The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good morning, folks. Welcome to the December 22nd. The fantastic Friday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past, hoping out there's having a great day. Let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. Now, the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two-by-four shift, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now, today you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and me at just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I do want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but even more important than that. And that's this. During this next 53 minutes, I am here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone, dial on in at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, if you've got a question, but you can't dial in, we've got you covered. You can send me an email. Send that off to Steve at tfnn.com. And inside the subject heading, please put radio show question. Of course, if you're inside our Tigers, then any and every ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on fantastic Friday. Of course, this is Tiger Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to the show. Right now, we've got a sea of green out there. Dows up 34. S&P's up 13. Nasdaq 34. Russell's up 14. Summaries are up 16. The Trendy's are up 106. Gold's up 20 bucks. Silver's up 2 pennies. Let's recruit back 31 cents. Natural gas off 2 cents. Third-year treasury printed out $1.2328. That's off 3 ticks. The leaders in the clubhouse, dollar-wise the upside, Karuna Therapeutics, up 47 percent, 101 bucks there. I believe that's a buyout. ANSYS, up 28 bucks, 9 percent. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, 16 bucks, 7 percent. MicroStrategy, 14 bucks, 200 percent. Argenics is up about 15 bucks. That's a 4 percent move there. We've got some movers. The shakers, leader of the charge, NetEase, down 17 bucks, 17 percent. Deckers Outdoor, 15 bucks, 2 percent. Super Micro, 15 bucks, 5 percent. Nike, down 12 bucks, 10 percent move there. Synopsis, Inc., off 12 bucks. That's a 2 percent move. Those are our movers and those are our shakers. Let's begin the day by taking a look at those daily equity future contracts. We referenced that during the 11 a.m. update and here you can see we've just simply got a good old-fashioned consolidation with inside of profiles. The ES, the NQ, the Dow have each tested the top of those profile levels. For the ES, it's 4812. For the NQ, it's at 16992. And for the Dow, it's up at the 37871. Now, in the case of the Russell 2000, it is trading slightly above the top of its daily profile. The top is at 2045, but the level that the Russell would need to take out in order to suggest that it gets bullish again is the high from December 20th. That old dark cloud cover candle, that high out there is 2064.40. So that's the level we're 2052.90 right now. 2064.40 is where the Russell would need to close up to suggest that we have some kind of breakout out there. So that's what's going on. We take a look at the daily equity future contracts. Where else do we want to go? And that's a great question out there. Where do we want to go? Let's go take a look at... Let's go take a look at the daily and weekly version of this. So let's start there. We'll switch screens for that because we're at the end of the week. Let's see what the end of the week signals are telling us. So we'll put those charts up on our screen. Those we're going to take a look at as the white background. So we'll begin taking a look at the ESMini. So in the ESMini on the daily timeframe, we do not have a topping pattern. Period. End of story. We just have a consolidation with inside his profile. Now, if I was closing below the bottom of that profile for two consecutive sessions, 47-24. Now, what's interesting here, so I want to point this out, is that the first, the black background charts that you and I looked at, those are... That's e-signal data. In this case right here, I've got the same data coming through, but it has generated a different profile. And that happened. Somebody might look at that and say, man, why is that happening to us? I would say that's happening for us. So we got two different systems, use the same data. They do the same type of math out there. They generate different output. We use them both. And so not just 47-41 is a key level. The real key level inside of the ESMini is going to be 47-23. That's the area that price must close below in order to suggest some kind of change in trend. We look at the weekly timeframe. It says, prepare for a change in trend. It says you're going to complete bar number 8 of a TD9 count. Now, bar number 9 needs to complete next week. Odds' favor, that's going to happen unless we see just simply some type of crash to the downside, not likely since we're in the most favorable seasonal period for the equity markets out there. But that does say that in January or February, we could get a TD9 count top on the weekly timeframe. We take a look at the NQ. The NQ does have a TD9 count top. What the NQ needs to do in order to get it, so closing above the top of its profile, much like the Russell 2000, wouldn't really be saying a whole lot. What it needs to do is close above the high from December 20th. That's the bar that's labeled number 1 that you're looking at. And that high is 17.073.50. If price were to close above that, then that tells us about a strong upward momentum move for the daily timeframe. We can see on the weekly basis, we're also going to be in bar number 8 this week. That'll complete. Odd's favor, we see a completed TD9 count top come the end of next week. Not really great. Well, to a certain extent, it's actually kind of a great signal. As we come to the time period where the Dow will typically make a top, or the equity markets will make a top, and that's usually the first week of January. And in essence, that's the signal coming from the ES and the NQ. Turns out that's the same signal coming from the Dow, the YM. Bar number 8 is going to complete this week. Odd's favorite will complete that TD9 count top or confirm a TD9 count top at the end of next week. Now it could be the following week where we see that high. And I think that's the likely outcome. No, we typically see the rally extend itself into the early part of January, and then maybe we get snuckered. Now that snuckered will typically take us down into the end of January or middle part of February out there. If that doesn't happen or even if we do get that and we don't take out whatever the high is that takes place during that first week of January, that says it could be a very ugly 2024. But we'll take things one step at a time. Speaking of one step at a time inside the Dow Equity Future Contract, there is no top there either. We just have a consolidation with inside that profile. Now it's a bottom of the profile, 37307 is the same on both of Stevie's systems. Finally, we get to the Russell 2000. The Russell 2000 is in a world of its own. It could care less what the ES, the NQ and the Dow are doing on a daily time frame. You can see it's got to sell the D point. You don't see the A to B equal CD pattern, but you can see that bear sash cam, I call it dark cloud cover, my apology, that high at 206440 on the weekly time frame. We also do not have any kind of topping signal, but I'll still take my P's and Q's from the ES, the NQ and the Dow versus the Russell 2000. So that's our overview of the equity markets. What should you expect and anticipate? Well, I would say you should expect and anticipate a further move higher out there, likely through that first week of January. How much higher? That I don't know. Well, actually I could give you a figure. Where is it that the Dow could actually move up to? Let's take a look at this. Let's go back to that black background chart momentarily before we finish this segment here and go to the break. But here are the horizontal, monthly horizontal trading ranges out there. 