Welcome to our, I think, 45th webinar of the series. And today I'm very excited to have the National Institute on Money and State Politics to give this little presentation on their work. And we have specifically Edwin Bender, who is the Executive Director of the National Institute on Money and State Politics. He's been connecting the dots between campaign finance and public policy for more than a decade. He promotes the free use of the Institute's comprehensive, highly credentialed political donor information by investigative journalists, scholars examining state elections and public policy processes, and attorneys involved in campaign finance litigation, and is now focused on empowering librarians across the country. So very excited to have him, especially because it's Sunshine Week, which was one of the reasons why we chose this week. And looking forward to this. So I will hand it over to you. So thanks for joining us this morning. And it's a pleasure to be here and talking to librarians who I think are going to be saving the world very quickly with their skills in massive data collection, as well as indexing and helping people understand it. Let me introduce you quickly to the Institute and what we do. And then I will show you some of our tools that help you get into the data. I'm going to very here go to about our data and what's on the website just so you can kind of get an idea as I'm talking. We've been collecting state-level political donor information, as you can see from this page, for almost 20 years. We started in the eight Northwest States as a regional organization. And in 1999, 2000 election cycle, we're able to get data from all 50 states. So what does this mean? What it means is that we go to the disclosure agencies in each of the 50 states, and we compile the contribution and expenditure reports that are required to be filed by candidates, political party committees, ballot measure committees with the disclosure agencies. Now this is, you know, each state has a different set of reports, the different set of reporting requirements, a different set of reporting dates. So you can imagine it is a massive undertaking for us to do this. But since 2000, we've been able to do it in all 50 states and expand the data we're collecting. It seems like each time we collect a new set of data, someone's saying, well, why aren't you collecting this data? What this means is that each election cycle, there are something like 16,000 committees that have signed in with the disclosure agencies in the 50 states. They file over 100,000 reports. Those reports, some of them are electronic, some of them show up to the public on PDFs, and there are even some paper reports still out there that we compile. We bring all that data in, and some of it we have keyed in. We have a very good process that we designed and implemented for keyed in data with high levels of accuracy. It comes into our database, and we normalize it. The value that we add to that data, and I'll show you just a second. The coding system we use is that we go through the process of standardizing names where we can. We add an industry code, and we make that available all on our website for you and others to use. We did have a question, you know, why aren't we collecting federal data recently? And we began, we went back and began collecting the contribution reports for federal candidates starting at 2010, as you can see there. We developed along the way a new data architecture, this 21st century data architecture that allows us to bring in even more data. So you see where it says local elections. This is data where we have, it comes in some of the electronic files that we get, and instead of we used to throw it away because it wasn't part of our state elections data. But now we're keeping it, and we will be actually growing this data. There are over 300,000 elected jurisdictions in this country and at the local level, and we can't possibly imagine to do all of those, but where we can get data we will. Places like New York, New York City, Washington, D.C., California, we can get quite a bit of data. New Mexico has a lot of electronic data, so any place we can get electronic data we will. We will hopefully in the next couple of years start a process where we're asking people to find electronic data and upload it to our website. So that's kind of an overview. You can see we do the contributors to statewide office. That's Governor, AG, Attorney General, legislative offices, House and Senate, the High Court, the political parties. We also do the caucus committees. We do the ballot measures where they are, where they happen in the states. And we collect registered lobbyists. We've been doing this since 2006. And so what we're collecting is the lobbyist reports and their clients, and then we're correlating their clients with their campaign donations. So you can see where a client has given campaign contributions and also given hire to lobbyists. We let you see that. One piece that's coming at us just for your information is trying to collect what lobbyists are paid. We got that information in about six states for some previous cycles. It is some of the most difficult data that we could ever undertake to build in about half the states. It's not even required to be disclosed. So that's a big piece for us to work on in the future, but we are trying to raise money around that right now. So other than about the data, we will go back to about our data and about our data. And I said we added a coding system, a designated industry code. And you can see that here are the general, the 19 general economic codes. So as you're going through our data, you'll see these plus signs. And the plus sign simply means that you click on it. It will expand so you can see even more specific donations. And if you click on it, you can get down into over 400 different categories that are very specifically assigned to specific donors. So as we get into the data, you will be able to do that sort of clicking and get down to the very specific piece of information that you want to get to. I'd also like you to understand that we go to, we are a primary source repository. So we go to, here's the list of the campaign finance, election and lobbyist disclosure agencies that we work with to gather our information. So we want you to know, we want all of our users to know that our data is verifiable. We go in and we take great pains to make sure we get every report from each one of these commissions or divisions and put it in our database. And we let you know that in a couple of different ways. And I will show you that in just a minute. The other piece you should know about is how our data is being used. And you can look at institute reports. And if you wanted to do that, you would simply go over here and say, show me all the reports on, let's say, prisons. And you'd say, go. And this will take you then to the reports that we have on prison privatizations. Click any of those. And if up at the top, you sign into the My Follow the Money, sign up for My Follow the Money. This allows you to receive reports that we write. You get to pick the subject matter as well as updates on the state data. This also allows you to download data when you get to a place where we'll be looking at some tables here in a little bit. This allows you to download data or to save the queries that you're running. So I would encourage you all to sign up for My Follow the Money. It's free. I keep very little information about you just enough so that you can have an efficient running web page. So under research, we also work with scholars a lot. And this, of course, is your audience out there. So this lets you look at some of the, there are scholars down here who have used their data for some fairly in-depth analysis of both the public policy process, the electoral process. One, scholars are one of our key audiences, primary audiences, and that's one reason I'm talking to you guys.  So I would encourage you to explore those two pieces. And finally, in the news you can see the, here's our news releases. But you can also find out in the news the list of newspapers that have used and news, not just newspapers but radio and TV too. The organizations that have used their data in their reporting, the different ideas and topics they're reporting on as well as some of the Atlanta Journal Constitution is using our data in an API for its legislature that's a very interesting use of our data. In mentioning APIs, that's application program interface for those of you that don't know. And that's simply a way of streaming our data to your web pages or to your computer and under about our data. You can click on APIs and you can see our documentation. And for those of you who have either programming skills or have teenagers who have programming skills, this is a place they might want to dig into the documentation and look at what we do. Again, all the data that we do, everything we do is open to the public. We want you to use it. We encourage collaborations. And finally, about us, if you want to see where we get our money, go to about us. You can find our funding sources as well as our 990s. So we are blessed with being supported by some of the largest foundations in the country. They understand we're doing a fairly thankless job in compiling this information and are very happy we're making it available to the public in lowering the barriers to access to this information.  