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Welcome to the July 1st the fantastic Friday edition of today's Traders Edge show I'm your host Stevie Perseverance Rhodes who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past Hope everyone out there is having a great day Hey, let's make sure we have an extraordinary one and the easiest way to do that It's 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 gonna toss at us now today You and I we're gonna go check on the circumstance of these markets We're gonna go figure out what those bowls and bears what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just past eight O'clock in the morning That's right If you are listening live the normal time slot between one and two will make today's show as pertinent as we can't for you But if you are listening live between eight and nine eastern standard time wasting a daylight time out there We would love to hear from you so you can give us call<PHONE_NUMBER> If you can't call in you're listening in but you'd like a question answered the stock position whatever might be You can always send me an email send that to Steve at tfn.com Inside the subject heading please put radio show question and of course our tigers them will any and every ping will do So let's go ahead and get this show started on a fantastic Friday. Of course. This is tiger financial news network I'm Steve Rhodes Welcome to La show right now. We got us equity futures pointed to the downside dows off 123 points NASDAQ 66 S&P down 16 You mean the Russell's off about nine points It's about a half a percent for each of these indices out here gold is getting schnockered. It's down 19 bucks Silver's even worse. It's down 79 pennies. That's up nearly 4% Platinum is down 36 bucks palladiums off 41 bucks coppers down 11 pennies That's 3% natural gas is trade the upside 40 cents to the upsides up by seven and a half percent late to be crude trade out At 108 64 that's up nearly 3% as well. The 30-year treasury up by half a point trade at 118 118 I take that back 30 your treasury is up for ticks. She's trading out at 138 24 So what does all that mean or what are the markets doing right now? Let's kind of cut to the chase here, right? And then we'll go back and we'll take a look at what all the other instruments are doing So cut to the chase here where you go to what I believe for today is the most important and compelling Chart and that is coming from our 30-minute time frame So what you should be able to see on your screen right now are the 30-minute charts for the ESC NQ the Dow and the Russell 2000 what you should notice on this or what I'll point out Do you is the TD9 count tops and bottom patterns that we have out here most most specifically right now? What we're paying attention to is the TD9 count top and that top about form this morning at about 5 6 5 6 30 take that back 6 30 for each of the equity future contracts now what price has done so far It's only pulled back to test support support being that red oscillator and change line Now if this level holds and the TD9 count tops are taken out So level to be watching inside the ES mini is 37 88 75 if price closes above that that's going to suggest around the 38 17 If we take a look at the NQ The NQ can close above 11 5 28 then price to go target 11 6 54 in the case of the Dow The level to be watching out here to the upside is 37 64 if price is able to close above that We're looking to move to 39 27 now the move may take us beyond those levels But that would become a resistance level to be watching and in the case of the Russell 2000 the price point to be watching today is 17 07 70 now the downside that's pretty easy if price closes below these TD9 count breakout level So for the ES mini at 37 44 50 that's going to suggest that we're going to see lower price In the NQ the level to be watching be 11 389 and a quarter the Dow would be 34 22 and the Russell 2016 8040 now I wish I could tell you at 8 10 in the morning which way price is going to break, but I can't Right now what the charts are suggesting to us that price is going to attempt to try to break it to the upside out there And I say that because these red oscillator and change lines for the 30 minute profiles have held thus far Well, that's an interesting point if we go from the 30 minute time frame charts here And we go take a look at the daily time frame charts. That's we're going to pop up on your screen next What you'll see here is that in the case of the ES mini the NQ the Dow and the Russell 2000 The Russell 2000 being somewhat skeptical at this stage here But each of those are holding their red oscillator and change line levels out there now the end to yesterday Tested and rejected both its oscillator and change line That's the right hand up a right hand chart that you're looking at as well as the bottom of its profile out there So we know that support is held support has been tested if we go step back just for a moment and take a look at what else transpired yesterday Here we'll switch back to my black background screen So we'll take a look at the index ETFs and what you'll notice is that the the index ETFs that tested and rejected the swing Point their swing points that is would be the cues So if we take a look at the cues the swing point that I was testing was from the trading session of June the 16th 276 06 now the volume on that bar was 81.9 million shares and yesterday We did 79.3 million shares so very similar volume out there That typically suggests what really we're seeing take place here in the pre-market when you when you test a swing point And you do it with volume Even if you close back above and you reject the chances are you're gonna get back and you're gonna test that swing point So 276 06 is the number just out of curiosity. I don't know where the cues are trading right now But we're gonna find out real quickly here qq q 276 06 was the number were 278 60 So we're still Above that so wouldn't be a surprise to get down there and test that level Once again if we go back to the index ETFs out here We had the IWM the Russell 2000 so arguably the weakest of the indices out here But yet that gave us the strongest can't bust them down Gonna try to bust them up message out there and that was at the IWM traded into its swing point That swing point was from June 16th the volume on that swing was 43 million shares Yesterday's volume with the test rejection was with 31 million shares So that's given us the signal that it in fact does not want to trade lower Of course it's trading a bit lower in the pre-market out here But that it should move higher in fact this could could it wouldn't expect it to occur today But could be set it up an a to b equal CD to the upside We'll know as price gets into those swing points should they do that now in the case of the spies and the Dow diamonds They never get down to test their swing points what they did get down to test and reject was the bottom of their profile So in other words support held yesterday inside the spies inside the Dow diamonds and quite frankly inside the cues in the IWM Both of which tested and rejected swing points with lighter volume It's the cues that the volume is when I say lighter it just lighter by a smidgen out there Even if it's just a couple million shares out there So that's what's going on inside the equity futures markets We take a look at just here for a brief moment. What's going on in the rest of the world Well, if we take a look at spot volatility index It's going to be a key to be watching today and the price lover you're watching here is 2806 You see price close below 2806 that's going to signal a rally inside the S&P 500 Here you can see the NQ holding and testing the bottom of daily profile gold and silver we get back to this break Let's go take a look at them. They are a bustle in case of gold. It's taking it's it's testing a swing point from May the 16th, I believe it's yeah May 16 1792 Price close below that Well, it suggests that we're headed lower So try to figure out what gold and silver are doing we get back to this Blooming inflation. We are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your harder and money than a gold This the gold flagship asset is the Monkhod gold project in the northern territory of Australia This is Australia's largest unveloped gold project. 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Equal CD to the downside. That's a possibility Most certainly don't know that it'll be confirmed by volume doesn't always have to be confirmed by volume And in that case here the 8.4 gold would be the March 7th I this is the weekly chart We're looking at the May 16th low would be the B point and the C point would be up here from June the 13th And that would give us a one-to-one price projection of 1583 out there Now before that comes to fruition What we also see or what we should see out here We take a look at this weekly time frame chart is a consolidation pattern the consolidation pattern looks like this So here's the consolidation so more likely than not where gold is likely headed to or at least that's a suggestion As we speak right now is down to the lows of let's say probably the swing point from August the 9th And that's at the 1695 level and if price can break through this consolidation Then we're looking at a move then then I'd say we've got that a to B equal CD pattern Which will be in play no matter what it's in play as long as price closes below the 1792 area So that remains in play But it's really the consolidation pattern that sticks out to Stevie when I take a look at the weekly chart out here Another area where we could see support would be at the center of its monthly profile Now that is a bearish structured profile We saw two months more than two months close above the top of that that typically says that if it's just a counter-trend move That gold is in then it should find support at the center of that bearish structured profile And that is at price at 1764 so 1764 is a likely target another possible target is 1747 that's the top of its quarterly profile so that's what we've got support and Resistance levels if we take a look at the intraday charts out here We'll go to the multi-time frame chart just for a moment see if there's any kind of signals there Here what we'll see you'll