that 97% win rate or whatever it is, but he has a lot of trust in it. I call it trading as a reflex. After a while it becomes like a reflex.   Dude, when your girlfriend comes in in a new dress and she says, do I look fat in this? What's your reflex, dude? Hell no, honey, of course not. You look skinnier than ever. It's like, you learn things over the years, man.  Stop out, take a stop. Take this, that's a max loss, bro. You are stopped out. Do I look fat? Don't do that.  That's it for you. That's why I love wearing a mask. It's like COVID's over, why you have a mask? It's like a laugh. Because I don't want her to see my facial reactions. Okay, one more question for you about OCGN topped out a pre-market highlight today. They could trigger stops for shorts right above that, but they did not, it's surprising, OCGN. Yeah, what's your question? Well, I think his question was, it topped out at this line. They didn't do the sweep of the market orders, is anybody saying? I'm gonna show you what I did in the morning. So once again, I woke up late guys. Man, down to the penny too. Look at that double top right there. Look at that bottom cover. Yo, look at that, geez. So I had so much trust in the outer line, which is the 14 line, I put it up there. Boom, it worked.  Not to focus too much on that first outside of this, dude. When, bro, this was the expected move I tell everyone to take in the morning. Guys, this was the broken stock when SLGG was the main runner of the day making new highs, this was gonna fail the view of, this was the guaranteed expected layup. Now, when SL...  Look at this, it ran from 1150 to 14 bucks. We're thinking it's gonna happen. It has to profit take. Profit taking has to happen. 90% of the time, this setup works.  When it comes down, it's gonna come down hard like this. Yeah. And I'm very surprised I didn't go back up higher. I didn't do research on this much, but that's why you saw me covering around VWOP. I always cover some around VWOP because this is way too early. If they reclaim VWOP, they could break 14 bucks and you're stuck. It's gonna limit order up. And so let's take a look at the float OCDA. So this is how I determined this. So OCDA to float was huge. So okay, so that's why there was, I wasn't scared. If this was a $4 million float, I would not have done this.  This is a 156 million share float. It's huge, it's huge. You see, so it's all context guys. People is not always the same. You always have to look at a few things. Okay, look at the VWOP. Look at the float. Float was gonna determine whether I even get into this play. I don't touch a lot of these thoughts and it's 4 million float. Cause this would not work on a 4 million float. I'm telling you right now, a pump chat room will break $14. It'll be $17 in the heartbeat. Yep. But Bao's right, man. Look at this long journey from Lowe's guys. Without any dips, that's also another guide for you. Without really many dips. And you know, it comes up from 1140 up to 14, bro. This is a humongous wall of resistance. And we always talk about size down, widen your stops.  So the first one was a small VWOP area. So you know as I entered the VWOP, but I covered it right away at the bottom. And then I'm gonna add a little higher. So that cover helped, you know. Look at where I covered. I covered at the bottom of the channel. So I shorted first at the VWOP, covered at the bottom of the channel.  See that guys? And look, they're not always gonna sweep borders, right? Like it's not always gonna make it, you know, eight cents over and then stop. Not always, sometimes it's to the actual cent. Like it happens all the time. Okay, a couple more questions. Let's catch up. Let's see. Two YouTube questions. Comment on TRXC failure today, Bao.  Yeah, dude, this was a weird one, bro. Some stocks, it just doesn't behave. So I had major foam on this.   I'm gonna show you. This is not a good trade, guys. I'm upgrade on the stock though, but it basically small size, scaling saved me. I was patient to wait. There was really no risk for me to get blown out because my average wasn't that bad and I was using smaller size. That's why you saw that. When you see that many blows, it means I scaled down. Well, and obviously this thing is not making moves from 11 to 15. This is very different range, as you guys can see, which I'm sure Bao incorporated into his scales. And the flow is 98 million shares. So I'm in danger of getting blown away. Huge flow. So I'm telling you, man, it's all the flow size. When you take a look at how you blow up the accounts on adding man and adding is usually on low flows.   Yeah, this was a weird one, Bao. This was one of those ones that just randomly like almost doesn't conform to charts and it does some weird action on its own. But it was weird, man. Every now and then you get kind of like an outlier. Yeah, this is weird. Do you use a hard stop or a mental stop? We use hard stops, guys. Hard stops across the board. In the beginning, you always use a hard stop. There's only certain situations you don't. It's when you size too much. And at that level, you're advanced.  We're supposed to know. But start with the habit of using hard stops. The moment you start using hard stop, you will use it for the rest of your career. The problem is in the beginning, I had so much misinformation out there. The misinformation is this. Do not use the hard stop.    Guaranteed that.  These guys are like, I have 500 shares. I got stopped on the top. And they were looking for me, man. Really? They were looking for me. So this is why I created a video called How to Properly Take a Stop Lost, Guys. It's in the member ballot library.  I do not stop out at the herd areas. I am actually doing the reverse of the herd.  I'm the guy shorting it while you're covering it. 100% vows filling your covers. Yep.  No, thank you. It's a transfer of ownership of those shares. Hey, you know what? I might as well just give you my Venmo account. Just Venmo me. Yo, I take cash up. I take Venmo. You can sell us.   That's our favorite steakhouse is whatever you want. Seriously, dude, when I see that shaggle, man, that's a bad way to ever stop down. Yo, David Bobby just said it best. I can't trust myself with mental stops. Dude, I can't either. I need to set a hard time. I can't trust myself.  Bro, because a little bit more and then a little bit more becomes a lot more. You're in the headlights.  I'll give you an example. K-B-I-O. K-B-I-O. Oh my god.  Very little. 15,000, 20,000 shares or something like that. A $3 stock, right? I was like, how much can you go? So next thing you know, fucking, thank god I was around after hours. After hours, there's no hard stops, guys.    I don't know, I'm telling you, man, if I didn't do this, so I covered 15,000 shares. I had 5,000 shares left. So I covered 15,000 shares at five bucks.    So you know where the stock ended up in 10 minutes, $20. Guys lost millions. Dude, how many times have you ever been, now, and I'm not talking about $80,000, I'm not talking about 300 grand. How many times have you guys been in that position? I'll bet all of you have at least been a deer in the headlights once or twice. That was commentary was hysterical, because dude, I'm laughing at that, because that was me for years, bro. I'd be like, how far can it go?  Like, dude, I see so many people blow up because they're like, how far can it go? I'm gonna hold it. How far can it go? How far can it go?  I cannot afford to lose more than $70,000. And that's why I'm here today teaching you still. Dude, you imagine I covered around $6 for a $70,000 loss and hit $20? That would've been... Dude, that's a lot of cheese. That is a lot of cheese.  See, well, that experience is basically my golf game by like hole three.  Some guys don't stop out to the 18th hole, man.   And you know what I'm saying?   Well, and I think it suits, when it comes to stops guys, I think stops are very much implemented as per your emotional level. Look, dude, me and Bauer are very emotional people. I don't know about David Bobby, maybe he's a very emotional guy, but guys, unless you're a rock, unless you're a steady hand, I would never recommend not using hard stops.  I'm an emotional guy. I need the hard stop. It's just who I am.  There you go. That's what I'm saying, bro. That's what I'm saying. I need a hug too, when I'm freaking getting stopped out.  Make it a habit. Make it a habit. And when they say habits, you know, formed in like 21 days, all you have to do is if you're not doing them right now is implement them for 21 days. Now it'll just be a reaction. Now every trade you do will have a hard stop. Whether you make money on it or whether you don't. Yes, sir. Where we at? Let's catch up, guys. We'll do a little bit more. We've got a little bit more time. Can you comment about SLGG? It was kind of tricky today. Keep talking, because I need to cover this SOS. I didn't know. I'm sick of it. All right, I love it. Let me close it. I'll just do it. I'll comment on those 50s.  