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It's a beautiful morning in downtown St. Petersburg. It's like 74 degrees, partly cloudy, and it's going to be kind of nice. I've got a special guest here. Steven, a friend of mine, is the director of business and development at TheraSage and a president of Harmony Shield. Now, Harmony Shield is a quantum technological company to harmonize, harmful, or to get rid of harmful EMF radiation from things like your Wi-Fi and your cell phones. And TheraSage is a company that brings a unique health infrared healing energy to the public. It's easy to use, affordable. It has really high-quality products. They address the benefits of nature through the infrared spectrum and the negative ions, and that's with the natural earth elements that they have in there. Steven survived a near-death experience in 2002. I didn't know that. We'll have to hear that story. And you've been in optimal health and peak performance since 2007. And because of today's environmental toxins, he's become a proponent of biohacking, enhancing his biology by manipulating his environment, and he likes, enlightened and connecting with people, and he needs to be connected in their lives. And certainly that's a good thing. Welcome, Steven. Thanks, Tico. Good to be here. Steven Klein, I might say. Sure. So the reason I brought you on the program, besides all your knowledge with infrared and the water-based products, you know, filtering water, and I have these products, and I think they're great, you recently attended the Wim Hof thing. And I didn't know it was in town. I would have done it. I just, myself. We'll have them back, don't worry. Not them, but one of them is just top instructors. Oh, yeah? Cool. Well, I've been doing the method. Of course, I've been looking at his videos for quite a while. Okay. And he's a Dutchman. I'm a Dutchman. You know, there's a natural connection there.  It was interesting because for me, Wim Hof brought something that nobody talks about, that the cold can actually bring you the warmth, in a sense. Mm-hmm. And I dunk, and here in Florida, when it's wintertime, I dunk and maybe it's 50 degrees in my pool and I've got a nice hot top going there. So there's a nice balance there. Tell me about how you get involved with Wim Hof. So one of the great things about the Wim Hof method is, yes, there are online courses you can take and things like that. I will say this. If you're going to look it up on YouTube, unless you're looking at something from a certified Wim Hof instructor, people are throwing out all kind of things. Yeah, I've seen quite a few. But it's a very simple method. So whereas a lot of biohacks or anything you do to try to improve health, cost a lot of money or whatever, breathing is free. Cold exposure in Florida can be a challenge, but if you can set it up, that's free also for the most part. So it's, you know, breathing. We've all known that's something that's vital to, if you don't breathe, you die, but breathing exercises are really important. So to learn about the Wim Hof method, I would suggest that people go to WimHoffMethod.com or you've got it on the screen. And you'll see a lot of information there. It even puts up a lot of free info to get you started. But it's basically just breathing exercises is one part of it. And then meditation and mindfulness goes along with it. And then cold thermogenesis, which is just exposure to cold like you talked about. And it's kind of interesting how all this came about where Wim's wife had committed suicide. He went into deep depression. And he just somehow intuitively knew that the cold would help things. He developed the breathing method from some other methods that were out there and just started this cold exposure thing and just had unbelievable results with his depression going away, which helps a ton with that, and health, all these other things and to the point where people started following him in the Netherlands, and he has little nuts. But there was this one time where there was they were interviewing him on live TV, talking about this, and there was a frozen lake and a little kid was walking across the lake and fell in. And Wim's like, this is live TV. Wim's like, runs, jumps in the frozen water, pulls the kid out and became a national hero. And that was in the 90s. How'd it start to come here, right? So then everybody was like, well, that's just you.  You can do that. Nobody else can. And he's like, no. Of course, the Norwegians and the Swedes have been doing this for years. Yeah, the Russians, they show babies. Isn't there babies outside? Even they have the annual plunge at the Polar Bear Club. Exactly. So even athletes jump in ice baths to recover. And the difference is when you do these breathing exercises, it shunts like 66% of your pain receptors. If you imagine how uncomfortable it is getting in ice, it's only one third as uncomfortable if you do the breathing exercises before you go into the ice. Yeah. Which makes a huge difference. And it's also doing push-ups and things, other strenuous activities to just kind of, I guess, just disconnect from your mind, in a sense, to just keep on going. Yep. And then all the other thing that it does is it shunts blood from going to your extremities. So it stays to your core, which would happen to a degree, whether you did the breathing exercises or not. But by doing the breathing exercises prior to the cold, when that happens and you get in, you're still going to have the shock of being in the cold. Right. But when you breathe into it, you're not going to have the extreme cold from the pain receptors getting cut off and blood staying in your core. So when you get out of the ice, the blood then does go from the extremities where there's still some blood there. It runs through the heart. So you get cold and that's why you'll see, even on the site, you'll see them doing this horse dance thing just to get the blood flowing when you get out of the water. Exactly. But it's a very interesting method. And again, when he ran across doubters, the people went to try to, the people that debunked people and things like that, came and massed at him. And so there was this famous study at one of the universities over there where they put, brought him to the university.  It's not a pleasant experience. They did it to them and he just sits there for 15 minutes, gets a slight headache, waits another 30 minutes, unplugged all the stuff and then walks out of the hospital. He's fine. Then they're like, that's just you. So he got 12 volunteers. Now imagine they had a placebo group that wasn't going to do the Wim Hof method. Nobody wanted to sign up for that because they were going to poop in their pants and get fever, fevers for two weeks. So Wim said, I'll, I'll offer to train these people one on one if they volunteer to be in that placebo group. And they had like 30 people signed up because again, because of what had happened with that kid falling in on life, him being a national hero, they got all these people so they did the test and 11 of the people that were the, out of the 12 that were going to do the Wim Hof method and then get the endotoxin were fine. The one person that did give violently ill didn't follow the process or whatever. There was some caveat to that, but everybody else was okay. And then this thing kind of exploded from there. Wow. So this has been going on for quite a while. 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This is the ability of our body to adapt to extreme temperature and to survive within our natural environment. This is the basic principle of Wim Hof, and it just makes sense to me because before shelters and before heat and things like that, we were in the environment and we know from the past that we've had some extreme environments, whether it's hot or cold. We have to find ways to shelter ourselves and do that within our own body. It's even better. Now, during the break, you were talking about how much of a nut this guy is. I think it's important to say that, and I say that warmly, believe me, because I know a lot of nutty Dutch people and maybe I'm one of those, but he has got a bunch of these experts now doing most of this for him, right? Correct. And that's who you saw? Yeah. I saw a gentleman named Donato Helbling who's in Miami, and he's been doing Budakons since Budakons started. He owns the Budakon Academy in Miami, and he became a Wim Hof instructor probably six, seven years ago, something like that, but he's got the Miami Ice Club down there. I met him when Wim was doing a world tour and stopped in Miami. He pretty much helped organize that whole thing or host it. So yeah, Wim's an amazing guy. He is a nut, very, very loving, but he's kind of crazy, so Wim Hof Academy, which is owned by his son, doesn't even really allow Wim to teach because he does a lot of swearing. And you mentioned one of the things that when he comes into class, he carries all his belongings with him. He's got a little bag, and that's all he has. Pretty much. Yeah, it's a well-known story, and if you read either Becoming the Ice Man or What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney, which, by the way, was written by a guy that Scott Carney debunked people. He flew to Poland to debunk Wim Hof.  