The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Oh, toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, Larry Pezzavento. Okay, looking good, Billy Ray, feeling good, Lewis. We're going to start out our show like we always do with the German Dax. As you can see, we've made a beautiful 61% retracement, a Gartley pattern. If you notice that small pattern that just completed, that's a 1-2-3-4-5 expanding triangle, which is included in the 1-2-3 drive to a top pattern. A lot of stuff up in here on the Nasdaq, excuse me, the Dax that makes it look like it's going to go lower. One of the things that I looked at this week was the fact that the market has been so strong based on it looks like the things that Bill Meridian talked about with the really strong bias between March 15th and April 15th. And of course we're coming into the last part of that right now, but it's been very, very strong. I went down and looked at the smaller timeframes over the last two weeks, and we see some patterns there that certainly give an indication it's due for correction. There might even be one down day. You realize, folks, that the month of April has already preceded more gains than the whole month of March. That in itself is an outlier event, but the market has been very strong, so we need to pay attention to that. The next one I wanted to focus on comes from our friend across the pond, Mr. A.S. over there in the U.K., and he's bringing to our attention the fact that we have a really nice hold on here. Yes, Marshall, it was a wonderful time. We sure did. I should tell that story, but I'll save that for another day. We were at lunch with Marshall, and they were talking about old things, and the folks there said, you ought to share this with the folks, and it's not related to trading. It's about the race track, but I guess it's money management. Let's look at this U.S. oil chart, folks. We're right at the 61% retracement here in the crude. Right around that 6390, we've only been up to 6365. That might be enough, so we pay attention here to crude oil because we're running out of time on the long side here, and now the news is extremely bullish in crude oil. We're looking at a potential Libya problem again, and fighting again the Gulf, and yet the market is barely able to stay above ground, but it's a big 61% retracement with some other patterns in there that are very, very important. Folks, one of the questions that I received over the weekend is about trading times.  I look at the dailies, of course, too, because that goes a little bit farther back. I don't look at weeklies and monthlies very often. Once a week, usually on the weekend is all I do because I'm focusing on risk, and I want to be able to see, okay, Mr. Z is asking why he thinks that I think that he is running out of steam. Well, I'll put my chart up here, Mr. Z, and you can poke holes in it if you like, but that's okay. I get holes poked in most of the stuff that I do. So here it is. We'll get up here, and we'll take a quick look here at the Crudo. There's what we're looking at. We had the three-drive pattern back there. That was the first of the double bottom. We had a beautiful double bottom. Also, just very, very close to the 61% retracement. It went about 80 cents a barrel below it. Now we'll write up against it. 63, 85 is the exact 61% retracement from the triple top that we made up there. You see the 135 pattern, and if you remember, and if you remember and look at that on the weekly chart, that number of $77 a barrel was an exact 61% retracement of the high that we made two years ago. So that, excuse me, four years ago. So that is why that number is so important. Now we don't have a lot of clear patterns coming in here in the Crudo right now, but it does have some things that tell us there should be some pretty strong resistance up here at that $64 a barrel. So that's just my opinion. And as we know, opinions are like armpits. Everybody has one, and it usually fails. The next question someone had was about the gold. I sent a video out last night, or excuse me, early Sunday talking about the fact that it looked like a gold was trading at $12.98, and it looked like it had $1308 written all over it. There were just all kinds of really nice patterns in the gold at that time, and it was showing that it had a pretty good indication of making that level if it were going to do it. Now I will try to find it if I can, and by golly, and by golly here. Whoops, that's not it. I thought I had it, but that's not the way the trading gods want it today. It doesn't look like I have it right now, but maybe I'll have it in the future. I'll try to find it. But anyway, it was $1308. It was a beautiful ABCD pattern, and the number for the 61% retracement on that gold comes in at $1309.1310. That's why it looks so very, very interesting. So we'll watch that one extremely carefully. Now the platinum. Platinum looks like it's making a three-drive to a top pattern up around the $950, well, it's already gone about $915, between $915 and $924. We've been as high as $922, I believe, today, but that could go a whole lot higher. We don't know. It's got a chance. There's no question about that. So let's just keep an eye on these. Well, no problem, Mr. Zeeb. I certainly appreciate all the work you do, and I know you've been long gold. I saw that last night, and I said, well, that looks like a really good one, and it's already made the objective that I was looking for, which was $1313.08. But whether we'll see if it goes much higher than that, we'll have to remember. Remember, it was a really good bias here in the metals, because as we pointed out to you on Friday, we were looking at silver, and if you look at really closely, we had that double top back in January and February. Then we had the move down. Then we had the guardly pattern up to the 61% retracement up there at $1560. Then we came down to $1485. That was 11 days down from high to high. The first one between the 19th of February and the 6th of March was equal to the high between the 20th of March and into April the 5th, which was 11 days down, which was pretty much spot-on. And we've gotten about $1520 today, taking out last week's highs, which is a very positive thing. Now, it hasn't run away to the upside, but at least it's completing that pattern and should have more of a rally. The last time we had 11 days down, the market rallied from $15 an ounce up to $1560. It rallied $3,000. 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TFNN.com, educating investors. Call now. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay, folks, someone asked me if I had, you know, I've got 10 rules on this oil painting behind my office here, but what would be the one rule that I would always use, you know, to keep you from getting into trouble? And of course, you know, using stops, I think would be pretty good, but, you know, some people can trade without stops, which I do at certain times. When the market's really critical, I, you know, and especially if I'm over-leveraged, you know, I'll have my stops in there. But the one thing that I remember, back in my days at the Merc, when I first went back there in February of 1982, Barry Lind, who we had cleared all of our hogs and cattle through Lind and company, win Lind Waldock. And so I was very familiar with Jack Waldock, who was a retired hog farmer out of Ohio. And Barry, of course, I knew we were the same age, and Barry, you know, knew I was coming in from California and I was only going to be there for a short time. And he had me up in his office and he said, what can I do to make your stay here in Chicago fun and profitable? And I said, I'm not going to have any trouble with the