West Indies have been eliminated from tight contention at the ICC on the 19 World Cup following a no result against Australia earlier on Friday. The match was abandoned after Reign disrupted the West Indies innings 4.3 overs into their pursuit of 228 for victory. Having won the toss, the young Windies elected to field and limited the Aussies to 227.8 from their 50 overs with Nathan Edward claiming 3 for 32 and Isaiah Thorne, 2 for 50. Sam Constance stopped scored for Australia with a well played 108. The Windies got to 24 for 2 when Reign stopped to play. The match was eventually called off, bringing an end to the semi-final hopes of the Caribbean side who ended on 5 points behind Australia and South Africa, who both finished on 6. South Africa secured their spot after threshing Sri Lanka by 119 runs. The West Indies youngsters were probably watching that game as Reign teared in the Kimberley. Let's get the thoughts of international cricket commentator Nikhil Utamchandani. Welcome back to the Sports Max zone. The young West Indians must be bitterly disappointed, not just that they are out of the World Cup, but because of how they have been eliminated from the World Cup and given the quality of the team they have won the feet, but they are not in the final four. Yeah, definitely Ricardo. I think every player and every team would take, you know, even if the West Indies did end up losing that game because they were 24 for 2 against a quality Australian bowling attack. I would still think they would rather have the opportunity to still fight it out. It was a team that we've seen sort of real character from and I think it speaks well for what we have coming in the region. And just the fact that they've lost the one game, as you mentioned, beat a very good England side who many had as favourites coming into the tournament. And then a Sri Lanka team, for me, that was the biggest standout. A Sri Lanka team in tough conditions with the balls spinning a lot and they've got some quality spinners as well. So for me, I think it's a World Cup to take a lot of positives from, but they'll be devastated that they never really got the opportunity to determine their own fate. Yeah, and speaking about the positives, you know, even earlier today while preparing for this show, Nikhil, I thought about the journey of this under 19 team and I said to myself, you know, despite the rain, of course, deciding whether we make it or not, there are so many different things for us to celebrate. And as we are in the rebuilding phase when it comes to the senior team, this is perfect because there are so many things for us to really celebrate both with bat and ball. So for me, some of the players that I was able to point out would be Juala Andrew because that century that he scored, I think it's something for us as West Indians to be really, really happy about. And of course, there were other players that chipped in with half century. You spoke about the positives. What stood out for you? A few things, Maria. I'll start with the fast bowling crop that we saw in this tournament. Nathan Edward for me is a young star. I watched him today bowl the first seven overs consecutively. That's not easy to do, especially in those conditions early morning, but the ball was swinging and you can get the ball to swing. The key thing is that he gets the ball to come back into the right hander, which as we know, for a left arm seamer is the biggest weapon. But I also like the fact that you've got someone like Rene Coast, Smith, who said a different hits at that. And then Isaiah Thorne, who before the tournament, many said was the fastest bowling that is group in the region. And he probably will play for CCC in our first pass set up and a chance for him to develop. So I think those three seamers, it bodes well for what we have to come and we're building in the region because our fast bowling has been sort of an area of deficiency. But not only the fact that they're bowling seam, but that they're getting close to that 135, 140 mark and they're all very young, so can add a few yards of pace as well.  I think Stefan Pascal's captaincy, just how aggressive he was in the field, but also with the bat in hand. That was a real glaring highlight for me. And I think he could have a real future leading in the Caribbean. Yeah, also, how important was it the opponents that the windies were able to defeat because we spoke about that also on the show. We went up against Scotland, England and Sri Lanka and we walked away with victories. These are teams that they really had to work hard in order to defeat. And for me, again, that's another win because it shows as young players the fight and the ability to come together as a team when they were in losing positions and overcome their opponent. And I tell you what, Maria, that South Africa team that's going to the semifinal, there were an immense danger against the West Indies. When Joel Andrew got that 100, it was Nathan Cilly at the other end. And at that stage, I think they needed like 40 to win. Before Cilly was run out, they would have comfortably won that game. So had they won that, they would have probably been going into the semifinals and who would have known. But I think all in all, as you mentioned the results, but not only that, the way that they fought showed that character against quality opposition in not easy conditions for batting. I think those are the biggest positives. And I really hope we can find a way as a region to bridge that gap because we've lost a lot of players between that under 19 to under 23. And I know the West Indies Academy is a big reason why. We sort of have that now so we can develop that talent. But let's be real, there's guys in the academy now who will play for us, we'll play some 50. So we need to find a way that these under 19 guys who cannot play the next work up still can develop, still play competitive cricket and try to break in. So hopefully they can compete for a place in the academy as well. Yeah, and Nikhil, you just referenced how impressed you were with Pascal's captaincy. The catch he took today at Gully was it? That was absolutely stunning, wasn't it? Yeah, that's been another thing, Lance. The fielding to me, we mentioned on the last show, that's been a highlight from this tournament. But if we think back to the successful West Indies teams that we won World Cups, our fielding was above the rest. And I think that's a real way you look at the best C20 teams in the world. Their fielding is what sort of separates them from the rest. If we can develop that culture within this group and the groups to come, I think it bores really well. But that catch was one of the best I've ever seen. Just the reaction time is never easy. And the ball was quite hard and then coming off the back quite quickly as well. Yeah, and I did reference earlier on the week my pleasure to see four consecutive Winward Islands players captaining this West Indies on the 19 team to a World Cup tournament starting with Emmanuel Stewart. Then we saw Akim Ogist and Kemal Emilius and now Pascal. Yeah, I don't know if you can still hear me, Lance, but basically there's some low shedding in South Africa but I'm still here. As you can see, it just came out. Yeah, I think the younger, you were just, give me that one again, that one's sort of distra- No, no, I referenced earlier on in the week my pleasure to see the diversity of quality coming out of the West Indies and now four consecutive players from the Winward Islands, Dominica, St. Lucia twice and Grenada with Emmanuel Stewart, Akim Ogist and Kemal Emilius and now Pascal, captaining the West Indies team to an under-19 World Cup. And just showing that there's a lot of quality coming out of the Eastern Caribbean as well. And to be honest, Lance, I'll also build on that and I'll say I think credit must be given to our under-19 setup regionally because I followed the rising stars under-19 tournament. They had the red ball section, they had the white ball section and it was quite competitive. Then they had a 32-man camp where they narrowed it down to 18 in the end. But the fact that you have, as you said, so many teams competing because you can think about years ago where the Winward Islands at times may never have really challenged but they challenged almost win that under-19 tournament. So I think the fact that you have not only from the Winwards, but guys from Guyana, Chip again from Barbados and then the Leeward Islands, Joel Andrew. And also the fact I'll say that Joel Andrew played Listake cricket for the Leeward Islands in that Super 50 Cup. So it's also showing that the under-19 talent is good enough to sort of challenge and break into the senior men's team. If we have more players getting that early exposure, I think when we get to under-19 World Cups and the youth World Cups, we're gonna be a serious force to be reckoned with. So I hope that this younger talent, similar to what we saw in the last World Cup with Oghiz Teddy Bishop, who's in the West Indies team now. I really hope we can sort of build on this and we can see these guys carrying over into that senior professional level. Yeah, well, Nikhil, we know that it's pretty close to your bedtime and we don't want another light salt moment. So we're gonna leave it there for today. And I'm sure we'll be catching up pretty soon to talk some more cricket. Get some rest, young man. Thanks for having me, guys. Let's go to a break.


