It's now time for Member's Statements. I recognize the Member for Mishkegouak James-Babe. Merci, Monsieur le Président. I rise in the House today to speak on behalf of the constituents in my writing of Mishkegouak James-Babe about the crucial shortage of doctors and nurses in the region. Speaker, it has been known fact for quite some time now that having access to family physician in the North and in ongoing is an ongoing challenge. Parlons plus particulièrement de la situation. Let's talk about my county, Hearst. This municipality has been going through a shortage for quite some time. In this city there are 1,500 patients without a doctor, which is a high percentage of the population. Mr. Speaker, the emergency of the Hearst Hospital is on the brink of having to close down because there aren't enough doctors. Hospitals in my writing are also having a nursing shortage. In smooth rock falls, they have tried and continue to try to recruit by offering incentive to attract nurses and they still cannot get the human resource they need to cover this shift. Mr. Speaker, I'm asking the government to act on this crisis situation. The government must invest in programs that will mitigate problems in the North. It's time to act. The poor government learned to listen and commit to finally taking action to ensure everyone in Northern Ontario can get a family doctor and address the nursing shortage. Merci, Monsieur le Président. Thank you very much. Member Statements. Member for Mrs. Agamal. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mrs. Speaker, last 18 months have been tough. The banks saw 26% increase in first-time visitors across the province. COVID-19 has affected every fabric of our society. However, that has not stopped our province, the people of Ontario, from working together to ensure no one is left behind. They have displayed the true Ontario spirit. I would like to spotlight our community ambassadors. Dr. Rave Tiwari, Kathy O'Connor, Sukhwinder Sharma, Khayusha, Bhavish Patel, and Angie Monique for stepping up and supporting our office community food drives. I am thrilled to share that the ambassadors from Mrs. Agamalton have collected over 1,500 pounds of food for Mayor Bonnie Kromby's annual Thanksgiving food drive to ensure fellow neighbors can enjoy meals with their loved ones during the festive season. The achievements like this would not be possible without a true team effort. Thank you. Thank you, the resident of Mrs. Agamalton and my wonderful office staff, for always being there to lend a hand to our community during these tough times. I am looking forward to your support for blood donation drive on December 18th. Let's continue to work and serve the community through Ontario spirit, and that is what will get all of us ahead in the road to recovery. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Spina Fort York. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. November 14th was World Diabetes Day, marking 100 years since Banting and Beth discovered insulin in a lab just a few hundred metres from this legislature at the University of Toronto. But as well as insulin, people with diabetes often need eye care. The fake of wolf lives in Spina Fort York in its type 1 diabetes and has been unable to update its prescription because this government refuses to negotiate a fair deal, leaving optometrists paying an average $27 out of pocket to examine an OHIP insured patient. It has been 76 days since seniors and children have been able to receive OHIP covered eye exams. My constituents have sent hundreds of emails and thousands of signed petitions asking the government to negotiate in good faith with optometrists. There are people like Dr. Melissa Yoon of Dr. Yoon Optometry in Spina Fort York who simply wants to assist her clients and can't keep paying out of pocket for it. The impact is far-reaching, affecting people from the ages of 7 to 70. Bob Whelan is 70 years old and a constituent and he can barely read because he needs a new prescription. Another constituent, Jugbeer, has a seven-year-old daughter who needs prescription glasses but hasn't been able to get an eye exam because of this government's refusal to negotiate. He says that this is having a negative impact on her learning and her well-being. Mr. Speaker, we are imploring this government to negotiate a fair deal with optometrists so that residents like Jacob, Bob and Jugbeer's daughter can get the eye care that they need. Thank you very much. The next member's statement, the member for Brantford Brandt. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in the House today to acknowledge a memorable event which recently took place in my writing of Brantford Brandt. For 24 years, the Saturday prior to Remembrance Day, the ThinkEvent Committee has chosen to honor local veterans, widows, widowers, and Silver Cross mothers. For the past 22 years, this took the form of a wonderful luncheon attended by local veterans and their families and members of the community. The pandemic forced the organizing committee to pivot and on Saturday, November 6th, for the second consecutive year, I was able to participate in delivering gift bags to the homes of veterans and their families. The gift bags contained a wonderful assortment of community-donated gifts, including a gift certificate for a lunch at a local restaurant. While we wish we could have honored them collectively, this was still a wonderful way to remember the tremendous service and sacrifice of our veterans. I'd like to give a special thank you to my newly elected colleague, MP Larry Brock, and the work his office staff also did in making this year's event successful. ThinkEvent provided an opportunity to salute our local patriotic men and women who served our great nation and to thank them in person while their number decreases year by year. Their legacy of fighting to preserve freedom remains. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Toronto Center. Thank you, Speaker. If you ask any Torontonian what our national bird is, don't be surprised if someone answers the construction crane. The Rider-Levitt-Bernahal Crane Index tracks how many cranes dot the skylines of North American cities and found that Toronto has a whopping 43% of all the cranes counted in the 14 cities that they track. Speaker, the Conservative members opposite will cry all day that the source of Toronto's affordable housing crisis is a lack of supply. But Speaker, how can we have more cranes in the sky than all of Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and New York combined and still manage to have a supply problem? The problem speakers, we aren't building the right kinds of housing. We don't need more multi-million dollar condos on every single corner. We need investments in affordable housing. We need real rent control and stronger inclusionary zoning rules. Rules that allow cities to require developers to build affordable housing within their projects. I recently spoke with Darren, a constituent of mine who lives in the church in Wellesley Village who also wants to see stronger inclusionary zoning rules put in place. Darren lives in a behemoth 42-story tower, but sadly only half of the units on the second floor were designated as affordable rentals. But worse, Speaker, because this building, this condo, was built after 2018 when this government cut rent control protections, these units aren't even rent controlled. We need this Premier and his Conservative government to stop pandering to the profits of developers and start putting affordability for tenants first. Thank you. The Member for Guelph. Thank you, Speaker. I spent constituency week meeting with people in Guelph, farmers in Wellington County, folks from Caledon, Lawn, Halton Hills, Orangeville, all opposed to Highway 413. None of them a downtown Toronto elite. I attended a rally in Bolton against the Premier's highway schemes. All over 100 people took time out of their busy Saturday afternoon to wave signs against Highway 413. The same signs on local people's lawns along the highway's proposed roof. None of them are downtown Toronto elites that can afford a $1,000 fundraiser. So, Speaker, let's be clear. The only elites pushing for this highway are wealthy land speculators and PC donors who will cash in big time if the Premier builds this highway, paving over paradise to put up a linear parking lot. People who live and farm in the area want to protect the farmland that feeds us. They are opposed to paving over the wetlands that clean our drinking water and protect us from flooding. They are opposed to putting more stress on the rivers they love to fish. They are opposed to paving over the green belt. They are opposed to the Premier making life less affordable for people by forcing them to commute further distances to find an affordable place to call home. They want $10 billion spent on better transit, affordable housing, health care and climate action. Not a highway that will pave over the places they love. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. The next member's statement, the member for Oakville. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's an honour to be in the legislature here today and to bring awareness about important organisations in my riding of Oakville. Last month I had the honour of attending the virtual grand opening of Paddy's Place, a new dementia care facility operated by Acclaim Health. As the population ages, Paddy's Place will be critical in filling a growing need by servicing individuals living with dementia. Paddy's Place is a state-of-the-art facility that is tailored to the needs of its clients. In fact, before construction, clients were consulted on the facility design and which features should be included to provide the best care for them. Paddy's Place is a comfortable and inviting home. The features include an adult day program and it is the only facility in Holton Region to have beds for short overnight stays. The 3D immersive technology room, which is the first of its kind in Canada, is designed specifically for people with dementia. I have a personal connection to Paddy's Place. It was named after Dr. Paddy Plaxton, who was my family's physician for many years. In fact, it was Dr. Plaxton that delivered the wonderful news to my wife, Nadja, and I that we would be having twins. Dr. Plaxton is now living with early onset dementia. She practiced medicine in our community for over 20 years. Her dedication to the community is honoured in the name of the new facility. I want to thank the residents of Oakville and Holton Region for their support and contributions to building this fantastic facility. I also want to extend a personal thank you to everyone at Acclaim Health for the fantastic work that you are doing. I am so grateful to you and all the members of Acclaim Health and all the members of the community that have participated in raising funds for this fantastic facility. Thank you very much. Member Statements. Member for Davenport. Mr. Speaker, by the end of the last government's term, Ontario had the second highest childcare fees in Canada and Toronto had the most expensive fees in this entire country. We have heard so many promises over the years of change, but the fact is that this Conservative Government has failed to deliver on affordable childcare. Today, parents in my riding of Davenport are paying a median fee of $1,578 a month, and that's if they can find space at all, most cannot. On top of that, COVID restrictions and staffing pressures have seen spaces closed just as parents are returning to the workplace. Families at Rawlinson School, for example, are finding that their childcare centre is turning them away. They're letting children go because they are so short on rooms. Worker retention remains a major issue because wages have not kept up, and the one hope for families rests with an offer from the federal government which has finally come around to the idea of funding universal affordable childcare programs. Over the weekend, I was pleased to hear that Alberta became the latest province to sign up, joining seven other provinces and territory, but Ontario is lagging behind once again, and we've got federal officials telling the Toronto Star last week that the province has yet to even submit a formal plan to them. While this government drags their feet, families, especially women, are paying the price, it's time for the government to stop wasting time, sign the deal, let's deliver $10 a day childcare to the people of Ontario. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Thank you. Member Statements, the Member for Niagara West. Thank you very much, Speaker. The rebuild of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital has been one of my top priorities since being elected as the MPP for Niagara West. I was born in the hospital, I campaigned for the hospital, I remain committed to seeing the rebuild of this hospital to completion, with the shovels in the ground upcoming soon. This summer, the request for proposals went out as part of a hugely important next step in getting these shovels in the ground. As part of our comprehensive plan to end hallway healthcare, the Ontario government made an additional investment of over $15 million earlier this year to support the planning and design of the new hospital. And once complete, this new state-of-the-art facility will replace the existing aged building, improving capacity, expanding access to quality care, and helping end hallway healthcare for patients and families in West Niagara. Now, getting to this stage of the project planning requires an immense amount of work from the hardworking staff and planners who have helped us get here, and I wanted to thank them for that work. Once complete, the New West Lincoln Memorial Hospital will have a modern up-to-date facility with capacity for over 61 beds, a larger 24-7 emergency department, maternal and newborn services, modern surgical suites to deliver care with the best technology available, and outpatient care services, including minor surgical procedures such as endoscopies. I want to thank our local municipal and community leaders, supporters, volunteers, doctors, nurses, and frontline healthcare workers for their tireless advocacy and the important regional projects in Niagara West. I also wish to acknowledge the hard work that continues to go forward and I look forward to seeing shovels in the ground. Together, we will build the New West Lincoln Memorial Hospital. Thank you very much. That concludes our member statements for this morning.


