As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillahi wa ala alihi wa sahabihi ajma'in We commence praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, sending blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam His household, his companions, may Allah bless them and bless every one of us and grant us goodness His Excellency, the President of this beautiful Republic of the Maldives as well as the dignities who are here, the judges, the contestants, my brothers and sisters I wish you the blessed month of Ramadan that it is as blessed as ever the best month from all the months that we have spent so far in our lives It is indeed the best month of the Islamic calendar and it is known as the month of the Quran Yes, there are so many things we should be achieving from this beautiful month Primarily we achieve taqwa which is the consciousness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The softening of the heart is something we should always be achieving in the month of Ramadan It is known as the month of mercy, the month of forgiveness, the month of closeness to Allah but it is the month where the Quran was revealed You and I know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has said Indeed we have sent down this Quran on the night of decree It is the night when the decree is actually written It is also known as the night of power That night which is more powerful than one thousand months because of the value of the revelation of the Quran When I saw Anurul Mubin, I felt a calmness in my heart simply because it is to do with the word of Allah It is a dream come true for this beautiful nation When we give importance to the word of Allah, Allah gives importance to us Remember this Allah elevates through this word of His certain people who give it importance who take it as theirs who learn it, who put it into practice, who convey it to others who encourage people to give it importance And Anurul Mubin is one such way that we are encouraging people to value the message of the Quran to perfect its recitation to make it a part of our lives Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran He addresses all the people, Muslims, non-Muslims All the people, Allah says, oh people Indeed a reminder has come to you from your Lord in the form of the Quran In the form of the word of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala From your Lord there is a reminder Which means if I read the Quran there will be in it a reminder for me To do what? To soften To soften my heart towards the obedience of Allah I would love to become a person who earns not only this worldly life but the hereafter as well And this is why the winner is he who can have a good life here and an even more blessed life in the hereafter You know the dua mentioned in Surat al-Baqarah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us From among the people are those the successful ones who call out to Allah regarding both this world as well as the next Oh our Lord grant us goodness in this world goodness in the hereafter and save us from the punishment of hellfire So this is the balance that we are searching for We achieve it by listening to the reminder of the Quran by giving it importance It has in it cure for the diseases of the heart When you and I have a sickness It is either spiritual or physical The spiritual sickness everybody knows the Quran will cure it because there is a calmness Wallahi my brothers and sisters You can hear the recitation of those who participated in this beautiful Quranic contest Each one is unique It must have been so difficult for the adjudicators to decide who was first, second and third but they had to do it as difficult as it may have been It's the word of Allah The calmness of every single person's nature is achieved in the Quran If you hear Sheikh Mahmood Khalil al-Husari he recites differently from Sheikh Ali al-Hudayfi who recites differently from Abdul Rahman al-Sudays who recites differently from Sheikh Surud al-Shureim who recites differently from Sheikh Muhammad sadiq al-Manshawi who recites differently from Abdul Basit Abdul Samad and so on Why is the recitation different in the way it is? Delivered Because it's the beauty of the Quran Each one of us is calmed by a different reciter If I ask you today who is your favorite reader we will have 100 different names The reason is Allah caters for your nature and mind Allah quenches your spiritual thirst and mind through the recitation of the Quran By the remembrance of Allah By the remembrance of Allah the hearts will be filled Those who believe they achieve the calmness of the heart through the remembrance of Allah and the greatest remembrance is the words of Allah, the Quran You will achieve a calmness just from listening to the Quran I have come across experiments that have been made in western countries where they took non-Muslims and they gauged the condition of the heart in its pulse and they recited or made them listen to the Quran and you can actually quickly check it on YouTube if you want the impact or effect of Quranic recitation upon non-Muslims That was actually done by some young people who decided let's go and check if it's true today masha'Allah with social media everyone is so quick so they took a phone and they took their earphones they stopped random people in the west and they said I want you to listen to this and tell me how you feel without telling them what it is when they listen to it you can check it they are calm, they listen they are so calm and they say wow that was cool they don't know then they were told this is the Quran Subhanallah the Quran some people are saying it's a book that's supposed to make you hard and harsh my brothers and sisters I have a powerful message for you this evening a true sign of closeness to Allah is the softening of your character if your character is hard and harsh you are far from the Quran Allah is telling Muhammad sallallahu alayhi sallam it is because of the mercy of Allah that you are so lenient towards those around you if you were harsh and hard hearted they would have dispersed from around you they would not even want to listen to what you have to say so the softening is the mercy of Allah it's a sign of closeness to Allah those who want to harm others today we have an issue what's the globe of terrorism in the name of religion not just Islam but Islam is one of those faiths that is being hijacked by people who want to perpetrate crimes yet the Quran is the furthest away from that type of teaching even if you don't understand it it will calm you down so why are the people becoming filled with an inferno definitely it is not part of the teaching of Islam may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help us to promote the religion in the most beautiful way Islam came to this lovely country that is 100% Muslim and to this part of the world in the most peaceful way remember that today we are completely Muslim how did it come to us in a peaceful way read your history you know it better than I do let's go to Far East Asia you will be able to see what happened there Islam entered through honesty and the character and conduct of the people who visited them when they dealt in a beautiful way people said I want to be like this when we listen to the Quran when we adopt the Quran we will be walking Quran when Aisha radiallahu anha was asked about the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam's character she did not know what to say so she said one word kana khuluquhu al Quran his character was the Quran which means whatever embodiment of the Quran is in this man you want to know what the Quran is all about look at this man you want to know what this man is all about look at the Quran subhan Allah and here Allah is saying softening of the heart because my brothers and sisters you and I know when Allah says there is cure for the diseases of the heart it's not only spiritual disease it is also physical disease you read the Quran Allah will grant you cure from physical disease now I'm sure we have heard from our scholars that this verse has cure in it if you want cure you read this verse or that verse they would say read this and that I always tell people read the Quran from cover to cover why? there are some sicknesses I don't know I have and there are cures in verses that I don't know where exactly they are but they are in the Quran so if I am to pick it up and to take from the cover putting a marker every day one verse how much? one it's a challenge my brothers and sisters I challenge you all I'm not asking for more and I'm not asking for me I'm asking for you read one verse read one verse of the Quran your life will change I swear by Allah your life will change learn to look after the Quran Allah will look after you listen to the verse We have revealed this Quran this reminder this revelation we will protect it from what? everything we will protect it many of us when we read this verse we look at it and we say that means Allah will preserve the Quran it is in its original form it is in its original form it is in its original form it is in its original form it is in its original form it is in its original form it is authentic it is legitimate etc etc that is only 1% of the meaning by the way there is 99% that we have slipped we have forgotten no one's drawn our attention to it anyone who gives importance to the Quran anyone who memorizes a verse anyone who memorizes a Surah and I know 100% of us seated here we know Surah Al-Fatiha off by heart am I right? Subhan Allah 100% of us have made an effort we learnt Surah we know Surah Al-Ikhlas maybe we know Surah Al-Kawthar we know a few we are expanding every day Ayatul Kursi we know these are verses of the Quran each verse is more valuable than the most expensive diamond on earth if you have it in your heart Allah says I will protect you I will protect you because I promised I am going to protect the Quran if you made an effort to look after it I have to look after you because you have it now in your heart when a person has the most valuable diamond in his hand and he walks on the street the jeweler will come to him and say come here wait walk with all these bodyguards Subhan Allah because you know what you have in your hand you are in danger Subhan Allah we need to look after you from those devilish people who might come and pinch they