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Good morning and welcome to CMC Markets on Thursday the 7th of May and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 11th of May and it's been a little bit of a choppy week for European and US stock markets. We got off to a little bit of a negative start in the aftermath of a big decline on Friday in the absence of European markets and European markets caught on to that with a bit of a negative vibe on Monday.  I think it's been very very difficult for investors to sort of deduce any sort of direction for markets in general simply because they're being pulled on the one hand of our optimism, the slow easing of lockdowns, or prompt an upturn and ignite a fairly quickish recovery in economic activity, if not an improvement in the data and then on the flip side of that you've got continued rise in really poor economic data. Now I'm recording this video on a Thursday simply because Friday the 8th of May while it is non-farm payrolls day is a UK bank holiday because the Monday bank holiday has been moved to Friday the 8th of May to commemorate the 75th anniversary of V-Day which is victory in Europe from 1945. So the UK is celebrating their bank holiday on a Friday not on a Monday, which of course means that I will have to do the non-farm payrolls webinar on the Friday during what is supposedly a day off, but you know then's the breaks as they say. Nonetheless, what we have now is a quick look at the stock markets this week and by and large it's been a pretty fragmented type of week. What we've seen is since the big decline in the middle of last week we've seen a pretty what I would call choppy series of sessions since Monday. We obviously had a big decline on at the end of last week on the Thursday, which was followed by an even bigger decline on Friday. Since Monday we've seen a slow move higher, but we haven't really moved anywhere significant in the context of where we were about a week ago. Certainly looking at the weekly charts we can see that even though we look as if we're going to finish positive on the FTSE 100 that will be slightly skewed by the fact that we had an extra trading day last week, which the Europeans didn't have. So in the context of where we go to next it's going to be a fairly bumpy ride because obviously we don't have site of US payrolls. We had the ADP report earlier this week, which came in at 20 million job losses for April. The likelihood is we'll get a similar disappoint thing number, not an unexpected number, but a horrific number on Friday. The unemployment rate in the US is likely to move well above the 15% level and yet we have this cognitive dissonance on the part of equity market investors and particularly US investors. The presuppose is that while you're going to see 30 to 40 million new unemployed people in the US economy, somehow we're going to get a v-shaped recovery. Certainly the Bank of England's assessment this morning of a recovery in the UK economy is similarly optimistic, talking about a 15% decline this year followed by a 14% decline this year, my mistake, followed by a 15% rebound in 2021. Now that is predicated on a series of what I would argue is heroic assumptions. It's based on the fact that you're not going to get a significant amount of unemployment that's likely to remain a little bit stickier than most, given the fact that some of the jobs that we saw two or three months ago are not likely to come back. And I'm thinking very much in particular around the travel sector airlines, aerospace, that sort of thing, because obviously it's unlikely that people are going to want to travel anywhere near as much over the course of the next two weeks. There'll still be travel. It just won't be to the same extent. And obviously, aerospace simply because an awful lot of airlines won't want to spend out on new fleets, new aircraft and could well cancel any of their existing orders, which could well affect Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Airbus. So there is going to be significant knock on effects, not only in the travel sector, but also in the supply chains for the aerospace sector, which in turn will obviously cause a trickle down effect into the more vulnerable areas of the UK economy. So looking at the S&P 500 at the moment, we still remain below the 200 day moving average, as we do on a whole host of other equity market indices. And while we're below those levels and I can't reiterate this enough, I still think the downside is the more vulnerable side until such times as we get a rebound through and above the 200 day moving average, then stock markets very much remain in consolidation and sell the rally mode in the longer term. In the shorter term, we are still finding a fairly decent base here in the DAX in and around this 10,200 area. And I think the name of the game at the moment is pretty much range trading. We know the data is going to be horrible. This morning's latest China trade numbers for April showed that even though China is now out of its lockdown and it looks like it's got a handle on the virus, in April there was very little evidence of a recovery in economic activity, domestically, imports slid by 14.2 percent. That was much more than expected. And it suggested that while the economy is reopening, consumers remain very, very cautious about going out and spending money. And I think that's really I think that's equity market investors are really underestimating that. China's been out of lockdown nearly two months now. And yet there's still no significant evidence of a significant uptick in economic activity. Now, one part of that is obviously down to the fact that the rest of the global economy is in lockdown. So it's the export markets are pretty much closed apart from obviously medical medical exports and PPE and that sort of thing. So as we look ahead to next week, I still think the play is range trading in terms of equity markets. The FTSE 100, the German DAX, as we've seen here, as well as the S&P 500 direction is still going to be very, very difficult to determine in the short to medium term. But I'm still of the opinion that while central banks remain very much towards the easing side, we still need to see a significant improvement in economic activity. We need to move beyond the lockdowns. And move towards a rebound and a declining risk of a second outbreak. And unfortunately, I think we will get a second outbreak as we head into the winter season, even if we're able to defer it for two or three months. So as we look ahead to next week, the numbers that I'm keeping a particular eye out for are first quarter GDP for the UK, 13th of May. Little doubt, I think, that the economy will contract in Q1 if recent numbers from France, Spain and Italy are any guide. We've seen big contractions there, 5.8% in France, 5.2% in Spain and 5% in Italy. And even though full lockdown only happened towards the end of March, I think a combination of events, including the effects of February flooding, rising uncertainty seen in the lead up to the lockdown will have eaten in to UK economic output. I think the combined spillover of events saw retail sales in March pose a decline of 5.1%. So that gives you an indication of the sort of number we're looking at in respect of Q1 GDP, you know, and the fact