The Ask Anything is simply a way of building a query to ask for a very specific set of information. I will come back to this in a minute to kind of really help you understand the scope, the scale at which you can access the over, I think we're at 60 million records now. And you should know you are actually querying a database of over 60 million records when you access this. But I'm going to take you over here to the My Legislature Tool. This is something new. We launched it the last couple of weeks. And this is a place where we have taken our campaign finance data and we've grouped it with lawmakers, elected officials, and their committee assignments. And we have an API stream of legislation coming in so you can see the legislation that's coming into a state and see who sponsors it, see which committees it's gone to, and do a little analysis of the donors. So let me take you, you're in North Carolina or at least that's where our host is. So let me take you to North Carolina and we can just do a quick overview so you can see the kind of information we're making available. And here it is. If you were to want to just dig into this data as if you did ask anything query, you'd click here and this would take you to all the records. But what we've done is grouped this data by lawmakers, the legislative committees, and the bills and the sponsors so that you can kind of go back and forth between them. So if you click on important things to know here, top contributors to lawmakers, this is all the donors. No surprise that the parties are right up at the top. But if you wanted to click on why Joe Sam Green gave contributions, you would click on the magnifying glass to go into that data and look at his 46 records. But if you right click on this, you will say, so full details. This gives you an understanding of who Joe Sam Queen is. It's donated almost a million dollars to 22 different filers. That's candidates, party committees, or about committees. And we can say, okay, who is he? Let's look at his occupation. Well, he's an architect. So you can see we take primary source information. This is what he put down or what the candidate or committee put down in the report as his occupation. So he's a former legislator. It looks like, no, he's a current legislator. He's an architect. There are his employers. He's a self-employed, of course. Giving trends gave mostly Democrats probably to himself. He did give to the Democrat Party as well as a couple others, no ballot measures. There's your party committee. He supported himself and a handful of other candidates. So that's as a contributor, as a candidate. This shows you as a lawmaker and then the relationships that he has. But that opens up a whole separate window. When you click on a candidate's name, right-click, or a donor's name, if you were to click on the magnifying glass, it would actually open up a new browser tab for you when you run through the query. So that's the lawmakers. Let's go to recent giving by party. Let's do an overview of how much Democrats received, how much Republicans received. Basically, this tells you who's in control of the legislature. So the next piece, that is, this is where the value starts really showing up, is we give you an opportunity to say, show me who's on the aging committee. And so here you have the members of the aging committee. You get to look at how much they raised. And there's Sam Joe Queen. I didn't plan that.   And there again, nothing too interesting here, all the citizens for higher education. This is the specific interest to this committee. This is all their donations, I should say. Not their specific interest. But where this starts to get interesting is when you go down and look at a piece of legislation. And again, I haven't looked at this, but there's correctional enterprises. So let's go look at that particular bill. And this says, here's the bill, House 10 Correctional Enterprises Medicaid Sales. Let's look at who the sponsors are. There are your sponsors to this particular bill and the top donors to those sponsors. And again, these guys are going to have contributions from a lot of different interests. So this may or may not be of interest, but here is the Medical Society. And there may be some others here who have that kind of an interest. We're looking maybe, since the corrections was in the title, for a correctional interest. If you hit House Bill Events, you now see that this has been passed on to the Committee on Health. So let's go back up and find the Committee on Health. And this appropriation is probably not education. There's the Health Committee. So now we have the members of the Health Committee. How much money they raise to their position within the Committee as well as their party. And we can say it contributes to Committee members. And this may or may not be of a lot of interest, although you do see now a grouping of North Carolina Medical Society and North Carolina Hospital Association that may or may not, the dental, have an interest in this. You can drill down into that. Or, Rich says, click here to explore contributions to this Committee. Now, when we click here, we're going to say, show me all the records for these particular lawmakers who sit on this Committee. We just opened up another tab. So these guys have over 20,000 contributions for $9.5 million. Now, the question is, okay, so what? Now, the plus sign next to the one here, this is some functionality that you need to know. You can open as many of these tabs as you want. You're going to look at this data in a couple of different ways. So let's just say, okay, let's look at them using your table viewer. Here is the table viewer, the way to analyze, begin analyzing this data. Click the table viewer. Now, let's look at the broad general industries who gave. So there's health. Now, we were looking at health as a, you know, there were top donors there, but as a group, the health industry, was a pretty big donor to this particular Committee. Now, whether they knew this bill was coming or not is a question. So let's look at, let's go back over to this one and go to the table viewer and say, show me the contributors. Who were those contributors? Say, okay, we can say, let's go to a little bit more specifically, the specific business. And this is where we might get into some other questions about if this is corrections, then do we have corrections people showing up here? And again, we start out at general with the broad sector, go to more specific with the general industry, or very specific with the specific business. And I'm not seeing any correctional contributions here, which is a little surprising. But anyway, hopefully this is, you can see how this particular tool would be of value to you. Here we'll go one more time and hit the filer. Now, this is the recipient of those dollars. So these are the Committee members, how much they received from the, from all donors. Let's go back here to health and say, now show me the health donations to members of this Committee. So we've narrowed this search down. I hope I haven't lost anyone. We've narrowed this search down to now we're just looking at the health contributions. And again, we're going to keep that for a place marker and say show me the candidates who received this. We're going to go to filer again. So this shows you that Committee member Joseph Nelson-Dollar received over $244,000 from an interest that had, from a person who sponsored or had, excuse me, was sitting on the Committee that's considering this piece of legislation, H10. So that's the Committee analysis tool. Let me take you to another one. Let me close these just so maybe I can resonate a little bit more clearly. Pennsylvania is a state that we've looked at a lot. It is a state that has no contribution limits. So the dollars you see here will be a lot higher than North Carolina's. But here if we go down and say, OK, show me then the, who are the donors to ethics financial disclosure. I'm looking here, water wells. So here are HB48 in conservation and natural resource providing for water well and construction standards. Now, you all know that Pennsylvania is a state. Marcellus shale formation is there and fracking oil and gas. This is huge. Here are the sponsors of that piece of legislation. And here are then the top donors to Committee members. And you can start seeing here's PPL and PICO Energy showing up on the list. If we go to House Bill events, this has been moved to Consumer Affairs. So if we go up to Consumer Affairs Committee, we see that, again, big donations. The donors to Consumer Affairs, pretty standard stuff except here's Exxalon, PPL, giving quite a bit of money, PICO Energy 82. So this is getting a little more specific. Now if we go back and open up another tab with just contributions to lawmakers on this particular committee, then we go to our table viewer and we say, show us the broad sector. And we see that energy and natural resources are among the top donors. Party is always there. So, okay, for your information, the uncoded, you'll see that's a large number. We're processing hundreds of thousands, millions of records every election cycle. What happens, our algorithms go through and recognize the interest that we've been looking at for the last 20 years. We're able to standardize and code those. In the millions of records, we get a lot that are not either the first-time donors. They don't give a lot. They do not have an occupation employer. Or for some reason, their name doesn't fit our standardized algorithms. And we have to have a research team that goes in and looks at those. But at the end of the day, we're able to code to an industry more than 90% of the money that lawmakers raise. So the uncoded will always be at the top. This is us telling you this is where we need to work. But what you know from our data is that we've shown you. We've documented, I should say, the finance insurance and real estate donors, the natural resource. The other piece that you might question is the unidimized contributions right there. Unidimized contributions are those that are below a reporting threshold. So in Montana, the reporting threshold is $35. So if you give 35 or less, your name will show up as a lump sum on the report. The reporting thresholds range from $20 in about six states to $200 in the handful of states. So there's a range, but that is just lump sum. It's basically fundraisers, house parties, that sort of thing. But let's look right now at the energy and natural resource dollars to this particular committee. So I'm going to click on the magnifying glass. And again, this takes us to a place where we have the natural resources donors to the Pennsylvania Consumer Affairs Committee. And so we're going to open that other table. We're going to click on Table