might even kill you as a result Wallahi the Quran is more valuable Allah says wait we will protect you we will send angels to look after you we will make sure that you are walking calm you are relaxed you might have challenges but you will be content when we have challenges in our lives that's the promise of Allah you will have a challenge every day you will have a new challenge the most beloved unto Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Muhammad peace be upon him had the biggest challenges he lost his father prior to birth he lost his mother he was born and orphan he grew up he lost the uncle who was looking after him later on sorry he lost the grandfather who was looking after him later on he continued and the people belied him one after the other when he went to Taif you know what happened in Makkah what happened then when he went to Medina the wars one after the other against who the best of creation the most noble of all prophets he lost all his children in his lifetime besides one all his children passed away in his lifetime the boys passed away when they were small the girls passed away when they were old why did Allah do this to the most beloved the most loved to come you and I down to say we belong to Allah we have to go back to him how many of us want paradise all of us well to go to paradise unfortunately or fortunately you need to pass away who wants to die no one so how are you going to go to paradise subhanallah so Allah says when you're ready I'm going to take you away and I'm not going to give you a choice because I love you more than you love yourself that's Allah be calm be happy Allah will grant it to you so Allah says we are taught by Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ayatul kursi the reading of that one verse of Suratul Baqarah subhanallah you read it automatically you are protected you read Suratul Fatiha there is protection why because Allah says we reveal this Quran we will protect it so a half of the Quran is protected by Allah with bodyguards we cannot see because he has with him something that is more valuable than the most valuable items present on this earth the same applies when you make an effort to learn one verse I promise you I have had people come back to me and say sheikh you know what we try to memorize I'm not strong at reading Quran but I listen and I try to repeat repeat a few times only with the intention I want to please Allah this is His word even though I don't understand so much but it's the best word the word of Allah and I try to memorize one verse every week and wallahi you are so true I'm content I have so many problems but I'm a happy person people ask when you have problems how do I know is it a punishment of Allah or a test of Allah this is the month of Ramadan right a lot of the wars took place the month of Ramadan the battle of Badab took place month of Ramadan the answer is it's in the condition of your heart not in what is happening to you anything can happen to you if your heart is cool and calm it's a gift of Allah it's a test from Allah elevation of your status but if your heart is not calm you are angry you are upset you get absolutely absurd and you are so depressed that is a sign that perhaps you need to increase in your link with Allah develop it further so my brothers and sisters the heart the diseases of the heart where is the cure in the Quran not just the spiritual disease but also the physical diseases remember this the blessed month of Ramadan we are given it as a gift as soon as the moon is sighted what happens we move into a new mode there is a feeling it's called a Rouhaniya you know it's called a spirituality of this month that we feel in it because of the blessings that Allah has placed in the beautiful month of Ramadan it's the month where we are supposed to be abstaining from food and drink etc etc and also from bad words because the Quran teaches us development of character development of conduct development of wisdom we need to be able to have tact when we address one another we need to be conscious of the feelings of one another when you talk to someone speak to them considering how they will take what you have said this is why the prophet tells us the way you word your speech could actually be rewarding or sinful even though the message is the same when you belittle someone you are sinful when you give them importance definitely you will be given importance to by Allah give people importance no matter who they are greet them smile at them talk to them in a way that they feel that there is hope unfortunately when we talk of the Quran my brothers and sisters we usually doom people we usually give a message such that everyone is going to Jahannam I always ask the brothers who say this brother if everyone is going to Jahannam why did Allah make Jannah for what? there is no one there besides you Allahu Akbar may Allah take us all to Jannah brothers and sisters what a lovely month I have given you only a small introduction to this beautiful month of Ramadan a few points of benefit and I have made a challenge out to yourselves and myself to read one verse a day for the sake of Allah one verse a day if you have done more you can do more inshallah you expand according to your capacity but no one has an excuse to go below one no one start your day with it with the word of Allah and I promise you your life will change you will achieve the greatness of this world and Allah SWT will open for you the doors of jannah tul fir those imagine being resurrected and called out on the day of judgment called out on the day of judgment to come to a special gathering with Muhammad SAW on that day would be the day we would be proud of our achievement may Allah SWT gather us all with Muhammad SAW in the Akhira may Allah give us Jannah Ul Firdaus and may Allah SWT keep an Nurul Mubeen running and alive as a Sadaqa Jaria for those who have established it until we get to Jannah Ul Firdaus and we see the effort we have made for the Quran and we are really happy that Allah has protected us not just in this world but even on the day of Qiyamah I say this peace be upon Muhammad SAW


Appalachian Wireless and Samsung introduce the Z Flip 3. The Z Flip 3 is an actual flip phone. That one open reveals a stunning 6.7 inch touchscreen for the best of both worlds. To find out more visit AppalachianWireless.com. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Construction on the Willard-Kinzer Veteran Cemetery has begun in Floyd County. Mountain Top News was there. We have the Floyd County Fiscal Courts taking the initiative, something we've been working on for about three years to try to establish a Veterans Cemetery here in Floyd County. In honor of Navy Veteran, Racer and Businessman Willard-Kinzer, the Floyd County Fiscal Court will begin construction on the Willard-Kinzer Veteran Cemetery this year. Following the groundbreaking from Thursday, Mountain Top spoke with Judge Executive Robbie Williams about the cemetery and its importance to the community. We hope to have the building remodeled. We're in a partnership with the Floyd County Shriners Club and they are remodeling the facility for us so when folks pass away, we have some place when we come up, we can have dinner, things of that nature, have a little food for the families. And then what we're going to do is we're going to have an outdoor pavilion that we're going to build over here, a shelter that they can, you know, we're not having to put the tents up each time we have a service. With 10 acres to work on, Williams says they hope to have the cemetery completed by summer or fall of 2022. We feel that's going to do us for several generations. We have approximately 1,600 Veterans in Floyd County and we feel that this probably should do us for quite some time and if we need to expand, we can. It's a good thing about this location. But we certainly believe this is going to be sufficient to get us started. Lastly, Williams says he hopes the cemetery makes a great addition to Floyd County. And I really want this to be nice. I want it to be something that we are proud of not only as Veterans, but as Floyd Countyans and this is our cemetery. And it's just another way that we can honor our Veterans, you know, in life and in death. Reporting from Floyd County, for Mountaintop News, I'm Joel Porgell.


Fantastic experience overall. Everybody is talking about connected TVs. Everybody is talking about interactive experiences. And it was great to see a conference come together on just this topic. I thought my session was also really amazing for me because at the end of it, there were so many questions and so many, I think, conversations even offstage. And of course, it's always a pleasure to talk to Nazia. So, yeah, overall a fantastic experience. Interactive experiences are clearly the future. I mean, they're already here, to be honest. I'll give you two examples of where we as a group at Goodlamp have actually leveraged this at scale already. So, the first, of course, when we did Coffee with Karan and then the second one was Big Boss, right, where we sponsored those two programs. And, you know, what we did which is very interesting was not only did we, of course, sponsor, but we had experience zones on the show. But we also replicated those experience zones off the show and also digitally replicated the excitement of Big Boss and Coffee with Karan and questions and votes and leaderboards on our app and our WhatsApp communities, right? So, overall, I think what we were able to do using that entire sort of experience of, you know, connecting our consumers across every touch point, be it what they saw on their TV screens or what they saw on their apps was bring across a very holistic experience of really being deeply engaged with the content that they were consuming. So, yeah, so I think that was a wonderful experience for us which also led to measurable brand, you know, impression increases, conversation increases, increasing brand share of voice across all platforms. So, I think a very, very successful experience for us.