Hello. Hello everyone. It's great to be here today with you. I'm Arakashinsky. I'm working at Allegro. This is our biggest Polish e-commerce site for business, for customers, platform for buying stuff for everyone. Today I would like to talk with you about data structures with Abro. And so let's start. A short agenda for today. First, what's Abro? I would like to give you a brief introduction for this topic. Then how we're using Abro in our data platform. Then I would like to share you three things we failed and learned to how to manage. Then two use cases where Abro's structures are really useful in our data stack. Okay, so what is Abro? Abro is a data serialization system. It's a Apache project. And Abro is for giving information a structure. First of all, with Abro you can define schema of your information. So you can say this is a string field, this is an integer field. We'll see an example later. But this is a schema, as we know, from the databases or from the XML structures. This is the same thing. So if we're talking, if we've got schema, we can start thinking about data contract.  So this is a baseline to connect these sites of the pipeline. This pipeline we will show later. And if we are talking about data contract, we've got to somehow define the schema. In Abro, schema defining is quite easy because you are defining schema in JSON format. JSON is quite popular and everyone can write some structures in JSON. What's more, it's quite easy to maintain to get reviews and etc. What's more, schema evolution.  And this is natively available in Abro. What is very important about this data format, this data transformation, this method of presentation, information, data presentation, Abro is widely adopted across many tools of big data ecosystem. To name just a few of them, it's Hadoop, native Hadoop, Hive with SQLs. It's a Spark, Presto. There's a lot of tools, so it's quite easy to interchange data in Abro format across many systems. We will see an example of this later. What's very important, Abro is exchanged between points in binary and for the long term storage is also stored as a binary format, so you can reduce frame size on the wire, which is also very important for the nowadays applications. I said before that Abro schema is quite easy to maintain. It's easy to describe. Here's an example of how Abro schema looks like. The most important thing is that this schema is divided into two sections. The first section on the top of the schema, the first part of the schema where we've got type, name, name space and doc, is something like an FQDN for the schema. This is the main identifier of the schema Abro. We are using this part and the name and the name space to make schemas unique across our whole ecosystem, our whole data ecosystem. The second part of this schema is strictly related with the fields, which we like to define in our data structure. Here's an example we've got two kinds of fields. It's a field ID with a type integer and a second field with the username and this is type string. What's more important, all fields in Abro schema, you can also additionally describe by documentation field, which is very important. We will show how we can use this on the next stages of this presentation. This is a basic Abro schema. This is how it looks like. We know briefly what we can do with Abro. So, how we are using Abro in our data stack. This is a big overview over our data platform. It's nothing unusual on this scenario. We've got a messaging platform in the center of the communication. It's based on the Hermes. Hermes is front and back and for the Kafka, which is underneath. So, we've got messaging platform based on the Hermes and Kafka. Kafka you probably know. To store the message, Kafka is a classical pop-up solution. We are storing data in topics and information are flowing through the topics between someone who is producing message and someone who would like to consume this message. So, we've got messaging platform in the middle in the heart of data platform system. Then we are pulling this data to the Hadoop platform, to our internal Hadoop cluster. On the other hand, all messages are going to this point. This is a word of microservices. So, we are exchanging the same data produced in this point, Abro JSON, between at least two endpoints. One endpoint is a Hadoop cluster. The second one is a microservices word. And how it works. Where this Abro is used. There's a very important block on this screen. There's something called schema registry. It's a place where we are putting all our schemas that our developer produced to produce some messages on the stack. So, whenever we are trying to push new messages to the stack, we are registering schema registry. We will come back to this part of graph later. And user can send messages based on the Abro or JSON. This is the decision of the user. And based on this, user can send messages to the messaging platform. But where is the whole magic related with the Abro and with the schema registry? The magic is that is there where whenever user trying to send message to the messaging platform, he can send message in Abro or JSON format. But during the receiving message by Hermes, all messages are validated against schema that user had to provide earlier during the application development. So, whenever message is put to the messaging platform, it must be validated against schema that is previously registered in schema registry. And the schema is also checked. This is the something we will discuss later. So, this is a big overview. Oh, we've got also, we are also a big query on the screen. We will talk on the use cases sections about this. So, we said from big picture how our architecture looks like. But now let's face, let's see how microservices, microservices work can benefit from the Abro schemas. As we mentioned in the beginning, every message must be validated against schema registry and schema hold it in this storage. It's a simple web application that is serving schemas over the HTTP. And whenever message is coming to the data platform, this is in this place, this message is validated. Okay? And it must be okay, must be good from the perspective of the schema. So, this message is message arrived to the messaging platform and then how users, how consumers use, how consumers can get this message and be sure that this message is okay and they are reading exactly what consumer produced. All microservices on the consumer side, this is this place. I hope so, it's visible for you. This is this place where consumers getting these messages. They are also using schema registry to fetch our schema and there is no need to exchange any additional information about the data structure. So, whenever developer creating application, first of all, if you'd like to, if developer would like to use data platform and use data from the messaging platform. First of all, he is pulling schema from schema registry, building application based on the schema on this schema. And this is easily plugged into Java ecosystem. And based on that, developers just doing what they've got to do and they don't need to think about how my data structure looks, how I've got to struggle with this data structure, how the producer described this message. So, once defined schema on the development side is widely used, at least in two points. We'll bring the third point in the minute. Schema is used in two points. First, in the moment of message production from the producer side. And on the other hand, whenever our message is consumed on this left side of the graph, again, our schema is used to read message and the content of this message. So, this is the microservices world with schema, with our schema and how it works. But, as we mentioned on this graph, there's also an analytics world for this whole part. And this is the place where the analytics world starting to benefit from the average schemas. We had to evolve from JSON world. So, every message in the beginning of almost three years ago was stored in JSON in our data platform. Then we decided to move to the other world. And how this transformation benefits for our analytics. This is example of the history and the actual state of the data structures in our Hadoop platform. First of all, you can see the first definition of table. It's a definition of tables from the Hive meta store. First definition is based on the JSON. So, all messages are in the plain string. Message is encoded in message is stored as a JSON in a one line string in the table. And on the lower part of this screen, you've got table based on the average definition. So, when developer creating schema, it's not only used to produce and consume this message, but also this schema is used for analytics world to exchange this information about how my data looks like. And this is one of the biggest benefits from Avro. It's not only used for the Java application, but also used for permanent storage for Hadoop platform for BigQuery. We will talk about this later. I would like to show you that I don't know if you remember the documentation field in the Avro schema example. This is in the third, fourth column. There is a comment field, and this is exactly where documentation is used. So, when analytics are going to explore data, they've got, right now, they've got not only