to do the African food for us, and there is a difference between African and soul food. You explained it to me, and Natasha Torrey is the Cheboygan City judge. We voted for her for the next time. Also, okay Natasha, tell us a little about yourself. Sure, so as Marilyn indicated, I'm Natasha Torrey. I'm an attorney and I'm also the municipal court judge. And I don't know how Emily and I started talking about me coming and doing some cooking with Marilyn because I love to cook. And I might ask, well hey, could we do something near Juneteenth, because even though Juneteenth has been a holiday since 1866, a lot more of us are now starting to realize that. And so even last year, the law firm that I work at started recognizing it as a paid day off. So I even get off on Monday. And so the history of Juneteenth, if you didn't have a chance to look through this wonderful handout that Ann put together, basically was to celebrate when the last group of slaves in the US finally were told that slavery was abolished. And what's amazing and really sad about this is these were slaves in Texas who were still slaves two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and about three months after the Civil War was even over. They were never told. So their slave masters were still killing them, whipping them and enslaving them.  And so then it became a celebration, right, that they had made it. And so some of the imagery that you'll see in the handout are, this is what I think of as the Juneteenth flag. But honestly, the flag above, this is actually the Juneteenth flag, okay? But just because we're a big country, we have different regions, maybe down south, the red, white and blue flag would be more commonly known for Juneteenth, but here in Wisconsin we use this Pan-African flag. And so it has basically, it looks like the US flag, but the stripes are red and black. And then the star section is a green background with black stars. And there's symbolism for that. So the red is a very prominent color in both African culture of food and then in African-American food. And so that's why we have the red tea today. So the red drink, very common in African and African-American food. So it could be hibiscus tea in Africa. There's also a Kola nut tea, but then also in the US, there became an association with red, even like red soda, because that was just something that we couldn't have, right? We couldn't have sugar and sweets and those things. So the color red. So if you're familiar with red velvet cake, that is a very common food to associate with like any soul food or African-American holiday. But red in the flag is to represent our blood, the blood that we had to spill basically because of slavery. But it also represents life that we're still here. And so we can still go on. The black, really basic, just supposed to represent black skin of Africa and the black soil of Africa. And then the green is supposed to represent fertility of Africa. And so it's really important to understand that, you could say, well, why did you need a flag? And so to understand, because we don't know where we came from, right? So I'm biracial. My mom is white. She is Italian and Polish and Czechoslovakian, right? And I know that. And I know what those flags look like, you know? But my dad is part African-American and Cherokee. I have no, we have no clue where he came from in Africa. He was kidnapped, right? And even Tori, my last name, that was my great, great grandfather's slave master's name. That's not some family name, like because it came through history. It's because somebody owned us. And so that's why it's important to have a flag, right? And so this is the African-American flag. So when I was a kid, so I indicated biracial, both my parents were in the Army and I was born in the late 70s and it started to be like a popular thing, I think especially for military people to just be colorblind. So just like this concept of, if we just ignore it, it doesn't really exist, which is not the smartest way, especially for kids.  So, and I didn't even know how to cook at all. So I grew up eating lots of food from boxes. So, you know, so what did I think was dinner? Like, well, first of all, it always had to be meat, okay? So fried chicken and, you know, and it'd be like a can, right? I never was really exposed to fresh vegetables. Everything was canned. Maybe I would get fresh fruit, but it would always be like some type of, you know, spaghetti and meatballs, and then maybe there'd be like iceberg lettuce. So when I got to law school, which I went to UW-Madison, I was surrounded by people from all over the world. And I was really young and at that time and hadn't been exposed to people really hadn't really, like that hadn't really learned about different cultures. And so I just soaked it up. And so it was really funny because when I first started cooking, my best friends were a woman from Okinawa, a Korean girl and a Kenyan.  All right. So now here I am, you know, many years later, loving, love cooking. I try to eat vegetarian most of the time. And so I thought, okay, like for Juneteenth, what would be a nice dish for us? And so we're having what's called African peanut stew. And it's really funny because I've been making peanut stew for years. Usually I make it around holidays or like a special occasion. And I was joking that, you know, I hadn't thought about it, that to make it for 11 o'clock today, I had to get up at like three o'clock in the morning, right? So. Fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh. You know, if I had to rethink this, yeah. Maybe it'd be a little different, but so this is really good. This is my favorite recipe and you have it. And it's from Rachel Amma's Vegan Eats. She is from the Caribbean. I love this cookbook. And so I've made lots of different peanut stews. This is my favorite and I made it to the recipe.  No, you can make it to the recipe. I heard a little bit of talk about, well, not understanding grams.  If you're worried about tomatoes, this is something that you don't have to worry about messing up, okay? So this is something you can imagine people being outside over a fire and having their one pot and making this, right? So you're not gonna mess it up. And no measuring cups. You don't have to, okay? I eyeballed everything today, and then I measured it to make sure. Cause I was like, no, that's not what we're doing. We're doing it exactly to the recipe. So another thing to think about with the peanuts too, again, this traditionally, you know, coming together for a celebration, this one is vegan and that's cool because that means everyone can have it, right? So that's something that's important in lots of different cultures. Some people might not eat meat, right? Or you might not eat a certain type of meat. But if you make something vegan, then it's accessible for everyone. So that's what we'll be doing today. Also, we have naan. And so that's what Marilyn was teasing you about what's in the pan. And this naan was made over the grill. And so I'm gonna demonstrate making naan in a skillet because you can do that too. And all it is is like a simple dough recipe, which is just flour, baking powder, some sugar and salt and yeast. And you let it rise, punch it down, and then you can form it in these little patties and grill it up and it only takes like three minutes and you can have fresh bread, right? So again, imagine being outside and... And how authentic is naan to the cuisine or it's just that you like it? Well, so naan is what we think we traditionally associate with India. But do you know African peanuts do is really just sweet potato curry? You know, and so we like to think that we're so unique, right? And everything is, but there's so much crossover. And so, yes, you probably are familiar with having Indian curry with naan. And so this is an African curry, right? Your main ingredient in this, even though it's called peanut stew, is sweet potatoes. So I think that we're ready to get started. Let's just say a couple of words about the coconut. Oh, yes. Sasha made it clear that coconut is dessert. Yes. So I tried finding macaroons at Bakery's, Padnola. So yesterday I made the macaroons. And of course, the one of the cherry, that's the one with the coconut and the condensed milk. And the recipe is one can of condensed milk and 14 ounces of coconut. Of course, you know, there are no such thing as 14 ounce packages of coconut any longer, there are no, 12. And of course, they probably started out as 16 ounces. Anyway, and the next one is a meringue that has coconut and almonds and rice crispies in it. And I salted them before I put them in the oven. So any meringue recipe that you have will work if you add coconut and anything to it. But the trick to make a meringue actually work is room temperature egg whites, put them out the night before, even divide them the night before. And then add the sugar slowly, slower than you can stand it. And it will get stiff. And if it says a quarter of a teaspoon of cream of tartar, put in at least half a teaspoon. And then you've got your meringues, your macaroon meringues. Delicious. I did get from the art center of this leaven schedule. So now you will also know the music and when it's coming to the city green. You're on Natasha. All right, so I'm gonna start. Hope, see if I can, oh, look it. I got the burner right, the first try. Just, you guys can't see this, but I had lots of choices here and I want credit for that. All right, so this is my dough. And so again, this was, we've made this this morning. Yeah, you know, just gave the, I think it took like, I think the recipe called for an hour and 15 minutes to let the dough rise. It's red yeast dough? Yes. You can use any red recipe. Yes, yes, and it's really simple. And I realize I just need to make sure I have a spatula, which I see a rubber one, so that should be fine. All right, and so you just flatten it out. And so these I asked for just like smaller personal size ones. So you can make it, you know, as big as you want.  