Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebrace.com coming at you with a little 2020 Break King Multisport Premium Edition. One box, random hit break, number one. Three cards in a box. So we only sold three spots. What we're gonna do is I'm gonna, we're gonna roll the dice to select a box. I'm gonna open up that box and we're gonna type in the hits in the order that they are pulled. Randomize your names, randomize the hits, match you up, see what happens. So good luck. Break two coming up right after this. A box, within a box. Let's open up this box. There's that. Slide that out. All right, so we'll select a dime. I like that one right there. We'll go one, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll. Four. One, two, three, four, middle box. And we'll save these for the next break. Nice, Cody Belanger. So let's pop this open. I don't know if these are covered up in any way, they're not. All right, so the first one out of the gate is, wow, a Jacob de Grom PSA nine. From 2014, TOV's Heritage. That's pretty cool. Look at him showing off that four-seeker right there. There he is. Nice, that's pretty cool. All right, so that's the first one I'll type in. Second one, it's multi-sport, so we might see different players. No, this is another baseball player. Nice Juan Soto, PSA nine. That's pretty cool. From a 2018 TOV Silver Pack. 1983 Chrome promo Juan Soto, who's just been hitting bombs. There you go, so that's the second one on the list right there. And the final one on the list is not, it is graded. Oh, I know this. I can just see from the silhouette. Wow, 2019, 2020, Donner's Optic Hollow, John Morant, graded a nine-five. Woo! Centering, corners, edges, surface, all a nine-five. Pretty, pretty nice. All right, well, let's keep the video rolling. There's only three hits, so let's type everything in here. We got the Jacob de Grom PSA nine. Second one was the Juan Soto, PSA nine. Then we have the John Morant. Beckett Grading Services nine-five right there. All right, well, good luck. Rory saying that the last, that last jaw hollow went for 787. All right, let's roll it. Let's randomize it one and a three, four times for each list. Good luck. One, two, three, and four. After four times, we got Danny, Kevin, Eastwood. Eastwood in the chat, Roger on the page here. All right, one and a three, four times for the hits. Good luck. One, two, three, four. Jacob, Jaw, Juan, they're all J names. Jacob, Jaw, Juan is how it goes. And there it is, Danny with the Jacob de Grom PSA nine. Kevin has the John Morant, BGS nine-five. And Roger has the Juan Soto, PSA nine. All solid cards, the John Morant, of course, is great, excellent stuff. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking. We've got another box coming up. Jaspy'scasebreaks.com, bye-bye.


What's the date?  I try to live without time You know, and that's what the late Jose Arguez talked about when he visited the Lord Pacquiao's tomb in Mexico One of the most important lessons he learned was that we need to live without time You'll never see me wear watch. I try not to think even about what day it is or the date on anything Of course, you know, I put myself in a little box saying okay, I'm gonna have a Facebook live at one o'clock But once this is over I'm taking myself out of that box and I'm just gonna completely forget about time again as well So I recommend it if you can live without time Even if you only have like a day off or a weekend off or something like that live without time for that weekend, okay?


And Amazon has always been driven by working back from our customers. That's like our key tenant principle number 101. A couple people have said that on this stage this week, yeah, yeah. And I think our partnership, I hope, over the next decade, continues to keep that tenant as a centerpiece. And then whatever comes out of that, I think we're going to be working through that. Yeah, I would say this. I think you said that well, the customer innovation is going to lead us to wherever that is. And it's going to be in the cloud for sure. I think we can stay that in 10 years. But yeah, anything from AI to the quantum computing that IBM is really pushing behind that, you know, those are going to be things that hopefully we show up on a partnership with Manu in 10 years, maybe sooner.


The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes. Call now, toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon, folks, welcome to, well, yeah, this is the February 22nd, the terrific Tuesday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve. Perseverance Rhodes who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Yeah, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. And the easiest way to do that, well, it's to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. We do not make that one little two by four shift. Well, it means we can find the gift. In every set of circumstances, life is gonna toss at us. Now today, you and I, we're gonna go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just past one o'clock in the afternoon. I do want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here. More important than that though. And that's this, during this next 60 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial on it at<PHONE_NUMBER> if you can't dial in. We've got you covered there too. Let those fingers do the walking. Go ahead, send me an email. Send it to Steve at tfn.com and inside the subject that if you would be kind enough to put radio show question, of course, in our Tigers, well, any and every ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Tuesday. Of course, this is Tiger, Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to less show right now. We got all the U.S. and C's trading to the downside, 4.59, one to three tenths percent. S&P 48, one to one tenths percent. NASDAQ 181, one to three tenths percent. Russell just over one percent or 22 points. The semis are off one and a quarter percent, 42 points. Trend is off one and three tenths, nearly 200 points. New York Stock Exchange is off 1.70. You got the spot politics well above its 50 day exponents moving average, trading out at $30.17. The XAU is off just slightly, gold's up seven bucks, silver 30 cents to the upside, lights be crude. 232, natural gas up 14 pennies and a 30 year treasury is up eight ticks. She's trading out at 1.5309. Lead the charge dollar wise to the upside. You've got Meritor, Inc. up 11 bucks, 45 percent. Dexcom up nine or two and a half percent. Boston Beer up nine, two and a half percent. Shockwave Medical, about 10 bucks, nine and 50, up six and a half percent. Or Roku up nine dollars. That's up about two and a half percent. Where did Roku both jump all the way up to the leader? Second leader out there in the on-deck circle. So the downside is booking holdings. $91, three and a half percent. Amazon 51 to 1.6, 10th percent. Mercado, Libet, 51 bucks, 5 percent. Tesla's off 46, that's over 5 percent chipotle. 