structures, not only field names, etc. They don't need to figure out what the author tried to say, but they've got explicit data schema with types, with field names, with documentation to these fields. And this is part where this whole data exploration part of data is getting easier. This is example. Previously, we got example how table definition looks like. And this is example how analysis world change after switching from non-structured world or JSON structures world to the other analytics. In the first example, we've got to use special functions on the high side to extract fields from JSONs that were stored on the Hadoop under HDFS. And on the lower examples, we've got example of the same structure, but hold in Avro format. As you can see, sorry for this delay, we're back online. So, this is a change between structures data hold in JSON format and data hold in the Avro format. I hope this change is quite visible. It's just reducing time to get your data and data exploration where can reduce time to get to the really inside from our data. But how to achieve this? With our tools, we've got fully available in open source and big data stack. Whole magic is in here. This is the one comment which will bring you hold this magic to your data ecosystem. This is a table definition for the Hive SQL, for the Hive meta store. And what we are doing explicitly in this place. First of all, we are telling Hive that we'd like to store our data as Avro. And what the second very important thing, we'd like to store our Avro data with the schema which is hold in the HTTP service somewhere in your stack. And this is all. When you are producing messages in Avro, there's a very state way to achieve this state of holding data in your whole ecosystem. So, this is the place probably, if you'd like to take something from this presentation, this is probably the most important thing. That this is the place, the Hive meta store is the place where you can define one table definition based on the one Avro schema. And all the magic is done by for you. What's more, Hive meta store is very popular data catalog for whole big data ecosystem. So, this table definition is not only used for the Hive, but it's also used for Spark for almost all of the Hadoop tools which are used in nowadays stack. What's more, it's also compatible with Presto, with Apache Ignite. You can probably even talk with Hive meta store, with Elasticsearch, with Druid. So, this place where the Hive meta store is a very powerful tool. And this is one of the examples how you can benefit from the central meta catalog and storing data in Avro structures. Okay, everything is simple on the slides, but there are a few things you've got to remember during this. This is something what we had to learn during this whole struggle with the data transformation. One of them is to create our own set of validators, of schema validators. This is something what is embedded in our internal schema registry. Those are small components that are responsible for... Oh, excuse me. Those are the small components that are responsible for repairing ecosystem imperfections. So, we've got a few validators, maybe to show you. Schema validators, this is something I would like to tell you about now, hold in here, in schema registry. So, whenever a user is trying to put new schema, those validators are around against developer schema, and this schema is checked if it's proper for our ecosystem. What we are checking? First of all, we are checking documentation. If all the fields, if in all fields, you describe the documentation field. This is not only for the developer, but also for the analytics during the data exploration useful. What's more, we are checking also subject name. This is our protection against uniqueness of our schema across all ecosystem, whole ecosystem. And the example of the field validators, we've got something about 10, 12 validators on the production. This is just an example. And the third validator is a strictly technical validator responsible for checking if you are giving... When you are extending your NM symbol, you've got to extend... You're extending it only by adding new definition to the NM field. You are not changing the middle of the NM. The structure of our is that NM symbols are stored as integers on the binary representation. So, if you'd like to put something in the middle of the NM definition, data context might be changed with time. So, you've got to add only new elements to NM at the end of the list. So, this is an example of validators. Second lesson we had to learn. Yeah, give tools for our developers. This is something what was at the beginning missed in our stack. And we had to provide at least a few things. The most important things are on the screen. So, first of all, there is an option to create a converter between Java class and Avro schema in both ways. So, whenever the developer is trying to build something, if he firstly describes his data definition in the Java class, then this can be converted to the Avro schema and Avro schema can be put into schema registry. On the other hand, when a consumer is trying to read some data, he is getting Avro schema from the schema registry and based on the schema, just generating Java class and plug it into his Java application and hold on, whole work is done just in the one place. And everyone talking with the same data definition. And this is something what we can start to name as a data contract. We talked something what was in the first two slides. Okay, there's no better way to show someone how it works by the example. And we created also example services for our developers. So, there was a full example of application, how to work with Avro, how to write schema, how to deploy such kind of application on the production. And it was very useful for our developers. And probably most obvious, but sometimes not common, give people place where they can exchange information about what they are doing. That was also place for us as data engineers where we get a lot of corner cases. And by this we could prepare validators for some unusual situations to get data flow proper across all tools and all places of our data platform. Okay, prepare for exceptions. In the very first draft of our solution, we treated all data and all schemas with the same policies. But in the real world, it's a fake. So, we spent a lot of time to create exception policies on the many places of the ecosystem. For example, there are some users that don't want to store data on the central point in the HDFS. They just want to push data through the messaging platform. And for example, for such kind of user validation, all validators are not proper. And this is something what consumes a lot of time for us. Yeah, this is something what we had to learn with the time. Okay, so right now we know a few things about what we learn. But where is the real benefit of these data structures of this whole work with data structures and managing data structures in our stack where we can benefit from this? First example is related to GDPR. You are probably familiar with this European Union law. It's against data privacy. It's related to data privacy. One of the biggest concerns for us was the right to be forgotten. I don't know if you are familiar with this law. This law gives permission, give law, give ability for users to say, hey, I'd like to be deleted from all your ecosystems. I don't want you to store any data about me. And that was task for us as a data engineers team to solve this problem on the Hadoop platform. And Avro was a place where we could manage this problem, but how we achieved this? You probably remember the first slides with the Avro schema, the example Avro schema. And this is a bit change, Avro schema. We decided to... So if our developers describe our data already, why don't use this information and extend Avro schema and add custom fields related with the personal data? Please keep in mind this is only data definition. This is not data storage. This is data definition. So on the level of data definition, we created additional fields which are responsible for storing what kind of data, private data information is stored in some topic with some data set with informations. We created additional fields with the name user data type. Here we've got two data types, user ID and user name. And how we are using this to remove all personal data information for specific user from our ecosystem. We are indexing this data. So our topics, our data are partitioned by two factors. First of all, it's a topic, half-cut topic. It's a representation of table in height. And the second level of partitioning is date. So we are going through the old data in the ecosystem and we know where our developers put the specific personal data information based on the user data type. We are indexing and collecting all this information in the height table. We are calling this index table, a GDPR index table. And whenever user is coming to us and saying, please remove all my data from your ecosystem, we are just getting information from the index. We are just searching for the user ID. We know where all this information related with the specific user I'll hold because we built index before. And based on this, we are running JAP which is responsible for just fine, directly