fun part. I said, but the one thing you could do is if I have a losing position on my equity run on the morning of the third day, I would like to have your firm take me out so I don't even have to think about it. And he says, we can program that without any problem at all. And so over the next several years, when I was there, it happened four or five times. And each time, if I would have just reversed those trades, it would have been huge, huge wins. But unfortunately, I didn't do that, but it was a very good rule to have. Pattern recognition usually works right away. And by right away, I mean usually within a few bars. If you're doing daily bars, usually a daily bar. But if you're going to stay with something and you're in the loss after the fourth day or the fifth day, it's really devastating folks. And the reason why is it's not so much the money, it's the mental anguish that you have to go through when you try to second guess or rationalize your trade. Well, it was a really good sale at 303 and here it is at 306 and wow, here it is at 309. That's suicide because now you're starting to second guess yourself. And so it's better to just take yourself out of the market.  Get rid of the trades that are losing money.  The profits will take care of themselves. This is stuff right out of Jesse Livermore's book because it's all about risk control and the one thing that you should never do, never, never, never, never, never, and that is add to a losing position. It's just a suicide thing to do and the reason for it is the fact that you're not only adding to a losing position and increasing your risk exposure, but your analysis is flat out wrong. That's even more important. So remember, if it's a goodbye at six, it's a better buy at five, it's a better buy at four, and that goes back to the old questions from Jesse Livermore, goodbye house, goodbye boat, goodbye car, goodbye wife. So remember, it's a friendly hello and a goodbye, but you don't want to get messed up in that. Now we're rallying here in the crude oil. This is going to, here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about, folks. We're looking at a price here in crude at $63.95 and we're trading at $63.66. $63.95, as I posted just a little while ago when we were chatting with Mr. Z, that $63.95 is the 61% retracement exactly of that last high that we made. So we're going to find out if it's going to be right or not, but that's what we're watching. Hold on here, we might have a question calling in. You're still seeing the silver chart and that is because I'm talking about something totally different and I'll put the crude oil chart back up here so you'll be able to see it here.  That didn't work out the way that I wanted. Hold on, boys and girls. Just give me a second here. I pressed the wrong button here. Hold on here. What I'm going to do here, you should be in July crude, I believe. Isn't that July is the trading at $63.60? It should be July, I think, but someone double-checked that for me because I can't pull that up right now, but which of the contracts is trading at $63.60? I think it's July, but, well, we'll take a look. All right, let's pull up here since we're talking about crude oil. I want to bring to your attention because crude follow, well, all these things follow Fibonacci number some of the time, but not all the time, but if we take a look here at the long-term weekly chart of crude, I'll get this up here, and you'll be able to see what I'm talking about when we were hitting that level up at 77. We'll get it up here so we can, there we go. We're going to be in good shape right here. Oh, my goodness. This is mother-godden country today, boys and girls. You don't get to see stuff like that. You can't make it up, that's for sure. All right, let's get this down here a little bit and there we go. Now I'm just going to get it up here so we can see it. This will be the weekly chart. It is June. Thank you very much, Marshall. If you'll notice here, we are, this is the June crude at 63. 63, we're within a heartbeat of that number. We're up one, two, three, four, five, six days in this run and the low we made, of course, was back a little bit farther and we'll see if that's going to mean anything. Mr. Z is asking if I re-bought the euros. I was going to this morning, Mr. Z, but I bought the gold instead and I was doing something else because I had a computer problem, but the euros are at a really critical level. The reason why is we went down and we went below that 1200 level and we got as low as 1185 and didn't go down and with that dollar index setting right at the 78% level, it looked like it had. I still think the euro's not out of the woods yet, but we're at a real critical level now in the euro as we come in here at 112.65. That's 80 pips up off the bottom, which is the harmonic number in the euro, so that'll be a real interesting one to talk. Now, we haven't had much of a big rally, but it stopped going down, so there's a big fight going on over in that euro, which is reflected in that US dollar index trading near that 97 level, and neither one of these is broken out in either direction for sure. That's a key thing to look at. When we get back from the next break, we'll take a look at some of these currencies because they are at a critical level, well, they should be because they've been here at the same level here for three or four weeks, so there's not much else going on there, so we'll watch it. But the key ones today, for my opinion, are the crude oil up here where we are right now and also another one is what's going to happen with the treasury bonds because I believe we've made a major top in those bonds at that 150 level. We're trading at 147 in change right now, and I believe that we've got a chance here for a little bit more of a rally, and then they're going to take a flying well into to the south side of the trading floor and go a lot lower. That's the way it looks like from this section, so we'll see. Okay, someone's saying you're showing Monday is a good way to start the week. Well, I should start it on Friday. Who knows? Okay, that'll be a double. Thank you, Mr. David. I appreciate all the stuff that you send me. It's really great information, and I certainly appreciate it. David White's got some great... Everybody at the TF&N. I mean, Tom's got some really, really smart people in this group here. I'm the last one down on the ladder, but boy, you've got Basil and Steve Rhodes and David White and Tom and Tommy.  All right, let's take a little break here. We'll get back. We'll talk a little bit more about the currencies.<PHONE_NUMBER>. 