So I covered a third. I'm gonna scale down to 790s. Let's see what he's doing. Let's see what he's doing. This is a great trade. I was keeping the traditional live, baby. This live trading. Hey, Mac, I'm making some money while I'm giving free advice away. I'll take Cash App or a Morton's gift card. Lapdance. No, it's, it's, it's, it's, you've got to be a little bit of a question. A little bit of a question. A little bit of a question. What's the question again?  It was a SLGG. The guy said SLGD was kind of weird today. Can we comment upon the action of what it was doing? I don't think it was that weird to be honest, but here, here is my SLGG. Let me see.    They covered the plomb.   It was a typo. Oh, I see. Yeah, I see it. So there's nothing, it was weird in the aspect it spiked up and spiked straight back down. This was the only weird part. Nothing weird about that because it happens, man.  And that's where fantasy orders work. If I had properly planned this, like I usually do like an hour before the open, I would have put in my fantasy order and you would have saw a top tick at 8.40. Well, and like, here's the thing, guys. It's not that weird because it was the hot chick in the morning while every other things were kind of breaking down or putting in tops or breaking under view up heavily. Until it didn't, until it just put it in top and then it cracked under view up. He could have hit bounces. And then dude, I respect zombie hour. Look at this, look at this, look at this. Hold on, hold mic drop, dude.  And then hold on, hold on. We're coming back to reversal hour, right? Here's reversal hour. When did things start breaking down? Boom, dude, mic drop. This is not rocket science, guys. You guys got to learn the fundamentals of a chart. Dude, like, why aren't you guys joining in my seat? Why aren't you guys joining in my seat?  That's exactly right. We're not, you know what? I'm gonna maybe tell Alex, we're not gonna post this one public. Yeah, okay. Nah. This is too good, man. This is too good. We are too nice. We are too nice. We are way too nice. You know what though? The reason why we can share some of this shit for free, dude, which this is really a lot of our process, is because you know what, man? Lazy guys are still not gonna watch it because they think free doesn't have value. And that's the problem. So here's an example of KMPH, if that's the order. Oh, it's way too fast. If I did not put it in, it wouldn't have rescued. Oh, let's take a look. MPH.  What order? Right here. Now I was using this line right here in this previous top. Yup, that's what I did. Do you get a top right here? You got three tops in this line. Do you guys see what we're looking at now? So when he shorts right here, what do you think he's looking at? There's been three tops set in this line. And let's take it a step further, 18 line. See this? 18, a whole and a half dollar. So you can basically do that. That's all you gotta do. Huge resistance right there. Bowl caught a fantasy order. Here's a zoom bin, you'll see it. Boom, not rocket science.  Great job, man. Fantasy orders. Fantasy orders, baby. I made $1.50. Enough for an annual.  Just text my line. Enough to pay the pumpers' chat room that's helping me. If you're lucky, maybe, maybe, just maybe, I'll give you a discount on the accelerator too. I'll throw you like a bundle deal. New trader here. I learned more in three mornings with the main trading channel than I did in four months of trying to learn on my own.  I have to pin this. Three days. In the main trading room, he learned more than four months of him trying to do it on his own. Peter T. I have no idea who this guy is. He's brand new. You're awesome. That is a very common comment in here, man. It really is. Meaning, that's what a lot of traders say. That's a great thing, right? We're providing a lot of value to our members.  It's actually not intuitive. It's the opposite of it. It's counter-intuitive. Yeah, man.  I mean, I'm like putting, I am like, it's basically, I'm gonna say this.    There's not average down at all. Don't buy low, buy high.   I should just buy one regular price shirt and wore it all the time. You just buy it because you think it's a good deal. Then you're like, wow, this really was on sale. Yeah.  Guys, this isn't, you're not buying Coca-Cola where if it dips, that's truly a company on sale because they own 10,000 enterprises.  No, dude. This is not a dividend-paying stock. This is not investing. So it's 330 and I just canceled all my open doors. I forgot.  Okay, housekeeping, whatever you wanna call it. Bring the maids in, man. These guys will come back.   I forgot I canceled this order. Yep. Happy Gilmore did well swinging hard. Well, yeah, that's a movie. Let's see, how do you distinguish between waiting for confirmation on a move versus chasing the move? This should be obvious. Yeah, I was gonna say, man, there's, I mean, that's pretty obvious, man. Anticipation or, you know. I mean, you can chase after it confirms. So that's the thing. People, the word chasing a stock, sometimes it gets a bad connotation, but that's, there are certain situations where chasing is okay when it breaks a certain major resistance.  I was like, fuck, I'm gonna chase a little bit and then add on each pop. Well, what about SLGG today? When you finally let it top out and it absolutely slammed under VWAP, it's a little bit of a chase, but this pop right here would have been solid, man, honestly.   Cause at the end of the day, guys, to be honest, I don't know what the stock's gonna do 100% of the time. You know, most of the time that I'm fucking, I'm guessing all the time, right? Everyone said everything's a guess. And so, but I'm guessing with the higher probability.   So it's okay to do what I tell you not to do.  Yeah, let's not gloss over that, dude. That's huge thing about it, guys. You're at the blackjack table and you have two kings.  The edge is in your favor. There's no different in stock trading. Stock trading is the only time where you can see your hand first and then bet however you want. See your hand first. That's waiting for confirmation.  Dude, seriously, man?   Dude, that is so well said. I can't even stand it, seriously. That's the new analogy now, use it. Just a piece of mind, man. And even if you didn't use the hard stop, it's like, I mean, or at least you didn't need it in your trade, but you used it, it takes stress off your mind. I'm telling you, man.  Is that funny? You do not have to wait to get stopped out.  But, Belle, what you're saying is, though, because that hard stop's in there, bro, the stress is all gone. Oh, dude, the stress is there. So I'm actually, a lot of times, guys, I am stopping out before the hard stop hits. Right? Insurance policy.    But why am I waiting over VWOP? VWOP's another 20 cents away. That's a lot of money. Yup, especially if you're sized, you know, pretty deep, look what time it is, man. This is totally an expected move based on the time we're in. Completely. What stock is that? Completely, look at that. Which one? What are you looking at right now? Oh, I'm looking at SOS right now. Okay, it shot up, yeah. I'm saying, dude, this is a totally expected move based on the time of the day, like the last time Belle traded it where he covered it. That's why I canceled my open orders, and that's why I covered it. Remember, I showed you the cover? Yup, look at the time, guys. 330 market time is when you just don't short anymore. And if you do, you better be going in very soft and at resistance. Yup, you have got to get... But I wouldn't even recommend it. The last half hour of the day, man, you just don't short, bro. Like, it's not worth it. That's what we said, man.  Yeah, David Bobby warned all of us.  Yup, yup. Slept me with a log in. I think the last time we did this webinar, I was like still trading after hours. I didn't even know it was after hours. Yeah, Belle didn't even... Dude, Belle loses track of time.  He's like, I didn't even know. I do it for education. It's tax deductible, isn't it? Do I lose? Dude, I don't think I've ever seen anybody more in love with anything in life than Belle is with trading, bro. He just loses time because he loves it so much. I think there's other things I like more, but we can't publicly speak about it. Yeah, our HR department is present at the moment. But if I can combine it, like Mike Tyson. Let me show you. No, wait, this is the second one. Oh man. All right. Let's see. A couple more questions, guys. A couple more questions and we'll wrap this up. So it's just, yep. So it's just flip counterintuitive, just like golf, exactly.  