Trying to get you guys situated Wait for it wait for it Yes, I'm filming on my phone. So it's easier for being on this side of the board so yeah We're live and I'm trying to I'm trying to uh Do a piece that's inspired by The piece that I have as a cover photo hi Susan and that is it's by the one of the cover photos by Someone miss colorberry she does amazing geopieces And I have a client that wants one that's based on that. So I'm doing a sample piece to test out some colors What's up you guys? Oh Denmark? Hello Hey guys, where are you guys watching from? I've got a Denmark and a Montana Well, thank you Nancy Sorry, it's been a minute since we've decided to go live We've just been Super swamped We're not really even slowing down yet. I'm glad you're home Lisa Lifting cups I Don't anticipate having too much overflow on this one Kansas City, Kentucky work life. I feel you UK Marilyn Phoenix floor. That's such a fun name Hottos 80s Pacific Northwest Not bad not bad So we've been preparing to do those green countertops down in Austin as well as Negotiating for this piece which will probably be a seven foot geode and Also something else. I teach class yesterday We've been Hosting a bunch of people and getting ready for our art retreat in Belize and On top of that Sending out orders and answering emails and text messages and getting pieces from the fire sale ready to ship out We've been busy busy bees. Hey Clara. I Did Denise I sure did. Hi Nancy Are you're on vacation? That's fun. I hope you got my response to your recent emails Arkansas pass Beautiful gorgeous love it. I'm gonna assume that I've mixed for three minutes Okay, what do we got? Looking at the reference I was sent we've got a gold She wants a silver There's pearl in there a deep blue a Mid-range blue and a turquoise Hey gingerms miss Leopold So let's start mixing some colors This won't be a very long video today. I Want to I guess there is no white, but I'm gonna do a white anyways because you can't go wrong with a white In a dark geode you've got to have something to balance out the deep colors So let's mix our first color, which will be Thornton shimmer can't go wrong with that Cannot go wrong with this Yeah, the final piece is gonna be quite large. Whoops But who doesn't like working on large pieces. I haven't informed Rhonda yet that I'm gonna do The actual piece at her shop Surprise I know it's one of my favorite colors Is Thornton shimmer back in stock um I Will check for you be send me an email and remind me to look I'll probably forget by the time the speed is over But I have another Oops, sorry got too close to the camera. I have another shipment coming of color passion So it should be in soon For that mid-range blue. That's like close to the inner circle of gold. I'm gonna try blooming by resin arts Nice media girl. What's up Marcy? How are you doing? Are you still like traveling the whole world? Pretty much when you say you were coming through Dallas. I need answers Someday I'll sleep same girl same So this blue moon is actually a dry paste But since it's very reminiscent of a powder. Well, it's not a powder, but it's kind of a powder I always overload just to make sure I have a great color payoff How rich and beautiful that color is and I always mix in effortlessly Ooh, I got that word right on the first try Okay for the very bright-looking color of turquoise, I'm gonna use turquoise luster by just resin it looks like It may have like it It almost looks like it's a glitter layer Just very concentrated glitter layer But since I cannot be sure I'm gonna mix both a glitter And a paste for that color So this one is turquoise luster. Why do I keep forgetting? Put this in here. I forgot what I was saying, but what's new? client says that she likes Turquoises and that her living room is blue and silver, but she likes the mixed metal look I Eat golds and silvers together. So we're gonna we're gonna do that You love red, but these blues are nice exactly Can't believe you have a good signal. Well, I'm excited about that to Pamela super pumped Thank you guys so much for all your support if You haven't been here before welcome. I'm Erica Jeff is over here is Well We're artists till death. We go live every day usually at 6 p.m. Central during most days except for 2 p.m. Central on Tuesdays usually and What are they gonna say? Oh, we always do art usually resin, but we do multiple forms of art I'm also gonna use some Bondi shouldn't request Bondi, but You you cannot go wrong with Bondi, right? Right? anytime I do An ocean I have to have mostly transparent pigments when I do geodes. I like to have at least one translucent or transparent pigment as well Let's do four drops Getting crazy You actually got a notification sweet If you too would like to get a notification make sure you subscribe and hit the bell So that YouTube can usually let you know when we're live But they don't always so don't hold your breath. What's up TG? Hope you had the most amazing amazing birthday. I Want to come to your shop Monday the 12th. I'm about six hours away No, we will be I'll be in Belize Jeff will be in Vegas On business So I'm mixing less White and less gold. So that's why I'm using these smaller cups What brand is the red bottle that is color obsession? They went they're moving away from the older bottles with the heavy jars and the pipettes To that bottle. It's more durable for transit and it's lighter. So it costs less to ship But same awesome product just different package The white is Le Rez angel white now. I'm gonna use One of the most amazing golds. This is rich gold shimmer by color obsession It's basically molten just melted gold This is what Midas's dreams are made out of Wait, did you get engaged? Okay, I wasn't gonna tell you guys But yes, we are engaged The fifth will be in Austin starting the countertops the green ones Then we should be back here the 8th But then we'll be gone on the 10th should be back by the 17th, then we'll be gone The 20th we're gonna be gone a lot This month is crazy busy. It's hope from Facebook page ATD. Hey, hope. How are you doing? Freeman Oh, I was wondering like did someone just comment it? All right, then the last one I'm gonna do is Abilene shell because You can't have too much sparkle, especially not in a geode glitter is always an option Okay, Bowie. That's not I'm adding a little bit more to make it more of an opaque and I'm using this instead of the pearl I didn't leave any resin for my glitter Maybe I have enough in here. Let's see. We'll make it work I'm unconcerned Two of your favorite artists are on here Erica and mix media girl. Oh Thank you so much for that. Nice. Okay We got colors this is about four colors more than I like to work with but is What it is So firstly, I'm gonna add some glass in the center Or the druzy area of my geode Since this is just a color test this part isn't really necessary But sometimes I feel like it'll help the client to see the vision better if there's The elements that they have in their references so glass Cool. Cool. Cool. Type type type.  I like to add my glass Before I have any resin down because then I can move it and manipulate it without Worrying about if resin sticking to it I'm messing up a design So if I don't like this right now I can just pick this whole thing up dump it and Be good to go Looks Geody. All right in my reference. There's gold next to The rock in the middle and any time I do a piece I put The color on Then are at first and then I'll fill it in You're okay. Kujo Just so that I can kind of draw our paint with My resin a little bit. I am using stone coat art coat best resin in America And the next color up is the mid-tone blue. This is something Blue moon by resin art. Then there's some goodness. I didn't mix up near enough resin Because I meant to do a dark turquoise as well, but that'll be fine so That Then it looks like a Deep color But I'm gonna make this color a little bit darker By putting some You put a hashtag it's on there So while Jeff tries to get that open I'm just gonna add this color Then the this color Actually, I think I want to add some whites and in a reference that I have it's I mean, it's quite obvious that Some of the layers are done in different setting There's different layers. So part of it has set up before Adding for example the really metallic glittery line