that service sector activity hit 34.5 in March as well. So, you know, I think in terms of the economic outlook for the UK, the GDP number is likely to be a significant disappointment, which brings me on to German first quarter GDP, which is also due out next week, but it's due out on the Friday. It's due out on the Friday, the 15th of May. I have to think about that for a moment. Yes, Friday, the 15th of May. So that also is likely to see a significant contraction. And I think there is an expectation that first quarter GDP in the Eurozone was 3.8%, which seems a little bit optimistic when you consider three other biggest economies in Europe, both have both shown contractions of near and around 5%. So that would presuppose that Germany's first quarter GDP number is going to be much better than three point minus 3.8%. I think that's stretching it a bit. I think they could contract less than France, Spain and Italy, but to the tune of around about 2% 2% contraction to bring that headline EU number down. It's a stretch. It's not impossible, but the March lockdown is likely to have impacted Germany's export markets simply because China was in lockdown for February. Which means the German exports to China pretty much fell off a cliff. It was only really recovering modestly in March and combined with a slight economic activity in March and a 5.6% plunge in March retail sales and big declines in industrial production and manufacturing production and factory orders. I think it's highly likely we could well say a three and a half to 4% contraction in first quarter GDP, which would then mean that EU GDP is likely to come in north of 4%, minus 4%, minus 4%. So I think there's a significant underestimation in terms of German GDP expectations going forward for next Friday. So I think underestimating that a little bit. We've also got, you know, what if it will before I move on to China's industrial production retail sales. So what does that mean for Euro dollar? Because earlier this week we saw the German constitutional court lobber hand grenade into the EU Commission by basically saying that the European Central Bank acted outside of its boundaries when it implemented its quantitative easing program from 2014-2015 and that the ECB had three months to justify the legality of its asset purchase program. Obviously the ruling only related to the asset purchase program that started in 2015-2015. It doesn't apply to the current program, but if you extrapolate that forward, the old program had significant higher limitations on the types of European debt that the ECB could buy. For example, it could not buy Greek debt because Greek debt was classified as junk. As part of the new pandemic program, it can buy Greek debt. So it's got a much looser scope in terms of the assets that it can buy. So if the old asset purchase program is considered ultra-veries and outside of the ECB's remit, then it's quite highly likely we'll see a legal challenge to the existing pandemic asset purchase program. So watch this space. Whatever happens, I think it's very likely that the euro dollar will continue to remain under pressure. And this key level here, around about 107.20, is likely to be a key level going forward. Keep an eye on 107.60.70 area. I think it's still likely that we'll see a move down towards these lows that we saw in March. And similar sort of outlook when it comes to cable. Let's look at the cable chart here before we move on to other things that I'm looking at for the coming week. It's seen a little bit of sterling weakness this week, not altogether surprising, given that we've seen an awful lot more noise about trade talks, Brexit talks and what have you. And we've broken below that 124 area that I highlighted to you at the end of last week, which suggests that we could well look to retest the lows of the recent range all the way down here at 122. Looking at this two hour chart here can probably draw a nice set of lines through here, but there's also these two moving averages, which are likely to act as a little bit of a top around about 124.30 in the short to medium term. If we can get back if we can get back above 124.30, I think this range trade is probably likely to continue to play out. The way I see it at the moment is there's an awful lot of what I would call choppy range trading going on, particularly if we look at this chart on a slightly longer time frame. You can see from the highest back in April, decent selling interest in around 126.30 and here again above 126, but it's also decent buying interest anywhere near 122.30. I see no reason for us to break out of that range. Now, what I would say is that the time is slowly approaching that the UK will need to consider on the EU. We need to consider about the Brexit deadline, which comes at the end of this year, in which in some time in June, there may need to be discussions about an extension. But overall, the likelihood is that the Bank of England will do more quantitative easing before the end of the summer. The vote that we saw today saw two policymakers vote for an extra 100 billion pounds of QE. So it won't take much more economic weakness for the other seven members to also lean in that direction. So the current asset purchase program, £645 billion, that's likely to go up to £745 billion of government and potentially corporate bonds. As we look ahead to the summer. So that's Cable, that's the key levels on Cable. 124.30 on the upside. If we can get back above that, then I think it's likely that we could head back towards the highs that we saw towards the end of April, beginning of May. You're sterling still decent support around about 86, 70, 80. That is proving to be a very, very solid base in the short to medium term. But what it does tell you is the fact that if we do break below that, there's probably going to be quite a number of stop losses building up below that key downside support. We can sit on this chart here very, very clearly. This is the daily chart that we're looking at. If I change that time frame ever so slightly to a four hour chart, it's probably an awful lot more notable when it comes to looking at the series of lows that we've got in and around that 86, 70, 80 area.  So we've got these lows here, here and here and here and here. I think I've got a little bit carried away with my zoom function there. So I'll just wind it back out of touch so that it actually shows an awful lot clearer here. So here we go all the way along here, big, big support. And it's notable that the rebounds are getting ever so slightly weaker, which suggests that at some point we will break that level and head towards 86, 20 and 85, 80. So let's move on to Chinese industrial production. Retail sales for April. They're due out next Friday as well. Again, we talked about this, I think, a few minutes ago. The April numbers, April retail sales in particular is probably what I'm more focused on than industrial production simply because it's a good, it's a decent barometer of internal consumption, internal demand. In February and March, we saw declines of 20.5% and 15.8% in retail sales. So we should see an improvement in April. I think we should see a decline at well. Analyst estimates suggest we'll see a decline of 6%. Nonetheless, that's still pretty poor and shows that the Chinese consumer