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For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of tfnn.com. Okay, we're back folks, and we were chatting about the Euro here just one second, and I will update the chart, and then I want to see if I can get this updated. Wow, it did. Okay, there we go. Here's what we're looking at in the Euro. Give me a second, and I'll bring this up so you can take a look at it. We made that double bottom down there in the Euro, and you'll notice here where we are right now as we're completing this ABCD pattern that we've got. This is a four-hour chart, so this is over the last few days. You'll notice on Sunday night, we opened around 112.10. We rallied about 60 pips, and so that's going to be the first ABCD correction in this thing, and the 3.82 rally off of that low would take you in at 112.85. So I would be watching 112.85 in the Euro. That's 100 pips off the bottom, whether that's going to be the case or not. We'll have to wait and see. We've seen the dollar index over the past weeks. We know pretty much what it's doing. Well, we think we know what it's doing. We never really know for sure, but let's just look at this US dollar together because it's an interesting chart because of where we are technically, and this is what we were talking about with Mr. Z. Just a few minutes ago, you'll notice we were up against that 78% level again. That's the time that we've hit it, and we need to get that above that 97.20 area for a breakout, but we hit that and then we started to back off, and that tells us that we're just still in this trading range. When you look at that Euro, and it goes down to that 112.85 and doesn't break down any more than that, it just cleaned out the stops of the past two weeks, and then reversed, and then last night, you had that 61% retracement right on Sunday evening and away it went to the upside. Regarding the stock market, I put a video newsletter out this week because my Dragon software for voice recognition wouldn't work. I guess they've given up on me trying to break this Italian accent that I have, which I didn't think it was too bad, but maybe I'm wrong. We've got to buy a new Dragon and get it to work, so I had to do a video newsletter describing what we were seeing, and of course the key thing is to follow the stock indices, because on the longer-term basis, I mean, there's nothing there, but blue sky it looks like, but if you look at them over the past two or three weeks, there is a topping pattern there that appears to mean there might even be having a down day, but when you have made all the money in March, in April that you made in March, in other words, the stock market has already gained in the first five trading days of April, trading days of March. That's a really strong market, folks. Now, I know that's how tops are made and that's how bottoms are made, but what I do is I go down to the smaller timeframes, and usually it's a four-hour, and I can see if I can find some patterns there, and I found some patterns. There's a whole lot of, you know, A, B, C, D, three drive-to-a-top patterns in all of the stock indices. So that's all I was looking at. Whether it works or not, I don't know, but all I know is that the risk level, you know, are small. You don't have to worry about it. Okay, anyway, by the way, Mr. Z, they have a restaurant in Terre Haute, Indiana. It's called Cafe Bosco Pesavento. It's named after my father's oldest sister, Valerie, and Aunt Val. She passed away many, many years ago, and her grandson is the one that does it. My mother was very, very close to my Aunt Val, and when she passed away, my mom basically helped raise Barbara and her daughter, and then Barbara had Joey, who's the one that runs the restaurant. It's quite popular, I'm told. It's out of my price range, because all the wine is more than $5 a bottle, and they don't even serve wine in the box if you can believe that. I never heard of a restaurant that didn't serve wine in a box, but he's actually a very accomplished chef. It's down there on South 7th Street. It used to be Simrel's Italian pizzeria when I was there in the 40s and 50s, and that's where I learned how to dance was in that restaurant. It was a little pizza place when we had a jukebox and would listen to Elvis and Jerry Lee, and I learned to dance there. Anyway, and that was it. I never danced after that. Anyway, we'll take a look at some of these other things that we're watching, but the Bonds, folks, we've got a really interesting situation in the Bonds. You're going to find out whether they're bullish or not. I believe this week we had that 61% retracement up there, as you can see up at that 150-22. We broke down to 146-30, I believe we rallied up to 148-07, and I'm watching to see what's going to hold here. The 382 on the downside by about four or five pips, we went to the 50% level, but we've been down eight days, so the Bonds are due to rally, but if they don't rally, and if they don't, that's going to confirm that this is a major high, boys and girls, just like we're looking at in crude oil and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you believe in 618, and I certainly do, with all the patterns that are coming in there, that's it. Folks, remember, I don't want to repeat, but I am not a fundamentalist. I have not had a Wall Street Journal in my house. I haven't bought one in years, same with Barons, Financial Times, Investors' Business Daily, and I got those free for years because my daughter was dating, it was her first date, was with Bill O'Neill's son. They went to the same high school, so I used to get those newspapers for free. I just never read them. I remember the time I was here in Indiana, and he said, could you go out and get me a Wall Street Journal from one of the other professors? And I said, I didn't think you read those things. He said, no, I needed for the lining of my parent's cage. That's a true story. Anyway, let's move on to the next thing we want to look at here. I don't, you know, Mr. Z, I don't even look at the, he's asking a question about the racing news. No, I don't even do that, all I do is I watch the tote board. When I go to the track, I have three people that I've trained to be professional traders and professional gamblers. They all did the same thing, and their whole premise was follow the money. And if you stop and think, when you go to the racetrack, the racetrack takes 16 and 2 thirds percent right off the top of every bet you make. You know, people are losing, so what they do is they start to bet on the long shots to try to get their money back. 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We went from $19,800 down to $3,100. The ABCD structure in the long-term weekly came in at $3,800. We went below that and then since that time we've had higher bottoms, you know, ever since the beginning of December. So this is looking like we're getting ready. What you want to watch for now is the 382 retracement of this. So, hey, we've got Mr. Z on the line. Mr. Z, are you there? Yes, I am, sir. Taunting you in the Tiger's Den. I thought I would do so by voice on the phone line. Thanks for taking the call. Well, God bless you for calling in. What can I do for you? Very specific question, Larry, on the stock market, the S&P index and its futures, the June futures ESM-9. As you and Norm described last week, a full moon came on Friday and that is thus far high close. There's a new moon. There was a new moon on Friday. I'm sorry. I wrote that down incorrectly. There's the same. They're just turned around. That's all. Let's put it this way. It was a lunar cycle. So it was high close for the year and high close for this rally. So we could short against that with our eyes closed with tight stops, which I did, by the way. My question is, can you elaborate using your charts what level we need to break underneath to tell you the odds are very high. We have witnessed a change in trend rather than just another pullback and higher low that gives way to higher highs. Well, the only level that I could look at Mr. Z would be a retracement from those lows we made in late March. If I put this up here, we can take a quick look at it. That would come in roughly at around 28-20. If we get below 28-20, we're trading at 28-85 right now. 28-20, then I'd say, yeah, that's probably that 3-drive is in effect. But it's working a little bit right now and what I do on these is when they get a 10-point profit in your favor, I move the stop to break even and let her rip. That's really about all you can do. Right, and that's the idea. 28-20 is just I'm just guessing I don't have the chart working in front of me. It'd be a 61% retracement of that idea. Yeah, it's a little below the 78% level. That tells me that, yeah, it's corrected more than it should have. It's