In this lecture we are going to complete our discussion of molecular orbital theory of H2 plus dihydrogen cation. So far we have written down the Hamiltonian and the reason why you are working with H2 plus as we have said several times already is that it is a unique case of a 1 electron molecule. So here we have minus H cross square by 2 Me divided by square that is the kinetic energy term of this lone electron minus Q square by Ra minus Q square by RB these are the potential energy terms for the attraction of this electron by the 2 nuclei and Q square by capital R where capital R is the inter nuclear separation is the term in the Hamiltonian operator for inter nuclear repulsion. So we have formulated Schrodinger equation this way and we have said that we are going to construct the molecular orbital not by solving Schrodinger equation directly even though it is possible we are going to construct it by a rather unique technique by taking a linear combination of atomic orbitals and when we do that this is where we are we made a little bit of progress identified a something called an overlap integral integral 1 SA 1 SB overall space and we have got 2 wave functions psi 1 this is the bonding orbital 1 by root over 2 plus 2 s multiplied by 1 SA plus 1 SB and psi 2 1 by root over 2 minus 2 s 1 SA minus 1 SB we have plotted the electron distribution these are the contour diagrams and these are the profiles that you take through these 2 and from these we have said that it is quite obvious that in this case in the upper case that is where you have a build up of electron density between the 2 nuclei that is going to lead to stabilization and here you have a depletion of electron density if you take square of this between A and B that is going to increase that is going to contribute to increased inter nuclear repulsion so this will be a higher energetic state. So this here is called bonding situation bonding lowers energy and this here is called anti-bonding situation anti-bonding orbital why because there is an increase in energy compared to isolated atoms if there was no change in energy we would have called it non-bonding orbital right. So let me write the expression like this E 1 is equal to integral psi 1 H psi 1 overall space. So if you expand this and again the way to do this is once I write this please stop the video do the expansion yourself it is elementary and then when you reach a point where you get some strange looking quantities then you should turn the video back on okay. So this is what we have we have replaced psi 1 by 1 by root over 2 plus 2s multiplied by 1 SA plus 1 SB in the bra vector as well as the ket vector of course I can take the constants out and I will get 1 by 2 plus 2s outside so that is sorted inside we have this wave function H hat wave function integrated over all space expanded you are going to get 4 terms integral phi 1 SA H hat phi 1 SA plus phi 1 SB H hat phi 1 SB plus phi 1 SA H hat phi 1 SB plus phi 1 SB H hat phi 1 SA and now we have to expand these terms and write them in some way that we can understand. Similarly we can write an expression for E 2 the only difference between E 1 and E 2 is that for the last two terms in E 2 the signs are negative whereas the signs are positive for all terms for E 1 that is the only difference terms are actually all the same all right. So let us try to evaluate this one by one slowly this is where we are right now we have got the wave function we have got an expression for the expectation values of energy for bonding as well as anti-bonding situation. Let us work with the energy of the bonding orbital and let us try to expand this a little bit while doing that since we do not know what these integrals are we are going to define them we are going to give them some name that is the best we can do at the moment because see as I said 1 SA is not really again function of H hat so you cannot just write E 0 and bring it out that is not going to work. So what we say is whenever we have the same orbital before and after in the bra vector and ket vector we call that integral H ii or H jj both are actually the same it does not matter because both are 1s orbitals. When we have say 1 SA in the bra vector and 1 SB in the ket vector or the other way round we call it H ij. Now H ij is equal to H ji that comes from the property of Hermitian operators there is something called turnover rule where if you have something like integral phi 1 H phi 2 you might as well write integral phi 2 H phi 1 does not matter it is all the same for this course we are going to take it axiomatically and the last thing that we know already is the overlap integral that in any case is very easy to understand. So we are going to write the expression for energy in terms of these integrals now what is the first one integral phi 1 SA H hat phi 1 SA that is H a a right or H 11 or H ii whatever we want to call it what about the second one that is also going to be H ii because we have the same 1 SB in the bra vector and ket vector the last two terms are going to be H ij or H 12 or H a b whatever we want to call it because there we have if we have a in the bra vector we have b in the ket vector if you have b in the bra vector we have a in the ket vector. So this is what we get 2 in the numerator and 2 in the denominator cancel each other you are left with this expression H ii plus H ij divided by 1 plus S ij and I hope it is not very difficult to understand that for e2 we will get more or less the same expression except for the fact that instead of plus sign we are going to get minus sign okay please work it out yourself and satisfy yourself that there is a case what is the next task at hand we should try to evaluate H ii and H ij we should try to simplify their expressions in terms of some things that we know. So let us do that to evaluate it we will write down the expression for the Hamiltonian now when I do that I can take these first two terms in bracket isn't it essentially a one electron Hamiltonian so we are going to write it as H hat 1 electron so now our Hamiltonian H hat is equal to a one electron Hamiltonian minus q e square by rj plus q e square by capital R and remember by Born-Oppenheimer approximation this last term is essentially a constant okay. So this is what it is so H ii is equal to integral phi 1 S i H hat phi 1 S i we are going to put this expression for the Hamiltonian in the expression for H ii and obviously we will get three terms in that case we will get a sum of three integrals these are what they are let me just write it like this we will need some space to write more things as well H ii turns out to be integral 1 S i here instead of a and b I am just writing i and j more general coefficient more general notations 1 S i H hat 1 e 1 S i now this is something nice remember this phi 1 S is 1 S orbital and what is the one electron Hamiltonian the 1 S orbital is going to be an eigen function of one electron Hamiltonian so energy of 1 S orbital is actually going to come out so this first one is very simple to work out what about the second one what about the third one we will see even in the second one you can see that 1 by r is constant so that can come out third one that is more interesting okay so this is how we write it now first we take this constant out it becomes q e square divided by r integral phi S i phi S i now we know that that is equal to 1 we are working with normalized S orbitals that is great now what we do not know is the third one first one I already said I do not know why I have not written it yet but it will come also in the first one I think you can understand what will happen energy of 1 S orbital is going to come out inside you are going to be left with integral 1 S and 1 S which is going to be 1 and so this will simply become the first term will simply become energy of a 1 S orbital second term is q square multiplied by well capital S no just q square by capital R no capital S third term is minus q square multiplied by phi 1 S i phi 1 S j divided by R j what is this this is called a an integral j the name is Coulomb integral when you say Coulomb what do you think which field of physics would you think of if I took the name of Coulomb electrostatics right so this Coulomb integral has got to do with electrostatics as well see what do I have in the numerator I have 1 S square phi 1 S square what is phi 1 S square remember that is the energy density right so inside the integral I essentially have phi 1 S square I will write i also and here it is R j so if I draw it like this this is the 1 S orbital I am talking about if this is i and the distance I am talking about is this R j right so what is this if I just multiplied by electronic charge that gives me charge of this electron cloud okay this square is essentially your probability density probability density multiplied by charge gives you charge density so in the numerator if you just multiply by E which is just a constant that is a measure of that is your charge density so we have a charge density at a separation of R j from the second nucleus so this essentially then gives me well one term gives me for a particular value of R j the potential for electrostatic attraction between the second nucleus and the electron cloud around the first nucleus okay similar treatment is encountered if you want to talk about say electrolyte solutions in electrolyte solutions what we do is we take say a positive ion cation and we take the ionic atmosphere to be a delocalized negative charge to keep charge balance so similar treatment is there as well you consider the electrostatic attraction between this point positive charge and this negatively charged cloud ionic atmosphere same thing here and you are integrating over all space so that will give you the total potential energy for electrostatic attraction between one nucleus and the electron charge cloud electron cloud on the near the other nucleus alright so it has a physical meaning j Coulomb integral talks about an electrostatic interaction okay so let us write the expression for HII now the first term is E I E 1 S as we said second term is Q E square by R third term is minus Q E square j okay very nice we got HII already why do we want HII because HII appears in the expression for energies E1 and E2 what is the next integral HIJ HIJ is a little more interesting why because unlike HII you have one S orbital in the graph vector a different S orbital in the ket factor and you might as well start guessing what which quantity which integral we are going to encounter in a similar like that in a situation like this so this is your HIJ again the first one there is no problem we still get energy of 1 S orbital second one once again your 1 by R is a constant it comes out but when 