40 bucks, that's two and 6, 10th percent. Of course, I want to look at what you want to look at. No requests, well, we do have one request so far. We'll do, we'll save that for the next segment out there. And that was from Tom, once they look at ticker symbol LTCN, in case any of you want to do the work on that before we get to that chart. But let's go take a spin and see what the markets are communicating to you and I at this moment. So let's begin with, let's do this. Let's begin with things that people can easily do at home. So here's an easy chart to have set up. You should have set up. It's the four, it's four index ETFs, the spies in the upper left, the Qs the upper right, the Dow Diamonds lower left, the IWM the lower right. So what do we know? We know that in the case of the spies, the Qs and the Dow Diamonds are all trading into their January 24th swing point. Now the swing point for the Russell 2000 is actually January 28th and price is still above that. Above that means it's above 195, 31. Now prices pulled back into the spies, likely gonna test the bottom but still not a guarantee that spy number would be 420, 76. You're pulling back on light volume. So far today, the volume is 51 million shares. That's going into 252 million shares. So a test and rejection of that level would be a buy signal. I'm not saying buy that signal. I'm saying that would be a buy signal. We don't have that as we speak just yet. The Qs may be the first one down there to test out that low. That low is 334, 315. It did 200 million shares on that day. Today so far we had 42 million shares. If we look at the Dow Diamonds trading down into that same swing point, the low of that would be 331, 35. Volume so far today, 4.2 million shares versus 29 million shares from January 24th. So the theme here is there is a theme as price pushing lower with lighter volume. Even the IWM, which has not made it down to its swing point, which is the January 28th level, the high of that is 195, 31. The volume on that day was 65 million. You're at 15 million as we speak today. So what it's signaling to us is that there shouldn't be, doesn't mean that it can't close below. But right now we don't see the volume to take out those lows, at least not at 111 in the afternoon. There's nothing that's been tested when we take a look at the index ETFs. We'll see something different when we look at the equity futures charts out there. But with regard to the index ETFs out here, there's been nothing that's tested. If we take a look at the sectors with inside the S&P 500, as well as the spy itself, we don't need to do that. We can take a look at the number one sector, weighted sector that is, and that's the technology sector. He or she is pushing it at January 24th swing point. Volume today is eight million shares. That swing has 33 million shares. The healthcare sector, XLV, pushing into that swing point, not all the way down there yet. Volume today, 6.6 million versus 37 million. The XLY, the XY is trading below. It's not trading below, it's trading into that January 24th swing point. That did 15 million shares. You're at 6.8 today. That's probably the closest that we've seen so far from a volume standpoint. That's coming from the consumer discretionary sector. The XLF, nowhere near the bottom of it, nor even the high of the January 24th low out there. That high, by the way, is 38.39. The low so far today is 38.81. So no test in that realm. The XLC, that's the sector that's got Facebook in it. Facebook is just trashed, trashed. It's trading below last year's low. That is as bearish as you can get on a stock out here. In the case of the XLC, it has taken out, with light volume, it has taken out that low from the January 24th session. So what did I just say there? I said those lows can't be taken out with light volume. You know, you need a test and a rejection out here. We don't have that, certainly in the XLC, but I'm just really referring back to the other sectors that we would just take a look at, each coming now with lighter volume. The consumer staples sector, back inside that January 24th swing point, that did volume of 25 million. You're only at 9.9 million shares. Again, light in the loafers. The energy sector, although pulling back, it's just pulling back to test the support of the bottom of its daily profile, which is at 66.73. You're at 66.97 right now. If we take a look at the real estate sector, it too, like the XLC, trading below the January 24th swing point. Now, a much lighter volume, 3.1 million shares versus 6.4.  The utility sector also testing out at swing point, which did volume of 24 million shares. You're testing as we speak right now with 7.6. And finally, the material sector, the XLB trading inside that swing point, January 24th, much lighter volume. We've done volume today of 5.8 million shares versus 21. So if we're looking for volume to give us a signal, that price is going to take out those lows, crush them, generate some types of confirmed A to B equal CD to the downside. We're not seeing it in any of the sectors with inside the S&P 500. We're not seeing it inside the spies. We're not seeing inside the Q's. We're not seeing inside the diamonds. Really, we're not seeing inside the IWM either. So we get back to this breakout here. Well, we've got a caller on the line. It's one of our early birds when we do the show at 8 o'clock. And that is Brent in Martinez, California. So we get back from this break. 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Thanks for holding. How are you today? How was your weekend? I'm doing great, Steve. I had a real nice weekend. How was yours? It was really nice. Just enjoyed it in the weather down here. One of my favorite times of the year, I think, is nice, cool evenings. And I had cool, you know, for us to send the low 70s out there, but just beautiful out here. So thanks for asking. And you wanted to talk about the markets in general, per se, so tell me how I can best help you. What is it you'd like to discuss? I was hoping you could bring back up that, the first one you're looking at, the four panel that had the spy, the diamonds, the triple keys, and then the Russell. Absolutely. And it just seemed to me, if you looked at least the diamonds, the spy, and the triple keys, there was, in addition to what you're looking at, there seemed to be a A-B equal CD pattern that was, you know, in progress there. And I just wondered if you could project that out and see where that would tie into those levels that you were looking at. So you're referring to a smaller A-B equal CD. Is that correct? The one that, in essence, would start in the spies from February 9th? Is that what you're looking at? Yeah, it's the smaller one you can see on there that is pretty obvious on the, you know, more the right-hand side of the chart. Yeah, that's what it is. So here's the A-B equal CD that Brent's referring to. The one-to-one level on that would take us down into the 425-51 area and the 1-1.272, when it gets down to 419-38. Is that what you're looking at? Yeah, uh-huh. Okay, perfect. So if you just look at just simply our typical volume perspective, the 14th, which would be the B-point of that pattern 23 million shares, you close below with 132 on Friday. So there's your confirmed A-B equal CD to the downside. So those would be two of the price projection areas. Obviously, there would be a third to fourth because folks with the A-B equal CD pattern, we wait for a bullish reversal candle to confirm when the pattern has completed out there. But those are your projection areas and I've lifted the chart up just a tad so that you can see the other areas, which would be the 1.618 at the 411 and then 402 at the two level. Any questions about the spot? Do you want me to do that for any of the other ETFs or each of the other ETFs? Yeah, if you don't mind. Yeah, the diamonds and the triple Qs would be great. See, I think it'll be something quite like that. Yeah, so the case of the Qs out here, then I'll just use the conservative A-B equal CD pattern out here. So what I would be doing, folks, I'd be using the high from February 9th. And if you had home, you wanna use the high from February 2nd, that's okay too. There's nothing wrong with that. So here's the A-B equal CD. Now, in this case, the one-to-one takes us well below the January 24th low. When I say well below 334.15, oh, I take that back. That's interesting. So 334.15, Brent, is the low. 334.17 would be the one-to-one A-B equal CD pattern. 