My name is Ricardo. Eh My name is Rick.  My name is Corbin. Hey You didn't say anything? Okay, and today We're doing a movie review And it is of the new film that just came out this year, but it was in theaters But we didn't it wasn't playing around us. Yeah as most apparently as non Happens too often Hindi Tolugu films unless it's one of those. It's probably not gonna play around us Sadly, I wish it was a way that we could like since we're the only ones that are ever in it I'm like, I wish I could call a theater and request to be like, hey, we always go to these right Is there any way you could write you probably get more with us going, right? I Don't anyways That's neither here nor there But yes, we're doing a review of the new film that just came out and it just dropped Yesterday on I believe in India. It's Disney hot star right in the United States We don't have that they since Disney owns Hulu. I'm guessing they didn't want it taking away business Yeah, and so it is on Hulu here, but we watched the 2023 film Roman Chum Which I understand means goosebumps Does it? Yeah. Oh, wow Roman Chum directed and written by Jethu Madhavan Madhavan and starring soup in Shaheer and a bowl bunch of other big ensemble cast here Arjun Ashakan So this one does well and Chum and Vinod Jose and for Joe's Sajin Goop the only one I was familiar with was soup and yeah of the entire cast But it Well, it just came on OTT's. I don't know should we do a spoiler or not spoiler? Because it's it's not new I Know I didn't think I would say I didn't think about that. Anyway, it's just to be safe start off non not in this Non-spoiling okay, we'll start over the non-spoiler on spoiling if we get into some spoils I mean there's things that we can talk about that are given in the description of the movie. Yes, so But if you haven't watched it go watch it's on Disney hot star or Hulu if you're in the United States other countries I don't know So go check it out on your local listings Rick your initial thoughts, please this is a interesting one for me and I'll get into why it's interesting. I will tell you I found it to be funny I found it to be entertaining. I found the music to be awesome and I found it ultimately to be a good watch Oddly the reason it's a good watch is not just because it's funny and it's interesting and it is based on true events but it is a accurate depiction of what it's like to use a Ouija board and It work hmm so But you enjoyed it very much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Oh, did you I did yeah But I'd imagine because I heard like people just dying laughing the entire time in theaters and people were and so I'd imagine There's a lot of dialogue stuff and and maybe accent I don't I don't know but it's I'm assuming always funnier in the original language Yeah, they can't convey in the subtitles or course cultural stuff.  Yeah, and I do have I do have lower on the horror Yeah, I'd say which apparently was on purpose because the director says these were based off of him and his friends when they were younger a True story of oh, it's his personal experience. Oh, that's what that's what I read And so he on purpose subdued the horror aspect of it Why it's it's it's just something I guess he decided to yeah, cuz that's that's part of part of my concern would be People walking away from this Having a sense of light-heartedness about Weegee words that that's a genuine concern that I have as But granted you can't hold a movie accountable for other people's actions. I do not Yeah, sure you can That it has influence for sure it has movies movies have influence. That's different I said hold them accountable for no, no, no, I agree I don't wouldn't go so far as to say that other people can blame a motion picture or a song for their actions, but you can Point to art Having influence over people's decisions and their lives. That's true without question But obviously we differ on that opinion of of this because I didn't have a problem with it at all Obviously, you have different experiences and life experiences that Have you influence your opinions on it? Yep, and that's totally fine, right? But let the movie itself. I think is a very fun Movie and very Mali Ali. I just went right when I was like I love my lialam industry because they're so They don't care about a normal format of a of a film because this I actually sometimes wish they would have delved a little more into The horror because there were certain aspects at certain times. I'm like, oh, this is this is good real good This is and still funny. Yeah at the times But then they would always kind of go back They he apparently didn't want to lean into the horror aspect of it Yeah, it felt like a like I think Jimmy Cage and and the buddymeister came up with like a the term Mali Ali chill Oh in nice in terms of some style of yeah, yeah had some of that sometimes. It's just very laid back very laid back It takes its very believable. It's just it's like I'm not trying to really like this is just some that happened on a Thursday In in in this village And so like Malia on it's so unique and they just they want to tell a unique good story And the other thing they do and this is the moment I tell you something about the film It's not a spoiler if you haven't seen it. It's something to look for mm-hmm the other thing Mali Alam cinema Irrespective of what kind of movie they're making mm-hmm the attention to artistic detail is Elevative one of the opening scenes has subin on a swing mm-hmm Yeah, and damn it man Jethu Madhavan and Sanu Thacher and Kiran Doss That's your your writer director cinematographer and editor They were over-the-shoulder shots that were not multi-camera because you'd see the camera in the other POV and The swing was exactly where it needed to be throughout the entirety of the scene The attention to the continuity and the swing was so intentionally beautiful Most people don't think about those things But when you're familiar with the craft, it's those kinds of things where you have that kind of attention to the continuity detail is Mwah, yeah, and I thought everybody everybody in the film did a really good job. Oh, yeah I don't want to get all believable and it's it was once again very Mali Ali that it's just they all were very natural Very very natural. I like they just I felt like these were just friends and which makes sense that it's no one's This guy soup and obviously is always great and everything we've ever seen a man Yeah, I would love to talk to the man because I think he's a he's one of my favorites, especially in the Malayalam industry But there's other actors that have unique things that they did especially in the second half Which I'm sure you know I'm talking about I don't want to give anything away We'll talk about that more on the spoilers, but all the performances are really good. Yep. I thought it was a Unique like Took its time and even getting to the horror elements Mm-hmm, and like I said don't go into this thinking like you're gonna get the scariest movie ever That's that. Oh, no, no, no, no, honestly I don't even know if you're ever gonna be scared in this film There are some scary like there's like stuff that they do is like they throw scary elements in it would scare a kid Yeah, but I it's not I wouldn't call this really a scary film. No it has some horror elements It's about as scary as in fact there's elements of Stree that are even scarier, right? Yeah Yeah, I sometimes do wish they they delved a little more into the horror Yeah, because I was enjoying those parts and then they would take me out of them Yeah, I see that their intention was something different I'd be interested to know why he decided to do that. Yeah that intentional decision I would love to know maybe it was I mean I could think of a million reasons why but I'd love to know why he Chose to make it accentuate more on the light-heartedness than the serious in the serious. Yeah But I do off-topic. I guess a second I love that Malialum in the past two years is doing these horror style like last year with it was more the serious one with the He was in the house the guy from Come on tonight, right? I forget what the bull it started to be That was one of the better horror films that you could get and it was subtle again But now they've done this if anybody can get the Indian industry into the horror genre Actually into the horror genre in the way that it really is with great at the center at the center of great horror is great Storytelling, so I agree with you. I think Malialum is gonna be the pen Pave the way it's gonna be the industry that can because it's a I've seen people on Twitter say Oh, it's dead now the horn. It was never alive We've seen a we've seen some good ones, but like five Doesn't mean it was ever alive, right? That means it was on life support basically in a coma, right? It's just not an in it's not a genre that is particularly taken off ever No, there's been some some anomalies of films that have done well, but it's not a genre that is a consistent Count on it. It's gonna bank where is horror comedy here horror comedy in Bollywood is that is but that's not horror horror No, no, no, I'm talking a horror horror. No, for example Horror has become so bankable in the United States because they're making good films they're hiring good actors and they're telling good stories and people are getting scared and It used to be back when I was a kid There was a particular time of year and it was Halloween where the horror films came out and you knew it because the Trailers in August were for the scary movies It's become so popular that they're just coming out all year long Yeah, and it is the because usually costs are pretty low on horror films Yeah, a lot of them have a cabin in the woods. Yeah, it doesn't require much for you to do what you're doing So I I really would love somebody to rise up and become the premier or Horror teller in my it would surprise me Malayalam is the one that that can do it agree Because they're just they always accentuate the story and the acting Right and and focus on and you need story right and they don't like they don't focus on box office Obviously, this did very well at the box office, which was a surprise to a lot of people that It did so well It was like