1 by R goes out what do you have inside the integral integral phi 1 S I phi 1 S j I hope why now we all recognize this integral this integral is simply the overlap integral S I J as we are putting it here more often we just call it capital S so what is H I J first term we have no problem ah I do not know why I have written it in so many steps anyway second term is Q E square by R integral phi S I phi S j third term is this integral which is which looks somewhat similar to the Coulomb integral but not exactly the same we have 1 S orbital in the graph vector we have another S orbital in the ket vector remember here R J is not a constant okay so how you evaluate these integrals will come to that okay but let us write this expression the first one what happens is you take the energy of 1 S orbital out no problem with that but inside you are going to have integral phi 1 S I phi 1 S j that is again your overlap integral so first one will be energy of 1 S orbital multiplied by overlap integral that is the difference between H I I and H I J second one also is Q E square by capital R multiplied by S overlap integral ah shows up in H I J it did not show up in H I I or H I J now in the third term again we have an integral which at the moment we do not know what to do with we will give it a name it is since the earlier integral was called J we go alphabetically and we call this one capital K integral phi S I phi S J capital phi S I phi S J divided by R J and there are textbooks in which they try to make sense of it but I do not think it is a good idea this is a purely quantum mechanical quantity it is called an exchange integral or resonance integral so this is what your expression is it is very important to understand it is a purely quantum mechanical concept there is no classical analog so to say that when this electron is here the that charge cloud interacting with the other nucleus and then when they change places that gives extra energy all this is ah trying to extrapolate the classical logic too much into the quantum world you cannot do it beyond an extent so please understand that it is a purely quantum mechanical concept I nobody knows to be honest any classical analog for this so let us not even try okay so we have the expression for H I J we have the expression for H I I what will I do we will now just put the expressions in the expressions for E 1 and E 2 and here I am going to go fast because it is so easy I will just put everything in if you want you please pause and do it yourself please do it yourself then you will understand this is the expression for E 1 this is the expression for E 2 now look at the expression what do we get E 1 S is the energy of an isolated 1 S orbital what is Q square by capital R you see this plus Q is square by capital R appears in both E 1 and E 2 so that is essentially the inter nuclear repulsion between ah A and B so no matter what you do that inter nuclear repulsion term will be there and depending on capital R it will be large or small if it is very far away capital R is large the second term will be close to 0 if it is very close to each other it will be very large but it is going to increase so if I just consider the two terms the first two terms then I can draw like this this here is the energy of the 1 S orbitals both of these energies would increase to some value and this is going to be how much this difference will be Q is square divided by capital R as you understand that this extent of destabilization is going to ah change depending on what is the value of capital R now we have something interesting the third term has a negative sign in both the cases but here in the numerator we have J plus K and in the denominator also we have 1 plus S here in the numerator we are J minus K and in the denominator we have 1 minus S now J K S these are integrals we have already shown how S varies and S is definitely something that depends strongly on capital R J and K can be evaluated not analytically but numerically meaning for different values of capital R you can just put in all the values and by brute force you can calculate what will be with what will that integral be by doing summation it is ah not very difficult to do if you know a little bit of computer programming okay this is where computer programming comes in big time in chemistry all right so this is what you get for E plus or E 1 you have a function that goes through a minimum this is the energy remember of the bonding orbital and here this is the energy of the anti-bonding orbital which increases monotonically when you when you decrease capital R from infinity to a very small values this position position or inter nuclear distance where you get an energy minimum for E 1 that is the inter nuclear bond distance and you can look at these insets so here this is a situation where the two nuclear very far apart from each other see what the energy is and you can work out what S is when they are at inter nuclear separation this is what the wave function would look like there is strong reinforcement okay and in case of the minus combination of the orbitals this is the situation when they are very far away it is still 0 when they are very close say when they are at this equilibrium bond length now you have this destructive interference between the two wave functions and energy goes up to this value and another point to note is that at equilibrium bond length stabilization of the bonding orbital is actually less in magnitude compared to the destabilization of the anti-bonding orbital you can explain this qualitatively by talking about buildup of electron density and depletion of electron density between the two nuclei but only qualitatively alright so these are the energies of H 2 plus now the way we proceed now is that we can just fill in electrons if you have more electrons here that is how you handle H 2 and other diatomic molecules homonuclear diatomic molecules but before that this is an executive summary of what we have learned so far and another thing that I want to say here is that this is what happens when you talk about hydrogen if you want to talk about homonuclear homonuclear diatomics like C 2 N 2 O 2 and so on and so forth you might need to you will need to invoke the combination of not only 1s orbitals but also 2s orbitals 2p orbitals and so on and so forth you can do it in exactly the same way and you can generate orbitals bonding and anti-bonding in this way. So going very quickly through this because it is not all that difficult for you to figure out one thing that I would like to point out is that symmetry of these orbitals is actually they have a role to play later on in many different things so let us note the symmetry and let us note the symmetry using these linear combination of p orbitals when there is pi bonding side on overlap this is the kind of contour diagram that you generate see here we have plus sign and here we have minus sign right sign of wave function just right beside it plus and minus and here you have a node so if you start from any point of the wave function go through the center equal distance on the other side you get an a change in the sign of the wave function right so this is called anti-symmetric with respect to inversion and the term for it is ungerade so these orbitals these molecular orbitals come with the subscript u so this is called pi u orbital you can neglect this one for now why pi because it is a pi interaction if I go back to the orbitals that we have drawn molecular orbitals what does this orbital look like when we combine this 1s and 1s for the bonding situation it is like something like this the contour diagram would be something like this now see it is plus everywhere right so if you go from one any point through the center equal distance to the other side you get no inversion at all no change in sign of wave function so this is called a sigma g wave function g for gerade gerade and ungerade are german words well gerade means symmetric ungerade means symmetric as far as we are concerned now what about the anti-bonding orbital for the h2 plus there we take something like this we have depletion so you have a node in between right this is the node so here the wave function is plus here it is minus start from any point go through the center equal distance on the other side you have inversion so this is called sigma u well for now let us say that this is sigma because it is sigma interaction and this one here is pi because you have pi interaction there is more to it it comes from the symmetry notations will not get into that in this course but this is what we get for sigma interaction involving s orbitals this is what we get for pi interaction involving p orbitals so the bonding orbital here so for sigma interaction you involving 1s orbital the bonding orbital has gerade symmetry the anti-bonding orbital is ungerade symmetry for pi bonding with p orbitals the bonding orbital actually is ungerade and anti-bonding orbital you see this is plus this is minus this is plus this is minus so anti-bonding orbital is actually gerade pi g and another thing that we often do is that for anti-bonding orbitals we put star okay different books use different notations but this is the notation that is used most universally star for anti-bonding and gerade and ungerade to indicate whether they are symmetric or anti-symmetric with respect to inversion right so this is in a nutshell this symmetry of orbitals that we just discussed you can have different kinds of bonds sigma pi and delta sigma is head on pi is with p orbitals this is pi with d orbitals this is pi no with d orbitals this is pi of course I do not have enough fingers to show you the 2 lobes at the bottom as well for d orbitals these are the 2 lobes at the top this interaction is p interaction so once again s orbitals sigma interaction no pi interaction possible p orbitals sigma interaction pi interaction d orbitals well you can have sigma interaction also right d orbitals you can have this kind of sigma interaction or maybe I should show this kind of sigma interaction where is pi interaction like this and this is delta interaction phase on head on side on phase on so these are the different kinds of bonds we will not discuss the symmetries of orbitals and all these in this course but it is a good exercise for the students to work out by themselves. Now what we have done so far is that we have generated the alphabet by which we can discuss homonuclear diatomics in terms of molecular orbital theory we have generated the molecular orbitals using the single electron one electron molecule that is H2 plus next we are going to learn how we can fill in electrons into these same orbitals and how we can develop a molecular orbital theory of dihydrogen.