on the storage, the information related with the user and just clear these fields. And this is how we used Avro to make the GDPR happy for our company. This is one of the examples where we benefit from Avro. There's a second example, a bit, far more easier but very important. We're trying to get public cloud providers to expand our capabilities especially in the data analytics fields. And we decided to use Google Cloud Platform and use BigQuery for this task. And where is the place where Avro helping us to talk with the BigQuery? There's a very straightforward diagram for this on the right side of the screen. There's our internal Hadoop cluster with the data. You know this screen with the data definition in the hive. We've got columns which are defined to the Avro schema. We've got types, we've got documents, descriptions. And how we are transferring all this knowledge to the BigQuery to give analytics a really good place to work. We are copying this data to the cloud storage. We are copying raw Avro files. And then we are loading this data into BigQuery. And on the BigQuery side, this is on the left side of the screen, we've got exact representation as we've got in our internal Hadoop cluster. On site in our DC. So Avro in this scenario was unable for us to give same user experience in terms of data structures, in data structures, in our data center and in the BigQuery. To use BigQuery, our analysts just need to change the place where data are stored usually. And usually the SQLs are very similar between our Hive or Spark SQL and the BigQuery. So once known structures on our data centers are same structures on the BigQuery side. So it was a huge game changer for using BigQuery and the whole part with Avro, with the data structures, I must say, was a huge benefit in the terms of moving to expanding, to expand to the BigQuery and use additional capacity for the data computation. So, I think it's time to get the ask question in the subject of this presentation. Is it worth it to fight with Avro? Yes, but I think we've got to widen this definition. It's not only to, it's not only to invest in Avro, it's worth to invest in any kind of data structures. Later today and tomorrow, you will hear a lot of things about machine learning, data analytics, data science, et cetera, and probably using data structures, named structures with fixed types and structures that are easily used by your ecosystem users will be a huge enable for performing machine learning, data analysis, data scientists, staff, et cetera. So in my opinion, yes, it's worth to go to the data structure world. Yeah, it's worth it, yeah. Thank you. That's all from me. If you've got any questions, I'm here for you. Hi, can you hear me? Yeah, how? So did you investigate any other row columnar formats, RC formats, columnar formats, rather than row format, like Avro, which is not so good in performance when it comes to analytics? Yeah, great question. Avro isn't the best performance data format ever. Yes, you're absolutely right. But there's a balance between performance and wide adoption across all tools we are using. And this is the main reason why we choose Avro. Avro, there's a schema, there's a wide adoption across all tools. We know that performance isn't great, but we are facing this and when we need a higher performance on the data side of the analytics, of the analysis world, we are converting this Avro data to the, for example, market or depending on the use case. And we've got Avro schema, and this is far easier to convert this data structure to the different one. And that was also one of the reasons why we choose Avro. This is our base form of the data, and then we can transform it to whatever we want to boost our analytics. Hello. Which is the software that you use for the schema registry? Or you believe yourself? Okay. We've got our own implementation of schema registry, but there's an open source tool that is coming, that is written by Confluent, as I remember, and you can freely use this tool to hold your schemas in this solution. What about Hermes? Could it be a substitute for Kafka Connect? Yeah, it might be. Yes, it might be substituted for this solution. Hermes is our tool, it's open sourced, so we can look on the online how it works. Probably we created Hermes before the Kafka Connect, so this is probably why we've got our own solution to cover all the things related with Kafka. The most important thing with Hermes in our platform is that whole communication is based on an HTTP protocol. It's fairly easy to use, so we just hide the Kafka underneath the Hermes. This is why we used Hermes in this solution. Hello. Hi. Based on your experience, when you are defining the schema, do you prefer defining your schema from scratch or using Hava class converters? It depends on the use case. Developers that are using Java for daily work, they are using usually converters. I'm non-Java guy, so I'm defining schema by myself, and it depends what you prefer. If you want to recommend some way, I mean, in some places, they recommend you to use, to define your schema from scratch because some Java converters may don't do things well. Yeah. Converting schema to the Java class in both ways, it's not so easy case, as you mentioned, and we've got a custom converter that is aware of our ecosystem and our data structures we'd like to have on the production. If you're asking me about recommendation, if you're Java developer, use converters from the stack or build it by yourself. When you're someone who's fighting with data structures on the Hadoop ecosystem or analytics world, you probably like to use schema defined by yourself. Thank you. Okay. If you'd like, ask me anything for these two days. Thank you for your time. Bye.


Why would a drum plugin release nearly 8 years ago still be so popular? What makes it better than other choices? And why do I continue to recommend it? Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. The plugin is Addictive Drums 2 and I'll be asking what makes this plugin so great. As we look at this plugin to find out why it's still so popular, I'll reveal my personal favourite feature which may surprise you and also how you can get it at a great price. Let's start off with what's inside. If you haven't guessed yet, Addictive Drums 2 is a virtual drum plugin. It comes in VST, AU and AAX formats so it can be used with pretty much any door on the planet. It's sample based meaning it uses actual recordings of real drums. Now when you first start it up you see this view here. This is the gallery view and if we flick through we can get an idea of the range of sounds and kits available for Addictive Drums 2 and that's one of the things we'll be talking about later on. The next view we see here is the Explore view. Now here we can actually demo some kits so we can go through to say a kit that we think may work. Let's go through here to black velvet. This may work and we can play some different presets so we'll just press on this play button here. Now there's not only different rhythms being played there but there's different sounds to the kit. You can also do a bit of a rough mix here as well to get a styling point. The cool thing about this view is it includes kits that you haven't actually added or bought yet so you can actually demo some of those ad packs that we'll talk about later that you haven't actually bought. Very cool indeed. Now the page where I find I spend most of my time is on this kit view here. This is where we can see our actual kit and we can swap out drums individually to customize our kit. So let's say I'm using this kick drum here, I think I don't really like the sound of that. I can just click on this load button here and go to some different kits depending on what ad packs again you've bought so I can swap that out and I can then test that out. I can even do it while I'm actually playing a rhythm so I can keep the rhythm going and try different drums. That's very cool. Now down the bottom is one of the most important areas. This is the mix area where we can actually mix our drum kit and importantly it's where we also control our routing to our door which I think is a really important and powerful feature which I will discuss later on. Moving on from there we have the edit page. Here we can actually really craft our individual drums. I've got that kick drum selected here. I can go through and actually shape the sound of it and then apply various effects as well. Things like compression and distortion, EQ, tape saturation, all of that good stuff so we can really tailor the individual drums once we've loaded them up. From there we have an effect section which is basically reverb and delay and there's a nice amount of crafting of those effects that we can do in there. Moving on from there we have a beats area. This is where we can actually use some of the grooves and midi packs that we can get for addictive drums so we can try them here, we can play them and then we can just drag them out from here into our door and start using them right away. And finally I just want to mention here just up in this sort of menu up here the settings menu we have this map window here that we can pull up. This is where we can assign various individual drums to different keys on our keyboard and we'll be discussing