a mega hit or whatever you'd call a film for I guess what they put into this film, which is great I love that. Yep. You love it when good films make good money. Yep, but they don't focus on that They're just like if I hope this does well And they trust that if you make a good movie you'll have a good box Also Malayalam audiences love they don't go they're like I'm not going for the star I want I want to see a good film. Yep, which is great. And so I would encourage everybody to go see it We're gonna get into some spoils here. Yeah, just while time go I mean, I guess it's not in theaters anymore, but go watch it on Disney hot star Hulu. I think it's worth your time I think you'll enjoy. Yeah, you'll have a good time Get into some spoils here. So if you haven't seen it, please go away So my favorite parts I want because I want to talk about some okay the part Hardest I think and there were a couple times But is the where the guy came and he said his dad was his uncle. That was I That because it was so subtle and so like like they weren't trying to land home the joke or anything Didn't need to but the way it like the way it just moved when he said I Died during that part. Yeah, did you do? Yeah, I thought that was very but here's the thing I probably didn't laugh at points where a lot of people would laugh Because underneath the funniness is the consistent reminder of the reality for me. So and and Nine times out of ten nine and a half times out of ten use of the Ouija board begins lightheartedly so And then it always devolves and becomes It goes if you're if you have an intentionality with which you're going at it as a genuine honest seeker You're going to find it turns dark and so even though things like that is funny the reality is that I've had moments using a Ouija board that said things that no one there would have ever known except the one person who wasn't even on the board and it really freaked everybody out because there's no denying that it Worked so for me the humor always was tempered by the fact of yeah, that's funny, but it's it's not funny for me No, it was very funny.  I forget whoever Subin's friend right that came into the house talking to the watch once again loved his performance it his constant just pausing Was absolutely hilarious. I love the element of the girl on the wall Like if she was the one that was possessing right whatever right? That was a funny element to the the scare like the scariest part was obviously when the train When they were going it yeah, it's not really scary, but that's the the scariest it got yeah, yeah Which I was hoping they would kind of continue for a little bit longer. Yeah keep up the funny of of that But once again, that's not obviously what they were going for no And and it was clear and I didn't know obviously the right director that this is from his own personal experience Yeah, yeah had it not been that I would have complimented the attention to detail that they did Because the use of the board and the way that the board worked the way that it would spin in a circle in between transitions of spirits the way that it would move with one person using it by themselves the way it would move so quickly that You need someone to write it down. All of that is 100% Accurate that was that was it actually made me a little anxious a few times watching it because it was so spot-on yeah, yeah Obviously looks like they Did it and that's why he knew so much about it. Well, I guess there's a lot of people that know about the Ouija boards, right? Well, yeah, there's some that have done it just as a game But there's some who have done it and then now it's not and the reality of what happens with it is is I Pretty well depicted if you take away the comedic side of it I've Too often horror films will make a Ouija board just to be the talisman that brings about boogie boogie people versus it being something that's done in an accurate way and shows the true Function of it and the darkness it taps into and this this was this was extremely accurate. Yeah I enjoyed all their performances in this they there's a And obviously I think they set it up at the end for for part two. Yeah, they didn't subtitle it Mm-hmm, but I saw it too. Yeah, I did I did too. We're gonna do this a second but another thing I Don't know if you notice this there was a score behind everything, but there was subbed It was weird. I didn't know if that was like intentional because it was like a spirit that wasn't there I don't know. I didn't know if I or if it originally had song and then they took it out Look at that sub stayed in. Yeah. Yeah, if you anybody knows because I was confused me too because I mean I don't know music was great. Maybe you didn't know because you didn't watch it with subtitles, but If if you've watched it with subtitles like there was an underlying score Which I enjoyed and it was nice and it added a lot to the film Yep, but there were always subtitles. Yeah, and so I didn't know if that was like a You don't hear it, but there's something being said that you can't yeah, I don't I don't I don't know Maybe it was a mistake. Yeah, couldn't tell you, but I just thought it was weird. Yeah So And then hey, yeah, there's constant stopping at the end. I love Subin's there was another actor the guy with the really long straight hair had really great reactions He was mostly just like this the whole time. Yeah, he was the one who was on it by himself and started to freak out Yes, yeah, I don't recognize him, but he had like the he was like the over dramatic friend who like is it just Really believes what's going on and really scared. Yeah by it. I liked his reactions and it was very believable I wonder what they did in terms of any research about it because The scenes especially in the outset when the board starts to prove Beyond any shadow of a doubt that they're talking to a spirit that knows things that only that spirit can know Their reactions to it are very very genuine Having I mean having experienced that not only myself but then when I've had other people who had come with me to use a Ouija board and I knew what it was going to do and they were skeptical and Watching their reaction when it took place again just the research. It was as believable a depiction I've ever seen on film. Yeah, and I also the the actor who came in because he was supposed to be like the expert Yeah, it was very funny and I thought he did a good job. Yeah, he was a cute big guy. Yeah, I liked You left more in the first part. Yeah, because again, oh you weren't laughing at the Ouija board That's right. No the stuff that would be considered funny in the the second half of it wasn't funny to me because That stuff's real and that stuff happens and it's real stuff can be funny though. Not demonic stuff. That's not funny. I Disagree with so you wouldn't do a film with a Ouija board. No, no, no, it would depend on the why Why are we doing a film with a Ouija board? It's like oh like a horror film. Why are we I would do a film? Oh Yeah, I Would need to have had a conversation with the director as to why he was going toward the humor and there would be a 50-50 Possibility I wouldn't want to be involved because I wouldn't want to be a part of something that portrayed the Ouija board more light heartedly than seriously Because they They work they tap into demonic things That's all I can tell you because I've experienced it and you may not believe me That's okay in the same way that I have been to the Kalo tribe in Papua New Guinea You'll never go there, but I've been there and you can believe me or not believe me And the reality is that they tap into really evil stuff and that's the part for me I would do a movie about it that Accentuates the reality. It's one of the reasons why I have a love slash hate relationship more hate with the exorcist The reason is because it is accurate And it's based on true events. Mm-hmm. So That's why I don't like that I Mean you can not like demonic obviously things and still find certain films funny Oh, I I've been good on to a lot of wonderful you're turned on by demonic people. I've I've seen some one Boners when it's when it's depicted True the reason exorcists for me It crosses the line into the blasphemous for me. That's just for me And there's been other films. I've seen as long as they're depicting it I'll watch a horror film with Andrani and I will regularly if I like the film It's because they're depicting what's going on in the invisible realm with a level of truth to it and not glorification of it or Minimizing of it with silliness unless you're going uber ridiculous if you're going just straight hysterical Comedy, but if you're kind of in the fringe between I I prefer the the reality of it Well, I think this was going for the comedy as well It's that's that's why it was going a little bit more though the Ouija part. Yeah, no It's not that for me there's other people who might find it funny because they don't think it's real and I understand that but that's Inaccurate because it is real it works Well, I thought it was very funny. Yeah, I can see why a lot of people would I can see why a lot of people would laugh There'd be people who who laugh it Things and find for example, they may find things in the exorcist silly and funny but Just because someone finds something silly and funny Doesn't mean that at the core.  