Robin asks, why have different flavors of Segwit addresses? My wallets now give me the option to pick from either legacy, batch 32, or P2SH addresses. As I understand it, I want to have private keys to be Segwit-enabled addresses, so that less data needs to be paid forward to publish on the blockchain. Now that both have been implemented for a while, is there a winner yet, or what is the benefit of being different and incompatible? It's not really a matter of winner or better, it's really a historical progression. Legacy addresses, meaning those that start with a one, are not Segwit-enabled, meaning that you cannot use a segregated witness signature in order to publish a transaction from an address that begins with one. That's going to increase the fees that you have to pay to make a transaction, pay a transaction from an address that starts with one. The second class of addresses you mentioned are P2SH. P2SH are addresses that start with a three, and these are scripts wrapped in a pay-to-script hash. Addresses that start with a three can be a variety of things. You may have heard of them being referred to as multi-sig addresses in the past, that's because that was the main use for three addresses with multi-sig. The most common script used, but they can be anything. They can be lightning endpoints, which can also be expressed as P2SH addresses, of course. They can also be Segwit scripts. If they are Segwit scripts, that particular formulation is called P2SH-wrapped, P2WPKH, or to break that up a bit, that's a pay-to-witness public key hash, which is a native witness address or Segwit address, wrapped inside a script and expressed as a pay-to-script hash. Which is why it has a three, and it looks like an old multi-sig address. These are kind of a bridge. These are addresses that can be recognized by any wallet without any upgrade. They give you the benefit of spending with a Segwit transaction, or spending the input with a Segwit signature, which reduces your fees, but are accepted by any wallet as a destination address, because they are P2SH, so old wallets don't need to know anything about Segwit in order to pay to them. That makes it easier to upgrade to Segwit transactions without having to expect everybody to upgrade their wallet. But that comes at a price. The price is because you have the script wrapping, the P2SH wrapping, it makes the signatures a bit larger, quite a bit larger in fact than native Segwits. It's better than legacy, but not as good as native Segwits. Betch32 addresses that begin with BC1 are the ultimate goal. Those are native Segwit addresses, they don't have any of the fluff around them, they're basically just a Segwit V0 script. That Segwit V0 script is the shortest, most compact way to express a Segwit address. It allows you to spend using segregated witness signatures, which reduces your fees. It takes up less space than a P2SH wrapped Segwit address. However, in order to get paid to a BC1 address, the person paying you needs to have a wallet that has been upgraded to identify native Segwit addresses as valid Bitcoin addresses. That means you have to wait for people to upgrade. I would say we're probably at about 50% coverage right now, and that's just a wild guess based on my experience. About half the wallets I see out there now support paying to a Betch32 address, which makes it easier to use a Betch32 address nowadays. But it still means that some of the customers you might have, or some of the people you may want to get payments from, will have a problem. Their wallet will not be able to pay to a Betch32 address because it hasn't been upgraded. So, what should you do? You should gradually try to upgrade all of your interactions to using native Segwit Betch32 addresses. They're easier to read, they're easier to transcribe. They have better error correction and error detection capabilities than base 58 and coded traditional addresses. They have more compact signatures and more compact scripts. They save you on fees, but you have to wait for the wallet manufacturers to upgrade. So, this is a difficult decision. It depends on how broad of an audience you have for making payments. So, if you're running an e-commerce store, for example, and you're selling stuff to the general public, and you expect people to come with a hundred different wallets, then you may want to stick to P2SH-wrapped Segwit addresses. Just to ensure that everybody will be able to make a purchase on your store, they don't need an upgraded wallet. If you're dealing with a smaller circle of people, most of whom are more advanced, early adopter users, who have more sophisticated wallets, then you may be able to upgrade to native Segwit Betch32 addresses sooner. I have a combination. I have some wallets that are Betch32. I have some wallets that use P2SH-wrapped Segwit. I even have some wallets that use legacy addresses still, and that way I use the right wallet for the right job. George asks about the space gain of Schnorr signatures. What is the percentage space gain that we should expect with Schnorr signatures? It actually depends on the number of different factors, because there are two places in which Schnorr signatures create space gains. The first one is the signature itself. Schnorr signatures are simply shorter than ECDSA signatures. You automatically get, and I think it's somewhere between a 15-20% reduction in the space required to encode Schnorr signatures. Furthermore, most of the proposals for Schnorr signatures also include a change in the way the signature is encoded. Today, on the Bitcoin blockchain, signatures are encoded using a DER encoding. That's not space efficient, because it doesn't matter in most of the applications for digital signatures, space walls and the consideration. On a blockchain, it is. It's a very big consideration. The DER encoding we use for ECDSA already has some room for improvement. Schnorr signatures are more compact. Those two efficiencies together, with an introduction of Schnorr signatures, we changed the encoding and the signature itself is shorter. 15-20% gain from there. But there are additional gains, because one of the things you can do with Schnorr signatures is signature aggregation. Instead of, for example, having a signature on every input in your transaction, if you have a transaction that has two or three inputs, now you need three signatures, one per input. Each of those signatures will take up 30-some bytes of signature space. With Schnorr, what you can do is produce one signature that is an aggregate signature for all three inputs. That is a 66% reduction in space, because you have now replaced three signatures by one. That signature can be computed by yourself, if you have three inputs that all belong to you. You can also do some forms of multi-party computation in order to produce an aggregate signature for inputs that are not owned by the same person, for example, in the case of a coin join or other multi-party transaction. Then there is a possibility of doing aggregation across transactions, which is an even more ambitious goal. Theoretically, at least, you could do one aggregated signature for an entire block. That has its own complications, not easy to implement. That would be a huge space gain. So, it depends how Schnorr signatures are applied. At minimum 15% in space savings, probably close to 30%, and with just transaction-level aggregation, another 50% or 60% reduction in space because of Schnorr signatures. The follow-up question from George would be, would you vote to lower the block size when you have the implementation of Schnorr? I think not. I think that this gives us an opportunity to effectively increase the capacity of the blockchain without increasing the base block size. I don't want to go backwards in that, but that is a personal opinion. It is not a very strong personal opinion. It is one that I am open to persuasion. I don't currently buy the argument that the reason people are not running more full-notes is because of the bandwidth and disc costs of the current one-megabyte base block size, or four-megabyte block weight that exists in Bitcoin's blockchain. Therefore, I don't think that is a huge problem today. Therefore, I don't think we need a radical solution like a reduction in the block size. Most people who propose this are talking about a temporary soft fork. Still, I don't really see the need for that, but I could be persuaded otherwise. Santiago asks, what is taproot? A code change designed to increase Bitcoin's privacy? I would like to know more about the taproot soft fork upgrade proposed by Peter Wolk. How does it work, and what are its differences compared to zero-knowledge proofs or other approaches being explored, for example, by Ethereum? Taproot is very different from a zero-knowledge proof. It is not really a direct privacy solution, as zero-knowledge proofs are. What it does is it erases the distinction between a payment to a public key and a payment to a script. At the moment, on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can distinguish between payments to public keys or public key hashes, pay to PKH, as they're called, because they start with a one. One addresses are simple Bitcoin public key addresses, or double hashes of public keys. Addresses that start with a three are a script. That might be a multi-sig, which is the most common example. A lot of people think that's a multi-sig. It might be a segwit wrapped in a script, or it might be some other script, like, for example, a lightning channel. But you can tell the difference between a script and a public key. What taproot does is it erases that distinction. It makes all script and public key payments look the same when they're submitted on the network. When you try to spend them, you can either choose to spend with a public key or a script. Not just a script, but a merkle tree of multiple script clauses, of which you only reveal one. You can either spend it as a public key with a regular signature, or you can spend it by revealing part of a script that's in a merkle tree. This is really interesting, because it creates a situation where all payments look the same. You no longer distinguish between scripts and public keys. There's a very interesting fact here that, because of the way Schnorr signatures work, which is combined in this proposal, or which has been proposed simultaneously with taproot, with Schnorr signatures, you can do additive signatures. What that means is, let's say you have a three-of-three multi-sig, and all three people agree to spend it. In traditional terms, you would have to do a three-of-three multi-sig spend, which is a script, presenting three public keys and three signatures for everybody to see. Everybody knows it's a three-of-three. When you spend it, it's going to be very visible. With Schnorr signatures, what you can do is take the three public keys, collaboratively join them together, essentially adding them together, and create a master public key, if you like, and then add all of the signatures together, and create a master signature. The three parties can sign the public key of their joint public keys with a signature that is their joint signature. Then it looks like a straightforward payment to a public key. You don't know it's a three-of-three multi-sig, because they all agree to spend it. There are many, many scripts in which you have various thresholds or conditions. If all of the participants agree, you can just do a joint signature like that, and make it look like a simple payment to a public key with a simple signature. The combination of these Schnorr-additive signatures and TAP routes then makes it for very interesting obfuscation technology. It's not directly related. It's not a direct-solution privacy. It's an indirect-solution privacy. It allows you to do other things to enhance your privacy, too. That's a very exciting proposal. Another typical example here would be closing a lightning channel and making a payment to the two participants. A lightning channel is a two-of-two multi-sig, but in most cases, the two parties that are participating in the lightning channel close it cooperatively. Instead of closing