Viewer and say, show us who these contributors are. And now you can see, excellent PPL. They're giving almost $100,000 to committee members who are discussing right now this particular piece of legislation, the HB48. So if you're a reporter, at some point you're going to start asking questions. What does this bill do? How does it either protect my water or protect the companies that are looking at fracking? So this is hopefully a very valuable tool. I skipped ahead to this tool simply because it is something we just launched. We're very excited about it. And we've already had some really good reporting go on with this. And we're happy to, at any time, take your further questions you can call. And we're happy to do one-on-one and help you understand how to use these tools. So now let's go back a little bit. I'm about halfway into my time. So I want to make sure that I am getting back to some of the other bigger pieces of our tools. You can see my district here is a place you simply enter an address. And if I do mine, this then will show you basically a ballot. Here are my districts. We take you to my district. This is a place you get to see who ran in my district, how much they raised. And you keep scrolling down. Here's my Senate district. And here is the U.S. House. And here's the U.S. Senate. So this is a way to get people and you can have the top donors to each of these sets of candidates simply by clicking on top contributors, top industries, or giving trends. These are easy access places to, we think, some value. If you're a voter and you want to see who is the lawmaker in my district and who gave to them, that's where you would go.  And a piece to understand here, when I said you can track us, this is verifiable data, the 86% here means that we have gone in and we've compiled. This was updated 318. We've compiled 86% of the reports that are required to be filed, and only 86% have to be filed at this particular date. If you click on that 86%, it will take you to a listing that shows the reports that were required to be filed. And let's go down to 2014 and click on this. So this then shows you the candidates and committees, how many reports we have in. And here we have at North Carolina Senate, Alexander for North Carolina Senate, we have all eight of his reports. Kelly Alexander, we have six of his eight reports. So Kelly hasn't filed all of them. In the case of a congressional candidate, we have 15 of 16 reports. So this is a way for you to understand how much data we have, how good it is, where we are in the process of compiling that information. That's something we show reporters right up front so they know what they're reporting about. So this shows you then who the candidates are.  So this is an overview of the election. If you wanted to go in and look at a specific Senate race, we'll click on the plus sign. Here's the State Supreme Court, and there are two candidates. Let's go to this one where there are three candidates. This shows you who those candidates are. And again, if you click on the magnifying glass, you'd open up this set of data, be able to look at the 1,954 committees for over $660,000. You can look at top contributors to all candidates. But where this gets, I think really interesting is when you look at the giving trends. This is where you get to say, okay, Republicans got $40 million, 46,000 checks, 47,000 checks just gave Democrats just $30 million. Nonpartisan winners, of course, got a lot more than losers, although this is closer than we often see. Another thing you see here is how incumbents got $46 million, and the winners got $46 million. This means that your incumbents won probably 99% of the time. That's a trend we see incumbent, of course, incumbent money winning out the vast majority of time, 90% of the time. So that's the election overview. And finally, we do have an industry influence, which we're still working on. It needs some filtering. And the national overview is simply a map that you get to look at the federal dollars, the state dollars, where we have local level data. And again, you can go into tabular data. But let me take a moment for the last little bit here to let you show you how the Ask Anything works. Because this is where we're allowing you to unlock the data. We start here. We want to look at contributions too. And let's look at all the states, but let's look at a couple different years, and I'm hoping this is going to run fast. We're going to say we want to look at two election cycles. And we're going to, now, core data. Let me explain this. Our core data is our state data and the federal data. If you want to only look at state data, you'd say just show me the state data. And then we say go. So we've narrowed our search down. You have to click go. You're now looking at over 8 million records of data. And so let's do two things real quick. Let's just say show me by the election state, since we're looking at all 50 states. So here you have a list. And I said you could access this data in a number of different ways. The URL at the top is actually a hard link. And it would allow you to get to this particular view of the data if you were to cut and paste this into a story. You can also use down at the bottom. If you've signed in with my file of the money, you have access to the CSV, the XML, or the JSON to program this in. You get, with CSV, you get exactly what you see on the screen. So if you're building an analysis of the last two election cycles, you can say that in California there was over a billion dollars raised by candidates and committees in the last two election cycles.  You can then say, let's look at this by year. Since we did pick multiple years, you get to see that. There's a split here. The off year is quite a bit lower than the year of the elections. That's pretty normal. Then you start getting into the interesting stuff. Like, let's look at, I don't know, how much money went to incumbents in all 50 states. And this may take a minute, so I might jump ahead. But what we're doing, each one of these buttons allows you to, that was fast. So here's incumbents. Over two billion dollars, all 50 states incumbents raised two billion dollars compared to open races where there's 1.2 billion and challengers 600,000. We can start stacking all these. But again, because you're sorting millions of records, I'm not going to go deep into that. You could do more than one indicator. Let's go in and say, okay, in the last two cycles, what were the broad industry sectors? Who gave the most? And then you can start, this is where you get to start narrowing things down. Where are the interests that are giving? Where do they have an interest? So if you have the oil and gas, the fracking guys, you'd be able to go here and say, this lets you get into this broad sector analysis. So the cat codes that we put on here, and this is going to take a minute. So I might go back and do something else. These queries run. You can open up other windows. The query is going to keep running. And so if we were to say, now show me, and I'll come back to the other one, show me the general party. And it's going to go down just to candidates. And while that's loading, let's go back and say, that was still loading. So I'm going to, I've bitten off more than I should. But here we go. We get Republicans about the same number of checks, but the amounts, there are over 400 million more. That's an interesting piece. And if you wanted to stack up, you could run another query here that would show you the incumbent Republicans versus challenger Republicans versus open Republicans. So you can stack these up. And this again gives you an interesting analysis into the campaign finances. And that one's going to keep loading. So I'm going to try one more thing here so you can kind of see. Let's do the type of contributor. So one thing we do is we do look at the, you know, is this contributor an individual or is it a non-individual? And by that I mean an association, a PAC, or in some states even corporations can give. So looking at the type of contributor can give you an analysis. And if you clicked on type of contributor and then general party, you'd see which party had more individual donors versus association donors. If you were to click on status of candidate, this would give you winners and losers. And type of contributor would let you understand if winning candidates received more donations from non-individuals such as PACs Association than individuals. The trends there of course, or if you're running, if you're challenging an incumbent, you're going to be raising more money from the individuals. And your incumbent's going to be raising more money from the people they see every day in the halls of the legislature. And so you see that trend back and forth. Someone's trying to beat an incumbent or win an open seat. They will reach out and have more of a grassroots campaign. Once they're in office, then they go to the easy money, which is the PAC and the association. So that is then a really big jump into our data. You can. Let's go and let's show you a bar chart. And we're going to say election year. Let's say party. And by state. This is going to be a huge, huge chart. We're still working on our data visualizations. There's a tremendous amount you can do. But this is pretty interesting, I guess, if you were to break it down. Republican, Democrat, third party. So you can see Republicans getting a big spike here. Democrats, that's way too much data for a good visualization. That gives you an idea of the power that we're providing to you at our homepage. So where I would go from here then is you just need to understand here's where we are. The prominent searches, what we're making available, we do do blogging. We are a nonpartisan 501c3. So we're picking up issues of the day. And simply putting tidbits out or complimenting the data, the information that news reporters are putting out, or people doing studies putting out. We do offer help. So we have online tutorials. We have Ask Anything tours. So you should use our Q&A. You'd be surprised how many people don't know what an election cycle is, or the difference between federal races and state races. Our glossary of terms for you, you guys are interested in this sort of stuff. So we've gone through them. We've defined everything as clearly as we can under glossary of terms. And one last thing are our online tutorials. So we are doing more and more of them. Every two weeks we're doing an online tutorial. We're doing what we call 12 minute tutorials. People come in.  