MAN AND MACHINE — EP. 231 (The Pulse) Channel: Tradier Hub URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2faN3rDbfA Streamed: May 11, 2026 Runtime: ~39 min Source: YouTube auto-generated captions, lightly cleaned for readability. Verbatim content; filler and cross-talk retained. ======================================================================[music] What is going on everybody? Welcome back to Man and Machine episode 225 here. Ben, it feels like forever since we've been on the show. I don't know about you, but it has been forever. It's been a week and a half.It's It's been a while. Um, for those of you who aren't familiar, uh, Ben and I are the co-founders of Peakbot, an easytouse automated trading platform for everyday retail traders. We have ourselves and our partners, uh, with about Ben, you think we're at 40 strategies live or going to be live at 40 here soon? Yeah, definitely. Um, so we've got all types of automated trading strategies, doc, happy 420.Everybody's very aware of this. Um, happy 420, everybody. Smoke them if you got them, I guess. Um but uh we got a packed show today. Um we have stocks in real lif e.We've got um a little uh I want to know how your weekend was actually been. Why don't why don't we do that first? How how was your weekend? Let me think. Let me think.Uh niece's birthday on Saturday. Okay. Uh so drove to my brother's house which is about an hour and a half away. Nice family party there. Okay.And then father-in-law's birthday yesterday. So, it was a weekend full of birthday parties. Okay. It sure was. Um, let me ask you, with all these birthday parties, was there a singular best thing you ate?Were they any any of them barbecues? No, man. Both both parties bagel sandwiches. Oh, that was it. Okay.Well, you're not complain not complaining about that, but No. No. And I've got I brought home bagel sandwiches for the entire week, so I don't need to go food shopping. I've g ot lunch, dinner, and Folks, when we're working later today and we're in a meeting, I'm going to see you start opening up bagel sandwich. Yeah.Yeah. How about you? How was your weekend? It was good, man. It was good.Um, you know, just tried to be outside and for the most part, but then the weather kind of turned yesterday. Hey, this is what I was talking about backstage and and uh I'll Ben, I'll have to send you a video, but um I'm leaving Target with my wife and and my kid and uh we are walking to the car and there's a crispy cream truck, okay? Dropping off deliveries, okay? And nice young man in the back of the truck says, "Hey guys, come over here." Oh, he goes, "Here, this is for you guys. Uh these are extra." Okay.And I I'm going to pull up the picture of how many donuts I received . Oh no. Um. Oh my goodness. Okay.So, we got like Munchkins, minis, a six-pack variety of full size, and then a 15pack of full size. Okay. Um, Wow, that picture looks fake. That looks like a a display. No, I for a magazine.I took my time with that. Yeah. One more time for the people at home. Yeah. Good morning from Houston, Purple Cyprus.You ever have crispy cream donuts in Houston? Don't know. Don't know how far they're stretched, but um I think they're I think they're everywhere. They're publicly traded. You know, maybe we switch the skunks in real life.We can switch. [laughter] If Crispy Cream has a has I didn't know that. Is it themselves or is it a company who owns them? Maybe we can. No, it's themselves.Get lost. Crispy Cream ticker. I forget the the ticker. It's Oh, the ticker is D N U T. Unbelievable.I feel like we've must have spoken about this before. Um $3.61. So, here. Let me let me let me tell you something. So, it was a beautiful moment, right?I made a big deal of it. I'm like, "Yeah, we scored." Yeah. I ate way too many of them. Did gift a few to neighbors. Um when I say a few, I mean that 15 pack was I had to get rid of that.Um Oh, man. Not not [laughter] not a great not a great how far away is this a one year two years three years what we got here this is since yeah this is 2022 [music] yeah so yeah about about 5 years okay so got this beautiful thing and and by the way have you had crispy cream I mean you've had crispy creams they're amazing hello okay well you the the trick is you have to wait for the light to be on in the door. That's when you kn ow that they just came out fresh. Oh, and that's when you go in and purchase your donuts, of course, to eat immediately and then take a few long. Yeah.No, you're absolutely right. And look, the ones that are being delivered to Target, they're they're they're packed that morning. Uh oh, they closed them all in Houston. Not enough doughut lovers down in Houston. Um so here's what I'm thinking though, Ben.This beautiful moment then, dude. So this old man, you know, I don't want to like insult this stranger, but like he just, you know, not my kind of guy. Came out of nowhere now. Watch this happen, right? Comes up to the back of the truck to