327, 94, the 1.272, the 1.618 would get us the 320 and the two level, the one-to-two would get us the 311.25. So any questions about that A-B equal CD run? Yeah, I just think that's interesting and we don't know if it'll stop at a one-to-one, but there is that potential where that'll be those key things converging and we'd have to see some kind of a bullish reversal, of course, to kind of see some kind of a change in that pattern. But it's interesting that that's what I wanted to see that projection. Perfect. So let me, I don't know where my A-B equal CD tool went for the Dow diamonds, but I'm gonna get that back here momentarily. If you give me a second, you should be able to find it pretty quickly and we'll draw that A-B equal CD pattern in. And yeah, you know, the only reason that we would, so yes, we'd like to see that daily reversal signal. The only way to get a quicker jump on that would be to see some kind of turn on an intraday timeframe chart. For there, we would really look to the equity futures. In the case of the Dow diamonds, it is at the one-to-one level right now. Now one-to-one level gives us a 335.85 or 335.94. The 1.272 gets you down towards the bottom of that January 24th swing point. The January 24th swing point is 331.35, the one-to-one point 2.72, 331.80. So yes, good point here, Brent, to picking up those A-B equal CD patterns that could identify your signal to us, say A-bottom out there. In the case of the Russell 2000, I just expand this out and just finish this thing off. It's A-B equal CD pattern would look like this. The A point out here would be on the trading day of February 10th. The B point is low on February 14th. The C point is retracement up into February 16th. And price is already at the one-to-one level. The next area would be 1.272. And that would be a 194.79. And 195.31 is the top of its profile, the top of its high, which is the swing point from January 28th in 2022 out there. So yes, those are the A-B equal CD patterns that we're taking a look at. What's next, Steve? Yeah, that was really helpful. I'm just gonna, it's just something else to be watching potentially. And again, we have to see some kind of a reversal to give us some hope that that is played out and we're gonna get a turn. If not, if it blows through all those levels, then it's got more to go, it looks like. Yeah, so if I was gonna, your instinct, just an instinctive question, do you think that what's going on in Russia and Ukraine is just a kind of, I may refer to it as a geopolitical event, or is it something that you think that the US could get dragged into some type of, some type of military war of some sort? Oh, for me personally, I'd rather they protect our own border. Yeah, yes. I think that's, you know, that's a little more relevant to me. You know, we need to take over our own country first. We don't need to be getting involved in something that's, you know, way out of our area of needing to deal with, but that's just me personally. No, and so I'm asking, and the reason the question actually, I should have posed it a little bit better, is the outcome in the markets would be two completely different things if it is a, if this is nothing more than just some type of geopolitical event, which would basically mean the US is not too involved in it, or is this some type of something else? Something along the lines of a, you know, what do you think it might, is more likely to turn into? Yeah, but do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, I just think personally, yeah, we'll see what happens. I think it's, I think there's other things going on personally, underlined issues with inflation and a lot of other things.  So I'm not surprised to see that thing pulling back. I think that's another kind of excuse to maybe people to go after the market. I have no idea just, yeah, I'm looking to just take advantage of some of these balances we're having, but I'm not that surprised to see the market taking the hit that it has. Yeah, the reason I would say that, and that's really, it's really just for me, just to kind of as a way to take your discussion in essence to the next level in my head, you're looking for these A to B equal CD patterns that could generate some type of bottom signal force. And I would say if this is nothing more than just some type of geopolitical event, then I think that's a good path to be on. I think if this is something bigger than that, that could lead to some type of more of a military involvement or something. And then the markets are likely, then the patterns that you and I are looking at probably are insignificant. And that the market's just simply my study of military skirmishes and wars and how the stock market responds inside the US. Being able to answer that question, Brent, I think is the most important thing that we can do. I don't have the answer to it. I have an instinct, but I don't have the answer to it. So I just thought, hey, why don't I just check with you as well? So, sorry about that. But hey, thanks for the call. You're welcome, Steve. Have yourself a great day and a great week, okay? Sounds great. That was Brent in Martinez, California. Steve Rhodes with TFNM. We'll be right back. Being fun, trading the markets, but having trouble finding like-minded individuals to discuss your trading and investment ideas with? Become an Apex Predator in the trading markets and join the Tiger's Den Trading Room only at tfnn.com. 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And the purple lines are basically meant to represent the January bottoms that we typically see in the side of the stock market. So those of you that are familiar with my seasonal chart that takes a look at the Dow over the last 85, 86 years out there, we know that the Dow typically tops in the early part of January, makes a bottom in the end of January. So these purple lines out here, not every year, do we see that pattern play out? So the blue arrows that I have on my screen out here, they're representing those timers. It's not always January 30th as an example, sometimes a little before, sometimes it's a little bit after. Looking for bottom patterns that complete near that same time frame. So I'm gonna turn off those purple. I'm gonna try to, let me see if this is time cycles, I think. Yeah, that should do it. Okay, so now we've got those turned off. And you've got the blue arrows are the ones where I could visually, you and I, could easily see those January bottoms out here. Now, what's really important is, we're looking at the Dow, this is the cash in to see out here. And that's where my work on that seasonal chart came from. So we can see, and this is based upon the lows. So I've got this set up, this is not the close. I'm looking at the lows out here, because I wanna understand and really Brent, the discussion that Brent and I just had were really about the lows. And his question, it was a good question, by the way. You know, is this forming some type of buy the D point as price gets back to target or test those lows out there. But here's what we can see. If we take a look at, so we can see how those lows are really important. If you take a look at 2021, for example, that was the bottom of the stock market. If you take a look at 2020, that was not the bottom of the stock market, because that February 2020 COVID crash, soon as price got below that, certainly led to lower price out here.  