I am going to share with you a story. A story that began in 1860s and continued for more than 100 years. This happened in the United States of America. When blacks were treated as slaves, there was a revolution. They were liberated. They were liberated. They said blacks are not slaves anymore. They have equal rights like whites and this was not digested well by some of the white people. They felt how come they can become equal to us? They formed some radical wings. And they started kidnapping blacks and killing blacks. At that time there was a family, a white family, a white couple, Susan Kawa and Moses Kawa. And in their family there was a black lady working as a maid servant. And that servant lady had a three week old baby. And at that time these kidnappers kidnapped that black lady and three week old baby. So what did this white couple do? Forget about it. Did they leave it like that? No. They were kind. They were a bit concerned. What happened to that lady? What happened to that baby boy?  And the village head went and negotiated with the kidnappers and kidnappers asked for ransom. They were ready to exchange the boy for a phoning house. And they agreed and the boy was saved. Nobody knew what happened to that mother. And these people brought up that boy and he became Washington Kawa. That boy's name was Washington Kawa. And Washington Kawa went to school and after school he went to the town and he started supporting himself. Then he went to college of agriculture and he studied BS agriculture. Yeah. And then he went and did masters in PhD. Till that time in the United States of America, peanut, groundnut was a very minor crop. But Washington Kawa was a peanut scientist and he developed more than 300 recipes of peanut. Peanut butter, peanut sauce, peanut cheese, peanut ketchup, peanut that, peanut this, peanut say, Oh my God, peanut can be used in so many ways. So everybody started using peanut and then peanut acreage grew and peanut became a big crop in the United States of America. And then he was a professor. There was a student of agriculture who came to study BS agriculture and that is Henry Wallace. Henry Wallace looking at Washington Kawa and his passion for agriculture. He also developed passion for agriculture and love for agriculture. So after completing his BS agriculture, he left Alabama University went back, but he didn't take up a profession agriculture. He took to politics. Henry Wallace took to politics and he went on to become the vice president of United States of America. But his passion for agriculture did not die. At that time, wheat and maize were very important crops were suffering from yield losses and all the due to drought. So he wanted to establish a center. And for that center, he wanted a very good scientist who can come and lead the program there. So he hand-picked a person called Naaman Borla. He hand-picked him and brought him, made him the head of the center, asked him to lead the program. And this Naaman Borla developed wheat varieties, semi-dwarf wheat varieties. And those semi-dwarf wheat varieties developed in Mexico and United States of America were recognized by a scientist in India at that time who was directly general of ICAR. And that man's name was Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. And he brought those varieties to India and he gave demonstrations in Punjab, Haryana and western UPEC. And those demos revealed that the yields can go up by five times. And Punjab and Haryana farmers, they loved it. They wanted these seeds. So with the help of the government, since Subramanian was the Minister of Agriculture at that time, they imported tractors, shiploads, shiploads of these seeds. And Punjab and Haryana and UPEC farmers, they grabbed these seeds with both hands and they went for it. And that happened in 1960s. And because of which what we got? Harit Karanti. Harit Karanti, the Green Revolution. In 1966, high-yielding varieties were developed and we got the Green Revolution. Where did it all start? In 1860. The roots of Harit Karanti that we got here, where will you see it? Before the 100th year, oceans across, continents apart, in a small village in America, that day, that small act of kindness of that white couple, in saving that baby, in saving that baby, ultimately showed the result 100 years later in a country like India and Pakistan, which has helped Naaman Borla get Nobel Prize for peace. My dear friends, everything you do matters. Whatever you are doing also matters. Sometimes what you are doing, you may not be able to see immediately. You may not be seeing the impact happening immediately. If you are able to see it, it is much better, much greater. But sometimes you may not be knowing. Because of your work, some farmer is benefited and that some farmer's son goes to school and he performs well and we went on to become an IAS officer. He became a district collector and he did something in that district and because of which something happened, because of that millions of people got benefited. But if you look at the root cause, that day, that small act of thing that you did. That you did. You might have forgotten the names of all those farmers you met and worked with.  They remember you by your name. The people who took your name, the people who got benefit from your help. The people who took your name. So many people. So many people, my dear friends. Your work matters a lot. You are doing a wonderful job. You are helping people. Because of your work in Vedasando, some farmers who are now handling a small kapta hiya, abhi dhoti pahe nahi hai.  Because of you. And they are able to send their children to a better school because of you. Yes or no?


Hello everyone, this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com. Today I'll have another episode of live walk video from Toronto downtown and I will walk along Harbor Front's waterfront and I'll try to make this video a little bit longer, but if any case or by any chance, you know the phone gets overheated then I may need to just stop and redo the video or restart it again So today most of the times I'm not going to be talking and I'll show you you know some restaurants Waterfront stores and beaches what you are looking at right now So we start from downtown Toronto in the heart of downtown and then looks like it's a very beautiful evening. Although it's a Bit warm. I was thinking that you know summer is over But then looks like summer came back and it's 29 degrees Celsius Feels like temperature right now And it's a cloudy partly cloudy partly sunny day in Toronto So we're going to start our walk from here and you're looking at the small beach And then we'll just you know walk from this part. So let's get going so I'll try to Walk slowly, but you know have a bad habit of walking very fast and here you're looking at the CN Tower and This is the H2O Park So right at this moment, I feel like I'm actually walking in Asia Feels like you know, I'm either in Manila or Dhaka It's very hot. So what are you looking at the city bike system? So the change and replace Bikes and then you can just you know, rent the bike by hour or by day And here's the station actually just found the guy who's selling the coconuts You can see lots of people taking pictures. So this is a very popular spot so here is a street food vendor and This stuff is very sweet So outdoor patio seem to be packed. So take a turn here There's a lineup to enter the restaurant and this is actually Toronto Police Department's main unit and this is where they park their police boats and you can see that the restaurant is Busy, so let's take a quick look at the police boat and then I'll look at the patio I'm getting the food smell here We have a boardwalk. So should be hitting more restaurants very soon CN Tower right ahead Street music actually Looks like it's an interview. We have some street vendors and you have Mexican food here So it looks like there's some sort of concert going on here Or this just could be a restaurant and beautiful place to sit here So let's look at the menu look at here a little bit if you look on the other side, you'll see more people sitting there So here's the line to take water taxi. So here's a cruise boat, you know, they have dining option, I believe and it just shows you around Toronto on The water then we have some sort of mango drink. So we'll stop here for a moment and look back So I came here before and this restaurant was much busier than what you're looking at today So I'm not sure even why it's not that busy today. So take a quick look at the menu So continue from here. So just quick look back. I get hot dog a smell. I'll try to get to the sugar beach So let's see If it works The starting of Bay Street Cotton candy. So here's a small Greek store. You have some street food vendors and let's take a quick look at the menu So these are all in Canadian dollars This is a sugar meal and actually I can smell the sugar. So we'll take a look at the ship a little later Let's look at this side right now. So there should be some more restaurants up ahead So let's take a look. I would have gone in the sand, but I'm just afraid of the loud music It might trigger a copyright issue So just if you know take a look back from here Koroski and Arbonne Tavern is the name of the restaurant. So let's take a look back So looks like there's a park here. We'll just go around So guys if you look across the street There should be a water fountain there, but it looks like it's not operational right now But you can see like a shadow that they're too you know two piece of Plastic or clear see-through plastic which would work as a fountain But right now they're not working, but it looks good if it's you know working so I've been work walking for about an hour and The problem today is that you know, I'm sweating and I feel like you know, I mean Manila or Bangkok it's very hot and It's very difficult to walk So as fortunate that the wife the internet and the phone didn't warm up too much and Everything went as I expected So the moment we reach one hour, I'm going to stop you know or terminate to this video But I do have more walk videos and on this channel. I'm always trying new and different ideas Now if that is something you're interested in please visit for more if you're only interested in walk videos The links in the description box below. So thank you for watching this video. There will be more videos coming up So I'll see you shortly


Ukrainian soldiers have already liberated eight settlements. Within two weeks, Ukrainian defenders liberated eight settlements in the Burdiansk and Melitopol directions. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Hanimalia in her telegram channel. According to her, last week, Ukrainian troops were both on the offensive and on the defensive. In the east, the enemy made a lot of efforts to stop the advance of Ukrainian troops in the Bakhmut direction. Russians transferred additional units there and increased the number of shelling. Azmalia informed the overall intensity of the fighting in this direction decreased last week. However, the fighting continued. There were 41 clashes and Ukrainian troops advanced into the depths of the occupied territories in several areas. The enemy continued to advance last week in the Limano-Kupiansky, Avdivsky and Mariinsky directions. We did not lose a single meter of land in these directions thanks to the professionalism and courage of our fighters, she said. In the south, as the Deputy Minister of Defense stated, over the past week, there has been an offensive in several directions. The missile and artillery units of the Toria Defense Forces completed 10,125 fire missions during the week. During two weeks of offensive operations in the Burdiansk and Melitopol directions for the indicated period, units in the Tavria liberated eight settlements Novo Darivka, Levadny, Storoziv, Makarivka, Blahodatny, Lobkove, Neskuchny and Piatikatki. In general, units in the Toria direction advanced in the depth of the enemy is up to six kilometers. The area liberated in the south is 113 square kilometers. The active work of the Defense Forces of the Toria direction continues, Malia said. Over the past week, she said the enemy suffered significant losses. In particular, last week, the enemy's losses in all directions amounted to more than 4,600 killed and wounded. In addition, Ukrainian defenders captured more than 80 aggressor fighters.