Despite worldwide prevalence, post-agricultural landscapes remain one of the least constrained human-induced land carbon sinks. To appraise their role in rebuilding the planet's natural carbon stocks through ecosystem restoration, we need to better understand their spatial and temporal legacies. This article was authored by Stephen M. Bell, Samuel J. Raymond, Hee Yin, and others.


Let us look at some key issues in the design of airliners. First of all the wing of a transport aircraft or an airliner is subject to a large amount of optimization and why is it so many people wonder that all airliners whether they are from Boeing or Airbus they look very much alike because both of them have been subjected to the same amount of optimization similar requirements and similar objectives. So independently they have come up the solution which have arrived from various companies are very similar. There are certain variants of course and it will be interesting for students to actually be given an exercise to identify totally different approaches and totally different solutions to meet the same requirements. But in transport aircraft of this particular type you will find most of them have certain common features what are these features. The wings are swept in most of these cases but the range in which the quarter chord sweep that you will observe will be between 35 and 38 degrees mostly. Now some of them might use supercritical aerofoils which allow you to obtain the benefits at a lower sweep angle and also when you sweep less you can get more efficient flaps and lower wing weight. So this is one thing. So most of the aircraft in this category airliners which fly near transonic speed mark numbers of around 0.8 they are going to have swept wings with a sweep in a very small band or supercritical aerofoils allowing it a little bit lesser sweep. The sizing of the fuselage is actually not a very difficult task.  The nose is required to put the cockpit and to put some instrumentation and some features in the front and the tail is required essentially to accommodate things like the APU some amount of baggage maybe and adequate length and taper to conical taper to allow the distancing of the tails to provide sufficient moment arms. So the fuselage design is subjected to volume and for passenger and cargo whatever is the volume required and what we want to do is we want to make it as small as possible to reduce the cruise drive. When you come to the power plant all of them have generally a high bypass ratio turbo fan aircraft because these give you lower SFCs and lower noise levels and also lower emissions especially the NOx emissions and easy maintenance. One example I would like to show you this has been taken again from the book by Professor John Fielding about how some advanced features have been provided in a transport aircraft to address particular requirements. So this aircraft for example is one of the aircraft which has come with two member crew this is now standard but when this aircraft appeared in the market it was one of the first aircraft that came up before this we had aircraft like Boeing 747 older versions which had a pilot a co-pilot and a flight test engineer or navigator. So the cost of the crew has come up because the workload is low so we have a low workload cockpit so you can manage with two people and this was possible by extensive aeronics integration. This is an example of how technological developments drive the requirements earlier people were happy to customers were happy to have the requirement of 3 or 4 people in the cockpit but now it is only 2. This aircraft has got a center of gravity management system which allows it to fly optimally at various conditions and there is a flight envelope protection and load alleviation by automatic deflection of the control surfaces to handle the gust loading and this is possible because of the extended flight through computer system. On the structure side the designers have gone for use of new materials and processes composites and super plastic volume and diffusion bonding and also aluminum lithium alloys. On the power plant side they have been installed with the CFM-36 engine which gives you the so it is an old it is an old engine which was on Airbus A320 it has been enhanced to power the A340. We will come again to this aircraft in the future because there are certain other additional features that I will discuss. Now let us look at some trends in the design of airliners especially let us look at families and commonalities. Now just like we have families in our own personal life we also have families in aircraft design. Now what you do in families is basically you design a baseline aircraft and then you meet the changing market requirements or provide a competition to an other existing aircraft by stretching or shrinking the aircraft okay. So what do you mean by stretching and shrinking basically by inserting and removing the fuselage plugs you could also do it by changing the engine or by increasing the thrust of the same engine to meet a requirement and there are many many examples of this in the Airbus and the Boeing stable which we will see very shortly. The aim of this exercise is to ensure that every aircraft with the competition makes available there is a equivalent or similar aircraft in your stable so you give the airline a choice that if you want to beat that aircraft in the competition here is our solution to that particular problem. You can see for example if you look at the large twin market okay twin engine aircraft you can see you have for example you have 767-200 which was for this particular range and this particular you know this particular capacity and it has been stretched and again you know and again similarly you know you have this family similarly you have another family of the Boeing 767 family where you are just reducing the range by or I would say the other way you are increasing the capacity by putting you know sorry you are you are changing the market requirements let us look at this in more detail as you go ahead let us look at the Airbus A320 family this is a very popular family worldwide it started with Airbus A320 the base aircraft which came in 1984 okay right it had approximately it had 575 5700 km range and it has a capacity of around 150 passengers then in 1988 4 years later the A321 was made available with a larger capacity but a 100 nautical miles smaller range after that we had the A319 which was a stretched version as far as the range is concerned but a shrunk version as far as the capacity is concerned 6800 nautical kilometers and 124 passengers this is one way of fighting the long-range regional aircraft and then here is another example of A318 which came in 1995 here the range was reduced to 6000 kilometers and the capacity was brought down to 107 kilometers so the same basic aircraft is serving 4 different markets by using the family concept similarly you have the 777 family chart where you go from you know one aircraft to the other and then this one to the other and then there is a kind of a fallout and there is also a fallout aircraft so you can see 4 different markets I would say 5 different markets are being addressed so one aircraft is actually able to handle such a large range of capacity and range by stretching and shrinking there are also some commonalities in the design and this is very interesting interestingly you will notice that in the Boeing stable the Boeing 787 fuselage cross section continues to be used for further aircraft with minimal change in the case of Airbus you use the same wing for 2 aircraft the twin engine Airbus E330 and 4 engine Airbus 340 they both have almost the same identical wing this leads to lower manufacturing cost and commonality in service okay and in operation there are commonalities possible using what is called as the cross queue qualification in the Airbus aircraft you can see for example here that you know there is a aircraft called a A340 all varieties within a day the pilot can convert to flying a 330 and from 330 to A340 it takes just 3 days these are large aircraft now if you have a pilot qualified for 340 and 330 and you want that pilot to operate smaller aircraft so matter of just 11 or 15 days you can convert them okay and then 380s they are saying will also have a similar operational advantage Boeing also allows okay now commonality is available only between Boeing 757 and 767 so from 777 to 787 you can go in 5 days but notice here from a non Boeing aircraft basically it means an Airbus aircraft to 787 you require 21 days of training so commonality is also there in both the company here is a cockpit or the flight deck of Boeing 787 okay a very modern cockpit and a similar configuration you will see now in the future Boeing aircraft and here is an example of commonality inside if I draw a line here on the left hand side you have A330 on the right hand side you have A340 one of the versions both of them are having a common wing platform okay on one side you see a single engine because there is twin engine on here you see 2 engines because there is 4 engine but they have a common cockpit they have a common cockpit common fuselage common landing air common empanage or tail common systems and common wings the only difference is in the fuel piping you know the piping that will go to the fuel it will be the engine here to the engine here but for that it is all common and from Airbus A340 300 to Airbus A340 200 you just have 8 frames shorter and you get a new aircraft to meet the market okay this commonality does not come without a cost it is good to have commonality but here is one assessment by Professor Scott Eberhardt about the drawbacks of commonality the result is non optimal design for example if you look at the deliveries of Airbus A330 and A340 as compared to 767 and 777 you notice that 330 sold quite well any aircraft that sells around 400 you know 400 units typically just is able to recover its market this is for a new aircraft of course A330, A340 are not new aircraft but you notice that 767 and 777 have around as on 2012 they had around 1000 aircraft being sold compared to only around 850 and 400 for A330 so common wing is good but too heavy and it result in the interior airplane okay look at the loss in sales what we saw earlier was loss in numbers this is the loss in sales so compared to 767 and 777 340s have around 10 hundred billion dollars loss in the sales and consequently we notice that there is no new order so commonality is good but commonality can lead to serious financial considerations also thanks a lot