that a little bit later on. So that's an overview. Now I want to start off by talking about of course the most important aspect, the sound. So in order for this to be regarded as a great plugin of course it has to have great sound and all of the drums in addictive drums too were recorded in really pro studios with great mics etc. So we have got really nice samples but it's important that those samples are recorded intelligently and implemented intelligently especially when it comes to velocity. So if you don't know velocity is about how hard for example you play the key on your midi keyboard. Now obviously things tend to get louder when we play them harder. Not only that but the character of the sound changes and that's what I really love about addictive drums too because it feels very very natural. So if we take this snare for example here I'll play it quietly and then more loudly and at certain velocities you know the actual snare itself and that sort of fizzy sound becomes more prevalent at louder velocities we get a little bit more ring a lot more knock as well. So the character of the drum is changing in the way a real drum would. Now while we're actually hearing there though when we hear this snare sample it's not just one microphone pointed at the snare but we're hearing some microphones pointed at the snare and the overhead mics and also the room mics as well and we may be hearing some effects. So what I'm going to do is just mute the overheads and the room mics there and I'll just actually turn off the effects. Now have a listen to this snare now. Sounds super dry here now you may want that for your recording but it's more likely that you're going to want that and you're going to want the ability to blend in the other microphones as well and that's what you can do here obviously using the mixer. It really feels like you're you recorded these drums yourself and you're able then to sort of mix them in the way you would in the studio where they were recorded. It's very very powerful and enables you to add your own character to the mix of these drums of course. Now we can actually delve in way deeper into the sound of each individual drum. We'll be looking at that later but as we get into the sounds I have to talk about the range of sounds we have available as well. So one of the strengths of Addictives Drums 2 is the range of kits that you can get for it. They're called ADPACs and you know if you ran a semi-professional or professional studio you may want to get many of them to cover different genres of music but if you tend to focus on one or two genres of music then you may only need one or two different ADPACs. There really is a massive range. We get your Fairfax kits to begin with here. I think of those as the sort of basic kits I guess.  This one curious boutique mallets are really sort of I can't really describe it really but a kit using mallets it's just a really unique sound. Soul and R&B kit there. Another heavy kit. We do get a few rock kits in here actually. Moving through a pop kit here. A vintage dry which is a really nice sounding old 70s kit here and if you just want percussion and you don't really need a sort of traditional drum kit you've got it here with this session percussion kit. An indie kit really sort of ring it a nice one. A really heavy drum kit here with the metal one. If you want electronic sounds you've got this one. All machines very very handy 808, 909 sounds in there that kind of thing. A really nice funk kit and also like some of the rhythms associated with that one. A couple of drum kits. This one here to do with jazz which is sticks and then another one here which is brushes. I love the brushes kit in here. Retroplex which again is a kind of a rock kit but very 70s in its sound. Then Blue Oyster which again is a really sort of more sort of Led Zeppelin style of sound of drum kit I guess sounds very very good and black oyster as well. And then we've got our three studio kits Prog there and Pop and Rock as well so a massive range of kits there. So what we're going to do now is just set up one beat and play through some of these kits so you get to hear the variation in sound. One of the things that makes this plugin so great is the amount of control we have over individual drums. Of course we can select individual drums as we discussed earlier so we can start off with a basic sound for example with a snare here I can choose which kind of character of snare I want and then of course we've got close mics on each drum overhead and room mics as well. We can blend those with the mixer but it gets really powerful when we go to the edit page. I'll go there now and I'm going to start off by selecting a tom here because one of the things I like to do is change the envelope or envelope for my drums so I can really sort of craft the sound especially in terms of decay and release that kind of thing. And for a tom it's a really good example because you may find that according to your taste it may be ringing maybe not enough maybe too much. We'll have a listen to this tom, got a little bit of ring going on there so I'll just switch on this envelope feature here and let's adjust the release to begin with and also let's adjust the sustain time I'll pull it back here we'll pull this release back again have a listen now. Yeah a much shorter sounding tom there so very very cool you could of course have a really loud attack yeah and then just push the decay down so you've just got a real initial sort of transient there with nothing else afterwards there and you could even do weird things like you know change that attack time so it's got a soft attack not very like you do that but you may want that option. We also have control over things like the pitch for example not just with the drum over as an overall sort of control but also we can control the pitch with the overheads in the room so I'll just push those right down here let's have a listen very cool stuff there as well as all of that kind of shaping control and pitch control you've also got a bank of effects down the bottom here yeah compression EQ tape saturation all that good stuff the kind of effects that you're almost always going to use with drums but they're in a handy place here with the controls that you need to use for drums now of course you can still output these drums to your door and you can use your regular plugins as well if you want to do that but I like the effects which are in here very very handy indeed now with some of the drums let's say look at the look at the snare for example we also have control over the mix of microphones because some drums are recorded with two microphones so the snare has a top and bottom one and we can control that mix there with all of the drums as well we can control how much of their sound goes to the overheads and how much to the rooms also you've just got an amazing amount of control over this initial sound of the drum and then the mix of the drum in a very sort of micro way you can actually control that really really phenomenal now the other thing which I think is really important is the routing now we have this mixer down the bottom here and you could just have this plug-in put into your door insert into your door and just have a stereo output for it fine you could do all of your mixing here but you can also have every single drum output to your door as well so you know we could press this button here and we can send a separate output to our door and have its own channel and we can do that both pre and post fader now as well as having that separate output we could also have the separate output for that drum as well as it going to that master stereo channel that means you don't have to send all of your drums out and mix it all in your door that is my preference by the way but you could decide to have just your mixing done here but maybe with just with one drum say a snare that you want to put a big delay and you've got a favorite delay you can have that going out so it's individual attract and then add effects in your main door there just an incredible amount of control this level of control means that it's hardly surprising that this plug-in has been so popular for so long now all of this becomes possible of course with an interface let's talk about the interface if I'm perfectly honest I think after seven and a half years or nearly eight years the interface may be showing signs of looking a little bit dated we're just not used to seeing these kind of old beveled edges and things these days with design things tend to be much more flat that's the only thing I think is it's really just a fashion thing yeah and it could be just a matter of opinion but in terms of the imagery like the drums and things I think that all looks great especially when we go to this brows view here I mean I don't think that's ever really going to date in terms of the workflow I still think it stood the test of time because it starts off over here with the gallery we've just got this basic overview of kits which are available and you're going to think about that which kits do I want you may or may decide to buy more etc then as you choose a kit you go into this explore and you'll just demo them with different with different sort of kits here different presets for each kit as well and you