see the daily in the upper left It's gonna be forming bar number seven of a TD 9 count says you couldn't see a TD 9 count bottom until next week sometime If that were to form on the a five-hour time frame chart To see what we have here. Give me open this up the five-hour time frame chart shows a what? And yes, I'm asking you that question so I see the a to b equal cd to the downside here that looks like this I'll just draw in the a to b line That's like this number. Just move this over to the c to d area out here so that would look like this and We're worried about the one-to-one level right now So what the five-hour time frame chart would say is that if we were to see a bullish reversal candle That would confirm a by the d-point pattern the two-hour time frame chart appears that So it's 821 And bar number nine is forming as we speak right now from the two-hour time frame chart And we know that bars eight nine to the bar following nine can identify a bottom So what this is suggesting to you and I is that on the 120 minute time frame chart goals either formed a bottom or will Form a bottom or should form a bottom by noon By noon if I take a look at the 60 minute chart It has a TD nine count bottom. That's in play. The only way that gets negated is a close below 1784 20 So I'd said watch the 60 minute chart because of gold on an hourly basis closes below that level That's going to be a signal that we should see lower price Otherwise you could see some type of bounce on that bounce where price would likely first head to would be those Oscillator and change lines. So we'll call that about 1796 1792 is the bottom of the 60 minute profile 1795 is the center of that bullet structured profile So if there were to be a countertrend rally the level to really be watching out here is 1795 that's going to be really important at 122 in the afternoon If you are listening to the archive version of this show because that will help you understand what gold is going to do Because if gold is traded above 1795 70 then that's going to suggest to move to 1802 or 1806 80 The other intraday time frame charts 5 minute 10 minute 15 minute out here It's the 5 and 10 minute that have bottoming signals But price is not taking out key levels of resistance to do that. You need to see a close above 1796 30 to suggest there's any traction out here So we know that we're testing at a daily basis the swing point at the 1792 level That's the one from May the 16th out there It's possible that by days in that that will hold that's at least the signal coming from the 60 and 120 minute time frame chart But if in fact that level fails then that suggests that price will likely head back to the consolidation area Which I believe we said was about 1695 1696 or so and that's how gold would play out Let's go see how silver is performing here. Let's change these charts here. We're in silver We're on the September contract here for silver So let's get that pulled up It'll take just a moment for these charts here to go ahead and populate while that's going on I'm going to pull up the and we'll just switch charts here Switch screens. I should say is well Let's go take a look at the daily weekly monthly just like we did for Goldilocks here for silver So in the case of silver silver has negated yesterday negated a TD 9 count bottom That was the swing point for May the 13th price trade below profiles out there It's trained below profiles on the weekly as well trained below profiles on the monthly So from a profile standpoint this suggests that what does silver wants to do is go target the 1629 to 1810 Level and that is the bullish structured quarterly profile Let's go switch and take a look at the white background chart see what kind of signals we're picking up here and We take the look at those you can see on the daily time frame that's your upper left-hand chart that today will Form bar number 8 of a TD 9 count pattern out there By number 8 9 or the bar following I can't identify the bottom So this suggests a TD 9 count bottom and silver could form because we need to get bar number 9 But I could form early next week now the 5-hour time frame chart right now It does have a TD 9 count bottom And so I don't know this this bar that we're currently in completes at 9 o'clock for the 5-hour chart here for a silver So that's as we go off the air So whatever the low is at that stage, and I don't know that the low is In at this moment here doesn't look like it But whatever the low is coming into the 9 o'clock session You want to note that on your pad of paper go back and look your charts a price trading below that then the TD 9 count on The 5-hour base will get negated and that would be a pretty good signal that what Silver's intent is to get down to 1629 to 1810 level out there If we look at the 120 minute time frame chart no bottom pattern by look at the 16 minute time frame chart It's going to form bar number 8 as we come to the 9 o'clock session That says a TD 9 count bottom on the 60 minute chart could form between 9 and 10 9 and 11 this morning no bottom signal on the 30 minute chart out here You do have a TD 9 count the pattern that's forming on the 15 minute chart So what I would be watching here I think the most important pattern is going to be really that five-hour time frame chart that's got that TD 9 count pattern So right now we're at 1946 1945 I saw a tick printed there But just come back at 9 o'clock. 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Tigers Den at this moment So let's go back and take a look at the ES mini out here Let's take a look at the equity futures in more detail than we did during that first segment And here what we'll see the upper left hand corner you've got the daily timeframe You'll see that roads meant to Mindicator bottom pattern that formed out here in the ES mini for the daily timeframe That bottom in order in order for so you've got to confirm bottom that bottom will remain in effect unless you see a close below 3639 If you take a look at the five hour timeframe chart you'll see a TD9 cow bottom that formed on the bar following bar number nine right at this breakout level of support of 374575 out there Now what price needs to do if there's going to be any kind of sustained rally out here is price to go much close above its red oscillator and change line That is currently printed it will change as price moves up and down but right now 3799 so you can use that as a guideline out there If you take a look at the two hour timeframe chart this has both a TD9 cow bottom that took place yesterday at 10 o'clock in the morning And it's got a roads meant to Mindicator bottom pattern out here as well So it's got two bottoms two bottoms make it better than no one no not necessarily price right now in the two hour chart pulling back testing its red oscillator and change line Its resistance levels by the way are up at 3817 and 383450 support here would be support would really be at the price point of 3741 and a quarter The 60 minute timeframe chart right now it's in the process now it's not it's only 832 so we need another half an hour But right now you've got a bullish reversal candle that would confirm this roads meant to Mindicator signal so we're seeing right here just to summarize the top row daily bottom pattern 5 hour chart bottom pattern 120 minute chart bottom pattern 60 minute chart bottom pattern 30 minute chart Well it's got a bottom pattern but what we're waiting for here to prove that it's a which direction really the market's going to be trading is can The 30 minute chart take out the high of 378875 if it does that's telling us we had to hire ground the 15 minute charts both got both a bottom A roads meant to Mindicator bottom and it's got a TD 9 count top so that just really confirming what we took a look at on the 30 minute time frame chart And you've got both bottoms and top on the 10 minute time frame chart price right now the ES mini is trading above the top of its profile 3779 Now there's seven minutes left in this candle session but a close up 3779 is going to suggest a retest of the highs out there So perhaps we'll have some kind of information as to what the intent of the market is before we get off the air in about 27 minutes or so So the ES mini charts if we're going to go ahead and we're going to go ahead and make sure I'm showing those charts I am If we're going to go ahead and take a look at its charts to understand what the signal is it's absolutely trying to form a bottom And that's then what that that then makes so what you want to be watching especially well throughout the day but 130 in the afternoon the question to answer is where is that spot volatility index So we're going to change panels here that that spot volatility is below its 50 day exponential moving average then the rally that's in place right now or a potential rally should hold throughout the day So you can see here you've got the spot volatility that's been moving a bit lower trading right now 2854 2806 is the number your price close below 2806 then you should see a sustained rally The price remains above 2806 you can see some kind of rug pole out there with a movement to the downside so in summary the ES mini charts are most certainly pointing to a bottom Now if we go take a look at let's go from the ES let's go take a look at the NQ give me a moment here let's get those charts populated as well this will take just a moment and we'll go ahead and change the screens out here And here what we've got if you take a look at the upper left hand side daily timeframe for the NQ absolute bottom pattern out there so that's a that's a beautiful thing We take a look at the five hour timeframe chart no bottom yet there's just no bottom pattern so unlike the five hour timeframe chart for the ES the NQ's five hour timeframe chart is saying yeah I'm not so sure In fact the five hour chart for the NQ is suggesting more like you want to get down to 1119 if in fact that's what's going to unfold then then we're not going to see the spot volatility And the ES mini even though it's best intent is to try to form a bottom it just simply won't be able to do that I would think that the NQ would be able to overtake what's going on inside of the ES mini inside of the S&P 500 However if we skip the five hour timeframe chart we can see