I was just commenting that it's strange that we have to continue to meet each other outside the White House, which is where Code Pink started, to end war. And I want to thank James for his words and for being here. One quarter of the children he mentioned, you know, that are half of the country that have grown up in war, 18 years, they have grown up in this war. One quarter of them are working. They are making bricks. They're grafted into war. They, you know, we don't understand the abject poverty that we have caused with trillions of dollars. Like, think about it. Like, how much money of our tax dollars have we poured into Afghanistan to impoverish people, except the usual, they get rich on war, but the rest get very poor. And that we have done this to a whole generation of children. At the beginning, Afghanistan, a woman in Afghanistan, I want to read her words, Malala Joya. In Afghanistan, democratically-minded people have been struggling for human and women's rights for decades. Our history proves that these values cannot be imposed by foreign troops. No nation can donate liberation to another nation. These values must be fought for and won by the people themselves. We have interrupted that capacity for them to fight for liberation, to come to their own determination, and not only interrupted it, but we have devastated a country. And just looking back, that was done. What? On the excuse of we're going into Afghanistan to save the women, right? The women do not feel saved in Afghanistan. First of all, if you do that to your children, of the children of these women, you know you have not been there for the women. And you know that the women of Afghanistan have been living in the depression of war. We know what that is, the post-traumatic stress of war that makes life almost intolerable. But, you know, we, when we went to Afghanistan, we met some young women who wanted to make Afghanistan better. So we helped them come to the United States and study law so they could go back and change the laws of Afghanistan. They can't go back to Afghanistan. Their families have left Afghanistan. They have lost hope, and they continue to lose hope. The other thing we did when we went to Afghanistan is it was the time when Obama was threatening to do an escalation in Afghanistan, and we thought, well, if we go back and bring home the voices of the women, he'll understand this is a bad idea. But we brought back 4,000 signatures from women in Afghanistan, and they fell on deaf ears. Kind of sounds familiar for what we're experiencing this week in Washington, D.C., the deaf ears that women's voices fall on. No, instead he listened to generals in the United States instead of the women of Afghanistan. We have got to have a feminist foreign policy. We have got to stop the weapons and war and violence or something we value and are willing to invest our tax dollars in. We need to divest from war. Our cities, our states, our pension funds, our universities, our philanthropy that is supposed to be there to serve humanity is invested in weapons and war. This is insane. It is time to divest ourselves from weapons and war, invest ourselves in peace and by ourselves I mean in peace and empathy and kindness and listening. And to use our voices loud and clear to tell Trump out of Afghanistan now. Make that promise come true.


بحانه وتعالى في كتابه الكريم أعود بالله من الشيطان الرجيم إن الإنسان لا يطغى صدق الله العليش العظيم my dear brothers and sisters in different parts of the world السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته today I'm going to start this short e-sermon with a story from the Holy Quran when Prophet Musa peace be upon him went to Egypt and called the Pharaoh towards the truth and towards believing in one God the Pharaoh refused to accept Prophet Musa peace be upon him as the messenger of one God and he instead said that you are a magician and he called for a contest between the best magicians of Egypt and Prophet Musa peace be upon him you've all heard this story that on the day of the contest the magicians came forward and they set to Prophet Musa peace be upon him shall we cast the spell first or you will cast first assuming that Musa peace be upon him was also a magician so according to the Holy Quran Musa peace be upon him set to them you cast first and then they created an illusion they had ropes in their hands which they threw onto the ground and they appeared like living snakes at that moment Prophet Musa peace be upon him cast his staff onto the ground which turned into a living snake big snake and that snake ate up all those ropes that looked like living snakes and at that moment according to the Quran the magicians said when the magicians saw that miracle they realized that it was not magic it was a miracle and they said we believed in the Robb of Al Alameen the Lord of the Worlds the Lord of Musa and Haroon so they believed in Prophet Musa peace be upon him then and there and then the Pharaoh said something that is remarkable coming from a human being according to the Quran the Pharaoh said you believed in him before I give you the permission this is the word of a human being made of flesh and bones you believe in the God of Musa before I allow you to believe in other words how dare you before me saying that you believe in the God of Musa you shall not think you shall not believe in anyone you just want to believe in without my permission what does this saying of the Pharaoh tell us what does this express it contains sheer arrogance sheer arrogance and the Pharaoh also was someone who committed transgression in the words of the Quran according to the Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى said to Prophet Musa peace be upon him إذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغاب go to the Pharaoh indeed he has transgressed the Pharaoh was arrogant and he was a transgressor he was the epitome of arrogance and transgression in fact the arrogance and transgression go hand in hand but what is the root cause of arrogance and transgression in the light of the Quran this is the topic of this short E-Sermon on this Friday so what you are going to learn in the next 20 or so minutes is the following number one what is the term used in the Quran for transgression and I'll explain different types of transgression and we'll look at it in somewhat detail and in depth what does transgression actually mean and after that I will discuss what is the root cause of human arrogance and transgression in the light of the Quran and then in the final part of this short E-Sermon I will quickly discuss how we can learn to remove the traces of arrogance and transgression if we do have as believers how we can learn to remove those traces from our selves and our personalities إن شاء الله but before I proceed wherever you are from the bottom of your heart recite a beautiful salawat على محمد وآلي محمد اللهم صلي على محمد موالي وآلي محمد وعجل فرجهم في the beginning I recited a part of a verse from Surat Al-Alaq in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى says إن الإنسان لا يطغى indeed verily surely man transgresses the verb is يطغى another related verb is is a طغى which the Quran uses for the Pharaoh إنه طغى indeed he has transgressed and man transgresses there are different verbs appearing in the Holy Quran throughout different capacities of the Holy Quran that are related to transgression like طغى جطغى and they are all rooted in the root word طغية and the related noun is طغى جان and طغى جان means transgression and it is a very good English translation in fact transgression is taken from Latin and its root word actually means getting across moving across and moving across the border something like that so transgression is basically getting out of the control getting out of the limits getting out of control let me explain this with the help of an example when a river gets out of control gets out of its river banks its banks then that river has طغى جان so when a man gets out of limits the man has طغى جان the man commits transgression what did the Pharaoh do? he got out of limits out of limits a man made of flesh and bones and he says what أنا ربكم الأحلى I am your رب أعلى ربكم الأعلى I am your highest Lord your رب and then what else? he said what I am your إله ما علمت لكم من إلهين غيري he said to the Egyptians I do not find any God for you other than myself that is the peak of arrogance and transgression such a man has crossed all limits all limits now that was the extreme example extreme example when it comes to other human beings other than the Pharaoh throughout the history we have had different people who have been transgressors who did not say per se that I am God or I am رب أعلى and so on but they were طاقوت the Pharaoh was also a طاقوت now you see another word طاقوت is also a related word to the root word طغية related to طغيان طاقوت is a false God everyone who gets out of limits out of controls and controls and says that I am your leader I am your the guardian of your affairs that الله سبحانه وتعالى did not appoint is a طاقوت in theological terms طاقوت means false God usually every false God is called طاقوت but also those who take the place which الله سبحانه وتعالى has not given to them if someone says that I am a prophet that person is a طاقوت because God out of limits out of control if someone says that I am the Imam that person has got out of control out of limits out of حد in the books of exegesis we see what is transgression transgression is getting out of حد so the worst kind of transgression is that the Pharaoh did saying that I am God another kind of transgression is when someone refuses to believe in God refuses to believe that is also transgression how come by refusing to believe in God how come that is a transgression how come you get out of your limits out of control for that we would have to look at the root cause of transgression according to the Quran what is the root cause of transgression according to the Quran the root cause is إستغناء الله سبحانه وتعالى says in Sunnah in which the part of one verse of Surah Al-Alaq I recited in the beginning كلا إن الإنسان لا يطغى surely man transgresses