My name is Hans Skandel. I'm an extension agronomist at NDSU. North Dakota farmers have been growing traditionally a lot of spring wheat. At the end of the season in August or beginning of September many of the growers decide to work the fields because we don't know what the conditions will be in the following year and black soil tends to warm up faster than when there is a stubble. In the past horses were used to work the ground, to work the weed stubble. Nowadays of course we have big equipment and traditionally it can be blackened very quickly. In this particular field we have worked the ground substantially. However we would prefer to think about more a live cover and increasing the soil capacity, the soil health. So today we're going to talk about cover crops after wheat. Instead of having black ground we want to mimic nature more and in this particular example we have had the spring wheat harvested. Some of the seeds came out of the combine and we have here a situation of volunteer spring wheat. As you can see we have a green cover. This is an experimental site and previously I had spring wheat on small plots but I had also alleyways where we did not have any crop. And we can see the color difference in these two areas where I'm standing it is fairly light green where the alleys were we see a dark green because there is more nitrogen. So the plant can take up some of the nitrogen that is still in the soil and capture it instead of having some of that nitrogen leaching away. A live crop is very important for soil health because we have a living root system we have the crop growing and it is now able to add some more organic matter. Also for soil erosion control this field will have very limited soil erosion compared to a black soil. Today we're talking about cover crops. We saw that we can have a crop growing just as the volunteer spring wheat but in this case we also planted some different cover crops into the stubble. We used a planter that was able to plant right into the stubble and we chose a number of different legumes as well as broadleaf crops. We are looking here at a legume because legumes tend to be able to fix some extra nitrogen. Field pea is one of the legumes that has a great ability to fix biologically nitrogen. So in the particular plot that we are looking at here we see the legume the pea also surrounded by the volunteer spring wheat. So here we make use of the natural residual seed that came out of the combine for the wheat and we just planted in this case field peas. Another group of plants that we are testing are the brassicas. Brassicas have the tendency to grow really well into the late season the cool season crops and we have here some radishes. The radishes again here are planted into the stubble of the wheat and we see a mixture of radish and the spring wheat. This is about a month after planting. Radishes in this case have the ability to make a deep tap root and loosen the ground and just for just a month growth we already see a nice little tap root starting to develop. We still have some time on the clock and this root will only grow bigger so before the season really ends this plant will still be maybe twice as big as it is now. Brassicas can grow late into the season but there are two types of brassicas those that can survive the winter and those that cannot. Here is one of the types that can survive the winter which is winter camalina. In this case we planted the winter camalina into the wheat stubble and we see a combination of the spring wheat and the camalina. In this case the camalina is relatively small but it will survive the winter and will start to regrow.  The plants are relatively small at this time and they stay what we call in the rosette stage. Another cool season brassica is canola. Canola can also grow late into the season. This particular canola is a roundup ready canola. The reason why I selected roundup ready is that would give you an option to spray this field and eliminate the spring wheat if you desire to do so but I was also interested in seeing the competition between the canola and the spring wheat and you can see where the canola is growing it grows nicely and it is developing still late into the season and it will continue growing till we get a frost but it will not survive the winter. In this plot we see that cowpea. Cowpea is a legume but it is also a warm season crop. It typically is seeded if you plant early in the summer but there is a big risk if you plant late into the fall. This year we had an early frost in the first week of September and the cowpea which is very sensitive to cold temperature froze so it is not recommended to use a warm season crop in your mixture when you plant at the end of the season. Another legume we tried is the warm season crop soybean. Soybean also is not very suitable in cool conditions. With the frost the plants nearly died all of them but a few remained and tried to struggle to life but it will not amount too much. Therefore we should not grow the warm season soybeans into this system planting it late in the fall. A common winter annual is winter rye. In this case we planted the winter rye and we have the volunteer spring wheat. The winter rye is established right now and it will survive the winter whereas the winter wheat will die so next spring the rye will continue its growth and will cover the ground throughout the season. So in this case we have a mixture of two grasses the spring wheat and the rye. We have looked at several of the cover crops how they grow in the fall. Some of those over winter and now we are looking at the second year looking at growing soybeans on top of the cover crops. So in the area where we are standing we had cover crops as I showed you previously. In this region we planted the soybeans on top of some of the residue but also in some of the live cover the camalina and the rye and we planted some spring oats. The objective of this part is to see what is the effect of the cover crop from one year to the next crop the soybeans in the second year. So we have seen where soybeans are grown into a standing cover crop the rye or the camalina. In this case I want to show you how you can use a cover crop at the end of the season. Behind me is a plot of soybeans and in those soybeans in the rows as soon as the lower leaves of the soybean starts to turn yellow we can put in some rye or camalina and the rye or the camalina can grow in the canopy and then once the soybeans are harvested there is ample light for the rye to continue growing late into the season and it will survive through the winter and now we have a cover in the winter and it will start growing into the spring and we can grow another crop into either the rye or the camalina. In summary cover crops can be utilized in the fall, go into the winter and cover the soil. We can have some growth in the spring depending on the species. The benefits are to cover the ground to take up some residual nitrogen and in certain cases add some extra nitrogen if we use a legume. Do not use the warm season crops into the late fall but warm season can be used early in the season, in June, July, August. There are many options for cover crops and it depends on your intent of the cover crop which pieces you should select. In the second half of this presentation I'm going to talk a little bit more about the opportunities and about some of the research findings. First of all I'm talking about the opportunities. On this graph we see the hours of day length in Fargo, North Dakota. On the bottom we have the months of the year. On the right you see the hour of the day starting from 1 a.m. in the morning all the way to 11 o'clock at night and for instance in the middle of the summer the longest day this is the yellow is the day length available for the plants with on the top some dusk and on the bottom some dawn so this is the amount of sunlight in mid-summer. So if we are thinking about a normal crop production system we start planting like say the small grain probably somewhere end of April, beginning of May and then hopefully we can harvest the small grain somewhere in August. Now the graph here of course shows a little bit of a funny break on the left and the right that has to do with the day length saving time so we're concentrating really on the yellow part in this graph. So in August we harvest our small grains roughly and then we have a period that is frost free so the end of the growing season is maybe taking place somewhere in October so in that period after the small grain or even after canola or field pea we have an opportunity to grow a cover crop. After the frost we typically see that the plants are going dormant so during the last part of the season into November December we have a dormant crop and then when we look at the spring coming up we have first dormant in the winter and then maybe by March of April when the temperatures warm up enough it breaks dormancy if it is a winter annual and the crop starts to regrow of course all the annuals will have died during the winter but then when we are looking at March when the temperature starts to rise the dormancy is broken we have some additional growth of the cover crop so that's the second opportunity so we typically have a time in the fall and a time in the spring that we can utilize some of the sunlight and then probably somewhere in May we start to grow the main crop again after the cover crops that can be maybe soybeans so this is kind of the two main opportunities that I'm going to talk about today so we talked about cover crops we have already encountered several of them but basically what is important to know is that we are trying to establish the main reasons why we go with cover crop and mostly that could be presenting erosion or it could be improving the soil it could also to try to enhance the crop productivity long term that is what we are aiming at to add more biological life to add more nutrition to the soil that is recycled and therefore cover crops have many opportunities long term so here's a picture which I took after intercropping into sunflower so although there is also opportunities for cover crops in other sections of the cropping system I'm going to focus today basically on spring wheat or anyway wheat followed by cover crops as well as planting cover crops into standing soybean so as an ideal cover crop we really need to look at inexpensive sea it shouldn't cost us too much it should be easy to establish and then of course we need to have a plant that rapidly grows and that we can have a cover quickly in the fall low maintenance should be easy to kill so for instance most of the annuals winter kill so that would be an easy way to to kill the crop and it should not interfere with the following crop so the challenge really is where do we fit it in and I've already kind of indicated that for the crops that are grown early in the season small grains canola field pea we have this opportunity after the main crop so basically we need to find a system that is adapted to your area and we should kind of balance those short-term economics with the long-term benefits that we have to have some expenditure buying seed planting the cover crop but the long-term benefits are into additional carbon and crop protection soil erosion protection and therefore we are looking at it is