also, it would be bigger than the bigger correction that we had which was 30 handles. You see, that would be another thing. Yes, I see what you're referring to on the Tiger TV rights. Yeah, that's what I'd be watching. Very good. How does that... I know you had made a big deal with the code a couple of times in the past two weeks. Some cycle work coming from Bill Meridian and somebody else saying, statistically, the probabilities favor rallies into mid to late April. Is that way on your thinking at all? Yeah, well, it did during that time because from the 15th of March until the 15th of April, it had a very, very positive bias coming into the 15th of April here next Monday. We could be weaker on either side. Mr. Z, all I'm looking at Bill and John, all I'm looking at here, I'm just looking at the short-term trading patterns, all I'm looking at. No cycles or nothing. I just saw that there was symmetry there. The ABCD was correct. The 1.618 expansion was correct. I figured I didn't have to risk much last night because I sent out the video on it and just like I looked at the gold, it was a very low risk at $12.98. That's all I do. I look at those patterns and I frankly don't have any other comments in that. That's pretty much what I'm talking about. By the way, I've got Ditmer's book here. I'll be seeing you pretty soon and I'll be letting you take a look at it. I think you'll enjoy it, but a lot of history in it, I'll look forward to that. I wanted to follow up lastly and ask you to pull up the daily chart on the copper market. You know I've been trading this from the long side for a while now and the copper price has gone to, I'll round it off the $298 level. It's gone there four, if not five times now in the past months, maybe it's six weeks I forget. I'm just wondering, if we surpass that and we're under that now, we're $293 but if we surpass the $298 level is there a pattern that you're looking at that calls for significantly higher prices if we get over that level? Well the $298 happens to be the exact 61% retracement on the weekly chart and if we get above that then we certainly would be looking at higher prices but I think that the high that we made back in late 2017 at $333 is going to be it for quite a while. That was a double top and I don't think we're going to get any higher than $305 would be my guess and we've been rallying now for about 10 weeks and it's due for a correction so that's going to tell us where we are next I think. Excellent, I appreciate that input and I'll just share with you my view, I'm guessing if we get over $298 I'm frankly guessing we're going to get back up to that $335 high that we put in place last fall or last spring of 2018 I forget quite when but that's my guess for what it's worth It's a good guess because that's a lot of screen and you and I are just guessing that that is true and that certainly doesn't pay the bills Any time I'm worried about my guess I make something up I will stand by that Excellent, good Thanks for calling and I will look forward to seeing you on the East Coast soon We've got another caller I think from Florida, a dollar bill, are you there? I'm here Larry, how are you? I'm good, what can I do for you my friend? Larry, looking at gold on the March 25th it made a swing high of $1330 $1333 and this is on the daily track and so right now it appears to be heading back toward that level I don't see I don't see what resistance there is in between where we are now at $1305 and that $1330 but I'd like your comment on that and again that's on the daily chart What I'm looking at Bill is the 61% retracement from that high at $1321 that we made about 10 days ago that 61% retracement comes in at $1309 so far our retracement today was $1307.5 so if we can get above $1313 then we got a chance to make an ABCD up at $1328 but right now we had a little bounce coming in here because we were down 11 days that's all we're getting now is the bounce off that 11 day low okay thanks for calling in really appreciate the call Bill thank you I'm Steve Rhodes best at what I do sign up for Mastering Probability today by clicking on the newsletter tab on the homepage of TFNN.com and get immediate access to workshops where I take you step by step how to use an extraordinary set of tools as well as provide great market calls too sign up today if you haven't checked out the newsletters page of TFNN.com what are you waiting for all of the TFNN newsletters are informative up to date, affordable for every trader looking to gain a competitive informational edge in today's markets TFNN newsletters cover every aspect of the markets to offer you the very latest in market news plus new subscribers get to test drive our newsletters risk free for 30 days from all aspects of the markets including stocks, bonds, metals commodities and tech there's a newsletter to fit your needs exclusively from TFNN stay informed each day you trade and get the competitive edge that will help you stay ahead of the game visit our newsletters page by going to TFNN.com and click the newsletters button near the top of the page TFNN.com educating investors since 1984 Basil Chapman has been using the Chapman Wave methodology to advise traders of his expert market opinion from the late 1970s into the 1980s Basil noticed that prices under most circumstances virtually always had a certain number of legs to the upside before declining sharply later Basil found that computer software which included the standard market technical indicators enhanced the degree of accuracy in calling price turns as well as market trend calls thus was born the Chapman Wave sequence using the Chapman Wave methodology along with other indicators Basil Chapman advises his subscribers of his expert market opinion each market day with his opening call newsletter right now you can get a two week free trial to the opening call Basil's daily trading newsletter by visiting the front page of TFNN.com cancel at any time during that trial and pay absolutely nothing get your two week free trial to Basil's newsletter the opening call today by visiting TFNN.com okay we're back folks and the crude oil did hit that number we were looking at 63.85 it hit 63.87 I don't know if it's going to be higher now but that's a 61% retracement do with it what you like but very important number to look at for sure I don't have any guests this week so hopefully we'll get some call-ins and get some good questions I'm hoping to have Stan Harley on Wednesday and maybe on Friday we could get Rich Anderson to kick in and possibly Symonly but Sy is extremely busy his company was bought out by Farm Bureau so he's he's got to work for them for a couple years and then he's going to go back into private life by chat with him every day he's just got these he's like a one-armed paper hanger he's really busy okay let's remember folks that we have these short-term patterns here in the stock market that we looked at in the newsletter this week these were short-term they're based on over a four or five week period question about coffee cocoa and sugar sugar looks pretty good Ruby coffee it's got a hold the 61 70 excuse me 91 75 level that's where we bought it it ran up to 95 I just put the stop at break even haven't even looked at it don't know where it is don't really care but I don't like to see it go down when you're long but I haven't had a coffee trade for 45 years so that's my first one so that's it the cotton looks really good it's looking and cocoa's gone nuts you know we were looking at cocoa and that was really a strong one that was one that really exploded to the upside and we probably should end the show on a really positive note showing you what that cocoa did because it really took off which was a heck of a heck of a move went from 21 50 it's up three handles which is that's three large so that's a pretty good one but we're watching the sugar it's still holding okay the $64 question is whether the cotton's going to hold up excuse me the coffee the old Joe anyway we're going to be here tomorrow at the same time at the offices of 100 South Broad Street Duke and Duke so live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may God bless