it with this massive script that says, This was a lightning channel and we're exercising the cooperative closed script. What they do is they just join their signatures, present it as a TAP route public key, and a signature. Then it looks like somebody just spent that input with a regular signature to two addresses. You can't even tell it's a lightning channel. That's what TAP route is. It's part of a bundle of proposals. TAP script, which is an upgrade to the scripting language, and Schnorr signatures that have been proposed to be launched together. The BIPs were written by Peter Woollah, but they actually are the effort of multiple developers. Peter Woollah did the reference implementation to demonstrate how it would work. This would be a software upgrade as Segwit v1. Segwit v0 was the one that was launched in August of 2017, the first version of Segwit. We always start indexing from zero in this case. The second version of Segwit would be Segwit v1, maybe launched in the next couple of years. It would be something along the lines of TAP route, TAP script, and Schnorr signatures. On the side, if you're interested in hearing more about that, we just recorded a great podcast with Let's Talk Bitcoin, with guests Jonas Snick and Peter Woollah. We talked extensively about what TAP route is, what TAP script is, what Schnorr is, and the impact these proposals will have on both scaling and privacy. You can catch that in episodes 401 of the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast. We won't put that in the Q&A, but for the people watching the live, you might enjoy listening to those a lot more. You spent an hour talking about this topic. Privacy timelines. Craig asks, it sounds like, fortunately, Bitcoin will become anonymous once different upgrades are made. Could you give us the timelines of when Schnorr signatures, confidential transactions, TAP routes, and graph routes will go online in Bitcoin? Will this give total anonymity or further upgrades be necessary, and if you know, when will they come about? Craig, I wish I could share your optimism. It takes a lot of different approaches to achieve privacy, and privacy is an ever-moving target, because you've got to think about this in terms of an adversarial arms race. Meaning that, while people are building privacy-defeating technologies, developers in Bitcoin are building privacy technologies. And, of course, in many other open blockchains, especially those that are privacy-focused. So, if we have better privacy technology in Bitcoin, then that then gives all of the incentives for the surveillance companies and the analytics companies to continue to violate the privacy of millions of people by escalating their capabilities. And, of course, when they invent something new, that then becomes the new state-of-the-art, which very quickly leaks or gets shared, so that, of course, you can't have just the good guys using surveillance technology. In fact, the bad guys are the ones using surveillance technology, but that goes from the bad guys to the worse guys, to the even worse guys, to the dictators and murderers and brutal regimes. So, one of the problems with this is that the arms race causes this escalation of technology that falls into worse and worse hands. So, yes, we're looking at a number of technologies to improve the privacy of Bitcoin, nor signatures is a bit helpful, especially with threshold signing, as I mentioned in the previous answer. Taproot and Grafroot. Taproot is likely to be implemented sooner, Grafroot maybe a bit later. Confidential transaction is not currently scheduled for an implementation. It hasn't been finalized as a bit. It currently is being tested on the elements sidechain, but not on Bitcoin. So, will this give total anonymity? No, absolutely not. And you would need to combine these techniques with various forms of coin join and other privacy techniques, like for example, how wallets use change addresses, how they order outputs, what fingerprints they leave as to the transactions they're constructing, preferably avoiding leaving any fingerprints, how they do things like deterministic signing, and things like that. All of these activities increase privacy. The more you do, the fewer fingerprints you leave in the transaction, the harder it is to identify what kind of wallet was used, which means you can do less statistical analysis. And of course, if you can use various forms of confidential transactions, encryption, coin join, etc., it makes it even better. I expect that there will be a fair degree of pushback against strong privacy in Bitcoin. I think it's a big battle that we need to fight. And I think that we need to win that battle, because if we don't have a stronger privacy in Bitcoin, that gives many different attackers a way to attack Bitcoin users by violating their privacy and punishing them for using Bitcoin by revealing their identities, which weakens, of course, Bitcoin. So I hope we'll see more and more upgrades in the future, but this is not going to be easy. And more importantly, it's not going to end. We're going to need to keep increasing the privacy efforts as we learn more, and as the attacks against privacy become more sophisticated. This is a continuous arms race.


Now we are going to study universality, developmental processes, parenting and individual differences. So dear students, universality of the development of moral judgment is tied to the propositions that moral development stems from children's distinct social interactions and experiences with others. Universality means that our children see the laws and disciplines of their children which they think are their own universe. And in that universe they see the behaviours of their children. They learn from that how their morals should be. Now look, this is different from parent to parent. Context to context is also different. And the way parents behave with children, whenever they want to teach something, then children really want to learn from it. Many times parents don't pay attention to children's morals because of which they cannot learn from it. So children interpret and evaluate signals from parents, teachers and peers and do not accept commands from others while toddlers frequently disobey and negotiate with their parents. Look, children are our guidance, our advice and the discipline we are trying to impose they don't pay attention to it. The reason for that is that they don't understand the logic which is why we try to tell them what is good for you and what is bad for you. They actually react to our act. The way we are doing things which are hidden in our atmosphere, they learn from it.  So they try to accept the behaviours of their children by doing something. You can see that toddlers who are 2.5 years old, they disobey a lot of things. You tell them to stop, don't do it and they continue to do it. They keep saying that they are not doing it, but they are still doing it. The reason for that is that they are not able to understand the words or gestures of others. So when they see that they are trying to imitate you, they will try to do something good for you and do something good. Because there is only observation in their instinct now. So they want to replicate it or they want to imitate it. They will try to imitate it and try to harm it. Again there is a variability between children and parents relating to different works and ages. Now clearly, as I said, context to context, parent to parent, different languages, different countries, different circumstances. And the considerations of parents are also different. As I said, they want to give a little more attention that children learn at this age and are not giving any attention. And remember that this is the age of early childhood. When attention is not given or children are not shown by doing good work, then they are not able to learn after all these ages. They are not able to develop their habits or concepts. So parents are consistent in their methods of relating to children. Now you also see that parents do not accept any tradition but they include everything in their habits themselves. That is, those parents who are doing good things or are behaving well, children learn good from them. If the habits of parents are different, which are unacceptable in society, then children have no objection to what is going on. They will first try to imitate them. Their ways of communication can be different. That means, how do they communicate with children? They are making mistakes, encouraging them, rebuking them, scolding them. Ways of discipline across the situation and in which situation, how do they try to discipline them? Are they explaining to them? Are they changing things with them on the other side? Or are they stealing things from their hands? Or are they slapping them? So you see that the habits that you are accepting are going to come back to you. So parents are often punitive and categorical. Normally we see that if someone makes a mistake, then parents immediately try to punish them. Or they become categorical that if this happens, then okay, if it doesn't happen, then the other person has no face.


In 2015 ITU celebrates 150 years of innovating together and we've planned an exciting year of celebrations to mark this historic occasion. Each month will have its own theme linked to innovation and during this month we'll be bringing you inspiring stories, blogs, videos, online debates, insights, data and much more. There will always be at least one major event which will anchor our theme and regular ITU events which will also fully include ITU 150 celebrations in their activities and outreach. June focuses on the wide range of innovation opportunities which have opened up as a result of the switchover from analog to digital and special webinars which will discuss the benefits of this digital dividend. Around the world 1 billion people will live with some kind of disability. In July a series of blogs, webinars, podcasts and opinion pieces will highlight the importance of including persons with disabilities in ICT through accessible technology. ITU's focus in August is on innovation and bridging the digital divide. International Youth Day held on August 12th and World Humanitarian Day held on August 19th will provide a foundation to showcase ITU's work to connect the next 1.5 billion. September focuses on ICTs Maritime and Aviation, highlighting the massive role and contribution of ITU in the field of navigation and safety. On the 24th of September we plan to work with partner to broadcast live from major shipping routes to celebrate World Maritime Day, showcasing the ITU Radio Communication Bureau's contributions to the modern maritime sector. Through the theme Big Data and Innovation, October explores the importance of Big Data and the issue of cybersecurity. On International Disaster Risk Reduction Day on October 13th, watch our public lecture on Big Data and Disaster Risk Reduction linked to emergency telecommunications and the role of standards. On the 24th we join the international community in celebrating the 70th anniversary since the founding of the UN. We will explore the role of Big Data as a contributory factor to sustainable development and as a means to safeguard and measure advances in development. Enabling innovation is our November theme and this is when the ITU World Radio Communication Conference takes place. One of the most important events on the ITU calendar and a key contributor to enabling innovation. A video expert series will be released in November to highlight ITU technical achievements and innovations. On World Television Day on the 21st of November, ITU will take you behind the scenes, demystifying how ICT drives innovation in broadcasting. December marks the end of our year of birthday celebrations and we plan to place a special emphasis on broadband and the important outcomes of WRC and how they drive innovation and lay the foundations for future innovation. We hope you can join us along the way and we'd love to hear from you if you would like to join in during a particular thematic month or event. Contact us at ITU 150 at ITU.int. Let's innovate together.


