Welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing year-to-date. So far, we're halfway through February. Hard to believe that in two weeks it's March, but it's true. For 2022, for the Stock Swoosh Show Live Trading Room, the results, these are all trades I called live in the room. If you want to join the room, you can join. There is an annual membership. If you want to do the class and learn the strategy, that is something separate. So this is advanced trader risk results of around $2,700 per trade risk. I do call out the entry and the stop in the room. Risk results was an 81% win ratio, which is really good. So you figure, okay, you choose your risk of every 10 trades. Eight are going to be winners and two will be losers on average. And again, this is so far halfway through February. Results were $127,281. So let's go over what we did. If you have questions, you can email me at MelissaTheStocksWoosh.com. You can also call me at 929-3200-GAAP. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So right now we're still in earnings season. Big earnings coming up this week at the end of the week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and it is a very busy time to trade. We've had some very large trades. That's part of the reason why we've had such a big numbers this year. A large-meaning big risk-to-reward, strong win ratio, and then also a large risk-to-reward where we had a lot of momentum in some of these trades. Now everything I do is based on gaps. For those of you that don't know that, a gap is a difference to the close and the open, and gaps happen every day in the market. I use my system where I rank the gap in the pre-market to determine what we're doing every day. So I don't know until I get up in the morning what I'm going to do. But if this is something that you think you want to learn, you can take my class.  And don't wait until June or July when half the year is over. Time keeps going on. It's really flying. I am surprised that actually it is almost March. I mean, I'm shocked to be honest with you. I'm happy that there was less than two months of winter left because it's super duper cold here in New York. But that being said, it is still winter. It is still learning season, and you have plenty of time to join and trade. So, so far we've had 27 winners, seven losers, three break even with a win ratio of 81%. And again, I called all these trades live in the room. Close January 3rd, but lucker we did on the 4th break even, no trades in the 5th. Very important. That's one of the reasons also I think I've done so well this year and been very strict. Netflix was a nice winner. Spy, huge winner in the 7th, QQQs in the 10th, no trades in the 11th. Apple was break even on the 12th. Again, you must be strict. Strict means what? You do not trade if there's no good gaps. All right? Netflix was a big winner. Facebook, big winner. JPM, nice winner in the 14th. Close to the 17th, Martin Luther King. Goldman was a winner. Spy was a winner on the 18th. No trades in the 19th. 20th, we did AA, which was a baby one and UAL. Netflix was a winner and Spy was a winner on the 24th. Then we did Apple. That was on the 25th. Microsoft, two shots, one lost, one winner. That was a retake of review that in the class. McDonald's did not work on the 27th. Boeing was a nice winner on the 27th though and then we did it again on the 28th. We also did Apple on the 31st a second time around.  PayPal, big winner on the 2nd and Facebook on the 3rd. That was a really nice one. Ford was a huge winner on the 4th. Icecap, nice entry, beautiful entry. Again, I call the entry and the stop in the room and the targets. Babba was a winner on the 7th. Q's lost on the 8th. Facebook was a big winner. That was on February 8th. Then the 9th was a tough day. Did Apple twice? Netflix twice too? I mean that was just a tough day. The more trades I did, you can tell I'm usually having a rough day. One or two things is usually the best case scenario for me where I'm in and I'm out. Quick and done. Ended up having a really good day then on the 10th. PayPal needed two trades and the Q's was a huge winner. That was a crazy day for the market. Very volatile but some big momentum then coming in. We had the direction right. It was a short. UAA was a nice winner on the 11th and no trades today in the 14th. Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Now let's go over here what I said. What is a gap? A gap is the difference between the close and the open. Four closed here. Open here. I raided it. It raided to be a short. So we could have gone long it. We did it and if we had we would have lost. Instead we shorted it and we won. So in the pre-market I determined that this is a short or maybe I'm not doing it at all or that it's a long and I won't do it. But anyways either way this is what you learn in the classroom. The raiding system. That's a meat and potatoes of what I do. So the advanced risk for these results would have to be $2,700 per drain and again I'm calling them out live in the room. If you would like a trial you can email me as well. Now what if you wanted to take a beginner risk? Fine. No one's stopping you. You do not have to take a large risk. You can take 100 shares. You can take 200 shares. You can open up an account or a retail account or a prop account. If you don't know what those are call a broker or ask me. We can delve into that further. The best thing to do is probably even call me. If you want to do options that is something separate. These are trades in the live room which are not options. They are trades on margin. They are equity trades. So if you have a small account say of $2,000 the best thing probably is free to sign up for the options newsletter and do options trades because that is more feasible with a small account. Again you can call a broker and get all the skinny on that but you can open up an options account as a cash account. You don't need a margin account. The trades we reviewed here and I'm calling the rumor on margin. However you can make it work. You've got to make it work for yourself. If it is part time, if it is full time, if it is easy into a two days a week. I have some doctors that trade with me on one dentist that don't earn in the room five days a week. They're there when they can be there with their schedule and they make money the days they're there. That's what they can do. They're looking to transition and retire. So make it work for you. But everything I teach in the Golden Gat course is what I do. I do not hold back if you want to learn the system and I teach this class usually once a month but it's been a busy start to the year. I have not done long class so far this year. This will be the first class of 2022 and it's already getting booked up. Now again if you want to do options separate. This is a separate subscription. I offer 12 months for $69.99 and six months for $49.99. You can email me and sign up immediately and start getting the trades. No prerequisites for this. No trials as well. Please don't ask. I don't give trials for the newsletter. You can email me if you want to sign up for this for the forums. The trading room I do offer trials. If you want to trial for that email me. But that's day trades. Remember not options. And if you want to sign up for the class you must email me for these forums too. Don't wait to the last minute because it's filling up. Because I haven't done a class for like almost three months now. February 26th and 27th it's 9 to 5. Class tuition is $69.99 a year. Class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. I have top beginners. I have top people that have done this forever. You're going to learn what I know which no one knows but me. So that's the benefit of doing this even if you traded gaps before you don't know my system. You don't know my strategy. Again with an 81% win ratio sometimes it's higher. We've really been kicking it this year just on point. And again I'm doing the combo which is the trends class which will be on March 1st. If you sign up for that in the golden gap the same time you save $500 both together is $74.99. So you will come. You will learn from me if you want to. Get in the room if you want to. Get the trade. Start doing it. Fabulous start to this year. Somebody said to me today well it's been a tricky year. I said no I think it's been an easy year. It's been a great year. It hasn't been tricky at all to me. The market has been very clear to me this year and everything we've been doing. So I have to stay focused. You have to stay focused. How are you going to accomplish your goals? How are you going to get where you want to be? Don't wait too long. The sooner you start to get going the sooner you're going to achieve your goals. There's no time like the present. Stop making excuses. Again almost two months into the calendar year you've got to get going on things that you want to accomplish and do and part of that means making sacrifices whether it's a financial sacrifice whether it's a time sacrifice spending a weekend in a class instead of doing something fun on a Saturday and Sunday. That's what it has to be. That's what it has to be. You've got to make things work for yourself so you can get somewhere with this trading thing otherwise what's the point of doing it? If you'd like more information email me at Melissa at the stockswish.com and have a great day everyone.