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There's no catch or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. I always do, and one of the emails that came in said, I'm confused. Well, if one person's confused, there's probably another person that's confused out there. The message goes like this, I thought you said just a few days ago, you're getting a top on daily signals. And that's correct. I did say that a few days ago. In fact, I can tell you the exact day that I said that, Kevin, and that was on December 20th. But I think if you go back and you take a look at that December 20th show, it's archived out there. What you'll see is that's the day that could have formed a TD9 count top for the ESMini and for the Adal. It did not. It violated the TD9 count rule. So those two instruments on their daily timeframe do not have a top. Period. End of story out there. We also got some new profiles that formed that day. And that was really helpful because prior to those profiles, when we did potentially have those topping signals, such as we did get a confirmed TD9 count top inside the NQ out there, it looked like we could have had it really much lower. But those profiles, it gives you and I a competitive advantage out there. Let's not tell anybody about it. But when we get those profiles, it really helps us to figure out what is going on. As an example out there, what are those profiles helpful for? We'll go switch back to the black background charts because I can show that to you in a heartbeat. And here goes Stevie's heartbeat. We go back to the daily timeframe. We went through this yesterday out there, but let's do it again. Back on the trading day here, Kevin, of November the 22nd, that was an actual TD9 count top that had formed. Now, one could have gone short there. In fact, Nancy in the den asked the question, how come you're not going short? And the reason was because we had that bullish looking profile out there. And that said, not until you close below the bottom of that profile, that bottom of that profile back then was at the 15, 9, 59 level. Would that tell you you've got a change in trend out there? For example, you can come back here and take a look at the trading days of January, July 21st and July 24th. Once we broke through that, that cracked and said, okay, we likely have a change in trend. Turned out that was in fact the case out there. In fact, a few days later, on the trading session of November 29th, what the NQ did was it generated Rosemont Dominicator Top. That really got the hair standing on the back of my neck, but I also knew that support was support. And until support is broken, and we had some other signals that we were looking at. I was looking at such as the DAX, which was continuing to move higher and knowing about the correlation between the NASDAQ 100 and the DAX out there. That was saying, yeah, you might be getting some false signals here, Stevie. And in fact, on the 20th, that was really the proof in the pudding out there. I'm sorry, not the 20th, but on December the 4th out here. December the 4th, price moved down, tested and rejected that profile out there. So back here to the trading day of December 20th, that completed the TD9 count top for the NQ. Price has got a close below that 16664 level, Kevin, in order to generate some type of change in trend out there. So sorry for the confusion, but I think if you go back and you listen to the archive on that day, I actually gave out the parameters of where price needed to close in order for a TD9 count pattern to confirm out there. But I appreciate that you wrote in about that because I want to make sure that nobody else was confused about what Stevie was really communicating. So now let's go back to those white background screens and start getting to the request that have come in out here. Otherwise, Santa's going to deliver Stevie a big bag of coal. And Stevie doesn't want coal for the holidays. What I do want, well, I'm not going to tell you what I want. But here's what I do want. I want to go take a look at the request that have come in. Let's start by taking a look at the one that came in yesterday. Of course, I recorded the show early, as you know. And that came in from Jim. And Jim's question was specific about ticker symbol M-A-R-A. And that's what we've got up on the screen. And his question was, or his request was, when should he lighten up? Right now it's trading out. It shows on my system, my apology, 2601. It's really trading at 2644. What we can see out here, Jim, is today is going to become bar number eight of a TD9 count pattern. That's favored. That it will go ahead and confirm a TD9 count top, as I say, bottom, a TD9, bar number eight, a TD9 count top come Tuesday. Remember, the markets are closed on Monday. Now, that pattern will not complete until Wednesday. So it makes sense about the lightening up. But what we can see out here on the daily time frame is if you just simply come back to the trading day of December the 11th, we have not seen price even spike below a prior bar's low. Jim, you don't have to be a technician to know that that is an absolute bull or signal, because why? Because we've been taking out prior days high, such as today. So this says, this looks really good to Stevie. If we take a look at that weekly time frame chart, that's one heck of a bar number nine, isn't it, folks? Typically markets don't end on wide-ranging bars. So that says to me that Mara, if it's going to form a top on a weekly basis, that's not going to come until we get to New Year's Eve next Friday out there. The monthly chart is suggesting that if this is only a countertrend move for that time frame, price will find resistance at $31.35. I can understand the question, but what I don't have here is any kind of a signal that suggests right now that you should lighten up on this. But go ahead and do that. You've got to do what's right for you out there. But it looks to me like this once, continue to move higher. And I would say at least on Tuesday, maybe on Wednesday as well. And then I'd have to ask the question, because this looks really pretty good out here, this chart, is can you weather a retracement? Can your weather retracement back to that green oscillator and change line out there at the 21 tennis-type area out there? Let's take things one step at a time. We understand the question about lightening up. I just don't see that in the cards today. Next question that came in, I apologize. I did not write down the name. I didn't write down a name for a couple of them, is Nike. So Nike, obviously, out with our earnings after... Oh, no, that's bad news if this screen goes out. Woosh. That was a Nike swoosh that it gave me. Maybe Nike does want me to talk about it. But here's what we've got. If you love the TD9s, which I believe that most of the people in the den do, well, that's the topping pattern that formed out here on the trading day of December 19th out there. It was a TD9 count-top. That high is the key critical level. $923.34. Price must close above that to negate that signal. I don't have any other top out here on the other topping pattern. I do see an A to B equals CD to the upside. There was a bearish shooting star that formed yesterday. So that's a second top. Oh, no, that was two days ago. That's a second top that Nike generated. Do two tops make a difference? No, not really. Not to Stevie, at least. On a weekly timeframe last week, you completed a TD9 count-top as well. So it's really not a surprise to us out here when we take a look at Nike's behavior. Now, granted, yesterday's close was above the top of its bearish structured profile. It was kind of a signal to you and I that it was getting ready to take out that TD9 count-top on the daily timeframe. But the weekly chart was saying, well, maybe not so fast. Now, the question that came in, do you see a buy point? Should I buy Nike right here or now? I wish I could answer that question as yes or no out here. What I don't have is a confirmed test of support. And that's what you'd really like to see. Now, maybe because Price hasn't pulled back to support, that's actually encouraging and says, yeah, maybe we should go ahead and take a long position in Nike. But my preference, because you've got a wide-ranging bar, you've got, let me see what the volume is on my other screen out here, just so I've got more accurate volume. So far today, it's major volume, 25 million shares as we're coming down. The preference would be for this to go test that support level, which is 106.82 on the daily timeframe, 107.01 on the weekly timeframe. Of course, when we get to that, we take a look at intraday charts to figure out if there's any other bottoming signal out here. And we take a look at a 30-minute chart. The answer to that question is absolutely not. I probably have to go down to maybe a 15-minute chart to see if there's some kind of pattern there. No, there's not. I don't have any kind of buy signal on Nike. Other than, Price hasn't been able to make its way all the way back to support out there. So I do hope that helps you out and best of luck. Steve Rhodes with Tf&N, we'll be right back. The dollar, bonds, the South African rand, as well as 25 different mining equities with specific buy-sell recommendations. The Gold Report. New subscribers get a 30-day money-back guarantee so you have nothing to risk. Subscribe to Tom O'Brien's Gold Report newsletter now at tfnn.com. 