a system now I've been showing you some video of cover crops in the eastern part of the state but I just wanted to make sure that this system can also work in some of the western part of the state in this case seeding took place when the hardgrass spring wheat was heading out and some of the seed was broadcast over the top of the growing crop the next picture is a system where it was planted after the harvest so typically farmers can use the cover crops as I mentioned for various purposes and one of the purposes could be grazing and again this is a picture from western north Dakota to indicate that it is possible however any system needs to have moisture available for the crop termination I want to talk a little bit about some of the tools that I've been using I use my cell phone with an app called Canopeo and that Canopeo is a system to kind of estimate the cover the ground cover of various crops it can be cover crops can be also regular field crops that we use now on the left picture you see a small grain crop and you see there is green matter growing there but in between you see also some soil and other particles so what this Canopeo does it translate every green pixel into white and everything else into black and then it counts all those pixels and makes a ratio how many pixels are green and how many are not green so that you get a percent so in this case in this picture as well 37% of that picture is green cover now I'm using it just kind of to give an idea of how much cover we have in our plots so I'm gonna explain a little bit of some of the results that we have seen of the video that you saw in the beginning of this presentation now I've taken these numbers on the 30th of September and the reason was that you know on average long term our frosts is taking place somewhere at the end of September beginning of October so I'm just trying to give you a realistic number of what you can get now in this particular year the growth extended after the first frost early September but the growing season continued all the way in October so so I could also have gone into October and given you higher numbers but this is just a snapshot of what is potential for cover crops so this was planted after spring weed canola soybeans pea etc as I showed in the in the video now in this case we look here at the at the number 89 percent of the field was covered by the canola the soybean plots at 52 percent now I showed you in the video that the soybean plants warm season crop and also the cow pea warm season crop died when we had a frost taking place in the beginning of September that is why it is not advisable however in the system that I utilized here is the volunteer wheat including now a cover crop shows that we still have a cover in that cover the 50 percent is basically the spring weed cover pea very aggressive grower the nitrogen fixer are very well covered in this grouse you can see it is 92 percent cover and then rye which is a slower grower in the fall here we have a combination of rye and spring weed and we saw that 76 percent cover great cover now the next slide is kind of looking at the above ground biomass so basically I harvested the whole crop just cutting it above the surface level dried it in in our dryers and then waited so this is dry weight so this is pounds per acre and if you look here pounds per acre of the canola was 11 30 63 pounds so that is a a good number of pounds that was the highest number of pounds for biomass so what I did is I harvested both the cover crop and the wheat so combined is the right column was 12 84 pounds so again that is the highest number so there is the combination between the canola and the wheat so when we look at the next one of course I showed some of the small diet plant so there is still a little bit of cover they have been very limited and the remaining cover is basically the spring wheat so as the spring wheat initially was growing together with the with the soybean there was not as much as they could have been without the crop so here we still benefit from having a cover and it was 185 pounds of biomass produced now P has a very nice biomass as you could see in some of the videos that I showed you here total peas and wheat 1161 pounds rye the last one has limited growth in the fall but still together with the spring we did that's still 760 pounds of dry matter in in the fall so there is always a relationship between amount of cover that you can see and amounts of pound produced so here on the bottom you see the cover percent that I took with the kind of PO reading and then on the left you see the pounds of dry matter that are actually produced so you see there's a nice relationship so that we can kind of express that more cover also indeed resulted in higher levels so the next couple of pictures I'm going to show you a couple of winter rye so coming now out of the dormancy in the spring there will be an amount of dry matter production so here I'm showing several pictures kind of in different locations just to show you kind of what what biomass you can have so this one Morris on 6th of May and not too much yet Lamberton 153 pounds but if you can see in St. Paul where it was warmer it had been better growing conditions that crops takes off and there you already see a 2000 pound crop in roso in May there was also good growing conditions and we had 800 pounds so now the question is when do you terminate this crop in order to grow the main crop but what I was trying to see is the first I showed you numbers from the fall here are a few numbers from the spring growth a lot of growers are utilizing this system to plant soybeans into and this is a green planting system so the growers use the rye planted into the rye and then as the rye was heading out they terminated it with a roller crimper some other experiments are taking place by trying to grow dry beans into residue and so this can also be an effective system to do so the thing about growing a crop in the spring is we need to monitor the moisture in a drier spring we may need to terminate the cover crops a little bit earlier now what about soybeans we've done some experiment also with with soybeans and here's an example of how we use a planter to plant the seeds right into the soybeans and if you look here at the right picture you can see the soybean was still very limited so the idea was early in season you can get in maybe you can get into the crop which you're planting equipment depending on your own spacing till the plants are a little bit taller but at a certain point you cannot go into the plot anymore without doing damage so the same field here we see on the left picture the soybean already has some parts and now we see the camalina growing underneath the crop so one of the trials I did was to use winter camalina 5.3 pounds cereal rye and I planted it into standing soybeans which had majorities of 04, 05, 08, and 09 and I did it at the R7 states of the earliest maturing soybean here a couple of pictures of what it might look like so in the season September we see the soybean is still standing the picture on the right October the soybean is harvested here we compare on the left camalina in October with rye here we comparing in the spring what camalina looked like it starts just to come out of the dormancy starts to grow and here kind of the picture of rye in the fall and in the spring so you can see in the spring quite a bit of growth occurring so what kind of numbers did we see well we saw in camalina the total over and that is in the spring about 250 pounds and rye we saw about 500 pounds so definitely rye has more biomass production in the spring compared with the camalina then I would like to finish up here with showing you that the biomass in the spring in the different maturities differ and you can look here at the last column the combined there was more biomass in what was previously the early maturing soybean because we had more light there for the cover crop to grow however we also need to kind of look at the economics and here I'm looking at the yield of the previous year that is the soybean yield when we interceded the cover crops we did not have any negative effect on the yield but we can see that early maturing definitely was not yielding as much as the late maturing so in summary you should not really select an early maturing variety to benefit a little bit on the biomass produced but you should really look at the full season and then maybe add some biomass so in summary I would say that we have a lot of opportunity to to grow several cover crops and I'm looking to continue with some of the research and I'm always happy to answer any of the questions


Okay, we're back, we're live. This is TinkTuck, I'm Jay Phydell. We're doing community matters with the BBB. That's the Better Business Bureau here in Hawaii, part of a national Better Business Bureau organization. And its manager is Rosane Freitas, she joins us. And it's, I guess it's reporter. It's Kelsey Gardipe, and she joins us. And we're going to talk about a number of things that have crossed the desk of BBB in recent weeks. And we want to stay in touch with them because they are in touch with the business community in this time of crisis, if you hadn't noticed. So let's talk first about this report that was done, Kelsey, about sexual harassment in nonprofits and how that affects contributions by those who would sponsor and contribute and support nonprofits. Can you talk about it? Absolutely, so the give.org donor trust report on special harassment and charitable sector was released a couple of weeks ago. And we surveyed over 2100 Americans as well as 1,000 Canadians to understand the connection between donors and charities when there is an instance of sexual harassment and how that incident will impact donor behaviors. Will they choose to continue supporting that organization? And we learned that donors who had learned about sexual harassment at charities, and these statistics here on the screen are of charities or donors in the U.S. We found that 22% of donors that had learned of sexual harassment would no longer continue to support that organization, or 17.1% would decrease their donation. And of those, if you could go to the next slide, of those 47.8 would choose to support a different organization in that same cause area. About 13.3% of U.S. donors said that they would replace that donation to a new cause altogether. And 38.9% alarmingly said that they would not replace their donation, whether it be to that same organization, a different organization in the same cause, or any other charity altogether. So it's not only the organization that could potentially be impacted, it's that whole cause and really the whole sector as a whole that could be impacted. And then charities, we asked donors what they expected charities to do as a result of allegations of sexual harassment coming out. So if we could go to the next slide, ultimately U.S. donors expect that charities would have an internal investigation. Almost 54% of donors indicated that was their preference, that they would have a policy to enforce and how they would handle sexual harassment allegations. 