Do European countries and Western Alliance have got the will to deliver combat aircraft and modern fighter jets to Ukraine? It's very interesting question. It's very interesting enough for Western Allies and for Ukrainian government and Ukrainian armed forces. As you know, the sky in Ukraine is more controlled by Ukrainian planes, is neither controlled by Ukrainian planes nor Russian. And as you know, the war is going on in Ukraine. And right now, Ukrainian government, as the Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov has said, his country needed combat aircrafts and modern fighter jets. Modern fighter jets are very important for Ukrainian armed forces in order to achieve occupied lands, in order to liberate Eastern Ukraine and Crimean Peninsula. This is very important. As you know, German has agreed to deliver, to send Leopard 2 tanks and an American government. And American President Joe Biden has said that America will do its best for Ukraine to get victory against Russia. And that's why America will send Abraham tanks and Great Britain also challenges. And Abraham tanks, Challengers and Leopard tanks, they are qualified weapons. And this weaponry is very important for Ukrainian armed forces. And I think that the first of all Ukrainian pilots have to train without training. It's very difficult for Ukrainian armed forces, Ukrainian pilots, because Ukraine, until this time, Ukrainian side has used the Russian-Soviet MiG-29 fighter jets. But as you know, right now in the world, there are modern, the force generation fighting jets. The force generation fighting jets, the supersonic fighter jets are F-16 jets that American made. And this plane was manufactured in the United States of America. And all NATO members, NATO allies have got these weapons. Right now, the Western allies, Western countries supply Ukraine with offensive weapons. But Ukraine needs right now offensive weapons such as long-range missiles and also force generation fighter jets. For example, American F-60s or French Rafale and Mirage. But Mirage fighter jets, they are all and but Rafale is modern. But I mean that in a near future, Western allies, Western countries will supply Ukraine with these offensive weapons. Also F-60s or Rafale, Germany has rejected, Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected to deliver fighting jets. But French government and Macron government hasn't rejected. They will help to Ukraine, also United States of America. But the aim on this issue of United States of America is very interesting. Because United States of America thinks it very carefully and United States of America wants consultation with its Western allies and will be very attentively. Because Russian side has got also two fighting fighter jets and MiG fighter jets. And it's already a year, the war is going in the Ukraine. But I think that it's very urgent for Ukraine to get in order to achieve the goal and to liberate occupied lands in Eastern Ukraine and Crimean Peninsula. Because of this aim, Ukrainian government, Ukrainian armed forces need urgently fighter jets. I think that Western allies, led by United States of America and Germany and French and Great Britain, they will come to an agreement. And I hope that in a near future they will send offensive weapons, long range missiles and also F-60s supersonic fighter jets to Ukraine in order to liberate Ukraine's occupied lands and to have the great victory over Russia. Because without these weapons, without these arms, it's very difficult to get a victory over Russia. But I think that it will be realized. And Ukraine's request, Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Ukrainian President, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, Kuleba and President Zelensky, they have called on Western allies to give these weapons to deliver the offensive. These weapons are not only defensive missiles, but also offensive missiles against Russian aggression.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trading Hour with your host, David White. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, David White. And welcome all to another excellent edition of the Power Trading Hour with me, your humble, lovable and squeezibly soft toast as I try to get my levels right. That sounds a little bit better. It's bad when you can't even hear yourself. What we have is a S&P that's down 25, although it was down about 40, 45 earlier, I think 50 or 55 overnight in the futures. I don't spend a lot of time on the futures because, of course, it's too easy to push those around and not get a good reading. We're still off 200 points on the Dow. Nasdaq is off 81. Russell's down about six. We look at crude oil. It's up about 63, which is not much. Again, even though Iran rattles sabers, they've put pipelines around the Isthmus of Hormuz about 2012. There isn't much that they can't get around. It adds about a dollar, a barrel at that level to their crude and they're making it 12. So it becomes 13 bucks. It's not going to change a lot for the Saudis and the rest of the world if they do tend to ship it. So not much going on there. You know, gold and silver, trying to figure out what it should do. And of course, the VIX, the big mover up today, about 25 percent. Other things going on. We had a very tough overnight session in Asia and I think that continues on with trade tensions as we continue on. Anyway, we're going to look at a lot of charts today. It made a lot of sense for President Trump to go ahead and push all he could for a trade deal now by the markets were at recent highs, especially with the light volume. If you let it go high and prove the fact that it's a weak market, probably problematic. Again, people probably going to want to be buying every dip until it's proven a variety of times, maybe four or five times. They'll buy the dip and give back a great deal of what they had if the market is pulling back. I'm looking at probably about 200 points so you can get back to 2750. That may be the level where this market can consolidate, go forward and actually blow out those highs on the S&P cash with volume. We certainly did not have it.  Tap it at best on Friday for the huge moves, what we had going into the end of the weekend. Certainly, this is a lighter time of year for the stock market. Start getting into summer trading. I don't see any reason why the market should break out from here. Not a lot of earnings that could actually drive the market higher, at least not in the next week. We have a huge sucking sound. I should have had Mr. Ross Perot set up. A huge sucking sound from all these IPOs, where you may have to take all the cash that would normally go into a market in one month and put it up against three or four IPOs to raise the amount of cash that these guys want to raise in the next seven to, let's call it two weeks. Again, then that takes us into a three-day weekend at the end of the month. That's 27th, starting officially the summer. I'm thinking that there's two scenarios. One, I was looking for a fairly decent pullback on Friday. As I told everybody, I was buying the nuclear weapon and options if we pulled back. They're up fairly decently today, about 230% so far on the first day. We'll continue to keep an eye on that. We could continue to see people trying to buy the dip no matter what. There isn't a lot of selling pressure now because frankly, unless you're in a dog stock, you're probably in a winning position. Probably take a bit to get people to sell. The question is, can you buy or get somebody to buy higher? That is the old thing of who's the fool, the fool that follows the fool or the fool to begin with. Trying to find a bigger fool to buy a stock at an even higher price eventually leads to a collapse. I think President probably did the right thing, which is pushes the advantage, keep the market from going up there and blowing up like a giant balloon, which we'll talk about today, and let the market pull back enough to get the kind of juice it needs to go out and break out to all highs. In fact, I think we get a deal maybe this summer or next fall, or this fall, with China that actually sticks, it could be exciting. To this point, they were probably smart to stay back and see what happened with the bogus Russian issue with the president, because maybe he was out, maybe he could find a weaker president that would take over. If he was reading the headlines, if he knew what was going on, it wasn't ever going to happen. But what we can see now, we can see him trying to push the advantage, and the market probably, at least for a short amount of time, start to pull back. Now, if we thought the end of the world was coming with the IYT, BFO 1.6%, kind of very interesting. We're going to pick through all of this today, but I think we're starting to get some signals that the market could pull back. A lot of cash has to come out to buy these new IPOs. Those new IPOs will not be in the indexes for a while, but we shall see. And of course, as always, we'd like to start the show off with a little bit of history. And of course, you can give me a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay. Oh, we always like to come to you at this time, by the way. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. And what else? Oh, we got some history. What do we have? We've got on this day in 1937, the German airship Hindenburg, the largest bridgeable ever built, explodes as it arrives in Lakehurst, New Jersey. 36 people died in a fiery accident that has since become iconic, in part because of the live radio broadcast of this disaster. It was filled with flammable hydrogen. They had a coating on it that burned like wildfire. It's not too far from what they make solid rocket boosters out of and why it looks silver. But recreations have finally gotten to the point where there was strong wind and they were trying to get this thing to come in and land in a certain area. And the way that they did it probably put too much stress on the rudder in the back, creating a tear that then let all the gas escape, breaking some ribs, and then it finally exploding in a ball of fire. Oh, the humanity. Back in a minute. The Taz Profile Scanner is the most revolutionary piece of trading software that you will ever try. 