I admire that because I know how much junk I have. Junk I want to get rid of, believe me. It's always that way. So explaining the Wim Hof Method is how I do it. I usually take about 30 breaths, so you take as much air in as possible, kind of try to relax your body so the body naturally lets the air out, and you repeat this without interruption for 30 or 40 times. Correct.  Correct. And then you try to hold it for, I get to about a minute and a half, maybe two minutes the first time, and then you do it successive times. Usually three times, sometimes I do it four or five times.  Some days I hold it up a minute and a half. I can't get past it. I don't know what the heck the deal is, but I think it has to do with how you're feeling at the time, too. Sure. Is that about how they teach that? Yeah, so I've got a great little guided, little breathing thing that Donato did, actually. He's Argentinian, he has these great boys. Kind of walks you through there. So I used to recommend either sitting or lying down, but people have passed out from sitting and hit their head. Right. So I recommend you lie down, because what's going to happen, there's a lot of science behind you building up oxygen saturation and eliminating more of the carbon dioxide from your body when you're doing the breathing. Right. So you're going to go, when you have that point where you want to take a breath, that comes from the carbon dioxide saturation in your body that makes you want to take a breath. Okay. So with the Wim Hof Method, you can go past that. You're going to get the urge to breathe. Mm-hmm. You can go past that point and you're going to be fine. Mm-hmm. And you can do that literally like three times before you hit the pass-out point, but there's a lot of benefits from that breath retention. That's the first part. When it gets really difficult to hold your breath, that's where the benefit is. Yeah.  Mm-hmm. You, you know, then you breathe, and then, you know, from the method, you then inhale and hold for about 15 to 20 seconds, and that has other benefits. So first you exhale and hold. Correct. And then you inhale and hold. Right. But when you inhale and hold, you're only holding for 15, 20 seconds or so. Right. And you do that, like you said, three rounds of that. Mm-hmm. When you have time, do one round, you'll still get benefits.  Yeah. It's just like there's a cleansing. Almost you can feel it, but certainly my eyes, just all of a sudden, everything gets really bright to me. Like when we had the method up here, he'd ask, you know, we're sitting in a circle and we have a whole little debriefing, and your hands and feet will tingle. Right. You'll see things. Different people have different experiences, but you'll have some stuff where, you know, the reason why this has become, one of the reasons it's become really popular is because you do get some effects on your pineal gland or pineal gland. You can release DMT naturally. So it's a way to, there's more advanced methods as this breath work where people literally get that DMT release and they're gonna, you go places, and that can happen in this practice. So there's a lot of benefits to them, that are just outside of just breathing. Okay. And here's cold. So it's interesting, but there are a lot of benefits that people have, one thing that's great about the VimHop method is there's a lot of Fufu stuff out there. This is as studied as anything out there. So as much of a doubter you are, you're late to the party because every tons of people have tried to debunk what VimHop does. And you're talking about hospitals, scientists, in masses, there's books, reports, studies, peer reviewed studies. So this is a great method to learn, adopt, because there's a lot of science behind it. A lot of people don't want to do anything unless they have science. Yeah, coming from a jujitsu background, one of the goals that we have as you go through the process is that you're controlling your breathing much better and that you're fighting in a very controlled, calm way.  So this is kind of similar to that. I feel very similar things happening when I breathe very slowly, take the deep breaths, let them out slowly, and while I'm fighting. And now that I'm a black belt, I can do that. I remember when I was a white belt and the guy was doing it to me and the guy says, he's hardly breathing and I'm just going full max and it's a crazy thing. What else can you tell us about? So some of the benefits, by practicing VimHop method, you create brown fat, which is distinctly different from regular fat. Babies have brown fat and it helps a lot with metabolism and everything else. We lose it when we're not around cold environment and things like that. It goes away and most adults have very little brown fat. So this will help accumulate brown fat. You can lower your resting heart rate up to 30 beats by practicing the VimHop method. It helps with depression, enhanced creativity, sports performance, like when you talked about the push-ups. Literally, when you do a few rounds of VimHop breathing and then you do one more round, exhale and go do push-ups. While holding your breath. While holding your breath, you can do, most people can do upwards of two times the amount of push-ups in the correct form that they can. It will blow your mind. So I recommend, if you want to try this out as a little novelty thing, do a set of push-ups one morning, then the next morning, do three rounds of VimHop breathing, exhale on the last round, exhale and do push-ups, and it will blow your mind how many push-ups you can do, and that's just because of one of the benefits of this thing. The oxygen that you've built up, I would imagine. Yeah, I mean, it's not stress reduction, better sleep. 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And you're president of this company. So this is to protect us from the harmful rays of the modern living kind of phones and things like that. Yeah, so everything adds up a frequency. Right, we're under that and there's radiation and stuff. And some of the frequencies are beneficial for us and some of them aren't so beneficial for us. And we've kind of known for a while that we've come off the cell phones, routers, laptops, smart meters, smart TVs, aren't going to vibe so much with us or help us, you know, work optimally. So there are certain things that you can do, not necessarily a goal to eliminate these frequencies, but to harmonize them so they don't harm us exactly. So we've come up with a few things. We've got one kind of hologram that has frequencies, healthy frequencies in it. This is the EMF Harmony Shield and there's tons of, this isn't just new foofoo stuff we've done. We've measured not only muscle testing, which you're familiar with with kinesiology, but we did. This is where you hold your arm out and somebody tries to press it down. So even when we do videos for people to demo that, I'll tell people, hey try it yourself, get with your friend, have them. Yeah, there you go. Where somebody's going to resist and you just put the phone to your head like this, it doesn't have a shield on it and do the same thing and the person's going to topple over or be a lot weaker. I mean, that's pretty incredible. We've done blood microscopy, where, you know, the lab blood cell analysis, where we did with the phlebotomists at a place here locally where Prick's finger, blood's flowing pretty good. Had him watch a YouTube video in his hand for three minutes. Prick's finger again, blood's all coagulated. And then we even just put the shield up to the microscope and it's spread up and started flowing again. Wow. But then we put the shield on the phone, watched that three minutes, pricked him again, blood's moving fine again. So I told you we just did a thermography study as well with the person that does that is the expert for that in Central and Western Florida with amazing results showing and didn't again hold the phone right up to the, touching the head separated a little bit so it's not the heat from the phone, it's the radiation and it was striking results. And the reason why I wanted to have some kind of role in that was not much awareness about the EMFs now although it is causing problems already but with the 5G rollout that's going to be coming and even though there is a delay with that, that's just going to have a me just not so good consequences on people. We have all of these little tags that Apple I know is coming up with are little Apple tags so you can never lose your keys or your wallet and have those tags but the way I understand it that everything that's sold in the United States is going to have that tag on it. It's going to have a date on it when you bought it how long you're going to have it. So they're going to be tracking everything with this which is not something I like privacy I think is part of the Republic as far as I'm concerned. It's disconcerting so mainly it's the devices that push the stuff out like a phone not the EMF tab probably wouldn't be a problem if you're sitting beside it only when it's being received. So Wi-Fi