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I apologize, I did not write down the name of who requested this, but I do have the information about what was requested. And it's this, the individual is looking to put in a trailing stop. And the question was, should that trailing stop be $3.36, I believe it was, or something like that? If we take a look at the American Express charts up here, I've got the 10-day average true range. That's at the very bottom of the screen. You can see right now that says $3.36 out there. And if you use only the average true range as your protective stop, I would say just sell it now. And the reason is because the average range, we don't like to do anything that's average around here. It's just, you do something average, what kind of results you're going to get, less than average results. So what we want to do here is you want to make sure that you're stopped to the extent that you are trying to stay in the position out there. You want to have it at some level greater than the average true range. I suggest using an average true range of 10 days. That's basically a two-week average true range out there. Now, my recommendation is to multiply that time some Fibonacci number, whether that's 1.272 or 1.618. If you use 1.618 as an example, your stop would be about $5.40, so 545.41 out there. So that's my suggestion if you're going to use the average true range method for generating protective stops out there. And what that really does is it gives us first day guideline, a first guideline calculation. The second step is once you would have that calculation, let's assume that it's $5.50 for right now and price is trading at $185.50. So what we'd be looking at is a stop around $183. Well, $183, where does that take us to? It's just below the top of that daily profile for it, Nike, because on a move lower, that becomes the first level of support that it would test. So maybe the stop actually needs to be a little bit larger than that because just poking through there and not closing through there, you know, maybe you want to hold it. Now, let's go take a look at the American Express charts that have all my pattern tools on them. So go take a look at this, and this is why I believe the question is being asked today. So very perceptive trader out there, and that trader knows that there's a TD9 count top that is going to confirm today. It'll complete on Tuesday. And that would be a reason you also have wave number seven coming off of the lows out here. And now that wave number seven pattern needs a lower high to confirm. So you couldn't get that until the end of Tuesday out there. But the TD9 and the TD9 count top will complete on Tuesday at the end of Tuesday out there. Turns out on the weekly basis, American Express has got a bar number eight of its TD9 count. That says you could get a top between today and the next couple of weeks out there. And the monthly chart says, hey, I would like to go retest what looks like it's it's all time high is trading into that swing point. That's from February of 2022. Now the volume there was 78 million shares. We are at 58 million shares today. I don't know that we'll have 20 million shares come next week on an average daily basis. The volume on this is, well, it's 4 million, four, five, six, seven. It's possible out there to have that volume as it moves in there. But nonetheless, we take a look at the TD9 count wave number seven top out here that is fouring inside of the daily timeframe. The first level of support on a pullback out here is going to be the top of the profile. If price moves below that, the next area be at 180 to 10. That's the oscillator and change line below that 180 37 below that 174 97 below that 165 and change out there. So you just kind of go through your progression of steps. Again, it's all about being able to easily identify support and resistance. And really that's what these tools allow us to do. And the nice thing is you don't have to worry about it being Stevie's opinion. It's objective. There's no opinion here at all. It's just simply know where your resistance is. And in the case of American Express, resistance would be up at 192 42. That's its weekly TD9 count breakdown resistance level. There's no other resistance that Stevie has out there. So I then your question was how often should you set that? You can do it daily. But take into account where your other areas of support are, you'd certainly hate to have your stop just above support for prices. Simply come back there, test and reject that level out there. So great question. Thanks so much for asking it. Let's go on to our next question. And that is from ELO and would like to take a look at Deckers Outdoor. DCK is the ticker symbol. Deckers Outdoor. What did this have as a topping pattern? Wave number seven. Thank you, Basil Chapman. It's a very small portion. In fact, it's so infinitesimal portion of the Chapman wave. This is not the Chapman wave. Just happens to be one little piece of it. What did that wave number seven turn out to do? Pull back and test support. The first level of support was up at the 713 area. The second level was 693. The third level, which is tested this morning was 686 16. And below that was 682 29 out there. So is this a buy by pulling back to support? Well, ordinarily I'd say yes, but now I won't because I'm not ordinary. Why wouldn't I ordinarily, why am I not going to do what's ordinarily saying? Yeah, because if we take a look at the weekly chart now, we're going to get a confirmed TD nine count top. It's confirmed. It will complete next week out there. What should happen? Well, price should pull back to test and source letter and change line. That's at 656 59. The monthly chart is going to confirm a TD nine count top as well. Now it could be January that completes. It will be January that completes that pattern, but we don't know whether we'll identify a higher high out there. So when I re entered Decker Outdoor, I think that was the question. Well, you're asking where is the entry price? It's right here right now 682 29 686 16. Those areas have held out there. But because of the weekly and the monthly timeframe chart, my suggestion is maybe to look elsewhere out there and let's see how those other larger patterns actually play out when it comes to Decker's Outdoor. Jane wants to take a look at Tesla T SLA is the Turkish symbol out here. Tesla is bullish when we take a look at his daily timeframe. In fact, what Tesla's chart are signaling to an eye. Well, hold on a minute here, Stevie. Hold on a minute here. Take that back. I see a sell the D point pattern that was confirmed out here on the 20th with that bare sash candle. Also, there's a new profile. So in order for Tesla to truly get bullish, it's really neutral right now and I'll explain that in a moment. You've got it's got to close above the top of its profile to 59 84. So that's your first level of resistance. The second is at 265 41. The reason why I say it's neutral is because that high that sell the D point pattern that formed on the 20th was also a test of its oscillator and change on, which is green tells us we have a rising price outside above zero bullish conditions period end of story out there. Now price is trading with inside that profile. So it's really just a neutral type of signal right now in the daily timeframe, Jane. The weekly timeframe is not neutral. The weekly timeframe says, Steve, oh, I want 272 32 and the monthly chart is supporting that idea right now because it's trading above its green oscillator and change line out there. So that's what I see when we take a look at Tesla Jane. I hope that helps you out. If I take a look at if your question was and I didn't write this down, if you're looking for an entry point out there inside of Tesla, you're so close to resistance areas out here. I kind of hesitate on that 259 and 265. So if you're really looking to buy an interday trade, I'd say a test of that green oscillator and change line would be a spot about 250 91 or some type of bottoming signal on a short term timeframe chart. I know you also want to take a look at coinbase, COIN is a ticker symbol there. We take a look at it. Today is going to confirm a TD 9 count top. You've got a Rosemont Dominicator signal that's been triggered. That needs a bearish reversal kind of to confirm the top coin will confirm should confirm a TD 9 count top on Tuesday. Complete that pattern on Wednesday. I think you're also looking for an entry point here knowing that we've got a TD 9 count top that's coming. I wouldn't take a look at it the weekly. You've got a TD 9 count part number eight is going to complete this week and likely you're going to get a TD 9 count top that's going to confirm next week in the monthly is going to complete this nine count TD 9 count top this month out there. So coinbase, I wouldn't be getting long this now. Steve Rhodes with TFNN will be right back. Currencies, commodities and bond markets are as important as ever right now with how they're driving the volatility in equity markets across the globe, which is why it's a great time to try out Teddy Keg stat's Tiger forex report. Teddy Keg stat breaks down the forex markets every Monday using his 30 plus years of experience as a trading veteran of futures, forex stocks and options. Teddy releases his weekly Tiger forex report every Monday morning with coverage of all the major currency pairs, including the dollar index, the euro dollar, pound dollar, dollar Swiss, dollar yen as well as many more. 