so Do you guys work from reference? Um, it's me you girl. Thanks, Marcy I don't know where my button is Appreciate that so much add some abalone in here. Did you get it? Oh, thank you. I had almost given up hope So this is dark turquoise. I'm gonna add just a little bit of it into My thorn tin Shimmer and an awesome thing about the pigments that I have on my website artist till death comm is that you can mix and match and Combine colors to make other Colors so I needed this one a little bit darker So I added some dark turquoise and now it's like a super deep shimmery turquoise Susan What's up dances with our barks? Okay Moving on I need to put a Blue up here is my transparent Put a big line of this color. I really didn't make enough for us. I don't think What's up, manana? Have you guys done geodes before? How do you like doing them? I find that people most often request me to do geodes and oceans typically So I am I can't see the back ends of the piece I'll put some of this darker Just through here in the reference the patterns more rainbow. I like to have a little bit of Movement awesome Susan I'd love to see it Petra, you're always working on some amazing geodes Can't compete I'm gonna blend some of these colors into each other We'll just help the resin to know kind of where to flow Trying really hard not to mix colors Patricia, we don't have to compete. Well, of course not, but I'm just saying that your geodes are always spectacular Okay, now once I have all of my colors down you can start to Manipulate the lines and add little extras Oh goodness, Susan I hope you got that fixed because it's no fun to be pouring in super hot temperatures Now that my board is completely covered every time I add more resin. It's gonna push everything outward Which I like to use to my advantage it creates Unique dips and things in the design so I'm gonna pour some of this over my glass. This will help the glass stay in place and Will help my fire glass stick to these areas This will probably end up being a multiple part pour Because the final piece will be multiple part I think if you're going to do a sample piece then You should Kind of do it how the final piece will be done. Just Save yourself some stress and do it that way However, this isn't exactly a sample piece. This is just a How well colors work together piece is not gonna be like a mini replica of the final piece which green Just got a phone call from probably someone calling to see if I Need to get an extended car warranty PS anyone else getting those calls those are fun, right? I've gotten every ounce of resin. I can't out of that cup. Yeah, sorry about the Buffering I got a phone call so it's resolved and add some more gold over my Rocks and I'm probably gonna add a few lines through here Can you have too much gold? I've probably not now. Let's see. I'm gonna take my Bondi mixture that I have and I'm gonna mix in some glitter You have been daily and you have a 1998 Taurus. That's funny. Hey Valerie I'm gonna use some color obsession series one number 12 confetti glitter because this looks a lot like what's in The reference. Okay. That's a lot, but that's fine You guys think I overload my powders. I Super overload my glitters It's in this Words are hard necessary evil And again, you had the best idea for your next pour than you waited too long and forgot Embarrassed to say I've done I'm gonna add just a little bit of heat. I don't want to add too much heat because that will Really liquefy my Resin and move it and we don't want that so Technically according to the reference. I'm looking at this should be added after The piece has cured After this layer has cured but we impatient and We're just gonna go for it.  I need a tea time baby cup What do you think? You know what I think is the real I could tell you haven't used any heat on the colors Just by looking at it, right? I did a little bit If that's one of y'all calling I can't answer right now We're just gonna do it a little tea time baby dirty pour Need a little stir for good luck. We're gonna put this and that almost looks purple Does Town sounds so posh. It's about your auto warranty. You know, it probably is I just love the ribbons I think on my next sample piece. I'm gonna do like a few dirty pour areas first and then Do the color around them. All right, let's add this glitter ness glitters even harder to control than resin itself You guys think of the glitter I think it fits me. It's too much We think now she wanted She wanted silver as well, but I don't know if or how I can do that And make it look Like on purpose and Make it flow. Well, I don't know I'd be ever do metallics combined like that so Let's um, let's get the Where's our chrome? Let's find our chrome But you know where your little Molotow chrome thing thing is Never mind. So I don't sell this in our shop, but if there's anything in here, it's gonna look cool The upper corner this upper corner. Thank you Shelly You got anything in here, it's not even very chromey However, that looks really fun All right, I need a new this or I can just use my liquid Gold that's in silver We go grab that All right, I'm going to use Here the laptop. Oh, you mean this messiness. Yeah Definitely does Totally get it Angela. What's up Tim? So I'm going to use Montana's liquid silver to add the client requested silver to this piece in order to do that I'm gonna make some room let my Paper over to the mat side and pipe it out some mat Nope some silver and Let the propellant that's in it to kind of soak in You guys see what I'm doing. No Okay, see this darker area That's where a lot of propellant is when I move it see the dark bits That's areas that have a lot of propellant. So I'm waiting and mixing this around to get that part to sink in I don't know if you guys can tell there's like a bit of an oily film Looks like it's happening Just on the outside of this And that's where that propellant soaking in to the paper. It won't soak in on the gloss side just on the mat side I'm doing this so that You do a roadside See, I didn't draw the line that big, but it's growing because of the propellant Once enough of the propellant has soaked into the paper and I'm left with just the silver pigment The line should be super thin and only be where I put it still too much Unfortunately, they don't make it without the propellant Because then it will dry out and I won't be liquid by the time it gets to you so It has to be in there But see how it's thinner and it's not cracking on the edge like it is on that one Because we're working a lot of the propellant out of it. Oh my pleasure Susan It's what I'm here for and if I just get too into what I'm doing and don't explain the why Just call me on it. Let me know that I haven't fully explained what I'm talking about because there's times where I just get too excited What I'm doing and don't Fully explain What I'm doing?  So that last one was okay alright Let's just pick up some of this. There's still a little bit of propellant in it, but it'd be fine Sorry about all the movement by the way Let's put one right here. Let's put one one right here Put them in between the dark and the white and then a line where the blue and white mean What we're gonna do is this bit up here to be honest, it's probably gonna slow off But we'll just do that so that there's some movement. Yeah. Yeah so I'm gonna try to pick up some of this Sands propellant just Add a little bit of silver into my rock surface Yeah, I'm gonna work Make sure that you mix if you get some of the liquid gold or liquid silver mix it up every time Because it separates super fast. Okay. I'm just gonna let a little bit of propellant soak out of it If I don't it's gonna bloom and crack And do a whole bunch of stuff that I'd rather it not do I know I can't get all the propellant out of it though so This is just kind of what I do when I get commissions and I always ask for references of things that they like Then I ask them to circle if they send me a bunch of references that Are similar but there's so many different attributes to them that I'm not sure what it is that they're looking at I'll ask them to circle the parts that they like in each photo Whether it be the shape The design element like if they like the glitter part here or the dirty poor part What is it that made you save this photo and then I create based