the guy and goes, "Oh, you giving away free donuts?" And now this guy's stuck.Now this guy's got to give What are you gonna do? What are you do? You go t to give him donuts. So this beautiful moment that I shared with my family felt much less special. I mean, the guy came and had to like ask for free donuts, you know, instead of Goodwill.Anyway, that's America. Um, but that's not that big of a deal. Your mic is cutting out, by the way. Oh, man. Let me have the correct mic on.Let's see. I don't know. Yeah, I do. I don't know why it would be uh not working. I'm sorry.It is the right mic. Um, all right. Last thing I'll say about it. I think it's part of their marketing campaign. I think it's designed this way, right?Every store they go to, they're going to stack a couple extra in the truck and bless a family with donuts. Of course, I'm here sitting here saying I'm buying crispy cream stock today. You know, like I'm not going to probably, but I want to. Um I think it's I think it's part of their game. I think it's I think it's a good tactic to build up brand.You don't you don't want to buy Crispy Cream after after what you see on the chart here. I mean, literally, it's been all downhill. Yeah. When did they IPO? It looks like 2021.So, Oh, jeez. Yeah. IPOed around, call it $16. Now they're trading at $360. Yikes.It's a yikes. It's all right though. Hey, listen. It's not It's not for everybody, but the donuts were delicious and then it was a nice moment. That's why uh that was my weekend.So, um anyway, we can get back into the real stock of the day if you want. I do not have a trade idea on uh on I don't either, but the stock in real life for today is Verizon. Uh which I believe both you and I are Verizon members. Not th at I have much of a choice. That's not true, but there's there's enough of a choice.We've got AT&T around here. We got all these smaller like companies popping up for like 20 bucks a month or with wild names. Yeah. Like Cricket or or there's Kush There's like isn't there Kush Mobile? Speaking of 420, there's like some crazy name.Sounds like a smoking thing. Kush Mobile or something. There's all these uh providers coming out. Boost Mobile. No, Boost Mobile's been around forever, actually.Yeah, but Verizon was definitely the monopoly in our area. Um, I'm sure other areas there was Sprint and T-Mobile which merged and then there's AT&T of course. Um, I think T-Mobile's the closest competitor here, at least in New Jersey, New York, Northeast. Um, they certainly advertise a lot. Their commer cials are always on TV.It's just pink versus red, right? It's just T-Mobile versus, by the way, like I don't see T-Mobile targeting AT&T. I see T-Mobile going directly after Verizon. Yeah. Um but uh yeah, no, I'm a Verizon member.I'm actually um considering so switching to their internet. I have Optimum internet, which is expensive cuz but it's not as expensive when you get their cable, but I'm pretty much done with cable. Um turns out giving away was not a good business model. You're right. Maybe they shouldn't do that.Um they own they own us, that's for sure. Well, that's the thing. Like they can they offer internet for like 50 bucks, 60 bucks a month, but it's never just that. You know, it's tied into everything else you got going on. And yeah, I don't have real complaints.I'm never out I'm never without internet. My phones work. You know, I hate going to Verizon or dealing with Verizon, but I think that'd be the same across brands, wouldn't you? Yeah, totally. That's just the the headache that you're going to get, you know, with these companies.Telecom All right. So, let's talk about I mean, do you have any terrible stories of Verizon? Uh, no. I don't think so. Um, [laughter] yeah, I'm trying to I know I know Verizon has been traded on trend spread and wheel.I Verizon actually offers a pretty good dividend. So before Peak Body even started, I used to trade Verizon um and try to come up with a a dividend strategy uh because they pay out, it's like a 4 something% uh annualized. It's actually dividend yield looks like it's 6.08% currently. I can share this tab. Um I mean the chart doesn't look terrible either.Like it dips when the market dips. So, I mean it it follows the market pretty much is what it feels like um to an extent, right? And the date on what? No, the beta 03 03. Yeah.Okay. So, maybe it doesn't follow the market as much as visually looks like. Um but see these are this is what's interesting. Every quarter you get a nice dividend of.70 cents. It looks like it's paying now.Uh yeah, right around.7 cents for the past year. Going back further, they're slightly increasing their dividend as time goes on. So yeah, I mean, think about that. You're going to for every for every hundred shares that you own, which is going to cost you $4,600, you're getting a $70 payout every quarter. So better than many other accounts.Yeah. And and after every s o four quarters in a year, 70* four, you're