Okay. Melissa, can you hear me? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Sorry for the delay, but we're alternating between using iPhones as a hot spot and a satellite connection. So it's a little bit delayed at our end because the signal has to go an extra 48,000 miles. Melissa, go ahead and put your power point up. Melissa Armo founded the Stock Swoosh LLC in December 2012. Stock Swoosh LLC is an educational firm that empowers traders with a complete and detailed system to become profitable traders. Melissa graduated Magna Cum Laude from Gettysburg College with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Latin and Political Science in 1994. She was employed for several banks and brokers in Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, and New York as a mortgage broker for 17 years. She changed careers from banking to pursue a trading career in 2008. A self-taught trading strategy that focuses on shorting stocks that yeah, Melissa also appears frequently on TV as a stock market expert. Watch Melissa on RT America, Cheddar TV, CBS, Fox News, and Fox Business Network. Melissa Armo founded Stock Swoosh LLC in December 2012. Okay, we got all this. So I see how to short for fast profits. Melissa, you have the floor. I'm going to go ahead and mute myself. And you have until five minutes before the hour. Okay, great. It's a beautiful, beautiful day here in New York City. Glad to be with you today. Interesting day in the market. We had some economic news today, and it's going to be an exciting fall to trade. And for me, it's going to be my first fall here along Central Park. I'm extremely excited. In fact, we're supposed to have weather in the fifties this weekend. So I'm really looking forward to it. And I'm happy to be here with you today to talk about stocks, to talk about gaps, and to talk about shorting, and of course, making money, because that is the reason that we trade. Trading is fun, but it's not fun if you're losing. It's only fun if you're winning. So today, we're going to talk about a couple of things, and I'll tell you what we did today. So we're going to talk about how to short for fast profits. And if you have questions, this is me. Some of you have seen me already on TV. If you have questions, you can email me at melissathestockswitch.com. You can call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, or Skype. Probably the best place to follow me, though, is YouTube, where I put videos of the live trading room, and then when I'm on TV, I have my clips on there as well. So let's get right into it. Trading is a great job. It's really, really a great job if you could do it and make money consistently. So, you know, if you've traded, if you've been trading with me, not this for a long time, you know, you can make money in trades, but it's the consistency that people really tend to lack. So I realized a very, very long time ago that you could make a lot of money trading shorting. And then that kind of was what I stuck on ever since the beginning. Of course, when I took that first trade when I shorted and I made money, I didn't know what I was doing. Okay. And then it took me about three years to develop my own system. I had always had a plan of action that I wanted to trade though for my career because I was doing mortgages for a long time and the mortgage industry was starting to turn and starting to fail. And I had to work even harder to make the same amount of money or even more. And I just didn't see the longevity in the industry. And I think today's world and today's age, a lot of people are frustrated with their employment, even if they're getting raises, they're working harder and they're just not seeing the leg up that they used to see. Of course, everything is costing more now. We're in an economy where things are costing more. It's not only inflation. It's also something called shrinkflation. It's interesting. I was talking about this in the trading room this morning. I went to the grocery store over the weekend and bought some things that I normally get and they're smaller and their costs more and their smaller size. So we're in a world where I don't really think some prices of things are ever going to go back down again. So consequently, what do we have to do? We have to make more money. So you can trade full-time. You can trade part-time. You can trade on the side. You could do options. I trade options. You could have a full-time job and do options on the side. You can put the trade on in the morning. Again, a short, a put is a short as an option straight. You can put a trade on in the morning and then you can put an immediate sell order and you don't even have to watch the trade. So there's lots and lots of ways to short day trades, swing trades and options as puts, which we're going to talk about today as well. But you have one goal when you trade, one and that's to make money. And again, a lot of people want to trade the market, but they just don't know how to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. Here's our results. This is our stats through the end of August. I took the last week and a half off because it's my birthday. So I have the stats in here through the end of August. So far the year to date, this is with an average risk of about $2,800 per trade. We're at $417,937 for the year. Most of these trades are shorts. These are day trades. What do I mean by day trade? These are trades on margin. You would have to have a margin account to do these trades. That means if you have a retail brokerage account, you would need to have a minimum of $25,000 and you would get four to one margin. If you don't, you can open up a prop account, which you can open up some prop accounts for the minimum of $2,500 and get 10 to one margin, or you can trade options with a cash account with less than $25,000 and then you can buy a put. This is the results. I have an options newsletter. We will talk about some of those trades. This is an alert service, a newsletter service where the trades are sent to you to your email in live time. I'm risking more in my options trades. Why? Because I want to be able to hold overnight. I want to be able to take more size. I'm risking an average of $8,000 a trade in my options. You do not have to do that. You could risk less money. You could risk $100 a trade. Some of the trades you won't be able to do if you do that. I would say 500 is probably a good number. We will talk about some beginner options trades as well, but so far year to date, 936, 895 for the year. So far again, this is with an average risk of $8,000 per trade. If you want to be in and out of options constantly, you either need a cash account or you need a margin account to do options as well. So trading requires a positive attitude. And as much as I consider myself a positive person, I have found throughout the years ever since I started the stocks, which was like John said, it was in 2012, a lot of people start trading. They're very optimistic, but then they turn very, very negative very, very quickly. And by people, I mean people that attempt to trade. People lose money trading or take classes, don't learn how to make money trading, think that they're going to, and then they start to go negative. Now that's when you're thinking negative, you're actually working against yourself. So you're not helping yourself when you're thinking negative. So as hard as it may be to think positive, even if you're not having a good week, the fact is you must constantly be thinking positive for yourself and not thinking negative because you're working against yourself. If you have a positive attitude trading, you will be able to turn whatever situation you're in, whatever negative situation or bad trade you're in or bad experience you're having doing a certain strategy, you'll be able to turn it around. You'll be able to find your way to a strategy or a system or a mentor or a good trade that will be able to turn your situation around. It's very easy to go into that negative attitude. And again, one of the things that I have against some of these large chat rooms, these free chat rooms like the Reddit chat rooms is they tend to be like a pot of just people talking and they can grow very, very negative where people call a wallow in their own self depreciation and negativity. It's not going to help you. Trading is an individual activity. It requires your own entrepreneurial spirit where you're really working for yourself. Why it's great to commiserate with people and it makes you maybe feel better in the moment.  If you've been working at this hard for a number of years and you've spent money trading or on classes, you deserve to be successful if you continue to persevere and stick with it. And so my job as a leader, as a mentor, running the stocks, which is to help teach people my strategy so that they can be successful and then also help them to create a positive attitude and framework for them to be successful on their own. Because I teach everything in the class that you could do it on your own. But of course, if you come and you trade with me, you can take my trades the way that I'm calling the trades live in the room. You could take the trades with me live. Today we shorted Apple. You could take a look at it. I did plop that in here. We will talk about that today. Apple is falling. Apple fell yesterday. We also shorted Apple last week. So that's Apple's lower.  But in order to become successful, you need a system and you need a niche. And again, that's something that it takes some time for some people to really figure out what that niche is. For me, the shorting part of it and the fast trades part of it is it. But you can make money in the market. People don't all the time. They do it all the time. Except for not everyone consistently makes money. And again, it's because they don't stay on top of one thing or whatever they're doing doesn't work consistently. May work one day, not the next. May work one week, not the next. If you went along the market in 2021 and bought every dip you made money, that didn't work in 2022. And it's not working in 2023. But for every winner, there's one loser. And that's the bugaboo. That's trading. It's a zero-sum game. It's not like anybody's going out and making something. You're not investing in something and getting something out of it when you take a trade. This is not long-term investing. This is shorting the stock and getting out. Buying the stock and getting out for a couple of minutes. Or if you're doing an option for a couple of hours or a couple of days, I'm doing short-term options. I'm doing weekly options. I just did some trades today out till next Friday. That's like a long time for me to do an options trade, like a week and a half. But you need a good system to succeed. You have to follow it daily. That's very, very important and you can't bear off of it.  One thing. One trade a day. Two trades a day. One thing. One strategy. One focus. And for me, it is gaps and particularly shorting. I'm looking to focus on the fast moves, fast money. And for me, that's volatility. Again, you're seeing this, this whole year, quite frankly. We had economic data this morning that was bad and then the market was up. Market was down this morning. Then it reversed. Then it was up. We, the Fed is meeting next week. That's going to create volatility too. Volatility is fabulous. Volatility can be your friend if you know how to play it and if you know how to make money in it. And of course, it's the idea of the fast moves and the fast money. The one that we did yesterday was Oracle. This was a really good one. Again, this was a short. So let's go over here briefly. What is a gap? A gap is when a stock or the market gaps and closes at one price on four o'clock. It's your time. The stock market closes. I know it was at a different price at 930 the next morning. Things can gap up. Things can gap down. Okay. Let's talk about Oracle. And again, Oracle was up here. Snug as a bug. It was around 126.25ish. Then that was four o'clock. This is one minute. Open here at 930. Okay. This was 911. This was 912. Open down here around 111 and change. Fell. Dropped. Boom. Fell. Continued broke. Came all the way down here, broke 107 and change. So this is a move you could have done. You could have got in, got out. Boom. Done. As a day train. Could have done as an option. Could have got in, got out. Could have got in, got out. Held it. I don't know where this is right now. But this was a fast move. This was a short. This was a gap. Okay. And that was yesterday. 912. So again, what is a gap? A gap is a difference between the close and the open. Simple. Stocks gap most every single day. Not every gap is a good gap or what I call a golden gap. It's like finding gold in the market because if you find it, you can play it and you can make money. Oracle is a good example. Apple is a good example today. So I'm looking for gaps that are predictable. Not every gap is predictable. Otherwise I could do 500 trades a day. I could do every gap that's out there. I can't. They're not all predictable. So how do I find the ones that are predictable which I call golden gaps? I have a rating system. This is what should come and learn from me. This is where the consistency comes from what I do. I don't know if any of, again, I appear on television. I don't know if any of you watch Kramer. He's on CNBC. He's at his own show for like 25 years. He doesn't have a consistent strategy that you could apply and say, well, I'm going to buy this stock or short this stock. Kramer just says, well, based on the fundamentals or based on this news, do, do, do, do, do. He doesn't have anything that you can take, learn it, apply and then come out with the same conclusion as him. So he talks and says, I think this, I think that. That's very all over the place. The whole point of trading is to take away the equation of the willy-nilly of it because that's where you get sucked into it, where your emotions can take hold of you and then you're not making good decisions. And then you're not applying any consistent standards. So again, if you tried to come up with the same conclusions or stock picks as Kramer, you would not be able to do that. If you come and take my class, you would be able to come up with the same conclusions that I came up with via, for example, Oracle. Oh, Oracle was a good gap. Oracle was something that was going to fall, continue lower in the gap, something you could short or buy a put in it. Again, what does it got? Let's just briefly go over this. The market fell last week. Here was the spy, spy close here, gap down, spy close here at four o'clock, open at 9.30, drop, fell, boom, snug as a bug, fell again. Okay. This is actually a gap down. Even though we reversed here on this particular day was the seventh, it actually gap down. That is a spy. Here's the Oracle on the daily. Again, closed up here at four o'clock, gap down here and open at 9.30, rallied, fell, dropped. Okay. That was yesterday on the 12th. So this is a gap. So I'm looking for momentum in the gap. I'm looking for momentum. If I see the momentum, I can make money. And then I also wanted to go fast because fast is good that I don't have to worry about economic data. I love to worry about something that may happen overseas. There's many, many things that could affect the market during the trading day, even past 10 a.m. when most data is out. And when you think about it, if you're looking for momentum, it helps you whether you're trading small size or large size. Obviously, everyone wants to trade size. Everyone wants to make more money than they're making, even if you're making money trading, I'm sure you want to make more. It's always the case. That will always be the case. That's fine. That's great. Let that motivate you to trade, but you have what you have and you have to take it and you have to use it. If you have a small account and you can only trade options, you can open up an options account with $2,000 and open it up as a cash account. You can't risk $2,000 a trade. That would be crazy. You take the amount of money you have and divide it up so that you can trade and continue and grow the $2,000 into $5,000 and grow that $5,000 into $10,000 and so on and so forth. But the whole point of momentum is that you can take a $2,000 account and create it so that you can grow it up to double it and triple it and so on and so forth. Momentum really helps you because it helps you grow your account faster, whether you have a beginner size or whether you have a mid-sized account or whether you have a larger size account. It doesn't matter. If you're getting momentum, like we saw in the Oracle, that was a nice move. The stock dropped big and again, it happened fast. It happened in one day. No matter how you played it, that helps you grow your account. So obviously, if you have a thousand shares of something, if you can make $1,000, that's a lot better than risking $1,000 and making $100. So I do not scalp my trades. I'm looking for big moves for momentum. And again, I was talking about volatility, which is very, very important too. But the key to day trading stock successfully is really using a system and getting back to an example of Kramer. Really, Kramer doesn't have a system. So having a system is important. Many people trade the stock market and do not have a system at all. Then there's people that have a system, but the system does not consistently work. It may work sometimes, again, in certain market conditions, where you're buying the dips and everything's grain and everything's moving higher and you've got the market moving stocks higher, but it doesn't work consistently that way. And if buying the dip worked all the time or even most of the time, no one would ever lose money in the market, because that's very easy to do. You could be a third grader and look at something and say, I'm going to buy this dip. You could know nothing about charts or stocks or anything at all and do it. So it's just not a consistent way to make money trading. So trading a system that sets up daily with a high level of predictability in the directional move is number one of what I'm looking for. I'm trying to find that. And again, I'm veering to the short side. And then I'm also looking to do things independently of the market, where I don't need the market. Now, I read the market correctly a lot, but I don't get the market right all the time. So ultimately, when I'm looking for something, I'm trying to not need the market for the move. Now there are times where I get the market's help, okay, where the market helps me get a larger move if I'm shorting a stock or something. But I prefer to not need the market when I'm making trading decisions because the market can be difficult to read or predict. But getting back to what I was saying about systems, okay, or strategies, success or failure is everything to do with the quality of your system, and that's why it's so important to have one. For me, it's shorting and particularly for me, it's gaps. But ultimately, if you really want to do this for a career, if you really want to be successful doing this, you really do need a niche. And if you want to trade like everyone else, you're going to lose because most people lose trading. Part of it is, as I was saying before, with the positive or negative attitude, part of that is people have a lot of emotions surrounding money. And they tend to fear very easily in the fear for, or they veer in the fearful direction of the negative direction as soon as they lose. Like you'll see people all the time talking about where they double down and they risk more money if they're in the hole and then they blow up their whole account and they have to refund it and all of that. That's just negative, negative, negative, negative. And it's not thinking in a very disciplined manner or even normal behavior that you would think about. It's more like a gambling behavior. And trading, you should look at trading as something that you're doing. Like you're running a business, not like it's gambling. But again, for me, the reason that I decided to focus on gas because was focusing on really what institutions were doing in stocks. And then they were making big moves in stocks with volume and volatility. It allowed me to take trades and have big moves in stocks. And sometimes I trade the market. Sometimes I do the ETFs in the market, but not all gaps, quite frankly, are made with institutional money. So I developed a system and a method to find the ones that were and that would make it less confusing for me and that would help me predict where something was going to go. And then I would be able to take the trade and I don't take the trades in the pre-market. I take the trades after the open. So I'm doing day trades and I'm also doing options. Now here was BA again. This was a nice move. Stock closed here, gap down, fell. This was a gap down here in BA actually continued here the second day. If you were still in it, then it continued here. Boom. I didn't look at where this is at this morning to see where this is at, but the airlines this morning were down. Here was the Apple. We actually did this last week. We did an option in this last week. Stock closed here, a gap down. I called the 180 puts, fell, fell off a cliff, gap down here, like very far under the strike. Really nice trade. Broke 175 and that was an options trade. Now we were talking about today, we did this today here and this is falling today. So again, we've been shorting, shorting Apple. So how can you make money shorting? You make money when the stock price drops. Again, this is my niche. A lot of people prefer to go long because it sounds easy because it makes sense, but quite frankly, shorting makes a lot of sense too. Who can short? Anyone can short as long as you have an account set up to short. And if you don't, you call your broker and set it up. Buying a put is shorting a stock. Okay. And then you sell it to exit it to make money. If you're shorting it on margin, you need to have your account set up to short and as a margin account, but both retail traders and professional traders both can short. And one of the reasons that I like shorting is because when selling comes into a stock or the market, it happens fast. It's panic that happens and it's usually happening early and it's usually happening quick and it can happen big. And so again, if someone said you can make $1,000 in five minutes or $1,000 in five days, what would you prefer? You'd rather make the money fast, fast, fast, fast. So this was the week before I was off for the holiday for Labor Day and my birthday. This is a week of trades. These were all day trades. I'm going to go over the trades here. $11,965. Monday, we had no trades. This is the week of the 21st. Tuesday, we made $39.65. Wednesday, $3,200. Thursday, $25.50. And Friday, $22.50. Let's go over every trade. So the first day of the week, we didn't do anything. There was no trades. There was nothing to do. There was nothing that rated per my system. And so I just lectured and we didn't do anything. This 22nd, we did DKS. Oh, shoot, this isn't the right chart in here. This is the wrong chart. This is Tesla. I'm just seeing this now. Shoot, I'll have to bring it up and show you in a minute. Anyways, we did this on the 22nd. It was DKS. Entry was $1,595. Shares were $1,300. Risk was $33,15. Eggs was $1,1290. Profit was $39,65. This is not the chart of DKS. This is the chart of Tesla. I'll have to show you that when I'm done, because I can't flip back and forth at the PowerPoint if I have time. And then we'll look at the market actually when I'm done. But on 822, if you want to pull it up yourself, we did DKS. This one is Foot Locker. Here, Foot Locker we did on the 23rd. Stock closed here. Gap down. We shorted it right here. Entry was $15,25. 8,000 shares. Risk was $2,800. It exited at $14,85. This stock doesn't move that much. If you know it, if you understand it, we got in and out. That was done and boom. Again, down here's the volume. Stock closed up here around 23. Open in the morning under 17. So this was a day trade. This was a margin. This was cheap. This was cheap. Again, you don't have to have a crazy huge account to do some of these trades. Here was DLTR. Entry was $129,90. 1,500 shares. Risk was $3,300. Exit at $128,20. This was $8,24. I could have held this longer. I could have held this a lot longer. So anyways, this closed up here around 142 and changed. Opened here around 130-ish. We shorted this. I just want to show you where this went. It came all the way down here. This was the 24th. It came down to 122 and changed. I could have got out. I could have just held this all day. But I do what I do when I get in and out fast. I made $25,50. And then on the 25th, we did Marvell. $54,10. Shares was $2,500. Risk was $3,000. Exit was $53,20. It was almost a dollar. Trying to get a dollar. Most of the trades that I take, $22,50. This was here. Stock closed here. Gapped down. We shorted it. This was the Marvell. So anyways, that was a good week. That was a good week. And if I have time at the end, I'll go up and I'll pull up the DKS and show you that, which was the Tuesday. But there are times when I don't have a gap that rains good, then the idea is you do nothing. And that's difficult for people. But you've got to do that because you have to apply the system consistently. Now, we did do some puts. We did some puts last week, but this was August. I just want to show you the 440 put that we did on the 16th in the spy. It expired on the 25th. Again, a week and a half is probably the longest. I'll do something now. This was cheap. This was cheap to do the market. $330, the 16th. Let me show you the chart first. Here. We did it here. Fell. Gapped down. You would exit it. So we did this here. You see the 440. Gapped down the next day here. See where this was. So again, I will do something and then I could get out the same day or I might hold it. This was way through the strike. So I held it. You exit here. So you exit the gap down. But actually, even if you exited it on this day, you were still through the strike. But this is a larger risk for me. You can risk less. You could do one contract. We're going to go over a beginner in a minute. $8250 risk. You could have made $10,500. 127% return on investment. This is getting out of the trade the following day. So I called this kind of late actually. $111. I saw we were going to continue to fall into the close and then the next day. So I called that kind of late. This was again the 16th. If you risked four contracts, you could have made $1680. So you see how you can take like if you had for example, say a $10,000 account, $10,000 options account on cash, you could have done this trade. And then you could have made again, almost 20% of your account in one trade overnight. So you would have had to take and then hold it and exit it then the second debt. But again, you can do that if you haven't set up as a cash account. So that is how you grow your account. That is how you do it. Again, it's not about going hog wild in something or risking more than you can afford. Like I wouldn't take a trade and risk $1,000 plus if you only have $2,500 in an account. You have to be very cautious about that. But that is a fast move for an option straight. And again, short moves happen fast. Why? Because of selling. Because of selling pressure, because of panic. Apple's a good example. If you're a long Apple and it fell off a planet yesterday and today, you would panic. Okay, you would be panicking. Again, they had their conference yesterday. I didn't follow the whole thing. This thing, that thing, they're really not coming up with any new things when they're doing their new product launches every year. It's a little bit new, a little bit that it's pretty much the same thing for more money. So the stock fell. You're also seeing a fall off in that sector lately. And that creates panic. Panic is fear. Fear creates selling. So you're basically shorting, okay, you're shorting the panic of something. And that's what allows you to get that kind of big momentum. And obviously, I'm looking for a dollar, but many of these trades went more than a buck. So whether you want to hold something to get out of half or hold the rest is up to you. So how do I find the best shorts daily? How do I make the picks? I use my reigning system to make the picks. This is the system. This is what you've learned in the class. Again, I use Kramer as an example because my system is something that you can learn. It's a 26-point rating system. If the gap rates 20 points or more, I'll take it in the direction of the gap. In the case of the gap downs, we're shorting. I'm never going long a gap down. Again, we were short the market last week into the gap down. Exited trains, got out of the puts. The market lifted. I did not go long that. I did not go long that. Okay, so I'm looking to follow what the institutional money is doing, preferably in the gap. Could be in the live day like the Oracle yesterday could be overnight. Gaps are created with large institutional money, and that is what makes the gap. The professional gaps that happen and play out in stocks are formed by one thing, and one thing only, large institutional money. Therefore, you need a way that will help you pick the correct direction to play the gap and then confirm that the large money will flow with it. The spy, again, is a great example of that last week because of the way that we sold off. Again, if we have time at the end, I'll show the DKS and then we'll talk about the market. The way that the spy sold off last week and then gap down, the way banks have been acting all year. Again, you're not going to have the spy. You're not going to have the spy make brand new on-time highs and go up and continue higher without the financials. The financials do not look good. They have not looked good this entire year of 2023. In fact, I'm shocked, surprised even, as much of a rally that we've had this year since January without the financials. The financials look terrible and banks still could continue to go under. I was on Fox News Labor Day and I talked about this and we talked about it. Again, whatever the Fed decides to do has nothing to do with whatever's going to happen with banks because if the Fed decides to continue to raise rates, then there will be more banks that go under. We will know more next week. Next week could be a great week, great, frankly, to trade. But we'll see. Anyways, getting back to the checklist. The checklist is a system. It's a trading system and it's really based on common sense. It's based on common sense. Think about it. How do you make money in the market? You've got to have momentum. You've got to have momentum if you have small size. You've got to have momentum if you have big size. What else makes sense? If something's falling, you don't want to buy it. You want to short it. Again, if panic comes in, that's an opportunity. It's an opportunity for you to short. Shorting really gives me a niche because people get scared when stocks are falling and many traders do not know how to short or if they do, they're shorting the wrong stuff or they're shorting stocks at new highs. Even if sometimes that works, it doesn't work consistently and it's not something that you should do. Again, getting back to what if you have a small account? You can still make money trading and you can learn as you go and that's important too. Again, I teach my class in a weekend. It's two days. Are you going to learn everything I know in two days? Yes. Are you going to grasp the concepts perfectly in two days? I don't know. I don't know you. I don't know the people that come to me. I get to know them over time. But learning what to do is a process. It is a process. I started trading in 2008 and then again, it took me three years to figure out my system and now here it is. It's almost 2024. It's been a long time that I've been doing this. So yes, I'm doing very well and I'm good at what I do, but I've been doing this a long time and not only that, I've only been doing this. So there are lots of people that are trading out there for a long time or have businesses teaching things. I don't teach a whole gamut. I'm not teaching futures and forex of this thing and that thing. I'm only doing gaps. I'm only trading gaps. I'm only teaching gaps and I'm only shorting. Occasionally I'll go long, but I'm mostly, mostly shorting. So having the right focus is where it's at as far as I'm concerned because that's how you're going to get good. And again, like I said, if you want to trade options, you can do that too. Now we did the queues the same day that we did the spy, the queues are falling today with Apple too. This was back on the 16th as well. I sent this before the spy trade at 1251. Usually I send the trades in the morning, even in the pre-market. I sent Oracle out the night before actually. I sent Oracle at 11. I saw Oracle and I sent the trade at seven o'clock at night, but you couldn't do it until the next day. So I'll send the trade out when I see it. Most of them are sent in the morning. The cost of this was 290 and again, you could have made 141%. You could have made over 12 grand with an $8,700 risk in 24 hours. You would have to take the trade, hold it, and exit it then the following day. This was the 360s. Again, closed here, gap down, fell, boom, boom. Nice move down in the spy. I mean in the queues and the spy, but that was the middle of August. And then if you did four contracts, you could have made 1640. Again, a nice trade. Bing, bam, boom. You're in and out. Anyways, getting back to what I was saying about what should you expect as far as turning your money around one to one. Sometimes I get out of the options though from about 50%. Again, right now it's not earning season. Earning season doesn't start till October. I may exit things before 100% right now. It is September typically is one of the slower months to train until earning season begins, which is October. That being said, because of the Fed meeting next week, we could have some days that have tremendous opportunity.  But for me, if you come and you want to learn my system, you will learn the 26 points, you will learn the entries I do, you will learn the exits, and then you'll have an opportunity to understand what I do and mostly learn how to short. And that's very important. Again, I started out the lecture today talking about having a positive attitude. You have to have a positive attitude. The only way to make it is to have a positive attitude.  So if you learn how to do this, even if it takes you longer than you thought, even if it costs you more money than you thought or a number of years and you thought you were going to do it in a number of weeks, it's worth it if you stick with it and if you stay with it and you stick with it and you continue along and stay focused on becoming successful and getting it. Because at the end of the day, there's many people that have a negative attitude about trading. They risk money every day. They don't know what they're doing and they still keep doing it. They put the money into the pot. Those are the people that we take the money away from. And again, there were people that went long oracle yesterday and I was shorting it 100%. There were traders that were buying that dip in oracle 1000%. And even last week in the market and we were short. So again, learning what to do is extremely important, but you do need the proper education. You do need a good mentor. And again, I wish I could say, well, you could start out right away, never take a class, take one class, learn how to do it, go on from there. There's a path. It's usually not that way. I moved about a year ago. I'm in my new apartment almost a year. It took me 29 months to find this apartment. Realtor, realtor, realtor, showings and realtors and this crazy person and this putting in offers, getting the offers rejected, 29 months. It was crazy. I couldn't believe how long it took me to find this place. I'm happy. I continued along. I stayed positive. I found my dream apartment. I'm here. That's how it is when you're trying to make it as a trader. You may take this class, that class, this class, that class. You meet different people. You find different mentors. It's a process. It's either that or you do what I did, which was a very long road and a very expensive road where you design your own system. You take years of doing it. You figured out, go through the process and you do it with your own live money and you lose until you get it. There's no end in sight when you do that. It took me three years. It could have taken me 10. I'm lucky it only took me three, but it was really hard three years for me. And luckily, I can just move forward, but people always say, well, I did this class. I did that class and I hear people's stories. I get it, but that's the process that people go through in order to make it. And like I said, it's a good example of me trying to find an apartment. This is the process. You put in offers. They get rejected. You find another one. Anyways, getting on to risk. It's important not to take risk for risk sake. It's important to take calculated risk. You need a plan of action to do it. If you come and want to learn my system, you'll learn a high probability of directional bias for the entire day, a big move of the day, early confirmation of the bias and the move between 930 and 10, precise entries with follow-through and a good risk to reward. And again, you will learn a system on how to rate professional bearish gaps. It's a 26 point system. It's one strategy to be successful in the market. It's a two day class. And again, you're going to learn how to enter the stock as well. But the checklist, the 26 points is really the meat and potatoes of what I do and how to do it. So my class is September 30th and October 1st. It's the end of the month. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. Class of the class is $69.99. And you can email me if you want to sign up. I'm doing a birthday special this week until Sunday, the 17th, if you want to sign up. You get the trading room free for one year, the newsletter free for one year. If you sign up by Sunday the 17th, again, the class is at the end of September. This expires on Sunday. And if you're interested in a trial, you can email me at Melissa, the stockswish.com as well. Now I am going to try to put my charts up. Can you see my chart? So do I have to click on and off of it? We can see your charts. Oh, you can. Oh, that worked. Oh, Apple looks good. Okay, let's go to the DKS. Okay, so DKS, we were talking about this was the 22nd. Let me just pull this up here. And then we'll talk about the market really quickly. And if anybody has any questions, let me know. Let's go back here. There it is. So this was what we did again, stock closed here gap down fell. This was the trade that we did on that day. I don't know why I have the Tesla in there. We haven't done Tesla for a while. That was that. Let's take a look at the market quick. Apple looks good. Apple looks good. Let's look at the spy. Spy is trying to lift. Let's talk about the spy. Any questions, problem in the room? And let's look at the market. So again, market has two choices. We got three more days left this week. Well, not even two and a half. So the market may wait. We have some data tomorrow. We have some data Friday. The market may have a reaction or we may wait till next Wednesday. I think we're going to be range bound here in this market until next Wednesday. Now next Wednesday may move us out of the range. I think that we could have a bearish fall. We'll see if that ends up being true. If we don't, if we end up rally next week, which would be created by what? The Fed saying that they're going to not raise rates anymore or even lower rates that would create the market rallying and lifting and continuing to make new highs or try to make new highs, attempt to make new highs, which we're back here at the end of 20. No, it's the beginning of 2022. It was the last time we made new highs in the market. So we really tried to do it a couple of weeks ago and I thought we might. We tried to break out and we failed. I don't think the market has a juice to do it this week. And I don't think it's going to do it next week. And if I had to call this here, I'd say we're range bound until earning season or we're lower. So that's my take on this, but it's going to be tight trades in here where you're taking the trading, you're getting out fast. If you're doing the cues of the spy, unless we drop. I mean, I just think it's so low odds that we rally, but we'll see. You can go wherever you want to go, Terence. You don't have to go where I go, but this is Orbis, which is actually Viewtrain is the broker, but you don't have to go there. You can use, I appear also on Schwab Network. So I don't work for any broker. I'm not a broker. I don't have an affiliation with any broker. So if you want to go to Schwab too, I appear on their news network with Nicole Petalini's, you can make their charts look like mine as well. I've just used this same charting package for pretty much ever. So, you know, when you get into a habit of training and using the same thing, it's very difficult to change. In fact, the way that I have my chart set up, I've used forever and I've never, ever changed it. I mean, my charts are very clean.  So again, the focus should be the gap. Let me look at, let's pull up Oracle. So you want to focus on the gap. So if you have too many things, you know, too many indicators, this thing, that thing, the other thing, it's going to take your focus off the gap itself, which is all that you really want to worry about, you know, when you're trading or at least what I'm doing, what I'm doing here. But again, you can see this was the gap from the other day. 9-11 came down in here, fell 107.30 was the low yesterday, but you can go wherever you want to go. You could make your charts probably look like mine anywhere you want to go to. Adobe is the big one, just really quickly and I'm just watching the clock here. Adobe is out Thursday night. Let's look at this. Adobe is earnings and Len has earnings Thursday night. So I don't know what we're going to do tomorrow. Friday, we should have something good. Let's just look at Adobe. Adobe would be a great long. If it wants to gap up, we may be going long Adobe, but if it falls and it gaps down, I'll rate it. We'll see where it's at. I can, I'm just looking at this here right now. Adobe would be a better long. Adobe over 600, but it'll just skyrocket like a crazy person. I don't know if it does that. I have no idea what the earnings say, but I'll be, I would prefer Adobe to be a long and this I would go long and Adobe over 600 would be a great trade, would be a great long. Adobe is trying to make a comeback here. Adobe looks better than the market actually. This looks better than a lot of things. Looks better than Apple. But again, I do prefer to short, but just looking at Adobe here, I'm like, oh, this is really would be a much better long. A quick look at Len. Any other questions from anybody? So it's been, it's been an interesting year to trade. It's been a, it's been a, again, we, so 2022 just recap here at market 2022 was a fabulous year to short. Why? The market kept falling. I mean, again, there was economic data that was coming out and we fell and they kept bumping up rates. January this year was shocked. I mean, I did not read the market correct in January. I thought we were going to fall. We rally. I was shocked. We have not broken the low for the year. We could, we still could. We still have time to do it. We might. I don't know. I don't think we make new highs this year. I could be wrong. We'll see. Next week is very important for the Fed and for the market. But anyways, I was shocked in January. For the rest of the year, though, I really was very focused on reading the market to see really where we would go. And I, I just don't think we make new highs this year. But again, the economic data like today is starting to show. Again, these things are all cyclical. They're all in the past when they give these numbers or things that happened in the past. Mortgage numbers came in, they dropped. Applications dropped were in a rising interest rate environment. We talked about inflation, shrinkflation. All these things are going to take effect. When I was on Fox, I said, well, people say we're in a recession. We're not a recession. I was on with Charles Payne. I thought about it afterwards in the segment. And I thought, I think, and then again, I was shopping and I said, I think, I think we're in a mild recession. If I, if I, if I, if someone forced me to make a call, I'd say, I think we're actually next time on Fox is that I think we're in a mild recession. And, and, and we could prevent a further recession if the Fed stops raising rates or low as a, I don't know if they're going to take that stance. If they continue raising rates, my, my take is that we're going to go into a recession, a hard recession, a real recession, a recession that everyone will say is a recession. And I don't know what happens to the economy and going into an election year, again, that's not good for the incumbent. Let's look at Len really quickly. This is Len's Thursday night. Len, I would love to short Len. But again, I don't know what Len's going to do. Len looks like a good short. If it gaps down and Adobe looks like a good long, if it gaps up. So again, really quickly here, here's my information. If you're interested, you want to try email me at Melissa at the stockswush.com. Or if you have any questions, thank you so much for having me, John. I appreciate it. And I did not recognize you in that videos because you didn't have a hat on. I think that your hat is your signature look, John, for future.


So Shireen, what are the funds that are required for the tourist visa? So the tourist visa of Canada is actually a temporary resident visa. So you have to understand that you have to show strong ties to whom or any resident country. For example, you are in UAE or anywhere, you have to show strong ties even lifestyle documents you can show. But anything that makes the reason that you're going to come back, if you have relatives back home, you should show their affidavits or anything like that. The funds that are required is very interesting that it should not be more than a certain amount. If it is more than a certain amount, they think, okay, you're going to go permanently. I read somewhere that somebody even got hold of their utensils they brought in their back and that was the reason they sent them back. So you have to be very careful about all these things. Funds can be around $5,000 to $7,000.


Aloha, I'm Senator Russell Ruderman, State Senator from the Pune and Ka'u District on the Big Island, and you're here at the Ruderman Roundtable on Think Tech Hawaii. Thank you for joining us today. Today our guest is Paul Atchitoff. Paul Atchitoff graduated from Harvard College and the Columbia Law School, and for the last 22 years has been managing attorney for the Hawaii Office of Earth Justice, a national non-profit public interest environmental law firm. Paul practiced business and environmental litigation in private practice in Los Angeles and Honolulu for 11 years before joining Earth Justice in 1994. He's handled a wide variety of public interest environmental matters such as endangered species, commercial fisheries, water pollution, and stream restoration cases. For the past decade, Paul has focused on addressing problems caused by genetically modified organisms and pesticides. Welcome to the show, Paul. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me on the show, Russell. So lately you have been very involved in defending three of the counties in GMO or pesticide related cases that, tell me about that, there's three counties passed bills each of which was overturned in a court that is now under appeal. Is that correct? That's correct. Now I'm not representing Maui County or the county of Kauai. I'm representing community groups on Kauai that is defending the Kauai ordinance. And I am representing the county of Hawaii. But I'm not involved in the Maui case. But in any event, you're right that each of the counties passed an ordinance addressing genetically engineered crops in different ways and the Kauai ordinance also addressed pesticide use in that county. And the lower court, federal court in Hawaii, found that all three of those ordinances were preempted by state and federal law and therefore unenforceable. And all of those cases were appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. And the Ninth Circuit was in town about six weeks ago. And I and other attorneys argued our appeals to try and persuade the court that those ordinances should not have been found to be unlawful. So we're waiting to hear from them. I see. So you've had the trial, you've presented your case, and now you're waiting. The judgment? Is that correct? Is there more to? No, we're just waiting right now. It could take a few months. It could take more than a few months. It's hard to say. Sometimes the court of appeals rules quickly. Sometimes it takes longer. So there's nothing to do but wait. Okay. So the process is done except for waiting for the judgment. That's right. There's no more trial to do. What can you tell us about how did that go? I mean, I'm particularly interested in the Hawaii County one, but I'm interested in the whole statewide situation. How did it go to your eyes? I have always felt that the counties have strong arguments. And I obviously judge Curran in the case of the Big Island and Kauai ordinances and Judge Moway in the case of the Maui ordinance disagreed. Nevertheless, I continue to feel that the counties do have the authority to regulate genetically engineered crops. The state of Hawaii has no laws whatsoever regulating genetically engineered crops. None at all. And the court's decision saying that notwithstanding that fact, only the state can regulate genetically engineered crops, I believe, is unprecedented and simply not supported by the law in Hawaii or anywhere else. We'll see what the Ninth Circuit has to say. They may disagree, obviously. Very interesting. By the way, thank you for arguing on behalf of our counties. That's an important issue. Now, you mentioned pesticides. I know that the Kauai case was largely involved with pesticide regulation in buffer zones, right? That's right. Tell me, for those who might not know, why is pesticides part of the discussion when we talk about regulating genetically engineered crops? Well, conventional farmers as well as growers of genetically engineered crops or genetically engineered seed crops, as is common in Hawaii, they all use pesticides. Organic farmers don't, or at least the ones that they use are quite different from the pesticides that conventional farmers use. But the growing of experimental genetically engineered crops is a very pesticide-intensive operation. And if you go over, for example, on Kauai, go to the west side, you drive mile after mile of fields of either experimental crops or commercialized seed-producing operations. And they use many, many different pesticides, and some of these are quite toxic. And the reason it's in the discussion is because, for example, those on the west side, you've got towns like Kukaha, Waimea, where people live in close proximity to these fields. And these pesticides do drift out of the fields, and people are exposed to them. They go into the surface water and go into the ocean. And they go into, for example, there's 40 miles of drainage ditches out on the west side of Kauai that go through the agricultural fields and drain into the ocean right there. Estesides go into that water, along with a lot of other pollutants. It's not treated at all. People go into those canals. People swim in the water right off the beach. And it's at this point simply not even regulated for what's in that water. So if pesticides stayed exactly where they were sprayed, then the only issue would be the impact on the field workers, which can be very significant, and the impact on people who eat the food. But it doesn't just stay where they put it. So you also have other people who are affected. It goes into the environment, into the oceans, and you're sure. So a few years back, a couple of the counties banned genetic modification of tarot and coffee. Is that correct? Yes. At this moment, there is on the books, there has been for eight or nine years an ordinance in Hawaii County that bans genetically engineered coffee and kalo. And on Maui, they also have an ordinance that I think was passed the following year, if I'm not mistaken, that bans genetically engineered kalo. Nobody challenged those, even though the state was well aware of it at the time. The legislature never had anything to say about it. Industry never had anything to say about it. Nobody said, oh, you know that the counties don't have that authority. Only the state can regulate genetically engineered crops. Nobody said a word about it because, in my view, nobody in the state actually believed that the counties did not have that authority until the chemical companies came along and challenged, in the first case, the Kauai ordinance. And their attorneys made some creative arguments about the counties not having that authority. And Judge Curran was persuaded by those arguments. But if the Ninth Circuit upholds Judge Curran on that, then it stands to reason that the kalo and the coffee ordinances will go down as well. So the county ordinances were county ordinances affecting, regulating GMO crops, and they have never been challenged. That's right. I mean, for a simpleton like myself, it seems like, therefore, the counties have the right to regulate GMOs, but that's what is being decided by the greater minds of myself right now. Okay, good. Recently there was the Kauai Joint Fact-Finding Study, if I'm getting the name right. It's supposed to be around a wide range of input. Tell me what you read. They came out with their final report. What did you see in that report? What did you learn from it? What does it say? I've heard people on both sides claiming that it vindicates one side completely and the other side says the exact same thing. What do you read in that report? What is it telling us? What I read in that report is that there are pesticides, some of which are quite toxic, depending on who's exposed and to what extent, that are being found where legally they are not supposed to be and where they would not be if they had been applied according to the label, which is the law, although unfortunately the labels are not as protective as they should be because even if you follow the label they can get into the environment, but nevertheless they are found where they shouldn't be. I think a lot of the argument has been, well, is that harmful? What I get from the report is that because the state has not done very much in the way of monitoring or sampling of air, of water, of soil for these chemicals, it's very difficult to answer that question definitively to say that, no, it's absolutely harmless or it's very harmful. If you don't have data it's hard to make scientific determinations. You instead, you end up with fears, you have rhetoric, you have so forth, and so I think the report was quite straightforward in saying that if we want to have science-based determinations about what's going on, the state needs to do a much better job in actually taking samples and analyzing them and not sitting on the sidelines. And unless and until the state does that, I don't think either side can say that they are vindicated. I have heard the Department of Agriculture's perspective being, well, there's no proof here that it's hurting people. To me, that is a very irresponsible thing for a state agency to be saying, an agency that is responsible for regulating pesticide use on behalf of the state, which is responsible for protecting public health and not just protecting the profits of Big Ag, to be jumping on this report as if it demonstrates that pesticides in the environment are harmless. The report doesn't say anything like that and suggesting that it does, I think, is just wrong and very disappointing. So let me clarify. So the report states that there's no clear evidence of harm from pesticides, but it also states that the data that we would need to really come to that conclusion is absent. That's exactly right. So whose job would it be to go out and begin to collect the data? Would that be the Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, EPA? I think that it's primarily on the Department of Health. And I think that they have not been doing as good a job as they should be. I think that there is a lack of resources being put towards addressing the issue of pesticides in Hawaii, whether on behalf of the Department of Health or the Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture is responsible for enforcing our pesticide laws, and I think it's doing quite a poor job of that because it simply doesn't devote the resources to it. And whether it's because they don't have the budget or because the legislature has not seen fit to give them the budget or their priorities within the budget they have, the bottom line is they're not doing the job that they are supposed to be doing. Paul, let me interrupt you there. We'll come back in just a minute. Sure. And thank you very much. We're with Paul Acetoff, Managing Attorney for Earth Justice in Hawaii. I'm State Senator Russell Ruderman with the Ruderman Roundtable on Think Tech Hawaii. We'll be right back. Thank you for joining us. Aloha. This is Reg Baker with Business in Hawaii. We're a show that broadcasts every Thursday at 2 o'clock. We would love to hear from you, and you can reach us in several different ways. We have a hotline that you can call in at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or you can email us at ThinkTechHawaii.com, or you can tweet us at ThinkTechHI. Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you on our next show. Aloha. For a very healthy summer, watch Viva Hawaii. We are here live on Mondays at 3 p.m., and we bring guests like our best health coach Elena Maganto eat well and follow her tips. Viva la comida saludable. Hi, I'm Ethan Allen, host of Likeable Science here on ThinkTechHawaii.com. I hope you'll join me every Friday at 2 p.m. to discover what's likeable about science. Welcome back. I'm State Senator Russell Ruderman. I'm here at the Ruderman Roundtable with Paul Adjutoff, managing attorney for the Hawaii Office of Earth Justice. Paul, we were talking about pesticides and regulations and the fact that perhaps they're not being regulated sufficiently here in Hawaii. Is the state able to, from a financial point of view, if they wanted to more properly regulate and monitor for pesticides, could they do it, or would they need more resources to do so? Well, the Department of Agriculture, which has currently the primary authority to enforce first pesticide laws in the state, I believe they're understaffed. I don't think there's any question that they're understaffed. I believe the Department knows it, the EPA certainly knows it. Now, what their budget is and how they're allocating that budget, I don't really think that that is the real question. The question is, how much do they need to do the job? And is the legislature giving them that amount of money? And if they are, why aren't they using it in that way? And if they are not, why don't they? Because there is a certain minimum amount of money that's needed. Hawaii is one of 49 states that has been given by the EPA, primary authority, to enforce federal pesticide laws within their state. The EPA has been quite critical of our Department of Agriculture in its failure over the past several years to adequately enforce and investigate pesticide problems in the state. There is a big stack of files sitting on the Department of Agriculture's desk of pesticide issues that have simply not been addressed. And some of these are so old, dating back for almost a decade, that the statute of limitations has run out on some of these so that they couldn't be prosecuted even if there were, it was shown to be something that should be prosecuted. And the Department knows this, EPA has made this very clear. And as a result, I believe that EPA should revoke from the Department of Agriculture this authority and that EPA should take over this enforcement because I don't believe that the state is taking it seriously enough. They're simply not funding it adequately or the Department's not using the funds it has. I don't know which it is. But I've been litigating environmental violations for a long time and it's quite common to hear agencies complain that they don't have the money, they don't have the money. We hear this all the time. What that usually means is there's a lack of political will. And sometimes you have to go to court and say, look, you're breaking the law. You're putting people's health at risk because you are spending taxpayers' money in this way rather than in that way. So you need to make a decision. And I believe in this case, if the state is not willing to put the kind of money towards enforcing pesticide laws that are unnecessary, then they shouldn't be entrusted with that authority and the EPA should take over. Has the EPA done that with any states? If it has, I'm not aware of it. So the fact that we're even, they're even looking at this or why perhaps suggest that why he's done a particularly bad job of regulating this. I think that's true. I think that's true. Is it also true that we have a somewhat unique pesticide situation with all these experimental crops and seed crops? Do we have a different type of pesticide use environment than what's typical around the country? I think what's different and unique about our situation are two things. Number one, Hawaii is a place that has more experimental field trials for genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the country. That's number one. So you, and as I said, that's a very pesticide intensive industry. The other aspect of it is we're very small and we are also very densely populated in the sense that these fields are near population centers. If we were talking about some place in the Midwest where you have literally millions of acres and the nearest town might be 100 miles away, that's a little different from where you have places like on Molokai or on Kauai and even on Oahu where you have towns that are literally down the street from heavy pesticide use. And then we have what we think of as pure pristine coastal waterways right downstream from them too that in the Midwest we might not have that problem as well. Well, the Midwest has a big problem, frankly, with pesticides in their surface waters. Atrazine, for example, which is a syngenta product and is used in Hawaii quite a bit, has been found in practically all of the surface waters throughout the Midwest. If you look at a map around the Mississippi Valley, everywhere where the big commodity crops or where corn is grown, you will see that atrazine pollution is very widespread. And as a result, a lot of the water boards of those counties have had to sue syngenta for money to get that out of the water supply. And in fact, even Kauai County got some money from the settlement a few years ago from a class action against syngenta because of atrazine in the water supply. So speaking of untreated runoff, pesticides flowing into the waterways and into the oceans, we were talking earlier that you're involved in an action regarding ADC and untreated runoff. Can you tell us about that? Yes. Well, that's the Agri-Business Development Corporation, which is... And by the way, what do they do? I'm sorry. What they do is that they are tasked with promoting agriculture in the state, and they are associated with the Department of Agriculture. And one of the things they do is they lease lands, for example, they lease a lot of the lands over on Kauai on the west side that are currently being used by the biotech companies, but they lease land all over the state. We filed a lawsuit a couple of weeks ago against ADC for violations of the Clean Water Act. Over near Kikaha and Waimea on Kauai, there is a canal system, a drainage system that is about 40 miles of canals that weave all through the fields and through the towns and drain directly into the ocean. The water is not treated, and it contains a variety of pollutants, including pesticides that come from these agricultural fields. And for many years, ADC had a permit under the Clean Water Act that restricted what could go in the water and required them to sample regularly and to report the results of their sampling publicly on a regular basis. Last year ADC decided that it couldn't be bothered with this permit compliance any longer and went to the Department of Health who said, okay, you don't need a permit anymore. So we believe that that's legally wrong. We believe they're violating the Clean Water Act. We believe that the public has a right to not only to know what's going into the ocean where they swim and fish and play, but they have a right to have limits on what can be put in that water. So we've sued them and we'll see how that goes. So that's brand new. That's a new story. The Clean Water Act, now that's a federal act, but they had a permit from the State Department of Health or it was a federal permit. It's a federal permit that is issued under federal law. The Clean Water Act is a federal law, but the State Department of Health has been delegated the authority to administer the Clean Water Act in certain respects in the state, just as the Department of Agriculture has been delegated authority to enforce federal pesticide laws in the state. If a state agency demonstrates that it has the resources to do the job, then it can get this authority. If it doesn't have the resources, then the federal agencies can take this authority back. Now the ADC, is it a part of the Department of Agriculture or is it a separate or semi-autonomous agency? I'm not aware of another agency. There may be others within the state that are similarly set up. I don't know of any others, but it is a separate or affiliated in certain ways with the Department of Agriculture, the Board of Directors. There are people sitting on the Board of ADC that come from the Department of Agriculture, as well as other agencies. So there is a relationship there, funding relationships and so forth, but it is a separate corporation with defined tasks. Now does the ADC, when they lease land, do they make any value a judgment of you're going to grow a seed crop, you're going to grow flowers, you're going to grow food to be consumed in the state? Do they have any kind of mandate to try to help food production in the state, or is it simply a matter of leasing agricultural land to whoever wants it? Well, I think that's a question of how they interpret their mandate. They may interpret their mandate as simply leasing it to anyone who grows anything. I think whether that's what the legislature intended, whether that's what's in the public interest, those are different questions. Let me stop you right there, Paul. They're almost out of time. Tell me, Earthjustice, how would someone contact you if they want to learn more about you? How can they get involved and support what you do at Earthjustice? Earthjustice has a very extensive website, Earthjustice. Just Google Earthjustice and it'll be right there and it will show what work we're doing in all of our offices around the country. Every case that we file gets represented there on some level. Press releases are put up there for people to read, where there are blogs in which we discuss the cases that we're working on. If people want to donate money, which we always appreciate, there's an opportunity to do that on the website. So I encourage people to check it out and see what we're doing. Well, thank you. As a layperson who cares very much about the environment, I take great comfort in knowing that an organization like Earthjustice exists and that you're as powerful and successful in advocating for the environment as you have. Thank you very much for joining me today, Paul. Thank you very much, Russell. This is State Senator Russell Ruderman at the Ruderman Roundtable. We're here on Think Tech Hawaii every other Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. You can follow us at Think Tech Hawaii and we'll see you in two weeks. Mahala.