off that? all right, let's do some glitter glass because Basically, it doesn't matter what you're making glitter glass makes everything more amazing That's just science, and I don't have my flash on yet for this Piece but once I turn it on you guys are gonna be like what I just quoted you hope you don't mind So if you use glitter glass be careful While it's a very dainty and pretty and awesome and amazing it is glass it will cut you paper-cut style which I Would argue is one of the most painful styles to get cut, but I Don't have a whole bunch to reference so Yeah, just be careful. Let's turn some lights on and show you guys what we just made I feel like you know those People that paint a whole painting and it's upside down and then they flip it over and they painted it in 60 seconds And then it's a full portrait Alright, let's get up here first That's a full overview glitter glass silver liquid silver and fire glass Some gold I purposefully You guys know if you've been on the channel any length of time that I do splatters quite often It's just part of my style and I love it Got some glitter some more gold up That's split right there. That's from that silver blooming. That's what I like to avoid That first one it's splitting and cracking right here But the the more I've waited The thinner the lines tend to get and the less crack cracking and splitting happens as opposed to the first And this is our dirty pour line that seems to have sunk a bit Splatter dots and of course the gold lights up and this silver lights up. Let me fix this so that My glitter sparkles more. Hold on too much There we go. Check out that trick You have a dirtier looking lens things tend to sparkle more because science Did you dirty it up on purpose? I showed them the trick See how much sparklier it is but if I just Or start to clean it off. It's still sparkly But less so there's still a little bit of Grime on it not grime, but you know what I mean Hold on. It's still sparkly, but it doesn't quite do the thing like if I just Do that just a little bit Fun fact for you videographers out there That glitter is somewhere. There it is series number one Color number 12 confetti glitter from color obsession.  That's super fun. I mean, how are you doing? So I'm loving it. It's just a color test. I think they work. I'm gonna ask her to clarify if she likes this Darker blue because while I like it. I don't know If it really fits for sure for sure overall But we'll find out No worries. We just wrap this bad boy up. I'll be doing another layer Maybe probably tomorrow Just to give a couple extra lines make sure to mention but yeah So thanks Joe, I appreciate it also my assistant sent out your package without adding the epoxy So shoot me a message don't remind me to do that. I just got done taking kujo out So I'm just gonna whisper this part. Thank you guys so so much for watching. I do love the silver splits, too We appreciate and love you guys forever and ever and ever amen, please Like share subscribe help us grow our channel Leave us your thumbs. Give me a comment. What would you change? What do you like? What do you dislike? Is there anything you guys want me to test out try out for you let me know You can find all these colors and more on our website artists till death comm link is in the description and Yeah, be kind to one another you never know what's on this going through and always remember we do the tests Thank you. Love you guys. Have an awesome day. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye


The following is a presentation of TFNN The morning market kickoff With your host Tommy O'Brien Good morning, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien company alive from TFNN Tuesday morning just after 9 a.m. Eastern time We got about 24 minutes to go until the start of trading I hope everyone had a nice Christmas holiday out there three-day weekend We got four days of trading to wrap up 2023 and then we got another three-day weekend for the New Year's holiday. We kick things off It's been the trend this year. We got four days left. Why not? We got green across the board right now S&Ps up by just six points. We're trading at 4811. We were trading at 4830 as of last week Let's put it back to a 15 minute chart your drop off on a little bit of a selling session on Wednesday You almost got it all back by Friday morning, and we're just chopping right above 4800 at 4811 in the S&Ps NASDAQ 100 pretty similar action, right? We're sitting at about the 786 you got back almost that entire sell-off We're sitting just above 17,000 in the NASDAQ 100 up by 30 points now up by 30 points as well 37,771 and you get the Russell up by 8 this morning Bitcoin backing off a bit been quite around for Bitcoin off $1,000 this morning at 42,705 crude check out that bid recently Yeah, 6 a.m. I was up this morning. It was $74 and change look at that acceleration We trade higher at 8 in the morning were above $75 crude up a buck 70 this morning you jump over to the gold contract How about that acceleration on Friday and gold? 2083 we're backing off a bit still up technically $1 around the session at 2070 and it's been the focus this year and why not we'll Take a look at a longer term chart of the tenure We're above the 618 of that entire move down to 105 10 your tenure is basically flat when negative by one tick And we have a yield of 3.91. We'll call it 3.906 So right in between 3.9 and 3.91 pretty remarkable when we were just sitting at a 5% yield Two months ago above a 5% yield on the tenure to under a 4% yield quite a trade man on fixed income If you got into that action, we jump over the Vicks with a positive market everywhere Pretty remarkable. We're actually sitting at a 1375 Vicks. You may see that trail off as we trail into the end of the year Can't imagine there's a lot of impetus for selling in the next four days Why would you lock in all those profits if you actually wanted to sell when you can wait a day or two? You got to add that variable into the equation as well And yeah, we'll see where we go from here, but we got four trading days, man New year's falls on Monday as well and yeah, the market will be close for Monday We have four trading days and let's jump around see what we got going on and let's talk a little bit of home prices As we kick off a year I mean you talk about relentless to the upside man. How about a 4.8% gain in October compared with October of 2022 that's nationally and That's a jump from the 4% increase in September So these are October numbers right among the top 20 cities Detroit Largest year-over-year gain at home prices at 8.1 percent is the number there the 10 city comp was up 5.7 percent up from 4.8 percent in there some of the other notables you had as I mentioned Detroit at 8.1 San Diego 7.2 How about New York 7.1 percent gain Portland falling 0.6 percent you got winners and losers in there home prices have held up so well And now we're getting a little bit of a preview on rates and we'll see if that can help the market at all All right What do we what a what do we have pulled up to talk about this morning as we go through? The last four trading days of the year and this one's an interesting one from the journal So they're talking about retailers bracing for their post-holiday returns hangover. It was interesting. I found myself saying Boy, I really better pull back after Christmas, right? Very easy to rationalize spending a lot of money during Christmas buying presents for your friends and family your children your parents your grandparents It's gonna be interesting to see especially in this economic environment. Okay, that's the kicker here Americans are estimated to buy more than five trillion dollars of goods this year, right? Yet shoppers last year returned sixteen point five percent of items. They purchased online in stores valued at nearly 817 billion dollars and double the percentage of goods in 2019. Yeah, how about that part of it, right pretty remarkable So after you get the holidays they trigger a costly returns hangover the returns into the profits as you'd expect It's gonna be a trillion dollars. Imagine that a trillion dollars Americans are estimated to buy more than five trillion of goods and here's what I'll say folks, okay? Take advantage of that more often. There are times when retailers are for you Amazon in particular, okay a refund policy free returns for 30 days. This is a business proposition, okay? So free returns for 30 days. It's basically almost a 30-day 30-day free trial, right? 