that the NQ is also attempting to form a bottom on the two hour timeframe you've got a rogment of indicator bottom that formed at about three or four o'clock this morning A price should go target 11572 you close above that and then that's going to suggest a further move higher in the case of the 60 minute timeframe chart TD9 count bottom The price can close above 1160475 that's going to suggest a move to 11688 we've got that TD9 count top on the 30 minute timeframe chart that suggests that a close above 11528 we should see higher price out here We get to the intraday timeframe these shorter term time much shorter 1510 and five minute charts out there each of those have bottoming patterns for sure yeah they do And but I still and you've got that TD9 count for the 15 minute as well so what that is telling me so that high I don't know if that's the same high as the 30 let's find out That high is 11528 and here we were at what 11528 okay perfect so if you do see a close above 11528 that's going to certainly suggest higher price now you might say higher price to where The price target to the upside would be 11716 to the downside you know the area to be watching to be that swing point from June the 16th and that level is at 11068 Out there so the NQ most certainly telling us that it is attempting to form a bottom how about the Russell 2000 so let's go take a look at it often overlooked here so let's not overlook it see what kind of signals it is generating for us Remember the Russell 2000 as we took a look at the daily chart earlier was testing its red oscillator and change line it's slightly above that right now so that's a key level of support We can also see on a daily timeframe price consolidated with inside the daily profile between 1667 and 1773 now as the five hour timeframe chart gets fired up it did form a TD9 count bottom It did it yesterday as well as the bar following bar number nine right at this breakout level of 1678 like the ESMini what the Russell 2000 needs to do to suggest that it is on its way to a bullish outcome is closed above that red oscillator and change line The red oscillator change line is currently printed in 1711 so called about 1713 or so a price able to close above 171370 that's going to suggest to move up to the 1733 and above that 1795 The two hour timeframe chart that confirmed enrollment of indicator bottom I did it this morning at six o'clock price found resistance at the top of its current profile that current profile top is at the 170480 level So close above that would suggest prices headed higher TD9 count and rogement to indicator bottom for the 60 minute timeframe chart price needs to close above 1710 to then suggest 1721 and above 1721 price should continue to move higher out there So you can see here the Russell 2000 much like the ESMini signalling to you and I on July 1st Friday July 1st that its intent is to move higher We'll call it all about the spot positive effect to give up that 58 exponential average that would be looking for the signal that there is a game on at rally time If you want to take advantage of this sector 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traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ Good back folks so July 4th the weekend going to be kind of a light volume day out there or should be a light volume day that's the first thing and I do wish everybody hope everybody has a great fourth of July celebration I loaded up with my fireworks late yesterday afternoon one of the cool things about being in Florida is that if you're a farmer and I am a farmer Stevie the farmer out there you can use fireworks to clear off the animals off of your pastures so to speak So you can call me Stevie Perseverance Rhodes you can also call me Stevie Pyrotechnics Rhodes out there so always a cool thing the kids love it So we'll do our fireworks and then we'll go walk over to the beach and watch the beach fireworks out there so I haven't checked on the weather But hopefully it's good weather for everybody out there and we enjoy this wonderful celebration Now we've been talking we've been taking a look at the obviously the markets out here the charts the equity future charts we've looked at the ES looked at the Russell 2000 we look at the NQ out there and all of them are signaling a bottom So what else of course that we need that spot volatility X to really give us that confirmation that little bit of a push out there if we take a look at this chart where am I at Yeah perfect so this is actually the seasonal charts this is a provided to me by the folks over at season X if you were into seasonal charts these guys make it simple they've got they've really got some cool data out here And that's the chart that I've got up on my screen so what we have is the S&P 500 over the last 72 years but what I've also done here is I have selected what the S&P 500 does during the mid term election cycle Now the red line the red vertical line is where we're at right now so we talk about bottoms at the market is trying to form this is all also tying right in tying right in to what the seasonal mid term election cycle would show us out here Now it's going to be choppy in fact this suggests that it's going to be choppy through the early part of October out there when we typically get our normal type of a bottom but right now we've got the support that this is showing that we typically this time of year we see some type of bottom If we look at how the days trade here this is for the this is during the season this during the mid term election seasonal set of charts for the last 72 years Fridays are decent days Wednesdays are your best days out there If we take a look at the performance but from a monthly base we just came off of one of the worst Junes in a while well geez that is during a during the mid term election seasonal cycle this shows us our 12 month periods out here June is the worst performing month but July you typically have a rally going into July then the market starts to pull back into that October time frame out there now that's what it looks like if we use the seasonal cycle we can do this here I think this will there you go so I come back and take a look at the last 72 years without that pattern in play and that shows that typically a bottom forms around June 26 well in essence that's what really took place in the market last week at the end of last week we had confirmed roads with the indicator bottoms for the weekly time frames for most of the indices out there and we have those same patterns form for their daily time frames so I don't know that this is the chart that is in play out here I think it's more the mid term election cycle that we've got here and so so we should expect we should anticipate or the market typically rallies now whether it's going to or not is another thing but we'll just simply take things one step at a time so I mentioned earlier that the 30 minute charts are what we really want to be watching today just trying to simplify things for you here happens to be a 30 minute market breadth chart that takes a look at the S&P 500 and right now as of 846 in the morning we have 180 instruments that are trading above the top of their 30 minute profiles when you trade above the top of a profile what it doesn't tell us whether we've got a topping signal or not but when you're trading above the top of a profile you've broken through resistance you break through resistance it's considered to be bullish out here you break through the bottom of a profile it's considered to be bearish so we'll just call that directionally speaking here we can take a look at the market breadth we can and simply point to different crossovers well here what we've got is a bullish crossover because there's 106 instruments that are trading below the bottom of their profile and there's 181 that are trading above the top of their profile so now if we go back we take a look at the ES mini as we speak out here so go back to that chart we're just going to try to flip back and forth out here here if we take a look at the ES mini I'll just simply make that the only chart we're looking at on our screen right now I hope that's the only chart we're looking at on our screen that actually makes sense that we had that bullish crossover that bullish crossover took place at 830 this morning and at 830 this morning what price was doing is where my crosshair is right now price was pulling back and testing that key level of support and that was that red oscillator and change line so that level is held we can see that price is trading into its swing point from 630 this morning out there and again a close above that TD9 count high it's a close above the high which is 378875 that's then going to signal least to move to the 3817 area and a close above that says that we rally even further so that's coming from the 30 minute time frame chart for the ES mini let's go switch back to my TAS market profiles for the 30 minute time frame the only two indices that I can generate this for are the S&P 500 and the NDX100 or the NQ out here so now if we take a look at the NQ's we'll see also this again this is the 30 minute time frame chart let's let this populate so now what we know is well this actually says it has a bullish crossover but if I take a look at the actual statistics above the market price statistics and those are typically more correct we've got 32 above and 38 below so that's not you know and what we need to see here is we need to see if in fact this rally is going to sustain itself and it's certainly the signals right now the NQ is saying they are not so not so sure that I'm ready to make that run and take out is TD9 count top at least that's the message as we speak at 848 let's go back and take a look at its charts out here so let's go change the screens we'll go back whoops that was the wrong screen sorry how do I do this here screen change windows let's get back to the proper window out here and now it's the 30 minute chart for the NQ that we're going to look at so it doesn't have that that positive market that we're looking for but yeah I don't know really what else to comment on that I don't know that there is anything else for me to comment it's just not supporting that idea that it's getting ready to take out that TD9 count top so maybe the NQ is signaling to us that instead it's ready to try to test that support level again which is about 11.457 and if price closes below that we'd look at a move to 11.389 to 11.417 now it's only those 30 minute charts so it's only really the 30 minute ES so it kind of makes sense right when we took a look at the chart here the ES were very clearly articulating to you and I communicated to you and I that it wants to form a bottom but it's really going to be all about the NQ out there so maybe what we should do is spend a little time taking a look at some of those charts that really power the Nasdaq 100. Does that make sense? Yeah I think it makes sense let me just check though make sure that I don't have any request out here by email I don't think that I do it's a pretty quiet in the den out there so but I just want to make sure no we do have one request out here and that's coming from from Brent in Martinez California so we're definitely going to go take a look at his request out here he says good morning Steve can you please go through the same exercise on the Dow equity future contract as I did for the others have a great day and great weekend so absolutely so we will do that to close out the show for Brent in Martinez California we'll go take a look at the Dow equity future contract and see what it's charts are communicating. The reality is that navigating financial markets can be risky. 