Let's look at the rotation of a particle in a magnetic field. Now, I've already covered some of this in a previous video, so if you haven't seen that one, you do want to go back and watch it. Remember from that video that a magnetic field on a moving particle creates a force given by the cross product with Q times V cross B. And we saw that if the particle enters it at a perpendicular direction of the field, it will cause a circular path. And I have a lot more detail in that video. But what I didn't discuss in a lot of detail was all the possible directions. Now, since we're in the digital age, I do have to actually remind students what clockwise and counterclockwise means. So clockwise means the direction you go around is the direction of the numbers on a clock. And counterclockwise is the opposite direction. If I have a magnetic field, and in this case I'm using magnetic fields that are perpendicular to the screen, either pointed inward, shown by the X's, or as dots pointed outwards, then if I shoot a charged particle in from, I'm using from the left side in this case, but it actually doesn't matter which direction you shoot it in from. We can look at what happens to the charges. Now I've got two colored arrow here. Up at the top I say for positive charges. See, the positive charges will go one direction, and the negative charges will go in the other direction. So how do we know which path is for the positive charge and which path is for the negative charge? And similarly, if the field points outwards, how do we know which one is for the positive charge and which one is for the negative charge? This is where we want to use our right hand rule. And the right hand rule I'm using with my students has your fingers pointing in the direction of the magnetic field, your thumb pointing in the direction of the velocity, and then the palm of your hand points in the direction of the force on a positive charge, while a negative charge would be pushed in the opposite direction off the backside of your hand. And again, there's another video that does more about that. So I'm going to go through one of these, and then you can think a little bit more about how the rest of them make sense. So if we start with the field pointed inwards, pick up your right hand, point your fingers in towards the screen. And if you rotate around your wrist until your fingers are still pointed in the screen but your thumb is pointed towards the left, you'll notice that your palm is facing up. And that means my charge when it comes in would be deflected upwards. So this is the path a positive charge would flow. And then by symmetry, the negative charge would go in the other direction. So I'm using my purple here for the positive charges. Now if the field is pointed outwards, you'd have to sort of rotate your wrist around outwards. That's a little uncomfortable, but just kind of make sure that you're doing it with a loose elbow and rest. And you rotate it around so that your thumb is pointed to the left. You'll see that your palm is facing downward. So in this case, the positive charge would curve downward, and then the negative charge would curve upward. Now I say down and up, I mean relative to what we have on the screen. Now you can go back and think about the definitions of clockwise and counterclockwise to figure out whether it's rotating clockwise or counterclockwise for the positive and negative charge, depending on if the field is pointed inwards or outwards. Might take you just a little bit more practice to really get the hang of it, but it's a good exercise in doing the right hand rule for our force law.


going to hit go live here. All right, John, whenever you're ready, we're ready to go. All right. Welcome, everybody. I want to thank BookMap for hosting this presentation. We're going to talk about options today with our fact-based trading solutions. And before I get into it, I want to go through this disclosure that all the information and presentations are for educational purposes only, and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. For risk-wise, cryptocurrencies, futures options, forks, and stock trading contain substantial risk, and it's not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading, and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. I'm John Slazos from Dharma Capital Trading. I've been trading markets since the 80s. And I was a former Chicago Mercantile Exchange member, and I got involved in trading crypto. I bought my first Bitcoin in 2013. Went through lots of ups and downs there, and I'm still involved with crypto for the same reasons I started. So I'm a really big fan of Web 3.0, and what can happen where we can go. Full transparency is where I think it's all about, and having things decentralized is going to make things safer for everybody. So a big fan of the space, and I've been basically trading in it full time since 2016. Can visit us at DharmaCapital.trade on our website. We're posting on X, and we have some YouTube presentations that go through our methodology. Also going to be hearing from Spencer Regal today. He's our chief option strategist, and Spencer is going to go over how we apply options to our outlook. And with Dharma Capital Trading, we are here to create a positive impact and help traders achieve their full potential. And we do this by empowering traders with fact-based solutions that enhance self-awareness and decision-making. And our approach enables traders to execute trades confidently and effectively by facilitating a state of flow. So state of flow, it's kind of being of no mind. When you're in the zone, if you're an athlete, or when you're trading the markets, when you're not thinking you're just doing, and you're doing it perfectly. And so how you get and stay in that state of flow is what it's all about, and that's what our fact-based trading solutions help you do. And so today, we're going to go through our decision matrix stemming from our outlook that I post every day in our chat room, and where I'm going to use our price map overlay to define the structure. And then Spencer is going to come through and define option strategies around that structure. And so what is fact-based trading? Fact-based trading involves making decisions based on objective data and analysis, reducing speculation and subjective biases. We all have these subjective biases that always get in the way, and having a statistical baseline as a benchmark brings you back to the truth. And so helps you to see clearly what's true. And so I'm going to flip over here to our analytics, and then we're going to kind of dive deeper into this outlook and what's happening currently. So this is an outlook that I post every evening. Well, I'm in Chicago, so it's my evening, but 12 a.m. UTC time, so basically the non-official crypto opening, which comes in now with daylight savings time at 7 p.m. in Chicago.  So this is our price map. I'm not going to get into all the details of the price map right now, but basically this structure doesn't change for the whole month, and it gives us some guidelines to where we're going to see potential reactions. I've also highlighted the opening range, the first week of the month, and I've provided some 50% expansion of that opening range and 100% expansion as potential stopping points. And yesterday we had a retest of that top of that opening range. And now we're back at what we call our upside target too. The market's had a bit of an eventful month and we're all teed up, just got through the Ethereum upgrade and coming into the session, we were talking about the market keying off of the 71,000 level. Again, we retested opening high and we're flirting with a new extension higher in Bitcoin. So we want to key off this strike. I'm going to pull in a live chart here as I go through this, and I'm going to go down to a shorter timeframe. And then let's just highlight the 71K area, K area here, pull this up and let's just identify kind of the start of the session here. So we're publishing around this time here and we were focused on the 71K area that's pivotal. We did test this high area of the opening range previous session. And now we are, oh, I'm sorry, I've got the quarterly up here. So make a little more sense. Bear with me, getting live here. So, simple facts like previous periods high, low, last, those are great factual things, they're not going to change their truths. Identifying these opening range structures, those are truths, just is what it is. So having those benchmarks. So here's the start of the UTC time session and we are focused on the 7100 strike. Basically that's our pivotal point. Are we going to stay bid? Well, then if we are going to stay bid, we're going to stay above 71K. You know, held trade above here, we're anticipating a move to the 50% expansion of this opening range, which here's the opening range, which is the first week of the month. And so this is our 50% expansion and it's a kind of a classic pause point and this is 100% range expansion. So we're just looking for confluence. This is our price map structure. The crimson levels are our major price map levels. These are minor levels. So we're just always looking for confluence but basically held trade above 71K. We're looking for the market to make a play for this 74 or 500 level. This also has some good alignment with our weekly structure at 74,833. So we're looking at these different structure points. Basically monthly structure doesn't change for the month. Weekly structure doesn't change for the week. We're focused right now on the monthly structure and we've had a significant move. And with all the current events happening, I think more liquidity is going to be coming into the market now. We've got through this theorem event and next couple of days you could see some people starting to play some bets. We could see a run up and we could see that run up come up to the 78K level. And even potentially making a play for 80K psychological level makes sense. And then conversely, if we're keying off the 71K levels our pivotal point, well, if the market can't maintain a trade above 71K, we're anticipating kind of a retest to the top of that opening range, which comes into alignment with one of our structure points. If the market's good, it's going to base above here. And if we aren't able to base above here, that's going to be an issue because this is a typical breakout of the opening range. We're making a move. We could stall out here for a moment for some digestive action, but basically it's all positive above this price point. We get a failure here. It's telling us it's a tell that there's a problem. And so we're more likely to go sideways. Sideways to lower. And so where our expectation is or at least we're going to