30-day money-back guarantee Take advantage of that. I tell people when they sign up for the newsletter, right and they want to cancel like ah, sorry I didn't don't say sorry you tried out the newsletter. That's the proposition We're giving you some value here if you find that you like it you want to keep it That's tremendous then you're gonna pay for it. You don't you maintain it for 30 days. That's your trial period I'll give you an example generators, okay? Home Depot and Lowe's each offer 30-day free returns for generators during the storm season in Florida, okay, you can go purchase a generator you'll I'm deviating but this is something it's a business proposition and more often People don't do this and this is not stealing anything from the companies, okay? Because guess what they want you to take these generators because they want you to keep them probably use them But it's such a valuable proposition in many instances for the consumer, okay? Where you can go there you can purchase a generator you have 30 days if you want to use that generator That's fine. If not you return it to Home Depot or Lowe's now generators. You can't open them You can't unbox them. You can't take off the packaging. This is real deal. You can't open it You can't use it. That's not the business proposition. Okay, but I'm telling you It's a valuable proposition and this article is speaking to how many times shoppers are aware of that man You buy two things right online retailers in clothing have this problem all the time They have almost a 50% return rate some because what happens people order two products They order a large and a medium they order large and an extra large and they know right away Well, I'll just return the one that doesn't fit stuff like that. I can't believe it's a trillion dollars though But keep that in mind in storm season man because that's something that as a consumer you have the ability to do as a business transaction with a company like Home Depot and Lowe's and It's a valuable proposition I found myself last storm season saying you know It's remarkable if we lived in a since like preaching a little right But if we lived in a less privileged area right where we didn't take for granted that we had electricity air-conditioning water and food and There was ever a retailer that said to you now you have to basically You know pay for that for 30 days so that that money is on hold you have to have that capital But if you have a credit card, let me say, uh, yeah, if you want to just Put a down payment on that generator I'll let you just hold it for 30 days worst case the storm hits you have it You want to pay for it yours if it doesn't hit you just return it I feel like in many countries people will take advantage of that Intently but here they just don't do it because unfortunately, they're just lazy They don't want to go pick up the generator and then have to return it etc Nonetheless trillion dollars, so be careful some of those retailers man Especially as we approach the consumer potentially feeling some of the heat of this economy. 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We get the s&p's up by five right now I mentioned let's jump around to some of these fang stocks magnificent seven amazon shares They're going to be up by about 50 pennies to kick off the trading session quite a year for amazon Let's put on a three-year weekly you kick off the year at what? 82 bucks we're almost going to double the share price right now at 153 now What I was talking about previously on last week's programs early in the week I think it was the number of a to b c to d's that potentially could be setting up man This acceleration that we got in october That could be the beginning of your c to d leg Okay, and if you talk about a company like amazon ballpark and you're going from about $80 Up to that b point of almost 145. That's about a 65 a to b leg You're trading with a c point of about 120 add 65 to 120 185 And the kicker is where's that bringing that brings you basically to the highs that we had at the end of 2021 Okay, and what a way to accelerate past the b point right the End of your acceleration where this thing just traded from 120 You had dramatic volume off of that low your c point is the earnings Okay, as we accelerate from an area of almost 120 Which also correlates to the 382 retracement that you got in amazon that pullback We got from basically the week of september 11th down to uh the week of october 23rd when you made a low of 1835 So that's amazon shares, okay You jump over to microsoft now microsoft what do they do microsoft they accelerate back now This is a different story amazon was the september high microsoft makes the high in july We pull back to the 382 You pull back there initially we make a low again that low initially in august was 3 11 55 you're looking at 309 45 We make that low in september Within less than a dollar of that 382 area now microsoft man if you're talking about and let's just Activate for this for a second. Let's just say we take this From when it began at the beginning of the year I mean it touches that 382 perfectly, okay If you take that acceleration from the week of january 2nd up to the highs of july That is an a leg from about 220 will ballpark it up to a high What 365 So that's at 145 is your a to b leg And 145 off of 310 is bringing you to 455 Not outlandish quite a number, but what are you talking about 455? What 75 points? That's a 20 acceleration from microsoft shares above where you're possibly trading at and what we did do Which is nice to see is what did you do? You got above that area? You got above your b your potential b point, okay What do we do? We had volume on their earnings as well. We trade higher. We have volumes at these highs We've now gotten above that area. We come back and we're testing that line before we possibly trade higher Pretty cool how this goes. Let's jump over to google shares.  We'll call it 140 Okay, might be a little bit higher naturally. That's where I have it, but let's just call it 140 That's a 50 dollar a to b leg your c point pulls back to almost 120. That's pushing almost 170 for google Again, you're talking about 20 percent basically above where you're trading at right now The video a little bit of a different story They're their own animal not sure that one's gonna play through it play out You never got back to the 382, you know, you're up almost 500 percent this year So that one does not line up exactly like it Tesla shares not quite the animal as well different story, you know amazon google microsoft We just walked through it right apple shares. That's the other one. So what do we do? We got 382s. Look how they're all trading right? We just went through it amazon microsoft google Apple okay now It makes sense because And let's go over apple first and then we'll do that stack 100. Okay Apple shares trade an a point from 130 up to 200 nice simple math you pull back to 170 You got an a to b leg that's 70 dollars 70 on 170 is 240 and 240 Is about 20 percent above the recent highs now, of course It's going to be if they're all doing 382 retracements and they have similar a to b legs To complete the b to s The c to d leg Okay, would bring you About 20 percent above the recent highs. It's not outlandish, man You know, it shouldn't be outlandish when you look at a company like apple that's up over 50 percent this year Okay, when all we're talking about is maybe this thing does another 20 with the fang stocks leading The nasdaq 100 now Check it out It would make sense that if I just went through Apple amazon microsoft and google. Okay, there may be some others out there too. We'll take a look But boy, that's quite a quattro of equities Where does that bring us in the nasdaq 100? Well, what do we just do you talk about simple math 11,000 up to 16,000 5 point 5,000 point not five 5,000 point a to b leg. What do you do you pull back to the 382 Where's the 382 bring you back almost 14,000 you're adding 5,000 on to 14 Where's that bringing it that bringing you up to 19,000 and here's the kicker in the nasdaq 100 19,000 you're only talking about 12 percent of them Okay So you may have the magnificent seven leading the nasdaq 100 yet again because if you get those types of rallies You get apple microsoft amazon and google all charging 20 percent higher Meanwhile the nasdaq 100 only has about 12 higher to go to complete its a to b c to d pretty remarkable that it's got only got to go another 2000 points which at this point is between 11 and 12 percent higher to complete the 5,000 point b Excuse me c to d leg and if you're looking for some symmetry and you're looking for some timeline Okay, and you say where could that possibly be time wise? Well your a to b leg lasted about seven or eight months Okay So if that's going to be the case here that's going to bring you into june or july of this coming year And that's maybe where you accelerate pretty cool how those all line up though, right?  