why الرأه ستغنى that he sees himself as self-sufficient that is the root cause of all transgression and arrogance although in the books of exegesis it is written that transgression is rooted in arrogance and arrogance is one of the causes of transgression however if we pay a close look and attention we see that arrogance and transgression both go hand in hand and arrogance is also rooted in believing that one is self-sufficient has إستغناء الله سبحانه وتعالى clearly says in the Quran the man transgresses because he sees himself as self-sufficient what does self-sufficient mean إستغناء it is rooted in غنية غنى غنى is the name of الله سبحانه وتعالى إستغناء means not needing anyone when someone says that I do not believe in God and no one created me and the whole universe came into existence by itself and I am not dependent on a supreme power such a person also commits transgression that is another form of transgression تغيان another form of تغيان is when one crosses the limits of the شريعة that is related to the believers حدود الله the حدود of the شريعة when someone transgresses when someone crosses those limits commits sins then one also gets out of control, gets out of limits that is one kind of transgression but not as serious as refusing to believe in God or like the extreme example of the Pharaoh saying that I am the God or God or Allah so getting back to the root cause إستغناء we need to understand we need to understand what is إستغناء who has إستغناء man thinks that he has إستغناء he is self-sufficient the reality is that no one in the existence has إستغناء except الله سبحانه وتعالى the one who is a creature can never be self-sufficient therefore الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the holy book يا أيها الناس أنتم الفقراء إلى الله والله هو الواني الحميد oh mankind أيها الناس أنتم الفقراء إلى الله all of you are what فقراء إلى الله you are in constant need of الله سبحانه وتعالى all the time constantly you need الله سبحانه وتعالى والله هو الواني الحميد and it is الله سبحانه وتعالى alone who is اللغاني who is self-sufficient and ألحميد and most praiseworthy because he is اللغاني he gives everyone everything that everyone needs he does not need anything from anyone he has been there since ever and ever and ever no one brought him into existence he brought everything into existence so how can man say that I am self-sufficient هل أتا على الإنسان حين من الدهر لم يكن شيئا مذكورا الله سبحانه وتعالى says hasn't there been a time for a man when he was something not even a madakura not even worthy to be mentioned when someone is not even worthy to be mentioned it means that that thing did not exist was a معدوم was none existent and when he comes into existence then he says I am self-sufficient I do not need God all the qualities I have are my own my own knowledge my own power my own skills that is thinking that I am self-sufficient while الله سبحانه وتعالى says أنتم الفقراء إلى الله يا أيها الناس I'm gonna explain and elaborate this point a little bit further الله سبحانه وتعالى did not single out anyone in this verse usually in some of the verses like وَلَعَصْرِ إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِي خُصْرِ الله سبحانه وتعالى says الإنسان mankind every man every human being is at loss and then puts an استثناء exception إلا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمُلُ الصَّوَالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوبِ الْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوبِ الصَّبرِ he put الله سبحانه وتعالى put an exception uses this كلما إلا إلا puts an exception استثناء everyone is at loss except those who believe and then good do the do good deeds and also are patient and so on but in this verse يَا يُهَنَّاسَ أنْتُمُ الْفَقَرَاءِ لَلَّهِ did not say إلا الَّذِينَ إلا no no one is self-sufficient there is no one who does not need الله سبحانه وتعالى constantly including the holy prophet including the 14 infallibles despite all their status despite all their knowledge despite all their power that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given to them despite all that they are also among the الفقراء because they also constantly need الله سبحانه وتعالى every being needs الله سبحانه وتعالى to maintain and sustain its existence also the holy prophet peace be upon him therefore the infallibles the 14 infallibles used to say to Allah سبحانه وتعالى do not leave us on our own even for a second even for the blink of an eye do not leave us on our own this is a way to show gratitude to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to show humility to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and no one understands the meaning of this verse يَا يُهَنَّاسَ أنْتُمُ الْفقَرَاءِ لَلَّهِ than the one upon whose heart this verse was descended the holy prophet peace be upon him who would understand the meaning of this verse true more than who would understand more than the holy prophet the meaning of this verse therefore we see in some of the narrations that when Allah when the holy prophet peace be upon him would pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى would ask for something he would make a posture that would look like a hungry beggar begging for food from someone that is how the holy prophet peace be upon him would ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for something and all humility complete submission whose whole existence told that I am not a money I do not have استغناء he has استغناء Allah سبحانه وتعالى has استغناء he is self-sufficient so we have to remind ourselves all the time that we depend on Allah سبحانه وتعالى to maintain, to sustain our existence all our qualities all our skills all our valuables all our wealth whatever we have achieved all our achievements this is all because of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and then we will not be arrogant then we will not be transgressors and every day five times a day several times during the five daily prayers we utter a phrase we recite a phrase that we should pay more attention to and that phrase tells us how dependent we are on Allah سبحانه وتعالى only if we could learn to ponder and reflect over those phrases what do we say بحول الله وقوته أقوموا وقعد with the power of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I stand up and sit down it's with the might and power of Allah سبحانه وتعالى without Allah سبحانه وتعالى we cannot even stand up we cannot even sit down we are nothing without Allah سبحانه وتعالى everything that we have is given to us by Him and we should be grateful to Him and being grateful means not being a transgressor not being arrogant and we have to use our intellect we have to use our أقل if we use our أقل intellect then surely we will not commit transgressive acts we will not commit transgression we will not be arrogant because أل أقل the intellect although the intellect the commonly perceived meaning of intellect is different from the concept of أل أقل in Islam but for now simply to say if we use our intellect our أقل we will realize how dependent we are on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and in fact according to our theology shea muslims believe that there are two types of messengers one is the messenger in the exterior that Allah سبحانه وتعالى sends and that calls the mankind towards good deeds and belief in one God and there is a messenger inside us in the interior that's called حجة و باطنية that is the interior messenger that is أل أقل the exterior messenger goes to the Pharaoh outside and tells him that you should not commit transgression and then the messenger inside us is also telling us all the time the أل أقل to the Pharaoh inside us do not be arrogant do not be transgressor only if we could listen to that only if we could use that interior messenger أل أقل we would realize how dependent we are on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that exterior messenger and Prophet Musa peace be upon him went to the Pharaoh and said what he said to him that why don't you purify yourself فقل هلك إلا أنت زكا according to the Quran Allah سبحانه وتعالى said and go to him and so say to him what is it with you what is the matter with you and you are not willing to purify yourself أنت زكا and that brings me to the last part of this short E-sermon what is the key to removing arrogance and transgression and the traces of arrogance and transgression from ourselves is given in this verse Allah سبحانه وتعالى says go to the Pharaoh because إنه طغا he has been a transgressor and then say to him why don't you purify yourself so if we learn to purify ourselves if we become willing to purify ourselves to تزكية we can remove arrogance we can remove transgression purify our thoughts and our beliefs first of all all the forms of shirk all the forms of wrong beliefs all the misconceptions about the ohed and not learning the ohed in depth that is a root cause of many mistakes we make many arrogant behaviors of ours is in the lack of understanding of توحيد in the lack of understanding of the names of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the lack of understanding of the scheme of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and I keep saying this in several of my lectures that أتفكر في أمر الله that is the عبادة according to a hadith by Imam Reza peace be upon him so we have to start from there purify our thoughts purify our beliefs and then what will happen we'll move away from shirk and we'll move more towards pure توحيد we'll start to realize that we are nothing we are insignificant beings and then we'll not be arrogant then we'll only be grateful to Allah سبحانه وتعالى for everything we have and then the other form of the transgression is the transgression related to committing sins and getting out of control breaking the حدود of Allah breaking the حدود the boundaries of the شريع that also we can learn not to do by doing what تزكية because Allah سبحانه وتعالى says and we can then learn to not cross those boundaries do reflection think learn about our religion and it is all rooted in the reflection on the scheme of Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the reflection on our own existence and the one who brought us into existence if you start doing that then we will also learn that not only did he bring us into existence but also will surely one day return to him and will be answerable to him and that will be driving force for us not to be transgressors in this life not to break the boundaries not to cross limits not to cross the boundaries of the شريع and there are further details but our time is up almost 25 minutes I have used and as I said in the previous إيسرمن also that I have started this series so that we can learn in depth develop a deeper an in-depth understanding of different Qur'anic concepts and we got a I got a very good response after the first إيسرمن and I really hope and pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى that what I wanted to convey in this sermon in this short session Allah سبحانه وتعالى makes it conveyed to you who are listening to it and if you like this session then please subscribe to this channel and also invite your friends and family and others who you think might be interested in developing an in-depth understanding of different Qur'anic concepts I wish you all health and safety and please take care of yourself and each other and also I wish you all a blessed month of Ramadan and in the end be grateful to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and also do not forget to have some fun in life some حلال fun in life والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاء


is a presentation of TFNN. The Tom O'Brien Show is produced every business day. Tom takes your phone calls toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let's go to Eddie and Bookarton. Hey, Eddie, what's going on? Hey, Tom, how are you, man? I'm doing great, man, yourself? Good, good. It is a treasure to have TFNN every hour during the trading day, to be there, to help you to guide you, and even to give you some peace of mind, or like somebody else is there with you while you're trading this crazy market, either up or down. Well, listen, we appreciate you growling problem with us out here, because we wouldn't be out here, folks, if we didn't have all you guys, gals, tigers and tigers as clients. And the market teaches you every single day, man. Now, Tom O'Brien. OK, boys and girls, this is Larry Pesavento setting in for the master himself, Tom O'Brien. Tom will be back with you next week, folks. But today, you have me for the final hour of the week. On a very, very wild week, we're down over 700 points in the Dow Jones industrial average. I posted a funny little cartoon that one of these geniuses in millennials, I guess, has a picture of Jerome Powell standing over a grave of the Nasdaq showing 1973 to 2022, I believe, as the death of the Nasdaq. Boy, if you ever want to get ready for a rally, that's got to be the picture you want to use. You're not seeing that. OK, well, let's try to do it again. One second, boys and girls, it, well, let's just do it the easy way if I can. Hold on here. Boy, I sure have trouble with technical stuff, don't I? But that's just the nature of the beast. This, I think we can do. Hopefully this will do it, and you'll be able to see it now. And if we can't, and if we can't, then I'll have to go to Plan B as it, maybe it's because I'm in the host chat, but let me know if you could see it, folks. Please do. I would like, OK, everything's good. Anyway, that's just showing you 1971, 2022, the death of the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq has been the leader on the way down. It was a leader on the way up. That's the way it's supposed to be, but let me try to walk through you, walk through with you what I see happening in the Nasdaq because we're getting close to a very, very important bottom, and we're going to bring this up to let you see what it looks like. This is over the past several weeks. We had a very important thing happen just yesterday. I want to bring it up to your attention here, but here is the Nasdaq, and as you can see here, we made that 382 retracement here. We hit it three days in a row, folks, but the way that it did it, and remember now that we had the Dow Jones way up into this area and also the S&P up into this area, but the Nasdaq cannot get above the 382 retracement, verifying, giving the validity that it is in a very, very bearish market, but that bearish market is getting pretty close to having them one heck of a rally. Let me show you why I think that could be happening. All I'm going to do now is I'm going to go back over the last several days just to show you that high that we made here to prove to you why it's so very important because these option traders use these numbers to price the options, and you'll be able to see here yesterday when we went up there, you can see the three peaks up there. That was each one of those with that little green line where you have your expected weekly high of that move. You can see it hit it three times, three different days, and then of course we've broken down badly today, which is what we were expecting. I'll show that chart to you also so that you'll be able to see the upgraded version of what we're just talking about because we're looking at here folks as technical analysis. This is known as the AB equals CD pattern. It's in Tommy's book, Timing the Trade with Tom O'Brien. It does a great book, and you'll be able to see there's the big ABCD that he's looking at in his book. And you can see that big 1.618 expansion is coming due here and with a couple action like this within a day or two will probably be lined up exactly down to that far point here, probably like Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. We should be sitting right here on this bottom right about here. That's what you'd be watching to see if this lines up. But right now it's doing exactly what it should be doing. It's washing out these people that stayed around too long. Folks, interest rates are going to go higher. You have to get ready for that. But again, I believe that we're in the same situation in treasury notes and treasury bonds as we are with the others because you're looking at something that is going to tell you that the market is at a major, major bottom here in these interest rates, which means we should get a very, very strong rally in a bear market, but interest rates are going to be going higher. So get ready for it. If you're going to finance a house, now's the time to do it. Okay, now taking a look here at the long-term weekly in the treasury notes. Now, these are the things that they measure for your auto loans, your credit cards and any credit that you have for credit cards. You'll see that this big ABCD pattern, we rally up to a 382 retracement and we've been coming down sharply now for 11 weeks. So this market is incredibly oversold and it's due for a very, very strong rally. Now, if it matches the last two rallies that we had, you'll notice we had one way back here in 2000 and, this is 2020, another one in 2021 and then this little small one in 2022, it's going to be eight to 10 handles. Well, that's at $8,000 or $9,000 in these, but remember the bonds have already rallied $2,000 already this week. So that's telling you that this market is, at least for notes and bonds, has bottom somewhat, but folks, long-term, all of these things are turning negative. So you've got to be very, very careful being a buyer of bonds or stocks in here because something's different out there folks. I don't know exactly what it is because I'm a technician, but the interest rates are increasing. I know we've got a war or we don't have it, but the rest of the world does in the Ukraine and other things that are very, very important, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is you don't have to risk your money. So if you've got money in these stocks and you think it's time to get out, that's what you should do. It's going to be a great buying opportunity here in about probably a week to 10 days would be my guess, and then you're going to see one heck of a rally bigger than anything we've seen thus far. Now, I want to show you what this really means because if you stop and think what's happened to the NASDAQ here between yesterday and today, this is a graph that was posted on the internet by one of the clever little folks that can do those little cartoons, but you can see here that we've dropped 500 points from high to low folks. And now we're down another 300 points today. And not only that folks, we are down one standard deviation in the NASDAQ. Boy, that is not an easy task to do over 300 points. So this market is now very, very oversold and we're coming into an area probably, my guess is Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, we should be forming a bottom down in here. We should get a rally that lasts anywhere from five to 10 days. And then we'll have to reevaluate it from that level. So let's take a little break, eight, seven, seven, nine, two, seven, six, six, four, eight. Are you looking for a way to consistently add winning trades to your portfolio? Tom O'Brien is here to help. Tom O'Brien has been successfully trading markets for over 30 years. A frequent contributor to TD Ameritrade Network and CNBC, Tom O'Brien founded TFNN over 20 years ago to help educate investors just like you. Tom's Daily Market Newsletter, Market Insights, is published every morning when the market's open to give you the competitive informational edge you need to succeed. These newsletters are packed full of Tom's advanced technical analysis and are geared to deliver comprehensive strategies for a successful portfolio. 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Watch online at TFNN.com or on TFNN's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be, TFNN. Educating investors. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay, we're back folks. This is Larry Pesevito setting in for Tom O'Brien today and what I'm doing now is posting a chart of the long-term weekly of the Dow Jones industrial average. I'd like for you to take a quick look at that because on the far left, you'll see what happened during the COVID epidemic where the market dropped about 22% over a six-week period. And as you can see here, we're down in that area where we're rolling down like seven or 8%. So we have a long way to go just to match that if that were to be the case. That would be a significant correction from where we are setting right now. And that's pretty much, some of the things that we have to pay attention to because we don't have any, well, COVID is dissipating quite a bit and we don't have a war going on over here. So we have to rely on what the news is to tell us whether these markets are gonna go up. Being a technician like I am, I don't really look at the news, but you'll be able to see these things unfold because this is a major top. You'll see that that high, I'd lost it just one second, folks. I'll get it back up here again and we'll be up here. You'll be able to see it and then we'll be ready to go. Hold on here and we'll be ready to go one more time. And this area here was the high. Back on January the sixth, that was a three drive to a top pattern, drive one, drive two, drive three. And then of course we had the big correction into February when the nuclear power plant over there was attacked. And fortunately there was no damage and now things have held up relatively well. But there's problems, other places in the world too, folks. We're handling it the best we can, but fortunately there's not been a war on our shores here. Believe it or not, folks, there was actually an attack by a Japanese submarine in 1942. It came above ground, above the water in Santa Barbara, California and they fired some, what I guess shells, mortar shells, whatever it was. And it hit a restaurant called the Timbers. And that Timbers was rebuilt with the remainder of the restaurant that was still there. It was called the Timbers. It remained the only place on the whole continental United States where we were actually attacked by a foreign force. Anyway, that lasted till about 1972, about 30 years. And then it was turned into a nursing home and doing good work there still to this day. So I thought I'd bring that up to you because every time I go up to that area, I drive past the place to remind myself that that's what we're looking at. Now I've been asked by one of our listeners here if we could do the same work that we just did with the Dow Jones, with the E-mini S&P. And I'm going to do that right now. I'll bring up the hourly chart so you'll be able to see the swings that we're looking at. We're very close to the bottom folks. You can see here, as you look at this, the bottom is gonna be down here right around the 42, 35 level. I think the last price I saw was 42.78. So we're very, very close. That's a 78% retracement of the low that we made way back in September, excuse me, on February the 24th. That's when that big problem when the Ukraine was attacked and then they started dropping shells everywhere. And then of course on March the 15th is when they had the problem with the power station. And so anyway, the slate and the day for me folks so bear with me, I'm doing my best to set in for Tommy. And boy, that's not an easy task because he does it day in, day out and does a great job. But that's what we're looking at here is potential bottom coming in here. My guess is on Tuesday or Wednesday and usually probably turn around Tuesday as they usually call it. So I'll be looking for a place to buy some futures and some other things that probably be at a good cheap price at those levels. Now I wanted to get off the beaten path here a little bit and talk just a tiny bit about energy. And the chart that I'm going to bring up to you is the chart for the UNG, which is the ETF for natural gas. And then I'm going to bring up the price chart of the natural gas and show you the difference. So you've noticed with the ETF here with these arrows that you're seeing right here each of these is a what they call an island reversal. In other words, the market is way up and then reverses closing near the low of the day and then boom down it went. And you can see we had one of those this week which came in at hold on believe it $8. Yeah, $8.10 and we've been down ever since it's been getting hit pretty hard. And then today as we look at it today you'll be able to see this picture personified because when we look at it on the daily base now this is the nearest, this is the futures for the May contract which will be going off the board shortly but there's the big expansion that we had. You'll notice the big bottom that we had down here. That's one that you want to be buying is when all those red things, all these red patterns are completing down here like they were in January and then boom away we've had this huge run and that pretty much kept that bull market we've backed off in just three or four days. You can see we've dropped well over $3,000 or $4,000 but the market is going up and down $3,000 or $4,000 during the day folks. That's how wild it is over there. And if you're not accustomed to trading natural gas and if you're not accustomed to trading natural gas you probably ought to stay out of that party because it's a wild one and you don't want to get involved with those wild ones. Wait for the easy ones to come along. The easy ones coming along is when you got the S&P down there at 4235 and when it's sitting there at 4235 yes, there's where you can put your toe in the water and say I can find some good buys in here. Friendly hello and a good buy as they always say that when you're selling cars and we're not selling cars here that's back from the old days of Terrold, Indiana. Anyway, let's move on to the next chart that I wanted to share with you and that's since we're talking about money I want to share with you the chart of the Euro over the past month because it has been getting hit that means a dollar is getting has been very, very strong. We'll get up right here so you'll be able to see what we're looking at here. And there's the Euro over the past month and a strong downtrend. You'll notice these two red markings that we have here that means the market made a 382 retracement telling you that the market is still going down and we're testing those lows again as we speak but we're getting close to what we think is going to be a pretty significant bottom in the Euro folks. We're trading at 107 and change somewhere around that 105 level. It's only two points away. We should have a major, major turn in the US dollar i.e. selling off the US dollar and the Euro starting to rally. Now, is that going to happen today? No, it's going to happen over a period of three or four more weeks. So we've got more time. Remember the Fed's going to be out there pumping their little program with we're going to raise 50 basis points or 20 basis points, whatever it happens to be. But that's it. We'll find out when they're going to do it but interest rates are going higher folks but we should have a really good short covering rally before that happens. 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I mean, it had been various for quite a while, but he said, this is where the dollar turns. And of course, it was trading at around 72. And of course, it went to quite a bit higher. In fact, you can see it here already above one. And so this is the type of thing that we look for. Now, you'll notice that this one is setting up into this 100 to 101 range, which is near the 78% retracement. Now, 78% is important because it's the square root of 618. Square root of 618 is 0.382. So that's how you get them, how these numbers fit together in a way of trying to analyze what the market is doing. So as long as we don't get above the 102 level, we've got a chance for this dollar index to be peeking out here shortly. And we'll see a pretty good rally and possibly in the Euro. But remember, the Euro has been under a great deal of pressure folks because of the fact that they're involved with what's going on in the Ukraine, because a part of NATO makes it a quagmire of problems for them. We have our own problems here, but that happens to be just a big one for them. So let's pay attention to that. Now, let me just show you, since we're talking about the Euro and it's one of my most favorite things to trade along with about 25 other things. Hold on, let's get this up here. You'll see here, this is the weekly chart of the Euro. And there you can see, there's a possibility of that ABCD pattern that Tom features in his book, Timing the Trade. And that comes in right at that 106 and change. You usually see that take out those lows from last year, well, two years ago, 2020. That would make, excuse me, early 2021, that would get it down to about that 106 level, possibly 105. And then we should see a humongous rally of anywhere from eight to 10 weeks that would take the market back up into that area. It's around that 112 area that would be very, very interesting to look at. That, excuse me, in the Euro versus the dollar. So those are how we look at it technically. Remember, folks, that the Euro is 53% of the dollar index. So that's why you have to be able to watch that as you're looking at it. Because if you don't, and if you don't, that's telling you that by golly, you're gonna be surprised and maybe this dollar is gonna bring back inflation or it could also help tame inflation. If it comes back in a big way, it could make things a lot better than what we're seeing now with inflation. Because with the fires and stuff that is still going on in some of these cities, it's just really amazing. I'm talking about the ones with the hurricanes and stuff. Okay, now let's get back to the gold market here because this is one that we all have an interest in, TFNN, get this up here. And we'll be looking at this chart right here, which is the hourly chart of the gold. As you can see here, it's a four hour chart. We made a beautiful ABCD up there this week at 1975. We closed the week at 19.34 down $35 on the week. And I believe that this is just the beginning. We're gonna make another larger ABCD in this. We will not be doing any gold business as we move to when we switch over folks. In other words, the words I'm trying to say is when the market is over today, okay, we are not gonna