getting about 280 bucks a year just for holding the shares. Never mind share appreciation. Never mind if you're selling covered calls on top of that. Uh so there's ways to definitely milk your returns on a high dividend yield stock like this.AT&T is pretty similar. I don't know what their dividend yield is at right now, but they're the ticker T. And um again, I I traded them a while ago as well uh just to capture that dividend. I was actually obsessed with dividend capture strategies before Peakbot started. I I caught maybe a little bit of wind of that um back in those days.Was Verizon your favorite? Uh no, I think AT&T was. Um, and yeah, Drip, dividend reinvestment. Um, I wasn't a I liked the feature um that was available for automatic drip, b ut I didn't personally like the strategy. Like, if I'm getting if I'm getting my cash, I'm going to want to put it where it makes sense because I was also selling covered calls on top of my shares.So, the drip wouldn't be enough for me to get another 100 shares. So, I I wanted to put that cash where I could make it work a little harder. Okay. I love that. Well, let me ask you this.Um, that's legit, Doug. There you go. 50 shares. Nice. Um, so where were we at in 2017 on this then?Let's see. Obviously, it depends, but trading right around $30 a share, maybe. Yeah, around that. Um, so by the way, Ben, looking at the recent chart here, kind of tough. Another chart that or another stock that maybe is a little tough right now.I mean, it had a huge jump here on a nice earnings report, it look s like, back in January, uh, end of January. Um, it's hit their last four earning they've hit their last four earnings reports. um got one coming up actually on March 2, I'm sorry, April 26th. So that's coming up here. But it had a big spike.It kind of um flattened out and it headed down just a bit back down to this $44 price point and bounced back up just in the last few days. I have a trend line on mine drawn at $42 a share. I wonder when that was, but um probably. Any thoughts on this personally? We can look at the chain if you want, but I don't I mean I looking at this Yeah.I mean, look looking at this, if you were to start a strategy back in 2016 where you said, "All right, every time we dip below $30, I'm going to accumulate some more shares. Accumulate, accumulate, accumulate." An d then throughout this ride here, you're just you're you're cashing in on the dividends. You have stock appreciation. Uh and then we dip back down below 30. accumulate, accumulate, accumulate for the course of about another year.Um, and then just continue to collect on dividends, covered calls, and then watch the shares appreciate um, over time. I'm tempted to just go back to that strategy. Like I said, I I've been obsessed with dividend capture strategies for a long time, and it it looks really nice. So now, but the tricky part is all right, at what level am I saying accumulate now? Maybe it's $40 now, right?Once you drop below like this $40 price point, that's when I would accumulate those shares. Um maybe a hundred to start out with. So that way I could sell a covered call on it and u h collect a nice dividend payout every quarter. Who knows? That would be my strategy on this stock.All right. So, dividend play on Verizon and maybe uh check out AT&T. Certainly not financial advice. Just some information and some some insight. Um all right, fantastic.Where you headed now? You're going to go take a look at Let's see. You're right. It is similar chart. AT&T, it's a little bit cheaper.Um and it looks like their dividend payout's a bit less. So, their dividend yield is 4 4.2%. Um, that's interesting. Back when I was trading these, I remember AT&T having a higher dividend yield uh versus Verizon. So, interesting interesting to see that.All right, so that does it for stock of the day. Um, Ben, what do we got next? I think we can uh well, we can talk about bots obviously and results. Um, for the first time in a long time, we've experienced more losses than usual on some of our King AI strategies. Um, our 1DTE iron condors.Um, we can take a look at that. Still incredibly profitable strategies, but um, you know, some bumpy bumpy days here. Uh, we could talk about that. Ben, did you have anything else in mind? Otherwise, I can kind of get started.Yeah. No, we've got gatekeeper. Um, we're not necessarily starting the bot shop on it today, but I can give an overview of Gatekeeper since that is Why don't you do that? Should be should be in people's accounts now. Um, can you stall for a minute because I just realized I've got to integrate with Schwab in multiple places.Uh, our bots can do their thing. Of course, I can stall. All right, so let me share my screen. I'm going to pull some stuff up here and we're going to talk about King AI and the recent uh losses that we've seen. Um, the bot's still up over 100% since September.All right, but let's just pull this up here. Okay, how many more times