Buy low, sell high, trading is easy. Ha, ha, ha. Okay guys, any closing questions? Is that too dirty? Raise your hand if you've done this before. I'm just kidding. Don't raise your hand. Keep it PG. Oh man. Man, I didn't like Tyson in the back. Joe, Joe said he'd be divorced, yet he's got a trading setup in his master bedroom. Joe, what are you talking about, bro? Honey, come back to bed. Wait, I'm getting squeezed.  Sorry, honey. I can't give you attention.  That's why I want a guy with a stock chart tattoo. Yep. Girls trade too, man. I'm telling you, it goes both ways. It goes both ways. I love this one. That is a really good one. He shades the trading. Bring a bow in there, dude. Do what he does.  Girls comes about, poor man, leave this room there.  I thought it was some dungeon. Nope. What's on your top right corner, porno? Every time I see this photo, I'm like, what is the PLB? When I first met Tao, I was like, why you got all these screens for? He's like, I don't know, not trading. All right. Is it true if you use a stop range market? I'm sorry. If you use a stop range, market makers won't see it. I actually don't know the answer to that question. That's a Joe Kelly question. Who gets a fuck? They can see it.  That's false. Or is explicitly put down to say, who gives a fuck? You stop chasing conspiracy theories.   Yo, let's get this guy with five shares, bro. We've got to get him. These conspiracy guys. Hey, man. Guys, this may be some of the most we've ever actually in this webinar talked about price action in M. I. C. Process and keeping it simple. If you watch this today, you should probably watch this about three more times. Yeah. I kind of like this format. We, I kind of like this format. We can do like a few chart reviews and stuff. Yeah. I like this man a lot. Yeah. I kind of like this just give the, the guys on YouTube who is not in M. I. C.  And that's, and that's the thing that I just said it, dude. If you guys got value today, dude, you have no, you have no idea how much more value you're going to get if you actually become a man. This was nothing, bro. Like if you learn something today, this was nothing compared to what you're going to learn. Longest treat. So this is a funny story. The longest treat.   And so I'm like, must be the pajamas. So I'm like, I'm never going to wash these pajamas until I have a red day. It was three and a half months. The end of the three half months.   So it's the one year. I think though I had one calendar year where I had maybe 12 days of losses. That's it. Oh my God. The entire year. 252 days trading calendar. 12 losses. Dude, that's insane. Oh my God. That's freaking legendary. So that's basically one loss a month. And the losses are small. Oh my God. That's freaking insane, bro. It's possible, man. I mean, dude, just take a look at some of the member streets.  A whole month, two months. It's possible guys. Dude, anybody who's still having trouble, anybody that's still unprofitable, either you haven't joined MIC to actually learn how to trade or guys, you're not, you're overthinking everything. You're not keeping it simple. Joe, so it means you lost your Virginia at 16. Damn bro. My longest streak without sex was 16 years. That's nothing. Fuck. Yeah. Once he got married at 14, man. It was just, I'm Buddhist. So my longest streak is like 2000 years as we incarnated. Anyways. How many kids you at now, Joe? Yeah. Joe made up for lost time, man. Just look at the proof is in the pudding. He's got 10 kids. Yeah. I understand Joe's demented humor. Joe is demented as hell. That is illegal in most states except the states that Joe visited. Yo flash. Nice man. We did the Arizona meetup dude. Like a year ago, bro. This is phenomenal. Hey flash. Look at this.  Having a month streak was unheard of.  I've never seen so many guys with freaking a solid month of no losses. Bro, how many of these testimonials do we get a day? Like we get like one of these a day now. Hey flash, why aren't you posting this to after hours so that I can post this online? You guys don't be afraid, man. This is huge motivation guys. Flash has been around since the beginning. Of M.I.C. I remember the very first days, man. He was there helping us dude. He came to he came to one of the bell. He came to one of the Arizona meetups dude. Like a year ago, bro. I remember flash dude. This is awesome man. Yeah man. He was in San Jose. We were drinking together. Hey man. I'm glad that things are doing well. Flash. No, yeah, bro. You're you're you're. I remember where he came from man.  Dude started from the bottom. Now we're here. Flash. Yeah. Mike flash. I just want to give a. You can just give like five minute blurb on your progress or we can do that. Let it let me know if you give me a thumbs up if you want to come on man. I can I can allow you to talk. Because this is phenomenal man. He's just a little shy.  So I don't blame you but dude if you want to come on man. Give me a thumbs up. I mean or in the next Instagram live. I mean this is phenomenal man because you were there from the beginning. This is the thing people understand. You know he was there from the beginning. I seen his progress from the beginning. And I know like you know his inconsistency up and down. And now I'm looking at this like holy crap. That's amazing man. Yeah dude flash. I want to know what flash. I want to you get on and tell tell people like what you did differently. Now to get to these results versus when you just started. I mean that's the that's the main thing. Oh he said he's in a meeting today but dude flash. Let's try to get you on to the Instagram live. Next Tuesday. Next Tuesday. We want people to hear the journey of people who like who have started. Dude I mean for lack of a better word started from the bottom. Now they're on top dude like like what was the journey. What did it look like for you like I want. Yeah I want everybody to know like the why. Everybody has this aha moment guys. Yep.  I figured it out. That was the one meme that you always post. And you're like the guy I've been blaming for all the time. And it turns out it's me and it's the guy looking in the mirror.   Like damn dude I was digging my own way. I mean there's much to this video that I'm about to post.  Oh man what a good webinar today about this is dude we I feel like there was a final line between teaching too much but I'm telling you guys you have no idea man if you become a member you're gonna get 100 times the value you got today. And this was a lot of value man this was a lot of value. Yeah we just want people to do well guys seriously we make money already. Some of these guys that's why we don't afraid to give out secrets and stuff right.  Or they're gonna do live trading videos now after been trading for a week. Hey don't say anything because they're in here listening right now. So hey what's up guys.  Hey give us a coupon code type in the coupon code.  Give me a code man. Free M.I.C. and return for free. That will get on the annual membership just give them a nice code. How about an affiliate code.  Come on man. I gotta make 20% out of that. I gotta make 20% bro. I gotta make 20% that's hysterical. Quit bro cool. That's good Joe. Guys this was a fantastic webinar man. This is a good one guys. Bro arguably this is the best webinar I think now and I have ever done honestly. This week is the best webinar. If you guys last time on this week.  There is so much opportunity and so much volatility in the markets guys right now. If you are not a trader right now you're shooting yourself on the foot. If you're a trader who's not in M.I.C. You're double shooting yourself on the foot because do not build bad habits. While we are in the hottest market we've ever been in that I can ever recall in seven years. This is endless opportunity every day.  I can't actually do this alone. Let me get help. And then in the getting of the help which I'll give you a nice discount wink wink but here's the thing. You are going to learn good habits from the start and you're going to get your goals 3,000 times quicker than the guy that is still getting out of a year or three years of bad habits.   Hopefully I'll catch you next week man with a corn dog or anything that you need and do we'll do it all over again. I'll see you guys back in after hours after hours guys right here. This is where we go. This is where the fun is and dude now let's go post memes post P&L shout out Matt Moro for 2300 today.  We want to see it post your progress. All right guys catch you next week man. See you.