40.2% of donors thought that that was a good course of action. And then the third most popular with 48% of U.S. donors was hire a third party to handle an investigation. But the good news that we've found after this is all hope isn't lost. After appropriate corrective matters were taken or actions were taken, on the next slide I've got that 38.1% of U.S. donors have indicated that they would likely resume their normal level of donation to that organization, which tells BBB that sexual harassment is something that absolutely has an impact on donor behaviors. This is just a survey of what their intentions are. So we have two other factors to consider which is that we don't always hear about sexual harassment allegations at certain charities, particularly smaller charities. We do hear about it on larger scale organizations, particularly national organizations. So it may not come to light, so it may not impact donors or impact local charities as much. Donors also may choose to act differently. This is how they expressed that they would react. It doesn't mean that they'll always react exactly this way, but it does show that there is a connection between learning of sexual harassment in the charitable sector and how donors will perceive that behavior. You know, Roseanne, this is outside the normal operating area, outside the ordinary wheelhouse, so to speak, of the BBB. Why did the BBB do this particular survey and why did they do it now? Well, I think sexual harassment is always gonna be a hot topic. And they're also, well, you don't necessarily see that in our wheelhouse of sexual harassment. It is something that impacts businesses and charities. So it is something that we would suggest and talk and educate businesses about. I mean, this is not going away. People are not putting up with it anymore and businesses need to be aware. They need to have a plan in place, not to just prevent it, but to also have that plan address. What happens if it does, what we do as an organization to restore trust because it always comes back to that trust for us at BBB. And that is why the charity report came out because a lot of people don't look at charitable organizations and think sexual harassment, but it's there. And so we want them to up their game and up their standards and really have the trust, probably more than any industry. We have to expect trust within the charities. Okay, so suppose a given organization, a nonprofit, because this focus is on nonprofit, has a really bad report in the newspaper, scandalous, and they come to you. They say, what do we do now? Will you advise them? What will you do for them to help them restore their image? So I'm gonna kick that one to Chelsea because I mean, Kelsey, excuse me, because Kelsey, I know, sorry, Kelsey, it's one of those days. And the reason I'm gonna kick it to Kelsey because Kelsey actually does the interactions with all of the charities and because we are specifically talking about them, she actually would have a plan. So go ahead, Kelsey. What do you do for me? I mean, honestly, the situation hasn't come up for me personally, but if there were to be an issue and there was a case out against a charity that our local Better Business Bureau office would report on, then I would get in touch with that organization, particularly if they're a credit or have been evaluated by us and would offer guidance on whether they should implement a policy, make sure that their board has become involved. Clearly, we see that donors expect that there be an internal investigation as well as a third-party investigation and that they have a policy in place. And so offer resources to that organization to help them implement a policy if one isn't already in place. And if there were other organizations to come to us, seeing that there isn't an impact on the other charities, if they had any requests for guidance, I'd suggest a policy, since a policy would be a legal document, I wouldn't necessarily have a template, but I would guide them towards other resources so that they could put the practices into place to get to respond. If this appeared in the Star Advertiser on a given nonprofit one day, it was scandalous, would you make a note in your files? Would you treat that as a complaint of bad business? And if somebody came to you and said, I've been thinking of dealing with actually making a contribution to ABC company, should I do that? What do you know about this nonprofit? Because I know people come to and ask you that, we'll disclose the fact that there had been a public report of sexual harassment against this company. There's been a government action against the organization and that's something that we would be able to report on. It was something that I found in my Google alerts and it's something I'd make internal remarks on and reach out to the company or the charity over. But until it's something that the charity wants to make a statement about, or until it's a government action, it's not something that we would report on, particularly if it's just allegations. We don't report on gossip. So it's something we'd have definitely internal remarks on and we would do our own investigation as necessary. If that's something that seems appropriate for us, but if they're accredited, then that could absolutely impact their accreditation. Oh yeah, okay. You look like you wanted to add something to that. I thought what Kelsey, she hit it there. It's something that internally, because I read the news every day here in Hawaii. So anything I see whether it's on a business or on a charity, I must definitely am putting that into the system and porting that to the appropriate departments. Because there are departments that need to look, is this an issue? Is this something we need to deal with? But the legal action, yes, that is something that also comes across, but we're aware of what's going on and we will have a business or a charity reviewed if we feel something is in the news media that's a credible source that they could look into. Obviously gossip, no, we can't because that's just, we have to have an investigation. We have to have backing to anything that we put out. So what do we learn from this report? I suppose it's completely public. I'm sure it is completely public. You went to the trouble of doing it. And I'm a, I can't say a business owner. I'm a non-profit person. And I want to maximize support from my support group. My donators and contributors, what does it teach me? What does it teach me about what's going on in the community? What does it teach me about what goes through the mind of a contributor? Was it teach me about how maybe I should change my management style to avoid the risk of this? What does it teach me? Yeah, great. So the report itself is completely available on give.org. It's, you can see much more detail covered. The report does go into different donor behaviors based on gender and it also age range. And then so you see male versus female whether they would be more likely to donate in certain situations. We did also ask certain questions about certain scenarios. So if the workplace culture of a particular charity tolerated harassment, what then would the donor behaviors be after that? Or if leadership or staff looked away or if it was against a child or against an adult. So there are a lot more detailed than what I have shared already that are available in the report. And it's rather interesting to see, but ultimately the message to charities is that these allegations can absolutely impact whether donations will continue coming in. And in a time of COVID, in a time where we know that donor trust is so important and it's not already there, anything that could impact, particularly that could decrease donor trust is something that a charity needs to be prepared for. So the best thing that a charity can do is have practices in place and policies ready to go so that they can handle sexual harassment allegations swiftly and that they're not creating a workplace or volunteer space or relationships with their donors that would encourage or allow sexual harassment because donors, if they learn of it, will make decisions to support elsewhere or discontinue support altogether. Yeah, that's troubling. You mentioned there was a certain slice of the pie there where they would just turn off. They would blame every charity on the block. Yes, absolutely. It wouldn't give to anybody anymore anything, a pox on your house kind of thing. You mentioned the 38% would resume, but we did find in this study and these numbers could change based on actual actions, but roughly 8.7% of those surveys said that they would just discontinue support altogether and it didn't matter what the charity did to rectify the situation. They just stopped donating. So, I guess this is taken in the context of COVID and COVID is different. I've gotten to divide our time continuum from before COVID, that's BC, and then after COVID, that's AC, all right? So are you guys gonna do another one here?  What does it look like down the playing field for more similar kinds of surveys where a nonprofit can figure out, you know, what hurts it and how it can recover from this kind of damage to its contributor base? What's the plan? So this is the third year that we've done the donor trust survey. So we're chart donor behaviors, attitudes and donor trust over time. Last year, our special topic was disaster relief to really understand whether donors understand what charities say that they'll do with donor or with disaster relief donations. So generally how we do it is we do a survey of donors late at the end of the year and then midway through the year we survey charities on the same topic. So we see both angles of the story. I do believe that there will be a report later this year surveying charities on whether they have policies in place regarding sexual harassment. But yes, we do plan to continue having annual surveys on topics that are important for charities and donors to understand, to really give charities something to act on and donors more understanding of what happens when they support a charity. Yeah. Yeah, because it isn't that easy managing an unprofit and maintaining the kind of image you wanna have in the minds of your contributors. But let's move on. We're in COVID now and one of the really awful things about COVID is that it brings some of the rats out of the woodwork. It's really, you know, it's an interesting comment on the human condition that a crisis brings rats out of the woodwork and they do scams perhaps at a greater intensity than they have been ordinarily. So I'd like to talk about that. I'd like to talk about, for example, hacking and reports you've had of hacking and other online, you know, illegal or immoral things that have happened to the business community. Can you talk about it, Rosanne? Yeah, so I think the big one we know was the Twitter hack where they hacked into all the Twitter accounts of all of the top names out there and put out about cryptocurrency. So Twitter addressed it right away, shut down and didn't allow anything else to go through on those accounts and acknowledged that they hadn't been hacked. And actually what was probably the interesting part is their hacking went through employees. And usually that is going to be one of the problems you have. Anytime you have security set in place, it's also super important to make sure the employees understand the importance of it and why they need to not allow this information into the company system. So we're