So, we've been talking a lot on this show recently about this new, brazenly undemocratic rule by the DCCC that aims to block primary challengers of incumbent Democrats and essentially protect the status quo. Now, even the former DCCC head, Ben Ray Luan, has publicly distanced himself from this new policy because it is that toxic. It's really shamelessly undemocratic. But nonetheless, Sherry Bustos, the current DCCC head, is refusing to back down. And now she's trying to rally the troops who haven't spoken out to kind of come out and speak on her behalf. So according to Politico's Heather Kegel and Laura Baron Lopez, Sherry Bustos isn't afraid of the insurgent left. The chairwoman of House Democrats campaign arm has found herself in a very messy and public spat with progressives over the past week and a half. But the Midwestern moderate is refusing to budge despite drawing ire from prominent progressives like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has encouraged her millions of social media followers to halt donations to the campaign committee in retaliation. At issue is a new Democratic congressional campaign committee policy that prohibits Democratic consultants and vendors from working for a primary challenger to a sitting incumbent if they want the lucrative business of the DCCC. That stance was considered an unwritten rule for the party, but Bustos decided to codify it at a time when the prospect of left-wing primary challenges looms large among House Democrats. Despite the outcry from some progressives, many Democrats have rallied behind Bustos, approaching her on the floor and privately commending her for being willing to confront the left wing of the caucus when others have cowered, fearful of becoming the Twitter target du jour. Bustos has indeed become a public punching bag for progressives, absorbing blows from moderate and vulnerable Democrats. In return, Bustos has privately encouraged members to voice their support for her actions, particularly progressives who back the policy according to multiple sources.  So if enough people do cancel their donations to the DCCC, she has no choice. She can't continue to budge. She'd be ousted because if you're not raising money for the party and your goal is to elect Democrats in the House of Representatives and you don't have money to fulfill your one job, your one goal, then you have no choice but to reverse course. So I do think that that strategy that is encouraged by AOC is incredibly important. By reading this article, I couldn't help but think Sherry Bustos is officially the Debbie Wasserman Schultz of 2020 because what did Debbie Wasserman Schultz do? She used her institutional advantages to overtly rig the process against progressives. So back in I think late 2015, she cut off Bernie Sanders access to then when one of Bernie's staffers that was recommended to the Bernie campaign by the DNC had accidentally accessed Hillary Clinton's voter data files, completely cut them off, and it wasn't until he threatened them with a lawsuit that she restored his access to NGP van because that basically cripples a campaign. If you're unable to access these really crucial data files because you don't know where to campaign, you don't know where to target. So this is kind of what we're seeing Sherry Bustos doing. She's trying to intimidate anyone who is inclined to work with a primary challenger to an incumbent Democrat in order to protect the status quo. So she's the new gatekeeper. She is de facto the new Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is trying to protect corrupt corporate Democrats from getting primary challenges that they deserve.  You're being called out because what you're doing is shameless and undemocratic. And your job is not to protect the status quo. Your job is to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives. Your job is not to protect incumbent Democrats because if we can get a primary challenger to defeat someone and make the party more popular, get someone there who's more electable in that particular district, then of course that's in the detrips interest. But she doesn't want to do that because she's a moderate, she's a corporate Democrat, so she herself is susceptible to a primary challenge from justice Democrats. And I really do hope that they do target her and try to primary her next because if you're going to do this, if you are going to basically be a gatekeeper and try to shut out primary challengers, you need to understand that that's not going to be tolerated. You're not brave for standing up against the new left. The new left isn't a bunch of attack dogs that just is thirsty for power. The new left is fighting for policies, very specific policy ideas. Medicare for all, Green New Deal, a federal jobs guarantee. So what are we doing? We're changing the makeup of the party in order to get the policies we need because that's what we have to do. The Democratic Party, Old Guard, is choosing to not adopt new popular ideas. They're choosing to remain conservative and it's completely unacceptable. So Sherry Bussos is the Debbie Wasserman Schultz of 2020. She's not as overt as Debbie Wasserman Schultz is, but nonetheless, functionally, she's utilizing the same exact tactics that DWS uses and it's completely disgusting. And if she thinks we're going to back down, she can think again, because if you think that you are justified in blocking primary challengers or trying to blackball consultants who want to work with Democratic primary challengers, we're not going to let that stand because we live in a democracy. And part of living in a democracy is allowing meaningful alternatives when the status quo and incumbent Democrats aren't representing us. So this isn't going to stand and we will continue to put pressure on you because this is completely disgusting, Sherry.


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Ah, to the left, about eight feet, eight inches. I'll try again. Left again, nine feet, two inches. Nine feet exactly that time. Nick, hey Nick. Yes, Patsy? Cease firing. I want to come in. Come ahead, I've just about finished. I've got to close up shop, but today Nick, you'll be late. Patsy, I've won my bet with Sergeant Matheson. What bet? I bet him a dollar the Austrian Mauser wouldn't eject a cartridge more than 10 feet. I've just fired 50 rounds and not one cartridge is more than nine and a half feet from the gun. I win a dollar and Jansen is cleared of the motor charge, which proves that he couldn't done it. Personally, I think... I was waiting for you to notice. Evening, Ghana. Well, Miss Bowen, you look most charming. You really think so, Nick? May I ask where you're going tonight? Out. With you. With me? Please, hurry. Nick will be late. Late for what? Don't tell me you've forgotten. And you were so anxious to go and let it came. Honestly, Nick, sometimes I believe you're not human. Now hurry and get into your dinner clothes. I'll explain on the way over. Patsy, where are we going? To a murder. Right. You can stop kidding me now. I've remembered Patsy. I was so wrapped up in that ballistics work, it slipped my mind. You sure? I'll recite it like a lesson. I've been invited to join the famous alphabet club, the most