And we do a webinar on that. And so we want people to come in if you want one for your group, or if you have a question about the data. You should, by all means, contact me or anyone here at the institute. And we will do what we can. And with that, Linda, I'm happy to entertain questions. Great. If anybody has questions, please feel free to chat in the box with us. We have a couple of people who are typing right now. And am I going to see that, or are you going to read that? If you can see it, it will be down in the bottom left corner when they do come through. Ah, there we go. OK. If there are any limits on the size of data downloads, there is. It's large. I would suggest that you try to limit the download size. Our APIs, I forget exactly. I think it's 100,000 a day. But for most of the requirements, most people don't want to download 40 million records. They can. They can do that simply by doing a search. But I don't have the number. The API download is one thing. The download from the queries is, I don't know how limited that is. But we only put limits on because we don't want to scooble up our server or pipeline. We're in Montana. We don't have that big of pipeline. If you want to email me, Jeremy, I can get you more specific information. Great. We have another person who's typing in right now, so we'll probably come in. Thank you very much for the presentation. And then I said, sure, plans for historical data. Well, I mean, our data is historical snapshot going back to the 2000 election cycle for all 50 states. I guess I don't know what you mean by historical data. But let me just fill you out. I mean, we don't plan on going backwards beyond 2000 if that's what you mean. The value that we offer is moving forward. There are certainly scholars that like having multiple cycles in multiple jurisdictions. So that was our first charge was, can we look at federal data, state data, and local level data? The example there is like public funding. There are something like 124 jurisdictions that have local level jurisdictions that have some sort of public funding mechanism in place. So you can do an analysis of public funding at the state level using our data. And of course, the federal public funding is hit and miss anymore. But if the interests that want to move that whole public funding thing want to look deep in that analysis, they will go to the local level and we are building that data. That's multi-jurisdictional and then multi-cycle data. We are with the API feed. We now have access to decades worth of legislation. So one of the things on my list, I want list and for our tech guys to deal with is to create the algorithms that allow us to create a taxonomy for understanding a decades worth of legislation. So you'd be able to click on like oil and gas and get legislation that had to do with oil and gas in some way. That's extremely difficult to do, but that is something we will be working on. One of my tech guys is finishing his PhD in artificial intelligence. And so that is a question we're going to put in front of him. And I have every reason to believe that we're going to be able to come up with something at least in a general way. Maybe it's just around a handful of issues. Healthcare, the environment, water, maybe guns that allow us to give you both a view of the donor information, how it passed through legislation, legislative bodies, and then the legislation itself. Do you plan to keep 2000 data intact moving forward? Yes, we do. We're not throwing anything away. Every time we take on a piece of data, we try to make sure we're of a scale that we can keep doing it. So when we're like right now we've done independent expenditures in about 24 states. That's just we're limited by disclosure. Disclosure in the states around some things like lobbyist expenditures or independent expenditures is awful. So we do what we can and we will continue doing those silos of data and augmenting them as we can. So we won't go backwards, but as we move forward we will keep expanding and adding value as people tell us. There's another piece we need to add here. And that said, we are working with groups like today U.S. Perg just put out a report on budget information, how accessible it is. There's a group called in the public interest that has just done a report on disclosure around government contracting. There's a group called Good Jobs First that's doing work around subsidies and contracts. We know all these people. We have good relationships and where we can add value, where they can use our data and meld it with their data, we're happy to do that. We know that we can't do everything. We just have the RAND report. One thing about us, if you were to go to, is it home or about us? No, it's home, I guess, toward the bottom. There it is, RAND evaluations. We had the RAND corporation come in and look at our data. 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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that if the straight line 3x plus 4y is equal to 25, that is the circle, x square plus y square is equal to a square, find the radius of the circle. Now we will start with the solution. Here the equation of the straight line is given to us and the equation of the circle is also given to us. So given equation of the straight line is 3x plus 4y is equal to 25, let us name it as 1 and equation of the circle is x square plus y square is equal to a square and let us name this as 2. From 1 we have 3x plus 4y is equal to 25 which implies 4y is equal to 25 minus 3x which further gives y is equal to 25 minus 3x whole upon 4. Now substituting y is equal to 25 minus 3x whole upon 4 in equation number 2 which is this equation we get x square plus 25 minus 3x whole upon 4 whole square is equal to a square which further implies x square plus 625 minus 150x plus 9x square whole upon 16 is equal to a square. Now on taking the LCM this implies 16x square plus 625 minus 150x plus 9x square whole upon 16 is equal to a square which further implies x square plus 9x square is 25x square plus 625 minus 150x is equal to 16a square. Now this implies 25x square minus 150x plus 625 minus 16a square is equal to 0. Now let us name this equation as equation number 3. Now we have a result according to which if the line 1 which is this line touches the circle which is given as equation number 2 then the roots of this quadratic equation are equal. So we can write given by equation number 1 touches the circle given by equation number 2 then the roots of the quadratic equation which is given by 3 are equal. Now which are equal then minus 4ac which is the discriminant is equal to 0. Now for this equation here a is equal to 25, b is equal to minus 150 and c is equal to 625 minus 16a square. So substituting the values of a, b and c here this implies minus 150 whole square minus 4 into 25 into 25 minus 16a square the whole is equal to 0. Now this can also be written as minus 150 whole square is equal to 4 into 25 into 625 minus 16a square the whole which further implies minus 150 whole square is 22,500 is equal to 4 into 25 which is 100 into 625 minus 16a square the whole. Further this implies 225 is equal to 625 minus 16a square which further implies 16a square is equal to 625 minus 225 which implies 16a square is equal to 400 this implies a square is equal to 400 by 16 which further implies square is equal to here 4 into 100 is 400 and 4 into 4 is 16 further 4 into 25 is 100 so it will be 25 this further implies a is equal to 5. Now we know that if the equation of the circle is a plus y square is equal to a square then a represents the radius of circle hence the radius of the circle which is a is equal to five units so this is the solution of the given question and that's all for the session hope you all have enjoyed the session


Of course, it tells us every decision we make goes in and out of giant constellation and this constellation is the sunshade. So those thoughts and decisions that you make every day for the person that you think you are and the people you think are in your life, a little close constellation of friends, that's a very limited perspective of what the whole universe is. And your mind is really the whole universe, so whatever you believe about yourself, you believe about the world, puts the limits on consciousness. And that's why scientists say you perceive only a tiny little strip of everything that's going on. If you've seen really what we believe, we know it's just that the tiniest little strip of perception is what you perceive because the decisions you're making are for the whole universe, but you just think you're making them for a very small fee. And it doesn't work that way.  