can also set up a sort of basic mix if you want here once you've done that we get more granular when we move into the kit area here and we're going to you know swap out individual drums and we're going to do a basic mix all of that good stuff you see there's a there's a sense to this workflow because then we move on to the edit area where we're getting really granular with individual drums and we're going to start to shape their sound after that when we've got our basic mix it up then we may look at reverb and delay that's on the effects tab over here you can switch those on and of course we can send individual drums to these effects that's kind of how a lot of us would work in terms of workflow now a little bit of a sort of an outsider with this because it's not in the basic workflow is beats you may or may not use these preset beats these are what they call midi packs you can buy these individually and they suit certain genres of music I don't personally make much use of them because I like to write individual drum patterns for songs but you may love these they may get you off to a great start with your songs and you can just drag them out to your door to get started with them so there's a sense to the workflow here I don't think that that is dated at all and I hope when they bring a new version out they don't really change that because I actually really love it so I guess one of the features of a plugin is its price that's going to determine how many of you actually use it and this is used in pro studios and home studios alike and that's because it's always been at a reasonable price at least and one of the great things is you can start off small just with the core package maybe a couple of ad packs and then grow it as you play different genres of music and you want different drums and maybe different midi packs etc so you can start off small with it and then gradually make it grow so that makes it sort of easier for most of us to buy now I want to say up front this video is not sponsored by anyone at all this is just my own video but I am going to put a link in the description down below to plug in boutique where they usually have some great deals for addictive drum stuff also at the time of making this video without wanting to sound too salesy there's only a few hours left for their black Friday sales and you can get really good prices on this stuff there so definitely check out that link in the description down below whether you're watching this during the black Friday period or afterwards it's always a good price there at plug-in boutique. So I want to talk about my favorite feature about this plug-in and why it's so great for me and why I often choose it over other plugins and this may surprise you because on the face of it it doesn't seem that amazing but I want to talk about the variation of sound with some of the individual drums you see drums can sound really really mechanical if you've always got the same samples playing now of course with the different velocities here as we discussed earlier on something like this snare then it changes its sound but I'm talking also about different articulations different sounds that we get from a snare drum now this is best demonstrated if we go over to the mapping features I'll do that now I'm just going to open the map window this is where we would assign different drums to different keys well I've got snare selected here look at the different sounds we have for the snares available so this snare and rim shot snare open a shallow rim shot side stick I mean so many different sounds now what I like about this is it's not just defined by something you know like velocity we've also got these mapped across several keys so when you're playing your drums live and making your drum patterns you've got access to all of those to my mind that really makes things sound much more natural particularly with snare and also one of my favourite parts with hi-hat if we go to the hi-hat here there's so many different hi-hat sounds now I like the fact that we've got lots of variations on the open yeah the open hi-hat this is particularly useful when you say on a verse and you've got a nice tight closed sound and then the chorus is going to have an open higher you can just in those last few beats of the verse just gradually open that hi-hat up as you go into the chorus for me that makes a world of difference in terms of making drums sound realistic and by the way if you're using an electronic drum kit to trigger these and you've got different zones on your drums which send out different um midi signals depending on where you hit the drum you can also map them to all these different sounds so if you're an actual drummer and you're using a kit you're going to have all of these different articulations of sounds available to you you even have for example on say the cymbals if we go to a cymbal we've got a regular cymbal sound and we've got a choked cymbal and again I'll just try and play that yep and we can choke it like so so really really handy as well of course you know you can map these to your liking so you don't have to stick to the regular addictive drums mapping you may have used another plugin and you've got used to the mapping you could change the mapping there that's all fine but it's a great way to discover all of the various sounds or the variations in sound that you get with these drums very very very powerful now you have to use these features for them to be in operation if you just use addictive drums too in the very basic way and you don't take advantage of all these different articulations then you may get that sort of very ordinary sound to your drums it takes some effort still but you can get great results now before I tell you why I think this plugin is so great I want you to have your say let me know in the comments down below if you already have been using this plugin for a number of years why are you continuing to use it and if you're thinking about buying it which surely you should be then why are you thinking about buying it love to hear in the comments down below but why do I think this is a great plugin well let's start off with the basics design it's got a great workflow I love the way that we sort of start off big and get more and more detail more and more granular as we go along to the range of drum kits for different genres is just incredible there seems to be something there for everyone and you get a great deal of control over mixing and matching them with custom kits etc three the price the price is absolutely awesome for a plugin which you could use for you know potentially like a decade or more it's really great finally I have to say the main thing the main thing of course is the sound I think all of these kits that you get you know or you you can buy with addictive drums to just have an amazing sound which of course you can take an adapt you can make it your own now one of the things you could do is actually output individual sounds to your door and use plugins in your door just the way you would if you'd recorded these drums yourself in a studio now one of the best plugins you can use to manipulate the sound of your drums is eq and I don't think there is any better eq than fabfilter pro q3 I've made a video about that and you can watch it right here I discuss in this why that plugin is so great you should definitely go ahead watch it now go on watch it now go


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a twice a month service and we collect all things like cardboard, newspaper, magazines, metal cans, aluminum cans, glass bottles, and your plastic bottles. On a daily job we do get pullouts, what I mean by pullouts is yellow dots for the elderly people. We go in the backyard, pull them out, dump it, take it back, clean up all the boxes.  I think I don't do my job pretty well. So I really do enjoy cleaning up the city of Columbia. So we have some of the greatest workers here. Our division is roughly a hundred employees and they work every day to help make sure that Columbia is clean in a safe environment to live in. It's a nice place to be at that the benefits good and you get to meet a lot of people at the same time that you're working. I'll work with some nice people and if they start off not nice at the end of the day they'll be nice. Because I work with them. I get around to them. When you recycle a piece of paper you don't have to chop down a new tree and when you recycle a plastic bottle we don't have to dig for more oil and when we recycle glass we don't have to dig for more satin and we keep our sand on our beaches.  So I guess they're trying to clean up the environment. They're doing a pretty good job so far so good. We have a great website tool in our phone app that you can type in your address and get a customized schedule for you. It sends you a notification the night before so you don't even have to think about it twice. There's an online version of it at ColumbiaSC.gov under the Solid Waste Division and then the app is actually free on iPhone and Android just search ColumbiaSC Solid Waste. Anything we can do to help the community that's what we do. I know a lot of people take different things but I just come to work and do my job and try to please the people and go home and come back again the next day.