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If your reward risk isn't where you need it to be, maybe it shouldn't be getting into that trade. Now I put those target exits up there. Those target exits are guidelines because as price moves up, each day we need to step back, take a look at the chart and see what new patterns might be out there. So if the pattern, maybe it's moving into a bearish structured profile and you've got a Wave 7 top or a TD9 count, then the answer to that question is yeah, I would go ahead and take that exit. So you've got to manage it. When you get into the trade, this is Stevie's philosophy. When you get into the trade, you've got everything all set up. So if it goes against you, you've got your limited 1% of your trading capital that's been at risk. When I say 1%, I'm referring to the stop size that we've got out there and you know where your targets are at. So you've got everything set up before it trades and then you have to manage it each day. Take a look at that's a market's responsibility to generate new information for us and it needs to generate that new information for us each day, just like it did on the 20th. We were anticipating TD9 count tops in the ES and the Dow. Those were negated because of the price action. When that price action gets negated, it helps you to assist. In fact, there's one of the reasons that I did not go short the markets, especially after that trading session. A lot of people would have seen the market had to lower and said, hey, I'm going to jump on that freight train. But they didn't have access perhaps to the profiles that I did out there. And that was very helpful in doing that. Also, you had two instruments that are saying, I don't have a top. So as a market going to top without all of them having tops, well, at least you need a couple of them, the ES, the NQ, that would be helpful. The Dow, that would certainly be helpful out there. So anyways, let's go on to our next request, which is for Snap out here. This is for Yvonne. And Snap here, Yvonne, has a TD9 count top. That TD9 count top occurred on the 9th. Right now, you've got, and what happened then, the following day, price pulled back and tested support. So its overall signal now is neutral. You've got a price consolidation with inside his profiles. It's a full structured profile. The buy zone is 1629 to 1661. The sell area is 1758, or the top of that TD9 count pattern. The top of that TD9 count pattern is 1790. Turns out, now it would be buying Snap, just because price held support out there. And the reason I say that is because we have a TD9 count top that's going to complete on the weekly timeframe. And that says price should really pull back towards 1279. Now we know you've got to see a close 1629 before that happens out there. We also have the monthly timeframe, chart for Snap that's right at the resistance level, the top of its monthly profile. So I wouldn't be going long here, and I would definitely not be going short. It's a $17 instrument. Can't go short a 17, well, you can do whatever you want.  You've got infinity and beyond upstairs, and you've only got 17 bucks to the downside to possibly make. And that means they've got to go out of business, and that's not going to happen in one single day out there. So it does look like you're getting ready for a further pullback and retracement inside of Snap. That confirmation will come with a close blow 1629 out there. Yvonne, you also wanted me to take, look at Amazon, the amazing one out there. What do we have here in Amazon? I don't have any kind of a topping signal. It has formed wave number six, that's letter F out there. And it is trading above the top of its profile. That's a bearish structured profile. It's trading above its green oscillator and change line. Its daily timeframe is bullish. The weekly timeframe says, hey, Stevo, not so fast. Why? Because it's going to confirm a TD nine count top this week. Now, it also has a rogment of indicator signal triggered. You'd love to see a bearish reversal candle to confirm that top out there. Again, bar number nine is going to complete this week. It can be the bar following bar number nine that identifies that top. That seems more likely the outcome for me on Amazon because the daily does not have any kind of topping pattern. The monthly will complete a TD nine count top at the end of the month. Now, if this is really bullish out here, Amazon, and we know that it is bullish right now, but if it's super Uber bullish, then the TD nine counts on the monthly timeframe chart, because that's going to complete, that will fail out there. But you've got too many topping signals, longer term intermediate and longer term topping signals to suggest, just be cautious on Amazon. I wouldn't sell it out there. Now, could you short Amazon? Yeah, it's $150 instrument out there. I don't know if I would short the strongest, one of the stronger stocks. It's not really the strongest because it hasn't made it back to its size out there. But any event, Yvonne, that's what we're taking. Again, we take a look at Amazon. Thanks so much for that request. Inside the Tiger's Den, geez, was Dano. I think it was. Dano was a Dano who wanted to take a look at Occidental Petroleum. If wasn't, I apologize for screwing that up. Here we take a look at Oxi. Today is going to become bar number eight of a TD nine count. That says the TD nine count top could occur between today and Wednesday of next week out there. You do have price that is trading above its TD nine count breakdown level. The last bottom that formed out here was bar number nine of a TD nine count. I would say odds favorite. This moves higher come Friday, but I don't know whether it's going to move higher or not. But it does look to me like it's going to go ahead and confirm a TD nine count top come Tuesday on the weekly timeframe. We just have price consolidating trading with inside his profile. We have that same signal inside the monthly timeframe. So perhaps where Occidental Petroleum will get its Ps and Qs from is from Lightsweed Crude. It turns out that that was Dano's request as well was to take a look at both of these instruments. So now let's go take a look at Lightsweed Crude and see what it is doing because if it's going higher, well, chances are Occidental Petroleum will also make that move higher out there. Here we take a look at the February contract. That's the front contract here for Lightsweed Crude on a monthly timeframe. You can see the prices pulled back to test support on a weekly timeframe. We don't have any kind of bottoming signal out here. You are going to get a three river. It looks like you're going to get a three river morning star, but it doesn't really confirm a buy the deep point pattern on the weekly basis. And the reason is this retracement the distance between the high from September 29th and the high of October 20th is like 90%. There's no way a retracement like that can go ahead and generate an A to B equal CD pattern out there. Not unless you want to make it up and Stevie's not going to make it up. But we do have a bullish reversal candle on the monthly timeframe. That says you've got some real good support or should have support at 67.98. Now the daily timeframe, Rosemont Dominicator signal that has been triggered, price making its way up to its bearish structured cell zone. That is between 75.43 and 77.55 out there. Would I sell it? No. Not with these signals that we're getting. The weekly is really telling us to want to move up to 77.26. So it's suggesting that the daily wants to get up towards the top of that profile at 77.55. What else do we see out here intraday wise? Not really much. Nothing here that I'll spend too much time on out there.  Let's go to our next request coming in from the Tigers Den. Man, I did a horrible job of writing down who was requesting what I think that might have been sand, sat P or sand L or I apologize. But the request, that wasn't it. The question was to take a look at Qualcomm. So let's get up to the Qualcomm charts out there. So Qualcomm just entered wave number seven to the upside. That's letter G that you see on my screen out there. That needs a lower high to confirm that pattern. Rosemont Dominicator signal has been triggered. That needs a bearish reversal candle to confirm. Otherwise, the daily chart looks very good. Why? Because price is trading above or appears to be trading above the top of that daily profile. We come back for this break. We'll finish taking a look at Qualcomm. 