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I do the Tiger Technicians Hour at 10 o'clock to 11, every market day here at TFNN, done it for over 20 years, and I also have a service called The Opening Call. Danny Newsday, a very detailed newsletter and we'll talk about it in a little while. But I just wanted to show you there's a technique that I developed years ago. For those of you who are subscribers or are going to subscribe to my newsletter, you'll be getting 8, 9, 10, 11 webinars that I've done and each one really does a whole bunch of different things that I've learned over the years that I teach in these webinars and then I repeat them and show them charts throughout the day. This is called the Long Narrow Rectangle Formation. There's a time where a chart doesn't matter what it is. Very often it's the futures. This is the E-mini, S&P futures, trading at 43.59 down 21, where it goes into a long narrow sideways trading range and it stays there. And every time you think it's going to break down, it holds the line and uses it as a propellant and it goes up to the top line and that border, you think, oh, this time it's going to break to the upside. No, it gets reversed and it's just like a pink bomb ball. Eventually it goes to, in the chapter wave, the fourth or fifth highest peak, a D or an E, half of a tie, it's the ABCDFG on the way up, same thing on the way down, and it goes to an E or D and then it pulls back. If it takes out this halfway mark, I just made it kind of faint. I'll make it a little thicker right now and I'll make it blue because now this point is really important. There we go. This blue line, I usually do this by eye, so my eye says just around about here at about 40, 40G, 57, that's the midpoint of the channel. What happens is if it goes above and then above is at a D or an E, then there's a really good chance that if it takes out the middle line, this horizontal midpoint of the channel, there's a really good chance it's not only going to take, go to the bottom of the trend line, the base, it's going to take it out. But what happens is it takes it out and then it revisits that because it's always so quick that it's like, I haven't said goodbye to everybody, I just pop back up so I can say goodbye. But if it then takes out on the way up after that, you see the down arrow, after that potential up arrow, there's a chance to revisit the upper trend line and you stay in this range. Well, lo and behold, it did exactly that. Then it popped down again, it went back above the left side low and now it's stuck in this range. So let's revisit it in a little while, but I am impressed. Yeah, we're going to tell you what I'm impressed about today. I'm impressed about two things. One is, JP Morgan came out with earnings. They evidently, I mean, some of it was very bad, but some of it was very good. It's always this mixed result with the banks, but the banks, the marketeers loved it. So it caps up this morning, it closed yesterday at about 145.50. It opens this morning at 148.50. Not good enough. It screams up to the 153 level and now it's trading at 148.20 up to 2.35. So it is now underneath the opening price. So that's one thing. So that's really important. Why? Because it impacts the XLF, which is the S&P Select Financial Spider Fund. Well, as far as I'm concerned, if the financials are lagging, it's a drag on the market. It's a drag. It's telling us about the economy. It's telling us about a lot of things. So I'm just putting that out there to say, until the XLF, this is the S&P Select Financial Spider Fund trading at $0.3320, up $0.06, still up $0.06, a couple of cents because Wells Fargo came out, a couple came out with earnings. And that gap up, it's still a gap up in JP Morgan, not a great looking candle at this particular point. But if at any point in the next week, I'm not going to give it two weeks. I'm giving it next week. It really speedies up the essence now. So if it's able to tag $0.3992, the 200-period moving average, and then close above it, I would say that that is really good action. That's number one. Number two is the fact that if you're looking at this weekly chart, this orange 200-period moving average in the XLF has been holding very nicely. And we're making, yes, we're making lower highs and lower lows. But this candle, I'm going to call it for the moment. I'm not going to go into it. I'll do that maybe on Monday in my show. It's an inverted Chapman Wave Roman candle. If there is a move next week on a daily basis, even though it's a weekly chart, and on any day there's a close above $33.45, that's a big ask. But if there's one, then I would say that then you could tag the 14-period exponential moving average and the 5-period moving average, which is actually negative right now at $33.81. All right, now let's go through the story. The Dow, I knew, the Dow is now up 68 points.  At 72, up 72, $33,703, we have begun a leg B. Just for clarification, you see the little long hair. We have a trading long, kind of aggressive trading long, three times long, but a small position. We are still short from August the 1st. That was the very high of the Dow at $35,679. That was the August 1st high. We still hold that short, but we've got a trading long. It might sound confusing, but then you also have to go back to October, right there, where we went along the day of the low, and we're still long from the low of 2020-2020. These are different time cycle positions. This is a trading one, because I'm not sure that this is going to last all that long, this rally. And then I think we have to do some testing. Do we have to break the 32... The reason why we went along on the 6th is, that was an exact, I was talking about this on my show, there was an exact time match from the May 25th low of $32,586. The number of bars to the high of the 1st of August to the number of bars on the 6th matched exactly, and we were within a couple of hundred points of that left side low, and other techniques say, hey, this would be a really good opportunity, just a risk reward to go along, and we are still long. It's a profits for we are still long. I just wanted to get that out the way, because the next thing we want to look at here is the S&P with the weekly chart, and I'll be a right back Basel Chapman sitting here for Tom O'Brien. The S&P is down 15, the down's up 72. We'll be right back. 