So basically, if this wouldn't have already been perfectly prepared for me, again, thank you. Thank you, Marilyn. You would take, you would take, you would take like a paper towel and put oil on it and just like spread it in. Okay. Natasha, they sort of look like mini yeast tortillas. Yes. Flour tortillas, not corn. They're way too hot. Yes, candles. Well, Peter's been to many former Soviet Union countries and all he's talked about is not. Okay. It isn't just in those areas, it's all about that. And they have the big containers to the ground, fire, and they slap it against the wall and make it. Yeah. Right, it's too big for us to do our own. Yes. So that's like, like it sounds like a tandoori oven. No. So I probably could have waited a little bit longer. Like I could have had the pan a little bit hotter before we put it in, but this is just an example of like, you just, it's really hard to mess it up. Okay. Once you have your dough formed and it's, it was in the right consistency. It's really hard to mess it up. I like to hear those words. Yeah. And so if the pan was hot enough, it only is supposed to take about 90 seconds on each side. And I, if you, I can see that it's actually like fluffing up in the pan right now. All right. And so then I'm going to just, and it's hard. Like I can actually tell that it gets cooked. All right. Yeah. The longest must be the rising time. It is. Yeah. So once, once you mix it and then you're just like cutting it and I don't do the putzi work like this in my house and my husband had to get up and do this. That's just, that's just not my thing. And, but he had been warned at least, you know, I told him at least a couple of weeks ago, so. And one thing about yeast dough, if it rises too tall, too tall, it can fall. Big deal. You just need it and then let it rise again. Or if all of a sudden you have to do something and the yeast dough is ready, punch it down, let it rise again. So do you see like how that, it almost looks like a pancake. So the ones, if you want to show that, that my husband made for us this morning, he made these on the grill. Just so that you could get even more of an idea of like the, yes, just so you could get more of an idea of like being outside, you know. So this is all food. Imagine somebody cooking it outside over a fire. So these are done. Wow. Okay. So now we're gonna start getting, putting our stew together. So I made basmati rice and one thing, one, I don't know if it's a trick, secret, whatever, but I was taught by my okinawan friend, I had to think about it, to soak your rice. Not just wash it, but to actually soak it. Well, this time I soaked it overnight. And if you do that, it not only, I was just reading about all the health benefits, but basically it gets rid of that outer layer of extra starch. So I'm gonna ask you to scrape it out. I'm gonna tip this over. This is really heavy.  All right. And it makes the rice sweeter. And then with the soaking water, you drain away. Yeah. So I have a really nice rice washer. Almost a little bit more. And it has a special like little strainer section that you can like pour the water out. But if you, it really makes a huge difference. And so this rice, you know, imagine I had this done, Marilyn's like, I ate no later than 7.30. So I had to have this at her house. And she did, and she lived close to me. I do. Like only five minutes. Good. But yeah, it still is able to keep the rice like in relatively good separation, right? Yes. Yeah. And that helps. Like that's from soaking it. It's not glued together. Right. Yeah. So soaking the rice, that's my pro tip for today. All right. And can some of you smell it in the front? This is basmati rice. That's my favorite. I love it. I love the way it smells. But not short grain or it will glue together. Yeah. This is long grain. Which is what we want for some things, but not. Yes. That's long grain. All right. Okay. Whatever you say. So this is our, our peanut stew. Okay. So this, you know, you can, this is heavy. All right. Yeah. So I'm going to show off that I've been lifting weights. Look at that.  This is, so this is peanuts. I had to do, I'm sorry. No. I do canned black eyed peas. So that is, I guess, technically one thing that I did different. So these are black eyed peas that I made in the slow cooker. Okay. This is cilantro. I have four kids and normally the kids have to do this for me, but grandpa's visiting. So I, if you feel that the cilantro isn't like to your perfect chopped liking, I don't care today. Okay. And then these are just peanuts. So you're just going to top it with peanuts. These are unsalted because we get enough salt. In the dish. And then this is juice of six lemons. Yep. So you just top it. So you just like kind of pour it around. And then it gives, that just gives it this nice like fresh, light taste to the finish. Natasha, instead of fresh lemon, have you ever tried that frozen lemon juice? No. Okay. Um, I, well, for one, I love, I love using fresh lemon because especially if you've just cut up the garlic and you have that garlic on your hands, I like to finish with the lemon because it gets that garlic off. And, yeah, that's enough reason. That's right. That's right. No, of course, lemons here cost a lot of money for a lemon. And one of the tricks to make to get more juice out of your lemon, cut it in half, hold it in your hand. And we learned this from the lemon class two, three, five, six years ago. Put the fork in there and... Do you want to get a photo? And ream it out with the fork and you'll get lots more juice than squeezing. And lines too. Cut it in half, put it in your hand, put the fork in and ream it out with the fork. You'll get a lot more juice. Yeah. So I like using these old fashioned lemon juicers. I love it. Yes, so that's what I used for this. Got it in an antique store. They're not as hard on our muscles as squeezing things, you get tired very quickly. I don't use those. Okay, so I think we're going to start dishing it out. Does anybody have any questions? Could you speak to the potatoes? Yeah. Okay, so what you should figure is, so I tripled this recipe. Sorry. So basically for one serving, it would be like three sweet potatoes. So I would say that they're like half pound sweet potatoes. Three normal, like longer, bigger, yeah. Real sweet potatoes, not the camp. Yeah. Yes. She was giving you guys a little, a softball question there. Nobody had, nobody wondered that. We have very smart people.  You're grown adults.  Okay, yes. They're a nursing mom. They have a milk department. Any nursing moms here? I don't. They're in the tea. I just don't know if they carry it up to two, like you can make her taste differently. So it's exactly if I use more spicy. So you can always just have the meal. But I sometimes really just like if I'm lacking, even though acid protein, it doesn't taste, maybe it actually tastes like garlic and onions and it was even based by, so there's yoga and I can't, I think it would even be the offshoot of yoga for me. Oh yeah, yeah. Right. And I can't think of it right now. And so it's a way of eating. And Belize Cantrell is an author of Guler that she's moving now, that she would have to show us what's on this. And those are the people to think, well you shouldn't eat according to your constitution and it depends on sometimes like your temperament and it can be like what's on your board though. But they believe that some people really, you shouldn't eat garlic and onions because it can make you more active, make you more active if you already have that. And so then you can use acid protein as a step. Acid is called acid. Cidatum. Okay. Same thing. And it smells kind of like kerosene. Really? Kerosene? It's not even kerosene. Okay, all right. Yeah. And it was the most sweet and standard of girls. They didn't want to get upset when they were thinking about garlic. They didn't think at all. What did you eat for breakfast today? Today I had a meal at a place because I knew that I was coming here and I didn't want to, you know, the most dramatic case I ever had to deal with. Oh. As a judge or as a lawyer? Either one. Take your pick. Well, I mean, you know, I've done lots of stuff. Like I have my 22nd year of practicing on it. I used to do all family law, which was like, you know, it's always dramatic. Yeah. I would say that maybe one of my most fulfilling cases involved just a family problem and being able to save that. Which was like, I just went into private practice and was trying to do something different. And I got this case that I felt like I was in over my head but nobody else was gonna take it. Okay, good. Did you make your own stuff? No, I've never made my own stuff. I'm told, I'm like an efficient, I told you, I didn't even make it on. That's not my type of job, okay? I've never made it. I understand that it's not hard, but it's, so I did not. Making stock, I keep celery ends and onion peels and carrot peelings and garlic ends.  And some bones of anything. And then finally put them all in a pot and let them cook for six, eight hours. Now there is more to making perfect stock that's clear with egg whites. I don't do that. I just take all the big chunks out and just put the rest in jars in the freezer. So it always tastes different. Natasha, thank you for coming. You're welcome. All right, thanks, Natasha. You're welcome. Thanks.