They deserve to be scared like that. That's so frickin funny. So I get it but it Okay, that's fine. I know I'm just not I'm I'm just gonna try to talk about the film, which is fine. I get your opinion. That's fine Explaining why the second why the first half was funnier to me than the first half. Yeah, I know the uh, I I mean, I enjoyed the entire thing I thought there were funny stuff in the in the in the first part when they were pelting Subin with with a ball. Yeah, that was funny. That was very funny Yeah, I know there was a lot of stuff like that a lot of this film I feel like was a lot of subtle comedy but like for example when when the buddy is possessed I would imagine a large number of people you you included would have found that to be funny the Pauses that they did in it were yeah, very we're hilarious Because I've had experiences that involve demonic possession. I don't find it funny That's okay, okay All right, that's fine Weirdo, I think if anyone has had a real experience with the demonic you would find it to be not funny I that just kind of seems Rational to me. Well, I think you can have experiences and also find stuff funny because that's the intention of the film Just like if you can but it's like if you've been divorced and gone through a bad divorce You can still find things that portray divorce in a funny way. Sure sure, but there are that's what I'm saying Yeah, no, I understand that and I agree with that and up but for I do think there are points where someone's personal experience Irrespective of whatever it was, but someone's personal experience was so particularly Real and dark that no amount of humor is going to make there be levity in the subject matter And that's that it I'm not probably a really good Person to critique this as a comedy because the second half for me had so much truth that in it That's dark that I just didn't find it hilarious. So okay, it'd be like somebody making a comment It's like there's no amount of levity that could take away the reality of The Holocaust you just you just couldn't make a comedy that would make that funny to me There's elements that people have made funny Elements and depending again though why there's elements of it that have been made fun of I was Mel Brooks is the king of that Yeah, yeah springtime for Hitler. Yeah, like he's there's been a lot of Holocaust jokes and Frank jokes There's so well. Yeah, it's like I don't find Helen Keller jokes funny People find him hysterical. I don't find him funny at all You can't tell her because she couldn't yeah The big one is the big one is why did Helen Keller's dog run away you would too if your name was But she's a she was a beautiful human being so I don't find that funny at all I don't find mocking her blindness and her deafness funny because that's the deeper reality That's far more important than just laughing at her expense and I feel that way about this stuff.  Can you believe it? Can you believe it my word it does it should come with at most don't but Even if you go to go purchase them I've said the story before when I when I bought a Ouija board for the first time The lady behind the counter when I bought it at the psychic guy bookshop. She said, you know what you're doing I said, yeah, she said this isn't a game. I said, I'm well aware of that I'm not going at it with the intention of using it as a game. She said, okay Just making sure you know what you're getting into Um So they work This video is sponsored by Ouija boards. Go buy them Don't Don't buy them. Don't use them. Please Anyways, let us know what you thought about this film. Did you like it?  I said, I like it at the outset. I'm just pulling your leg. Just pulling your leg Like the ghosts would In the Ouija board, let us know what you thought about this film down below


module 107 and we are going to study the chapter of production analysis and the topic is production function. What is meant by a production function? If we generally say it is just a relationship, relationship that has to just join certain inputs and those inputs will be utilized to have certain output. But if in a technical term we will say then we can say that it is a mathematical or the technical relationship of combining various inputs to have a very certain specific output. And this production function that has to be utilized, it has to utilize various aspects of the theory of the firm. And now if we coming to that point we have to decide what are the basic two main aspects that has to be decided or that has to be kept in front of when we have to utilize the production function. The one thing that the pure economics whenever we are going to study it means we are having the limited resources. So whenever we are dealing with the aspect of any type of the production we have to keep in our mind that our entrepreneur has two, whatever the aspects, he has many resources but at a certain level his resources are limited. And when the resources are limited, the entrepreneur, the producer, the owner, what will be the biggest desire of that is that he or she has to select the least cost combination of the resources or the least cost method or the least cost technology which can produce its given level of output. So in the production function, our various inputs, we provide this opportunity that we exchange their quantities in their various systems to see which method or which combination is available with the least cost best output and which can be produced further in the market and can be sold. And in other words, we say that if there are given resources, then with that given resources we can produce the maximum level of output. Now coming to the next point, if we see that if we see all these aspects, then the main avenue in front of us is that there can be the production possibility set. That is one combination, that is the second combination and that is the third combination. These all will be the various production possibility sets that has to be utilized. Now here if we see that the production function basically is transforming what is transformation of large or transformation of diverse, transformation of various nature, number of the inputs in a number of the outputs. Now if we see here, then we can say that there are, if two only inputs, like we are taking an example here in the second equation, that if we can say in the example that the simplest form of production is in which we say that we are taking only two inputs, Z1 and Z2. Or we can say that we can take Z1, Z2, we can take labor 1, labor 2, we can take capital 1, capital 2, we can also take labor and capital. And initially the output produced by this, we make it a vector and we say that this Z vector is the function and this output is giving us Z1 and Z2 and non-negative means there should be certain production. Now we have the main thing that this Z1 and Z2 combination, is the maximum available or the optimum level of the output? So now we have to decide that the firm is going to produce, but either the firm is producing the optimal level of the output or the optimal level, the maximum level that has to be attained with the utilization of these resources. And otherwise, something less can happen to it. Now in these two or three stages, when we see, we will decide that this level of the output that is called y, it starts with zero and we have to take it as positive. Maximum it can go to this level and this maximum level, this is the optimal or the maximum level. If this production is equal to that actual level, then we will say that the firm is having efficient level of the production or we can say that firm that is producing efficiently. Now in this way, if we see, if I see a firm in this graph, they are utilizing the Z1 input and on the other side they are utilizing the firm Z2. Now while utilizing them, if they are producing an output, this is the output. And in the same way, the various combinations are optimal for us, so we have a boundary which we call as the optimal or the maximum output. So now the firm can have either this maximum level of output or in between here, here, here or here. Now if we see, this inefficient level which we are showing, so inefficient level and here maximum or efficient level, if we have any firm, then we can further study that why the firm is not coming from this point to this and this. What are the factors? Is it just an utilization of inputs issue or organizational matters? Or is it the issue of different combinations? So we can further study those factors. Another thing that we have to see here is that in the production function, there are some essential points for utilization of inputs which we have to keep in mind. And if we look at those essential points, the first aspect is that the first essentiality is that that nothing can be produced without the non-utilization of any input. Means, whenever we produce something, then it is necessary to use any input. So if we say, we have to say that function of 0 and 0 means the both two inputs, it cannot give any output, it will be 0. But along with this, if we use any input, we say yes, there is a function in which we have taken one input as 0. And the second input, suppose we say we have taken a labor, but the output is 0 again, why? Because whatever type of input was required, that is not provided. So it means some time a very specific level of input that is required for that particular level of production, even if that is not provided, then production will not be possible. So if we look at this, this equation, it gives us the concept of essentiality. And this equation, it gives us the concept of essential, strict essentiality. So this can, we can utilize, means function of 0 and capital A is there. And at the same time, we can say function 0 of anything input like Z2 if it is utilized in the other form. Now if we look at this, in this whole production process, we have two aspects of differentiation, meaning twice. And this twice differentiation, the next aspects, if we look at it, this will explain our marginal productivity relative to input properly. And that marginal input or rate of change in output with respect to input when we look at it, it will tell us further aspects that this change in output with respect to one input is not only due to one input, rather we have to include some other factors of production also. And when we have to deal with the change in only one input, we have to assume the other factors of production as factors paribus or constant.