do you guys think I can say pull this up without pulling it up? All right, here we go. So on screen here, this is King AI results sheet. Okay, so this is tracked and updated every time there's a trade.I will zoom in. All right. So, what we can see here is last week we uh we had a pretty busy week. We took three trades, I believe. Yep.So, um expiring on the 15th, 16th, and 17th. You can see we lost two out of three trades, and we've lost three of the last uh six, three of the last five rather. Um so, definitely not normal behavior for King AI. As you guys can see, as we can scroll down here, the bot does typically maintain right around an 88 to between an 88 and 92% win rate both in live trades and 10 years of back tested data. So, we can see here as we come back down, this is now the beginning of where live trades started back in September 17th.All right. So, what we're going to do is just so you guys can see and as I highlight all of these so you can see the total returns since launch per unit. I want you guys to also understand that these results are live results across um sorry I don't know why this paused. I'm trying to get the music back. Um these are AC these [music] gains and losses are built on the average gain and loss across every account automating that strategy.Okay, so it's not just my account or Ben's account. is weighing in everybody who's trading the strategy and automating it. So, uh, as we can see here, the bot, I believe, is up just around $2,400. So, I know it's small down in the corner of the screen here, but what we can see up $2,440. Now, that is before fees.Okay. However, if you're on Trade Pro Plus, you're only [music] paying 10 cents per contract on S&P, which is fantastic. So, we can see April, this is the first uh big red month we've seen in quite a while here. Okay. but still missing a lot of volatility and likely more of a blood bath in the week and a half that it just did not trade.Okay, we were happy about that truthfully. A lot more money has been lost in the market than 1100 uh in April. As you can see as we uh sit back here and and come back through the former months a lot of green, a lot of no trading and a lot of avoiding big losses. Okay, so that is King AI. Okay, again all time still up [music] 2400.call it $2,500 only using $2,000 per unit. So, whatever that math is, 120% 125% um return. So, fantastic for King Aai. However, it has been a bumpy road over the last call it month uh 3 weeks. Okay.Um and then we'll take a look at King AAI Turbo. Okay. Similar um do your bots work on Schwab? Yeah. Yeah, Doug.Doug, I never mind, Doug. Um, I thought you'd know that, Doug, if we're being honest. All right, so here's King Aai Turbo. Okay, similar tough sledding recently since the end of March. All right, but again, let's look at the total profitability on this strategy.All right, this bot is up. We got Yeah, this thing is crazy. if it's still up 3,400 nearly $3,500. Ben , I'm almost saying we got to check that, but I'm pretty sure this is right. It's right.It's definitely right. Um, but if you if you just started with Turbo last month, you're like, "This bot sucks." [laughter] Yep. And there's a lot of people that did that. A lot of people that started just right at the end of March here. So, look, you got to hang on.All right. I know you're clenching your teeth right now, but uh we can get through this. Uh again, not financial advice. We're just looking at the results. But what what's easier to see here is that King AAI Turbo was overperforming for a good stretch and has now come back down to where we expect it to be in the back test whereas King AI is still doing its thing and right now underperforming over the last uh 3 weeks.So my money is in King AI. Um that's that's what I'm trading in my accounts. I I not [music] I do not have Turbo on at the moment, but uh yeah, that's King AI and King AI Turbo. Ben, I can give it back over to you um to intervene and talk gatekeeper and then we can kind of round out on the rest of our strategies. Yep.Let's talk gatekeeper. So, this is a uh I'll call it a new category of strategy for Peakbot. And never mind all these things you [music] see on my screen. A lot of this is just a bunch of test stuff, but Gigeper is in beta now. So, if you are a Peekbot user, you will notice Gatekeeper in your account.If you don't see Gatekeeper in your account, reach out um [music] and we will get it added to your account. Uh go to peakbot.com/strategy or strategies to learn more about Gatekeeper, but I'm going to talk about it for a little bit. I've got some PDF stuff to share on screen, although I'm not allowed to share every page. I've got I've got a couple of page numbers that I am allowed to share, but Okay. um to to talk about it.And then while I talk about it, I'm just going to put up these results here. These are live results, actual trades in my account uh over the last when did we start? 