get a retest of this area here, if not all the way back down to the previous month's high and then this upside pivot area. So we're expecting some big swings and we're looking at basically this 60K area as our low point for any negative turn of events. So what do we do next? So how can we take advantage of this? So if we're assuming this is the monthly structure, we've got, Spencer's going to get into, how do we take advantage of different opportunities with our expectation that 71K is going to be the pivotal point? Well, I just clean all this up and we're looking at this point and basically let's just say 79K on the upside, basically the previous monthly high point on the downside with basically the previous monthly close or let's just call it 60K on the downside. So this is our pivotal level and these are our inflection points to the upside and to the downside. So this is the upside containment area and this would be the downside containment area but we have to basically respect in this area maybe all we get, the market just keeps, are we going to keep this stop and go action? It could be a stop and go here. Is the expectation and then if we aren't able to maintain a trade above here, expectations we could have a fallback into this area. So then kind of damaging this underlying positive trend and signaling more of a digestive trade. So Spencer, what kind of option strategy would you put on here to take advantage of that outlook? Sure, there's a couple of things that we can think about, right? And so I'll leave your screen up just to chat about some of these levels. One is pivotal level is going to be around 71,000, right? That upper level that you're determining, the first one's going to be in the 74 and a half and then up towards the 79 and then if we break the 71 then we trade back into kind of more of a digestive trade down into the low 60s, right? When we're thinking about strategy, there's a couple of things that we need to think about first and when thinking about that, it's we had the Ethereum upgrade today, right? And so what did that do to the volatility term structure? And so in simple terms, options have a volatility component and when the market knows about an event in a usually a binary event, those option premiums usually get juiced up a bit, right? And so if we came into the market this morning, we were trading around a 81 fall. Currently we're trading around a 78, 76 in Bitcoin and then we're trading down a couple of ticks here in ETH. And so as I'm thinking about this and looking at that market outlook, one thing that I noted was you mentioned stop and go action, right? And so in the world of options and within selling options, we benefit from stop and go action, right? If we're further out of the money. And so a couple of things that we were looking at earlier this morning were calls over 80,000, right? And so that's a good way to play this, right? If you've owned some Bitcoin, we've made a large move, you can still take advantage of this upside, right?  So it's some of the simpler strategies in the market but it is highly effective when done right. And so those calls are down a couple ticks here in some of the March 22 duration. So a way I would play this is I would come in and come in before the event and sell a little bit of those calls. Wait for a surge in price knowing I'm looking to kind of leg out in the options market of my underlying asset. And to do that, I wanna get the best price. So I'm looking for stalling at that 50% expansion of the opening range. So that's gonna be that 74 or 500 level. If we do get a stall there, I'm looking to add a little bit more to that sold call. If we get the extended trade all the way up to 100% expansion of the opening range, more in that, that UT three monthly UT three at 78, 221, even touching a little bit over that in the 79K area, I'm looking to add. And that's a good way to passively take an approach to this market and slowly leg out of what's been a linear move over the last one. Can you post that, the order that you would place? Yeah, yeah, definitely. Let me hop over here and share my screen. All right, so over here I have, I have an option chain over here on Derabit. And so let me pull up the volatility numbers that I was chatting about. So here on Derabit, you can kind of just toggle down. You'll see a volatility index. It's called Deval. It's Derabit's volatility index. And we'll notice that as Bitcoin has kind of made this linear move, so has the volatility market as well, right? And so what does that mean for us as we come in and we look to sell some options? Well, that means we're usually gonna get a bigger bang for our book and maybe an option that we would sell a thousand points out of the money might be, we might be able to sell the same premium now, 5,000, 10,000 points out of the money. And so this is a really good gauge for when we're looking at the market, right? And so if we kind of see and look at the daily, we did get this lift over the last few sessions into this upgrade in Ethereum. And slowly we've seen a little bit of declines. Volatility market, from my opinion, we've seen it compress aggressively in large events like this. So the way I'm looking at this is it's holding firm. There's a little bit of sellers in the market, but it's not significant. What you're seeing more is in the ETH markets a little bit more aggressive in terms of the downticks. We were up at an 84 yesterday and now we're trading at a 76. How does that impact the options chain? So some of the contracts that I were looking at, if we really toggle to out of the money options, the 120K we're trading roughly around 185 on the offer two days ago, right? Those traded this morning, about four hours ago, they were 88 on the bid. So this volatility is definitely impacting the options market and it's impacting it in a large way. And the way that we feel that and we see that is some of these out of the money options will just compress. And so this distribution will come in towards those out of at the money calls and puts. And so thinking about that, how can we take advantage, right? And so knowing the structure, let's say we own 10 Bitcoin, right? And this is kind of our payout, right? If Bitcoin goes up to 80,000, we're trading roughly around 73 right now. That's roughly around, what is that, 7,000 from here. We can expect that that P and L is going to be right around that 70 range, right? And the reason that it's not showing exactly 70 here is because these are perpetual contracts, so they do trade up and down to the index. So as I'm thinking about, all right, well, I own all this Bitcoin, how do I wanna leg out of this market? Why would I wanna leg out of this market? Well, if John's over here telling me that these are the levels, my job is to come in here and think about strategy in terms of how to capture some of those levels, right? This is what Bitcoin's done over the last month and over the last year, honestly, it's been vertical. We've seen this in the past that it's gone vertical and honestly, it could. Nothing in the structure currently and within the price map is telling us that we should be sellers of this market, but we are thinking forward when we are thinking about trades. And so some of that is keying off of those levels, right? So 74.5 is coming up and then we do have that level right there that 79, that 100% expansion that we wanna do something at, right? And how do we do that? So we're, we own around 10 Bitcoin here. Well, I think, I think Spencer, the key thing that you were talking about here too is that, so we own the asset, right? So if you're, you know, in this example, and again, you know, this is all for educational purposes and what we're the example that we're going through here is we're in, we have the assumption that we own the asset, right? So we are long market, right? And so these strategies are to enhance that or to protect it, right?  Or if we, or in addition, those are strategies to protect unrealized gains. So instead of getting, selling out of Bitcoin or using a stop on a perpetual, you know, using, incorporating these option strategies to protect unrealized gains. So if we do get a big surge up to 80K, well, yeah, the market could continue and go up to 100K, right? For sure. And we're long the asset, but, but also we could get some ebb and flows and we could see some digestive action. Well, we see some digestive action. Yeah, it's gonna, you know, we might, that might turn our stomach a little bit because, hey, is this thing gonna fall right back to 70K? Well, you know, putting on some protection makes a little, makes more sense.  Yeah, very much agreed. Yeah, so if, to clarify, we do own the asset and let's say in this scenario, we own 10 Bitcoin, right? And we can get greedy and yeah, we just broke out to all-time highs, but at the end of the day, if you've been in crypto long enough, you've gone through one of these, right? And these are considered to be crypto winters and I promise you they go deeper than you would expect. And so to do that as traders, we're thinking about hedging risk first, right? And doing it appropriately. Okay, so we've made this linear move. How do we leg out of this trade knowing that, hey, these are the levels that we're kind of interested in. If the market were to drop tomorrow, we do want to pick up some of that premium. We want to participate. And this is a safe way to do that, right? And so coming in here and if we're looking at some of these March options contracts, we by no means have to sell the whole portion of we own, right? And so this is what's considered to be a covered call. So what we can do is we can come in and say, hey, I'd like to sell a little portion of my Bitcoin at 80,000 and to do that, maybe we sell 30% of that, right? And so what we do get is we get this little payout difference in the underlying, right? And so what happens is we're selling three options contracts, 80,000. We're picking up around 2,400 bucks per contract or roughly around, this is around 3.3% of the underlying asset. So if we went and sold the whole 10 Bitcoin value, we could collect 3.3% on our underlying asset. Why is that interesting to us? Well, we only see our P&L decrease or stop increasing largely at that 80K range, right? And so what we can do is we can pick up another 10,000, we can come out here to the market, we can sell another 7,500 and we can pocket that trade. And in a worst case scenario, where let's say the market comes back down, well, we already own the asset, we're bringing in income and we're bringing in income in the form of those sold options. And that's 7,500 bucks to our pocket, right? And if we do this on a monthly basis, if we were able to, let's say come out here and sell 10 every month and just cap some of that upside, we're gonna pocket that 3% a month or 3.3% a month. And the reason that's interesting is now you're talking about an asset where you're giving some upside to it, but you're also providing cash flow in the form of income through those sold options. So. Yeah, I think, I mean, that's a great strategy for a, let's just say, a holder. Yeah, I wanna, so, you know, with, you know, options are dynamic, everyone's got different durations, people wanna trade this stuff. Why don't we talk about the, let's go into some shorter term time structure.  