You prayed up that area and ended up getting tested again, but tested and rejected. Price moved higher. If you go back to 2017, you had that low come in, markets moved higher. The same thing in 2016. The same thing really in 2015, although it was really a consolidation here towards the end of the year, August, price was able to take out that high. You come back here to the 2014 level. So you see this, this high is really important. So far, the law I should say, so far as we've taken a look at it, the only low that was really penetrated the loss with the 2021. Now, if we pull this chart back just a tad further out here, we'll get into the 2006, 2007, 2008 timeframe. Here in 2008, we had a January low that level got taken out in the March timeframe that ended up leading to lower price. We had the same thing took place in 2009. We did, we had that nice January bottom come in in 2010 when we had the 2000 flash crash in May, that low was ended up being taken out. So the low is really important for us. Now, again, this is just a closing low that we're taking a look at out here inside of the doubt. It has not been taken out, but the insinuation should be or would be that if in fact we see a close below that low, that is spelling, you know, real trouble. Could be an A to B, a larger A to B, we'll see the downside that Brent and I did not draw him at that stage. So watching these lows is really important. Yes, price is coming down with lighter volume out there, but we did see where those lows have been taken out in a couple of these sectors inside of the S&P 500. So let's do this. We've got a number of questions that have come in. I don't wanna get too far behind on those. And so let's get to those first. The first one coming in from Tom G. Tom writes in, he says, I'm wondering your thoughts on a long position in ticker symbol, LTCM. That is grayscale Litecoin out here. You played it about a month ago and you're looking to get back in. It's always a big thanks. You're welcome. So if we take a look at Lite, LTCM, Litecoin, grayscale, so and so. It's about, and really, you know what I do, Tom, here is I'm not, is that interested in looking at the, it looks like this was a reverse merger or some sort or what, I don't know what it was, but the long-term charts aren't really helpful to us. So on the daily timeframe, you can see that right now price is trading below the bottom of its daily profile. And no surprise here, it's trading into its swing point low, January 27th, which was for this instrument, January 24th for many instruments out there. It's trading inside that swing point and if it closed today below 569 or 558 right now, you know, Tom, price could get down and easily test that low. Now I say easily, when we pull over the white background charts, this tells us, well, maybe not so easily or it would be easily if it can close below the red oscillator and change line. So the oscillator and change line on this instrument is currently priced at 542. A close below red oscillator and change line, that then signals to you and I that you have a falling price oscillator below zero, that's a bearish pattern signal and that would suggest that price would get down and test that low from the 28th out here or the 27th, 2728. That when it did form a bottom out here was a nice Roj meant to indicator signal as well as a TD9 count. But what happened out here, Tom, is that price ran right into the resistance level at 766, that was a TD9 breakdown area. So is this a place to enter or buy this instrument here? You know, if we go to the short-term time frames looking for signals, here's a 30 minute chart. I don't see anything here to suggest that you do that. I don't really see much in the way. I mean, I do have wave number seven that's confirmed on a 65 minute chart, but price well below. It also broke through a TD9 count bottom, price more likely headed to 518. So the answer to your question, when I take a look at the daily charts, the intraday charts, I don't see it, I don't see it in the cards just yet. If you wanted to buy price testing that oscillator and change line, that would be the signal. But I'm not seeing that in the short-term time frame charts to suggest that. So I do hope that helps you out, Tom. Thanks so much for the request out there and have a great day. The next one coming in from JT in New York and you've got a lot of DSL, the prices down, what price do you recommend buying more? So that's one of the shippers out there. I was actually looking at Nordic American tankers. That's the one that we get a call about periodically. I believe it's from one of our members over in the West Coast in Florida, they might be Sarasota, but it was showing some definite bottoming signals. So with regard to DSL, double line income solution, that's not a shipper for some time. I thought DSW maybe or something, and it doesn't matter. But what this is doing is trading into that swing point from January 24th, JT. It did volume on that day of 1.4 million shares. I'm rounding up. You're pulling back with light volume, 300,000 shares so far. You're trading below the bottom of its daily profile, 1496 odds favor that it's gonna go test that level. Now a test rejection of the 1465 level on less than 1.37 million shares out there, that could be or should be a buy signal to you. You'd like to have something more than that if you can. So can you get that? Well, as we open up the daily charts today it's going to be bar number eight. So this did form with bar number seven, that's letter G. Arrogement to indicator signal. And what that did in the case of DSL was price ran right up into where the counter trend rally should have ended. The center of its bearish structured bullish profile. And that was at 1590. So what you know, no matter what, JT, is that your resistance level is gonna be 1590. You really need to see it close above 1646 in order for this to say, hey, I'm on my way to the upside. But you've got bar number eight, pulling into a swing point with light volume. We know that, so wait for tomorrow. See if this forms the TD nine count pattern. And that would either be the low of today, the low of tomorrow, or it could be the low of Thursday out there, because we are beginning the week on a Tuesday where that bottom couldn't come in. So you'd like to see that bottom, along with a test and rejection on that swing point with lighter volume. And maybe that's your trigger in.  The reason is because last week was a TD nine count. And it was the following bar number nine. And if price closed below that low, that low, by the way, this week I'm referring to at 15 bucks, even Steven. And that's saying this thing wants to head even lower. So you're at kind of a critical juncture here. We should know something by Thursday out there. So JT, I do hope that helps you out. 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On a weekly basis, price is trying to get through the top of its daily profile, a weekly profile that is. 51.37. So a close above that this week would be helpful. And then a close above 52.59 would also be helpful. That's the top of the monthly profiles. You're above the top of the daily, trading into the top of the weekly, trading up towards the top of the monthly. So really 52.59, you're talking about long-term, is really what you'd like to see with regard to a continued move higher. As I look at the daily, weekly, and monthly white background charts, they could be signaling a confirmed Roseman Dominicator top. Now, I just said the price was over the top of the daily profile, which is bullish, that's true. So we really have out here JL is a neutral signal. The signal changes from neutral to more of a bearish or expectory traceman. If there's a close below 50.95, the top of that profile, that would then give you targets of 50.44 to the downside 49.43 or even 47.05. So you want to watch the action over the next couple of days. You've got really what we'll call a neutral signal as we speak. In the case of the weekly, you had a TD9 count. No, you don't have a TD9 count. You don't have any kind of a pattern out here other than the top of that profile. So nothing bearish there. And the monthly timeframe also nothing bearish there. So really, I'd be paying attention to the daily timeframe chart, JL. So I hope that that helps you out and best of luck to you with the Altria ticker symbol there is MO. Let's go out to Niagara Falls and speak with Michael. Mike, thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you doing today? How is the, how's the wind driven? It's raining here, but we're surviving. Okay, good, good. I want to look at XOP. P is impotent. Yeah. It's a spider oil and gas fund. What you doing? How can I help you? And I'm thinking that with this Russian-Ukraine crisis, I realized that many of the senior intermediate multinationals have a huge exposure to Russia. Shell, BP, Exxon, you know, with sanctions common, maybe just maybe oil's topped out. Well, I don't know the answer to that question, other than take a look at what's going on from a chart perspective out here. Yeah. And so from- Show me the charts on XOP. P is impotent. Putin. Well, the P is impotent is headed to 103.54.  