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Ah, yes. Well, this is encouraging. Gas fee fees, my man. Back again, Celsius is moving USDC onto the platform. 10s of millions, that's great. That's my favorite stablecoin. I know people say, why don't you use Tether? I don't really trust it. Just don't. USDC, like the fact that Alstair, Alair, CEO's name, but he went before Congress and said, look, we're back one-to-one to assets, dollars, you can check all the different paperwork. It's all right here. Here you go. And we're all backed up and we're in compliance. So let's just move forward. I'm like, I like that. And of course, I mean, Tether did that too with a accounting firm out of Barbados or something. Sure, I just don't trust him. That's all. Beyond advice, these are the times, whole coin is made, it's very true. But I think in all honesty, I think whole coiners are made not like today, like over a long range of days. And that's investing. That's just how it goes. And not like a ton.  But just know that there's gonna be some big, big losses. And then this was, this is my Cardano. Remember, and see, like, look at this one. In 2018, Cardano was like seven cents or 10 cents or something like that. I was buying 25 bucks like every couple of days. Imagine, and then when I went to three bucks, whoo, good days, good times, good times. Oh, those are good times. Way back when. Let me guess, he's gonna get on here and say, only investors can lose all cause average. Tony, you must have heard my spiel many a time. That is exactly correct. I've been able to increase my Bitcoin position only 50% just the last few days. It's fantastic. Again, one Bitcoin is still equal to one Bitcoin. One Ethereum is still equal to one Ethereum. You can sell, just depends on if you wanna take profits or if you are in profits. And then you have to think about, well, what about capital gains tax and all those things? Or do I just hold on to it? Everybody's different. I was talking to this gentleman on the day, Jason, went on and played volleyball. Great, good times. That's why I'm all burnt. And we just talked about how there's a wide swath of people who listen to the channel. Some are very young people who are just like, taking their stimmy checks and going, I'm blowing on this. And that's it, but they don't have any other massive income coming in. And sometimes they get overbought into the market. Then some people, doctors, lawyers have a lot of liquid money and they buy too much too. So it's not like just because you have an economic status or how much you make per year, you don't do goofy things. Everybody has to understand where they are in life and how much they actually need as far as the pay for the basics, like your mortgage and your car insurance and stuff like that and diapers and the kids and all those things. And then, you know, through the investment things. So exactly what Tony said, exactly.  And that is a thing that we all struggle with. There's two things that we struggle with. There's two things that I struggle with. Maybe you struggle with this too. One is I'm like, this cannot be the lowest.  So do I just buy today? Or do I just wait till it goes to 15K where I think it's gonna go? And that's the thing where I remember, Rob, you are not that smart. So just make sure that you buy dollar cost average. And if it goes up, great, everybody's happy. And if it goes back down, we'll just add your dollar cost average in those days that you've already designated. And that's it. And then you have to think to yourself, oh, well, I gotta do it at this point or that point or that point because whenever I think I know exactly where the market's going, market does the exact opposite. Okay. It can easily go down to 8K at this point. We haven't even started tightening in rays of rates and Bitcoin is already 70K. Think about all the liquidations about to happen. No one jumping in it. And again, there's the flip side. This is why I starred these comments as we were coming in because they were two, two sides of the same coin. On one, you're like, I gotta buy. On the other one, it's like, but wait, we're gonna do quantitative tightening. The Fed's gonna come out next month. They're gonna raise points again.  And if you think inflation is already maxed out, maybe, maybe not. And that's true. And the Fed might never pivot until 2023. So if that's the case, then everything will go down. And this is the problem that you have. And that is why, again, I'm not smarter than the market. So I just buy along the way and I wait. And I'm patient and that's it. So hopefully that helps. Ooh, hey, Jason says Bitcoin is up to 18.5K. See, look, there you go. And even though it went up to 18.5, that doesn't mean it doesn't go to 14K tonight. Remember that. Ah, planet raise. I don't care what the price of the day because 10 years could be one million a coin. Like Miles said, this is a good deal. That is right, planet raise. Exactly right. Ah, that's good. Then take these around the bottom as one's Ben. Ben and you removed James from DCA show. It's on both of you. Everybody on the DCA show, there's always gonna be people, like you're on my channel, so you're probably reasonably like what I have to say. So you identify it with what I'm saying. And then James channel, which there's a lot of overlap, honestly. People love James on his channel. And then I'm Ben, people love Ben. When we're all three together, there's always that like, why do you hang out with that guy? Or why do you have that guy? The reason that I like to be with both of those guys, the difference of opinion to show you where we're all going.  He thinks it's coming. I'm like, there's not a chance, it's no ball of chance in the hell that's happening. And some other things. And I'm like, but that's just what it is. And that's why I can't be in an echo chamber because if I am, then I'll never improve. That was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, this is a good one. Hold on, who said this? I'll get to your question in a second. Matthew M, it's a great question. Damn it, it went away. So there was somebody. Well, let me answer this question. I'm gonna do some in the background. So Matt says, this is a good question. Here I'm heavily and I trust capital and a reason to be concerned with them. Maybe have them on and show they can weather this. But you know what? That's a great, that's a great suggestion. I'll write that down right now. Get I trust on. So the thing with I trust, do you have to understand they're not in the goofy DeFi business. They're not here to like go into anchor protocol and then yield farm and try to get this crazy 20% yield. That's not their thing. It's not what they make money. But they make money is the transaction fees and they just have custody and they have the same custody institutional grade that Coinbase uses and then curve, which was sold to PayPal, whatever it's called now. So for them, I don't have a problem with I trust. And we're talking about I, Jesus Christ.  Cause this doesn't make any sense unless I show you. Ha. So I trust is the Roth IRA. It's the one up here that I'm always talking about. So Roth IRA, this is how, I guess no Peter Teal PayPal founder, billionaire investor.  And when the PayPal shares weren't worth anything and of course they accumulated over time until over $5 billion because it's in a Roth IRA when he pulls that out at 59 and a half years of age they will be worth a ton of money but he will pay 0.0% in capital gains tax. That's the same thing with I trust capital. And the thing is they used to charge 30 bucks a month plus fees, they didn't weigh with the monthly fees. Now they just do a cryptocurrency transaction fee of 1%. People are like, oh Jesus 1% but look, people got to make money somehow. So that's the one. And then where is the, and then this is where I also keep my gold and silver as a matter of fact, I will find it. Ooh, songbird token on I trust capital. Interesting.  Ah, there it is security. That's it. So the same one that sailor is using coin based custody. Sorry, let me get this out of here. It's the same one that I trust capital is using. So I don't have a problem with that.  So I'll have to answer your question. And then Bazinga X, I can't pull your super chat up but this is what you asked. What are your thoughts on Chia XCH? Is it actually going up last week, almost $20 today at a 30 today? You know, she is the same one that CJ was talking about a long time ago. CJ Rykel, I don't have, and Bazinga I'm sorry but I don't have any information on Chia because I don't know enough about it. Look, I'll tell you guys what I know and I'll tell you what I don't know. I don't know anything about Chia. So I can't tell you my personal opinions on that one. Sorry, Bazinga. That's that one. And then Silicon Valley Stoic Super Sticker, fantastic. Two bucks, I will not spend that all in one place. Yeah, Ben James and Robert the dream scene. I'm going to get Celsius liquidated. Well, thanks. Curt, not exactly. James is a good guy, you know, does his best. Oh, look, we've all lost a lot. Any fears of bitru have shown up for the flare drop. Bitru's not on my radar and the flared thing is definitely not. But that's, I think it's the air drop. Is that the flare drop that's through XRP, Ripple, that type of thing for smart contracts? That's the case, it sounds good. Ah, there's Bazinga. Hey man, I don't trust. That's good. You know what, Richard says it perfectly. Here's the golden rules. One of the golden rules is, treat everything as a scam until proven otherwise and you'll be a lot happier. And even the things that I say, you can't even trust me. I look trustworthy, but I could be a huge liar. So everything that I say, double and triple check. Makes things a lot easier. Don't trust people, this is true. I need some. I hear you there. I hear you there. Oh yeah, this is a great question. Rob, do you have a ledger? I have like five ledgers, matter of fact. And here's one of them right here. I think this is the X, very nice, very sleek. But yeah, these things are awesome. Some people like a Trasor, I just use ledgers and they're pretty good. And that's why it's when you take things off of, and then that's one of the other, I gotta write this down. There's five rules that I need to come up. I have, I just need to figure out the graphics of how I put those right here. Sorry, I gotta hide you, Chris. Where it says, Dan will never contact you. There's five things. Everything's a scam, no leverage, no leverage for traders. Don't use leverage. That's one of the rules. Zero, 3% on any centralized exchanges, take profits and then just realize that whatever you invest into, it's probably already gone. You'll be a lot happier. Those are the five rules and it could help you out a lot. Yes, sell, take profits. Nobody ever went broke taking profits. Yeah, what other dominoes could fall with 3AC and Celsius going down to see many major VCs going out? Yes. Yes. And actually I was talking to Simon Yu from StormX and he's like, this is why they, he said we used VCs in the beginning. He goes, we will never use VCs again. He goes, we'll do different funding. He goes, but these venture capitalists, they want large equity and then they cash out and they just dump on people. And that's why we talked about this little gem over here. No, this one. So look out Avalanche, Ethereum, Kusama, Mina, Nira, Polkadot, Solana, Terra. Well, that's done. Ave, Ardana Balancer, you can read. All these projects have a lot of unlocks coming up. And if that's the case and people need liquidity because of 3AC, then I will not hold them. That's all I can say. That's it. Yeah, exactly. No one bets a thousand. Remember, the guy talking to you right now said that Bitcoin was going to 150K. Did that happen? No, I told you, Voyager, VJX was going to $30. But to be fair, I did call that one as a 29 cents. It didn't go to seven bucks. I did not hit 30 bucks. I said, Cardano was gonna go to $3, which it did. And I thought I was gonna go to $5 and it did not. I've been wrong. No one's perfect. That's why I just tell you like, this is what I do and you make the best decision because you're probably smarter than me. Yeah. Thanks, Kermit Zafrag. No question, just keep doing what you're doing. Thank you. Super sticker. Thanks, Bob Parr. Pel, Tel J. Powell, Jerome Powell stuff. He watched the show.  