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I'm Jack Benz, sitting in for Tom O'Brien. So a couple of things I wanted to tell you. Look, the S&P has come off nicely from the 42-16 low at the, I think it was the second of October, first and third of October. And it's just made a fractional high yesterday. So I call that a leg B. It's gray because it's stochastic. Under 80% the MACD is not good, and the 9p moving average has not crossed positive. But it's really close and it's attempting to do it in this environment with the configuration that's going on. And this is, it's kind of impressive that we're only down 20 points in the S&P and the Dow is actually up. Under other conditions, just the nervousness, not the technicals of the market, just the nervousness itself. We'd see the market pull back quite sharply. And then as the day went on, especially with gold, I'm trying to mix the two things together because the one has to do with fear factor. Gold is up 58. And here we are with the S&P. Not bad. I mean, let's face it. S&P is, did I do that? Yes. S&P is right now down 20. So this is what I'm looking at. The weekly charts, 9p moving average is under the 14p moving average. I call this my technical tool of last resort. And because of it, I have to say that I now have to issue for my subscribers who are opening call where I'll do my maybe an hour long, I'm not sure, video tomorrow of the overview of what happened and what we're expecting and how all our positions have done this week. Most of them have done really well. I'm just going to say to you that that weekly negative 914 going pink after being green ever since right there, ever since the week of the 13th of January when it was down a 38, 77 low, 4003 high. This is the first time it's gone pink in the weekly chart. I have to respect that. And that just says you can have counter trend rallies, but until that turns green again, you just have to think of this as a big digestive phase. And you've got your one to one little bit more than one to one to the downside in this H pattern on my show. I'll talk about the pattern I call the dreaded H, but we took out decisively the left side low right there. I think that was at about 4335. So now what's really important about the S&P is yes, it's holding. You can see pink 9p moving average almost. It would have tried to tune green today, but this is not yet. And the day is young. We've still got 30, 35 minutes or so to go. Maybe a little more. And I would be surprised if the market doesn't feel kind of nervous about holding positions, not the market, but fund managers and do some selling into the close. Because I mean, the power of this long narrow rectangle, this is check it out right now, is the price it should hold within that at this. Yep, there it is. It's back in again. So it popped up to a peak E. Oh, I shouldn't have put that down arrow because I thought it was about to turn pink. It didn't. This is the down arrow right here. That's a leg E. And then it goes to peak E. The reason why I shouldn't have done that, I was busy about to do the show. So I did it real quickly. That should have been a plus sign, a little plus sign over the D, because the green 9p moving average held. Now it's gone pink. But look, it's just back in the range. This is the power of a long narrow rectangle. And this is a one minute chart. But it's the same thing in the evenings when the futures close at five o'clock, you can go on a Friday all the way through the weekend in the narrow range or overnight for 12 hours. You can have this narrow range stuck in a 20 point range. Right. Just wanted to mention how we've got magnet lines. This is the 200 period moving average. I spoke about it. I said in the then watch how we how this how the price deals with the magnet line. There it is. This is the magnet line 200 period moving average. Look at that repel repel repel pops up holds for four bars repel. Now we're going down to the bottom. That makes the 4350 to 4348 level very important over the next city minutes. Now let's get back to I wanted to show you this because you remember in the chapter where I was looking for higher peaks to count them alphabetically, sequentially ABCD, etc. And D other things can happen. Well, we're made a D in the 10 minute E-mini right there. So let's see what happens next. Now let's go on to what we were looking at. So the weekly chart of the S&P says I have no choice. You got a cell mode in the data chart. It almost went to a buy signal. But it isn't yet even in a buy signal. If it goes from a buy signal to a buy mode, it means they should go to at least four higher peaks. This is just a PV. But right now it's in the middle of a range. Look at the QQQ. It was doing fabulously.  Not a good. Now we've been along. We probably we might get take no, we haven't been taken out here. We've taken nice profits on the way up. We got along about five, six sessions ago. I lost Friday. We got exactly lost Friday and we've run it up. And now the QQQs are in this range where I call this chapwave inside track repellent zone. And look at the sequence of these tops that have formed. There's almost a symmetry in the number of bars on this declining trendline. I always say, how does a how does a market know to match to almost to the penny sometimes these trendlines? You just it's amazing. It's as if there's I have a theory on it. And it says that we're in a cell mode. And each rally emotionally gets worn out on the way up from the baseline. And that's how you can get this diagonal. Yeah, right. Yeah, this is where emotion got too excessive. And now we pull back. So that's the only way I can explain mathematically. I don't know how you can explain it. But it does say that the tide is declining.  Alright, well, that's the QQQs. And it's really important for the weekly chart, which is still holding positive. In other words, there's still a buy mode in the weekly chart, because the nine is still over the black 14 period moving average, the green line is over it. But the MACDs weeks, the castics weeks, the on balance volume is still strong. So we're going to have to watch this closely. And I like to put it together with the SMHs. Look, the SMHs, the semiconductor index went to a peak C. Where did it store? I don't want to go into this too much right now. There's just too many things to look at. I was asked if I could look at many many stocks. I'll do that. Yeah, so this is the SMH 148.47 down 369. Look at the absolute perfect matching decline. This is called the falling axe, inverted falling axe formation technique that I developed. And it took out and it made this arch formation. And then I tried to make the V shape or cup formation and a stall where right at the 200 period exponential, sorry, right at the inside track repellent zone. That means that you've got exactly the same price movement up from that low to that high. So now it's ready for some kind of a pullback. And where the semiconductors go, that's kind of important because mostly that's where the QQQ and the general market tends to go. So you've got to be a little bit careful here with the general market, having a very mixed performance and leadership in the Dow 30. And it's just on a very few stocks. I'd say this is a time obviously for caution IWM Ross in 2000 looks terrible. It's about to take out the left side low over there. And now I want to get to the gold area. So let's go the GC is now up 58.4. Oh, I think that gold is up close. Anyway, it's at 1941.4. I'll talk about this 200 period moving areas that was a repellent zone. And that's at 1956. I'll be right back. Steve Rhodes started his trading career as a student almost 20 years ago. And the student has now become the master. 