it's always recommended that you turn your Wi-Fi off at night when you go to sleep or put your phone in airplane mode because that will have an impact on your circadian rhythms as well. But with 5G they're putting these antennas or whatever they are repeaters really close to each other they don't go far. But they do integrate with the existing 4G and 3G so it's going to be everywhere it'll be a soup it'll be really hard to escape that. We did test and started playing with this wearable device that we have although I haven't really started, you're not going to find it on the website yet people have been asking me what do I do because if you have something on your phone you're not going to be able to get away from the 5G just with this. I'm picturing clothing made out of this stuff. Yeah so there's actually a guy that I had met at one of the biohacking conferences named Andreas from one of the European countries that's already working on that stuff but it's very very expensive because he's not scaled up to do anything in huge volume. People are working on that. Yeah because right now I see the far infrared clothing coming out and the bed sheets and things like that so I'm not sure can you over do that I don't know you know those are questions I have when I start seeing everything you know the I take the saunas almost daily and very important to get the heat as well as the cold but I'm wondering now if we're getting blasted with all this stuff and one of the things that's great that you already have a huge proponent of is we're carrying all these positive ions and charges we shouldn't have which EMS just really further that so the other things you can do for free are going out walking barefoot, getting grounded getting in the ocean, getting mineral which water things like that will help kind of buffer what's going on but there are things you're going to want to do to protect yourself especially from the smart meters from Wi-Fi routers, stuff like that so walking barefoot in your house things like that do help that well you're going to be I don't unless you have a grounding where I connected I think it's getting outside in the grass well I mean I have tiles so yeah I mean you're still you're still going to get a benefit from that I mean even there's lots of other benefits just from removing the soles that keep us insulated from nature period because you still get a benefit anytime you're barefoot regardless but you can feel the difference when you go grass there's no doubt about it I'm standing out from in the morning I walk out for the paper and I stand there for a few minutes in the grass and I can feel the energy coming in so how long has this company been around so we pretty much just launched a couple of weeks ago and we've got the item on our website right now it's just this item for the cell phones routers, laptops, smart meters, smart TVs we have a whole home unit that'll be available that'll it works through plugging into an outlet and then the EMF harmonizers going through the whole circuitry and covering about 1,500 square feet in the home and then we'll have this wearable device as well you ever thought about like I see these shields for around your your electrical meter so if you put two or three of these on that it'll take care of it and that's been measured as well so yeah it's and the smart meter you know there's all these rules with smart meters that you can't just call up your power coming and go I don't want one and if you look at the foliage around the smart meter it's dead so it's pretty easy to see what that does and I have a smart meter because I have the solar so I had to have the smart meter with the camera in it and all that stuff so yeah it's definitely a problem so this is at the HarmonyShield.com and how much are these stickers? so they run $20 each there's some promotions on there if you buy two, if you buy four, if you buy eight you get a little bit of discount so go to HarmonyShield.com and pick some of these up this is very cool yeah I mean they're really inexpensive they're guaranteed to last at least a year they'll probably last two years or so and the only reason they'll last forever is the material that they're on is not carbon fiber it's a hologram sticker so it carries the frequencies minimally probably two years but we're not going to guarantee for life on something that's not a really hard tangible substance like okay so when we get back I want to talk about the other company which is Therasage when we're talking about water we're talking about saunas and things like that so that's really important so stick around folks we'll be right back the weight loss, better sleep, stress reduction and the need to detox Nicar, hunter and gatherer ancestors found all their nutritional requirements for health in their wild environment but today our food sources no longer contain the vitamins minerals and nutrients our bodies need to stay healthy and strong that's why we need primal edge daily nutrition it includes a special blend of ionic, soil based vitamins, minerals, fatty and amino acids in an easy to use liquid form primal edge is powered by highly concentrated folic and humic acids nature's preferred delivery system they've been called miracle molecules because like sunlight, air and water life cannot exist without them that's right Paige, they ensure we receive all the nutrition we need to be healthy and thrive we take it every morning primal edge formulated and approved by Niko and Paige of living a primal lifestyle buy it today for just $89 click on the primal edge banner on the front page of TFNN.com if you're a trader in the market looking for exposure to gold or gold mining equities then now is a perfect time to sign up for Tom O'Brien's gold report the summer is over, gold is trading back above $1,500 and the 10 year treasury is hovering at around 1.5% Tom O'Brien has been writing his weekly gold report for almost 18 years there's no one that knows more about how the gold market trades and how gold mining equities react, new subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose Tom publishes his weekly gold report with coverage of gold, silver, bonds the XAU, HUI GDX, the dollar, as well as more than 30 different mining equities as of September 3rd gold report subscribers have 5 active open positions with an average unrealized profit of almost 38% for each position to see for yourself the types of profitable trades that are recommended within the gold report sign up today by visiting TFNN.com David White's newsletter The Technology Insider is focused like a laser on finding the next big things in technology. 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Go to TFNN.com then hit watch Tiger TV that's TFNN.com then hit watch Tiger TV for the latest market information. Welcome back. I'm here with Stephen Klein and we're talking now about TheraSage and TheraSage is a company that has a lot of great different products from the affordable asanas to the amazing heating pads to the water and now I see you have air purifier you have this ozone module which you can, you mentioned you could use in your car as well as the house which is really cool. You have a diffuser for essential oils and here is a biohacking band I guess. What do these do? They they've got gemstones on them so as your blood passes through your body it goes X amount of times an hour Robby's explaining this to me but it just helps with kind of harmonizing your body and things like that with the gemstones of your body. It'll it'll create structured water in your body to a degree not as much as the infrared sauna will but it's got some of the sort of like a copper bracelet type of idea yeah except it's got so the gemstones in that bracelet you can do a lot of what the infrared do you get some of the benefits from the infrared through the bracelet because it has the infrared gemstones on it as well so it's pretty interesting. Very interesting so let's start then with the massage or the portable sauna yeah this is a great thing to have now I built myself a little sauna but this is the next best thing I think it's portable you can get inside it you can set it up relatively easily is there still a video here I don't know if there's a video on it there I did do a video with Robby detailed video on all the benefits but this is probably the health this is the most even compared to boxon is this is better because this sauna has no off-gassing there's no emfs it'll go up to 170 degrees so you're you're building the core the heat through your core you can pretty much kill off anything so for cellular regeneration recovery autoimmune diseases Robby had worked on the sick side of things he speaks at medical conferences numerous times a year this stuff's more credential than any FDA cleared devices all of them a lot of studies and things like that so when you're dealing with any kind of autoimmune issue, cancer health challenges when you can raise your core like that and detoxify your body there's nothing you can really else you can do so like the sauna so all of these oncologists and infectious disease doctors autoimmune doctors Lyme doctors will use this as a modality