He has to invoke Volcker and say, I'm gonna get rid of inflation, which let's be honest, he's pretty much doing his job. He's just doing a little bit late. And I don't, I do the same thing. In all honesty, the last Fed meeting, I would have raised it to a full point.  And then that way I can be sure that yeah, it's gonna crush the economy, the Wall Street for a little bit.  That'd be okay. Crushed it for a bit. Inflation goes under control. Set a raise in 7.5 or 0.5. I just go, you know what? 0.25 and go that way. And then people would go, oh, wow. Rob Powell just got everything under control. This kid. Yeah. That's a good point, Mitty. Never leave your asses on exchange, seasail.  You're all veterans of the game already. So like the things that I say, what is repeated? But it is, it's good to do this again and again, because even when, because here's what's gonna happen.  Or maybe it won't, who knows? But if it does, we're there like, okay, fine, that's it. I'm not gonna sell, because you know, either I'm underwater or I'm just gonna wait for two weeks. I have a five year, seven year, 10 year outlook. I don't care. That part will be okay. The next part we have to start to prepare for is the next bull run, because I know what's gonna happen. You guys will be like me and Blake. And this is what I did in 2017. I thought I was a genius and I didn't sell anything because I was accumulating. And then as time went on, all that accumulation I did, I have to start selling at some point. And it's not diamond hands. So that's the next evolution of what we need to get ready for. Right now, I think we're all ready for the big dump because you're all here. I mean, my Nick for life, sure, it could happen. I don't know though. I don't know. Cause a couple of things give me hope. I talked to some people behind the scenes and the scene's pretty positive. And then with Simon Dixon coming out and saying we have a restructure plan, that also seems pretty good. And I think there's other people behind the scenes looking too, because they know that, in all honesty, if Celsius goes down, cause 3 AG is gonna go down, or 3 AC. So not everything can go down. I think maybe hopefully they'll, people will rally around them and start to bail something out, like how the markets should operate.  But if they let everything die, then it's gonna be pretty bad for a little bit of time. But again, is that so bad? I'm just saying, I'm just throwing it out there. Is that so bad? All right. If you sold your crypto in the US DC and deposited on Celsius, and now you can't get your money back from Celsius, why are we expecting you to pay tax in the original sale? Next round, here's the bad thing, Michael Hayes.  You can claim those as losses. Unfortunately, they passed a law two years ago, or three years ago, I forgot which one it was, where they said that you can only take a maximum of $3,000 loss per year. So if you lost 3,000 bucks, hey, 3,000 no loss, no big deal. But if you got 150,000, 500,000, 10 million, it's gonna be tough unless you get that back. So that is the thing. And that's why I'm kicking myself because damn it. Like I did that video on Sunday and I told people to behoove them to take all their crypto off of Celsius. That was Sunday, like 11.  I wish I would have done it at least a day before, but here's a great question. I'll say this again, you still have Celsius alone. No, they liquidated me. So, but that was when I was in Europe for Coin Bureau's conference. It was a fun time.  And when we were traveling, cause we stayed there, we were in London. And then we went to Italy and France and the wife. I just got kind of caught up with things. And I kept getting margin calls because that was the time when it was dipping again. And Ethereum, once I went to 2,200, I was outside the margin, they liquidated me. And I got an email like, like I just wasn't checking.   That's what it is. Told my wife and she's like, well, maybe you shouldn't have done that. It's like, yeah. But in all honesty, so I get liquidated. They returned the Ethereum that wasn't, didn't have to be liquidated to cover the amount that I had taken the loan out for, which was sizable. And I took that Ethereum. I stuck it into, I did a swap into Bitcoin. I took it off the platform. That was it. And now I'm looking at Ethereum at 800 bucks. So in all honesty, not too bad. Me and sales is right today. I will just warn you, don't get married to anybody. I mean, don't get married to any, don't get married to any investment. It's not a good look. Sell shorts, who's what do you think? There's been some rumblings on Twitter and Reddit and places where people are saying to buy the Celsius token to squeeze out all these people that are gangster style trying to shut down Celsius. And that could be an option. We'll see how it all plays out. I don't know. Harley, you're right. So it was, it was like 90, 95 when we were playing today and then right now it's, I don't know, 98 degrees, which is like 38 Celsius, I think. And of course I'm in here and people think, oh, that's a cool pool room. Must be so nice. It's not, I mean, it looks nice. It's hot as hell, but this is my office. It's been in my office for like five years. And it's like, like being out here, but some days it's super hot, okay. Who do you think is trying to force Celsius to liquidation? Well, I would love to tell you, but I don't wanna get sued. But all I gotta say is just look at the people, because Celsius was in an agreement, was in a preliminary agreement potentially to help bail out Luna.   We don't wanna deal with that.  That's just a rumor. And I, just follow me on Twitter, you can see it all there. Do you agree with Bennett, all the dump after Bitcoin? I think the Alts have already dumped a lot. They have dumped even harder. So if Bitcoin's dumping, usually the Alts are dumping. Everything happens, like Bitcoin is like, everything follows the heels of Bitcoin, right? So Bitcoin goes up and it sits there. Then of course, like it might come, and then of course the Alts will come up a little bit and you'll see like this cascade effect. And that's just how it goes. So I see Alts will get hurt more so because do you really wanna put your money into energy web token or something? I'm just saying, I don't know which one it is. Or would you just say, well, Bitcoin's been around since the beginning and there's a lot of institutions and MicroStrategy is holding in and we've got investment legends that really wanna get into it. When should I just go like, that's the least risky of the riskiest asset class I wanna put it into and go from there. Proof of pool never gets good. What do you think of XRP? I think XRP is gonna do great as soon as they win that lawsuit. We'll ripple and that's common. I think they'll win, yes. Rob, don't you want people to ask you a question rather than trolling James?  That's what trolls do. I do it for the trolls. I trust Rob. Don't trust me.  Don't trust verify. But I appreciate it. I have a good CPA. You're gonna need one planet. That's good. I got a great one too. Where's that article in Celsius? In the description. So if you, in the description, they'll say today's stories. It's like number, sorry, number one right there. Oh, this is not good, shoeless Joe. Rob, if I bought Bitcoin at 20K, where do you think my next buy should be on the dip? I don't even wanna talk about dips anymore. What I wanna talk about is the dynamics of the market. This is what I truly think. It all comes down to the Fed. Once the Fed did quantitative easing, what happened? Everything just took off, right? The stock market just went ballistic. And then of course, the narrative was, oh, well because they're printing so much, people don't want that. They wanna get into Bitcoin for the store of value play. That wasn't the case. Just that more people had more money and then they put into Bitcoin. Now that we see quantitative tightening, which really is just gonna start is in the early stages. When the rates go up, you have to understand that affects the entire economy in negative ways because they have to tamper down the demand. And that's not going to stop until hopefully the end of this year. That's why I say 2022, 2022 is a wash. That's my personal opinion. Until the Fed goes, okay, we've got, as soon as they say we've got interest rates under control and we're going to slow down on some things, that's when things take off. But until that happens, it's not going to do much. And we're gonna see some sideways action and things like this.  So that's what it comes down to. So to answer your question, 20K, I can't tell you where you can keep dollar cost averaging because you never know, that's what I'm gonna do. But as far as like going heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, you just gotta wait for the dynamic to change. And also another big thing to look out for is the gas prices. The gas companies, they are gouging us. I believe they're gouging us. There's a profit margin. So just because they say, well, we need to raise prices because the barrels of oil increase, but the barrels of oil price didn't actually increase, actually came down recently. So the question then is, well, why is the price of gas going up? Because they're saying, well, we have this refinery issue and we have this transportation issue. I'm like, well, the refineries are still there. I don't understand. Again, I think it's just a little bit of a gouging. It could be wrong, but just also pay attention to gas prices. Cause once that goes, it'll be a good indicator. Ah, what do you think your chance of Celsius making it right? I can't, let's say, I'm cautiously optimistic that they can do things. I think if it does, if they do make it right and they do allow withdrawals, I think it won't be for some time. I don't think everything goes away. I think the money is still there, but two things. I think not all the money is there. Obviously they must have lost something or it's locked up in a certain percentage. So maybe 80%, 70, 80% is still there. And then if that is the case, then of course the timeframe has to move forward because there may be some legal implications. And they say, okay, maybe in a month or two, they say, okay, now you can withdraw. Unfortunately, it's only this. And if it's Simon Dixon talking about it and he says, well, we're gonna give, they might do it just like they did with Bitfinex. Well, they offer you some kind of security token and you can redeem that for a certain percentage. I'm not for sure, but it's probably one of those two things. Less than what you had and a couple of months to get it out. That's probably my best guess. Whew, James Conn is good. Who's high as a kite? But well, that wasn't convincing, I must admit. No, I'm just super hot and super tired. James, I just told you. It's a link in the description. Here, I will put, I will post the comment for you. There's a link, I just put it in there. That's the link to the Celsius article. I don't see a Lycon or XRP on there.  