Last call for introductions. Therefore, it's time for members of statements. The member from Elgin, Middlesex, London. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I'm rising today to highlight Parkinson's Awareness Month and the wonderful work that Parkinson's Society of Canada accomplishes day in and day out. Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disease occurring when the transmission of dopamine decreases. Science and symptoms relating to the development of Parkinson's disease can include tremor, slowness and stiffness, impaired balance, rigidity of the muscles, fatigue, soft speech, problems with handwriting, stooped posture, constipation, and sleep disturbances. Diagnosing Parkinson's can take time and our family doctors are most likely to catch the signs and symptoms early. As there is currently no cure for this disease, one clue with Parkinson's for years before realizing that something is wrong. Those suffering Parkinson's disease can benefit from certain medications and therapies designed to target areas of discomfort. There are 55,000 Canadians aged 18 or older living with Parkinson's disease. The average age when science and symptoms of first experience occurs roughly around 64 years old. There's an increasing amount of Canadians, 43%, who do feel embarrassed by their condition. Close to two-thirds of those suffering from Parkinson's also report out-of-pocket expenses associated with the disease. Spouses tend to be the primary caregiver in most causes, placing strain on family relationships. Until a cure is found, I wish continued strength to those fighting this terrible disease and commend the Parkinson's Society of Canada, the health care professionals, and family members who look after their loved ones with Parkinson's disease. And I hope someday we can be here at the Legislature and report that a cure has been found for this terrible disease. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the member, same as the member from Windsor West. Thank you, Speaker. This month, the government announced that it will require all students from grade 1 to 8 to have at least 60 minutes of math instruction a day starting in September. While progress in math is measured by standardized testing, progress in subjects like arts, science, geography, and citizenship are much harder to quantify. Students with exceptional learning and language needs, like those who attend specialized provincial and demonstration schools, must also be recognized and supported. These schools provide students with the opportunity to excel in subjects like reading, writing, and arithmetic. For months, families with children who attend these schools have pleaded with the government to recognize their importance and commit to keeping these schools open. Rather than commit to the long-term viability of these schools, the government kept enrollment, announced consultations, and has now closed enrollment for next year. Speaker, consultations have ended and parents want to know will this government listen to families and education workers by keeping these schools open or will they turn their backs on our most vulnerable? Thank you, Speaker. Thank you for the member standings, the member from the Public Hall Lakeshore. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, we have some very important guests from Comcast and NBC with us today, Rick Smotkin, Brian O'Leary, and Randy Richmond. And because we have these special guests here, I thought I'd take a moment to discuss film and television production in Ontario. Our government has combined superb talent and state-of-the-art infrastructure with competitive financial incentives. And that supported Ontario's continued success as the number one film and television production centre in Canada and the third largest in North America. And I'm pleased to say that the latest statistics for film and television production in Ontario reinforce this. Earlier this year, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport announced that 2015 was the best year ever for film and television production in Ontario, Mr. Speaker. And last year, film and television production supported by the province contributed $1.5 billion to the economy, the fifth consecutive year they fit the $1 billion mark. And these statistics also show an increase of almost 4,500 jobs over the previous year for a total of 32,500 full-time and spin-off jobs. Mr. Speaker, in Etobicoke Lakeshore, the global HQ of William F. White and Cinespace Studios also support these jobs and this success. And this steady growth has led to dynamic television and movie sector. Mr. Speaker, that's money going directly into Ontario's economy, money that is helping to build Ontario up. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Miller from Perth, Wellington. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This week, March National Volunteer Week, a week to celebrate and thank all of our local volunteers. In Perth, Wellington, we are lucky to have many outstanding volunteers whose contributions are invaluable. Last week, I was pleased to recognize some of them at the United Ways Perth Huron Spirit of Community Celebration. Thanks to generous community donations and the hard work of our volunteers, the United Way raised a record $1.2 million. Earlier in March, I had the privilege of attending the Volunteer Service Awards in Stratford, along with my colleagues, the MPPs from Huron, Bruce and Oxford. I presented scrolls to 147 hardworking volunteers. Many organizations across Perth, Wellington are hosting special events this week to thank their volunteers. The Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance has over 400 volunteers who provide more than 42,000 hours of service. They are hosting a volunteer lunch to thank them. The Volunteer Center of Wellington is planning a volunteer garden and hosting a time to give breakfast honoring employer-supported volunteerism. Many of our local municipalities are also presenting special awards of long-serving volunteers. To all of our local volunteers in Perth, Wellington, I say thank you. Your time, service and dedication are very much appreciated. This week, I encourage everyone to celebrate our volunteers and consider volunteering for a local organization. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the number of speakers. The member from Nickelbelt. Thank you, Speaker. My constituents, Mr. Pete Lijek, came into our office when he got a notice from Hydro1 encouraging him to apply for the Ontario Electricity Support Program, which he did. Like most people in Nickelbelt, he had no idea that Hydro1 was offering low-income customer rebate. He found out when his March Hydro1 bill came in, the mail with a flyer about the program in the bill. It takes six to eight-week speakers for the people to find out if they qualify. That means this program, which started on January 1st, may not be helping my constituents till May or June. I think this isn't fair, Speaker. Mr. Leduc, and I agree, wants his rebate to be retroactive to January 1st. And I think that's right. Not enough was done to make people aware of this program. We did a search of news story related to this rebate. There weren't enough to fill a page, and most related to how complicated the program is and how little uptake there has been from consumers so far. Mr. Speaker, low-income families in Nickelbelt are not scanning Hydro1 website to find out discount. They're just too busy trying to make ends meet. I have two questions for the government. Why is a flyer for a program that started in January was in our March Hydro1 bill? Not before this. And second, will the government do the right thing and backdate this rebate to January 1st for everyone that applies before the end of April? Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Further members, famous to members from Halton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm delighted to rise today to speak about the many wonderful community leaders we have in Halton. Mr. Speaker, the Milton, Oakville and Burlington Chambers of Commerce recently held their community award celebrations. I was fortunate to be able to attend the Milton event. It highlighted some of the passionate and hardworking people in our community. The evening showcased Milton's appreciation for our hardworking residents and business people who contribute so much to our community and economy. This year, the Chamber awarded several deserving people awards, recognizing their tireless efforts to build our community up. Some of these remarkable individuals are Brian Penman, Rebecca Hunter, and Denise and Peter Mule. In addition, several important businesses were also recognized, including Pasqualinos, Deandefazio with SNAP, Idrinkcoffee.com, CF Crozier and Associates, and Jay Curry Plumbing. In Burlington and Oakville, other members of the community and businesses included Geotab, Surround, Integrated, Elspira Family Restaurant, the Oakville Hospital Foundation, and many others. I want to congratulate, Mr. Speaker, all of the award recipients and nominees. You are some of our region's finest, and we are grateful for your tireless efforts, dedication and vision. Thank you to all of our Chambers for organizing these wonderful events. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Further members? Members from Kitchener, Conestoga. Yes, well thank you, Speaker. On April 2nd, I was pleased to attend an event in support of the Vimy Foundation, whose mission is to preserve Canada's first World War legacy. And today I stand with Canadians across our nation to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the victory at Vimy Ridge, where for the first time in history, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together, attacking the French Ridge, and succeeded in capturing it from the German Army. In order to ensure that Canada's heroic history is forever memorialized, the Vimy Foundation develops education programs to help youth and Canadians of all ages learn more about the sacrifices made by an entire generation, when Canada truly came of age. The moment where many historians agree our nation was born. This time next year, Canada will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and the Vimy Foundation is working tirelessly to commemorate that battle. Speaker, the Vimy Foundation believes that the key to a successful future lies in knowing one's past. And to that end, next year, we look forward to their unveiling of a State of the Art Visitor Education Centre and Centennial Park, located near the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. It's always a privilege to recognize our troops, veterans, and their families, and it's my honour to stand here today to recognize those who support them. Thank you to the Vimy Foundation, and I wish you nothing but success in your upcoming Centennial celebration. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you for the understanding. It's the member from Beaches East York. Well, thank you, Speaker. National Volunteer Week is upon us, and today I would like to take the opportunity to recognize a very special volunteer from my riding in Beaches East York. Her name is Olive Dodds, and as I mentioned in introduction, she's in the East Gallery with some family and friends. Now, the theme of this year's Volunteers Week is volunteers are the roots of strong communities. And I truly believe that Mrs. Dodds embodies this theme in her regular work at Michael Garan Hospital. Olive began volunteering at Michael Garan while it was still named Toronto East General Hospital in 1985. She started when she was 75 years old, and is believed to be the Ontario's longest-serving hospital volunteer. Now, due to the mass speaker, Olive has well passed her 100th year. So, over the past 30 years, Olive has contributed to growth in our community through her commitment and dedication to volunteer time and expertise at MGH. Olive and her group of volunteers have knitted countless numbers of dolls that are sold to raise funds for the hospital and have helped bring smiles to many of our hospital's smallest patients. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Olive Dodds and the thousands of others of volunteers across our province for their commitment and their service to their communities. And I would ask my fellow members to join me in congratulating this exceptional volunteer and all those like her so that selflessly commit themselves to serving our communities. She's a shining example for all of us to follow. Thank you very much. I did the math, and yes, you're right. She is very young. The member from Cambridge. Thank you, Speaker. This past Saturday in my community of Waterloo Region, the museum had a special opening of an extraordinary exhibit. Terry Fox, running to the heart of Canada, opened in Kitchener. Several Cambridge residents were on hand to hear the opening, including my 12-year-old son, Declan McGarry. David Marskel from the museum introduced a special guest, Daryl Fox, Terry's brother, who spoke passionately and movingly about his experiences of joining his brother on a partway through the run. Daryl talks about often running as well, and he kind of joked some days. He thought he ran more than Terry because he zigzagged through the crowd trying to obtain donations. But he hadn't done it day in and day out, as Terry had done, and he was still in awe of his brother. After talking about this, he actually answered questions, signed books, and talked about his experiences taking photographs. He said that the marathon of hope changed his family's life forever, but then we toured the exhibit. Words cannot express what it was like as we saw the jug of the Atlantic Ocean water that Terry had scooped up in Newfoundland, that he intended to dump into the Pacific Ocean at the end, as we know his journey ended tragically near Thunder Bay, Ontario.  His journal, his meticulous documentation of every mile he ran and how many he had left were there on display. Speaker, he ran a full marathon 42 kilometres a day every day. His mental toughness, his dedication to raise awareness and research dollars to the Canadian Cancer Society is an overwhelming inspirational story. And why did he do it? Precisely to make sure that children that were suffering from cancer had the best possible care in research that they could possibly do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank all members for their statements. It's now time for


I want to show you what might happen if you videotape everything you eat for seven days. At first you're going to say, this is pretty fun documenting everything I eat. And then it's going to be cumbersome, not fun. Bring out your phone, set it up, turn on some lights and videotape everything you eat. And even if you don't actually make a video with this, you don't actually put it together in iMovie or whatever video program, you're going to find that you're not spending the week alone. Your camera is actually your accountability partner. It's going to hold you to the promises that you made to yourself, whatever it is. And so you're going to find yourself making slightly better decisions. Like instead of a couple of starbursts, you're going to have a couple of blueberries. Like when you end up going out to dinner alone, you might choose roti, Mediterranean fast casual, instead of McDonald's. Or when you do go to Chipotle, you might not get meat or cheese or sour cream. Maybe you have one beer or two instead of three or four. Every time you do go to the kitchen and compulsively open the fridge, you're going to think twice because it's a little bit of a pain. Set up your phone, put it on the little tripod and maybe you were just thirsty. Or maybe it is ridiculous that you're looking for something to eat at 11 p.m. You might find yourself doing little things that make you proud. Like something you've been putting off. Like finishing three bags of chip crumbs.  You're out to dinner with some people and it's happy hour. Is it more important for you to stick to your diet and order something more expensive than what's on the happy hour menu that doesn't perfectly fit with the diet or promise that you have made to yourself? Maybe you realize that you start your day every day with a handful of granola, which is basically just sugar and maybe you'll reconsider that. Or maybe not. You might find yourself thinking ahead a tiny bit. Maybe not just one frozen pizza, but two frozen pizzas. But it's all because someone's watching. You're not alone.   Perhaps you'll use food to reward yourself for completing a task. Something you've been meaning to do. Hopefully it stops the squeaking floor. Even if you don't actually get it right. You might find yourself taking a little like one extra step to make something a little better. A little bit of extra effort. A pizza without cheese. Add your own special cheese and maybe some green olives. Maybe you'll throw some broccoli next to your frozen pizza. You might find yourself on your phone so much. Documenting what you ate and videotaping what you ate.  Like actually mindfully eat. You might also find yourself thinking so much about what you're going to feed yourself and whether or not it's worth it and how you're going to get it. And when you're going to eat it. And being so intentional about it that it almost feels selfish. And end up feeling like you should do something for other people. Like sign up for volunteering. Really, this actually was a thought that went through my head during this week. You might find that after a full week. That the tiny little bit more effort to make a green juice in your blender. Is so much better than just making a protein shake from nothing. And after seven days. You might just have a completely different relationship. With the barrel of the lens of your camera. All right, seven days up. Let's close this thing out with one final grocery haul. Before I head to the airport and pick up the crew. It's been a long, it's been a long seven days. But a short seven days. I just want to say thanks for being here with me. I've, it's been just me the past seven days. And I've, but I haven't really felt alone. I've been thinking about you in some strange way this whole time. So thank you for that. Thank you for being here watching this. Definitely subscribe to our channel. If you haven't already hit that bell to get notifications. If you appreciate videos like this, hit that thumbs up. And we will see you in the next one. Special treat. More Nola because I finished all this toast for the baby. Banana bread for the baby. Blueberries for the baby. The baby's Ezra. He's not a baby anymore. He's 19, 20 months almost. Finally, flowers for the misses.


All my life people told me not to do certain things. They told me not to do them because it's outside of the norm It's outside of the social conduct and I've always preferred to get Criticized then to beg for permission It's better if you believe in what you're doing if you believe for example me recording this video Let's just say I'm not supposed to be where I'm at, but it's a really cool place for me to have silence So I'd rather say oh, I'm sorry I shouldn't have been here, you know if somebody catches me and then be like hey Can I please go in and they'll be like oh, no you can't and so many times in my life I've done this when I worked with companies when I worked for companies in different business situations I've had different life situations. I've always preferred to trust my intuition and just go for it and risk You know people saying oh, that wasn't you. You're not supposed to do that. It's not right and But I still got the result. I wanted for example I have this video and as somebody comes in like hey, what the fuck anyway This worked for me the best like the most Efficiently when I was actually working As a sort of a marketer for a big company in Israel that was dealing with helping people stop smoking So what I did I just Blatantly started putting Facebook ads for the company and giving them really really cheap leads because I was really good at it And they instantly promoted me because they saw how good I was now I always pushed the boundaries and I talk about this in my book a lot. I always pushed the boundaries I always tried new things did new things I didn't wait for the command chain to work out for everybody to say oh This is approved because this shit takes so long sometimes that it's just not worth it It's better to be ripped a bit be have people like oh, you shouldn't have done that But but you've actually done it then wait for like a month just to get approval for something that you can do in five minutes right now so People won't like you for it But if you get the results if you believe in yourself and you can get results for it They will appreciate you so everybody was like oh, you shouldn't have done that. You know, it's not right But behind closed doors. They're like wow dude. That was amazing You know really good because again you have to keep that bureaucracy that chain of command because most people The assumptions that they won't do well if they're not told what to do and they don't have like strict codes of Conduct so if you're that type of person who believes in his or her abilities Start acting out of your own initiative stop asking for permission and actually make it happen Because again if you did it right people will reward you for it. No, again, it's a risk But if you believe in yourself, it's a risk worth taking because you'll move forward faster than anybody else You can get into any spot place Position opportunity that you think in the world if you just have the balls and the belief and the skills to match and Take the initiative before you get the permission because 95% of people I'm gonna wait for permission even if they're trying to impress them the boss or or the the guy in charge They're gonna ask for permission like oh, can I do this to show you it's like oh, sorry Robbie's already done it You know, he shouldn't have but he did it and he's done it. Well, so who's gonna win in that situation make sense Peace let me know if you have questions


Sir Roland Wilson was an economist and academic who had a distinguished career as an Australian public servant. In 1925, Wilson became the first Rhodes Scholar from a Tasmanian state school. He completed two PhDs at Oxford University and the University of Chicago. Wilson was recognized by his academic colleagues as a talented researcher, but felt his calling was the public service. After a brief tenure lecturing at the University of Tasmania, he joined the Commonwealth Bureau of Statistics as an economist. Wilson was appointed the agency head in 1936. During World War II, Wilson created and led the Department of Labor and National Service. In this role, he was responsible for coordinating Australia's economic approach to World War II. The ministers and prime ministers he served respected his expertise as an economist and leader. It also led to international influence. Wilson represented Australia at international conferences on the economy, including a 1945 UN conference. He is credited with having the objective of full employment included in the UN Charter. Wilson was appointed the Secretary of the Treasury in 1951. At the time he was the youngest appointed to the role and is still the Department's longest serving secretary, with almost 16 years in the role. It was to Wilson that Menzies turned to solve the problem of inflation. But every time I even looked like being threatened by adverse factors and people, I could always rely on Menzies saying, please do what you're told. His time as treasurer was marked as a time of strong economic growth for Australia. He developed a reputation as a strong leader. There is no more experienced administrator available in Australia. Wilson retired from the public service in 1966, taking up roles as chairman on the boards of Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank. He was honoured for his outstanding public service with a commander of the British Empire in 1941, Knight's Bachelor in 1955 and KBE in 1965. The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation was set up in 1998 to honour his legacy by continuing to bridge the gap between academia and the public service.