You have a potential c to d. They all pull back to the 382 Okay So keep your eye on it for sure Um, so what are some of the others? Yeah, oh meta Yeah, meta is its own animal as well I mean these ones that had you know triple quadruple baggers almost and I think meta's up 260 something like that 240 something like that You know it was the biggest one one of the biggest micro strategy for bitcoin now I was reading this article check this out There's your chart of micro strategy. Well If you load it up, you got over a 300 gain, man, you kicked off the year at about 150 you're trading at 619 They have 90 percent of their net worth in bitcoin. So it's probably a decent place to Stash your money if you're looking for exposure to bitcoin They actually own the bitcoin They have it and they have 175,000 bitcoin and so that's what you're buying into What I did find interesting is how they're ramping up their bets over and over, right? Second quarter of this year. They had 150,000. They now have 175,000 so they've added 25,000 bitcoin the last six months or so Everywhere they've added has meant a profitable venture man as this thing has traded from 30 to 1 to 42,000 right now But yeah, they go over how you know, they even beat the likes of Some of those other equities I just mentioned Yeah, they'd be going alone or worth 7.65 billion. They're worth about 9 billion dollars We'll finish this conversation up. 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We got markets open you get the dow Fading slightly into the red down 12 points this morning 37,728 you get the s&p's the nasdaq and the russell We open in positive territory taking a look at the s&p. So we talked about the magnificent seven if they trade higher They're obviously going to help the s&p's if they all get that 20 acceleration now Taking a look at the s&p's. I mean, where can you take this really? It's a one-way straight line move began on march 13th Okay, and it is interesting to see how things are different, right? Look at how the s&p's Were at the same price that was at In almost january to where you were in march versus the nasdaq 100 already had that first quick acceleration out of the gate The beginning of this year we got a pullback in the s&p's that move really began You can call it 3,800 for simple math because that's where you were at the end of 2022 But just above that area maybe 40 points above that area 38 40 But simple math you're talking about look at this leg 3,800 to 4,600. What's that? That's an 800 point a to b c to d You take your c point at about 41 22 that's bringing you what to 40 9 22 even if you take off those 40 extra points you're talking about 48 80 point being we're almost there The s&p's have almost done it you're a to b a point March 13th b point july 24th c point october 23rd d point less than 100 points away as we end the year. So how does that look if Apple microsoft google What was the other one and met no no i'm losing it Uh, if all of those stocks do their 20 nasdaq goes up 12 percent the s&p's only got what 30 40 Points above the high to to reach that a to b what that means is You're going to have the other stock struggling if you have the biggest magnificent seven stocks pushing 10 to 20 percent higher And you have the s&p only going 50 points higher. What's going to be happening? As they say the rich get richer and the you know, that's how it works and and times of economic stress Okay, and i'm not predicting stress the economy is doing well man But there are markers that there's going to be a little bit of a lag in a catch up probably right You got credit card debt going up you have delinquencies rising to a certain degree You have retailers talking about Uncertainty and slow down so listen to those numbers Read the charts And it'll be interesting to see as we go three or six months down the road As inflation has cooled Is there lag and that's where you're going to see potentially that march cut march 20th put it on your calendar That's what they're thinking That's the rhetoric And that's the worry that the fed has that if they're too tilted to the side of fiscal restraint look at these charts, man You know a to b c to d only brings your s&p slightly above we're out right now brings the nasdaq 100 up about 11 to 12 Above we're out right now, but that same a to b c to d is going to bring those fang stocks About 20 percent. We're above where they are right now All right, what else we got going in the headlines? Yeah, this one was out there over the weekend the u.s. Strikes targets in iraq after drone attack Injured troops. I believe it was three were injured. Hopefully they're doing okay Um, just more geopolitical risk man. This you know on the heels of what's going on the red sea military forces conducted necessary proportionate strikes on three facilities used by Kataib hezbollah and affiliated groups in iraq um And these are usually iran aligned groups in iraq in syria So we'll see if that ratchets up at all. You have crude up a bit this morning On some of that volatility we jump over to crude up two dollars now I'd go out and fill up that gas tank man today because guess what? Take a look at this chart on a technical basis, man. What do we just do? We just touched an area that is hardcore support call hardcore. That'll be a new term hardcore support Uh on the 70 dollar area. I mean look at we chopped around from may 1st All the way to july 1st two months In the beginning of the um this year. It built a floor there Similar action in march similar action in december as well. Okay, and what do we just do we came down? We touched 70 dollars. We're back at 75 You push the upper boundary you're back to 90 in no time and folks everything going on the world right now Think about it. You got russia iran iraq syria the red sea And we're sitting at 75 dollars right now the price of crude Okay, what else we got going on Let's check out what we got pulled up here Ah this one. This is a good one We'll jump through some charts Where did americans put their money this year everywhere and guess what they did pretty well across the board, man How about this one everyone loading up into the s&p 500 man and this is month by month Okay, monthly flows to the spider s&p 500 etf It might not This is not indicative of a late inning rally folks. Okay, we're making all-time highs And this is not indicative of a late inning rally That's what the charts where they are etc Combine that with this Assets in money market funds six trillion dollars Folks that's only 50 billion. That's 40 billion Okay That's 40 billion And this one means there's six trillion dollars And really that's up two to three trillion dollars over the last five or six years It would take a lot of monthly months monthly flows excuse me of 40 billion To get you to the number of two trillion even right. I mean think about that. What would it take? It would take 10 20 25 months to get to one trillion So that would be 50 straight months. You could have 40 billion dollars of inflows 50 straight months And it's probably going to go up as these rates come down But just at 40 billion you could do five zero 50 straight months Yeah Yeah four years four years you could plow that every single month And that would just bring you back to four trillion where you were prior to covet That's all it would be to show you the type of money that may come in this market Money market yields we all know how that's going man 5.2 percent free money there They talk about retail trading the daily average volume when