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Let's go take a look at those Dow equity future contract charts out here. So in the case of the Dow on a daily timeframe this formed a buy the D point pattern. It did it with that three river morning star. That pattern remains in effect unless price closed below that pattern that would be 29 639. We can see price pulled back as Tesla rejected that red oscillator and change line that would signal that price should make a run for that 31 354 level. In the case of the five hour timeframe chart what we don't have out here is a bottoming signal much like the we do in the ES we do in the Russell 2000. But if we take a look at the two hour timeframe chart Brent you've got a TD nine count bottom that formed yesterday that's been in place out here at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Take a look at the 60 minute timeframe chart what do we have out here at this stage here not much so I don't see a pattern there. We did have a TD nine count bottom on the 30 minute chart for the Dow that says again watch the high that high is going to be the high of 37 67. The price closes above that that tells us that we should see a further move higher that further move higher. Let me see what the 30 minute chart reflects 30 minute chart says you should then move up to the recent highs from about one o'clock in the afternoon on June the 30th that would be up at about the 39 65 level. So that's a message of the 30 minute timeframe chart 15 minute 10 minute five minute they've all got bottoming patterns out there. They have some topping signals as well the 10 minute for example a TD nine count top the five minute roads meant to Mindicator top out there. So just says that the highs are really important that's really what how we began the show take a look at 30 minute timeframe out there and the price closes above those TD nine count tops. 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Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host Rob dial today. I'm gonna be talking about motivation I'm gonna be telling you why you don't want to be motivated. There's too many people that message me and say hey Rob, how do I become more motivated? What do I do to get more motivation? I am actually on the side of I don't actually care if you're motivated or not It doesn't matter to me at all because everyone thinks that you want to be motivated. Oh, I want I want to be motivated I don't want to listen to a motivational speaker and all of that is okay But it's actually not what's going to help you be successful You don't want to be motivated if you're thinking that you need to be motivated Before you go out and actually take some action. You will not get what you want to in this world Let me say that again If you think that you want to be motivated before you actually go and take action You will not get what you want to in this world if you're searching for motivation You will be searching for a very long time But you're not really searching for motivation. You're searching for something else and that's what I want to dive into and talk to you with today What you really want and what you want to build into yourself is not to be a motivated person What you want to build into yourself is to be a consistent person Consistency always wins. I'm not a betting man. I don't really care to bet I don't like gambling any of that But if I had money that I had to bet and it's like hey, here's a consistent person on one side And there's a motivated person on the other side Which one do you want to place your money on which will be the most successful and get what they want to out of life? Which one do you think it's going to be? I will always take my money and put it on the person who has decided that they are going to be the most consistent Consistency is a decision because motivation is fleeting Motivation is a fleeting feeling. It is a feeling inside of you. I don't know about you I don't really wake up motivated like some people wake up and they're like, hey, I got it. I'm gonna go conquer today I've never really been that person. I've never really been the person just I mean it takes it takes effort to get out of bed for me I'm not a person who just jumps out of bed and I'm super excited But consistency on the other side Consistency is a character trait. It is a character trait that can be It doesn't really come wired into you. It's not like it's you know, somebody's pre-wired to be consistent Consistency is a part of someone that they decide to develop So I expect most days that I'm not going to be motivated.  So just expect that most days You're not really gonna be the most motivated person. You may be if you are hey That would be awesome if you wake up and you happen to be motivated today But if you wake up today and you're not motivated I Want you to focus on being consistent when you're consistent Day in day out day in day out You will win and whatever it is you're trying to get for in life when you hope for motivation though You lose when you focus on consistency you will win when you hope for motivation You'll lose. You know if I am on a weight loss journey And I know like I use weight loss and I use Fitness as an example and the reason why I use these things as an example so often is because of the fact that That's something physical that you can see like when I talk about making mindset changes That's not something that you can physically see in someone's body But if someone decides they want to go on a weight loss journey and over time they are consistent You will start to see changes in that person's body. It's physical You can see it when you look in the mirror if you decide that you are a skinny person You want to build more muscle if you go and you be consistent for a while 60 days from today you will see a difference when you look in the mirror and so if I'm on a weight loss journey I Can work out when I'm motivated and I can go you know what I'll just I wanted to work out today, but Let's just wait and see if some motivation just decides to come on in I Don't want to do that. I want to be consistent because consistency says I will work out No matter what I will do this because I said I was going to Consistency is I said I was committed to working out today, and I'm not going to go to bed until it is done Not oh oops oops. I just ran out of time. Maybe tomorrow. I'll get my workout in I forgot to plan it into my schedule. Maybe tomorrow. I can get it done Maybe tomorrow I have some motivation to go to the gym Maybe tomorrow have some motivation to do what I said I was going to do right consistently said I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it. I'm committed to getting it done Consistency says I'm committed and I'm going to get it done today consistency says I'm committed to making a hundred calls today consistency says I I am committed to posting a post on my Instagram to get leads for my business Consistency says I am committed to shooting in editing a YouTube video and posting it today Consistency is I said I was going to do it and no matter what happens My ass is getting it done today And I will not go to bed. I will not go to sleep. My head will not hit the pillow Until it's done That's the type of person.  We can do it. I feel great now I'm going to get my my I've got my motivation now I can go ahead and start actually taking the action I want to because when you're consistent And you get things done no matter how you feel you actually become more motivated Because motivation is not something motivation is not a prerequisite to action Motivation there's actually been studies that have found people who are consistent versus motivation versus motivated is people who are consistent and take action is Instead of motivation coming before action Motivation actually follows action most people hope for motivation and then they take action What needs to happen though is You need to take action to give yourself a chance at being motivated Why because when your physical body starts moving You actually get more energy you get more motivation you get more drive to get done whatever it is you need to get done And so that's what we're going to talk about today is how to be More consistent with everything as you want to do if you have goals for this year If you have goals for this quarter whatever it might be Don't hope that you're gonna have motivation every single day and man You know what if I wake up with motivation then I'll take action things that I want no no no It's like I don't care what happens.  