The Federal Executive Council has approved six multi-billionaire contracts for the PAH sector. Minister of PAH, Saleh Mahman, revealed this to State House correspondents at the end of this week's Cabinet meeting presided over by President Mohammad Buhari. He said the contracts approved include those for the procurement of transformers and vital spare parts for the maintenance of PAH transmission equipment. Mahman said the procurements were geared towards the upgrading of the nation's transmission system to the national grid in order to have sufficient power supply to all parts of the country.


Restitutional overcorrection. I like this term because it sounds very important. Restitutional overcorrection. In fact, I use it with my kids all the time. I even use the word. I'm like, you're gonna engage in some restitutional overcorrection right now, a young lady. It's really fun to do it with your three-year-old because she doesn't quite get what she's doing, but it's fun for the behavior analyst to do it anyway.  So, so Avery engaged in some really inappropriate behavior. I don't know what it is. Maybe she threw her toys all over the house. Whatever it is, right? So she went nuts and she threw her toys all over the place. Well, it was inappropriate to do that. So she not only had to clean up the environment, she had to put it back to a condition that was better than when it started. In other words, yes, she had to clean up her toys, but then I made her clean up her brother's toys too. All right? So restitutional. All right? So putting the environment back overcorrection, meaning we're going to redo this. All right? So we're gonna get that inappropriate response. We're gonna, we're gonna make you fix the world, but we're gonna make it fix a little bit better than what it was when you started. And it makes it a, it's kind of overdoing it a little bit. So just put your toys away as one thing, but adding that extra piece of, now put your brother's toys away too. It is really the key. Restitutional, fixing the environment, right? So I think that makes sense. I hope. If not, I don't know, ask a question.


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In today's video, I'm going to be interviewing Kyle McGuire, who was working as a union tradesman at a pretty stable job, but it wasn't a job that had a lot of room for growth. So he was making decent money, but there wasn't that many opportunities to advance. So he started looking online at careers he could get into that don't require a college degree or any experience, and within one year he was making six figures a year in a remote job. So this is going to be his story, and we're going to be sharing all the juicy details, like which career it is, how much he got paid, how long it took him to get into the career, how he got into the career, etc. So if you appreciate videos like this, go ahead and gently tap that like button and also hit the subscribe button. Let's try to get this video to 300 likes. What's happening guys? Welcome back to the channel. Today I have somebody who recently, about a year, a little bit over a year ago, went into tech sales and they originally started off with the kind of like entry level job, SDR, BDR role, and they actually just graduated into another role. So first of all, congratulations for that. And I wanted to get somebody who was about a year, year and a half into it to kind of show your progress if you do decide to go into tech sales. So thank you so much Kyle for coming on the channel. I really appreciate it. Yeah. Hey Shane, thanks so much for having me and thanks for the congratulations. I'm really excited. Awesome. All right. So let's go ahead and kind of start at the beginning. Maybe if you can talk about your background a little bit and kind of like what you did before you got into tech sales and then kind of the story of you discovering tech sales and eventually, you know, getting into that first BDR role. Yeah. Yeah. So I was, I've been blue collar worker my whole life. Union guy grew up in steel mill country in the Midwest. And just that's kind of what I knew started off with Honda ended up working for a big company food manufacturing company called Conagra. And then just when COVID hit, you know, kind of got tired of spending all my hours member of the grocery stores were empty of food in the beginning. Yeah. Well, I was I was working nonstop around the clock to get them filled back up again. And just not a great way to live, you know, not scalable really just one and more out of life. So found course careers and it really set me in the direction of really changing my life. Got it. So you discovered course careers, which just for a little bit of context, course careers is Troy's company, Troy is the CEO of course careers. And he basically teaches people tech sales. He teaches them the basics of it. And then he partners with companies and helps them to get jobs in tech sales. So these are entry level roles. There are people who are getting jobs in less than a month. And I'm not like being hyperbolic when I say that literally people getting jobs in less than a month. So that is kind of what we're talking about in this video. So I forgot to mention this, but if you do want to learn more about tech sales, Troy does have a free class on his website. You can check that out. He's going to tell you like the different roles in tech and kind of other roles that you can move in down the line, as well as the skills that it involves, whether it's a good fit for you or not a good fit for you. I did take the class myself. I thought it was very useful. I will go ahead and put that down in the description below. And if you decide that you want to use Troy's service where he trains you in tech sales, then he gets you interviews with companies, then you can use the coupon code Shane 50. I believe it is. I'll put that down there. I forgot where the coupon goes, but I'll put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. You discovered course careers and you started taking the curriculum. And at the time you were actually one of Troy's first students. So it was a little bit less basic than it is now. And he didn't actually have partnerships with companies like he does now. So can you kind of talk about the curriculum about a year or so ago? Yeah. So, you know, you hit the nail on the head. It's a much more robust course now than it was kind of when I went through it. I was virtually the first successful student to go through the class. It was more of a, for me, it was really a worksheet, a Google worksheet on a shared drive. That's kind of what it was for me. But the curriculum was there, right? The meat and the potatoes, the actual stuff that Troy wanted to get across and needed to, needed his students to learn. That was still there. So it just got a much nicer polish on it now. And yeah, there wasn't, he didn't quite have the fleshed out idea of having companies, you know, on board, kind of preemptively ready to accept some of these students and get a more permanent jobs.  I kind of graduated the class and really had to take what I learned and applied it to finding a job. So I, you know, had to prospect out decision makers, apply cold outreach and see what I could land. And I landed. I started with eight jobs and I ended up with going through four, four different companies, you know, interview process and I ended up with two job offers the exact same day. Pretty cool going from, you know, blue collar, no college, really, you know, kind of what are you doing in this background, in this area to having two job offers the same day and kind of picking my own destiny. Pretty cool. Yeah, that is really awesome. So just to clarify really quickly, you were doing the course part-time. So you were working full-time while you were going through the course. And I believe you said it took about three months or so to get through the course for you.  It was less than a month. It was, it was, we're talking weeks. Now it did take, you know, I got the job offer in towards the beginning of, end of February, beginning of March. And I didn't start at the job until April. But I, you know, so there's a little gap, but like, yeah, getting the job offer, it was literally, it was like three, three to four weeks after I graduated the course. Awesome. So basically three and a half, four months or so between you discovering the course and starting it and getting your first job offer, an entry level SDR, was it SDR or a BDR role? To me, those, those terms are completely interchangeable. I don't really see a difference of variation in those. But for all intents and purposes is BDR role. Basically, so it took three and a half, four months or so for you to get that first entry level job. And if you don't mind me asking, what was the pay life for that first one? So I can't lie. So I did take a little bit of a pay cut only because I was very experienced at my previous position. I was in a more of a crew lead capacity type role. And it was a union. So I made pretty decent. But my first, so my first role in the SDR world was around probably around like 50, 50 to 55,000 a year total. That was base plus OTE, not the greatest. And really the market has already changed since then. That has really gone up since then the base level SDR pay has really gone up since that at that point. That was kind of the norm for the my geographical area. But since then it's even become more work from home base less centralized.  When you look around at SDR jobs and BDR jobs. Yeah, and you know, one thing I will mention really quickly is, you know, you were one of Troy's first students and this was before he actually formed partnerships with companies. So the fact that he was able to get you, I think you said you applied to eight really, you know, pretty decent companies and you actually got four invites to get interviewed. That kind of just shows the ridiculous amount of demand that there is for this position. Because, you know, there's some careers out there where you might apply to 100 different places and you might get maybe two to four interviews. And these are like pretty well known careers. So when you're seeing numbers like that where you're applying to eight places, you're getting four interviews.  