Okay, very good morning to you. It is Thursday the 18th of February. It's 10 to 7 a.m. In the morning So just going into the the full European open and having a review of some of the news flow and charts this morning Overall, I would say relatively quiet in terms of overall market direction this morning So things were relatively neutral gonna update you on what was said in the FMC minutes last night There's obviously more updates on the weather system is impacting North America at the moment and the impact on energy prices Have a look at some BOE comments and then talk about the day ahead We've got things like ECB minutes jobless claims a couple of central bank speakers as well on the docket Don't forget if you're watching this on YouTube Really appreciates it if you could like and subscribe to the channel if you don't already do so videos coming pretty much every day of the week But remember that you're seeing the morning market briefings delayed And just to check out amplify live comm if you want to get those early But yeah, let's start with the charts and have a look at a couple of different ones I want to look at the euro pound and then cycle through a few of the different asset classes from a technical perspective and then I'll have a look at some of the major headlines in play this morning And one of the first things to start off with is here. This is a look at that familiar Dollar index trend line of which we were looking at yesterday of which we have now Broken out and confirmed the move through that Yesterday's session was here Quite an interesting point of where we trade now in the Dixie at 91 As you can see here from the dotted kind of horizontal line If I just make this a little bit more zoomed in to the current price action You can see here. We had these previous tests Going back to just before Christmas And then also in the new year and kind of mid-January and again Around late January and that's around where we're trading at the moment So for now the dollar index is pretty flat actually from the intraday perspective at the european open today However, it's holding on to some of those recent gains with this ongoing Kind of reflation trade that's being observed across other assets Worth noting though that yesterday Tea notes did move off their lows and yields backed off a little bit Given some that fairly aggressive move that we saw on Tuesday's us return to markets after the prison stay holiday on Monday But the dollar remains firm irrespective of some of that yield pullback And so that's still warrants watching and again having confirmed the break above the trend line yesterday Now just around this key error of 91 is going to be quite interesting any further Move above there could well just continue this trend of dollar strength And so it's probably prudent to have a review of the major currency pairs And this is that look at euro and just the level i'm watching this morning If I just kind of put my chart a little bit more Squeezed so you can see everything and it's really this area looking in the euro future around 120 55 and a half which was the overnight Asia pacific high of the range That was also the low and highs that we were seeing back on kind of the eighth and ninth of the month was also an area With some respect as well technically back at the beginning of february So quite interesting to see if that level can hold Certainly as well if the dollar strength continues And we've obviously seen this pretty definitive trend in place since the commencement of this week's trade We interested to see if we start getting down to that low we had on the eighth, which was the Low that we printed in yesterday's session, which would come in around that one 2029 level to watch today So it's a strong area of upside resistance there to watch in cable This is what i'm looking at this morning, which is A few trend lines roughly in play here We broke below what was quite a nice area that was holding yesterday as as support but now is broken So which was here, which is around 138 63 you can see Held the kind of cap market price We broke above it quite aggressively going into trade at the end of last week We came back to test that around kind of this time yesterday the overnight previous Asia pac session But broke above or broke below that yesterday afternoon And now we're trading below that level I just want to see how we've respected the trend line this morning Early doors, but if we come back down any break of that be looking down for a quite a quick run down to this kind of area here Which is around 138 3127 that would encapsulate yesterday's intraday session low with ds1 on the daily pivots Anything a little more heavier than that and as I said if you see the continuation of that overall dollar Stronger theme then you've got 138 lower The s2 just below at 91 and then probably the target would be 137 76 Which should be down at the low that we saw at the back end of last week Any further upside recovery? Um on the opposite side then 138 63 Would be looking at here as an area of resistance with that descending trend line and that previous area of some significance And you've got the pivot sat just above that as 68 Which could act as a kind of zone of resistance for the moment as far as the currency markets as I say There's no real tangible news flow that really gives me any definitive new view on some of these currency moves So at the moment, I think I prefer to just follow the trend Which is the dollar is holding on to gains. So I prefer just keeping an eye on those downside technical levels as Reference points of where the market might respond to if we continue to downward trend in those current major currency pairs Um, just a quick look elsewhere Um, as far as gold is concerned That's been a very volatile one of late and obviously under some quite heavy downside pressure as to trend given the pickup in yields and the whole View about the economic kind of story going in the months ahead This is a look on a 30 minute chart. So just zooming in on some of the recent price action Again gold quite technical and momentum based when it trades as I'm sure some of you guys are more than familiar with And so on the upside the areas I'd be keeping an eye on as Key areas to to watch on any reversal just to reclaim back some of the aggressive nature of the sell-off that we've had Which is around The best part of 50 bucks through the the beginning of this week So I don't think it would be too unsurprising to see maybe a little bit of a push back up If we are indeed to push down lower. So on the on the kind of more Under the microscope of the intraday market. I'd be keeping an eye on 17 84 and a half Which as you can see by this first rectangle That was the previous support broke market trading heavy came back up to test to the tick on a couple of prior occasions here In the last 24 hours. So I think that's quite a key area to watch Anything above that if we did break above I'd look at then 17 93 in the futures just encapsulating some of the previous highs that were holding back on monday's session On the daily chart if we do remain heavy though, there is obviously a very important long-term Level of support here that definitely needs watching and that's around that 17 62 A few people are eyeing that yesterday because things were looking quite heavy again As you can see yesterday saw the confirmation of the break that we had on the 4th of february That just kind of added to the weight in combination with the dollar strength To the downward trend we've had in gold which has dropped very rapidly from north of the 1800 dollar mark And so that's key area of course the 30th of november low print was 17 62 And that starts to then play into some of the previous price action We were seeing really towards the spring of last year and obviously these mark the initial highs that we had On some of the initial volatility on the outbreak of the pandemic before then we sort of shot up north of 2000 so On the intraday as I said Upside levels keep an eye here and then the downside kind of any retest down at 17 70 Which was the floor largely for the price activity Yesterday afternoon if that comes under pressure then at 62 is going to be obviously very key below 64 is actually the s1 today as well in the daily pivots Otherwise t-notes. I did mention t-notes We did see a bit of a bounce yesterday after on the daily chart You know, this is what we're looking at here on the daily, which is encapsulating really the pandemic So this is 2020 if I just put a marker here so you can see Since the onset of 2020 this is obviously the big surge we had with the plummet In yields after the Fed through everything in the kitchen sink in policy terms to try and support the market and Now we've broken through some very key levels There was the initial kind of area here that was very important on the initial break that we had Um on the 6th of January you remember quite clearly the trigger point here on this yield move was the georgia senate switch meaning that a full blue control of congress And that resulting in the kind of belief of the reflation trade at its initial phase on the bite and stimulus Having more hopes of being more powerful on the fiscal side To really fire up the economy and that saw a yields move We've then had a bit of reprieve thereafter and before this latest kind of Breakout that we've had which again the short term was a break from the beginning of this month And prices and yields have continued to shoot higher here. So Definitely on the on the higher time frame It's like this is the underpinning the reason why people are a bit yield focused at the moment There's a lot of people saying well If this yield environment continues with the threat of even albeit temporary inflation as some would see it But with stimulus coming In the future then it does that high yield environment playing negatively for the equity market There's an interesting article talking about that in the ft this morning that I shared off the amphi live twitter account Forget the chance to read the kind of removal of lower rates essentially which has been a key component obviously to help Elevate equities on this on this kind of record tear that we've been seeing So on the on the shorter time frame This this area here I think on the upside could be quite interesting to watch If we were to see a continuation of the general trend we had yesterday So this is going back to