So another way to think of it is in the workbook where Jesus says everything you think and say and do teaches all the universe. Everything that you think and say and do teaches all the universe. You didn't get that from mom and dad. Just finish your sandwich and don't deserve it. You know, it seems very small when you think that there's just, you have a very small realm of influence. And the reason that the mind is so afraid of this vast universal perspective is because it still thinks that separation is possible. It's afraid. The mind that's sleeping is afraid of thoughts because it thinks, what if I miscreate with those thoughts? What if I could bring destruction? I mean, initially when people start studying metaphysics and they're told that everything that they perceive is a reflection of their mind, they'll say. So you mean Nazi Germany was a reflection of my mind? Saddam Hussein or weather conditions, tsunamis, hurricanes, so on and so forth. The entire cosmos is a reflection of mind. And that's why there's a fear around the power of thinking. Like if I could, if I had that much power, what if I could miscreate? That's the terror in the mind. And through the process that we worked on today where you start to realize, underneath your attack thoughts and underneath your gossips and your private thoughts, you have real thoughts. And you think of God, loving thoughts. And that really while we are truly, truly, truly capable of His love, we never could stretch. We never actually had the power to break apart from the Creator, to make something out different, to make up duality. And that's what this is all about. It's just asking you to release those meaningless thoughts. And as you do, you can see how loving thoughts just come through so naturally and easily, until finally you're convinced that there's only love. There's always only been love. We've never was anything else. It's impossible to miscreate. The reason why we feel that way is because we're the only creature on earth that's capable of complex thinking. Because the animals don't feel that way. And the trees don't feel that way. It's only human beings that feel that way. And I think that's because God has put a spirit inside of us, but He's also given us our form and our mind. And that's why we think that way, because we're capable of thinking one thing and another thing, good or bad. Would you say that? Well, he goes through the complexity kind of thing, so the spirit is just helping us.  So it's just really a rinse, rinse, rinse. It's a rinse cycle, as many times as is necessary.


The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Trader's Edge now Steve Rhodes Good afternoon folks. Welcome to the November 23rd, the terrific Tuesday edition of today's Trader's Zed show I'm your host TV perseverance Rhodes who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past Hope everyone out there is having a great day Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one of the easiest way to do that It's to always remember that life is happening for us not to us That's right. We do and I make that one little two-by-four shift Well means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us Now today you and I we're gonna go check on the circumstance of these markets We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just past one O'clock in the afternoon. I want you to know that I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here But more important than that that's this during this next 60 minutes. 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They're up 61 points or about four tenths So the downside is the S&P 18 the Nasdaq off 204 the Russell down 15 semi soft 50 We'll go figure out what all this stuff means out here spot biotinics well above the 50-day exponents moving average That always has the wind at the face of the S&P 5100 Edwin out there. You've got gold off 19 bucks silver down 86 pennies a couple these instruments in at support levels So we're going to go dive down into the interday time frame charts See if we see any signals there for you lead the charge dollar wise the upside you got booking holdings That's 33 bucks about one and a half percent Burlington stores 24 9% man. That's a big move Sit time corporation or something along those lines up 22 bucks or 9% the die-com industries up 12 Charter communications up 9 to the downside it's Tesla of 56 bucks your Paul lays down 43 Hub spots off 42 zoom video down 42 Shopify 39 So certainly things to look at of course. I want to look at what you want to look at Let's do this. We have one request that has come in We're not going to get behind on requests net requests come from Nancy and it's about Apple So it's kind of really pertinent for us to take a look at this since Apple is the number one holding inside the NDX Yeah, I think Apple is then as followed by Microsoft Out there. So the answer's question is well first I need to change church Church here give me a moment to do this. You should have this done beforehand, but well Oh, I did get it done before and okay great So the question is hasty, but would you take a look at Apple, please? Absolutely in particular will continue to run back up to 164 So that's the first question or the hundred sixty two air six four in the next two months That's always that that's always a tough one for Stevie, but we'll see what we can do out here You're in December 17th 150 calls and about a buck under water at present I think every great turkey day. Hey you too and I'm most thankful for all the wonderful traders and TF and I'm happy to be a Subscriber well, that's great I'm very happy for all the folks in the dead and everybody that's affiliated with the TF and so thanks for those kind Comments out there and Nancy is in Washington in the great Pacific Northwest So Nancy what Apple did yesterday you can see it on the black background charts here Completed a sell the D point pattern and that was the reason why I say that it completed That was because it generated a bearish reversal candle. That's the shooting star now typically shooting stars My experience is they either work or they don't that's the general rule in this case here It's working and we are seeing price move lower now in the case of Apple with regard to support And we'll go take a look at my daily time frame chart momentarily or my other charts out there But right now we take a look at profile support. It's down at 152 49 15284 So the question is we'll get back up to 164 that I don't know But let's go take a look at our other time frame charts. I know the pattern here is really kind of neutral Because price is still above support, but it's so far down there 159 152, you know that'll put that position under water quite a bit more So let's go take a look at the other background charts. Well, the reason is well Let's just take a look at the white background charts first Give me a moment here And so we're gonna look at the daily and on the daily time frame So another level a likely target area here out Nancy is going to be 155 and change right now It's 155 83 out here on my system as price moves down that number will move a little bit lower That's that green oscillator and change line. So that could be a target area more likely than that That's where price is targeting I say more likely than that because we're gonna take a look at the NQ 2 And we're gonna take a look at the instruments inside the NDX 100 So if we look at a weekly time frame chart, there's no problems out here when I say no problems There's no topping signal the only top that was in place was taken out last week So the weekly chart is saying yeah Nancy I can get back up to that level So it's a daily chart that's kind of controlling things at the moment the monthly time frame chart No topping signal yet. That's been confirmed price above the oscillator and change line. So that looks pretty good Let's dive down into the 30 minute time frame chart here. What we're looking for some type of bottom We don't have that now Nancy that bottom could take place at 156 53 That is its breakout level for its 30 minute time frame Of course, you'd like to see some type of pattern form as price gets down to that area if it gets down to that area The reason I say if you're trading inside a bullish structure pro for all right now in the 30 minute basis So what that does tell you is to consecutive close below 159 58 you're headed lower or it's headed lower the 65 minute time frame chart shows That prices back to support So 159 11 there it's a key area the 130 minute time frame chart shows us what not much support Here would be 155 61 and then the 195 minute chart says the support would be 150 908 So how do we put all this together so it's those interday time frames that I'm really kind of interested in here to provide Some type of information Nancy and the reason is First I'm going to come back here, and we're going to go back and take a look at our Taz daily profiles So our Taz daily profiles at the moment show what they show that the ES mini right now is sitting right at support That's the bottom of that profile. I mean right at it 40 46 58 50 So one potential for support holding the NQ is also back at support or one of its two support levels The first support level was 16 134 the low today is 16 140 for Stevie's work That's close enough. We're in that range of support if price would have closed below 16 134 Then we'd be looking at a move back to 16 0 55 But since we're near a support level inside the ES inside the NQ We're coming into this holiday weekend if there's a bottom. It's going to form It's going to do it sometime around now give or take now I'm not saying now at 1 13 in the afternoon not that I can't but Relatively soon I would think if that's going to be the case now The problem is or the issues are Nancy that inside the Dow equity future contract There is no tax market profile support level prices below that on the daily basis So each of these have a to be equal CD down patterns They would need some type of bullish reversal candle to confirm their Gartley buy much like yesterday Apple confirmed a Gartley wasn't really a Gartley pattern out there. It was just simply a sell the d-point a Pattern so we've got two that say maybe two that say I don't know when they say I don't know that means that what we have To do is shift over to steve's other charts out here to see so to really try to put all this together And when we do in fact, I'll get those charts on my screen here right now before we go to break because the question is is the Dow Potentially at support and the answer that question is absolutely Steve Rhodes with TFNM. 