And that broken through then, and this was a barestructured daily profile, that should at least take us back to support. Now, one level of support is 103.54. That's the bottom of the daily. A second level of support is 101.81, 88. That is the bottom of the weekly profile. And below that, the third level of support would be 100.20. And that would be the top of the monthly profile. The fourth level to be watching would be 90.82. If this is going to be something of significance, price would need to close below the 90.82 area out here. So with regard to, let me see, let me pull over the other charts. See if there's some kind of topping patterns on the daily chart. Yeah, that middle chart looks really nice. I love that diagonal support level. Well, but that's way down there in the 60 buck level. If we do take a look at XOP, another area, so I'd give you one other figure for where price could pull back and find support. And that would be 102.24. So this identified, this formed a TD9 count top was bar number eight, that identified the top. And so its levels of support are the bottom of the profile, 103.54, 102.24 is a TD9 count breakout level. If it closed below the 102.24, what this is signaling to you, Michael, is that it does want to trade lower. So your instinct right now is to trade this to the downside? Yeah. So you've got your support areas out here. I think everything's baked in. I think all the negative, the entire conflict is all baked in. It's by the rumor selling news. So we've had oil, which is the top performing sector and the energy sector, the XLE, top performing sector. The XOP I believe has probably been the top performing sector this year. And that began last year as well and it just continued on. And at this stage, I have to anticipate that that move higher was, had nothing to do with the anticipation of some type of skirmishing in Russia. Maybe by taking it to that level where your baseness on the XOP, the P part of it, maybe that's really not the case because when I take like this set of charts out here, Michael, if we did see a close above 94.10 in LightsWeed Crude, then where LightsWeed Crude wants to head to over time is 140.82. So I don't see anything. 140.82. So what kind of a premium you're putting on the Russian-Ukraine crisis then? What's the oil premium on that? Well, would you say oil premium if Europe stops getting its natural gas or oil from Russia? The import from Qatar. From the Middle East. Perhaps. And then I'll just take a look at what LightsWeed Crude, what the charts are communicating to you and I, what buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I. And what I'm sharing with you is simply if price can close above 94.10, we're staring at 140.82. And above 140.82, 177.65. And I don't see... And we're heading back to July, 2008. Who's heading back to July, 2008? Well, I thought you were in pituit. We're back in July, 2000. We went up to 147, didn't we? On Crude, back in 2008. Oh, yeah, we know, in 2008, we went up to 200. I think we went up to 147. And around 4th of July, 2008, been a plunge. Well, you know what, yeah, so what I have to do is I have to go back and try to pull up that futures contract, which is not gonna be that easy for me to do here during the show. So I'm using a version of the continuous contract. So you very well may be right. I just would have to go back and pull up that historical chart out there. But regardless of where price was, okay? Regardless of where price was, everything price is trading above the top of its daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly profiles out there. It's above the sellers, and there's no reason for it to not continue to move higher up there. So that's what I see, but that's what's beautiful about the markets. You've got to have a buyer and you've got to have a seller. Okay. And right now, I'd be glad. All right, thank you very much. You bet. Hey, Michael, thanks so much for calling. That was Michael in Niagara Falls. And folks, if you've ever seen the falls when they were frozen, that is one of the most beautiful wonders of the world out there. Of course, if you're watching it live while it's frozen, chances are you're freezing while you're watching it outside. In any event, let's go to the next question. This one coming in from JL. JL says he wants to take a look at OCGN. So let's go look at its three timeframe charts out here. OCGN, and that is AccuGen Inc. out here. Having a nice day. So price is above the top of its daily profile. The top of that daily profile is 401, we're at 441. You've got volume behind the move out here. So what this tells us, JL, is that price should target 549. Now, 549 is the top of its weekly profile. This is inside a bullish structure profile. A close of a 403 this week is what would give you that signal that price should make its way up into that 549 level. And I'm taking a look at the daily timeframe chart right now, 432, we'll come back. We'll take a look at this chart if we get back from this break. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. You have to practice, sure, but you also need excellent instruction from experts. 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It was the high for Light's Weed Crude. Back to OCGN for JL, who's long this position. So right now, what price is doing? It's trying to take out the resistance level of $4.32. 432, we're trading at 434, is the TD9 breakdown level. So that's the area that you want to see price get above. If you get it close above that, then that says that price continues to run higher. Now, the next higher in my white background chart would take you up to that double of $6.66 out there. The weekly timeframe chart, I don't have much out here to assist us with. So nothing there other than price running into resistance sets. It's red oscillator and change line. So right now, what you've got going on inside of OCGN, as good as it looks, as nice as the bar looks today, as nice as the volume is behind it, you're at the battleground area, both on the daily and the weekly timeframe. So best of luck to you. Hector and the fuel injectors want to close out the show by take a look at ticker symbol COP. So let's get that. I'm only going to be able to get the daily timeframe chart up on my screen out here. But conical films, much like we took a look at the XOP, having a big move lower. Now this is trading below the bottom of its daily profile out here. And the volume on today's move is so far 4.8 million shares. But what is it going into? It's going into about 8.5 million shares. But nonetheless, it's trading below support. Let's see if it's also trading below support areas on the daily chart out here. And voila, as we speak, 86.36 is going to be the key level there, Hector and Patty. That is the TD9 count breakout level. So COP forms a TD9 count and Roadsman to indicator top. That has brought price back to its breakout level of 86.36. So close below 86.36 and COP is going to suggest lower price. You've got a brand new weekly profile that's attempting to form. So if we get that close, then the projection that I would suggest would be 77.80 on any further move lower. But you don't have that confirmed signal. You'll get that if you see it close below 86.36 for ticker symbol COP. Folks, thanks so much for joining me today on Terrific Tuesday. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend out there. We'll look forward to seeing you tomorrow. It might be at 8 a.m. sharp out there. If not, I'll be here. Either way, I'll make sure the show is playable for the one o'clock time frame. Have a terrific Tuesday, folks. Building wealth trading in the stock market seems impossible to most people.