All you poor crypto YouTubers are so under water, it's just said. Now, see, the thing was, around November, December, I wanted to get this nice property and unfortunately I couldn't do it without selling some crypto. So I sold a bunch of crypto and best play I've done so far, didn't want to do and that was it. Then also, there was a video I made about two or three months ago, it was called Sell in May and Go Away. And it took a look at the old adage from Wall Street and how correct it actually was. And it took a look over the last 70 years in multiple countries for multiple different markets. And it showed, for whatever reason, these cycles. And the cycles actually became out to be true. You sell in May and go away and then you come back in around October, on November. And that's, I sold a bunch, not a ton, but enough to say, I'm okay, but you have to remember, Chris, is that, let me show you this. So like Cardano, like I was buying Cardano at $0.789, 25 bucks a pop every couple of days for three years. And then for Ethereum, I was buying Ethereum at 100, 200, 300 for again, three years. And then for Bitcoin, I was buying everything from, unfortunately, I did buy it 10,500, 12,500 and 70,500, but not that much. But for the next three years, I was buying at 8,000, 9,000, 4,000, 5,000. So we're not all under water. And also what I did was I transferred those, that crypto and other assets, which would be land, real estate, the Amazon business and the sports complex. So those things I've talked about on this channel for ad nauseam, that's it. But that just goes down to take profits because you're not gonna go broke taking profits. And that's just what it comes down to. I hear Ben got his chairs liquidated. Ben does have some nice chairs in there. Why did James never trash Cardano on each channel? Because James knows that we like Cardano. We believe in Cardano and we like what things are going on. Some people hate it. They say it's a ghost chain. I gotta tell you, don't they have a Dex? Don't they have DeFi? Going to get the stablecoin rolled out. Don't they have NFTs? What's the difference? The only difference is that it's way cheaper than Ethereum. And they have metaverse plays and played our gaming. Well, cornucopia is when that comes out. All right, David says it perfect. And that'll be it. Guys, it's okay. Do a little smiling. It's gonna be okay.  Bitcoin to a million didn't work out. But what did work out is time. And if you're here for a short time duration, it's in here a day trader. I mean, you can day trade. If you're short time duration, I'll just leave it that. It's gonna be tough. But again, if you have an outlook like I do, three, five, 10 years, doesn't usually looks pretty good. And that's why I'll probably still be here as long as I have my voice. That's it. So look, thanks so much for stopping by. I do appreciate it. Like today's video, give it a thumbs up and follow because a lot of people talk about our time sensitive and that's it for today. So thanks everybody. I do appreciate you. I'll see you in the next one. Adios.


It seems to be more of a brain booster, something that's actually good for your brain and healthy for your brain versus. Newpep comes from a company called Bulk Stimulants. Bulk Stimulants is a company that I've really, really liked. They come out with DMA, DMHA, Amsitrate, T-Acarine, all these great, great supplements. I was actually trying to order some of Theo Bromine.  And to be honest, Newpep is something that I've always heard of. I knew it was kind of like a Nupe Chopik. It has the N-O-O same as Nu Chopik, the N-O-O. I've taken this for about two weeks now. It's supposed to improve memory function, enhance attention, focus and concentration, creased wakefulness, promotes neuroplasticity and growth of new brain tissue, reduces oxidative stress, reduced anxiety slash promotes excitability. So this supplement seems to be more of a brain booster, something that's actually good for your brain and healthy for your brain versus something that you take to get a specific effect. Usually people want kind of more of a relaxing effect or they want more of an like awakening effect when it comes to new tropics. This one seems like it's just an all over good for you kind of new tropic. It is dosed very highly here. I don't know if you could see that, but it's a thousand servings. So each serving is 10 milligrams. They give you this tiny, tiny scooper to make sure that you can get those 10 milligrams. For my testing, again, it's been about two weeks. I haven't taken about 20 milligrams. So two scoops of that, maybe I've taken three and maybe I've taken up to two scoops twice a day. But most of the time I've been trying to take it almost every single day. They say that half life of this is really, really, really tiny five to 10 minutes, which is almost nothing. It might be combining phenylalanine with glycine. I haven't done a lot of research on glycine, but from my understanding, it kind of increases the water in the brain. It kind of protects things in the brain. I've tried some products that claim that glycine does a lot of good things, but I've never really taken glycine by itself. And this is a very, very tiny, tiny amount. So it's so crazy that it's only dosed at 10 milligrams. So it's very, very potent. Maybe I would feel it more if I did take more. My pros is that I think anybody could take it. Sometimes when you get into the more stronger stimulants, new tropics, really effective stuff, you kind of want sometimes to watch making sure that you're the right person taking it at the right time. I think almost anybody could take this.  If you're looking for energy blend, you could put this in here just to kind of heal your brain. If you're looking just for an anti anxiety blend, it's going to kind of help your brain in all aspects. So you could take it. I don't know anybody who doesn't want brain protecting effects, neurological balancing effects. This seems to balance a lot of the stuff in your head, which I think everybody would like. It's very small dose. So it's kind of nice because when things are in a small dose, you could kind of fit them more into a product. There's a lot of good supplements, good things that maybe even take up to a gram, maybe up to two grams for the effective dose. So when you have that, you can't really put it in with a lot of other ingredients because it takes so much space up. So it's nice to know that this is dose so small that you could throw a lot like a little bit of this in a pill and still reach its effective doses, which I really, really appreciate. I did notice a very, very, very extremely slight neurological balancing effect. It just seemed like it was a very, very slight little boost that I would get from this. To me, I feel like this is more of like healing your brain versus something you're going to feel. It only lasts five to 10 minutes really. So if you were going to feel it, you're almost not going to feel it after 10, 20 minutes. So hopefully it has some neurological balancing effects. The cons now, I don't really have too many cons with the supplements. One of the main ones is that I don't really feel this that much. There's so many other brain boosting supplements like theanine, choline, so many other different new tropic boosting effects where you kind of have a little something, a little specific thing that you're feeling. This one, not so much. It seems like it's actually healthy for your brain. I posted about this like, Hey guys, I'm going to review this pretty soon. Somebody else suggested me two different new tropics and said that this one, they didn't feel anything and it was pretty funny because I almost felt literally nothing on this one. But I take a lot of different supplements. So maybe you would feel it more often. Usually to be honest though, I seem to feel little tiny changes that a supplement will give you versus other people. Sometimes I'll feel a little small something and other people will be like, Oh, I don't feel that at all. Even me, it was really hard to find a specific feeling or benefit that I get from this other than an overall brain balancing effect. I think this is definitely something you'd want to take daily versus taking it specifically to feel good. Although I do think it would be good in like an overall brain boosting thing that you're supposed to take every day or some brain vitamins. I think this actually would be very good. The only con really is like I said, I don't overly feel anything. But I think maybe if you were a little bit older, if you had other things or if you're somebody who doesn't take any stimulants of any kind, maybe you would feel this a lot more. I definitely felt like it was a small something but I didn't really want to say that it makes me feel a specific way because it was very hard to pin down. The last con was that it has not the best taste but not the worst. Sometimes when it's dosed so small like this, if you put it straight into your mouth, it'll be a little bit more effective than if you put it into a drink. I did try this a few times. I would say maybe it's a little bit better tasting in DMA, DMAJ, but overall not the best. But at the same time, it really tasted much worse than this. And if you were to put it into a drink with one or two scoops, you should be fine. I like how small dose it is. I like how it's safe for everybody.  But the cons was that it just really didn't feel that much from it. But this is a very, very popular supplement. So I'm sure if you're searching this video, maybe you've tried it, maybe you haven't tried it. I feel like this has gotten so much hype that it actually has to work for a good amount of people because it does get a lot of hype. I've heard of it a lot and bulk stimulants made their own little packet of it. So anyways, guys, that's been my little rundown of Newpept. What do you think of Newpept? What is your favorite new tropic? I know one of my subscribers gave me a few more to try out down below that I've heard some very good things about. But Newpept, okay, I'm definitely gonna keep taking it in the future. Notice something specifically about this or if I find more, maybe I'll do another review. But so far, pretty solid, just not one that I would overly recommend. And I want you guys to let me know which new tropics I should get next. I'll be very interested to see. We're on the road of 25,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys' help. I think we're almost there if we're not there already. Thank you guys so, so much. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.