And that was before Troy even set up the partnership for the companies. Now you pretty much automatically get like eight interviews right after you graduate or something like that, like 10 interviews, he told me. So that's a that's that's pretty amazing. And, you know, I always tell people on this channel the number one most important metric you want to look at is demand because everything else follows demand is kind of like the law of gravity. There's a lot of demand for a certain skill set. You know, the pay is going to go up, they're going to treat you better, you're going to have more opportunity to rise up the ranks is just on and on and on like everything else gets better when there's more demand. So can we maybe talk about your promotion that you just recently got? What position is it for one and if you don't mind, again, if you could maybe tell me what what the salaries like and if you're not comfortable, it's solely fine. You can maybe just talk about generally speaking what the salaries like in a position like that. Yeah, so I'm now I'm with a company called Sonic you. I'm inside sales rep for them full sales cycle. Definitely six figures will say will say we're at you know we're sitting at 100 with. I mean to be honest with you that one of the main reasons I took this role with this company is because they're growing exponentially skies the limit. Really, they have a great product great market fit. They have had a lot of success with inbound and with my background in an aggressive outbound. I believe it's a great fit for me. It's kind of a wide open, no untouched opportunity for me to really just go out there and go after aggressive outreach go after some of these bigger systems that they sell to hospital systems is what they sell to and so it's just it's one thing to say in theory you know my base is good and in theory I should be hitting around 100 to 115 this year, but I want to blow that out of the water to be honest with you. I want to make some big waves and do some big things with this company to really kind of blow out the world is my oyster it's really it's really up to me how much I make at this point. Awesome so basically you are approximately a year and maybe a few months in to working in tech sales and you've already hit that you're probably very, very likely going to hit that six figure level. At this point you're right yes. You're 100% right. And you might blow it out of the water by quite a bit as well which I love it. That's right. I mean, what there's not that many careers out there that you can do that where you, you know you go into the career, you have no experience in the career itself no sales experience, and you're about a year in or so and you're hitting that six figure level. I mean, what other careers that you can you do that very, very few. You're 100% right and then circle back a little bit. So there's two things so there's two takeaways for me one is, you know, you spoke about that demand and about the market needs of the SDR the BDR role. And, you know, if I'm being 100% honest with you, it's because really this this this role is not for everybody. It is, it's a grinder of a job. You have to wake up and something I heard recently as cells is a transfer of emotion. So you kind of have to have that energy you have to bring that passion and that energy into your job and that call that email whatever it is, you have to put your, your, your passion into it, and you're trying to invoke that that you're trying to transfer that passion over to, you know, the prospect. And so it can be a grind, because you hear a lot of no. And when you hear a lot of no, you got to you have to compartmentalize and kind of move past that. And so it's not for everybody. But that's kind of why that demand is there is because they are look, it takes a type of person that is really hungry and just really wants it and have that passion and bring that drive every day. And that's what that's what it takes and so if you if you have a college degree if you don't have a college degree doesn't matter if you have the passion. And I, you know, I truly believe you can be successful as a salesperson, and especially in the tech in the tech vertical, the money and the promotion. The, it's one thing it's one thing to not have a college degree and getting to an entry level job, but a whole nother aspect of it is does not having a college degree does does having or not having that college degree holds you back from seeing avenues for promotions and things like that. And I, you know, from my perspective, I don't see that at all. I really, I really don't. Once you're in the game. It's really about those KPIs those those key performance indicators that's that's really what it's about hitting your metrics, having that hustle, showing up every day and getting those numbers. Everything else doesn't matter nothing. All of it's just talk after that you can like your boss could like you could not like you personally. If you hit those numbers, and you're making the company money, then it doesn't that doesn't even matter.  I love the way you put that yeah. Is there kind of a certain type of personality that you see doing well in this type of position. And specifically, I'm kind of referring to introvert versus extrovert. Do you think introverts wouldn't be good in this position. I've seen introverts and extroverts excel in this kind of role. I've seen introverts who think that they would are going to struggle in this role, but get in the role and then it almost blossom blossom something inside of them. And that doesn't mean that they're like suddenly an extrovert in life.  Then it's really more. The role is really more teaching the market, you know, about that need exploring that need kind of amplifying that need so that they take a more proactive instead of a reactive approach to it.  And so in that essence, you know, I've really seen introverts kind of excel, they rise to that occasion they become that that teacher. They're impassioned by their product. They know that their product works they know that there's a need for it. And so they they they just feel emboldened to go out there and kind of have those conversations. Now in their day to day life are they still an introvert. Yeah, definitely. It didn't change them. You know, in their core being, but it just gave them another avenue that they can kind of do something they wouldn't classically think that they would be able to do speaking of kind of like being too salesy. I kind of just wanted to talk about this role in tech sales, where you're basically solving problems for companies. And then maybe contrast that to what people would typically, because this is one of the biggest objections I see in the section, is people think it's like a little bit too salesy, like you're used car salesman, or maybe you're like a timeshare salesman, that sort of thing. Like you're convincing somebody to get something that isn't necessarily going to help them versus a tech sales role. So can you kind of talk about the difference between those two. You know, when, when you're selling business to business in the tech world. It's not just money on the line that per the person who's purchasing could be their job on the line. You know, so they take the purchase with a lot a lot more serious there's a lot less knee jerk reaction. You know, when you're making a personal buying choice.  But when you're purchasing for a company.  So generally, you know, those go a lot more in depth. Drag your feet a lot longer and cross those teas and dot those eyes. More so than if you were making a personal buying decision. And so for the seller. Like, you know, these cheap closing tricks and things like it's just not going to work. It's truly establishing a relationship and trying to convince them of the value of what your your solution is offering. To convince them of the need and trying and then trying to, you know, assure them that you've done this before this is your realm, and that they are in good hands with you. So what would you say to somebody who is thinking about possibly signing up with course careers and becoming a SDR BDR getting into tech sales, but they're kind of on the fence and they're not sure whether they want to do it or not. What would you say just like practical advice to figure out if it's the right choice for them. Yeah, I would say, you know, if, if you think you have the grind and if you think you have the ability to push through a lot of nose and rejection and and hunt for those yeses. If you have that ability, then 100% sign up for course careers. It will change your life. You can really make some of quality living in this in this vertical with quality of life quality of money. You just, it's really hard to beat without a college degree. It's virtually impossible. And I can't think of a better path for somebody who really has their eye on the prize, and then has that drive inside of them. Awesome. I think that's great advice. And, you know, I've kind of interviewed people at just about every level at this point I've interviewed people who just started like a month ago what they were making. I've been, you know, this is an interview with you, you're about a year, a year and a few months in, you're making around six figures or so. I interviewed another person who was about four years in or so they're making around 220 probably even more than that this year. And then I interviewed another person who's five years in, but they also have quite a bit of experience in tech as well as supply chain, and they're probably going to hit 600,000 this year. You know, it's very clear, you know, where you start and if you have that grind if you have the ability to produce results where you can go you know five years into your career you could be making some you know 200 300, maybe even 500 to $600,000 a year. So there's really not that many careers out there where you can do that that have this insane amount of opportunity. That's why I talk about careers like this on the channel this channel is basically like a cheat code for people. Sometimes I talk about careers that require a college degree there's some good ones, but there's a lot of careers out there that do not require a college degree and tech sales is one of them so thank you so much for coming on the channel Kyle and talking about your experience. Maybe we'll get you back in like a year or so you can you can talk about it again give us all an update. That would be awesome but yeah thank you so much for coming on I really appreciate it. Hey thanks for having me Shane. I hope I hope everyone enjoyed the interview and yeah I'd love to round up again maybe another year year and a half, and I can be that you know two $300,000 guy, given the interview, telling my story again be great.