So there's money to be made potentially on the upside. So what I've done here is I've put on, you know, kind of leveraging up, you know, the upside basic is what I'm talking about.  So let's just take a look at, you know, our fact-based approach.  But, you know, now I'm kind of going out to weekly and so we've got expiration, we can, you know, kind of key off this week's expiration or the 22nd expirations.  And so what you're looking at here is the 15 minute chart. And you can see we've got the previous week high, previous week low, previous week close and previous week midpoint. And so what happened so far this week is, you know, the market opened up. You had, you know, whenever you have the closing price near the high, it's an interesting time. You know, is the market going to, you know, break out to the upside or just fall back into neutral? Gave us a little bit of a head fake here. And you can see how this just, you know, the classic time phase structure, you know, it is valid and it's kind of guiding the market where here we have this breakout of the previous day's high. We're making a new high that's all positive. And then they gave us a big squeeze and that squeeze comes down to the previous day's close. And this is just net change for the week. So just kind of, you know, you're thinking about whatever you're trading, whatever system you're running, if you're running a system that's, you know, selling the market here, well, this is your validation point. You know, as long as you're above the previous week's close, your net change positive on the week, that's a fact. You know, there's not much you can do about that, but those truths help with how you could position size, you know, and what your expectations are. And so it's until you're validated, it needs to align your expectations. And we've had had a breakout. And then immediately we're back above the previous week's high, this is positive. So when the mark, when this is happening here, at this point, you know, at this moment, and this is where then we kind of shift into the order book to see what's happening now. We know on the bigger picture, we've had a breakout to the upside, actually pull back here, couldn't, you started to follow through, you couldn't, and then you fail back to the previous day's close, previous week's close, and now at this point, you're making a move. And so I'm gonna add our press map structure to this to get a little more clarity to the picture of what's happening. And so just as when we open up here and we're retesting the previous week's high, we have an expectation the market's gonna reject here, and then we have a failure here, instead of getting super negative, we know that breaks coming into our directional pivot. So we know that the market, this is gonna be an issue for any weakness, and it was. And then we get a breakout above the high, and we know we're coming in, and we've got the upside pivot, here's another breakout, and then the market stalls out at the validation point. So this is our validation point for a breakout to the upside, and it stalls. And then we get what we call a cell UP, a reversal here, but then it comes back into this previous week's close. We couldn't handle it. And now we're basing here. And with book map, this is where we like to use, the book map to identify what is liquidity, what's happening here, are we getting support, is that are we seeing the order book support this because the market couldn't fall through to the downside, and now we're starting to base above this metric. Are we gonna, is this breakout gonna try to follow through? The fact that we did this tells us it's not gonna be such a linear move, but the fact that we are basing here, and now we're moving above here, now we're back above here, and now we validate above here, all these things are telling us, yeah, we're more positive. And so then we have, on a weekly basis, we have our targets for this breakout, and the initial target here is 74,833, which is in alignment with that monthly expansion. So this is kind of all in play. So we've got some confidence that the market's gonna move higher, and it's gonna move higher up to this target. We also know that basis the week, and the crypto week ends on Saturday, that we could get up to the UT2, upside target number two, which is at 78K, basically. So that's also in alignment with the longer term monthly structure. But if we're just trading this market, there's things to do.  And it is, you know, and so this, with options, we can get a little more creative, and we can be a little more precise. And we can take, you know, we can, you know, put together strategies that we understand, hey, the market may top, this rally may top out here, that might be all we get.  You know, and now we're getting this positive action, we're back here. Are we gonna make a move here and pull back, or are we gonna make a move here and pull back? That's kind of the expectation. So Spencer, I know we don't have a lot of time left, but, you know, basis this kind of, you know, what's happening on the weekly structure, how do you see opportunities either with the weekly strikes or using the March 22nd strikes? Yeah, definitely. I think, I mean, the key thing here is that stop and go action, right? So that the break of the UP reversal, right? Getting that, and then that signaling, the market is not going to scale linearly. It's gonna do some of this larger digestion to the upside, right? And so the reason I bring that up is because, again, we're thinking about volatility. So let me get over here, and we'll talk about a structure that we talked about last week is coming over and looking where we're trading, right? So we're trading the 73. We wanna have a long lean to the market. And so to do that, well, we can come in here and we can sell some of these shorter durations, and then we just have a little play on volatility so that we can take advantage of the stop and go, but we can also participate in a little bit of the upside. And so to do that, come in here, we can sell, let's say, don't need a lot, we can sell one contract, and we'll look at our delta here. Let me make sure that, okay. Our delta here is a negative 0.49, and I can come in here and offset that with some futures, which means I can come in with a- What strike are you selling? Could be selling the at the money. And so- Oh, got it. Yep, I'll show you how this kind of tees up for ya. So if we're long here, we create this really interesting structure. And so what this is aligned with the price map, and I'll pop over here to show John's screen so that we can look at these levels. So the level there is gonna be 73084, the top there is gonna be 7483, and then you have kind of that test of the CR plus right around that 69 level, right? And so if I hop over here and create this structure, we know that on the bottom end here, we're breakeven around 70 and a half, top end we're breakeven at around 767, and we make most of our money right in this range, right? So we're participating in the long side. The market goes up to that 74.5 in the next two days, I'm selling at the money March 15th. Yep, March 15th here. And then we go to that 74.5. We know that our expected payout here in the purple is gonna be 870, and if we start trading over some of those levels, right? If I were to key up here and say, all right, well, let's see if we're trading over that 74.833, and we make a run to the UT2 at the end of the week. Well, I can come over here and just adjust that delta real quick, right? And so I can say, let's get along some more delta. We're making a play for the UT2, and you'll see here that I can pick up that as well. And when would you adjust that delta? So I would do it, and I'm a visual learner, so I'm gonna key off of your screen. I would do it over the UT1 positive alert distance, right? And so that's gonna be that upper band on that scarlet number that you see. Let me blow that up for you here. Yeah, and so to see how that kind of plays out, we can adjust that and do 74.900 as our average buy, and this will kind of project our trade out for us. And we'll see here, we're still making money at expiration, which is these options close in the next day and 14 hours. So this is a fun way to take advantage of all, also take advantage of this stop and go action. We know vol's a little priced up right now, and it is a little bit of a safer approach. I agree. All right, yeah, I know. So thank you, Spencer. We did kind of go through things quickly. I think what we're going to, we just wanted to kind of show you how fast you can do things with the right structure and with the right clarity, how you can put things together. We're going to kind of continue with this format and go through some basic stuff, I think next time for those that are new to options, but then also be able to present live, actionable opportunities of what is your mandate? Are you looking to be more aggressive trading? Are you doing things to hedge or protect a net long position and taking into account options? If you trade in straight perpetuals, yeah, you're basically trading directionally. When you have long positions in the market or short positions in the market and you're coming into a figure, instead of getting out of that trade, you can come in and trade some options against it. So you don't have to get out of it. Options work well for stops as well. We have a few more minutes left, Spencer. You wanted to talk about how you would use options as a stop for perpetual trade. So let's just say we're coming in here. Let's take a look at what's happening. This is the Kraken order book. Let me pull up the multi-book. I'm gonna shift into a lower timeframe. So this is the, actually maybe I'm not gonna shift into a lower timeframe. Let's just stick where we're at here. But we're in the moment here and just kind of real quickly, if I'm long perpetuals right now and I identified that this negative signal didn't follow through and the market's back positive, then it validated here and tells me I'm good. We get a retest of the top of the crop range, the upside pivot. And my expectation is that I wanna see the market base above 7,200 to 800 and have a scale move up making it play for 74. This may happen. I'm getting near the end of the, we're coming into the end of the day. I need to sleep at some point. So, but I don't wanna lose my position. What's something that I can do coming into this evening to kind of protect my perpetual position using options and this weekly structure? Definitely, definitely. So I guess my assumption here is downside level that you're concerned about that you wanna hedge against is 71, is that correct? Yeah, well that 71 strike has been the key pivot, pivotal point. So basically based on the weekly structure, it's just like 7,800, but basically in this area the market's gonna be telling us there's a problem and it's either gonna roll over or it's just gonna kind of spin its wheels. Great, great. All right, let me hop over here. So take a mental note of that. So that's gonna be 73 is where we're trading. 