That's what I want to know if you get hit by a truck Which means doesn't matter what the time is doesn't matter how I feel doesn't matter at all. This thing is going to be done So how do you be more consistent? Let me give you a really really? Simple but extremely important tip Start small. I know it's not like the biggest Sexiest tip I can give you about mindset techniques to try to get yourself motivated But you start small and how do you start small you pick one thing and one thing? Only that you're going to do for the next 100 days now are you going to do other things of the next 100 days? Yeah, of course you are but what you want to do is you want to find one thing that you can do Consistently day in day out for the next 100 days Why do I say 100 days because it takes anywhere between 21 to 100 days to create a new habit?  You're listening to this podcast. So inherently you are probably a Overachiever or someone who wants to be an overachiever.  It's gonna be really hard for that thing to stick They have like six seven things it's like so instead of waking up and actually being excited to go through the morning routine They feel like they have to wake up and go through a checklist Everybody wants to wake up and go we already have to-do list We already have all these other checklists we got to go through and so listen to me You find one thing And you tell yourself I'm going to this one thing no matter what for the next 100 days in a row Next 100 days in a row and if I miss a day I start back at day one so if I get to day 43 of working out I said I was gonna work out for a hundred days and I get to day 43 That's what I gotta do. I gotta start back at day one if I miss day 43 And so listen to me do one thing in one thing only because most people want to add Five things to their schedule and what happens is it's so far out of their comfort zone that their ego their subconscious Ends up self-sabotaging so if you've ever self-sabotaged people always like well Why do I always self-sabotage? Probably because you're trying to do too many things that are outside of your comfort zone versus just one thing outside of your comfort zone Each day and what happens is your old self Comes up and starts actually trying to battle the new self that you're trying to build yourself into so Listen, you're you're probably an overachiever or you want to be an overachiever That's why you listening to this podcast the non-overachievers are not listening to this podcast If you do too much it will be too much and then you will probably stop following through and so what I want you Is I want you to start small the next thing I want you to do is I want you to track it I want you to literally have a calendar. Just go get it 15 bucks on Amazon or you can wonder Walgreens or CVS and get one for like 10 bucks And it's just a monthly calendar and all you're going to do is every day that you complete this task You're just going to put an X on that day so that you know you completed it And when you start seeing a few of them in a row you start getting Motivated quote-unquote motivated to continue it because you don't want to break that streak now And what you want to find is what what's called a keystone habit? So a keystone to give you an idea when you look at a Roman arch, right? You go over to Rome and Italy and you look at the arches that the entire Coliseum is built off of they're all these Roman arches and In the arch there's a keystone the keystone is the one that is at the very center And what happens is when it's put into place it locks all of the other stones into place in that arch And what happens is the most important part of that entire arch is the keystone because it locks all the other Stones into place and so a keystone habit is one thing that you focus on and by focusing on that one thing It actually changes other parts of your life like so your life has changed by doing this one thing So let me give you a couple examples of keystone habits You could take any of these and you could actually create your own if you wanted to a Keystone habit that I found for a lot of people one of them is working out Because all you have to do is just check off the box of working out and I always say don't focus on changing anything else in your life Except for working out it would ends up happening Slowly, but surely you start changing other parts of your life naturally that one thing that keystone habit working out Changes other parts of your life So you start working out, you know, and you don't change any other part of your life You still eat the same you still drink the same all of those things But eventually what happens is you work out you work out you work out you're putting so much effort into working out you go You know what I? Mean I'm working out Am I as well like I don't know eat a little bit healthier And it starts to change your life in the way that you eat. You know what I'm working out I might as well drink. I need to drink some more water. There's so many dehydrated people in this world Right. We're like 60 to 70% water and so many people are dehydrated I don't know why they have energy why their brain doesn't work enough.   I'm gonna drink a little bit more water You know what? I've been working out so hard I'm gonna get a little bit more sleep because my body needs some rest and I know that muscle growth ends up happening in Recovery is usually what I'm sleeping. So I've been working out. I'm gonna get a little bit of sleep. You know what? Damn, I drink I eat a lot of sugar Well, don't you know I'm gonna do I've been working out so much. I'm gonna eat a little bit less sugar. I saw a Doctor the other day was talking. It was a YouTube video and he was saying a hundred years ago The average person ate half a pound of sugar per year Fast forward to today. The average person.  I'm gonna need a little bit less sugar So I don't get you know, but don't get that that inside of my body and it's not necessary And when you have to excess sugar you get excess fat from it. Okay, you know what? I've been working out so much. Maybe I'm gonna drink a little bit less drink a little bit less alcohol Little bit less alcohol a little bit more water.  Do I think morning routines are important? Yes. Do I have a morning routine? Yes, but I don't care about any of that I know that if your feet hit the floor an Hour earlier than it normally does that's a win that you can check off that box as long as your feet hit the floor You don't get back in bed.  You're gonna go. Well, I mean, I'm awake. I might as well do something, right? Yeah, what should I do? Well, I mean I got a little bit of energy today Maybe we could chug a coffee. Maybe we could go for a run. They could work out work out a little bit Next day you wake up a little bit early and you're like what I want to do today. Hmm. I mean I could journal Yeah, journaling sounds pretty good I'm gonna do some journaling today next day you wake up and you got an hour to kill and you're like You know what I should do kind of want to read that new book I just bought and then you just had to read a book and you wake up a little bit early the next day and you're like You know what? I want to develop my calmness. So I'm just gonna start to meditate today I didn't wake up the next day and you're like, you know what?  I'm gonna go for a walk with my dog I'm gonna go for a walk with my children go for a walk with my spouse All you did was focus on one thing which was waking up your feet hitting the floor That is the win if you do it an hour early But that feet hitting the floor turned into doing a workout one day doing journaling one day doing reading one day doing Meditating one day going for a walk another day and I'm not saying focus on any of those other things I'm just saying focus on the one thing for a hundred days. You're feet hitting the floor feet hit the floor early. Boom That's a win What's another one eating healthy is another great one so eating healthy could be a great keystone habit where you decide You know what? I'm just gonna eat healthier. Whatever that means to you You're gonna stick to a specific diet. Whatever that diet is. I don't know. You could do Whole30 you could do Vegetarian vegan you could do carnivore diet. You could do fruit Italian diet I don't care what the diet is you figure out what eating healthy means to you because that's subjective everyone's Eating healthy is different than another person's but you're like next hundred days I'm only going to do this thing this diet this eating quote-unquote eating healthy Whatever that means to you because everyone's body is different and you're like, okay That's the one thing I'm gonna do and then what happens it starts affecting other areas of your life You know what? I mean, I've been eating so healthy. I don't really feel like having a drink tonight Next day.  I've been eating so healthy But do a little bit yoga Next day. You're like I've been eating healthy I'm gonna drink a little bit more water and what happens is these keystone habits these things that are planted into your day that you're Focusing on just being consistent on that one thing not searching for motivation not I hope that I can find time to work out today I hope I can find some time to wake up today.  Yeah, it feels pretty built into me like if you've ever worked out for a hundred days It feels pretty built into you to work out like it feels not it feels weird to not work out if you've been working out for a hundred days If you've been eating healthy for a hundred days, it feels weird not To do that if you've been waking up early for a hundred days It feels weird not to do that and so we're trying to do is trying to build this habit into who you are And if you do a hundred days and then you focus on something different the next hundred days Then you focus on something different the next hundred days. There's 365 days in a year that means that over the course of a year you could develop three really big Keystone habits into who you are Think about how different you would be 365 days from today if you develop three really big big old lever moving Keystone habits into yourself over the next 365 days And you'd have an extra 65 days to figure out what the next thing is and again almost halfway through the next thing So instead of saying I'm gonna focus on doing all three of these things at one time It's like I'm gonna do this thing for a hundred days Then after those hundred days, I'm gonna do this thing for a hundred days and after those hundred days I'm gonna do this thing for a hundred days What happens is you actually start to slowly but surely build these habits these actions into your life That actually starts to change you but what it comes down to is not wanting to be motivated Not hoping for some fleeting emotion to come inside of you and go oh, I'm excited to do this today It is I said I was going to do it and I'm going to do it no matter what that is who you want to be Because consistency Becoming a consistent person is a character trait that can be built into you I want you to build a consistent character trait into yourself instead of trying to hope that a fleeting emotion called Motivation just magically comes into your body each day and so focus on being consistent and you will win Focus on being consistent in your life will change if you focus on being consistent with these little small things every single day You'll be a completely different person 365 days from today So that's what I got for you for today's episode if you love this episode Please share it on the Instagram stories and tag me at Rob dial junior R. O. B. D. I a l J R And I'm gonna leave you the same way leave you every single episode make it your mission make someone else's day better I appreciate you, and I hope that you have an amazing day