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The Tiger's Den at Discord is accessible on mobile or tablets as well, so it's always at your reach. To sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders, just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Looking back folks, so let's take a look at Qualcomm here. Let's go to the monthly time frame chart out there. We take a look at that. It is bullish as can be. You had a beautiful TD9 count pattern that confirmed back in November of 2022. That level was tested a couple of times and held out there, and so you couldn't bust into the downside. What's Tom's expression? You try to bust into the upside. That's what's going on as we speak this month. Price is trading above the top of its profile, $132.25. This says longer-term and wants to make a move up towards $171.84. The weekly says, yeah, I'd like to do that, but I'm going to form bar number eight this week, and I should likely form a weekly top sometime next week or the week after. So put all that together. Keep your eye on the daily time frame chart for Qualcomm. Keep your eye on $139.56. If price closed below $139.56, we've got that change in trend signal that the weekly chart and then the daily chart would be communicating to us. And the monthly chart would just say, I've got to wait a little while before I get up to that $171.84 level. We had a request to take a look at hot out here. HUT is the ticker symbol. What do we know about it? It looks bullish on the daily time frame. We don't have any kind of a topping pattern out here. The weekly time frame is going to close above profile resistance and some prior swing points. That is very bullish. The monthly is trading above its asset and change line. So we got bullishness all across the board when we take a look at the job of the HUT out there. So that looks very good. Where is price likely headed to? I would say that on the daily time frame, it's headed towards $1675. And on the weekly time frame, it's headed towards $1820. And on the monthly time frame, it's headed towards $2917 out there. What was the last thing? It was a take a look at the New York Stock Exchange Advanced Client Oscillator. Let me get over there real quickly here. It's back to an overbought condition. Overbought conditions take place when the New York Stock Exchange Advanced Client Oscillator get above plus $150. Right now, the reading is $150.39 out there. So it still tells us that buyers are the ones that are in control of the general markets. Folks, thanks so much for being here for all week. Have a fantastic weekend. Those that celebrate Christmas have the merriest of Christmases. Those that don't celebrate will have a wonderful weekend. And we'll look forward to seeing you on Tuesday morning, 11 o'clock sharp for the 11am update. Take care, folks. Be safe out there.


Everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swash and Reviewing the Market. This was the Stock Swash Show play of the day today. We shorted the market. Again, this is an equity day trade. We do options in the market as well and we did do a put option today too. So let's take a look at it. What happened here? Again, let's pull up the big chart, the day chart. First of all, if you wanna come and learn what I do, you would learn it in the Golden Gap course. If you just wanna sign up for the newsletters, you can sign up for the options newsletter. That's just the options trades they're sent to you in live time. If you want to do the day trades, you have to join the live trading room for that. And what I called today was the market as a short and that is what we did and it worked. So here was the close of yesterday, 356.13 and the market gap down. Open here at 353.82 and we're falling. Now we're starting to get some traction here now. We're getting down to the lows again, 12.33. I expected a bigger bar in this today. 350 I said we got to 350.71. Again, I like to do day trades in and out quick in the morning. We are getting some traction here. So this is good. Yep, this is good. All right, let me show you what we did here this morning. So we shorted the market in here, got the drop, boom. So you can get it, get the drop, get it out. Or you could have done it here, got a bigger drop and gotten out. I had a good exit in this actually, looking back and seeing where we went here this morning. Now again, we are gonna break the low, but I had a really good exit in this this morning.  So really, really happy actually with my exit this morning on this, looking at where we went, because we bounced since then, but I knew we were lower. We're trending down now and it looks like we're getting close to the lows and we're gonna break it. So again, day trading is something where you're in and out quick. You're in and out fast. That's a great idea. It totally makes sense. It works. If you want to do options and hold them for a few days, you can do that. But remember, when you're up in a trading, you hold it. You have to really know what you're looking at to know that it's gonna get the follow through. If you take a trade and you're up 100% in option the first day, I mean, you can get out. But sometimes the trades don't go the exact day that I call them. These are looking very good here. Here we go, we're gonna break the low. Yepers. So I'm gonna watch this. Nice play of the day today in the room. If you would like a trial of the trading room, email me at the list of the stockswish.com. If you would like to sign up, you can go to the www.thestockswish.com for information on classes and upcoming dates. And if you just wanna get the newsletters for the options newsletter, email me, sign up. Sign up at 69.99 for one year for 12 months subscription. I also have a half annual for 49.99, which is six months. Great, nice calls here this year. And a nice fast one today. We'll see what happens tonight with a new video. That's what I'm watching tonight. Good luck everybody.


Hello, my name is Ann Smith and this is Perspectives. It's a television show conceived a little over a year ago here at CTN 5. On this program I interview the unique people that I encounter in my daily life around Portland and I bring them here because I believe we all have an unusual or personal message that we don't share with each other on a daily basis. We have rather mundane and superficial conversations and we deny each other opportunities to learn about the things that really matter. My guest today is Fauzi Al-Sharif. He is here visiting his son who was my guest on my first four programs. Fauzi's English is limited and so he will be answering my questions in Arabic while his son translates in a voiceover. You can also listen to the entire program in Arabic with Ali translating my English questions and Fauzi's answers played back. Good morning. Good morning. Fauzi, could you introduce yourself to our audience? First I would like to introduce myself. I am an Arab citizen from Iraq. I used to work as an engineer in the Iraqi Army. I left the active service in 1996. My Iraq was a general in the Iraqi Army. The first question that came to my mind after the U.S. occupation of Iraq or some other like to call it liberation is Muslims are killing each other and why this sectarian partying among Islamic groups which led to the destruction of Iraqis and brought them lots of tragedies. This pushed me to a modest but prudent reading of the Quran and Islamic Sharia. I found that there is no connection at all between what is going on and what is written and documented in Quran and Islamic Sharia. Instead these criminal or terrorism acts derived their power from texts that were inserted upon Islamic Sharia and were not true-born texts of Islamic Sharia and some verses of Quran were taken and misplaced. And if we know that Islamic Sharia was written over 100 years after Prophet Muhammad's death, peace be upon him, we shall become aware that plenty of insinuation and distortion was inserted upon this Sharia to serve Caliph's interests to spread segregation among Muslims and non-Muslims. And if we look closely, we will find that Sharia equalizes between Muslims and non-Muslims. The Quran is a very long work and contains some contradictions of its own. Please explain to our audience who knows very little about your faith. Please explain how the Quran was written. After the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was inspired by Allah to be a messenger to the Muslims, the verses came down in a successive matter and not all at once. And the Prophet was as commonly known among many and illiterate who did not know how to read and write, so he relied on some of his companions to write the Quran. So the verses were written on one verse after another. Immediately after it was revealed, counter-controised to the Sharia, which as I just mentioned was written after 100 years. By the way, Islamic Sharia means the deeds and speeches of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. But the Quran was not collected as it is known now until the time of the third caliph of Muslims, Othman bin Affan. May Allah be pleased with him and the fear of the Quran being lost and scattered. So you have to explain to us how the Quran came to be written and you decided to study it in depth to answer your big question. How did you go about your study of the Quran? Through my reading of the Quran, which is modest and simple and my reading to the thinking and some of the speeches of someone called Ali bin Abi Talib, who became the fourth caliph, who was the fourth caliph and Prophet Muhammad's cousin, peace be upon him, and his son, Allah, I found that in the Holy Quran, Allah set a preference between among its verses. True, it is true that we as Muslims believe that all what Allah said or came