74 and a half is what we're looking to participate in and then 71 on the downside is our concern. The beauty of crypto is it trades 24 seven and at some point we gotta sleep, right? But it could at any point in time drop significantly. So how do we do that, right? So one is let's say we own a Bitcoin. We're trading in the, we have one and we're looking to participate on the upside. Well, if I wanna go to sleep, maybe take a nap, maybe enjoy dinner, this is how I would do it, right? I'd come out here and I'd sell a risk reversal, right? And I would target these levels. So risk reversal here, I would sell you. Just gotta quickly explain what a risk reversal is. Yeah, so risk reversal, everybody's got a fun name for it. They're called collars, they're called risk reversals. Basically what it is, is you're selling upside exposure to fund that insurance to the downside, right? So if I own one Bitcoin, I'm gonna come to the market, I'm gonna sell a call, one call, right? And then I'm gonna buy a put, right? And so the idea here is you can kind of play with the ratio, but like in its simplest forms, you're using the sale of the call to finance the purchase of the put. And this is how it goes, all right? So I'd come into the market and I would sell one of the 74 or 500s, and the reason for that is that's what we wanna participate in. And so this is how this looks. And then what I would do is I would come in and I would buy one of the 71 puts, right? Well, let's see how this looks, right? So here is, we can go to dinner, we can participate in the upside, we know if the market crashes 10%, 30%, we're stopped out. And that's a fun way to take advantage of the upside, continue to play in the upside, but you're also protecting yourself from this large liquidation. So even if we trade down to 20,000, you'll see that equity loss here is 1,800, right? And if we trade all the way down, it's capped. Inversely, if we trade up to 120, it's also capped at that 1,800. And so risk reversals are a great way to partake in a market like this. And we just say on the, so on the capping on the upside. Yep. And is there, what would be another strategy that we could do to keep our upside more open? Yeah, so if, let's say, all right, well, we wanna make a play at that 79 level, right? Well, we're gonna have to take on a little bit more risk, we have to pay for that, we have to pay to play. And to do that, let's say, well, we come out here and we purchase something that's a little bit more out of the money, right? And so maybe that's a 76 call, I haven't looked at the prices of these, so we'll see how it looks. And you kinda get this, where it's capped outside. You pay a little bit more, obviously, cost us around 200 bucks, but we get this very similar, we still get to participate. Let's say we go to dinner and all of a sudden Bitcoin rallies all the way to 80,000. Well, we're not capped at that 74 and a half. We can come out here and pay for dinner five times over, if you're having an expensive one, 50 times over if you're eating down the street at the Polish Sausage area, so. You're into tacos. I do eat a lot of tacos, so here in Chicago, that will pay for quite a few tacos. All right, well, that looks good. So yeah, if you want more upside, you gotta pay for it, but if you want just a straight head, then you've got it and you don't have to get out of your perpetual or your spot position there. Yep, yep, exactly. Perfect. Well, thank you for that insight. Yeah, this is what we're all about, defining clarity, focusing on the facts, what's the truth? What's happening in the market now? Not opinions, this is what it is. Market's been holding strong. It's not telling us anything otherwise. Absolutely, we've had this stop and go action, so the market's telling us that that's happening. It's, people get over leveraged and they need to be, respect what they cost for that leverage, and that's what's happening, and now we've got a whole big influx of new crypto people coming into play, and crypto likes to suck them in and get them all happy, and then put the fear of God into them, so that's absolutely what the expectation is going forward, and we're gonna continue to focus on those facts. That's what our method does. It really provides this statistical outside view that really, to help slow down the decision-making process to minimize biases, and if you haven't read Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking Fast and Slow, I highly recommend it, one of his quotes from there is, the outside view offers more accurate predictions than the inside view, and what this is actually saying is that, absolutely, we live our lives making intuitive decisions, not thinking, and but when you're trading, it can be a problem because some of those, some of those intuitiveness is skewed by some cognitive bias.  Well, yeah, it might by the end of the year, but right now, it might break first, and if you're all leveraged up, it doesn't matter where it's gonna end up at the end of the year, and so, having us to outside view, which is more based on facts and statistics, it helps to slow down that knee-jerk responses to situations, and so that's what we're all about. 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Hello and welcome to the John Stilltrigger Show, presented by Buffer O'Lowell. I'm Greg Royson, but I've seen Head Coach John Stilltrigger. Coach, I've seen a couple weeks ago at the back championship, and overall pretty successful meet. One of them will play six. I had a couple individual events, and she's kind of taken us through that, how the meet went for you. It was a great meet. We swam really, really well. I think we started things off the first night with a relay win over Messiah and the two-meter relay. We just missed the conference record by a content of a second, and I really think that set the tone for the entire weekend. After that, things just kind of snowballed, and the next day Mel only won the 2-i-m. The following days are probably one of our strongest days with the hundreds of strokes where Jules got third in the 100 breast. We had Colby take second by two 100s of a second in the 100 back with Mel following a third, and Izzy getting a third place in her 2-i-m, or in her 100 back. It was a great weekend. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, to finish six, you know, some of the, you know, obviously, it's tough, you've got smaller teams, you don't have to depth, maybe some of the teams to finish. I mean, you had to finish six, it was a great accomplishment. Obviously, the coaches, they congratulate you, you've been coaching me for the second time in three years, but I think a lot of that is a testament to how hard the kids work day in and day out. Yeah, I agree. I mean, Coach Adir is a great thing. It's very humbling, you know, to be selected by the coaches, you know, and everyone's at the meet, so, you know, you get recognized in front of everyone, which is great, you know, but, and I've always said that it should be, like, coaching staff of the year instead of Coach Adir, because it does truly take a village. And, you know, my grad assistant did a great job this year, and Jules did a great job with the kids, and even MC, you know, with her, you know, our kids left three days a week, and she has a lot of attitude and her enthusiasm really helps the team out. And again, so, you know, getting coached a year is great, but it really does take a lot of people to get that done. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, no head coach in any sport is working by themselves with their assistants since they're at the division, they're training staff, administration. It all takes, like I said, it takes a village to have any successful program in any sport. And again, you know, I think you hit the nail right on ahead, with also the kids. You know, obviously, they're the ones putting in the work, but they're accepting of what you're asking them to do, and they're following you, and just believing that things will work out in the end, and it does take a leap of faith for them. And, you know, to see it work out where everyone seems really, really fast, and, you know, to get recognized as a school is kind of a cool thing. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, you lose, really, you see your classes, really your first class is kind of, you have a lot of stuff, but you have some returners coming back as well. They'll continue to have their practice going forward. Yeah. You know, we do lose a bulk of our team and a lot of our leadership, but, you know, you hope for the sophomores and the juniors to kind of take on a role of leader for the freshmen that are coming in, you know, and just have them, you know, let the freshmen know, believe in what we're doing and the process works, and you just need to, you know, do what we ask you to do and how we ask you to do it, and good things will happen. Yeah, absolutely. That kind of culture's been established, saying this is how we do things, and this is the level that we want to be at. You know, it's like a sense of sort of returners to kind of part that of some of the new covers next year. Yeah, and I think that's how it will go. You know, the freshman that we had this year, you know, did very well at the conference meet, and, you know, our sophomores and juniors did extremely well.  Yeah. All right, coach. Well, again, congratulations on a great season, and, you know, thanks for your time this year, and we'll chat again in the fall. Great. Thank you very much. All right. For John Stoltzberger, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the John Stoltzberger Show.