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to the House Health Care Committee afternoon session. Our chair will probably be joining us shortly, but it's tied up in a meeting, so we'll get things started. This afternoon we're starting with further testimony on H210, our health equity bill, and hearing from another of the identified health disparity groups, which is people with disabilities. And I want to start so that I don't forget by referencing two other witnesses and something we haven't done this way before, but that's a protocol. Is when we have an invited witness who has is not able to come but is submitting written testimony. That's a little different from, well, here's our chair. Finish this intro that's a little different from just public comment coming in in writing. And so it's listed on the agenda, and I'm formally referencing it to let you know that that is part of our record of testimony. And that is from Ed Pequen who is the outgoing or recent past executive director of disability rights Vermont. And we also have listed Sarah Launderville who's the executive director of the Vermont Center for Independent Living, who said she was going to try to get written comments in. But they, they have not come in so so that will be removed from the agenda as her having submitted those so that we will now introduce our live witness who. Oh, there she is you, you've. Hello Laurie, I didn't see you for a minute's little hard with zoom. But Laurie Emerson from NAMI Vermont if you could introduce yourself and share your information and perspectives and with that I'm turning it back over to the chair but you can get started. I appreciate you getting things going. So welcome Laurie and thank you. Welcome hearing you all set for me. Yeah, we welcome hearing your thoughts on the health equity bill to 10 which focuses in part on people with disabilities of different kind. Yes. My name is Laurie Emerson I'm the executive director at the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, also known as NAMI Vermont. And I want to thank you Chairman Lipper and Madam chair by vice chair Donahue for allowing us to testify today. And as well as the members of the House Healthcare Committee. NAMI Vermont supports bill each to 10. And we appreciate this opportunity to provide comments to you as it relates to health disparities with individuals who have a mental health disability. In reference to the bill on page two section one number one, it highlights barriers to good health based on disability. However, it does not include a definition of disability which may be helpful to verify that this includes physical mental and developmental disabilities. Reviewing the list of organizations who are named to be on the council, you know I noticed that NAMI Vermont was not named. And we would like to suggest adding the ability to appoint a family member to represent NAMI Vermont. To have our voice and perspective at the table. Of course I thought I turned off my my phone and my answering machine and I guess I didn't. So that was just one request that you know we didn't see her name there and like to be included.  That's a disparity larger than for race, ethnicity, geography or socioeconomic status. America has been growing and receives considerably less academic study or public attention.  To study at a large New York medical system, people with schizophrenia are almost three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those without the psychiatric illness. And the study also showed that people with other mental health conditions such as mood or anxiety disorders were not at an increased risk of death from COVID-19. To stigma and discrimination people with mental illness receive poorer physical care. They commonly report barriers to having their physical care needs met, including not having their symptoms taken seriously when seeking care for non mental health concerns. And I think a good example that I can provide with that is, you know, recently I went to the emerge I went to a doctor's appointment with my, my son.  And the diagnosis was right there at the top of the page and we were seeing another medical doctor that he had psychosis. And a lot of times medical doctors may dismiss the physical needs that people might have when they go to visit them. And, you know, we hear about this quite frequently. An American study has found that nearly half of all patients withhold critical information about their mental health out of fear, embarrassment and judgment. The results of the study were derived from two online surveys in 2015 of the 4500 people surveyed 47.5% said they would not disclose information to medical professionals. Over 70% of those surveyed said the reason they would not disclose information about suicidal thoughts or depression was because they were embarrassed fear being judged for lecture. Some individuals will not seek out help or treatment due to their distrust of the medical system in fear of being harmed, involuntarily committed or treated with disrespect. In the emergency room, people who are seen for a mental health crisis are required to strip down in a gown, sometimes in front of a stranger whose job is to watch them. Every person deserves to be treated with respect, dignity and empathy. We would recommend that medical professionals, especially emergency room professionals, receive additional training to better understand trauma informed care that will benefit the care and treatment of someone who may be experiencing a mental health crisis. People with a mental illness or substance use disorder represent 25% of the US adult population, but they consume 40% of all cigarettes sold.  Substance misuse or the repeated misuse of alcohol and or drugs often occur simultaneously in individuals with mental illness and usually to cope with their overwhelming symptoms. And according to the national survey on drug use and health 9.5 million US adults experience both mental illness and a substance use disorder in 2019. Access to treatment and providers continues to be a barrier for individuals with mental illness, and only about four in 10 people in Vermont have with a mental health condition received any treatment in the past year. With depression being the number one leading cause of disability in the world. We need to ensure access to health care is timely. With many wait lists for an in network care, people are turning out are turning to out of network providers, thus costing more money.  And we need to ensure that individuals with mental illness can access the care they desperately need for individuals who receive treatment. Psychiatric medicine can have adverse long term effects that shortens their life and adds more physical issues older generation anti psychotic medicine can affect and damage organs over the long term. Some of the medicine puts people at risk of obesity influencing other medical concerns. Tart of dyskinesia is another side effect of anti psychotic medicines and tart of dyskinesia causes stiff jerky movements of their face or body, and they can't control it. They might blink their eyes stick out their tongue wave their arms but not meaning to do so. So these are just some real serious adverse consequences of medicine that that people take to treat their mental illness. And we must not forget that housing is health care. For someone with a mental health condition the basic necessity of a stable home can be hard to come by. And the lack of safe and affordable housing is one of the most powerful barriers to recovery for people. When this basic need isn't met people cycle in and out of homelessness jails shelters hospitals. Having a safe affordable place to live can provide stability to allow someone to maintain their recovery. One thing that I just wanted to mention you know I've got a phone call recently from some town officials that they had somebody in their town who was living in living in very substandard housing. Has schizophrenia has lived there for about 45 years. There is no plumbing. There is no heat. They don't have any income, but they have these two acres of land that this person is on. It's really hard to get somebody with a mental illness to be able to go to another place to live because of their social isolation, or being around other people may affect them. And this poor gentleman has has been living there 45 years and yet with all the people that have been contacted in the state, there's nothing they can do for him. I kind of find that hard to believe but I'm hoping that with lots of other outreach, there can be something done for this man otherwise they will find him dead in his home one day. That's a tough situation. Nami reminds her from several family members recently that they have exhausted their savings to ensure their family member is getting residential care, and now have no viable options to ensure their loved one has the appropriate care. They need to live in the community. Many family members service caregivers for their loved ones to help them get their needs met. What about the individuals who do not have family. They don't have time for them through paid employment. However, with the shortage of nursing care underfunded mental health community agencies. People's lives are at stake. What about the individuals who don't have transportation or isolated in rural areas. Unable to receive services. What about the policies that need to change to allow medical transportation when it is needed and not on a limited basis because of insurance. During the vision 2030 stakeholder meeting that the Vermont Department of Mental Health hosted. I learned that doctors who have a specialty in physical medicine are paid double if not more than a primary care doctor, which is understandable since you know they have a specialized expertise. However, someone with a specialty in mental health counseling is paid the least of the two. Why do we devalue our mental health as a society and not pay the same as specialists in physical health. In closing, there are many disparities for individuals with a disability of mental health condition. That needs to be addressed. Thank you so much for listening to our comments. Thank you so much. For joining us today. I have to say. It's always important to hear from families. Whose lives have been touched. By this important. Issue disability. And thank you for being an advocate on behalf of families. Absolutely. Did anybody have any questions for me. Open it up to committee questions. You. Yes, thank you. Laurie. It's actually a. A strange coincidence of timing. I know Mary is a representative court is available aware of this as well because we just. We were just working on a resolution honoring John Pandiani. Who lives in Bristol, who lived in Bristol. Who worked for many, many years in the department of mental health. Doing research statistical work on. In fact, some of these very issues. I wonder if you have on hand, if you could share his findings about Vermonters.  