not by itself but to really enhance any kind of treatment they're doing with the patient they'll get way way better results using this in conjunction then on the wellness side I don't have any sick issues but when I use my sauna my recovery from workouts it's a lot faster detoxify obviously it also creates a ton of nitric oxide which you know the benefits of that it also creates structured water in the body as well so tons of benefits and it sets up and breaks down in like a minute so it takes very little space it's very cool and improved bamboo high capacity spot chair you're about 250 pounds or less it's a great chair bamboo redesigned therapeutic foot pads so there's a foot pad in there also which when you get in the first time and you feel your feet heating up you're like wait what's going on but you get benefits to that as well cool and then there's a dual specialized multi frequency infrared and near infrared panels on the side and then all these other features in there so it's full spectrum so it uses all of the the ranges of the infrared spectrum whereas some people prefer just far or near there's benefits to all of them and it's he calls it the 360 because you're getting the infrared from everywhere every single side of this sauna because I'm always turning around my lamps are in front of me and I make that circle every five minutes and I stay in there 20, 30 minutes but the sauna is definitely I encourage everybody and the studies on saunas are huge if you go to Sweden of course people are doing things like this on a daily basis and they figured out if you do this four or five times a week you're going to live probably 20% longer than you normally would in a very healthy condition so huge huge implications for that so I recommend everybody get on board of this let's go to the next thing then so then we have these pads and I have one of these types of pads and they're really amazing you can lay on them for 15, 20 minutes and the far infrared comes through on these pads too same benefits so you're getting direct benefits when you put these on it's they're on you you either wrap them you lay on them wherever you have pain or anything going on so you get really really great recovery from that and one of the things that I love about therosage is they've made so many sizes to these things when you go on the website and you open up that link you'll see a mini a small medium large perfect pad that goes under your shoulders there's one for pets there's one that's a full pad that also grounds you at the same time so that there's a lot of different choices and therosage is great about making things affordable to everybody instead of trying to you know knock you over the head and take your wallet but one of the things that's really important to realize is that we have so many insults it's not just the food we're talking about the 5G we're talking about the air quality water quality all these things are compromised in our modern life and this is one way you can help combat this this really does work so the third thing on here of course is the water now I think Bobby created probably the best type of water system that I've been drinking distilled water ever since 1969 and I stopped drinking distilled water when I got my countertop here and then I got the pitcher I got the old one I have a new one which is more improved and tell us about the new one why it's different so what I love about the new one is the first one that Robbie came out with the lid we had some issues with the lid it may not stay on we can talk about it now exactly it would also take quite a long time for the water to filter through the filter itself the new design the lid slides back there's no issues with it coming off he reconstructed the filter so it still removes all heavy metals lead, mercury, chlorine all the issues but it now also removes a good bit of glyphosate which is the chemical from Round Dutch and it filters a lot faster through so it's a little bit smaller more convenient and even though it's smaller it's not as it's still you're still getting more water in the amount of time because it filters faster so it's really convenient and really really soon the newer the next upgrade of this is going to be able to remove 99% of glyphosate and it will be the only water filtration system that can say that that we know of in the world at this time they're going to incorporate that in the countertop model too they have the filters of course this is the filter for the old one that's the countertop retail that's the counterboy on top that's the new one cool okay so let's go on and they kept the pricing the same and the filters with the upgrades they're still the same for me it's priceless next product the Thermair now this is really unique this is one of the products that Robbie does not manufacture was brought to him and he got excited about it because it does some things that when used with infrared sauna you're creating structured water with the infrared sauna inside your body the Thayer Air is a really unique device from Germany that it has filtered air filtered water and then that machine on the inside hits it with infrared frequencies which creates singlet oxygen energy which the best way to describe that is kind of like forest air when you're out in the forest there's a do there's a do more molecule on the leaf one molecule mixes with the air the infrared light from the sun hits it and that's photosynthesis so this mimics photosynthesis to agree so when that all that stuff happens in that chamber that I talked about where the infrared light hits it it vaporizes it and you breathe it in through either a candle later or this boom and breathing that 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Yeah that's the ozone generator and we have ozone coming into our house and it always smells so good when it happens. Now we have a Thera Roma and this is for essential oils and we use essential oils in our house so I'm going to be investigating that too and then we of course we talked about the energy bands using the different crystals now here this is a So they're actually stripping the Thera protect and you're going to start using the harmony shield in place of that so that's exciting too. That stuff's great but he's got really excited about the harmony shield he's done a lot of studies actually took it to China just recently on a trip so and now you have healing belts also and what's that about? So that allows you to use like the healing pads portably that has a battery in the side and so it'll last about two battery life is about two hours so if you've got back problems and things like that you can use that there you go that's the little battery yeah very cool you've got some really good products here and it's all about healing and actually it's forefront of healing so you're really boosting your immune system so you don't get the flu which is out now of course people are getting their flu shots do you get a flu shot? Have me back No, I never get a flu shot I've never had one. I remember my sister always every year she was so proud that you got the flu shot but half the time she still got the flu so you know and I never seem to get the flu I think the last time was about eight or ten years ago so but yeah don't use those products well this has been great you know we'll invite you back for sure and next week we have Paige coming back and of course hopefully her cheek is she had a wound in there so What else anything else you're into that we should know about Well so you may and when I have this guy when he's ready there's a guy up the street opening a Biohack studio here in St. Pete which has some amazing stuff you won't find anywhere else even the cold thermogenesis he's got a commercial cold tub it's set at 41 degrees so you don't have to go get ice or anything you just jump in it's got a filtration system but a lot of other really amazing tools Steven thanks a lot for dropping by and we'll see you guys next week with Paige Bye