25th, so [music] call it month, you know, three and a half weeks. Um yeah, four weeks. These are trades in my account.Uh it's been really fun. I'll just leave this up here while I talk about what it does. So, this bot, it does not use AI in [music] its day-to-day decision-making basis. However, it does use AI to find patterns um towards the I'll call it momentum patterns towards the end of each day. And um those patterns have to match some sort of market structure.like there's got to be some sort of structural reason to believe that these patterns exist. Um, so we use AI to sift through. Now, King AI sifts through about 300 different data points. This is sifting through tens of thousands of data points. Um, which is part of the reason why it's not really a live AI decision, but it is adjusting itself.Uh, so what it is, it's it's a rules base. So a conditional logic uh zero DTE or 1 DTE spy options trading strategy. So this is not SPX uh this is uh this is SPY and I'll get to that question for mega monster in just a second. Uh it is a cascading strategy. So what we mean by that is uh it can take multiple [music] positions.It won't always uh but it can take up to seven positions at a ti me. Uh and these are usually the at the money or slightly out of the money uh call or put options and it'll only be call or put in a single day. It won't be both. Um but it is momentum based. So, as price is moving in a direction, let's say price is moving up towards the end of the day, we're going to get into those cheaper contracts and then look to um scalp or take a small loss.And um the orders that are placed are OTCO by the bot. So once the bot places, the broker kind of does the rest. Um, in regards to concern around Theta, uh, during the last two hours, yeah, there's definitely concern there. [music] Um, I'd say that the profit targets, I mean, we're not looking to double our contract uh, value. [music] We're looking to maybe take 20%, 30%.[music] Um I could actually tell you um o ur profit targets are mostly 10 or 20%. Um for all potential entries. Uh so I'll share screen just to look at some of our back test data on this strategy. So this is the the call side equity curve. So there's a call side and there's a put side.And again only one's going to trade in a particular day. Again this is back tested data all theorized. Um there's obviously live conditions can be different. We did see the live trades in my account just a second ago. Um so they are matching up to what we see in the back test data so far.Uh so there's the call side, there's the put side and then we can combine these [music] into the call and the put side together and we can see how um how this strategy has returned over time. Uh this is back tested all the way back to uh what was it? March or May 1 6th, 2022 when zero GTS became available on SPY. So here's the equity curve comparison. The green is the combined chart.Uh blue is the call side, red is the put side. Uh and again it is a momentum based strategy. Let's see. We can also go to slide six here. Um this is the yearly performance.[music] How many trades uh this is taken on the call side and the put side. What the win rates were [music] on the call side, win rates on the put side. What was your overall P&L? Uh and then here's some highlevel stats for [music] the call side and the put side. So I'll leave that up for just a second.Um as you can see the profitable days versus profitable trades is lower, right? because you could win a couple of trades and [music] then uh hit hit a losing one. So, what's going to happen is in the a fternoon, um the the bot's going to get into a position [music] and then when the next potential entry is about to happen, the bot checks to see if your current position is profitable or not profitable. If it's not profitable, it's not going to take another position because we [music] don't want to increase exposure if we're in a losing position already. If it is profitable, then it's going to stack onto that.And we're assuming that there's momentum building [music] in our direction. And then once we see that momentum shift, well, that's why our OCO order is in there to uh prevent major losses, [music] right? We're going to get out at uh a price that again, not fun to lose, but we're not going to lose our entire position. [music] Uh we want to have a stop loss here. So, it'll cascade on i tself and it could get up to seven positions uh in a single day.I've not seen that personally while I've been trading it live. I think the most that I have had in a day is six. So, that was a lot. Uh but they're not necessarily all open at the same time, right? The, you know, position one is going to take profit and then position two, three, and four could open up.And then maybe position three takes [music] profit and then five and six open up while two and four take profit. So you could be in I'd say you're probably in like two to three [music] open positions at one time if price is moving in our direction. Um