you're talking about fixed income Treasuries and CDs look at the spike man. It makes sense. They would do nothing even corporate bonds and even munis You saw a spike but treasuries and CDs not surprising with the type of rates you saw and there it is That's what the rates did for investors Interesting come generated by money market funds from nothing to 300 billion dollars 300 billion dollars on money market funds. They talk about crypto in here that one's accelerated as well But pretty remarkable when you put these all what I found so remarkable is saying, okay Well, this one hasn't come back down at all We've seen the slight rise here in the inflows to the ETFs And what does that mean? Well, there is still a lot of money in those money markets And what's going to happen when those money markets start going back down to two and a half to three percent, right? They're sitting at 5.2 to 5.5 right now, but guess what that's probably about to change on march 20th But not yet. We've got four trading days left in 2023 and I don't think anyone's running for the door just yet S&P's 48 14 So keep that one in mind man those fang stocks pretty interesting how they all line up, right? Let's check to them as we jump to this break amazon shares flat this morning on the open the big dog apple We'll call that flat down 18 pennies for apple microsoft shares Up three tenths. Yeah microsoft google apple and amazon. 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They're out microsoft Look at this acceleration man microsoft up by six tenths percent right now charging higher google shares up by eight tenths percent Right now charging higher you get the nasdaq 100 or up by about four tenths percent apple and amazon both pretty much flat to kick off the trading session Let's jump over to some of the retailers Walmart shares flat right now you jump over to target shares flat as well tjx They're up by a bit right now Coal shares up by 1.3 percent. We take a little bit of a longer term. Look at coals be careful on coals, man Looks like 30 is resistance on this area. You're pushing 28 right now And I tell you as a consumer folks Okay, and it's important You know listen it depending on how you're trading you're trading coals For a day trade or something like that. You're trading on volume Okay, you don't need to understand the dynamics of the the desirability of being in their stores and the price points If you're trading it for value in any extended period of time or you're trading it for a longer longer fundamental bias It's important to sometimes listen to yourself. I think to myself, man If I had ever bought amazon the moment that I signed up for prime and I tell you folks I appreciated Very early on I got to figure out the year man. I've been in there for a while 15 years 16 years 17 years something bonkers man Because it blew my mind as somebody that was early to the adoption of online and online retail I remember being very willing to pay 10 to 20 dollars Getting scam calls. Excuse me being being able to pay 10 or 20 dollars per delivery. Okay. This is going back 2006 something like that. I think And they came out with the product. I think it was 59 bucks at the first time. I said, well, that's fine I got to order all I got to do is get three items delivered to me for free that I was paying $20 for to get delivered at that time And I would name I understood the tremendous value and what did I do? I started ordering a million things from there because I couldn't believe that I could get stuff delivered to my door For free and you know what the kicker was at the time? You know, they had it was pretty cool at the time is that they had overnight delivery that you could pay for On amazon as part of your prime You could pay for overnight delivery for only like six dollars or nine dollars So and that used to cost like 30 bucks at a normal place So if I wanted something the next day, I even found tremendous value by paying a discounted price for that Point being listen to yourself. Okay back to coles Coles has a problem man. They have a problem. Okay. I enjoy going and doing some shopping shopping with tommy Especially right.  Maybe maybe we get them some clothes, right? Maybe I'll go grab a coffee. We'll go around kind of the toys are us experience when you don't want to go to the park We don't want to go to bush gardens. Whatever it is There's that side of things which is target encapsulates. Well, okay but Coles does not have that aspect of things because they're just not that enjoyable and they're super Expensive yet. They have almost a discount feel to them. Okay. I always say if I go into dick sporting goods I know i'm paying a premium price man. They got great products though. The feeling of the store is great They have everything there. They have sporting goods. They have all that stuff You're going to a big mall. Usually maybe we'll go eat at the cheesecake factory after that or something like that, right? You're paying a little bit of premium coles They're just as expensive and it's not The experience that should go along with being as expensive as it should to put it lightly So they have some issues and I would pay attention to that in a longer term basis. They're up by 1.7 percent maybe Maybe i'm wrong, right? You can always be wrong, but look at that $30 area You know, maybe if you trade above this area, you look for a retest on coles That's where I could see getting in for a trade at least you have your back against the wall right now All right, 30 dollars man. That was the area that you traded down to initially you oscillated around Now we've traded below it and we're back up to it and we're oscillating around potentially 30 dollars But be careful of cold shares out there Okay, what else have we got going on folks? I was talking about all those a to b c to d legs One of the things we have is we have a bunch of great archive webinars at tf&n right under the services tab All right, it's a great time of the year Maybe the kids are off. Maybe you're off on vacation as well We got a three-day weekend coming up this weekend for new years, which is always great My dad did this webinar Okay, if you want to learn about a to b's c to d's you see at the number two point that's covered a to b structures That's what i'm talking about if you're not familiar with it He combines that with quality volume, which i'm looking at as well. You can't deny volume, right? Fibonacci, I mean when i'm going through some of those numbers I assume people have some idea of what i'm talking about and I know that's not the case But it's a little bit too time intensive to go back and explain a fibonacci retracement zone with an a to b c to d leg Folks check out this webinar. You get a signed copy of my dad's book. 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So check that out under the newsletters. Uh, excuse me services tab If you want to get more into abcds a to bcdds abc formations quality volume Fibonacci confluence zones cause and effect and swing points as my dad would say and he'll be coming up live at three o'clock today All right, we are positive markets Let's check in on some of the currencies and see how we're trading dollar index right now.  We're trading at 2066 right now Great time to try out that gold report as well as we get some volatility and currencies and commodities We jump over to the tenure What could be a year of cutting? We'll see how we come in We're sitting at 112 19 right now and as I mentioned to kick off the program We're sitting at a yield of about 3.9 in the tenure 3.9 on the dot as I speak right now on that tenure All right, we jump around to some of the others that have lagged a bit disney off a quarter percent right now trading at 90 79 yeah Look at this thing longer term Now the only thing i'll say man is you've been building some cars for about a year and a half in disney at 92 dollars And you're getting in at a price tag That basically was our spike low during covid when the world didn't know of movie theaters and You know amusement parks, whatever ceased to exist again as the pandemics Accelerated throughout the world. They got some problems man, but you got a two to three year time horizon I think there's a lot of potential with disney trading at 90 dollars right now Stay tuned folks one more segment december 26. 