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Don't forget, you can listen to TFNN live on your mobile device 24 hours per day. Go to TFNN.com and hit watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com and hit watch Tiger TV. Hi folks, a question came in. What would, what would how was it phrased? Basically, what would reverse gold and the GDX? Let me put it this way. Because at this particular the gold, I mean, if you look at the GDX as the gold minus, it was acting terribly. It's been making, look at the weekly chart, 38.25 on the 5th of May, the week of the 5th of May of this year, plummets down to the 28th, bounces up to the 32.5, 33 area. And then there's a one to one and just misses the exact one to one in the weekly, but it does it in the, yeah, does it in the daily because it's a different frame of reference that I use. And it goes to 2562. And now from 25 to 2891, that is a single leg A up. That is a big move. The only thing that I think would change that, because remember this is a fear trade. This is a, where over the thousands of years, when there's a crisis, people go to gold. I mean, I have, during, during the World War II, I know a lot of people who had gold in the heels of their shoes. That's how they managed to pay for things. Little bits of gold. They had no money. It was the money wasn't worth anything. And they were in forests in Siberia, whatever it is. And yeah, it's been a token of, of money that you could use under dire circumstances. So that's kind of what it does today. It's very different to say a Bitcoin has got people trying to relate that to, they really set things entirely. One is financial purely, and this is in a way it's financial, but it really is a currency of fear. And it's gold. All right. So within that context, what we're doing is, if over the weekend, I can't see it happening, but you asked me the question. So my answer is, if there is even a hint of some kind of slowdown, or some kind of completion, or some kind of, some kind of amelioration of the tensions in the mid-east, I think you can see a sudden pullback. I mean, up, up this high, GC is up 58.7, Silver is up, so this is up 4.1%, up 0.91, and 22.87, about to hit a resistance level at about 23, what does that mean, Monday? 2311, gold, and let me just tell you what the percentage is. Gold is up 3.12%. The GDX is up 4.34%. And you can see there's a lot of resistance here, but as I was saying, money will keep flowing into gold if this tension lasts another, even another few days. And it obviously will last a lot more than that. And as Duffy says, and the intentions in the Middle East have barely begun, unfortunately. There's absolutely no question that that is the issue. So here, if I'm looking at a GDX and someone said, well, what would you do? Where would it turn around? I just don't see it now as a very quick thing. I can see, let me just do this. I don't like to do it that way. I have to do it this way. Yeah, we've already done more than one of that extension. Yeah, so the whole thing is 2973 is the 200 period exponential moving average resistance in the GDX. And if I do it just a simple trend line from that, from where I picked the high, that high there. Oh, that comes in at about 29, is that 35 or so? 29, that would be Monday, 2943. So somewhere in the 2940s, that's where you might, between that and 2973, you could start to see a lot of resistance because this move was the kind of move that it's really like a three day move. It should actually, as far as I'm concerned, it really should have started on Monday or Tuesday. So it played catch up and now it's maybe overbought, but not overbought to the extent that what we could be seeing looking at. All right. So the next thing we want to do, the question that came in is, could I look at, so that was the S&P. So the weekly chart says, unless the S&P can tackle the 45, I'd say 4390 to 4410 area over the next week or so without first breaking 4300 and said 4325 is not a difficult thing to do if Sunday night is weak. That just says to me, there is a limited upside now. The pattern that I often talk about in my methodology is, if I can find it right here, there we go, click on this one, is a pattern that I call the dreaded H. And what is the dreaded H? The dreaded H is if I can just move this chart away. There it is. So the price comes down in a straight line and then tries to bounce. And that bounce makes an H pattern and it often fails at a peak A or B. If it fails at a peak B, it's the second highest peak and takes out that left side low, it can go a lot lower. That's what you saw in the S&P. Well, in this particular instance, we are forming yet another arch formation. Oops, this is the one I wanted. This just shows you the chart way if you look for a starting, a low, that's a starting position. Count each successively higher peak, alphabetize them, uppercase on the way up, ABCDEFG. But what you want to see is a buy signal upgrade to buy mode and that says you should at least a D, that's where other things can happen. So that's when you get a buy mode. We have not quite made a buy mode, almost did it because if the casting went to 79%, it almost did 80%. And if it held in the 4350s, I would have said, we've got a buy mode that should be at least a C and maybe even a D. But we haven't got that yet. So the pattern we're looking at now is this pattern right here. And it's come down sharply, came down sharply and failed at a peak A and took out the left side low. Now that we've got another arch formation, I'll just draw it in. And if that fails, you've got to watch that left side low, 42.16.45. But a lot of things can happen between now and then. And that's just the pattern we're looking at that there could be an arch formation because it could change from the cup to the arch. Markets just go in cup arch formations all the time. And we're going to be watching to see what happens because if on Monday or Tuesday you're able to rebound for not you, but the S and B rebounds to 4350s, that's really good. If we open really poorly on Sunday night and Monday we come in really poorly, that's going to be a very big negative. All right. So I wanted to do that. Next question came just going to look at SDKL. That was one that I focused on over the years. Haven't looked at it for ages. This is Sunopta Inc. And I can't off the top of my head. I should remember. I think it has. Let me just do this for one second. Nice candle today. It's actually up 73 cents at 358. It's up, wow, 28%. And let me just put this in here. Sunopta, I should know this because there's a leading global company focused on natural. Yeah, I thought that's what it was. Natural food, ingredients, sourcing, organic food and specialty foods. Yeah, we once I think we even had this for a brief moment and we went right in for a long time. Nice move, but I said that what you want to see is that it needs, it must not break 3.20, 3.20 cents in the next day or two and try its best to make a higher high than today, going to the 3.80. 