seated. Chancellor Dixon, with your permission, I declare our 166th commencement convocation open. Chancellor Dixon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, these are our honorees of the hour. Please join me in saluting them. In addition to celebrating our graduates today, we're proud to pay special tribute to Chancellor Thomas Conway on his retirement from Elizabeth City State University and for his 45 years of distinguished service to the University of the North Carolina system. Please join me in saluting Chancellor Conway. Members, junior pastor of Walton Grove AME Zion Church of Hopsville, North Carolina will now come forward to deliver the invocation. Let us humble our hearts as we submit our requests and supplications with Thanksgiving. Most holy and all-wise God our Heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. You who are known by many names and heard in many voices, we invoke your presence on this day as we celebrate the accomplishments of those who will receive diplomas and other academic recognitions, of those who will begin new careers and chapters in their lives on this, the 166th commencement ceremony of this prestigious institution. We ask your blessings upon them in the name of Jesus. Heavenly Father, we recognize that there are students here today who have traveled through the academic disappointments and failures of the avenues of Elizabeth City University and have been humbled with life failures. They are those who have struggled and have arrived here today battered and bruised. Yet we ask, oh God, that you make each person mindful of what they have accomplished. Help these fine graduates recognize their inadequacies and acknowledge your sufficiency. Give them strength, patience and the determination required to become successful in all of their endeavors according to your will. And if they falter in their undertakings, give them a renewed hope and courage, consecrated in humility to try again. And as they press forward, steady their uncertain steps while guiding them towards the mark to higher ground. Bless those who have supported them in their work, in the classroom, at home and along the way. Oh Father, we pray that you will continue to give insight to the professors who gave of themselves in ways that only can be understood with the passage of time. We pray for the families who have sacrificed much, for the friends who learned from them and who taught them as only peers can. We ask special blessings upon the leadership and all those associated with this great historical institution of higher learning. As we celebrate accomplishment and transition, gracious Father, we implore you to restore your guardian hand and your protective providence towards us today as we earnestly seek your grace, your peace and your wisdom. These and all other petitions we ask in your precious name, your son Jesus, amen. Celebrance, today is your day. I'm going to ask for a suspension of protocol for just a second. I would like all the graduates to stand. Accomplishments today, but before, before we can get started, there's some business we need to take care of. I'd like for you to turn and face your faculty and staff. They are the ones that have poured into you over the last few years.  They are in large part responsible for your success today. Please celebrate them with a round of applause. Now, I want you to do what you will do naturally. That's find your people in this crowd and give them the things they deserve. One last piece of business, one last piece of business, and I'm going to ask the audience to work with us on this. Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I want you to join me in wishing every mother in the audience a happy Mother's Day. And you may be seated. We had to burn up some of that energy. Distinguished platform guests and graduates, good morning and welcome to Elizabeth City State University 166 Commencement Ceremony. Thank you for your kind acknowledgement of my retirement. I am greatly appreciative of the sentiment and I'm optimistic about the future of Elizabeth City State University. As we celebrate a period of growth and transition, our graduates, for our graduates, we also look forward to the university's next chapter. Under the leadership of the interim chancellor, Kerry G. Dixon. She is well prepared and I am certain the university is in good hands. I have to say, I walked in this morning behind a sign that says, the best is yet to come. Now, I ask you to join me to join us in making this ceremony a memorable occasion for our graduates and their families. At this time, I am pleased to introduce Bishop Kim Brown, chairman of the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, who will extend the welcome. He will be followed with greetings from Mr. Randall Ramsey, Board of Governors member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, the Honorable Betty Parker, Mayor of the City of Elizabeth City, and Ms. Brittany Lam, President of the Elizabeth City State University Student Government. Not long ago, family was sharing at commencement. The son who had traveled the journey of academic progress was taking a photograph with his father. The mother had them outside of the hall in which the commencement was taking place. Dressed in his cap and gown, he stood with his back straight, his head high, and the mother leaned over to him and said, make the picture look natural. Put your arm around your father. The father responded to his wife, well, if we want to make the picture look natural, he needs to put his hand in my pocket because that's where it's been for four years. So today, we celebrate that there are parents all around this room who are finally grateful that your hands are coming out of their pockets. President Spelling's Chancellor Conway, Dr. Dixon, platform participants, esteemed faculty, family, friends, and especially the class of 2018, good morning. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am proud to welcome you to the historic River City and the hallowed grounds of Hugh Kale's dream. For 127 years ago, the carriage and conviction of Representative Kale birthed an institution of academic preparation that today is still leaving a mark that will never be erased. To the class of 2018, I find it hard and unbelievable to recognize today that I sat where you sit 34 years ago. What a difference 34 years can make. Today, one of the largest hospitality companies in our nation is Airbnb, but they own no hotels. One of the largest transportation companies in our nation is Uber, but they own no vehicles. Now one of the largest retailers in the world is Amazon, but they own no stores. And the largest movie distributor now is Netflix, but they own no studios or theaters. That reminds us that you have the opportunity to create and shape the world by dreaming beyond the restrictions of the normal. It is now your turn to pick up the pen of this great university and continue to write not history, but her story. To this class of scholars today, it's your moment. Just as many of you left home a few years ago to begin this journey, today you leave Elizabeth City State University to begin the next chapter of your life. Make Elizabeth City proud, repay her for her gift of education by living out her standards and making the world take notice that you are walking with confidence and that you are walking with new swag wherever you go. Please remember, you represent Viking pride, Viking pride, Viking pride. Good morning and welcome. Good morning. I'll tell you, we got an enthusiastic crowd here today. How about it, parents? My name is Randy Ramsey, and on behalf of the North Carolina University System Board of Governors and our President, Margaret Spelling, so you'll hear from soon, it is my pleasure to bring greetings today to the graduates, to their families, to the universities distinguished faculty and staff, to the alumni, Chairman Brown, members of the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Conway, Interim Chancellor Dixon and members of the platform party. Let me begin by expressing my sincere thanks to Chancellor Conway. How about another round of applause for him please? Thank you. Chancellor Conway is a proud product of the University of North Carolina system and he's devoted his life's work to it. He has worked steadfast to transform Elizabeth City State University so that it is ready for the future. Thank you Chancellor Conway for all you've done and we wish you well in the future. Also let me recognize Chancellor, Interim Chancellor Kerry Dixon, who is also a product of the University of North Carolina system just like these graduates. Dr. Dixon is off to a great start as a leader and we're excited to see what she can do. She's a passionate advocate for this great university and there's no doubt with her leadership, Elizabeth City State University will succeed in delivering on these promises to future generations to come. Finally graduates, congratulations.  