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Showing what was going on and with arrows pointing which direction to go to and stuff like that. I would just assume that was all built into the same CPU. But of course I know it's there for artistic reasons to tell the audience what that is. Android, was it Android? Was it cyber or something? Was it had human skin over a metal exoskeleton? Anyway, that's kind of what it looks like. It just put superimposes all kinds of things over a clear screen. Interesting pieces on it, 3500 bucks plus whatever the software costs. Doesn't seem like that's going to be a consumer product for a while, but it does look like Microsoft at least the first company figure out a way to make money on it. They've sold about 100,000 of them to the government or a variety of training missions and also to car companies. So where they've had problems trying to push these into Best Buy, either fully virtual reality or these augmented reality devices. Interesting demos, a little bit too much money for what you get, I think. More of the targeted applications for military and assembly line work where they think it will really help. But they had one thing that I think actually makes Microsoft show how well that they are adapting to the world and setting, making the world adapt to them. And that is their new Windows Explorer browser, Windows Explorer. Windows or their Internet Explorer is coming out. And it's got a lot of functionality to grab tables, awful webpages, pictures and format all the text and everything else. It's going to be great for me and my newsletters because there's a lot of times I want to refer to stuff. And it takes care of that, making it look very good through both artificial intelligence and some fairly decent smart programming. So I think that's one good part of it for me. They're finally going to unify all the dotnet technologies under one roof. There's been a lot of them over the last few years. I'd been waiting to release a new version of the art of timing and trade charts. I did send the links to Tommy this morning, so we're going to be rolling that out. Should be a lot quicker and I've added some new functionality to it. One of the problems, especially with working with data vendors, has been to get somebody that will actually understand price and volume trading. It's wrong on a lot of systems and one of the reasons why I think a lot of people are confused about price and volume trading. What we did do with this one and the data folks is put this together. So now the CBOE consolidated volume tape is the volume that you will see under the S&P and others. From turning volume off all together to not giving a rat's patootie about the volume and making it correct on indexes and other things. It's been problematic. Again, these guys are selling data. None of them are stock traders, so you kind of have to lead them by the nose. But we do have a new version. It is much faster. It is much quicker. Same thing, I guess. But now whether you go to the S&P 500 or you go to the NYSE, you're going to have some consistent volumes that are not party to the whims of data. Folks, we've been able to pair up the CBOE, which does the correct volumes. And the data companies that are actually giving you the ILO open close on those indexes and put them together. And I think that's about it. We're probably going to do some promotions on it. So if you haven't tried it yet or maybe if you wanted to try it again, depending on what we do, that will be it. I've been working on that actually since Christmas and trying to update it to everything. So again, with only minor updates, it can last for a while. Basically the only thing I ever use, I don't spend a lot of time looking at minute charts. As kind of a wise man said, Jesse Livermore, a lot of people that are looking at infinitesimal timeframes, kind of like asking what day it is. And the guy looks at the second hand of his watch doesn't give you the big trends, but we will get into those today too. And that's about it. Now, let's go up and above and higher and look at some. Adobe has been one of the ones that has been interesting to me. If I can actually spell it right to to to ATBE. Not a bad looking chart out here. We've been talking about these double repo patterns. This thing was started above the last time really back on the 21st of March above the nine day continue to go high. It's spiked higher gap higher and it's gone back and fill that gap. We're now pushing or we're pushing back up to these highs. But this is one that never had a sign of strength on the breakout had a little bit of volume on one day gave most of it back tried to push back did the reversal. Now we're back at support, but now you should be able to either use a nine day moving average or because it has it. We are timing the trade. You can go up here and use displaced moving averages and you can see what this thing needs to close under to continue being bearish in the foreseeable future. But there's the next three days extended out at the end of the chart. When a lot of people ask me why I like the three by three displaced moving average or any of the other displaced moving averages. That's because it gives me a little bit of a product prediction and price trade of where I want to know that this thing continues either under or if I'm bullish. If it pops back above, but it certainly gives me that trend line. You can give me a call at<PHONE_NUMBER> about ready to go to break. And we're still off 2324 points on the S&P cash. We want to check in with volumes. We're doing about four billion shares. We started so volume not again all that exciting. But again, you almost have to give these markets about three days for you. The volume coming in is either on the upside or the downside. It's kind of sneaky. 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As we were talking last week, we had a lot of stocks, and I'll guarantee that we're going to have a million of them tonight. And that is a little hyperbolic, isn't it? Not a million stocks. We're going to have a bunch of them that close below either a nine-day moving average or three by three. And I suspect they're going to actually confirm a double repo pattern that's generally used to be when it first designed 10 to 15 days above a moving average, a couple of days below that, a couple of days above it. And then the next turn below that, if it doesn't do much and volume kind of drops out, that's where the big destruction comes. I've got a couple of new ones, I think. And then maybe they're there. I've got a couple of, well, maybe a new one here today is Bud. I wanted to see this one. This is kind of exactly what you're looking for. And that means that you know pretty much where to get out, which is a close above the three by three or just nine-day moving average. But Anheuser-Busch is a good example here. This is how a lot of highs are actually made, and it takes a little while for them to develop. But this is a very good signal, a medium-term signal that a high is in. This would take you back down to probably the 76th range. And that's 10 to 15 days. It's kind of the broad interpretation above a handful of days below, a handful of days above. And then the next close below is the signal to pretty much pull the trigger as long as it stays below there. And you can have a very nice risk reward being short this way. Again, we've got a handful of things going on in cross currents. We start options expiration on Wednesday. That takes us to options expiration on the 17th. And then we have kind of a very long time frame. Without a lot of earnings, a lot of numbers that take us into the Memorial Day weekend, which is, well, the 27th. I'll be leaving the 24th coming back about the 3rd. So I'll be out, but newsletters and all that stuff continue on. The market does not stop when I decide to leave, although I've been thinking about calling them up and asking them to do that. But I suspect most of the shooting is going to be over. If we pull back, which I think we certainly could, we could see some fairly decent lows by June, early part of June, and maybe setting up a summer rally. And of course, if we continue to kind of try to push this market higher, it's kind of like pushing on a string, but maybe they just hold it up. Then more than likely it'll hold up through the 27th.  Ideally, if you're bullish, you would like the market to pull back here on lighter volume now, rather than go up on lighter volume and make in a definitive tie that gets cremated across the summer. Okay, so what else do we have? I wanted to look at some other stuff. Let's just go ahead and get into that. I want to see a few of these on my list. Netflix, certainly on this one. I have a lot of people keep asking about shorting Netflix. It's kind of a very tough stock to short. Do I have the short volumes up? No, I do not. Let me go ahead and get them up. And that is an FLX. Okay, you had on Thursday about 29% of the shares were initiated with a short position. It doesn't mean they went home with them, but pretty significant shorting. Friday, not much at all, about 20% in comparison anyway. When you get to the monthly time frames, you've got about three days to cover, which is stock like this, probably not that big. You do have about 15 million shares. So that continues on to be kind of decent, but not overwhelming in that. A break, if I was looking at here, hard resistance at 400, a break would take you right back down to 350. So you've got to say on the risk reward storm front, you've got to be looking at the downside as being kind of the wide side of that trading. Now we're down about 18 points on the S&P cash. So they are trying to push, push, push. But again, kind of a wider volume. Let's make sure we got everything here. I got a bunch of positions on.  