So today, we're going to go out on our LCM, our loading craft master boat, and we're going to go out in exchange to hurricane buoys. We're going to use our forklift. We use a line. As soon as we pull the buoy from the water, we use a marlin spike, wrenches, hammers to undo the shackles from the chains, and that's when we take off the anchor shackle to replace it. The reason we do this, mainly for training, because it's not always that we get inclement weather that forces us to actually put it to the buoy, but it's always good training for the veterans who've been here for a couple years and then also for the new guys who are going to come here. I've never done this before, so this is an outstanding learning experience for me.


Hey, all right, all right, all right Hello, everybody Lee Lowell here from smart options seller cop today is Sunday September 26, 2021 Welcome to the Sunday edition of our Saturday synopsis We typically make these videos on Saturdays was not available yesterday. So now you all get the Sunday version What do we do here on our Saturday slash Sunday synopsis? We take a look at the charts. That's what we do. We look at the charts. We look at the indexes We look at individual stock charts so I can help you become a better trader. I've been in this business 30 years I've looked at probably hundreds of thousands of charts over that time and that is how I Determine what I'm going to trade and how I'm going to trade it. I'm a technical analysis trader That means I look at the charts charting is my main source of how I make my trading decisions So my goal here in these videos is to give you an idea of what I'm doing what I'm seeing and what I look for When I'm looking at charts to help me decide, okay, it's time to make the trade So let's just jump right in talk about it and let me show you what we do here We always start with the SPY which is the exchange traded fund for the S&P 500 Which is what I consider the broadest measure of the market as a whole. It's based of it's based in 500 stocks. That's what makes up the S&P 500 Now what we like to do is what you see on your chart is what's what you see on your screen is what's called a Daily bar chart I use bar charts. Some people like to use candlestick charts I stick with bar charts and what you're seeing is each one of these lines here is one day's worth of trading and traders can look at multiple Different time frames or time lengths for their charting and their trading to help them decide Are you a long-term trader or a short-term trader short-term traders like to look at? Let's say one minute charts where in this case each one of these bars is one minutes worth of trading This is for your truly hyperactive Day traders who like to get in and out of trades so they all day long so they look at the the way the charts moving They look at moving averages You know, I'm not that kind of trader basically You know if I want to get into a trade I may use the one minute chart to kind of help me time the trade on that specific day But but we typically default to daily charts now what you see on your screen here is a daily chart of the S&P 500 the SPY going back about two years in time. That's what my real estate screen is showing So what do we do? Well, we always since we here at the smart option seller We are put sellers and put spread sellers Which means we like to see stocks that are moving higher or at least moving flat bullish neutral The bullish trades are good for selling puts and selling put option spreads So when we look at charts, we want to look at charts that are uptrending You start from the bottom left to the upper right So we want to see a stock moving up kind of hugging along moving averages So once again, I like to show you what I have on my charts. I try to keep it simple There's so many different technical Technical indicators you can use and some people think well, wouldn't the more indicators you use be better? Because they're all trying to tell you something. I used to think that as well when I first started out But you end up with charts that have all these jumbled lines on them and eventually you just can't even see anything anymore So I just stick with a few very basic simple Indicators and then I just watched the price action the price action is the movement of the stock itself So what I have on my screen here, and I can open this up a little more. I have a blue 20-day simple moving average a red 50-day simple moving average and this green is A simple 200-day moving average now people ask me what's the difference between simple or exponential? You can choose either a simple or exponential now a simple day moving average We'll take each day's worth of price action and we'll compute it average it out all equally and Exponential moving average has more emphasis on the the more recent price action Okay, so it doesn't it doesn't average them all out on an equal basis I use a simple because I like it. I like to have every day's worth of price action Give the same have the same value into the moving average They won't really differ that much if you put an exponential Let's say you put a 50-day exponential on the chart with a 50-day simple That they're not that much different Okay, but I use the simple and only those three and down here is what's called the RSI indicator it's an overbought oversold indicator and It's a 14-day. That's the default 14-day and The the RSI tells you whether a stock or index is overbought or oversold or entering overbought or oversold area And it defaults to the 75 level and the 25 level as their version of meaning Or the creators version of meaning overbought oversold you can expand those numbers out I expand it out to the 80 and 20 those two levels 18 20 to me tell me whether stock or index is really overbought Or really oversold doesn't mean a turnaround is imminent It just means that hey, we're getting a little overheated or a little oversold to keep an eye on the price action So those are the three I use the moving averages RSI and then I look for price patterns You'll see I have a lot of things marked up on my screen. These are price patterns. We look for W's We look for wedges. We look for flags all those different kinds of patterns that that play out over and over again, and if you want some information on this You could just do a Google search on You know stock chart patterns and you'll come up with websites that'll give you free information And you can see these patterns and and over and over again It's human nature when when a lot of people start seeing the same patterns the same results tend to play out So that's a good thing and so we just watch for these patterns play out So that's basically what I use and then I just watch the price action The price action is whether a stock's moving up or down or whatever kind of pattern it's making now If we're looking for bullish stocks, we want to see a stock moving up And I like to see the stock hugging along either the 50-day or 20-day moving average, okay? And we'll open it up here. So this is the S&P 500 You can see whenever it has a pullback it either bounces off the 50-day or 20-day moving average That shows you a good sign that a stock or index is in a nice trend Whether that's an uptrend or downtrend and I use this every week I say the same analogy every week the stock market truly is like physics An object in motion tends to stay in motion in that same Direction until something comes along and pushes it in another direction Okay, so that's how stocks work. They tend to move in the same direction Until something comes along and pushes it in the other direction What other direct what what thing would come along to push a stock in another direction? The biggest would be an earnings announcement a bad earnings announcement if it's been bullish and all of a sudden There's a bad earnings it could knock it back down doesn't mean it's going to stay down forever You know Fed announcements government announcements Overseas conflicts just major major story headlines the pandemic, you know Back in March of 2020 February March of 2020 the S&P 500 here. Let's back up here S&P 500 was in a nice, you know neutral to bullish trend and then here's where the pandemic hit So something like that is what can cause a market or stock to change direction But you can see how quickly it bounced. Okay. You can't keep these stocks down for long. All right So let's take a look at things and see where we left off last week and compare it to one week's worth of trading So last week we were Here's where we were last week. I had mentioned. This is the S&P 500 I'd mentioned that the S&P 500 had fallen right down to the 50-day moving average and we wanted to see a Bounce because most of the time that the S&P 500 was bouncing off The 50-day moving average or the 20-day and if there was really no reason for for things to come off or to Sell off then it should bounce right there was no major news stories other than the pandemic and things that are happening Around the world, but but there really wasn't enough to change the trajectory There really wasn't enough first all of a sudden all the 500 companies in the S&P 500 to turn into to turn bearish Right, so we're looking for the 50-day moving average to hold and to bounce So this is where we ended last Friday and as we know this week So Monday was a big down day this long bar here was Monday and You know a lot of people got scared like what's going on? Why is this happening? You know there's multiple narratives out there and and people Whenever we have a big move like this, especially to the downside people start to think okay Well, this is it stocks have topped out There's nowhere there's nowhere else for stocks to go but down at this point the next bear market has had is Underweight and and I'm always skeptical of people that talk like that because if you look at the market over time And let's pull out to the monthly where this is the stock market since the early 1990s We'll have pullbacks, but since 2008 2009 we've gone straight up even with the pandemic here still going straight up So there's really nothing that's going to hold down the stock market for very long The way that things are these days Especially when the central banks around the world will do everything they can to keep a floor a bottom under The whole financial system and that includes the stock market. So What happened this week S&P 500 had the big down move on? Monday, and then look what happened the rest of the week. It rallied all the way back up to a To where we were last Friday So if you had gone to sleep last Friday and woken up this past Friday You wouldn't have think anything happened. We're pretty much at the same place as we were. These are the last two Fridays right here These two if you forget about all this junk down here You wouldn't have known any different and you thought things were okay But you have to we have to endure these things sometimes in the market. We have these sell-offs Now this created a gap right here This is what's called a gap where one day's trading ends and then another day begins and there's got this big hole This big air pocket right here that we like to is what we charters like to call We want to call we like to see what's called filling the gap and filling