from Allah is good, but Allah said in some of the verses, I preference among his verses. He said I preference among these verses. What I understand from Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him during his speech about the Holy Quran, his utterance that in the Quran, there were there are verses that are licensed to be abandoned that are licensed to be abandoned and other verses that are impermanent and verses that were obligatory at time. As an example to this, when we read the verse of the divorced in the chapter of the cow verse number two to eight, which I think it is possible to be to be abandoned and Muslims are licensed to abandon it. The verse which states divorced women remain in waiting for three periods and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their wounds if they believe in Allah and the last day. Divorced women in Islam have to not get married, three menstruations and ten days had lapsed, which equalizes 100 days to the woman, so the woman is certain that she is not pregnant. But the scientific development which Allah commanded us to use has proven that the woman can ascertain whether she is pregnant or not in minutes through pregnancy testing. Like Allah permitted us to planes and cars and vehicles instead of using the cattle, so why not apply the scientific development to this verse to allow scientific science to take its actual magnitude in our ordinary lives. And also another example of the verse that were obligatory at their times and the Surah of Al-Nur, light, when Almighty Allah speaks about the male and female adulterer, the unmarried woman or unmarried man found guilty of sexual intercourse had lashed each one of them with a hundred lashes. We found that the messenger, peace be upon him, and his Sunnah, or Moors, we found, we find stoning that came after this verse and this Sunnah is still binding to Muslims and they have to implement it. But if we pay attention, in the farewell sermon, which was the last sermon that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, gave, when he exhorted about women, he said, O people, it is true that you have certain rights with regard to your woman. And they also said that you have certain rights with regard to your woman and they also have rights over you. You have the right to not have them share your bed with others and not allow into your home someone who you do not like unless your permission is granted. And they should not commit obscenity if they do, then Allah has allowed you to have them refrain from it, not share the same bed with them or harmlessly beat them. If they do refrain and obey you, then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in kindness. We notice the Prophet's words, peace be upon him, that he did not point to neither the stoning nor the lashing. And when we look to the current positive laws available in many Islamic countries, these laws punish for adultery offenses in imprisonment and there is no stoning and no lashing, not only in some Islamic countries that allege their considerable or transcendental adherence to Islam. And you have said to me several times in our meetings that Sharia law is not part of the Quran, but I need to say here that I think most Americans' knowledge of Islam is not based on the Quran, but on Sharia law. How can you explain to our audience, again, that Sharia law and the Quran are not the same thing? In addition to what has been presented and through my reading of the Holy Quran, Allah has set a preference among his verses. He said in his Holy Quran in the Surah of Al-A'raf, verse number 145 in the name of Allah the Most Merciful, and we wrote for him on the tablets something of all things, instructions and explanations for all things. Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the Torah is the word of Allah and all of what came is good. Allah commands His Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, to say to the Jews to take the best of what came in these tablets. And this means that the presence of a good in one place does not know the presence of a better in a later time. What is right in a particular time may not be so. In another time. Also, it came in the Surah of Al-Zumr, verse number 18. Allah directs the speech to the mindful people or the people of understanding when he says in the name of Allah the Most Merciful, who listen to the speech and follow the best of it.  I repeat that all of what is mentioned in the Quran is the word of Allah, and it is the good speech. But why don't we ask ourselves why Allah is saying to us to follow the best of what came down in the verses? Isn't it the logic to contemplate and ponder and conduct a careful reading to understand that in the Quran are verses that came down and at a certain time and to address a certain event, which may longer become contemporary, and the verses impact is finished at its time. And also, in the Surah of Al-Zumr, verse number 55, Almighty Allah says addressing all Muslims in the name of Allah the Most Merciful, and follow the best of what was revealed to you from your Lord. I re-emphasize that Allah emphasizes the principle of the good and the better and the preference in his verses. We as Muslims believe that all of what came in the Torah and but the Bible and the Quran is the word of Allah, and it is the good speech. But we have to try to read what is these holy books in a way that is not necessarily identical to how the people have preceded us read them. There is a saying to the Imam Abu Hanifa Al-Naman, who said, they are men, and we are men. So who interpreted the Quran and Prophet Sunnah is human. And just like him, we are also humans. So we may have circumstances and social situations that are not necessarily identical to what was the case 1400 years ago. So where is the harm when we organize our lives in accordance to what pleases Allah and according to what our lives require? I don't see any harm in this. If we read the Surah of Al-Ma'idah, we find in verse 82 in the context of respecting religions and the name of Allah, the most merciful. You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers, the Jews and those who associate others with Allah. And you will find the nearest of them and the affection to the believers, those who say we are Christians. That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant. This verse came at a certain time when the Jews had a conflicting position toward Islam, toward Islamic call, and toward the Prophet Muhammad peace This verse came at a certain time when the Jews had a conflicting position toward Islam. But in another position in the Holy Quran, we find the following verse in the Surah of Al-A'raf, verse 159, it says in the name of Allah, the most merciful. And among the people of Moses is a community which guides by truth and by established peace. It is my few points so we can coexist with others and to accept them and they accept us in this world that the language of kindness and love and tolerance prevails among people and religious. I modestly prefer this verse that says that came in the Surah of Al-A'raf or the verse that came in the Surah of Al-Maidah. And another example in the context of punishment, for example, in the Surah of Al-Baqarah, verse number 178 says in the name of Allah, the most merciful, all you who have believed prescribed for you is legal retribution for those murdered. For the free, the slave for the slave and the female for the female. And this verse as it is clear distinguishes among humans, distinguishes among the slaves and the free and the female. And the community at that time was a male-dominated community and a community that had slaves and the Prophet Muhammad was unable to change the situation from one to another in a short period of time. But we find another verse in the Quran, which I call a future verse, which calls for a non-discrimination among the people. In the Surah of Al-Maidah, it says in the name of Allah, the most merciful. Because of that, we decree upon the children of Israel that whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul or for a morality, and the land it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one, as if he had saved mankind entirely. This verse stands in contradiction with the previous verse. The previous verse touches upon the free and the slave and the woman. And this verse equalizes among people, equalizes the souls, whether a free or a slave or a female. And as to the human level, as an application and an early language and an early talk about the equality of people, I remember a speech of Omar bin al-Khattab. May Allah be pleased with him, who was the second caliph of the Muslims when he said, when did you enslave the people and their mothers gave birth to them as free? Can anyone say that Omar did not witness the Prophet and did not understand the Quran and did not know of the presence of verses in the Quran that differentiate between the free and the slave? So why did he utter this speech? Isn't it an early call to surpass the language of differentiation among