be switching over to another contract of the gold until this is June gold. So the next one will be coming up will be August. So that's what you wanna be looking for is where August gold is. So we're down right now at around 19.34, is what looks like where we changed. The ABCD on this structure would take you down to that very famous number of 1776. And at that point, folks, back up your truck, your F-150 or your Tacoma or Dakota, whatever you're riding, and get ready to buy some gold because that's gonna be where the train leaves for the next level in gold, which will be up around 3,200. But we need to see the gold wash everybody out right around that 1776 level. The same thing in the cryptos. We'd like to see Bitcoin get down into that area of around 20 to 25,000. And that'll set up some of these cryptos that we watch very, very auspiciously. I think that's the word I'm trying to figure out to be a buyer of those, but right now that's a long way from happening. We still have to get them down to the levels where they're very, very low risk. Okay, now, this is what I wanted to show you how this collapse has happened these last couple of days because this is what technical analysis is all about. What we're going to show you now is the TASH S&P index, the SPY. Now, as you can see here, we made the 61% retracement and then we backed off a few days and then we rallied back again to that same level this week, right up to that 61% retracement that we hit it magically yesterday at 4,509, spot on, 61% retracement. And from that level, we've been breaking down. And of course, the price objective on that comes in at 25, 37. Let's try it again, Larry, 45. Try it again, Larry, 43.27. And that's where you'll be going to that level. Anyway, let's hope that these markets continue to trade the way they are trading because this volatility is tailor made for pattern recognition swing trading. And that's what we try to do here at TFNN, especially the service that I have, which is Fibonacci 24.7 and the 24.7 is because I stay up a lot to see if the folks can get moving on as far as what the markets are doing overnight in London and other places like that. So we just did a seminar in London on April 1st, 2nd and 3rd. It was the hands down the most successful one I've ever done with Tom Hougard, David Paul, Steve Ward and Al Brooks. And that was really a lot of fun. Now we're going to switch gears, get over on the slippery side of this investment business and move over to his old Judd Clampett would call it Black Gold, Texas T. Get this up here and you'll see there is the crude oil folks. Had a beautiful bottoms down there in earlier part of the year. 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This is Larry Pesavento setting in for Tom O'Brien, and we have a guest on the line, Mr. Zee from Philly is on the line. John, how are you doing today? I am doing very well, Larry. Thanks for taking the call. Like, very much like you filling in and doing double duty for Tom O'Brien today. It's a real pleasure. He does a lot for everybody else, so all we can do is chip in when he needs help, so. Indeed. Hey, Larry, I wanted to ask you about the E-mini SOPs. Sure. You've done a wonderful job, of course, and notice just yesterday and today catching a over, I think, that 4,500 level yesterday. And now we've had this big reversal and it's just real easy to see. Of course, you've done this for yourself and your clients, but some P's, I think, yeah, they've gotten down to 4,275, 4,300 last, well, it's just a touch, but are quickly approaching the 4,235 target. That's just an AB equals CD down. Sure. So what I wanted to ask is, as we declined dramatically yesterday and today, just into three o'clock, taking partial profits on short, taking all your profits, letting it all go that as a trader, given a large move in such a brief period of time. Well, John, you're fortunate to have me on the line today because I'm one of the few people that knows where the exact high and the exact low is of every market at all time. That's exactly why I called, sir.  No, John, what I try to do is manage my risk. And I know coming into this weekend, we've had two strong down days in a bull market, we're still in a bull market, okay? And my whole premise here is I don't wanna risk anything. So because of the weekend coming up here, I know that I can take the position off, which I just did just a little while ago, once the standard deviation, one standard deviation and NASDAQ was hit and since that happened, it's rallied 150 points, I believe. But I don't like to be long anything or short anything over the weekend if I can help it.  So I will wait and see what's happening Sunday night and then look to put my positioning back on at that time. So that's how I handle that. So I hope that answers your question. You know that it does answer it and you gave your logic, so that's all very clear. So yeah, no, that's terrific. To ask briefly, on the gold market, we rallied Monday, interestingly enough, there was a full moon over the weekend, so that was on a lunar cycle top. Is there any reason to think or, is there any reason for you to consider the possibility that this decline off of 2003 holds 1893 low that was formed, oh, I think it was March 29th or so, or alternatively of that level with much lower price? Yeah, what I try to do now, you're talking about a longer timeframe here and of course my forte is shorter term. One, two, three days, I'm very good at that because I can manage my risk within a magnifying glass actually. But when I start going out five, six weeks like what you're talking here, I have to have a parameter that allows me to make that gauge and that gauge is the ABCD pattern. Now if we take 2,090 as the high and then we came down to, I believe, I think it was 16 and change, 1654 or something like that, then we rallied up to 20 something, that means that we could get down one more time down there to around 1776, John. That's where, and it's strange that it's that number, but that is the number that I'm looking at for the ABCD in the gold market right around 1776, $150 from where we're sitting at today. Right, very good, okay. Okay. Import makes a good deal of sense to me, so we will take the weekend off, revisit Sunday night and enjoy the weekend. That's the way I'd like to do it. I mean, just since we were talking, we had a 200 point rally and 100 point drop in the Dow Jones in the last 20 minutes. So it's not for the faint of heart, but I would suggest that that's what I'm doing is I took them off just a little while ago and 15 minutes after the hour and now I'll wait and see what happens on Sunday night. If I miss part of it, I miss part of it, but there's always another train going by and we'll be able to catch that train no matter what. But the good news is, is these markets are starting to behave normally. In other words, going up and down and not just straight up like we've had in some of these other markets. So including the grains, which have started to possibly sell off today and in the meat markets that have been getting hit a little bit. So we're starting to see some types of inflationary pressure being relieved, John. So there's always that possibility. So I think we need to watch it closely because corn could easily go, we were at $8 in change, $8.13 in corn just recently. And we could easily go back to $5.50 or $6. And that- You said it, Larry, no super bull market lasts forever. Absolutely. Yeah, that's true. And John, you and I both know that it is absolutely 100% imperative that we have a good crop in not only this hemisphere, but also in Brazil, Argentina, because every bit of grain is going to be needed to feed the world because a lot of people are out there without food. And if we have a bad crop here, wow, you think $200 oil is exciting? You have to remember that oil is indigestible and people want to eat food. So who knows? I've seen the price of eggs doubled here in just 10 days, we've gone from $1.39 to $2.70. And I understand some places in the East are already $5 a dozen because you know, that's pure protein. And you know, that's- Yeah, yeah. It's funny how when bad news or bad things happen, they seem to occur in clusters. And regarding eggs and chickens, there's a disease out there in the US that is causing part of the flocks to be liquidated to guard against that spreading. So anyway, we will hope for the best and prepare for something worse. And I thank you for your time Larry and you have a good show, a good weekend. John, it's always great talking to you folks because this guy really knows his business. He's the real deal. I've known him a long time and they don't grow any corn without checking with John first. So that's how important he really is. John Cherveny folks, you bet Mr. Z. Okay, now we've got the market selling off again right on the lows of the day here. Looks like we're gonna be down over 700, maybe even 800 points. Had a 200 point rally, a 200 point drop in the last 15 minutes. Let's take a little break. Eight, seven, seven, nine, two, seven, six, six, four, eight. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. You have to practice, sure, but you also need excellent instruction from experts. At TFNN, you'll get advice and guidance from the authority and technical market analysis. 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Buying some physical silver in the form of the old coins that were minted in 1964 or earlier, or buying silver rounds from the government or some of the other places that promote these silver round coins that is basically one pure ounce of gold. But I think that's got a possibility of going a great deal higher. We know interest rates are going to go higher. Inflation doesn't seem to be being led up at all right now, but that could change easily with a good crop. But like I mentioned before with Mr. Z, that we absolutely have to have a big crop this year or the world is in big trouble and there's going to be fighting for the last morsel of food. So let's do that. Now, I wanted to show you what was happening here while we were on the air. You can see here that the market rallied 250 points and looked like it was going to close really strong. 