uh last week And you've got kind of as I know it's broken out here But a trend channel with that upside support resistance level to 136 0 2 you've got the r1 above at 0 3 I think that's a pretty strong area of resistance for price on the intraday And on any downward test I'd be looking down at the trend line and the pivot level If we're going to remain heavy once again But fairly light today in terms of the economic calendar in the states not too much coming out jobless claims is the early real feature so I'm not sure we're going to see any dramatic moves in the in the 10-year market Not unless there's something unexpected that develops And then this is just a quick look at the oil market and obviously it's been Quite the move that we've seen materialized. So here let me just squeeze it into shot We're looking at really the last two weeks worth of price action Really dramatic move that we saw at the end of last week We gapped up and then we've remained pretty well supported in price And in fact a decent acceleration last night Seeing overnight in the Asia pack session a high at 62 29 Now on the daily chart what the 62 29 really looked like well Here it is on the daily You've got to go all the way back to really some key areas that I'd be looking at here on the upside Would be around here on the much more higher time frames. This is over a two-year period 63 40 encapsulates The high we had in sep 19 and you'll remember this pop in price with the record high gap in prices That was when we had the Saudi drone strike That caused that dramatic leap in prices over that weekend and the recommencement of electronic trade So that high is not not actually that far off on the daily At 63 40 early around a dollar above the the current Intrally highs that was seen overnight in Asia and then 65 symbolically and also the high from jam 2020 pre epidemic pandemic Would be above But on the shorter time frame any now we've kind of shot up and accelerated in price quite quickly in oil 61 31 I'd be looking at these areas of kind of to watch for on any pullbacks 61 dollars flat Which is also the daily pivot and then lower down And on the s1 in this previous area around 60 24 Would be the things that i'm looking for now Let's talk about a couple of news stories one of those will encompass the api inventories as well as the weather situation in north america, but let me just kick things off with the FMC minutes and Yeah, as i've just looked at the charts you can see this come out came out seven o'clock last night No real definitive market move so nothing unexpected to give you a summary of what the minutes said Officials did not see the conditions for reducing their massive asset purchase program being met for quote some time At their January meeting And again, this was quite a focus given the fact that any conversation Alluding to the idea of even having the discussion about tapering Could have been something that could have upset Markets in a way that perhaps then accelerate the kind of any weakness that's been seen in equities on this higher yield idea about Not just fiscal policy force coming but also the Kind of softening up if you like and retightening of some of the loose monetary policy environment So that didn't materialize but i'd say that's pretty much expected on the inflation side That's the other key thing that people are looking at so really federal reserve policies defined by two things at the moment That the idea of tapering and is bomb buying When is that are we going to get to the point of talking about tapering? And then secondly, what's the View on inflation? How high might it get once the economy reopens and we start to see some quite Barely aggressive demand in the short term and how might the federal reserve respond? And what the minutes said was a jump in some prices is expected this spring With quote many participants stressed the importance of distinguishing though between such one time changes in relative prices And changes in the underlying trend for inflation. So again The fed kind of Maintaining in the minutes that kind of dovish stance I'd say largely a reiteration of what pow and his some of his colleagues have said that you know Despite some of the recent market movement we've seen across assets Which might constitute if was more long lasting some kind of tweak in fed language. We're not there as yet So overall, I would say pretty much as expected member powers to deliver his semi annual testimony next week And he's probably largely expectations are going to reiterate this more Kind of dovish or commentative stance for the time being at least Otherwise the other things we're we're looking at and and definitely a big talking point in states is You can't get away from it because you're probably feeling it if you're watching this in america Which is the temperature at the moment More than four million pounds a day of output almost 40 percent Of crude production is now offline according to various different traders and executives Traders and consultants expect a hit to u.s production that will last between two to three days And is looking unlikely that things will start to recover much before the weekend So a key point here is it's obviously had a an impact on price given the dramatic and pretty quick um Kind of result in if you like of the amount of volume of production being taken offline However, looking at forward-looking temperature forecasts We could see then things start to thaw slightly allowing some return of output The key question is how quickly can that happen? Temperatures in the midland the de facto capital of shale production in america will reach 45 fahrenheit So that's about seven degrees celcius if you're based here in london That will rise to 56 fahrenheit on saturday, which could allow then crude production to to see some first signs of restarting again 56 fahrenheit. I think we got down to like Single digits on monday So quite a dramatic pickup in more warmer temperatures coming and hence that's what's giving us this kind of reference point of Until the weekend when things start might start to normalize and the key for crude traders I guess going forward will be the movement of that timeline How quickly can they get back to some degree of normality? But you know quite a severe Shock here to the system and hence the reason why oil has briefly traded above 62 in the futures market um Couple of things to be aware of city group They've said on the situation expects a production loss of about 16 million barrels through early march But some trader estimates are now almost double that You know, I know that opec have come out and said look we did that That one million additional move when we did the opec plus deal At the beginning of the year and we're gonna we're gonna take that back and start pumping some more again But if you think about it a million here a million there from Saudi We're talking about The potential for four million barrels a day of output being impacted by this energy situation So again, it's about an order Of priority at the moment this energy situation far outweighs in the Intra day period of the coming days and probably into the beginning of next week much more so than any impending opec Conversation or situation that they might do remember opec are not really going to be changing their their current output strategy Until we start getting into april given they're pretty fixed at the moment for their January decisions for what production rates will be during January February and march Okay, the other thing we've had overnight is you did have any energy space the latest api oil and trees As I said just given him the Importance of what's happening and the large-scale impact as a as a consequence of the weather system in America Oil infantry is a really a side point, but it's just so you're aware The headline crude number was a drawdown of 5.8 million expectations for a draw of 2.15 Cushing draw three million gasoline on the flip though was a bill of 3.9 million As I said, I don't think really these are too much of consideration Given the context of what's going on at the moment. And then the final thing I wanted to mention was the bank of england And this idea of negative rates. I think has been put to bed for now at least I think that the vaccination program and the speed of which that has been deployed Has been what's helped in say the forex market reflect the relative divergence between the pound being somewhat cushion comparative to A more weakening euro narrative That's been happening of late But we've had some comments out of the deputy governor So not just a normal mpc member the deputy governor And there's two of them do tend to be aligned with the governor and the more kind of neutral kind of main stance of the bank and Rams then said the central bank could review some of its own constraints on purchasing uk government bonds In financial markets to boost qe While the bank of england doesn't rule out negative rates He said qe is a tried and tested tool and in combination of the speedy vaccination program for me I think the negative rate idea has been eliminated for now. So Could it be used? Yes, will it be used? No, it would be my view at this present point in time So I don't think that's particularly important for market price of your training sterling today But again, it's the kind of negative Rate talk in the uk has come and gone. I think it's definitely being where you push down the line And the idea being here that their more favorite tool is qe Increasing qe tweaking qe in terms of its constraints and what it can purchase Gives greater flexibility for still using that before you'd ever entertain using The next kind of available tool which being negative rates Looking at the day ahead I'm not going to mention really osi data too much Because it hasn't really impacted markets at all. The osi is not really held anything in terms of that move I'd say dollar implications for any of these currency pairs is much more important But as a reference point unemployment rate in australia 6.4 percent against expected 6.5 ECB minutes then coming out at 12 30 london time I don't really see too much in the way of real market ration to that Something to be aware of though and just keep a half an ear out or an eye on the the news feed And then weekly jobless claims Expensive to 765 000 that's pretty much just a continuation of the rough Kind of level of which claims have been