everyone today's recipe we're making a classic tuna casserole now this is a nice comfort food it's creamy it's cheesy it's decadent it's it's just delicious but if you know me I like to put a healthy twist on things so I'm gonna change it up a little bit and today we're gonna make it gluten-free for all my gluten-free friends out there you got to try this it is delicious if you don't care about gluten-free you're not gonna notice and if you do care you can also make it or you don't have gluten-free you know ingredients you can make this just regular right you can use your noodles whatever noodles you want I've got breadcrumbs in here and flour so those can all be substituted in and out that's what's great about this recipe you can make this to whatever your food preferences are the other thing I want to mention is there is no canned soup in this recipe we're making everything from scratch and it's not difficult it's actually quite simple and easy to do so I'm rocking Robin and I'm gonna show you all the details on how to do it right after this so before we get started I'm gonna start off with our little chef joke story today alright so here's two tuna fish and they're swimming along in the ocean and they come upon and they see a submarine so the big mama tuna says to the little one well don't be scared little tuna that's just a canned human alright let's get into our recipe okay so for our ingredients we're gonna start off with our pasta so I'm using bonza pasta which is a chickpea pasta it's a great gluten-free alternative you can use any pasta you like this one happens to have you know some really good protein more protein than regular pasta some good fiber and it is a little bit lower in carbs for my tuna I'm using skipjack tuna and I'm using skipjack in particular because it is lower in mercury as opposed to using albacore which is a bigger fish and it tends to have more mercury we'll need some sharp cheddar cheese that's grated we'll need some frozen peas as well I've got some super fine diced here on a yellow onion some celery and this is my super fine diced on mushrooms now I do that in particular because my family doesn't like the big pieces so if you like big pieces of mushrooms go ahead and leave you know slice them up and just leave them big but I like to do it small and this is my flavor base this is gonna really help this dish come alive with these flavors because we're going to be sauteing this in some olive oil we'll need some chicken broth I'm using 2% milk here this is regular cow's milk again you can substitute lots of different milks here almond milk would work and so would coconut milk I think I would probably tend to go with coconut milk if you wanted a different alternative just because of the fat content it makes it a little bit richer and you know more decadent we'll need some flour again I'm using Bob's red mill one-to-one baking flour you can use regular flour here if you'd like I've got some fresh and I like to use fresh herbs so this is fresh time I got it out of my garden you just want to peel those little leaves off and chop it up nice and fine I'm using some sauvignon blanc you can use any white wine you want and this is optional as well it's just a flavor enhancer you can you know leave it out if you want we're just adding a little bit and it will cook off the alcohol to season it up we're going to use some garlic powder some salt and pepper and then to finish this dish off we're going to put a little topping on it we've made with breadcrumbs now here I'm using alias gluten-free breadcrumbs which work beautifully they're seasoned with some Italian seasoning gonna add some Parmesan cheese to that and some butter I'm going to combine that and sprinkle it on top it is wonderful so we'll need some olive oil and I'm using an avocado spray for my pan so it doesn't stick and we'll need a little bit of butter I've got my pot of water here starting to boil with the lid to cook my pasta according to the package directions which will take about nine minutes after it starts to boil so we got that going and then in my big frying pan here we're going to start cooking up our onions and our celery and our mushrooms so I'm going to place some olive oil into the pan probably a tablespoon place our onions in there celery and the mushrooms and we're going to saute this for 10 minutes now while our onions are cooking over here I'm gonna prep up our pan here I'm just gonna spray it with a little bit of avocado spray just a light coating that'll keep it from sticking I'm also gonna season this up just a little bit just a little bit of salt in there and just a little bit of garlic powder and some cracked pepper so I've got this over medium heat right now and I am going to lower the temperature as it gets really cooking because I don't want it to burn our pasta water is boiling I'm just gonna throw in a little bit of salt and then we'll toss in the pasta and cook that for nine minutes and the idea is to get this all timed out so that you know everything comes together at the same time it's been 10 minutes now so we're ready to add some more ingredients to our pan next I'm gonna add the thyme so I'm gonna add the flour to my chicken broth well it's cold and that way it won't lump up now it's time to add the wine to the pan and let that cook and now I'm gonna add the chicken broth with the flour to this and we add the milk depending on how thick your sauce gets you can always add a little more chicken broth to it if it's too thick now at this point I am gonna add a little more garlic powder to this another pinch of salt and a few cracks of pepper so as this starts to get hot you can see it's starting to thicken up all right so I've got my skipjack tuna here and I've drained it and so I'm going to with clean hands of course I'm gonna use my hands to break it up because I don't want big chunks I want lots of little pieces everywhere drain out our pasta and they'll be ready to add time to add the cheese to this and you can see that the cheese just melts right in time to add the pasta give that a stir and I'm gonna add the peas now essentially this is done we could put it together in our dish you could even freeze it at this point and then use it at a later date and then you know you would take it out thawed out in your in your refrigerator you would want to add your crust after the fact though you wouldn't want to freeze that it just turns out better if you just you know add it at the end when you're ready to make it so now we'll just pour it right into our prepared baking dish next we'll combine our breadcrumbs with parmesan cheese and then add some melted butter to it stir it up till it's the sand-like consistency and then we'll sprinkle it on top of our casserole okay this is going in the oven 375 for about 15 to 20 minutes while our casserole is cooking in the oven it's time for some giggles no I didn't forget our chef joke number two here you go why did the squirrel bury the tuna because if you spell it backwards it's a nut here's our casserole after 20 minutes you can see you want to see that bubbling going on around there the perimeter there and I'd like to see a little browning here I got a little bit going on here you can speed that up what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna put my oven on broil for just a couple minutes and let that brown up just a little bit on top our casserole has been cooling now for you want to let it set up for about 10 minutes or so because it's really hot especially in the baking dish that I'm using really retains heat so let it set up a little bit and it'll be easier to serve this is so creamy and flavorful all right let's do a taste test get a little bit of that crust on top this recipe is a winner you've got to try it it's savory it's not you know too cheesy but it's got a little cheese in there and the crust on top gives it a little variation a little crunch man this delicious guys very it's a definite comfort food if you like tuna recipes and you'd like to try another one I've got a really good one for you it's my tuna melt have you tried that I'm gonna leave a link for you right here click that go check it out make it you are gonna love it thank you so much for watching don't forget to subscribe hit that like button for me and leave me a comment all right we'll see you next week


So we all need to acknowledge that working hard is a choice, but not working hard is also a choice. And as you can probably guess, the key to high performance is choosing to work as hard as possible as often as possible. Being successful is so hard, but I realized that not being successful was hard too. The difference between not being successful hard and trying to get successful if you're trying to get successful then it's hard. At least there's some payout. There's a payoff. If you're hanging there, there's payoff. So if it's hard that way and it's hard being successful, I might as well deal with how hard it is to be successful because at least one day that could be a payout. It's a decision, man. I'm not bragging. I'm telling you the truth. This is fact. You think I'm playing? I dare you. Try. I dare you.