the gap means After the drop you want to see the market action go back up to close the gap here and Each one of these bars that the top of the bar is a high of the day and the bottom of the bar is the low of the day So you want to see the gap close and so what we did looks like on Thursday we close that gap right here. So that's a pretty bullish strong sign We'd like to see that and one of the big the bigger things here is that the market finished You see the little dash mark on the right side of the the bar is the closing price of the day Closing price of the day is very important and you can see it closed Above the 50-day moving average. Here's the close. Here's a little dash mark. So it closed above the 50-day That's that's that's a very strong sign in my book So I think the market just had its little sell-off Bottom feeders came out started to buy it back up and now we're we're hugging around the 50-day moving average Which is a great thing. So we want to see probably a little consolidation here It had a good jump back that took a lot of effort. So probably consolidate a little and then You know start moving up again. We're coming into towards the end of the year. Typically August and September are very very Not friendly months to the stock market. So we're getting towards the end of September Typically October November December can be very bullish. So once we get moving here I can see towards the end of the year rallying up making new highs again. So let's take a look as the SP 500 Let's take a look at the NASDAQ NASDAQ's usually pretty pretty powerful Let's Use the QQQ just like the SPY the QQQ is the exchange-rated fund for the NASDAQ itself So we'd like to watch that we'll blow it up here a little same thing Had the big move down Monday had the air pocket the gap right here and spent the rest of the week Moving up close the gap also closed well above you can see here. Here's where Friday closed Dashmark well above the 50-day moving average that's strong. We like to see that so looking good You know people The stock market's the only place where you're gonna get any kind of return on your investment So people will buy people need to buy stocks and when you get an opportunity like that to to buy on a dip People are going to do it and that's what happened now typically. I like to make sure or I like to see when the stock's moving up that It bounces off the 50-day at least I don't like to get it down to the 200-day. That's a little scary That's a long ways to go people get really scared about that but also can make for great buying opportunities But anyway, I have my I have a loose rule that I that I give a move below moving average at least three days If it doesn't rally back up after three days, then I you know give it a closer look But exactly what we happened. We had Monday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday just closed above the 50-day here on this day and then Thursday and Friday finished above it So I'm feeling pretty good about the market bowls came back Defended the down move. Let's take a look at the Dow. I don't put as much emphasis emphasis on the Dow Jones It only has 30 stocks in it, but it is a a long-time barometer. Well, let's take a look at the Dow Jones Dow Jones had fallen it had been pretty pretty Flat for a long period of time pretty flat had a big move down last Monday as well came Kind of close to the 200-day moving average But these averages were a lot closer than if you look the SPY or the QQ Q The the the difference between where the 50-day and the and the 200-day. There's a is a lot greater here It's a little bit tighter So the Dow had a little bit of move to give and it bounced right back up still below the 50-day and 20-day still below but but here right here It's it it tagged or connected right with the 20-day moving average. That's good We like it to move back up towards the moving averages. So the indexes look good I think people are enthused. We're getting through September, which is typically not a great month and Moving looking forward to the end of the year. I think stocks are them and the indexes as a whole are gonna keep moving on moving on up All right, let's take a look at some individual stocks here if my Chart will cooperate with me. Give me a second here All right, there we go. So let's take a look at some individual stocks now and see what's been happening We take a look we tend to take a look at the more popular stocks The stocks making big moves just so we can see if there's any patterns developing So let's start with Apple because we always start with Apple and see what we've been doing now here You can see I have a lot of lines drawn These are just patterns and channels that we've drawn. So back here. We have a what's called a congestion pattern It's a triangle and and the ranges get smaller and smaller and smaller Building up this energy and we're waiting for a big move to occur So what happened pop to the upside when you get the triangle It's either gonna pop to the downside or pop to the upside pretty good pop to the upside Then it moved into this down trending channel had a w So there's a lot of things that you can draw on the charts depending on your time frame What you're seeing now that another channel here another channel So the last thing we've seen for Apple was in this up trending channel Broke above it broke below it and now it's kind of hugging the bottom of the this little slightly up trending channel Has fallen below the moving averages has fallen below the 50 day fallen below the 20 day Along with the rest of the market. Here is the gap on Monday rallied back. So Apple, you know in the long run Apple is a great company. We know it will probably go up iPhone 13's just came out So Apple is still these are all-time highs right here. We're not far off the all-time highs I think Apple had the little blip down and I think it'll probably continue to move up probably towards the top of this Uptrending channel here. So in the long run, we can see that Apple is In an upward trajectory just has these little fits and fits and starts along the way But it's still moving up Apple great company in the long run. It's going higher. Let's see what else we have Let's take a look at Nike because Nike had a big move down this week had earnings come out on Friday September 24th. It had this gap down earnings came out. So Nike was in So here's the pandemic was in a nice up move then entered this down trending channel Which was bearish and then all of a sudden it here was Their last earnings popped up greatly popped up a good was it maybe $15 a share was making all-time new highs here then entered this Down trending channel here. Now if you want to know how to do a down trending channel or any channel What you do is you draw your lines and you kind of connect the tops Connect the bottoms and now you got yourself a channel down trending channel and then it had its Earnings came out and it had this big gap, right? So here's where Nike is So it has fallen below where it gapped up.  I don't know Nike would have to fall all the way down to about $135 a share to close the gap to this last bar right here It's falling down. It looks like the 200-day moving average could be the next Level it might want to hit RSI though starting to get a little oversold a little oversold You can see the last overs It's not really even oversold but the last bottom was when it popped up here and you can see how it was hugging along this Overbought area. It doesn't mean that it's an turn around as imminent Just means things are getting overheated, but you can see Even though it was hugging around overbought levels the stock continued to move higher And then it just entered this down trending channel and here is where the gap is so Nike I wouldn't be bullish yet. Nike's a great company, but we want to wait for some semblance of of a Bottoming out action. What does that mean? That means the stock will sort of trade sideways Trying to find a bottom. It'll hug around this area. You know these next couple weeks will probably maybe start making this Sideways bottoming action So I wouldn't be bullish yet You want to see what the market's going to do the stock's going to do and if it starts to make like a nice Kind of rounding bottom over the success of days or weeks and start to move up again That may be the opportunity to get long. I'm not long Nike yet It's too you have to wait to see what happens after this big gap move We want to see some some bottoming formation But for now it's sort of oversold may new may need that rounding bottom to make me feel comfortable Let's see what else AMD is a favorite of ours AMD had this all-time new highs here and then just has been consolidating that huge move Kind of sideways action here hugging along the 50-day moving average, which is good Want to see that the moving averages help hold the the stock and it did it had the the gap down last week and then It spent the rest of the week moving higher again. So AMD I know is a strong company Had this pullback would I get long here and maybe maybe not maybe not yet If it pops above the 20-day moving average, which is the blue line here start going up Then I'd feel okay AMD's the bottom feeders have have decided the bottom has been hit time to get long again Try to shoot for the all-time new highs. We may see a little more sideways action But that also depends on how the overall market is doing. What else do we have? Microsoft still looking strong Microsoft has just been going up up up up hugging along the 20-day Catching the 50-day and the move down last week the 50 days been holding this thing Microsoft's been very strong I mean if you've been looking for a place to to get in and timing it properly You'd probably want to wait for a move bouncing off this 50-day early last week, which is what it showed Microsoft just strong There would be no reason for me to think that it's going lower Earnings will be starting to come out probably mid the third week of October So keep an eye on the earnings dates if you're getting involved in some stocks Let's take Oracle Oracle's a company that we've sold put options on Oracle very strong I like where it's going had to move down a little bit, but found its way higher again this week Bounced up got back above the 20-day and 50-day moving averages that they're kind of converging right here So that's good. We like Oracle looks like it may want to take out all-time new highs and start another leg higher We like Oracle. Let's see what else we have Amazon always look at Amazon Amazon still caught in this long long channel here sideways channel It had a an earnings drop Created the oh the gap Almost filled the gap here on this high didn't quite hit the low here High here to low here means the gap will be filled not quite and fall fell back down again So at Amazon still kind of caught in this this channel if you're selling Condors or put spreads or call spreads you're doing good because it's kind of staying in this range So that's what you like to be as an option seller. You like to see a range bound stock So if you're a condor sellers, you're doing pretty good same thing with let's take a quick look at Netflix Netflix Was in this long channel as well just like Amazon But finally is moving above it hugging along the 20-day moving average, you know, if we wanted to we could Create a new line. No things are always changing. So it's okay to to redo your lines So we can we can bring this out a little bit and we can see now that Netflix has gotten above the upper resistance once it gets above a resistance or drops below a support It may continue to move in that direction So Netflix looking strong. It may want to try to take out its all-time new highs here So hugging along the 20 days So you want to watch somebody want to see the moving average is sloping upwards as well That means it's a strong uptrend. Okay, so that's Netflix. What else do we have here? Did we look at Cisco Cisco looking decent fallen below the 50 to moving average Not much there park Procter and Gamble good stock Walmart. Let's take a quick look at Walmart because I always talk about Walmart biggest largest physical retailer on the planet Great stalwart great company to hold long term.  