tracking at So again, I don't really see in itself. It's going to set the world on fire. However Again, as we've looked at some of these charts if we start to see I don't know a particularly low jobless number for example Could it act as a catalyst just to perhaps break the dollar? Pairs out of some recent ranges and if we get an extension further confirmation following some of the Strong data of late out of the us. It just helps in a short term provide more case for a firmer dollar And that could put some of those downside pressures and those currency pairs under a bit of pressure Perhaps equally so in the equity market because it will fuel it will fan the flames of this idea Of what's really depressed equities of late, which is really great data starts to make people a little bit Apprehensive about does the us need this kind of huge stimulus and will politicians then negotiate that down to a smaller size Which is negative for equities In combination with this whole kind of world of fed star Kind of talking a little bit more less dovishly going forward, which again is also equity negative Otherwise in the afternoon you've got Philly fed coming out eurozone consumer confidence to flash reading But that rarely moves markets and then you've got the oil inventories They'll be at 4 p.m. Not 3 30 only to the u.s. Holiday on Monday And then speaker wise few things look out for Bank of England Saunders At 11 and then feds brainard bostic both voting members at 1 and 3 p.m. Respectively London time All right, that's it. Gonna leave it there Let you guys get on with the day Any questions at all? Just let me know in the discord room if you're watching this on youtube Just drop a comment. I'll be happy to get back to you. All right. Have a good day


is DDK and today you're gonna find out if you should or should not start a cargo van or box truck business. Just like that we are here at Flow and Deco. Get to this money we never ignore. How you doing boss? Good how are you? I'm big up in order.  Yes sir it's supposed to be two two boxes of 48 by 48 towel. I don't see anything number. See do the same thing happen yesterday I just took them three three of yesterday it's the same thing happened yesterday he was here. I'm back again I gotta I gotta take them. So you know about this?  It's Mohammed. Well what's the order number? You don't have an order number? Uh the last five four three nine. And the name's Mohammed. I didn't see no Mohammed. Mohammed or Lou G? Well yesterday it was Lou G and today it's Mohammed. What's that one? Lou? Yeah maybe they uh lived together or something because yesterday I said Lou G but and I went to the house it was Mohammed. Yeah Mohammed is the contractor or something. Yeah Deliver it and then I'll ask Tanner and then how to deliver it. So just help him load it out. And just like that we got everything figured out we want the money not the cloud don't forget that baby some people want the cloud I want the money I just want the money babe I just want the money I just want the money babe I just want the money I don't know about that comment below and let me know if you know about I just want the money baby and comment below and let me know who's in that song. That is game time about to go ahead and get on the grind let's shop. Under the chair it's a whole pile. Oh yeah I see it. Right there it was a whole box. Yeah well no me and Mohammed took it up yesterday together so it was fine it was actually uh shrink wrapped and everything so I don't know what happened. Oh this is not yesterday. Oh before the first one. Oh okay yesterday they were on sports you know when uh yeah. Can he actually help me take this off? Yes sir. You got it? Put it like this. Like this? Yeah it is the most better because. Oh okay I got it. Are you sure? Yeah. I can pull some of the weight. Oh I'm going the wrong way. Team work. I put mine first? Yeah okay.  Yeah you can pull first. Okay my hand is fire. Okay I have to take a picture. Yes.  Oh my gosh. You always have to go to the store five more extra times. Yes we have to come to return we have some stuff on that pile and on this one. Oh I mean not to return it's extra. Oh yeah did you return? Yeah yeah it's the leftover. Okay and we are good to go. Yeah no signature. No thank you so much. Thank you guys very much. You guys have a good one. Thank you for coming. For that order the pickup place of course was Florin Decor. We drove 15.38 miles we picked up two boxes of towel and we made 48 dollars and 95 cents. Enough money to pay the rent. We ran around on beans with no tent let's go. Just like that we are here at Home Depot. Let's see if we're in the right area we might be messing up. Nope. Do you mind if I flinch? I guess I have to go down here. Hello. How are you doing? I have an order to pick up. Am I supposed to come here? Yeah okay. Are you in a van? Yes ma'am. Oh good. They told me that the van guys are coming here now instead of going in back so that's good I have a feeling. So what's the order number? Um the last you need the whole order number or just the last four? No I would need the whole. Okay H. 1952. H. 1907. Oh sorry. I thought it was a van. Okay. Uh 286429. Okay. That's the heater? Yeah these are heaters for outdoors. Oh kind of cool I've never seen it before. Well you've gone to restaurants during COVID but I don't know why they need 20 of them what they're doing. Maybe they open up a big restaurant. We I don't know. I'll see if I get there. Yeah thank you very much. Thank you. You have a great day ma'am. Y'all see what's going on baby. We got these John. They said they weigh 86 pounds. All these joints they got a little they look it's not even.  More like I would say like 50 pounds. I feel like we're like 50 pounds. That's it that's all. We do have the dollars and the four road card we need to give. And the reason why I'm putting it over here is because that means we don't have to strap it down because it's gonna be right here in this area. How many of them are gonna get our pockets on the floor? Let's go. So we are here at the drop-off location but I have no idea exactly where to go because it's like three different apartments. Well it's like not an apartment but businesses so I figure which one to go to. I don't know if I'm supposed to go over here or go over here. I called and they didn't answer so see what's going on. Dang it's way more than three. It's all the way up to number nine. Where am I supposed to go? Well guys we're going to take the four road card and take it to the front door. Take it to the front door. Honestly I'm probably supposed to use the dolly instead of using the four car but I ain't like it. So it is what it is baby. Now we gotta step back out of the photo. We're nervous. We're gone. So the second order we just completed was actually supposed to be five items weighing 86 pounds apiece. So it was supposed to be 430 pounds driving seven miles for 47 38 went out there to be great and got that K. The customer wasn't there so we had to do what we had to do. We had to drop that joint off and keep on moving and grooving. We are getting this money and y'all know it's soon then let's go. And just like that we are here at the pickup location baby. We've been here a couple times. We've been out here in the grind. We don't seem to see a shine. You don't see where I put that pallet baby. They got big pallets right here so they probably use a lot of them so yes sir I gotta go to Woodridge. I got about to get us together. I think we came we came here a few times to do the same exact load or to get our pockets on the floor. It's three pallets so we're gonna move this stuff out the way for right now. Then we're gonna after you strap it up and stop just like that. If I got about to pull up so we can go ahead and get these dividend ends and win. You know what I'm talking about? Then we're gonna spin. I hope we get another order again. You know what I'm talking about? And just like that y'all already know what time it is. It's time for us to get these dividend ends and win. Let's go. And just like that we are here at the drop ball.  How you doing boss? You work here? No? Oh okay. I have a drop off for you from Elgrov Village. Okay appreciate it boss. All right I'm about to get us together so we can run up this shutter. Get this money. We can do better. We can do better getting this money baby. But here's what it is. We ain't complaining. We're maintaining. We're going to keep on doing our thing and gripping grain if we're complaining. Style it too. I know what it's time to do. How many y'all got? Y'all want to put a load out? I don't get carried away. And last but not least that final order we just completed. We drove 10 deadhead miles, 23 miles on it. So 33 miles altogether and we did receive a payment of 125. Now the question is should you or should you not start a cargo van or box truck business in 2023? Honestly I have no clue. It depends on two very important things. One is more important than the other one. But number one it depends on your market and number two which is the most important of them all. It depends on you. It all depends on you. The market is going to do what the market going to do but what are you going to do? So that's why it depends all on you. Now I know you want to start this business. I have some questions for you. Get a pen and a pad out and ask these questions to yourself. Number one, do you have the money to start the business? Do you have the money? Also, if you're not going to pay cash for the cargo van or box truck, do you have the credit or the business credit to start the business? It's another question. Now okay so you got those things. Do you have reserves? You're going to need some reserves just in case something happened. You never know what might happen. The market might change. The cargo van or box truck might mess up. You might have to take it to the shop. You're going to need some reserves. So if everything comes to a halt right now like a complete halt, do you have like six months of reserves to get everything situated? It's nothing you got to think about. So you got all of those things knocked out. Now the question is what are you going to do with the cargo van? What are you going to do? Are you going to do expediting? Are you going to try to get gaps out? Are you going to get a carrier? Are you going to get your DOT and MC? I mean what are you really going to do with the van? Okay so you say you want to be an expediter right? Because you see all these youtubers they running around making all this money doing expediting. And yes they do. So I'm going to make some great money. The question is are you able to drive nine to twelve thousand miles per month on your van or box truck? Are you willing to do that? Are you able to do that? Okay so you can do that. If you're getting one thing, one very important thing, can you drive in snow?  