exclusive gathering of eminent talents in the country. Right? Right. Incidentally, why is it called the alphabet club, Nick? Because the first letters are the names of the charter members of the first four letters of the alphabet. Arnold Archer. The financier. Nelson Burns, the architect. Walter Crane, the boy wonder engineer. And George Dennis, the attorney. Oh. Oh, Mr. Adley. They're not only charter members. They're the initiating committee, too. They're the ones who are going to put me through the ropes before the rest of the club arrive for dinner. That initiation's done. It's a cute idea. Yes. The fact rather tickles me. Staging a make-believe murder. They swear I'll never be able to break it. Challenging the mastermind, eh? That's the club over there. You can park in front. Right on. We're just about on time. Oh, please, hurry, Nick. I saw Burns the other day. He swore they'd cooked up a beauty. You know, I'm really intrigued. Mr. Bohen and Mr. Carter. Oh, yes. Good evening, madam. Good evening, sir. Welcome to the alphabet club. Thank you. The members are waiting in the lounge room. Will you follow me, please? Could I join too, Nick? No, Patsy. They don't admit women. But they asked me to bring you along because they said they knew I worked with you in my cases. Mmm. Pretty swank place, isn't it, Nick?  Right here, sir. Just one moment, please. Gentlemen, Mr. Carter and Mr. Bohen. Oh, for the love of... Gentlemen, gentlemen, open the door, please. Mr. Archer, Mr. Burns, please open. Mr. Crane, Mr. Dennis. The house of dead murder awaits Nick Carter. Golly, it's pitch dark. Watch your step, Patsy. Don't trip on any dead bodies. What's that noise I hear? Sounds like we're in a toy shop. Let's close the door, Miss Bohen. Lights, please. Let's have some light, Walter. That said, here we are. Oh, golly. Who's that lying on the floor? I assume it's Santa Claus. All right, you are. The name of this mystery is Who Killed Santa Claus? And if Mr. Carter and Miss Bohen want any dinner, they'd better find out who done it and quick. Very well, gentlemen. I shall begin with the taking of the evidence. My name is Arnold Archer. I love Santa Claus, but today I hate him. Why? Because he brought me this cap pistol, and I really wanted a horn. My name is Nelson Burns, and this horn is a sad disappointment to me.  I really wanted the sword he gave Walter Crane, and I wanted the cap pistol he gave Archer. Who's Santa Claus? Oh, that's George Dennis. He'll say hello after Mr. Carter finds out who done it. Well, gentlemen, I see you all have a good and sufficient motive for killing Santa Claus. I must now examine our make-believe corpse to discover the method of this brutal, foul, and illegal make-believe murder. Am I... Fatsy. Nick, what is it? Get on the phone. Call Maddie. Get the homicide squad up here fast. Mr. Carter... I'm not joking, Mr. Archer. You'd better call the other members and cancel the dinner.  Dennis has been shocked to death. Oh, just a minute. I want to get you guys straight. Who's the corpse, Nick? George Dennis, the lawyer. You remember him, Maddie? He was retained as an expert in the Wilner case. Yeah, I got that. Now, which one is Arnold Archer? I am the Finnenseer, our Sergeant. Believe me, Sergeant Matheson, this must be some kind of ghastly mistake.  We were his friends, Sergeant. Of course. We couldn't have any reason to kill him. Oh, you're Burns, huh? Nelson Burns. Yes. And the gentleman over there is Walter Crane. I think this isn't pretty bad taste, Carter, and I don't like it. Dennis was killed actually. There's no doubt of it. It's pretty cheap to try and turn this into a murder case for the sake of notoriety. Now, listen, my son. Wait me. Mr. Crane, you're positive this was an accident. Why? Well, isn't it obvious? The four of us were alone in this room when the stew had knocked on the door. Dennis lay down on the floor. I put out the lights, and Nelson Burns fired off the blanks. Yes. Well, evidently, a round of live ammunition must have gotten mixed up with the blanks. No, no. That's not true. I swear it. Mr. Burns is right. I checked the gun.  Only four? I see Patsy understands what I mean. Doesn't anyone else? What is this, Nick? When Patsy and I were outside, we heard five shots. Five? Meaning that a fifth shot was fired along with those four blanks. Meaning that one of you three gentlemen took advantage of the make-believe murder to murder George Dennis. Ah, no. Quiet, gentlemen. Please. None of you to leave this room. Maddie, get your squad in here. Search these men. Then take this place apart if you have to. I want to find the gun that killed Dennis. Okay, Nick. The murderer wants to save us the trouble he can talk now. You leave me, gentlemen. This won't be any make-believe search. Nobody have anything to say? All right, Maddie. Get going. Right. Got anything to offer, Sergeant? Well, let's hear what you've got first. Well, Archer's the famous financier. Worth over a million. Wouldn't kill for money. Yeltsinburn, same status. Plenty of money. Ditto for Walter Crane. All four men were pretty close friends at college, known each other for years. Apparently, they're still friends. Now, that might not be true. People grow apart sometimes. On the other hand, all three are pretty ruthless kind of men. I imagine you have to be tough to make the success they have. And you have to have a certain amount of cold courage to pull off a murder the way this one has been handled. Now, how about the gun? There ain't no gun. What? You heard me, Patsy. There ain't no gun. Nick, we took them guys apart and put them together. Again. We took the room apart. There ain't but one gun in the place. The one that fired the blanks. But that's impossible. You're telling me? Nick, we opened every book. We even took the toys apart. No soap. And the gun couldn't have been thrown out the window because there ain't no window. Look, it's getting pretty late, Nick, and they're getting kind of sore in there. Do you want me to hold them? I'll tell you what, Mary. There are bedrooms upstairs.  Right. And I want a ballistics report on the bullet that killed Dennis as soon as possible. Right. If you want me, I'll be in the kitchen. Yeah. What doing? Getting something to eat and pumping the steward. I'm hungry for food and facts. Now, this is a man that can cook after my own heart. Thank you, sir. Mm, me too. I'll take lessons from you any day. Thank you, ma'am. Too bad a dinner like this had to be wasted. Oh, it's not the dinner I mine, sir. It's the fact that you're joining the club was so, so... Inauspicious. The very word, sir. You think they'll take me in anyway, despite what happened tonight? Well, of course, sir. I'm sure the gentlemen are still anxious to have the famous Nick Carter as a member. Even what it means, the famous Nick Carter has become merely an infamous detective accusing the members of murder. I'm sure it was an accident, sir. You think a live shell might have gotten mixed up with the blanks? Yes, sir. I see. Steward, do you know who loaded the gun? It was Mr. Crane, sir. The engineer? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Crane always plans our little festivities, sir. He planned the entire initiation tonight. Talking about it all week, he was, sir. I used to see him late at night, thinking it over in the lounge, chuckling to himself. Was it his gun? Yes, sir. I see. Well, thanks very much, Steward. Both for the excellent food and for the information. Especially the food. Come on, Betsy. Mm-hmm. I think I'd like to go upstairs and have a few words with Crane. Nick, do you think Crane... No, no, Betsy. Certainly, he's a likely prospect. I didn't like the way he kept insisting. It was an accident. What I don't like is the fact that Walter Crane engineered gentlemen with a calculating and mechanical frame of mind gentlemen who loaded the gun himself. Failed to notice, an extra shot was fired. Nick! That's no initiation. Come on, upstairs quick. Hey, Nick, you hear that? Come from upstairs, Maddie. Come quick. Sounded like Crane to me. Nick, this might be a trap to get us up here. Hey, wait a minute. This is Crane's room right here. Glory be. It's Crane all right. Dead on the floor. With a toy sword in his heart.  