The experiences you've learned during your time in this fine institution will resonate throughout your entire life. Your education, Elizabeth City State University has provided you your knowledge and skills you'll need to achieve success in these ever-changing and complex times. To the spring of 2018, graduate in class again and congratulations. Go forth and be prosperous. Good morning. As a proud graduate of Elizabeth City State University, as a native of Elizabeth City and now as the first woman to become mayor of Elizabeth City, thank you. It gives me incomparable pleasure to bring greetings on behalf of my hometown, the harbor of hospitality. I salute this graduating class for all of your successes thus far, but oftentimes I think to myself, thank you professor slash state representative Hugh Kale who founded this great institution in 1891 who set the tone and set the setting so that we could be where we are now as ECSU graduates. It had to start somewhere and it started with him in 1891. So we want to think about that as we go out into the world and make our way.  I hope that each one of you will continue to work toward fulfilling your dreams with the realization that sometimes what may appear to be impossible may actually be achievable.  Again, welcome parents, relatives and friends to the Elizabeth City arena and please don't hesitate to come back for a visit or even to live. Thank you very much and have a super blessed day. Good morning. I did on the significance of this morning's commencement exercises. I recognize that our graduates are transitioning from the university experience to commence the next phase of life. And as with any introductory period, especially in the academic setting, students enter the classroom and are actually surprised that there is going to be a lesson on the first day of class. But fear not, this morning's lesson will be brief. President Spellings, Chancellor Conway, Interim Chancellor Dixon, platform participants, faculty and staff, students, alumni, guests and the graduating class of 2018. As entrusted to me by the student body of Elizabeth City State University, I greet you with the syllabus of life. Do not forsake her and she will protect you. Love her and she will watch over you. Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you wisdom with discipline. Throughout the university experience, our soon-to-be graduates have acquired the knowledge needed for professional success. However, the value of their degree lies in that which the diploma does not state. See, knowledge presents the protocol for personal growth. Wisdom guides the process of pursuing purpose. If I may present it another way, knowledge is the vehicle that affords you the opportunity to reach a desired destination in life. Wisdom is the map that guides you on this journey of purpose. You see, wisdom is the weapon used to cut through the opposition's encounter in life, therefore widening the path of success. Discipline is the defense against the deceptions that lead to destruction. Do not forsake wisdom and she will protect you. Love wisdom and she will watch over you.  Wisdom with discipline. Graduates and guests, as you transition through life's experiences, I challenge you to seek wisdom and practice discipline. See, getting wisdom is the wisest thing that you can actually do. And for whatever else you do, develop good judgment. It has been an honor and a privilege serving as your student body president. I wish you all much success in your future endeavors. Congratulations once again to the class of 2018. Thank you. We will now be favored with a selection, with a selection, I shall wear crown by the university choir under the direction of Dr. Walter Swan and accompanied by Mr. Danny Tate. Graduates, congratulations. You've gone through many obstacles. You've gone through many achievements to get to where you are today.  So I'm going to encourage you and hopefully these words can stay with you throughout the rest of your lives. To wear your crown with dignity and respect and most of all, integrity for your disciplines, for your families and for yourselves. Pastor, I know sometimes people get nervous when they when they have to appear and they leave their choirs at home, but we got you covered here. It is my honor at this point to introduce Margaret Spellings, President of the University of North Carolina System. Since arriving in North Carolina, President Spellings has led the state's public university into a new era of performance and accountability guided by a strategic plan that is improving graduation rates, making college more affordable and advancing the public good. She came to the job with a wealth of experience in public policy at every level, having served as U.S. Secretary of Education and White House Domestic Policy Advisor under President George W. Bush. She is a national leader in the movement for greater accountability for schools and universities, focusing on student outcomes as a way to improve economic mobility. In North Carolina, she has forged closer ties between the university and the state's community colleges, public schools and business community. As she works toward the future, when all works toward a future when all North Carolinians can pursue educational opportunities beyond high school, Margaret Spellings as President of the University of North Carolina System is a leader four times like these. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium Margaret Spellings, President of the University of North Carolina System. Thank you, Thomas. What an honor to be on the stage with you today on this momentous occasion. We talk a lot about public service, but Thomas Conway has lived it. His service is one of the best examples of what it likes to truly give to your state and to extend the promise of education. And he's inspired so many people in this state, including me. Thank you, Thomas, for your service. Forty-five years is a long time to serve this university in this state, and two and a half as chancellor. His legacy is and will continue to be profound, and he has set this place up for an incredible future ahead. And you're leaving it in very good hands. I'm grateful to Interim Chancellor Kerry Dixon for her leadership. I want to thank the members of the Board of Trustees, thank Board of Governors member Randy Ramsey, Mayor, thank you for being here, all the platform guests, and can we give acknowledgement to that incredible music once again. The possibilities before us are endless, especially for you graduates. We're thrilled with the extraordinary commitment from the legislature that they've made through the NC Promise program that has given such an energy on this campus. Funded fueling the prospects and talents of students and graduates here today. This is my seventh visit to this campus, feeling that energy, but I must say I'll never forget my first trip. It was a little more than two years ago, and I had the privilege of joining Chancellor Conway for a sneak preview of the exhibit on ECSU's history at the Museum of the Alboromoral. There were photographs and documents from the state archives along with commencement programs and Founders Day proclamations from decades past. Some of the most striking material was loaned or donated by alumni eager to tell their story of this place in their own voices, stories of what this place has meant to them. So I want each of you to be sure to save your graduation selfies and congratulatory text messages from family and friends, because they might end up in a museum as you all celebrate your 150th birthday. What was clear to me then, and as I was first introduced to ECSU and what is absolutely crystal clear now, is that the identity and history of this institution is closely tied to this town, this region, and what it means to be an HBCU today. I mention this because context matters and history matters. We cannot ignore the world in which we live and we cannot be ignorant of the way the world was, but we get to decide how to respond. Whether we'll meet the challenges of our day with despair or determination, or maybe both, we get to decide what causes deserve our energy and attention, what higher callings we will serve, what we hope to preserve, and what we intend to change. We hear a lot of rhetoric today about our unsettled times, about the rapid changes in our economy and in our public life. As a university president, I spend plenty of time talking about change and adaptation and the need to better prepare for an evolving world. And of course, that's all true. You grew up in an economy transformed by trade, technology, and a financial crisis, and you're coping with some of the most sweeping changes in human communication since the invention of the printing press. And you've seen politics torn between inspiration and ugliness. It's enough to make anybody anxious about the