Next up, we have Mike Reinhardt from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He's a web designer helping people build a fast web that works for everyone. Mike has been developing with WordPress since 2007. Over time, he has branched out his skill with responsive design and a passion for web performance. So let's hear Mike's talk, a deep dive into WordPress performance. Welcome to the world for the great introduction. So welcome. My name is Mike Reinhardt. I'm a web developer, a web designer. I'm from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As you can see here in the back, that's my hometown. It's also a harbor city. Konnichiwa. Today, I'm going to talk about web performance. I'm going to talk about three areas on how to speed up your website. So let's dive right in on why speed matters. So why speed matters? Well, today we live in a world where milliseconds matter. Speed is very important. We want our websites to load as fast as possible. First impressions are made in seconds. And our users are moving fast. They're always on the go. Disting our websites from their mobile phones. And they want our websites to load instantly. So how fast your website loads is absolutely the first impression you give to the user. One out of two people expect a web page to load in less than two seconds. According to Google, 53% of website visitors will leave your site if it takes longer than three seconds to load. So you could be losing half of your visitors before they even have seen your site. Speed matters. If you look at the user experience of speed, our users take care of the most important feature is speed. So it's all the way on top of the UX hierarchy. Basically, if your web page is too slow, if it doesn't load at all, then basically they cannot use your website. So we need to make sure that our website loads fast. If you look at some of the big companies like Google, Amazon, they really pay a lot of attention to speed. For instance, Amazon discovered that just by making their websites 100 milliseconds slower, they lost 1% in sales. That's like billions of dollars for Amazon. Maybe we are not making so much money as Amazon, but still, who wants to lose money, right? And there are many more case studies where performance saw a lot of improvements on conversions and sales. So a good website to check is WPOstat, which is a website that lists all kinds of case studies from big companies that saw major improvements of performance. Speed matters. Time is money. The faster our website loads, the more visitors that will attract to your website, and the more visitors that will also keep your web visitors more engaged. They stay longer on your page and eventually lead to more conversions and more sales, so more money. Time is money. So knowing that speed is important, that we can make more money, keep users engaged, we all should be having a fast loading website and rank on top of all the web pages out there. But how are we actually doing? By knowing all this, well, we're not doing that great. We actually kind of suck. It takes about 15 seconds for a mobile web page to load on a 3G network. So if you're considering that if people leave within 3 seconds, you could be losing a lot of your customers. As the web evolved, if we look back from the beginning, so web 1.0, we didn't pay much attention to speed, because we were too busy with experimenting stuff and trying to push the limits of our websites and computers. But as the web evolved, our web pages became bigger and bigger. According to Google, 53% of our web page is now more than 2 megabytes, consisting mainly of JavaScript and images. So our web page has grown so big that now it's about the same size as the game Doom. I don't know if anybody knows here the game Doom, but it's a 3D first-person shooter with 3 graphics, multiple levels, sound effects. And we are still struggling today to serve webpages with content in the same size. And this causes our web pages to slow down and affecting, at the end, the user experience. Because users don't measure web speeds with a stopwatch. They measure it with their eyes, their brains, how they perceive the web page loads, so how fast a website feels. Google is obsessed with speed, because it's directly connected to the user experience. Going back in 2006, they discovered a secret. Marissa Meyer, at that time, vice president of Google, she was hired to improve the experience of the search page. Marissa didn't have much knowledge about HTML or design, but she knew one thing, and that is A-B testing. So what she did, she started a user experience research, and she asked the users, hey, would you like to see 10 results or 30 results? Well, the answer was quite obvious. Of course, 30 results. More is more, right? So they did the test, and at the end, after the test, they showed half of the visitors a web page with 30 results, any other half with 10 results. After the test, they were shocked. What they saw was that the page with 30 results got 20% less traffic. They saw a drop in visitors and also in searches. People were searching less on the page with 30 results. How could it be, right? They did what the users wanted. They said, okay, we give them 30 results, that's better. But by looking closer at this test, they found out by just half a second in low time between the page with 10 results and 30 results ended up in half a second more low time, which caused users to not to engage and to leave the site. So from that moment on, they really invested in speed, and from that point on, that was history. They managed to speed up their search results. With speed, Google has been pushing speed for quite a long time. In the beginning, nobody was paying much of attention. They started 2006, 2010. They said Google will start taking speed as a ranking factor in webpages. And just last July, they announced that they were using page speeds in mobile rankings. Because what Google says is quite logical. People want to find answers to their questions as fast as possible. So how fast do we need to make this web page? What is good for Google? And where do we even start by optimizing our websites? Well, web performance is not a destination. It's a journey. Well, we could start with going to Google and just typing how to make my website faster. We will end up with a lot of interesting results. And they might not sound all obvious at that time, because when you first start out, then you need to... Yeah, you're just starting out, so they don't make sense at that time. Maybe later on when you tick off all the boxes, then they make time. But where do you start? I already said web performance is a journey. You make small changes day after day, and big small changes lead to big performance gains. So to begin with optimizing your website, you need to measure your web. You need to measure how fast your website loads. There are several tools out there that can help you with this. So here I made an overview of several tools you can access online. Page speed insights, GT metrics. Pingdom is also really familiar among the WordPress community. Web page test, and of course Chrome developer tools, which is right in your browser, and Lighthouse. All these tools, they offer all kinds of metrics, like page speed score, fully loaded time, your page size, number of requests. So at Pingdom, we have all kinds of nice metrics, load time, how much faster than you are than other sites. Web page test goes a little bit into more detail. They show first interactive, they have also a metric called the speed index. All of these metrics, they don't really tell much about how a user perceives how fast the website loads, how does your website feels, how fast it is. They don't measure web performance with a stopwatch.  We all experienced, when you're having fun, time flies. And when you're waiting for luggage or whatever, the experience of time can be very slow. It's a perception of time. Take elevators for example. Does anybody know why there are mirrors in elevators? Well as it turned out, in the beginning of time, when elevators were first introduced, they were very slow. People had to wait a lot and they were complaining. They were always complaining, can't you make elevators faster? So lots of architects and designers thought about solutions, how can we make elevators faster? But then one clever designer came up with a solution. He said, we need to focus on the user, we need to think what he thinks and how can we distract him from thinking that elevators are too slow. So what they did is they installed mirrors in the elevators to distract users from thinking that the elevators are slow. So after a follow-up research, they asked the users, what do you think of the elevators? And they said, oh, they're so much faster and they didn't change any of the speeds. So it's really, what the user feels, how fast things are going and the perception of time, the perception of speeds. When we get back to the web development, web performance, it's the same thing. When our website loads, we first see a white loading screen and then a pixel pops up and some images. And the first Confill Paint, which is a relatively new metric, it calculates how fast the first visual element shows on your web page. How fast you can show something interesting to the user and keep them engaged. So as your web page loads, the first other metric that is important is how fast can you make it feel ready to the user. And that's the time-to-interactive metric. It calculates when the user can interact with the website, when it is live and when it feels ready for the user. So when you visit a web page and you see it loading and you already want to click on the page or in search box, but you cannot and you still see the loading icon running. So when it is fully loaded, when you can interact, that's when it's ready. That's what we need to be optimizing for. Web performance can be very complex. There are different moments in time that when you visit the web page, you send out a request, get back a bunch of stuff with the back-end, the front-end, maybe different JavaScript frameworks. But actually we can break it down into very simple rules. And these three rules are you need to send fewer things, you need to send things smaller, and you need to send things more efficiently. So let's go. Let's optimize our website. I have a page here, which is one of my site households. It's the Miami Guides. So it's a tourist guide for Miami. And I will show you how I improve the web performance speeds and outrank the company. So first thing first thing first, we need to measure a starting point. How fast our website loads. So I checked in Google Lighthouse, which is available right in your browser, in the Google Chrome browser. You can do an audit and set what you want to test. So I selected here to test it on a mobile device. And when I run, I came to the conclusion that it runs in 6.5 seconds. Time to interact. So when users are able to really click on buttons and scroll on the site. So which is way too slow. And we need to optimize that. So using the tools, we're going to find what is slowing us down. There are opportunities given by Google Lighthouse. As you can see here, it offers information that I can optimize the site by deferring off-screen images. Off-screen images, as I show right here. I don't know if you guys know. You have an above default and below default. So all your images and resources below default are not really needed when a user first loads the web page.  