3.76 was the high. But really, the weekly chart says it just could be a news-related pop-up, but it's got a lot of work to do to really become an instrument that can move much higher. The Dow's up 10, the Dow's up 17, S&P's down 23. We'll be right back to see how our rectangle formation is stuck right in the middle of the rectangle. Isn't it amazing how long these things can last? If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities & Options report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using tools and technicals. 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So we're going to have to watch the close here in the last of a while. Look, there we are. You just start to turn down, down 31, 43, 49. Left the rectangle said goodbye to the rectangle. That means it could pop once more if it does pop in this whole area of 43, 52, that was support. Now that becomes a 52 to 53 becomes a resistance if there is an attempt to a pop-up. Now let's get going to the so a couple of things we want to look at. Crude oil had a huge move today. Because of the conflict in the Middle East, oil is in play. There's just no question about it. I had said that there's a chance that if it took out the 81 support level, we would go down to the 78, 77s, but that was before last weekend. Now it's something very different because crude oil is going to be a weapon for many countries. They can use it and abuse it. That's just the way it is. So it's up and if crude oil at any point in the next three days going to Wednesday of next week if crude oil closes above 90, this is a different pattern altogether. Even though it's got a peak D and was a horrible candle last week in the weekly chart I'm going to say to you this is something to watch because if there is a move below 81, it's at 87 right now, but if there is for whatever reason that's something very different. But there's a really good chance that this oil is back in play to the upside. Looking at natural gas, NG, it's had a really sharp pullback. We were talking about this the other day. It's spiraled up to this peak E slash B. In the weekly chart you've got this rectangle and I said I want to see two out of three weeks of closes above this natural gas above 3.343. Now this is the continuous contrast and let me go to UNG which is a little different. This went to peak D in the daily chart with a beautiful left side, right side cup formation and the chamber wave inside track repellent zone worked. It's magic four days out of four and it got repelled. But it's still looking good yesterday. Now it's just gapped out. So UNG natural gas is this rectangle is still really important just as the narrow rectangle in the one minute chart I was showing you a little show, little pops to the upside and it came back. I'm going to draw the midpoint in as your midpoint for natural gas. Natural gas, if it treats this as support, that's this area at about training is 748 right now. 687, let's call it 680. If it holds 680 throughout next week I'd say this is a good chance that moving into the later part of October, the early part of November that's where I think natural gas actually has a potential to finally break the rectangle. Look, it's raised the base of support there. So this is important for those of you more interested in the UNG or the United States natural gas fund or natural gas futures. So this is a very important pullback, how much it pulls back or whether it's stabilized as soon as it's going to be really important had a question where did it go could I look at a couple of gold stocks? Yes, Newmont mining Newmont mining is a very good candle today a good price move, the candle is pulled back from the high of 3978 it's a 3934 this is still only a a grey leg A because the stochastic is not even at 80% it's at 63 right there. The magnet is very strong, not as strong as it was but very strong and today the 9 period finally cross positive that is really important. That says 38 the 3820s will be key support in the very short term if there's a sudden pullback in the next day or two but it also has the next upside target is at about 40.33 today's high 3978 and that starts to, it's a little more difficult because you're looking at the black 14 period moving average right here in the weekly chart and the pink 9 is still way it's still very, there's a very negative weekly chart even if you go to the GDX, look the GDX, this is still, look at the 9 period way under the 14 so it's the daily, this is your little speedboat, there's the daily chart that has to give you the impetus to, this is the talk from the daily that takes you up and then the momentum follows in the weekly, but the weekly, look there's a down trend line, not a down channel, this doesn't match this little mini down channel right here, I've got the channel inside, track, propellant zone in the wind, right to that level look, beautiful support a propellant zone and now you're going to get to the well see what happens, this is an early maybe a very early stage for the GDX, I don't know my thinking about what's going on throughout the world says that gold should actually now be in play for a little while it's the speed of the move that we've just seen, maybe at a certain point it just settles down and says okay, we're up now, we're going to have a digestive phase where we've really gone off the low and we're way off the low and that might be the way we look at it next question that I had was let me see yes, could I look at the bitcoin, so BTC bitcoin bitcoin is trading, it made a peak D, remember the travel we've always looking for D's and see if it pulls back or does it recycle in this case it's pulled back it's trading at 26,935 and the 200p moving average of 27,730 is very strong resistance so just keep that in mind and if it does pull back underneath because you might find now that bitcoin is not of as much value because the speculation has now gone to gold we're looking at 26,220 as key support in the short term and you can see the weekly look at that 200p moving average was a support level and now it's a resistance level so just keep that in mind that it has it's not quite in favor as we speak and next question came in could I look at apple, so apple is down $1.86 at 178.87 had a very nice move the technicals are all very good so how it handles the support of 178.90 how it handles the support of 170 right there 177 if it takes out and closes under 177 it could make that arch formation right now it's holding very nicely the weekly chart there's not a very pretty site and the monthly chart is just having a digestive phase after a spectacular move Amazon, oh I had a question about what was it now it was a retail area oh I had this written down something that I noticed let me see if I can find it yeah all my notes if I can find it I believe Amazon, so Amazon made a PD in the chat way back in early September in the 145 area almost to the 200p 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orange