As far as Langer Rock are concerned, we've got very much an ethos within our organisation to be an industry leader and that means being disruptive, means being innovative and being brave, coming to the forefront for the conversation and participating in it. Not just sitting back and waiting to comply from the regulator, not waiting for our clients to set the tide mark of what expectations we should meet from a minimum standard, but to take the lead and challenge the construction industry where it probably hasn't been all that much challenged in its infancy. We're still building very much the same way as we've built for a hundred years. Yes, there's technology and there's things in place, but in essence we're still using men and women with machines, with raw materials. How we actually do that and how we can change and challenge that practice is how we're going to get better health, well-being and safety outcomes. I wanted to share a little bit about Langer Rock's safety story. We've probably since about 2011 been on a journey of how we look at safety differently and we've had huge excess and in essence there's some key principles of how we've operated in that space.  Health and safety is the presence of positives, not the absence of negatives. And health and safety is an ethical responsibility, not a bureaucratic activity. When we talk about health, when we talk about well-being, we're not going to necessarily be able to rely on our same process and keep repeating and expect that we're going to get a different outcome. It is much more complex, it is much more holistic when we start talking about well-being, the health and the occupational health and the lives of the individuals that work in our industry. It is not just their physical safety and we hear the catchphrase, go home the same way, came to work. You're not going to get that chance to live that, know that in years to come from the likes of exposure to silica. I wanted to just talk about some stories and this is one of our key streams of our business in the infrastructure space. We're currently doing a lot of infrastructure work. We've probably moved from an organisation that was centric to the oil and gas sector, self-delivery, to now infrastructure work in a very short period of time with a subcontract workforce. That can be tier two, three, four and so on. The amount of work that we have in New South Wales at the moment is meaning that we've got new people coming into our industry, not necessarily accustomed to the ways of how we're doing it and the spans of control as we would have been accustomed to through a direct delivery workforce, completely different. And the types of conversations you have now with a subcontract workforce, that when we talk about that obligation, that ethical responsibility, we're having people come onto our projects that are only going to exist for a very short period of time. Why would you invest in programs, initiatives, controls for a worker that's not my direct responsibility, who will only be in my backyard for a very short period of time? That is something commercially that a lot of organisations would be grappling with. When we talk about ethical responsibility, this is a wake-up call. This is where you'll, I suppose, pick the leaders and pick the followers, the ones that are going to have to be overseen by the regulator to ensure that the minimum compliance is in place and then the organisations that are going to actually drive and change and influence others. We, a bit over a year ago, started a project called Sydney Yard Access Bridge, or SIAB, as it's called, which is enabling works for Central Station. We're building a large bridge over into the middle of Central Station Yard. When we first started looking at this tender, I remember sitting in head office in North Sydney talking to the team about the PC standard, really thick document full of great things. And to the uninitiated, looking at it, it seems quite onerous. And in reality, it still is quite onerous. When we looked at the scale of that project, which was a $20 million project, with billion-dollar expectations against that PC standard, I think our organisation and for new people looking at it thought, surely, surely they couldn't expect us to meet these standards. It's a $20 million project. And we went into SIAB knowing that we're going, we want to learn. We want to learn a lot from this process. We can see the pipeline of work that's coming, and this is an opportunity to do that on the right scale. And I can tell you we learnt a lot. We learnt a lot about what sits within that PC standard, how to implement it, how to have the conversation with our subcontract workforce. And it's been a challenge. But I can tell you that the conviction that we've held against it means that we've delivered. And we've delivered safely and on time, maybe not budget, but it was the right scale project to do it on. Moving now into Central Station, which we've just started on, delivering a billion-dollar project for Sydney Metro, we will take those lessons, those new practices and those insights into what will be a very challenging and obviously, a very rewarding project for everyone that's involved. One of the big things for me going through this was talking about what is occupational hygiene, to a industry, to a workforce that really have very little insight into what it is. I reflect on my own time on a first start of my career at Anstow, the nuclear reactor, out at Lucas Heights. And I did 12 months as a hygienist. And I remember going home and talking to my family, to my friends, that I'm going to be working as an occupational hygienist. And they thought I was going to be cleaning toilets or working after cleaning something. The penny really didn't drop. The knowledge of what it was was not there. And to a large extent, we're still in that space. We don't know what it is. We don't understand the detail of it. We look to people like Kate and others who are occupational hygienists. I now have a standard that's calling on a certified occupational hygienist to have governance and oversight and input into the controls and systems of work of how we're going to work around this particular hazard. And we have to raise the awareness associated with it. Langerhawk took a view that we could, as per the PC standard, engage a consultant, a CLH, to come in and give us that advice and we'd be delivering against the client's expectation. We challenged that internally from a senior level within the business and felt that there's an opportunity here for us to organically create some capability around hygiene, which takes me into our building sector, our second major part of our business, but the building industry is very different to the infrastructure business. The types of conversations that I have with frontline contractors around some of the practices and behaviours around excavation, around dust control, I get looks back at me like I've got two heads. And I can go from one extreme to the other from into the infrastructure space where I've got a client who has a high level of expectation. There's industry expertise and resource there and us wanting to meet that and exceed it. But the building sector is a high risk sector as well. Doesn't necessarily mean we're in tunnels, but we're still digging in the sandstone. We still have workers at point of exposure and the behaviours and practices over many, many decades for how they do their work. So for us, I want to use this opportunity through Sydney Metro, not only in our infrastructure projects with our CLH coming on board, but also use it in our other sectors of our business. Which have very little governance or I suppose regulatory input. I don't have the likes of SafeWork crawling all over my construction site where I'm excavating in an open area into sandstone. That expectation's not there. But your maturity, your level of leadership as an organisation should bring you front and centre with it and we should be sharing what we do with infrastructure across building as well. Langerhawk this year have endorsed our first health and well-being strategy. We've had previous initiatives and programs that have run out, but have not been targeted. Now we have, based on the success of our next year program, the three principles, we've jumped on the coattails of that and have expanded it into a more holistic health and well-being perspective. This also allows us to look at things like acyclic exposure around occupational health and illness and broaden that success. So we're going to be operating off the framework. Five key points. It's evidence-based. We've got a lot of research out of the UK at the bottom of the slide there. You can see the reference. The first one, keeping in touch, being connected. Keep on playing, being active. Keep on listening, taking notice. Keep on learning. Finally, keep on sharing and giving. One of the activities that we did in the lead-up to this was undertook a survey. You hear people say, oh, survey, feel nervous about that. It's a bit of an academic process that people don't really participate in, but with one of our partners in this program, we undertook this survey around health and well-being and asked people a lot of personal questions. They had the opportunity to opt in themselves online, and we were inundated by the response rate. So we know we have a captive audience within our workforce that are concerned about thinking about their health. They want to know more information, and they want to share that with us as an organisation. One of the huge insights that we got out of this was that our organisation had off the Richter scale results for cholesterol. And be that as it may, I suppose that the point I want to make is when we're talking about health and well-being, we have the danger of doing gestures of health and well-being. Stop smoking campaigns, the like, whatever it may be. But when are we going to look at evidence-based facts of what the health is of our workforce so that we can use the resources that we do have for targeted campaigns and measure the effectiveness? This is not a moral high ground. We're not wanting to make a public statement or gesture. We know if we have a healthy workforce, we've got a healthy business. So looking at it factually, getting the input from our workforce, them being part of the solution, and allowing them to opt in and be a part of what they are going to do around their health. We could look at this from a silica perspective and say, we'll come over the top from a regulatory perspective. I'll create a system, a report, a governance structure, and we'll ensure that people do as we need them to do. Or we can create awareness of it. We can talk about what the actual health impacts are at the moment and what the risks are that they potentially face and what choices they can make in real time when they go to work. It's a two-way street. We want healthier cultures. We want healthier places. We want healthier minds and healthier bodies of our whole entire workforce. So Sydney Metro, as I mentioned, one of our key clients set a new bar, commend them for it. It's great to see, I suppose, the initiative of a client that wants over and above the minimum standard, as we have had in the safety space for a number of years now. In that partnership and broadening our scope more broadly outside of infrastructure in the health sector, our take on things is this is how we believe everyone will return home safely for not only today but throughout their working life and beyond. I think that's really important message to take home. We don't want people just to go home safely today. That responsibility, that due diligence, that moral or ethical responsibility will extend way past that subcontractor that's going to be on our project for one month or two months. But that time that they're with us has the ability to influence them for the rest of their lives. You have a choice to hide from that reality, not let that reality catch up with you in 10 or 20, 30 years as an organisation because it's so hard to pinpoint the actual timeline point of that exposure or make the choice to do something in partnership with the types of people that we want to do business with.