In the United States, there are currently 5.8 million people living with Alzheimer's disease. By the year 2050, this number is projected to double. An organization in the Brainerd Lakes area is working to educate the community on the rapidly growing disease. Reporter Rachel Johnson has more. According to the Alzheimer's Association, every 65 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease. About 10 years ago they recognized that this was going to be really nearing epidemic proportions by 2020-2025. So we're recognizing that this is a growing occurrence. A group based out of Brainerd, the Lakes Area Memory Awareness Advocacy is working to educate the community and provide resources for those impacted by the common disease. Llama is a non-profit organization in the Brainerd Lakes area and it's made up of a bunch of different volunteers, both professional and non-professional, that come together once a month to really talk about how can we make the Brainerd Lakes area more dementia friendly. Llama was founded 10 years ago when a group of individuals came together to try and combat the lack of dementia awareness in the Brainerd Lakes area. And it started with us recognizing that the public doesn't know what to do with dementia. We just saw the need. There was a need for it, and that's how it started. Llama works to educate the community in a variety of ways from support groups and classes to an annual educational forum. A long-term goal would be to keep growing for sure and to make this community dementia aware, not to be afraid of a dementia and have people know it's nothing that they have to fear. Many of the members of Llama work in healthcare or elder care, but they all see the everyday effects that dementia can have that offers people who feel like, what can I do to help? What can I do for this illness? It's an opportunity to get together and recognize that we can be advocates because that's right in our name. Llama hopes to keep growing in the future and furthering the group's mission. It's so important to just not be afraid to talk about it, but to get out there, reach out to other people and get some information and just know that you're not alone. Reporting from Brainerd, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. The Lakes Area Memory Awareness advocates are holding their annual community forum on May 14th at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Niswa. The event is free and open to the public. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Some important things. This is my first presentation in English. I'm very nervous. Very, very, very nervous. I have a state fright and I think this is important for other women that stay here and I could be wrong. It's for my poor English. It's very often. I'm going to talk to you about what does diversity look like in your world? Why do we need WordPress to be more diverse? What is being done in the community? What prevents more women or other underrepresented groups from participating? I'm going to talk to WP Diversity. It's a diversity speaker training workshop. In 15 minutes it's very... I don't know much. In this part, in this presentation, I'm going to talk about... I always say that diversity are different. I thought they start from the same thing. This is not an all-inclusive list. I put some examples for what diversity looks like in your world. For example, gender, race, language, religion, age, sexuality, ethnicity, physical ability, neurological ability, class, cancer, and culture. There are many... there are a lot of more but this is some examples. Everyone talks about diversity in WordPress, but very few people say why it's important. It is important in WordPress what we should talk about. It's why it's important in general in the world. WordPress is important but in the world more. There are many examples. Why do we need WordPress to be diverse? Diversity makes us better. Companies and other events are diverse. They are always better. It's simple. For differentiation, diversity today makes us stand out from others. Social justice being more diverse means that we are also more for an alternative to others who do not have the same opportunities. It's very important. This point for me is the most important for... it can be diverse. WordPress is a global community and WordPress is the thing of all diversity possible. Where many people in the WordPress community are from different cultures and with different environments and it's very important for a global community. Learning of other points of view is very important when you work with other people you learn other points of view of them. Profitability is diversity companies are more profitable in the long term. Companies that are diverse by gender can be 25% more profitable and for ethnicity 36% more profitable. It's amazing. A lot of things are being done in WordPress about diversity. There are a lot of projects for diversity and I have only 15 minutes and I put 5. W diversity is a project in community team and there are workshops for potential speakers for underrepresented groups, for organizers of speakers. Proposal for establishment and make diversity equity inclusion and belonging, the EIB is a proposal for a new team led by Brigitte Olsen and it's very important to create a new team for all the teams in WordPress. W UPS diversity is only of events but the EIB is in all of the other teams. It's very important. You can search in Google and it's very important to comment in this way. Other projects is W UPS speakers. It's a website where you find potential speakers for your event. You can find a filter for underrepresented people or culture or language etc. W UPS is a project created for me in the Spanish community. It's one of the websites where in there we were working to increase the participation of women in WordPress events in Spain. Other communities such as WordPress is a beautiful project too. This is a screenshot for W UPS speakers. You have a filter and you put on languages. If topics, for example of facility development or other topics, I put the screenshot for the website. We are often told that WordPress doesn't need safe spaces and that everyone is working. But these spaces are very important for people who don't feel that way. It's very important and I think it's a beautiful project. There are some examples that women who do not dare to participate the last. It's what prevents more women from underrepresented groups from participating. Women say they have a lot of imposter syndrome. It's familiar. In which they do not believe they are capable. They aren't inclusive environments. For me, this is the most important for creating inclusive events. They think they don't know enough to give papers. Pills are insecurities and they are not represented in the event. This is very important too. Now I'm going to talk about W UPS diversity. It's a diversity speaker training workshop. It's a workshop led by Jill Binder. This is the person in the image. It's a love person. We work on these issues. We help to find topics for proposals and presentations. We help to write attractive proposals. We help to create WordPress presentation.  We help to improve as a speaker. We help to improve presentations. It's very useful to workshop. I like this tweet, Jill's tweet. It reflects that the workshop has very good results. This workshop has 137% increase in public speaking conferences. This is a screenshot in Spain. We create a document file. We have the results for diversity by gender. Now we do it manually. The data is not very reliable. In this moment, I create an app that puts the numbers of the work. You can put the country, work, year, format and the number of the speakers. I calculate the woman representation. Finally, I would like to say that it is not necessary to do a lot. Just be doing a few things. We can have a very, very big impact. My name is Marta Torre. I am a full-stack developer in English. I am a WordPress meet-up organizer in the Spanish community. I contribute to WP diversity. I interview team in my workplace and in Spain in the diversity team and the support teams. I don't have time. I have the case for open source, facility, sustainability, best practice in software, development and ethics in technology. You can find me on social networks. I am very active in Twitter and Blue Sky. Thank you very much. Thank you, Marta. A gift for you.


What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be doing an overall market update. Looking at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, we're going to be talking about one trade that I made today on the 30th of January in 2019. And we're going to briefly take a look into some of the biggest companies that reported earnings today, including Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, Alibaba and AT&T. So before we do get into this video, guys, feel free to smash that like button. If you guys do enjoy the daily content, if you guys do find value in the content, it really does help the channel grow. And I do appreciate you guys if you smash that like button. So without further ado, let's hop right into the topic of today's video. So we just saw Facebook and Microsoft report their earnings about 10, 15 minutes before I'm recording this video. And I just want to talk about this right off the bat, guys.  There's no word that I can put to what Facebook stock just did, guys. We can see it closed at $150 and literally 10 minutes later, guys, I was watching the chart 10 minutes later, it went up $12 per share. So in a couple of minutes, we're going to take a look at Facebook's numbers and Microsoft's numbers, whose stock actually went down quite a bit at the close or after the close of the market, we close that around 10680 ended up falling all the way down to $103 in terms of Microsoft stock. So before we do get into that, guys, let's take a look at what the overall market did today. And I'm sure you all know we had a pretty strong green day today. Yesterday, we saw Apple report their earnings. They were up around $8, $9 after market hours. And a lot of us were discussing, and I personally thought this myself. And I also talked about it in yesterday's video that if that were to drag over to today, right, if Apple were to drag over to today, and we saw some other stocks, you know, move positively due to this, which we did see in some other strong earnings reports, you know, the entire market could benefit today as well. And that's exactly what we ended up seeing. The SPX, the S&P 500 was up around $41 today, up around 1.5% at the close. And we can see here on the 184-hour chart, guys, we broke that resistance of the 180SMA that has been a resistance over the past couple of months. We finally broke out of it today with the strong trading day that we had. So pretty much over the past couple of days, guys, this ended up being just a consolidation phase in the SPX between 2600 to 2675. And what really solidified the break of the pattern, guys, was the break out of that 2675 resistance that we saw today, right around, you know, 2 o'clock once Powell started speaking, that's when the market really ended up popping out of the resistance at around 2675. And really, this is just a continuation of the uptrend pattern, as we can see here on this 20-day 1-hour chart. We briefly broke below the 50SMA a couple of days ago, but we recently, yesterday and today, obviously, we held above it again, we bounced above it, and we pushed to that higher high. So in terms of the uptrend reversal pattern, guys, you know, the SPX is looking very good for further push to the upside right now, strictly on a technical basis. Now, if we take a look at the Dow Jones, this one is far above the 180SMA resistance, guys, where we got rejected a couple of months back on three separate occasions. We had $430 point day today, up around 1.7% in terms of the Dow Jones. And just like the SPX, guys, this is continuing the uptrend pattern. We had a couple of days of consolidation between this horizontal pattern that we've been talking about, and we broke above 24,700, 24,800-ish, which really solidified the continuation of the uptrending pattern today in the Dow Jones. So everything for the uptrend pattern is looking intact right now, guys. It's looking good for the continuation of this uptrend pattern. And of course, guys, you know, if Apple continues to push up, if we see, you know, if Microsoft ends up recovering, goes up in price tomorrow, let's say, for example, if Facebook continues to push up, you know, we could potentially see a couple more green days in a row after this. But again, guys, eventually, we're going to have to see a little pullback. Am I saying we're going to pull back to a complete downtrend quite yet? I don't personally think so within this next week or two. But if we don't get a trade war deal by March 1, we very well could start pushing back down in price. But with this earnings optimism that we've been having, right, a lot of the big companies reported pretty decent earnings, right? You know, this has been pushing up the markets, and I do think this could potentially continue over the next couple of days. But eventually, we're going to see a slight pullback in the next couple of days, in my opinion, either to, you know, pull back and continue the uptrending pattern, or, you know, eventually, we couldn't even pull back down to continue or start rather a reversal pattern to the downside. But again, like I said, guys, it's going to take a couple of days before we do see any big move to the downside, you know, in my personal opinion.  