people? For many Americans, I think there is great confusion. They think that Sharia law and the Quran are the same thing. Please explain how Sharia law is not part of the Quran. Islamic Sharia or the Muhammadi Sharia is complementary to the Holy Quran, but it is not the Quran. Allah Almighty gave an authority to the Prophet to Prophet Muhammad and said in a verse in the Surah of Al-Hashir, verse number seven, take whatever the Apostle gives you and relinquish whatever he forbids you, which means that the Muhammadi Sharia, which represents the speeches and deeds and practices and the behavior of the Prophet, peace be upon him, is mandatory to Muslims. All of the speeches and the deeds of the Prophet are mandatory to Muslims. That is, the Muhammadi Sharia, which represents the speeches and the actions and practices and the behavior of the Prophet, peace be upon him, is mandatory to Muslims. This noble verse opened the door for too many allegations on the Prophet and the Islam to initiate and insert speeches that have no connection neither to Islam nor to humanity in service of the Sultan or the ruler or the Caliph and to give him an immoral power upon all peoples and also to further the overall inserts of those rulers. People in general, when a speech or a deed is attributed to the Prophet, peace be upon him, Muhammad, people are obligated to believe in it and adhere to it. These individuals used to insert speeches to the Muhammadi Sharia or to the Prophet's speeches and attribute them to the Prophet, some of which were even immoral ones and have no connection, as I have just said, indicated to humanity. For example, they attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, that he killed war captives. But the reality of the situation provides otherwise. The Prophet in one of the battles asked or commanded if we so prefer to say, the captives who are literate, that each one of them teaches 10 illiterate Muslims how to read or write and then he sent them free. This is at the level of the Muhammadi Sharia. It was revealed in the noble Quran and the matter of dealing with war captives in the surah of Muhammad, verse number four, either oblige them or take ransom. Either oblige them by setting them free or take ransom. This means that you either be generous with the captives and set them free or either you conduct captive exchange in the case when you have captives of your own and with the enemy so you exchange one captive with another or you take ransom. And the Quran did not mention about killing the war captives or herring them. But this matter of killing was founded by the individuals who allege or the people who are known as the clerks of Islam. Most of the Islamic doctrines allowed the killing of war captives and allowed their enslavement. Nonetheless, neither this killing nor this enslavement exists neither in Quran nor in the surah of the Prophet. So how did they come up with this unless it was to place the rulers? The problem also is that too many of the Muslim countries that adhere to some of these Islamic doctrines are signatories to the Geneva Conventions in the matter of dealing with war captives. And they issue statements, for example, if we read the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam that was issued in Cairo on August 5th, 1990, we find that we find in the matter of dealing with war captives, as it says in provision number three, that the war captive has the right to be fed, housed and clothed.  But this statement is nice as a statement. But on application level, these countries do not work on filtering the Islamic doctrines that they adhere to from the way that addressed how to deal with war captives because the human being naturally, when the spiritual guidance contradicts with the state's directive, may lean toward the spiritual guidance that he derives from the doctrine that he adheres to, leads him to kill the war captive. And in this case, he forgets the convention and his state is a signatory to the matter of war captives. In the Bible, the connection between Judaism and Christianity, the first two Abrahamic religions, is clearly stated. And Islam is considered the third in Judaism. The Old Testament says very clearly that God's first commandment is to remember that God is one, love the Lord, your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength. And this is in Deuteronomy.  I am the Lord. And then in the New Testament, Jesus says again these same commandments. For Christians, they're in Matthew or Mark.  This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Are there similar verses in the Quran which are the basis of the Abrahamic ethics? What does Allah want us to do? What is the connection between Islam, Christianity and Judaism? Islam, as I believe, is an extension to the Abrahamic religions that preceded it, such as Judaism and Christianity. It is revealed in the Noble Quran when Allah sent His prophet Jesus, peace be upon him, to the people of Israel, that he said, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, in the Surah of Al-Imran, verse number 90, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Most Gracious, to confirm the truth of that which is before me of the Torah and to make lawful for you some of the things that were forbidden for him. This is the speech of Jesus, peace be upon him, to the people of Israel. And some of the mandates that were revealed in the Quran are taken from the Torah. This proves that it is an extension to the rest of the religions. From these verses I mentioned earlier, two of them. The verse that says, prescribed for you is legal retribution for those murdered, for the slave, for the slave. These mandates came in the Torah. Also, the verse, whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for a morality in the land, this verse was revealed to the people of Israel, but is also applicable in Islam. Nonetheless, there are some observations that are not to set preferences among the religions. Came in Islam was progressive in comparison to previous legislations. And I repeat, the aim is not to set preference among religions. All of them are God religions and their source is Almighty Allah. If we take women's rights in Islam, for example, two verses were revealed that addressed women's testimony in the Quran. The first address is relationships and contracts in which women's testimony equals half of a man's testimony. But in another verse that was revealed in the Quran, we find that the testimony of the woman equals the testimony of four men in a case when she is accused of adultery. So, her testimony equals four men's testimonies when she wants to defend herself. And here I return to the topic of the good and the better in the Quran. I lean toward this verse that equalizes between a man with a woman or equalizes a woman with men. And I prefer over verses that consider a woman's testimony in half of a man's testimony. And in our current situation, we find that a woman's testimony in many instances and offenses in situations is reliable and it is not deemed half of a man's testimony. So, this testimony that recognized the woman in Islam, we find in Judaism, for example, a woman's testimony does not have significance unless in special events. And we find in another verse that women's inheritance in Islam from her father is half of what her brother inherits. And she is also legally entitled to inherit from her husband. So, she inherits from her father and from her husband, but this case almost does not exist in other Abrahamic religions. And I repeat, this is not to say preferences, but because the religious are an extension to each other. Just like the Quran took from the Torah some mandates, it came with mandates new to Torah and new to Bible. They were not referenced neither in the Torah nor in the Bible. Christians have disagreed as within your faith. They have disagreed about practices of the church. I'm thinking in particularly of the selling of indulgences to purchase forgiveness for sins. And there is nothing in our Bible. Nothing Christ said that said we were allowed to do this or were encouraged to do this. And in fact, our religious beliefs as a group changed dramatically when the Bible became available as the Quran has always been. To be read by people who were of the Christian faith. Unfortunately, the Bible has been translated so many times. It's difficult to determine what the original word of God was. Another thing I notice in a difference, however, is that Christianity has always had a tone of being exclusive. That is, we set ourselves apart from those who don't believe in what we believe in or in the divine nature of Christ. And I understand from talking with you that Islam has always been more open-minded and the Quran supports religious pluralism. Please tell us where we find this support for religious pluralism in the Quran. Religious pluralism is of the givens that were referenced in the Noble Quran and of the clear facts. So for example, Prophet Moses' peace be upon him was referenced in the Quran one sixty-three times.  