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So as we take a look at three of the four equity future contracts We can see that they are each at levels of potential support the yes Many the bottom of its new daily profile the NQ the center of its bullish structure profile in the Dow equity future contract is its TD 9 breakout level so three of the four say as we go into this holiday weekend Now is a good time to to look potentially for some type of bottom signals in essence That's what we're doing here and getting back to Nancy's question that could certainly lift Apple higher and maybe she can recoup but because the longer term maybe this is in any bit Let's just one one thing at a time the Russell 2000 not providing us with any kind of a signal out here The actually its signal says that it wants to get down to the 22 38 level So remember prices below the bottom of its daily profile There's an A to B equal CD to the downside a bullish reversal candle would confirm its bottom out there and short of that That would then suggest that price will go target the 22 38 level So when we look at the short-term time frame charts now in this case here I'm just simply going to go to the 30 minute charts out there I'm pro those up on the screen. So we look at the 30 minute charts out here The only chart with a valid bottoming signal is the NQ Okay, well, it's just really what Nancy in essence is calling about trying to understand what Apple is doing You can see that it has a confirmed roadsman to Mindicator bottom Did it here at 1130 when it generated that bull sash candle? What we also noticed is each of the rallies have found resistance at that oscillator and change line One of that oscillator and change line which right now about 16 to 01 I give or take out there The price is testing this level of support. So it's great that we're doing this at 120 at this level here holds Hmm something to think about then if price can get above that red oscillator and change line about the 16 We'll call it 202 area that would be the next move Then if you can get above that then you're looking at 16 307 And that is the top of its barestructured profile if price can close above that then the NQ would be Suggesting, okay, we could see some rally from here. What if it doesn't well if it doesn't then we know that what the NQ Should do is go target at 16 055 level if you take a look at the dial when the lower left You can see that it has made it made it slow at 4 o'clock this morning and it has not made a lower low So the dial got back to that td9 breakout level that was at that 35 388 area and even though, you know, it's not really a I don't know that I can find a bottom pattern out here Right now with regard to it. So it's the NQ that maybe has a bottom pattern But the Dow is the one that should see if there is a rally should see a very large rally out there It's the only one where the lows didn't make a lower low You know earlier this morning, you know 1011 as the others were doing out there. So Nancy I hope that that helps you out. We've got a caller on the line I'm going to go to our caller because we have call had seating here But when when when we're done that call or what have you I will go back We'll take a look at the NDX 100 and take a look at those top eight instruments and try to figure out what they're doing But in the meantime, we've got John and Philly on the line John. Thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you today? Steve I'm terrific. Thanks for taking the call and This stuff tells very nicely my question does rather With the top of your just gonna go. Yeah, so the major top signal I think would come John with a close below the bottom of a weekly profile and that's a screen That's the that's the chart that I have on our screen right now and that's way down to 386 23 But prior to price getting down there sometimes old resistance can become support We all see that do you see that when you do your charting and so forth So in this case here from a market profile standpoint the next level of support would be the top of the weekly profile That's 412 37. Oh, you're not seeing it. Sorry my Apology. Thank you. Mr. Bill my wingman keeping me straight. So here we go So here's the weekly time frame chart John and what we can see is price is pulling back and it's about to or it has Basically tested the top of that profile our actual low is 413 40 the top of that profiles 412 37 So that would be an area to watch and observe if price were to close below that then the signal would be that price Would get down to about the 475 area and then below that would be that 386 23 And if we did see a close below that weekly profile that would tell us of something of significance With regard to the other profile levels out here John the monthly has a new profile that formed below price It did that last month. That's typically a bullish signal out here So as you've pointed out, this has been in a mega bull market profile wise That was the message from last month out there But yes on a daily basis we can see that price just creamed right through the bottom of its daily profile And the question is there any kind of bottoming signal out here? The answer is no It's going to be in bar number four on a TD nine count if price continues lower In in that top of that weekly profile doesn't hold then the price target becomes 394 05 that's the breakout level on this last move this last move that I'm referring to is from October 4th Up to the TD nine count top that took place on November the 9th back to the weekly charges for a moment See if we see anything out here nothing additional To provide to us and on the monthly profile depending on what type of candle forms this month Could be the identifier of a potential top But at the same time price would have to close below about 412 in order to signal that so on a daily basis This looks like it wants to continue to move lower And that price target would be 394 05, but you and I know better than that We would be watching the top of that weekly profile 412 37 first This is that the information that you were looking for? perfect, that's all I need I thank you and That lets you then proceed into your discussion of the index 100 which you bet. Thanks much for calling that was John in Philly So yeah, let's go back to those charts give me a moment just to populate them because it's important understand What's going on underneath the covers not just take a look at the NQ, but what's really going on? What's the message of those instruments? So give me a mo. Oh, no, what did I just do? I hope I didn't do that. Oh, oh Well, this is going to take work So I'm gonna have to go to game plan B because as I was trying to get to that worksheet I happened to click on the wrong link and it's opening up something that's could take a little while to To populate here. What a bummer stevo. Well, hey the everything had everything in life happens for us So now we're going to go figure out what that force is So let me so I've kind of answered Nancy's question. I'm just gonna see if there's any other questions here Yeah, David writes in I'm only gonna be able to do some of what David's looking at but that's okay We're gonna go for it and his question is about BNTX BNTX. This is David I believe this is David in Texas possibly but in any event So we're looking at Biontech se a Biontech right now is trading above the top of its daily profile What's your question? Where do you see BNTX headed to near term? You know if price can stay above 298 42 Dave And price can close above 30244 by Friday Then the suggestion is 331 40 and 331 40 is gonna be the real key level And we'll talk about that as soon as we get back from this break And we're taking a look at folks ticker symbol BNTX pull that up on your charts And you tell me where his price headed to in the next in the near term would be right back Are you having fun trading the markets but having trouble finding like-minded individuals to discuss your trading and investment ideas with Become an apex predator in the trading markets and join the Tigers Den trading room only at tfnn.com The Tigers Den is an exclusive trading room where successful traders from around the world come to exchange trades and ideas Join the den and surround yourself with the sharpest minds in the trading world Subscribers to the Tigers Den are also the first to have their questions answered live on air and can privately chat with our tfnn hosts live during their shows Interact with other Tigers and Tigers is as they share trading ideas news analysis and discuss the market action all trading day Subscribe to the Tigers Den risk-free with our 30-day money-back guarantee and become part of the tfnn trading community tfnn educating investors You could be making money off the stock market and if you're already making money off the stock market You could be making a lot more check out tfnn and Tiger TV and get expert investing advice to give you the power to control your financial future Go to tfnn.com and find the newsletter for you whether you're into trading gold metals futures Currencies or options you'll get advice and analysis to help you seriously get ahead tfnn also features trading services with a 30-day money-back guarantee for new subscribers as well as tfnn's Tiger Den trading room trading software and educational webinars for all trading levels and make sure you check out Tiger TV for free on tfnn.com or tfnn's YouTube channel for live financial content from 8 30 a.m.. 