Now, Shep Stuff is really interesting. He does some fantastic work on drugs, placebos, anticipation. He wrote a really nice paper recently on the wisdom of the body, where he unpacks each of these issues. And I'd encourage people to check out that uncut or the extended conversation that we had with him, which is at the end of this episode. But he mentions two mechanisms, two reasons for the placebo effect. One is the response bias, the other is regression to the mean. And it's worth unpacking this idea of response bias a little bit more.  So there are four possible outcomes here, and we're representing it using a two by two table, two by two contingency table. There's four cells, it's nothing fancy. But essentially, you either have appendicitis or you don't. And the physician's either going to decide to operate or not. So there are two ways of being right and two ways of being wrong. So these have labels. So if you, in fact, have appendicitis and they decide to operate, that's good. That's a correct decision, that's called a hit. But if you have appendicitis and they decide not to operate, that's pretty severe, that's a miss.  You could die if this were serious enough. That's a really costly mistake. If they decide, if you don't have appendicitis and they decide to operate anyway, that's also a mistake. That's called a false alarm. And that's severe. That's essentially unnecessary surgery. But it's not as severe as a miss. And finally, we have a correct rejection. That's where they correctly decide to take out an inflamed appendix. So those are the four possible cells. The four possible outcomes here. And when we're talking about a response bias, all we're talking about is a tendency, a bias, a tendency to say, in this case, operate. Now the reason that you would want to err on the side of caution and operate is because of that very severe cost of a miss. So somebody could die as a result of missing an inflamed appendix. And so if a patient comes in and they have a complaint of a sore pelvis, yeah, you take that very seriously. And you would err on the side of caution and you might decide to operate. And as a result, you might take out the odd healthy appendix. But on the same note, you're also going to take out a lot of inflamed appendices. So that's this idea of a response bias and deciding more often to operate than you may ordinarily. Yep, the exact same thing is happening with the placebo effect. So again, there are two ways of being right and two ways of being wrong. Four possible outcomes that can happen. You can take a pill that has no active ingredient, a placebo. You can take a pill that has an active ingredient, a drug. And you can either report feeling better or report not feeling better at all. Now a response bias in this case is just a tendency to report feeling better regardless of whether you took a drug or a placebo. Just as in the case with the physician, they make mistakes. We're going to make mistakes as well. Think what you're doing here. You have to reflect on your own internal states about how much pain you're feeling. You have to think back with your fallible memory about how you felt before and report whether you felt better or not. Just as we saw in episode three, we are not very good at internally reflecting on our own physical and mental states. It's a very difficult task and we, just like the physicians, are going to make mistakes. That's right. And again, thinking about the nature of the sort of decisions that you're making here, it's things like pain or depression, which are very fuzzy, very multifaceted and ambiguous as we talked about before. But I think it's really great, this idea of representing things using this 2x2 table. So it doesn't seem like much, but it is. I mean, if somebody has a claim about something, if they say that this diet is the best thing under the sun, or this thing is going to heal you, that's a claim. And often what's happening is it's an anecdote, it's a testimonial. So all you're hearing about is that positive, positive cell. The number of times that you did the thing, took the diet, did the treatment, and felt better as a result, felt more energetic, whatever. But all you're hearing about are the hits. All you're hearing about are those positive instances. Hopefully, if we get anything out of this course, of this episode, if not the course, is what about the other three cells? Now I want this just to be at the tip of everyone's tongue. When they see any sort of claim that anyone makes, what about the other three cells? What information do I have? What information am I missing? And if you represent it using these two by two tables, it becomes immediately obvious. Well, hang on, what about the number of times that I took the treatment and I didn't feel better? Or if the claim is about someone else, how many times did someone else take the thing and didn't feel better or more energetic? How many times did they not take anything and they felt better? That's right. Or better, a placebo, right? If they took the thing without an active ingredient in it and didn't feel any better, then that's also worth knowing. And so you might demand that sort of evidence from the person who is making the claim. Well, has it been done with placebos? What sort of information do you want? And that makes it really immediately apparent. So what I want to do next is I hope people will go to the next section and answer a few questions about two by two tables and placebos and really make sure that they understand what's going on before we move on.


Hey coach, welcome back to another episode with my friend Andrew Casal from Valor Accounting. How are you today Andrew? I'm very well. Thanks Leo, how are you doing? Oh well, oh well. Thanks for jumping on here again. I'm super excited about talking to you, well talking to you about a new topic. So today we're going to be talking about how to pay yourself, right? The thing all coaches want to know, right? Why have a business if you can't pay yourself? So I won't take the stage too much longer, over to you Andrew. Brilliant, thanks Leo. So yeah, as you said, the whole point of, you know, a business, a profit, for profit business is to reap the rewards, you know, so to speak. So it's about taking, how to take money out of your business. And we're going to look at a few factors here, because of course we're going to talk about the tax side of taking out money from your business, especially for limited companies because it's a little bit more complex in that area. But we're going to look at kind of the cash management side of it as well, as well as like using that information to plan ahead for, you know, and this is good for growing, you know, not only just startups, but growing businesses as well. So yeah, it's mainly just about the areas here, cash management, tax and planning ahead. Nice. So there's two, obviously we spoke earlier in a previous podcast that there are two main types of business structures. You've got the self-employed, which is the sole trader, and then you've got a limited company. So what we're going to do is we're going to look at both, both sides and how, what the implications of taking money out.  And it's good in a way. It's good in a way because that means that you can just pretty much take out money from your business account as and when you want to. So that's actually quite a good thing to do. You can't run payroll for yourself if you're self-employed. You can if you're a limited company, but we'll get on to that. So essentially you can just take out money and that's called drawing. So it's, you know, it's withdrawing money out of the business. Now, one of the pitfalls of this type of business structure is you have to have good cash management because sometimes I come across clients who they've got a self-employed business and they're taking out too much money and what happens is they're unable to pay their expenses. So they've got to end up putting money back. You know, so a good cash management is ideal for this type of business structure. And what I would say is just make sure you keep enough money to not only pay expenses for your business, but especially if you're looking to grow, leave some money in there to reinvest in the business. And anything after that, that's what you can take. And another thing I would say is do it on a weekly or a monthly basis and make sure that it's a consistent amount. A consistent amount. Don't just take as of when, you know, record what the amounts they are and how often and that will give you some consistency for good cash management. I like that. So I'm going to give the audience an example of some of the things coaches do. I know this is something we spoke to you about and this is poor cash management, right? So a lot of coaches are very bad with managing their money. And what they will do is because the tax year is ending, they've got to pay their taxes, they will then run these camps or clinics to try and recuperate the money that then they owe in taxes. So essentially what you're trying to say is always keep a percentage of what you make so that when we get to the tax year or the month or whenever you have to pay tax, then you've got that money reserved because a coach that doesn't, isn't good with their finances and then depends on running clinics or camps to recuperate that money that they've lost, you know, it's a massive risk because you might not make that money in that camp or clinic or it just might reign so you can't run the clinic, you might get ill so you can't run the clinic, right? So just having better cash management is essentially what you're trying to say, Andrew. Yeah, and you know what, that's such a good point that you mentioned about the tax side as well because that's a hidden expense because when you're running your sports coaching business, if you're paying for sports facilities or your monthly subscriptions, you know that's coming out but if you're self-employed, you're going to pay tax at the end of your accounting year and if you don't have an idea of how much tax you're going to pay and you haven't made any sort of like a savings pot for it or an allowance for that, then you're going to be hit with a tax bill and as you said, that's not a good time, that's not a fun time and especially another thing as well that I would