starting to see that with the hacking. We are in a time of fear between health and between the economic situation. And that makes it a perfect storm for those scammers out there, con artists, fraudsters, whatever we wanna call them. They're just really bad actors and they're gonna try to take advantage. They don't care that everybody else is in turmoil. They just wanna take the money and run. We've seen it, especially in international crime with unemployment fraud out of Washington and then they added another layer to that and funneling the money through romance victim scams so that it made it harder to trace for the federal government to follow the money. So we're seeing a lot more of that since COVID-19. Our numbers are up, our numbers for scams, for fraudulent activity, we're seeing it. It just really for us highlights the importance that the consumer really has to be educated and they have to do their homework to find a trustworthy business. And we can't believe everything we see just because something pops up on your phone and it says, hey, this is a great deal. It's like here that you shouldn't do that. So as consumers, we also have to do some educating which is a lot what we're doing here with your show today. This morning in one of my various newspapers about the University of California had a medical facility working on COVID vaccine, the laboratory. And they got attacked by ransomware. Somebody somehow got into their system. Maybe he was by way of an employee who clicked on the wrong email. I think that's what usually happens. And wow, often running. And this is, we're all in dire straits over this. It's an emergency. Finding a vaccine is an emergency. And these guys wanted $1.5 million to unlock what they had locked in the ransomware software. And the university said, we can't put our hands on that much money so quickly. We're only a laboratory. So give us a break. And they negotiated. And finally, it was something like 1.1 or something like that. And they gave them 1.1 in cryptocurrency. So it was completely anonymous and nobody can trace it. And they paid and then luckily the ransomware people released the data. But I have to say that it's bad enough. It's really criminal enough all the time. But to do that to somebody who's working on a vaccine that will save millions of lives is criminal to the nth degree. And as I was saying to you before the show, Rosanne, put me on the jury. Put me on the jury. You know, the problem though, is that these things happen and I think ransomware is a good example of that. And it comes in on somebody who doesn't know the difference. It comes in no matter what kind of security systems you have in place, because it's writing on as a trojan horse on email and it looks innocent enough. And before you know it, it's viral over your network. And there you go. At the end of the day, query is anybody actually investigating these crimes? Is anybody actually prosecuting them? Is anybody actually sending them to jail where they belong? I would do my part if I was on the jury. I assure you that now. But query, are we really doing anything to stop this? We can report it. We can warn people. I'm gonna ask you about that. But the first question is, have we done anything to deter these guys, these rats who come out of the woodwork from anywhere in the world? Can we, have we done anything to stop them? Well, we have in the past, not us personally at the Better Business Bureau, but the data we collect, we also share with the Federal Trade Commission. And then there are obviously FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service, all of that investigates. And they follow the money and they do catch them.  Unfortunately, it doesn't deter anybody from doing it and they continue to do it and they're doing it from all over the world. It's so many different places that they are attacking these different companies. So yes, as law enforcement is following it, but they can only do so much, we have a role that we can play as consumers. And probably the one, and I just mentioned it before was the money meals that we're starting to see. They are the romance scam victims. So what they're doing is they're being approached by the scammers in the skies of a romance. And they work months on this. They make, you know, the connection, they build the relationship, they build this trust. And then eventually they ask this person to funnel money for them. Basically, oh, I'm gonna be sending you money from this one account, but I can't for some reason get it out of the country. So I need you to put it through your bank account and send it on.  You've only developed this relationship online. So as consumers, we too have to play a role and say, hold it, this doesn't sound right. And that's where we can help prevent what's happening out there. Law enforcement is behind it. You have to report it. That is the only way they know what's going on. So it does seem somewhat frustrating at times because we keep hearing about it. So, you know, we just have to keep working to try to stop it. Well, would you confer with your clientele Kelsey when you try to counsel with them and help them?  And frankly, if I'm a contributor to a nonprofit and I see my nonprofit was hacked or my nonprofit had to give up a million dollars because of ransomware, I'm not so excited about giving them more money because I figure they were somehow negligent and I give them the money and it winds up in the hands of rats. So, you know, their image, the nonprofit's image is tarnished by having to, they have to report this sort of thing and it's tarnished by the experience and the report. What do you tell them? What is your advice to them about how to avoid this kind of hack? That's a really interesting question, Jay. I mean, going along with what Roseanne has said, a lot of what Better Business Bureau can do is to help advise both consumers and business owners the safe practices to take. You know, you really do need to be vigilant when you're online, it used to be when I used to do presentations to high school students to teach them to avoid being victims of scam. It used to be as easy as saying, well, look for the lock symbol next to the HTTPS, that'll tell you the website's secure. That in itself used to be a great indicator of whether it was a trustworthy website or not. That's no longer the case because scammers have gotten more creative and they're picking up on the things that people like Better Business Bureau, you know, have educated the public. So now the scammers are getting more creative and the scams are getting harder to identify if you're not paying attention. So the same things that we'd be telling businesses or consumers are the same things that I'd be telling charities. I don't personally believe, and this is my, you know, obviously my personal opinion, if a charity were to be hacked, I don't know that it would necessarily tarnish donor trust. That is though why we recommend that charities have privacy policies in place so that we know what measures they're taking to protect donor or client information that they've received via their website or via other forms and email applications. So falling back on privacy practices, that's something that we would really look to strengthen. But I don't personally think that it would tarnish their public responsibility or the public, just because any business, big business, little business, all of them can be victim. And I think the assumption is that charities don't always have as much by way of technology or the top program. So I think if anything, it'd be a little bit more understood that a charity could possibly be hacked. But again, you just need to be vigilant. Well, there was about a year ago, Merisk M-A-E-R-S-K, which is a multinational global shipping company. You've seen their containers everywhere in the world. They were hacked with a ransomware hack and they decided they were going to rebuild their system. And they put all the people from all over the world, traveled, they stopped all operations, brought them into London, I think, and they sat around a table and figured out how they're gonna take little pieces of data from this source and that source and rebuild their system. Now, Merisk had plenty of money to do that. And they had the talent within their organization that could figure it out. The average company, as you say Kelsey, you're not gonna have that or not even close. They don't have the money to even have a robust system in the first place. But the point that I raised is that Merisk is a global company. You'd think they would have systems. You'd think they could avoid this kind of hacking. And so big companies are equally exposed and it's worthwhile for the rat to attack them because the solution, at least in the case of ransomware is to have a backup, isn't it true? So you're saying, I mean, what kind of backup would you say, what kind of advice could you give about creating a backup that would survive a ransomware attack? So really what people need is a backup system that's not attached to what they have online so that if they went into the one system, they're not able to attack the other system. So they need a separate one in the cloud to back it up. But at the same time, they also need something separate physically, like some, especially small businesses that have their servers or their backup in their offices. I think with the storm that we just had this weekend really highlighted, had it hit those businesses, they would have lost that data as well. So it's very important with all of the pertinent information from client information, vendor information, tax returns, all of the accounting, you need a backup in the cloud or a backup virtually that's not in your office. Yeah, I certainly agree. Now one thing that we should cover before we close here is this whole thing about cryptocurrency. Now you can call me a fuddy duddy, but when they started talking about this anonymous kind of payment thing, then trading in anonymous payments. Now there are people I know, nice people, nice people who love this stuff and actually make money with cryptocurrency, but I can't see the need for that kind of thing in the market. I think anonymous money and secret money is very troubling and here they're using it for the worst possible reasons. That's how they got away with it in the University of California with this cryptocurrency thing. How do you feel about that? Is this a positive addition to business or is this something that we should look to outlaw? I think it's something that's gonna have to have a lot more research behind it and because it's still new and it's really risky and speculative, you've gotta be really careful anytime you work with cryptocurrency. And the one thing you need to remember it's not backed by any government entity. And I think we're so used to FDIC, everything they've federally insured and all of that but cryptocurrency doesn't have any of that. So once that code has left you, you're done. The money is gone. And people like it because there is no regulation but the flip of that is the regulation also helps protect you, the consumer and the business. So I think it's one of those that will, we wouldn't recommend it right now but it is possible in time as they figure it out and get through all of that that it becomes less risky but