Okay, if you're just in it for capital appreciation You're gonna get frustrated at times because it really hasn't gone much anywhere since last summer last August it was still trading around the 145 level and Forward ahead of year. It's trading around the 145 level. So price appreciation really isn't My Walmart strong suit here at the moment dividend yes Walmart has a dividend. It's it's a I believe it's in a dividend or aristocrat meaning It's it's raised its dividend every year for at least 25 years probably much longer than that I don't have the chart up in front of me But it's still a strong stock. Okay, it's a bellwether So holding for the long term get that that dividend income is not a bad thing price appreciation Eh, not so much. We likes we can sell puts on it or put spreads when when the timing is right Not much happening here for me for Walmart to make a decision on a trade Disney Disney Disney Disney. Let's take a look for a number of years I lived in Orlando, Florida and Disney had its tentacles everywhere. I mean, I knew so many people that worked for Disney Central Florida. That's all it is Disney employees so many people But I love the company. It's a great company price action though been in this been in this channel bounced off the bottom of the channel so Sideways action is is the call of the day for for Disney. I like to see it go higher But for now, I it's probably gonna meander around here. So not much price action either way with Disney Tesla yes, Tesla we've we we talk about Tesla and I had drawn this uptrending channel for a while and Now it's getting upon the top of the channel is Above all the moving averages moving averages are sloping upwards. That's good So Tesla it just it hangs in there It keep you know, people don't want to see Tesla go down people love Tesla So the stock goes up in this channel here hitting along the top of the channel It may hit some resistance and and maybe start to move down towards the bottom of the channel It's not a lot of price action Maybe about a hundred dollars a share in between here So it could tick down and if you're looking for timing pattern You may want to see a little bit of pullback first before getting bullish Maybe down to here moving averages or maybe down to the bottom But we'll see if the market is strong next week it could possibly pop out above it But chances are it may if the markets a little weak Tesla will probably come back down a little What else do we have? The the health care stocks the pharmaceuticals Lily BMI Bristol Mars. Let me show you that show you Bristol Mars and that we got in a trade here We sold some put options on Bristol Mars because what we like to see is I don't We typically like to wait for you know after a down move like this is a big down move for a company like Bristol Myers, but it started to get the the sideways price action way way oversold on the RSI and what I don't have on this chart is is the volume and Maybe let me see if I could let me put on the volume chart here. So What we have for Let's see. Let's try this here. So volume So what we had here was this spike in volume, I know it's kind of hard to see I'm gonna change these Volume let me see what I can do on the volume. Where's my volume here Well, anyway The volume spiked more than usual right here, which is one of these down move down on the down day One of the down days hit the oversold volume spike That's typically means that that the selling is getting exhausted selling is getting exhausted and It may be coming to a bottom or at least sideways action So we sold some put options still had some nice cushion sold some put options You know down here in these levels and we're liking that Bristol Mars Just just got hit just too too hard for us to ignore. So we got in a play there Pfizer These are all pharmaceuticals Pfizer Merck You know, they're they got hit and so we try to take advantage when we can let's take a look at some other stocks What do we like square? Square and PayPal, but we we default to square. We like square Sort of in this channel sideways action is okay if you're selling options because the stock's not going anywhere And that time decay will be great for you square Has bounced off the 200 day moving average moving higher and it's gotten above both the 50 day and 20 day here So square we'd like to see that kind of bullish price action What else what else McDonald's still strong McDonald's just keeps going up Pepsi we talked about Pepsi before We've drawn the support line for Pepsi Try to drop below it got Came back up. So keep this if you're long Pepsi keep watch on this this line right here. It's about a hundred and fifty $354 you want to see it bounce and start to move higher if it starts to fall through You've got this 200 day lurking below. So Pepsi you might want to see it bounce watch the support here What else what else? Twitter we sold some puts on Twitter. We'd like this. We'd like this price action We like how it bounced off the 200 day moving average and now has gotten above the 20 and 50 Finished on the highs on Friday and Twitter looking to make a comeback looking to keep moving up We like that price action for Twitter. It's all about looking at the price action looking at the patterns Facebook We had a little thing with Facebook this week. We had a position. We got out of it after it fell There are some news headlines that I didn't really like about Facebook That's the reason why I got out it rallied back had we held we could have made more money, but you know what? I don't Facebook there's some things going on behind the scenes that I didn't like so we got out of our trade for a small profit What else is there? Google always looking strong for Google bounced off the 50-day Google just keeps going up I don't like to talk about the the meme stocks Bitcoin stocks and all right So that's pretty much it getting long here 30 minutes. Let's go back to the the index SPY Do a quick little over overview once again The indexes had a big move down Monday rallied all the way back took the whole week to rally back up That's a good sign Right around the 50-day moving average finished above it. I like that. I like that how it finished above So we might see some consolidation here had a big move last week consolidation and then run into the end of the year Higher so that's what I'm looking for. All right, so that's it for the the sad the Sunday synopsis this week I know we're getting around 30 minutes here. 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What's up everybody take down here welcome back to the channel today. I'm gonna be trying a Laskin jerky. So we have salmon caribou and Reindeer we're gonna try everything's from Alaskan. It's from a company called Indian Valley So we're gonna try these three and see which one is the best Let's just get straight to it. I kind of want to start off with the salmon Just because I do not like salmon. Maybe in jerky form it can change my mind. So I already have them open So let's just give it a quick little taste test. Oh God The smell of this one is the worst But let's give it a try and see what it tastes like Has a weird taste to it. I don't think it's flavored or anything Definitely the worst I've tried that's because I'm not a fan of salmon We'll see this I like salmon in the jerky form Still not a fan of salmon though And I will not be taking a second bite of that to me that is just gross So that one is likely gonna be dead last unless one of these other ones are gross, which I highly doubt it Next up. Let's try Reindeer this one here doesn't say a flavor as well So let's give it a try to see if it smells the same first No, that smells like a jerky six supposed to Yep This is gonna be good. I think Let's give it a try. I know jerky is supposed to be firm This is really firm though. Like I haven't even stuck my teeth into it yet There we go. Mmm. Honestly, I love doing these videos That is delicious that is reindeer Laskin reindeer Your god, that's great. This one might get first place Really good and last up on this Alaskan adventure Caribou sticks, they're just actually like a beef sticks, but it's caribou in it And it's teriyaki flavor. So when I was a kid, I really hated teriyaki It actually used to make me sick, but I've I guess grown grown immune to it So we're gonna try the caribou teriyaki stick See what it tastes like at least this one you get two out of it. So that's pretty good So let's give it a little test That's really good Not only the teriyaki flavor, but the consistency of the meat itself is freaking amazing Mmm, so freaking good caribou teriyaki stick holy hell If you ever see Indian Valley the company pick up one of these Delicious, honestly, you guys seen this is my fourth jerky taste test video This one here is the best out of all of them This one here caribou. I think it's because it's teriyaki, but it compliments the caribou so well It's a great consistency of the meat It is 10 out of 10 for me. That one is delicious. It's the best jerky I've tasted here on this channel I've tried alligator. I've tried kangaroo I've tried almost everything I could think of and everything that was available to me and caribou Alaskan caribou is the best Honestly, I can't believe it. So This is the winner for today I'm extremely happy. That is the most delicious jerky. I've tried here on my channel Couldn't believe it. I've never tried caribou before either. So maybe that has something to do with it But I'm extremely happy with this. It's really funny because caribou is the best jerky that I've ever tried And salmon is the worst and it's all together in one video So I hope you guys like this video if you did, please leave it a thumbs up if you guys know of more jerky that is available That doesn't cost me too terribly much And you guys want to see me do another jerky video. Let me know. Otherwise, this is going to be the last jerky video I do For now, I might get back into it next year. I don't know yet. I've kind of exhausted myself Financially for the time being but this is a great experience. I love doing these taste test videos I'm going to continue doing taste test videos, but not necessarily on jerky I'm going to try to expand into some other stuff for you guys But I hope you guys did enjoy and I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace