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1 00:00:53 --> 00:01:00 ICT: What is good morning? It is a good morning. How about it? Can you guys hear
2 00:01:00 --> 00:01:08 me. Check and see on this app you guys can hear me. If the volume's good, let
3 00:01:08 --> 00:01:14 me know what you can hear me or not.
4 00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 Give folks another minute or two to get in here.
5 00:01:32 --> 00:01:37 Awesome, awesome, awesome. Okay, so this is a reminder.
6 00:01:40 --> 00:01:47 I'm out here going on without a script, okay, and given enough time,
7 00:01:50 --> 00:01:55 I might say things that are not friendly for the young ones ears. So if you're
8 00:01:55 --> 00:01:59 listening, you have your computer speakers on, or you're listening through
9 00:01:59 --> 00:02:04 your television or something to that effect, where other people that you
10 00:02:04 --> 00:02:09 might not want have hear me say something that would be disruptive to
11 00:02:09 --> 00:02:15 their age. This is your cue to put it on headphones. Okay, I'm assuming that
12 00:02:15 --> 00:02:19 we're all adults here. I'll probably be talking about things that are going to
13 00:02:19 --> 00:02:23 be boring to a child anyway. So children, anyone I'm under the age of
14 00:02:23 --> 00:02:28 18, shouldn't be listening to these sort of spaces, in my opinion. Okay, for the
15 00:02:28 --> 00:02:33 folks that are putting it up on YouTube, again, you have my permission to do
16 00:02:33 --> 00:02:41 this. I don't want this on my own YouTube channel. Just you come up with
17 00:02:41 --> 00:02:46 some kind of a way of splicing up the sections that way the people that want
18 00:02:46 --> 00:02:50 to listen to, because I'm going to talk about controlling anxiety and attacking
19 00:02:50 --> 00:02:54 all those things that way you can trade without stress. But I'm also going to
20 00:02:54 --> 00:03:02 talk about, in the beginning, all the anxiety and stress and straining without
21 00:03:02 --> 00:03:07 stress, all those techniques and stuff that's going to be towards the end of
22 00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 this Twitter space. So at the minimum, you should at least divide it that way.
23 00:03:10 --> 00:03:13 So that way, when your listeners are listening to it in your YouTube channel,
24 00:03:13 --> 00:03:17 and again, you're welcome to monetize that. I just don't want you monetizing
25 00:03:17 --> 00:03:21 my lectures for trading the full things. Don't do that. But here you're welcome
26 00:03:21 --> 00:03:25 to do that. I don't mind doing it, and I'm teaching this today because I have a
27 00:03:25 --> 00:03:32 lot of questions that have been brought to me about, how do you as a student,
28 00:03:32 --> 00:03:38 how do you overcome these barriers that you have you may not even realize what
29 00:03:38 --> 00:03:43 they are? How do you discover them? How do you work forward to get through all
30 00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 those things? And then what happens if you can't do it because you are
31 00:03:46 --> 00:03:50 wrestling with some kind of a mental illness? Maybe you're at your wit's end,
32 00:03:50 --> 00:03:55 maybe external stresses, not market itself, but they're all compounding, and
33 00:03:55 --> 00:04:00 you feel like your world's constricting and you just can't focus. You can't
34 00:04:00 --> 00:04:05 focus. You can't do anything right? You feel like impending doom that. That's
35 00:04:05 --> 00:04:10 the latter portion of this Twitter space today, or should we call x space? I just
36 00:04:10 --> 00:04:19 refuse to call that. Sorry. Elon, so Oh, girl, doing well. I have I thought about
37 00:04:19 --> 00:04:23 how I wanted to deliver this kind of conversation. And there's some of you
38 00:04:23 --> 00:04:28 like to walk around or exercise or do whatever, and when we do the exercises
39 00:04:28 --> 00:04:31 or talk about the exercise in the latter portion, please don't be using any kind
40 00:04:31 --> 00:04:36 of vehicle. Don't be trying to do it while you're driving, because you'll see
41 00:04:37 --> 00:04:40 they have a physiological response to it immediately, which will be very
42 00:04:40 --> 00:04:48 surprising to some of you, but there's a lot of new students this year, and the
43 00:04:48 --> 00:04:54 2024 mentorship for Caleb is kind of like hitting on all cylinders right out
44 00:04:54 --> 00:04:58 the gate, because I'm taking right in front of all of the live price action.
45 00:04:58 --> 00:05:05 So. Explaining things, making you aware of what my focus would be at the time,
46 00:05:05 --> 00:05:11 at that moment, watching price action. Now as a trader, in the beginning, you
47 00:05:11 --> 00:05:16 don't know what you don't know, and when you discover things that you didn't
48 00:05:16 --> 00:05:21 realize were so important, it's sometimes very easy to discount it,
49 00:05:23 --> 00:05:29 meaning that you might think to yourself, well, you know, I feel a
50 00:05:29 --> 00:05:35 little anxious because I have too much on the trade, or I just took a loss and
51 00:05:35 --> 00:05:39 I'm already back in the market, and you feel that discomfort, like Something's
52 00:05:39 --> 00:05:43 just not right. A new trader that's rushed to go into trading with real
53 00:05:43 --> 00:05:48 money will look at that and say, Well, I don't want to be a wimp, okay, I don't
54 00:05:48 --> 00:05:54 want to be a softy and feel like I'm getting scared or shook out of the
55 00:05:54 --> 00:05:58 marketplace. Because if we were all in the locker room of the arena that is
56 00:05:58 --> 00:06:02 trading, and I'm in the boys room and we're all changing, and they look at me,
57 00:06:02 --> 00:06:06 they ask me, Hey, how'd you do today? Were you nervous? You look nervous. You
58 00:06:06 --> 00:06:14 don't want to show any kind of signs of weakness. No way. I can't do that. So as
59 00:06:14 --> 00:06:18 a new trader that rushes to put money in before they learn how to trade before
60 00:06:18 --> 00:06:20 they discovered everything that's holding them back, and they don't
61 00:06:20 --> 00:06:27 realize it, yet, they'll have these little triggers, these little moments
62 00:06:27 --> 00:06:33 where they're subconscious starts talking to them about, hey, look, are
63 00:06:33 --> 00:06:36 you sure you want to be where you're at right now? Do you? Do you? Are you sure
64 00:06:36 --> 00:06:41 you want to be doing what you're doing? And in the beginning, you're so,
65 00:06:41 --> 00:06:46 especially for the men, you're so keyed up on trying to be impressive to other
66 00:06:46 --> 00:06:51 people instead of simply relaxing and trying to do this for yourself. There's
67 00:06:51 --> 00:06:58 nothing selfish about that. There's zero selfishness. You absolutely need to be
68 00:06:58 --> 00:07:03 self centered and self focused in the beginning as a developing student, that
69 00:07:03 --> 00:07:07 is not something that is unChristian. It's not something that's egotistical or
70 00:07:07 --> 00:07:12 narcissistic. You need to put yourself inside of a fortress of solitude, and
71 00:07:13 --> 00:07:18 that Fortress of Solitude is both a physical location where, when you're
72 00:07:18 --> 00:07:22 trading, you're not inviting other people's opinion. When you're studying,
73 00:07:22 --> 00:07:27 you're not inviting other people's opinion, whoever you're using as a
74 00:07:27 --> 00:07:30 resource, and I'm assuming, because you're listening to me, you're tapping
75 00:07:30 --> 00:07:36 into me as that resource. Don't let other authors, teachers, influencers,
76 00:07:37 --> 00:07:42 come in, because I'm going to be very, very disruptive to that. The number one
77 00:07:42 --> 00:07:47 reason why I do that is the number one draw crowd. It's like starting a fire.
78 00:07:47 --> 00:07:50 People can't turn away from a fire. They can't turn away from a train wreck or a
79 00:07:50 --> 00:07:54 car accident. You really don't take pleasure in seeing bad things happen
80 00:07:54 --> 00:07:59 with people, but you just can't help it. You gotta look. And I have used those
81 00:07:59 --> 00:08:03 things to garner a crowd? Well, you don't want to do that with your own
82 00:08:03 --> 00:08:06 trading. You don't want to do that with your own development, because what
83 00:08:06 --> 00:08:09 you're going to do is you're going to invite other people's opinion. Where
84 00:08:09 --> 00:08:15 would I market myself for free? Never paid for it. I invite the opinions of
85 00:08:15 --> 00:08:20 others, and I make it polarizing because it makes other people talk. And there's
86 00:08:20 --> 00:08:25 no faster viral marketing campaign than you can have is if you can make
87 00:08:25 --> 00:08:30 something divisive. That's why pro wrestling you the scripted stuff. That's
88 00:08:30 --> 00:08:34 why it was so popular, so long it's all scripted and it's manipulation of the
89 00:08:34 --> 00:08:41 audience. But if I can encourage you as a student to try to remove that stuff
90 00:08:43 --> 00:08:47 from your learning and your studying to other people that might sound cultish,
91 00:08:47 --> 00:08:53 and I can see that, and I use that, I embrace that, because that perspective
92 00:08:54 --> 00:08:58 eliminates the ability for outside influences to mess you up, because you
93 00:08:58 --> 00:09:03 have to discover who you Are. I had students come to me, go through all the
94 00:09:04 --> 00:09:09 things that put them through, and they say, You know what? This doesn't suit
95 00:09:09 --> 00:09:13 me. I don't think I should be a trader. And that's maturity. It doesn't mean
96 00:09:13 --> 00:09:16 that the stuff that they were learning doesn't work. This means that they
97 00:09:16 --> 00:09:20 weren't trading at all. They just can't do it, and why put themselves through
98 00:09:20 --> 00:09:25 it. So I want to, kind of like invite that opportunity for all of you, because
99 00:09:25 --> 00:09:29 trading is absolutely not for everyone. There's going to be some things that
100 00:09:29 --> 00:09:32 you're going to encounter while you're trading, while you're learning to trade,
101 00:09:32 --> 00:09:37 when you lose money, you don't know what that feels like until it happens. And
102 00:09:37 --> 00:09:40 all the coping skills I'm going to teach at the end of this Twitter space name
103 00:09:40 --> 00:09:44 may not be enough to get you through it and past it. It might just say, You know
104 00:09:44 --> 00:09:49 what? This, this isn't just doesn't feel right for me. And if it happens to be
105 00:09:49 --> 00:09:54 you that feels that way, you know what? Put it aside for a little while, maybe
106 00:09:54 --> 00:09:58 six months. And if you feel the urge to come back to it, maybe not with me, but
107 00:09:58 --> 00:10:02 someone else teaching. It if they can prove that they have something that
108 00:10:02 --> 00:10:06 works, and they have other people that have learned what it is they taught, and
109 00:10:06 --> 00:10:10 they're proving profitability and consistency, there's nothing wrong with
110 00:10:10 --> 00:10:14 going to someone else that teaches you how to do investing or trading or
111 00:10:14 --> 00:10:19 reading price action or whatever you want to call it, but you can come to me,
112 00:10:20 --> 00:10:26 I encourage rather aggressively that you need to cut all other sources of
113 00:10:26 --> 00:10:35 information off, because in my group, we're known as very, very confident,
114 00:10:35 --> 00:10:41 pompous, egotistical, narcissistic. These are all descriptive terms, because
115 00:10:41 --> 00:10:47 when my students learn what it is that I teach my that part of my persona rubs
116 00:10:47 --> 00:10:51 off on them, because they can do things that they see other people incapable of
117 00:10:51 --> 00:10:57 doing when everybody else is out there trying to talk other other individuals
118 00:10:57 --> 00:11:01 down, our community talks each other up. That's important. That's a
119 00:11:01 --> 00:11:05 characteristic that nobody likes to spend too much to focus on, because it
120 00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 counters most of everything. That's going to be negative that you're going
121 00:11:08 --> 00:11:14 to encounter as a student of mine, you're going to feel like, wow, this is
122 00:11:14 --> 00:11:17 a cult. I don't want anybody thinking bad about me. You're not going to meet
123 00:11:17 --> 00:11:20 these people. You're not going to have dinner with them. You're not going to
124 00:11:20 --> 00:11:23 invite them over to Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas you're not going to
125 00:11:23 --> 00:11:26 celebrate the New Year drinking champagne with them at the time of the
126 00:11:26 --> 00:11:32 new year, but you're elevating their their sense of worth and impact and
127 00:11:32 --> 00:11:37 influence over you through fear. And what do you fear for how other people
128 00:11:37 --> 00:11:41 are going to look at you, how other people are going to be able to judge you
129 00:11:41 --> 00:11:45 on the basis of who you learned from what you believe and don't believe about
130 00:11:45 --> 00:11:46 a market algorithm.
131 00:11:49 --> 00:11:54 They're all talking points, and every side in every angle believes that they
132 00:11:54 --> 00:12:03 are the right side. So how can you imagine the impact of frustrating,
133 00:12:03 --> 00:12:06 conflicting input from other people's opinion in the beginning, when you first
134 00:12:06 --> 00:12:13 start, start learning. It causes paralysis. It causes you to feel like,
135 00:12:15 --> 00:12:20 am I wasting my time? Am I wasting my time? My question is, is, did the people
136 00:12:20 --> 00:12:25 you see on YouTube proving that they're being profitable, that the companies
137 00:12:25 --> 00:12:28 that pay them out, that are interviewing them, you think that they just gave that
138 00:12:28 --> 00:12:35 money to them for free? I don't have any affiliates with anybody, none, so it
139 00:12:35 --> 00:12:41 serves me and them no direct gain by making it public knowledge that the
140 00:12:41 --> 00:12:47 people that they paid out in their profitable trades are my students, so we
141 00:12:47 --> 00:12:51 have receipts, and there's new individuals coming forward all the time
142 00:12:51 --> 00:12:56 using the same information that you have at your fingertips for free. I have
143 00:12:56 --> 00:13:00 created an environment you always see these these guys advertising. They'll
144 00:13:00 --> 00:13:05 say this is a no risk opportunity, but act now, because if you don't do it,
145 00:13:05 --> 00:13:08 there's no there's no telling how long I'm going to keep this for free, or have
146 00:13:08 --> 00:13:11 this disgust, this discount, or something that out of effect. That's
147 00:13:11 --> 00:13:17 pressure. Sales. You should feel relaxed. I'm not getting paid here. This
148 00:13:17 --> 00:13:24 is why I'm doing this here, too, because I'm not monetized on X or Twitter. I
149 00:13:24 --> 00:13:27 don't have any monetization on there at all, zero. To be honest. I don't even
150 00:13:27 --> 00:13:32 know how to do if I wanted to do it and I don't want to do it, I could put this
151 00:13:33 --> 00:13:38 in a G rated narrative on my YouTube channel and collect ad revenue off of
152 00:13:38 --> 00:13:44 that, but I don't want, I want to talk to you like a friend. I want to talk to
153 00:13:44 --> 00:13:50 you through the perspective of father figure, because I'm talking to Caleb,
154 00:13:50 --> 00:13:55 because I want him to understand that these are going to be huge wrestling
155 00:13:55 --> 00:13:59 matches for him, just like they're going to be for you and for some of you,
156 00:13:59 --> 00:14:01 you're going to discover that, wow. You know, I went through that and I thought
157 00:14:01 --> 00:14:04 I was losing my mind. I thought mind. I thought I was just being, you know,
158 00:14:04 --> 00:14:10 incapable of learning. Now it's, this is very hard to do, folks, because you're
159 00:14:10 --> 00:14:18 wrestling yourself. You're competing with an image of yourself that you're
160 00:14:18 --> 00:14:23 holding on to, and unfortunately, in the beginning, it's a self defeating image.
161 00:14:25 --> 00:14:35 You're holding on to a weak, closed minded, narrow minded, scared little
162 00:14:35 --> 00:14:40 child. And I don't mean that to be condescending. You're trying to protect
163 00:14:40 --> 00:14:45 the inner child of yourself, from losing money, from being embarrassed, oh, they
164 00:14:45 --> 00:14:50 these people said that they learned from ICT. You know they're cultists. They're
165 00:14:50 --> 00:14:56 brainwashed. You know they're whatever the list is going on and on, okay, if
166 00:14:56 --> 00:15:00 you're considering all those things as outside influences, all. You have to do
167 00:15:00 --> 00:15:05 is test the stuff I'm teaching for free. All you have to do is sign up to a live
168 00:15:05 --> 00:15:09 stream when I'm doing it and listen, listen to me explain what price is
169 00:15:09 --> 00:15:14 doing. And then you think to yourself, wow, there's something here, like I can
170 00:15:14 --> 00:15:17 see this guy knows what he's talking about, and the market's behaving as he's
171 00:15:17 --> 00:15:22 describing it. Those are the things you're supposed to be focusing on. The
172 00:15:22 --> 00:15:29 evidence, the proof. Don't let my public antics for my own pleasure, because I
173 00:15:29 --> 00:15:32 love twisting the knife in other people that don't want to believe, or they,
174 00:15:32 --> 00:15:36 deep down, say they believe, but they can't compete with us. They can't even
175 00:15:36 --> 00:15:42 compete. It's not even close. But I'm not here to ridicule them. I want them
176 00:15:42 --> 00:15:45 to listen to the same lectures that I'm giving to all of you. And if they can
177 00:15:45 --> 00:15:50 take something away from that that helps them, then that's great. That's what I'm
178 00:15:50 --> 00:15:54 looking for. I'm not trying to kick anybody in the face, not try to put my
179 00:15:54 --> 00:15:58 boot on their neck, strangle their ability to be profitable, or climb up as
180 00:15:58 --> 00:16:01 a as a pillar in the industry. Is that what I'm doing,
181 00:16:07 --> 00:16:14 if you don't guard your fortress of solitude, that means your physical
182 00:16:14 --> 00:16:18 location where you study, that means your family members can't be in the room
183 00:16:18 --> 00:16:21 with you. If you have children, God bless them. They can't be in the room
184 00:16:21 --> 00:16:26 with you, your spouse, whether being supportive or not, and chances are,
185 00:16:26 --> 00:16:33 they're probably not going to be supportive. They don't believe yet in
186 00:16:33 --> 00:16:39 your future self, the things that you have to go through to refine your future
187 00:16:39 --> 00:16:43 self, that future success that you want to have, but you don't really,
188 00:16:43 --> 00:16:49 necessarily believe it, yet, you gotta be convinced of it. And so many times,
189 00:16:49 --> 00:16:53 individuals, in the last, you know, five or 10 years, they have this Tiktok
190 00:16:53 --> 00:16:58 mentality. It has to be shown to you in 10 seconds, 30 seconds or less, or I'm
191 00:16:58 --> 00:17:02 interested. And this is the part where, if you're not willing to put yourself
192 00:17:02 --> 00:17:07 through what it is I'm describing, or if you look at those videos, I have up
193 00:17:07 --> 00:17:11 there 500 and some videos, and you think, man, I got time for 500 videos.
194 00:17:13 --> 00:17:17 How many football games have you watched since you started watching them? How
195 00:17:20 --> 00:17:26 many basketball games have you watched since you started watching them? Has
196 00:17:27 --> 00:17:31 your attendance in the audience seeing those games live? Has that made any
197 00:17:31 --> 00:17:37 impact on you being able to play football or basketball any better? No.
198 00:17:37 --> 00:17:40 So why are you watching it? Why are you paying all that money to support these
199 00:17:40 --> 00:17:45 people who don't know you, they don't care about you, they simply will never
200 00:17:45 --> 00:17:49 spend time with you, and to get them to stop to get an autographed or a snapshot
201 00:17:49 --> 00:17:54 is asking too much many times, but you're willing to put yourself through
202 00:17:54 --> 00:18:00 all that stuff because it gives you what a feel good Moment. Wow. This is
203 00:18:00 --> 00:18:05 awesome, because you idolize these people. You idolize them. You lift them
204 00:18:05 --> 00:18:13 up to Titans. And men want to be a Titan. Don't lie. You're smiling right
205 00:18:13 --> 00:18:18 now because you know damn well that's the truth. You want to be a big shot.
206 00:18:18 --> 00:18:22 You want to be a big wheel, someone everybody looks up to says, Man, I want
207 00:18:22 --> 00:18:32 to be like him. You have to have that same tenacity and driven passion in why
208 00:18:32 --> 00:18:36 you're trying to learn how to trade and put yourself in a fortune societal where
209 00:18:36 --> 00:18:45 you're not inviting other people, don't let them influence it. And from an
210 00:18:45 --> 00:18:52 intellectual stance, your fortress of solitude is your journal. That's where
211 00:18:52 --> 00:18:57 you go to lick your wounds when you don't do something right, but you don't
212 00:18:57 --> 00:19:03 go there and treat like it's a House of Pain, like it's an abusive relationship.
213 00:19:03 --> 00:19:07 And so many of you have shared some of your journal entries to me while talking
214 00:19:07 --> 00:19:12 about a price action move, and while maybe your technical thing might be
215 00:19:12 --> 00:19:16 there and it may be correct and just didn't work out for that moment or that
216 00:19:16 --> 00:19:24 time of that instance, the negative annotations, the negative things that
217 00:19:24 --> 00:19:30 are spoken about, what you're trying to teach yourself. What do you think is
218 00:19:30 --> 00:19:33 more appropriate for that inner child that's inside you right now that you're
219 00:19:33 --> 00:19:37 nurturing that will be your future self? What's more nurturing if you're
220 00:19:37 --> 00:19:44 constantly beating that inner child down with negative, not encouragement, but
221 00:19:44 --> 00:19:49 punishment. You should have did this better. I should have learned this by
222 00:19:49 --> 00:19:57 now. This stuff never works. I don't know why I can't get this. This is so
223 00:19:57 --> 00:20:03 stupid. I need to I need something easier. It if you spoke to your child
224 00:20:03 --> 00:20:09 that way, do you think that child would grow up feeling good about themselves,
225 00:20:09 --> 00:20:14 or would they have complexes and probably deep rooted anger and anxiety?
226 00:20:15 --> 00:20:19 And you wonder why you're feeling those things, because you're feeding it to
227 00:20:19 --> 00:20:24 yourself every day. You don't even realize it. You have no idea how often
228 00:20:24 --> 00:20:30 you give yourself something toxic and negative, and that's why, when you watch
229 00:20:30 --> 00:20:37 something positive, you're like, wow, I really enjoyed that moment. Or if you
230 00:20:37 --> 00:20:41 see someone you haven't seen in a long time, old friend or loved one, that's
231 00:20:41 --> 00:20:45 why holidays, except for Carl, gets invited to the festivities. He wasn't
232 00:20:45 --> 00:20:49 supposed to be there, but some joker invited him. It's bad enough, you got to
233 00:20:49 --> 00:20:54 work with him all the time, but now he's showing up at New Year's Eve. It was fun
234 00:20:54 --> 00:21:03 until he showed up, then you're doing everything he can to avoid him. Well, at
235 00:21:03 --> 00:21:08 the holidays, you feel good. Why? Because your attention is taken off of
236 00:21:08 --> 00:21:12 all the negative things about yourself. And then what do you do? Yeah, well, I
237 00:21:12 --> 00:21:17 got a raise today. Yeah, last week, got a promotion at the at the job, that's
238 00:21:17 --> 00:21:21 right. I don't know how. I don't know how they're going to do it without me.
239 00:21:21 --> 00:21:27 Whenever I decide to leave the company, Oh, they're so screwed. You get to talk
240 00:21:27 --> 00:21:32 about all the good stuff, and you hide all that stuff. That's exactly what
241 00:21:32 --> 00:21:37 proper journaling is. You need to do that. You need to cultivate all the
242 00:21:37 --> 00:21:42 positives. And that's why it feels good to be around your cousin who hasn't left
243 00:21:42 --> 00:21:47 Jiffy Lube, he's been doing that for 12 years, says he's going to college and
244 00:21:47 --> 00:21:51 never, never even done prerequisites, never did anything but get greased.
245 00:21:58 --> 00:22:03 You have to guard yourself and the processes you're going to go through is
246 00:22:03 --> 00:22:09 a refinement, and it's painful because it's not immediate gratification. It's
247 00:22:09 --> 00:22:15 not a right now delivery of what you want, it has to be deferred. And for a
248 00:22:15 --> 00:22:20 lot of folks, and it's really hard for young people today, and I understand,
249 00:22:20 --> 00:22:23 because they have been socially engineered to expect everything given to
250 00:22:23 --> 00:22:30 them. Everything should be given to you for nothing and no. Adversity should be
251 00:22:30 --> 00:22:36 easy, and you have this, this entitlement mindset and a short
252 00:22:36 --> 00:22:40 attention span that's been cultivated by Tiktok or YouTube shorts that are very
253 00:22:40 --> 00:22:47 small in duration, and you think, man, why is this guy? ICT gotta be so long
254 00:22:47 --> 00:22:53 winded? Because I am a old man that learned how to do this the right way.
255 00:22:54 --> 00:23:01 Roll your sleeves up. Put real effort behind it. Keep your nose to the grind
256 00:23:02 --> 00:23:08 and want all the details you want to know, everything you don't just want to
257 00:23:08 --> 00:23:12 know. Well, I want to look like I know what I'm talking about. I want to sound
258 00:23:12 --> 00:23:16 like I know what I'm talking about. And for years, we've watched other people do
259 00:23:16 --> 00:23:20 that with my content mitigation. Here you see this order block was mitigated.
260 00:23:20 --> 00:23:24 Order blocks don't get mitigated, mitigation this and mitigation that.
261 00:23:27 --> 00:23:31 They want to talk the the lingo the point of interest. Look at this point of
262 00:23:31 --> 00:23:37 interest. These are all out of my videos, bro, that's all my stuff. The
263 00:23:37 --> 00:23:41 vocabulary of all these individuals out there that have odds against me. Are
264 00:23:41 --> 00:23:45 going to have odds against you, but they're studying right along with you,
265 00:23:45 --> 00:23:48 like good little scribes. They're just doing it in silence, thinking they're
266 00:23:48 --> 00:23:52 going to get away with it, but as soon as they start talking, the vocabulary
267 00:23:52 --> 00:23:58 exposes them. It's fun, actually. It's a really amazing psychological experiment
268 00:23:58 --> 00:24:01 to go through all the mentors, and you'll see you'll see it annotated in
269 00:24:01 --> 00:24:07 their charts, or you'll hear them say it verbally, audibly. They're in the same
270 00:24:07 --> 00:24:11 classroom as you right now, and they may not be here where you can see them,
271 00:24:11 --> 00:24:14 because you can do a little anonymous slide. They're all listening
272 00:24:14 --> 00:24:19 anonymously. But I know you're here, and I'm glad that you're here, not trying to
273 00:24:19 --> 00:24:25 put fun at you, because you're going to learn things that you can teach my
274 00:24:25 --> 00:24:29 students through you, because they're not your students, they're mine, and I
275 00:24:29 --> 00:24:35 care about them more than you do, and since I know what I'm talking about, I'm
276 00:24:35 --> 00:24:39 going to use you as a conduit to reach them. The worst thing you can do is
277 00:24:39 --> 00:24:43 twist what I'm teaching today, or anything I teach, and take out a context
278 00:24:43 --> 00:24:49 or try to embellish it with your own little bullshit, because you're reducing
279 00:24:49 --> 00:25:01 its purest form, and your money being up with just this DNA in. Trading logic is
280 00:25:01 --> 00:25:09 superior. Anything less than this is substandard. We don't have Neanderthal
281 00:25:09 --> 00:25:16 in this. Okay? It's all it's always important to start off on the right
282 00:25:16 --> 00:25:21 foot. It's always a bad decision to invite other people's opinion about
283 00:25:21 --> 00:25:26 everything you're involving yourself with on the beginning, we want our
284 00:25:26 --> 00:25:34 friends and our family to encourage us. Why? The same reason why I did as a 20
285 00:25:34 --> 00:25:38 year old. I lost my grandfather. I lost that Father, that father figure he
286 00:25:40 --> 00:25:43 wouldn't have lavished and he would say, Oh, son, you're going to do so good. I
287 00:25:43 --> 00:25:46 can't wait to see he wouldn't have done that. He's old man, Old Navy man. He
288 00:25:46 --> 00:25:50 would have been like, just do your best. I said, Okay, I'm going to live up to
289 00:25:50 --> 00:25:54 that. I'm going to live up to that pot. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do
290 00:25:54 --> 00:26:00 everything I can to make this man acknowledge that I have impressed him.
291 00:26:00 --> 00:26:06 So when it was taken from me, when he died of cancer, I had a void, and I've
292 00:26:06 --> 00:26:10 carried it in my entire life. At 52 years old, I still can't fill that void,
293 00:26:10 --> 00:26:14 and God fills it a lot, but there's still this little itch that I can't
294 00:26:14 --> 00:26:19 satisfy because I can't see his face. Look at me and you had that same
295 00:26:19 --> 00:26:28 experience when you first start to do something that's monumental, feet, you
296 00:26:28 --> 00:26:31 want to accomplish something, you want to lose weight, you want to get in
297 00:26:31 --> 00:26:36 better shape. And what do we do? We turn to our spouse, our significant other,
298 00:26:36 --> 00:26:39 our friends and our family members. Yeah, I think I'm going to start this
299 00:26:39 --> 00:26:42 program. Oh, you don't bother me and don't waste your time. That's the first
300 00:26:42 --> 00:26:45 thing that's coming out of their mouth. And if they're not spurting it out,
301 00:26:46 --> 00:26:50 they're thinking it, you can watch it in their face. They're thinking, yeah,
302 00:26:50 --> 00:26:56 we'll see. We're gonna see, buddy. We're gonna see but that's not what you want.
303 00:26:56 --> 00:27:00 You don't want that. You want them to say, You know what that is awesome. You
304 00:27:00 --> 00:27:03 know what? Could you tell me a little bit about that? Because I would like to
305 00:27:03 --> 00:27:08 do that too. That's what this that's the response you're looking for. That's the
306 00:27:08 --> 00:27:12 response you want people to get excited about what you're interested in, but
307 00:27:12 --> 00:27:16 you're not excited about but you absolutely fucking got to be excited
308 00:27:16 --> 00:27:18 like you got to love it. You got to look at yourself and say, You know what?
309 00:27:18 --> 00:27:19 Right now, I
310 00:27:19 --> 00:27:24 don't have it. I don't have it right now, but damn it, I'm going to get
311 00:27:25 --> 00:27:30 it. And every one of you Yahoos that I'm related to has nothing to do with
312 00:27:30 --> 00:27:35 holding me back. You're all going to watch it happen. You're all going to
313 00:27:35 --> 00:27:40 choke on it. All of you that sat back and sit there and said, Well, you know,
314 00:27:43 --> 00:27:47 Shelly said she's gonna be, uh, she's gonna be a trader. Yeah, she's gonna be
315 00:27:47 --> 00:27:51 trading, night, trading your time for money, like we do. But
316 00:27:55 --> 00:28:01 in the beginning, that stuff cuts deep. It cuts deep, but you'll put on your
317 00:28:01 --> 00:28:04 best face, like I was trying to be able to do it as a 20 year old. That doesn't
318 00:28:04 --> 00:28:14 bother me, but it crushed me inside. It crushed me, and I didn't take that as
319 00:28:14 --> 00:28:18 I'm going to do it more carefully to make sure I don't feel the opposite
320 00:28:18 --> 00:28:29 happened. The opposite happened. I dug deep and said, I don't give a shit how
321 00:28:29 --> 00:28:33 many times I fall on my face. I'm going to do it faster, and I'm going to take
322 00:28:33 --> 00:28:38 bigger risks, and I'm going to do it in a stunning manner that absolutely has
323 00:28:38 --> 00:28:41 nothing to do with why I started, because now I gotta do it about
324 00:28:41 --> 00:28:46 impressing these people. I gotta impress my family, who they were even a factor
325 00:28:46 --> 00:28:50 in the beginning. They didn't, they didn't tell me to Hey, start trading
326 00:28:50 --> 00:28:55 this way, and then I gotta make them proud of me. That's not how it happened.
327 00:28:55 --> 00:28:59 My uncle introduced the idea of the trading, but he didn't teach me trading
328 00:28:59 --> 00:29:02 because he didn't know how to trade, and I wasn't interested the first time. I
329 00:29:02 --> 00:29:06 was young. I was a martial artist. I was a young teenager. I was like, Man, I got
330 00:29:06 --> 00:29:10 time for this. I got martial arts and girls, you gotta hear what that man,
331 00:29:10 --> 00:29:15 stock market. I'm trying to invest. How's that? And to be honest, I really
332 00:29:15 --> 00:29:20 wasn't working then. So the concept of money was alien to me, actually, very
333 00:29:20 --> 00:29:24 content and complacent being white trash, because that's exactly how I was
334 00:29:24 --> 00:29:30 raised. If you look at how I live today and how I raised my family and how I was
335 00:29:30 --> 00:29:35 raised, I was the epitome of white trash. I grew up in a neighborhood that
336 00:29:35 --> 00:29:40 was trash with people that were uneducated. The highest graduating
337 00:29:40 --> 00:29:46 average mean was sixth grade. My mother quit school in sixth grade. The only
338 00:29:46 --> 00:29:51 person in my family prior to to me that were blood relatives that ever graduated
339 00:29:51 --> 00:29:58 was my aunt. Think about that. That's the pedigree I come from. Yeah, I'm as
340 00:29:58 --> 00:30:06 blue collar as you can get. Baby, and I have the same problems that you're going
341 00:30:06 --> 00:30:10 to invite. If you're not careful, you're going to invite all of the opinions of
342 00:30:10 --> 00:30:15 other people that don't fucking matter. You're leaning on these people to
343 00:30:15 --> 00:30:19 encourage you. They didn't give you the idea. They didn't give you the first
344 00:30:19 --> 00:30:23 spark that whole point of you even considering it, it never stemmed from
345 00:30:23 --> 00:30:30 them. So why on earth would you invite them to give you their opinion when
346 00:30:30 --> 00:30:35 they're working for money, in debt, paycheck to paycheck, hating fucking
347 00:30:35 --> 00:30:38 life and looking for any exit we have to get out of the relationship because they
348 00:30:38 --> 00:30:41 hate the person they're married to or living with, and these are the people
349 00:30:41 --> 00:30:44 you're going to on social media too. The worst part is, is you're not even
350 00:30:44 --> 00:30:49 fucking related to these people. You're not even related to them. You willfully
351 00:30:49 --> 00:30:52 go in there and say, Hey, what do you think about this? Who gives a fuck what
352 00:30:52 --> 00:30:59 they think? Who gives a fuck with these people that don't do well or better than
353 00:30:59 --> 00:31:03 you? Who gives a shit what they think. And when you take a step back and you
354 00:31:03 --> 00:31:06 think about like this, you know, what? Why the hell am I doing that? Right?
355 00:31:06 --> 00:31:12 That's the question I'm asking. Why are all you doing that? Because you are
356 00:31:12 --> 00:31:18 hoping, just like I did as a 20 year old, that everything I was putting
357 00:31:18 --> 00:31:23 myself through, or, you know, aspiring to be successful in that my own family,
358 00:31:23 --> 00:31:29 you would think, right, my own family would be like, You know what? Michael,
359 00:31:31 --> 00:31:37 everybody in our family, if anybody was ever going to do well in this, it's you,
360 00:31:37 --> 00:31:42 buddy. I can see you doing it like. I can literally see you up there doing
361 00:31:42 --> 00:31:45 everything you're claiming you're going to learn how to be able to do. I can see
362 00:31:45 --> 00:31:53 that that's exciting. Can I learn that too? That's what I wanted to hear. If I
363 00:31:53 --> 00:31:57 would have heard that, I probably would have done so much better in the
364 00:31:57 --> 00:32:01 beginning. I wouldn't have taken ridiculous fucking risks and blew my
365 00:32:01 --> 00:32:04 accounts because I'm trying to show them they're wrong and the only thing I was
366 00:32:04 --> 00:32:13 doing was proving they were right. Think about it, you're doing the same stuff,
367 00:32:14 --> 00:32:19 mostly the men women might be closeted because they still want to talk to their
368 00:32:19 --> 00:32:25 girlfriends. They want to talk to their closest cousin. Okay, like my my wife,
369 00:32:25 --> 00:32:30 she has a cousin. They say that they were like twins when they were younger.
370 00:32:30 --> 00:32:33 I don't see it, because I would have never messed around with the other girl.
371 00:32:33 --> 00:32:38 That's another discussion, another time, but she pals around with her and has
372 00:32:38 --> 00:32:43 conversation more than anybody else in the family, okay? And women tend to have
373 00:32:43 --> 00:32:47 a very close they may have a lot of girlfriends, but they have this little
374 00:32:47 --> 00:32:54 click that's, that's their, that's their, their pride, okay? And if you are
375 00:32:54 --> 00:32:57 trying to learn how to trade, or if you just discovered that that's what you
376 00:32:57 --> 00:33:01 want to try to pursue, or maybe you've been doing it, chances are they know
377 00:33:01 --> 00:33:07 what you're trying to do or what you've begun and anybody else you don't share
378 00:33:07 --> 00:33:13 your business with them. You keep it personal. You still messed up. You still
379 00:33:13 --> 00:33:19 messed up, because now one of two things are going to happen. One, they're going
380 00:33:19 --> 00:33:25 to ask you, Hey, how's that trading going? And you want to be able to say,
381 00:33:25 --> 00:33:31 girlfriend, let me just tell you, I got funded. I got paid out six times. I got
382 00:33:31 --> 00:33:35 these new shoes. Look at this shit early embodies motherfuckers. I did. I did. I
383 00:33:35 --> 00:33:39 bought that shit. I bought that. I passed my phone account channel. Bang,
384 00:33:39 --> 00:33:44 five counts linked up. Bang. Look at me, babe, look at me. Don't you want to be
385 00:33:44 --> 00:33:53 like this? You want to be able to say that, but you're still going through the
386 00:33:53 --> 00:33:59 process of wrestling through the things that you wrestle through. You believe
387 00:33:59 --> 00:34:03 that that day is coming, but you can't give it to them when they ask for a
388 00:34:03 --> 00:34:11 progress report. And that hurts. That hurts because you want to be able to say
389 00:34:12 --> 00:34:18 to your girlfriends, this is what I've done so far. And a true friend,
390 00:34:19 --> 00:34:24 girlfriends would be like, Damn girl, wow, I didn't, honestly, I didn't think
391 00:34:24 --> 00:34:34 you'd be that quick with it, but a true friend would hear you say, it's harder
392 00:34:34 --> 00:34:38 than I thought it was going to be. But I'm not discouraged. I see progress, and
393 00:34:38 --> 00:34:41 I know if I keep working at it, I'm going to get what I'm looking for, and a
394 00:34:41 --> 00:34:44 true family like, you know what? That's, right? Girl, right, girl, you keep on,
395 00:34:44 --> 00:34:47 and that's what, that's what you want to hear. If you have a friend like that,
396 00:34:47 --> 00:34:55 man, you got a real friend. I didn't have friends like that. I had man, I
397 00:34:55 --> 00:35:01 believe when I see it, my wife, my wife, so. Still living the way she lives. If I
398 00:35:01 --> 00:35:05 tell her I'm gonna do this, this, this, and she'll actually probably, when I see
399 00:35:05 --> 00:35:10 it, I'm like, woman, are you crazy? Did you just see what I just did? Look what
400 00:35:10 --> 00:35:16 you just spent where the hell that come from, right? But I'm sure she means it
401 00:35:16 --> 00:35:19 to be funny and silly all the time, but that's just her little her. That's the
402 00:35:19 --> 00:35:23 way we work together. That's our language with one another. She ribs me
403 00:35:23 --> 00:35:28 and I peacock around. But you're not going to get that encouragement you're
404 00:35:28 --> 00:35:32 looking for on social media. I promise you, you might get it in our community
405 00:35:32 --> 00:35:36 here, if you hang around like minded individuals, which is always called a
406 00:35:36 --> 00:35:42 cult, okay, call it a cult, because this is the cult of winning. I make winners.
407 00:35:42 --> 00:35:47 Now everyone coming into this cult of winning isn't going to make it to be a
408 00:35:47 --> 00:35:50 winner, because they're going to tap out. They're going to feel these
409 00:35:50 --> 00:35:55 struggles, these these wrestling matches internally. They're going to feel it and
410 00:35:55 --> 00:35:58 be like, Man, this isn't worth this. Man, I thought it's going to be easy and
411 00:35:58 --> 00:36:02 fast. I can't. I didn't get time for this. What's my boys doing right now?
412 00:36:02 --> 00:36:06 Let's go. We gotta go to the club. I need to get drunk. I need to get blazed
413 00:36:06 --> 00:36:15 up. What are you doing? You're medicating. You're self medicating.
414 00:36:16 --> 00:36:20 That's exactly what you do in your journal. It's self love there. You tell
415 00:36:20 --> 00:36:24 yourself all the time, encourage yourself. You write down in those
416 00:36:24 --> 00:36:29 journal entries everything that you want someone else, that you love or care,
417 00:36:29 --> 00:36:32 that care about the opinion of you want them to say those things you're waiting
418 00:36:32 --> 00:36:35 for it. It's you're listening. You just, you just know that those words are
419 00:36:35 --> 00:36:40 hanging on their tongue and they're going to say it. Well done. Good job.
420 00:36:40 --> 00:36:44 Wow. I'm impressed by that. That's what you want. You want to talk that talk in
421 00:36:44 --> 00:36:50 your journal. You want to be so positive that it's fucking ooey gooey. Love.
422 00:36:50 --> 00:36:55 Okay, that's what you want, because nothing negative will have any impact.
423 00:36:55 --> 00:36:58 And you don't even write anything negative. You encourage yourself
424 00:36:58 --> 00:37:04 constantly, all the time that that journal needs to be something beyond the
425 00:37:04 --> 00:37:09 scope of a Mead spiral notebook. It needs to be something that you have
426 00:37:09 --> 00:37:15 worth and value associated with. That's why my journals, they're anywhere
427 00:37:15 --> 00:37:18 between 80 to $100 a piece. Now you might not have the money to be able to
428 00:37:18 --> 00:37:22 do that right now, that's okay, but you need to think about what you're writing
429 00:37:22 --> 00:37:29 in. That's not some scrapbook where people just jot down things like, Okay,
430 00:37:29 --> 00:37:32 well, you know, I gotta remember to do this and do that, or where your kid can
431 00:37:32 --> 00:37:37 pick it up every now and then and draw on, scribble on. What do you do? How do
432 00:37:37 --> 00:37:41 you keep your journal? Where do you keep it at? Do you have any regard for what
433 00:37:41 --> 00:37:48 you're writing down? Because if they're not treasures to you, if you're not
434 00:37:48 --> 00:37:53 making monuments to your progress, and it sounds narcissistic when we talk like
435 00:37:53 --> 00:37:56 it doesn't to someone that doesn't journal, I don't journal,
436 00:37:57 --> 00:38:01 that's a fucking clown talking like that. That's somebody that is literally
437 00:38:02 --> 00:38:09 planning to fail or never being successful. And there's a lot of people
438 00:38:09 --> 00:38:12 in this in this industry, that are idiots, and they're monetized and
439 00:38:12 --> 00:38:18 they're rewarded, but not for the basis of the ability to trade. They're
440 00:38:18 --> 00:38:22 monetized and rewarded for capturing and holding your attention to their
441 00:38:22 --> 00:38:27 bullshit. Who are they? What are they producing? What fruit are they
442 00:38:27 --> 00:38:32 producing? Who's coming behind them, listening to their logic and saying,
443 00:38:32 --> 00:38:37 well, that worked for me. Look at me. I don't work anymore. I did. I did what
444 00:38:37 --> 00:38:45 this Uber is saying. It's very little of that going on, very little of that. Here
445 00:38:46 --> 00:38:50 we have those receipts. We have those people. We have them both in female and
446 00:38:50 --> 00:38:53 in male. We have them in older people and younger people. We have many
447 00:38:53 --> 00:38:59 teenagers that haven't got to 21 yet. And we have people in their 60s
448 00:39:00 --> 00:39:05 reporting that they're so thankful that they were given this opportunity. And
449 00:39:05 --> 00:39:09 it's a tear jerker for me when I hear things like that, because I look around
450 00:39:09 --> 00:39:14 and it's expensive as a fuck right now, it's so expensive, and I got lots of
451 00:39:14 --> 00:39:18 money, and I still look at this grocery bill and I'm like, how the hell are
452 00:39:18 --> 00:39:21 people making it? Like, how are they doing how are you all doing it? Leave
453 00:39:21 --> 00:39:28 comments if you feel open to do so. It's a struggle. And until you decide to make
454 00:39:28 --> 00:39:34 changes and refine your future self, you gotta filter out all the negative stuff.
455 00:39:34 --> 00:39:37 That doesn't mean you can't acknowledge, like I just did here, saying, man, it's
456 00:39:37 --> 00:39:42 expensive. Acknowledge that that needs to inspire your willingness to stick to
457 00:39:42 --> 00:39:45 it, because you think it's just going to get cheaper. Do you honestly think
458 00:39:45 --> 00:39:51 things are going to be cheaper two years from now? No, they're not. When has ever
459 00:39:51 --> 00:39:58 been a time where inflation has impacted the things that we buy, and it causes
460 00:39:58 --> 00:40:02 shrinkflation and the the amount of the. The Product reduced in size, but they
461 00:40:02 --> 00:40:05 sell it for the same or, if not, more money. When has that ever happened? I
462 00:40:05 --> 00:40:09 remember as a kid, candy bars used to be three times the size that they're at.
463 00:40:11 --> 00:40:19 Not now, I never imagined looking at the things I spent money on, and people
464 00:40:19 --> 00:40:25 spend the majority of their money on junk food, like that stupid waste of
465 00:40:25 --> 00:40:32 money. Are you doing those things too? Are you buying poor substances and
466 00:40:32 --> 00:40:39 calling it and lying to yourself and saying it's food? You're going to have a
467 00:40:40 --> 00:40:44 physiological response to the things you take in and ingest. If you're eating
468 00:40:44 --> 00:40:48 junk food and fast food all the time, you're drinking caffeinated drinks. I
469 00:40:48 --> 00:40:52 don't need a caffeine drink. I can be hopped up in a minute, just like that. I
470 00:40:52 --> 00:40:57 can talk myself up real high. But as you'll learn later in this sort of
471 00:40:57 --> 00:41:03 spatial be able to talk yourself down like a bud come down cold, cool,
472 00:41:03 --> 00:41:10 collected in minutes. That's how you have to operate. You have to look at
473 00:41:10 --> 00:41:14 things in a manner where everything outside of you has no impact or
474 00:41:14 --> 00:41:19 influence over you. But are you doing the opposite right now? Have you been
475 00:41:19 --> 00:41:24 doing the opposite of that. Have you been using social media as a as a drug
476 00:41:24 --> 00:41:29 dealer looking for that? Feel good buzz from ICT, because if that's what you're
477 00:41:29 --> 00:41:34 doing, you're doing it wrong. Yeah, you heard that right? You're doing it wrong.
478 00:41:37 --> 00:41:44 Social media is a cancer and the worst thing you can do is live on it,
479 00:41:46 --> 00:41:56 elevating people to celebrity status. God like personas, they want worship.
480 00:41:56 --> 00:42:02 And some of you want to worship. Some of you all want to be worshipers. Why? Why
481 00:42:02 --> 00:42:06 would you do that? There's only one deserving of that. It ain't me, and it
482 00:42:08 --> 00:42:15 ain't nobody else on social media either. So how do you how do you
483 00:42:15 --> 00:42:22 discover what your problems are? Well, what do you focus on all day long. And
484 00:42:22 --> 00:42:27 how do you act when you're in stressful pressure situations? If you find
485 00:42:27 --> 00:42:33 yourself in a stressful situation that need not be in trading and you react in
486 00:42:33 --> 00:42:39 a manner that is aggressive and anger and outburst, chances are you're a very
487 00:42:39 --> 00:42:44 impulsive person. That means given the opportunity to invest or trade with
488 00:42:44 --> 00:42:47 money, whether it be funded account, demo account, whatever you're going to
489 00:42:47 --> 00:42:51 impulsively do something, because inside you are conquering warrior. That's how
490 00:42:51 --> 00:42:54 you internalize yourself. You see yourself as someone going out there like
491 00:42:54 --> 00:42:59 a gladiator. You challenging me, bro, you challenging me. Step. That's the
492 00:43:00 --> 00:43:06 typical male response. Admittedly, that's Italian. I was not that way when
493 00:43:06 --> 00:43:13 I was a young man growing up. You know, I had to hold that at bay, because I
494 00:43:13 --> 00:43:17 knew if I lay that one time, it would just go wild, and it did for a little
495 00:43:17 --> 00:43:22 while, and I did things I'm not proud of. But what happens if you're in a
496 00:43:22 --> 00:43:28 stressful situation and you clam up, you paralyze yourself, you're like, I don't
497 00:43:28 --> 00:43:35 want to do anything, and you break down. You may cry, you may have anxiety, you
498 00:43:35 --> 00:43:42 may freeze up and lock up and just completely shut down. In trading that's
499 00:43:42 --> 00:43:49 going to be someone that never takes the step forward. You'll never trade. And
500 00:43:49 --> 00:43:53 you have to have a comfort of saying, You know what the outcome might not be,
501 00:43:53 --> 00:43:57 what I want it to be. Every trade starts that way, and you have to invite the
502 00:43:57 --> 00:44:03 opportunity for that to be wrong. Hear what they said there, whereas everyone
503 00:44:03 --> 00:44:07 that puts a trade on now they want I hope it works, but I'm afraid it's
504 00:44:07 --> 00:44:10 probably going to stop me out man, and listen to the youtubers that live
505 00:44:10 --> 00:44:16 stream. Listen closely and the ones that share their face. I'm so thankful for
506 00:44:16 --> 00:44:22 because they're wonderful case studies for you. Watch their whole demeanor
507 00:44:22 --> 00:44:27 change as the market spends more time close to their entry point. See my
508 00:44:27 --> 00:44:30 trades. What I'm teaching you to do is you're going to be entering in the
509 00:44:30 --> 00:44:35 market where the market leaves your entry soon it doesn't spend time around
510 00:44:35 --> 00:44:40 it a lot. And the surest thing you can do in the beginning, while you're
511 00:44:40 --> 00:44:44 learning how to trade and reading the tape is notice that when you think,
512 00:44:44 --> 00:44:47 okay, the market should go up or shouldn't go down. Here, if it doesn't
513 00:44:47 --> 00:44:51 immediately start to respond that way, chances are you're probably wrong. Would
514 00:44:51 --> 00:44:54 you have the willingness to kill that trade, eat the commission, cost and
515 00:44:54 --> 00:44:57 whatever underneath the spread or eating little, small, little drawdown? Would
516 00:44:58 --> 00:45:02 you be going to take that or are you the. Person that's going to say, even if
517 00:45:02 --> 00:45:07 I'm wrong, I'd still like to be able to get my stock to break even. You're
518 00:45:07 --> 00:45:10 worried about money, you're worried about not losing money, you're worried
519 00:45:10 --> 00:45:14 about being perfect, you're worried about never taking a loss, and that is
520 00:45:14 --> 00:45:20 going to invite the very thing happening. You don't understand that
521 00:45:20 --> 00:45:26 right now here, and it sounds like can't be true, but that's exactly what it is.
522 00:45:27 --> 00:45:33 If you're afraid to make money because you're afraid of losing money, you're
523 00:45:33 --> 00:45:37 never going to make it as a trader, because every trade that you open up is
524 00:45:37 --> 00:45:40 a losing trade that you have to trade your way out of. You're underneath the
525 00:45:40 --> 00:45:43 commission cost. As soon as soon as you put the trade in, boom, you have
526 00:45:44 --> 00:45:48 whatever that cost is, the spread you have to overcome that if you're trading
527 00:45:48 --> 00:45:54 in the forex market, commission cost is your broker, and it's got to climb up
528 00:45:54 --> 00:45:59 enough to cover those costs. And how much does it need to do that before you
529 00:45:59 --> 00:46:04 can put your stop to break even, and just because it's going to break even,
530 00:46:04 --> 00:46:08 just static price action and redelivery is going to stop you out you try to
531 00:46:08 --> 00:46:13 chase too fast, but stop loss is too tight unless you know things, the things
532 00:46:13 --> 00:46:22 I'm teaching for free. So when you're journaling and you're observing old
533 00:46:22 --> 00:46:26 price moves, or maybe it's something you watch in a live stream, and you see me
534 00:46:26 --> 00:46:29 discussing something, and maybe you're at odds. Okay, he just said he thinks
535 00:46:29 --> 00:46:36 it's going to do this. Okay, maybe everything I'm saying in live streams,
536 00:46:36 --> 00:46:39 you're saying, I don't think that's going to happen. What does that indicate
537 00:46:39 --> 00:46:43 to you? Well, I can tell you, what you're really trying to do is you're
538 00:46:43 --> 00:46:46 looking for an opportunity to go on social media and say, look, here's, I
539 00:46:46 --> 00:46:49 guarantee you, there's 1000s of people out there. They're all young men, little
540 00:46:49 --> 00:46:53 kids. They're all or source service sellers. And, course, sellers, they're
541 00:46:53 --> 00:46:56 out there with their little demo accounts, and they're trying to do the
542 00:46:56 --> 00:46:59 opposite so they can go on social media. Look, ICT said this and look, here's the
543 00:46:59 --> 00:47:06 trade off. This took That's bullshit. That's bullshit. But if you're not doing
544 00:47:06 --> 00:47:11 that for that purpose, there just to get clout online, what are you doing it for?
545 00:47:11 --> 00:47:15 Why do you feel that everything I'm saying in a live stream that most of the
546 00:47:15 --> 00:47:21 times coming true? But why are you doubting it? Is that you being
547 00:47:21 --> 00:47:29 unteachable? No, I had a student of mine that was always trading against me named
548 00:47:29 --> 00:47:34 Troy. I'm gonna say his last name, but he knows if he's listening everything I
549 00:47:34 --> 00:47:39 taught he was doing the opposite of and then he would send me emails. He would
550 00:47:39 --> 00:47:44 complain and say, I don't know why it's not working. I'm pissed off. Used to be
551 00:47:44 --> 00:47:48 a poker player. Did real well doing that, and he thought that it would be
552 00:47:48 --> 00:47:52 easy to walk it into trading. And I tried to explain to him, I said, Listen,
553 00:47:53 --> 00:47:56 your superpower is that you're contrarian.
554 00:47:58 --> 00:48:04 There's a place for contrarians in trading. That's turtle suit trades,
555 00:48:04 --> 00:48:10 false breakouts, not trend following. So if you go into the marketplace looking
556 00:48:10 --> 00:48:13 for things like that as your opportunity, that's your model, that's
557 00:48:13 --> 00:48:17 your whole structure and approach to attacking price action as a man, because
558 00:48:17 --> 00:48:21 you're a gladiator, you see what I just did there. I maxed out personality,
559 00:48:22 --> 00:48:26 school of thought, the way they internalize things. And the thing that
560 00:48:26 --> 00:48:31 is a weakness, I turn it into a strength. That's a mentor, that's
561 00:48:31 --> 00:48:35 someone that knows what the fuck they're talking about and creates winners.
562 00:48:36 --> 00:48:42 That's someone that has done this many, many times and has failed, and those
563 00:48:42 --> 00:48:48 failures did not hold me down. I learned from them. And you're all out there
564 00:48:48 --> 00:48:52 trying to learn from these 20 year olds that are just parroting what I'm saying,
565 00:48:52 --> 00:48:56 and they don't have the life experience with it. They have never made serious
566 00:48:56 --> 00:49:00 money. They've never lost serious money. They never went through the problems of
567 00:49:01 --> 00:49:05 finding it, I'm going to dig in deep. I'm going through a period where
568 00:49:05 --> 00:49:08 everything isn't working, and I need to figure out what I'm supposed to do with
569 00:49:08 --> 00:49:12 no other incursion right now, there's social media. You look around, you'll
570 00:49:12 --> 00:49:17 find someone to blow smoke up your ass. You will you'll find it. But if you're
571 00:49:17 --> 00:49:22 not fixing the root causes, these triggering things that you keep
572 00:49:22 --> 00:49:26 repeating, that you don't identify, are problematic issues. I call them
573 00:49:26 --> 00:49:33 character flaws. I have them. I have them as a teacher, as a mentor. It would
574 00:49:33 --> 00:49:36 be foolish for me to tell you I don't have any problems. I don't have any
575 00:49:36 --> 00:49:41 issues. Fucking course I do. I'm human. I'm absolutely human. I wish I would
576 00:49:41 --> 00:49:44 have held on to the trades longer. I wish I would have had more on I wish I
577 00:49:44 --> 00:49:47 would have cut off more the trade before it turned around. On me. Come on. I got
578 00:49:48 --> 00:49:52 no problem telling you those things. That's the reality of it. But I also
579 00:49:52 --> 00:49:58 know when to dial in, when this shits going to be good. Allah, Friday the
580 00:49:58 --> 00:50:02 13th, I seem to like it was a pretty. Lucky day around here, wasn't it?
581 00:50:02 --> 00:50:10 Cookout was amazing. I can't wait for another one. Invite me again. Yeah, how
582 00:50:10 --> 00:50:20 about that? But you have to go through the process of seeing how you feel when
583 00:50:20 --> 00:50:24 you're watching price action. Do you turn it into a love story? Like, oh man,
584 00:50:24 --> 00:50:28 this is perfect. This was love at sir. This is Love at first sight. This fair
585 00:50:28 --> 00:50:33 value gap. I saw it. I've walked in there. I was the Euro dollar sitting
586 00:50:33 --> 00:50:39 right there in the New York kills in she was fine. Look at that girl. Turn
587 00:50:39 --> 00:50:43 around. Let me see what you got in the back. Oh, my goodness, I'm in there.
588 00:50:44 --> 00:50:49 Tap. You're in that fair value gap. It's starting to run. You covered the dealing
589 00:50:49 --> 00:50:54 spread, your stop loss. You're tucking up behind there, a little bit behind
590 00:50:54 --> 00:50:58 that fair value gap low, and you're like, man, it's a romance. Now it's
591 00:50:58 --> 00:51:02 going to run up there to my TP. I can't stand when people say TP. You know, I
592 00:51:02 --> 00:51:05 hear TP. I think tool of paper. Okay, now that's, I guess it's not far
593 00:51:05 --> 00:51:08 stretched, because most of these fucking people out there, they're trying to
594 00:51:08 --> 00:51:12 teach people how to trade. Their fucking trades are trash. They're shit. So TP
595 00:51:12 --> 00:51:18 makes fucking perfect sense. It's a take profit, or that's your target, TP, TP
596 00:51:18 --> 00:51:23 like you can't say the fucking word TP. That's the equivalent of somebody on the
597 00:51:23 --> 00:51:26 fucking road that can flick their little turn signal. It's right there next to
598 00:51:26 --> 00:51:29 your fucking hand. You lazy ass. Just fuck it. Let everybody know what the
599 00:51:29 --> 00:51:33 hell you're doing. Protect the car you're driving. Protect your personal
600 00:51:33 --> 00:51:39 property. And there are other people's personal property. I'm like a dog. I see
601 00:51:39 --> 00:51:44 a squirrel. What girl it feel easy for me to come off of. These are all the
602 00:51:44 --> 00:51:49 things I usually delete out of the pre recorded lecture, but here you get all
603 00:51:49 --> 00:51:56 the fun kind of atmosphere. But how do you feel when you're watching price
604 00:51:56 --> 00:52:04 action? Are you at odds with the final boss. You're in a video game, and it's
605 00:52:04 --> 00:52:09 like, I only got one life left. This is it. I'm on it, and I got to win this one
606 00:52:09 --> 00:52:16 or it's game over. I have to have to reset. You're putting too much emphasis
607 00:52:16 --> 00:52:24 on the outcome, so you need to observe what you're trying to talk yourself away
608 00:52:24 --> 00:52:28 from. That's toxic. When you're journaling, don't record them with the
609 00:52:28 --> 00:52:33 toxicity. What do I mean by that? You're watching price action? You're not
610 00:52:33 --> 00:52:37 demoing. You're not doing funded account challenges. You're not trading with a
611 00:52:37 --> 00:52:40 funded account. You're not trading with a little bit of money. Because I don't
612 00:52:40 --> 00:52:45 learn how real money. We're going to talk about that again, I'm you're just
613 00:52:45 --> 00:52:49 simply watching the tape. You're watching price action fluctuate, and
614 00:52:49 --> 00:52:53 you're trying to get a feel for what makes you feel like the market's going
615 00:52:53 --> 00:52:57 to behave a certain way. And you record that at what minute market do you see
616 00:52:57 --> 00:53:04 that happen? And describe what it is if you don't have the ability to just, you
617 00:53:04 --> 00:53:08 know, shorthand it, in other words, couple keywords, it's going to help you
618 00:53:08 --> 00:53:13 remember what you were feeling at that time. Record yourself audibly at this
619 00:53:14 --> 00:53:19 minute market right here. I'm watching POUND DOLLAR at this minute mark right
620 00:53:19 --> 00:53:21 now. I'm watching crude oil at this minute market right now, I'm watching S
621 00:53:22 --> 00:53:28 P, I'm watching NASDAQ, and I see this right now, and what I expect to see,
622 00:53:28 --> 00:53:33 based on my current understanding, I believe that the market's going to
623 00:53:33 --> 00:53:36 behave this way, it's going to go to this buy side, or it's going to go to
624 00:53:36 --> 00:53:40 this sell side, and it should not go below this low or above this High before
625 00:53:40 --> 00:53:46 it does that. That's what I believe. And then at that moment, you say, how
626 00:53:46 --> 00:53:52 confident? Describe your confidence in that happening, even if you don't feel
627 00:53:52 --> 00:53:56 extremely confident about it, just say, I got a hunch that it's probably going
628 00:53:56 --> 00:54:01 to do this, but I'm not all that convinced yet. You need to be aware of
629 00:54:01 --> 00:54:07 that. At the end of that experiment, that study, which I'm going to put you
630 00:54:07 --> 00:54:11 through this week, I'm going to outline how you can go in and do drills over and
631 00:54:11 --> 00:54:15 over and over, all day long, all day long. You can do these things, and
632 00:54:16 --> 00:54:19 you're going to see how to find the right fair value gap, because you're
633 00:54:19 --> 00:54:23 going to test every single one of them with me. We're going to be out here.
634 00:54:23 --> 00:54:26 You're invited to have a demo account this week, because we're all going to be
635 00:54:26 --> 00:54:30 pushing buttons. I want you to see what it feels like. Okay, I want you to see
636 00:54:30 --> 00:54:34 what it feels like to be in something that has a measurement applied to it.
637 00:54:35 --> 00:54:39 Does this work? Does this not work? How fast does it fail? How fast does it
638 00:54:39 --> 00:54:45 work? What do you feel when I promote these certain situations? I'm gonna say,
639 00:54:45 --> 00:54:50 Look at this. We're gonna do this right here. We're gonna buy this right here.
640 00:54:50 --> 00:54:53 We're gonna sell this right here. Listen to me and I'm gonna say it again in the
641 00:54:53 --> 00:55:03 live streams. It nauseum. Okay, do not use. It as a signal service. Do not take
642 00:55:03 --> 00:55:07 your funded account, challenge, or your funded account, or your Live account,
643 00:55:07 --> 00:55:12 and follow these as entries. I am not telling you to do that. Caleb is
644 00:55:12 --> 00:55:17 watching this. You're all watching this. I'm teaching how you get comfortable
645 00:55:17 --> 00:55:22 with not needing to be right, and how, by contrast, like I was describing
646 00:55:22 --> 00:55:28 yesterday in livestream, when there's liquid, fluidy fluidity in price action,
647 00:55:28 --> 00:55:31 where it just moves around real nice, and it creates these imbalances, and it
648 00:55:31 --> 00:55:35 reaches, sweeping up to buy side and down the sell side. That's a trader's
649 00:55:35 --> 00:55:40 market. That is a market that you can just go in there. You don't need to have
650 00:55:40 --> 00:55:44 a bias. You don't need a bias in it because it's moving around so nicely.
651 00:55:44 --> 00:55:50 You can get 1015, 2030, handles and be opposed to if I was being held at
652 00:55:50 --> 00:55:54 gunpoint. Hey, ICT, is this going to be up close day or down close? Day? Up
653 00:55:54 --> 00:55:58 close day? Okay, you're thinking you only want to be a buyer for the rest of
654 00:55:58 --> 00:56:02 your career in that because ICT said it's going to be up close day, I have
655 00:56:02 --> 00:56:06 proven many, many times that you could be a short seller in a day that I'm
656 00:56:06 --> 00:56:11 primarily bullish in. But see in the beginning, it's fruitful for you to only
657 00:56:11 --> 00:56:14 focus on the side that a higher Time Frame bias indicates that it's likely to
658 00:56:14 --> 00:56:18 keep moving in one direction, higher or lower. So if you filter out everything
659 00:56:18 --> 00:56:25 that would be impulsive for you to take a trade on, and it may be going against
660 00:56:25 --> 00:56:29 that higher time bias. It filters out the likelihood, not that all of them
661 00:56:29 --> 00:56:33 would fail, but chances are, as a new student, trying to do something with
662 00:56:33 --> 00:56:37 money that you can't afford to lose, trying to spend money on funded account
663 00:56:37 --> 00:56:40 challenges that you can't afford to spend yet, not getting the results that
664 00:56:40 --> 00:56:45 you're hoping for. And then that compounds and builds up inside of you,
665 00:56:45 --> 00:56:49 and then you have to wrestle through that, like weeds and thorn bushes,
666 00:56:49 --> 00:56:53 because the destination you have in front of you of successful trading and
667 00:56:53 --> 00:56:59 consistently profitable it gets barriers placed in front of it, thorn bushes.
668 00:56:59 --> 00:57:03 Pitch it, pitch snares, you know, all these booby traps you're laying out in
669 00:57:03 --> 00:57:07 front, because the last time you did this, you got hurt. So you're not
670 00:57:07 --> 00:57:11 getting closer to your objective and your destiny. You're you're creating
671 00:57:11 --> 00:57:14 barriers because you're doing all the wrong things, not realizing that that's
672 00:57:14 --> 00:57:19 causing an impediment to your progress, because you think you're going to do
673 00:57:19 --> 00:57:23 something to circumvent the need to go through all the things that are required
674 00:57:23 --> 00:57:28 for you to do it correctly. It's better to do the things I'm telling you to do
675 00:57:28 --> 00:57:31 and avoid the things I tell you to avoid, because you won't have to second
676 00:57:31 --> 00:57:33 guess and think about, you know, did I do it the right way?
677 00:57:34 --> 00:57:37 You'll have very little to go back on once you get there and say, You know
678 00:57:37 --> 00:57:41 what? It wasn't as bad as I thought. It was. Contrast that with, well, I
679 00:57:41 --> 00:57:44 listened to swaggy. He said, Go out there and start with real money. Because
680 00:57:44 --> 00:57:48 I have to learn, with real money that's foolish knowledge, that's not even
681 00:57:48 --> 00:57:54 knowledge, that's misinformation, if you take something from other influencers
682 00:57:55 --> 00:57:58 being the only one that's ever said that. But I take odds at that, because
683 00:58:00 --> 00:58:05 when you monetize your right or wrong in the beginning, because you elevate every
684 00:58:05 --> 00:58:09 transaction, every idea, on the basis of right or wrong. I'm not promoting the
685 00:58:09 --> 00:58:13 idea that you need to worry about you right and wrong. These jokers that try
686 00:58:13 --> 00:58:17 to say that stuff, they're literally twisting everything I've ever taught you
687 00:58:17 --> 00:58:21 don't need to be right. It's not about being right. It's about being
688 00:58:22 --> 00:58:27 profitable. But they'll take my word Swiss around act like they come up with
689 00:58:27 --> 00:58:34 something. You remove the necessity about being right. If you remove that,
690 00:58:34 --> 00:58:38 that means there's no emotional tie to it. You have no psychological arm
691 00:58:38 --> 00:58:41 wrestling match. Now to prove to yourself or anyone else, that you're
692 00:58:41 --> 00:58:51 right. You don't need to be right, but you won't identify what those triggering
693 00:58:51 --> 00:58:55 things are inside you that are intrusive thoughts that become materialized and
694 00:58:55 --> 00:59:03 manifested into losing money. And you will not, I guarantee you you will not.
695 00:59:03 --> 00:59:08 If you do those things and you lose money, you're gonna fault me. You're
696 00:59:08 --> 00:59:11 gonna fault everybody else you followed in a discord room or that telegram
697 00:59:11 --> 00:59:15 channel or that YouTube guy or that person live streaming, I lost all my
698 00:59:15 --> 00:59:19 money, listen to your ass, and they're gonna fault find and they're gonna push
699 00:59:19 --> 00:59:24 all the responsibility off themselves. I've seen this happen. I've seen it. But
700 00:59:26 --> 00:59:30 the question is, what do you do with all the hundreds of 1000s of people that are
701 00:59:30 --> 00:59:34 making money with it? They learn the same thing. What are they doing
702 00:59:34 --> 00:59:38 differently? What did you do? And every time I've asked, they always either
703 00:59:38 --> 00:59:42 expose themselves or just they didn't do the right work. They were not using the
704 00:59:42 --> 00:59:46 things they were taught. Are you teachable? Are you willing to listen?
705 00:59:46 --> 00:59:52 You're here today, listening to this, and your mind is the first tool that's
706 00:59:53 --> 00:59:57 responsible for you to make the right steps going forward, and if you allow to
707 00:59:57 --> 01:00:06 be clouded with fear, anxiety. Uh, premature self worth to high levels of I
708 01:00:06 --> 01:00:14 want to be respected and almost borderline worship online. You're doing
709 01:00:14 --> 01:00:18 it wrong, and you need to fix that. You gotta do some house cleaning. But when
710 01:00:18 --> 01:00:24 you're journaling, you need to discover what that root catalyst was that caused
711 01:00:24 --> 01:00:30 you the uncertainty about an idea when you were watching price, or what gave
712 01:00:30 --> 01:00:40 you superhuman level confidence. What was those triggering factors? And if
713 01:00:40 --> 01:00:45 it's a negative. You have to say, for instance, a second like this. Say you're
714 01:00:45 --> 01:00:48 watching a NASDAQ, and you're tape reading, and you're doing the drills I'm
715 01:00:48 --> 01:00:54 going to teach you guys this week, and you get into one and you don't really
716 01:00:54 --> 01:00:58 feel confident that it's going to behave like you would like to see it behave,
717 01:00:58 --> 01:01:01 but you still do the exercise, and you press the demo, and you want to watch
718 01:01:01 --> 01:01:06 how long it takes you to get stopped out or run to the target, but as soon as you
719 01:01:06 --> 01:01:13 press the button, you feel regret like this isn't I should have waited. What
720 01:01:13 --> 01:01:16 that's going to do is, number one, you're you're dealing with a demo, but
721 01:01:16 --> 01:01:21 if you feel that, and it may only happen for a second internally, what that's
722 01:01:21 --> 01:01:26 highlighting is even on a demo where nobody else can see it, you feel the
723 01:01:26 --> 01:01:35 pressure of having it correct. Now you have an opportunity. So you're many
724 01:01:35 --> 01:01:38 times you're hiding that stuff, the things that you have to sweep up and
725 01:01:38 --> 01:01:43 clean up in your head, all these intrusive thoughts, all these hindering
726 01:01:43 --> 01:01:46 spirits that are keeping you from finding the success you're looking for.
727 01:01:47 --> 01:01:51 You're you're letting them live with you. You're making the bed for them.
728 01:01:51 --> 01:01:54 You're feeding them constantly, three meals and a cup every single day. You're
729 01:01:54 --> 01:01:59 feeding these intrusive thoughts, these demons they're going to hold you back.
730 01:01:59 --> 01:02:04 You're allowing them, you're allowing them to live rent free in your life,
731 01:02:04 --> 01:02:10 consuming all of your productivity, all of your progress. You're it's stealing
732 01:02:10 --> 01:02:16 your future success like a vampire. It's sucking the life marrow out of you. You
733 01:02:16 --> 01:02:25 don't even realize it, but when you journal, it puts a microscope or you
734 01:02:25 --> 01:02:29 ever top of that, and you're in that Fortress of Solitude. You're not going
735 01:02:29 --> 01:02:32 to talk about these things with me. You're not going to talk about with the
736 01:02:32 --> 01:02:37 people online. It's safe. It's safe for you to do this. It's a controlled
737 01:02:37 --> 01:02:43 environment. Nothing bad can happen. It's only upside. It's only upside doing
738 01:02:43 --> 01:02:47 these things, and it makes you better as a person. It will make you better as a
739 01:02:47 --> 01:02:55 trader, and it'll help you wrestle fear, fear of missing out, greed, over
740 01:02:55 --> 01:03:02 trading, over leveraging, all those things are corrected with a journal. And
741 01:03:02 --> 01:03:06 you wonder why these same influencers online have to keep resetting their fund
742 01:03:06 --> 01:03:10 account challenges, and they keep blowing up. They're dancing around,
743 01:03:10 --> 01:03:13 carrying on entertaining you, but they keep blowing up. And you ask them, Do
744 01:03:15 --> 01:03:20 you journal? No, come on, man. And then you're wondering why they're constantly
745 01:03:20 --> 01:03:26 having to publicly reset. They gotta constantly keep doing that, and they
746 01:03:26 --> 01:03:29 just, if they just would listen, put their pride aside and just listen,
747 01:03:29 --> 01:03:35 because this is good medicine, folks, this is good medicine. No one successful
748 01:03:35 --> 01:03:43 in trading falls into it by accident. It's an earned skill set, and it will
749 01:03:43 --> 01:03:49 not ever be easy for anyone, even if you listen to everything I'm telling you to
750 01:03:49 --> 01:03:53 do, which, in my opinion, is the correct way of doing it, not because it's mine,
751 01:03:54 --> 01:04:02 because it's rooted in pure psychology, sound logic, when you remove the sugary
752 01:04:02 --> 01:04:06 sweet, I gotta do it fast. And you already, you know, You already owe it to
753 01:04:06 --> 01:04:11 me last week, and you better give to me in a five minute video or I'm not
754 01:04:11 --> 01:04:15 interested. I'm not going to follow you. I see if you have the time to sit down
755 01:04:15 --> 01:04:18 and write that like you owe us this, you owe us that. I'm not going to Don't
756 01:04:18 --> 01:04:21 follow me. I'm not going to change my lifestyle because you didn't follow me
757 01:04:21 --> 01:04:25 or you won't support me or like me, I don't give a about that. None of you
758 01:04:25 --> 01:04:28 people matter that much to me. Okay, that's the truth. None of you matter
759 01:04:28 --> 01:04:34 that much to me. But why waste the opportunity when someone like myself is
760 01:04:34 --> 01:04:39 willing to teach you for free, and when I've done it with other people, and the
761 01:04:39 --> 01:04:46 things that they do, are all linked to the things I'm telling you here today.
762 01:04:46 --> 01:04:51 You have to journal. Don't hide from your character flaws. You do it in your
763 01:04:51 --> 01:04:56 journal. Discover what they are, and you find that by how you feel when you're
764 01:04:56 --> 01:05:00 doing these exercises. Do you feel like? Okay, I'm going to make this I'm. This
765 01:05:00 --> 01:05:04 is what he told me I should reach for in a target that, but I'm gonna do this.
766 01:05:04 --> 01:05:08 What is that? What's that tell you you're trying to you're trying to
767 01:05:08 --> 01:05:13 stretch the boundaries because you're competitive. You're fucking competitive,
768 01:05:13 --> 01:05:20 right? Okay, you want to race bolt with a fucking leg cast on, because that's
769 01:05:20 --> 01:05:23 exactly what you're trying to say. You're trying to say. You're going to
770 01:05:23 --> 01:05:28 do. Yeah, I'm going to run this faster than a guy that's done world records. So
771 01:05:28 --> 01:05:33 you have a superiority complex, which is what most of the influencers online have
772 01:05:33 --> 01:05:36 against me. They don't like that. They don't like the fact that I can do this
773 01:05:36 --> 01:05:39 all the time, every single day. They don't like it because it casts a very
774 01:05:39 --> 01:05:46 large shadow on them. I'm talking to them here too, not talking down to them.
775 01:05:46 --> 01:05:50 I'm talking to them as a peer. Hey, you're in the same industry. I am. I'm
776 01:05:50 --> 01:05:55 not a giant. I'm not I'm not somebody that should be worshiped or looked up
777 01:05:55 --> 01:06:00 to. I don't like when people do that to me, but these people want that if they
778 01:06:00 --> 01:06:04 listen to me like I'm trying to teach you to do it, they will be better
779 01:06:04 --> 01:06:09 traders, better mentors, and they will be pillars in the industry that deserve
780 01:06:09 --> 01:06:15 recognition, because right now, they don't deserve it. They don't. All of
781 01:06:15 --> 01:06:19 them have the capability of getting there, and some of you probably aspire
782 01:06:19 --> 01:06:25 to be like that. Listen to me, because you'll do it far better. You'll do it
783 01:06:25 --> 01:06:32 without drama marketing, because that doesn't work. That never works. It just
784 01:06:32 --> 01:06:40 casts a viewpoint that's easily fostered in a large degree of the attendance or
785 01:06:40 --> 01:06:44 the one workers, and they'll immediately make their decision right away, Oh, this
786 01:06:44 --> 01:06:51 guy's he's not a drama. Or this, this woman's got too much going on, and
787 01:06:51 --> 01:06:59 you'll never have your voice heard. So when you're developing yourself, you
788 01:06:59 --> 01:07:04 have to take that time and energy and and consider yourself worth it. A lot of
789 01:07:04 --> 01:07:07 you think, Well, I got time for journaling. What you're saying is, is
790 01:07:07 --> 01:07:13 you're not fucking worth the time and the investment in identifying how you
791 01:07:13 --> 01:07:17 can improve yourself and put yourself on the highest degree of performance.
792 01:07:17 --> 01:07:21 That's really what you're saying when you say, I do not want to journal. I
793 01:07:21 --> 01:07:21 don't
794 01:07:22 --> 01:07:27 want to do that. I don't want to put a progress of measuring my progress in
795 01:07:27 --> 01:07:31 black and white in front of me, where I can look at where my progress started
796 01:07:31 --> 01:07:35 and where I'm at today. That's how you know you can do it, because you see the
797 01:07:35 --> 01:07:38 things that you're learning. See, if you don't write it down, you're going to
798 01:07:38 --> 01:07:43 forget it. If you don't write it down, you're never going to remember it and
799 01:07:43 --> 01:07:51 revisit it. If someone, after you were long gone, finds your journal, are they
800 01:07:51 --> 01:07:58 going to read the Diary of a madman that was so abusive to themselves or, wow,
801 01:07:58 --> 01:08:03 this person was very encouraging to themselves, and I can see that they have
802 01:08:03 --> 01:08:10 identified their progress. So you all want to see trade statistics, bro, show
803 01:08:10 --> 01:08:15 me your My FX book. Bro, show me that you got on the leaderboard, on the
804 01:08:15 --> 01:08:19 funded account challenge, or whatever it is. I can't think of I don't know how
805 01:08:19 --> 01:08:22 they work, but some I know topsta has a leaderboard. I don't know if the other
806 01:08:22 --> 01:08:28 companies do get on the Robin's cup or we don't believe you. Okay, this is a
807 01:08:28 --> 01:08:33 litmus test for idiots. It is. It really is, because what you're saying is you
808 01:08:33 --> 01:08:38 have to see somebody else show you something. And let's be honest, if
809 01:08:38 --> 01:08:41 everything's shown to that type of person, they're still not going to do
810 01:08:41 --> 01:08:45 anything. They're just going to be mad and huff and puff and just go and try to
811 01:08:45 --> 01:08:52 troll somebody else. So it's not that they want to be inspired to learn how to
812 01:08:52 --> 01:08:56 do what you're learning how to do. They're just in here to trying to find
813 01:08:56 --> 01:09:01 some kind of talking point. But you do very similar things in the beginning, if
814 01:09:01 --> 01:09:05 you're not guarded, you want the opinions of others to support you and
815 01:09:05 --> 01:09:11 encourage you. Why should anybody that's not part of this community think now, if
816 01:09:11 --> 01:09:17 they're not already a part of this group here, why would you expect them to
817 01:09:17 --> 01:09:25 encourage you? That's insanity. You're asking someone on the outside to have
818 01:09:25 --> 01:09:29 the same perspective or a higher opinion of what you're trying to do and learn,
819 01:09:30 --> 01:09:37 then you do yourself, and then you're weighing the delivery of that opinion
820 01:09:37 --> 01:09:46 being favorable for you as a basis for you to continue going up to a blind man
821 01:09:46 --> 01:09:53 say, hey, which flower here is prettier? This is this one here in my right hand?
822 01:09:53 --> 01:09:56 Or which one is it the left hand or the right hand? Which one's prettier? How
823 01:09:56 --> 01:09:59 the fuck does he know? And that's exactly what you're doing with everybody
824 01:09:59 --> 01:10:03 else. You're saying, hey, look, what do you think? The only thing they got to go
825 01:10:03 --> 01:10:08 on is everybody else's opinion, and if it's a positive, you're a cultist.
826 01:10:08 --> 01:10:12 You're all brainwashed. You're not seeing me call price, you're not seeing
827 01:10:12 --> 01:10:17 me execute. You're not seeing those things. You're not seeing other students
828 01:10:17 --> 01:10:24 making real money with it. You're not seeing that they ignore that. So how can
829 01:10:24 --> 01:10:29 you take their opinion as balanced? But you're still asking the ether you're
830 01:10:29 --> 01:10:33 tossing out there on social media. Hey, what do you think about ICTs concept of
831 01:10:33 --> 01:10:37 this and that nail thing? If they're a little dick energy guy, they're gonna
832 01:10:37 --> 01:10:43 say, Oh yeah, he lifted I got this one 90% of everything ICT teaches, he got it
833 01:10:43 --> 01:10:48 from somebody else. We're still waiting. We're still waiting for somebody to come
834 01:10:48 --> 01:10:51 out and say, Here's exactly where ICT got order blocks from, and the mean
835 01:10:51 --> 01:10:56 threshold and institutional order flow, entry drill, and all the things I teach
836 01:10:56 --> 01:11:02 the long it's a long list of it never happens, but because they know that your
837 01:11:02 --> 01:11:07 mentality is wrapped around this 32nd Tiktok duration. You have short
838 01:11:07 --> 01:11:11 attention spans. You're wondering why people are stupid today is because
839 01:11:11 --> 01:11:18 they've stopped teaching. It's all about feelings. It's about having experiences
840 01:11:18 --> 01:11:22 online. We don't have conversations anymore. You don't sit down and write
841 01:11:22 --> 01:11:27 with a pen and pad. And pad a letter or sit down and type out a letter. It's
842 01:11:27 --> 01:11:31 Throw it to me in a text, throw it to me in a post on social media. And hey,
843 01:11:31 --> 01:11:38 you're my buddy. You're my friend. That's bullshit. When I talk to you. I
844 01:11:38 --> 01:11:42 care about the audience that's I'm targeting. I'm talking to my children.
845 01:11:43 --> 01:11:48 That's why you listen to me, because you feel the sense of urgency for me to
846 01:11:48 --> 01:11:57 communicate this importance, because the audience is my own flesh and blood, so
847 01:11:57 --> 01:12:01 I'm not going to shortchange them. I don't give a fuck if Tom Dick, and
848 01:12:01 --> 01:12:04 Harry's fucking mentorship guy out there says he talks too much. He could have
849 01:12:04 --> 01:12:08 did this and did that. These people that do these five minute trainers, they're
850 01:12:08 --> 01:12:13 not doing shit. They're wasting your time, because the only thing they're
851 01:12:13 --> 01:12:16 doing is creating these very barriers that you don't realize are gonna be
852 01:12:16 --> 01:12:20 appearing in front of you. You want it to happen for you fast? Well, guess what
853 01:12:20 --> 01:12:24 happens when you try to do it and it and it doesn't happen fast for you? What do
854 01:12:24 --> 01:12:29 you think I can't do this when I'm telling you? Expect it going in it's
855 01:12:29 --> 01:12:34 going to be hard when you come into this. You're all dirt. You're just
856 01:12:34 --> 01:12:41 dirty. You don't have anything that shines, nothing. You have a desire, but
857 01:12:41 --> 01:12:45 that's you're still just dirt. There's nothing that shines about you as a
858 01:12:45 --> 01:12:54 trader that you have to refine, that go through a process and change that, and
859 01:12:55 --> 01:12:59 then you can mold that, apply a little bit of sweat. What's that? That's
860 01:12:59 --> 01:13:03 moisture. And you can now take that dirt and shape it into something, mold it
861 01:13:03 --> 01:13:10 like pottery, and you shape that future self after constantly refining it. And
862 01:13:11 --> 01:13:14 it doesn't happen overnight. And I've never said it's going to be a fast
863 01:13:14 --> 01:13:18 process. I said it's going to be a lot of work, not because it's hard to learn
864 01:13:18 --> 01:13:23 these things. The concepts are straightforward. As I was talking about
865 01:13:23 --> 01:13:28 yesterday on the live stream the last hour trading, the people that say it's
866 01:13:28 --> 01:13:32 complicated or I complicate trading, it's not. I actually have created more
867 01:13:32 --> 01:13:37 opportunities to trade, but in the hands of someone that wants to be self
868 01:13:37 --> 01:13:43 defeating or self destructive, those tendencies that are inside you that you
869 01:13:43 --> 01:13:47 haven't identified and wrestled them into submission and subduing them, those
870 01:13:47 --> 01:13:52 demons that are in you, if you don't have a way of subduing them, if you
871 01:13:52 --> 01:13:55 weaponize them where they can hurt you financially, they're going to jump on
872 01:13:55 --> 01:13:59 that opportunity every single time, and they're going to leave you demoralized,
873 01:13:59 --> 01:14:02 regretful, and eventually it's going to beat you down and you're going to beat
874 01:14:02 --> 01:14:05 you down, and you're going to be in depression. And depression is a physical
875 01:14:05 --> 01:14:11 feeling. It's something it's not I don't feel good about myself. You know,
876 01:14:11 --> 01:14:16 psychologically or emotionally? No, you feel depression. It's painful, and if
877 01:14:16 --> 01:14:21 you live in it long enough, it'll affect your health. You develop anxiety, you
878 01:14:21 --> 01:14:26 develop all these physical symptoms that you think that are emergencies when
879 01:14:26 --> 01:14:30 they're not. It is physiological responses to things that our body has
880 01:14:30 --> 01:14:34 been created to give us sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
881 01:14:36 --> 01:14:42 Everybody's equipped with this, but the way you regulate these two nervous
882 01:14:42 --> 01:14:49 systems. It's in everybody's body. The anatomic nervous system is everybody has
883 01:14:49 --> 01:14:54 it. We don't think about breathing. It just happens, right? Have you ever had a
884 01:14:54 --> 01:15:01 moment my wife said this to me about a month ago. I. She goes, I'm not sure how
885 01:15:01 --> 01:15:08 to describe this to you, but I feel like I forgot how to breathe because I've had
886 01:15:08 --> 01:15:13 anxiety before. I have perfect understanding of what she means. And
887 01:15:13 --> 01:15:16 maybe that probably struck a chord with some of you that are listening, where
888 01:15:16 --> 01:15:20 all of a sudden you think to yourself, I gotta breathe more. I have to breathe
889 01:15:20 --> 01:15:24 faster and have to breathe deeper. Nothing has changed. There's no
890 01:15:24 --> 01:15:27 immediate threat in the room with you. No one has jumped scared you. No one's
891 01:15:27 --> 01:15:31 come out and tried to grab you and pull you into a van teach you how to trade
892 01:15:31 --> 01:15:37 these whole things of spontaneous anxiety. They may start off mildly, like
893 01:15:37 --> 01:15:44 feeling like I can't catch my breath, something's something's going on. If I
894 01:15:44 --> 01:15:48 don't consciously think about breathing, I feel like I'm going to stop what
895 01:15:48 --> 01:15:50 happens if I stop breathing? I'm probably going to die. And if this
896 01:15:50 --> 01:15:53 happens right before you go to sleep, that's what you're not doing sleep. So
897 01:15:55 --> 01:15:59 if you have problems with sleep, I don't have problems with sleep. Okay, when I
898 01:15:59 --> 01:16:04 talk about my sleep schedule, had people have doctors tell me you need to have
899 01:16:04 --> 01:16:07 eight hours of sleep. Bullshit, bullshit. You don't need eight hours of
900 01:16:07 --> 01:16:13 sleep. When I was a working man, I needed nine hours of sleep. I needed
901 01:16:13 --> 01:16:17 that because I was already keyed up as an individual. That's why I don't drink
902 01:16:17 --> 01:16:22 caffeine. I don't drink coffee. As a trader, if you don't have a complete
903 01:16:23 --> 01:16:28 mastery of yourself and you're drinking stimulants like caffeine, Cathy coffee,
904 01:16:28 --> 01:16:34 because it has caffeine in it, what you're doing is you're literally pouring
905 01:16:34 --> 01:16:41 gas on a fire. And if you're not careful, you will cause yourself health
906 01:16:41 --> 01:16:45 problems later on that you really don't want. There's a right way to do this,
907 01:16:45 --> 01:16:49 folks, and you can live in a very balanced state. And you you hear me
908 01:16:49 --> 01:16:53 talk, and I sound in balance now, because I want, I want to maintain your
909 01:16:53 --> 01:16:58 attention. That's what this is. It's all about making sure that you don't fall
910 01:16:58 --> 01:17:01 asleep, because it's real easy to fall asleep listening to me, because it's not
911 01:17:01 --> 01:17:07 about making money right now, but it is about making money. You can't make money
912 01:17:07 --> 01:17:11 consistently until you master yourself, until you subdue these intrusive
913 01:17:11 --> 01:17:14 thoughts, until you subdue these demons that you're wrestling with, that you
914 01:17:14 --> 01:17:15 have made house guests,
915 01:17:17 --> 01:17:21 you turn a blind eye. Oh, yeah, that's fucking Joe. He's, he doesn't have a
916 01:17:21 --> 01:17:26 job, always sits around, plays fucking Xbox all day long, eats up everything,
917 01:17:26 --> 01:17:29 doesn't buy anything, never takes a fucking bath. He stinks the whole house
918 01:17:29 --> 01:17:35 all up. But, you know, he's now part of the furniture here. He's, he's a staple
919 01:17:35 --> 01:17:38 here in the house, so I don't like to interact with them, but I know they're
920 01:17:38 --> 01:17:41 there. I can't do anything to get him out. I don't want to kick him out. He's
921 01:17:41 --> 01:17:43 a loved one. He's a family member. That's what you've done with these
922 01:17:43 --> 01:17:48 demons, these things that you hold on to. You guard them, you protect them.
923 01:17:49 --> 01:17:53 Instead of saying, Get the fuck out of here. You don't belong here. You have no
924 01:17:53 --> 01:17:57 more business here. You're not holding you back. No more. You're not a problem
925 01:17:57 --> 01:18:04 for me anymore. Get the fuck out. Replace it with something positive. I'm
926 01:18:04 --> 01:18:09 scared to take a trade. Why? Why are you? Are you afraid to take a trade
927 01:18:09 --> 01:18:12 because you have no model. You don't have a model because you had this demon
928 01:18:12 --> 01:18:16 constantly telling you that's not going to work. Don't even bother putting any
929 01:18:16 --> 01:18:20 time into this. You're going to sit here and look back and I wasted three months.
930 01:18:20 --> 01:18:24 If you get that far into it and you're gonna half ass it when you say you're
931 01:18:24 --> 01:18:28 journaling, you're gonna scribble a couple fucking words, draw a little
932 01:18:28 --> 01:18:32 diagram or something. Draw, you know, swing higher, swing low, and draw a
933 01:18:32 --> 01:18:35 liner and say that's an order block. Look, I did the journal. Look at this.
934 01:18:35 --> 01:18:42 This guy's a liar. Bro. I have people that have showed their journals to me,
935 01:18:43 --> 01:18:48 and they're like the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's volumes of shit. That's
936 01:18:48 --> 01:18:53 somebody that's going to do so much in the industry. It's crazy, like that's
937 01:18:53 --> 01:18:56 exactly the high end of what I'm encouraging them from all you. You don't
938 01:18:56 --> 01:19:02 need to be that far with it, but you have to record your progress. You have
939 01:19:02 --> 01:19:09 to record that otherwise. How can you reasonably comfort yourself when you
940 01:19:09 --> 01:19:12 feel like you want to quit? What do you have to hang your hat on when you feel
941 01:19:12 --> 01:19:15 like you don't want to do it anymore because you had a week of drawdown? What
942 01:19:15 --> 01:19:19 happens when you blow your account? What happens when you lose your funded
943 01:19:19 --> 01:19:22 account? What happens when you can't pass that funded account challenge and
944 01:19:22 --> 01:19:27 you don't have the money to spend on it again until the next paycheck. Now you
945 01:19:27 --> 01:19:31 gotta wait. And you're thinking yourself, maybe, if I don't pay Netflix,
946 01:19:31 --> 01:19:35 maybe if I get rid of this, and I get rid of that, that's probably a good
947 01:19:35 --> 01:19:40 thing if you did that, because watching TV is bullshit. I don't watch TV. I have
948 01:19:40 --> 01:19:46 old shows on Blu ray. If I want to watch a movie, Janice's are it's probably
949 01:19:46 --> 01:19:53 something old, because they don't have all that wood bullshit in it. But I
950 01:19:53 --> 01:19:59 watch very little of any entertainment stuff. I watch the Deadpool movie and
951 01:19:59 --> 01:20:04 it's. Theater with my sons, and that was it. That's the most recent thing. I
952 01:20:04 --> 01:20:08 don't like to go to theaters anymore. To me, it's a terrible waste. I have a
953 01:20:08 --> 01:20:12 theater in my house. I don't need to go there and sit in something that's dirty.
954 01:20:12 --> 01:20:16 Be around people on our cell phones and talking bullshit. I can do all that
955 01:20:16 --> 01:20:25 stuff in my own house. I have a nicer theater in my home. I If you don't have
956 01:20:25 --> 01:20:30 the progress report that you have encouraged yourself along the way and
957 01:20:30 --> 01:20:34 acknowledging where what you're learning didn't work in your hands that day, and
958 01:20:34 --> 01:20:41 then you say, I'm glad I had the opportunity to see this fail, because
959 01:20:41 --> 01:20:44 now I can go in and discover more about what it is I didn't know at the time
960 01:20:45 --> 01:20:54 when I took this idea. See that is that something that you as a child, if you
961 01:20:54 --> 01:20:57 watch your child try to do something, try to learn how to ride a bike, you
962 01:20:57 --> 01:21:01 took the training wheels off. You've been walking with them holding the seat,
963 01:21:01 --> 01:21:08 and now you want to let go, and you tell them, Timmy, Daddy's got you, but I know
964 01:21:09 --> 01:21:15 if I let go for a minute, you'll be fine, trust it. Just keep pedaling and
965 01:21:15 --> 01:21:17 you let go. And what happens if they panic and they fall down? Are you going
966 01:21:17 --> 01:21:23 to scold him? No, you're gonna get him up, brush his knees off, his hands off,
967 01:21:23 --> 01:21:28 and say, hey, look, you know what, you did good. This doing that right there.
968 01:21:29 --> 01:21:33 And you're not dead, you're not bleeding out. You didn't break a bone. But now
969 01:21:33 --> 01:21:38 let's get back on here and do it again. And they may they may fuss and say, I'm
970 01:21:38 --> 01:21:43 afraid, but what are you going to do? You're going to encourage them. That's
971 01:21:43 --> 01:21:47 what you do with yourself in your journal. You have to be a good parent in
972 01:21:47 --> 01:21:52 your journal. You are refining your future self. If you don't care about
973 01:21:52 --> 01:21:56 yourself, if you don't really love yourself, you're going to discover that
974 01:21:56 --> 01:22:02 in journaling. That's why these social media influencers are so fucking toxic
975 01:22:02 --> 01:22:06 because they hate themselves. They are not where they want to be at and they
976 01:22:06 --> 01:22:10 are looking to outside influences, their audience members, to worship them and
977 01:22:10 --> 01:22:18 lift them up on a pedestal, because they need that. They need that more than they
978 01:22:18 --> 01:22:23 need money. I don't need that, and I don't encourage it, and I don't need
979 01:22:23 --> 01:22:27 fucking money, and I'm teaching for free. I'm spending my Saturday morning
980 01:22:27 --> 01:22:38 with y'all. I'm hanging out with you on a non monetized medium, just talking got
981 01:22:38 --> 01:22:41 trying to encourage some friends of mine. That's all I'm trying to do here.
982 01:22:44 --> 01:22:49 But I bet you probably never thought about things like this, and that should
983 01:22:49 --> 01:22:53 be encouraging to you, because chances are, you were probably thinking about it
984 01:22:53 --> 01:23:00 differently and much more toxic. And the metrics of measuring what your
985 01:23:00 --> 01:23:04 expectations were and what you're willing to put yourself through are far
986 01:23:04 --> 01:23:09 out of spec based on what I just said here. Isn't this a whole lot more
987 01:23:09 --> 01:23:14 comforting if you approach your learning this way? Would you not agree that? Yes,
988 01:23:14 --> 01:23:18 it takes some time to sit down and journal those things if you don't want
989 01:23:18 --> 01:23:21 to do that, number one, it's shining a huge spotlight on the fact that you
990 01:23:21 --> 01:23:24 don't care enough about yourself and your future success to even consider it,
991 01:23:25 --> 01:23:28 but you're probably the same person that can entertain the idea of going to
992 01:23:28 --> 01:23:32 college. You probably were willing unless you got a scholarship, or your
993 01:23:32 --> 01:23:38 dad parents paid for your college. You took on student debt that you can't
994 01:23:38 --> 01:23:43 write off, just like taxes. I mean, you can't escape it, but you were, you were
995 01:23:43 --> 01:23:49 willing to go through the process of putting yourself into long term debt on
996 01:23:49 --> 01:23:53 something you were not even assured was going to be a profitable venture for
997 01:23:53 --> 01:23:57 you. Yeah, I want to be a bearing biologist. Yeah. I want to be a
998 01:23:57 --> 01:24:00 psychologist. I want to study philosophy. Why the fuck do people go to
999 01:24:00 --> 01:24:04 college to take a get a degree in philosophy? I don't understand that.
1000 01:24:05 --> 01:24:11 Read the Bible, read some well maintained texts, and you're going to
1001 01:24:11 --> 01:24:16 get a better understanding of philosophy than you would from these bullshit
1002 01:24:16 --> 01:24:21 indoctrination centers, but you're willing to put yourself through that
1003 01:24:21 --> 01:24:25 four years or longer if you're going for a higher degree, PhD, Master, something
1004 01:24:25 --> 01:24:31 to that effect, to get to the degree of what I'm showing you with technical
1005 01:24:31 --> 01:24:34 science, you want to get a PhD in technical science through ICT, the
1006 01:24:34 --> 01:24:38 College of ICT, the School of Hard fucking Knox, because that's what this
1007 01:24:40 --> 01:24:43 is. We don't have campus fucking parties. We don't have keg parties. We
1008 01:24:43 --> 01:24:48 don't throw TP over the fucking trees and get drunk. We take it serious around
1009 01:24:48 --> 01:24:57 here we are, if trading had colleges, I'm the ivy fucking League of it. Okay,
1010 01:24:57 --> 01:25:02 that's just the way it is. I produce. Winners, I produce people that give a
1011 01:25:02 --> 01:25:07 fuck about themselves, and when they learn how to do this, their esteem is
1012 01:25:07 --> 01:25:14 really high, their self worth extremely high, and to weaker people around them,
1013 01:25:14 --> 01:25:18 it seems like narcissism. It seems like arrogance, and that's just you
1014 01:25:18 --> 01:25:23 reflecting your own insignificance because you've beat yourself down.
1015 01:25:24 --> 01:25:27 You've let other people do that. They're holding you back. You're holding
1016 01:25:27 --> 01:25:32 yourself back because you think toxic thoughts all the time. When I was going
1017 01:25:32 --> 01:25:46 through agoraphobia and 2001 2002 2003 it was all based on the 911 attack. Like
1018 01:25:46 --> 01:25:49 I was, I was terrified. I had people that were not just me. I don't think I
1019 01:25:49 --> 01:25:57 would have had this happen to me if I didn't have a wife and kid. If I didn't
1020 01:25:57 --> 01:26:03 have that, I think I would have been like, Well, yeah, that's can civil it is
1021 01:26:03 --> 01:26:08 what it is. But because I had family members that I have brought into this
1022 01:26:08 --> 01:26:13 world with my wife that are not capable of taking care of themselves, and I have
1023 01:26:13 --> 01:26:18 a wife that doesn't look at the world the way she does today, but back then
1024 01:26:18 --> 01:26:24 Jesus was like anything else. Back then, we didn't have social media like we had
1025 01:26:24 --> 01:26:28 today, but she used to watch TV news all the time. Every time news would be on,
1026 01:26:28 --> 01:26:33 she's watching it. And I'm like, Do you realize that nothing good just came off
1027 01:26:33 --> 01:26:36 that fucking television, and you want to constantly come back to it. And they
1028 01:26:36 --> 01:26:39 started doing 10 o'clock news because six o'clock some five o'clock news
1029 01:26:39 --> 01:26:43 wasn't enough. Now gotta get 10 o'clock because we gotta prep you for the 11
1030 01:26:43 --> 01:26:50 o'clock news, and it's always bad, toxic shit. So I was always listening to in
1031 01:26:50 --> 01:26:53 the background the terror threats been raised from yellow to orange. That's
1032 01:26:53 --> 01:26:57 what they used to do back then. They constantly were, they were, they were
1033 01:26:58 --> 01:27:05 priming us to live in fear, and it worked on me. That was the weakest time
1034 01:27:05 --> 01:27:10 of my life where I was allowing these assholes to convince me that impending
1035 01:27:10 --> 01:27:10 boom
1036 01:27:10 --> 01:27:14 was going to happen at any moment, and I was being indoctrinated. I was being
1037 01:27:15 --> 01:27:19 brainwashed, like most people back then, and we just watched it now. I still
1038 01:27:19 --> 01:27:22 people driving the around with masks by themselves, with your windows rolled up
1039 01:27:22 --> 01:27:26 in their car. What the hell's going on? And that's exactly what I told everybody
1040 01:27:26 --> 01:27:30 on Twitter this very app in 2019 watch what they're getting ready to do, and
1041 01:27:30 --> 01:27:37 here you go. And it ain't done. We're getting ready to hit the real show. And
1042 01:27:37 --> 01:27:42 I would be out of my mind with anxiety if I hadn't learned what I'm about to
1043 01:27:42 --> 01:27:43 teach you,
1044 01:27:46 --> 01:27:51 everybody has stress. Everybody has stress. That's part of life. Jesus
1045 01:27:53 --> 01:27:57 said you're going to have tribulation in this world, but not everybody's going to
1046 01:27:57 --> 01:28:05 go through great tribulation. You happens if you have a bad day in the
1047 01:28:05 --> 01:28:10 market? What happens if you have a bad day at your job, or you have a falling
1048 01:28:10 --> 01:28:14 out in your relationship and you have a trading account open with real money, or
1049 01:28:14 --> 01:28:19 a funded account, or a fund account challenge open that you can trade and
1050 01:28:19 --> 01:28:25 see results in what happens if you have a bad day? What's the first thing you
1051 01:28:25 --> 01:28:31 feel like you want to do? Men, I already know what you want to do. Ladies, maybe
1052 01:28:31 --> 01:28:34 not so much this. But men, you want to push the button and fuck around and find
1053 01:28:34 --> 01:28:42 out you want to replace that. I just got canned at my job, I just got made
1054 01:28:42 --> 01:28:46 redundant and let go. I just got a final written warning that if I do this or
1055 01:28:46 --> 01:28:53 don't live up to this output and performance, I'm going to be given my
1056 01:28:53 --> 01:28:58 walking papers and fired terminators. You're stressed out now, rightfully so,
1057 01:28:59 --> 01:29:03 but chances are you probably didn't do the things I'm talking about in this
1058 01:29:03 --> 01:29:08 Twitter space here today that could have mitigate all that by taking initiative,
1059 01:29:08 --> 01:29:12 being responsible, owning it, and working towards progressing and being
1060 01:29:12 --> 01:29:14 better. Because if you journal like this, you're going to find that it
1061 01:29:14 --> 01:29:20 starts bleeding into your personal life, not just in trading. You'll find that
1062 01:29:20 --> 01:29:24 you'll interact with people in a much more favorable and professional manner.
1063 01:29:25 --> 01:29:29 You'll talk differently. Your vocabulary will increase, and it won't be it won't
1064 01:29:29 --> 01:29:38 be quickly reached for for toxic opinions. You'll look for reasons that
1065 01:29:38 --> 01:29:42 talk about something good and positive, because you realize the effect it has on
1066 01:29:42 --> 01:29:47 you, so therefore, wow, you know, I know, if I talk to someone, and I talk
1067 01:29:47 --> 01:29:53 about all the positives that I can see in someone, and say, hey, look, I see
1068 01:29:53 --> 01:29:58 what you're doing, and I think that you are doing an amazing thing here, and I
1069 01:29:58 --> 01:30:04 like how you. Did this? Have you ever considered this? And then you've
1070 01:30:04 --> 01:30:08 encouraged them, you acknowledged what they did was right, and you encouraged
1071 01:30:08 --> 01:30:12 them. That's what goes on in our community. I don't see that happening in
1072 01:30:12 --> 01:30:17 other people's community. I see a competitive I gotta be better. I gotta
1073 01:30:17 --> 01:30:21 stand out. We don't, you know, I have a few of those in my group. Then they're
1074 01:30:21 --> 01:30:25 revealing themselves. I don't need to know what sex they are. I can tell what
1075 01:30:25 --> 01:30:31 they are the way they talk in their posts. They're toxic males. They want to
1076 01:30:31 --> 01:30:37 be dominating, okay? And chances are they're probably being reckless in their
1077 01:30:37 --> 01:30:43 training. You can read a person very easily by watching what they put on
1078 01:30:43 --> 01:30:47 social media. You can see their frailties, you can see their strengths.
1079 01:30:47 --> 01:30:52 You can see how they think and how they share their opinion about other people.
1080 01:30:52 --> 01:30:56 Is a direct relationship to how they view themselves, because they're
1081 01:30:56 --> 01:31:02 projecting. Are you someone like that? Are you someone that's like that? You're
1082 01:31:02 --> 01:31:05 always critical. Talking to everybody else, because you're thinking that if
1083 01:31:05 --> 01:31:10 you do that, it eases the pain, because you're not in your journal telling
1084 01:31:10 --> 01:31:15 yourself that this is an opportunity to improve upon. These are a frailty. These
1085 01:31:15 --> 01:31:19 are a character flaw that I have at the moment, but here's how I'm going to fix
1086 01:31:19 --> 01:31:24 it and work towards making it better or less impactful for the negative aspects,
1087 01:31:26 --> 01:31:30 you're being responsible with yourself. You're cultivating a proper learning
1088 01:31:30 --> 01:31:37 environment. You're removing all toxicity. You're not inviting all of the
1089 01:31:37 --> 01:31:40 opinions of others, even if they are loved ones, even if they are your
1090 01:31:40 --> 01:31:46 spouse. They're not going to see it the way you see it right now. Let them
1091 01:31:46 --> 01:31:53 discover how much of success you really are when you get there. Quietly. Don't
1092 01:31:53 --> 01:31:56 talk about it, because if you're going to talk about it, you're using energy
1093 01:31:56 --> 01:31:59 that could have been used to study, that's time that could have been used
1094 01:31:59 --> 01:32:02 for studying and journaling, if it's good enough for you to say it before
1095 01:32:02 --> 01:32:06 you, before you live it, before you have it in your hands. If you're going to say
1096 01:32:06 --> 01:32:11 it out loud, because you hear this people talking about, I'm going to
1097 01:32:11 --> 01:32:17 manifest it, I'm going to speak it into existence, you're not God. Only one can
1098 01:32:17 --> 01:32:23 do that, but you can self talk and encourage yourself, but in trading, you
1099 01:32:23 --> 01:32:30 do not do that. In social circles, you don't do that. Don't do that. You
1100 01:32:30 --> 01:32:34 channel that stuff right into your journal. And when you have a bad day,
1101 01:32:34 --> 01:32:38 you have a toxic day, that's a day you don't trade. But that's
1102 01:32:40 --> 01:32:45 not what you want to hear. ICT, I don't give a shit what you say. I need to feel
1103 01:32:45 --> 01:32:51 good. You ever see the movie monster ball? Halle Berry, Billy, Bob Thorn,
1104 01:32:52 --> 01:32:56 there's a scene in there where she's lit and she's trying to basically be
1105 01:32:56 --> 01:33:00 intimate, because she just needs to feel good. And that's exactly what she says
1106 01:33:00 --> 01:33:03 in the script. Come on. I want to feel good. I want to she's crying to you, I
1107 01:33:03 --> 01:33:10 want to feel good. That's exactly what all of you are doing inside. And you're
1108 01:33:10 --> 01:33:17 hoping that trading making money is going to fill that. I can tell you, it
1109 01:33:17 --> 01:33:27 doesn't. It doesn't every successful, consistently profitable trader, if
1110 01:33:27 --> 01:33:32 they're absolutely 100% honest, that's not where their sense of fulfillment
1111 01:33:32 --> 01:33:40 comes from. It comes from the the fact that they have a model that they trust,
1112 01:33:40 --> 01:33:44 that they refined, that they work towards, that they guarded, that they
1113 01:33:44 --> 01:33:50 had faith in that faith grew over time, and they journaled their progress and
1114 01:33:50 --> 01:33:54 they refined it, where they are never tinkering with it. That means they're
1115 01:33:54 --> 01:33:58 never trying to add something or take away something. They're content with
1116 01:33:58 --> 01:34:03 that, and that is a sense of mindset that you can't put a price tag on that
1117 01:34:05 --> 01:34:10 your job's not guaranteed. You're going to be there five years from now. You're
1118 01:34:10 --> 01:34:19 not guaranteed to be here tomorrow. Your profitable trade isn't guaranteed in
1119 01:34:19 --> 01:34:22 your next transaction and you're clicking on the button, it's not
1120 01:34:22 --> 01:34:27 guaranteed. But the folks that have a sound model that they've worked and
1121 01:34:27 --> 01:34:32 refined, they don't obsess about that. They understand that every trade is a
1122 01:34:32 --> 01:34:39 losing trade, that their skill set, that their faith based model, that they have
1123 01:34:39 --> 01:34:44 groomed, and they've isolated to this is all I'm going to look for. This is all
1124 01:34:44 --> 01:34:48 I'm worried about. This is the time I'm focusing on trading. I'm not in your
1125 01:34:48 --> 01:34:53 every, all day long, trading. Again, that's somebody that the fuck they're
1126 01:34:53 --> 01:35:00 talking about, okay, you're inviting the rate of failure, exponentially. You. Get
1127 01:35:00 --> 01:35:03 in there more than you should when you don't know what the hell you're doing
1128 01:35:04 --> 01:35:15 wrong. Surgeons, doctors, they're specialists. Everybody that goes through
1129 01:35:15 --> 01:35:21 med school are not proctologists, but in trading everybody on social media is a
1130 01:35:21 --> 01:35:23 fucking proctologist. They got their face. Proctologist. They got their
1131 01:35:23 --> 01:35:26 finger and everybody's asked sniffing, what did you have for lunch? They're in
1132 01:35:26 --> 01:35:32 everybody's fucking business. Surgeons, their brain surgeons, their heart
1133 01:35:32 --> 01:35:40 surgeons, they're orthopaed orthopedic surgeons. They specialize. They went
1134 01:35:40 --> 01:35:44 through the same schooling, but then branched off and said, This is what I'm
1135 01:35:44 --> 01:35:51 doing. What did they do? What did they do? Do you think that they were fucking
1136 01:35:51 --> 01:35:58 journaling and studying feet? If they're going to be a brain surgeon, they want
1137 01:35:58 --> 01:36:02 to know everything about the foot, and that'd be the nerve endings of a foot,
1138 01:36:02 --> 01:36:11 when they're studying the brain or the heart or any other a gastric surgeon,
1139 01:36:14 --> 01:36:22 no, they've reduced their focus In on one specific task. Their model as a
1140 01:36:22 --> 01:36:27 surgeon is that they have to know exactly how they're going to cut and
1141 01:36:27 --> 01:36:34 engage the human body for the purposes of helping this particular part of the
1142 01:36:34 --> 01:36:43 human body heal. The outcome is, if that trade, if we want to personify it that
1143 01:36:43 --> 01:36:48 way, it's profitable if the patient is improved and gets to live longer in a
1144 01:36:48 --> 01:36:54 more fulfilling life, and the ailment they came in to have addressed gets
1145 01:36:54 --> 01:37:00 corrected by the surgeon's model being applied to that body. We don't go to a
1146 01:37:00 --> 01:37:05 general practitioner when we need surgery. We may need to get to initially
1147 01:37:05 --> 01:37:10 get a recommendation, like here, here, I'm going to recommend you go to this
1148 01:37:10 --> 01:37:15 surgeon here, but they're not doing the cutting. They're doing a genuine
1149 01:37:15 --> 01:37:23 evaluation. We don't need that here. As a trader, you're that, you're the CEO,
1150 01:37:23 --> 01:37:27 you're the CFO, you're the person that gets fired when you blow the account.
1151 01:37:27 --> 01:37:32 You're the person who has to do fundraising to start it up again. It's
1152 01:37:32 --> 01:37:37 everything you incorporated. That's what this is. And you're saying that you're
1153 01:37:37 --> 01:37:43 not interested in journaling when every corporate enterprise has some measure of
1154 01:37:43 --> 01:37:48 doing that same KPI measurement, KPIs, their performance measurements, how well
1155 01:37:48 --> 01:37:53 you're performing, what's your output? What's the results of those output? And
1156 01:37:54 --> 01:37:58 if you don't do that with yourself, the enterprise that you daydream about
1157 01:37:58 --> 01:38:03 yourself being this super rock star, rider on a Lear jets, driving cars that
1158 01:38:03 --> 01:38:08 are too expensive. Oil chains cost too much, and nobody gives a shit after two
1159 01:38:08 --> 01:38:15 days looking at it. Oh yeah, who cares? You're expecting people to love you
1160 01:38:15 --> 01:38:19 because you have something that they can't afford. How long do you think that
1161 01:38:19 --> 01:38:22 lasts? It doesn't last long, then there's animosity. So you're inviting
1162 01:38:22 --> 01:38:28 the opposite. You're inviting it, you're inviting all the wrong things, versus
1163 01:38:29 --> 01:38:34 you don't ever wear your wealth on your sleeve. You're content with how you live
1164 01:38:34 --> 01:38:41 a simple life. If anybody looks at me on the outside, they would never know that
1165 01:38:41 --> 01:38:45 I live in a fluent lifestyle. They would never know it. I don't want people,
1166 01:38:45 --> 01:38:50 especially today. I don't want to be out in public wearing a $45,000 watch
1167 01:38:50 --> 01:38:54 anymore. I don't want to do that. It busted outside the head. I can't look at
1168 01:38:54 --> 01:38:57 every minute around my surroundings. Someone's going to ask me a question.
1169 01:38:57 --> 01:39:00 I'm going to do something, I'm going to reach for a door, and I get busted in
1170 01:39:00 --> 01:39:04 the head, and the head, and the $40,000 watch is now theirs. But you see these
1171 01:39:04 --> 01:39:10 20 year olds out there, and they're doing all this flashy stuff, and things
1172 01:39:10 --> 01:39:15 are getting hard, and what are they doing? They're inviting the mindset that
1173 01:39:15 --> 01:39:17 says, You know what? I can't get
1174 01:39:17 --> 01:39:23 what you have doing, what you do not then that pisses me off. So I'm going to
1175 01:39:23 --> 01:39:25 find out where you are
1176 01:39:26 --> 01:39:31 and take something off of you. You don't realize that, young man, but that's
1177 01:39:31 --> 01:39:34 exactly what you're doing in this world today. That's exactly what you're asking
1178 01:39:34 --> 01:39:41 for driving around in cars asking to get the shit lifted off of you because you
1179 01:39:41 --> 01:39:46 want to look good. You want to measure your success based on other people's
1180 01:39:46 --> 01:39:50 opinion, how often they mention you on social media. They're always talking
1181 01:39:50 --> 01:39:56 about me, and that's stupid. It's uncomfortable. I don't like it. I just
1182 01:39:56 --> 01:39:59 want to be like everybody else. That's all I want, and I can't be that.
1183 01:40:00 --> 01:40:04 Anymore. It bothers me. You want to believe that I love being looked up to
1184 01:40:04 --> 01:40:07 in worship. I don't want to be worshiped. I just want people to say,
1185 01:40:07 --> 01:40:12 Hey, what's up? Michael, how you been that's it. I don't want to be looked at
1186 01:40:12 --> 01:40:18 that, and I won't let anybody look down. That's how I carry myself. I live my
1187 01:40:18 --> 01:40:25 life just like that. And some of you are doing this, trying to refine your future
1188 01:40:25 --> 01:40:29 self, so that way you can be some kind of character online, some kind of
1189 01:40:29 --> 01:40:34 influence or some kind of celebrity, and you might be, and you might do things
1190 01:40:34 --> 01:40:37 differently. You might be, you know, well, rounded down to earth person.
1191 01:40:37 --> 01:40:41 That'd be great. I'd be very wholesome thing to see. I would be a fan of that.
1192 01:40:43 --> 01:40:48 That's what I'm trying to cultivate. But don't let it get twisted. That same
1193 01:40:48 --> 01:40:53 person is still going to have confidence through the roof. And if they're honest,
1194 01:40:53 --> 01:40:55 and they're asked, Hey, how do you feel about trading this that you ever have
1195 01:40:55 --> 01:41:03 any anxiety about trading? No, no, there isn't a trading day out there that I
1196 01:41:03 --> 01:41:07 can't walk out there and say I'm going to take this and I'm leaving with it,
1197 01:41:07 --> 01:41:12 and you can't fucking stop me. Now, think about that. That sounds unheard
1198 01:41:12 --> 01:41:19 of, right? But I'm demonstrating that in live streams. I'm showing you where it's
1199 01:41:19 --> 01:41:25 going to go to, and that's the beginning building blocks. But if you take these
1200 01:41:25 --> 01:41:30 case studies where you simply watch price action, and you don't know in your
1201 01:41:30 --> 01:41:34 present state, if you just began how to learn how to do this stuff, you don't
1202 01:41:34 --> 01:41:38 know where it's going. You're guessing at everything that's going on, and
1203 01:41:38 --> 01:41:43 you're trying to apply an indicator or somebody else's logic while I'm talking
1204 01:41:43 --> 01:41:49 about what price is going to do and what I'm telling you doing it's doing it, and
1205 01:41:49 --> 01:41:55 you're not retaining anything except for I didn't get anything from this. When I
1206 01:41:55 --> 01:41:59 see comments and I leave a post on my community, post on my YouTube channel, I
1207 01:41:59 --> 01:42:02 say, what did you learn in this live stream? I usually got about three or
1208 01:42:02 --> 01:42:06 four people to say nothing, and I blocked them. I'll never see their
1209 01:42:06 --> 01:42:09 comments again, because that's a fucking idiot. Okay, if you ever left that I
1210 01:42:09 --> 01:42:12 want you to I'm calling you an idiot. You're a fucking idiot because I'm
1211 01:42:12 --> 01:42:17 laying down things that, if you're paying attention, they repeat every day.
1212 01:42:19 --> 01:42:24 So to me, you're a joke. Anybody that says that they're not getting anything
1213 01:42:24 --> 01:42:31 from it simply is an idiot, or you're just a hateful piece of shit that has
1214 01:42:32 --> 01:42:36 all of this attention placed on what I'm teaching in my in our community, and
1215 01:42:36 --> 01:42:41 it's overshadowing you, and you're just trying to poke and be vindictive, and
1216 01:42:41 --> 01:42:43 it's sad. You don't need to do that stuff. You're not going to change me.
1217 01:42:43 --> 01:42:47 You're not going to stop other people from wanting to learn this. It's the
1218 01:42:47 --> 01:42:52 cat's out of the bag. It's a it's a phenomenon. It's global. And all I want
1219 01:42:52 --> 01:42:55 to do is ask your permission, collectively as a community is just let
1220 01:42:55 --> 01:42:59 me step down like a CEO. I don't want to, I don't want to be the face. I just
1221 01:42:59 --> 01:43:03 want to just, hey, look, you know, I'm thankful that Michael released this
1222 01:43:03 --> 01:43:07 stuff, but stop trying to make me a celebrity all the time. I don't want
1223 01:43:07 --> 01:43:12 that. I do want to see who comes up out of all this, and I want to see them,
1224 01:43:12 --> 01:43:18 whether it be male or female, to do it better than I did. You know that means
1225 01:43:18 --> 01:43:24 don't have, don't have all these chest ups to other people. I do it for fun. I
1226 01:43:24 --> 01:43:30 do I did it for marketing initially, because I it was all upside for me. You
1227 01:43:30 --> 01:43:35 know, I I simply wanted to go out there and draw a crowd. I knew either one I
1228 01:43:35 --> 01:43:39 would be entertained by it, or the social experiment that I started on baby
1229 01:43:39 --> 01:43:43 pips was going to produce something. And while I do have students that are
1230 01:43:43 --> 01:43:48 profitable, I don't have an ICT 2.0 and that's what I wanted to see. Because the
1231 01:43:48 --> 01:43:52 things I taught initially, the old stuff, where I was talking about
1232 01:43:52 --> 01:43:56 support, resistance, when I was talking about indicators and MACD and this and
1233 01:43:56 --> 01:44:01 stuff, that's exactly how I started. So I was producing the same climate, the
1234 01:44:01 --> 01:44:06 same environment, in the same order that I went through to see if I could create
1235 01:44:06 --> 01:44:13 that same magic that happened at who I am today. And it was unfortunate that I
1236 01:44:13 --> 01:44:17 was hoping it was going to happen, but nothing happened like that. I have
1237 01:44:17 --> 01:44:21 profitable students. I have wildly profitable students, but I don't have an
1238 01:44:21 --> 01:44:27 ICT 2.0 and I'm hoping that Caleb will allow me, if he listens to me, he'll
1239 01:44:27 --> 01:44:31 have the greatest advantage of doing it. But there's no guarantee. Everybody has
1240 01:44:31 --> 01:44:34 their own problems that they have to wrestle with. I don't know. I'm not
1241 01:44:34 --> 01:44:40 inside my son's head. I don't know if he's going to have he's had a bout of
1242 01:44:40 --> 01:44:45 anxiety one time when he had a job at I don't know where he was, but he he
1243 01:44:45 --> 01:44:49 clammed up, just couldn't function, and they had to send him home. It was just
1244 01:44:49 --> 01:44:55 simply an anxiety attack, but you don't want to go into the marketplace looking
1245 01:44:55 --> 01:45:00 for a feel good replacement for generalized stress. Generalized
1246 01:45:00 --> 01:45:05 stresses. You had a rough day at work, you got a flat tire. You had to blow out
1247 01:45:05 --> 01:45:12 in your relationship, a fight. You hurt yourself, you got sick. All these things
1248 01:45:12 --> 01:45:16 are triggering. They they make you want to do something other than what you're
1249 01:45:16 --> 01:45:21 feeling at that moment. Men are usually very, very quick to jump in here. And I
1250 01:45:21 --> 01:45:26 need to, I need to feel good about something. And our, our currency in the
1251 01:45:26 --> 01:45:32 world, we think is I gotta look stronger. I gotta look faster and more
1252 01:45:32 --> 01:45:37 formidable and scary to the rest of the guys. I gotta be intimidating. No, you
1253 01:45:37 --> 01:45:44 don't. No, you don't. I watched some joker leave a post when I had put the
1254 01:45:45 --> 01:45:48 invitation to come to this Twitter space, they said, somebody find that
1255 01:45:48 --> 01:45:52 video where he said he's never going to do another Twitter space, and he was
1256 01:45:52 --> 01:45:56 crying. I love the fact that your little dick energy thinks that that's some kind
1257 01:45:56 --> 01:46:01 of a fucking character flaw. I ain't seen anybody else out there that was
1258 01:46:01 --> 01:46:05 open enough to show their real emotions, because I've went through shit that
1259 01:46:05 --> 01:46:09 would break your fucking bitch ass. You would never be able to go through what I
1260 01:46:09 --> 01:46:14 went through. So put up them videos. The only thing that's gonna do is show
1261 01:46:14 --> 01:46:19 people that I give a fuck. I give a fuck. I know I hear panhandlings. Buy my
1262 01:46:19 --> 01:46:25 $200 course, buy my 300 fucking course. Repackage this. Repackage that I'm
1263 01:46:25 --> 01:46:33 laying down a life time of wisdom for free, and I already know it works, and I
1264 01:46:33 --> 01:46:37 have students all around the world that are using it and it's helping them, and
1265 01:46:37 --> 01:46:42 they're going to learn how to balance themselves better today, how to focus on
1266 01:46:42 --> 01:46:49 things and not try to use the economy of replacement. Approach of taking a bad
1267 01:46:49 --> 01:46:55 day, feeling anxiety, feeling sick, I had a bad day at work, or I didn't get
1268 01:46:55 --> 01:47:00 the promotion I was expecting something that just doesn't give you a feel good.
1269 01:47:02 --> 01:47:08 Well, sense of accomplishment. Men will go into the trading account and try to
1270 01:47:08 --> 01:47:14 do this and replace it with winning money. And it need only be 100 bucks.
1271 01:47:14 --> 01:47:18 Hey, it's 100 bucks. I feel better today. I need 100 bucks. I can go out
1272 01:47:18 --> 01:47:23 there and I can make $100 that's better than walking down the street and finding
1273 01:47:23 --> 01:47:26 $100 bill on the front of you, right? I mean, who's who's gonna look at the $100
1274 01:47:26 --> 01:47:33 say, Man, you ain't picking you up. But in men's eyes, we think that, hey, I
1275 01:47:33 --> 01:47:38 know how to trade. And yes, I hate my fucking job, and yes, my girlfriend's
1276 01:47:38 --> 01:47:41 mad at me because I didn't remember our birthday as a relationship. You know,
1277 01:47:41 --> 01:47:48 our anniversary, whatever it is, we call it, men try to find a way to anchor your
1278 01:47:48 --> 01:47:51 marriage on a day that you will never forget. That's why I chose Valentine's
1279 01:47:51 --> 01:47:59 Day. I know it's cliche. I know it's kind of like boring, but guess what? I
1280 01:47:59 --> 01:48:03 generally don't do well with remembering dates. Like I love my kids, but
1281 01:48:03 --> 01:48:07 sometimes I have to ask my wife when were they born, and she gets mad if I
1282 01:48:07 --> 01:48:12 don't either wait or with time. Women will never forget that shit, but that's
1283 01:48:12 --> 01:48:16 why they're help meets for us. They have that, that capacity where we are to go
1284 01:48:16 --> 01:48:20 out and get and they are the stay home and keep and that's why they're better
1285 01:48:20 --> 01:48:28 traders. You don't want to change that composition as a female. And there's
1286 01:48:28 --> 01:48:31 something out there. Think that there's more than, you know, two sexes, and
1287 01:48:31 --> 01:48:34 don't leave me the bullshit, because I'm just gonna block you. I haven't blocked
1288 01:48:34 --> 01:48:37 anybody since I've been back here, but if you give me that bullshit, woke
1289 01:48:37 --> 01:48:40 stuff, I'm blocking I don't give a fuck what you think. Okay, but there's a male
1290 01:48:40 --> 01:48:45 and there's a female, and in trading, the females are better traders, because
1291 01:48:45 --> 01:48:51 if they have that nesting approach as they are as women, they don't take crazy
1292 01:48:51 --> 01:48:56 risks. They want to keep what they have, and if they can get more, they're
1293 01:48:56 --> 01:49:02 trusting their other half to do that. That's the relationship. That's what's
1294 01:49:02 --> 01:49:07 been torn down. Men. We think that we have to be fucking Superman and we got
1295 01:49:07 --> 01:49:10 to go out and do more than what's necessary. And you bring that same
1296 01:49:10 --> 01:49:12 misguided logic to your trading.
1297 01:49:13 --> 01:49:18 I gotta do more than this other guy did. I gotta do more than I did yesterday, or
1298 01:49:18 --> 01:49:22 I'm not progressing. I gotta replace this bad feeling. I'm gonna probably get
1299 01:49:22 --> 01:49:26 canned. I'm probably gonna get fired. My girlfriend saw this other guy's car. We
1300 01:49:26 --> 01:49:29 were out in a date, and I kept watching. She was looking at his car. She'd
1301 01:49:29 --> 01:49:32 probably go out with him if he gave her the time of day. I gotta really, really
1302 01:49:32 --> 01:49:37 do well. I gotta do fail. I gotta impress her. If you feel that way about
1303 01:49:37 --> 01:49:45 that woman or that meme, you're probably with the wrong person, because if
1304 01:49:45 --> 01:49:51 they're not constantly telling you, you know what, I am happy that I have you
1305 01:49:52 --> 01:49:55 and you don't need to do all these other things, because the time you spend with
1306 01:49:55 --> 01:50:01 me, I feel fulfilled doing that. Gentlemen, ladies. Is, if you find that
1307 01:50:02 --> 01:50:09 you are rich, you will have the fertile ground that builds a legacy of wealth,
1308 01:50:09 --> 01:50:13 because chances are, they're not going to want to leave you. They're already
1309 01:50:13 --> 01:50:18 with you, and you have nothing. And if you build this up in front of them, and
1310 01:50:18 --> 01:50:21 you allow them to be a source of encouragement, not in the way that we
1311 01:50:21 --> 01:50:24 were talking about earlier. Hey, this is what I think I'm going to do, and you
1312 01:50:24 --> 01:50:27 expect them to encourage you. They're not going to see technical analysis.
1313 01:50:27 --> 01:50:32 They're not going to see trading and speculation, any losing trade a female
1314 01:50:32 --> 01:50:37 is going to be like, is this the beginning of financial turmoil? Because
1315 01:50:37 --> 01:50:44 they're nesting. Their their capacity as a human is to protect what is theirs.
1316 01:50:44 --> 01:50:47 They don't want to upset the household. They don't want to upset the family
1317 01:50:47 --> 01:50:51 element. They want to keep peace. Men. We get out there and we try to tear shit
1318 01:50:51 --> 01:50:54 up because we feel like we got to be Godzilla, stomp down on everything.
1319 01:50:54 --> 01:50:59 Don't fuck with me and my family. That's, that's, that's the way it is.
1320 01:51:00 --> 01:51:03 And we can laugh about it, and we can look and say, Oh, this is stupid. This
1321 01:51:03 --> 01:51:08 guy's giving dumb analogies. But this is the facts. Women are better because they
1322 01:51:08 --> 01:51:13 think that way. How do they mess up when they try to be a man, when they try to
1323 01:51:13 --> 01:51:20 do things like a man, go out there and do more than that's necessary, compete,
1324 01:51:20 --> 01:51:26 be competitive. I want to do better than this, so and so. And there's some toxic
1325 01:51:26 --> 01:51:31 females on social media. You think they had a penis, bigger sack than most men
1326 01:51:31 --> 01:51:38 walking around talking bullshit, more foul mouth than I am. Sometimes they're
1327 01:51:38 --> 01:51:42 compensating. They're compensating. And some of them, if I could be honest, and
1328 01:51:42 --> 01:51:45 you give me the liberty to be able to say so, some of them are actually very
1329 01:51:45 --> 01:51:48 attractive. And you would think, why would you even act the way you're
1330 01:51:48 --> 01:51:52 acting, like you're literally a beautiful person on the outside, but
1331 01:51:52 --> 01:51:55 you're ugly as fuck in the inside, and you're producing that through the things
1332 01:51:55 --> 01:52:04 you you speak and how you behave. So all these things are outside influences that
1333 01:52:04 --> 01:52:09 are going to cause you to derail yourself, but you won't recognize them
1334 01:52:09 --> 01:52:13 unless you journal them. When you place a microscope over every decision you're
1335 01:52:13 --> 01:52:20 making and every thought that you have, when you have these things under the
1336 01:52:20 --> 01:52:24 microscope of a journal, and you constantly encourage yourself through
1337 01:52:24 --> 01:52:28 positive self talk. That means, if there is something that happened, bad, that
1338 01:52:28 --> 01:52:32 was an adverse response to something you did, or indirectly, didn't do at all, it
1339 01:52:32 --> 01:52:37 just happened to you, like a car accident. You didn't want this truck to
1340 01:52:37 --> 01:52:40 hit you, but you couldn't avoid it. You were sitting at a red light, and they
1341 01:52:40 --> 01:52:44 hit you, and that's a bad day. That sucks, but you couldn't have done
1342 01:52:44 --> 01:52:49 nothing to avoid it. That's manual intervention. That's the same thing
1343 01:52:49 --> 01:52:52 happens when you're in a trade. Everything looks like it's there, and
1344 01:52:52 --> 01:52:57 then bam, what the hell this happened? Well, you got a taste of it. Does that
1345 01:52:57 --> 01:53:02 mean trading? Throw it out the window? No. It just means that that's why you
1346 01:53:02 --> 01:53:09 have to have a stop loss. That's why you shouldn't over leverage period. Now
1347 01:53:10 --> 01:53:15 how's that for logic, versus going out there having no idea what's going on,
1348 01:53:15 --> 01:53:18 putting money into an account to discover that you don't know how to
1349 01:53:18 --> 01:53:22 trade, and now you have compounded difficulty because you lost your $100
1350 01:53:23 --> 01:53:27 account. Because you have to learn with real money if you want to spend 100
1351 01:53:27 --> 01:53:32 hours so badly, go out there, drive around town and find somebody that
1352 01:53:32 --> 01:53:35 homeless and stick that $100 bill in their fucking hand and say, You know
1353 01:53:35 --> 01:53:40 what, have a good day. Have a good day and get something to eat, because you're
1354 01:53:40 --> 01:53:43 going to have a better feeling about that than you losing that $100
1355 01:53:43 --> 01:53:47 discovering that you just gambled it away and you created scar tissue as a
1356 01:53:48 --> 01:53:52 developing student and as a trader, you now have to now go through the process
1357 01:53:52 --> 01:53:59 of digging through that painful I got bad experience now I have adverse
1358 01:53:59 --> 01:54:02 response to Me take making these decisions with real money, and yes, it
1359 01:54:02 --> 01:54:06 was $100 and when I put it in the account, I knew if I lost it shouldn't
1360 01:54:06 --> 01:54:10 have bothered me. Guess what? When it goes down to $25 if it goes down to 50
1361 01:54:10 --> 01:54:14 bucks, you're fucking sick to your stomach. I should have never did this.
1362 01:54:14 --> 01:54:17 I'm mad. I gotta get it back. And what have you done? You evolved into a
1363 01:54:17 --> 01:54:24 gambler, and you're trying to do what replace negative with a victory that's
1364 01:54:24 --> 01:54:30 not assured to you, and you're doing it with a clouded mind. You're doing it
1365 01:54:30 --> 01:54:35 under stress. You have no idea how to calm yourself down. You have no idea to
1366 01:54:35 --> 01:54:40 come out of that negative, toxic thought that you have to have it back right now.
1367 01:54:40 --> 01:54:46 Why? Why do you need to have that loss back right now? Because you think that
1368 01:54:46 --> 01:54:51 you are less of a person, less of a trail trader, you're a failure as a
1369 01:54:51 --> 01:54:55 trader if you can't get it back right away. And that is Grade A bullshit.
1370 01:54:57 --> 01:55:02 That's bullshit. Who told you that you. Who told you that you have to win that
1371 01:55:02 --> 01:55:08 back right now because you just lost it? Nobody, but it's in your fucking head.
1372 01:55:09 --> 01:55:12 It's in your head that you think that that's exactly what every profitable
1373 01:55:12 --> 01:55:16 trader can do. They take a losing trade and they get it back real quickly for
1374 01:55:16 --> 01:55:22 the end of the day. That is bullshit. That's not how it works. That's how you
1375 01:55:22 --> 01:55:28 go on tilt. That's how you blow your accounts. That's how every time I blow
1376 01:55:28 --> 01:55:31 an account, that's exactly how it happened. I gotta fix this. I feel less
1377 01:55:31 --> 01:55:37 of a man, I feel less of a trader, I don't feel profitable, I don't feel
1378 01:55:37 --> 01:55:42 capable. I'm not going to be successful unless I can do this, get it right back
1379 01:55:42 --> 01:55:47 the same day, I gotta do this, or I can't be successful. This will define my
1380 01:55:47 --> 01:55:52 ability to be successful or not. If I can't get that loss back right now, I
1381 01:55:52 --> 01:55:56 can't be successful. That's exactly what you're lying to yourself with. You're
1382 01:55:56 --> 01:56:01 lying to yourself with that and you believe the bullshit. You're believing
1383 01:56:01 --> 01:56:07 it and that is causing scar tissue. You have no idea how much harder you're
1384 01:56:07 --> 01:56:12 making it when you place these times of constraints on yourself. You're placing
1385 01:56:12 --> 01:56:17 much more workload on your back than is necessary to be a traitor. You have no
1386 01:56:17 --> 01:56:18 reason to think that way,
1387 01:56:19 --> 01:56:24 zero, but it feels right when you're doing it, and it's the wrong
1388 01:56:24 --> 01:56:25 perspective,
1389 01:56:31 --> 01:56:35 when you're learning and you do things wrong, and it's an adverse reaction and
1390 01:56:35 --> 01:56:44 response. You take it home. You take it home like an orphan, like a straight
1391 01:56:44 --> 01:56:52 dog, and you nurture it so you know what? It didn't work out well today, you
1392 01:56:52 --> 01:56:57 look hungry. You need to be gay, you need to be nurtured a little bit. And
1393 01:56:57 --> 01:57:02 you talk positive to it. Say, You know what? I'm going to use you to feel good
1394 01:57:02 --> 01:57:07 by doing the right things. Not feel good by taking chances and gambling to fix
1395 01:57:07 --> 01:57:13 you as a trade. I'm going to go home and teach myself that you aren't going to
1396 01:57:13 --> 01:57:18 take me out. You're not going to break me if I have to feed you stray animal I
1397 01:57:18 --> 01:57:22 can afford to give you a meal and clean you up and find you a good home or keep
1398 01:57:22 --> 01:57:29 you as mine. How do you keep a losing trade, doing the right things, not
1399 01:57:29 --> 01:57:33 emotionally, not psychologically imbalanced and going after I gotta do it
1400 01:57:33 --> 01:57:38 right now and fix it. You come out of that drawdown with less risk that you
1401 01:57:38 --> 01:57:44 did when you took the loss. What does that do? Number one, it prevents the
1402 01:57:44 --> 01:57:49 likelihood of you having this toxic mindset about going in fixing it right
1403 01:57:49 --> 01:57:56 away. What do you think it feels like when you do it by risking less money and
1404 01:57:56 --> 01:58:02 you get that loss back? Feels real good, because now, with half the effort, half
1405 01:58:02 --> 01:58:08 the risk, you can recover and mitigate that loss. How about that? But what
1406 01:58:09 --> 01:58:12 happens if you take another illusion trade, because maybe you're still scared
1407 01:58:12 --> 01:58:16 and it's hurt your feelings and hurt your pride, your ego is bruised, you
1408 01:58:17 --> 01:58:20 have to hurry up and fix it, because someone's going to ask you about your
1409 01:58:20 --> 01:58:27 results, or worst case scenario, you're making your results public, you have now
1410 01:58:27 --> 01:58:35 compound the difficulty of trading to unbelievable levels. A lot of people can
1411 01:58:35 --> 01:58:40 trade under that kind of pressure. It will prevent you from finding success,
1412 01:58:40 --> 01:58:43 because you're afraid of the outcome for the purposes of having other people's
1413 01:58:43 --> 01:58:49 opinion placed on you. And a lot of you want that in the beginning. That's dumb,
1414 01:58:49 --> 01:58:54 that's stupid. But what happens if you go into trying to mitigate that loss
1415 01:58:55 --> 01:58:58 with half the risk that you put on half the leverage? In other words, say you
1416 01:58:58 --> 01:59:07 had a one Mini S, P or NASDAQ contract on and you took a 200 hour loss. Okay?
1417 01:59:08 --> 01:59:14 200 hours is $200 but it's not life ending, right? What happens if you went
1418 01:59:14 --> 01:59:21 down into micro lots? Say you did a series of trades using micros, two or
1419 01:59:21 --> 01:59:26 three of them instead of using one mini. So you're trading with anywhere between
1420 01:59:26 --> 01:59:32 two to $6 per handle movement versus $20 per handle movement in the mini
1421 01:59:32 --> 01:59:40 contract. But you take that two on our loss back using the smallest amount of
1422 01:59:40 --> 01:59:47 leverage. Why would you not want to give yourself that historical record that you
1423 01:59:47 --> 01:59:52 can do that now? That slides in the face of everybody else's perspective. Dude,
1424 01:59:52 --> 01:59:57 I'm not trying. I'm not trading micro lots. Dude, I'm here trying to make
1425 01:59:57 --> 02:00:00 money. Okay, are you still working? Well, don't. Ask me about that right
1426 02:00:00 --> 02:00:07 now. I got time. I just started trading 60 years ago. It falls on its face,
1427 02:00:07 --> 02:00:13 doesn't it? You want to learn how to make money trade with the least amount
1428 02:00:13 --> 02:00:17 of money, the smallest leverage. You're going to see that I'm going to be
1429 02:00:17 --> 02:00:24 pushing the button in the micro contract chart this week, teaching my son. Do
1430 02:00:24 --> 02:00:28 this. Do this. Do this. Some of you dumb fucks are going to sit there and say,
1431 02:00:28 --> 02:00:32 Oh, look at this. This trade didn't go here. Look, he sucks. That's not what
1432 02:00:32 --> 02:00:37 this is about. This is for you to desensitize yourself getting out there.
1433 02:00:37 --> 02:00:41 Because if you're fearful taking a trade, if you're fearful of missing the
1434 02:00:41 --> 02:00:46 real fair value gap or the real order block or the real whatever. This is what
1435 02:00:46 --> 02:00:49 you're supposed to be doing when you're not watching my live streams or watching
1436 02:00:49 --> 02:00:53 my videos. What are you doing with your demo account? What are you doing
1437 02:00:53 --> 02:00:56 watching price action? These are the things that you're trying to do. They're
1438 02:00:56 --> 02:01:01 little laboratory experiments that gives you baseline data that means this is
1439 02:01:01 --> 02:01:06 what my first Soiree. This is my first attempt in doing this, not knowing much
1440 02:01:06 --> 02:01:10 about anything, I'm going to do this exercise, and I'm going to do it every
1441 02:01:10 --> 02:01:16 single day, and in the results of each individual day and across the week, how
1442 02:01:16 --> 02:01:21 many transactions did you do? What were the net results of it? How many times
1443 02:01:21 --> 02:01:24 did you see a stop out? How many times did you see it go to Target? How many
1444 02:01:24 --> 02:01:31 times did it fail, but move halfway to the target? These are all KPIs. These
1445 02:01:31 --> 02:01:36 are all things that are going to help you build an enterprise mindset about
1446 02:01:36 --> 02:01:39 your trading. It's not just simply, I got money to put down, and let's pull
1447 02:01:39 --> 02:01:43 the slot machine arm and see what happens, and then get on social media
1448 02:01:43 --> 02:01:48 and parade like a dickhead, like, look how smart I am. Dude, I'm a predator.
1449 02:01:48 --> 02:01:55 I'm a caveman. Look at me. Come at me, bro. I do that as a character. That's
1450 02:01:55 --> 02:01:58 not, that's not my character in real life, my wife will tell you, my kids
1451 02:01:58 --> 02:02:02 will tell you, that's, that's, that's not who I am. But I do it because I know
1452 02:02:02 --> 02:02:06 it causes a lot of ruckus, and people talk, and that's free advertisement,
1453 02:02:06 --> 02:02:09 because if they're going to talk, that's people's going to come here, and then
1454 02:02:09 --> 02:02:11 you probably found your way to this Twitter space because someone said
1455 02:02:11 --> 02:02:14 something about me, and it probably wasn't a positive thing. It's probably
1456 02:02:14 --> 02:02:17 something, listen, this guy, he's fucking crazy, he's bipolar. He's going
1457 02:02:17 --> 02:02:22 to swing all over the place. And I use that to hook you, to bring you in here
1458 02:02:22 --> 02:02:26 to listen, and the people that are smart, they'll take the information and
1459 02:02:26 --> 02:02:32 use it. Others can go off and fuck off. I don't care. But the point is, you have
1460 02:02:32 --> 02:02:37 to have some kind of a baseline, and you have to guard yourself and by refining
1461 02:02:37 --> 02:02:42 your future self, by removing all the toxic stuff, filtering out all the
1462 02:02:42 --> 02:02:45 bullshit that's going to be made available to you on social media, other
1463 02:02:45 --> 02:02:49 influencers are going to give you opinions about things. Okay, that's
1464 02:02:49 --> 02:02:54 their opinion. You didn't ask for it. Did you? Some of you do. Some of you
1465 02:02:54 --> 02:02:58 actually pay for it. You join other communities and they're badmouth. And
1466 02:02:58 --> 02:03:04 everybody I badmouth every other trading discipline, okay? Unless I put a
1467 02:03:04 --> 02:03:08 person's name on it, I'm basically saying that everything you're learning
1468 02:03:08 --> 02:03:12 that is not what causes markets go up and down. But if you want to lie to
1469 02:03:12 --> 02:03:17 yourself and say, the last time you had a about of gout or tennis elbow, you
1470 02:03:17 --> 02:03:23 bought, you know, gold, it went up. That's your religion. Now your model is
1471 02:03:23 --> 02:03:27 religion based, and that's what harmonic patterns is to me, because you're
1472 02:03:27 --> 02:03:31 believing something that has no bearing on why price goes up. You're believing
1473 02:03:31 --> 02:03:36 something so subjective. I don't have subjectivity in my my analysis, because
1474 02:03:36 --> 02:03:41 old highs have five stops above it. Old lows have sell side below, and there's
1475 02:03:41 --> 02:03:45 inefficiencies in price. Pray tell. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT? Make Believe? How is
1476 02:03:45 --> 02:03:49 that in conjecture? You can't deny it. Anybody can look at the chart and see
1477 02:03:49 --> 02:03:55 that. But tell me which trend line's the right one. Tell me what trend line is
1478 02:03:55 --> 02:04:01 the right one on any given time frame. That's subjective. What's support and
1479 02:04:01 --> 02:04:04 resistance level there? Everybody different support and resistance level.
1480 02:04:04 --> 02:04:08 Everyone's going to come up with it. You get enough sample size of time frames.
1481 02:04:08 --> 02:04:13 Everybody's going to have something different. But everybody, if they
1482 02:04:13 --> 02:04:16 understand what a fair value gap is, they're going to point to the same
1483 02:04:16 --> 02:04:22 fucking candlestick. They're going to look at the same minor buy side, minor
1484 02:04:22 --> 02:04:27 sell side, and then you have primary sell side by side. That's your dealing
1485 02:04:27 --> 02:04:31 ranges. They're not up for discussion. They're not up for debate. There's a
1486 02:04:31 --> 02:04:35 highest time, the lowest, low inside the session. That's it. The previous day's
1487 02:04:35 --> 02:04:40 high and low. Are they hiding that information from you? No. Previous
1488 02:04:40 --> 02:04:43 week's high and low. Are they hiding that information? Are they changing it
1489 02:04:43 --> 02:04:46 like 4x fucking dealers, everybody has a different high and low. Everybody has a
1490 02:04:46 --> 02:04:50 different settlement price. Speaking of price, you see where NASDAQ closed on
1491 02:04:50 --> 02:04:54 Friday at the low of that buy side of balance, sell, sound efficiency that we
1492 02:04:54 --> 02:04:58 were studying. You think that's fucking random? You think that that's just going
1493 02:04:58 --> 02:05:01 to happen because sellers. Said, Oh, we're not going to go any lower than
1494 02:05:03 --> 02:05:07 that. Buyer said, I don't want to buy anymore. So then sellers balanced out
1495 02:05:07 --> 02:05:11 and stopped it right at the low of the buy side of balance sell sign efficiency
1496 02:05:11 --> 02:05:14 that we were looking at on that live stream, and they said, there's no
1497 02:05:14 --> 02:05:21 algorithm. Come on. You gotta wake up. The whole world's ran on algorithms. Now
1498 02:05:22 --> 02:05:26 everything you watch on social media, it's getting piped to you based on what
1499 02:05:26 --> 02:05:31 you have watched before. They're learning you. They're studying you like
1500 02:05:31 --> 02:05:35 a candlestick motherfucker. They got you pegged. They know what your high and low
1501 02:05:35 --> 02:05:39 is, and they know how to run your stops. They know how to get you excited and
1502 02:05:39 --> 02:05:42 know how to make you spend money. They know how to blow your account. That's
1503 02:05:42 --> 02:05:49 your bank account. Oh, I was just thinking about that. Fill in the blank,
1504 02:05:49 --> 02:05:52 because your little device you're listening to me in right now, it's
1505 02:05:52 --> 02:05:57 listening to you. And every time you talk about something, I'm in the car,
1506 02:05:58 --> 02:06:01 walking. I'm not walking, driving. I never take my cell phone with me
1507 02:06:01 --> 02:06:05 anywhere, unless my wife's shopping and then I'm using on social media, blasting
1508 02:06:05 --> 02:06:10 it. I'm trying to zone out because she's asking me questions. What do you think
1509 02:06:10 --> 02:06:13 about this? And you think I look good in this? And how about these? Which one you
1510 02:06:13 --> 02:06:16 like better? I said, Fuck any question you asked me, like that, I'm not gonna
1511 02:06:16 --> 02:06:19 give you the right answer. So if you like them both, just fucking buy them
1512 02:06:19 --> 02:06:23 both, and then I'm done. I'm completely exempt. I can't be looked at like, oh,
1513 02:06:23 --> 02:06:27 you asshole. You should like this one more. Why'd you ask me if you like it
1514 02:06:27 --> 02:06:28 more? Why
1515 02:06:28 --> 02:06:32 does it matter if I like it more? But that's a woman thing and a guy thing is,
1516 02:06:32 --> 02:06:37 keep me a out of that. But to be a supporting, nurturing husband, I go
1517 02:06:37 --> 02:06:41 along as the wallet with legs. Okay? I handed a credit card, and I'm basically
1518 02:06:41 --> 02:06:46 distracting myself as social media. Chances are if I'm going 100 mile an
1519 02:06:46 --> 02:06:50 hour on social media, I'm probably in a climate where my wife is spending money,
1520 02:06:50 --> 02:06:53 and I don't want to be there paying attention to that, because I'm trying to
1521 02:06:53 --> 02:06:56 avoid her. Because if she sees me in my phone, chances are she's not going to
1522 02:06:56 --> 02:07:00 ask me the question, but okay, I'm going to ask me he's doing his thing. He's
1523 02:07:00 --> 02:07:08 being ICP, I see he's ICT doing ICT things. Bro, we don't care about your
1524 02:07:08 --> 02:07:12 wife. We don't care about all this stuff. Tell us how to make money. I am.
1525 02:07:14 --> 02:07:18 I am. I'm telling you how to have the right mindset, because you don't think
1526 02:07:18 --> 02:07:24 correctly if you don't manage stress, and here's where we're going to segue
1527 02:07:24 --> 02:07:28 into it. So for those folks that want to do things on YouTube and you're
1528 02:07:28 --> 02:07:32 recording this for the purpose of putting it on your YouTube channel, I
1529 02:07:32 --> 02:07:41 hope you make money with it, by the way, because things are expensive and let me
1530 02:07:41 --> 02:07:47 get a drink here for a second. The this is the part where we go into how to
1531 02:07:47 --> 02:07:55 conquer and subdue anxiety and stress living with stress. I just gotta get a
1532 02:07:55 --> 02:07:56 little bigger
1533 02:08:02 --> 02:08:06 peek with what time it is, I've been going two and a half, almost, well, two
1534 02:08:06 --> 02:08:10 hours and 15. That's not bad. About two hours. It didn't feel like two hours.
1535 02:08:10 --> 02:08:15 I'm gonna try to get this part done in an hour. I know I usually say this kind
1536 02:08:15 --> 02:08:20 of stuff, and it ends up going for a long, long time. But Caleb's not feeling
1537 02:08:20 --> 02:08:24 well today, so I have to check on him and see how everything's going with him
1538 02:08:24 --> 02:08:30 in terms of he's sick with something on what it is. But if you are a person of
1539 02:08:30 --> 02:08:33 faith, if you keep getting keep him in prayer, I'd be wonderful. I'd appreciate
1540 02:08:33 --> 02:08:45 that. But the human body is wonderfully and fearfully created, and we have the
1541 02:08:45 --> 02:08:52 amazing superpower of regeneration. Every seven years, everything in our
1542 02:08:52 --> 02:08:56 body, just about, not everything entirely but everything has been
1543 02:08:56 --> 02:08:59 completely replaced. In seven years, your skin cells are completely
1544 02:08:59 --> 02:09:06 different. The surface of your your bones are, are changing your eye it
1545 02:09:06 --> 02:09:11 changes like now, because I'm 52 years old, I'm experiencing the the hardening
1546 02:09:11 --> 02:09:16 of my eye lens. It doesn't have the flexibility as it did when I was a
1547 02:09:16 --> 02:09:23 younger man. So my eye prescriptions are, are going up as I get older, and
1548 02:09:23 --> 02:09:26 that's just a normal thing that happens when people get older. So you want to
1549 02:09:26 --> 02:09:30 preserve your eyesight and to do whatever you can to protect your
1550 02:09:30 --> 02:09:37 eyesight. I'm convinced that iPhone was one of the big contributing factors to
1551 02:09:37 --> 02:09:42 why my vision deteriorated, because it wasn't until after I bought my first
1552 02:09:42 --> 02:09:46 iPhone and used it a lot, and when they first got it, they gave you a warning
1553 02:09:47 --> 02:09:51 that you had acknowledged that you know that looking at this device will have
1554 02:09:51 --> 02:09:54 adverse effects on your vision. You probably never noticed it, but it was in
1555 02:09:54 --> 02:09:57 there. And every time that you get these phones, if you read it, it'll tell you
1556 02:09:57 --> 02:10:01 it's warning you just like smoking cigarettes. Is, this is going to cause
1557 02:10:01 --> 02:10:05 lung cancer, this is going to cause heart disease, but yet people still pay
1558 02:10:05 --> 02:10:10 it. They buy it. So I don't like to use my phone unless I have to be out and
1559 02:10:10 --> 02:10:13 about, and I know I'm going to be in an environment where I want to distract
1560 02:10:13 --> 02:10:17 myself, otherwise my phone stays home. But what I was saying to you earlier is
1561 02:10:19 --> 02:10:24 an algorithm in your phone is constantly listening to you so it can influence
1562 02:10:24 --> 02:10:29 you. And when you see these things pop up that you were talking about, like,
1563 02:10:29 --> 02:10:33 when I was talking about generators, one of my students emailed me said, hey,
1564 02:10:33 --> 02:10:36 look, you know, we just had an experience with a hurricane or storm,
1565 02:10:37 --> 02:10:40 and you mentioned the past. What generators do you like? Well, I went on
1566 02:10:41 --> 02:10:45 the Amazon and I took a screenshot of it, not an affiliate link or anything
1567 02:10:45 --> 02:10:48 like that, and I sent it to her, and I said, this is a goblin, and uses very
1568 02:10:48 --> 02:10:53 low fuel. It's the Honda little red one. I don't know what model number it is,
1569 02:10:54 --> 02:10:59 but the it does well. It runs a long time on a little bit of gas. And because
1570 02:10:59 --> 02:11:04 I was talking about it with her in the car, her phone picked up on what I was
1571 02:11:04 --> 02:11:09 saying, and then now she gets all these advertisements offering her generators.
1572 02:11:10 --> 02:11:21 So if, if you don't understand that the market is a great big algorithm that is
1573 02:11:21 --> 02:11:28 enticing people to buy and sell for their benefit, not yours, then I don't
1574 02:11:28 --> 02:11:33 know how to convince you, because everything that we do is influenced by
1575 02:11:33 --> 02:11:37 algorithms. Everything, and it's not a stress of the imagination to see how
1576 02:11:37 --> 02:11:41 when electronic trading became electronic and open outcry in the pits
1577 02:11:41 --> 02:11:46 was done away with. That's why open outcry pit traders don't do very well,
1578 02:11:47 --> 02:11:52 because the advantages of having that stressful run of not knowing what the
1579 02:11:52 --> 02:11:57 market's going to do, and they just have a shit day. But when everybody's dog
1580 02:11:57 --> 02:12:01 piling in and there's a lot of orders going into the marketplace, they catch
1581 02:12:01 --> 02:12:05 the momentum by following on. Okay? They see the orders, just like when you
1582 02:12:05 --> 02:12:08 understand how to read buy side and sell aside. They know where the highs and
1583 02:12:08 --> 02:12:11 lows are for the entry. They're writing it down a little scratch pad. This was
1584 02:12:11 --> 02:12:14 the highest high it went to in the last hour. This is the highest high it went
1585 02:12:14 --> 02:12:18 to on the day so far. So when the market starts to run towards that high, chances
1586 02:12:18 --> 02:12:22 are, what's it going to do? It's going to pop the high. And a lot of pit
1587 02:12:22 --> 02:12:26 traders, that was their that was their thing, and they had the advantages of
1588 02:12:26 --> 02:12:30 seeing the influx of all the real orders coming in, not something that's fluffed
1589 02:12:30 --> 02:12:36 up with book, map, level two, data, all of that stuff can be scammed. But when
1590 02:12:36 --> 02:12:40 they're in the pit and they see actual tickets being ran down to the floor,
1591 02:12:40 --> 02:12:45 they had an inside edge of being a momentum trader, but now, because they
1592 02:12:45 --> 02:12:50 don't have that anymore, they have the stress of now being forced to look at a
1593 02:12:50 --> 02:12:55 chart, and that's why they don't historically, they don't do well. It's a
1594 02:12:55 --> 02:13:00 great big divergence between what they're accustomed to having faith in
1595 02:13:00 --> 02:13:04 and what was their model of just was piggyback. Let's all dog pile on. What's
1596 02:13:04 --> 02:13:08 going on right now? That's, that's usually what was going on in the pit.
1597 02:13:10 --> 02:13:16 But they don't exist anymore. So that's a source of stress for that type of
1598 02:13:16 --> 02:13:20 person. You as someone that's coming up in this industry. Now, if you're brand
1599 02:13:20 --> 02:13:26 new, you have all the advantages today that wasn't afforded to people like me
1600 02:13:26 --> 02:13:32 and before me, I started November 5, 1992 that's that's when I first started
1601 02:13:33 --> 02:13:39 being a traitor. I was being influenced by my uncle at 14, talking to me Tell me
1602 02:13:40 --> 02:13:44 I would hear him, and I didn't know it was he was laying the seeds that
1603 02:13:44 --> 02:13:49 eventually would become who I am today. But he didn't teach me how to trade. He
1604 02:13:49 --> 02:13:53 didn't know how to trade. He was just like, he was like a conduit. I think God
1605 02:13:53 --> 02:13:56 basically was using him to constantly push it, because this is my whole life.
1606 02:13:56 --> 02:14:02 That's my whole purpose here. I'm convinced of it, but it wasn't an easy
1607 02:14:02 --> 02:14:07 path, and I had lots of stress, and I want to take you back to 2001 for a
1608 02:14:07 --> 02:14:15 second, and kind of paint the picture I was on Merck, which was mIRC, it was
1609 02:14:15 --> 02:14:20 interlay, Internet Relay Chat. We didn't have social media like we have today,
1610 02:14:20 --> 02:14:24 like, if you want to be online, you did either bulletin boards, message boards,
1611 02:14:24 --> 02:14:30 basically think of like the early stages of Amazon, not America Online. And then
1612 02:14:30 --> 02:14:35 if you weren't on a platform, like America Online, you used Internet Relay
1613 02:14:35 --> 02:14:42 Chat, which were like chat rooms today, okay? And honestly, that was way better
1614 02:14:42 --> 02:14:47 than social media today. Social media today is afforded people the ability to
1615 02:14:47 --> 02:14:51 really be horrible to one another. The worst thing that could happen back then
1616 02:14:51 --> 02:14:56 was someone cuss you out. Okay, whatever. Big deal. But now they could
1617 02:14:56 --> 02:15:01 take your image, your photo, Photoshop. Make you look fat, make you look skinny,
1618 02:15:01 --> 02:15:05 make you look Toothless, make you look homeless, make you look like a female
1619 02:15:05 --> 02:15:11 when you're a male or vice versa. And that's just toxic. And I wish that
1620 02:15:11 --> 02:15:14 wasn't part of what social media is today, but I understand it's meant to
1621 02:15:14 --> 02:15:19 divide us constantly, and that causes stress. I have one of the biggest
1622 02:15:19 --> 02:15:25 reasons for being an angry person, if I was insecure because of the things that
1623 02:15:25 --> 02:15:29 people put on the internet about me that are not true. I don't have any stress
1624 02:15:29 --> 02:15:34 about those types of things. I don't like that people sometimes talk about my
1625 02:15:34 --> 02:15:37 family when they don't know my family. They lie and they say things terrible
1626 02:15:37 --> 02:15:41 about my family. I get angry when I see that stuff. There's things that I would
1627 02:15:41 --> 02:15:44 like to do if they're in front of me. Front of me, and they would never
1628 02:15:44 --> 02:15:47 fucking do that if I follows in front of them, because they'd lose their fucking
1629 02:15:47 --> 02:15:54 teeth. But if you're walking through your daily life, and you have all of
1630 02:15:54 --> 02:16:00 these adversities that everybody endures it, everybody has these stresses, and
1631 02:16:00 --> 02:16:05 you allow it to compound and fester and build up. Eventually you might have and
1632 02:16:05 --> 02:16:10 don't be surprised if you don't have any understanding of what a panic attack is,
1633 02:16:10 --> 02:16:15 but eventually, given enough time, if you keep having these stressful
1634 02:16:15 --> 02:16:18 environments, and you keep allowing yourself to be in these and stressful
1635 02:16:18 --> 02:16:24 conditions, you can enter into a state of panic, and that's where you allow
1636 02:16:24 --> 02:16:30 generalized stress go beyond that, to generalize anxiety and then to full
1637 02:16:30 --> 02:16:37 blown panic. And I am intimately aware of what that feels like, because dozens
1638 02:16:37 --> 02:16:43 of times I have been ushered into the emergency room by ambulance, swearing up
1639 02:16:43 --> 02:16:49 and down to the time that I was getting ready to meet my maker as a young man at
1640 02:16:49 --> 02:16:55 1819, years old, I had panic attacks then, because I was obsessive about my
1641 02:16:55 --> 02:17:03 first wife. She was someone that looked exactly like Alicia Silverstone, I had
1642 02:17:03 --> 02:17:08 pictures to prove all that stuff. She was a troubled girl, and I married her
1643 02:17:08 --> 02:17:12 to get out of a troubled situation. I had a lot of stress placed on me that I
1644 02:17:12 --> 02:17:15 shouldn't have placed on me as a young man, but I was trying to be a white
1645 02:17:15 --> 02:17:22 knight. I was trying to save her from a toxic home environment, and if
1646 02:17:27 --> 02:17:38 the part out the the stress of being in a young relationship and being my first,
1647 02:17:38 --> 02:17:45 That was the first female I was intimate with because I'm a journaler. Because
1648 02:17:45 --> 02:17:48 I've always journaled as a person. I journal dreams. I have a dream journal.
1649 02:17:49 --> 02:17:53 I was always journaling things about martial arts. I won the head of the
1650 02:17:53 --> 02:17:57 martial arts studio. All these things as a young man, and I can tell you the date
1651 02:17:57 --> 02:18:01 and time where I lost my virginity. Chances are most men out here listening
1652 02:18:01 --> 02:18:05 to me can't do that. The women probably can do that because it means something
1653 02:18:05 --> 02:18:08 to them. And when I was growing up, I wanted to give that part of me to
1654 02:18:08 --> 02:18:14 someone that deserved it, and I felt that this girl, at the time, was
1655 02:18:14 --> 02:18:17 everything I wanted. And if we were stay together, I would have never been with
1656 02:18:17 --> 02:18:24 anybody else. I've always been principle oriented. I've always been someone that
1657 02:18:24 --> 02:18:32 the numbers and the probabilities of things, and when you think that way,
1658 02:18:33 --> 02:18:37 it's not unnatural for you to elevate the level of importance around things
1659 02:18:37 --> 02:18:43 that are going to be your best outcome, and when they don't hit, when you don't
1660 02:18:43 --> 02:18:47 reach those numbers or those goals, what will happen is, is that you will
1661 02:18:47 --> 02:18:56 eventually have measures of regret being let down like you didn't perform as well
1662 02:18:56 --> 02:19:01 as you should have. And when that happens, you can obsess about it, and I
1663 02:19:01 --> 02:19:05 developed an obsessive compulsive disorder where I would look at things
1664 02:19:05 --> 02:19:12 and I would judge myself very critically, and I would weigh myself
1665 02:19:12 --> 02:19:17 against other people, when these other people had such a higher degree of
1666 02:19:17 --> 02:19:21 efficiency and experience that would be unreasonable For me to have that
1667 02:19:21 --> 02:19:26 expectation to live up to that measure of performance. But because I was a
1668 02:19:26 --> 02:19:30 young man, and because we always think of ourselves as a superhero in the
1669 02:19:30 --> 02:19:35 making, the the pressure that we place on ourselves, like I was praising on
1670 02:19:35 --> 02:19:42 myself as a young man, it compounded. And on September 11, I was teaching a
1671 02:19:42 --> 02:19:46 young young man. He was, I think it was a little bit older than I was, but not
1672 02:19:46 --> 02:19:52 by much. I've mentioned it before. His name is George Lutz, and he lived in
1673 02:19:52 --> 02:19:58 Virginia, and I was teaching him how to trade s, p, and I would call the S P and
1674 02:19:58 --> 02:20:01 outline where it was going to go in text. We couldn't do charts back then. I
1675 02:20:01 --> 02:20:05 couldn't share a chart in a chat room or anything like that, because that was not
1676 02:20:05 --> 02:20:11 we'd have the capability of doing that. So if Give me one second here,
1677 02:20:24 --> 02:20:31 the morning of September 11 was just like any other day was. Weather is
1678 02:20:31 --> 02:20:38 beautiful. I woke up feeling good. I had already started giving pre market
1679 02:20:38 --> 02:20:43 analysis to Mr. Lutz, and he wasn't paying for mentorship. Like he didn't
1680 02:20:43 --> 02:20:48 pay me to do it. He offered to pay me a little bit of money, but because he was
1681 02:20:48 --> 02:20:55 literally delivering pizza then, and I told him, I said, Listen, you know I I
1682 02:20:55 --> 02:20:59 can relate to what you're doing. I can physically relate to this. So what I'm
1683 02:20:59 --> 02:21:03 going to do is I'm going to sit with you and coach you through it, and once you
1684 02:21:03 --> 02:21:07 get a feel for what it is you're trying to do, I will not turn you loose, but
1685 02:21:07 --> 02:21:15 you don't need to pay me for it. And I took Cody to public school. He, He and
1686 02:21:15 --> 02:21:20 my oldest daughter, they went to public school. And my younger ones, we
1687 02:21:20 --> 02:21:26 homeschooled them. But the the morning I took covid school, it was beautiful out.
1688 02:21:26 --> 02:21:31 Now I was telling myself, Wow, this is such a lovely day, and everything was
1689 02:21:31 --> 02:21:35 just picture perfect. You ever have a day like that where you wake up,
1690 02:21:35 --> 02:21:41 everything is so good, so you feel good, no headache, no body aches. You feel
1691 02:21:41 --> 02:21:45 happy. You feel like you're at the right place at the right time, and you feel
1692 02:21:45 --> 02:21:49 wonderfully balanced. Everything is as it should be. And I was coming back
1693 02:21:49 --> 02:21:56 home, I was driving down through Essex, Maryland, and I literally went holding
1694 02:21:56 --> 02:22:01 my hand out, thinking myself, it is such a beautiful day, said it out loud, and I
1695 02:22:01 --> 02:22:09 pulled up to the house, went inside, hit the remote CNBC, and there's a picture
1696 02:22:09 --> 02:22:13 of the first building when we spoke coming out of it. And I looked at it and
1697 02:22:13 --> 02:22:16 looked away, thinking, Okay, it's a commercial for, you know, a movie or
1698 02:22:16 --> 02:22:19 something. And I turned my screen on, because I would always turn my screen
1699 02:22:19 --> 02:22:23 off and leave the system running. And then I said to George, I said, Hey, I'm
1700 02:22:23 --> 02:22:27 back. He's like, Did you see what just happened? I was like, No, what's
1701 02:22:27 --> 02:22:31 happening? Because turn on the TV. I said it is on. He goes, a plane just hit
1702 02:22:31 --> 02:22:37 the Trade Center. So I'm thinking it's one of those, like little senestiness.
1703 02:22:37 --> 02:22:41 And they were actually saying that on the TV at the time. And as I was talking
1704 02:22:41 --> 02:22:44 to myself, can you imagine the people in that little plane? Because again, I
1705 02:22:44 --> 02:22:49 wasn't thinking it was an airline. And then I watched the second plane hit
1706 02:22:49 --> 02:22:55 live, and I can't tell you how it made me feel like sick to my stomach. I'm
1707 02:22:55 --> 02:23:01 like, I know what this is. Like. I know what this is. And immediately I told
1708 02:23:01 --> 02:23:06 him, I said, Listen, you know, I'm in a trade right now, and I'm waiting for the
1709 02:23:06 --> 02:23:10 open to close. It like I wanted to see it follow through with what I was
1710 02:23:10 --> 02:23:15 holding the trade for. And because of that, I knew we weren't going to open
1711 02:23:15 --> 02:23:18 up. The market was not going to open up. There was not going to be an opening
1712 02:23:18 --> 02:23:23 bell. And there was news that other planes were in in route to other places,
1713 02:23:26 --> 02:23:30 and I wanted my family home immediately. And fear gripped me in a way I've never
1714 02:23:30 --> 02:23:33 felt before. I had anxiety attacks about my first wife. You know, when we would
1715 02:23:33 --> 02:23:39 get arguments because I was love sick over obsessively love sick. I was
1716 02:23:39 --> 02:23:47 unnaturally committed to her in an unhealthy way, and eventually grew into
1717 02:23:47 --> 02:23:50 a point where I was trying to tell her what to wear, how to act, who to talk
1718 02:23:50 --> 02:23:53 to, and that just guaranteed that we weren't going to stay together because
1719 02:23:53 --> 02:23:57 of my insecurities. But it was justified in looking backwards, because there was
1720 02:23:57 --> 02:24:01 infidelity there, and I picked up on it subconsciously. I knew it was there, but
1721 02:24:01 --> 02:24:07 I didn't want to, I didn't want to address it. In life, when you feel like
1722 02:24:07 --> 02:24:11 something's not right, you need to obviously address it, because if you let
1723 02:24:11 --> 02:24:21 it fester, it could become very bad, and that day was my first dose of full blown
1724 02:24:21 --> 02:24:27 panic, like I felt like my chest was crushing me. I was I couldn't think
1725 02:24:27 --> 02:24:32 where all my family members were, like, I couldn't, couldn't collect my
1726 02:24:32 --> 02:24:37 thoughts, and I couldn't even type out the message to Mr. Lutz to tell him I'm
1727 02:24:37 --> 02:24:44 I'm getting off of here. I got to take care of personal matters. I I called my
1728 02:24:44 --> 02:24:49 wife at her family members house and said, Listen, I need you home like I
1729 02:24:49 --> 02:24:53 need you to go home right now. We need to get the kids out of school. You get
1730 02:24:53 --> 02:24:58 our daughter, and I'll get Cody. And you know, this is head back to the house.
1731 02:24:58 --> 02:25:01 Don't stop anywhere. And. She's like, why? What's going on? I explained to
1732 02:25:01 --> 02:25:05 her, and she was like, oh, okay, well, big deal. And she didn't realize it was
1733 02:25:05 --> 02:25:09 and I knew that day things were changing around the world. I knew at that moment,
1734 02:25:10 --> 02:25:14 something big just shifted, a major shift. And if you look back, if you're
1735 02:25:14 --> 02:25:17 old enough, a lot of you 20 year olds don't even know what that day was like.
1736 02:25:17 --> 02:25:21 You don't know what the world was like before that day, where people could have
1737 02:25:23 --> 02:25:27 communications with other people. We didn't have racism back then. We didn't
1738 02:25:27 --> 02:25:32 have things that made other people and other cultures at war with one another
1739 02:25:32 --> 02:25:36 time, it was a different like people had a sense of humor. If you were gay, a
1740 02:25:37 --> 02:25:41 comedian could make references to your lifestyle, and you would be in the
1741 02:25:41 --> 02:25:45 audience, and you'd laugh about it. You weren't trying to force your your
1742 02:25:45 --> 02:25:48 lifestyle on us, and we weren't trying to force our lifestyle on you, and we
1743 02:25:48 --> 02:25:55 got along better as a people. But that all shifted that day, and everything
1744 02:25:55 --> 02:26:01 became everything was a means of divisiveness, and I started feeling all
1745 02:26:01 --> 02:26:06 that and everything became a pressure cooker of stress, and I didn't like it.
1746 02:26:06 --> 02:26:10 And the news, as I was saying earlier, my wife used to watch this stuff, and it
1747 02:26:10 --> 02:26:13 would be toxic, and it would tell you, Oh, the terror threat would go up from
1748 02:26:13 --> 02:26:17 yellow to orange, and then all of a sudden, one day, it would be lower to
1749 02:26:17 --> 02:26:20 yellow, and then it would jump to red. We don't know where it's coming from. We
1750 02:26:20 --> 02:26:23 don't know how it's going to happen and who's going to do it with. Going to do
1751 02:26:23 --> 02:26:28 it, but something might happen today. Be on guard. What the hell. No wonder
1752 02:26:28 --> 02:26:32 people are constantly stressed out. And then what do you think happened? Who do
1753 02:26:32 --> 02:26:35 you think could take that and make money? The pharmaceutical industry,
1754 02:26:36 --> 02:26:40 anxiety medicines became a thing that was like Flintstone vitamins. Everybody
1755 02:26:40 --> 02:26:46 had to have it in their household. I would never take those types of drugs. I
1756 02:26:46 --> 02:26:50 would never do that. Never, never, never, would I ever do that because it's
1757 02:26:50 --> 02:26:53 it's an altered state. I'm not going to allow myself to be in an altered state.
1758 02:26:53 --> 02:27:02 So I endured a lot of stress, fear, anxiety and panic attacks, and it
1759 02:27:02 --> 02:27:05 eventually affected my eating, where I didn't want to eat, and then it got to
1760 02:27:05 --> 02:27:08 the point where I would dehydrate. I would go to the hospital just to get
1761 02:27:08 --> 02:27:11 hydrated. I'd feel good for a little while, and I'd go right back into the
1762 02:27:11 --> 02:27:17 thing where I'd be so stressed out I couldn't eat. And it was this endless
1763 02:27:17 --> 02:27:20 loop of constantly going through that. And I think I told you I was going to
1764 02:27:20 --> 02:27:30 post a picture of myself where I was 195 pounds of well built, just not like Mr.
1765 02:27:30 --> 02:27:34 Olympia, but I was well built, I took care of myself, and I went down from
1766 02:27:34 --> 02:27:39 that to 150 pounds, and I looked like a cancer patient, like I was going through
1767 02:27:39 --> 02:27:44 some kind of regimen of chemo, and my face was sunk in. My skin was horrible.
1768 02:27:44 --> 02:27:49 My bones and my joints hurt because I was malnourished. But even feeling that
1769 02:27:49 --> 02:27:55 way, I wouldn't eat healthy because I viewed few I used the perspective of
1770 02:27:55 --> 02:28:00 food being an adversary to me. If I ate, I felt like I was sick. So how do I keep
1771 02:28:00 --> 02:28:07 myself from being sick? Don't eat. And it became so bad that I had acid reflux
1772 02:28:07 --> 02:28:11 because I wasn't eating food, but I was constantly stressing, this is pumping
1773 02:28:11 --> 02:28:14 acid, and I was dehydrated, so when the acid would shoot up out of my stomach,
1774 02:28:14 --> 02:28:20 it would erode my esophagus, so I couldn't even drink water at the worst
1775 02:28:20 --> 02:28:26 of it. So I had to go and be hospitalized for major dehydration, and
1776 02:28:26 --> 02:28:29 they would tell me, you need to make changes. And I would hear them say it,
1777 02:28:29 --> 02:28:33 but I'd be like, you don't know what it feels like. You don't know what it feels
1778 02:28:33 --> 02:28:38 like. I had a mental illness. Then I was battling mental illness, and today
1779 02:28:38 --> 02:28:42 they're fostering it. They're keeping it going, and they're championing it.
1780 02:28:42 --> 02:28:46 They're making celebrities out of these people, and they're not helping them.
1781 02:28:46 --> 02:28:49 We're not trying to help people that have mental illness. We're enabling
1782 02:28:49 --> 02:28:52 them, and we're celebrating them. And then people that are weak minded, they
1783 02:28:52 --> 02:28:55 say, Well, I could be a celebrity like that and be looked upon because I don't
1784 02:28:55 --> 02:28:59 feel good about myself, or I feel low self esteem, or I'm questioning who I am
1785 02:28:59 --> 02:29:01 as a person. So if I do what they're doing, I'm probably going to be
1786 02:29:01 --> 02:29:05 recognized and find six recognized and find significance in that. And that's
1787 02:29:05 --> 02:29:12 terrible. That's terrible you're not being guided to live a fulfilling,
1788 02:29:12 --> 02:29:16 purpose driven life where you're comfortable in your own skin. Everybody
1789 02:29:16 --> 02:29:21 has stress, everybody has anxiety, everybody has discomforts, and they all
1790 02:29:21 --> 02:29:28 have their little triggering things in trading what you don't realize is you're
1791 02:29:28 --> 02:29:33 asking to be part of a culture and a lifestyle that is going to be perpetual
1792 02:29:33 --> 02:29:41 stress. You're inviting yourself to be a part of a industry that is predominantly
1793 02:29:41 --> 02:29:50 stress inducing. Now I'm not going to tell you that this is going to affect
1794 02:29:50 --> 02:29:53 everybody, because it's not I'm not a doctor, I'm not a physician. I'm not
1795 02:29:53 --> 02:29:57 telling you how you should live your life and avoid seeing a professional if
1796 02:29:57 --> 02:30:01 you feel like you need to see a professional. Or see a kind guidance
1797 02:30:01 --> 02:30:06 counselor, or, you know, some kind of medical professionals put it that way,
1798 02:30:06 --> 02:30:10 then do it. But don't take whatever opinion they gave you. Get a second
1799 02:30:10 --> 02:30:11 opinion.
1800 02:30:13 --> 02:30:17 For me, I've always had white coat syndrome. White Coat syndrome is I don't
1801 02:30:17 --> 02:30:22 trust these fucking doctors. And now, after 2020 I sure as fuck don't just
1802 02:30:22 --> 02:30:26 trust these people. So it's going to take something like it just recently
1803 02:30:26 --> 02:30:29 happened, where I thought I was having a heart attack. That's what took me to the
1804 02:30:29 --> 02:30:33 emergency room, something short of me losing my life, or feeling I'm going to
1805 02:30:33 --> 02:30:37 lose my life. And it wasn't anxious, like I wasn't anxious, like I was a
1806 02:30:37 --> 02:30:42 younger man, but I knew enough what I was feeling that was not normal. So
1807 02:30:42 --> 02:30:48 because I'm in my 50s, let's go get it checked out and EKG CAT scan, blood
1808 02:30:48 --> 02:30:53 work, everything came back perfect, like I have the numbers of a 20 year old. But
1809 02:30:54 --> 02:31:00 I'm also aware that some of you are not going to correct the things, like I was
1810 02:31:00 --> 02:31:03 able to correct it when I was a little bit younger, if I would, younger, if I
1811 02:31:03 --> 02:31:06 would have never made these changes that I'm going to cover now, I'm not so
1812 02:31:06 --> 02:31:10 certain that my health would be where it is today. I wouldn't be certain that my
1813 02:31:10 --> 02:31:18 health, of my heart, my organs, would be as they are. My blood work like you have
1814 02:31:18 --> 02:31:23 no idea how much stress has an effect on your personal body, and you can make
1815 02:31:23 --> 02:31:28 lots of money trading, but you could be extremely unhealthy while making lots of
1816 02:31:28 --> 02:31:32 money. And what do you get by that? What's the point of having all that
1817 02:31:32 --> 02:31:36 money building up all this worth and it shortens your lifespan? Well, I don't
1818 02:31:36 --> 02:31:40 care, dude, I'm going to live my life right now. You can't take it with you,
1819 02:31:40 --> 02:31:46 yeah, but the Word says, Why die before the time? Why? Why invite that end
1820 02:31:46 --> 02:31:50 result or deteriorate your health? So that way, as you're building this wealth
1821 02:31:50 --> 02:31:54 up, you're making it impossible for you to go out there and live and have a
1822 02:31:54 --> 02:31:59 fruitful, bountiful life with it. What's the purpose? Why make all this money if
1823 02:31:59 --> 02:32:03 you're not going to be healthy enough to endure, you know, longer lifetime
1824 02:32:03 --> 02:32:07 spending and enjoying and blessing other people with it. What's the what's the
1825 02:32:07 --> 02:32:14 point of that? It's pointless. So to have a long, profitable, affluent
1826 02:32:14 --> 02:32:18 lifestyle that is a blessing to both you and the people that around you love and
1827 02:32:18 --> 02:32:25 support your first measure of wealth is your health. And think about how it's
1828 02:32:25 --> 02:32:30 been for the last four years. Has it been stressful for you? I probably,
1829 02:32:31 --> 02:32:35 probably would venture to say it's probably about 65% if not more, that
1830 02:32:35 --> 02:32:40 it's been very stressful all the things that we've been told we can and can't do
1831 02:32:41 --> 02:32:45 you can't go to funerals. You can't see your loved ones in the hospital. You
1832 02:32:45 --> 02:32:48 can't work unless you receive this little thing in your arm, your arm
1833 02:32:48 --> 02:32:53 ticket. That's all priming for what's about to come. That's all stuff that's
1834 02:32:53 --> 02:32:56 leading up to that. And then if you don't have faith in what is on the other
1835 02:32:56 --> 02:33:02 side of that stuff, it could be very scary. But in trading, every single day,
1836 02:33:02 --> 02:33:07 you are throwing yourself in the furnace, this pressure cooker of I don't
1837 02:33:07 --> 02:33:13 know what's going to happen, and if I'm wrong, I'm losing money. Contrast that
1838 02:33:13 --> 02:33:18 with I gotta get up, gotta drive, spend my gas money. That is not a tax
1839 02:33:18 --> 02:33:22 deduction for me. I gotta drive to my job and get paid. The most I can get
1840 02:33:22 --> 02:33:26 paid is what I agreed to. So I prostitute my time, and I don't know
1841 02:33:26 --> 02:33:29 what workloads waiting for me. I don't know if someone called out now I have to
1842 02:33:29 --> 02:33:32 do their work and mine, Carl's going to be over here and wanting to know what
1843 02:33:32 --> 02:33:36 the hell I'm doing, and mine and his business is what he should be doing, but
1844 02:33:36 --> 02:33:40 he's not. He's stressing me out. All these things are going to compound, but
1845 02:33:40 --> 02:33:43 you're not going to make any more money if the workload is increased for that
1846 02:33:43 --> 02:33:47 day. You're not getting overtime because they place more workload on you that
1847 02:33:47 --> 02:33:55 day. So you have a expected level of stress to some degree when you have your
1848 02:33:55 --> 02:34:03 job, but in trading, you have a total different level of stress, and now you
1849 02:34:03 --> 02:34:08 can go to work basically and fuck off and spend time on your computer, listen
1850 02:34:08 --> 02:34:11 to me watching my videos steal from the boss, which is what you should not be
1851 02:34:11 --> 02:34:18 doing, and get to the day bare minimum, low output, low performance, and still
1852 02:34:18 --> 02:34:23 not get caught, Not get fired and get away with it. You cannot pull that
1853 02:34:23 --> 02:34:28 Mickey Mouse shit off in trading. You have to be on point. You have to be
1854 02:34:29 --> 02:34:33 aware of what the risks are. You have to keep these risks measured appropriately
1855 02:34:33 --> 02:34:38 for your equity and your skill set and your ability. If you try to spread your
1856 02:34:38 --> 02:34:43 wings too far and outside the scope of what your capabilities are, you are
1857 02:34:43 --> 02:34:48 asking, and you should not be surprised by the level of stress that you're
1858 02:34:48 --> 02:34:52 feeling, and it's a direct relationship to what you try to put on yourself
1859 02:34:53 --> 02:34:57 prematurely, and a lot of that comes in the early stages of your development,
1860 02:34:57 --> 02:35:01 because you're in a rush to make money, and I'm. Trying to cultivate the mindset
1861 02:35:01 --> 02:35:04 of students and my children too, is that there's plenty of money out there
1862 02:35:04 --> 02:35:09 waiting. There's plenty of money out there. And when it's no longer about
1863 02:35:09 --> 02:35:14 money, it's about living a principle oriented life and trading a principal
1864 02:35:14 --> 02:35:18 oriented career. That means you're you're doing things by the number, not
1865 02:35:18 --> 02:35:23 by the the stimuli of having the monetary reward. Making money is fun,
1866 02:35:23 --> 02:35:29 don't get me wrong, but that's not all of it. Perfect example, I could be
1867 02:35:29 --> 02:35:32 making millions of dollars giving all of this information. I'm giving out live
1868 02:35:32 --> 02:35:36 streaming. That could be a that could be a mentorship. I'm never doing that
1869 02:35:36 --> 02:35:41 again, and I could I'm turning my nose up against millions of dollars, because
1870 02:35:41 --> 02:35:46 money doesn't make me happy. Money doesn't fill that hole in my heart and
1871 02:35:46 --> 02:35:50 my body, in my mind, in spirit that I get when I help other people, when I'm
1872 02:35:50 --> 02:35:54 teaching other people, when I'm investing my time, which I can't get
1873 02:35:54 --> 02:35:58 back, I'm pouring it into all of you, because I want you to have the lifestyle
1874 02:35:58 --> 02:36:02 that I have, even if you have half of what I have a quarter of it or just
1875 02:36:02 --> 02:36:06 better than you're at right now. That's a blessing, but it's going to come with
1876 02:36:06 --> 02:36:11 stress. And you've already been aware of what stress is in the world. But if
1877 02:36:11 --> 02:36:18 you've never traded with real money or had a large loss in trading, you have no
1878 02:36:18 --> 02:36:23 idea what anxiety and pressure is because if you keep introducing yourself
1879 02:36:23 --> 02:36:27 to this stressful environment, not knowing how to engage it, not knowing
1880 02:36:27 --> 02:36:33 how to wrestle your intrusive thoughts, you'll fall victim to things that could
1881 02:36:33 --> 02:36:37 otherwise be controlled. So let me paint a picture for you, and we'll start going
1882 02:36:37 --> 02:36:42 into some of these exercises, and I can get off here and check on my boy. Have
1883 02:36:42 --> 02:36:47 you ever watched the market, either in a trade or maybe, maybe it's not, let's
1884 02:36:47 --> 02:36:53 first say, let's keep it a broad brush. Example. Have you ever been in an
1885 02:36:53 --> 02:36:58 environment where you had a overwhelming out of a out of the blue, sudden sense
1886 02:36:58 --> 02:37:03 of impending doom, where you feel like you can't catch your breath, your heart
1887 02:37:03 --> 02:37:07 starts palpitating. I mean, it's quickly beating, and you don't know why it's
1888 02:37:07 --> 02:37:12 happening. And then you start thinking about how you feel scared all of a
1889 02:37:12 --> 02:37:16 sudden for no known reason that you're aware of. And then you feel like you
1890 02:37:16 --> 02:37:20 can't catch your breath. And then, because you're breathing faster and your
1891 02:37:20 --> 02:37:23 heart's beating, you might feel like you're seeing stars. You know you feel a
1892 02:37:23 --> 02:37:28 little bit dizzy, and you might feel like you want to either shit yourself
1893 02:37:28 --> 02:37:35 for lack of a better word, or pass out or throw up. And for me, that's how it
1894 02:37:35 --> 02:37:38 used to be when I was a younger man. I was like, What the hell's going on here?
1895 02:37:38 --> 02:37:42 And I as I felt that if I was in a public environment like at the time when
1896 02:37:42 --> 02:37:48 I was working as a young man, married to my first wife, I had to have a job. Back
1897 02:37:48 --> 02:37:51 then, I was going to school learning computer programming, and then I was
1898 02:37:51 --> 02:37:55 working a job, and I had very little time for her, and I knew that that was
1899 02:37:55 --> 02:37:59 waning on our relationship, and we were too young to have a relationship like
1900 02:37:59 --> 02:38:05 that, and we grew apart, but I was stressing that the whole time, and I was
1901 02:38:05 --> 02:38:08 worried about her leaving, I was worried about not being successful in what I was
1902 02:38:08 --> 02:38:13 learning, and I couldn't convince her to just wait. Trust me, I'm not going to be
1903 02:38:13 --> 02:38:16 lazy, I'm not going to be a bum, I'm not going to be laying around doing dumb
1904 02:38:16 --> 02:38:20 shit. I'm going to I'm going to show us a lifestyle that you can't even imagine.
1905 02:38:20 --> 02:38:25 I know it's coming, but you just gotta just give me the time to grow to it. She
1906 02:38:25 --> 02:38:30 wasn't willing to do that, so I would have anxiety attacks. And when she
1907 02:38:30 --> 02:38:33 separated in the first time with him, because he suffered several times, but
1908 02:38:33 --> 02:38:38 the first time I my body shut down like I was in full blown panic because I
1909 02:38:38 --> 02:38:43 couldn't cope without being in a relationship with her. I was codependent
1910 02:38:43 --> 02:38:51 to her. I I've made my whole being as Michael as her husband, and that's all I
1911 02:38:51 --> 02:38:55 was. And that's not healthy. That's not That's not good for someone. And if
1912 02:38:55 --> 02:38:59 you're in a relationship where that's how you view yourself, that's not,
1913 02:38:59 --> 02:39:03 that's not your intended purpose. There has to be something outside of just
1914 02:39:03 --> 02:39:08 that, otherwise it's not healthy. And you'll you'll never be fulfilled. I'm
1915 02:39:08 --> 02:39:12 not saying that you shouldn't be fulfilled by having a strong connection
1916 02:39:12 --> 02:39:16 to your spouse, but if that's all it is like, that's that's not enough. It's
1917 02:39:16 --> 02:39:20 never going to be enough, because you gotta be a mother, a father. You have to
1918 02:39:20 --> 02:39:24 have friends. You have to have interactions outside of the house. It's
1919 02:39:24 --> 02:39:27 not natural to not be social. We're social beings.
1920 02:39:28 --> 02:39:33 But if you can agree with me, take a step back and look at what social media
1921 02:39:33 --> 02:39:39 does. It's divisive. It keeps us in tribes, this tribe against that tribe,
1922 02:39:39 --> 02:39:43 this race against that race, this sex, against that sex. Now, we don't know
1923 02:39:43 --> 02:39:48 what sex is what now, because they're blending and blurring the lines, so it's
1924 02:39:48 --> 02:39:52 constantly causing chaos. And it's not a surprise why people are losing their
1925 02:39:52 --> 02:39:55 minds, because it's stressful. We don't even know who we are as a person
1926 02:39:55 --> 02:40:02 anymore, as a people, and now you're asking. These individuals that are
1927 02:40:02 --> 02:40:07 wrestling with all these problems, these wrestling matches internally, who they
1928 02:40:07 --> 02:40:10 are and what their identity is. Now they're going to go in here and compete
1929 02:40:10 --> 02:40:14 against the smartest people in the world, in the financial markets, and
1930 02:40:14 --> 02:40:18 they get the case that they ask when they don't find success right away. This
1931 02:40:18 --> 02:40:24 should have worked for me. Why? What did you do to earn it? What have you worked
1932 02:40:24 --> 02:40:30 for? What have you done to cultivate and shape your mind with the right mindset
1933 02:40:30 --> 02:40:34 so that way you can succeed? Or are you going to tap out to the pressures and
1934 02:40:34 --> 02:40:38 the stress it's going to bring on you, because it's going to bring stress every
1935 02:40:38 --> 02:40:42 single time you go into the marketplace, you're inviting that opportunity to
1936 02:40:42 --> 02:40:46 bring stress on if you lose money, that's not a fun thing. I've never
1937 02:40:46 --> 02:40:51 looked at and said, Man, that was the fastest $50,000 what the hell I do it
1938 02:40:51 --> 02:40:57 again? It's not what happens. That's not what happened. You're like shit. I wish
1939 02:40:57 --> 02:41:01 I wouldn't have done that. That would have been it would have been better if I
1940 02:41:01 --> 02:41:04 would have cut the trade sooner, or if I would have cut half the trade off. It
1941 02:41:04 --> 02:41:08 would have been as impactful as it was here. And you go back through the
1942 02:41:08 --> 02:41:11 process of knowing when you were getting that inclination while you're in the
1943 02:41:11 --> 02:41:15 trade, that was your first indication that something right. But what did you
1944 02:41:15 --> 02:41:19 do? I'm going to be stubborn. I'm right. It's not about being right. It's about
1945 02:41:19 --> 02:41:23 understanding what it's doing. It's giving you feedback. Price is telling
1946 02:41:23 --> 02:41:29 you something, but if you hide away from it, what will happen is your breathing
1947 02:41:29 --> 02:41:38 will start to increase, okay? And that elevated rhythm of breath, more breaths
1948 02:41:38 --> 02:41:47 than 10 or 11 per minute that is going to stimulate adrenaline once adrenaline
1949 02:41:47 --> 02:41:50 enters your body, which is a normal response. Don't ever think that you're
1950 02:41:50 --> 02:41:55 getting an adrenaline dump because you got scared or startled for a moment, but
1951 02:41:55 --> 02:41:58 that's a scary feeling. But when it first happens and you don't expect it,
1952 02:42:00 --> 02:42:03 it is a little unnerving, because you're like, Why do I feel like I'm racing, but
1953 02:42:03 --> 02:42:07 I'm sitting still like I feel like I gotta do something. I gotta run. I gotta
1954 02:42:07 --> 02:42:10 take care of something. I gotta escape this moment right here, and when I used
1955 02:42:10 --> 02:42:15 to work, that's what I would do. I would tell the supervisor, I would tell
1956 02:42:15 --> 02:42:18 whoever I was working with, or I would just get up and go to the bathroom, and
1957 02:42:19 --> 02:42:23 I would try to calm myself down by splashing cold water on my face. That
1958 02:42:23 --> 02:42:25 only works to some degree, and then that's it. But I wasn't able to
1959 02:42:25 --> 02:42:31 understand what I was doing to myself inside. I was feeding that anxiety. I
1960 02:42:31 --> 02:42:35 was feeding it toxic thoughts and what if and what if, and what if I'm dying?
1961 02:42:35 --> 02:42:38 What if this is a heart attack? What if it's a stroke and I'm in there by
1962 02:42:38 --> 02:42:45 myself, in a prison of my own mind, literally tormenting myself with
1963 02:42:45 --> 02:42:50 ignorance, not knowing what I was feeling was absolutely normal. Our
1964 02:42:50 --> 02:42:56 bodies were created to have a fight or flight response to stress or danger. We
1965 02:42:56 --> 02:43:03 have an anaphylamic Nervous System that is behind the scenes. It's running your
1966 02:43:03 --> 02:43:08 body, the breathing, the exhale and inhale. You're not consciously thinking
1967 02:43:08 --> 02:43:14 about breathing. It just happens. Your body knows what to do. But have you ever
1968 02:43:14 --> 02:43:17 had a moment where you feel like you don't know how to breathe anymore, like
1969 02:43:17 --> 02:43:20 I was mentioning earlier in the stream. My wife told me this the other day. She
1970 02:43:20 --> 02:43:24 was like, I don't have to describe it, but I feel like I forgot how to breathe.
1971 02:43:24 --> 02:43:30 Like I'm I gotta breathe deeper. I said, Okay, I know what you're describing.
1972 02:43:31 --> 02:43:36 What are you anxious about? She's, how'd you know? I said, because that only
1973 02:43:36 --> 02:43:40 happens by a fearful, triggering thought. You had an intrusive thought
1974 02:43:40 --> 02:43:46 into your mind, and you're scared about that, and you're not talking about it to
1975 02:43:46 --> 02:43:51 release it. You're not reminding yourself there's no emergency. So your
1976 02:43:51 --> 02:43:55 body is naturally responding to what you're fearfully thinking as an internal
1977 02:43:55 --> 02:43:58 loop going through your mind, constantly telling yourself to something bad's
1978 02:43:58 --> 02:44:04 about to happen. You know, we allowed our nieces to move in to our home, and
1979 02:44:04 --> 02:44:09 the older one has gone away to college. She's living on campus, and she was
1980 02:44:09 --> 02:44:14 fearful about something that was not likely to happen, but she was fearful of
1981 02:44:14 --> 02:44:19 it because she's no longer with us and she's on her own, and she had a little
1982 02:44:19 --> 02:44:23 bit of an anxiety attack, and she couldn't catch her breath. I walked her
1983 02:44:23 --> 02:44:29 through. I said, Listen, this is what you do. Okay? If you ever feel
1984 02:44:29 --> 02:44:34 discombobulated, if you are in public setting, if you're around people,
1985 02:44:35 --> 02:44:40 quietly and politely excuse yourself. Go to the restroom. Okay, if you have the
1986 02:44:40 --> 02:44:43 benefit of having your own office space where you're not around other people,
1987 02:44:43 --> 02:44:47 then you don't have to worry about this. But the first thing you do is recognize
1988 02:44:47 --> 02:44:53 that what you're feeling is just stress. That's all it is. And the first thing
1989 02:44:53 --> 02:44:59 you have to do audibly is say, look around, pan around where you're at and
1990 02:44:59 --> 02:45:03 tell yourself out. Loud, there is no emergency, there is no emergency, and
1991 02:45:03 --> 02:45:07 I'm not in any danger. I'm at home in myself right now. I'm exactly where I'm
1992 02:45:07 --> 02:45:12 supposed to be at and there is no emergency. What I'm feeling is
1993 02:45:12 --> 02:45:17 uncertainty about something I absolutely have no control over. So I do have
1994 02:45:17 --> 02:45:22 control over how I'm going to respond to it, and I'm choosing not to be fearful
1995 02:45:22 --> 02:45:27 of it. It sounds wooden, it sounds artificial. But you need to tell
1996 02:45:27 --> 02:45:30 yourself that, because when your subconscious mind hears you say that,
1997 02:45:31 --> 02:45:37 that's the first immediate response to activating your parasympathetic nervous
1998 02:45:37 --> 02:45:43 system, which is the part that allows you to rest and digest. The anatomic
1999 02:45:43 --> 02:45:47 nervous system is divided into two of them, okay, you have your sympathetic
2000 02:45:47 --> 02:45:51 nervous system and your parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous
2001 02:45:51 --> 02:45:56 system is what you have when you go into a fight or flight response, when your
2002 02:45:56 --> 02:45:59 heart rate increases, when your breathing increases, when your pupils
2003 02:45:59 --> 02:46:04 dilate, they dilate because your your body was created to allow more
2004 02:46:04 --> 02:46:08 information in. Because you're in, I need to protect myself, or I'm going to
2005 02:46:08 --> 02:46:12 likely die. That's what God has given you. Whether you want to acknowledge his
2006 02:46:12 --> 02:46:15 existence or not, you can turn off the stream. If that bothers you, I don't
2007 02:46:15 --> 02:46:20 care. But you were created to have this mechanism, and it runs behind the scene.
2008 02:46:21 --> 02:46:24 Anatomically, that means it's, it's it's going to do, it's going to do,
2009 02:46:24 --> 02:46:28 regardless of whether you're aware of it or not. And because stress is not
2010 02:46:28 --> 02:46:32 something that everybody expects to create physical symptoms the first time
2011 02:46:32 --> 02:46:36 it's a little scary, and when you're trading or you're in stressful
2012 02:46:36 --> 02:46:41 environments, you're constantly being bombarded with stimuli that's most
2013 02:46:41 --> 02:46:45 likely going to trigger these things happening. So if you've noticed that
2014 02:46:45 --> 02:46:49 your heart is beating faster than it should, or what you're used to seeing it
2015 02:46:49 --> 02:46:53 feel beating your chest. Maybe ever had it beating in your ear? You ever hear
2016 02:46:53 --> 02:46:59 your heartbeat? It's a little scary. First time it happens like what's going
2017 02:46:59 --> 02:47:05 on and you start breathing heavier, deeper than you need to if you're
2018 02:47:05 --> 02:47:09 breathing and you're if your chest is rising when you're breathing, you're
2019 02:47:09 --> 02:47:16 hyperventilating. That means you're taking in too much air and likely too
2020 02:47:16 --> 02:47:23 fast, and you're likely blowing off your CO two so what that does is it over
2021 02:47:23 --> 02:47:28 oxygenates your body's bloodstream, and when that's pumping adrenaline into your
2022 02:47:28 --> 02:47:31 bloodstream, which is a natural response, because your body's designed
2023 02:47:31 --> 02:47:36 to release adrenaline, and that's like rocket fuel. Okay? It is designed for
2024 02:47:36 --> 02:47:41 your heart to increase its pace, so that way it doesn't have to wait to catch up,
2025 02:47:41 --> 02:47:45 because if you have to run or fight, you're going to need blood in those
2026 02:47:45 --> 02:47:51 muscles to defend yourself or fight or run away from the danger. So it's
2027 02:47:51 --> 02:47:55 already kicking up the engine, which is your heart, to keep pumping new blood to
2028 02:47:55 --> 02:48:00 these muscles that's going to be required to perform. And your your body
2029 02:48:00 --> 02:48:03 is triggering your lungs to breathe in more oxygen, because you're going to be
2030 02:48:03 --> 02:48:07 burning more oxygen as you fight or run away from the danger. But what happens
2031 02:48:07 --> 02:48:11 when you're sitting still and you're feeling all these things, you're like a
2032 02:48:11 --> 02:48:16 Lamborghini sitting in park with the engine running, and someone's got their
2033 02:48:16 --> 02:48:19 foot on the gas pedal to the floor, sitting there. How long do you think
2034 02:48:19 --> 02:48:24 that's going to be good for the engine if that's going on not long. But that's
2035 02:48:24 --> 02:48:27 why you feel like I got to go, I got to run, I got to do something, because
2036 02:48:27 --> 02:48:31 that's what you're designed to do. Because you feel you've told yourself
2037 02:48:31 --> 02:48:36 internally that there's an emergency, there's a danger here, and it was
2038 02:48:36 --> 02:48:43 triggered by some intrusive thought that has become believed by you that it's a
2039 02:48:43 --> 02:48:47 danger, some kind of scary What if, thinking, What if I lose money? What if
2040 02:48:47 --> 02:48:50 this trade jumps back and hits my stop loss? What if the market crashes and
2041 02:48:50 --> 02:48:54 gaps through my trade? What happens if my wife leaves me? What happens if I get
2042 02:48:54 --> 02:49:00 fired? What happens if I don't get the promotion and Carl gets it? You know all
2043 02:49:00 --> 02:49:04 these things, these you don't have you don't have control over every outcome,
2044 02:49:04 --> 02:49:08 and you don't have control over the outcome of your next trade. The only
2045 02:49:08 --> 02:49:14 thing you have control over is how you feel and perform and how you react,
2046 02:49:15 --> 02:49:17 because once you place yourself in that trade,
2047 02:49:18 --> 02:49:25 you have given all of the outcome and permission to take or add to your
2048 02:49:25 --> 02:49:32 account, to the marketplace, you've lost all control over your equity, because
2049 02:49:32 --> 02:49:37 that stop loss, that stop loss might do its job if the market does trade to it
2050 02:49:37 --> 02:49:40 in a manner that's normal delivery. But what happens if there's an attack
2051 02:49:40 --> 02:49:44 somewhere in the market, gaps down 150 handles. You don't think that can
2052 02:49:44 --> 02:49:52 happen. You don't think it can happen just like that, because it can. That's
2053 02:49:52 --> 02:49:55 why I'm telling you. That's why I'm not trading Forex. That's why I felt second
2054 02:49:55 --> 02:49:58 guessing about going in and doing because I've already said I don't want
2055 02:49:58 --> 02:50:03 to be in forex and. I feel like if I talk about forex, I'm encouraging it
2056 02:50:03 --> 02:50:08 when I know what's about to come is not good. So just take my word for it, the
2057 02:50:08 --> 02:50:14 things I'm teaching when I'm talking over NASDAQ, unless it's something
2058 02:50:14 --> 02:50:19 specific to Forex, I'll tell you otherwise, it's both asset classes. I
2059 02:50:19 --> 02:50:23 don't know how to say it better than I want to be responsible as a mentor, and
2060 02:50:23 --> 02:50:26 I know that's not going to be liked by people that you know follow me, because
2061 02:50:26 --> 02:50:30 they're just simply forex traders. I'm okay if that wants, if you want to end
2062 02:50:30 --> 02:50:34 our relationship between teacher and student because of that, you can get a
2063 02:50:34 --> 02:50:37 case today, as every day, you're welcome to do that. It's not going to change who
2064 02:50:37 --> 02:50:40 I am. It's not going to make me angry, it's not going to hurt my feelings, but
2065 02:50:40 --> 02:50:43 I got to be comfortable in my own skin. And I've warned people about being in
2066 02:50:43 --> 02:50:48 forex for a number of years, and look how it's been trading. It's just, it's
2067 02:50:48 --> 02:50:53 just, it's not the same as the indices. It's not the same as commodity markets.
2068 02:50:53 --> 02:50:58 That's why I went back to them. I'm comfortable there. Okay, I know that
2069 02:50:58 --> 02:51:03 there's a big shake up coming. Something massive is coming. It's going to rock
2070 02:51:03 --> 02:51:08 the financial markets. I want to be trading markets that are where I started
2071 02:51:08 --> 02:51:12 I had the most experience with, I believe in these markets and currencies
2072 02:51:12 --> 02:51:15 are going to be affected, because there's going to be a change in the
2073 02:51:15 --> 02:51:19 monetary system globally. And I don't know how else to say other than that,
2074 02:51:19 --> 02:51:22 okay, but if you ever had those sensations where you have this
2075 02:51:22 --> 02:51:26 quickening of breathing, heart palpitations when it's beating real
2076 02:51:26 --> 02:51:29 aggressive and fast, you feel sick to your stomach, you feel like you're going
2077 02:51:29 --> 02:51:32 to pass out, you feel dizzy. You say if you're going to mess yourself, you know?
2078 02:51:32 --> 02:51:35 And how embarrassing would that be? Right? And that's what I would tell
2079 02:51:35 --> 02:51:39 myself. I'm like, I'm at work. I'm around all these people that I work
2080 02:51:39 --> 02:51:41 around. How embarrassing if I shit myself in front of people. What happens
2081 02:51:41 --> 02:51:44 if I throw up and or pass throw up and or pass out in front of them? How
2082 02:51:44 --> 02:51:48 embarrassing would that be? Not that this is potentially a medical emergency.