who now makes up more than 50% of the Chinese economy still remains very, very cautious in the aftermath of coronavirus and COVID-19. So economic activity is expected to improve. Industrial production is probably going to move back into positive territory as exports improve, as we've seen in the most recent trade numbers. But rising unemployment could well act as an additional break on a sharp rebound in economic activity. So those are the key macro items that I've got my eye on next week. Let's have a quick look at Brent Crude because we've seen a decent rebound there. Production cuts kicked in at the beginning of the month. But there's still no evidence at the moment that I can see that what we've seen is likely to give way to a significant improvement in demand. Yes, the easing of the lockdowns will help in working off the storage surplus. And certainly the performance on this weekly chart here from the 20 year lows does suggest that we are starting to carve out a little bit of a base. But the oil market is very, very fickle. And we've got the June expires going to be coming up to approach us over the course of the next few weeks. And that could introduce an awful lot of volatility. In the oil contract, the big level for me on Brent is this series of highs through here at about thirty two and a half, thirty three dollars a barrel is those highs through here. And obviously the 50 day moving average is acting as a little bit of a barrier on the daily charts in the short to medium term. So I'm keeping an eye on thirty dollars a barrel and thirty two dollars a barrel. I think if we can get back above there, then we could head back to 40. But at the moment, I'll be surprised if we do simply because this is such a huge resistance level through here. If I draw a horizontal line in that'll basically give you a better indication of the level that I'm looking at. There we go. So that's in there. And it's around about thirty three dollars a barrel straight across the top there. So let's keep an eye on that. Gold's pretty much busy doing nothing. Fairly well supported around about 16, 17, 16, 80 with decent resistance of the recent near the recent highs of around about 17, 40. In terms of earnings announcements, I think there's always interest in companies like Aston Martin been a real tale of what for Aston Martin since its IPO in 2018. Even I mean, I've been really surprised the amount of own goals that company has managed to score in the course of the last 18 months. One profit warning after another. It's only been saved from administration by the Canadian billionaire, Lawrence Stroll. It's got some significant interests in shareholders. Toto Wolf, head of Mercedes Formula One, is also a minority shareholder. It's just raised. It's just raised some new funds, diluting existing shareholders. It has a decent order book. It's got a decent order book of around about two and a half thousand cuts and the reopening of its manufacturing facilities will offer a welcome respite. But if it's looking to take on Ferrari, it's going to start have to start shifting some product. And that means that China needs to reopen quickly. All of its big markets need to open quickly. And it starts to need to start shifting quite a few of these DBX SUVs because that is being touted as the solution to its cash flow problem. So looking at these lows here, I think there's going to be a very key bellwether in terms of not only its Q1 numbers, which are likely to be awful, but its outlook. What? How can the chairman basically sell a future that's going to give shareholders some of their money back after what has been a horrific last few months? We've also got Ted Baker, again, another tail away. Therefore, your numbers from them, they are due to come out on the 15th of May. They may not. It's not immediately confirmed. But again, the biggest markets of Hong Kong and China, which have been hit quite badly. So I think more than anything, looking for a little bit of a decent rebound in those shares, given how far they fall. And you've got to ask the question, how much is the bad news is already in the price? It's managed to solve some of its debt problems by saying it's head office for 72 million pound, which allowed it to pay down some of its debts. But overall, that chart does not lie. It really needs a significant improvement through 200p to really suggest that it's that a base is in and we could well see further gains. It's trading more like a penny share at the moment, up seven percent today. What has been a success story in the U.K.'s construction sector, which has been a bit of a nightmare over the course of the past five years, has been about four BT. First quarter earnings during the fourteenth of May. And even though the construction sector has been one of the weak links in the U.K. economy, Belford BT certainly hasn't. We look at this chart here. We can see that it's seen a significant rebound off its lows. I don't particularly like that font. Let's do something about that, shall we go to settings, font and then change the small fonts to medium fonts. And then let's make the X bold so that we can actually see. The levels that we're talking about, there we go, that's better. It's a much better idea of, you know, where we are in terms of. The price action. So, yeah, going back to its last report, report in March profits rose eight percent, two hundred and twenty one million pounds, rise in the order book, focus on high margin. Now, the company did postpone the payment of the dividend in March just to bolster its balance sheet. But certainly, I think there is a chance the company may defer this update given the disruption to its business in Q1. But it does still remains in fairly decent shape given the problems faced by an awful lot of the sector. And that very weak construction PMI number that we saw earlier this week, which came in at eight, which was pretty awful. And again, I think we're likely to see a significant improvement in Q2 once all of these building sites start to go back to work. One other thing to keep an eye on is Marriott's latest results. They've had to raise an awful lot of money over the course of the past three to four weeks to try and ride out the hit to the hotel sector. They they bought Starwood a few Starwood a few years ago, so they're carrying an awful lot of debt. So they've managed to secure their survival for at least another nine months. And they're reporting their Q2 Q1 numbers on the 11th of 11th of May. So that's it. I think for this week's look at the week ahead, as I say, we don't have sight of the payrolls numbers, but I don't think it's going to be on the realms of possibility to suggest that the numbers are going to be pretty poor and that. Markets are probably going to take them in their stride unless the number, the headline number comes in anywhere near above or anywhere, anywhere significantly above twenty one or twenty two million. I think that's that's the benchmark number. And that is the expectation with the unemployment rate of it in around 15%. So as I say, that's it for this week. I have a good extended long weekend. If you're not tuning into the payrolls, if you are, I will be covering them live. In the meantime, thank you very much for listening. It's Michael Houston talking to you from CMC Markets.