it's still a risky and speculative right now. I think American culture is individualism and privacy. And a privacy is good but the problem is with cryptocurrency and just my view, I haven't studied it much but the problem with cryptocurrency is it allows people to keep their transactions secret such as our president who would like to keep all his transactions secret, even though he's president and it may be things that his tax returns or accounting papers we would like to know because it will tell us about him and his background and his way of operating. And I think there's a, although you don't like the government knowing your business because they could use it against you there's a weighing in balancing here about having secret transactions versus transactions that are what do you call it, classic transactions that are identifiable. That's an ethical question, of course. So we're about out of time, Kelsey. All of this being the case, here we are six months into COVID and the BBB is on the job. What would you advise the business community to be careful of these days? What would you advise them when they're having lots of trouble to stay aware, stay awake, avoid being scammed? What would you advise them? I'm just keeping in communication with who you're doing business with whether that's your general clientele or new ones and follow your gut feeling if something feels off then further investigate. Yeah, totally. They're opportunistic, these people and we have to watch for them. Okay, Rosanne, you get the final word. What would be your advice and your message from the BBB to the business community? And the consumer community. And the consumer, for both, the same message. Ours is to always act with integrity whether you're the business or you're the consumer. It's really about trusting that marketplace between the two of them. So when you're looking for a trustworthy business you need to look to the BBB and look at the record of these businesses. There are a lot of great businesses out there and we really need to support them. Yeah, let me just chime in on that to say that what people say that we have to reimagine ourselves. We have to reimagine everything. We're recreating, we're in a transformative time now. And at the end of the tunnel here, hopefully it's soon, we will have a different world. We are having a different world right now. And you guys are involved in that, and good for you that you are. But bottom line is one of the things that sometimes we focus too much on is the law per se. We should be looking for decency, for ethical conduct, for moral behavior. And that's what the transformative revelation is for me anyway. And I'm sure that you guys are in the same place. Comment, Rosanne, yeah? Yeah, I do. We need to exceed standards. We don't wanna make minimum standards. None of us want somebody who just minimally qualifies. So all businesses really need to exceed standards. And the one thing that won't change in this transformation time is the trust. Trust between business and consumer. Yeah. Okay, well thank you guys for building trust for helping us understand what builds trust in our donors and our business partners and our consumers. Thank you for being kind of the gateway to good business practices. Thank you, Rosanne. Thank you, Kelsey. Hope to talk to you again soon. Thank you, Jay. Thank you.


All right. Hey Christopher green left a comment asking about markers on art resin for Comic-con coming up. You wanted to get some signatures on it. Good question So we actually have videos where art resin is used as a whiteboard. So this is white Sorry whiteboard marker here. It's normal whiteboard marker and that was this one that I did first the wipes off easily So you can use as a whiteboard and this line here is sharpie Now with harpy right on it. So this one's this one here's been, you know, oops, sorry This one right here has been on for 30 seconds and doesn't come off at all. This one 10 second doesn't come off So there's your answer. You can write on it with Sharpie and it will stay on the surface and you can use it as a whiteboard and it will wipe off Cool. Good idea. Send a picture of it if you get something cool. We'd love to see it When resigning a puzzle you might want to pre-seal the puzzle as well with something like a mod podge because sometimes if the puzzle is too absorbent The edge lines of the puzzles will get dark because the resin will actually soak in and your lines will your puzzle shape lines Will just look a bit darker. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. All right, Christopher green Hope that helps. Bye


Hi Hey, hey um, I'm really so honored to be here because Actually my inspiration for this entire project was my Swedish grandfather who was an Engineer who was knighted by the Swedish King actually and moved to the United States and and was a very passionate environmentalist who Kind of started realizing towards the end of his life that a lot of the work that he'd been doing to to automate things and build silos and kind of create a lot of Things involved in our food system and in major scale engineering in our country was starting to actually erode The quality of life that people had And it was a conversation that he had with me very late in his life that actually was the impetus for this project so it's really really such an honor to be back here in his country knowing that I've been able to have an impact here and that actually window farming has become very popular in Sweden because of the desire to You know grow food during the winter you guys really get that so And and Nancy couldn't be here But he's a friend of mine one of the co-founders of Kickstarter and I've spoken with him before so I kind of know Why he invited me and that's because specifically this project is not a film or a book or You know an album which are kind of a lot of the the more traditional product of projects that get put onto crown fun and crowdfunding sites and so Yancey and Perry like to ask me to talk because they see this as an example of one of the kinds of projects that they think Represent kind of a new a new era of projects that are really possible because of crowdfunding so First I'll just tell you a little bit about the window farms project But I'm not going to focus on that because I want to again be able to talk more about crowdfunding and good strategies for that so Some of you all may have heard about the urban agriculture movement and Especially vertical farming so the idea of putting a farm into a skyscraper and putting that in the middle of the city to help out with the Problem of really supplying fresh food on those things that die very quickly and transit And lose a lot of their nutritional value By doing that inside of a city you can actually using very high-tech agriculture You can provide some of that fresh nutrition to the city locally and This is a This is a set of technologies that are actually very viable and Which are also very popular because who doesn't love a room full of plants Especially really fresh ones so I think that that's part of the cause of this idea just kind of spreading everywhere but there's actually still a lot of I'm Engineering work to be worked out and there's also a lot of experimentation With agriculture at this level, especially doing it in an environmentally responsible way and in a way that involves good nutrition That sort of it's a little bit of a chicken and egg problem of having to have the billions of dollars that it will take to Build one of these things and then also not knowing whether or not whether we're going to build it right so I'm Three years ago. I got excited about the idea of why should just the scientists be able to be in this awesome Big crazy building full of plants. What if all of us could actually have a small version of that experience? Right there in our own home so that we're getting to benefit from some of that quality of life And we're also getting to learn a lot more about where our own food comes from and actually become agriculturalists again, which is You know such a fundamentally human pursuit so What if we actually rethought what a window is and thought about actually our relationship with the environment and bringing some of that very in-depth relationship with Essentially transforming our relationship with with cities and with their role with ecology What if we actually were able to tinker with that on a much more personal scale? So I had been working in the open-source software movement And my idea was what if I take open-source software and that kind of structure of Collaboration and I apply it to these physical systems And so again bring it to the personal scale Focus on making some of these technologies organic because Hydroponics and a lot of these technologies tend not to be organic There are some issues involved there and to really make that open-source collaboration work for something physical And so now Three years later. We actually have very viable working prototypes all over the world that are being Tested and implemented by hundreds and hundreds of people using of all slightly different methods and they're all reporting back to our Central website where we have a social media site. Um, so a window farm is It allows you to grow a pretty wide variety actually of vegetables anything but root vegetables or things that are really tall like corn and wheat and It's really a mass collaboration project. So there are people all over the world like like David mentioned and Basically, it's the way that it works is that there's a reservoir of some kind down at the bottom which holds a liquid nutrient solution so it's water with The particular kinds we use have molasses ground up seaweed and seabird guano essentially dissolved into this water and it and there's a pump that's on a timer that sends some of this liquid Nutrient up to the top the plants roots are sitting in clay pellets. It trickles through and Essentially bottle feeds the plants so they grow differently than they do in soil actually and so you're able to fit a lot more Plants into a very small area And and so we're an open source project So we actually have available online very detailed instructions on how to make these systems Using any variety of containers, but the easiest thing to use is to reappropriate water bottles And so we have we now have over 20,000 people around the world who have downloaded the instructions and have been building their own systems And then we started supporting ourselves by actually making kits That we sold in the United States which were everything but the water bottles and now we're actually starting to produce products So I'm a much more polished and finished System that's designed by really great industrial designers and that also supports the mass collaboration project once you get a window farm up and running you got to do a couple things to tweak it and to Understand how it's going to work in your own particular windows in your own conditions And it really is a farming project You are having to make the same sort of decisions as a farmer does about what you're going to plant where and what portion of your real estate is going to be used up for what kind of plant and You don't have to have a green thumb because you learn how to do this from other window farmers and we share We