Again, oh, we were talking about IYT. We want to take a look at that. That one's been fairly volatile. And again, you want to see how these things work out. Trading at about 197 at the moment. No volume at all on this one. I did try to go below the three by three displaced this morning bounced off of it. And the question is if the economy picks up in the United States because we don't have as much imports from China and manufacturing starts to pick up here a bit too. Could we see kind of a really rich man, poor man situation going on? Again, a lot of people have been trying to get into the IWM thinking it would be the big winner on China going down because those companies can react faster to displacements in the market. But that's trade probably getting a little long in the tooth. But a fairly nice bounce in the IYT. And I don't have a great explanation on it just yet. But interesting nonetheless. Other stocks that are on my list of Naughty and Nice are Yelp. Again, this one got cremated, crucified, bludgeoned, shot, stabbed, and hung on November 9th of last year. It got down to 2933 when it blew apart. It's been working its way all the way back up here. The last major high was February 15th at $40.78. That had 4.7 million shares. You got into it on Friday with one million shares. Today you don't have a lot of volume with about 550,000 shares. No close underneath the moving averages yet. But I think we could see these things set up again. And generally you have about a, when the markets go up through options expiration, you have about a 1% bias over time during that period. So it's generally a little bullish. But when they're bearish, which is only about 15, maybe 20% of the time historically for options expiration, it's down 3% on average. So again, you have a lot of asymmetry going in to the end, or the beginning of the summer, actually. 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A couple of stocks looking kind of interesting out here.  You really need to close back over $1,209 to get into it. But certainly kind of hammered down on three million shares on the second. The last couple of days have been lighter volume. Just a little sideways action out here today. But you only need about 20 cent push to get some of these minors back in to the fold. MSFT. Again, I spent a lot of my time taking a look at Microsoft during these and the other ones, Facebook and Google during their developer conferences. And of course, Salesforce has theirs too, but kind of closed. You don't hear a lot about it. The ones for the big guys tend to be live stream. So I was able to watch it from about 1130 on to about 1230. And you get a little sense of it. Now, I'm not surprised that it's on a little bounce up here. Of course, it's the leader of the market these days. But the bounce pretty light volume. Again, what you're looking for on these, and I think we kind of see it here fairly quickly, is that you've had really back to about the end of March, this thing above the three by three. You now have a couple of closes below it. You get one more close above it, maybe a couple of days, and then it closes back below it. This one actually could have some fairly decent pullback, but for support area comes at about 121. But things get ugly out there, could move fairly quickly. Now we're down to 16 points on the S&P cash. You got to buy that dip. Remember, doesn't matter what you do in the stock market as long as you buy the dip. But we'll keep an eye on this. Other things going on for today, keeping a close eye on the dollar, that certainly rocketed down on the trade issues yesterday where this was trading at about, what about? I'll call it 9780, trading out at around what right now? 9726. Again, a lot of volatility quick off the headlines. And of course, then when we came back to actually looking at the markets today, the ones that actually got slammed were the Chinese markets. And again, maybe a little self-inflicted wound by Mr. Zee over there. Zee, I think it's Zee. I don't want to confuse him with our Mr. Zee in the stock, in the tiger stand. But again, not a lot of movement to make you think a lot's going on. Copper, $2.84. Again, we're looking for copper over three bucks to say that the world economy is really starting to take back off again. We've never really got up there with any kind of gusto. And it continues to be an issue. Apple, take a quick look and see how it reacted to the news. This got right up to resistance. Pop down today, still holding above it. And again, it may take another week or so for this stuff to develop, but it is starting to develop. And that is the next close below a nine day or a three by three displaced moving average pretty much puts a top into this. You could easily see a pullback to 190, which is this ledge from about the 21st of March back into the 28th of March. That kind of looks like where you have a lot of support in those three down days, at least red candles and a lot of shorting.  Again, I think there are much better stocks out here to short stocks with that cash. Companies that are issuing more stock and diluting the shares, a lot of reasons to do it. Apple doesn't have any of those reasons. Again, I don't know why it's up here, but at the same time, I don't see a lot of cause. A lot of other stocks that have a lot bigger things to hit. A little bit of weakness, but light volume in the Boeing company today. It did gap down with the rest of them. As long as it continues to hold this 370 level, it's one of two things, either accumulation or distribution. People that are bears would say distribution and people actually that are bullish would say accumulation on this downside. I don't think in a year anybody's going to talk about it. I remember when everybody was yelling and screaming about Intel and all the horrible things that was going on with people being able to hack it, it will because of some issue with the processor. And here it is, what, a year and, I'm going to say a year and three months, maybe a year and four months later, still nothing.  You know what? If you can go out and rob a house that's not locked up, why do you need to go in a house that is locked up that takes a lot more time and you're making a lot of money or making a lot of noise breaking the windows to do so? There are a lot of security issues with anything, but for the most part, they aren't in hardware because to exploit them, you almost always have to have the hardware. And if you've got the machine in your own care, just very tough. If you've got somebody that can go plug something into a machine in an office, I mean, you're already inside and that is not what anybody thinks that you ever should be able to protect against. I mean, you should have good security, but kind of interestingly, Tesla sent out a really nasty letter saying that if you leak any information on Tesla, we're going to find you and we're going to ruin your life over the weekend. But, you know, in security, it's never about one thing. It's not about the barbed wire. It's the fence and the barbed wire and the moat and the gullies and rocks and all the other stuff you have to come over. It's security is never one thing, but I always thought it was a narrative. That's a story put above logic, truth, and your own good sense that's pushed by the media. And I'm not exactly sure why Intel actually got pushed that hard back then. Maybe somebody wanted the shares. Maybe someone didn't want the shares. A lot of palace intrigue that I would rather just stay away from in Intel these days. And most people know that I dislike immensely a CFO becoming a CEO of a big company like this. So I'm going to be passing on Intel until they pass on the current CFO or he, or CEO, excuse me, or he proves that he is capable of it. And you kind of have that Star Trek thing. You got to have Kurt who takes all the risks. You got to have a logical guy like Spock. Spock couldn't run the ship by himself. He needs Captain Kurt. So we don't want Spock to run it forever. Just my two cents. We'll be back for after the show. I'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life. It's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share. If you're looking to become the best of the best when it comes to managing your money, let me teach you to do what most wealth managers tell you can't be done, which is how to time the markets. 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Okay. Just looking at a handful of things here. I want to see how this is winding down. We're off 13 points in the S&P cash. Dow's down 85. NASDAQ's down 40. Russell's down three. And again, everybody's going to buy these dips. What we can say is the volume off the lows this morning is pretty light. Also using up a lot of energy. We haven't had volume at the highs before. Nothing's really changed since last week. No real new catalyst to drive this market higher. Earnings are going to be from much smaller companies that can't really move the indexes around for the rest of the week. I didn't see anything in there that was that exciting. Again, not uncommon to see going into the 27th. See a market just kind of drift higher and squeeze the last of the shorts out. But you know what? If we do that, then there's some real destruction that's going to happen this summer. Again, if you're bullish, what you want to see is this market pull back into the end of the month on lighter volume. You don't want to see it drive up to some highs that are truly unsustainable and let everybody know that there's no way and a major high is in. But you just can't tell right now. Noncommittal to the upside, noncommittal to the downside in these markets. And again, we're going to need a couple more days. I'll be looking at options tonight to see whether or not a lot of people blinked and started buying downside protection, which would be a good sign that we were. This is a kind of a one day thing. But if they didn't buy options, kind of a good sign or at least protection for lower, probably a pretty good sign that there is mass complacency. In the meantime, sell when you can, not when you have to. We will see you tomorrow. Same bad channel, same bad time.