Yet Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was referenced four times. And there are many verses that confirm this pluralism and obligate the Muslims to believe in those religions. And if he forfeits this obligation, he no longer becomes a Muslim. And the verse, for example, number four of Surah Al-Baqarah would say, in the name of Allah, the most merciful and most gracious. And those who believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before you and are certain of her after. The speech is direct to Prophet Muhammad from Allah. The who believe in you as a prophet must believe in the prophets who preceded you. Another example in another verse, in the name of Allah, the most merciful and most gracious. Surah Al-Baqarah verse number one three six say, we have faith in Allah and that which has been sent down to us. And that which was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the tribes. And that which Moses and Jesus were given and that which the prophets were given from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them and to him do we submit. This verse is very clear that all religions are equal and all prophets and messengers are equal. Say, we believe in Allah and that which was sent down to us and that which was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the tribes. And that which Moses and Jesus were given and that which the prophets were given from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them and to him do we submit. Indeed among the people of the book there are surely some who have faith in Allah and in what has been sent down to you and what has been sent down to them. Accordingly, the matter is binding to our religions from the perspective of Quran that our religions believe in what was revealed to Muhammad and on the followers of Muhammad's peace be upon him to believe and what came down to the other prophets peace be upon them before him. And in verse of Surah An-Nisa, verse number 136, all you who have faith, have faith in Allah and his Apostle. The book that he has sent down to his Apostle and the book that he had sent down earlier. Whoever disbelieves in Allah and his angels, his books and his Apostles and the last day has certainly strayed into far era. So whoever disbelieves from our perspective as Muslims in Judaism or in Christianity is one who is stray human, who does not know the right way because they are all Abrahamic religions that Allah recommended that we respect. And in another verse, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Most Gracious, those who disbelieve in Allah and his Apostles and seek to separate Allah from his Apostles and say we believe in some and disbelieve in some and seek to take away in between, take away in between, it is they who are truly faithless and we have prepared for the faithless a humiliating punishment. But those who have faith in Allah and his Apostles and make no distinction between any of them, then he will soon give their rewards and Allah is all forgiving, all merciful. I think that this last verse, for example, has enough clarity for us to understand that equality among prophets and religions is a matter that is a given in the Quran and in Islamic Sharia. And in the Surah of Al-Ankabut verse number 64, which obligates the Muslims, it says in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Most Gracious, do not dispute with the people of the Book except in a manner which is best, barring such of them as our wrongdoers and say we believe in that which has been sent down to us and has been sent down to you, our God and our God is one. And to him do we submit. And this verse we can say does not have less clarity than the ones that preceded it. That is necessary to deal with and work with our brothers of other faiths except in a manner which is best. And the necessity to believe in what was revealed to them and the necessity that they believe in what was revealed to us as Muslims. The manner that is of pluralism we find in Islam, some verses that exceed many perceptions. Islam does not mandate others to follow it and does not obligate anyone to be a Muslim. And the necessity of believing in what was revealed to us as Muslims. And the matter is that the pluralism we find in Islam, some verses that exceed many perceptions. And the necessity to be practiced upon him. We could cite some verses of Quran, verses of Quran that support this. And protecting religions freedom, religious freedom in the Surah of Al-Baqarah verse 156. There is no compulsion religion. Restitude has become distinct from error. Which means there is no coercion or compulsion among anyone to embrace a certain principle or religion.  Islam is a religion of grace, clarity and peace. And in another verse from the Surah of An-Nisa verse number 137. As for those who believe and then disbelieve, then believe again and then disbelieve and then increase in disbelief. Allah shall never forgive them nor shall he guide them to anyway. Who is this person who believes, who disbelieves and disbelieves, believes and disbelieves. He is the person who embraces a certain religion, then disbelieves in it. Whether he is a Jewish, Muslim or Christian. So when we talk about Islam, specifically whoever is a Muslim and then disbelieves in it is up to Allah to sanction him. And it is not up to any human to sanction him. And in another verse in the Surah of Al-Imran verse 90, it says in the name of Allah, the most gracious and most merciful. Indeed those who turn faithless after their faith and then advance in faithlessness, their repentance will never be accepted and it is they who are the astray. And in another verse of the Surah of Al-Kahf verse 29 and say, this is the truth from your Lord. Let anyone who wishes, believe it and let anyone who wishes disbelieve it. The path is clear and evident. Whoever wants to believe in Allah, the manner is optional and whoever does not want to, the matter is optional. And the judgment is up to Allah and not up to humans. And the account is up to Allah, not up to anything. And as an example, the last and the last one is about the displeasure in Islam. And one other and last example about the tolerance in Islam, it comes to my mind, his speech to Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him. He had the most knowledge and is known after the Prophet Muhammad. He said to one of his aldermen, when he dispatched him to rule Egypt, when he was the caliph of the Muslims, he was their fourth caliph. He said to him to deal with people in two categories. He said, people are of two kinds, either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. Egypt was newly annexed by the hands of Muslims. It had Jews, it had Christians, it had people who did not worship Allah but Ali bin Abi Talib made Allah be pleased with him. Obligated the aldermen who he sent not to deal with people on the basis of skin color or belief or sex or any other discriminatory form among the humans.  This is all I can say about humanity of Islam and its acceptance. Fawzi, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for being my guest. I know one thing or other that we talked about that you said you would like to leave this. What would you like to leave as your final message to our audience? I believe you said it was a song. A lot. And I remember here on the way of the example. A song. It was called, The Kiss by each other a lot. And I remember here as an example of a very wonderful singer, Afeefa Skander. And she wrote the lyrics of the song. The song is called, The Kiss by each other a lot. The one that always made us sing, is a Jewish musician.   Her acting all as a Jewish musician. And in this community, they give a nice impression of the acceptance of each other, a song that is gathered between the Jews, Christians and Muslims. Which one is this? And this is the song that says, The name of the song is Allah, if you listen carefully. Thank you very much. Thank you. Who is this? At the end of this simple and clear effort, I hope for those who are interested in religious support, from all aspects of accepting one another. A song that is gathered between the Jews and the Christians and the Muslims. There are many interpretations of the Qur'an and the Shari'ah of Islam. And they try to cover this Shari'ah, the Shari'ah of Muhammad, of many of the things that are included in it, and that are covered with any human understanding. Thank you very much. Next. Without the name? Without the name? Without the name? Without religious interpretations. I want to thank you again for coming. Thank you very much. And thank you to my audience. I hope that you learned some important things from this program. As I said at the beginning, you will be able to hear it broadcast in English with a translation of Fauzi's speeches in the background and also in Arabic with my speeches translated into Arabic. So that both of the audiences that I know we enjoy here in the Portland area can enjoy this. Thank you very much.


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