again that's just a guesstimate. Uh but the overall exposure I I believe at least is [music] worth the um worth the potential gain [music] that you can see on this. And gains stac k up again.They're they're quick base hits that we're aiming for here. I'll switch back to this tab here and then go over to the trade by trade basis. So, let's take a look at the 15th. That's when Yeah, that's when six trades happen. So, um $46 win, $18, 20, 16, 17, 13, [music] 41, 20.Uh, actually, I went too far. But if you if you add all these up, that's a $130 day. Um, but none of the actual [music] trades won more than $50. So, we're just shoot we're just we're just trying to knock some base hits here. [music] And Ben, really quick to be clear, cash that's needed in the account right now, you need 25K to be able to make day trades.But actual, let's say they're clear of that cash needed in a given day, we're going to go $2,000 per unit. Correct. Yeah, that's right. Cash is even less most of the time, but like that's the buffer. Yeah, exactly.Yeah. The the contracts that we're getting to again, they're at the money or close to the money. They're only costing call it about 200 bucks. Um and uh we're gonna we're gonna get into a couple of those. So really you're not even getting close to the $2,000 use.We're kind of just saying that because you need that if you're trading a cash account, you're going to need cash the [music] next day because we're still T+1. Um but yeah, no good strategy in my opinion. Of course, we made it. So, I'm a little biased, but the live results so far have been matching towards the back tested results, which is something that's key that we like to look for before we actually launch a strategy into the market. So, this is in beta right now.Yo u can go ahead and try it out in your account. Uh, again, if you don't have access to it, send us a message. We'll make sure your account [music] has access to it. And, uh, we'll be watching. We'll be seeing how um how this performs over the next several weeks before we [music] take that beta tag off of it.Yep. And uh again, reminder, you need 25K in the account. Otherwise, you're going to be getting into uh either not taking trades or taking too many. So, careful. Yeah.25K or have a cash account. Cash account. Cash account as well. I always forget that. Sorry.Um awesome. Okay. Very excited about Gatekeeper. Um, we it's been a little while since we've put out a new bot. King AAI Turbo was the last bot that we put out.Um, obviously [music] a great one. So, uh, big shoes, uh, to fill, ev en though that's not actually true cuz Turbo didn't go anywhere. [music] Um, high bar is set. Let's say that. Ben, without giving detail, what's the bot coming behind Gatekeeper?What's [music] next for the people who for our engaged audience who might just want to stay tuned? Uh, we've got two. We've got two. We've got one that we're calling Crossfire right now. We've got another one that we're calling Dflow.Um I'm pushing for Dflow to be launched first even even though Crossfire is further along. Crossfire is a mean reversion strategy. Uh Dflow is a uh I'll call it a macro um order flow strategy. Okay. Well, very exciting.Um, we'll be bringing the strategy and the education here to these live shows as they're ready for you. And of course, beta testing and all that good stuff. And, um, it's all automated for you. So, obviously, the more you know, the better, but um, fully hands-free trade execution. Awesome.All right, Ben, great job with Gatekeeper. Uh, kudos to the whole team there for, uh, putting that out and getting it to where [music] where it is now. So, um, Ben, I think maybe Oh, I want to touch on one other thing with bots. I'm going to go back to uh I'm going to go back to Shorebo because I'm pissed [music] I wasn't trading it this past week. Um and I don't know if you were either.Do you happen to know what happened with Shorebo this week? I have no idea. Okay, so [music] obviously I'm kind of leading into what we're getting at here, but uh let's take a look at this. Ben, look at this week we had last week, man. Five.See, this is this is why you need to be tr ading all strategies at the same time. I know. This is what happens when so when we have King AI and King AI Turbo taking a beating and you have Shorebo going five for five [laughter] in a week and I mean look it's it's break even on the month as you can see we have had three pretty sizable losses but um I mean gez man you know I think March was a green month February was obviously very green January was just a little red so I mean hey look if you've been trading if you've been trading Shorebo since you know the [music] beginning of 2026, you're very profitable right now. Let's see what that would be actually. So, since the first trade in the new year, which is we'll call it right here, the bot's up 17 $1649 a unit in 2026.Okay, it uses $500 to trade. So, that's over a 300% return on cash since the