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Happy Aloha Friday and welcome to Perspectives on Global Justice Think Tech Hawaii program. This is your host, Beatrice Cantelmo. Today's show was conceived with people's hearts and minds. So much is going on in our political arena in the U.S. and across the globe. And many people feel trapped in a personal and collective emotional roller coaster. We're living under real threat of a nuclear attack from North Korea. And many of us have watched and prayed for the lives of thousands of individuals who are impacted by the end of DACA this week as well as Hurricane Irma and the powerful earthquake that hit Mexico yesterday that caused the tsunami threats in many countries. In the United States, we live under a very unstable political climate and we see on a weekly basis new policies that violate many people's most basic human rights. It's difficult not to feel our balance, upset or concerned or vulnerable. Many of us feel the burden of being overwhelmed and exhausted and are so guilty to even take some time to breathe. Those who feel victimized by unjust politics and new laws are hurting very bad. Their wounds reopen deep old wounds of the world, namely fascism, racism, inquisition, oppression, insane dictators, holocausts and senseless wolves. Is it possible to find inner peace and to promote peace during times of turmoil? It depends on whom you ask. It's hard not to have a cynical, negative outlook and yet the great challenges that we are faced with can also serve as a catalyst to assist us in overthinking how we heal old and present wounds and open new ground where we have a future that is rooted in optimism, generosity, harmony, equity and peace. The escalation of violence starts within and it takes courage to take a clear path where intentions and actions come hand in hand and it's reflected in our personal and public lives. Today we are gifted with the presence of Suzette Floriani and she is an astrologer and holistic medicine and Reiki practitioner. She has great insights on how we could use every opportunity as an invitation to learn, to grow and to enrich our personal and collective living experiences. On that note, welcome to our program idea. Welcome to our program again, Suzette. Thank you. To our viewers, I'll just remind them that we will be doing this program with simultaneous interpreting in Portuguese and the English languages. So, for our viewers today, it is worth remembering that I will be doing the program with simultaneous interpretation between Portuguese and English. So, let's go. Thank you. Welcome. So, Suzette. September, month of peace and a lot of things happening. You can elaborate a little bit on your perspective with a person who works with energy, astrology. So, Suzette, this is September. Worldwide, this is where peace month is celebrated and there's a lot going on. And so, from an astrologer and from a healer's perspective, I think you may have a look to share.  She believes that September is the peace month and also a very proper month to walk with purification. So, there's a lot of synchronicity from an astrological standpoint on how this month is also linked with September. And why is that? So, because this month the energy that flows in the astrological sign is in the house of Virgo, okay? And the Virgo energy is linked with the need that one have not only personally but worldwide to reorganize, to clear, you know, all the issues and to be in a different state. So, this is a good month and a good reminder also in terms of energy from an astrological standpoint to walk collectively. And a more simple manner without much judgment but to find ways in which we can contribute to collective consciousness and harmony. Yeah. So, you know, that is a very important work to be done individually and collectively so that we can really reach the goal of harmony and peace not only within ourselves but also collectively that's reflected in politics and around the globe also. And so, Suzette, it's a moment of transition, a moment when people can reorganize and put their intentions in a more intentional way. How do you deal with this, taking into account all the problems that we have now, not only in the United States but worldwide, right? There are so many disasters, so many radical decisions. How can we individually be able to work with this but also influence these energies for a better channel? So, Suzette, I was asking Suzette in the context of where the world affairs, you know, is at now. We have so many natural disasters, we have so many radical, political leaders in power and havoc really in the lives of so many people and so much uncertainty. How do we use this opportunity right now to regroup and to reorganize, not only within ourselves, but how can we also use this opportunity to influence and cause collective impact not only in our government but globally? So, Suzette's perspective, in order to really work with collective impact, we must work faster within the individual process that is really interconnected with our ability to really bring balance and to bring wisdom to impact things in a positive manner. I believe that it is a call to perfectation. We all need to perfect ourselves through work and this productive awareness, in a humble way, understanding that there is value in us, but that this value needs to be put in the right way in the world. So, she says that it's important to really be intentional that we have a calling and that we need a lot of humility and patience to perfect our ability to relate to ourselves and to one another and to the problems that are at stake so that we can find a new ground for balance. So, Suzette, on this journey, on this journey, where it is so easy for us to react instead of reflecting, what advice could you give, for example, to a spectator who is judged because some new law is really impacting the lives of this person, or the community, or the person is really feeling very upset because they don't have that peace, that calm perspective, because it is a wave behind the other in her head, how does a person not react to a situation like this? So, my question to Suzette was for a viewer who may be watching this program and it's feeling really triggered and very upset about whatever it is, whether it is a current political event or a law, something that may personally impact them, but also may impact the society where they live in, how does that person work to not let out and let the anger or the reactions that's so normal come through instead of perhaps taking that deep breath to reflect and then react? In this reality, we are action or reaction, we live in a polarized world and reactions are reflections of the internal aspects. It is a reflection of how we are doing at a much inner core level. So, to Suzette's perspective, what is very important is that people have a better knowledge about themselves. So, for example, it's very important to have this self-awareness so that she can reflect on why is it that the reactions that are coming out are so strong or so aggressive. Is it really about the issue that is triggering that emotion or is that something deep? So, to Suzette's perspective, I found myself in situations where I've had very strong reactions to issues that really bothered me. And it came really out of context, much stronger than what I've realized. And then after a calm down and really reflected on the situation, I realized that it didn't have much to do with the issue at stake, but it had to do with older issues that just resurfaced in a much stronger way. So, the question is, how do we bite our tongue and monitor ourselves before we open our mouths and release the seeds? So, the question that I have for Suzette was, how do we really invoke with self-awareness to the extent that we can catch ourselves before and bite our tongue before we even say these things out loud and also create the snowball reactionary response. So, self-control has a lot to do with even being able to ask those questions and to inquire and to have that knowledge, to be able to be perceptive enough to recognize before it comes out that that's out of ordinary and that you can really tune up things, so it's not so destructive. So, we're going to take a minute and we'll be right back. This guy looks familiar. He calls himself the Ultra Fan, but that doesn't explain all this. He planned this party, planned the snacks, even planned to coordinate colored shirts, but he didn't plan to have a good time. Now you wouldn't do this in your own house, so don't do it in your team's house. Know your limits and plan ahead so that everyone can have a good time. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. But I have a story and I don't know where to start. I feel alone in the crowd. I can't sleep. I feel overwhelmed. I don't even know who I am anymore. I still have nightmares. I can't live like this anymore. I'm really not so good. Are you ready to listen? Welcome back to Perspectives on Global Justice. I think I have a program. This is your house. The Beatrice can tell you. And we are here with Astrologer Enrique Pratichina, Suzette Floriani. So Suzette, we were talking about the power of energies and how energy contributes to our thoughts and actions. So we filter a little bit of all the negative load we receive daily. I have access to it daily. Because nowadays we live in the world of technology. The information comes very quickly. So the question that I asked Suzette came in the context of the knowledge that our thoughts control in many ways the energy field and the actions that we may take about a certain situation, be it for good or bad. So my question to Suzette was in today's world where technology, we live in information society where information is available at the click of a mouse. How do we filter the information that we get? How do we negotiate the information and the energy that we receive in internalizing? So information society connects everything in everyone really quickly nowadays. So the type of information that we receive works really quickly, and it really helps influence people's state of mind and opinions. So the question is how do we relate to this kind of information? Some of them can be very positive and others can be very negative. So another question that someone could ask when they read news. So we live in a polarized world. We have positive and negative aspects of almost everything that we receive. What internal choices are we going to make as we start digesting and processing information? So for instance, do we want to fuel the fear of war or do we want to start walking towards peace and shift that energy so that war is not the outcome? So for instance, for a person who is dying in the middle of the war, it is a very tangible thing, that in fact we had a nuclear attack in North Korea that is very likely that a bomb reached a war. So how does a person who gives this news make the options to filter this and not work on the side of the fear and the fear of the reaction of this fear? So the question that I asked is a very tangible one because with the threat of nuclear bomb attack from North Korea, it's possible, it's a life possibility that instead of how I would be impacted, it would be a target. So like for somebody who is reading the news and have to come to terms with that possibility, what can he or she do to filter this information from a place of no panic and no fear? What do you do with that? Fear is the opposite of faith, of trust, of love. If we want to change this reality of a possible war, we have to start vibrating within another consciousness and manifest peace because the fear of a war will only contribute to a manifestation of the war. So that was a lot of sadness. I'm going to try to be faithful to what you said. I actually mentioned that fear instills more fear in this energy that feels war, for example. So if we really do not wish for that outcome to have an impact, that turns out to be war, then one of the first steps that we can do is to really manifest actions and energy that would promote peace. So how could a person project energies that promote peace in this context and actions that could maybe generate an energy that could change this hard reality that can happen to him? So the question that I asked was actually, how could someone in light of such news start channeling the energy of peace and how could that be used as the inner strength in their own outlook about the situation through actions that could contribute to the interruption or the change of this outcome? We need to work mentally with the purpose of peace, to create a mental process of trust, of prayer, of vibration that manifests peace in our domestic environment, in the first place. So from a personal, inner relation type of connection, it's very important that we start working within ourselves and those that are close to us with the intention and the energy of peace in mind. That it's very important that the prayers, the actions, the intentions that it's put there day by day promote and focus on more of the peace side as opposed to the panic and the outrage. So that can be an added to that individually if combined with other people could really have a tremendous impact collectively with our ability to find the strength to work towards peace. It's very interesting because it's very difficult to find new solutions or new possibilities when the heart is closed or when it's hurt or when it's eaten and that part of this process is really to keep the heart open so that other things can also happen. So that would perhaps promote better outcomes or creative ways to deal with problems when the heart is so closed or filled with fear or hatred or outrage. So it's important to keep the clay of the heart soft even in times of fear. And so to Suzetti, this is the challenge, the pastoral and the collective challenge that we all have on how do we overcome fear? How do we see fear? And how do we change this so that we can really live from a place of light and peace? Suzetti, I don't believe that the show is over. We flew, it was so fast. I just wanted to say one thing to end Bia who is a great pacifier who was Gandhi and he said, it's the change you want to see in the world. So it's individual changes that will really contribute to a collective change. Each one doing their part. So I told Suzetti how close to an ender program came and she wanted to leave us all with a wonderful gift from Gandhi that in order to see the changes that we seek we must be the change. So be the change we want to see in the world and that change starts within us. So on that note that concludes today's episode of the Perspectives on Global Justice. I think the Kavai program, thank you so much for watching us and I hope to see you again next Friday and we hope.


Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. It's the three o'clock block here in a given Wednesday. And we normally do energy in America. Today we're doing energy in North America. That's Canada, you know what I mean? And we have Ken Rogers, Dr. Ken Rogers, who is a retired businessman who follows among other things the business of oil and gas. And you know, that's a full disclosure. He has got to talk about that. But first, let's talk about the inauguration, Ken. Welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having me, Jay. And on behalf of my fellow Canadians, I'd like to say we're delighted to have Biden instead of Trump. Most of my friends tend to think that living in Canada with Donald Trump in charge was like, especially because of his handling of the coronavirus, was like living above a meth lab. Now most of Biden's policies, we're quite pleased. Well, what did you think of Trump, you know, who's passed four years? Well, we unfortunately had to think about him a lot, but none of it was good. Unfortunately, I think he was a catastrophe for the United States. And I think he was, you know, more of a catastrophe for the rest of the world. His handling of the coronavirus was, was a disgrace and certainly very un-American in my mind. I mean, I fortunately had gone to university graduate school in the United States and had great fondness. But to see those riots at the Capitol building and to see things like, you know, the Charlotte, you know, hooray for the Ku Klux Klan and the Proud Boys type of attitude is just not the America that I saw. Now, with regard to Biden, most of his policies seem to be very close to what Canadians would like. The Keystone Pipeline is a major exception to that. And it's probably the only one exception that I disagree with, you know, for example, most Canadians would be more inclined to favor the Green New Deal than the same percentage of Americans. I think it's a stronger force here. Certainly I'm on that side. You know, I just think when it comes to like the Keystone scenario that my way of describing Green New Deal that I like does not end up, you know, simply eliminating all oil and gas. You know, you can't get to the objectives or the concepts behind the Green New Deal without having a continuation of oil and gas. You need to focus on things like carbon capture and CO2 sequestration rather than simply saying, you know, let's obliterate the industry. I don't know if that's the kind of thing you wanted an opinion from Canada on. You know, certainly Keystone decision will cause a lot of political problems in Canada. I would say that one of our provincial premiers is guaranteed to lose his job because of Biden's decision. You know, and part of that is that's the province in Canada, Alberta, that produces the most oil and gas and where that Keystone pipeline has started. Well, after Trump had given the final approval and permits, because the Saudis in Russia had intentionally tried to artificially lower the price of oil and gas to shake out competition, the province decided, well, it's such an important factor to that province and to Canada that the province invested one and a half billion dollars in the pipeline and guaranteed six billion of debt. That's a lot of aid to have in your face tomorrow morning or this afternoon after Biden has nixed the project. You know, not dissimilarly, you know, Canada is not like Kuwait, where the oil and gas industry is the only source of jobs and source of government revenue. But it's an awful lot bigger percentage than it is in the U.S. You know, it is Canada's, I would like to think of it as our biggest industry. It certainly is by far our most important export and where I think, you know, the Keystone decision, aside from being unreasonably harmful to Canada, is really detrimental to the U.S.'s best interest. You know, for example, the X in Keystone XL really stands for exports. Well, that pipeline is now a couple of thousand miles long that already exists. The oil is flowing through it every day. But the piece that has been axed really is for extra volume solely to go to the U.S. Gulf Coast for export, that the X stands for export. Well, think of as an American and saying, what a nifty deal it is if you can get some other country to get this neat resource, you know, and ship it to our refinery, and we can do our little tap dance and convert it into nice chemicals or whatever else and then sell it on the world market. So what you have is an export going from, you know, Fort Arthur, Houston, and the area in which we're sharing the proceeds. Well, if you don't send the Canadian resource there for the American to get his pound of flesh out of, we both lose.  I mean, I'm sure your program includes because you're in Hawaii, you'd have a lot of Chinese interest where in China, you know, how many coal plants are they building every month, brand new coal fired power plants? Well, you've got to get some exports of LNG or equivalent in order to get the world's level of pollution down.  That's just phantom. That's hokey pokey. Or to say that the Alberta oil sands is dirty oil when, you know, the refineries on the Gulf Coast are buying oil from Venezuela and Nigeria. Well, or Maya, like the Mayan oil or the Venezuelan oil is exactly the same texture quality chemical qualities as as the stuff that's coming from the Alberta oil sands and the oil sands are very, very highly regulated compared to any oil and gas in the United States.  And it's just incorrect. It's unreasonable when you put it in the perspective of what oil is there in the world that's available for use. I mean, you got the the Balkan oil from sort of North Dakota, et cetera, you know, can sell at a premium in New England because their refineries have been set up to process that light crude, where all of refineries in the Middle West, like in, you know, Southern Illinois and Minneapolis and those on the Gulf Coast, virtually all of them are designed to process heavy crude. Well, once you got it in a pipeline, it's the same crude as anybody else's. So they're arguing, you know, if you want to argue, should you not have that pipeline? Well, now they're shipping the same stuff by oil tanker, or at least by by tankers on trucks and tankers on in trains. You know, there was a massive explosion. You may or may not have known a couple years ago in a in a small town in Quebec, and that magnetic was cold. But that was oil from the Balkan. And the Alberta crude is being shipped all over the place now by by training because there's lack of pipeline capacity to meet the demand that's out there. Another side of the oil and gas industry is really Canada buys a ton of oil shipped from places like the the Balkan feel in in North Dakota to Quebec or Southern Ontario, whereas, you know, the crude from Alberta is going in particular to lots of the states on the west side of Rocky Mountains. You're smiling, but I don't know why I'm I'm fascinated with this. And you mentioned the name before the show that in fact, to build keystone as far as it has gone, well, it's complete, but to build it cost billions. And I wonder if you could talk about that. Where did that money come from? Is it is it paid back? Is it a loan? Is it equity?  Oh, well, there's a single corporation called T C energy. It used to be called Trans Canada Corp. They're the sole owner of the pipeline other than the province of Alberta's investment, where the province of Alberta was really expecting once the pipeline was done, Trans Canada would have the the muscle to finance the repurchase of that interest. Well, the piece that's missing, you know, the one that's being vetoed, where you've got a whole pipeline network that's already there, like it goes about 500 miles from Alberta to across going east in Canada to a little bit near Winnipeg or almost to Minneapolis. Then it runs straight south, roughly on the Minnesota North Dakota border and keeps chugging south until it hits the Gulf Coast. Importantly, along the way, it feeds most of the refineries in the in the US Midwest. And and then it goes to Cushing, Oklahoma, which is pretty well, the major storage distribution center in the US for for oil. And then it goes to the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur. And there's a couple of branch lines that run, say one from Port Arthur over to Houston and one up at the upper end to feed refinery in in in the Midwest, particularly a couple big ones in in Illinois. But that's going to be about 1500 miles straight, straight south, yeah, from the Canadian border of Port Arthur. Yeah, plus the 500 miles to get get that far east. Yeah. You know, but the the piece that was going to be just for export, the the K XL part, the X piece was to add an extra, you know, I think it's a little under a thousand miles. If you went directly from Alberta to the middle of Nebraska or just south, straight north of Cushing, Oklahoma, and you just go diagonally across Montana and the northeastern corner of Wyoming and then down and run structure so that you can up the capacity to get those exports going from the Gulf Coast. You know, it has you know, even our federal government in Canada as a huge percentage of its income, like their let's call it revenues, are based on the oil industry from Alberta. Canada has a slug of more social benefits than the US does. Like burning sand, there should be really happy to be in Canada. In terms of life is life is good in Alberta. But, you know, do you understand from, you know, your your travels and your reading, why this is so iconic, why Joe Biden felt that he had to do this on the very day he was inaugurated, why it's so important to him, you know, in terms of energy policy. Well, I would say it was a political promise. And I think that it became a big issue in the campaign with Hillary versus Trump, where very early in it, Hillary said she was against Keystone, that it was contrary to the climate