And when the user scrolls down, they will be loaded onto the page. This improves performance. So we did that 3.9 seconds. That's quite an improvement already. But we are not done yet. Because this was on a desktop. And our users today are mobile. I don't know about you, but if I'm checking my website or if I look also into the younger generation, my daughter, they don't even open their laptop anymore. They will always, yeah, most of the time, visit websites from a mobile device. So mobile first. So optimizing for mobile, I saw in what you see here is the waterfall view in Google Chrome. And what you can do here is sort by size so that you see the biggest resources first. And by focusing on the load times, the long horizontal bars, you want to keep them as short as possible. So what we found here is that you have one script which is taking too long to load. So we dove right in and optimized that file. We cut out all the unnecessary codes and combined it. Next thing we did was to upgrade our hosting. I think this is really one of the first things. If you want to download a website, you need to pay close attention to what kind of server you're hosting your file. So I use Google Cloud and there are many other web hosting providers. I don't know about Japan or Tokyo. I did see Google in the woods. Next step is run WordPress on PHP 7. WordPress is using, it's a minimum requirement for WordPress to run it on PHP 7.2. And it's amazing that still 20% of all WordPress sites are using PHP 7. So they can gain a really performance boost by just switching to PHP 7. And you can make your website like twice as fast. Next thing is enabling gzip compression. Compressing the files of your server can really improve the response time. Then we have HTTP 2. We have the newer variant of HTTP and it makes your website twice as fast. Also, you have to consider is to use CDN. Does anybody know where CDN is? Content Delivery Network. So it basically means that people can access your website from various parts in the world much more faster because the website will be hosted at their nearest point. Optimizing our images. There's a very good guide that can explain how and which images you need to optimize by Andy Otami. You can also use plugins to optimize images. There are various plugins to use. I'm using Imageify right now. So it automatically compress and optimize your images when uploading it to your WordPress site. So it's really easy and you don't have to worry about users uploading too big of files. Caching. You need to cache as much as possible because by caching you don't put too much pressure on your database and you turn the dynamic content into static HTML which will load much, much faster. What I'm using is W3 total cache but you also have W super cache from automatic, I believe. Then about scripts. Your CSS and JavaScript. We can merge and minify it by auto-optimize. I've already talked about lazy loading. There's a plugin for that as well. There's a nice thing about WordPress. There's a solution for everything. Plug-in load filter. I've been using this for quite some time and it's really handy because what plugin load filter does it disables plugins on individual pages because most of the time you don't need plugins on every page like on your home page. You don't need, for example, the contact form plugin. So you can just disable it there and decrease the total file size. So by doing all of these tweaks and changes I managed to improve the speed to 3.8 seconds. So that's awesome, right? Speed matters. Mobile speed matters. But how fast your website feels is also important. We need to optimize for the perceived speed. So that's my talk and I'll be welcome to answer any questions about web performance. I've also a link if you'd like to have a guide about how to optimize your website. It goes a little bit deeper into all the individual plugins and how to configure them. You can connect with me on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook or just send me an email via my website. Thank you very much for being here today and joining my talk. I'm really glad to be part of this community and share my knowledge. Thank you. Any experience with optimizing WooCommerce? WooCommerce. Well, you could use to optimize WooCommerce. Definitely, you can use the tools that I showed you, the plugins and also using the loading metrics to measure your website and see what is slowing you down. So, yeah, I would just find the things what is keeping your website from loading faster. Minimizing the script of what I mentioned earlier, the plugins like auto-optimize and also gzip, they all help to reduce the file size because that's what you eventually want. You want to keep the total package as small as possible so that your site will load much faster on the mobile device. What about showing the products that have already around 100 or many thousand products in the page? Okay, so you mean a web page with thousands of products on the home page? Yes. Yeah, that's a big... Well, what I think is that you do need to focus on the information above the fault so you might want to optimize everything below the fault so to focus on the images you could use lazy load to speed up the home page. Any questions? Thank you very much for your presentation. I'm not sure if this is a good question but do you have any advice on credit card transactions? Like me, I have a web page and I try to do some sales through credit cards but once I use Stripe but once I use Stripe and entered my credit card number, of course it's a great credit card number and once I click it takes around one minute or it was very slow so the transaction failed but sometimes it succeeded but it was very unstable so I think it was a very big performance problem but I didn't know how to solve this so first I reviewed my web page and now it takes around 20 or 30 seconds it's slow, it can't do transactions but it's slow but I want to solve this problem but I don't know how to do it right now So to improve the performance of transactions Yes, this is what I want to do but I'm not sure I can do it with some tools you showed in this presentation You can definitely start with the tools like Lighthouse or use the Pingdom tool and look at how the waterfall the total waterfall where all the elements are loaded onto the page so there you'll see which scripts, codes are slowing you down if you look at the longer horizontal bars and how long it takes for a file to load and how big a file is I would focus on that and try to optimize those so my leader combining codes, compressing codes or maybe removing it completely Alright, I think it's a simple transaction so I don't think they mean some big files but I will try to use your tools Do you have any questions? Thank you Thank you very much What I wanted to say is that I have experienced a lot of speed up to this point I often say this is a bad case I don't want to use this plug or getPost or call out this is a bad case I often say this is a bad case or something like that I want you to stop looking at it and tell me Oh, very great I was on the wrong channel so you repeat that again Yeah, well I didn't want to show that example because I felt really bad but I thought the the main travel guide of Tokyo I think it's Tokyo Go I tried to visit it from my desktop at home and just wouldn't load they have a video I don't know how big it is but I guess it's several megabytes so that's quite a bad example I would definitely whoever is involved in that project I would definitely advise them to optimize it for on speed and performance so methods bad methods you mean is that what yeah I think yeah so a bad practice would be if you just go to Google and if you would Google how to optimize your website you will get all kinds of advice but when you're just starting out they won't make any sense so the first thing is you need to first measure your site measuring starting points which elements are slowing down your site so you need to start make a good start and you need to focus on what you need to optimize what makes sense at that time when you just want to say I want to make my website faster I'm going to enter your gzip install all kinds of plugins that will just slow you down you need to focus on what are the actual slowdown your website so the first thing is measuring and loading a looking at the waterfall of all the elements is that answering your question thank you any other questions okay so thank you Mike please give a big applause once more Mike