But let's take a look at the NASDAQ today, guys, it had the strongest day by far in terms of the major indices, right? With this one was up, and it's still climbing up 190 points at the close, guys, or roughly at the close, up around 2.9% guys. So very crazy day today. And we're actually trending and trading in this channel very nicely still in terms of NQ. So in terms of NQ, guys, we have yet to break the full resistance here at around 68.30, in my personal opinion, guys, we can see technically we're still trading in this horizontal pattern. So if we see stocks continue to rise heading into tomorrow, obviously that could definitely push this back into maybe even the 7,000, well, let's not get ahead of ourselves, probably the $6,900 level, and then eventually potentially in the $7,000 range, which obviously would indicate a continuation of the uptrend pattern for the NASDAQ. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of the overall markets, guys, looking good in terms of a reversal to the upside. We've broken major resistances right now. Stocks are pushing up. Stocks are green, guys. They're very, very, very green. We haven't seen them this green in a while. Let's take a look at some examples, right, very quickly. We saw Apple up 7% today. We saw Facebook's doing absolutely ridiculous right now. Amazon had a very strong day today. Even Netflix did very well today as well. Google had a decent day up around 23% on the day. What other ones off the top of my head? We saw Alibaba did absolutely amazing today. So basically my long-term portfolio today, guys, was very, very strong. You all know out there I own Alibaba. I own Apple. I own Facebook, right? Even Micron did very well today, which I own as well, up 2.2%. And another banking stock that I own that I actually traded today, which is the stock I traded, did very well today as well. It was up 8% at the high. And I was able to capture a little bit of that on a day trade, which we're going to talk about in a couple of minutes. But overall, guys, a lot of my positions in my long-term portfolio and a lot of stocks in general today did absolutely crazy. Let's take a look at some other ones off the top of my head. Did I show you Micron? You know, Micron was up 2%. Oh, AMD, guys. That's another one that went absolutely haywire today. 20% move in terms of AMD today, $23. And we saw yesterday, I believe, in the video I was talking about how AMD is projecting strong sales growth for 2019. This could be the catalyst as to why we saw a huge move today. 20% move. Absolutely crazy, guys. And overall, there's just a lot of green across the board. So let's talk about stocks earners reports very quickly. I have my handy dandy iPhone right here. I'm going to take a look at my notes very quickly because I took notes on the basic numbers for each company. And let's bang this out very quickly. So Facebook, guys, like we just saw, parabolic, insane move right here, up to 162 and climbing. So we can see they reported EPS of $2.38 versus $2.18 expected. And they also beat on revenue, $16.9 billion in revenue versus $16.4 billion expected. Facebook and Messenger, they both grew their monthly active users by 9% compared to last year to $2.32 billion. So that's pretty, pretty solid numbers in terms of Facebook stock, guys. So let's take a look at Microsoft. The next big company, I think Microsoft in terms of market capitalization is the largest company right now in terms of the entire world. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft is the largest company. They reported EPS of $1.01 or 10 cents rather, $1.01 versus $1.09 expected. They missed on revenue at $32.47 billion versus $32.51 billion expected, guys. And we can see it's slowly starting to make a comeback right now back into the $104 range after we hit a low at around 102.7. So the revenue miss is most likely why Microsoft is falling down. We saw a pretty poor report today from Tesla and all these reports, guys. I haven't really dove into them too in depth because I am recording this video at about 4.40 pm Eastern Standard Time. After I do record this, I'm going to dive into more of these in depth, but I did want to get this video recorded and out to you guys on time today, which is why I am recording it a bit early at around 4.30. But anyway, Tesla stock, guys. This one, we saw a spike up to 318 pushed back down all the way to 292. And now we're trading at around 307 right around where we ended up closing the day. So what did they report in terms of earnings? Well, their EPS was 1.93 versus 2.2 expected, guys. So huge miss in terms of EPS. We've known that Elon Musk has been giving out some signals that profitability isn't looking too good. For this quarter, we've had some production problems, obviously the 7% layoff. In the workers, we weren't really expecting a solid report anyway from Tesla, which is why, honestly, it's not reacting too poorly right now in terms of the stock price after market hours. Because, honestly, a lot of this stuff could have already been priced in in terms of Tesla stock. And their revenue actually beat, guys. They beat on $7.23 billion versus $7.08 billion expected by analysts. So not too bad of a report, but in terms of profitability, guys, EPS pretty bad across the board right now in terms of Tesla's earnings report. So Alibaba, which is another one of my largest positions, is probably like my fourth biggest position in my stock market portfolio. They also reported earnings today as well. This was pre-market hours. And we can see they closed the day yesterday at $155. And by the time we opened the market today, we were already up about $6 per share in terms of Alibaba. So let's take a look at what they did in terms of their earnings, basic numbers very quickly. So EPS $1.77 of EPS versus $1.67 expected. So we beat that by $0.10 per share revenue. They missed briefly on revenue, guys. They reported $17 billion in revenue versus $17.7 billion. So they beat, I mean, they missed by a small fraction there. Not too crazy of a miss. It's a decent miss, but it's not too crazy of a miss, like we saw in terms of Tesla's EPS, which is a pretty, pretty bad miss. But one thing to note about Alibaba, guys, which is expected, honestly, their revenue growth is 41% growth year over year, which is amazing for a lot of companies, right? But before, guys, their previous quarter, I believe it was, they grew it by about 50%, 60%, and then 70% for the quarter before that. So in terms of their growth rate compared to previous quarters, it's obviously slowed down because the Chinese economy hasn't been so great. We've obviously seen tons of stocks crash. Consumers aren't buying products in China as much as they were a couple of years back. It makes sense that Alibaba's revenue took a hit, right? Not a surprise whatsoever, but the stock positively reacted to the earnings report today. Obviously, we're up 7%. So one more that a lot of people were also talking about in the chat. We'll talk about that one very quickly was AT&T. This is another stock that I personally own in my portfolio. They were red today, guys. They were down 4%, down about $1.33 per share. They reported EPS of 0.86, 86 cents versus 86 cents expected. So they were pretty much in line with analysts in terms of the earnings per share, but their revenue came short, guys. They were down, rather, they reported $47.99 billion in terms of revenue versus a $48.5 billion expected by analysts. So guys, overall, earning season is very, very exciting, guys. This is my favorite time period especially a week where a lot of my long-term portfolios are reporting. I know a lot of your rather the stocks in my portfolios are reporting. I know a lot of yours. Your stocks are reporting as well. It's just a very exciting week and especially when your stocks go up, guys. Literally, we saw Alibaba up 7%. Apple was up 8%. Facebook was up whatever. It's probably up 12% at this point with the aftermarket spike. So the past couple of months that I've been buying down, buying more stocks in Facebook, Apple on the downtrend, it's serving me now because the stocks are pushing back up, right? And I'm obviously making money on my long-term positions and everything is looking solid, guys. But now comes the question of when to add more shares. I'm personally going to be waiting for dips in all of these stocks before adding more shares. The buying opportunities at least in Facebook, Apple, and Alibaba were mostly about a week, two, three, four, five weeks ago, right? The time right now in my opinion to add more shares in those positions has passed because we've seen, like I said, they're all up a pretty sizable amount right now. And typically, I don't buy long-term position shares when the stocks are pushing up. I like to wait to see a pullback. That's what I personally do. So very quickly, guys, let's talk about what I traded today on the 30th of January in 2019. So this is the company that I traded today, Axos Financial, ticker symbol AX. And this is one of my longer, longer-term positions that I've actually owned for the past couple of years. And they're formerly known as BOFI, ticker symbol B-O-F-I. They just changed their name to Axos Financial a couple of months back. And I actually started buying into this stock. I believe it was back in, like, 2015, 2016 at around $16 per share. Ended up selling off a lot of those shares at the height at about $38, $40 that we saw a couple of months back.   I decided to trade it today as well as a day trade. Because just like all those other companies that we talked about, Axos Financial, they reported their earnings today on the 30th and the stock positively reacted to a very solid earnings report. And mind you, this is an online bank growing company, right? They reported, I forget the exact number, but their revenue was up like 20% year over year 20. I think it might have been like 20, 25%. Strong growth, right? A lot of the other numbers were solid as well. And I noticed that we were slowly starting to trend up pretty heavily. Volume started to kick in a little bit right around here. And this is when I ended up adding a position in my swing trading slash day trading portfolio in terms of Axos, guys. And it was very simple, right? I started to buy in at around $28.95, I believe. Ended up adding more at around $29.40 as we continued to push up. And we can see, guys, from there, you know, my average cost was at around $29.15. And at that point, guys, you know, I always set a limit order at around a 2% profit. And I always keep an eye on my day trades from there to see whether or not I have to adjust my limit, you know, add a trailing stop loss, add a stop loss, change my stop loss, do whatever, right? This is what I'm typically doing, you know, when trading. So, you know, guys, you know, I was in the green for a little bit here, ended up adding a trailing stop loss with a limit order at around 2% and ended up trading all my shares. What was it? I got in right around here for the first time, here for the second time, average cost at around like here roughly. So 2% guys, roughly, is what I ended up taking on this trade, literally ended up selling right before $30, I believe it was like $29.95. So in terms of my trading day today, guys, very simple, Axos Financial, which is a company that I personally know, and I've studied over the past couple of years. And I've been studying their quarterly earnings reports for a while now, guys, because I've been a shareholder and I like to see, you know, I kind of have a sample of how they usually react to their earnings, not to say that they always react the same way. But typically, guys, Axos Financial, I'm not going to say this is the way that it is for all the stocks, but when they beat on revenue, when they have a good earnings report, a solid earnings report, typically the stock reacts the next day or the same trading day that they reported, right, which was the same, which was pretty much the situation that happened today. And that's exactly what ended up happening was able to capitalize on 2% of this particular trade.  So for all you that didn't make money, good stuff, good stuff. Today was a very, very solid day.  Absolutely crazy, guys. Let me know what you guys ended up doing today. I would love to know, but I'm pretty much going to end off the video right here today. So if you enjoyed the video, feel free to smash that like button, leave a comment, subscribe, follow me on Instagram, as well as on Twitter. And if you guys want to join our Discord group chat, we have about 500 people in there, the links down below in the description box. I'll catch you in the next video. Peace out.