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with Leighton sports cars doing a 12 box personal for Tom C. We've got four 23 tops Cosmic Chromes, four 22 tops Cosmic Chromes, and four 22 or 23 tops Chrome Breakers Delights. So I'm just gonna run through that. So 22 Cosmic Chrome. We had two there and we have two there. We have four 23 Cosmics and we have two Breakers Delights and two more Breakers Delights. So good luck. Let's do it, Sam. We'll start with 22 Cosmics. We're gonna definitely finish with the Breakers Delights. So those will be the last ones we do because those are kind of insane now. Dude, those are up to 5.70 a box now. Craziness. Craziness, bro. Oh yeah, this is 22. I guess 22. Donny Cuedo, that was an Alec Thomas rookie. Josh Donaldson, Xander Bogarts, De La Cruz and more base. Verlander, Blue Manumichado to 99 for the Padres and Tyler McGill rookie. Jarenda Ran rookie. Goldie and Gabriel Arias. Wilson Contreras, Walker Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. Refractor of Cabrion Hayes. No, I've not. Yeah, no, that one. That one would be on my list for sure. Bobby Witt rookie. Elliot Ramos. Jeff McNeil, base. Flying Squirrel. Shane Bieber, Starling Marte. Ryan Vallade, Refractor rookie for the Rockies. Runs Okan, Griffin Jacks and more base. G. Alito and Orald Schatman. Crawford. Marcus Simeon, Nucleus for the Rangers and base. New Darmish Rocket Arms, Louise Heel. Connor Green rookie. Kyle Tucker and Seth Beer. Spencer Torfelsen rookie. Launch and Orbit, Sammy Sosa. Jake Myers, I guess not. Launch and Orbit, Bryce Harper and a Stephen Kwan. All right, box two. Alec Thomas rookie. Some sort of best sports compilation. Jarenda Ran. Gabriel Arias rookie. Ernie Clement. Jacob DeGramme, Louise Heel. Bobby Witt rookie. I'll be Royd Rage. There you go. Spencer Torfelsen. Launch and Orbit, Mookie Betts. Kyle Muller. Oh, Black Eclipse. First of all, it's John Durant. Black Eclipse. JP Crawford, 10 of 10. Nice one there for the Mariners. Gratstom. Stephen Kwan rookie. Nucleus, Yanni Hernandez. Kyle Raleigh. Lance McCullers. Josh Hader Rocket Arms. Josh Chisel. Josh Hader Blue. JD Martinez to 99 for the Red Sox. Kyle Tucker. Connor Green rookie. Story. Manny Machado, Refractor Autograph. Nice one there, Tom. We'll take some man match for the Padres. Seth Beer rookie. Lars Nupar. JD Martinez, we miss you in Detroit. Coach Refractor. Matt Veerling. Well, you've got that guy now, Spencer. Matt Veerling. That Machado was nice, for sure. Wander rookie. Launch and Orbit. Peter Lanzo and JV. Box three of 22 Cosmic. Ooh, Red. Red, Launch and Orbit. Byron Buxton. One of five. Nice one, Tom. Dude, that's sick. I've not seen a Red in this. That is clean. Clean, clean, clean. One of five. Bryson Stock. One touch that Veerling. J-Rod rookie. Jose Abreu. And Justin Turner. Yeah, that Boxing was sweet, dude. Hoy Park. Shane Bieber. Jeremy Pena rookie. Kyle Lewis, Refractor. Did you see the Mackenzie Gore, Dylan Carlson to 99. Peter Review of that guy in the Massachusetts. That was so funny. I think your shirt's six sizes too small, Matto. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That was great. That was so funny. There's Salvador Perez, Launch and Orbit. And O'Neill Cruz. Twins. Thumbs down. Freddie Freeman. Catel Marte. Miguel Cabrera. There you go, Spencer. Which one? Well, P.I.'s is Bad Shatter. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Star of War. Where do you go? Best poll tonight. The Purdy. Yeah, Brock Purdy, RPA to 25 from NT. Yeah, for sure. For sure. For sure. And a good call on that. I mean, the Bet Super was pretty cool. Byron Buxton. Whitmerfield. Oh, Pickens. That was nasty. That was really cool. That's what I'm saying, Tablesault. Manny Machado.  This actually, yes, it actually is a personal, Chris. This actually is a personal, yeah. There's another, I mean, you can see right there is four breakers, the lights up there as well. Miggie, the best hitter in the past 20 years will not, will not change my stance. Jaype the Gromlands of the Colors. I will do 23 Cosmic after this box. Yeah, he's doing well, man. Blue Brandon Crawford to 75. Good for baseball. But good for, yeah. Good for baseball. Yeah, Stanton's up to 400 homers too. What'd you say? Joe Ryan. Goldmatt Veerling. There you go. Congrats on that, Tom. That's just funny. Spencer in chat is a big Matt Veerling guy now, all of a sudden. Now that he's a Detroit Tiger. Tim Anderson, Hermione Marquez, Josh Bell. George Bray out, George Bray running out, dude. That's one of the best moments of history.  Yes, dude. Unreal. Sick card. Chipper was a great hitter, yes. Jared Walsh, Ben Intendi, and Miguel Cineau. Yeah, true. Wanda Franco, Jazz Chisholm. I mean, yes and no table salt because he's just Martian Meadows, Nucleus. His injuries are just brutal, dude. This isn't really that hot of a take. This is a take. This is just a medium take. If Stanton didn't miss as much time as he did with injuries, he'd easily be at 500 already. Easily. Black Eclipse of Corey Seeger. Three of 10. Nice one, Tom. And ACJ Abrams. Because he missed time when he got hit in the face.  Nucleus of Jared Durant. Nice one there, rookie. I don't think that's a super hot take. Josh Lowe. Maybe not easily at 500 home runs, but he'd be at like 480. Between 480 and 5. Royce Lewis, rookie. He is on fire right now. Royce Lewis, one of the hottest hitters in the league. Seas Suzuki. Corey Seeger wasn't hurt half the year. He'd be the MVP. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, that's a hot take from Spencer. Oh yeah, that's true. Plus, like when he got hit in the face, that was like a freak accident. There's launch and orbit of Trout. Brian Hayes and Kyle Lewis. There's launch and orbit of Judge, Blue, Reed, Detmers. The 79 and Nick Castellana. The other issue with Stanton, dude, is he's all muscle. He's all muscle.  So like, that's just asking to get injured, dude. There's no like cushion or anything. You're just like, if you get hit straight in the muscle, if you pull the wrong way, it's pulling the straight muscle. All right, four 23 Cosmics now. Everyone throws the meatballs to the twin stick. Yeah, big conspiracy in the MLB right now that we need MLB needs the Minnesota twins in the playoffs. Drew Waters, refractor rookie, Volpe rookie. Trout, Otani, Detmers. Launch and orbit, Raffy Devers. No, that's true. That's true. Trout was never injured. That's a very good point, too. Adding, Mookie will win MVP. Yeah, also kind of true, to be honest. Alec Bohm, 2199. Aqua Equinox, James Altman, Rookie. Miguel Vargas. Quann and Freed. Tommy Henry. Corbin Carroll, extraterrestrial talent. Anthony Santander. Thomas Carroll, Moreno. Rushman and Gunner. Nucleus, Verdugo, refractor of Chapman and base. Brett Beatty stars the night. I don't know, did he? That's true. If Joel Zumaia didn't injure himself playing guitar hero, then he would have thrown the fastest pitch ever recorded. He probably actually, all jokes aside, if he didn't injure his arm, he probably would have. He was a beast, dude. DL Hall, 99. Rookie for the Orioles. Josh Young, Michael Harris, JJ Blodette. I gotta get Joel Zumaia and a thumbnail at some point here. Gunner Henderson, Rookie. Rochans and Nolan Jones. Seager Young, Logan Gilbert. Launch and Orbit, Shohei. Oswald Paraza, Rookie refractor auto for the Inks. Nice one there, Tom. And Corey Lee. I'll see you, Super Fractor. Ricky Henderson, lead off home runs. Zach Grinke, nice one there for the Orioles. Royals, 2199. One more Super to end the day. Refractor of Goldschmidt, Hater. Sword, Launch and Orbit, Griffey as a Red, Trish and Kossas, Rookie. Oh, God. Phil Coke out, Albuquerque. And Joaquin Benoit in one. God, dude. Kyle Schwarber, Corbin Carroll, Rookie. Soriano Bezio. Wow, Kinsler? Damn. Forgot he, I guess he did hit lead off a lot. He was a shortstop, to be fair, if that makes sense. Devers and Kossas, Garrett Mitchell. Refractor, Dalton, Varshu and Vace. Betts and Granderson at 6, nice. Hell yeah, J-Rod, Stars of the Night. First Granderson, Yankee legend. Masatake Yoshida, O'Neil Cruz, Jacob Grom. Harper Judge Betts, aha, no dice roll we got to do. Nice, nice, nice. I like that. Got a non-force out for the Tigers. Ooh, Earth of Shohei Otani, nice one there. Earth, congrats on that, Tom. That'll work right there. Yes, these right here, Chris, they're called the Planetary Pursuits. That's Earth, that's nice, dude. Zeke Otovar, Jordan Walker. Yes, theoretically, a Pluto is the biggest one. Allegedly, they all have print runs of two, allegedly. Brett Beatty, that's what I have been, that is what I have seen. So you won't be, yeah, right, since you won't be pitching next year. That's very true, Yelich. There's one Soto. Yeah, they have all the planets, starting at the sun going all the way to Pluto. Every single one is an insert. The further away you get from the sun, the more rare it is too, it's kind of cool. Like, I don't think any of us has seen a Neptune. I don't think we've pulled a Neptune yet. Maybe Matt has. Happy to see Pluto get recognition from Tops of Cody Bellinger to 99 for the Cubs. Hey, thank you there, Jeffrey picking up spots for tomorrow. Planetary Pursuit, yeah, one in 43,000 packs, dude, basically 44,000 packs. Zach Neto Rookie. Matt pulled the Shohei. That's the rate for the Pluto's, yeah, that's how rare the Pluto's are. Washington Orbit Alvarez and Shintaro Tsujinani. Jeff McNeil. Yeah, allegedly, Tops accidentally flipped the Venus and the Uranus odds. There's Wilson Contreras. They probably did that on purpose, so more Uranuses will get pulled funny. Jeremy Pena. Matt McLean, that's my theory. Yeah, Matt pulled Pluto of Otani. That's the only Pluto I think we've pulled here. Oh, geez. That sucks, table salt. Pluto of the... I don't know if anybody on the Astros has one, to be honest. Yoshida? Because it's not a super big checklist. Nolan Gorman, like, there's only a select number of guys that are in it. So it's like all the big rookies and then like Judge, Akunya, Otani, Trout, Kyle Stowers, and Jose Ramirez. I'm trying to think, is there any other ones that you could think of? It's like Carol, Adley, Gunnar, Alvarez, Yoshida, all for the rookies. Poo Hulse, Verlander. I was gonna say, I don't think so unless Yordan had one. Beaty Rookie. I don't think Althuvae's got one. I don't have to pay for it then. Jeeze, that's brutal, stable salt. Stowers Rookie. Maybe that too, Anthony. Who knows? We got the son of Masataka Yoshida. Nice one there for the Red Sox. Congrats, Red Sox, Bellinger. Akunya, Kodaisenga. Bogarts, Tatis, Soto, Cole Regans. Brown, Javi Baez. Francisco Alvarez. Stars of the Night Rookie. Yeah, I think I pulled like one Mars. Pulled like two Venuses, or no, I pulled two Saturns.  