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This is a bearish structured profile and we can see that this formed above price and Any countertrend rallies would typically end at the center of a bearish structured profile So that's really going to be a real key level or price level for you to watch If in fact this can get back inside that weekly profile So that means a close but 30244 on Friday afternoon with regard to its white background charts Let's see what additional information we might be able to gleam here daily wise Nothing here that helps us again not bearish at all So the it's that weekly. That's really causing the problem out here the weekly You can also see the oscillator and change line is a 307 37 So that would be a nice area for price to overcome or close above other than that I really don't have a ton of information out here David So I think it's got to wait to see how this plays out for the next couple of days out here Of course, that would really be just tomorrow, right? And so effectively I'd say now at 1 o'clock in the afternoon I mean the majority of the people are traveling and a bunch of my family members are traveling that today And so we're really into a very light volume type market out here. We should be so David I hope that helps you out. Probably we take a look at this, you know on Monday as well So thanks again for writing and no other questions at the moment So let's go back to because I did get those other charts powered up here Let's go back to take a look at what's going on inside the NDX 100 because if the market is going to bottom It should come from the NDX 100 level or area out here. So now we're going to change chart screens and You're going to see the you're going to see the top eight instruments Apple being the first one So we've already covered Apple in detail We know it's got a sell the deep point because the shooting star candle and that suggests move back to about the 155.74 ish area that is its oscillator and change line Microsoft yesterday formed a Rosemont to Mindicator top price here should find support at 332 43 That's the bottom of its daily profile. If price closed below 332 43 that suggests run to the 308 60 area But prices near support Amazon no topping pattern out here But price being below its oscillator and change line. I was likely to head back into the 3510 area here That is like 3510.  So prices below a brand new profile that formed today That was at 30. No, it's at 35 10.07 Okay, I just can't say okay. That's what it is a little dot here. So 35 10.07 is where Amazon should find support Tesla no top Brand new profile and support is between 1044 $1,000 and 0.4. Let's just forget the sense. It's between 1,000 and 1,065 that way I won't confuse anybody Google no top just consolidate inside its profile supported 2886 in Bidia A Rosemont to Mindicator top price is now inside its daily profile. So the support levels here are 287 and 301 Facebook is trading below the bottom its oscillator and change line if it closes below that that would suggest lower price Adobe Rosemont to Mindicator top yesterday. So its level of support is 637 to 642 Actually 651. That's the top of its daily profile. So how do we summarize this? I would say I'd summarize it this as I just was speaking to myself that we are seeing The top eight instruments are each suggesting that they Easily could move to lower ground now not lower ground like there's a major change in trend But lower areas of support one fifty five seventy five Apple Microsoft three thirty two forty three Amazon three 3508 90 Tesla 1065 year 1083 2866 on Google 301 we'd say on Nvidia Facebook I'm not sure it's just lower and Adobe you're basically sitting at support out here So do we get a ton of information Stevie? Yeah, probably not. So other than okay Yeah, so probably not so now let's go back and sorry to just rip this apart But it's it really should be done. It really is about the the end cues of the index I'm going to switch back to the end to the eight time frame chart out there. Oh, I've got to pull it up That's right.  So give me a moment to get that rolling In Q. I'm naturally into charts. Okay. And while that's going what I'm going to do here is a switch chart Screens and you'll see it just popping up right now in populating. So inside the end cue. Let's get this thing going Out here. Come on. Come on There we go. So Right now so as we came into that 130 time slot price did not bust through support But it is trading below that right now So this is going to be in it So it's going to be interesting here to see what happens at two o'clock This price close back above the bottom of this pattern that means that low is 16 140 75 now that one you want to write Right on your pad of paper to the T 1 6 1 4 0 75 if price closes above that Then support will still have held again. It's below the profile So we know that old support could become resistant. So watch 16 16 8 above that watch that oscillator and change Let approximately 16 190. I'd say probably 16 194 price were to move up and the price close above that Then we should see a run in the 16 27 and 16 307 level But a price takes this out then as we pull back here We take a look at the intraday time periods for the end cue out here what we're going to see is what we're not going to See any kind of bottom signal. So the 30 minute was the one we were looking at we don't see anything on a 60 minute We don't see anything on the 120 We don't see anything on the 240 and we don't see anything on the 300 So Nancy this becomes pretty easy We've narrowed this down to the 30 minute time frame right now by 2 o'clock You're be looking for the message there your price closes below that level that I gave you then very likely what that tells us is That the end cue is going to go tag the bottom of that daily profile, although It's not shown I take it is shown here 16 0 55 that is this panel right here I'll just explode it up for you and that would be its message and if price close it blows 16 0 55 The nods favor you're probably jettison that apple position Because that could be then signaling to you when I the end cue would go back and target 15 507 25, but you have to take this one step at a time and in that progression right now What you're paying attention to is going to be that 30 minute time frame So I hope that helps you out that was with Apple But you know we took kind of a an interesting route to get there to try to understand what it means But I don't know any other way to do that now Let's go do the same kind of thing Diving deep down into a Goldilocks. So we've got to get those charts here populated It shouldn't take too long Because I don't have that many Sets of worksheets open at this stage out here So you're going to see how long and it's got to go back and Recreate all these charts and time frames and come up with the signal. So when we take a look at Goldilocks Where's a key level of support for gold? Well, actually I'm going to change screens here momentarily And we're going to get back and go take a look at that. So first before we dive down into the interday charts here Let's go back to my black background charts We're going to see what we take a look at Goldilocks is on the daily timeframe That's what I want you to focus in on you see a rising trend line and that rising trend line basically was hit today I wasn't hit exactly no, but pretty close the low today being 1784 We could see on the weekly basis prices inside a bullish structured weekly profile kind of like a look at the NQ Isn't it so we're right now on a daily and a weekly basis inside a support zone And that's why when we go back to take a look at gold we get back to this break here We're going to look at those short-term timeframe charts to see what kind of signals they're providing us Steve Rhodes with TFNM will be right back Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the Bay Area? Including the surrounding st. 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Thanks for calling. Thanks for holding. How are you doing? You all set for Thanksgiving? yes Perfect perfect. Are you a pie? Do you like pie? Is there a certain pie you like on Thanksgiving pumpkin pie Pumpkin pie kind of typical What's that? pecan Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, of course, you know Hey the combination and a little cool whip to it or some vanilla ice cream And that sounds like a few calories on top of a bunch that i'm sure we're all going to eat But anyway, you call to talk about nordic american tankers, which is losing a lot of calories Over the last couple of uh, about the last month out here. Uh, tell us what you're doing and how I can best help you I have some i'm underwater and I'd like to add to it. It looks like it's bottoming out. What do you think? So in order for it to bottom out, I'd have to find some type of pattern out here now first It just take a look at these black background charts They're the ones with our task market profiles daily weekly and monthly prices below the bottom of each of those So that says that you and I need to find a compelling reason In order to you know in in this case here I take a new add to your position take a new position So what this is doing? This is testing a swing point from all the way But i'm looking at a monthly chart from all the way back in september of 2019 That had volume there of 31 million shares john and this month already we are at 48 million shares That suggests that at least the low of that should get tested And that's at dollar 66 and the price closed below a buck 66 out here Let me pull this thing back even further then I don't know where it's going But because that would because you'd be at a new all-time low inside of nordic american tankers But you're moving into a swing point You're doing it with volume and that says that it should go at least target the bottom of that And that's about 66 level Before I go to the white background charts. Do you have any questions about what I just shared with you so far? No, it makes sense Okay, perfect. Let's take a look at the daily time frame. What kind of signals do we have here? And what we will find as soon as this populates or explodes or expands We can do it. There we go is that we're in bar number five of a td9 count So we know that it this should head lower Maybe this heads lower gets that 166 and at the same time generates bar eight nine the bar following bar number nine So that we're only in bar five. We're about uh, four to five three to five trading sessions off From knowing that answer out here, but I don't see a bottoming pattern or signal on the daily time frame any questions there No Perfect the weekly time frame shows that price is stretched that generates that rogment to indicator signal That's the black diagonal lines what you need there to confirm a bottom would be a bullish reversal candle So we'd likely see a bottom on the daily time frame first Then we'd see something follow through to the weekly But what I can't share with you is I don't see any kind of a bottom signal on the weekly time frame And as I look at the monthly really the same message out there that message is if price closed below I think it was buck 66 that