objectives of the United States. Well, you know, what climate objectives when it came to Trump, you know, he didn't care about it, but therefore Keystone became a political issue. It was really a political football so that somewhat like the Trump lie that he really won the election that he won by a landslide. And you got these people like Ted Cruz saying, you know, agreeing with them. Well, that really causes enough misinformation that the political football rolls along on its own. And I think that that's an awful lot of it. It's just a bunch of bad assumptions or misinformation or important factors not being taken into account. Yeah, what it sounds like to me, Ken, is that in the politicization of Keystone, if you like Trump, you like Keystone. If you don't like Trump, you don't like Keystone. So the merits are really around Trump rather than around Keystone. And, you know, interesting comparison. Go ahead. And no, well, that's sort of the scenario. But basically you have special themes that each of the American parties and around the world. It's not much different, but the political parties take position. You know, in theory, the Republicans favor a balanced budget or they're against more spending. Well, but you've got to get some issue that somebody can wave the flag on. And Keystone tended to be one of those. It's just taken. This reminds me of this reminds me of Obama had a wonderful way that was something like an overinflated issue relative to the truth. You know, like say it was something along those lines. I remember reading it, but my memory is not good enough to quote it. This reminds me of the wall. They had a little news piece. Maybe it was playing in Canada because everything it plays here plays in Canada. This morning about the wall, Trump has recently visited the wall and and Biden has ordered that the construction of the wall stop and there's this there's this heavy equipment down there at the base of the wall that we're working on the wall. These these fellows are working on the wall yesterday. And today they heard that Biden didn't want to do the wall anymore. And he would order a proclamation to stop working on the wall. And everybody doesn't know what to do. The guys in the heavy, what do we do? Do we just stop and drive our equipment off somewhere else? Do we finish the part we were working on? Do we finish the day that we are working on? Or what do we do? And then you get this very complicated thing about the transition, the transition from working on the wall to not working on the wall. I mean, and there's no there's no provision for this. Maybe there will be later. But for now, it's just it's going to stand there half finished after spending billions on it. It's going to stand there half finished. Somebody said it was a monument to Trump standing there half finished. It's not even half finished, less than half finished. But the same kind of transitional problem. This same kind of transitional problem, you know, exists with other other initiatives, other projects like this. For example, Keystone, you know, millions have been sunk into it for the Canadians are concerned. What do you do now? You lose the billions. You stop cold on it. How do you make the transition from one side to the other? Well, I think, for example, the apportion of the the piece that's been canceled has even been constructed. Now, it's in Canada, but I like your analogy with the the wall. I didn't know that Biden had stopped the construction of the wall that was on their way. There, you know, as I understand it here in Canada, that not very much of the wall that Trump was telling for was even built and and historically, lots of Democrats have supported a wall in certain places in order to, you know, have some reasonable control of immigration. But I think it's an excellent example that solely because the other party wanted it or favored it, you draw a line and so the Democrats don't like it because the Republicans did. Where, you know, it shouldn't have been a political issue in the first place. I mean, the United States has, you know, two or three hundred thousand miles of pipelines now and they handle all kinds of stuff in those pipelines and to build a brand new pipeline with the latest technology and having been beat up through a variety of environmental tests. This would probably be the best pipeline in the United States in terms of quality and protection, you know. And so, you know, it's not any problem where somebody would say, you know, you've got to have a couple of sensitive areas that the aquifer that's sort of in northeast Wyoming and in several other surrounding states. It's not a very deep aquifer as well as the Sandhills area. Well, you know, they rejiggered the pipeline so it doesn't go through hardly any of that. And, you know, I think I think that the corporation met every test that somebody pushed at them. Now, you know, I'm a believer that no corporation's an angel. You know, they're only as good and honest as as the government supervision or inspection forces them to be. You know, but when I'm when I'm coming to a discussion, what I'm coming to from this discussion is this sort of like some of the projects we have in Hawaii, where you get your permit, everything looks good. The powers that be at the time, you know, are saying good for you.  The next administration comes in, they say, stop. The next administration comes in and they say, start. The next administration comes in and they say, stop. How can you do big projects that way? How can Wall Street have the confidence in the regulatory system to say, yeah, here's a billion dollars, why don't you spend it on the project? Because they never know whether it will be politicized and whether, you know, a given regulatory decision will be reversed the next time the administration is reversed. It's a real comparison here and it's hard for, you know, Wall Street or investors in general, global consortia to invest in large, you know, multi-billion dollar projects when when they cannot rely on permits that they get, even though they spent a lot of money and time getting those permits, we have that right here in Hawaii. And I'm sure it exists elsewhere in many capacities. And so the people in Canada, you know, the business guys, the ones who have invested in it, the ones who have relied on the development of this infrastructure, they must be pretty upset because they're losing a lot of money. And I guess my next question to you is, what about the people in general? What about the government? Does this move affect the relations between these two, you know, ancient allies, the US and Canada? Is this a foreign policy issue? Depending where you are in Canada. You know, if you took three of the 10 provinces in Canada that have oil and gas exports, they would they certainly would think so. Whereas, you know, other provinces and may not, but in terms of the totality, it ought to be.  The US has always depended on Canada to be their best ally, their first guy to come to the plate for anything that sounds morally good. So it's kind of when you just, you know, kick Canada in the groin economically, you know, and yet out of the other side of Biden's mouth, he's saying, well, we want to get the world back together. We want to say raw for the Paris Agreement. We want to get, you know, back to the Iran nuclear deal. You know, you want to have because of the new technology and rockets, maybe you need some kind of Arctic warning stations, you know, reinstate that idea. You know, the China and Russia wanted, you know, exploit the Arctic and you can't do anything the Arctic without Canada being part of it. You know, well, you know, if you were looking for the province of Alberta, instead of Canada in total, they'd tell you the US to go jump in the light.  And this Keystone decision is just so huge in importance to Canada. It's a diddle squad issue to the US. I think that's key to Biden's misunderstanding is it's just a nothing decision to him. It's sort of as if it's inconsequential other than it was like a political point where it's it's really a major issue in Canada, a economically for jobs, be in terms of the government finances. And thirdly, in terms of of Canada's exports, where if Canada can't export more stuff, then it doesn't have the money to buy US goods. Has the view of the average Canadian over the past four years, the view of the United States changed? I mean, there was a there was a writer in the Irish Times who coined the notion that he had pity and that Europe has pity on the United States. How is how is Canada how does Canada feel about that? The view of of Canadians about the United States has definitely changed. Canadians are more cynical about the United States. The United States alleges to be, you know, in favor of democratic values and equality, but has racial problems that, you know, Canada does not have. We we have systemic racism, but not to the degree US does. The United States is just a big bully. If you took Trump's attitude or the actions on tariffs on aluminum and steel, you know, why would you have a tariff on Canadian aluminum?  When Trump says that tariffs, the tariffs are paid for by China.  You know, I think that needed the reinforcement of some of these conflict of interest senators like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and the fellow from Missouri, I forgot his name. You seem to be the worst of the bunch. Josh Hawley, that's the one. Yeah, yeah.  