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I mean I remember this coming out. So he might do 18 months And that's two weeks for every billion dollars. He has think about that think about that Right, what is that? What is he getting paid a day to sit in the slammer? $70 million a day is the way you could run it for 18 straight months to be worth about 37 billion dollars How about that for math, right? Where's the incentive there where you're incarcerated now? You could say well if you're incarcerated forever, you never get to use that money But you're only talking about 18 months man A lot of people would do 18 months in jail if they're getting paid 70 million dollars a day to do it I'm distorting things a bit. Okay. He's got a company. He's founded it There's tremendous value. They are paying fines, but no disincentive there and this article talking about 25 billion dollars Is what he made in 2023 and that is the year that they made a deal with the Department of Justice He's pleading guilty. They're going to pay 4.3 billion. Yeah, there it is 4.3 billion dollars in fines is what finance is going to agree to pay Okay And he has pleaded guilty to criminal anti money laundering Allegations and he's going to pay 50 million dollar fine. Okay, and he faces as many as 10 years There it is, but he's expected to get no more than 18 months under the deal Just keep that in mind when you hear all this stuff about What he did and facilitating. I mean it was anti money laundering Is what they were facilitating. This is very different from the Ponzi scheme that SPF was running. Okay, but they were knowingly allowing the facilitated nature of funds to be distributed in Countries that support terrorism to that degree Nonetheless, 37 billion dollars. It's been quite a year in crypto, man You take over a look at coinbase armstrong the founder and CEO of that company making a whole bunch of money as well We talked about Micro strategy with quite an acceleration up about 300 for them as well. 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microchip booth here at the Embedded World Nuremberg 2017. And who are you? Hi, I'm Lucha de Asia. I'm the business development manager for Europe for microchip technology. So microchip is a pretty big booth here. In the previous year, you acquired Atmel, right? Yes, we did. So that's a lot of technologies you integrated? Sure. Actually, well, in the last three years, we did seven acquisitions. Atmel is just the biggest one. So you can see there's a lot of new products here at microchip, of course. And so much more than just a pick which is the famous product of microchip. And the one most of your readers and listeners will be familiar with. But now you also have ABR from Atmel and also have arms solutions, right? Yes. Atmel brought a lot of new solutions, a lot of new IP, into the company. Also, manufacturing processes, factories, and very good technology. Definitely, we should talk about the fact that we have now, together, the PIC and the ABR architectures.  And also, we have a lot of new armchips, definitely, with the acquisition. We already had all the licenses before and some products there, but definitely a big boost to the 32-bit product line. So for example, you have right here, you have a Cortex-A. Yeah, I mean, if you want to look at MPUs, we have here Darren Nguyen. And he can tell you more, for example, of our MPU solutions using the A5 core. Hi, so my name is Darren Nguyen. I'm an apps engineer based in the UK. Been working with Microchip for about 14 years now. What we've got here is some of our SAM-A5-D2 processes, which is... So it's right here. Yeah, world-class. World-class. This is our Cortex-A5. World-class. With Trustzone implemented. So I can show you that in a second. So we've been involved, obviously, via ABML and acquisition of ABML. We've been involved with the Armcourse since around 2002, so... Oh, there it is. 2002. Exactly. So we've got a long history there. Microchip and Microchip and ABML actively involved in the development of the Linux kernel on the SAM-A5 parts and on the A5 cores. We contribute back to the main line, and make a policy of doing that. We have no strange vendor trees for our Linux solution. So just an example here that one of the nice things about the A5 is on these particular parts is the level of integration on here. We have built-in LCD controllers. We have graphics acceleration. We have class D audio and the fires built into the parts. So providing significant levels of integration for the customer. And here we're running graphic solutions with Qt and Frank. And here it's showing some trust zone demonstration right here. What is the demo here? So the particular demo we've got here is in conjunction with a third party called Secatar Labs. They're one of our great third parties that we use. And this is just an example of their product called Core T, which provides a secure and trusted execution environment. You can see here one of the classic things that probably people are aware of with Linux is you can try and do a code injection into the kernel while we've got intrusion countermeasures and integrity check monitors in the part. So we can try and inject some code into the Linux kernel by this little application. And there we go. We've detected it. You can see it on the left-hand side and on the right-hand side. The trusted execution environment detects the fault and removes the Linux kernel. We don't have the trusted execution environment, but it's called Secatar Core T. It's not the open source one, right? No, this is a payable product, but then what is security worth to you? How much is it worth to your customers? And you can see here some of our third parties that have great products, including banking solutions using the SAM A5D2. So it's out there in many, many things. Indeed. For security. And this is just on the Cortex-A part coming in the future. There certainly will be some parts coming along in the future. All right. Great. Thanks a lot. And if we go around, there's even more microcontrollers around here. I'm just going to go over here. Check out. Thanks. So what are you showing around here? Yes. So what you see here is a little demonstration. We try to show one of the technologies that we have included in our new ARM devices in some of our Cortex-M0 parts, but also in the AVRs and in the PIC microcontrollers. This technology is called core-independent or event system basically. And what we show here is a bit expanded what would be inside the microcontroller. You'll see some digital and some analog input peripherals, some programmable logic inside the chip and also some output peripherals and some output kind of devices. And what you see here is the wiring basically that you would need to perform, you would need to connect properly to get an application going. And what we see is basically a way to visualize what the core-independent peripheral concept is with these wires. Actually these are connections established inside the micro. So we connect the inputs, the outputs and the logic directly peripheral to peripheral without intervention from the microcontroller. So this is hardware but it's configured in live, in runtime. So every one of these wires is a bit that actually is set in a configuration register and all this actually is inside a micro and you can find it in our Cortex-M0s in our SAM devices and you will find it inside our AVRs and our PIC microcontrollers. If I go around here, let me try to jump in there. Nevertheless, this is a little bit of a complete ecosystem if you want. So a lot of very simple evaluation boards there, a low-cost evaluation board very accessible to all and they range from 8-bit micros all the way to AVR, 8-bit micros all the way to SAM devices again. So you see there at SAM D21, for example, which is a Cortex-M0 5-volt device with the core independent peripherals.  