Launched an orbit J-Rod. Michael Harris Rookie. Beaty Alvarez, Alonzo, Kutch. Yeah, a couple of Earths. Adley Rookie. Francisco Alvarez, Dalton Varshaw. Yeah, I did pull one Jupiter, I think. Austin Riley. One Jupiter. Yeah, dude, they're cool cards, man. There's a green Space Dust, Lenin Soso Rookie for the White Sox to 75. Edward Julian.  You just got to get everything out. There's Julio Rodriguez. E.T. Talent. Corey Segar, Refractor Auto. Nice one there for the Rangers. Congrats, Tom. Matt Work at one o'clock. I'm allowed to be immature for a minute. Fair. I'm in on that. Trout and Otani. Wander. I'm completely in on that, Chris. Josh Young. Ron Raccoon, Stars of the Night. Trey Langlears. Real MVP. Oh my God. And Vace. Christian Walker. I know. Trey Turner, Nucleus. Josh Hader. Gunner Henderson Rookie. Groshan's Alvarez Rookie. And today, jeez, man. Bobby Witt. Just to give you guys an idea of how many top-loaders we go through just on this channel. Just tonight, we went through two full cases of top-loaders. Matt Mervis, Refractor Rookie, Riley Greene. That's not considering out there on channel two. That's just tonight here, dude. Logan Gilbert to 199. J. Rod. I deal with inmates, so this just distracts me between rounds. There's Matsutake Yoshida. Ha, ha, ha. Rochman and Gunner and Shane Bieber. Nathaniel Lowe. Gold. Tommy Edmund. Congrats on that. That is 250 for the Cardinals. And we go up the brayer. All right. We got four breakers to lights now. Good luck here, Tom. Let me just make sure. Two breakers to lights and two breakers to lights. Good luck, Tom. I got an orange, gold in there as well. Christopher Morrell, O'Neil Kruse, Stevenson, Diaz, Crawford, Stowe's Rookie. Gold wave to 50 is Mike Yastremski for the Giants. Gold wave, Joe Ryan to 50 for the Twins. Orange, Leo Verbaguero to 25 for the Pirates. Bassado of Brian Servin, going to the Rockies. Purple, Miguel Vargas to 250 for the Dodgers. And a Youthquake Garrett Mitchell Rookie. Ruchman Rookie. Cole DeGrom, Riley Greene Refractor. Goldie Baez. Tovar Image Variation. Nice one there. Green wave, Ken Waldachuk for the A's. Green, Steven Juan, Youthquake to 99. Second year. Nice. Bass, Riley Greene Otto. Congrats, Tom. Nice one there, buddy. For the Tigers. Bass, Josh Lester for the Tigers. On the Otto. And a C.J. Abrams, Youthquake. Josh Lester. Triple legend. Triple A legend. Ruchman Refractor. Cole DeGrom. Arias Seeger Abrams. Got KB to 399 for the Rockies. Red, Leo Verbaguero. Five of five. Nice one there. There is some Schmeck on it. I'm going to give you an empty box and rapper, Tom. Up on the top there. Green to 99. Mackenzie Gore. Bassado Jermaine Palacios. Nice one there. For the Tigers. Purple Minidiamonds, Connor Cappell to 299. And Leo Verbaguero, Youthquake Rookie. Two clutch videos are super hard. That is pretty cool to me. Orange wave, Otto. Very nice. Aaron Judge, Freed, Cavalli Rookie. Here at Mitchell Rookie. Jordan Walker Rookie. Purple Cedric Mullins to 250. That's way too blue. Cold Hunter Green to 50. Negative is Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers. Bassado Joey Weimer. Nice one there. Going to the Brewers. Orange wave, Otto Nolan Jones, 24 of 25. Very solid. He is underrated Rookie in this product for sure. And a Joey Vanessa Youthquake Rookie. That is going to do it for your break there. Tom, thanks again for the support as always, buddy. We'll get him right out to my man.


Hello everyone, welcome to the session on 3-adress code generation for Boolean expressions. In this video, we will be seeing that how the translation scheme is provided for the Boolean expression, how the 3-adress codes are generated for the Boolean expression in the compiler. Talking about the learning outcomes of this session, at the end of this session, students will be able to generate this translation scheme for Boolean expressions and you can convert a given Boolean expression into its 3-adress code using the translation scheme. Now, about the Boolean expressions, Boolean expressions can be used by many ways. So, two ways are like, we can use them for computing the logical values like true and false values and another one we can use them in the conditional expressions, either we can use them for if-then-else statements or we can use them for loops also. Now, consider this grammar. What this grammar is? This is the grammar provided for Boolean expressions. The expression is containing the operators or and not, you may have the expression in bracket or the expression may be in the form of id, the relational operator and id. The relational operators may be denoted by less than, less than equal to, greater than, greater than equal to, equal to or not equal to in any form and it may have the values of true and false. So, this is a normal grammar for the relational operator, for the Boolean expressions. Here or and and are having left associative and talking about the precedence of the relation, we know that not is having the highest precedence in the relation and then and operator and then or operator. Now, taken into considering all these one, we will be seeing the next thing that how the Boolean expressions are converted in the three address code. Now let us talk about the methods of translating the Boolean expressions here. Now Boolean expressions, when we are translating them, usually they are in the two forms. The first method is by considering the numerical representation. What is numerical representation? In this one, we are encoding the true and false values in the numerical way like 1 as true and 0 as false value and we are evaluating the Boolean expressions like the arithmetic expressions. The second method is using the flow of control. In this one, we are representing Boolean expression by the position. Like if we are using them, these are usually convenient for if then else statements and loop statements. Here we are using Boolean expressions for moving the control of the statement. Like if the normal flow of the control is there and if we want to change them using the expressions, we are using that. Now consider this numerical representation here. What is there? The example is a or b and not c. So this is the relational expression and see the three address code generated for this one. Now see here that according to the precedence of the operation, not is having the highest precedence, then and is the next precedence and then or. So this expression is executed as first not c is calculated, then and is calculated and then finally or. So this is the result of this one. So this is the three address code which will be generated for this particular example. Like another example here, the simple expression is a less than b. This is taken as if a less than b then take it as true else take it as the value 0 that is a false value in the numerical representation. So this one when we are converting in a three address code for changing the flow of the control, you can see here that this three address code is we are considering the statement which is starting with 100. Now if a is less than b then go to 103 that is what if it is true a less than b is true then it is going to take the value of t as 1 else it is taking the value of t as 0. So once it is taking the value of t as 0 it will it will go to 104 that is it is coming out of this one. So this particular expression is converted in three address code here like this. Now this is the translation scheme for Boolean expressions in the numerical representation form. This is the grammar what we have seen earlier the same grammar is there and these are the semantic actions for that means if this is the matching statement then how the semantic action what action it is taking. Now in this one basically two functions we are using here one is the emit function. What is the emit function? The emit function is used for generating the three address code and new temp that is the function which is generating every time we require the new temporary variable like t1, t2 what earlier we have seen. So for this one we require to generate the temporary variables. So for that now you can see here that if the statement is even or e2 then first we require a temporary variable here.  What this emit function is doing? It is generating the three address code and it is keeping it at it is there. So in this e dot place value whatever the place value is there that equal to equal to anything in a single code is taken as it is for the three address code here. So this assignment statement is taken as it is then even dot place or is taken as operator and then e2 is place. Similarly for and also that is a temporary variable is created then even dot place assigns to as it is and and operator is taken for not also and for bracket it is only exchanging the place value. Relational operator in this we require a temporary variable then we require if this it is generating the code if that particular id then the relational operator then id is place then go to now how the it is emitting the spaces now that is go to we have seen earlier 103 104 according to that it is calculating we will see this by the example later and the normal true and false value. If the normal true and false value are there how the code is generating is place value if it is for true then it is 1 and for false it is 0 for the temporary variables. Now as I told earlier that emit function is used for generating the three address code here new temp function is used for generating the temporary variable and the relational operator it is containing next state and it is giving the index of the next three address statements in the given output sequence. Let us see how it is there. Take an example earlier same example if a less than b then 1 l 0. Now this we have seen that the three address code is generated for this. Now according to this translation scheme how this code is generated let us see that one by one. So first statement is what E dot place new temp. So here what it is doing we are considering the next state as 100. So 100 is taken as it is then place value is a new temporary variable here. So it has generated next is what the emit statement. So in this emit statement now see here what it is emitting if as it is then id 1 dot place so that is a relational operator is less than id 2 dot place that is b. Now go to as it is it is using and next state next state is what it is 100 and we are taking 100 plus 3 so that is 1 0 3 it is writing here. So like this this statement is generated by this emit statement. Next the next statement is generated by this emit E dot place assigns to now assigns to 0. So what is E dot place we have taken E dot place earlier as temporary variable t. So t assigns to 0. The next statement is generated by this emit statement. So go to as it is it is writing then the currently what is the current statement next state value that is 1 0 true now 1 0 2 plus 2 that is 1 0 4 so it is writing go to 1 0 4 here. Then this statement is created now in this one what is there it is emitting E dot place it is for true value. So E dot place we have taken as t and t is assigning the value as 1. So like this one it is generating the 3 address code by this one we have seen that how this is generated by this 1 by 1. So totally first the temporary variable is created then this statement is emitted by this then this statement is emitted by this. This statement is generated by this emit statement this statement is generated by this given statement like this a complete 3 address code is generated. Now pause the video and try to convert the given Boolean expression into 3 address code using the above translation scheme. The relation operator the expression what we are using here is p greater than q and r less than s or u greater than v. Now see here we have to consider the precedence of relations also how the precedence of operations are working. So here and is calculating first and then r is calculating. So according to that let us see the answer for that how the 3 address code is generated by this. Now in this one how the 3 address code is generated you can see that first it is generating the 3 address code for p greater than q. So this is the 3 address code for p greater than q. Now this is for r less than s by the AND operator and then this is for u greater than v and based on that these are taken.  So this is by these one. So like this the 3 address code is generated by this one. Take a look of this. These are my references. Thank you.


Hey, good morning, everybody. Lee Lowell here, smartoptionseller.com. How's everyone doing today? It is Saturday, January 30th, 2021. We are getting towards the end of January already. Listen, we've got a lot to talk about today.  So we will be talking about GameStop today. In this video, I've got so many calls from people, so many emails saying, what's going on? What happened in the market this week? What is the deal with GameStop? What happened? Brokers are not letting you trade and it's gone up like thousands of percent. People are making millions of dollars. Lee, tell me what is happening with GameStop? All right, so that's what we will be doing today. I'm gonna show you some charts. I'm going to show you some options trades. I'm going to talk about what is happening with the short sellers and why they've gone bankrupt or lost billions of dollars. It's just insane and I've never seen anything like it in my 30 years being in the business. This is even bigger than Bitcoin and Bitcoin's been crazy as well. So let's jump right in and talk about GameStop and some of the other heavily shorted stocks that have gone up this week as well. We'll look at all them and I'll give you an idea of what's been happening and some of my thoughts on what's been happening and a couple of things that I've done as well. So let's jump right in and talk about GameStop. Let's first of all open up the chart for GameStop so we can see what's happening. Okay, here is a chart of GameStop. Now for those of you that may not know, GameStop is a physical retail brick and mortar store where you can buy and sell video games and video game equipment and all stuff like that. And I have a son who, a 15 year old son who in the past we've gone to GameStop many times to buy video games for him. And it's one of those stores that all gamers know and have flocked to in the past. But over the last few years, we all know physical retailers have been going out of business because everything's moving online and even video games are all being downloaded these days. So you don't even have to go into the stores anymore. So GameStop was going the way of blockbuster where people don't need to go into physical stores anymore. So GameStop's been on the way out. And as you can see, here's a chart of GameStop going back about two years or so. I mean, the stock hasn't been more than $5 a share for many, many years. I can go back even farther. Let's take a look at, we can look at a weekly chart. This goes back to 2012. And you can see the stock, $20 here, got up to high 30s here. But for the last four or five years, it's been just down trending, moving along with all these other stores going out of business. And just in the last 2019, it's been a sub $10 stock, $5 stock. And no one would ever think otherwise. But what's happened with GameStop recently and in the past is that there are people out there that are shorting the stock. And for those of you that might not know, shorting a stock means that you actually sell a stock hoping that its price will go down. You don't have to own the stock first in order to sell it. I was trying to explain to my son yesterday, he's like, how can you sell something that you don't own first? He's like, I don't understand how people who sold the stock were losing money. Didn't they have it first and then they just sold it? In the stock market, one of the things that you can do is what's called shorting the market. And you don't have to own the stock first. You're actually selling the stock as your initial transaction. So instead of buying it, you're actually selling it, hoping that the price will go down and then you can just buy it back at a cheaper price if the stock actually falls. So there are these big hedge funds that you've heard about that are shorting millions and millions of shares of the stock, hoping that the price goes down. They're all hoping that GameStop was just going to go bankrupt and their shares would be worthless and they'd make all this money by selling the stock and then they can either buy it back for a couple pennies, lock in their gains. Well, apparently, just this past week and let's move it out to, we'll go to, let's go to a 30 minute chart. So you can really see what's happening if my, okay, so on Monday, was it Monday? Was the 22nd Monday? On what day was the 22nd of January? That was last Friday. Okay, so a week ago, last Friday, the 22nd. You can see here, we've got some action on GameStop. Here's January 22nd and then it just starts to go up. Okay, it started out, it was a $30, a sub $50 stock. Actually, we can go back a little bit further. To January 13th, it was still trading around $20. I'm over here, January 13th. And then it started to tick up into the 30s and then it started to tick up into the 40s and then we had a couple of days where it was just hanging around high 30s. Then all of a sudden, last Friday, it started to move up and then on Monday, it started to move up. And then this is where it hit a hive over, it hit $159 a share on this day right here, which was January 25th. And everyone's going crazy. I mean, it started out as a $30 stock, then all of a sudden it started to go up, hit all-time highs. Let's back this out a little bit so you can really see the dramatic moves before we hit almost $500 the other day. So here we go, back on January 13th, $20 stock right here. And then it went up to a high of $38 or so. And everyone's going out of their minds. Why is GameStop going up? And the short sellers are selling more shares. And then it starts to tick up, goes up close to $40, something dollars, hanging around 40, hanging around high 30s, 40s. And then as we move out, it starts to tick up here on the January 25th. That's when we hit this all-time high here of $159. And everyone's just going out of their minds. What's going on with GameStop? Apparently Reddit is an online chat form and they have all these categories, all these little subreddits they're called. And there's topics ranging from all kinds of things. And Wall Street and trading is one of these subreddits called Wall Street Bets, subreddit at Wall Street Bets. And you got all these traders who congregate and talk about their trades. And all of a sudden they're all talking about GameStop and buying GameStop. So you have a mass, these masses of individual traders who are starting to buy GameStop. And you have these hedge funds who also have billions of dollars at their disposal that are, you know, they're probably still trying to short at this thing because they can't believe that the market is going up against them. So they're trying to double down and sell even short, trying to push the market down with brute force with all the billions of dollars they have behind them, thinking that they can push the market down. But in this case, individuals, the, you know, the small traders, retail traders collectively was able to push back against these short sellers and ramp the market higher.  But then as you can see this week, this is what happened. It's just started to tick up again, tick up again. Now here in the pre-market on this was Thursday, it hit, it went over $500 a share, right? That's 10 times what it was trading $50 just on January 22nd. Massive move just destroyed the short sellers.  