I know that you may live in Texas or Florida or wherever you may live in but you're going to have to come to Illinois and New York and all the places in the Midwest where snow. You're going to eventually have to come through there. Can you drive in that snow? It's different and everybody see if they can do but can you really do it? Okay so you may not want to do expediting. You may want to go ahead and do the gig gaps. Okay you got the gig gaps. Now do you have all of the gig gaps available in your area? Have you watched all the videos and found out all about all these gig gaps? Have you done any research about different gig gaps that may be in your area and not in my area or other people's area? Gotta make sure you do that. What are you going to do when the gig gaps get slow? They're pretty slow right now so what are you going to do then? I don't know. I know. I know. I know. These are just some questions. I'm just asking some questions. It's up to you what your answer is going to be. So now you're saying okay you want to get a carrier company. What are you going to do when a carrier company loads it slow? It's pretty slow in my area right now. What are you going to do then? This is where the six months of reserve is going to kick in for you because you need to have money set aside just in case something happened or what are you going to do if the carrier company shuts down because some of these carrier companies they scam and all that stuff so which they mean to the next thing? Or you wouldn't do non-stop research? Or you wouldn't do research because things are going to happen. The gig gaps may get slow, the expedited may get slow, the carrier company may get slow. Or you wouldn't put in non-stop research meaning at least once or twice a week I'm on the computer researching different things. I'm on Indeed, I'm on Query Exist, I'm on all the different places to find out other ways to generate money with the cargo van. Well we have a cargo van. So are you willing to do extensive research on this type of stuff? These are questions you need to ask yourself before you get into it because once you put that money down and you saw that down the line you're done it's yours. They don't care if you pay it or don't pay it. Now we talked about expediting, we talked about the gig apps, we also talked about a carrier company. Are you going to start your own company? If you start your own company what are you going to do? Like what is going to be your thing? Are you going to do a mobile car wash or start your food truck? What are you going to do?  I know you want to get the van because it look good when I'm doing the videos. It look good when others be doing the videos but it's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that people don't talk about and you don't think about because you're not actually in it.  That seems like it's the most secure doesn't it? I know it seems like it's the most secure out of all the things of this name right? But what happens if the van or the box truck break down? What happens then? Then you can't come to go pick up the load. What you going to do after that? You can't come pick up the dedicated lane, you're supposed to be there every single day at this time at 5.30 in the morning. What are you going to do if the van or box truck break down? You're going to rent your box truck or van. You might break even or you might even lose money.    Hey, drivers come a dime a dozen. They're coming through them Georgia. They're reaching out every day. They have a whole list of them waiting to get in there. They might have some people in there already who are going to say, you know what, our ticket is right. You might have a better route than them. They might have moved or something. They want to get this route and you got that route. They might want to say, no, let me get that route. He ain't even coming. She ain't even coming. They ain't even coming. So might as well just let me get it. I already been here for three years. Think about that too. Now, those are a lot of different questions but this is the most important. Well, these are the most important. Can you face adversity? Do you have ambition? Do you have drive? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done? Whether it be gig as S. And what if all of that fails? What if everything just fell? Everything just dropped down to the floor. Everything is just everything is just done. What are you going to do then? Are you going to make adjustments? Are you going to figure out the next thing you got to do? That all comes with that research that you're supposed to be doing? I don't know, baby. These are just some questions you want to ask yourself before you get in this business or any business. I mean, this is in general because sometimes stuff may get ugly. What are you going to do? Say you want to run this company. You got all these different things. What are you going to do if somebody don't show up? What are you going to do if somebody tired of us? What is all these are a lot of different questions you should ask yourself before you get into any business, not just the cargo van or box truck business, but any business. And I just want to ask you guys those questions because I know that a lot of people want to get a van or a box truck or whatever they want to get, but you got to make sure you're doing your research and doing your own due diligence on this stuff because just because you see me do it or whoever else may got this van or truck or whatever their case may be, it may be different on your end. You never know anybody's situation. You never know. Somebody might got a whole bunch of money stashed away, so the money really don't matter to them. None of that stuff really matters to them. Somebody might is everybody has different situation. Also a very important thing I forgot to ask you. This is very important.  Because when you start a business you're going to spend less time with your family. I'm just telling you right now. Those are all the things you need to think about if you plan on getting to this business or starting a business. I just want that you guys know that. Come up below and let me know did we go out there in Skull and get a pop like Chris Crowe. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you're not subscribed, make sure you smash that subscribe button. Also give me a thumbs up and make sure you lock in tomorrow because going back down and throw them C's up in the comment section. Throw them C's up in the comment section. I ain't forget about y'all baby. Y'all know I had to say it before we left, but I will see you guys on the next one. Be going, be going, be flowing. You already know the DDK and I'm on my way.


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Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. It's time for another GI Joe comic book review I've been trying to do one of these reviews each month and I have kept up with it for the last couple months So yay me. We are up to issue number 31 and this is a pretty special issue At least I think it is briefly recapping the events of issue number 30 the dread knocks noticed to GI Joe at Maguire Air Force Base and reported that to Cobra commander who assumed that was GI Joe's secret headquarters Of course, that is not GI Joe's secret headquarters, but that is where they keep their aircraft We got some mayhem and destruction from the dread knocks just before Cobra showed up to attack the Air Force Base GI Joe arrived just in time to fend them off now we get to issue number 31 and on the cover We see Destro standing over snake eyes who appears to be wounded and defeated It's a good dynamic cover and it reasonably depicts the events in the issue on the splash page We see the GI Joe vehicles that participated in the defense of the Air Force Base Rolling through a neighborhood and back into Fort Wadsworth, which is where their secret headquarters is located I don't know if the real Fort Wadsworth has a neighborhood located that close to it But for the purposes of the story, it's convenient that it's there We have a title all fall down We have a creative team of Larry Hama script Rod Wiggum pencils and Andy Muschinsky inks This is Rod Wiggum's first issue drawing GI Joe and he is one of my favorite artists in this series And you'll see why as we go along near the gate for Fort Wadsworth is a Cobra crimson guardsman from the Fred series His family purchased a home in that neighborhood Specifically for the purpose of surveilling that army base Fred gets a phone call from Cobra commander just moments before the GI Joe Vehicles roll right past his house. So he misses that important event Cobra commander informs Fred that he will soon have some guests And he has to do whatever they tell him to do back at McWire Air Force Base a C-130 is taking off in the plane We have snake eyes hawk ace and wild bill the plan is to fly over the high Sierras So snake eyes can parachute out over his cabin in the mountains and take a little vacation He's earned it the high Sierras mountain range is in California. They're taking off from New Jersey That's gonna be a long flight. That's not just a little detour Nobody in this C-130 notices a secret transmitter inside the plane back in New Jersey at the old gas station Where Zartan and the dread knocks have headquartered Zartan is having a phone conversation with Cobra commander Zartan is not going to argue about who's to blame over that debacle at McWire field Well, Zartan is definitely not to blame. He wasn't there if it's anyone's fault It's the dread knocks later over the high Sierras that would be much later over the high Sierras Snake eyes parachutes out of the plane after snake eyes is gone Airborne and spirits step out of a cargo container. They've been hiding in the plane the whole time. They're drawn just so well They look exactly like they should look there's no lazy artwork here back on Staten Island Fred is greeted by his two guests Which are Firefly and Destro the last we saw Destro and Firefly