future, but we're here today celebrating the power and potential of what I believe is the antidote to those challenges. And that is education. When I attended the University of Houston some years ago, I wasn't captivated or blown away by my time there. I wanted to get out into the real world and start life in earnest. But when I began working in state politics and policy, I found myself drawn right back to education. It seemed that every policy issue that mattered had its solution rooted in better educating our people. I was hooked. And I began a route that led me to dedicate my career to expanding educational access, getting more students of high quality education, reducing disparities, and most of all rejecting what my former boss used to call the soft bigotry of low expectations. I've long believed that a good education should be an option to everyone that wants it. And we should encourage people from every background to reach higher than they may have thought possible. But for all of the thought and effort that people like me, Dr. Conway and Dr. Dixon put into education policy, for all the time we spend trying to design programs to improve access and craft messages to convince people that pursuing an education is worthwhile, nothing we do is as powerful as you. The examples you set as parents, professionals, activists, and advocates as proud Vikings matter far more than you know. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've heard from someone on graduation day who went to college because they saw a friend, a co-worker, a parent, or even their own child earn a diploma. And that gave them the courage to go for it, to move from vague hope to concrete action. I'm sure many of these people in your own lives are here today. Thank them today, now, and always. But most importantly, become that spark for others.  Remember it and share it so that others know there's a path for them too. Remember it and share it so you'll stay connected to the people who help you along the way. Remember it and share it so that in your moments of struggle, there will be others ready to lift you up as you have lifted others. Even when it doesn't seem like it in the moment, remember that your actions matter and your power is real. The kind of country we'll become depends less on today's headlines and more on what kind of citizens you choose to be. How you go about your work as teachers, as managers, social workers, pilots, and police officers. That will define the quality of life for you, for your neighbors, for this region, for North Carolina, and for our nation. That last point is important because what inspires me the most about education is not just the effect it has on those who earn a diploma or a degree in our institutions, but what it does for all of those who never walk through the doors of one of our colleges or universities. The UNC system and ECSU, the public institutions that we are so proud of do their part. Attending one of our universities is an experience defined by extraordinary commitment of our fellow citizens to cover nearly two-thirds of the cost of your attendance. It's a commitment based on the belief that education will lift every North Carolinian to a better life. It's an investment for the family here in Pasquotank County whose child will go to class and learn from a Viking teacher. It's an investment for the community in Curituck County that's strengthened by the work of a social worker trained at this university. It's an investment for the high school graduate in Chihuahua County who gets a job at a business started by an ECSU graduate. And in its investment for every resident of Elizabeth City, benefiting from the leadership of a terrific mayor and ECSU alum, Betty Parker, one of the many leaders who are trained right here and whose vision and dedication serves everyone in the region. ECSU is a public institution and its graduates advance the public good. We know progress isn't smooth and isn't necessarily assured. It demands constant effort, tireless upkeep, and the creative hope of people like you. The experience and lessons of those who came before us show us that change is possible and together we can build a better future. We talk a lot about the American dream, the idea that through hard work you can have a better life than your parents had. That your future can be defined by prosperity because of your talent and commitment. But I think there's another aspect of the American dream. It's also the idea that no matter who you are your actions make a big difference. That you're not a cog in a machine, that you're not lost in the crowd but rather your impact is only limited by your ambition and imagination. It makes me think back to the Museum of the Albemarle. Before too long it'll be your faces in that museum. Your decisions shaping the history Viking graduates learn and the world we live in. So take a moment to rest, reflect, celebrate, and thank all of the people who played a part in this day but only a moment. We need you and your talents out here in the wider world. Graduates, congratulations on your achievements. I can't wait to see what you do next. Thank you. Spellings, if I can get you back here, gifts here. The first one and you can pull that one out and traditional. We want people to remember their participation in the Elizabeth City State University. But in addition to that we want a little bit of blue and white, a little ECSU blue and white at general administration. So we've got a goody bag packed for you there. Thank you. So whereas you do your business. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today. Now Governor Randall Ramsey of the UNC Board of Governors will present the 2018 Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence. Just when you thought you got rid of them, we're here today to celebrate faculty as well. They're dedication and contributions to the university. There are a number of faculty members on this campus who exemplify outstanding teaching. Today I'd like to recognize one of those faculty members. It is my privilege to present this year's Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching to one of your most outstanding faculty members. Established by the Board of Governors of 1994 to underscore the importance of teaching and to reward great teachers across the university. The awards are given annually to a tenured faculty member from each UNC campus. Recipients are nominated by special committees on their home campuses and selected by the Board of Governors. Each winner receives a bronze medallion and a cash award. This year's recipient from Elizabeth City State University is Dr. Marjorie Coulson-Clark. Dr. Coulson-Clark and Chancellor Conway would you join me please? Dr. Coulson-Clark first served at Elizabeth City State University from 1998 to 2001. She returned in 2002 and currently serves as a professor in the field of social and behavioral sciences department concentrating on public administration and political science. Dr. Coulson-Clark is a former ECSU assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs and a former special assistant to the chancellor for institutional research, planning and outreach. She has also served as the chair of the social science and behavioral sciences department in other words she's done it all here. Dr. Coulson-Clark says her teaching philosophy incorporates technology, assessment, interactions, ethical principles, personal development, and personal accountability. Her goal is to encourage students to face their fears with confidence and maximize their academic potential. She believes that teaching students to become great future decision makers must always remain central to her style of teaching. It is her desire to leave this world a better place than she found it and she plans to do this one student in one class at a time. Dr. Coulson-Clark we celebrate your outstanding professional achievement and salute your commitment to teaching inspiring new generation of learners. In honoring you we also acknowledge more than 14,000 dedicated family faculty and 225,000 students across the university system. Congratulations. Governor Ramsey and to the entire board University of North Carolina system board of governors for recognizing Dr. Marjorie Coulson-Clark for her contributions toward teaching excellence. Congratulations also Dr. Coulson-Clark. We would like to recognize our 2018 departmental teacher teachers of the year. Would the recipients please stand and be recognized as I call your names? Dr. Dorothy Kershaw, I'm sorry, Professor Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Thank you. Dr. Delapo Adedige, Associate Professor Department of Natural Sciences, Pharmacy and Health Professions. And Mr. Jeffrey Whalen, Associate Professor Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Professors