basically share information as we try out different air looms species and understand this particular species grows well under these conditions Versus someone else So we have all of these people all over the world who have been collaborating and sharing knowledge about how to do this and and at one point it just really Hit me that I was running out of money to to fund this project And I needed to figure out how to make it fund itself in this at this point. We had about 4,000 users and so You know, I had I tried all variety of things I tried getting funding from more foundation type Organizations as as an NGO in the United States and really because we were so Unusual we were having a hard time getting any kind of funding. So That was when I took my first crowd sourcing project and did a Kickstarter and this particular This was very pretty early on in Kickstarter's career and Basically the focus of the Kickstarter campaign was to really appeal to people's hearts so to have them have the experience when they're supporting the project of Really contributing to something and having a role that they were playing in this this project making it And the particular project was to fund us to be able to sell kits to support ourselves and Using the funding that we got from that we were actually able to launch a kit sales business Which we've now made a hundred and thirty thousand dollars from which does not quite cover all of the costs of the project in total But has generated a relatively good amount of revenue and at the time So this was a little bit before Simon's project about nine months before that and and there were a couple of Strategies that I used first of all because I was appealing to the heart I had it coincide with the time that many people are committing their philanthropic dollars for the year So it was right before right between Christmas and and New years that the campaign closed So that was really good timing for people who are writing their checks at the end of the year So it was more thinking strategically about when are people gonna have money available? The second thing is that I knew that we had to win We needed to nobody wants to jump on a sinking sinking ship People always want to join something that they can tell is winning So in my back pocket I had a funder who I knew was really committed to the project and instead of having her write the check earlier I said I went to her and I said how about we leverage this money that you're gonna that? I know that you're gonna be willing to commit to the project and have it be You know something that makes the project win so that other people will commit And that actually worked so about a week into the project I had her write that check and all of a sudden we had seven thousand dollars Towards our twenty thousand dollar goal and people were like wow what happened? And then all of a sudden we were starting to get a lot more commitments and donations um But so that was in 2009 the end of 2009 the beginning of 2010 And our community is actually a very long-term community if you build a window farm and you're growing things in it You are a really dedicated person in this community So we actually have to fund ourselves for a very very long time and my theory is that you actually cannot Do a crowdfunding project from the heartstrings twice you can only do it once Because you're going back and appealing to that same community again, and you just it takes a lot of kind of PR To get that those people's attention and you're just I think it's going to be a really tricky thing to do that twice so our next set of crowdfunding projects that we're doing to Forward the organization are going to be appealing to people's purses And so we've learned a lot about our business essentially over the course of selling kits And now we're going to follow a model for selling our new fancy window farms That's much more like the model that the tick-tock and Group used where they were basically they've they raised close to a million dollars on Kickstarter I'm selling basically just these plastic bands that let you stick an iPod nano in to basically make it a watch And they were doing pre sales of this product And if you look at their video compared to other people's videos What you'll notice is that basically their videos are just completely sales So the entire proposition is you are getting a great deal So they don't talk very much at all about their own personal story their own personal passion or motivation Except for to the extent that they're proving that they're going to be able to execute on it So I think that that's that's one thing that we're just seeing happen Between crowds in crowdfunding projects is that there are some that are really kind of focused on this You are getting a good deal versus you are doing a good deed And I think that there's a lot of blending of the two which is really really important on these funding sites But if you're going to do a crowdfunding project You really want to kind of come from which one of those is my leading strategy and use the other And use the rest of the story to kind of build around that but fundamentally make that that choice And That's it And this is my email if anybody I'm happy to help you with your Kickstarter strategy or your other crowdfunding strategy So please send me an email


This is the Feature Flags page, and this is a list of features that are behind the flag.  It immediately will disable it to users. The benefit of using Feature Flags is that it allows you to release new features and if something is going not well in production, you come here and just disable it. And you don't need to roll back to a previous version and you can lose some features that are working well and you don't want to lose them. So here it's a you just can disable a specific features. Now let's create together a new Feature Flags. So I will give it a name. I can give it a description and now I will define some strategies. So I have a few environments and I want to start with the QA environment. So for the QA, I want that all users will be exposed to that feature and I will create another strategy from the staging environment. And in the staging, I want only specific user IDs to be exposed to that feature. So I will add my user ID. That means if I turn this feature on, all users will not see it only with my user ID, I will be able to see this user. And I will create another strategy for production. So when we will release the code to production, I want that only 50% of the users will see this feature. Okay, so this is the new Feature Flag that I created and it is enabled by default. Now I will open the code and create a feature in the code. So this is the file that I will edit with the Web IDE. To use Feature Flags, you need to use the English client. And the only service is embedded in this GitLab instance. This is the code that you hide the feature behind a Feature Flags. So I will modify it to the name of the feature we just defined. So if it is enabled, I will see this message. Otherwise, I will see the old message, which is the old feature, the current feature.  And new pipeline just started. It will build, test, and deploy it to create staging and production environment. So this process will take a few minutes. While it is running, I will show you the client that I created. So this application doesn't have UI. It works with API. So I created the best client to test the application. I defined here three URLs, the production URL, the staging URL and the QA URL. So I defined the four users, Dan, John, Eric and Isaac. And in the loop for each environment, we will register to the environment. Then we will log in. And then we will get the authentication message. And some users will get the new message behind the Feature Flags and others will get the old message according to the strategies that I defined in the Feature Flags. So let's go back to the pipeline. Perfect. Now my new feature is being deployed to all of the environments. All right. So I will now open the terminal and run the best script that we have just seen. It connects first to the production environment. And the strategy here is to enable the feature to 50% of the users, which is two users will see the new feature. The staging environment, we defined that only Isaac will see the new feature. And this is the new feature for Isaac. And the QA environment, we defined that everyone, all users will see the new feature. So as expected, everyone see the new feature. Now, if I will go back to the Feature Flags page, I can come here and just disable it. And if I will now run the client again, all users will see the allowable, which is the state before the new feature.


Are there times when you wish you could just type in a few characters and have your computer do exactly what you want? J is a computer language that lets you do it. Want to multiply numbers? J makes your computer a calculator. Want to add a list of numbers? Just enter the list and J does the adding, or multiplying, or subtracting. No loops, no counters, just calculations. And if you want to sum up a list the hard way, then you can just put pluses between each of the numbers. The easy way? Just put a forward slash after a plus in front of the list, and it will total the list. Change the plus to an asterisk, and you get the product. And you can quickly create arrays of any shape with up to 63 dimensions. Why would I want to work with arrays? Well, it might be as simple as displaying a time-stable, or as complicated as finding the inverse of a matrix. You see the R's in the middle of those numbers? That's how J lets you represent fractions precisely. Numerator before the R, and denominator after. And that makes for some really easy arithmetic. But you say, I don't work with numbers, I work with words, and I want to be able to analyze a list of words? Well, give me some words, and with just two characters, I can box up each word, and then with 12 more characters, that's characters, not lines of code, I can return a table of the words and the number of times each word is in the list. This is because J is a language where you put parts together the way a plumber might connect pipes. But with J, you have a lot of different pipes and connectors to work with, and you can even build your own contraptions to fit onto J's existing pipes. And there are some very powerful pipes that have already been built for you. Say you have the last 99 days of Apple's closing price stored in the variable R, and you need to create a graph like right now. Using plot, it's super simple. Or maybe I want a bar graph. And let's put in a title. With plot, we can also use math to create beautiful graphs. If we want it, J already has a definition of the sine function. Do those pipes? Then we can generate 10 intervals from minus 4 to plus 4, and take those values and apply sine to them. Now that we have the basics down, let's really go for a spin. Surface plots look pretty neat, and of course they're already built in. How about a mathematical egg crate? The bottom line is J can do a lot of things without much fuss, and when it does them, it tends to do them very quickly. So if you're intrigued by J, check out some of these resources, and soon you'll be able to get your computer to do exactly what you want without having to do a lot of work yourself.