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Now, with Sergeant Matheson and Patsy, Nick examines the dead man and the other club members, Burns and Archer, rush into the room. For heaven's sakes, Carter, what is it? Who screamed? All right, all right, don't park here. This ain't no Coney Island peep show. But Arnold, it's Crane! What do you think this is, a reunion?  Go on back to your rooms. That's a bit of a matter. I want to ask a couple of questions. Okay. Mr. Archer, where were you when you heard Crane scream? I just finished breathing. I was in the shower room. I see. It's why you're still carrying a bathtub. Yes. And you, Mr. Burns? Well, I was in my room waiting for Archer to finish. I was smoking a cigar at my window. Where's the cigar? I don't know. I think I dropped it out the window when I heard Crane yell. I don't get one of you men to check that. Right. Be back in a flash. Now let's have a look at that sword. May I borrow your towel a moment, Archer? Certainly. I don't want to smudge any prints that might be on it. You are? Thanks. Let's wrap this towel around it. Mr. Carter, surely you don't think I... You what, Mr. Burns? Well, merely because I said ingested, I wanted Crane's toy sword during the make-believe murder. You don't think I... I kill Crane with it? Deductive reasoning isn't that obvious, Mr. Burns. You have nothing to worry about on that count. Thank you. But both of you have plenty to worry about on other counts. No, Mr. Carter, surely you... Look, I don't think either of you understand. Two murders have been committed in this club. Someone's guilty. That leaves three suspects. You, Mr. Archer. What? You, Mr. Burns. And the steward. They execute men for murder, gentlemen. Try to understand that. Well, I just held the cigar all right, Nick. All right, Maddie. Thanks. These gentlemen may return to their rooms. All right, gents. Well, Nick, what about Crane? He held almost instantly. Just time enough to scream. Uh-huh. Whoever killed him used plenty of power to thrust this dull blade deep enough to penetrate the heart. Any prints on the blade, Nick? I'll take the towel off and look. No. Blades dry and clean as a mirror. You look at it by reflected light. Not a latent printer. Not even a smudge. That doesn't help much. Well, I got news it ain't gonna help much more. Yes. They took this slug out of Dennis. Here, look at it. Thanks. Hmm. 22, I see. Ain't it... wait. Hello. Do you see, huh? Nick, what is it? No rifling marks on this bullet, Patsy. No rifling marks? No lands or grooves on the slug at all. Now, what's that supposed to mean? The killer threw it at Dennis? That's impossible. We heard the extra shot. Maddie's just being difficult, Patsy. I think Maddie's bad news is the best I've had on this case. Well, now, what's that supposed to mean? It means I think I know where to find the gun that killed Dennis. Come on, Patsy, we're going to have a look at Dennis's house. Well, how in blazes did the gun get there? I didn't say the gun was there. The gun's in this house. Then why do you go into Dennis's place? To find out why it was fired. Not a scrap of paper worth looking at in his desk, Patsy. Looks like we'll have to open that safe. Too bad Dennis was a bachelor. No one here to give us the combination. We could wait for a court order to have the safe open, but we'll bother. Let's have the stethoscope in my bag. Okay, Chief. You're going to crack this crib. Okay, where did you pick up that jargon? From a crime magazine. Here's your scope. Thanks. Well, that magazine must have been 15 years old. Crooks don't talk that way anymore. No? Well, how would they describe what you're doing? They'd say that I was exercising in natural facility and delicacy of touch to turn the dial. Meanwhile, using a medical device to hear the tumbler's call. Quiet now. It shouldn't take long. It's a three job. Three bulk job. What made you go straight, Nick? That Patsy is a base insinuation. My criminal facility was acquired during a long career of fighting crooks. There we are. All right, let's go through this stuff quickly. Here's Dennis's insurance. $100,000. Bar association's beneficiary. Packages of old letters. Skip them. Oh, here's a note from Archer. Offers Dennis $150,000 for the shares of stock. Dennis holds an arches company. Nice. Wait a minute. Here's a will. Oh, let's see. Ah, now, this is very interesting. Mr. Dennis leaves all cash and stock holdings to his old ex-college roommate, John Wendell. Who's John Wendell? John Wendell happens to be the steward of the alphabet club. Well... Old college friend, eh? Maybe that won't interest Mattie. Nick, do you think it was Wendell, the steward? He killed Dennis for the stock? Let's have a look at that envelope here. Looks like it contains stock shares. It does. Nick, there's only one share of stock in here. One single share. Pa, there, you $500. Someone's taken the rest. Just one share, huh? Mattie, where's that note from Archer you just read me? Here, Nick. Why? Let's see. Offer you $150,000 for... Uh-huh. Mattie, you didn't read this correctly. It says that Archer offers Dennis $150,000 for his share of stock. Dennis only owned the one share. Why should Archer offer him $150,000 for a share of stock worth only $500? You'll find out shortly. Let me have that phone. Why do you always have to be so mysterious, Nick? I don't like making statements until I'm positive. Mattie, this is Nick. What do you find, Nick? I think I've found all the answers. Well, Nick, leave me here. Not on the phone. I'm going to demonstrate. Now listen. I'm listening. Get the surviving members out of bed. Tell them I've broken the case. Tell them I'm going to reenact the crime for them. When Patsy and I come to the door, I want the steward to meet us. Then we'll play the make-believe murder all over again, just as it happened. You can take Crane's part. Right. I think you're crazy, Nick. Maybe. At this time, the make-believe murder is going to lead to an honest-to-goodness solution. All set, Patsy. I've got it, Nick. We're going to repeat everything we did earlier this evening. Right. And that repetition means every detail, no matter how small. Right. First, I rang the bell. Yes, sir? Miss Bowen and Mr. Carter. Good evening, madam. Good evening, sir. Welcome to the alphabet club. I think I asked you to follow me, Mr. Carter. Right. Go ahead. All set in there, Maddie? Lights out and ready to go. Gentlemen, Mr. Carter and Miss Bowen. Make like I'm screaming, Nick. That was Crane's job. Then I said, gentlemen, please open the door. Right. And then... Only four shots that time. That was Burns opening the door. Then what? I said something about entering the house of death. We came in... And heard toy sounds. Then I told Crane to put on the lights. I'll take care of that. Thanks. I asked who was lying on the floor. And I assumed it was Santa Claus. And you started explaining, aren't you? So explain. The name of this mystery is Who Killed Santa Claus? If Mr. Carter wants any dinner, he'd better solve it. Gentlemen, I shall begin with the taking of the evidence. Oh, this is screwy. My name is Arnold Archer.  