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Hi, my name's Leon Roe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand Forex and gold fundamental and technical analysis if you're new a very very warm welcome to you And if you're returning an equally warm welcome to you, sir, I wasn't around last week Took a week off as it was my anniversary. So Had to spend time with the missus But but yeah, don't forget to like subscribe and share if you Like this the analysis that I do pretty much nearly every week Again, it will really really help us a free way to support the channel as well and gets the quality content out there for those That really really need it. So Let's get into the The week ahead and see what is going on. So week ahead zoom in into trading economics Dot-com great website. So week ahead investors will be keeping an eye on the ISM manufacturing PMI and PCE Inflation and the development surrounding Chinese real estate developer ever grand, right? That's important inflation It's important because it drives monetary policy as well as manufacturing in PMI Are really kind of related to gross domestic products Fed chair pow will testify on Coronavirus and and cares act before the Senate and lawmakers will try to pass a funding plan to avoid the government shut down on October the first which is just around the corner. Of course, they're gonna pass, you know a funding plan They're never gonna let the the US You know not fund The cares the heads acts also two days ECB forum on central banking should give more clues on the monetary policy outlook And it's really important that we as forex traders understand the driving forces behind Center behind, you know central bank monetary policy because ultimately that is what is driving price in the medium to long term So that's worth a watch and traders will also pay attention to the outcome of the German federal elections So that's again a risk of event that is coming up this week So getting now into the bit more in-depth fundamentals and technical analysis and let's start off on the dollar index dollar index You know last week obviously, I wasn't I wasn't around but Really they were saying the week before that and in previous weeks that the path of lease resistance is probably to the upside And the dollar index is just a measure of dollar strength against various other currencies like the euro the pound again mainly and Again, I've been calling it right been calling it down here We've been calling it in fact from all the way back here when the Federal Reserve, you know was was getting really hawkish We've been saying that literally what you want to do is look to just buy, you know The dollar overall right not necessarily against every single currency Currency pair but overall the rumor is is that they're looking to potentially, you know, high crates and talking about hiking rates Recent FOMC, you know events the Federal Reserve left monetary policy unchanged But there is a clear intent to dull back stimulus this year And that's again positive for a currency or should appreciate a currency Curie tapering is set to be announced in November with the committee shifting towards a 2022 rate rise So there the monetary policy is doing everything to appreciate the currency, which is the reason why you're seeing we go back You're seeing this is being priced in right the dollar index is going higher Not because there is some sort of pin bar against the level of demand It's not about technical analysis to that that predicts direction What predicts direction in the medium to long-term is fundamental analysis. It's not Elliot wave It's none of that nonsense Technical analysis is not a predictor not a great predictor of what future price is going to is where it's going to go Right in the medium to long-term is fundamental analysis because this is what is driving, you know the currency It's understanding what the central banks are doing To appreciate or depreciate their currency right with inflation looking less and less transitory We continue to expect liftoff in September 2022 so liftoff being a potential rate the first rate hike Next year we're in September now in the September so about a year from now So tape is coming soon and then comes the hike so Again, just understanding where the dollar index is so what you want to do is really to look for overall dollar You know if you are looking to trade this, you know the dollar is look for confluences With regards to demand zones and other currency pairs So if the dollar starts to for example starts to pull back a little bit into a demand zone And then you get a nice demand zone Let's say for example on the dollar yen or the dollar Swiss dollar CAD for example or supplies on the dollar CAD Actually, no sorry demand on dollar CAD and then you want to look for you know Just just confluences by trade right these are the areas that you're looking for Confluences so for me the path of this resistance is still to the upside I'm not saying that it's gonna go up this you know this this week Nobody knows in the short term but over the medium to long term any pullbacks I think a continued buying Opportunities if you are looking for any kind of short-term reaction And maybe trading that pullback. I don't know why you would but you know traders would trade anything In any direction Technical traders do anyway What this is actually quite a really nice area for you know a bit of a pullback So again, you wouldn't necessarily trade this the dollar index the DXY you would look for short trades on any kind of dollar crosses And also as well, I just wanted to talk a little bit about before we go into the next currency pair is is On my community tab is understanding, you know the language as well It's really important that you look at language and what is what is happening when you read the news So what does it mean? I said I put out a poll which says what does it mean when the central bank indicates? They are tightening on a cheap policy, right and they intend to high-grade to 74% they intend to cut rates is 26% the 74% the majority of you have do have it right tightening actually means that they are looking to Hike rates and again, what does hiking rates mean right for a currency if we scroll down a little bit more? I have it here about two months ago I put if a central bank is hiking rates the demand for that current currency should typically Increase over the medium to long-term true or false a lot of you guys said true 91% said true And again, that's pretty much what has been happening Right, that's exactly what's been happening on the dollar from back in June 15th 16th around that time And the Fed said that they are looking to hike rates look at what's happened with the dollar index and really again It's just a race It's a race With the central banks to kind of hike rates, right the the the current sees the bank the central banks that are not hiking rates Just yet are going to really be left behind So here is an article which talks about on the Financial times and then to super cheap money central banks begin tightening cycle tightening that keyword again, right? They look into appreciate their currency So no longer a central bank seeking to do whatever they can to ensure money is available for households companies governments to borrow exceptionally Favourable rates basically cheap money along with Norway's monetary policy Sorry and monetary tightening the first in any advanced economy since the pandemic began for emerging economy central banks Pakistan Hungry Paragraph Brazil also raised cost of borrowing this week while the Federal Reserve and Bank of England both Signaled a move towards tightening monetary policy, right? So the central banks are tightening right and I went over this a couple weeks ago I think might have been in the last weekly Analysis video or the week before that where this is a diagram by ING which Gives what they think are basically a central bank forecast regarding rates, right? So European central bank They're looking to they the ING think They're looking to potentially reduce Their PEPP and APP boosted QE Monetary policy But if you look at for example the Federal Reserve the tapering starts tapering ends in court 2022 and they look into high crates, right? So arrow up means high crates European central bank They don't think the European Central Bank is going to high crates anytime, you know Within the next couple of years, right Bank of England again looking to potentially the forecast that they look into high crates in the fourth quarter of 2022, right? Of course things can change. Yeah But for now that's you know data has to support the narrative Bank of Canada hike potentially hiking rates, you know in the next year, right? So The point is is that if you understand the language and what tightening means you can start to read these articles and then Understand what it's actually telling you yeah And then what you do is you look for the currency in the central banks that are looking to tighten first High crates first Verses the currencies that are not an essential banks that are not that's pretty much how it works So let's get into it's been enough time on that I guess the dollar looking at dollar yen technical wise again, we've seen positive Dollar appreciation into a nice zone I think that if you really want to get involved in this you have to wait for pretty much a pullback into this demand zone before It's 109 39 area before looking at getting Long but right now again even in the face of what I've been talking about there are still traders that are gonna want to get short And if you do want to get short That area there is okay. Just realized that that level has been touched several times before so It may it may not you know hold the the more times the level is touched the more It's open to a manipulation, right above that area there where all the stops pretty pretty much are right? I think from a technical analysis perspective. I do like this area here If there was any kind of short trades the Japanese yen benefits from a risk-off Environment meaning when there's lots of fear uncertainty and doubts So for example, there's lots of fear and uncertainty coming into the market. Let's say ever grand You know starts to really kind of pick up and Across the globe and trade and traders are fearful then actually in fact This area does look like a really nice area to look for potential shorts because you should see money float into the Japanese yen Which is a safe haven currency if not further higher dollar Swiss pretty much very similar to the dollar yen in terms of fundamentals again, if you're looking at Understanding where money is flowing into and out of the path of these resistance should be the up to the upside until or unless there is a Lot of for example Risk-off sentiment and if there is a risk-off sentiment Then you should part of the resistance would be to the downside, right? Because money is going to be flowing into the Swiss franc rather than the dollar even though the dollar does act In fact as a safe haven currency And can act as a safe haven currency, but generally you would see money flow into the Swiss franc. So That's where we are with that if you do want to get sure I think that's going to be a decent area to look for any kind of short trades Into that supply zone area right there. So if you do get a pullback and again, there's some sort of Risk-off sentiment, and that's a decent short but other than that I think any pullbacks into these daily demand zones are going to