What SG if they were all gone, which one would you have to have it would it be vintage or is it a newer one? It's a vintage one the one that I've always Had and been on nearly every album every album. I've ever done is a guitar that Now I you know because it's been on so many, you know AC DC sucked I just save it for the studio now and I keep it like You know, I keep it away, you know, I don't want to because it over the years when I used to use it live You know, you've got so many bumps and cracks and well And I got to the point where I just thought I I don't want it damaged it anymore I want to make sure preserve it that You know that it's there for when I'm doing, you know studio stuff, you know and and it I've got it when I've got that guitar.  Yeah, that's a great sound. That's a good sound But ain't that one is you sound that's the one, you know It's just got its own thing to it


What is going on everybody, Astos here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be talking about the top five stocks and ETFs that I'm watching and looking to trade in the third week of January in 2019. But before we do get into that, for all your new viewers out there watching the channel for the first time, my name is Stos and I make videos dealing with swing trading, day trading, long-term investing and my personal philosophies and strategies when it comes down to investing and trading in the stock market. So for those of you guys that want to learn more about that, feel free to drop a like, leave a comment and subscribe and follow me on Instagram as well as on Twitter and join our Discord group chat as well as our Facebook group. All of those are linked down below in the description box. So let's get right into the topic of today's video. We're going to be looking at the SPX very quickly so we can see what the 500 largest companies in the US stock market have been doing over the past couple of weeks. And it should be no surprise at this point that after Christmas, guys, the markets have been rallying. It's about two weeks of trading days at this point that the markets have been recovering from this bottoming out point. And for those of you guys that have not been paying attention to the stock market, which I'm sure is a very small percentage of those of you that are viewing this video right now, but I'll talk about it anyway very quickly. The market has been getting slaughtered from the beginning of October in 2018. Right around this point, right, we were at around 2950 in terms of the S&P 500. We fell all the way down to around 2630 by the end of October. And in the month of December, we kicked it into a new gear in terms of selling. The selling got, you know, more rapid, more panic selling started to kick in. And we pretty much sold off from about 2787 all the way down to around 2350 in the month of December alone. And I believe we close the day this low that you guys see right here, 2346. I do believe this was on Christmas Eve. Let me just quickly get closer here so we can see. Let's see. Yup, it was on Christmas Eve. We hit this low at around 2346 in terms of the market. And, you know, as we can see here on a more zoomed in chart, we've been on a straight up trend of higher highs, higher lows over the past, you know, two weeks of trading days, right? All these black bars here, these resemble a trading day. So we can count them very quickly, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. So about 12, 13, 12, 13 trading days, we've been pushing up from that low and we're still in that uptrending pattern. But what I want you guys to keep an eye on and what I'm keeping an eye on is the resistance that we have here on the SPX at around 2620 and the next one at around 2630. So we do see, you know, some potential slow down in the SPX. We are seeing some consolidation right around this area with a resistance right now, you know, right around that 2600 range. So I'm keeping an eye here guys, if we do end up getting rejected by this resistance, we could push to the downside if we do end up breaking under the 50 and 180 SMAs after we do get rejected if that does happen. But let's say we bounce on this green SMA, we start to break those resistances, you know, there's going to be more green and more upside, you know, in the overall markets if that does end up happening because as of now, you know, these are some very main, you know, very strong technical resistances on the 180 chart here for the SPX. So let's hop right into it guys. What are these five stocks and ETFs that I'm watching for this upcoming week? Let's start off with UGAS guys. UGAS is the number one ETF that I'm watching this week and judging off this 180 chart guys, we broke a very strong, you know, technical resistance here on the 50 SMA. This has been a resistance in the past. We noticed from that huge run in natural gas back in November, we peaked at 260. We started to downtrend from there. We broke the 50 SMA here and we haven't broken above it since about yesterday or the previous trading day and the previous trading day before that. So we broke that technical indicator in terms of UGAS and for those of you guys that don't even know, this is an ETF that trades on natural gas. This right here, this future we see slash NG, whenever it's going up in price, that's when UGAS is going up in price. So we saw natural gas held this very strong support at around $295. We consolidated there from about the 31st of December all the way to about the 10th of January, literally just three days ago, and then we got that pop-up. We ended up breaking below the previous support, which was now a new resistance. We broke that and we're about at $3.15 in terms of the price of natural gas.  We can see up 20 cents on the day nearly up around 6.3%. So we do notice that, you know, judging on a more technical basis here, we do notice that, you know, natural gas is a little bit overbought in terms of the RSI. So I would honestly like to see a little pullback in terms of natural gas, but I want it to hold above this 310 support here, which was a previous resistance, but again, since we broke above it now, it's acting as a support again. So if it's able to break or, you know, what's it called? If it's able to pull back and hold the 310 support from back here in, you know, October and November, you know, that could be a very good entry point for you guys for a couple of days or even a day trade, right? For those of you guys that watched my previous video, previous trading update video, I actually day traded you guys this past Friday for, I believe it was around 4% profit. So you guys at the top of my list, guys, you know, with an entry point, I'm thinking around, you know, roughly $45 to $44. If we do end up getting that pullback, but let's say we don't get that pullback and natural gas continues to surge up, you know, the strategy is going to change at that point, and I'm sure I'll talk to you guys about that in the group chat, you know, on DMs and stuff like that. And of course, you know, in the next trading update video. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of you guys, there's a couple of more that I'm talk, I want to talk about in terms of inverse ETFs. But before we do talk about those, let's talk about two stocks very quickly that I find very, very interesting right now. So one of those is going to be AMD advanced micro devices right off the bat here, guys, on the 20 day one hour chart, we do see a cup pattern starting to form on AMD, we noticed that it held above the 180 SMA here at a higher low point from the previous and we can see that based on this trend line here, that's a pretty decent trend line, right guys, I know it's cutting this a little bit, but you guys get the idea, right, we held, you know, we held it here at 1603 held the higher low 1650 held the higher low at about 1730 and now we held another higher low at around 1950 $20. So if we do hold this 50 SMA here heading to tomorrow's trading session, you know, and we start to head back into the 2050 range, I do see some profit margin, you know, from around 2050 up to previous resistances at around 2150, that gives it around a 5% margin. But you know, this could be a cup and handle pattern, you know, starting to form here. So I'd be careful if this one starts to get near, you know, the 21, 2150 range, because it very well could get rejected and start to go back down at that point. Or if it breaks that resistance at around 2150, that could be another, you know, point where it could surge up to $22, 2250. But I think that's getting a little bit ambitious on this one, guys, because I don't really think AMD is going to run up to 22 quite yet. But who knows, guys, anything could happen, especially if the market, let's say surges, you know, 500 points to 1000 points in the Dow Jones over the next two, three trading days, we might get some volume into AMD, which could push it to the 22 range. But, you know, I'm just going to wait for the opportunity to open up to me. I'm not going to get too antsy with this trade. I'm going to wait until the $20 and 50 range, maybe 2075, judge the technicals from there. And, you know, I'm going to enter my position accordingly. But if we're talking on the 180 chart here, you know, very similar guys, right, we held the 180SMA support, we bounced on it, we're looking to consolidate at around 2030, before we head to the next high. So it's very important right now to keep an eye around the $20 and 50 range in terms of AMD. And I'm going to set an alert right there actually, right now $20 and 51 cents close enough, mark is at or above 2051. And if you guys don't know how to make an alert, let me quickly explain this while I have your guys' attention. So $20 and 51 cents, what you want to do is right click on your mouse, come down here, create alert, and here at the price, make it mark, right, is at or above, which is going to notify you when the price gets at the price level that you're, you know, identifying here or above the price level that you're identifying here, right? Or if you want to do it the different way where you want to, you know, get alerted when a stock is down trending or breaking a price target that's lower than the target that it's actually at right now, you would do at or below. But in this case, I want to be notified when AMD is at or above 2051. So I'm going to leave it there, right? It's going to put this gold line right here, giving me the alert right around this area if it does end up breaking that point. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of AMD. Another one that I'm watching is Etsy ticker symbol ETSI. And this is actually one that was talked about in the Discord group chat. I forget who brought it up, but somebody brought it up. I checked it out. And on a technical basis, I'm really liking what Etsy is looking like right now. So we can see, guys, overall, this huge margin of profit was open from $58 all the way down to around $42. That's actually a massive margin of profit, around 25% margin to be exact. And from there, guys, you know, since the markets have been doing well, the markets have been recovering, right? This was from literally the day, you know, that the markets, you know, hit their lows on Christmas Eve from there. Etsy has been doing pretty well. And it's pulled back again recently from around $55 all the way down to $50, opening up that 7%, 8% margin. We bounced on that 180 SMA holding that higher high, or rather holding that higher low, right? You guys see that if I zoom in a little bit closer, it's a little easier to see here. We held that higher low. And now we're seeing if we're going to be testing, you know, the previous high at around $55. So an entry point that I like on Etsy is going to be at around $53. So let me quickly create that alert, guys. And let me explain why I like this entry point for Etsy. So we see, you know, we've bounced on this top trend line right here, bounced on 180 SMA very nicely, strong green candlestick. But towards, you know, after market hours and towards the end of the day, we started to see a pullback, right? So if we pull back tomorrow and end up going in this direction, that's not going to be a very good sign, right? But let's say we start the head in this direction, but we hold the trend again, and we start to push back up and holding another higher low from the previous, that could be a good sign that we're continuing in the uptrending pattern, continuing to around the $53 range, which would hit my alert. And that would be a good entry point in my opinion. But again, let's say we get rejected here, right? We continue the downtrend, we break this trend line, we break the 180 SMA, I'm not going to be watching Etsy at that point, right? It doesn't make sense to watch a stock or an ETF that broke the pattern that you were originally watching it for, if that makes any sense, right guys? And at any point of this video, if you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment, let me know. And also, if you were watching any stocks yourself, any ticker symbols, drop them down below in the comment section. And while you're at it, smash that like button if you're enjoying this video and the content that I've been putting out on YouTube. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of Etsy guys, pretty solid uptrend reversal pattern right now, looking for it to break the $53 mark. So another ticker that I'm going to be watching is JDST. And this is the bear ETF for the gold futures. And for those of you guys that don't know, you know, gold futures slash GC, whenever they're going down in price, that's when JDST is going up in price. And there's a bull ETF as well, which means that whenever GC gold futures are going up in price, the bull ETF, which in this case is JNUG, is going up in price as well. So we're seeing pretty strong resistance on the gold futures right now. Honestly, they've quadrupled top at this $1300, $1295, $1300 resistance. We can see it here guys, we can see it here, here as well. And here, this quadruple top, and you know, this is a resistance, or I think it was a support back in May of 2018. And let's take a quick look at that. See, it was a support back in May of 2018 right here. And obviously, once a support is broken beneath of, it becomes a new resistance. So we saw the downtrend in gold earlier on 2018. We found the bottoming out point here. And we formed kind of a cup pattern right here now. And we're seeing some strong resistance right at that previous support, which again is now a new resistance level. So if we're going in a little bit closer on the gold futures here, I think, you know, there is potential for them to pull back, maybe back to the 1270 range, maybe back to the 1280 range, before they potentially continue the uptrending pattern. And how I'm looking to play this guys is, you know, I'm looking to play JDST this week, if we do get this reversal to the downside for the gold futures, and we'll know that for sure, in my opinion, when we break around 1280, right, if we start to pull back pre-market hours, and you know, the futures are open 6pm Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, so you can get a better look at the price action, at the technicals, you know, before the actual stock market opens, you know, on Monday, 9.30am Eastern Standard Time. So this could give you an advantage, but you know, if they start to push down, and especially if they break 1280 guys, I think they'll be able to get to the 1270 range, maybe 1275, which would give JDST a very solid margin of profit, right? We see JDST has been consolidating, has found a new support at around $44, starting to push up, and at that point guys, if the gold futures, you know, they break that 1280 point, they start to head towards that 1280 point, and eventually, if they do break it, JDST is going to be trending up very nicely here, it's going to be above the 50 SMA, and at that point guys, it's probably going to be in the low 50s, mid 50s, right around that range. So you know, I'm looking to play the downside of gold futures, and if they do start to find support here, and do start to continue this uptrend, you know, that could be a good entry point for JNUG, which is an awesome thing about these inverse ETFs guys, they are very risky, but if you do play them correctly, you can hop in and out of them and profit on the downside, and profit on the upside, right? Very cool thing about these. And let's say, we don't even get that pullback, right? Let's say I'm completely wrong, that doesn't happen, which again, could happen, right? I'm not right 100% of the time, no one's right 100% of the time. Let's say tomorrow we wake up, and we're in the 1300-1305 range, you know, my strategy is going to be completely different. At that point, you know, I'm going to be trading JNUG because we're going to be in that bull run again, we're going to be, you know, heading up, breaking higher highs, you know, breaking resistances, and that's going to just completely change the strategy, which is why you always have to be on top of your technical analysis. It's super, super important. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of the gold futures here, JNUG and JDST. So the fifth and final ETF that I'm watching is UWT, and this is another inverse ETF, guys. This one trades on crude oil, slash CL is the ticker for crude oil, and pretty much how this works is whenever crude oil is going up in price, that's when UWT is going up in price as well. So for judging on the longer-term chart here on crude oil, the 184-hour chart here, we can see, you know, all of us really know this at this point that I've been following the stock market at that really just keep an eye on news all the time, is that we know crude oil has been getting slaughtered. I think it had like one of the worst two, three months in a row in a 10-year span, guys. It literally lost like 40% of its value nearly. Yeah, like 45% from, you know, $77 all the way down to around $43. But the key thing here in terms of technicals, right, is we broke the first resistance of the 50-simple-moving average, which has been resistance in the past, as we can see here, right? We were having trouble breaking out of it and here as well, and then we broke above the 180-SMA, 180-simple-moving average, which, again, you know, that's been a resistance in the past. And the fact that we broke those guys, that's a very good reversal pattern to the upside for crude oil. And now we notice that it hit another resistance from a previous price at around $53.60 to $54. We pulled back and now we're, you know, holding that uptrend trendline that I have drawn out here with a green candlestick on this trendline. So what this really did, guys, this little pullback here, it opened up that margin of profit on, let's see, UWT, right? We can see on a closer-term chart here, you know, it opened up from $13.75 down to around $12. It opened up around, you know, a 10% margin of profit for UWT. So I'm going to be a little bit more patient with this trade, guys, because I do see some more potential, you know, maybe more potential downside in crude oil, especially since it broke this 50-SMA on the 20-day one-hour chart, maybe around, like, let's say the 51 range, $50 range, maybe even back down to the 180-SMA range, which at that point would be around $50. I think it does have potential to pull back down to there. And again, just like JDST and JNUG, we can always play the downside, which would be DWT in this point, right? And then once crude oil found that support, started to push back up, we can hop into UWT on the inverse and then profit on the upside. So let me know what you guys think about this. Are you trading any crude oil ETFs? I think they're going to be very interesting plays this upcoming week. Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think. And I'm going to end the video off right here for today. If you guys enjoyed the video, smash that like button. It really does support the channel. I really do appreciate you guys watching. Drop a comment. Again, if you have any questions, any ticker symbols, please drop them down below in the comments section. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter, and join our Discord group chat, as well as our Facebook group. All of those are linked down below in the description box. I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your Sunday. I'll catch you all in the next video. If you're in the Discord group chat, I'll talk to you guys in there. Peace out.


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