All right, so in this video obviously I'm reviewing the Somni looted dreaming mask now This is going to be a pretty detailed video because I'm not only unboxing it You know for the first time showing you here, but I'm actually going to do is I'm going to wait You know like a few weeks maybe even a couple of months to use it You know for several nights and actually go through it use it as a as you would use it as a brand-new person as a brand-new user and Hopefully get a real Understanding about how it works. Now. I've made of not I made a video about this before Before it was officially, you know released and funded on Kickstarter Explaining why I think this is a really good lucid dreaming mask compared to Most of the other ones so there's there's a number of reasons why it's really good in my opinion at least and why Although the marketing behind it is you know, it could be better. It's not as sexy. Let's say as the a Couple of the other ones the ins the dreamer and the other ones That don't know that put you off. Okay, there's a reason this is different. This is It's a step up from most of the other lucid dreaming tech that I've seen and That's really exciting. Okay, so don't know the marketing and the you know The clunkiness I guess of it put you off This is actually a really decent product and hopefully it lives up to the expectations that I have So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just unbox it for you show you exactly what you get I've actually got two versions of it here, which I believe is there the white and the black I also like that they've had they've put the little inception totem logo here on the box. That's really cool So yeah, I'm gonna unbox it. I'm gonna then explain why this is you know Pretty exciting compared to other other sleeping lucid dreaming tech and then I'm gonna edit in a clip Which I haven't made yet, which I'm gonna be Testing it, you know over the next few weeks month or two to see if it really works. All right So I'm gonna start by unboxing this one, which is the let me see what color this is. This is the black Version of this has two different colors as far as I know and let's just go ahead and open it up I might need a knife or something. So here we have the main, you know device and As you can see, it's actually really simple It's actually really simple There's a few things I want to explain about this which I'll get on to in a second, but as you can see it's Decent, you know, it's a nice quality This is basically like a rubber or foam sleep mask with you know little indentations here for your eyes Let me show you so you can see that If you're listening to this on the podcast version, then obviously this won't make a lot of sense to you But I'll try and explain as I go and if you you know, if you want to watch the review video Just go to go over to YouTube and you'll be able to see it there. So Some things I like about this straight away So the first one is that the actual device itself is tiny like this is the you know, the the piece of Technology that allows it to work and as you can see it's really really small So hopefully that won't interfere with your sleep much for those listening to the podcast version. It's basically the size of What can we say it's like the width of a coin and The length of let's say two coins stacked on top of each other. I think that's fair to say And roughly but roughly the size of my thumb. Okay, so if you look at that If you're watching this you can see it's pretty small That's a good thing straight away. Okay.  So I'm glad they put this in For those of you who can see this. This is just a little flap of material. That means that when you wear this thing The light can't go underneath the mask and Up behind your nose if that makes sense if you've used a sleep mask before you'll know exactly what I mean by that But long social good design of sleep mask to base this device on, you know to put this device on and Then from what I can see yeah pretty standard elastic strap felt crow the device itself looks pretty comfortable So I'm just gonna put this to the side for now and then see what else we have in the box here So micro USB cable, which is how it's charged And then we have the headphones which is just standard. I'll take them out so you can have a look standard in ear headphones designed specifically for this mask a few people on the I think on some of the Reddit groups were saying why can't I just use my own headphones the reason is if you try to You know sleep with sleep music and Meditation music when you sleep your headphone wire gets in the way it tangles around everywhere So that's why they've included the headphones like this because they're exactly the perfect size or the perfect length So they won't get in the way of anything. Okay, so I'll just put those to the side and then we have the Instruction manual in several different languages. So we have American German Swedish French The budget of languages, okay, there's not much in the way of instructions. Let's be honest and This is probably one of the downsides of the somnimask is that in my opinion at least the marketing could have been done a bit better The attention to detail with certain things could have been a bit better. For example the instruction manual as far as I can see there's no This is it. Okay, and the majority of this is in different languages. The only Instruction that I can see you get is a one-page summary here And this is the English summary. I'll just hold it there so you can pause it and read it if you want to Basically just tells you how to it's like a quick start guide It says basically insert the headphones put the mask on turn it on and then so on right It's a really simple quick start guide I'm going to get into more of that and when I actually test this thing myself I'll explain some tips and how you can get more out of this and My expert opinion on how you can actually have more lucid dreams with this thing and that's basically Everything that's in the box as far as I can see. Yeah Okay, so I'm just going to put a lot of this back in just for a second and just very quickly show you the the other color Just so you can see what that's like and then I'll get into some specifics about why I think this is a good mask how you can use it and how you can get one. All right, so this is the white version And this is the two masks kind of side by side. You can see in my opinion the black one looks nicer But that's just me You don't have to The color I don't think makes a difference. All right, so we've done the unboxing. We've seen what's in the box here I'm going to give it a charge and turn it on However, the one thing I you know another thing I like about this is there's no screen There's no blinking lights apart from the ones that are supposed to blink You know on this side of the device. There's no annoying lights that I can see It's really simple. You just like literally have headphone port on and off switch usb port to charge it. That's it Looks like it's pretty much built in To this so let's give it a try. Let's put it on So my first