pink this is the orange line right there and look where we are right at this moment we're at this orange line remember I spoke about the long nano rectangle could drive you crazy as you think it's going to break down when it hits the bottom support level of the horizontal line and then we go to the top of things and break out and break out and then it comes right back and goes like a ping-pong ball in and out in and out and then when it goes down below the support line it can come back and how it tests the in this case I made it the blue line that said this is the repellent zone and if it closes above that a couple of times that's going to be very important well here we are, so we've got another 7 minutes maybe there'll be weakness going into the close but we've been in this range for 2 hours 130 since 130 what's the time so almost 4 o'clock for quite a few hours right in this narrow range on a day like this you wouldn't expect that alright so I just thought I'd mention a couple of things that as we're going to go into the final a few minutes let me just do this I never once spoke about the volatility index now it's time to talk about the volatility index because on a Friday it is rare over the last few years I've talked about weeks but on the last few years for the VIX index you can see this chart right here that's the monthly chart on the right this is the weekly chart how many, how few is the weekly chart only a couple of times if it closes green at the end of the week and this is way back here this is the week of the 3rd of December next week was red in other words the market rallied sharply this was right here the following week was up that was the week of the 29th of April so now what we're doing is we're under the 4th and 23rd of January it's all green but look what's happening it's not anywhere close to the other VIX index is the VIX going to go into the 2832 area I think so but not yet have a wonderful rest of the week and we'll see you on Monday 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Yn gynllun o'r cyfrifod o gweithio yw'r cyfrifod yw yw'r cyfrifod yw yw wedyn y sefydlu y 29 oes yn febygol, o dweud yr oedd y FfEDL y byddai'n ei gydag o'r cyfrifod a'r cyfrifod yw'r cyfrifod yw gwneud yw'r cyfrifod yw'r cyfrifod. While in Lagos, the situation is not different as reports published in 2018 showed a total of 3,000 divorce cases were recorded in Badagri area of the state. Marriage councillors at a Harriet New Life Foundation to help families grow says love and submission in marriages is key to a healthy family while divorce is unhealthy for the mental health of couples and their children. Submission and love. Anytime I talk about this in people build a jam, because they've not been able to give submission a proper definition according to the living book, submission is a commandment by God that is all knowing for me to enjoy my marriage. God knows everything. He said we should commit our ways into his hands. We shouldn't lean on our own understanding. You know we always say men want respect, women want this message. A side submission is respect. When marriage comes to crisis, I tell partners to remember when they were shouting I love you, I will die for you. Titi Lailai, remember your vow. Remember your vow. That's what you do. See all of us will be out of marriage if you wanted excuses to go. See you would always have an excuse to quit. So the fighting intercessor is the one who learns to suspend judgment and a primacy.


Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me. And yet I swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have been rather uncivil. It is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her sense is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give it's alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was that provoking charm of Celia altogether, and of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Je ne sais quoi, by William Whitehead, read for LibreVox.org by Eswa, in Belgium, in April 2008. Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me. And yet I'll swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have rather been uncivil, which is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her sense is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was that provoking charm of Celia altogether. And of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Je ne sais quoi, by William Whitehead, read for LibreVox.org by J. C. Guan, Montreal, April 2008. Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me. And yet I'll swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have rather been uncivil, which is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her sense is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was that provoking charm of Celia altogether. And of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Je ne sais quoi, by William Whitehead, read for LibreVox.org by Leanne Howlett. Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me. And yet I'll swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have rather been uncivil, which is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her sense is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was that provoking charm of Celia altogether. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Je ne sais quoi, by William Whitehead, read for LibreVox.org by Mark Smith. Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me, and yet I'll swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have rather been uncivil, which is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her sense is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was that provoking charm of Celia altogether. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Je ne sais quoi, by William Whitehead, read for LibreVox.org by Sergio Baldelli in Rome, April 2008. Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me, and yet I'll swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have rather been uncivil, which is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her sense is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was that provoking charm of Celia altogether. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Je ne sais quoi, by William Whitehead, read for LibreVox.org by Sergio Baldelli Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now, and Celia has undone me, and yet I'll swear I can't tell how the pleasing plague stole on me, which is not her face that love creates, for there no grace is revel, which is not her shape, for there the fates have rather been uncivil. It is not her air, for sure in that there's nothing more than common, and all her senses is only chat, like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give the alarm, it was both perhaps or neither. In short, it was the provoking charm of Celia altogether. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. For more information or volunteer, please visit LibreVox.org.