Emeriti, it is my honor to acknowledge two professors with long distinguished careers at Elizabeth City State University who are retiring this year. With the approval of the ECSU Board of Trustees, Dr. Linda Bailey Hayden and Dr. Claudia J. Mackey were named Professor Emeriti for their outstanding service to the university. Dr. Linda Hayden, please join me on the podium. Dr. Hayden joined the faculty at ECSU in 1980. She is the director of the university's Center for Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research and Professor of Mathematics. Her work over the years has garnered a great deal of praise by the national scientific community, as well as brought honors to ECSU. Thank you for your work, Dr. Hayden, and for her students. Because of the work of Dr. Hayden and her students, a bay in the Antarctica was named ECSU Bay as it was discovered by Dr. Hayden and her research team. Dr. Hayden is a prolific research and grant writer. She has received over 23 million dollars in external funding. It's even more exceptional. She used over 70 percent of that funding to support students, undergraduate, graduate, and high school students in the STEM disciplines. Dr. Hayden, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, it is my pleasure to present you with this plaque in honor of your contributions to Elizabeth City State University. Thank you so much. Next I'd like to invite Dr. Claudia Mackey to the podium. He is an alumnus of Elizabeth City State University. He joined the faculty here in 1977. During his tenure at the university, Dr. Mackey has served as head basketball and track coach, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, focusing on external relations, and the interim dean for the School of Education and Psychology, and most recently the Athletics Director. He is retiring as the Mark Bass Knight Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Psychology and Health. Dr. Mackey has received over 7 million dollars in external funding. Dr. Mackey, Professor of Education, it is my pleasure to present you with this plaque in honor of your contributions to Elizabeth City State University. Dr. Mackey, sorry, Elizabeth City State University serves as a host senior military science program which produces leaders for the United States Army. Lieutenant Colonel Judy Anthony will come and administer the ceremonial oath of office to our newly commissioned Second Lieutenant. It is important to remember about eight percent of America's population serves in the military. Only one percent at any time is serving active duty. These young people are going into the United States military so that we can sleep well at night. Colonel Anthony. Having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, do some only swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I'm about to enter. So help me God. Congratulations. Chancellor Dixon, we now recommend candidates for graduate degrees. Chancellor Dixon, it is my privilege to report to you that candidates here assembled have qualified in all aspects for their degrees by successfully completing curriculum offered by the graduate program in school administration, biology, and mathematics at Elizabeth City State University. Would the candidates for the Masters of School Administration, Masters of Science in Biology, and Masters of Science in Mathematics please stand and remain standing. Chancellor Dixon, it is with pleasure that I present to you these candidates who have completed all of the requirements for graduation. They have been certified by the registrar and have received an affirmative vote by the faculty to be awarded the Master's Degree in School Administration, Biology, and Mathematics, and are now recommended to you for the conferral of their degrees. By virtue of the authority vested in by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all the honors, privileges, and responsibilities thereon to appertaining. For the Masters of School Administration, Masters of Science in Biology, and Masters of Science in Mathematics, please proceed to the stage to receive your diplomas. Mentor. Congratulations, please be seated. Baccalaureate degrees will now be conferred. Chancellor Dixon, it is my privilege to report to you that the candidates here assembled have qualified in all respects for their diplomas by successfully completing curricula offered by the academic departments here at Elizabeth City State University. They've been recommended by the department chairs, approved by the Honors Council, where appropriate and certified by the Registrar, and they have received an affirmative vote by the faculty to be awarded the diplomas, the Bachelor of Science in Education, the Bachelor of Science, the Bachelor of Arts, and the Bachelor of Social Work. At this time, Chancellor Dixon, I'm pleased to begin the conferral of undergraduate degrees by presenting the bearer of the mace. The pleasure, my distinct pleasure to inform you that the official bearer of the mace is Nicole Luziano, the criminal justice, justice major from Charlotte, North Carolina, and she has a cumulative grade point average of 3.968. Will the bearer of the mace, Ms. Nicole Luziano, please come forward to receive your diploma. A virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all the honors, privileges, and responsibilities there on to appertaining. Graduations, Nicole. Chancellor Dixon, before we proceed with the conferral of degrees, I'm honored to have the opportunity to recognize those seniors who have graduated with highest honors, summa cum laude, having achieved by their diligence a cumulative grade point average of 3.8 to 4.0. Will all of those undergraduate students with those GPAs seniors, would you please stand? Magnum cum laude with a grade point average of 3.6 to 3.79, would you please stand? And seniors who are graduating with honors cum laude with a grade point average of 3.25 to 3.59, would you please stand? Those seniors who have completed four years in the university's honors program, many of whom were just standing. With those students who were in the honors program, would you please stand?  I encourage you to continue to excel. Thank you. Chancellor Dixon, I'm now pleased to present to you the candidates for their respective diplomas. Chancellor Dixon, on the recommendation of department chairs certified by the registrar and by an affirmative vote of the faculty, it is my pleasure to present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, the Bachelor of Science, the Bachelor of Arts, and the Bachelor of Social Work. Will the candidates for undergraduate degrees please stand? By the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon you the degrees for which you have qualified with all the honors, privileges, and responsibilities thereon to appertaining. Chancellor Dixon, I'm pleased to present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education. Will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please come forward to receive your diplomas? Tamisha. Congratulations. Please be seated. Will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science degree please stand? I want to receive your diplomas. Hegan. Hodgkins. Trissamy. Jernigan. Austin. Johnson. Jordan. Joan. Joshua. Joyner. Joyner. Loginger. Jocelyn. Lewis. Tony. Momen. Muhammad. Richard. Murphy. Crystal. Owen. Jalen. Owens. Shania. Parker. Cassandra. Joshua. Peterson. Please be seated. Will the candidates for Bachelor of Arts degrees please stand? I'd like to present to you the candidates for the Bachelor of Arts for their diplomas. Would you please come forward to receive your diplomas? It is for the Bachelor's of Social Work degree. Would you please stand? Chancellor Dixon please to present the candidates for the Bachelor of Social Works for their respective diplomas. Would you please come forward to receive your diploma? Chancellor Dixon, this concludes the conferral of diplomas upon the graduates comprising the spring graduating class of 2018. Now, would all the graduates with Bachelor degrees please stand? It's the attainment of your respective degree by turning your tassels from right to left. Get them another round of applause. To the spring 2018 graduates, on behalf of the entire university community, I extend hearty congratulations to all of you for achieving this milestone in your lives. Congratulations. As the honor marshals, honor marshals are the highest ranking students academically from the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes. These students were invited to participate in today's, as today's honor marshals. Will the honor marshals please stand and be recognized? You may be seated. Also at this time, I would like to recognize and thank the ECSU Commencement Committee, the ECSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Ms. Juliet Borkins, and the ECSU Choir under the direction of Dr. Walter Swan. Please. Now I would like to welcome to the podium Ms. Shenadiko Battle, President of the Senior Class to deliver the farewell address. Greetings. Chancellor and First Lady Conway, Chancellor Dixon, outstanding faculty and staff, distinguished Board of Trustees, platform guests, beloved alumni, supportive family and friends, and to the best class that will ever walk across this stage, Streeus, Elizabeth City State University. These last four years have been an amazing journey. A journey filled with academic excellence, hot parties, Greek life reforming, and people we've met along the way who we will take with us into our next. You will leave here with all the tools needed to venture into the world and become successful. Today is your day, and I hope you are ecstatic.  