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You're watching FJTN, the Federal Judicial Television Network. Coming up on court to court. You saw the problems they were having. You could see a solution that would help them, and you had to say, I'm not going to do it. The most common ongoing difficulty is also the best thing about teams. It's communication. I would say probably within the last four years, our case loads have tripled from what we used to see here. This is Court to Court, your connection to what's happening in the federal courts around the country, providing information and ideas that will enhance your job and how the courts function. Now with today's program, Michael Burney. Welcome to Court to Court, the Federal Judicial Center's educational magazine program for all court employees. Today we'll see how one court has overcome some of the inevitable problems when a management structure has changed. We'll get a glimpse of the problems facing the Southwest border courts, and Bob Bacon returns with more words to know. We also acknowledge the profound sadness and grief caused by the events of September 11th. Realizing the challenges that coping with such a tragedy presents to all of us, we encourage you to ask your court managers how to access the many resources available to you. And we want to recognize the special difficulties that our colleagues in New York experienced and are still experiencing. More and more courts are using team-based management. The concept is simple. Team members control and coordinate their own work. Easy to say but harder to do, and it's not for every court. It's only one of several options among management structures. If a court unit does choose team-based management, there are problems and staff must be ready to deal with them. There is no problem-free management system. The District Court Clerk's Office for the Western District of Washington changed to team-based management in 1994, but the road wasn't smooth. The whole idea of lunch, we can do this. It was kind of so much freedom that we didn't quite know what to do or what we could do. We would all do our own little job and not pay any attention to our teammates' work, how they were doing or performing. We were babes in the woods. We didn't know really how to, without the supervision, how to interact with each other and how to do that. So we kind of felt lost. And it would end up being just chaos because we weren't working cohesively as a team. You saw the problems they were having. You could see a solution that would help them, and you had to say, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to allow them to make a mistake. It's okay to make a mistake and make an incorrect decision. We felt like the team failed, that we had a sense of failure. We didn't live up to the expectations of the team concept. And nobody came to our rescue. But if we jump in too soon, then it's not their issue. It's our issue. And then you start getting into a tug of war. And they don't accept ownership of it. Upper management wouldn't intervene. They would just let us keep going that way until we finally kind of fell on our butt, so to speak. We were resentful, I think. I was. If you let them flounder for too long, on the other hand, they get very demoralized. And so one of the hardest things that we've had to learn, I think, is a good sense of timing. When has it gone on long enough? There's no one answer to that question. Bubness says that at the start, teams don't really trust that management will give them the authority. But they don't have the opportunity. I can see them having a problem with, okay, this person gets a raise because their judge isn't doing anything in court this month, but I don't, because I'm working. The actual following through and letting them make a mistake and then not beating them up over it, but helping them learn from it and being there for them, that's what starts building the trust. But there were more problems. And then the old supervisor felt like you're on your own. You guess what? Fall on your face. The experience was much different from some of the supervisor's points of view. It felt like a person who had received glowing recommendations, wonderful evaluations, and oh, by the way, you're fired. That what you have seen as your skills and your abilities within the organization are no longer desired. Lindbergh says the change in responsibility can create problems for the court, as well as the former supervisors. If they do not have a way to continue to move up, or even if anyone coming into the court has no way to move up within the organization, you're going to lose that knowledge and those skills to someone else. Problems within a team usually involve communication and making decisions as a group. Dara Khalil from the Tacoma Division Office came to the court after teams were in place. When I first came there, I was told it was team, but I really had no concept of that. I was used to supervisors reporting to a supervisor. It's really difficult in the beginning, I think, for a new person coming in. It was a little difficult for me at first because coming from a company where your opinion, I mean, you weren't asked for it. And so I had to get used to giving feedback. I was a little intimidated. The hardest part about working in teams is letting other team members know when there's something they're doing that's affecting the team or the mistakes they're making. Because we're all peers and sometimes it's difficult for people to be evaluated by people who are in equal footing with them. Finding time to meet as a team is another obstacle, especially for the magistrate deputy clerk team. Hi Judy, this is Heather, calling with a new arrest. We are responsible for running court dockets and our answer to judges and are really dictated a lot by other people's schedules. It's hard for all of us as a group to get together. Chief Deputy Clerk Janet Bubnas says that if managers raise expectations with team-based management and then abandon the technique when it becomes difficult, there can be serious morale problems. Teams take time. Literally in the sense that these people have to have time to meet, to work out their own internal processes and procedures and time in a larger sense because some of the real benefits of teamwork may take years in terms of people developing the requisite trust, openness. She says they've all been learning the same way. From having stubbed our toes a few times we keep learning from what works, what didn't and why didn't it. The problems we've just seen are only some of the difficulties that can come up when a court chooses a team-based management structure and the solutions we're about to see will vary from court to court and take varying amounts of time. But even though it may involve trial and error, the District Court for the Western District of Washington knows that they'll get over the bumps in the road. For managers there must be a deep commitment to team-based management and to the teams' decisions. When you tell them that you will stand behind a decision, for example, then you have to stand behind it. Now, over a period of time, if you do that, trust is gained. They will make mistakes, and as a manager you have to create an environment where it's safe to do that and allow them to do that. And then all of us have to learn from our own mistakes. That's all I need, and I'll go ahead and pull that for you. Okay, excellent. Thank you. Now, I'll be right there. Rifkin and Bubnas stepped in for a three-month period to manage the intake team. They provided specific training to address each type of difficulty the team was experiencing. Giving and receiving honest feedback was an important issue for the team. Positive feedback is very easy to get. It's the negative feedback that takes work and courage to get. And a lot of work, a lot of teamwork. I was almost one foot out the door when I first started working here because I wasn't quite ready. I was too rough. And this was a very big deal for my team because they had hired me, and I was not doing well. It's key to keeping the team going is being open and honest. You bring out the person's good points and bad points you just communicate effectively with them telling them this isn't anything personal, it's all business, it's work-related. This is right when the first team decision that they had to make as a team that really involves some emotions, some serious soul-searching about, is Mike going to be here for a while? We make the wrong decision on hiring this man, talking to my teammate, and she said, Mike, you know, we really want on a limb to hire you. And that's kind of what the whole team thinks about. I wasn't really thinking, at first I was always thinking about myself, you know, the government, this job, you know, I didn't really, and then when I thought about my teammates, that's what kind of sold me on working harder.  