thoughts are that as a sleep mask, it's really good You know it blocks out I would say a hundred percent of the light. There's just maybe a tiny bit down here But if I just adjust it I literally can't see anything So and that's that's quite good, you know quite an achievement for any sleep mask alone One that also does what the somni can do Um, yeah, so it's a little bit tight at the moment. Let's see if I can adjust that Yeah, it's pretty comfortable. It's pretty comfortable. Um, oh Blinded by the light now If you are listening to the podcast version of this, uh, this might not make much sense It's all really but hopefully you can come over to the youtube and now I'm going to get into the specifics about Why I'm excited about the somni how I think it can be used to lose a dream And why you're probably wondering a few questions that I think you might have Which I'm going to answer now Firstly, why would you as a lucid dreamer? Why would you go out and buy this thing? Well, firstly, how much is this thing right? It's not as expensive as the majority of sleep tech and lucid dreaming tech I should say Um, it's under 300. It's actually at the moment only I believe 200 dollars This price will probably change when they you know get more interest in orders coming through Because it's recently funded on Either indiegogo or Kickstarter So obviously it's a crowdfunded thing that just as a company starting to find their feet and develop Ways of fulfilling these orders and and getting everything sorted out. So, yeah I'm sure that the price will change in the coming weeks and months At the moment it's 200 dollars, but even if let's say they add 100 dollars to it and it becomes 300 dollars There's a really good reason why it's worth that money And I'm going to get on to that now. All right. So like most of the sleep masks and lucid dreaming masks that have been Funded in the past, right the ones we've seen so far The goal with any lucid dreaming mask so far has been to to try and detect when you're in REM sleep Okay, because the majority of dreams and certainly lucid dreams happen in REM sleep. You're more likely to Um, actually have a lucid dream if you interrupt yourself just before or during your REM sleep and then in this case you you see like a series of flashing lights, um, you hear Certain certain sounds through the headphones that makes it more likely that you'll lose a dream So the goal has always been to try and guess or predict when you're in REM sleep The problem with that is that you're guessing so so far up until this you've been guessing The mask or device has been trying to use an algorithm data Timing timers predictions in some cases literally just a timer It will just go off after five hours with no matter what stage you're in Which is probably one of the worst ways of doing it But this is different because this actually does not guess when you're in REM sleep It knows when you're in REM sleep because it tracks your eye movement Okay, so something very very different about this and this is that's why i'm so excited about this mask Out compared to all of the others. Okay As far as I know and I I haven't looked into every single mask But I've seen the vast majority of masks out there devices elusive dreamy induction devices As far as I know, this is the first one that can track your eye movements To determine when you're in REM sleep. So that makes it straight away. It sets it apart from the rest And makes this a very exciting piece of equipment. So how does it work? Well, firstly, as you can see here on one half of the sleep mask, there is actually a eye movement tracker This is a movement tracker and that sits in it's only on one of the one eye. Okay Um, you you don't feel it.  Okay, but it tracks the movement of your eyes So in REM sleep your eyes move around and that actually makes causes a bump in your eyelids to move around as well So it can track when you're in REM sleep So finally, there's no need for the algorithm to guess when you're in REM sleep because it pretty much knows when you're in REM sleep That is the vast majority of the problem so far that all of these masks all of these devices have been trying to solve how can we Firstly detect when you're in REM sleep and then secondly get a message to you during that time Whether it's like a flashing light or a sound or even a vibration An electrical stimuli, whatever it is a signal to try and remind you that you're dreaming Well, now it's not guessing at all. It knows exactly when you're in REM sleep It's pretty accurate and again. I'm going to test this myself I'm going to go through the process and test it for a few weeks, but it's pretty accurate Okay, it can detect your REM sleep and then show you these messages. So that's how it works Okay, so it detects that you're in REM sleep it shows you the flashing lights You can train it. You can customize it and you know plug it into the usb Customize different settings and then the idea is that over time you can work with this device and accurately predict when you're in REM sleep Uh get a message to yourself using the lights or the audio and become lucid theoretically Whenever you want I know I'm going to get some hate for saying that but theoretically is the keyword here you can accurately predict when you're in REM sleep using this device and then Stack the odds in your favor so that it's much more likely that you will Know you're in REM sleep get the message flashing lights and become lucid It takes a bit of training and it takes a bit of practice obviously It's much more effective when you combine it with other things which I'm going to get onto Soon in a minute and I actually have a suggestion for you, which I'll get onto at the end of this video But it's very interesting. Okay. I'm sure you can see right now This compared to other lucid dreaming masks and devices. This is a very interesting one It's different. Okay. There's a few other ways. It's different as well So what would happen with a lot of the older masks? And again, I'm not going to name job because I'm not trying to, you know Criticize these things too heavily You know, they had the right intention They wanted to make lucid dreaming more accessible one for whatever reason their products or projects didn't work Or you know, they didn't work as much as they wanted them to this one is different because The false positive signal is virtually eliminated with this mask. So what would happen with let's say your average Let's call it mask a All right, your your normal lucid dreaming mask would Hopefully detect when you're in REM sleep and it would show you this the flashing lights But the problem is it would also show you signals when you weren't in REM sleep Or when you were just turning over when you were just rolling over in bed when you were Scratching your head or you know, whatever it is when you were In a different sleep stage entirely The algorithm here knows when you're moving because it has an accelerometer as well So if you're turning over It knows to can't to disregard that even if it detects that your eyes are moving It will disregard