Strive to be better than yourself. Without commitment, you'll never start. More importantly, without consistency, you'll never finish. There's a song that states, I want to leave my footprints on the sands of time and know that there was something that meant something that I left behind. Meaning, leave this ceremony today and go into the world and make everlasting impacts. Whether you'll be soon teaching a lawyer, a scientist or a social worker, the case may be, leave your footprints in the hearts of those you've encountered. Be that change you wish to see in the world. A new journey begins today, and it will be full of ups and downs, joys and disappointments. Use these as stepping stones to make you stronger, wiser and more determined. I know each of us are hungry for success, so let's go out into our next journey and eat up all the limitless opportunities that are waiting us.  Therefore, excellence should be a habit, not an act. Follow the passion that lies within your heart, and it will lead you to your purpose. As I am truly proud of each of you graduates, I congratulate you talented individuals with best love and wishes. Your senior class president, thank you. Invite to the podium at this time Ms. Gwen Sanders, Secretary of the University, who will administer the oath of allegiance to the university. Good morning. I am Gwen Sanders, Secretary of the University and a proud graduate of Elizabeth City State University. I am standing this morning on behalf of Mr. Abdul Rashid, who is president of the ECSU National Alumni Association, and if you will raise your right hands and repeat after me, solemnly pledge unbroken allegiance to my alma mater in appreciation for the opportunities for development forwarded me as a student at Elizabeth City State University. Pledge active membership in the National Alumni Association wherever I may be. Through association with my fellow alumni, I shall forever do my best to uphold the ideals and traditions of my alma mater. I pledge as a person to exemplify high ideals by rendering positive and dignified service to the community, state, nation, and world, thus living to bring honor and respect to my alma mater. Thank you. It is with great Viking pride that I say on behalf of Abdul Rashid, congratulations to our newest alumni. Viking pride, you! Dr. Swann, you're going to get set up, please. I had a few minutes here just to say to this class, or to share a few parting thoughts. There's several things I would really like to say to you, but I'm going to do it in just two or three things. First of all, as Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University, one of the things that I have always been proud of and able to do is that wherever I go, whoever I'm talking to, whenever asked, tell me about your university. Tell me about the worth of your university. Tell me about the progress of your university. I could say, just talk to our alumni. Wherever I go around this country, I can point to the accomplishments of the alumni of Elizabeth City State University. This past year, we did things like institute a new 40 under 40 program, which brought a lot of young alums back to the fold to talk about their accomplishments. And what impressed me most about them is that as they had moved on into their careers, they had moved into careers that were associated with their major. They were in professional positions that were associated with what they studied, but they also exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit. They had started their own enterprises. They were creating jobs, not just looking for jobs. That's what the Viking spirit is. That's what the Viking spirit does. That's what you've been taught to do. I was interviewed a few days ago by one of the members of this class. And one of the questions I was asked was, tell me about what you see in this generation, some of the criticisms of this generation. And I said, you know, it's hard for me to talk about criticisms of this generation because I see the positive. What I see in this generation is a generation that wants to make things better. I see a generation committed to doing things. And as you look globally, as you understand all the challenges of the world, your focus is your backyard. You want to make things better at home. You want to make things better with your families. You want to make things better in your communities. And let me say that I believe wholeheartedly that is in line with the values that Elizabeth City State University has worked to impart to you over the course of the last several years while you were getting your degree. You know, I was reminded earlier, this last year, one of our alums asked the question at a session, what do you mean when you yell Viking pride? What does it you mean when you do it and you yell the Viking pride and you stand up and everybody gets excited? And he went through a series of questions around that. But you need to understand, and you already understand, but you need to help the world understand that for some people, pride in their institution may be a slogan. But when Vikings say Viking pride, we mean Viking pride. Give it up. I'm going to share one thing and then I'm going to share, actually, I'm going to share a couple of things with you. You know, I am a member of a greek letter organization. I see everything as a teaching and learning experience. Some of you got really excited and did a little step as you were leaving the stage. The problem with that's twofold. First of all, I would quote a line from the Black Panther movie. You've got to understand in situations like this, the world is watching. And secondly, you are leaders now and all of those folks that were cheering for you up there who will be graduating in subsequent classes are now planning their steps on that end of the stage. That's going to be a problem. So we're going to work through understanding how we celebrate. We're going to provide you with the opportunities to do that, but we're probably not going to do it as part of this ceremony. I'm going to switch now. I would like to give you a gift. One of the things that I do is constantly search for talent in our university, in our community. And I was introduced by proxy to a young lady, Ms. Niana Parker, who is a 15 year old student in Hirtford, who has a talent that when I heard, I said this class, she has something to say to this class by way of debuting a song that she has put together that I would like to give this graduating class as a gift. I would like to thank Chancellor Conway and Dr. Walter Swan for giving me this amazing opportunity. Be a memorable day for you. You have discovered much about yourself and others, your field of study and life while matriculating here at Elizabeth City State University. In the words of General Colin Powell, there are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. Today we have witnessed the synergistic result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. Remember, when Vikings combine these three efforts, we produce a strong, successful and vibrant world. Vikings are resilient, persistent and when it comes to defying the limitations, we are defiant. Graduates, it is time to conquer. Thank you, President Spelling, Chancellor Conway and all of our guests for making this commencement memorable for our graduates. Viking pride. Being of the alma mater, Chancellor Dixon, with your permission, I declare a 166 commencement convocation closed. Let us receive the benediction from Reverend Lawrence Chambers. Let us prepare our hearts and our minds to be dismissed from this service, but never from the presence of Almighty God. Now on this, your day of graduation, may the Lord bless you and keep you.  May hope spring from your heart as you look towards tomorrow. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. His fourth now and forevermore let the redeem of the Lord say Amen.