They had just arrived in New York after escaping the Florida swamps They had promised vengeance against Cobra commander, but apparently they've been diverted to Staten Island to meet up with Fred That's where they get noticed as Zartan's homing device was tracked to a plane circling over the high Sierras Back at the C-130 spirit notices the homing device and crushes it and doesn't tell anyone and just jumps out of the plane He found a tracking device on a plane that has his team commander on it That's something somebody probably should know about back at snake eyes is cabin snake eyes is playing fetch with his pet wolf Which we know as timber although he is not named here. We see a bit of snake eyes his face here We have to assume he is wearing one of his masks It's already been established that snake eyes his face is disfigured though I don't know why he would wear a mask in this situation where he is supposedly alone But he is not alone. He notices spirit and airborne observing him even though they are 10 miles away in the forest Why did Hawks send these two guys to observe snake eyes while he's on vacation? Was it to protect him? I don't know. There's this gorgeous panel with spirit and airborne in their figure accurate Uniforms and it looks so good. It's so refreshing and the backgrounds are drawn really well in this issue, too The environments in this comic book are so lush in the meantime Fred Destro and Firefly arrive in the mountains and inquire about where they might find snake eyes It's implied they drove here from New Jersey So this would have to be like days later Fred asks a gasoline attendant where he might find an old army buddy And this is a bit of irony although this Fred does not know snake eyes The next Fred actually was an army buddy of snake eyes I have to comment again about the lush environments. We're getting in this issue There are a couple panels on this page where there are no backgrounds But on those panels if the backgrounds were drawn in it would distract from what's happening in the panels That is the correct artistic choice. Rod Wiggum is really hitting this out of the park Meanwhile in Springfield, which is the location of Cobra's secret base Major blood is driving a taxi cab in the rain and the backseat is the Baroness and Billy Billy is the young anti-cobra Resistance fighter we saw in earlier issues the Baroness and major blood have a plan Billy is going to infiltrate a Cobra youth parade so he can get close enough to Cobra commander to assassinate him Yes, Billy wants to defeat Cobra But the Baroness and major blood are recruiting him to do their dirty work and they're trying to turn a child into an assassin These are not good people back in the high Sierra's Fred's car has made it up the mountain to the cabin and they get Immediate confirmation that it is snake eyes his cabin because snake eyes appears in the front door in full uniform Destro immediately starts popping caps spirit and airborne hear the shots and start making their way toward the cabin a firefight ensues with snake eyes blasting away with his oozy Destro fires a wrist rocket and blows up the cabins front door snake eyes hits the cars gas tank and it Explodes with a big but a doom gas tanks don't explode like that when they're shocked But it's a comic book from the flames firefly Destro and Fred mount an assault on the cabin as snake eyes Reloads and returns fire. This looks so good Firefly chucks a grenade through the open door snake eyes picks it up and tries to throw it out But it hits the window frame and bounces back in a few of snake eyes's bullets bounce off of Destro's mask We've already established that his metal mask is bulletproof in desperation Snake eyes throws a table over the grenade just before it explodes It doesn't provide much protection for snake eyes spirit and airborne finally arrive at the cabin and join in the fight This looks so good Destro is standing in the doorway of the cabin We find snake eyes stunned and leaning against the wall This looks so good just before Destro is going to squeeze the trigger and kill snake eyes The wolf comes through the door and attacks him firefly is on the roof and he decides to use a satchel charge Well, it is a charge in a satchel that he takes out of the satchel Is it still a satchel charge at that point airborne sees what's happening and decides to rush the place But he gets shot in the leg by Fred He does manage to shoot firefly spirit takes the opportunity to line up Fred in his sights And there's no background in this panel again the background would have distracted from the focus on the figure in the panel This is the correct choice by the artist This looks so good firefly drops the explosives down the chimney Destro sees it drop through the chimney and Smacks the dog and runs out the front door only to encounter spirits on the last page There's a really big explosion Ba da da da boom as a couple extra does in there the cabin is left in a flaming heap Does snake eyes die? Does the wolf die? There is a wolf in this last panel and you may assume this is the same wolf it escaped from the explosion But there's another wolf visible and I think it's implied that these are different wolves This is a wolf pack that just happened to be in the area. This is a great issue. I love it This is definitely one of my favorite issues that we've looked at so far the artwork is so excellent Rod Wiggum is able to nail the vehicles the uniforms and he places the characters in environments that feel very real The writing is good. We get a lot of action. It's so fun and we're introduced to a new character spirit It's an interesting choice that they paired the teams two native American characters together in this story It works though. There are a few questions raised We see almost all of snake eyes his face and he must be wearing a mask We see no disfigurement, but why would he be wearing a mask in this setting when he's all by himself? Also, the GI Joe C 130 and Fred Broca's car must have warp speed We get a little bit of movement in the overall plot with major blood and the Baroness's assassination plan Even though a big chunk of this issue is action this battle will have implications on future events So I would still count this as moving the plot forward and that action is so great This is what I want to see in a GI Joe comic book One thing I like about the action is snake eyes is defeated here He is a ninja and a commando, but he is not invulnerable at some points in the comic book series snake eyes is treated as Almost invincible. He can use some magical ninja technique to defeat any enemy or escape any situation Here he is outnumbered and outgunned and he can't ninja his way out of that Of course snake eyes will survive there will be some way he survived that explosion But here we see snake eyes as human the battles he fights have consequences. Do I recommend this issue? Yes, I am really excited about seeing more of Rod Wiggum's artwork. That was my review of GI Joe issue number 31 I hope you enjoyed it If you did please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to the YouTube channel for more GI Joe comic book and toy reviews I'm working on starting a new series of reviews of the GI Joe animated series But I'm still working out the format for that So I'm not sure exactly when that'll start, but I am working on it You can find me on social media on Facebook and Twitter and I have a website HCC788.com I can only continue doing these videos with the support of my friends on Patreon if you'd like to support the channel That's a great way to do it and you can get your name in videos I will see you soon for more GI Joe action until then remember only GI Joe is GI Joe


Folks, welcome to the week ahead commentary podcast. This is Bob Desmond recording from our Contrarian Trading Studios in New York. What we're gonna talk about this week are our views of how we close out the week on the major averages. Then we're gonna segue over to into our positions, how we stand with those trades, will we add, will we sell? Then we'll focus in on our focus stocks, those stocks that we find most attractive going into the new trading week. And if you want the full video experience of the week ahead commentary, become a member, 14 day free trial offer. Join us in our new members slack community. And I look forward to engaging with you there. Let's get started. Okay, folks, welcome to the week ahead commentary. Let's begin as we normally do with the bond market. Then we will kick it over to equities. And then we'll talk about positions and watch stocks for the new coming week. As we proceed into the weekend, we have no stimulus deal. The powers that be in Washington, DC on both sides of the aisle, this is not a partisan comment, are unable after all the trillions of dollars of bailouts for industry are unable. Whether you agree or disagree with providing a check to folks that are devastated, absolutely devastated by COVID, they're unable to come up with 600 bucks per individual. So with each passing day, it just becomes more and more apparent that the two tier society, the haves and the have nots, forget the middle class of being wiped out, the haves and the have nots are being balkanized and it's a very scary prospect. So as you proceed into the new year with no deal on the table, we need to remember why the stock market has been going up. It's on the hope of a deal. It's the hope of more bond buying out of the Federal Reserve, but there's a problem. That bond buying is supposed to result in yields declining or at least holding firm. They're not, they're moving up. Take a look at this chart of the TLT, 20 year bond ETF. We broke out last week, excuse me, the week prior only to fail to hold that breakout last week. So when you get this a breakout point failure more often than not, this is now the second time that this has happened. It happened back here. We broke out the week of the 16th, failed to hold, retraced all the way back down to the lower band of support. It held. Same thing happening here again. Normally what'll happen is we'll retrace back down to the lower band of support. What does that mean moving into next week? Yields, this is the 10 year yield, will probably move up higher. We will probably see a one handle on the 10 year yield by the new year. Now you may be saying to yourself, that's no big deal really, I mean it's a one handle. Well, keep in mind folks that we went from over the past less than four years, 20 trillion in debt to 30 trillion in debt. That means that as the 10 year yield rises, the interest payments alone, forget about principle, interest payments alone, rise dramatically on that massive mountain of debt and we can't afford it. So at what point does the stock market buckle? Is it 3.24% when the market started buckling or later on in 2019 when we hit a two handle and the stock market began to buckle? When is it? What's that point? Is it one and a half? Is it one spot nine? That target is a declining target. The point at which the equity market is able to withstand higher yields is dropping significantly. We don't know where that price is but the equity market may be sending us signals right here right now giving yesterday's price action. And we could say it was triple witching. That was the cause for yesterday's volatility maybe. Or our traders looking at this chart, the one that we're looking at right here right now, nobody else is talking about and seeing that the 10 year yield is getting ready to rip up higher. Take a look at the RSI, higher lows, stokes breaking out. This is my number one concern about being long of equities moving into the new year by far. The tips.  