Now, when it starts to go up in price, a short seller has to buy the stock back in order to cover themselves. They will buy back at a loss. Now we're talking massive billions of dollars of losses here on GameStop because, you know, if they sold it at $20, $30, $40, $50, $100, now it's going up to, you know, two, three, $400, they have to buy all those millions of shares back. And in the process, it's just snowballing on itself. They're trying to buy the stock back. You got these individual traders that are still buying the stock outright. And you got other hedge funds that are also shorted. So everyone's trying to buy at the same time and it just creates the snowball to the upside. Now, obviously we hit $500 in the pre-market and then in a tank down to $115, this was after most of the brokers Robinhood and Charles Schwab and Interactive Brokers, I think all them Schwab may or may not have. I don't know, decided to, they're gonna limit or restrict the trading in these stocks because it's affecting the market too much. Now there's a couple things that people are talking about. Number one, they're thinking that these brokers restricted the trading because the hedge funds were getting in the ear saying, hey, you gotta stop this, we're losing too much money. You can't allow people to keep buying this stock. That's what some people are saying. Whether it's true or not, I don't know. But you got people with a lot of money saying, hey, you gotta slow these people down, we're losing too much money. On the other hand, the brokers themselves were saying, we had to halt the trading because it was, we have to protect the customer, we have to protect the market, we don't want things going crazy. So people are all up in arms about that saying, well, you can't restrict us from trading, you're not restricting the hedge funds from trading. We know what we're doing, we know we have money in the market, don't restrict us, buyer beware, we are aware of that. So there's a couple of different camps going on here, and we've got the SEC now is probably doing an investigation on what's going on. But anyway, the restrictions have been lifted. As you can see, the market bounced off of the lows again and went about $475. And then yesterday, Friday, January 29th, it closed about $312. So it's just been this incredible run this whole week. I've never seen anything like it. I was just mesmerized the whole week watching this happen. I didn't get involved except for a very small amount. I traded some options and I'll let you see what I did. But this was just too insane. This was very insane for me.  Now, some of you who may have gotten involved, great. I hope you made a lot of money because there was a lot of money to be made. And if you made some, great. Call option buying was just incredible. Selling put options. I sold some put options this week on GameStop, but at very, very low strike prices. I'm gonna show you how that happened. But so you got GameStop and then you have other stocks. Let's put it back a daily chart here. So I mean, this is what you're seeing. Low, low, low prices, just flat line. GameStop's not going anywhere and then you just had this massive run up. I mean, look at, this is what's called a vertical. It's just gone vertical. Now I will say that, you know, we know GameStop as a physical retailer is probably going to die out at some point. You know, I can't be sure, but that's just the wave of things. This, I believe this stock will eventually collapse on itself back down to $20 a share. At some point, can't make a prediction when that will happen or if it may, maybe it won't even happen. Who knows? Maybe GameStop will turn itself around and become profitable and turn into a great business again. Who knows? But it's hard to believe that a company like GameStop, whether they reinvent themselves or not can still be trading at $400 a share. That's just my opinion. You know, do what you want with it. I'm not trading it. I'm not, you know, I'm not ready to put some big money on the line for that because I have no idea when the market will come back down. So I'm just staying out, staying on the sidelines. But you have other stocks like, I'll show you some other stocks that were big news this week. We have AMC, which is the movie theater chain. You know, obviously with the pandemic, no one was going to the movies anymore because you couldn't. And so AMC, one of the biggest movie theater chains in the US at least, it's just on a downward spiral. And then all of a sudden this week as well, started to go back up again because these are very heavily shorted stocks. And I'm going to show you a website that I use that tells me how much of these shares are actually shorted. You have hedge funds and other, you know, big money players that just sell these stocks hoping that the price will go down. So this is AMC, not on the same scale as GameStop. But you know, it started out as a $2 stock and it ramped up over to over $20. So that's a big move for a lot of players, especially if you could buy thousands of shares. GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry was another one. You know, BlackBerry was all the rage before the iPhones came out. So BlackBerry was a $4 or $5 stock and all of a sudden it went up to $29 a share. We have Bed Bath and Beyond. Same thing, had a pretty good jump this week. You know, this is all coming from, you know, these online chat rooms that are just gearing each other up to start buying these heavily shorted stocks. And if you can get enough momentum to the upside on these short stocks, everyone has to buy back this share. So it just snowballs on itself.  So it doubled itself. That's what you got, these stocks like this. So let me show you a website here that can show you some of these heavily shorted stocks. Now you can go to website, highshortinterest.com right up here. Let me move myself forward so you can see. So here's the names of all the most heavily shorted stocks. Now how do you know if a stock is heavily shorted? Well, you look at the short interest. This column right here, short interest. This tells you what percentage of the outstanding shares are actually being sold instead of bought, okay? So GameStop is the number one stock on the list. And the short interest is 121% of the outstanding or the float of the shares. Float is the number of shares in existence, in existent, I believe, or outstanding shares, one of these numbers. So I don't understand how you can have more than 100% of the outstanding shares being shorted. That means out of all the shares that are out there for GameStop, more than all of them are being shorted. So I'm even a little confused on the number.  These are very high percentage short interest stocks, meaning there's so many people selling these stocks, hoping that their price will go down. And when you have enough people that start buying these stocks, then you have this perfect storm everyone has to buy back at the same time. So you have these high short interest stocks, Bed Bath and Beyond. You can just go through the list here. You can see a lot of these stocks that are heavily shorted. So if you get enough people talking about it, hey, let's buy these stocks, you can create this perfect storm of the stock just going vertical. And people have been taking their chances. They've been buying the shares, they've been buying call options, selling put options, very bullish strategies. And obviously GameStop was the biggest player this week. So if you have an interest or you wanna just be more in the know and educate yourself on short interest and what people are doing with certain stocks, you go to any website you want, but I've looked at the shortinterest.com website and it tells you the percentage of the amount of shares that are actually being sold to the short side. So that's where people are finding these stocks and that's why they're talking about these specific stocks. And if you look at the chart of the last week of a lot of these stocks, you'll see that they've just gone vertical. So along with GameStop, there's obviously people have bought the shares, bought call options, sold put options. I just wanna show you some of the numbers here that these option prices we're trading for. Now one of the great things is that when stocks get extremely volatile like this, that means the option prices get very volatile as well, which offers opportunity to make decent amount of money. So if we go back to, let's bring up GameStop here. So you've got this one week trading that's just been incredible. If you go to, let me show you what I'm looking ahead here. If we go to interactive brokers, I wanna show you the chart, the volatility chart. Okay, so in interactive brokers, and you can also go to ivolatility.com, that's one of the websites I use to look at volatility numbers. But in interactive brokers, you can pull up volatility for any stock that you want and its options. Now this is the volatility lab in interactive brokers and this shows the volatility of GameStop options. Now one of the inputs that helps give an option its price, when you buy a call option or you buy a put option, it has a price. You have to pay that price. And one of the components that helps make up an options price is what's called volatility. And it's the fluctuation of the stock, okay? And the fluctuation of the stock gets put into a number and that gets put into the option pricing formula. So GameStop, and back in December of 2020 right here, here's the dates on the bottom. You know, GameStop volatility was under 50%. I mean that's even high for a normal stock in itself. Under 50%, these are percentage numbers. You can see over here on, I'm sorry, this is the price of the stock, yeah, price of the stock here and then, I'm sorry, price of the stock on the left and here's the volatility numbers on the right-hand side. So you can see price of GameStop here on the left-hand side and then the volatility just explodes. It goes from 125% down here. You can look on the right-hand side all the way up over 600% volatility. That's just insane in that short amount of time and I'm going to show you what that can do to option prices, okay? If you're lucky to buy an option at 100% and then all of a sudden it rockets up to 600%, you're gonna make money on that option regardless. Now, some people may have seen this. If you bought a put option this week on GameStop, hoping that the stock would go down and the stock actually went up, typically you would lose money on that put option because the stock went up instead of down. But because the volatility spiked so much, you could have actually made money buying put options even as the stock went up because volatility went up at the same time.  So here's iVolatility.com and let me bring up GameStop. When you look at options, this is an option calculator, an option pricing calculator to help you price out options. So on GameStop, let's just say, so when you put in the stock right here, I put in GameStop, it defaults on the left-hand side to numbers that are out there in existence in the market. So it defaulted to GameStop last price of 325. It gives a strike price of 325 at the money and it defaulted to a 600% volatility. That's just insane. Normal stocks trade 30, 40% volatility on a normal day and probably more like 25 to 35%. 600% we're talking and these are numbers that iVolatility comes up with that in the very in tune with what's happening in the market. So let's just say you had bought a, let's go out to February 12th, a very short period of time. The 325 calls and puts right here, here's the value for the call and the put right here, $139 per contract. That's $13,900 just to buy one option contract. That's with a volatility of 600%. Let me just show you what happens. I'm gonna lower this number down to 100%, okay? Because even then that's still high. But on a normal times, GameStop would be trading at 100% volatility. Now watch what happens. These options are worth $139 per contract. You change the volatility down to 100. When I hit calculate, you're gonna see these numbers change dramatically. They're gonna drop dramatically. Hit calculate, now look what happens. These option values went from 139 per contract all the way down to $24 per contract. That's a $2,400 cost coming down from $13,900 cost per one single option contract. So volatility plays a huge, huge deal in the option prices. So let me just show you something else. So let's just say that you had purchased a, when GameStop said 325, let's just say you thought this thing was gonna drop and you bought a $100 put option. We'll get both of the numbers here. With volatility was at 100%, okay? So let's just see what happens. Okay, volatility 100%. Okay, it's not even giving me a value. Let's go out a little bit more in time here. Let's go to March 19th and see if I can get something here. 100% volatility. All right, so what this is saying is, with the strike, with the price at $325, a strike price of 100, because you think stock's gonna drop, you wanna buy a put option and volatility at 100, a put option would cost with 100% volatility, a penny. $1. Now, volatility rises to 600, now it's gonna be worth $53 a contract. Even if the price of GameStop goes up to $500 a share, the put option barely goes down. So if you were able to buy a put option when volatility was at 100% and even if the stock goes up, you're still gonna make money. So people are making money buying calls and buying puts because volatility just rose so much. The volatility overtook the stock itself going up. So remember, when you buy put options and the stock goes up, that put option is gonna drop in price, typically. But volatility skyrocketed so much, it overtook the effect of the stock rising. So your put option went up as well and call options went up dramatically. So anything that people were buying, puts or calls made money this week only because volatility spikes so much. It's incredible. So what happened with some of these options? Well, let's take a look at an option chain on GameStop. Okay, so here's our option chain on GameStop. Now, GameStop last price was $312 yesterday, Friday, January 29th. And let's just look at some of these option prices. For February 5th, which expires next Friday, you get six days, these put options, these downside put options, okay, they have 50 cent put options, $1 put options, every strike here all the way down to a 50 cent. So we've talked about selling put options in the past and when you sell a put option, not only are you getting the money right off the bat, but you're obligating yourself to potentially buy the stock at that strike price. Now, with GameStop trading at $312 a share, you might be thinking, okay, well, I wanna buy GameStop at $20 a share, let's say, because it's at $312, if I can get it for $20 in the next six days, let's just see what happens. So you scroll down and you can see that the $20 put options are trading, went out yesterday, almost 50 cents per contract. That's just insane. Someone's gonna give you $50 for your obligation to buy GameStop at $20 a share. It's trading at $300. You have one week's time. Do you think GameStop is going to fall from $312 all the way down to $20 by next Friday? Now, there is a possibility that could happen. If everything just collapses on itself, yes, GameStop can fall that far, but I don't think that's gonna happen. There's just too many interested players right now, but that's why it's just so insane. One week option still trading around, look at this, 48 cents at 49 cents, the 19 and a half puts went out 50 cent bid at 60 cent. Now, this is one of the things that I did. Now, in addition to me selling a couple $1 puts on GameStop this week, these were trading 10 to 20 cents per contract, the $1 puts and the $2 puts, now they're worth a penny. So they fell down in value and you can even go out to the normal expiration February 19th. Let's see where some of these things went out yesterday. Here comes the bids and ask populating. The $10 puts on the February 19th options, 20 days from now, $10 puts trading 40 to 50 cents of contract, even the $5 puts, 20 cents fair value, 21 cents for a $5 put, that just obligates you to buy GameStop at $5, not a huge investment. But anyway, so on February 5th, these things expire in a week. One of the things that I did yesterday and this is a guaranteed win. I can make money no matter what happens. Even if the stock collapses to zero or goes up to $5,000 this year, I will make money. And you know why? Because when things get crazy, option prices get crazy too. I was able to buy the 20 puts for one price and sell the 17 and a half puts for an even higher price. So that's how crazy it was. Now, you know that put option prices get cheaper as you get lower in the strike prices. So me being able to buy a 20 put for a cheaper price than what I sold the 17 and a half put is just not, shouldn't happen. But when the stock is crazy like that and volatility is just powering up to 600%, the option prices get all out of whack. So you can find these discrepancies in the market. Now, let me see, I have the time in sales pulled up here. Now, you have these little one lots that trade because you have all these retail traders that are trading one contract at a time. So here's the time in sales. Time in sales tells you how, what each option price traded at a specific time of the day. And you can look at these for stocks as well. Stock prices, option prices, they're called time in sales. So yesterday, here's the 20 put. Yesterday at what time was it? Somewhere in here, I was able to buy, let's see, where am I here? I think it was this one. This is 323 in the afternoon Eastern time. I was able to buy the $20 put for 50 cents a contract. And then on the 17 and a half put, here's my one lot that I sold. I sold it for 56 cents a contract. So I bought the 20 put for 50 and I sold the 17 and a half put for 56. Now, obviously if there were more contracts I could do that multiple times. In this case, there was only one contract but that locked in a guaranteed $6 winner for me. And if the stock drops to zero, I'll make even more money because I'll own the 20 puts and I'll be short to 17 and a half puts. So that would give me a maximum win of $250. And my maximum loss is no loss. $6 is my maximum loss I can make. I can't lose any money. It's a can't lose trade. I can make $6 at the minimum and $250 at the maximum. So these are the discrepancies and option prices. So you can look for these things on crazy stocks like AMC. Now you can see here, over here, this is the actual bid ass prices on the option at that specific moment in time. Now you can see at, let me see if I can show you a better example here. Let's see. So the 20 put was offered at, you can see here, 50 cent bid at 51 cent offer on the 20 puts at 321 in the afternoon. And at 321 in the afternoon, right here, 321, the 17 and a half puts were bid 52 cent bid at 76 cent offer. So you could buy the 20 put at 51 cents and you can sell the 17 and a half put at least for 52 cents, probably something higher than that. And as long as you cover your commissions, it's a can't lose trade. It's a win-win situation. So there are definitely discrepancies and option prices when things go haywire, like that. If you can find it, you do it as many times as you can because buying the 20 and selling the 17 and a half put buying the 20 put for less than what you sell the 17 and a half put is a guaranteed winner. I know there's, people will say there's no guarantees in life, but this is actually a guarantee. You're gonna make money no matter what happens. So it's just crazy. That's what's going on in the options market for GameStop. Now, like I said, the February 5th, 2021 options that expire in six days from now, today's Saturday, option expiration is next Friday. You've got these downside put options that still have a decent amount of premium in them. You got the 15 puts trading 26 bid at 32 cent offer and GameStop's at 312 bucks. I mean, you're taking the risk, one week risk to see will GameStop fall all the way back down to $15 a share? It's just insane. So these are some of the options that are out there for GameStop and it's just been crazy. Now, what's gonna happen next week? Who knows? I mean, these stocks could keep going up. You got the weekend, people are starting to read more, they're learning more, they're going on all these websites. Hey, what's happening with GameStop? What's going on with the short interest? Hey, I wanna get in on the action. There's a lot of FOMO out there, fear of missing out, people wanna get involved. And you can buy call options, but remember with volatility at 600%, any drop in volatility, you're gonna lose money whether the stock goes up or not. You have volatility versus stock price. Which one is gonna affect that option more? Can the stock move up enough to offset any drop in volatility? Or if both volatility and stock move up at the same time and your long call options, that's a double winner. So you have stock price and volatility kind of playing against each other. And that affects the option price. And time to expiration as well. Time starts ticking away. Time starts ticking away. So we'll see what happens. So that is our little lesson on GameStop. Crazy, crazy, crazy. All right, so that's it. So let's move on to our Saturday synopsis. This is the part of our video where we look at the charts, we look at some other charts to see what happened over the last weekend and what may move going forward for the next week. Let's pull up our SPY, which is the ETF for the SP500. We had a pretty good down move the last two days in the market. If you're looking at things other than GameStop and AMC, you were tracking the broad market and other individual stocks. We had a pretty good down move Thursday and Friday. Got a good pullback here. So let's take a look, see what we see in the market. The SP500 had been moving up nicely, nicely, nicely. And then the last two days, Thursday and Friday. Here's where we closed out Friday, yesterday, January 29th, close just below the 50-day moving average. And I have talked about the uptrending 20-day and 50-day moving averages. When a stock is in a good uptrend, that it should either bounce off the 20-day or 50-day. If it moves well below the 50-day and starts heading towards the 200-day, we may have a turn of events, maybe a change in the, we may have a change in direction. So let's see what happened here. The SP500 finished just below the 50-day moving average. You can see, let me see if I can blow this up a little more, a little dash mark on the right side of the bar. This bar is one day's worth of trading. Little dash shows you where it closed for the day. So it closed below the 50-day moving average. It doesn't worry me so much. I mean, stocks can always trade below a 50-day moving average. What we don't want to happen is multiple days below the 50-day. We wanna see some kind of bounce. So if we get, I have a rule of three days. So if a stock or an index closes above or below a certain resistance or support level for three days in a row, that puts me on height and alert that something may be changing. So this one day move down below the 50-day doesn't bother me. You can see here, these moves right here traded below the 20-day and then it snapped back higher. So I'd like to see what happens next week. We're in the middle of earnings season. So some of the stocks didn't put out numbers as well as people thought, or some of the numbers were decent, but yet the market still sold off anyway. So earnings typically sometimes can be a crapshoot. So I'm gonna see what happens next week. I like to see the market bounce. This could be a time to scale back into the market. If you've been waiting for a decent pullback and wanna get in, always look to some of the moving averages to help you decide where it could be a good time to get in. A pullback like this within a broader overall upward trend is usually a pretty good timing indicator that it could be time to get in a little bit, but you do wanna see the market start to move back higher after the drop. So I may wait another day or two to see what the market does, but that's where we ended yesterday. Let's take a look at the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ. Let's look at the NASDAQ. NASDAQ pulled back as well. It traded below, closed below the 20-day moving average, hasn't hit the 50-day yet. So the NASDAQ's been the strongest of the three. So I'll give it a couple more days, see where the market goes, see if it comes down even further, see if it bounces off the 50-day moving average. And we'll just have to wait it out. The Dow and Jocerals got hit pretty good. That one closed well below the 50-day moving average. The 20-day and 50-day were very close to each other, so it didn't take much of a move to drop it below. Let's see. We have this support level here. Let me see if I could move this line out a little bit longer. Let me get rid of this one and I'll draw a new line here. So this is sort of a line in the sand area right here for the market. Before, this was a resistance area. It broke through it. So now it becomes a support area. So if the market starts to dip down, it should potentially bounce right along this level. So we wanna see what happens next week. Let's take a look at the VIX. Volatility indicator. The market definitely blasted higher this week, got out of its dull drums. And when the market goes down, the VIX goes up. This is the volatility indicator. So volatility is increasing in the market. Pretty good move here. And we'll see what happens. If the stock market starts to go back up, the VIX will start to go back down again. These spikes are usually very short-lived. Couple days at most, you get these big spikes. People get fearful. They buy up option prices, which in turn shoots up the volatility. But you can see the spikes are very short in nature. Only a couple of days. So if this starts to tick down, that leads me to believe the market itself will find its footing and start to go back up again and the VIX will go back down. Let's take a look at some individual stocks, see what they've done. We look at some of the most popular stocks out there. We've got Apple that had been on a nice move upwards after it broke out of the congestion pattern, hit a high, all-time high near $145 at the end of last week or beginning this week. And then it just dropped with the market itself closed just under $132 a share, just below the 20-day moving average. So we've got this uptrending 50-day. Hopefully it'll catch it, gain its footing and go back up. I mean, these stocks are in an upward trend. Just remember, you're really not gonna get much return on your money other than the stock market these days. The governments around the world are still keeping interest rates very low. You can't get any return on your money by keeping money in the bank. The vaccine for coronavirus is on its way out, still rolling out. We're hoping that the economies around the world will get back to normal. It's somewhere down the road. So we are moving on the right path. It's just taking a little bit more time than we would like. But I'm still bullish on the stock market. I'm using these pullbacks to step into trades here and there because I'm in for the long haul. I mean, that's how I'm gonna fund some of my retirement by buying stocks for the long term. And you have to use some of these pullbacks as your entry points. Some people will say, well, this is it. I'm waiting for the big drop. I'm waiting for this thing to drop so I can buy back in. Well, how do you know when the drop and the bottom is gonna occur? No one rings a bell that says, here's the bottom. So you have to scale in from time to time. You can't be afraid to buy here. And if the market keeps going down, you buy a little more because if you're just waiting for the market to drop and then all of a sudden it turns around, you're gonna say, well, I'm waiting for it to come back down again so I can get back in. And people use that emotional psychology on themselves all the time. And eventually they just never buy in because they're just too afraid because they always think things are gonna drop. But if you look at the long-term history of the market, we know that the stock market goes up. This is a chart of Apple. We can look at the long-term chart of the stock market itself. The market goes up. Yes, we have dips along the way but that's just part of investing. Okay, so we got Apple. Tesla was another one that had earnings this week. Tesla, and I talked about this last week had drawn this congestion pattern. I said when earnings come out, it's gonna either move up big or move down big. Now, before earnings came out, Tesla started to go up and earnings came out on this day here and people weren't too happy. So Tesla's come down. It's fallen below the 20-day moving average. It's yet to be seen whether it'll keep dropping. People love Tesla and they're willing to keep buying it. So let's see what happens. But Tesla definitely was down this week. What other stocks do we have? We got Microsoft that was trading in this channel, finally broke above it, but seems that it closed right near the resistance level. Let's draw this line out a little bit further here. Start here. So you got this level right around here. And so Microsoft getting through it, but maybe coming back down. What other stocks do we have that we like to look at? Amazon, Amazon still in this range has the congestion pattern still right in the middle. Looked like it was gonna pop through, but came back down. We've got, what other stocks do we have that we'd like to look at? AMD is another one of our favorites. Definitely starting to come back down a little, couldn't get through the resistance, has fallen below the moving averages and now has moved into this little channel here. So I'd like to see AMD move back up. AMD is one of the stocks that we love. AMD is one of these stocks that we love. And so we want to see it move back up. AMD, what else do we have? Nike was another one falling down a little bit through 20 day and 50 day. It's fallen below 50 day for a couple of days now. So we want to see where it goes from here. This is just a general pullback in the market, Netflix. Let's take a look at Netflix. Netflix is another one we like to look at. Definitely had started a breakthrough, the upper resistance and has come back down, had earnings, earnings were here and then it came back down. So if you're looking to possibly get long Netflix, this could be one of those times where you wait for the pullback to the 20 day moving average and go from there. These are not recommendations. These are just things that I see, just ideas on timing. People always ask me about timing. When should I get in? And these are some of the things that you look for. If you got a stock that's uptrending or even if it's in the channel, you can try to wait till it hits the lower end and sell at the upper end, if you're a day trader like that. But if you're a longer term, you wanna wait for a pullback to some of the moving averages. That's just the way that we do it. And we always concentrate on out of the money options because that gives us even more cushion in case we're wrong or our timing isn't exactly right. All right, so that's it. We're getting long again on this video. That's our Saturday synopsis. Once again for next week, let's take a quick look. Market has come down to the 50 day moving average. Let's see if it could find its footing and we get the buyers back in to move it back up. But for now, it ended on a week note. I just, you know, this could be one of those timing plays where it's time to jump in. We'll see what the next week brings. Okay, that's all for the Saturday synopsis for looking at the charts. Lastly, let's go to our website so I can just make sure everyone's on board here. SmartOpsandSeller.com. Download your free put selling basics guide. Put your name and email address here. 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