that because you're moving. So it knows you're not in REM sleep Or is you know more likely that you're just turning over and you're disrupted So in theory it will only show you the signal when you are actually in REM sleep And not just when it thinks you are when you're actually in REM sleep That makes a huge difference and that will make it far more effective than the masks before So we spoke about comfort, you know, this is quite a comfortable mask to wear and again, I will test this thoroughly The next thing is price now the price of this at the moment is about $200 It will probably go up to 300 when it you know becomes like officially released to the public you can order it now I want to just clarify you can order this now and it will arrive in a few weeks time But the interesting thing is the price is only $200 Even if it were $300, this is vastly different to masks that have come before it and I believe this has a huge potential to change the lucid dreaming industry to change the whole Sleep and you know wellness industries because through lucid dreaming you can do so much more So many more things It really is exciting. It really is an exciting time Technology is finally being fused with lucid dreaming the branding of this thing I personally think could have done could have been done a bit better It seems like they've just kind of put some texts And the you know the symbol form inception the lucid dreaming totem But don't let that put you off Okay, there have been projects before this that have been much better branded and marketed But they didn't work as well the products Or the projects didn't work the idea behind them was not right, you know as flawed This is different. Okay. This you have a really good concept You have hopefully working technology that really does do what it says it's going to do The only kind of chink in the armor here is the marketing and the branding Which I think could be done a little bit better But that's the only thing so if you're a beginner looking at this and you're thinking like You know, I'm brand new to lucid dreaming. I just want to have my first lucid dream Should you get this mask? No, but let me clarify what I mean by that. No, you should not just get this mask If you just get this mask put it on and expect to have lucid dreams You will waste your money. You'll be severely disappointed because it doesn't work like that You really need to first learn how to lucid dream build up the skills learn the techniques Experience it and work out how you know, how you're going to do this thing And then you use things like this as like a resource or a tool You should never just rely on one thing whether it's a mask or supplement or whatever it is That being said when you understand how it works This is a game changer. Okay. This is really really powerful way to Make it so much more likely that you will actually lose a dream. It's not even it's not even funny Okay, now this video has gone on for a very long time. I might split this up into two actually So this would just be the unboxing and then later on I'll do a full review of it Um, what I would say is if you are considering buying this Firstly, there's a link in the description. You should be able to get a discount at least 50% off at the moment This might change depending on when you watch this video Secondly, you really want to make sure that you learn how to lucid dream Either first or at the same time as trying to start the device many ways you can do this You can either check the videos on my channel. I've got thousand not thousands. I've got hundreds of tutorials You can go to my website how to lucid.com Or in my opinion the kind of the fastest way is just to cut through all the noise And go through what I have created which is the lucid breakthrough course This is a high quality video course which explains Exactly how to lucid dream in simple steps. I would really like to Encourage you to do that alongside the somnimask because they really do go hand in hand And it's a way for you to just kind of jump in Skip past all the noise and the wasted, you know time and whatever And just learn exactly how to do it why most beginners fail Learn statistically the most likely way to lucid dream the statistically most likely way to improve your sleep To remember your dreams all of that is in this course. So go and check out the link in the description There is also the link to get a somnimask in the description as a huge discount Uh, and I would really love to hear what you think So leave a comment letting me know what you think about this mask if you do have any questions about this Anything at all put them in the comment section I will try and answer them in my full review video, which I'll make in a few weeks time So thanks for watching make sure to subscribe and I'll see you next time


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's CaseBreaks.com coming at you with our last pack of 2019, 2020 Panini Chronicle basketball to unlock that mixer, giving away the final three spots in this break. But let's do the break first. Big thanks to everyone here for joining. There's all the teams right here. So let's do the break first, make you sweat it out a little bit before we do the randomizer at the end. Different dice roll for the end. Three into four, seven times for names and teams. One, two, three, four. Five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, we've got Robert all the way down to Kobe. Three into four, seven times for the teams. One, two, three, four, six. And seventh and final time. After seven, we've got the Knicks down to the Bulls. All right, here's the first half of the list right here. We've got Jake with the Gris, Jarrell with the Lakers in this one, and then we got this group right down here. Thanks everyone for getting in, Pelicans for Robert. All right, no trade windows in these little filler breaks. Let's just get right to ripping. All right, yeah, this is the break first, Matt. This is the break first. Why am I watching spring training basketball or spring training baseball that already happened when I could be watching the end of the Pistons Nets game on NBA TV? John Moran, LeBron James, nice. So we got the playbook LeBron with the copper on there, which I think is exclusive to these sets.  So this might have a little extra value here, Jake with the Memphis Grizzlies. And of course, this Luminance John Moran is also a good-looking card. All right, now here's the important part. Three big hits, the mixer spots. So from Kobe down to Rex and everyone in between, let's get your names all into this big list. Let's use a new dice roll, and it's gonna be top three after three, a two and one. One, two, and three. After three times, apologies to everyone here from number four on down to 30. I appreciate everybody trying close, close but no cigar on number four. Thank you, though, for trying. Congrats to the top three. We've got Jake, Joshua, and Kobe. Oh, it wasn't, it didn't miss out at all. You got a spot, you're in. Thanks for watching, everybody. That huge break coming up next, jaspeakscakes.com.