What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in today's video, just like every single Sunday, I'm going to be talking about and breaking down and sharing with you all the top couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching and looking to trade heading into this third week of July in 2019. So I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I hope you all took a little bit of time this weekend to prepare for this upcoming week. That's what I always do on Saturday and Sunday. I break down charts. I take a look at different stocks, take a look at different ETFs, take a look at news to help myself prepare for the upcoming week. So with that further ado guys, let's quickly take a look at the S&P 500's performance over this past week before we do talk about the stocks and ETFs that I have listed here on my notepads. So the past couple of days guys, the S&P, and I'm sure a lot of you already know this if you were paying attention to the markets, the S&P has been hitting all-time high after all-time high after all-time high. This past Friday we actually had a very nice swing up here and we closed at a new all-time high of $3,013.92. So you guys can clearly see the past five days here on the five-day five-minute chart. It's been a beautiful uptrend, right? The 50SMA, the 180SMA, both of these levels, these moving averages, they've been acting as support levels. We've been making higher lows on top of these moving averages. Everything has been looking beautiful. And if you guys can see on the 10-day 30-minute very quickly, we were in this wedge that we were talking about in the previous couple of videos in this past week. And the fact that we broke out of the resistance of this wedge was a very bullish move and we actually broke out of $29.95. And we were able to hold $3,000 as a support this past week, which is very, very good for this continuation of the uptrend here. So over the past five days, honestly, over the past month, the markets have just been killing it, guys, all across the board. The NASDAQ, the Dow, and, of course, the S&P 500. And if we're taking a look here very quickly at the stock market future starting off with the Dow, right now the Dow is down 15 points, down 0.05%. And for those of you guys who don't know, the futures markets open at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And this gives us the opportunity as traders, as people that are doing technical analysis, it gives us the opportunity to see, OK, where's the market potentially going to be pushing heading on to the beginning of this week, right? Let's say the markets were up or the futures gapped up heavily, that would give me the signal, OK, maybe the markets are going to open up green this week, right? But let's say the markets gapped down, they were red heavily in terms of the futures, that would give me the signal, OK, maybe the markets open up red, we might have a red day starting out this week. That's kind of what I use the futures for. And it really helps me really just plan out my trades in terms of these inverse ETFs, some market ETFs, some different stocks, and so forth, right? So that's what the Dow Jones is looking like right now. If we take a look very quickly at the NASDAQ, the NASDAQ is down $7.25 down almost 0.1%. And the S&P 500, the E-mini S&P 500 futures, they're down 0.07% right now, down $2.25. So overall, not much crazy movement in terms of the futures. I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on them heading off to the rest of tonight and into tomorrow morning to help me plan out my trades. So that is it, really just the rundown of the market over these past couple of days in a quick little two, three-minute spiel. So let's just get into it, guys, what I am looking at, what I am watching and looking to trade for this upcoming week. So Johnson & Johnson, I'm sure a lot of you guys know this by now. But Johnson & Johnson, they're going under, or there's a criminal investigation right now going under for Johnson & Johnson. And if you guys have been tracking this company over the past couple of months, there's been a couple of different events like this that have taken the stock price very, very, really taken the stock price down very negatively. We saw the asbestos and the products, suspected asbestos a couple of months ago, that took the stock down from nearly $150 per share down to about $121. Now there's another criminal investigation being taken place with Johnson & Johnson. I don't know exactly, I forget off the top of my head exactly what it's about. If you guys do know, drop a comment down below, but I forget what it's about. But the stock's price took a dip from $142 down to about $131 to $132. It ended up closing at about $134.30 down about 4% this past Friday. So I'm interested at this point, based on previous scenarios, again, we got that asbestos ordeal a couple of months ago that sent the stock crazily down and it ended up being a buying opportunity, a dip buy opportunity. I'm interested in seeing whether or not a similar thing is going to happen here. Once this criminal investigation, maybe it blows over, maybe it doesn't. But let's say it blows over, maybe the stock starts to rebound. This can really be a short term dip buy for Johnson & Johnson. This can really be a point where we may be rebounding from here back up to $142. And it honestly seems like we didn't find a bottom quite yet because obviously it really just happened this past Friday. So we need to see how the stock reacts. But let's say the stock holds $130 in this upcoming week, $132, $134. We start to climb back up into maybe the higher $130s, maybe $136. This could be really just a reversal on Johnson & Johnson to the upside from there, given that there's no negative news that might drop the stock down even more here coming in the next couple of weeks. Let's say we don't get any more negative news, maybe it blows over. This could be a very nice bounce back play and I'm honestly watching it very closely to see how it ends up reacting, especially after this earnings report that's coming out here in two days, guys. And honestly at this point I'm probably going to wait after the earnings report before potentially entering into Johnson & Johnson. I kind of want to see again how it reacts on Monday and Tuesday after this news that we got regarding the criminal investigation and after it reports earnings. At that point I think we'll have a clearer picture of where Johnson & Johnson is headed based off the technical analysis and from there we'll make our decision. I personally think based on a couple of other different occasions, stocks drop and especially Johnson & Johnson, it's a value play. It's considered a safer play. This can definitely rebound and recover here over the next couple of months and this really could be a dip by on Johnson & Johnson. Let me just show you quickly this little trend line. Take a look at this trend line, guys. If that holds, this could be a higher or low from the previous at about 130 and we can really just rebound heavily. So just keep an eye on the news, of course. The media will definitely maybe have a sway here on Johnson & Johnson's stock if more negative news comes out for this upcoming week. Just keep an eye on that. I'm really liking this one though, Johnson & Johnson ticker symbol JNJ. So the next one is natural gas, guys. Natural gas and not natural gas but the ETF that trades based upon natural gas which is UGAS, guys. UGAS ticker symbol UGAZ goes up whenever natural gas is going up. Take a look here at natural gas on the 184-hour chart. What are we seeing here? We're seeing a pretty clear cut reversal. We found the bottom at 215 and from 215 we hit a higher or low at about 223. Another higher or low at about 227. We broke out of that 180SMA resistance here that's been at resistance over the past couple of months as you, excuse me, as you guys can clearly see. And now we're also seeing a bullish cross on natural gas and that pretty much is whenever the 50SMA or the smaller moving average that you're personally using crosses above the larger moving average in this instance being the 180SMA. The 50 cross right above that 180SMA. We got the pullback at a higher or low, 240 higher or low from 236. We really bounced on top of that 50SMA. So that is looking good in terms of a reversal in natural gas. And now we're seeing that it's actually trending down about 0.45% as of right now. So I think the breakout spot on natural gas is going to be if it breaks above $2.47. You guys can see that's kind of a resistance at this point, right? 