There are 280 of those little sensors and actuator boards and you can plug them directly into all of our demos. So you can easily plug them in. So here you see them connected to a SAM D21, for example. You see two of them connected here and it's very easy to build a prototype, a quick demonstration in a matter of minutes you can have a demo for your boss and show him, hey, this is how I can implement something that connects via, say, GSM. This sensor does some IoT-ish kind of performance. So you did standard kind of connectors. Yes, the standard connector was defined by microelectronica. It's called the microbus and we added this connector to all our demo boards, all of them basically from 8-bit to 32 Cortex AVR and PIC. Now, if you want to follow me, I can show you also some new devices. We continue our commitment to 8-bit. There is still an enormous amount of, enormous volume of 8-bit product being used and consumed in industry nowadays. So we keep innovating there and we have a commitment also to continue both lines of 8-bits, PICs and AVR at the same time. So here at the show, we're showing, again, as we did in November, we did at Electronica and now here in the embedded world, we're showing side-by-side new parts. This is a brand new AVR called the Tiny 1617 and this one is basically an XMega generation AVR squeezed into a tiny package and format. So an XMega set of features, event system, all the cool new features of the XMega really squeezed into one tiny device. Well, it is, of course, using the latest process but it is still a 5-volt capable and it is still backward compatible with the previous generations of Tiny's and XMega's. You also see on the next side, on the other side of the board, you see two new devices, a new PIC 18 and a new PIC 16. This is the first PIC 18 to actually include DMA and back-to-the-interact. And this is a new entry-level family of PIC 16s with all of the core independent peripherals at once but offered... Demo, or you can type in on the... Yes, it's okay if they sign up, you can get it. So we are actually giving away this little... There's not a bucket, there's a programmer and there's a... So these boards, these are the Express series and it's a very interesting little concept. It's a very nice hobby prototyping board. It could be handy also for, you know, some wearable applications, for example. And what it comes with is a little loader, we call it an MSD loader or Express loader. As soon as you connect this board to your PC, it behaves as a hard drive. And then you can drag and drop files on it and it will program it immediately. And as soon as it's finished programming the device, it actually behaves as a virtual serial port. Let's see. So this is using a PIC or the AVR? This one is using a PIC and it is the lowest cost, the easiest entry level device you can find for prototyping quickly. So how do people choose PIC AVR or ARM? I would say that's the beauty of it. I mean, it's up to them. It becomes a question of personal preferences, past experience, what you did in school sometimes, you know, prepares you to prefer one rather than the other. And honestly, the split out there is 50-50 from what we see between AVRs and PICs. It literally comes down to that. Usually the 8 bits are cheaper than the 32-bit stuff? Well, nowadays some of the Cortex M0s are darn cheap. So, yeah, it becomes really a matter of what you need to do, what kind of peripherals you need, what is the application really requiring. And then you got a lot of choice out there. And between PICs AVRs and Cortex devices here, we have just an enormous choice. We have on the website... Just to have a little bit of an idea. What kind of boost do you have around here? So this is the wireless section, which is of course enormous. We have actually two of the stations dedicated to connectivity. This is the wireless connectivity. What you see here is Lora. This is a Lora gateway. This also? This is a Lora port. Well, I considered using... So it's a very small evaluation board. And you can see the format is Arduino compatible. Which is actually not available. It's the easiest way to look at this one. Long-range radios. Lora gives you enormous distances. And this is thanks to this particular radio technology that is using spread spectrum very effectively to get very low power and enormous distances. Very different technologies, but somewhat in the same space and for the same type of applications. Free mix of 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, Cortex MIPS, all of it. We cover it all.  Again, here you see an AVR running. Here you see a... This side a PIC32. So this is a MIPS side-by-side. This is another MIPS machine. This is a SAM W25. So integration of a Cortex core and the radio on the same chip. You see Bluetooth. Of course Bluetooth is very, very hot. And if you go around... The other side is often... Okay, this is wired connectivity. So this is power over internet solutions. Some of it is actually done implementing. This is done implemented on an 8-bit core. 8-bit PIC core. And here you have all our USB and internet connectivity solutions. And of course, between the acquisitions of SMSC and Minecraft, our portfolio here just exploded. At the show here we're showing actually our new gigabit solutions and even a new USB-C 3.1 bridge to gigabit. Are you part of some of the leaders in the market for that kind of stuff? Absolutely, absolutely. I believe they're saying that we have already now shipped something like 600 million units of... Just one part. Of just an internet... Max and 5, basically. So just microchip is for sure shipping billions of chips out there. Oh yes. It's been doing for decades. Well, our current run rates tell us that just 8-bit alone we're shipping more than a billion units per year. And this was before the acquisition of the ADR. And we're here at the embedded world 2017. What's going to happen in the future? Is just going to be more and more stuff happening? Oh yes.  I mean, of course as you see the density of the visitors around our booths you will see that the wireless obviously is the hottest one. And as you move there toward the microcontrollers... Automotive also... In the automotive you see the density just keeps increasing. We had an incredibly busy first day and this second day already is looking pretty. So you have R&D around the world? We do, yeah. Especially with the acquisitions now even more? Yeah, we have a lot of teams especially here in Europe I would say. New teams of course that we got from the micro, from the SMSC, from the Atmel acquisitions. But we keep developing for example all the manufacturing of the silicon for microchip happens actually in the United States in two very large factories in Oregon and in Colorado. Have you been in those? Yes. Is it very impressive? Oh, you have to go there. Is it bigger than the hall here? Oh yes. So it's big and you have to be in a clean bunny suit or not? Oh yes, yes. Actually, well if you come to our Masters Conference which happens every August in Chandler you get the bunny suit visit to one of our factories. The Tempe factory is open for visitors. That would be cool. And the quantities being fabbed out is just increasing all the time and the complexity and the features and new cores being considered and worked on and stuff. Yeah, you can think of it in this terms basically. On a daily basis we are manufacturing, packaging and testing 100% more than 5 million units just of 8-bit microcontrollers. 5 millions a day. 100% tested out of our factory and being shipped out there to the world. I guess you don't do it by hand, right? No, no. Because it's a machine. Yes. And R&D investments and all these things Atma was doing for example is increasing now because of microcontrollers. So they can speed up the innovation, right? Yes, so we have for example a brand new innovation team basically that was the development team in Norway, in Trondheim which is where the AVR was born for example. That team is amazing and it's a very large team of very, very technical, very expert developers. You also did the SAMD 21 and all that stuff, right? We have a location for that in France and in Germany we have more locations with R&D and then we have of course in India, we have locations in the Far East of course that are pretty large. So Philippines, Malaysia and so on. So that's, there's a lowest power Bluetooth in the world, lowest power Wi-Fi in the world. Most performance protects M7 and all these things aren't for killer right now. A5 which is one of the most integrated A5s you can buy. As you've seen there with the graphic acceleration with class D amplifier built in. So, yeah. More, more, more, for less more choice for your readers, for your viewers.


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