Hi guys, happy Sunday. I hope you've all had a lovely weekend and looking forward to the week ahead Haven't been on for a while, but it's good to be back and we'll do the same routine as before go through each of the markets One by one any new ones that you want for next week to put them in the comments below and Feel free to follow me on on Twitter the handle that you can see Just below me snore 19 and feel free to Ask me any questions via my my DMs on there as well And just having a look here then at Euro to begin with I always think it's Useful to start as a complete blank page and I was speaking with with Alex on Well Friday actually so it was a couple of days ago. We've got our Professional program traders which start on Monday, but we were talking about just trend lines and actually in the Dixie But here we've got the euro going back to its inception in beginning of the Millennium, but the the all-time high trend line which you can see matched up to The 2014 highs we are actually above there It's quite messy and and we were sort of saying with the trend lines You want to see a decent push lower you want price to come down sharply like we saw here And we're hanging around there and I have to be honest I am in two minds about where I think the Euro and The dollar are going to go in the short term It wasn't too long ago that I was thinking we're gonna break it and it's gonna go 120 again 125 on the futures Then last couple of weeks. I've been more leaning towards we go 116 again Ultimately keep an eye on your dollar index because that can obviously tell you a lot But each of these pairs that we go through might just show a different pitch You can see how choppy that trend line is there for me I'd almost say that's now not even worth having on but on your longer time frames It would be going to the daily chart then well just before that you can see on the weekly We're really just rangeband for me. That's you know, not interesting and I would I would say how it looks at the moment You've got quite a clear midpoint 117 60 and then to the upside 1925 and obviously this low that we had this is called it 116 and or which we've had good price action around for me It's all about those two the way we Moved off the 117 level it gives me a bit of confidence that we can Start to push on but until we break above or below These two points. I'm really I'm really in two minds. Let's go have a look at the daily chart anyway just to Bring that into picture and you can see the reaction that we had last week on the the last week the 11th of No, then that's the last two Wednesdays ago. I was actually in a short What at the time I thought was lovely and an intraday break around here Yeah, it's hit this this midpoint, which has been so good and we pushed higher since How we finished Friday for me? Yeah, it's just wait wait and see unfortunately. I know FX at the moment has been slightly tame Especially compared to say other markets, but yeah for me It's about three points and really two that are close to one nineteen twenty five Can we get a weakly close above there or can we get below one seventeen? sixty to the the upside obviously worth is having on the 118 99 it's called it 119 every year as well one two three Recent tests in four days of that point and it's held well and then to the downside you can see 1821 so that's like a little mini range That I'll be keeping a watch on if we break the lows then you know I think another test of one seventeen Sixty comes in and while you do obviously have a couple of smaller levels below That's when you could start looking at the one sixteen handle coming back in again Ultimately, I would let the market in this case. Tell me what what's gonna happen and Weekly closes. I think will be will be the main thing to keep an eye on Bias for the week for the euro I Don't have one. I don't have one in terms of direction However, a close on the day or some decent breaks above that 119 handle I'd be looking for longs and if that is the case and I think a short squeeze up to 120 could happen Just be aware of ECB comments if we do break the low that we had from Well, the 16th was the Monday wasn't it Monday and Thursday then we could be in in action Handle again, but yeah, I don't have a view right now for the pound Slightly different. I'm actually Just mark this up. I'm actually a bit more bullish on what I am more bullish on on the pound reason being nice Nice break above here, but first let's just have a look at the the weekly chart for the cable here Just remove all those lines and and sort of draw out. You can see there's there is an awful lot of resistance On this whole point for for the pound one thirty four I mean you can go back here and look towards, you know years gone by and see this is Brexit, but yeah, just just a little bit above where we're trading massive massive level resistance the dollar is Obviously the most important thing currently wise to keep an eye on at the moment. It's on that multi-month Multi-month trend line and that gives way and we have the idea that a deal is going to happen We start pricing that in I think we can really push on one thirty sevens and one forty So I think the risk reward of that trade is interesting. It's certainly Something I would be thinking about and this week The way we finished last week. Let's just go to the the daily chart I am actually pretty comfortable in in you know going out and saying at least in the early stages from a technical point of view I think the pound could push on reason being the first close we've got above this level Since we broke above it on the 28th of all as you can see it then acts as good resistance on the way down Okay, another test another test on the 18th, but we finally closed on now You would also have to say this can't really take place until we break maybe above this this trend line, so And the way I would look at it is if we break above Friday's high There could be that whole short squeeze you're targeting 132 133 28 which this lovely double top and then it can push on 134s And that's when people don't want to be short this market anymore So I would still just be waiting just be waiting, but a break above there And I think it gets interesting to the downsides I wouldn't be looking to get short Until we close below 131 84 We have done there on the 12th, but you see we come into the next level support So with FX at the moment these big moves while the dollar index is coiling up and there could of course be big Moves to happen. I would still have realistic targets the euro on the break lower You can see it hits that point It's no real momentum yet If you're long from the 11th for you got in after it fell to break low and you got in the 12th You probably would be taking profit You know, it's not a massive trade for the pound I think the matter of trade comes if we can get those closes above 133 basically to the downside 131 84 goes. Yeah, just be aware the 131 hand or good support has to be a zone though with the high that we got from the 3rd of November Just Interesting day that was But yeah break of that Then I think you can get a bigger move to the downside be targeting all of these points here second of October To the second of November I mean what a long you could say that was on the sort of day before election for a number of these dollar pairs You don't have to be a bit of a gambler to take that on though. But yeah, looking at this pound bullish above 133 I bullish For the beginning of the week Now that doesn't mean at the open I'm buying But I would be interested if we can start to push above this trend line in 133 So the downside I think it's got a break Friday's low It's got a break the 21st of October high Which is also the low that we had in the 4th of September before I could really start getting interested in in some shorts Nice little trend line I think worth having on if we do get any momentum to the downside you can see here It's actually probably goes down to the 18th of May low, but nice trend line here really for me This starts the 30th of June and Yeah, I think at the moment the balls are in control. I'd rather be long right now Then sure one market that I am sure is is the Aussie dollar stop above these highs Tiny bit off side on this position I got in on Thursday and I Don't know it's it's my personal way of trading and having a look at the stats and doing all these kind of things I very rarely interfere with a trade once I mean Unless there is you know massive data coming out or Comments that change the fundamental picture or correlated moves. So for the Aussie. I'm sticking with it I Think like me anyone sure has got their stops above here Just to give that information out there to everyone Yeah, I think you know a close of the day above 73 27 that's when you can get that that push that continued push to the upside You start looking at the the high of the year again What happens if that high of the year goes? Well, it's put it on to the weekly chart You can see the significance of this whole region going