beginning of 2026. Ben, how streaky is this thing, man? And and and I say it every time we look at it. I'm like, I play this thing week by week.I mean, look at the chart. Look at the chart. It's always It always has ups and downs. Yeah. Throughout throughout the entire period that we've been tracking it.And when did we go live? We went live seven of 25. So like we always point this out like right here we went live. Yeah. Talk about buying the top, selling the bottom.Yeah, it happens. Um, [music] you want to just let's let's be transparent. What do you think this has returned since launch? You think we're green or red? Green or red?Green or red? Probably probably red. I'm going to say we're green. $123 in the green. Nice.Now, with fees, even on Trade Your Pro Plus, you know, we're we're probably talking just a little bit in the red. But again, the the idea here is we want to uh keep an eye on this thing. If it's it's I'm too scared to turn it on now. Truthfully, like I wish I had Yeah, you know, I should have seen this at the on the 10th here. I should have been like, "Oh, under a 50% win rate here this month.Let's turn it on. I'm not going to ruin this fund for the people who are trading short, but I'm going to stay off of it until it gets [music] till I see some red again." But, um, that's that. Uh, Ben Benbot was tough last week, too. Um, but, you know, expected, right? I mean, um, it's been a, uh, it's been a tough week.It's been a tough week. And when you see when I see you sitting out, right, when we see Benbot sitting out, that's that tells us someth ing, right? Because this is probably our most active bot trades pretty much every day, even with the different approaches you've taken to it, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah.No, rough week. Tough to trade through a war. No, it is. It is. [music] And we're okay sitting.We're okay sitting out. But um so look, ultimately our bots are are um you know, we've we we've seen some ups and some downs, [music] but still profitable over time since launch on all of our strategies. And um yeah, I think that covers it, man. So if if you're interested, if you're sitting there and you're like, "Hey, I would love to have my trades automated. I have a Schwab account or a Tasty Trade account, but most importantly, a Trade Earier account, okay, if you really want to do this the right way." [music] All right.Um, an d uh, we're also in now futures, okay? We're going to be automating futures strategies uh, on tradeear as well as a few other brokers. So, we've got a lot going on here in the Peakbot world. If you want to talk to our team, head on over to our website. It's right below us, peakbot.com.And, uh, you can you can find us there and start a chat with our team and and schedule some time. [music] So, Ben, how about economic events and let's let's get out of here. All right. Yeah, let's do it. Let's see what we've got going on this week.So, in terms of what is happening today, we got some bill auctions. That's about it. Looks like Looks like the rest of the economy is taking off for 420. Mhm. Then we got Monday into Tuesday.On Tuesday, not much of note. Tuesday into Wednesday, looks like we've g ot a 20-year bond auction. So, anybody that's trading Maxis Strategies will not get their ZDT trades on Wednesday. Wednesday into Thursday, it looks like again, not too much going on. Some S&P data um in the morning and then Friday, fairly quiet other than this Michigan consumer sentiment report, which I think has it's kind of lost its shine over the years.It's doing well. That's right. when it's as soon as you put your guard down, it's when it attacks. That's That's true. It's true.Yeah. So, I mean, that's what we're looking at over the next week. I'd say, [music] in my opinion, relatively quiet week. Um, nothing that I'm too concerned over. Okay.Well, um, best of luck to everybody who is out there trading through this chaos. Um, if you are doing it manually, you're brave. And I'm not going to call you silly because maybe you're good, but I know most of you aren't. Um, just statistically speaking, [music] uh, Dougbot got smoked last week. I need to know more about Dougbot.Unless he's just talking about himself. Um, which he's talking about himself. Uh, maybe not. Hey, hey, Doug, if if you're a good trader with good returns long term, why don't we copy trade you? There you go, Doug.[music] Going to call you out, man. Why don't you come see Why don't you come talk to us? Let's talk. Um, all right, guys. I think that'll do it here for today's show.Um, we may be live Friday. Should be live Friday. Should be. I think so. Uh, Friday at noon for the automation station.All right. Um, thanks so much for tuning in and, uh, as always, we'll see you at the peak. Take care, ever ybody. [snorts] You know how the financial world goes. Here comes [music] the buzzkill.Please make sure to take some time to read this boring disclaimer. We will owe you one.