So I don't know that I've done enough research on that study. I can take a look. I apologize. I apologize to the chair. I apologize to the committee that there was a setup because that was one of the things I sent to you yesterday. For you, for you to be able to. It was. Not appropriate for me to handle it that way. But I can share it with the committee. I will, I will email it for the record. To committee members. And I could email it as well. And to submit it. And. I did a lot of research on a lot of different studies. And I did not integrate that particular one. We'll receive it. We'll receive it. That's perfectly fine. It's perfectly fine. I think it's striking that one of the things. Laurie, you indicated that. People with serious depression or serious mental illness. They're alive. They're, they're overall. They live. They're much shorter life expectancy. And when we think of health disparities, sometimes we think in terms of. A particular. Type of illness. But we don't think about the broad. Life span. And so I appreciate you bringing that to our attention. It's a striking statistic. It is. It's a striking statistic. And a lot of times it is due to the, the medical physical health needs of the person. You know, they are co-occurring conditions. And sometimes there's multiple conditions. But it does seem to be very common with people with mental illness. And, you know, being able to access and seek that treatment and care is very difficult for people. Because of many factors. And it could be, you know, just. You know, it's hard to even list the number of factors that, that come into play. With why they may have these co-occurring conditions. Thank you. Other questions for representative. Again, it's not really a question. I just on following up with what Lori just said. There are a lot of unknown facts. And I think it would probably surprise people to know that a person with a history of major depression has a substantially higher risk of osteoporosis. These are brain body interactions that. Are just. Unknown to a lot of people from some of these kinds of things. Right. In some cases probably not fully understood. Right. Exactly. Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate you doing this on a Friday afternoon. Today is Friday, right, folks? All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. So let me. So with that, I think that. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say in writing. But that's the, I think that completes our testimony this afternoon. On each two 10.


Hey, what's up guys? This is Alex from Xtrades back to you with another weekly trade ideas list. I hope everybody had a wonderful trading week last week. It's very slow in the markets in terms of the indexes, the spine QQQ basically stayed within a range. QQQQ kind of broke out a little bit, but it is kind of going slow, which is honestly what I was hoping for. We're looking for more of like a slow build up to want to get up too high too fast because that'll, you know, that could result in a fast reversal. So we're not seeing any, you know, signals on the indexes yet, but there are some good individual tickers we'll go over today. And we're looking at five short setups today. So we might need to see some signals on the indexes before we take these or they could be flashing signals right now. I personally think they look pretty good. So go ahead and get into the economic calendar first and then we'll get into the five short setups that we could look at for puts. So for Monday here, we do have some economic data this week. There really isn't any crazy. You can see I'm on a two star impact here because there's limited three star impact data sets coming in this week. So there's a couple of important things to go over here. So the New York Empire State Manufacturing Index, I've seen this pretty much move the markets before. So I wanted to mention that we will be seeing that in the pre-market and it'll depend if, you know, it comes in at an extreme, you know, if there's showing, you know, contractionary data or if it's, you know, looking like the economy is rebounding, you know, but if it comes in in line, you know, and it's as expected, we're probably not going to see much from it. So that will depend. And then we also have Fed Bostic. We got Fed Cash Car, Fed Barkin and a Fed Cook speech, but that's after hours. We'll write it the bell. So lots of Fed speakers this week. You see Tuesday, May 16th, we do have Fed Messers speaking. And then most importantly, the retail sales.  And usually retail sales can definitely move the market. So we'll have to see how that goes. And then we have a Fed Bostic speech as well, industrial production month over month, industrial production year over year, and then business inventories. This could be a pretty good read for how the economy is doing. And then we also have Fed Bark testimony. We got a Fed William speech, Fed Logan speech and a Fed Bostic speech. So like I said, lots of lots of Fed speakers, which could make some crazy headlines and cause volatility in the market. But we'll have to see. And then Wednesday, we got building permits, preliminary building permits month over month, preliminary housing starts month over month. I don't think this will really have an impact on the market, to be honest, pretty much for real estate data. I would say that this existing home sales here, this existing home sales here could definitely have an impact on the market. And then also we just have our regular initial jobless claims. We have the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index. That'll be kind of like similar to Empire State Manufacturing Index, want to see a contractionary data or some type of signal that, you know, maybe the economy is rebounding, which I highly doubt is we're kind of starting to see some economic indicators failing here and showing potential signs for recession. But if this comes in in line and as expected, I wouldn't expect it to do much Fed Jefferson speech and then also a Fed Bar testimony, so more Fed speakers. And then Friday, there's a Fed William speech. And then also we got a Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking. And I was a little bit thrown off by this. I wasn't sure what this was for. So I did a little digging into the Federal Reserve website. And you can see it's just going to be a conversation with Chair Jerome Powell and Ben Bernanke. So Ben Bernanke was actually the chair during the financial crisis a long time ago. So there should be an interesting conversation. We'll have to see how that goes. It could be a nothing burger for the markets because the FOMC is already over, but we'll have to see. And that's for the economic data. So now we'll go ahead and get into our individual tickers here. So the first setup we're looking at puts on this, by the way, most of these setups are breaking trend lines or pulling into supply and or rejecting supplies. So you kind of naturally have to look at their short side here. And like I said, you'll want to probably see some signals in the indexes. Do you want to see like supply and keep the queue starting to pull back like they were Friday? Maybe see a little bit more downside. You could tell the VIX is very low right now. So it looks like people kind of had to find movement in other places. And you can see Netflix down 1.4 Amazon down 1.7 Snowdown 1.5 Tesla down 2.3 and then Kupe down 2 percent. And this is all on Friday. So these are kind of like those high growth names. Looks like people were looking for more volatility in individual tickers, which makes sense. Because, you know, spy and QQQ have been pretty slow. So this first setup here, we're looking at snow. You can see it's rejecting up the supply. This is a rally based drop supply zone. I filled up this nice sale in balance area. You can see it went up pretty quick, got a little overextended, ran into resistance and did reject off the supply zone. And we do have a confirmation candle showing us that the supply is rejecting. And there's also one right above right above that slightly. It's also another rally based drop in this base candle right here. So that's a nice supply, which also rejected here, created a new supply candle right here. And that's how you got this little supply stacked area from these two base candles, which had really nice run-ups and then huge sale in bounces to the downside. And that's how a supply zone is created. So for price targets, you're probably looking at this little resistance here. It's about 158. It's probably the maximum I could see it going. If it were to go that low, that could be a stretch also. Like I said, I probably want to see the indexes start pick up a little bit more downside because this is a pretty far move. If the indexes could pick up those sales signals as well, this could amplify individual tickers and make them sell off a little harder. But I mean, we'll have to see. Might need to see a little bit more from the spot in QQQ. But this looks pretty good. And really the only resistance or really the only price target or support you can go for is this 158 right here. There's nothing in this area. There's only this previous resistance that was pretty much the breakout area of this. So it's no looking at puts here. You're risk off, obviously. If it starts blasting over supply, probably like 180. It's going to be a risk off or even like above Friday's high for day trading. But for swing trades, if you were to enter this in a swing trade, obviously your risk off is above 180 for it to break out of that. That's probably going to end up going higher. And then another thing, we do have earnings coming up. So make sure you're not going to hold this into earnings unless you're ready to lose it all. The earnings are a gamble. You never know how they're going to go. You never know what kind of condition the company's in. All we're doing is reading price action. And right now we do have these supply stack areas. Rejecting straight off. And then we do have one support below at 158. So snow looking at puts. All right. And next we're going into Amazon. So Amazon here, similar to snow, we do have a rally base drop supplies there. And it's pretty massive. This is a really nice base candle.   