246 to about 247-ish. So if we do end up, let's say pullback, maybe 240 again, retest that level and then we break out and start to make our way to the 250s. That's going to be a ridiculously bullish move where you guys, again, that goes up whenever natural gas is going up. You know, you guys is going to be a very good play at that point, right? And if, you know, natural gas breaks into the 250s, I don't see why you guys won't be at $21, $22, you know, really out of the $20 level of resistance at that point, right? So you guys, natural gas, I'm really liking the reversal, the beginning of the reversal that I'm seeing right now on natural gas. So another one that I'm watching is 3M ticker symbol MMM. This one did ridiculously well over the past couple of days. I actually traded it once this past week. If you guys were able to catch that trading update video, but ever since we broke out of that 50SMA here on the 20-day one-hour chart, we filled the gap from 166 all the way up to 173. So at this point, guys, you know, we are getting a little bit overbought on 3M, but the goal here is to see whether or not it's going to hold 174 as a new support and then maybe fill the gap back up to 178. So at this point, you know, the fact that we broke out of the 50SMA resistance, that's looking good, and the fact that we're about to test that level probably tomorrow here in the stock market, right? You know, we're going to test that. If we break it, you know, this is going to be a potential play where we can grab, you know, 23% if it does fill the gap up to 178.  But the fact that we rebounded so heavily, it gives me a bit of hope here that 3M could fill the gap up to 180, guys. There is a chance, I personally think, that that does happen. But ideally here, I would like to see a break, a pullback, a retest for the R side to come down a bit. And from there, we can make that move. That's what I'm personally waiting for. So LABU is another ETF that I'm personally watching here. It trades based upon SPSIBI, which is an S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index. And how this works is whenever this index is going up, this biotech index is going up in price, LABU is going up in price at a 3X rate because it's a 3X leveraged ETF, right? So this is clearly holding the 180 SMA here, just like SPSIBI is, right? The chart is kind of similar. So pretty much if SPSIBI holds this 180 SMA support, it makes its way back up to, let's say, 6775, and we break that level and we start to fill the gap up to 6900, you know, LABU at that point could be a ridiculously good move, right? It could be a very good play if that does end up happening and ideally if it does end up holding this 180 SMA heading into tomorrow. And honestly, guys, if it breaks the 180 SMA support, I'm not going to be watching it. That's a complete break of pattern. But from here up to that resistance, even up to the resistance, guys, at $51, it does offer a 50, or not a 50%, imagine a 50% profit, guys. No, it offers a 10% profit from about $47 up to about $51. So keep an eye, see if it maintains the 180 SMA support. If it does, we break this 50 SMA resistance tomorrow. That could be a fill up to about $51. And of course, if we break out of there, there could be a lot more left in the tank for LABU. So LABU, I'm loving that one. Apple, let's talk about some of these tech stocks very quickly. So Apple, we see it's out of resistance at about 205, and it's also maintaining the 50 SMA support as well as this $200 level of support on its chart, right? So right now, ideally, I would like to see Apple maintain $200 and that 50 SMA, and ideally break out of 205. I think right now, you know, if we break out of 205, we could fill the gap back up, at least in the short term here, to $210, especially if the market continues to rally up here to the potential rate cut that we are going to get in two weeks. You know, this could definitely happen here, right? More optimism in the markets. Let's say we get the rate cut, which is most likely going to happen in 25 basis point rate cut. This is going to really, I think, pump up the markets a bit more here, and this could end up shooting Apple up 3%, right? And 3% for Apple, that could be a really good move there. $10,000, 3%, that's a $300 profit, right? So Apple, I'm liking that one. Amazon, AMZ, and AmazingZone, as some people call it. It hit an all-time, no, no, no, that was not an all-time high. That's a mistake. One year, one day, you guys can see the all-time high is 2050, but we actually got close to it to about 2030 this past week. Hit that resistance, as you guys can clearly see. And now we're pulling back, and we are seeing a green candlestick forming here on the one year, one day. And you may be asking yourself, isn't it a bit overbought? It is a bit overbought, guys. You really can't deny it. So at this point, maybe Amazon could see a bit of a sell-off here. This would be ideal, in my opinion, honestly. If we saw a bit of a sell-off down to 1950, I don't know if we'll get that big of a sell-off. But let's say 1960, maybe 1975, at that point, take a look, guys. At that point, the 50 SMA is going to come up a bit, right? It's going to come up a bit. And if we pull back to 1975, that'll be putting us right on the 50 SMA that has been a support here over the past couple of weeks. So that would be a good dip by, an interesting dip by, in my opinion, if we are able to get there. And from there, we could probably fill the gap back up to 2030, maybe even 2050, if the markets continue their rally. So Amazon here, it is interesting. I would love to know what you guys actually think about Amazon right now. It's interesting right now. Do you think it's going to pop up from here, maybe not even pull back and hit an all-time high? I would love to know what you guys have to think about it. And while you're at it, comment down below your watch list, what stocks, what ETFs you're watching for this upcoming week. I would love to know what you're watching as well. So the last one that I want to talk about very quickly before I do wrap up today's video is going to be XOP. XOP is in an interesting spot right now. And I personally trade two ETFs, really an inverse ETF combo that I'm sure a lot of you guys already know at this point. And those ETFs are GUSH and DRIP. GUSH and DRIP. And GUSH goes up whenever XOP is going up in price. And DRIP goes up whenever XOP is going down in price. So take a look at XOP right now. This is one that I think obviously can go either two ways here based on what you are seeing here on my trend lines, based off my trend lines. Notice how XOP is in a wedge. It's making higher lows and lower highs at the same time. Lower high or rather the low here at $24.50. Higher low at $26.00. Higher low at $26.40. High here at $28.00. Lower high at $27.00. So this can go either two ways at this point. You guys can clearly see the one trend line here. If we break out, that would be breaking us out of the wedge. The resistance of the wedge and the $180.00 SMA. That would be a very bullish move at that point. Which again goes up whenever XOP is going up. Gush would be breaking out of the $180.00 SMA. And that would be ridiculously bullish for Gush. But this can also go another way. Back to XOP, if we go back to that wedge, if we break to the downside here, that's going to be a very bearish move. Not only are we breaking the support of the channel here, or rather the wedge, but we're also getting rejected by that $180.00 SMA that has been a resistance over these past couple of months, as you guys can clearly see. And at that point, drip will be a very good play, very good option. And honestly, drip will be breaking out of moving averages at that point. And that would be really bullish as well at that point. So those are just a couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching, guys. Honestly, XOP, drip and Gush, they offer a lot of potential. Probably the most potential on this list. Because once it does pick a move, that move, in my opinion, is going to be really big. And another one, a bonus one to talk about here very quickly, is crude oil. Crude oil right now, it is holding $60.00, but if it does break $60.00, we start to head back down to $57.00, that could be a move on DWT. So DWT is one that goes up whenever crude oil is selling off. This could be very interesting, a short-term play. If crude oil fails to hold $60.00. So I'm really liking drip, XOP and Gush, whichever direction they end up going. And Johnson & Johnson, I'm really liking this one as well. Hopefully this blows over. Hopefully the stock recovers. And this could be a very good dip buy that I'm considering buying in after this earnings report. So I hope you all enjoyed the video. If you did, feel free to go down below. Hit that like button. Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you're watching, what stocks, ETFs. Drop your watch list down below. Let me know what you guys think about the markets. And subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already. Hit that notification bell so you're notified every single time that I do make a video.  Hope you all kill it this week. Good luck tomorrow. I'll catch you all in the Discord chat, which is linked down below. Peace out.