These are treasury inflation protected securities, commodities. We're gonna be talking more about the DBC. This is the overall commodity basket. And you could see that we are just ripping up higher here. Last week up three spot one six percent. As commodity prices rise, what happens to the input cost of producers? They go up as well. Does that cost get transferred over to the consumer to pay as measured by the CPI? It should. So inflation is on the rise and the tips are telling us the same thing. We're at all-time highs. The US dollar weekly chart. We failed to close above 90. We came close, no cigar. This is significant. In all probability, we are going lower here, daily chart. They attempted to rally it yesterday. Well, they did rally it, but they couldn't rally it above the 90 mark. Now, taking a look at these stokes, we may get a continuation move higher here. Ultimately, I think it fails and the dollar moves lower. The VIX, bearish reversal bar on the week. So no great shock to hear me say that in all probability, we're going to see a move higher in equities, at least the S&P 500 this coming week. Bearish reversal bar on Friday. We were up, failed to hold gains, closed down, but we did hold support. So be careful with getting net short this market in advance of the new year. The Dow transports down over 3.25% on the week, but we closed off the lows of the week. Volume, light. Everything's extended here. Stochastics extended, lower highs. MACD, the histogram is just really falling off of a cliff. The Dow Jones weekly chart. We did put it in a new all-time high last week. We held the 30,000 mark. Volume rose. Ultimate oscillator trending higher. MACD histogram flattening out. Losing momentum, but given seasonality, the path of least resistance remains higher for this index, daily chart. A down day yesterday. You really can't use the indicators all that much here because all we're doing is consolidating and these momentum indicators get skewed. Look at the volume yesterday. This is the biggest down volume bar since March. Huge. The S&P 500 weekly chart, new all-time highs on the week. The breakout on RSI has been confirmed by pulling back, validating, retesting the breakout point, now moving up higher. It looks as though they're gonna move it up higher next week, volume good, daily chart. Down day yesterday by about a third of a percentage point on massive volume. Highest volume to the downside since June. IWM weekly chart, very extended weekly timeframe. We saw some selling pressure yesterday. Some heavy selling into the close yesterday. Volume was good on the week, but we're gonna drill down here to a daily chart. Barrage, key reversal yesterday. After putting in a new all-time high. Big volume, highest down volume bar since September. And just to show you the selling pressure into the close, we use a 15 minute chart. And not much of a bounce back versus what you saw on the large caps. So we'll probably rally on Monday. May put in a lower high, watch for a break to a new lower low and we may add to shorts. Look at this volume. Tremendous volume in the final 15 minutes of trade. And talk about a tug of war on volume which is a doji star formation, a sign of indecision. I think they'll rally it early on Monday. But the question is, do we break out or do we put in a lower high and then roll over? The test is always at the top. The banks, weekly timeframe, they've stalled here. Now, the Federal Reserve has granted the banks or certain banks anyway, authorization to begin buying back shares, have no doubt that's what they'll be doing. I'll dig up the name of those banks or the names of those banks. Take a look at the MACD histogram really dropping off of a cliff now. Not much by way of big price action on the week in terms of the share buyback. Maybe it's because it came late in the week. Let's see what the price action was on Friday. Breakout point failure. We broke out on Thursday. We broke down on Friday. Look at this, look at these stokes. Talk about a tell. They get the authorization to buy back their own shares yet they're weakening. The trip cues, weekly chart, new all-time highs on the week. That choppy action I referenced a couple of weeks ago has been resolved. We've put in higher highs now. Clean breakout on ultimate oscillator. RSI, same deal, stokes, same deal. We'll probably move up higher here. Daily chart, down day yesterday, along with everything else. Lower high RSI, but we're still trending up and putting in higher lows. We're not ready to go adding to shorts quite yet. Volume rose, this is a second distribution bar in December. The technology sector, new all-time highs. This is the XLK. Indicators still look strong here, folks. Path of least resistance remains to the upside. The fly in the ointment is volume. Volume was horrible last week, but given the abbreviated week, given the holidays and the fact that you have all of these Wall Streeters, they are over in stade. They are over in Aspen. They are skiing. They don't want to be bothered with the market sell-off. The computers are in charge. They will keep these markets moving up higher. Daily chart, down day yesterday, how is volume? Rows to above average. The semis, weekly timeframe. Very extended. We had a reversal bar the prior week, inside bar this week. I have to say, I think that they'll probably push it up higher, push them up higher again. Volume is very light. Look at the MACD histogram. Really losing momentum. I am not getting the warm and fuzzies about Q1, at least the first month and second month of 2021. Daily chart semis. We have a lower high here. It's not a double top. Until such time as we break down below, 210 spot, 401, lower highs across the board on our indicators, RSI, stokes, a mess on stoke RSI, volume rose to the downside, daily timeframe, semis are under pressure here. But again, the computers are in charge. Very light volume. They can keep these markets moving up higher. LEBU broke out.  Volume atrocious. Very extended relative to the 3D Bollinger Band. We're gonna get a poll back here soon. Daily chart. The LABD may be an interesting trade. That's the short ETF of the LABU versus the LABU, I should say. Not quite yet though. We're holding support, consolidating sideways, of volume dropping off. MACD histogram losing momentum. Let's check out the LABD dropping like a stone. Massive volume. Daily chart. Our last lower low was on the 14th of December. So might we be basing here? Sure. I'm not ready to pull the trigger on this yet. Energy. So I think we need to get prepared for some additional tax laws selling here on energy. A very poor week last week down a 4% volume rose. But with this comes opportunity. I would like to buy back our ExxonMobil, especially for the dividend capture. I'll have to check and see where the ex-dividend date is or when the ex-dividend date is and I'll share that with you. I'll put it in the forum. Let's go to a daily chart. Yeah, it looks as though we're probably gonna put in lower lows here. No guarantees, of course, but we are seeing lower highs on stokes. Now lower lows, $38 per share on the XLE to 36. Those are interesting price points to me. Volume on Friday rose. Oil, weekly timeframe, huge week last week. Up over four and three quarters percent. Yet energy pulled back. So I think that speaks to tax laws selling. Volume is dropping off consecutively here. So if we see a weakening up of oil, which the chart doesn't imply to be honest with you, if we see a weakening up of oil, excuse me, we may see a pullback even further on energy. Usually they trade in tandem. Gold, a breakout last week. We hit 1900 last week. We couldn't hold it.  Volume was a bit meh, was below average. Not wonderful. Daily chart. Daily chart, we saw an inside day yesterday. No new high, no new low. I think the path of least resistance has changed with gold from being down to a sideways consolidation to now being a resumption of the bull rally, especially as we proceed into a seasonally favorable period of time. We've been talking about seasonality for months now with regards to gold, the miners. We have been very deliberate with adding to positions. We added right on weakness. Now they're beginning to come back to life as they should as we proceed into a seasonally favorable period of time, which is January. So get ready, buckle up. I think we're moving a lot higher here. For those that are listening on the podcast, this is where we segue over and into our discussion of our positions and we'll do a deep dive into our watch stocks for the new trading week, where we discuss price targets, stop loss points, and entry points. So if you're not currently a member, please head over to the website, use that link below. Or if you're listening on iTunes or Google Play, go to thecontrariantrader.com and sign up for one of our memberships, 14 day free trial offer canceled at any time and get the full video experience of the entire the week ahead commentary, as well as the discussion regarding our positions and our watch stocks for the new trading week. And please join us in our new Slack forum. Introduce yourself and let's have a discussion.


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