So there's a resistance at 110 86. And that comes from this little area right here. It rejected pretty hard. But now I'm kind of trying to start to form an uptrend line. It's not confirmed yet because you only have two tests on the trend line. You do need a third test. So maybe this will come back down for a third test. You got supply here. You got this local resistance at 110 86. Price is falling back under that and closed under that Friday. So ideally, if you can get back down to the trend line or at least the 200 SMA area, which is going to be this moving average right here, that'd probably be a pretty good price target and also a conservative price target.   But for now, maybe just, you know, keep it conservative and be careful with the shorts. Even though there's some pretty good setups here, just, you know, just be careful because we're not seeing those signals on the indexes yet. The Amazon looking at puts here, your risk off, obviously, could just be above 114s, which is the supply zone high. I want to keep it conservative. If you're day trading, your risk off is obviously going to be above, like, Friday's high or probably above this candle right here, maybe even something tighter. So Amazon looking pretty good here for a potential reversal. But like I said, still kind of in an uptrend here, trying to form one. Still holding, you know, higher lows, trying to make higher highs, but then finally found some resistance and is not able to break out of this high yet. So maybe just look for a move back down to here.  And you could, you know, maybe look for a reversal once you get down to the 200 SMA like 106s or, you know, the uptrend line or so. So Amazon looking at puts. All right. Next, we're going into Netflix here. So similar to snow and Amazon, this is also hitting a little supply area. This this selling bounce is really not as great as snow and Amazon. So this one could be a hit or miss. But also you do have this 34980 probably just round up to 350. That is a pretty decent resistance as well. And you can see it did close back under the supply. And also, you know, ended up closing under the 350s or so. And it's a pretty nice rejection candle. So ideal price targets. It looks like it did try to form an uptrend here. It failed. It probably need to get back under that again as well. And then maybe if you get down to 316s, or we can move this trend line over to this point right here. So you got 0.1, 0.2, maybe this could be a price target. You could fall down for a third test here. And I probably try to curl up about there if you were to move that trend line over. So that's just one way to look at and make a price target. If this was able to break, obviously, then you could see the 316s. I personally wouldn't shoot that low. That's a pretty decent move. Even though it doesn't look big, this is the daily chart. So, you know, these candles are, you know, whole days of trading. So you do have to be careful and, you know, not overshoot when you're day trading. Or even if you're, you know, taking short-term swing trades, you know, if you're doing swing trades, get 30 to 60 days of expiration and give it time to play out. And you can maybe hold for the lower price targets. But if you're day trading, keep it conservative, keep your stop-losses tight. And, you know, maybe you even have to adjust your stop-loss based on premium, not based on levels, because the premiums change so fast when you're trading short-term contracts, day trading. That's for Netflix here. Looking pretty decent.  There was a nice little sell-off. And then eventually it looks like it's tried to bid up after this, you know, little earnings report here. But now, I mean, pretty much struggling at 350, had a nice rejection on Friday, falling back under the supply and looks good for moving to the downside. So Netflix, looking at puts. All right. And next, we're going into coupang here, CPNG. This is like a Chinese ticker. It's obviously going to, you know, move pretty much with like, Baba and JD and other Chinese names. Sometimes it's kind of has a mind of its own and it'll go a little bit crazier than the two and have a little more volatility. But I mean, it just depends. I mean, lots of Chinese names that do move together. So maybe you can keep an eye on the, you know, the Hong Kong Stock Index. I believe that's HSI on trading view. And that can kind of give you an idea of how China is trading overnight because they do have different trading hours than we do in America. But for coupang here, you can see it's got a nice downtrend line. I tried to break out over here and it did for a couple of days. This is actually a good setup for bulls as long as you took profit once they got into this supply stack area, which are redirected directly off. But now it's starting to fall back within the downtrend line. And also it's breaking the short-term uptrend line. So we'll go ahead and zoom into this. You can see this is your uptrend line. It had a test one, you got a test two. You had a test three, but it failed. Now falling back under that and also falling under the 50 kernel regression line here. So this kernel regression line is similar to a moving average. And I believe kernel regression lines have similar math to simple moving averages. So just kind of look at this as a smoother moving average. But you can see prices starting to fall back under that. So that could be a nice signal to start getting back down towards 15s. You can also see there's a little area here at 1539. So there's a little base right here that rocketed pretty nicely. And also you can see that it fell back within this little resistance here at 1653. So you got pretty much falling back within that longer-term downtrend. You got the uptrend breaking and you're also falling under resistance. And you had a pretty massive supply rejection. Obviously the supply rejection already happened. So you do want to make sure you're waiting for a signal on this. Maybe wait for it to get under this little base right here. And that'll flush you right down to 1539. So this is probably going to make a good day trade. And usually sometimes these uptrend line breaks, they will see a bounce and a back test before rejecting something like that. But it looks like this is starting to flush pretty heavy. Just be mindful of that and maybe don't chase it directly at loads. Wait for a little pop and then you can short. It's just something to keep in mind. I mean not every uptrend break is going to back test but it does happen sometimes. So I just wanted you to be aware of that. So cooping here, yeah. I mean you got a couple different signals. Like I said, you got the downtrend line. You got this little uptrend line breaking, falling back within resistance, back on the 200 SMA and also rejecting supply. Looks like the earnings already happened. So you don't get to worry about that. And it looks good for a little flush down to this 1539 to 1501 area. So cooping, looking at puts here. Next we're going into Tesla. So this actually has a set up on the hourly. So we'll go into the one hour chart. But you can see, I mean it's, it's got this little short term uptrend line is trying to break under that. But we will need to go to the one hour to see it. So I got the one hour up right here. You can see you got to test one. You got to test two. You got to test three bounce really nice. And then finally I started to break to the downside. Your signal for puts on this is going to be under 166.50s. So we're going to add an alert and we'll name it break down, hit create. And that's your signal. So we'll wait for it to get under 166.56. You want to see like a 15 minute candle close under this. Maybe even more confirmation and be like a 30 minute or hourly candle. Sometimes the market makers will take it under. And then, you know, algorithms a little bit right back up and pretty much reclaim the support like it never even happened. So you do want to make sure that this 166.56 gets taken care of, you know, gets broken because you can see you got to bounce here. You got to bounce here. Got to wait right here. So it's a pretty decent short term support. And you'll definitely want to see it under that 166.50s. If it gets under that, you do have a chance to flush down to 163.90s. And then below that, there's another support area at 158.83. You can also see we do have a little small gap here. Nothing crazy, but it is 163.50s to 161.80s. And that's your gap. And that's from this recent little run up right here. So maybe if it does get under that 166.50s, you do have a good chance to get, start getting back down to, you know, this little gap here. And that 163.90s that I was talking about, it just comes from this little base right here. So this is that 163.90 right here. And that's why that's going to be the first price target. If it goes under the 166.56, I just showed you on the shorter timeframe. So cause it does have a chance to get bounced there.  So you just have to be aware of that. If it does break, this could hold up.  So you just want to be careful cause it could hold that up. So that 163.91 just showed you on the one day chart. And then right below that, if that breaks, there is a little gap that could get filled. If that does fail and is not able to bounce directly after, then you do have a support under that at 158.83 that you need to be aware of, which is this little double bottom base right here that held up pretty nicely. It's kind of like a little consolidation area. So those are your levels. If it gets under 166.56, if you're getting in and get out, just that 163.90s, that'd be a good flush. That'd be a good first price target. Nice little scalp level. If it gets under 166.50s. So Tesla here, looking at puts. Next, we're going through the spies. So you can see it was very choppy last week. We still have the same supply and demand level out here. So you got the rally-based drop supply. That's not been able to get up there or get into it or anything. And also didn't even test the demand that I marked either. So just really choppy. There's really no setup on this. You might have to go down to the one hour to even see anything. So you've pretty much had to wait for it to get down here by the dip there. And then sell pretty much at any peak that you can get. Because it's just not going anywhere. So we do need to see it get out of this little range. And the only way for that to happen is if it gets under 408.64. If it gets under 408.64, it'll fall into our one-day demand that we have marked here. And that's this candle, this base candle right here. If it can get down under that, this would be a pretty good area to try to counter-train, look at a dip by maybe. And then there's another demand candle, the same one that we traded off and also we bounced off as well. This is kind of like a little demand stacked area. And in order to go lower, it would have to get under 400 basically, or under this 401. So that's pretty much going to be your short signal if you're looking at puts for swing trading. You will want to see it get under that. Otherwise, maybe wait for it to get up into supply. If it gets up into supply, you could look at scalping puts off of that as well, which is pretty good. I mean, it worked right here. It worked right here. It didn't quite reach it right here. Actually, I think it did. One second. Okay, so it actually did hit the supply. This is actually, this might have been on CPI or some type of data in the pre-market. It just wasn't showing it on the one-day candles because it doesn't have pre-market data implemented into this candles.  