In short, you should look for me.   You should look for someone in your life who would be a secure base, provide safety and a sense of stability. In short, anyone but me. Okay Shoshanim, I'm back. My name is Sam Vaknin, I'm the author of Malignan Seflav, Narcissism Revisited, the blue former visiting professor of psychology and currently on the Faculty of Sea Ups, Commonwealth for International Advanced Professional Studies, Toronto, Canada, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and the inevitable outreach campus in Lagos, Nigeria. Opposites attract or birds of feather flock together, which is more true in mate selection and the formation of romantic, intimate, long-term, committed relationships and couples. Do we choose spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends that resemble us? Or do we choose an intimate partner who would complement us, not in the sense of complement, but complement, make us whole? Everything we are not, we would find in the intimate partner, everything we miss, everything we need, every deficiency, every lack, the partner would compensate for it. If you are unstable, the partner would be stable. If you are not that learned or knowledgeable, the partner would be an encyclopedia.  So which is it? What is really going on? There's been a study of millions of couples, the biggest of its kind. And it came, it resulted in an astounding outcome. Opposites do not attract, opposites repel, birds of feather flock together. We seem to be looking for intimate partners which resemble us, mirror us, are exactly like us. In short, we tend to look for intimate partners who are extensions of ourselves. But why do we? It's extremely irrational.  Why wouldn't you choose someone who would compensate for everything that you miss, everything that you lack, everything that you wish you were? Why wouldn't you choose someone who together with you would constitute the totality of human traits, qualities, skills and experiences? Why would you choose someone who would just perpetuate who you are for better but also for worse? That's irrational. The answer, of course, is narcissism. Narcissism corrupts the main selection process. Throughout human history, without any question, people chose intimate partners who did not resemble them. Intimate partners were the opposite of them. Poor people chose rich people. Rich people chose poor people. Stoopy people chose intelligent people. Intelligent people chose less intelligent people. Young chose older people. Older people chose the young, et cetera, et cetera. Opposites complimented each other, put two opposites together and you get a complete whole, whole in the good sense with the W. So, and this was a rational way for selecting mates. But this was at an age when narcissism was not the organizing principle of reality. Narcissism was not the determinant of identity. When narcissism did not inform our decisions and choices, predilections, proclivities, preferences, wishes and dreams. Enter the modern age, more or less 100 years ago, and we started to be more and more narcissistic. As documented in studies by Twenge and Campbell, numerous others, Lisa Wade and so on. So, we are much more narcissistic than our forefathers and ancestors. Perhaps because we don't have to struggle for survival. We can be spoiled brats without bearing the consequences of entitlement and selfishness. While our ancestors couldn't, they were embedded in collective cultures which required teamwork, compromise and consensus. Today, we atomized each one to his own, self-sufficient, self-contained. We don't need really anyone else. Any alliance, any couple, any diode, any collaboration requires a sacrifice. And many people are not willing to make this sacrifice anymore. About half, 40% plus of the adult population are no longer in any relationship or any committed relationship. We move around, we drift like so many water molecules in the ocean. We come across each other, we have casual sex, and we vanish. We exit each other's lives after one night if we are lucky. This is the picture of the modern world. And in this modern world, as people become more and more narcissistic, they're likely to look for mirroring. They're likely to regard everyone else as an internal object, an extension of themselves. Now, if you were to team up with a spouse or an intimate partner and that person would be the opposite of you, it would be a constant challenge.  That is ego-dystonic. So narcissism corrupts the main selection process. Narcissism makes it impossible, absolutely impossible, to team up with someone who would undermine, challenge, countervail your sense of omnipotence and omniscience and affection and being ideal on the very contrary. You would look for a partner who would tell you that you are perfect, that you are amazing. In short, you would look for a partner who would love bomb you. No wonder narcissistic relationships are on the ascendance and narcissism had become a gigantic global problem in romantic and intimate relationships but also in the workplace among friends, in church, extended family, you name it. People demand today, demand narcissistic supply, attention, the attention economy, social media, adoration, admiration, adulation and absentees then are mine, being notorious, being feared, being loathed as long as it brings a modicum of daily dose of attention. So main selection nowadays is about scouting for and selecting for a partner, an intimate or romantic partner who would become your audience, your greatest fan, someone who would not tell you the truth, who would not undermine and challenge your fantastic preconceptions and of yourself. Someone who would collude in your shared fantasy, get integrated into it a kind of people pleaser or co-dependent but someone who would mirror someone who would not oppose you so opposites don't attract anymore. Birds of feather flock together. Narcissists all around the world looking for narcissistic supply that we tend to select for identical mates everywhere, mates which are mere reflections, extensions of the narcissistic partner. Okay, what study am I talking about? There was an analysis of a meta-analysis of a survey of 200 studies involving millions of couples and the meta-analysis reached a conclusion that there is no grounds for assuming that opposites attract nowadays. Mind you, these studies are contemporaneous, they refer to the current picture to the modern or post-modern society. They did not investigate relationships in the 19th century, for example. So today, nowadays opposites do not