be buying opportunities Moving on to the dollar CAD dollar CAD Technically, I really really like this trade didn't take it though as it wasn't really in my List of currencies to really kind of trade a really really great technical setup That we had seen in the group and we've been looking at this for weeks now So I'm not so sure if many people took it because fundamentally it's to compete in currencies, but I'm really nice short trade there and ultimately just understanding Which way you want to be looking to trade again You've got two central banks that are looking to potentially hike rates at some point so It's it's a harder buy or sell right it's harder to predict where you know price will go What you want to see is a divergence right divergence meaning that you've got a Central bank that's hiking and one that is potentially cutting or even holding rates right holding rates There's a divergence there between that and that that's that's what you're looking for when it comes to understanding where Currencies price movement should go So with that being said you've got two central banks that potentially looking to hike rates where's the divergence, right? There's no divergence there. So for me, I stay out of those types of Currency pairs, but technically decent buy and a decent sell if you're looking at those zones New Zealand dollar Again, New Zealand dollars probably going to be one of the first to look to potentially high crates Hence the reason why you've seen this massive move over the past few, you know weeks or just month or so Come down into a nice, you know demand zone there pull back a little bit for me again It's not really a pair. I'm looking to you know trade so much They're better pairs to buy against the the New Zealand also a sell against the New Zealand dollar So but if you are looking at getting long on this currency pair Here's a decent zone to try and look for long trades or even better would be the zone below it Or you're looking at the absolute low of that range, which I think would be brilliant for a potential buy And I say brilliant, but in a sense that I think this would be an absolute bargain for the New Zealand dollar Even though the US dollar is looking to potentially High crates too. I don't I can't see this really going down too much further beyond that 0.68 level so that's decent for a potential buy if we ever get down there pound dollar pound dollar is very interesting in fact again, we've got two Currencies that are potentially looking to high crates, right? We've got the pound and we've got with the Bank of England this week came out and said that they were looking to again Tightening that word again tightening high crates. Yeah, but rate rate But rate hike still some way off, right? So banks what they tend to do is they want to talk up or talk down their currency, right? So at the moment in order to To get inflation down they need to talk up their currency needs to make their currency appreciate right, so I think right now that this is Bank of England are talking up their their their their pound and But again in this the analysis from ING is that they think that Given the headwinds or the number of headwinds facing the economy this winter We think a rate hike is unlikely until the second half of 2022 later than investors are expecting So what really are the headwinds right the headwinds at the moment are? We've got currently panic buying. We've got supply chain problems petrol shortages We've got also energy crisis at the moment so energy suppliers Avro and green cease trading You know, we've got shortage of CO2 as well So in the UK there there are there are some issues and problems right facing, you know gas shortages hits UK food Hgv vehicle driver shortage for supermarkets There's a lot of things going against the pound at the moment So although the central bank might say they're looking to high crates at some point I think in the short term I think in a short term the pound actually might be a potential Short right or any kind of short prices come back up into this area here, which is going to be where the next Suppliers only is around there. I do think that the pound in the short term anyway is I think a short until We do sort out our our problems as far as you know, we get over these these crises and shortages I think the pound is definitely there will then be a buy but for now I think my my bias I think is actually to the short side for the panel I think there's a great opportunity is it against the pound dollar that would be one of the pairs that I would start to Short but I look for a technical setup before looking at getting short if you think that the market is going to So to kind of ignore the lot of the risk of sentiment local risk of sentiment For the UK then I think in fact anything below this one I think it's one three five area one three five fifty is actually a really really good zone to look for any kind of buying Opportunities but for now, I think the path of resistance is to the short side But getting involved in that for now I think you know you'd have to wait for quite a deep pullback about 200 pick pullback or if prices make lower lows Lower highs basically a pullback into that zone and then something like that Moving on to the euro the euro is the laggard at the moment. So again Proof is in the pudding right We understood and the guys in the group all in my private mentoring group in a discord group all understood why they should really have been getting short on the euro and You know, this is pretty much what has been happening. So It's just really kind of pullbacks to To to to supply zones right or areas On a price chart where you feel that Prices should want to reverse from and in fact I I did a video this week Which was I released it. I think it was yesterday It's a forex news trading masterclass live FOMC euro dollar analysis and trade setup and again, this was from a meeting I had on the Wednesday as FOMC was happening With my private members Discord group, which is basically right here. This is you know, I'll group Have a meeting every Wednesday with the guys and we go over, you know, fundamental analysis live And look at price and look at you know fundamental analysis, right? So what I did was kind of shared this hour and a half long Webinar that I had kind of just gave you kind of 22 minutes of it where I literally break down FOMC as it's happening and The trade setup that occurred as well It's isn't hindsight bias everything that I actually said actually ended up happening I'm not saying I'm a genius or anything like that But it's just if you understand how the markets work you have Probabilities on your side, right? You have the probabilities on your side A good trade can lose and a bad trade can win in this instance good trade setup actually won, right? So it's a great example a lot of traders will tell you You know think they know how to trade the news and typically what traders traders, you know They they they don't understand a FOMO in and they don't really understand how the market really works And this video if you don't understand how the market works Or even if you think you understand how the market works this video will Pretty much set you straight on really how the market actually does work Especially in the short term and how traders FOMO in and how to take advantage of that FOMO and how to really kind of trade the news news events anyway Let's take a look at that after watching this And also as well just looking at the ECB again the theme being central bank is loanier than ever After a hawkish turn led by the Fed, right? So the Federal Reserve are looking to hike rates But but the but the European Central Bank are lagging behind again going back to this Central Bank forecasts on this line. You don't see any rate hikes, right? There's no expectation From the banks that the European Central Bank are going to hike rates so So with central banks from Washington to London this week since signaling more alarm over faster inflation The ultra-stimulative path to of the eurozone and some of its neighbors appears lonelier than ever So they're really one of the few banks that are are lagging behind right so What it's basically saying is is that a collective move to look beyond the pandemic slump and towards the risk Rising of accelerating prices emerged with a warning from the US Federal Reserve that it may taper bond buying programs soon and Prospect of higher interest rates as early as this year from the Bank of England. I don't know about this year And at least five other hikes from central banks around the globe So talking about hiking there that left a clear divergence again Divergence that keyword on policy with European central banks where Officials are still largely more worried about supporting the fragile recovery. Yeah, so again if you go back to the euro dollar Again, you're seeing that play out over time. Does that mean that in this during this period of time? You know that you should have been getting sure of course you should have been getting sure no one's saying that the markets Gonna fall forever, but you you know, you look for areas supply zones Right, and just keep looking for those supply zones as long as the monetary policy hasn't changed Just look for potential short trades because you're trading really the divergence. Yeah, there's periods where you know The divergence isn't so clear right and it looks great in hindsight But the point is is that once you understand the divergence is there and it becomes a lot more clear Then it's just looking for those divergences When you know if there's ever a pullback into, you know, some sort of supply zone. So that being said European the European central bank are lagging behind and The path of these resistances probably still to the downside not saying that you can't pull back this week or for the next Couple of weeks, but if it does I think overall as long as the European central bank remain dovish and the data supports the Narrative for the US Federal Reserve. We should continue to see You know Short trades at potential supply zones, but again, if you if there was a change in sentiment for the Europe for Europe And actually I think that these zones are going to be fantastic a fantastic buy, right? It's just you need the I think well, I need anyway I would like to see a shift in the In Europe's stance on when they're looking to potentially, you know Tape a QE and even talk about hike hiking race and be a bit more hawkish And then I think I'm gonna be I'm gonna really switch my bias to buying the euro Across the board really looking at the Euro yen gain Euro yen Brilliant brilliant supply zone from a few weeks. I'm sorry demands on from a few weeks ago Tough trade to take because there was a lot of risk-off sentiment, but pretty much see what happens what happened there really really nice demand zone and And I was a few traders in the group got involved in that really nice trade To the upside now looking at short trades potentially if risk-off sentiment comes into play then those Supplies and should be decent for shorts But again, you'd have to really kind of wait for risk-off to come into play Aussie dollar again Aussie dollar a bit of a strange one Aussie is again lagging I think the the US dollar is definitely ahead of the Australian dollar the RBA so again any kind of pullbacks into supply zones is probably where the power for these resistance is going to be and And Yeah, I think that's probably where we are the short trades in and around these areas As