Had a nice big week reaction, and it just wasn't able to get past that. So I just wanted to show you that. And that was this candle right here on the 10th. Yep, that's the supply area. So I'd wait for it to get back up there if you want to go short, or wait for it to get under 400. And if we're trying to buy the dip, wait for it to get back down to 408.64 area. Wait for it to get down to this demand area, which is going to be like 407s, 406s. Or if you really wanted to wait, you'd have to wait for the breakout. That's going to be above, you know, 418s, 419s. So that's your levels of focus. Really no trade on this right now. We're going to have to wait. And it's also going to depend for me on the camera lipivots when it comes to day trading, which reset every single day. So we'll have to see how, you know, they open up on Monday and see how price action is looking. That's where the SPI hopefully will be able to find some next week. And next for the QQQ. So this didn't totally reach the supply area I was looking for last week. I was looking for the 328s to 330s to get hit. It fell a little bit short before finding a rejection candle. But either way, I mean, it's still holding up structure here. This is really hard to short. You haven't tapped the supply yet. You haven't broken a trend line yet. So it's really hard to go short off this unless you buy time on it. And, you know, you can deal with upside risk because upside risk is still there. You got an up trend line holding. You're holding over 321.51. It can make a base off 321.51.  You also have a new demand zone right here. So you got a couple of things kind of going against you if you were to go short here. But if you were to wait for it to get up into supply, wait for it to get up in the 330s or the May 330s, that's a good area to start looking at shorts. Because look, you have this huge sell imbalance here from 2022. This is a great area to start looking. And, you know, it's pretty close. So like I said, if you bought time on this and could deal with a little bit more upside risk, wait for it to reject, that would be great. That's a pretty decent short setup just because, I mean, this sell imbalance from over here is just so massive. I feel like it's going to be hard not to reject it again, at least short term, before trying to go higher. And, you know, with the way things are looking, I'm pretty sure it might take a little bit for this to break out. But, I mean, who knows? All depends on economic data. The Fed is pretty much data dependent, which makes us data dependent as well. So our fate relies in the data. But for Trace, this week on QQQ, I personally, I'll probably wait for it to get back down to $321.51 if it wants to dip into there. Good area to start looking at along again and go counter trend. Pretty much as if you would do right here, you can see pulled in right here, held up nice, pulled in right here, held up nice, pulled in right here, and then also broke out. This $321.51 has been a great trading level. Looks like there's a short-term resistance here as well at $320.63. And you can see, I mean, price went over that, pulled back in. It actually did bounce off $320.63 pretty nicely. It can go down to the one hour. Yeah, so this is that $320.63. It did break under it briefly, but it reclaimed it. Once it reclaimed it, really big one hour candle here, about half a percent to the upside almost. Just had to reclaim it, and it was able to have a nice little run up. But either way, I mean, this is just classic break and retest structure. So you got your resistance, you got the breakout, retest, move higher. And the same thing, looks like it's trying to do the same thing off this $320.63. So you got a breakout retest off $320.63. If it can make a base or a bullish candle, I mean, it could march a little higher. I feel like it might get back down to the downtrend or the uptrend line first. Might even test this demand in $321.51. And that'd be a better spot to look at calls, at least for day trading. Me personally, I probably wouldn't want to buy calls or swing trades up here. It's just a little too extended for me.  Make sure it's holding over $321.51. Under $321.51 and under this trend line, it's probably going to be risk off and tech will pull back. So that's for QQQ. Just wait for those levels to hit. Be very selective. It's kind of getting up to a frothy area here. Once it gets up to the $328 to $330s or the mid $330s, you know, around like $335s, $334s or so, that's, you know, pretty good area to start looking at puts as well. Next, we're going on to IWM. But you can see it's basically unchanged. I've been looking for the same thing every week. If it gets up to the downtrend line, it's been a really good area to start reloading shorts or at least looking at put scalps off of that. And you can see exactly why. I mean, it just keeps rejecting. It's not able to get over. Now at maximum, I could maybe put us down to the $170.34s. I feel like we're starting to see a little bit more selling pressure from the banks and the financial sector and that could bring it down a little lower. But either way, that's probably about as low as I could put it because each time we get down to this $170 to $168s or so, it just ends up bouncing short term. It bounced right here. It bounced right here. Also bounced right here. So I mean, the amount of times it's bounced, that could mean the support's getting a little bit weaker. It looks like every bounce has kind of ended up a little weaker than before. So that could be a sign that this is starting to fail a little bit. And also this is a descending triangle formation. You got flat bottom resistance making lower highs in a downward slope. So that is a bearish pattern, but it would have to get under $168.19s to confirm that. And then it could get down to $162.50s and that would be a descending triangle pattern playing out. And you can see, I mean, it's kind of just like, it had its peak up here, came back down. It's kind of making like a little shoulder right here. And it looks like it's just, I mean, it's kind of starting to break back down maybe. But you do need those confirmation levels and you wouldn't need to get under $168.19s first, or at least $168 flat or so in order to go lower. And also for the bulls, you really don't have any confirmation here either. You'd have to wait for it to break out of the downtrend line and that could maybe take you up to the $179.26s that we've been covering for weeks. And that comes from this rejection area right here. So that'd probably be a maximum price target if it was able to break out the downtrend. But right now it's still trending below. Looks like it's going to head back into the supports and you'd have to maybe take profit around there and wait for a reload if it came back up to the downtrend line or if it gets under $168.19s and confirms our descending triangle formation. And that's going to confirm under support. So yes, you could speculate on a descending triangle breaking down before it happens, but that's not the correct way to do it. That's not the correct way to identify a pattern. Either your pattern is always confirmed below or above a level. And that's the same thing with ascending triangles, which are bullish, which is literally the opposite of this pattern. You wait for it to break out high top resistance.  And that's your confirmed pattern. Same thing with this. We're waiting for a support to break. Once you get the support break, that confirms your pattern. That's where a lot of people get patterns mistaken. We'll start speculating on them before they even form or before they're confirmed. And then they wonder why it bounced back up or why it totally inversed their move that they were planning on going for. That's because you didn't wait. So sometimes you just have to wait and be patient, so your pattern is going to be confirmed under that level. Or if you're bullish, you're going to want to wait for the breakout of the downtrend line. Simple as that. But like I said, maximum, I can put us down to 170.34 to 168s, just the same support as before. And then probably try to snap back up again and just keep doing the same thing. That's where the IWM really no ideal entry. You know, my favorite entry is obviously going to be directly at the trend line once you get short-term confirmation. We can even zoom in here. So this is the daily downtrend line. So this is the same line we're just looking at. Nice rejection here on the 15 minute. You got another rejection here on the 15 minute and a rejection of the general area still even here as well. So that's just something you would want to see on the shorter-term timeframe to know that you can enter. You got a nice rejection candle here off of it. You can trade down to there. You got a nice rejection candle here. It resulted in a nice gap down. So this was good confirmation to go short around the open and then this general area as well. Maybe not directly off of it, but either way still the general area and you