attract. On the very contrary, these studies found that most people are looking for someone who shares their values, their beliefs, a kind of confirmation bias, a thought silo. They want someone who would echo what they are thinking, someone who would not confront, not challenge, not undermine, not disagree, not criticize, not bring to the table new, countervailing contradictory information. No, someone who would serve as a filter remembering to tell you you're always right, you're amazingly intelligent. Yes, sir, a yes person, a people-pleaser, co-dependent in many ways. These studies analyzed hundreds of traits, anything from political leanings to smoking to drinking to sex. And these studies found that the vast majority of modern partners are much more alike than they are different. Only in 3% of the traits, you heard well, 3% of the traits people tended to pair with someone with an opposite or different inclination. This study was published in the journal Nature-Human-Behavior, a very prestigious one. So in 97%, when it comes to 97% of the hundreds of traits listed, people were actively, adamantly, selectively choosing partners who would be compatible 100% with their traits, who would have the same indistinguishable traits. People would be mere internal objects, mere extensions, mirrors, not real people. Because when the person you live with is exactly like you, you're making love to yourself. This is auto-irritation. Your relationship is actually with yourself via another person, that other person becomes indistinguishable from you, an internal object to be manipulated at will. This is not a couple. This is not a diet. This is not romantic. This is not intimate. There's no intimacy there, except intimacy with yourself. You use the partner to look at the mirror and see yourself in all your glory and perfection and infallibility. So the very nature of human relationships has devolved, deteriorated and degenerated into a kind of narcissistic self-investment, also known in clinical literature as narcissistic aphexis or narcissistic libido. So people are in love with themselves through the agency of their intimate partners because their intimate partners are nothing but reflections of themselves. And this is what's happening nowadays. And these are huge numbers, 97% of hundreds of traits. It is not that people are not attracted to others who are very different to themselves. There is such attraction. But when they come to decide, when they come to make long-term commitments and investments, when they reach the point of forming a couple, cohabiting, co-parenting, sharing a life, they give up on people who are dissimilar, people who are opposed, people who are not like them. So while they may be attracted, may even have sex, casual sex and so on, with people who are the opposite, they would never form long-term or very rarely would form long-term relationships with opposites, only with copies, replicas and clones of themselves. Tanya Horvitz was a lead researcher, said, we looked at cohabiting and co-parenting couples. Long-term relationships, and that's where they found that opposites do not attract long-term relationships. People, partners in long-term couplings, long-term diets were similar in so many ways. Religious beliefs, political beliefs, educational background, socioeconomic background, certain types of intelligence and analytical, otherwise. Lifestyle habits, you name it, the people in the couple were indistinguishable. It's a terrifying picture. It's cloning. And evolution depends crucially on diversity, on the meeting of opposites. Sex is about mixing genes, mixing genes which are incompatible in order to create a third option. This is how the roulette of life and the roulette of evolution keeps coming up with new solutions all the time. On the cellular level, there are mutations and on the macro-organism level, there is coupling, romance, love, which is essentially a biochemical cocktail. Evolution wants us, wants us to be incompatible. Evolution wants opposites to attract because this is the only way to encourage diversification of the gene pool and a much better strategy of survival, much better chances, odds of survival. 199 published studies involving millions of male-female couples dating back as far as 1903. Also there was an analysis of data from the UK Biobank, which is an ongoing research project, collects health and genetic information from about half a million British adults. Yes, I know, British adults is an oxymoron, but all the same. I can't help it. That's me. Okay, so they made a list of 150 trades and for 82 to 89 of those trades, partners were clearly likely to be much more similar than different and another 9% similar, not much more similar, but just similar. Among the trades, there were couples which were most strongly aligned, strong alignment couples, strong affiliation couples. And these couples were bonded mostly through political and religious vectors, their beliefs, their faith in terms of religion, their commitment or activism in terms of politics, their opinions, views and judgments bonded them together. So did education level was a great predictor of cohesion in couples and couple formation.  There were personality traits that also mattered. And even there, when personality was analyzed using big five factor and big factor analysis and so on, never mind all that. Personality was also a great predictor of coming together, compatibility in personality traits. So the study found that partners did tend to be more alike than different on big five personality traits, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and eroticism. Strangely, the correlations when it came to personality were not as strong as the correlations when it came to behavior, political views, religious beliefs. In short, the emphasis was not about who you are, not about your substance, not about your essence. It seems that we judge each other based on preferences, on appearances, I'm sorry, and on self-reporting.  The correlations between members of couples were based on appearances, on externalities, on behavior, not on who these people were. It's as if members of modern couples don't reach in beyond the facade, beyond appearances. They don't care.  Modern couples do not truly communicate who they are to each other. They bond, they attach, they form dyads based on behaviors, claims about beliefs and values and appearances. Shocking. Extroverts, for example, were only slightly more likely to pair up with a fellow extrovert rather than an introvert. So extroversion is a personality trait. However, extroverted behavior did determine coupling. So if you were an extrovert and didn't show it, you were an extrovert, but it didn't become active. Your extroversion remained hidden or cult. This would not have influenced couple formation and mate selection.  