2083 02:51:49 --> 02:51:52 I could be dying. I didn't think that initially, I was embarrassed about if I
2084 02:51:52 --> 02:51:55 lost control of my Biles, if I had lost control of what I had my stomach and
2085 02:51:55 --> 02:51:58 threw up in front of someone or passed out. I've never been drunk before. I've
2086 02:51:58 --> 02:52:04 never drank alcohol. I've never done drugs before. I had CBD oil when my back
2087 02:52:04 --> 02:52:07 was doing its worst in terms of back spasms and pain because I have a
2088 02:52:07 --> 02:52:12 compression injury. But I've never done any other drugs, ever, never. I've never
2089 02:52:12 --> 02:52:17 been inebriated. I've never been in an altered state. CBD oil, with the THC
2090 02:52:17 --> 02:52:21 allowed me to relax in a manner I've never relaxed before, and I only used it
2091 02:52:21 --> 02:52:24 for a year and a half, and I've never used it since. It's been years since
2092 02:52:24 --> 02:52:29 I've used it. So I don't take any kind of stimulant, I don't take any kind of
2093 02:52:33 --> 02:52:41 mind altering thing, and I don't drink coffee, I don't drink soda, I don't
2094 02:52:41 --> 02:52:44 smoke cigarettes, I don't smoke marijuana, I don't do any of those
2095 02:52:44 --> 02:52:51 things. And you might do those things recreationally, and I'm not going to
2096 02:52:51 --> 02:52:55 judge you for it, but I will say that if you're drinking things that are
2097 02:52:55 --> 02:53:00 caffeinated, and you're trading you're greatly increasing the likelihood of you
2098 02:53:00 --> 02:53:05 having unnecessary levels of stress, and what will happen is you will get you'll
2099 02:53:05 --> 02:53:11 get accustomed to it. Okay. And high blood pressure, you don't necessarily
2100 02:53:11 --> 02:53:15 feel it in the early stages of it, like stage one, hypertension, you generally
2101 02:53:15 --> 02:53:22 don't feel that. Stage Two, you might, maybe not, but that is really hard on
2102 02:53:22 --> 02:53:26 your body. And if you're constantly giving yourself that Monday through
2103 02:53:26 --> 02:53:32 Friday every single day, you can eat well, you can exercise. You could avoid
2104 02:53:32 --> 02:53:36 all these drugs and alcohol and do all those things. But guess what you're
2105 02:53:36 --> 02:53:41 doing? You're tearing up your body because you're in a heightened state of
2106 02:53:41 --> 02:53:46 panic, fight or flight, you're in war mode. If you are feeling heart
2107 02:53:46 --> 02:53:51 palpitations when you're trading, your chances are you're over leveraging, or
2108 02:53:52 --> 02:53:59 you're not trading with a model that you trust, and you're just chasing price. If
2109 02:53:59 --> 02:54:01 you're all hopped up on goofballs, chances are, if you took your blood
2110 02:54:01 --> 02:54:08 pressure, it's probably sky high. Don't believe me, get yourself one on Amazon.
2111 02:54:08 --> 02:54:12 It's real simple. Just get it, plug it in, put the batteries in it, put your
2112 02:54:12 --> 02:54:15 arm up on the table, let it. Do it. Do your blood pressure when you first wake
2113 02:54:15 --> 02:54:21 up in the morning, and then do it right when you started trading. Do it, and
2114 02:54:22 --> 02:54:25 you're going to find something that's going on that's a physiological response
2115 02:54:25 --> 02:54:30 that you weren't aware of. And you're constantly putting yourself in that
2116 02:54:30 --> 02:54:36 state of stressful thinking, stressful outcomes being measured as I got to be
2117 02:54:36 --> 02:54:40 right or wrong, I got to be profitable or protect what I have. I don't want to
2118 02:54:40 --> 02:54:44 lose more money. I don't want to lose money. And you're looking at a chart
2119 02:54:44 --> 02:54:47 fluctuating up and down, and chances are you have no idea what you're doing. You
2120 02:54:47 --> 02:54:51 have no logic behind why you're watching those charts. You're hoping and praying.
2121 02:54:51 --> 02:54:57 And that's not a model, that's not a model, but you see people out there
2122 02:54:57 --> 02:55:00 trying to do that all the time, and you have problems. We've been doing that
2123 02:55:00 --> 02:55:05 too, and it's not comfortable. Is it not knowing what you're doing. It's scary.
2124 02:55:05 --> 02:55:09 So what happens when you start feeling that? How can you combat that? How can
2125 02:55:09 --> 02:55:12 you wrestle with it? If it's not in trading it just happens to be in any
2126 02:55:12 --> 02:55:14 other given time, because if you probably had an anxiety attack or
2127 02:55:14 --> 02:55:20 experienced these things before, it's amazing, if nothing continues to scare
2128 02:55:20 --> 02:55:23 you, usually about 10 to 15 minutes later, you're fine, and you're thinking
2129 02:55:23 --> 02:55:28 yourself, wow, what was that? It's anxiety. You got to the point where
2130 02:55:28 --> 02:55:32 adrenaline was released in your bloodstream, which is a natural thing.
2131 02:55:32 --> 02:55:36 That's a natural thing. You should be thankful that you're given that ability,
2132 02:55:36 --> 02:55:40 because it enables you to be stronger, faster, more responsive and reactive to
2133 02:55:40 --> 02:55:51 dangers. But how do you get back to a regulated nervous system where you're
2134 02:55:51 --> 02:55:55 comfortable, where you can digest food and rest? Because if you're anxious, you
2135 02:55:55 --> 02:56:00 can't sleep. When you're anxious, your food doesn't digest. Well, that's why
2136 02:56:00 --> 02:56:04 you have a nervous stomach. You're the term, oh, I have a nervous stomach. And
2137 02:56:04 --> 02:56:08 you ate something that's probably healthy, but you may have diarrhea, you
2138 02:56:08 --> 02:56:13 may have a constipation going on, because when you are staying in this
2139 02:56:13 --> 02:56:18 condition of fight or flight, which is where your sympathetic nervous system
2140 02:56:18 --> 02:56:24 has been turned on, it's real easy to turn that on because it's fear induced.
2141 02:56:26 --> 02:56:30 If you keep doing that, if you keep allowing stressful environments to
2142 02:56:30 --> 02:56:34 stimulate that aspect of your nervous system, what will happen is it gets
2143 02:56:34 --> 02:56:39 caught in a loop, and you stay in this loop where you have an elevated blood
2144 02:56:39 --> 02:56:45 pressure, you have an elevated heart rate, you have elevated inhalation and
2145 02:56:45 --> 02:56:49 breath, so you're constantly feeding yourself levels of toxicity that you're
2146 02:56:49 --> 02:56:55 not able to burn off if you feel anxious, if it starts off like that and
2147 02:56:55 --> 02:56:58 it hasn't released cortisol. And I'll tell you what that means and how you
2148 02:56:58 --> 02:57:01 know when it's done that in a moment. But let me get through this part first.
2149 02:57:01 --> 02:57:04 The first thing you do is look around where you're at and you tell yourself
2150 02:57:04 --> 02:57:10 out loud, I am safe and there is no emergency. I'm absolutely safe in my own
2151 02:57:10 --> 02:57:15 skin, comfortable, and I'm right where I need to be. There is no emergency, and I
2152 02:57:15 --> 02:57:20 am just feeling the symptoms of a intrusive thought, and I am choosing not
2153 02:57:20 --> 02:57:25 to be fearful. What your subconscious is going to hear and it's going to draw
2154 02:57:25 --> 02:57:30 from. This is, Oh, okay. This is just like anything else. This is a jump
2155 02:57:30 --> 02:57:35 scare. So turn everything back to normal. And your parasympathetic nervous
2156 02:57:35 --> 02:57:39 system, where you go back to normal relaxation, the normal functions of
2157 02:57:39 --> 02:57:42 everyday life, where you can fall asleep if you sit still long enough, and you
2158 02:57:42 --> 02:57:46 can digest your food if you eat something. That's the normal functions
2159 02:57:46 --> 02:57:52 of your body when it's not in fight or flight. But what happens if that isn't
2160 02:57:52 --> 02:57:57 enough, well, that means you probably have adrenaline coursing through your
2161 02:57:57 --> 02:58:02 body, so you have to find yourself a way to burn that off. The easiest way to do
2162 02:58:02 --> 02:58:06 that is just simply take a walk. It doesn't need to be a fast paced walk,
2163 02:58:06 --> 02:58:10 just walk. But what happens if you work at a cubicle and you can't get up and
2164 02:58:10 --> 02:58:13 just walk, because that's going to draw attention to yourself. You're expected
2165 02:58:13 --> 02:58:18 to be in your cubicle doing something. Okay? Then you simply do body tension,
2166 02:58:18 --> 02:58:21 where you try to flex all of your muscles at the same time, and you
2167 02:58:21 --> 02:58:26 squeeze that for as long as you can, until fatigue and you just relax when
2168 02:58:26 --> 02:58:29 you stop squeezing all your muscles. That means tightening your biceps,
2169 02:58:29 --> 02:58:33 squeezing your fists, squeezing your thighs, squeezing your ass, like
2170 02:58:33 --> 02:58:38 everything in your body, squeeze your lats, your pecs, hold that tension up to
2171 02:58:38 --> 02:58:44 two minutes, and then at the end of two minutes, slowly, release everything, as
2172 02:58:44 --> 02:58:48 slow as you can possibly do it. Slowly do it the whole time you're taking
2173 02:58:48 --> 02:58:53 relaxed breathing, not trying to count anything. You're just doing relaxed
2174 02:58:53 --> 02:58:56 breathing, because your focus is going to be on the the ability of holding your
2175 02:58:56 --> 02:59:00 muscles tight. What that does? It blocks the intrusive thoughts. That means that
2176 02:59:00 --> 02:59:04 you can't think about anything else, except for the constant tension in your
2177 02:59:04 --> 02:59:04 body.
2178 02:59:05 --> 02:59:09 Your anxiety attack was triggered by a would have thought, what if this
2179 02:59:09 --> 02:59:12 happens? What if that happens? Nothing physically was there threatening you? Is
2180 02:59:12 --> 02:59:16 this something that you thought about scary that you know deep down inside you
2181 02:59:16 --> 02:59:19 have no control over, and that scared you, and you're afraid of the outcome
2182 02:59:19 --> 02:59:24 being adverse to you so you combat that by subduing your thought, replacing it
2183 02:59:24 --> 02:59:27 with something positive. You're not going to get hurt by holding your
2184 02:59:27 --> 02:59:31 muscles tensed, clenched up for two minutes. It's actually going to help
2185 02:59:31 --> 02:59:36 your blood pressure lower down, and it's going to replace that intrusive thought
2186 02:59:36 --> 02:59:39 or repeating loop of scary thinking. And what if thinking to you constantly
2187 02:59:39 --> 02:59:42 thinking about, Okay, I'm keeping my laps tight. I'm squeezing my pecs. I'm
2188 02:59:42 --> 02:59:45 squeezing my biceps. My forearm muscles are squeezing. I'm squeezing my fists as
2189 02:59:45 --> 02:59:49 hard as I can. I'm squeezing my thighs, I'm squeezing my calf, I'm flexing
2190 02:59:49 --> 02:59:53 everything, and it's a fatiguing thing, and that's how you burn the adrenaline
2191 02:59:53 --> 03:00:01 off. It only takes a couple minutes, but there is. A stage that goes past that,
2192 03:00:02 --> 03:00:08 where you stay in that fight or flight thought process in anxiety, and it turns
2193 03:00:08 --> 03:00:14 into full blown panic. A panic attack is when Cortisol is released. That's your
2194 03:00:14 --> 03:00:21 stress hormone. Your body releases this chemical in your body to compensate for
2195 03:00:21 --> 03:00:26 high levels of stress, and when it's released in your bloodstream, it lays
2196 03:00:26 --> 03:00:31 down cholesterol in your arteries. That's the way it protects the arteries,
2197 03:00:31 --> 03:00:37 because it's toxic if you don't burn through it by running and fighting and
2198 03:00:37 --> 03:00:41 doing what's been given to you as a superhuman characteristic, it's your
2199 03:00:41 --> 03:00:45 mutant power. Everybody has this in our cells, but if you don't use it
2200 03:00:45 --> 03:00:49 appropriately, it's like that Lamborghini sitting in the garage with
2201 03:00:49 --> 03:00:52 the engine running, and you got the gas pedal all the way through, the engine's
2202 03:00:52 --> 03:00:57 going to be streaming, but it's going nowhere. That's what a panic attack is.
2203 03:00:57 --> 03:01:01 Your body saying, let's go. Let's do something, fight or let's get the hell
2204 03:01:01 --> 03:01:05 out of here, but you're sitting still not knowing what's going on, and you're
2205 03:01:05 --> 03:01:08 going to be in front of your charts, and you're going to have this happen one
2206 03:01:09 --> 03:01:14 day, and as soon as you start feeling body symptoms, that's when you know
2207 03:01:14 --> 03:01:19 you're at the early stages of full blown panic. What does it feel like? You'll
2208 03:01:19 --> 03:01:22 start feeling tingling in your face. When I would have it, it would always
2209 03:01:22 --> 03:01:28 start with my left eyebrow towards the end the edge of my face. It would start
2210 03:01:28 --> 03:01:31 like a tingling that would go down that right underneath my left eye, and then
2211 03:01:31 --> 03:01:35 go down to my upper lip and down into my chin. So naturally, what am I thinking?
2212 03:01:35 --> 03:01:41 I'm having a stroke. I'm having a stroke, and I would get up, I'm in a
2213 03:01:41 --> 03:01:46 trade. I'm like, What the fuck is going on? What am I doing here? And then I'm
2214 03:01:46 --> 03:01:51 telling myself, there's something scary. So what is that? I'm feeding it right?
2215 03:01:51 --> 03:01:55 So I have adrenaline coursing through my body. I have now cortisol releasing in
2216 03:01:55 --> 03:02:01 my body, and now I'm feeling physical body symptoms, and it's scaring me. And
2217 03:02:01 --> 03:02:05 I'm telling myself I'm having a stroke. So what do you think my brain's saying?
2218 03:02:05 --> 03:02:09 Shit, we are having a stroke. We got to do something. What do we do? I don't
2219 03:02:09 --> 03:02:12 know, but let's keep pumping all these chemicals, because we have to fight or
2220 03:02:12 --> 03:02:19 flight. You can't run from a stroke. You can't run from a heart attack. But I was
2221 03:02:19 --> 03:02:24 feeding my brain. Something terrible is happening. To me. Something terrible is
2222 03:02:24 --> 03:02:28 about to happen to me. So you're feeding all that stuff. So as soon as you start
2223 03:02:28 --> 03:02:33 feeling body symptoms, you might start seeing stars, like sleep, like the
2224 03:02:33 --> 03:02:37 little squiggly things that go around in your eyes. That's if you ever watch a
2225 03:02:37 --> 03:02:41 cartoon where the Tom and Jerry, Jerry would hit the cat over top the head, and
2226 03:02:41 --> 03:02:45 Tommy like, oh shit. And you see little stars, or little birds flying around, as
2227 03:02:45 --> 03:02:50 a cartoon analogy to seeing stars. If you turn your head real far to the right
2228 03:02:50 --> 03:02:53 or left and hold it there and then quickly turn it back, chances are you'll
2229 03:02:53 --> 03:02:57 probably see stars, because you're constricting the blood vessels inside
2230 03:02:57 --> 03:03:00 your neck and then you're quickly bringing it back to the front, you'll
2231 03:03:00 --> 03:03:04 see stars, or if you get dizzy, you feel like you're woozy, or whatever. That's
2232 03:03:04 --> 03:03:08 usually also a symptom when Cortisol is released in your bloodstream, and that's
2233 03:03:08 --> 03:03:13 an effect of you sitting still when you are in full blown panic, and you need to
2234 03:03:13 --> 03:03:19 be doing something, walk, body tension, but you absolutely have to. Now, at this
2235 03:03:19 --> 03:03:25 point, you have to start changing and regulating your breath with adrenaline.
2236 03:03:25 --> 03:03:29 It's just a time thing. It'll burn off. But when you start feeling body symptoms
2237 03:03:29 --> 03:03:32 of, I feel like I'm gonna be sick. I feel like I'm gonna be passing out, like
2238 03:03:32 --> 03:03:40 I'm gonna shit myself. I feel like I'm gonna, you know, die, basically the way
2239 03:03:40 --> 03:03:46 you capture that and subdue it is again, say out loud that there is no emergency.
2240 03:03:46 --> 03:03:50 I choose not to be afraid, and all I'm doing is responding, and my body's
2241 03:03:50 --> 03:03:54 responding to a scary thought. There is no emergency. I'm safe where I'm at. I
2242 03:03:54 --> 03:04:00 choose not to be afraid. And when you do this, your subconscious hears that, it
2243 03:04:00 --> 03:04:04 starts the process of activating your parasympathetic nervous system. That
2244 03:04:04 --> 03:04:10 means that it's going to go through your brain, down your vagus nerve, which is
2245 03:04:10 --> 03:04:14 the longest nerve in your body. It goes down from the stem of the brain, down
2246 03:04:14 --> 03:04:17 both sides of your neck, behind the carotid artery on both sides or behind
2247 03:04:17 --> 03:04:22 your ears. Draw drops down behind your collarbones. It literally attaches to
2248 03:04:22 --> 03:04:28 every major organ, to your heart, to your lungs, liver, kidneys, all the way
2249 03:04:28 --> 03:04:34 through it, okay, into your into your colon. If you're in full blown panic,
2250 03:04:35 --> 03:04:40 say you're in a cubicle and add more confusion or attention to yourself,
2251 03:04:40 --> 03:04:43 because that's making also a source of anxiety, because you don't want people
2252 03:04:43 --> 03:04:46 thinking you're losing your mind if you're crazy, because you're going to
2253 03:04:46 --> 03:04:50 feel like you are, like you're you're at your wit's end. You feel like it's going
2254 03:04:50 --> 03:04:54 to unravel. It's a scary, sickening feeling, but it's a normal feeling. I
2255 03:04:54 --> 03:04:58 want you to know that it's a normal response to stress, if you let it go
2256 03:04:58 --> 03:05:04 unchecked, the. What you're feeling is absolutely normal, and it's something
2257 03:05:04 --> 03:05:10 that you can quickly reset. I'm gonna teach it to you now, okay, when we're
2258 03:05:10 --> 03:05:14 breathing normally, we're not thinking about it. We don't think about our
2259 03:05:14 --> 03:05:19 breath. It just happens. But when you enter stressful environments, or you're
2260 03:05:19 --> 03:05:24 trying to combat stress, becoming a panic attack, or if you are in a panic
2261 03:05:24 --> 03:05:29 attack, this is your first skill set. You've already said to yourself, there's
2262 03:05:29 --> 03:05:32 no emergency, and you're choosing not to be afraid, and you're comfortable where
2263 03:05:32 --> 03:05:36 you are and you're safe. You have to say it audibly. You can't say it in your
2264 03:05:36 --> 03:05:41 head. You got to say it out loud. If you can't do that, try to excuse yourself to
2265 03:05:41 --> 03:05:45 the bathroom where you feel comfortable doing it. It only takes a couple minutes
2266 03:05:45 --> 03:05:51 to get yourself regulated. Okay, so the first thing you want to do is, if you
2267 03:05:51 --> 03:05:54 have your phone or if you have a watch, it's better to have like a sweep second
2268 03:05:54 --> 03:05:57 hand on your watch. Anybody with a digital watch today's immediate you
2269 03:05:57 --> 03:06:01 should always have a nice Swiss piece and put a sweep second hand on it. If
2270 03:06:01 --> 03:06:06 you don't have that on your phone, just turn on the timer, and you need a
2271 03:06:06 --> 03:06:11 minimum of one minute. So what you're going to do is, is you're going to sit
2272 03:06:11 --> 03:06:17 still, okay, and you're going to try to relax and put your fingers on your wrist
2273 03:06:17 --> 03:06:20 and find your pulse. Chances are it's going to be going real, real fast.
2274 03:06:22 --> 03:06:26 You're not trying to tell yourself it's too fast, you're not trying to
2275 03:06:26 --> 03:06:29 acknowledge that it's too fast, but you're going to feel that it's probably
2276 03:06:29 --> 03:06:33 elevated. That's a normal thing. That's not something dangerous. It feels like
2277 03:06:33 --> 03:06:37 it's dangerous, it feels scary, but it's absolutely normal. I used to freak out
2278 03:06:37 --> 03:06:40 when I was checking my pulse, and I would go through this coping skill and
2279 03:06:40 --> 03:06:43 it scared me. And I'm telling you, there's no reason for you to be afraid
2280 03:06:43 --> 03:06:48 of it. It's your body doing what it's designed to do protect you. Okay, so,
2281 03:06:48 --> 03:06:52 because I'm right handed, I would take my two fingers, my index and my middle
2282 03:06:52 --> 03:06:56 finger, and I would find my pulse on my left wrist, and it would be tacking
2283 03:06:56 --> 03:07:04 away, and then I would watch the sweep second hand on my watch. If I don't have
2284 03:07:04 --> 03:07:09 this on me, I'm watching a digital counter of a timer. And because I was
2285 03:07:09 --> 03:07:14 more prone to have pack attacks, I literally had a sports stopwatch that I
2286 03:07:14 --> 03:07:17 literally had that was like one of my little comfort things. Like I asked one
2287 03:07:17 --> 03:07:20 time before, do you ever fidget when you're trading? There was a thing couple
2288 03:07:20 --> 03:07:24 years ago, fidget spinner. I have a deck of cards. A deck of cards helps me keep
2289 03:07:24 --> 03:07:29 my focus on something external, from Christ. If I'm in a very large position,
2290 03:07:30 --> 03:07:34 the way I the way I manage that is I don't think about the money. I'm
2291 03:07:34 --> 03:07:37 thinking about the cards. The deck of cards in my hand and I riffle through
2292 03:07:37 --> 03:07:39 the car. You probably heard them in live streams, or you probably heard them in
2293 03:07:39 --> 03:07:43 old Twitter spaces, you hear this riffling sound that's just simply me
2294 03:07:43 --> 03:07:47 riffling my thumb down the side of the deck. What you're doing is you're
2295 03:07:47 --> 03:07:50 distracting yourself by checking your pulse, and then you're going to count
2296 03:07:51 --> 03:07:57 the beats of your pulse for a minimum of one minute. So you find the first beat,
2297 03:07:57 --> 03:08:01 and you count that, and you keep counting until this one full minute has
2298 03:08:01 --> 03:08:06 gone by. What you're doing is you're taking your attention away from whatever
2299 03:08:06 --> 03:08:10 intrusive thought that's scary would have thinking you can't think that right
2300 03:08:10 --> 03:08:14 now. You can't it's impossible for you to have two thoughts in your head at the
2301 03:08:14 --> 03:08:19 same time. It's impossible. So you have to separate yourself at that minimum of
2302 03:08:19 --> 03:08:24 one minute. Now it may take a little bit longer than one minute, but at least in
2303 03:08:24 --> 03:08:28 one minute, that activates your parasympathetic nervous system. That
2304 03:08:28 --> 03:08:34 means it's going to slowly restore back to rest or digest, or rest and digest
2305 03:08:34 --> 03:08:38 where your body is normalized. It's regulated your nervous system. You're
2306 03:08:38 --> 03:08:42 not in panic mode. If you're in a trading environment that you're
2307 03:08:42 --> 03:08:45 constantly you're constantly putting yourself in fearful of, you're probably
2308 03:08:45 --> 03:08:52 stuck in a deregulated nervous system. That means you're constantly in a fight
2309 03:08:52 --> 03:08:57 or flight, and you'll know that because of how you feel when you're done, when
2310 03:08:57 --> 03:09:02 you leave trading. Are you exhausted? Are you completely wiped out? You've
2311 03:09:02 --> 03:09:03 worn out.
2312 03:09:04 --> 03:09:09 Chances are you were in this heightened state of fight or flight. That means
2313 03:09:09 --> 03:09:12 your sympathetic nervous system has been activated and you have been looping
2314 03:09:12 --> 03:09:16 through that. Your heart rate's been probably elevated the entire time. You
2315 03:09:16 --> 03:09:19 probably had high blood pressure the entire time. You've probably been in a
2316 03:09:19 --> 03:09:24 elevated respiratory cycle, where you're breathing too much air, and while you're
2317 03:09:24 --> 03:09:28 watching the one minute transpire and you're counting the beats of your heart,
2318 03:09:29 --> 03:09:36 the only thing you can think of is keeping track of the counting describe
2319 03:09:36 --> 03:09:43 the color of your car And what model and make it is while you're counting your
2320 03:09:43 --> 03:09:48 pulse. Can you do that? Nobody fucking can. That's proof that you can't have an
2321 03:09:48 --> 03:09:52 intrusive thought. So by counting the beats of your pulse while you're
2322 03:09:52 --> 03:09:56 watching one minute transpire, you're physically separating yourself from
2323 03:09:56 --> 03:10:00 intrusive, scary thoughts. That's what started the Pentagon. That that's what
2324 03:10:00 --> 03:10:04 started, the fearful event that released the adrenaline, that released the
2325 03:10:04 --> 03:10:08 cortisol, or will eventually release the cortisol, and when cortisol enters the
2326 03:10:08 --> 03:10:12 bloodstream, then you're really going to feel body symptoms. And if you've never
2327 03:10:12 --> 03:10:15 felt that before, you are absolutely going to shit yourself, maybe not
2328 03:10:15 --> 03:10:20 literally, but preferably, it's a scary, it's scary. It's very, very scary. You
2329 03:10:20 --> 03:10:24 feel like you're losing all you feel like you're undone, like you're going to
2330 03:10:24 --> 03:10:29 fall out and die. And that's a normal response. Your body is doing something
2331 03:10:29 --> 03:10:33 to get you to run away or fight. If you're not burning those chemicals off,
2332 03:10:34 --> 03:10:37 you're going to feel all that uncomfortable state because you're
2333 03:10:37 --> 03:10:41 sitting still doing nothing. But after one minute of counting your pulse out
2334 03:10:41 --> 03:10:47 loud, one, every time it beats, 234, and you're watching the sweep second hand on
2335 03:10:47 --> 03:10:51 your watch, or you're watching the countdown on some kind of digital
2336 03:10:51 --> 03:10:57 counter, whether it be your your phone or whatnot. That's what starts it takes
2337 03:10:57 --> 03:11:01 literally 30 to 60 seconds for your parasympathetic nervous system to
2338 03:11:01 --> 03:11:07 activate. There are faster ways to turn it on. I'll teach you that in a minute.
2339 03:11:08 --> 03:11:13 But this is the first one where you start to talk yourself down, okay, as
2340 03:11:13 --> 03:11:17 you're counting them, as you're counting the heartbeat every 15 seconds, you can
2341 03:11:17 --> 03:11:21 tell yourself, I'm safe. There is a new emergency, and then go back to counting.
2342 03:11:21 --> 03:11:24 So you're What are you doing? You're breaking up that one minute every 15
2343 03:11:24 --> 03:11:28 seconds, and you're reminding yourself, there's no emergency, I'm safe. There's
2344 03:11:28 --> 03:11:35 no emergency, I'm safe. And at the end of the one minute, you say out loud, I'm
2345 03:11:35 --> 03:11:39 having a stressful reaction to a scary thought. There is no emergency. I choose
2346 03:11:39 --> 03:11:47 not to be afraid and do another one minute. Within that two minutes, the
2347 03:11:47 --> 03:11:52 adrenaline will not release into your body. You'll stave off the attempts of
2348 03:11:52 --> 03:11:58 cortisol being released in your body. Your breath will be reduced down to a
2349 03:11:58 --> 03:12:03 normal cycle of breathing. It won't be elevated to 18 to 25 breaths a minute,
2350 03:12:04 --> 03:12:07 and you won't be heating with your chest. You need to be breathing from
2351 03:12:07 --> 03:12:14 your belly button. Deep belly breathing is a physical exercise that will allow
2352 03:12:14 --> 03:12:22 you to compensate for the scary stimuli that you're feeling as a result of those
2353 03:12:22 --> 03:12:27 two chemicals, adrenaline and cortisol. They are natural hormones that are being
2354 03:12:27 --> 03:12:29 released into your body, your bloodstream, for the purposes of
2355 03:12:29 --> 03:12:33 protecting you. But if you don't understand that, you think it's killing
2356 03:12:33 --> 03:12:37 you. You think your body is dying, and it's not. It's doing everything it's
2357 03:12:37 --> 03:12:41 designed to do, and that's a normal, reassuring thing. But what happens if
2358 03:12:45 --> 03:12:48 you need to quickly get a hold of yourself, and you can't do it like that,
2359 03:12:49 --> 03:12:54 but you feel it coming on. You feel a little bit stressed out, and you don't,
2360 03:12:54 --> 03:12:57 you don't feel the text of adrenaline coming in, but you just feel like, if I
2361 03:12:57 --> 03:13:02 don't get control myself, I can see it coming. I can feel it coming or, you
2362 03:13:02 --> 03:13:07 know, stress is beginning to come into your day. How can you get yourself
2363 03:13:07 --> 03:13:11 prepared to unwind and release that immediately? Well, what you want to do
2364 03:13:11 --> 03:13:16 is, is you want to take a deep, slow breath. Okay? And I mentioned this in a
2365 03:13:16 --> 03:13:21 Twitter space, but a live stream, not the last one, I think the one before it,
2366 03:13:21 --> 03:13:26 but you want to take your your breath, breathe it all out first, wherever
2367 03:13:26 --> 03:13:30 you're at in your reading, just breathe it all out. All the exhale out, and have
2368 03:13:30 --> 03:13:38 empty lungs. At the moment it's empty. It's going to be hard for you. Mostly,
2369 03:13:38 --> 03:13:43 you doing it the first time. Hold that empty lung state for four seconds.
2370 03:13:43 --> 03:13:49 You're going to feel like you want to breathe in. Don't just relax. And then
2371 03:13:49 --> 03:13:54 at the end of four seconds, slowly breathe in. But breathe in from your
2372 03:13:54 --> 03:13:59 belly. Try not to raise your chest up. You want to make your stomach stick out
2373 03:13:59 --> 03:14:02 like a baby. When a baby breathes? You ever watch a baby breathe? It's belly
2374 03:14:02 --> 03:14:06 breathing all the time. It's not raising its chest up. The only time it's raising
2375 03:14:06 --> 03:14:10 its chest up is when it's crying. What is it doing? It's having an anxiety
2376 03:14:10 --> 03:14:14 attack. That's why it's crying. It's uncomfortable, that's why it's breathing
2377 03:14:14 --> 03:14:20 with its chest up and down. So you're gonna breathe from an exhale state,
2378 03:14:20 --> 03:14:24 empty lung. After four seconds, you're going to breathe in from your belly, and
2379 03:14:24 --> 03:14:27 you're going to try to focus on all the air going into your lungs, going down to
2380 03:14:27 --> 03:14:33 your belly, and your belly should stick out from your navel. Imagine your belly
2381 03:14:33 --> 03:14:37 extending out as you breathe in, and at the point when you breathe in, slow you
2382 03:14:38 --> 03:14:43 want to be about four to five seconds inhalation, nothing longer than that,
2383 03:14:43 --> 03:14:47 but at the time where you think that you've breathed in a full inhalation,
2384 03:14:48 --> 03:14:53 quickly sniff through your nose the last little piece of pocket of empty space
2385 03:14:53 --> 03:14:59 and go like this. It's like say, I breathe in. And then they go, whatever
2386 03:14:59 --> 03:15:03 little bit of air. Can suck in with that last little sniff, hold that for two to
2387 03:15:03 --> 03:15:08 three seconds and then slowly let the air fall out, but with pursed lips, that
2388 03:15:08 --> 03:15:12 means like you're going to whistle, but you're not whistling. You're letting the
2389 03:15:12 --> 03:15:18 air leave your lungs with pursed lips. But it has to be double the amount of
2390 03:15:18 --> 03:15:21 time that you inhale. So if you are counting how many seconds you're
2391 03:15:21 --> 03:15:25 breathing in. If it's four, then you got to exhale at least for eight seconds. If
2392 03:15:25 --> 03:15:29 you inhale for five seconds, you have to exhale for 10 seconds. The first few
2393 03:15:29 --> 03:15:32 times you do this, it's got especially when you're in panic, it's going to be
2394 03:15:32 --> 03:15:37 uncomfortable. But the more you do it, the quicker you'll be able to get into a
2395 03:15:37 --> 03:15:42 parasympathetic nervous system. You're regulating your nervous system that way,
2396 03:15:42 --> 03:15:45 all these scary things and feelings that you're feeling is going to be hard for
2397 03:15:45 --> 03:15:48 you to concentrate, but the first thing you have to do is get control your
2398 03:15:48 --> 03:15:50 breath. If cortisol is in your bloodstream and you're feeling body
2399 03:15:50 --> 03:15:55 symptoms, the quickest way to overcome that and regulate yourself is through
2400 03:15:55 --> 03:15:59 breath. But what happens if you feel it coming? You know that you're under
2401 03:15:59 --> 03:16:04 stress, but you want to reset your nervous system real quick. It's this
2402 03:16:04 --> 03:16:09 bread it's this breathing exercise. Two or three times I'll literally do it kind
2403 03:16:09 --> 03:16:12 of sounds weird. It's going to feel weird listening to it, but I want you to
2404 03:16:12 --> 03:16:17 hear what you're going to do. I'm sure people are going to listen to and making
2405 03:16:17 --> 03:16:20 jokes about it, and they can fuck right off. But the point is, eventually
2406 03:16:20 --> 03:16:23 they're going to have a stressful environment. And if they use this,
2407 03:16:23 --> 03:16:26 they're going to see how fast it fixes it. It completely resets your nervous
2408 03:16:26 --> 03:16:30 system. You can't have a panic attack. If you control your nervous system, you
2409 03:16:30 --> 03:16:33 can't go into panic period. That's in the story. And then you won't release
2410 03:16:33 --> 03:16:36 the adrenaline, which then eventually releases cortisol. That's the stage,
2411 03:16:36 --> 03:16:41 that's the way, that's the process, that's how it works. So to keep that
2412 03:16:41 --> 03:16:45 from happening, as soon as you start to feel stress, like, Oh no, you know, I'm
2413 03:16:45 --> 03:16:49 getting ready to take this trade, but I might miss it. You feel Stress. Do this?
2414 03:16:51 --> 03:16:51 Exhale? You
2415 03:17:23 --> 03:17:27 at the end of the exhalation, hold it for four seconds and then repeat it. Do
2416 03:17:27 --> 03:17:31 that three times. You got no fucking anxiety. You got no fucking pan attack.
2417 03:17:31 --> 03:17:35 It ain't coming, and you're gonna have oxygenation. You're gonna feel dialed
2418 03:17:35 --> 03:17:38 the fuck in. You're gonna feel like you're perfectly right where you're
2419 03:17:38 --> 03:17:45 supposed to be at. That's how you prevent stress turning into anxiety, and
2420 03:17:45 --> 03:17:48 then an anxiety turning into full blown panic attack. That's the stages of
2421 03:17:48 --> 03:17:56 dealing with stress. If you feel the adrenaline getting ready to probably
2422 03:17:56 --> 03:18:01 release the cortisol, and you just can't, you just can't find yourself to
2423 03:18:01 --> 03:18:06 come, come down from it, and you're looping in this sympathetic nervous
2424 03:18:06 --> 03:18:09 system response, fight or flight. There's two parts of your body where
2425 03:18:09 --> 03:18:13 your biggest nerve, which is the nerve that runs from your brain, that lays
2426 03:18:13 --> 03:18:18 down over top of all of your organs. Okay, there's two places in our body
2427 03:18:18 --> 03:18:23 where it's closest to the surface of the skin where we can stimulate it. It's
2428 03:18:23 --> 03:18:26 directly behind your ears, at the bottom of your ear lobe. Go back about a half
2429 03:18:26 --> 03:18:31 an inch, okay. And first of all, find the point of your jaw on both sides of
2430 03:18:31 --> 03:18:34 your face, put your put your index fingers on the corner of your jaw then.