can assume that it's probably going to keep turning downward. That's just one way to look at it on the shorter-term timeframes. But you could just want to show you like what it does in the shorter-term timeframes from this one day trend line. So that's how you'd identify that for day trading or finding an entry short-term for a swing trade. But right now, I mean, you can see it's a little bit lower and further away from the trend line. So this is mid-range and it's not a good entry for puts yet. So you're going to want to wait for it to get back down to here. Maybe you'll get calls off support or you can wait for it to break out or you can wait for it to pull back into the downtrend line again and look there. But either way, your trading point is going to be off the trend line above the trend line as support or below support. So and likewise with resistance, if they got up to resistance, you know, you could look at puts up there, but you want to wait for those inflection points and trade off those. You don't really want to trade mid-range because I mean, anything can happen there. And next we're going to entui the VIX. So the 2022 to 2023 average closed to drop from 24-22 down to 24-11. I'll pull it up right here. So I input last week's closes from 5-8, I believe, to 5-12 of May. And you can see this is our average down here, 24-11. And this goes all the way back from, you know, January of 2022 when the year started. So the reason why I wanted to track this is because this is when volatility picked up. This is when the Fed started hiking interest rates. This is when the economy kind of started to slow down a little bit. So you do want to track volatility for that period. And we use this average as sort of like a mean regression target because eventually the VIX does snap back and come back to the average. So if you're watching for the first time, I just wanted to mention that.  So for the VIX pretty much unchanged. I mean, all candles stayed within 16s to 17s. There really wasn't any crazy spike like the week before. That's because we really didn't have any, you know, economic data or anything interesting. It's kind of just a post FOMC, post earnings, kind of post CPI as well, kind of just like a slowdown. Maybe people still digesting the news, not knowing what to do next, which is understandable. We really don't know what's going to happen next. But right now the VIX still holding the 16s. They would need to get under that to get bullish for the market. So VIX definitely need to get back under 16s. And as well, as usual, my signal for bearish, for bearish trades on the SPY or the SPX is going to be over 20. So once the VIX gets over 20 or gets over with a close over 20, maybe even two daily candles over 20, that's a good signal to start looking at SPY puts, SPX puts for a swing. That means people are starting to re-hedge their portfolio. People are paying for insurance. So you really can't do anything with this this week. You're going to need a little bit more signals. Maybe if it can get back above the 1811 here, that would be a clear shot back up to the 20s. That could be a good short-term signal for puts as well. But like I said, still stuck in a range, also still holding 16. So in order to get bullish, obviously just need to get under that 16. If it gets under that 16, you could definitely head back down to 15 to 1473. And that 15 to 1473 is just this little bottom right here from November of 2021. So I just wanted to mention that. So 16 down to that. That's pretty much your range if it can get under 16. And that's why it's important to get back under 16. Because you do have that little free space it could feel. And that's for the bulls. But either way, bears, you're going to be waiting for that signal over 20. Otherwise, you know, you can look for that short-term signal over 1811. If you're looking at the shorter timeframes and day trading, maybe over 1811 is a good area. Because you can see if we go down to the one hour here, the 1811, I mean, it's just a struggle. Yeah, look, this rejection here, rejection here. It didn't quite make it up here, but either way still reject the general 18 area. So it doesn't need to get over that. They can get over that. Maybe that's a straight shot up to 20s. And that'd be a good short-term signal for day trading puts. But like I said, on the daily timeframe, which is what I usually pay attention to, it gives the best insight. You're going to wait for it to get under 16, or wait for it to get over 20. And those are your kind of more major signals that I'm personally going to be looking for. It's still holding up here. So there's still a chance it could bounce back up. And yeah, so that's why it needs to get under 16. If you want to see the market go higher and you want to see the spy SPX go higher, it's important it does get under that level and stops stagnating here. Because it kind of makes people wonder, it's going to bottom out. And also this means, you know, insurance and puts and option premium in general is very cheap right now. It's not expensive to hedge. You're very far below the 2022 to 2023 average close, which means you are getting very cheap volatility 30 days out and also getting cheaper premiums than if you were trading at the average or above the average. So it's just something to keep in mind. Just keep that 16 area in focus needs to get under that. Otherwise, wait for it to get over towards us. And next, we're going into the DXY. So finally something happened. So we've been looking for this bounce in the dollar the past couple of weeks. It kind of got it right here. But I mean, it eventually failed. But I pretty much mentioned, as long as it's holding the support, I feel like the dollar is elevated and it could snap back up and head up to 103s. We pretty much got that maybe a little short of 103.  If you can get over 103s, obviously that's going to take you much higher. And honestly, this little dollar bounce barely impacted the markets. Spying QQQ to have a pretty red day, but eventually had a pretty gnarly bounce towards the end of the session. So this dollar move was up, was that plus 2.63%. So this is a decent move. Anything from like half a percent to 0.75 in the dollar is pretty good. I mean, that's definitely a move that bears are going to notice and they usually pounce and start seeing sell pressure in the market. Likewise, if the dollar is selling off that much, that's pretty good for bulls and people start panic buying stocks. But I mean, it just depends. But Friday, pretty nice move. We saw a nice little sell off in the market, but eventually did bounce and actually bounced while the dollar still kept going up. So markets stayed resilient despite this dollar. So we're doing to see it over that 103s. If it gets over that 103s, it is an area that people could start being a little bit more worried and we could start seeing a little bit more sell off in the market. And that 103s is going to come from this COVID 2020 peak. So that's a major resistance at 103 flat. That's why I mentioned it does need to get over that. And then over that, obviously it takes you up to the 105s. So if I can get over that 103s, that would be great. Meisters seem more sell pressure. You can see the dollars even getting over the 50 kernel regression here. So this is a 50 kernel regression line with a 50 look back period, pretty much like a moving average, similar to a simple moving average, but a little bit smoother. You can see I was able to reclaim over that. You can see I reclaimed over that previously over here. Had a nice run up. And then every time it gets back under and nice sell off pressure. So I mean, it's a great little trend indicator. And I've just started to get into it recently and kind of use it as a moving average. And it's just great. Like it even works in the shorter term time frame. So if you're interested in learning about kernel regression lines, they want like a little, a little point out to like a resource or like an indicator in trading view that can point you in the right direction. I know some pretty good ones that you could mess around with. And it's great for trend reading and good for like signals on the short term if you're a day trader, just looking for like crossovers or looking for price to trend under or below. And you can look for rejections and support to get made off it as well. So that's pretty interesting for the dollar here. It's finally over the kernel regression with two candles. So you got a close here and a close here. So you got two closes over the kernel regression line. Your next area, like I said, waiting for it to get over one of threes. One of threes would definitely start bringing sell pressure to the market, I believe. But if the market does start, or if the dollar does start stalling out here at one of threes and kind of chills out and there's not much currency volatility, you know, we might see the markets be a little bit more slow. So I do want to see a little bit more currency volatility see the dollar go higher. Maybe a good signal for the index is to come lower, which then also play into these shorts coming down a little bit more aggressive as well. But like I said, you know, just if you want to be patient and you want these to play out, maybe by time, you know, look at swing trades on these by 30 to 60 days of expiration now. If you're day trading, just stick to scalps and keep those tight stop losses. And you know, if you're in a loss, just cut it, move on, wait for it to get to a better spot and you could try it again. If you do want to buy time, 30 to 60 days of expiration is great. Gives you time to think. It gives you time for the analysis to play out. Gives you time to deal with a little bit of upside risk and they're not as volatile. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. I'm going to get this chopped up edited. Finally, this time I didn't have to rerecord. So I'm happy about that. The last two weeks, we had some issues. One week I had an audio issue and then the next week my blocks power went out and I didn't get done with this video to three in the morning. So that was fun. This week, hopefully get it out a little bit earlier. I love you guys. Make sure you like, comment, subscribe to our X-rays YouTube channel and I'm out.