President Joe Biden has been predictably terrible when it comes to pressuring the Israeli government to stop slaughtering Palestinian civilians But thankfully senior house Democrats actually decided to do the right thing and exert pressure on Joe Biden to suspend the weapons deal Currently slated to go through because it's a little bit of a bad look if you know, especially now those weapons are going to be used against innocent civilians. However Senior house Democrats back the way from that. Yeah, I don't know if the Israeli lobby got to them and you know Got them to have a change of heart I don't know if they got cold feet or felt like that effort wasn't going to amount to anything since Joe Biden Is it going to budge? Either way senior house Democrats decided to be cowards But thankfully newer members of Congress members of the squad representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rashida Tlaib and others are stepping up political reports a group of lawmakers is cobbling together an effort to block a controversial sale of precision guided weapons to Israel as President Joe Biden ratchets up the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring to a halt the increasingly deadly conflict in Gaza Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the effort along with representatives Rashida Tlaib, Mark Pocan, Ilhan Omar and others according to a draft Resolution obtained by Politico the 11th hour Democratic effort comes one day after a group of senior house Democrats on Tuesday Backed off an emerging push to delay the sale amid intensifying violence in the region Lawmakers wanted to use the impending arms transfer as leverage to push the Israelis to drop their resistance to a ceasefire Earlier Wednesday Biden told Netanyahu that he expected a significant Deescalation today on the path to a ceasefire according to a White House readout of their phone conversation Last week the US blocked efforts by the United Nations Security Council to call for a ceasefire Effectively backing Israel's bombing campaign against Hamas the Palestinian militant group as of Wednesday Israel's military operations in Gaza have killed 217 Palestinians including 63 children while 12 Israelis have died in the conflict which escalated after Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel Now I'll just pause here to correct that article the conflict escalated when Israel Chose to do an ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah They're the ones who initiated all of this. They're the occupiers. They're the aggressor So I still think it's important to point that out whenever we see this sort of false equivalence or both sides Ism in these sorts of articles but the point of the article stands that now Thankfully we have members of Congress members of the squad who are actually doing the right thing now on Twitter AOC explained a little bit more about what her goal is saying the United States should not be rubber stamping weapons Sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets schools Hospitals humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing. We have a responsibility to protect human rights It must be said here Amplification is necessary but not sufficient traction on the issue is very dependent on your calls to Congress Retweets aren't enough call your member of Congress and let them know how you'd like to be represented on this matter Some tips on calling congressional offices one don't be scared Our lines exist to receive your calls to call your member the one who represents your district Look it up in the link above be kind and clear you can firmly state your position without being cruel So she's correct. It's not scary and to show you how it isn't intimidating I'm gonna call in a second. I'll call my representative But I just want to respond to some of the things that she said here like she specifically cited how Israel is very brazen. They're targeting media outlets They damaged the road leading to Gaza's main hospital and if you watched Vosch's 27-hour live stream where he fundraised for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund As he was doing the live stream their building was bombed. It's just they're so brazen bombing these types of Sanitarian groups who are literally there to provide medical assistance to Palestinian children. So Israel doesn't care at all They have no regard for human life and it's funny in the article. It's cited how Biden his message to Netanyahu was I expect significant deescalation Okay, but what are you gonna do about that because he's gonna hear you and say, okay Thank you very much for your input and continue doing exactly what he's been doing the way that you actually get him To stop if you want your words to have any teeth whatsoever is you have to condition aid you stop the armsale I mean, it's not that difficult Biden has leverage. He's choosing to not use that leverage Hence why Netanyahu isn't just continuing with the slaughter and Gaza. They're being Raisin openly committing war crimes bombing a building that housed associated press Journalists so it is important. This is gonna be very difficult I don't have much hopes that this resolution is going to pass having said that though that doesn't mean that we don't try So I'm gonna call my representative.  