You know, I didn't want to let them down. When I came to get search request letters, I forwarded them on to the faculty for that after we received the money. Yeah, but if it's someone over the phone, I don't just blindly order that, I'm sorry, you need to see the check first before. These teams have learned to not let problems drag on, and to deal with them as soon as possible. They usually start with a one-on-one approach. It's always good to kind of take that person aside and say, hey, you know, I noticed this, or you know, a couple of people have mentioned this, maybe you should, you know, pay attention to this, or, and at that point, if it goes beyond that, the team is called together. Learning to make decisions as a group can be a slow process. We're all different personalities here. We all have different likes and dislikes.  They don't start off being honest with each other. They start off ducking confrontation, and so one strong personality might propose a course of action and others keep their mouths shut. I was a little intimidated because all the other people in my group and the team, they were so well-versed and knowledgeable on the subjects, and Hannah, it was hard to make a decision because everybody sounded right. You have to let that play itself out. You have to let the quieter people get dissatisfied enough. You direct some of the questions to them. Well, what's your input, or what do you think are coming up to them and asking them specifically, will you send out email regarding this?  You can't just order people to do that. We get together once a week in a conference room away from our intake area so that we can discuss issues. I guess we need to talk a little bit about how we're going to handle the transition into Mike's being the support for both the prisoner desk and the appeals desk. The hardest part about that is confronting the issue. Since his work is going to be the prisoner desk, can't he train while Darlene's being trained? That's an idea. That's a good idea. He could just sit in. The positive thing is there's different perspectives that are thrown at you, and you can walk out of a team meeting and completely have changed your mind about what you thought when you went in there just because somebody else gave you their opinion that you never thought of it that way. Because decisions require consensus, the teams need time to talk things over with each other. We use a lot of technology to communicate their calendars that are updated, a lot of email, telephone calls, and if we find the odd moment when we're all here, then it's not unusual for us to have an impromptu meeting. Pat, I got your email about adding more things to tomorrow's agenda. Something that I've been struggling with since I've been here, I think I'm going to add to it, and that's when letters come in. Resolving the roles of former supervisors can be a long and difficult problem. With several years of painful transition behind her, Shirley Lindbergh has advice for court managers about dealing with supervisors before and adoring the transition to teams. Is to help them understand their value within the organization and in fact help them craft possibly a new position within the organization so that the court is able to retain the individual and their skills and knowledge along with that. Lindbergh tried several ways of being an administrative resource for the teams. A key change came when an outside trainer recommended that she negotiate with each team for her services. Don, could you call me about getting together about this Chambers project? I need to talk to you about a schedule where you and I can get together to work on the macros and the merges. She says now she feels that she's helping the teams so that... I get the joy of seeing the wide pieces of the organization being able to put people together to help them resolve problems. Hiring new members is a key responsibility requiring the teams to arrive at consensus and make decisions. And we were wondering what appeals to you about this position and why you're leaving your current job. Well, you have to think about what's good for the team, not what's good for necessarily you. Tell us about a time when this happened to you, how you dealt with it, how you kept your schedule flexible enough to deal with these kind of things, please. Basically, with any kind of position, you're going to have a lot of interruptions. Because I know that there are times when... I may not feel the same as the consensus, but, you know, I'll concede because, again, it's the best for the group. Taking care of the priorities and emergencies first and doing the best you can do with that and if you need to, if you find yourself being a little bit overwhelmed with that, is to go ahead and call on your team members. The teams have learned that no member is wrong and that all of them are right. And one person can be hired. What was the third candidate we had? She had, yeah, darling, had much more experience. The give and take of consensus-building is not easy to master, but the intake team now takes pride in its role as the hiring ground for the courthouse, in the words of one team member. I thought that was pretty sharp. Because most times people answer that question and they answer what they think we want to hear.  I liked the answer she gave on the crisis, the major change with her computer, what she did. Courts that choose a team-based management structure can overcome the serious problems that make the transition difficult, but there will always be challenges. The most common ongoing difficulty is also the best thing about teams, is communication. Because it's not up to one person, it's up to everyone to contribute and to make their opinions and their voice heard on how things are going. In recent programs, we've talked about several Latin phrases prominent in the court's work. Today, words to know switches to the ever-illusive terms from the worldwide web. It's a veritable feast- web browser, web server, and cookie. Our producer says it's amazing what you can do with two cups of sugar. And he's right, but more about that later. When we decided to talk about cookies in relation to the worldwide web, we realized we couldn't do that without first talking about web browsers and web servers. A web browser, or simply browser, is a user-friendly software program in your computer that permits interaction between your computer and the worldwide web, as well as smaller computer networks. Browser software interprets all HTML code, including text, images, hypertext links, Java applets, and so on. Interpreting this code allows you to view web sites and to navigate from one site to another. When you use the web to research a word, look up a definition or fact, indeed, to seek out any type of materials, the web browser is what you've used to read the materials.  You might have thought, wait a minute, I'm moving the cursor to a particular place on the screen and then clicking the mouse, but I'm not pointing to anything. Well, that's another of those expressions that's entered our language, but doesn't quite mean what it says. Sort of like the phrase, step on the gas. The word browser seems to have originated prior to the existence of the web, as a generic term for interfaces that let users navigate through and read text files online. By the time the first web browser with graphical capabilities was invented in 1992, the term browser seemed to apply to content as well as the software interface. But technically, a browser is a software program. By the way, that first browser with graphical interfaces was called Mosaic. Widely used browsers include Netscape Navigator and Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. There are others such as Opera and Links. So if that's a browser, what's a server? In this case, it's certainly not someone who brings your food. A web server stores data and communicates that information to computers that connect to the server. A server is itself a computer and can have many different software packages running on it. When you connect to a website, you connect to a server from which you can access programs, files, data and other information. And of course, it's the browser in your computer that's connecting to the server. There are several kinds of servers, such as web servers, mail servers, LAN, a local area network servers, and WAN, or wide area network servers, such as the DCN. Well, all right, if you insist, cookies are messages sent by a web server to a browser. The message is a record of your actions