It's finding was similar when it came to neuroticism. According to the UK Biobank study, there are only few traits which did attract opposites. One was what is known as chronotype. People who are morning persons or night hours, night persons. So night hours, for example, paired more often with early risers than with other night hours. So if you are, if you blossom, if you are at your peak during the night, you wouldn't choose someone who is functional in the morning, but half dead at night. Again, I interpret this in terms of narcissism. If your partner is not at his peak, if your partner is less than perfect, less than functional at night, and you, on the other hand, flourish and thrive at night, then you would be able to be much more dominant in the couple. So there's a question here of dominance, narcissistic supply, attracting attention, control or a manipulative, Machiavellian, narcissistic or at least dark personality issues and traits. So even this rare coupling of opposites has to do in my view with manipulativeness, control and garnering more narcissistic supply, more attention than your partner, because come night time, she's half dead. She just wants to sleep. She doesn't stand out.  So if all this is true, why do we still keep saying that opposites attract? Because they used to. They used to. Up until the 1950s, multiple studies found that opposites do attract. 1950s are exactly the age of rebellion after the Second World War, where defiance, malignant individualism, consumatiousness, rejection of authority started to flourish, the hippie movement and so on. And with all these narcissism, narcissism came to its own in the 1950s. But even in the 1950s, as narcissism was blossoming for the first time, there were studies, for example, by Robert Winch that suggested that opposites attract. So we can safely assume and believe that throughout human history, the rule was choose your opposite. Choose in your partner, in your spouse, and in your mate those things that you need and don't possess. Those traits that could be of help to you and yet you don't have. Make your partner a completion of you. Choose a partner that can supply you and provide you with skills, talents, personality traits, moods and so on and so forth and effects that you yourself are lacking in. And this proceeded well into the 1950s. And then something happened in the 1950s. And there's been a major reversal of this folk wisdom. Angela Barnes is an associate professor of psychology at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. And she studied the topic. In 2016 she published a study and she found that in both romantic pairings, romantic pairs and friendships, people are actually drawn dramatically, overwhelmingly to like-minded individuals which would explain, for example, political polarization. We want to listen only to like-minded people confirmation bias. We resent and reject and get very angry when we are challenged, when we are criticized, when people disagree with us. Starting in around 2010, there was no evidence that partners or friends changed over time to become more in sync. The similarities were there from the get-go from the very beginning. And part of the story says Barnes is structural. If you're a college graduate, for instance, you're more likely to be around a lot of other college graduates. You're not. So your mating opportunities, your mate selection opportunities are much higher in your natural habitat or environment or ecosystem. But this fails to explain the previous 10,000 years of human history. There have always been asymmetries. There have always been discrepancies. There have always been different environments. To like-minded people and to opposites. And yet, opposites attract used to be the rule until recently. Similarities are very attractive to narcissists. Because similarities are validating. And someone shares your beliefs and values.  You're always right. You can't get anything wrong. You're infallible. Yes, I agree with you. The more people agree with you, the more you become convinced of your own omniscience. God-like omniscience. It's a narcissistic supply procedure or defense or mechanism or whatever, vector, whatever you want to call it. It's all about narcissistic supply. Today we pair, we create pairs, we create formats and couples based on the availability, anticipated availability of narcissistic supply. We regard each other as sources of narcissistic supply. We commoditize each other. Bands found that in bigger, more diverse environments a large university, for example, versus a small college, people tend to be even more similar to their romantic partners or friends, which gives the lie to the claim that it is an environmental selection. No, the environment has no effect on this. The environment is not the reason why people choose similar-minded people. Narcissism is. When you have a large pool of mates and friends you can be more selective and yet people keep selecting the same like-minded people. These similar people can still team up, they can still have friendships, they can even have romantic relationships but they never last in a narcissistic environment because the friction is too big.  This is narcissistic injury. When you're with someone who is dissimilar to you that person becomes a source of frustration and constant injuries. Who wants this? No one does if you're a narcissist and the more narcissistic people become the less they're inclined to team up with social sources of frustration and narcissistic injury. One caveat, we have no information about same-sex couples. This is only about heterosexual couples and we don't know if we were to include same-sex couples how would the outcome look. But I'm pretty convinced that the situation is even worse among same-sex couples because homosexuality does imply however politically incorrect is to say this homosexuality does imply homoeroticism does imply autoeroticism. And narcissism, there I say. I suspect the situation is much worse among same-sex couples but we don't have information. Narcissism has totally degraded and corrupted our mate selection process is therefore an evolutionary threat to the existence and survival of our quickly degenerating decaying and dying species.


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