And so you get the capital riot that arises from it. Well, when you have a bunch of that stuff, it's kind of hard for a Canadian to believe that the Americans are as confident as they used to be. Because they're not. They just like the proof of the pudding is in their action. Now, we're absolutely relieved Biden will be there. Maybe you can give back to a more normal level of sanity. But if you're going to have QAnon people in the House of Representatives, you're going to have, you know, the Congress gal from from New York, Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez, I think that's how you say your name. Yeah. But where she's concerned, being in a secluded room with fellow congressmen, because they're really on the inside of the enemy. You know, what kind of oath did somebody give to the Constitution to do good for America that then would cause their immediate business or congressional associate to have fear because of their dishonesty, their lack of patriotism? Could you think you think that the insurrection at the capital could ever have happened in Ottawa? Anything can happen anywhere.  And you know, democracy is all it's not a safe, solid thing that you've got to keep at it. You know, you depend on the honesty of politicians. And you know, unfortunately, the United States seems to have a habit of taking people that do not deserve to be re-elected and re-elected.  They just vote by name recognition. And so you get these, you know, people that are solely interested in retaining power or getting power rather than doing good for the country. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. It's an interesting perspective. You know, we forget that that Canadians are so close to us. We forget that, you know, there's a common bond in not only not only language and culture, but you know, legal legal roots. And we forget that you you know what's going on in the United States. Well, and we also forget that you may not have exactly the same view of things as Americans would have. And you have in many ways a fresh view of it. And maybe a thoughtful, more thoughtful view. You can see it at a certain distance and so you can come to some valuable conclusions. And that's why I think we're to talk to you some more. We are to have another show maybe in a few months after we see what happens with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we may we may see remarkable things. And we may, you know, be very interested in your perspective as it goes forward. Yeah, I noticed and the problems of British Columbia in particular, that when there were 20 or so candidates for the lead of the Democrats, that the one that was always the favorite that people here hope would win was Kamala Harris. In the end, I think it's a good duo. But I might correct your comment about Canada having a fresh and perhaps better perspective on some issues. I think Canada always has a biased view. You like to think that where you're from is better than where the other guys from. And that's always important to take into account. You know, we're where I live, we're really close to Washington State.  And it's got 10 times as many covid cases and that type of thing. You know, it's it's a national pride or whatever you want to call it. And Ken, I've got to I've got to close the show down. We're out of time. This is our kind of built in everybody would like to see where about out of time. Ken, we'll have to continue this conversation the next time. And I do want to continue with the next time. Thank you so much for coming around today. I really appreciate your thought. Hopefully I helped you out on the short notice. Yeah, short notice is important. Thank you so much. Ken Rogers, retired businessman in in in Canada and British Columbia. Dr. Ken Rogers, we'll see you soon. Take care. All right. Bye.


Hi, thank you for joining us for another Newton Design Series session. This time with me, I have Rob, who is a Horizon PTL. Rob, can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Yeah. So yeah, I'm Rob Craswell. I'm the Horizon PTL for the Newton Cycle. And I'm a software engineer with Cisco Systems, where I've been for the last four years and joined OpenStack about two years ago. I've been working on Horizon since then. Great. Thank you so much for joining us today. So before we begin, can you give us a little background on what Horizon is as a project? So Horizon kind of has a dual purpose. It provides a library of widgets and components that people can build a dashboard and extensions that dashboard from, but then it also provides a base dashboard for some of the larger OpenStack components like Nova, Neutron, Glantz. Got it. Thank you. So we're about a month after the Austin Design Summit. What were some of the hot topics that you and your team discussed and what were the outcomes? So with Horizon, we've got an ongoing kind of move to AngularJS and moving on to kind of a JavaScript client-side framework. This has always been quite contentious because it's basically resulted in quite a big rewrite of the project. And that we tend to get a lot back and forth over that. That's always something that comes up and we kind of have to negotiate and go back and forth over how we'll solve those issues going forth and also how much time we want to put into the long-term goals around Angular and things like search like integration versus fixing the problems we have here and now with the existing Python and Django implementation. Got it. And so from a user needs perspective in this cycle, what are some of the items you're hearing about from users and what are you doing to address them in this cycle? So there's a couple of things that repeatedly come up is issues with scalability, specifically on the dashboards themselves. When you start looking into the admin views, so you start looking across multiple projects and regions at once, that tends to get a very non-performant. We also have a lot of inconsistencies to do with things like pagination and filtering because of the implementations in the different projects and because we've always done that, we've attempted to do that service side where the projects provide it, they tend to be, those implementations tend to vary a lot between those different services and they're not always available. One of the things we're probably going to use in the future is plug into the search like project and kind of use that to give us a cash layer that we can build on to get consistent paging and filtering search. Great. So now that we've heard about some of the hot topics and user needs that you are planning to address, based on that list, what are the top three priorities for either new features or enhanced existing features for Newton specifically? So again, this kind of splits into where we're kind of moving forward on the Angular stuff whilst also trying to improve the existing Django content. So this kind of has a few different directions. There's iterative improvements to a lot of the theming work. So we've had some massive rewrites of the HTML and CSS that we use, really stripping out a lot of the bloat that we've put in, a lot of the inconsistencies so that people can extend and theme their deployments of Horizon much easier. This is like this is something that came up constantly in around the kind of Juno, Kilo, Liberty summits, because especially I think with smaller organizations using OpenStack, they tend to just want to lightly brand Horizon rather than make sweeping alterations to it. So that's been a big boost for us. So iterative improvements there. We also last cycle rewrote the panel, the user interface for Swift. So we'll be kind of continuing to extend that with some nice little features and fixed bugs on that. In terms of bigger improvements, there's going to be a lot more kind of structural code added to make Angular features easier to do, to make plugins that extend existing content easier and to make it and sort of continue laying the groundwork for us to use Searchlight in the future. Perfect. So the product workgroup uses this concept of themes. The themes that we typically focus on are things like scalability, resiliency, manageability, modularity and interoperability. Sure. If we were to kind of, you know, go at a high level for a second in the Horizon project, what do you think are the themes that your team is working on in new? The biggest one has to be scale. We have improvements to the on the admins, as I mentioned earlier, the kind of admin views. We've got some small tweaks to make there in the Python and Django work. So, for example, one of the suggestions we had was to require a filter when you go to these views so that when you immediately reach the view, we don't make any data requests until you ask for a smaller scope of data because otherwise the initial request gets crazy. So we have like little bits and things like that that will kind of help improve the scalability of the existing content. And then we have the groundwork for Searchlight in the future, which will start letting us scale and handle tens of thousands of objects in a kind of a much more a much nicer way for the end user, basically. The secondary one, I would say is is probably, I think, with certain the manageability. So just improvements to the way we're handling plugins, settings and theming and branding. So, again, this is all like iterative improvements, bits and pieces that we're building on from previous cycles. But, yeah, those are kind of the two major themes, I think. Great. Well, thank you so much. This was really useful information. Is there anything else you'd like to add? I think that's about it. We are always looking for more contributors, more reviewers. So, you know, if people are interested, get involved. Our IRC is incredibly active and the community is really supportive of new people. So, yeah. And what is the IRC channel? It's OpenStack Horizon. Great. OpenStack Dash Horizon, sorry. Perfect. Thank you so much for joining us today, Rob. Thanks very much.


you know there's a bunch of stuff as I go into next year that I just need to say I'm done with it. I am unlearning it. I am unsubscribing from that channel. I'm unsubscribing from that voice in my head. I'm unsubscribing from those ideas and those ways of thinking that were good 10 years ago or maybe were good six months ago. But I know now because things are changing as I said so fast and so are you and we should be.