2431 03:18:35 --> 03:18:39 And then go back about a half an inch, okay. And then go straight up to where
2432 03:18:39 --> 03:18:43 you're behind your ear. If you take your index finger, or your index finger and
2433 03:18:43 --> 03:18:46 your middle finger together the fingertips, you don't want to do this
2434 03:18:46 --> 03:18:50 too hard, just, just like, likely, like, if you're petting a puppy's head, you're
2435 03:18:50 --> 03:18:54 going to do that same thing, going behind your ear, straight down besides
2436 03:18:54 --> 03:18:57 your neck, until you touch the tops of your collarbone, or at the top of your
2437 03:18:57 --> 03:19:01 shoulder rather. And you're going to do that multiple times for about a minute.
2438 03:19:03 --> 03:19:06 What you're doing is you're stimulating your vagus nerve, and by stimulating
2439 03:19:06 --> 03:19:10 your biggest nerve, that is the nerve that controls your heartbeat, if you
2440 03:19:10 --> 03:19:15 stimulate that, what it will do is and you're breathing relaxed. That means
2441 03:19:15 --> 03:19:21 slow in breaths for four seconds to five seconds, and then slow release, relax
2442 03:19:21 --> 03:19:26 for eight to 10 breaths, eight to 810 seconds. Rather for the exhale, your
2443 03:19:26 --> 03:19:30 exhale, the key to you controlling your breath and stress and anxiety is your
2444 03:19:30 --> 03:19:36 exhales have to be double what the time is of your inhalation. When you're
2445 03:19:36 --> 03:19:43 inhaling, your heart rate increases. Don't believe me, measure it. When you
2446 03:19:43 --> 03:19:48 exhale, your heart rate drops. It relaxes. So if you have a heart
2447 03:19:48 --> 03:19:54 palpitation, how do you do it? How you fix it? Slow, shallow, inhales, long
2448 03:19:54 --> 03:20:00 exhalations, that long exhalations for a few minutes will complete. Take away
2449 03:20:00 --> 03:20:03 your heart palpitation. Now, if you're having a medical emergency and you're
2450 03:20:03 --> 03:20:06 doing this for five minutes and your heart rate ain't coming down, you
2451 03:20:06 --> 03:20:08 probably go, you probably should see medical treatment, because you're
2452 03:20:09 --> 03:20:14 probably having something that is beyond the scope of generalized anxiety. But I
2453 03:20:14 --> 03:20:20 have had very, very high blood pressure, and it was me being fearful of a recent
2454 03:20:20 --> 03:20:23 attack of vertigo. I've never had vertigo before. I've only had one
2455 03:20:23 --> 03:20:27 episode of it, but it lingered over a span of two or three days. But the
2456 03:20:27 --> 03:20:31 biggest part of it was this one big attack that happened at four o'clock in
2457 03:20:31 --> 03:20:34 the morning, and I was in a constant state of expectation that is going to
2458 03:20:34 --> 03:20:37 happen again, thinking that it was a stroke, thinking it was heart heart
2459 03:20:37 --> 03:20:40 failure, something like that. And I wasn't willing to go to the hospital
2460 03:20:40 --> 03:20:45 yet, so I had this period of elevated high blood pressure because of constant
2461 03:20:45 --> 03:20:49 feeding myself. What if I am having a stroke? What if I am having an attack?
2462 03:20:49 --> 03:20:53 And I bought myself a blood pressure cuff. I bought two of them. I had two of
2463 03:20:53 --> 03:20:57 them giving me a reading, and they were very close to one another, but I was
2464 03:20:57 --> 03:21:01 getting very, very high readings that should have put me in a trip to the
2465 03:21:01 --> 03:21:07 emergency room to get checked out. And then I started applying these skill sets
2466 03:21:07 --> 03:21:11 that I'm teaching you here. And then I brought my blood pressure down to 110
2467 03:21:11 --> 03:21:17 over 60. Now 110 over 60, that's fucking phenomenal. I got that. That's a very
2468 03:21:17 --> 03:21:22 good healthy blood pressure they want you to have. I think it's 120 over 80.
2469 03:21:23 --> 03:21:26 It used to be lower than that, but I think they've maybe they're making
2470 03:21:26 --> 03:21:32 compensations for the diet they've been feeding everybody but 110 over 60. And I
2471 03:21:32 --> 03:21:36 was able to accomplish that when I was having readings of 186 over 120 I'm
2472 03:21:37 --> 03:21:44 sorry. I'm sorry. 186 over 115 115 something like that. There's a few times
2473 03:21:44 --> 03:21:49 I had 121 26 but that's that's elevated like, that's an elevated blood pressure.
2474 03:21:49 --> 03:21:53 So you want to be able to fix that if you can, but staying like that's not
2475 03:21:53 --> 03:21:56 healthy. And in two minutes, two or three minutes of doing these breathing
2476 03:21:56 --> 03:22:00 exercises, I would drop the blood pressure that I was describing to you
2477 03:22:01 --> 03:22:05 down to healthy levels. So that means that I don't have blood pressure that's
2478 03:22:05 --> 03:22:10 prolonged and stayed in that condition. It just means that I was under pressure
2479 03:22:10 --> 03:22:15 of stress that was all self induced by scary way of thinking, and my heart rate
2480 03:22:16 --> 03:22:22 was tacking at around 120 beats per minute consistently. So that's doing
2481 03:22:22 --> 03:22:27 what it's it's holding a level of fight or flight. So I was trapped in a loop
2482 03:22:27 --> 03:22:33 inside my sympathetic nervous system. So it was, it was deep, it was deregulated.
2483 03:22:33 --> 03:22:37 So I had to regulate my nervous system, and that's breathing exercises, self
2484 03:22:37 --> 03:22:44 talk and isolated, isolated muscle tension, those exercises, doing that,
2485 03:22:44 --> 03:22:53 and then a 20 minute walk, all those things will combat stress. You'll keep
2486 03:22:53 --> 03:22:58 panic from happening. But what happens if you want another skill set? Say, say,
2487 03:22:58 --> 03:23:02 none of these things like box breathing, what else is describing? Say that's not
2488 03:23:02 --> 03:23:07 working for you. Because, unfortunately, sometimes that breathing exercise itself
2489 03:23:07 --> 03:23:11 doesn't work, and they need to have an immediate response where they can feel
2490 03:23:11 --> 03:23:15 relaxation come over top. And how can you do that? Well, as I mentioned
2491 03:23:15 --> 03:23:21 before, if you can find yourself a way to stretch, you know, like when you're
2492 03:23:21 --> 03:23:24 in bed, before you got to bed, every morning, you should do this, stretch
2493 03:23:24 --> 03:23:28 yourself, like, stretch your arms, you know, elongate yourself one side longer
2494 03:23:28 --> 03:23:31 than the other. Reach your arm above your head on the bed and stretch your
2495 03:23:31 --> 03:23:37 legs. Stiffed out, really stretch out there. And what will happen is you'll
2496 03:23:37 --> 03:23:41 stretch. You'll get this really good morning yawn, and then when you're done
2497 03:23:41 --> 03:23:47 yawning, you feel really relaxed. As soon as you yawn, you have activated
2498 03:23:47 --> 03:23:51 your parasympathetic nervous system. That means you immediately turned it on.
2499 03:23:51 --> 03:23:55 There's no delay there. It's immediate. It's immediate. You're not bringing it
2500 03:23:55 --> 03:24:00 down with breathing exercises. You immediately just turned it on. I talked
2501 03:24:00 --> 03:24:05 about how because I'm a dog owner, I'm a pet parent. If you have a dog, you
2502 03:24:05 --> 03:24:10 should watch them before they go to sleep. You ever notice how fast it takes
2503 03:24:10 --> 03:24:15 them? It takes little time for a dog to fall asleep. They go to their lighting
2504 03:24:15 --> 03:24:19 spot. They'll walk around several times because they want to smell their own paw
2505 03:24:19 --> 03:24:23 print. Their paw pads have their scent glands in them, and they walk until they
2506 03:24:23 --> 03:24:26 smell their own scent, and then they lay down. And as soon as they get themselves
2507 03:24:26 --> 03:24:34 comfortable in their position, they'll do this. Instantly, they're asleep. What
2508 03:24:34 --> 03:24:40 did they just do? They activated their parasympathetic nervous system. That's
2509 03:24:40 --> 03:24:43 what they just did, and then they could go to sleep. So if you're having
2510 03:24:43 --> 03:24:48 problems with insomnia, which I battled with my entire life, when I need to
2511 03:24:48 --> 03:24:51 sleep and because I don't, and I answered this young man that was on
2512 03:24:51 --> 03:24:55 Twitter earlier, saying, because I told everybody I've said this before, I sleep
2513 03:24:55 --> 03:25:00 in two periods of four hours, and I couldn't do that when I was working. Me.
2514 03:25:00 --> 03:25:04 Obviously I needed sleep more. I needed more recuperation time. But because I
2515 03:25:04 --> 03:25:09 don't, I don't work, I don't have a stressful life, I sleep for four hours.
2516 03:25:10 --> 03:25:13 I sleep when I feel like I need to sleep, and then I get up, I do whatever
2517 03:25:13 --> 03:25:18 I want to do, and when I feel the need for sleep, I'll sleep for four hours,
2518 03:25:18 --> 03:25:22 and in between those, if I need to take a cat nap of 1015, 20 minutes, something
2519 03:25:22 --> 03:25:26 like that. Something like that, I will, but I don't ever feel, Oh, I'm tired,
2520 03:25:26 --> 03:25:30 I'm lethargic. Okay? Because I don't burn out, because I'm sitting in traffic
2521 03:25:30 --> 03:25:34 back and forth, commuting. I don't work with Carl. I don't spend eight hours, 12
2522 03:25:34 --> 03:25:37 hours a day. I don't work six hours a week. I'm sorry, six days a week, seven
2523 03:25:37 --> 03:25:40 days a week. I don't work a part time job in addition, like I have a very
2524 03:25:40 --> 03:25:44 comfortable lifestyle, so the demand for sleep for me is lower than what it would
2525 03:25:44 --> 03:25:48 be for everyone else. So when I say when you live my lifestyle where you're not
2526 03:25:48 --> 03:25:52 going to work, you're going to find that you don't need a lot of sleep. It's
2527 03:25:52 --> 03:25:55 actually not good for you have that much sleep if you're not stressfully burning
2528 03:25:55 --> 03:25:59 yourself out. But if you're constantly in a state of stress and you're
2529 03:25:59 --> 03:26:03 constantly working hard at a job that requires you to constantly be Go, go,
2530 03:26:03 --> 03:26:07 go, go. You're going to need a lot more time to sleep and recuperate. But I
2531 03:26:07 --> 03:26:10 don't have that type of lifestyle, so that's why my life doesn't demand that
2532 03:26:10 --> 03:26:16 measure of level of stress. Basically, I'm sorry sleep for stress. So let's do
2533 03:26:16 --> 03:26:19 an exercise real quick, and then I'm going to close this. And we've done
2534 03:26:19 --> 03:26:23 enough today. I want you wherever you're at, if you're driving a car, please,
2535 03:26:24 --> 03:26:27 please, don't do this. Okay, but if you're home, if you're comfortable,
2536 03:26:28 --> 03:26:31 okay, I want you to sit up in your chair. Okay, sit up. Straighten your
2537 03:26:31 --> 03:26:36 back out, okay. And then what I want you to do is stare straight ahead with your
2538 03:26:36 --> 03:26:40 eyes. Open. Your eyes are going to stay open the entire time. Do not close your
2539 03:26:40 --> 03:26:43 eyes. You can blink when you need to blink, but don't close them. And now
2540 03:26:43 --> 03:26:47 what I want you to do is I want to take I want you to keep everything as it is,
2541 03:26:47 --> 03:26:50 your head straight, your back straight, pull your shoulders back a little bit,
2542 03:26:50 --> 03:26:53 just that way. You have good posture. And then I want you to take your
2543 03:26:53 --> 03:26:57 eyeballs and turn as far as you can just your eyes. You're not turning your head.
2544 03:26:57 --> 03:27:01 Your nose stays pointing straight ahead, but you're going to turn your eyeballs,
2545 03:27:01 --> 03:27:04 both your left and right eyeball points as far as you can. Turn them to the
2546 03:27:04 --> 03:27:07 right. It's going to feel a little bit uncomfortable, but you're going to hold
2547 03:27:07 --> 03:27:12 that for 30 seconds. Okay, give me a second while you're getting yourself
2548 03:27:12 --> 03:27:14 comfortable here, I want to set my timer.
2549 03:27:19 --> 03:27:23 Okay, I want to stop watch. I'm gonna tell you to look as far as you can with
2550 03:27:23 --> 03:27:27 your eyes open. Blink when you feel like you need to, but keeping your nose
2551 03:27:27 --> 03:27:31 straight ahead, your back straight, your shoulders pull back, only turn your eyes
2552 03:27:31 --> 03:27:35 as far as you can to the right. It's gonna feel uncomfortable. It's gonna
2553 03:27:35 --> 03:27:39 feel like you want to wander your eyes around. Move them around. Don't stay
2554 03:27:39 --> 03:27:43 there. Starting right now. You're going to keep looking as far as you can, just
2555 03:27:43 --> 03:27:46 with your eyeballs to the right, holding them there, as far as you can. It's
2556 03:27:46 --> 03:27:49 normal for you to feel like you want to move your eyeballs around. Don't keep
2557 03:27:49 --> 03:27:52 trying to look to the right. It might feel a little bit uncomfortable. You're
2558 03:27:52 --> 03:27:55 not going to hurt yourself. It's not going to hurt your vision. Everything's
2559 03:27:55 --> 03:27:59 normal. You got 15 seconds left. Just keep doing it. Keep holding it. Keep
2560 03:27:59 --> 03:28:02 your nose straight ahead, but you're turning your eyes as far as you can to
2561 03:28:02 --> 03:28:08 the right, as far as you can, as far as you can, as far as you can, okay, and
2562 03:28:09 --> 03:28:12 now look straight ahead so your eyes are pointing straight ahead with your nose.
2563 03:28:13 --> 03:28:16 Did you feel like you wanted to take a deep breath and sigh, or did you yawn at
2564 03:28:16 --> 03:28:20 any time during that time period? Did you feel that the need to want to do
2565 03:28:20 --> 03:28:25 that. If you didn't, it's okay, but if you did, you just activated your pair of
2566 03:28:25 --> 03:28:29 sympathetic nervous system. Now you're going to do the same thing to the left
2567 03:28:29 --> 03:28:32 nose, straight ahead, shoulders back, look as far as you can to the left with
2568 03:28:32 --> 03:28:36 both your eyes, as far as you can look into the left side of your eye, corner
2569 03:28:36 --> 03:28:39 of your eye. Keep looking there as hard as you can. Okay, I'm going to start the
2570 03:28:39 --> 03:28:45 timer again. Keep looking as far as you can with your eyes to the left. Anytime
2571 03:28:45 --> 03:28:48 you click, you got a blank, just blank, but don't look away. Don't move it
2572 03:28:48 --> 03:28:51 around with your eyeballs. Just keep looking to the left as far as you can.
2573 03:28:51 --> 03:28:54 If it's uncomfortable, it's okay. It's not going to hurt your vision. It's not
2574 03:28:54 --> 03:28:58 going to hurt your eyes. You got 14 seconds left. Just relax and just keep
2575 03:28:58 --> 03:29:02 holding it there. Keep holding it there, and you might have an involuntary sigh,
2576 03:29:03 --> 03:29:07 or you feel like you want to yawn. If you feel like you want to yawn, yawn,
2577 03:29:08 --> 03:29:11 that's how you activate. If you can't make yourself yawn, this is how you can
2578 03:29:11 --> 03:29:14 get to happen. But if you sigh, it's the same thing you just you can relax. Now
2579 03:29:14 --> 03:29:18 look straight ahead. That's how you activate your parasympathetic nervous
2580 03:29:18 --> 03:29:21 system. You can do that at your job. You can do that wherever you're at. You just
2581 03:29:21 --> 03:29:24 don't want to be doing it while you're driving. Doing it while you're driving.
2582 03:29:24 --> 03:29:27 You can imagine the complications in driving a motor vehicle while doing
2583 03:29:27 --> 03:29:31 that. So as long as you're in a safe environment where you can do that, you
2584 03:29:31 --> 03:29:35 can immediately activate your reticular act, not reticular, activate your
2585 03:29:35 --> 03:29:40 parasympathetic nervous system. And when you do that, you immediately turned off
2586 03:29:40 --> 03:29:45 the fight or flight sympathetic nervous system. That means you turned it off.
2587 03:29:45 --> 03:29:51 Your body will not release adrenaline. It will not release cortisol. It turns
2588 03:29:51 --> 03:29:55 it off immediately in the evening, time when you're ready to bed down and go to
2589 03:29:55 --> 03:30:00 sleep and or when you're done, you're trading day. Okay and you're done,
2590 03:30:01 --> 03:30:04 you're going to go back to regular things that you do in the day. Do that
2591 03:30:04 --> 03:30:09 exercise or stretch yourself, stretch your arms and your body with the
2592 03:30:09 --> 03:30:15 intended purpose of finding that elusive yawn. Because if you yawn, enjoy it
2593 03:30:16 --> 03:30:21 really, really savor that yawn. Because when you do that, you have immediately
2594 03:30:21 --> 03:30:25 activated your parasympathetic nervous system. That means you turned off all
2595 03:30:25 --> 03:30:29 stress hormone production. You've turned off all fight or flight. You've
2596 03:30:29 --> 03:30:34 completely entered into the rest and digest state of mind. You'll be able to
2597 03:30:34 --> 03:30:37 go to sleep at night time. If you do that before you go to bed, you'll be
2598 03:30:37 --> 03:30:42 able to fall asleep faster. You'll be able to see sleep more soundly, and when
2599 03:30:42 --> 03:30:49 you wake up, start your day the same way, if you don't realize it, when you
2600 03:30:49 --> 03:30:52 wake up in the first few minutes of your morning, you probably are thinking
2601 03:30:52 --> 03:30:55 about, what if this, and what if that, and what do I gotta do here? And I don't
2602 03:30:55 --> 03:30:58 really want to go to work. I don't you're immediately flooding yourself
2603 03:30:58 --> 03:31:02 with what bad, toxic thoughts. And the average person, and I learned this from
2604 03:31:02 --> 03:31:08 Lucinda Bassett book, attacking anxiety. Okay, back in 2001 I had all the anxiety
2605 03:31:08 --> 03:31:13 attacks. I was buying everything I could for coping skills, for managing anxiety.
2606 03:31:14 --> 03:31:18 And she, she brought up a statistic that I thought was kind of silly when she
2607 03:31:18 --> 03:31:22 when she first introduced it in our book. I thought, There's no way I'm
2608 03:31:22 --> 03:31:25 thinking that many times a negative thought. And I was, I was actually doing
2609 03:31:25 --> 03:31:31 more than that, over 300 times a day, the average person thinks about
2610 03:31:31 --> 03:31:39 something toxic, scary or self defeating. And every single time that
2611 03:31:39 --> 03:31:44 you notice yourself doing that, keep keep account of it, and tell yourself I
2612 03:31:44 --> 03:31:48 don't need to think that way, and there's no reason why I should be
2613 03:31:48 --> 03:31:53 thinking that way. I am. I'm an overcomer, I'm comfortable, I'm healthy,
2614 03:31:53 --> 03:31:58 I'm moving towards success, and I don't choose to be fearful. You're giving
2615 03:31:58 --> 03:32:01 yourself self talk. You're coaching yourself. You're replacing these
2616 03:32:01 --> 03:32:05 negative, intrusive thoughts, and you're coaching yourself to think about things
2617 03:32:05 --> 03:32:08 positively. You can't have a negative thought when you when you're expressing
2618 03:32:08 --> 03:32:12 a positive self talk, it can't share the same space. It can't share the same
2619 03:32:12 --> 03:32:18 time. So this is what I've done over my lifetime, to conquer fear, conquer
2620 03:32:18 --> 03:32:22 anxiety. I have absolutely no anxiety. I have no fear at all. I have nothing but
2621 03:32:22 --> 03:32:26 that physical symptom of vertigo, which was a small little calcium deposit that
2622 03:32:26 --> 03:32:31 broke away inside my inner ear. It moved inside one of my tubes in my ear, and it
2623 03:32:31 --> 03:32:34 tricks your brain, because it's piped directly into your brain. The nerve is
2624 03:32:34 --> 03:32:38 from your ear. It makes you feel like you're spinning, and at four o'clock in
2625 03:32:38 --> 03:32:43 the morning, being woke up feeling I'm spinning around 100 miles an hour. It's
2626 03:32:43 --> 03:32:49 a very scary feeling. And when your eyes start twitching because your brain
2627 03:32:49 --> 03:32:52 saying you're spinning, but you're really not, your eyes thinking, Okay,
2628 03:32:52 --> 03:32:56 I'm spinning, and it's almost like your your eyeballs are in a spasm or a
2629 03:32:56 --> 03:33:01 seizure. And I I couldn't see I just saw things spinning around like I was on a
2630 03:33:01 --> 03:33:07 carousel, but it was spinning violently. But after about 30 seconds, the crystal
2631 03:33:07 --> 03:33:12 settled down and stopped moving around. But I felt like that was going to happen
2632 03:33:12 --> 03:33:16 for days after all over again, but I've since learned how if I had that
2633 03:33:16 --> 03:33:21 experience again, I know there's two specific routines that I can do to make
2634 03:33:21 --> 03:33:26 that be allevi You know, leave me tongue twister, alleviate the sensation of that
2635 03:33:26 --> 03:33:30 dizziness. It's not going to be pleasurable, I'm sure, but at least I
2636 03:33:30 --> 03:33:33 know now how to deal with that. I have a coping skill. Should I ever have another
2637 03:33:33 --> 03:33:39 bout of vertigo? And that was self inflicted, because the day before, I
2638 03:33:39 --> 03:33:43 inverted myself about 10 different times in a short span of time. I was doing
2639 03:33:43 --> 03:33:48 biceps, I was doing lat pull downs and such, and then I would elongate my back
2640 03:33:48 --> 03:33:51 by going upside down between sets. And I kept doing that. And I think what
2641 03:33:51 --> 03:33:54 happened was, because the blood pressure building up in my head, going upside
2642 03:33:54 --> 03:33:58 down multiple times in a short period of time, it broke away one of those little
2643 03:33:58 --> 03:34:01 calcium deposits that we had naturally in our brain, and I'm sorry, in our ear.
2644 03:34:01 --> 03:34:05 And when that breaks off and goes into your inner ear, it tricks your brain,
2645 03:34:06 --> 03:34:11 because it takes spatial displacement in that little gel that's inside our ears,
2646 03:34:12 --> 03:34:16 and it tells your brain that you're spinning when you're not and it's very
2647 03:34:16 --> 03:34:20 scary and uncomfortable feeling. But apart from that moment, in that time I
2648 03:34:20 --> 03:34:25 had no anxiety, like I had, I had that anxiety in years, long time, like, like
2649 03:34:25 --> 03:34:30 decades, really. But I use the coping skills that this taught you here today,
2650 03:34:30 --> 03:34:34 and I'm certain that if you are stressful while you're in trades, if you
2651 03:34:34 --> 03:34:37 do these things, like, when you're in a stress, when you feel like you're being
2652 03:34:37 --> 03:34:41 stressed out while you're in a trade, do that, that one breathing technique where
2653 03:34:41 --> 03:34:45 you exhale everything, hold it for four seconds. Inhale, slow four to five
2654 03:34:45 --> 03:34:49 seconds. And at the top of what you think is a full inhalation, sniff
2655 03:34:49 --> 03:34:53 through your nose, the last little piece of pocket space to fill up, hold that
2656 03:34:53 --> 03:34:57 for two to three seconds, and then slow exhale, eight seconds to 10 seconds,
2657 03:34:57 --> 03:35:00 whatever you can do comfortably. And at the end of the exhale, I'm. Wait four
2658 03:35:00 --> 03:35:03 seconds and then repeat it again. Do at least two to three times that you'll
2659 03:35:03 --> 03:35:06 immediately shake off the anxiety. You'll you won't, you won't have any
2660 03:35:06 --> 03:35:11 stress. It fixes it immediately. And you can do that anywhere. You can do while
2661 03:35:11 --> 03:35:15 you're driving. You can do it at work. Nobody knows what you're doing. It's,
2662 03:35:15 --> 03:35:19 it's, it's a very relaxing, immediate triggering of centering yourself and
2663 03:35:19 --> 03:35:23 recalibrating your nervous system, and that's exactly what you want to be
2664 03:35:23 --> 03:35:27 trading in. You want to have a parasympathetic state of mind, where
2665 03:35:27 --> 03:35:32 your nervous system is at rest and digest when you're in a state of flight,
2666 03:35:33 --> 03:35:36 in fight or flight, if you eat, your food will not digest. Because when
2667 03:35:36 --> 03:35:39 you're in that state of mind, what happens is it dilates your pupils. That
2668 03:35:39 --> 03:35:42 way you can take in more information from your vision. You need to see the
2669 03:35:42 --> 03:35:45 dangers coming at you when you're telling yourself there is one, there
2670 03:35:46 --> 03:35:50 ain't one. Your heart rate increases so that we can run faster and be stronger,
2671 03:35:50 --> 03:35:53 because it's pumping blood to the muscles it's going to be required for
2672 03:35:53 --> 03:35:56 you to run or fight with your inhalation is happening more increased because it
2673 03:35:56 --> 03:35:59 wants to bring oxygen to those muscles that's being pumped through. The
2674 03:35:59 --> 03:36:04 increased blood flow from your heart rate increased, and it turns off your
2675 03:36:04 --> 03:36:11 digestive system. It literally turns off the ability for you to piss. Those are
2676 03:36:11 --> 03:36:14 physiological responses. You ever notice how you might have to pee? Oh, I gotta
2677 03:36:14 --> 03:36:17 pee. I gotta pee. And if you get scared, guess what happens? Either you're going
2678 03:36:17 --> 03:36:19 to immediately piss yourself,
2679 03:36:20 --> 03:36:26 or you lose all sensation that you need to pee, because now your your
2680 03:36:26 --> 03:36:31 sympathized nervous system has turned on. It turns off the ability for you to
2681 03:36:31 --> 03:36:34 go to the bathroom. It turns it off if you can't pee, you can't urinate when
2682 03:36:34 --> 03:36:39 you're in that state of mind, because you can't stop, yeah, you have to fight
2683 03:36:39 --> 03:36:42 or flight. That's how you know there's a designer. That's how you know there's a
2684 03:36:42 --> 03:36:48 creator. But I hope you learned something today. I hope I was helpful in
2685 03:36:48 --> 03:36:52 some capacity. I hope I gave you something to cope with the everyday
2686 03:36:52 --> 03:36:56 stresses that you can absolutely keep from turning into full blown panic, and
2687 03:36:56 --> 03:37:00 you can keep yourself in a more centered state of mind while you're trading, and
2688 03:37:00 --> 03:37:03 that way you can keep yourself composed. You don't want to be trading with a
2689 03:37:03 --> 03:37:08 fight or flight stimuli you know, in your in your brain, and we're wrestling
2690 03:37:08 --> 03:37:12 with a cloud of mind, because you can't think clearly if you're in panic, you
2691 03:37:12 --> 03:37:15 can't protect your money, and you can't make money in a state of mind that's
2692 03:37:15 --> 03:37:20 full of panic. So now you have multiple skill sets. You have multiple things
2693 03:37:20 --> 03:37:24 that you can now apply to your life and remove and start controlling stress. If
2694 03:37:24 --> 03:37:28 you want to look at things more about just do research on the anatomic nervous
2695 03:37:28 --> 03:37:33 system and the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system, and look at
2696 03:37:33 --> 03:37:38 things about the vagus nerve. Oh, I'm sorry I forgot the other one. I told
2697 03:37:38 --> 03:37:41 you. There's two places in the body if you're stimulating the vagus nerve
2698 03:37:41 --> 03:37:45 behind your ears going down the sides of your neck. You're lightly stroking that
2699 03:37:46 --> 03:37:49 behind your ear down to your to your neck. What that's doing is it's
2700 03:37:49 --> 03:37:53 stimulating your vagus nerve so if it's calmed down, it won't send signals to
2701 03:37:53 --> 03:37:56 your heart to increase your heart rate, which won't increase your lung
2702 03:37:58 --> 03:38:02 inhalation rate to increase which won't trigger the adrenaline release, which
2703 03:38:02 --> 03:38:06 won't release cortisol, it's left unchecked. That's that's the natural
2704 03:38:06 --> 03:38:09 progression of everything happening in your body, which is a normal function.
2705 03:38:09 --> 03:38:14 It's not something that normal, but if you're not doing anything while you're
2706 03:38:14 --> 03:38:16 putting yourself through that, it can make you feel a little scary the other
2707 03:38:16 --> 03:38:20 part of your body, and this is something you do with your cubicle if you're stuck
2708 03:38:20 --> 03:38:23 at work, or if you're stuck in traffic and you're having stress or anxiety.
2709 03:38:23 --> 03:38:27 Like, I used to have anxiety attacks in traffic when I used to have a job. I
2710 03:38:27 --> 03:38:29 hated being stuck in traffic. I was like, What happens if I have to use the
2711 03:38:29 --> 03:38:33 bathroom? Like, how embarrassing would that be if I had to all of a sudden?
2712 03:38:33 --> 03:38:35 Now, have to use the bathroom and I've had anxiety attacks, there was something
2713 03:38:35 --> 03:38:39 stupid. Is that silly? Isn't it? Probably laughing at me, right? I used
2714 03:38:39 --> 03:38:42 to laugh at a thing. Like, why the hell am I I'm going to ship myself here in in
2715 03:38:42 --> 03:38:45 this traffic, I'm in the middle lane. Nobody's moving. I can't get off.
2716 03:38:45 --> 03:38:48 There's no exit ramps like there's there's nothing I can do. What happens
2717 03:38:48 --> 03:38:51 if I have to go to bathroom? It never happened behind you. But that was a
2718 03:38:51 --> 03:38:56 really stupid, intrusive thought that made a huge scary feeling all the time
2719 03:38:56 --> 03:39:00 for me. I hated being in traffic for that reason. But what you do is, is you
2720 03:39:00 --> 03:39:04 take your in your middle finger, okay, usually you use your stronger hand, and
2721 03:39:04 --> 03:39:07 you literally place the tip of your middle finger of your strongest hand and
2722 03:39:07 --> 03:39:11 place it inside your belly button, okay. And for men, some of you women might
2723 03:39:11 --> 03:39:13 feel this too. And again, this is the reason why children should not be
2724 03:39:13 --> 03:39:17 listening to my live stream. Okay. We're all adults here. I know some dickheads
2725 03:39:17 --> 03:39:21 and little childhood mentality. People are going to take this out of context,
2726 03:39:22 --> 03:39:25 but if you place your place your middle finger inside your belly button as deep
2727 03:39:25 --> 03:39:29 as you can without hurting yourself, obviously, and then you slowly make a
2728 03:39:29 --> 03:39:33 circular pattern, okay, counterclockwise. You may feel, if
2729 03:39:33 --> 03:39:36 you're a male, your penis, it might, it might. You might feel something in your
2730 03:39:36 --> 03:39:41 penis, and a woman may feel that in her clitoris, that's your badges nerve, or
2731 03:39:41 --> 03:39:47 vagus nerve, rather being stimulated. If you're sitting still and you're in a
2732 03:39:47 --> 03:39:50 position where you can do that to calm yourself down, you're in full blown
2733 03:39:50 --> 03:39:54 panic. If you do that for about two to three minutes while controlling your
2734 03:39:54 --> 03:39:57 breath, you'll immediately come out of anxiety. You'll immediately regulate
2735 03:39:57 --> 03:40:01 your sympathetic nervous system. You'll. You'll activate your parasympathetic
2736 03:40:01 --> 03:40:05 nervous system, so you'll you'll be comforted. It's not it's not
2737 03:40:05 --> 03:40:08 masturbation, so stop kidding around with yourself. And I know some of you
2738 03:40:08 --> 03:40:12 have a childhood mentality here, but you there's two places in our body that the
2739 03:40:12 --> 03:40:16 vagus nerve is closest to the skin, where it can be stimulated to calm
2740 03:40:16 --> 03:40:20 yourself down. That's the nerve that triggers and controls all of your organs
2741 03:40:20 --> 03:40:26 and the response to stress. So if you're stimulating the sides of your neck with
2742 03:40:26 --> 03:40:30 the vagus nerve behind your ears, and you don't want to do that too hard,
2743 03:40:30 --> 03:40:32 because it caused you to feel like you're seeing stars, because then you're
2744 03:40:32 --> 03:40:35 affecting the carotid artery, that's what you're not you're not doing that.
2745 03:40:35 --> 03:40:40 You're going behind that. The other part is your belly button, and you you just
2746 03:40:40 --> 03:40:43 counterclockwise with your middle finger, and you're counterclockwise
2747 03:40:43 --> 03:40:47 stimulating that for two to three minutes, not to the point where it
2748 03:40:47 --> 03:40:50 hurts, but it's going to be at the edge of where it could hurt if you press a
2749 03:40:50 --> 03:40:53 little bit further. And you just do that for two to three minutes, up to five
2750 03:40:53 --> 03:40:57 minutes, but nothing longer than that, and you'll find that you're able to just
2751 03:40:57 --> 03:41:02 counteract these body symptoms and your stress can be turned off beautifully.
2752 03:41:02 --> 03:41:07 It's it's amazing how our body is so dynamic that we have the ability to
2753 03:41:07 --> 03:41:12 control these things. But unfortunately, I live with years of stress, and a lot
2754 03:41:12 --> 03:41:15 of people are victims of that same stuff, because they don't know how to
2755 03:41:15 --> 03:41:18 they don't know how to come out of that loop where the sympathetic nervous
2756 03:41:18 --> 03:41:22 system has been triggered and they don't have to come out of it. It's easy to go
2757 03:41:22 --> 03:41:28 into this state of mind of scary, fight or flight. It's hard to come out of that
2758 03:41:28 --> 03:41:32 unless you're really relaxing. So the things I just taught today, they are my
2759 03:41:32 --> 03:41:36 strongest tools that I've used with wrestling with anxiety in my entire
2760 03:41:36 --> 03:41:40 life. I just recently had to use them again because of fear about thinking
2761 03:41:40 --> 03:41:45 about a heart or a stroke situation which wasn't even there. It was simply
2762 03:41:46 --> 03:41:50 about of vertigo, which isn't life threatening. It's scary, but it's not
2763 03:41:50 --> 03:41:53 life threatening. And if I ever have another bout of it, I know how to deal
2764 03:41:53 --> 03:41:58 with it, and I'm not. I'm not scared of it now. So again, hopefully you wanted
2765 03:41:58 --> 03:42:01 something. If you did, you give me some feedback. Give me a post in response to
2766 03:42:01 --> 03:42:06 this Twitter space invitation and until I'll talk to you next time, be safe.
2767 03:42:06 --> 03:42:07 You.