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I'll go first. Please, England, to see the sights. I've got to widen that narrow road so we can drive our tanks down to the coast. Push out, get in that bulldozer, and shove that rock out of the way. Well, couldn't we do it tomorrow? Sergeant, it's mighty dark tonight. No, maybe a witch. You see, they burned the witch at the stake here 200 years ago and buried her under that rock. I haven't, say, Rogers. You don't mean to tell me that. Oh, I'm easy to say that if that rock is moved, the ghost will escape from a grave and turn this town upside down.  We'll see if there's a ghost around here. You have to sleep when suddenly I hear the back door slam. You hear that? And then a thorny annoyance. What did I tell you, boys? It was that blinking Yankee bulldozer, Chappy. What started all this? Hold on, Mr. Sikes. All of a sudden, I feel a chill, and there's a lump in the bed between me and the moonlight streaming through the window. My voice freezes and my wind pipe. Now I may. And before I can summon the strength to jump out of my bed and gear, shout, the lump disappears. The bedroom door opens, and I hear the front door slam. If that ain't the ghost of scrap-flaggot green, ret-fighting. Shh. Here comes the stranger. Mr. Sikes, Mr. Walter J. Sikes. That's me, Walter J. Sikes, owner of your old Queen Anne's Cosselin. What can I do for you? Well, my name is Boyd Lewis of the United Press. I just got in to Great Lees from London. The American newspaper man. That's right, sir. The United Press wants to know if there's any truth to the story about the ghost of scrap-flaggot green. Is there any truth? Why, sir? Listen, Mr. Lewis, and I'll fill you in on background. A witch was burned at the stake here at Great Lees 200 years ago. She's been resting peacefully all these years until last night. Ah, last night, two American soldiers used a bulldozer to push away the stone on her grave. Allowing her spirit to escape, I did. And of all the people she had to call on, she picked on me first. I don't like the looks of it at all. What do you think, Mr. Lewis? I think I'll call on those two American soldiers. Mr. Playsay, Sergeant? That's right, Mr. Lewis. We just pushed it away. Yeah, and I remember hearing a terrible sound like a screech out. Yeah, yeah, I remember that, too. But it could have been the wind. Well, now tell me, did you see anything? Not a thing. All I know is the folks around here are blaming this ghost business on us. Yeah, and we don't like the idea of a ghost messing up this war, see? Hey, Sergeant, what about you spending the night with me at the inn? We might find out something about this ghost of scrap-faggot green. Well, that suits me, Mr. Lewis. I'm ready for anything. Sykes' room is next to ours, ain't it? That's what she's sleeping like. Ah! Oh, man, Sykes. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Are you all right, Mr. Sykes? What happened? I was in bed. Suddenly, I heard a noise over by the bookcase. When I got up, somebody screamed, and I hit the floor. Hey, Mr. Lewis, take a look at these books, will you? Let's see. It's funny. All the jackets have been changed. It was the ghost of scrap-faggot green. Hey, the Shakespeare jacket's on the girls' way. The Somerset mourns on the tall story. I tell you, nobody but a ghost could have caused that. It was that blinking Yankee bulldozer that started all this. No, Mr. Lewis. That may sound funny, but the reputation of the American army is at stake here. We can't afford to be blamed for turning a ghost loose on our lives. The next move is all set, Sergeant. The United Press is sent for Professor Harry Price. Yeah? Who's he? Professor Price is a member of the London Council on Psychical Research, the supernatural. Yeah, yeah, I get you. The professor will prove whether there's really a ghost of scrap-faggot green and Great Lees. Hey, better prove it. We can't have a ghost messing us up in this war. That the spirit of scrap-faggot green has escaped. We must lose no time in inducing this ghost or spirit to resume her position in the grave. Excuse me, Professor. How do you propose to do that? It's quite simple, Mr. Lewis. By replacing the stone in the exact spot from where it was pushed from her grave. That shouldn't be hard. We are working against time, gentlemen. I trust you realize that tomorrow is Friday the 13th. No, I'm not. I fear to think what mischief this ghost might cause if she were allowed to remain at large on that day of dark omens. We'd better get her under today. We'll be in for it tonight. Right, Mr. Lewis? I don't know. So that its four-foot length is pointed you north and south. All right, boys. Let's all push together. Right, shall we? Everybody all set? Right, yes, sir. Here. Yes, gentlemen, I am confident that the good people of Great Lees will have no further cause to worry about the ghost of scrap-faggot Greene. She is once again safely locked in her grave. Mr. McIntosh? Yeah, yeah, help me. And I'm warning you all, the ghost of scrap-faggot Greene will not stay buried. Robby! Why do you say that, Mr. McIntosh? Because the bloomin' eye on the rock point sideways. What are you driving at? Walter Sakes. I've been past that stone every day for 44 years. And the eye has always pointed up blind. McIntosh is right. Of course, I'm right. Oh, Mr. Lewis, here we go again. There's nothing to be alarmed about, Sergeant. Nothing to be alarmed about. The professor, where's the professor? The professor has returned to London. But just to make sure this mystery is cleared up, the United Press is having another expert on the supernatural here in Great Lees tomorrow. Who is he? Dr. D. G. J. McSweeney of County Cork Island. Now, gentlemen, I think we should all retire. Good morning, Mr. McIntosh. Morning, Mr. Sakes. Morning. Apparently, the ghost of scrap-faggot Greene is safely buried. The sergeant and I never heard of Peabody all night. Yeah, that's right. No, that's wrong. The ghost is on the loose again. It's impossible. Impossible, eh? Well, how do you explain the fact that Mr. Chippins found his rabbit sitting on eggs in the chicken coop? No. Yes. In my flock, a geese disappeared. They found him just now at the grave of the ghost of scrap-faggot Greene. And Dr. McSweeney should have arrived long ago. He's already here. Said he was going out to investigate. Investigate what? You can't catch a ghost. Dr. McSweeney, my name is Boyd Lewis of the United Press. Oh, yes, Mr. Lewis. Yes. Any news on the ghost of scrap-faggot Greene? Yes. But I'd like to announce it in Mr. Sakes' bag. OK, let's go in. Nothing to be alarmed about. I have just completed a thorough investigation. In my toy, I ask, what is your solution? Yes. Yes. You, Mr. Walter J. Sakes, are the solution. Me? Yes. I find that all of the witnesses to the unusual happenings caused by this ghost are customers of the pub here, owned by the principal witness, Mr. Sakes. No wonder. There's a minute here. You have an eye for business, Mr. Sakes. In fact, since this ghost scare, your business has increased considerably, hasn't it? Well, yes, but yeah. You'll face the switching of the book jackets and us for your geese wandering away. Well, I have never known geese to stay in one place. The rest of the happenings were the product of well known, shall we say, habituaries of this pub. Mr. Sakes merely stimulated your imaginations and you unwittingly cooperated with him admirably. Well, gentlemen, am I right or am I wrong? Dr. McSweeney, it looks as if you're right. I believe in ghosts, Mr. Lewis. But I have arrived at the reluctant conclusion that the ghost of scrap-faggot green is to be blunt, a hawks. Ghost on the loose in England as reported by United Press correspondent Boyd Lewis. We will present another in this series, Soldiers of the Press, soon. Be sure to listen. Meanwhile, look for United Press dispatches in your favorite newspaper. Listen for United Press news and the air. They are your guarantee of the world's best coverage of the world's biggest news.


As the rainy season gets underway, the residents of Ge Ge area of Ibadon, southwest local government area of Ohio State, have called on the governor, She'e Makin' Day, to save the soul of residents of Ge Ge, bond photo and its access from impending danger or death. Ge Ge River, which passes through the main center of Ibadon locality, has a deep ditch behind the popular Ge Ge meat market, which has claimed many lives since various government abandoned the building of drainage along the river, which was initiated by the late Alaw Akalas administration. The findings revealed that over eight individuals died untimely in the river and the dead bodies will usually resurface after three or four days later. A visit to the scene by our reporter shows that the temporary barricade has been done by the community was the use of red and white caution tapes around the spot to cool the attention of passers-by to the danger around the river. People living in the Bangalow building beside the river, they said the person who don't whom he wants his rally from, very early in the morning, he's going to Hawaii, he's going into the river, immediately he started sinking, he asks for help, at the same minutes, they said, how can we pull you out before they could find your rope at the same minutes? He said it seemed they knocked each range and the rain carried his dead body away, and so what I use, we implored the government, those that came for expression has done nothing about it, including the local government chairman, they had to find a solution to it, that's why they put a danger red line around the river vicinity. Well no, or anybody that can oppose to do this river, cause this river, I'll be doing a lot about killing people, taking their lives, so the only thing I can say right now is they should oppose to do the, maybe they will do bridge, or they should, they should do anything about this bridge. They called on your state governor and other agencies to, as a matter of urgency, to do the net for before the river claims more lives as the rainy season approaches.