So I'm gonna give her a call to her local office Thank you for calling Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici's Beaverton office Out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of everyone's health the Congresswoman's offices in Washington, DC and Oregon are closed while the Congresswoman and her staff work remotely We will be checking this mail regularly and returning calls Please leave a brief message along with your phone number and email address The Congresswoman's website is available at phone of Michi house Hello representative Bonamici, my name is Michael Figuero. I am a constituent of yours And I just want to call to encourage you to support representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's resolution Urging the Biden administration to not sell weapons to Israel while they literally carry out a genocide in Gaza I would love to have you be a leader on this issue and not only support that but also speak up at the behest of Palestinians who right now are suffering they can't get in or out of Gaza without Israel say Israel controls their electricity Their water supply and currently they're being massacred with 63 children dead because of Israel at the time I make this call so please I ask you to support this resolution and be a leader speak up It's the right thing to do and you will be on the right side of history if you do that Thank you very much for your consideration and that's it I mean, I usually end up babbling on far too long when I call a member of Congress or my representative But you don't have to do that you could just keep it short and sweet you can just say hi my name is blank My phone number is blank Please support AOC's resolution condemning the arms sale to Israel That's all you really need to say it's not difficult and when she says it's not scary It's surprising the number of people who actually say they are a little bit afraid to call is a bit startling to me and a lot of people have Social anxiety and sometimes it helps if they see individuals like me do something really simple and just make a call And I've gotten a lot of great feedback from people who say that when they see me make a call to a member of Congress They feel a little bit better about doing it themselves nine times out of ten You're never gonna talk to an individual at best You'll talk to a staffer who will write down your message and that's it They'll relay the message to the member of Congress, but it's it's not anything to be afraid of You know if you stumble over your own words or you don't necessarily articulate yourself perfectly That's fine. We're all human beings What matters is that you get your point across and it's relatively easy to do that so long as you care about this Issue so I would encourage you to follow AOC's lead here and make the call to your representative and we will leave that there Absolute credit where it's due AOC hasn't necessarily been the best on the issue of Israel Palestine But over the course of the last couple of weeks. I have been pleasantly pleasantly Surprised and delighted to see the way that she's spoken out on behalf of Palestinian human rights I'm very happy about this and it's nice to have leaders in Congress now because this is Something that's new we've never had members of Congress really lead the charge against this really apartheid and I really want to Give her credit because this is things like this it matters even if it might be really difficult to actually pass this resolution


Good afternoon everyone, Basel Chapman here for the 3 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update on this Monday the 18th of March. We're looking at the Dow up $144,000 at $38,859. Look at this. There's a technique that I use that's called Chapman Incitrack Propellen Zone. If the price starts to push underneath that or slide underneath that, it becomes a repellen zone. We're right on the line for the Dow daily chart. The weekly chart is still very strong. So is the monthly. Looking at the S&P, S&P right now trading off the high but still pretty down good. Up 40 points at 51, 57.42. Getting into this resistance, I haven't extended this. I should have done that earlier on. This is your Incitrack repellen zone right here and we got close to it. Now we're pulling back just a little bit. Weekly chart looks fabulous. Getting a little overboard in the daily. Certainly we're looking at the QQQ, not that great. It's starting to pull back a little bit more than the, I shouldn't say not that great. It's still very good. It's just not as strong as the others. It's up 460 at 438.5G. This is the Invesco QQQ Trust Series, the NDX100 trading vehicle. Weekly chart has already made a peak. Sea was still pretty strong. We're just about to see the technicals by maybe Wednesday or Thursday start to deteriorate and that's what we're watching very closely. IWM, that's the Russell 2000. That's the small caps, struggling a bit down 43 cents at 201.96. A little bit weaker technically. The IWM is the small cap 2000s. Now let's go to gold. Gold has been holding pretty well. It's up 2. It's not doing very much, but let's face it after this spectacular move in February. Just taking a little bit of a breather in March. Got to this inside track repellent zone right there or propelent zone. Now it's just sitting there very nicely. We'll see if the dollar is able to go higher or if it starts to pull back and that'll help gold. So we've got the dollar right now up. 17 ticks at 103.60. Trying to get to the 200 period moving average of 103.74 in the daily chart. And we've got bonds. This is a problem. The bonds are down. So the yields are going higher. The Fed coming up in another two days down a half a point at 118 and 830 seconds. Just not that great. Crude or interesting enough is really strong. It's up $1.79 at 82.37. We're watching this climbing the 9th period exponential moving average all week. I'll be back for the Tom O'Brien show in a few moments time. Stand by because this should be an exciting lost hour. See you in a few minutes.


Our next category which is Integrated Campaign, let's find out who the shortlisted nominees are. Integrated Campaign is indeed a challenge because all elements have to be cohesively coming together and you know, pull in the same direction. So this year we did see a lot of entries which were kind of good and solid and sound. And in terms of the debate and the discussion that we had, finally we settled down on scale and complexity in terms of that getting pulled off.