Why? Because he brought me this cap pistol. I wanted a horn. My name is Nelson Burns. And this horn... One minute, Mr. Burns. Yes. We left out a detail. Mr. Archer was supposed to snap his cap pistol when he spoke. Go ahead, Mr. Archer. Well, go ahead. Fire that gun, Mr. Archer. You'll never get me. Oh, no, you don't. Watch out for that toy gun! Glory be, that cap pistol was loaded. It fired a real bullet. And that... I still, Archer, you'll never break away. That, Mary, is a solution of our missing gun. But, Nick, why? The single share of stock Dennis held was the answer. He never owned more than one share of stock, and yet Archer wanted to buy it back for $150,000. $150,000? What for? I'm afraid Mr. Dennis was guilty of an old legal racket. As a stockholder in Archer's firm, he had the right of access to the company's books. You seem to have all the answers, Carter. Yes, he sits through those books until he dug out enough of the evidence of illegal market operations to ruin us. And then offered to sell his share of stock and stockholders' right to bring action back to you for an ex-turbinant sum. Aha! Blackmail. Legal blackmail. Mr. Archer, you were afraid Dennis was going to blackmail you for the rest of his life, so you killed him, which is the final irony of the case that the make-believe murder was committed with a make-believe gun.  Here's a special message for the man of the house. If you're a golfer with pet clubs that must last for the duration, or if it's your special job to keep the household woodwork in shape, Linux Clear Gloss is good news for you. For Linux, Clear Gloss gives a good-looking, yet tough, protective finish to any surface. 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ChemTone covers most wall surfaces in one coat, dries in one hour, bringing bright new loveliness to your walls and ceilings in bedroom, living room, or hall. And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Nick, I thought Sergeant Matheson checked the toy gun when he searched the room and found nothing wrong with it. That's right, Ken. A point very few people know is the fact that certain types of cap pistols can fire live ammunition. The bullet is wedged into the barrel through a small hole in the plate that should support the cap.  So Archer killed Dennis with the gun, and then pretended it was a toy. Right. He disposed of the cartridge by the simple means of swallowing it. I guess that, and he admitted it.  Because Crane's methodical memory couldn't be fooled. The shot came from. When he called Archer into his room and confronted him, Archer killed him. Said he just grabbed up the toy sword and stabbed. Did you know that before? Well, I had a pretty good idea. On the pretext of protecting fingerprints on the sword, I borrowed Archer's towel. He claimed he'd been bathing, but his towel was quite dry. Didn't even dampen the metal blade. That's right. I remember you mentioned it. I staged the repeat performance to frighten Archer and save us the trouble of a long cross-examination. I knew that Archer and self-defense would probably load his toy gun again, hoping to use it to effect an escape. That was what I was playing the scene for. Golly! Pretty clever. What story have you got in mind for us next week, Nick? Well, Ken, next week, Patsy and I are going to meet a corpse that has been shot to death by a person or persons unknown. The only clue to the mystery is a letter in the pocket of the dead man. But the odd thing is the fact that there wasn't any stamp or address on the envelope, and there wasn't anything on the paper inside. A letter without anything on it? What do you call this story, Nick? The case of the unwritten letter. 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Good morning, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swish and reviewing the Spies. So the Stock Swish Show Play of the Day yesterday was a spy short. Strangest it may sound, we shorted the market yesterday, made money, and it worked. In fact, I got out a little early, could have held it longer, but I tend to want to exit my day trades very, very quickly. And that's just something that I do all the time. And you also have to be aware of the fact that we're still really in a holiday week this week. People still took off this week. Market's been a little low volume. Actually, you can see that even here this morning. But it's gonna be a very interesting year this year. So let's take a look and review what we did yesterday. I mean, this was an expert professional play of mine in a call yesterday that worked and you had to have conviction to do it. How did I know it would work? How did I know the market was a short yesterday and not a long? Because of my rating system. Because I got up in the morning and I rated the gap in the market and it rated good enough to short. And that's exactly what we did. So again, despite the rally, despite the pushback, despite people wanting to buy this on support, it didn't work. The market fell. And so again, this was a very, very professional expert call by me yesterday. And if you're not on the right side of things, you're not gonna make money. And particularly this year because we're gonna see a lot of more chop than we saw last year at different points in time because there was some smooth trading at different points last year, mostly the end of the year when we had the rally. It's not gonna be like that this year. It's really, really not. It doesn't mean we're gonna drop all year. It doesn't mean we're gonna rally all year. It means the smoothest is gonna be X, X down for the year for 2024. So what we did yesterday was aggressive, but we did it. We entered the train, gave it enough room for the stop, didn't even get taken out here when the rally, even gave it a little bit more room, didn't even eat it. The original stop actually held, dropped, fell. And again, this was the morning exit but you could have held it even more. In fact, the low yesterday, 468.77. Now, 468.17 was the low yesterday. So today we're sloshing around. I have no idea where we open. Way too early to say where we open here this morning. More than an hour to go and the queues are down. This is up, but I'd say neutral-ish. So it's gonna be an interesting day. But again, nice short yesterday, nice call in the room. If you're interested in actively day trading, my room is a great room to get quick, fast trades out of the gate. We mostly short, why? Because short moves happen faster than the moves to the upside. And I will go long, I will, but this was a good gap yesterday. I'm really glad we did it. And it worked out nicely and you had to have conviction. Again, we had this massive spike with data and it reversed immediately. This is a great example again, when I say it's professional move to see that we would get the sell-off. Again, the bears were in control of the market yesterday. What do I mean?  So the selling came in, pushed the market down, sold the market down. Again, if the bulls were in control, we wouldn't have closed red. We would have closed green, okay? So we didn't go anywhere here. So again, let's just look at here where we are exactly, yeah, or hanging on by a thread, a thread this morning. And again, too soon to say where we even open. So I'm not even gonna look at this pride till after nine o'clock. So congrats everyone who did this great start to the year. Really, every trade so far this year, this week has worked, options, day trades, everything's up, really strong start to the year. And can't wait to see what happens for the rest of 2024. If you're interested in more information or signing up for the next Golden Gap course, you have a couple of weeks.  January 27th to 28th, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day, everyone.