mention which is a really important point is in the UK, when if you're self-employed and your tax bill goes over £1,000, then you are required to pay what's called payments on account and that is an additional 50% in advance payment for next year's tax and you would have to pay that so you have to take that into account and to be honest, I get a lot of clients who come to me in that position where they've come to me last minute and they've maybe done some rough calculations on their current tax point and then they hear about this payments on account and they're not sure what that is and they get hit with an additional 50% tax bill, yes it's for next year but you've got to pay it earlier, it's a payment in advance and that can really hinder their cash flow really badly so that's something that's so important so thanks for bringing that up Leo. Yeah and also I think it does come down to having a good accountant as well because if your accountant isn't advising you on stuff like this, then you aren't prepared. That's it and that's the thing, if you have an accountant that works with you on a quarterly basis they can tell you this is what your tax projections are, so this is the amount of tax you're looking to pay and they can advise you on how much to save, how much to keep into your business account so you're not hit with the surprise tax bill. So yeah obviously it's good but don't get me wrong, this is for, I guess that's more for growing businesses, for startups maybe you might not have enough resources to get yourself an account on a quarterly basis but these are good things to know, you can do your research, it's all on HMRC payments on account and try and build some sort of structure within your business in terms of cash management so you don't get caught out. Yeah and also for the coaches watching, because I know we've got coaches from all around the world, this is just a generic thing so make sure that you speak to an accountant in whichever city or country that you're in and they'll be able to advise you more correctly on how to pay yourself as a limited company or self-employed. Yeah yeah that's right, unfortunately I can't do you know any taxes in other countries because of different tax laws but yeah so okay now we're moving on to limited companies okay so this is a common mistake that new directors make when they set up their own company and what they're doing is let's say they make money and they just take money out of the bit of the company bank account as if it's an ATM right, it doesn't work like that, it doesn't work like that, it's a bit more, no self-employed you can do that but limited company you are a separate legal entity which means that you can't just take money as and when you want so that's one thing to be to be aware of and so how it really starts off with I'm going to just kind of go through a new business journey so it's something very similar you know you went through Leo as well and a lot of other clients of mine is especially if you are financing the business yourself then what you do is you look you'd essentially get send you know transfer money from your personal account to your business bank account and you're essentially loaning that company money now there's going to be a time where your business starts being profitable and you want to start taking money out a really good way to take money out first is by using what's called a direct loan account and when you when you're transferring money to your limited company that's going to give a credit to your direct loan account and before you know talking about you know salaries and dividends and things you can make use of this money which is the money basically you put into the company but now you want to take it out and you know you want to be obviously you want to be in a we don't make sure that you keep an eye on that you don't take out more money than you need to because then there's other tax implications where yeah it becomes problematic as well but that's a really good strategy to use before setting up a payroll scheme and start paying yourself salary and things like that okay so don't don't use your company as an ATM yeah yeah so this is the next bit now so let's say for example you're a your business and you're you've started taking out money of your DLA and your accountant says look your DLA is starting to run a bit low but you want to still take more money out of the company let's look at take you know setting up a salary for you to take out every month and what that entails is a pay as you earn scheme which is a PAYE scheme which is done via HMRC and your accountant can do that for you and what that allows you to do as a director is you know pay yourself a monthly amount it can be variable as well so let's say for example you start earning you start having some profits in the business and you want to slowly increase the money you take out so you can increase your salary there one thing I would say is there's obviously a sweet spot in terms of taking out money in a tax-efficient way and for a limited company currently the most tax and look this is the it is a case by case basis it is different if you've got other employments and you're running your own limited company or you've got a number of limited companies definitely speak to your accountant about a bit more of the intricacies around that but essentially it's paying up to your personal allowance and one thing as well to note is when you pay yourself a salary that essentially gets credited to your director's loan account I know it can be quite confusing but bear with me here it you don't actually have to take that money out straight away right because when you pay yourself a salary as a limited company is an expense for the company but having said that you do have to take it out nine months so the deadline to take out that money is nine months after your accounting year end right so it's nine months after your accounting year end you're going to make sure that any salary you paid within that accounting period is taken out otherwise it will still be money that you can still take out from the company but it won't be an allowable expense for corporation tax purposes okay so this as it that's just a little nugget of um of you know a bit of a tax nugget there um and next one is dividends so you pay yourself salary and you want to take more money out what would you do okay you want to take out dividends and that is another way on top of taking out salary to extract money from your your company one thing to watch out for is make sure that your company is is in profit yeah and what that means is dividends is anything is this kind of um the bit at the top that you can take out now if your company's in a loss unfortunately you can't take out dividends and that's what's called unlawful dividends so hopefully that gives a bit of an overview on how to take out money from your self-employed business or your limited company no i like that um so any for any coach watching that is maybe at the starting stage of their business what would you recommend in terms of going down the self-employed or going down the the limited company route in order to pay themselves at the beginning yeah so i think the best way to do it is is do your research do your research go you know go listen to podcasts um especially around this area like we've got a number of podcasts so listen to them um have an idea about how it works and then get in touch with an accountant most accountants will actually give you a you know free 30-minute consultation which might just be enough to help you set up initially and give and and and allow you to have a bit of growth first and then contact them after about other ways of going about it but definitely speak to you know a professional about it do your research and that will help you in the starting stages fantastic that that was also a great summary as well Andrew and there we are excellent all right Andrew well thank you very much if you have if you guys watching have any questions for Andrew leave them in the comment section right we will share all your questions with him and get back to you guys as soon as we can also if you want to connect with Andrew he does only work with coaches in the UK so if you're in the UK description below this video you can reach out to him to book a a call with him so Andrew before we head out anything else you'd like to add no that's it that's it you know it's an exciting journey sports coaches so um so yeah just get stuck in nice okay thank you Andrew and look forward to our next chat thank you thanks to you


God is the author of human nature. God's the author of our minds. God's the author of the universe and God is also the author of divine supernatural revelation. It all has one source in God and therefore, if he is its author and he is its source, truth cannot contradict truth. In this two-part course we will be taking an intriguing look at the theology of divine revelation. Enlightenment thought totally divorces faith from reason. I think that's the first and most fundamental feature of the Catholic approach to knowing reality that is missing in Enlightenment thought. This lecture series is an exploration of intellectual history, of the history of ideas and their effects. We have a fundamentally secularized view of civil society and that comes in part from Kant. The idea that the public order should ultimately be something that in no way depends on any kind of theistic belief and that it can run fully well without those things and that if religion wants to fit in it has to meet criteria given by this fundamentally secular template. We're going to focus on the writings of the Prussian Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant and the German philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher and how these two thinkers lay the foundations for the movements that we know today as liberal Protestantism and Catholic modernism. And then we will turn and consider the response of the church to these movements in the 18th and 20th centuries. Almost everybody's view of the human person is in some way stamped by this very subjectivist Enlightenment beginning point. There's a lot of important ideas that come up in the history of the Enlightenment that have to be reckoned with. All right, let's get started.