back to 18th of August 18 So quite a lot of resistance just a bit above there and there could still be another opportunity to get in For a short if it was to squeeze up. So just be careful of that to the downside any Aussie dollar Shorters You want this zone to break the lows that we had double bottom 13 for 12th of November and also the high of the election The fourth of November it is in a bit of a range here. We did reject the The lower part of this on Friday were contained. We didn't necessarily finish up at the high Yeah, if not in a trade you're waiting you're waiting and I think the trigger is is a nice daily close Above here, and then you're looking for the longs Or it's below and you're looking for those short targets to the downside So the way I'm looking at managing this trade in an ideal way is midpoint for the long and the bottom of the range Midrange yeah this midrange part point for target one And this this below here, which is you know, this is probably the lowest second November that More the bottom of the range. So that's how I look it. I mean it doesn't the trade doesn't work It doesn't matter. It's still a good risk reward on it and It makes sense for me But yeah dollar index at the moment is is bang on some very important support Right now I say the bulls Relatively happy if they're getting in from the retest of the ninth of October low you see there. Okay one One hairy day, and then you push up you would have de-risked you'd imagine here I'd say no one's in control to be honest if anyone the bulls were I say the pound bulls are in control But key resistance coming up euro I don't like to say I'm not really sure to be completely honest. Let me look at the yen, which You can see it has been drifting down and you know, what about your you know Look these things are always easier in hindsight aren't they but you know look at this is beautiful double top failed Move lower you can obviously have getting in that stop above or you know You wait for you know a key break of say a technical area support You get it on the retest on last Monday you ride it down and you know You come out on on this point here where you have good solid solid support what a Trade that would be and completely would fit in with the way that I trade Trend line here as well. No break. No break. So I'd still have that on I would To the downside obviously just be aware of yesterday last week's low before you've got the sort of it's called it and almost a double bottom on the sick and the the night so that Friday Monday as well if we do get a continued push just be where those loads of the year which would be You know a long stretch gets the the low of the year, but a break below the November low That has to be starting to talk about And then to the upside is looking at any of these previous lows or highs to offer a bit of resistance I you know what to be honest if you like the dollar strength if you like there to be risk on with the the vaccine news potentially You know leading the way of people's opinions about the market. I think this is a good opportunity to get long You know based on that. I wouldn't want it to get long Friday to be honest, and so I'd be interested to see what happens on on Monday or Sunday evening in Two three hours or so But yeah, it's quite interesting. It is quite an interesting area is I mean it's the safer play here is for the longest Wait above, you know this this low that we had on the 16th November a lot of support around here So if we can get a push on and above then I like it I do like it a bit more just gonna speed up. I don't want to take too much of your your time Quick look over at gold for me gold that 1850 it looks fantastic yet again Look at that look at the low. What's the low of Thursday? You bet to 1850 on the nose You'd have probably wanted a bit of a bigger push that doesn't come Into play for for the longs, you know, so I've been always to say in 1888 You know if we can get a close above there then then I like it so for me. It's it's it's a little range here I'm happy to be late to the party and get long, you know once it closes above 1892 let's just call it and then looking for this little figure here this low of the 6th of November I like that and then medium term wise you're looking for gold to push on and I think that's not a bad little play here But me that gets the confirmation above 1892 stop back in in here. You wouldn't want to be long there To the downside 1850 goes just be aware that it could move pretty quick I'm not a massive massive moving average fan In terms of my sole decision, you know, obviously only get in with them In an area, there's a moving average where there's also another Area of support resistance, but the 200-day moving average comes in and around that point and the 1800 handle and some support from the 14th Of July, I think that's not a bad little trade and as well I think that's you know, we'd obviously get a lot of these stops out and offer another opportunity to Potentially get in so yeah worth worth having that on in my opinion if you think obviously gold is gonna Is gonna get that break down Then obviously that could be a point to take profit before you look down to some of the lows from early summer But yeah, that's how I see gold The S&P at the moment. I did not like the clothes that we had on The 18 to rejections of that high You know with the guys in the advanced program that have just finished and then continuing on I've been saying for The week that I wouldn't really be ultimately bearish equities unless we get below 35 22 on the day So that's the area I'm keeping a watch on to the upside the long happens for me above 35 76 Or basically Thursday and Friday's high that happens I'm all for all for the longs to the downside then where would the sort of target area be? 35 47 on the future. I actually really like a long in this whole region Here 3,400 handle 4405 Would be comfortable to stay in it as long as it stays above 3,382 as well So for me, that's that's the nice area to to get involved at But if you're riding the short these would all be profit targets that I'd be be looking at To the upside obviously it breaks 35 76 the your immediate view has to be towards that all-time high And some of those recent highs that we've had I actually think the S&P is setting up nicely for a bigger move. Have we seen the high of the year? At the moment I'd say No, at the moment I would say no, but below 35 22 I would not want to be long until 3,400 Now that's that I'm kicking myself with the nasdaq for missing out on this long Look at that resistance resistance support support resistance comes back support Probably the most obvious level in the world 11 and a half thousand. What a long Beautiful, you probably get your target straight away as well up towards here Probably, you know, if you are holding any of this position, it's risk-free by now hindsight is always 20-20 vision though, of course But yeah, the way I see the nasdaq now is if not long here You've obviously got a bit of support here 11 700s, let's just call it that sort of support from from last week But I'm not too interested by saying in getting involved. We're sort of getting squeezed both ways you could say as well I don't know bigger moves to come Keep an eye on 11777 as a key level or support I wouldn't want to be long if it does get below there and then I think you come back to this key mid-range point You have a lot of support below there But for now I wouldn't be surprised to see us contain within this range for a bit Just be aware of the top and the bottom. I would go with for the Dow So Dow Jones Did not like the clothes that we had on Thursday similar to the S&P back below the high that we had in the 11th Came back as well to test some resist You know the double top Thursday Friday like the S&P from a technical point of view. It doesn't look too good to me However, if not in a trade, I would only be pulling the trigger on a short I mean really if these lows went as well. So similar to the S&P you've got those lows the Dow These lows here. What days are they? They're gonna be the same 10th of November. That's sort of start date here. It's so So similar are we getting vaccine fatigue as well something to ask yourself the The moves off those headlines have been limited Gotta be I think thinking about the rotation move as well If we do have some ultra-positive vaccine news Nasdaq's to be more susceptible with tech come under pressure The S&P could as well It's more the Russell and the Dow that seem to be performing better double top 30 30,000 who'd have fought it? I would have thought we've got 30,000 back in January and we didn't but yeah You know one to one to have on them We'll wrap it there guys. I don't want to take too much of your time But any questions feel free to hit me up on Twitter or in the comments section I hope you have a great rest of your evening if you're watching today if you're watching tomorrow. I hope you'll have a super week


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