just says you've got some significant problems So I would not add to my position right now. I would anticipate that you're going to see lower price It's likely about another 20 cents or so below where we're trading right now And that's where you would get the next piece of information out there Um, is there anything else that I can provide to you? No, that's it. That's good enough. Thank you You're welcome. Thanks. Thank you. John. You have a happy Thanksgiving as well And uh, that was Nordic american tankers Now I believe well, oh, we it was goldilocks that we were doing before that break So I'm just going to go back to that but you know, we've got call ahead seating here So we establish in the case of gold potential levels of support arising trend line on the daily time frame And trading back into the bullish structured area of its weekly profile So now what we're going to do here is give me a moment. We'll change. I've got to just change screens change Get this thing set up here So we go down and dig into the details for gold Because again when you're back to areas of support What you should see is some type of bottoming signals on the shorter term time frames in that in essence Is what you and I are looking for so here as we switch over to our eight paneled gold chart What we can see and what we're going to focus is on the very right hand corner the upper right hand corner No one back at support. What's the 30 minute time frame chart doing? Well, this confirmed erodesment of indicator bottom It did it right here about an hour ago But let me give you the exact time was this bullish engulfing candle at 12 30 Yeah, that's about an hour hour and 15 minutes ago. You're inside a bullish structured profile Price should target as long as price closed above 1785 and it does it at 2 p.m Then what gold should do is we should see a rally to 1790 1790 is the top of its 30 minute profile as we expand out the 30 minute profiles out here How often do we see price closing above the top of the profile for a 30 minute basis on the way down? And there you have your answer. We don't So what does that tell you about goldilocks? That tells us that should this pattern continue if we do see a close above 1790 That's going to be our and certainly too consecutive close above 1790 That's going to be our first indication that gold may be bottoming. Hmm something to think about Let's go take a look at the next time frame the next time frame would be a 60 minute time frame chart Do I have a bottoming signal here? Well, I've got erodesment of indicator signal triggered But I don't have any kind of bullish reversal candle So that puts us back to the 30 minute time frame as the key area for us to watch The same really for the 120 the same for the 240 But while a lot when we get to the five hour time frame chart Now I like this the 30 minute and the five hour chart providing us with the signal Why because the 30 minute is a longer term chart out here This completed a TD nine count bottom and I did it at nine o'clock this morning And now we've got the two o'clock bar and as long as price does not close below 1780 390 We're above that right now by three bucks as long as price does not close above that level That's a signal of a bottom as well in its case This would be signaling to you and I that price should make its way to the 1818 type area So here's the call for gold if we see gold close above the top of its 30 minute profile No idea whether it will or it won't it's only five dollars away But if we do see it close above 1790 and certainly two consecutive closes Then you should expect and anticipate that gold will go target the 1818 level And the reason that I just simply focus on these two charts is because they're the ones with the bottom signals And so it's about staying with inside their chart patterns to help us understand what's going on So, uh, yeah gold's got a potential bottom out there if I were to dive down into a shorter term time frame chart Such as the 15. Okay. I'll do that. Here is the 15 minute chart here for gold What does it show us rogment indicator bottom signal here its key level is 1793 and it says a close above that would be 1808 so uh, yeah kind of all fitting into the scheme of things here. So in gold watch 1790 and watch it at 2 pm Another 11 minutes from now if we see a close above that that is moved to the upside Uh, the uh, by the administration releasing some uh oil from the from our reserves, right? But what did that do to light sweet crude? Let's go ahead and pull those charts up here Remember when you and I take a look at Any day for the most part and we hover over a candle or a bar There's nothing that'll pop up to tell us what news event might have taken place So all you and I do is we just simply really trade patterns out here at least that's what I do So when we take a look at light sweet crude, we take a look at the january contract on this daily time frame out here This doesn't show the new profile that is attempting to form My apology, but we did take a look at that. I think during the update But here the light sweet crude has even though it's got that top that roads meant to medicated top Nothing's really broken here price would have to close below 74 25 That's the td9 breakout level in order for there to be any kind of an issue out here You can see the bottoming signals inside of light sweet crude That was before the release of information for the most part about the release of the reserves that we've got out here So nothing really changed there lights. We crude just did what it was going to do now resistance here Well, I can't really give you that resistance from that chart, but I'm just switching over to my other chart right now Resistance is really at 78 90 to 809 That is the top of its bearish structure daily profile that is attempting to form won't have confirmation until tomorrow But right now we use the data that we've got steve roads with tfnn We'll be right back 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 And it's not just dry tedious text either tfnn airs live financial content streamed live on tfnn.com And tfnn's youtube channel with tiger tv live every market day from 8 30 a.m To 4 p.m. Eastern for free each host is an experienced trader And gives their take on the market while taking calls and questions live from around the world From the moment the market opens until the closing bell sounds tiger tv has eight different shows with expert hosts To help you make the right moves with your money Watch online at tfnn.com or on tfnn's youtube channel and become the investor you were born to be tfnn educating investors You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future right like any endeavor in life Before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts You might find that it's not so impossible after all for daily market overviews that give you direction on the key indices Selective stocks and commodities subscribe to the opening call newsletter at tfnn.com The opening call newsletter is written by basal chapman creator of the trading methodology known as the chapman wave The chapman wave up down sequence gives you an edge in identifying price turns finding the peaks and valleys and stock prices Get the opening call newsletter by basal chapman in your inbox every day First time subscribers also get a 30 day money back guarantee If you're not satisfied let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up tfnn.com educating investors Are you looking for a secured investment which pays you on a monthly basis the target first mortgage program Maybe the program for you the best rate on a five-year cd in the country right now According to bank rate.com is paying one percent per year or one thousand dollars per 100 thousand dollars invested The target first mortgage program pays seven percent per year paid monthly on secured high value Buildable properties in st. 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I'd say it's been up since uh, march 20th out there, but march of 2020 and So I believe we are building cause to take another big leg up with all this inflation and higher Rates talk out here. So here's what we know We know so the real key level out here. I'm just going to get right to it. Hector is going to be 4880 That is the top of it's a monthly profile. That also happens to be the td9 count threshold level That was formed on september the first that was a td9 count. That was the bar Oh, hold on a minute here. I take that back. I take that back the actual level Okay, I agree with you the actual td9 count Threshold level was 4774 and price closed above it last month No, it didn't 4782. How about that? It didn't close above it. What a close with 4782 the high was Oh did 4774. So in this case here Um, Hector, it's just you've got to get price to overcome the top of that profile And that's at 4880 price above the top of the weekly price above the top of the daily profile out there And so what you really want to do is understand. Hey, what's going on, you know with the top holding So I believe it's crown castle and corp cci is the number one holding then you've got equinex public storage Simon property group out here. So in the case of crown castle, the number one I believe it's about an 8% give or take waiting in here price of consolidating inside the daily profile You need to see a close of a 180 494 If you can get that then you're going to look at 180 708 in a round above 180 708 should take you to 204 So I'd watch crown castle that'll provide you with some information. The next one is eq ix out here Because these this is where eq eq ix this is where you're really going to get your your movement to the upside So Hector just do that go take a look at those top five instruments or so See what they're doing. They're the ones that would really provide us with the overall signal I believe for the xle folks stay tuned. You've got two more great hours David white with the power trading hour. Tom will brine. He'll take us on home I'll be back with you on wonderful wednesday. Have a terrific tuesday folks. And thanks again for being here