long as the the Fed stay hawkish in the market believes them, right? You're good. I think the Australian dollar is Is is is definitely more dovish But I do think that prices come down to this 71 area again like the New Zealand dollar US dollar I think that actually might be a really good potential buy At least for it for a few people saying it's going to reverse around here and go to the heavens But just technically it's a really nice trade. So any kind of Opportunity to potentially buy around here actually might be decent But again a really kind of small position But again poverty resistance probably more to the downside Aussie yen Again a pullback into These demand zones pretty didn't work There was no demand there Clearly from the market again There was lots of risk off this week on and last week, but then you've had a bit of a bit of buying around here So we do have a demand zone right there So any pullbacks into these areas if you're looking to buy the Australian dollar is To the upside it breaks through that I think that again is going to be a really nice zone at the absolute lows Looking for any kind of buyers on for the Japanese yen That's going to be where your first Supply zone is going to be so I think in fact decent area again from a risk-off perspective to get short there and Potentially if that area doesn't work short there, but again more looking at risk off sentiment rather than risk on if you're looking for short trades and Gold so gold Has not really benefited from the risk-off sentiment I think more due to the Fed being a lot more hawkish And again the dollar and the yen so the dollar and yen the dollar and gold work inverse right so understanding that If the Fed are more hawkish and gold They're gonna Gold is more likely to potentially start to go down at least in the short term and that's really because Gold doesn't pay any yield right if the dollar are looking to hike rates from zero point two five Potentially to you know zero point five. Yeah Just for holding dollars 0.5% Just for holding US dollars, you're going to get a yield which is what you know investors want whereas gold You can hold gold, but it's really just a price appreciation So for now if the coast is clear as well when it comes to risk sentiment Investors probably who really haven't got really a need to hold gold also as well You've got bonds right government treasury bonds. So government bonds again art is is is Is also a safe haven asset and again if bonds treasury bonds are paying out a Yield right after inflation then that's also going to take away Golds allure for now until there's some sort of risk-off event Potentially or the US don't do so well from an economic perspective. So Technically I do like this area in fact I put it there deeper area and just probably below that area if we can get some sort of a stockpunt around there That would be really nice for a for a really good buy. I think and if you're looking to short gold first area into that 1764 area to look for potential short trades if you're looking to If you think that you know the dollar should want to strengthen in the future anyways guys that's it for this week don't forget to like subscribe and share and Yeah, take care and hope you have a great trading week all the best


Welcome to The Advocate on Plus TV Africa where we discuss thought-provoking topics in an atmosphere of seriousness, decisiveness and laughter. Here we call a spade a spade. Today I'm asking if the presidential seat is now a theme where anybody with money and power can easily vie for. Tulu is pointing out how leaders reflect us. Ruth is asking if we need to take up primaries seriously and Shola on the other hand is looking at the new electoral act. And while Elijah is focusing on fixing the sham that is Nigerian politics, sit back and relax after this break we'll be here to dissect it all. Do stay with us. Is the presidential seat now a joke? In the past few weeks we've seen more and more people get into the presidential race. I mean I've seen people who should probably be on exile now get into the presidential race. Is the audacity of impunity for me? This makes me consciously believe that Nigeria is fast becoming a comedy skit. And guess who the joke is? The masses. I can't help but fusing a popular trend on Twitter. Is this playing? Are you playing? What type of playing is this? Could this also be the change of blindness? A term that is used in psychology, which politicians adopt as an advanced strategy too? Human beings can only focus on so much. If you want to hide something from the people, throw several things at them and then what you're really doing will go unnoticed until it's too late. I just hope it's not going to be too late for us. I strongly believe that whoever ends up at the presidential seat in the 2023 elections is going to be very critical to Nigeria's position in the next decade. I personally implore everyone, both young and old, to get involved and closely follow what's happening. I'm still very much flabbergasted with everything. But let me take a moment off the screen to engage my fellow passionate advocates here, asking one single question. What's really going on here? I was about to ask you the same question. They said one of the political parties extended the deadline of purchase of Humpty today and then tomorrow is the deadline for submission. So are they doing apply for job awards? You talked about audacity. I think that's actually the main crux of this issue. Because they're handling the political, the presidential position like a joke. And we must actually be the ones that bear the suffering.  You just buy firms and these firms are not cheap. So you get together, one person is buying a firm, they're just buying the firms. And these firms are, we all know it's 100 million for a particular party. And it's not small money. So that's where you know that there's actually money in Nigeria to waste. There's so much money to waste. I mean, they should just give us the money. Let's just share the 100 million. I think these parties are missing this thing. I understand that the party has to do things for other companies to raise money for the party. But this is way beyond. It's in excess. Why don't they focus on values? Presidential firms can be, they can even make it almost free. But the criteria for you to get it will be very difficult. And to be somebody of value. If you don't have that level of personality or achievement, you can't get it. But the way it is now, every time they can have it, it has 100 million error. But when I build in the boss pack, it gives 100 million and I go and buy the firm. I mean, it's very interesting. When I said change blindness, right? It didn't happen in 2019 elections. I don't think that happened in 2015 elections. So what's really going on? Are they trying to distract us from something? Why is everybody obviously coming out for the firm? So what's really happening? I keep on asking myself, really, what's the brain behind bringing 100 million to buy a firm? I mean, the other day I saw, that was yesterday. I saw that the MD of Nigerian Mints company there about also purchased the firm. So Sivian Governor purchased the firm. He has purchased the firm. Everybody has purchased the firm. People haven't been buying on people's behalf. So is it that, I'm trying to wrap my head. Are they, is everyone trying to register the fact that they have the money to do this? Is it audio money? Or is it that they're trying to support? Maybe there's something behind it that the politicians are not telling us because it's just not normal. And to be frank, this number, you're only seeing it in the ruling party. The last count for PDP, which whose ticket price is even lower, is just 17 people. So here in the ruling party, you're having close to 30 people that have bought a 100 million error from. There's something they're not telling us. I think I would go with the fact that this is like a decoy. So the real thing that they're trying to do or trying to hide. That's the way I believe it. And the case was reversed when PDP was in power. The same thing too. Even though it was not 100 million, it was exorbitant at that time. And of course a lot of persons were showing interest. What I think tells two things. Number one, it tells the over monetization of Nigerian politics. Our value system is decaying. We don't have to leave our life based on money. We judge someone's content of character and value based on how much does he have in the bank account. It's supposed to be his antecedent. What has he done in the past? How many lives has he touched? Is he a man of integrity? Exactly. But the way they're doing it is all about money, money, money. Every time they can have it, we buy it because he has 100 million error. Even somebody in the government, who is not even supposed to buy the form. Politically, a supposed person is handing a very sensitive office. He's not supposed to buy the form. And then people are buying the form for him. It's very bad. So there should be a mechanism in which we screen our people. Not everybody should purchase the form. And the form shouldn't be a maze for parties to raise money. It's a distraction. Exactly. Thank you. Hi, Chalu. It's great to see you.  You know, is it changed blindness? You know what I mean? Tell us. I mean, probably you're closer to the seat of power. Maybe you can tell us what's going on there. Tell you. Yeah. Hi guys, good afternoon. Hi. I mean, clearly, there's nothing new here. It's a circus that happens every four years in Nigeria. And there's nothing new to see here.   Obviously, the electoral is not tired enough. I mean, I say that we're tired, we're not tired enough. When we're really tired, right, we'll do something about it. If history is, I mean, history is bereft of its stories, of countries that have attained independence in the recess of the world, you know, or are practicing in the recess of the world. I mean, it takes a whole lot more. I mean, last week we talked about this. We talked about this. I said, if you wanted to count how many that are in Nigeria, there are also 100,000 people that are actually leaders. There are about 50,000. There are about 10,000. And there are 200 million people in Nigeria. So it's a case of, you know, the few against the many.  You know, this circus is going to happen in another four years. After 27 is going to be another circus. And then 20, you know, it's going to go on and on until somebody decides or a growth will decide that, you know what, that we're going to do something different, you know, because if you just look at the whole process, you know, from the pilot of the firms, the cost of the firms, so the kind of people, the quality of people, and I'll say a bit more about this when I, you know, say my piece. So to the type of people that are even vying for this position, you ask yourself, you know, so that people's pay salaries in a state of, for me, they have nothing. Once come and do Nigeria, it just makes no sense. Clearly, they're having a laugh, you know, if it's quite obvious that they're having a laugh. Well, thank you so much, Tolu. You know, if this is a joke in a couple of months, we're going to find out, but I would employ every Nigerian to get involved, you know, in any way they think that they can get involved because right now it's not just about, you know, talking, talking, talking. We have to somehow, you know, get infusion to what's going on, you know, and let's see where this takes us to. Up next is Tolu. Just stay with us.