at that website. The browser in your computer stores the message in a text file and then each time your browser requests information from that particular server, the message in the cookie goes with the request. None of this takes place on the screen. The user is unaware of the cookie or what's in the message. The purpose of the message is to let the server identify the user, that's you, and prepare customized pages from the website. And also, so that the site doesn't have to ask you to log in for each page of the site. The cookie is a lot like a preference file for the program on your computer. Whenever you visit the site after being sent the cookie, the site will load according to the information stored in the cookie. The cookie provides a way for the website to keep track of a user's patterns and preferences and with the cooperation of the web browser to store those patterns on the user's own hard drive. Those are permanent cookies. There are also temporary cookies, which are retained in your browser, but only during the time the browser is active or open. There are vulnerabilities with cookies. Probably the most serious is the potential for transmission of viruses. But there's also what's called data mining, keeping a record of your online activities. You can have your browser disable cookies or warn you if it's about to accept a cookie. Look for the cookie options of your browser in the options or preferences menus and talk with your system staff about how to deal with these web morsels. Remember those two cups of sugar? Computer cookies aren't as sweet as this kind, but they have their uses. But only if you want them to. That's words to know for this time. I'll have more on a future court-to-court.  The growing number of cases create problems for all parts of the criminal justice and court systems. To help understand the difficulties and how some courts are coping, the administrative office prepared our next story. Dan Cunningham of the AO reports. Beginning in 1994, Congress created the Southwest Border Initiative, pouring millions worth of enhanced federal law enforcement resources into the states along the U.S.-Mexico border. The initiative was designed to stem the flood of drugs and illegal immigration streaming into the United States. Now, more than six years later, the Army of New Federal Agents has indeed sent arrest rates soaring. However, the court system in which those defendants must be tried and sentenced is in serious jeopardy. To understand the magnitude of the problem, you have to understand that it is a challenge of big numbers and impossible geography. While most of the trafficking in drugs and illegal aliens along the U.S.-Mexico border comes through major ports of entry, such as this one in El Paso, Texas. Most of the border looks like this. Hundreds of miles of sagebrush and dust, perfect terrain to let drug smugglers and illegal aliens slip undetected into the United States. We apprehend at the Las Cruces Station approximately six to eight hundred a month. Every day seems to be a little bit different on the quantity. Some days we have more, some days we have less, but it always seems to be basically the flow of drugs doesn't stop around here, it's always continuous. One sleepy courthouses from Southern California to South Texas, like this one in Las Cruces, New Mexico have been transformed into assembly lines of justice, where criminal defendants are brought in by the busload and packed into crowded courtrooms, while overwhelmed judges and court staff process them through a system that has been stretched to the breaking point. We see criminal aliens and haven't seen them for a while, but criminal aliens that have serious criminal records that we've been prosecuting for the past few years and then we continue to prosecute. And I think every indication is that one of the reasons why there's been such a dramatic drop in the crime in this county and this district has been that a lot of people who were committing those crimes are locked up for a longer, longer period of time. And that's true also with criminal aliens as it is with other precipitous. But I think the greater issue is just the sheer number of cases, period, that are coming through the system that have to be handled. And defendants are entitled to... they have their lawyers, they're entitled to go to trial, they're plea negotiations, there are motions, there are just court appearances. All that depends primarily on the court. We've been operating under these increases since 1994, and what's so frustrating to us is that there doesn't seem to be any long-term solution for our court, where we really, because of our position next to the border, the cases aren't going to go down. The cases are going to be there. If there's a commitment to make the border safe and secure and not to have drug coming into our country, that's a long-term problem. We don't have the solutions to that. But since we are here, since we are on the border, I think we have an obligation to handle the cases that are brought to us. And part of the problem is there's been an increase in law enforcement personnel on the border in the last five years, over a thousand positions, new positions created. There's been no increase in district judgeships, and in fact, a decrease. I would say probably within the last four years, our case loads have tripled from what we used to see here. As you know, since we're sitting here on the border, we get a tremendous amount of drug cases and illegal entry cases, and the case loads have just skyrocketed. The key to solving this problem is through resources. The federal judiciary has taken its case to Washington, and Congress and the White House are hearing the message. Our Southwest border courts are basically beyond capacity to handle our increasing criminal dockets. While the battle for new resources continues in Washington, judges and court staff along the Southwest border have come up with their own solutions to help cope with the crisis. We've had a lot of cross-functional work where the docket clerks are helping the courtroom deputies who in turn help the docket clerks. We've relied a lot on systems, really stressed them out with all the programs we want, because the only way we can stay current is by harnessing automation. We have drafted, I guess is the word I would use, judges from the Eastern District of Louisiana and the Western District of Louisiana in large numbers to come to the Southern District of Texas and the Western District of Texas to help with the criminal case load. And also, I might add, with some of the civil case load, it has been an enormous help. We have a lot of deportation cases after previously having been deported, some of them after previously having been deported, having been convicted of a violent felony, and many of them drug cases. We put out a request for anyone that would like to come down. They could work for as little as a week. They could stay for as long as six weeks. Most of our people came in and stayed about two weeks. We had a few that stayed six weeks. They've come from Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Alaska, a few from the other districts in Texas, not Southern, because they're as much under the gun as we are. But it was just kind of a mixture. It was about 14 officers, and without fail, every one of them was totally amazed at the amount of work that's being produced. They leave with a tremendous appreciation for what we do out here. And that is good for our staff. They find it professionally challenging and very rewarding, and I'm glad they do, because without them, we couldn't make it. The challenges of the Southwest border are enormous. Visiting judges and court staff, as well as streamlined court operations, have demonstrated how administrative flexibility and creative management can offer relief for a system in crisis. Several new bills before Congress and the president promise to bring a more permanent solution soon. That's all for today. We'd like to know your evaluation of the program and to hear your suggestions for future topics. You can contact us at the address on the screen. Click on court to court to select the evaluation form. There are two forms. One can be printed, filled out, and mailed or faxed to us. The other can be completed online. Please join us again in January 2002. We'll hear from two courts about dealing with the public, especially at the front counter, and we'll listen in on a naturalization ceremony to see how the court enhances the significant event for new citizens. Thank you for joining us today. We leave you with this admonition from our good friends in the district of North Dakota. Fill out your evaluation forms or we'll come visit your court.